Samantha Wurm

As fire alarms blared throughout Lissner Hall, students filed through hallways and down stairwells to make their way to the Lakeside Center. Most were unbothered, keeping calm and chatting as they waited for the drill to end.

When the alarms went off in Lissner 312, however, the fire drill wasn’t so simple. For Izzy Friesen’s emotional support cat, Charlie, the alarm was a new and overwhelming sound. At the first screech, Charlie ran into Friesen’s room, hunkering down in his favorite spot – he

Bethel alum Tu Lor Eh Paw sits on the small, wooden stage with seven younger girls, their voices echoing throughout the mural-painted walls as they sing along to Bruno Mars’ “Grenade.” As program director at The Urban Village, Eh Paw runs karaoke tonight by connecting her phone to the bluetooth speakers and playing songs that the teenage girls can’t help but sing along to.

Across the room teens giggle with one another, relaxing on couches or playing guitar. Adidas backpacks, The North Face wint

Freshman English and philosophy student Laura Hunt lounges in one of the chairs in the center of Bethel University’s library, kicking her black Converse high tops up on the ottoman in front of her while she reads and annotates the pages of “Basic Writings of Existentialism,” a book assigned for one of her philosophy classes.

Reading — it’s an integral part of studying at Bethel. Students can be found scattered throughout campus with books. Some are seen holding a worn, discolored, broken-spined

Bethany Werth sits down at her dorm room desk in Lissner Hall, flicks on her three desk lamps, props her phone up and hits record. She isn’t filming herself getting ready for a Good Morning America interview, unboxing a PR package she got in the mail or what a day in her life looks like as a micro influencer — the type of content that makes up the majority of her TikTok account, @thegirlwithmonolids. As she sits down with a half-eaten container of noodles in front of her, Bethany discusses the p

Talia McWright, a videographer for ‘Border of Dreams,’ depicts the emotion of immigration through her footage.

Talia McWright stood behind the camera she borrowed from Bethel University, filming Abel and his family who immigrated to Kansas in 1996 from Mexico City. McWright has always had a hobby for photography, but filming the Border of Dreams documentary was a project that the executive producer, Scott Winter, trusted her to do.

Knowing how immigrating to the United States has affected Abel