Bethel College Convocation

	Fall 2010 Schedule
Aug. 30	Formal opening of school: The Art of Wondering Dr. Brad Born, vice president for academic affairs
Sept. 3	Introduction of new faculty/staff and introduction to convocation
Sept. 6	The Night I Met Einstein Dr. Perry D. White, president
Sept. 10	Impacting the World Robert William, director of international student services/program manager, Brethren Colleges Abroad, Elizabethtown, Pa.
Sept. 13	Student Senate Convocation and Club Fair
Sept. 17	Political candidates’ forum
Sept. 20	The God of Isaiah: A Jewish Reading of the Prophet Dr. Nissim Wernick, rabbi of Ahavath Achim Hebrew Congregation, Wichita
Sept. 23	World Café: A Community Exercise Chad Childs, vice president for student life, facilitator (This convocation will be held in Memorial Hall.)
Sept. 27	Journey in the Diaspora: A Personal Story Bassima Schbley, assistant professor of social work, Washburn University, Topeka
Oct. 1	Student study abroad reports
Oct. 4	Undergraduate Research, Internships and Creative Activity (URICA) reports
Oct. 8	Fall Festival Convocation: Bethel’s Got Talent
Oct. 11	Site Inspired Jennifer Miller, adjunct instructor, Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Lakewood, Colo.
Oct. 15	Beating Time Daniel Hege, music director and conductor, Wichita Symphony Orchestra and Syracuse (New York) Symphony Orchestra
Oct. 18	NO CONVOCATION — Fall Break
Oct. 22	Broadcasting Belief: Faith, Media and Culture Walt Wiltschek, campus pastor, Manchester College, North Manchester, Ind., and former editor of The Messenger, denominational magazine of the Church of the Brethren
Oct. 25	Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers: How la causa Turned from Triumph to Tragedy, and Why the Unraveling of This Remarkable ‘60s Social Justice Movement Matters Miriam Pawel, former LA Times editor/reporter, and author of The Union of Their Dreams: Power, Hope and Struggle in Cesar Chavez’s Farm Worker Movement
Oct. 29	Stories from the Mountain Kingdom Makoala Marake, the “herdboy professor,” department of soil science and resource conservation, National University of Lesotho, Roma
Nov. 1	Menno Simons Lecture: The Christian Faith in Global Perspective John D. Roth, professor of history, Goshen College, Goshen, Ind.
Nov. 5	Lies in the Land of Promise: Reflections from Jerusalem Peter Miller, resident director, Warkentin Court, and former service worker with Mennonite Central Committee in Jerusalem
Nov. 8	Loving Your Enemies: Did Jesus Really Mean It? Frank Cordaro, former parish Priest and founder and member of the Des Moines Catholic Worker community, Des Moines, Iowa
Nov. 12	A Latino Perspective on the Arizona Immigration Law Felipe Hinojosa, Texas A&M University, College Station
Nov. 15	Honors Convocation: Reflections from a Life of Teaching Dr. William Eash, professor of music, and recipient of the 2010 Ralph P. Schrag Distinguished Teaching Award
Nov. 19	Ugandan Advocates: Peace and Proscovia Jenna Ingrassia, Middle America team leader, Invisible Children Face to Face Tour
Nov. 22	Making Bethel College ‘Greener’ Roger Reimer, maintenance technician, Gary Histand, professor of chemistry, and friends
Nov. 26	NO CONVOCATION — Thanksgiving Break
Nov. 29	Called to Greatness Wayne Simien, former All-American basketball player at the University of Kansas and member of the 2005-06 NBA champion Miami Heat
Dec. 3	To be announced
Dec. 6	Biology: A Lifelong Affair Francisca Méndez-Harclerode, assistant professor of biology
Dec. 10	Messiah sing Featuring the Bethel College orchestra, student soloists and conductors and all of us in the chorus (This convocation takes place in Bethel College Mennonite Church.)

	Spring 2010 Schedule
Feb. 5	Give Yourself to the Poor Rick McNary, president and CEO, Numana, Inc., El Dorado, Kansas
Feb. 8	In Pursuit of Hope: My Spiritual Journey Ervin Stutzman, executive director, Mennonite Church USA, Harrisonburg, Virginia
Feb. 12	Interterm travel reports
Feb. 15	An Exploration of South African Music Gloria Creed-Dikeogu, director of library services, Ottawa University, Ottawa, Kansas
Feb. 19	Jazz Ensemble I and Mello Cello
Feb. 22	Biblical Storytelling: The Word Made Flesh Tracy Radosevic, dean, Academy for Biblical Storytellers, Baltimore, Maryland
Feb. 26	A Western Youth in the Ancient Middle East Mike Prahm, U. S. Navy veteran, missionary, and plant maintenance supervisor, Kansas Ready Mix, Wichita, Kansas
March 1	Beautiful and Abundant: Visualizing a Sustainable Human Future Bryan Welch, publisher and editorial director, Ogden Publications, Inc., Topeka, Kansas
March 5	TBA
March 8	Philanthropist for a Dollar: How Tiny Gifts Change the World Toby Tyner, associate director of development, and the Bethel College Advancement Department
March 12	TBA
March 15	What Do You Do With a Broken Heart? Monica Epperson, chairman and CEO of Blended Love, Inc., Tulsa, Oklahoma
March 19	Asylum Denied: A Refugee’s Struggle for Safety in America David Ngaruri Kenney, Montgomery County State’s Attorney’s Office, Rockville, Maryland
March 22	NO CONVOCATION — Spring Break
March 26	NO CONVOCATION — Spring Break
March 29	Young Alumnus Award: Leaps and Bounds: From Goessel, Kansas, to Washington, D. C. Katrina Toews (1998), director of The Washington Ballet at THEARC (Town Hall Education Art and Recreation Campus), Washington, D. C.
April 2	NO CONVOCATION — Good Friday
April 5	C. H. Wedel: A Centennial Post-Mortem James C. Juhnke, professor emeritus of history
April 9	The Universe in Oscillation: ‘Music for a Higher Purpose’ Paul Rudy, professor and coordinator of composition, University of Missouri-Kansas City; composer-in-residence, Bethel College
April 12	Surfing the Event Horizon on the Magic Carpet of Sound Paul Rudy, professor and coordinator of composition, University of Missouri-Kansas City; composer-in-residence, Bethel College
April 16	Breathe In, Breathe Out: Yoga as Spiritual and Cultural Practice Karen Sheriff LeVan, English department, Hesston College
April 19	Cluster Munitions: Can Banning Little Bombs Lead to a Bigger Peace? Virgil Wiebe, associate professor, University of St. Thomas School of Law, Minneapolis, Minnesota
April 23	Becoming a Supergirl: The Process of Developing a One-Woman Show Amanda Petefish Schrag, assistant professor, communication, theatre and languages, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, Missouri
April 26	C. Henry Smith Peace Orations
April 30	Forensics Road Show
May 3	TBA
May 7	Appreciating Twentieth-Century Masterworks: Poulenc’s Gloria (1961) and Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms (1930) William Eash, professor of music
May 10	Awards Convo
May 14	Champions of Character Awards Convo

	Fall 2009 Schedule
Aug. 31	Formal opening of school: “We Don’t Need No Education” Brad Born, vice president for academic affairs
Sept. 4	Introduction to convocation and new faculty
Sept. 7	A Wild Strawberry Conspiracy John Sheriff, interim president, Bethel College
Sept. 11	Love, Sex and HIV/AIDS: Stories of Heartbreak and Courage Amidst a Resource-Starved Reality Joanna Hiebert Bergen, HIV/AIDS program coordinator for Mennonite Central Committee
Sept. 14	Student Senate Convocation and Club Fair
Sept. 18	Looking Back on America from Abroad: Reflections from Study-Abroad Students
Sept. 21	Dead Man Walking: The Journey Continues Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States (NOTE: This convocation will take place at 10:00 a.m. instead of 11:00 a.m. Classes normally held at 10:00 a.m. will be held at 11:00 a.m. on this day only.)
Sept. 25	World Café: A Community Exercise Chad Childs, vice president for student life, facilitator (NOTE: This convocation will take place in Memorial Hall.)
Sept. 28	Honors Convocation: Social Work Narratives: Privilege, Responsibility and Turning Points Ada Schmidt-Tieszen, professor of social work and recipient of the Ralph P. Schrag Distinguished Teaching Award, 2009
Oct. 2	Fall Festival Convocation:The Free Staters, a quartet performing fun, fast-paced, popular music from 1850s America on period instruments
Oct. 5	Undergraduate Research, Internships and Creative Activity (URICA) reports
Oct. 9	The Fall of the Wall Mark Jantzen, associate professor of history
Oct. 12	Thinking the Unthinkable: Let’s Create a National Individual Healthcare Identifier Barry Hieb, M.D., chief scientist, Global Patient Identifiers, Inc., Tucson, Ariz.
Oct. 16	Rev. Reuben Eckels, pastor, New Day Christian Church
Oct. 19	NO CONVOCATION — Fall Break
Oct. 23	To be announced
Oct. 26	Opening Up a Can of Beans Chad Childs, vice president for student life
Oct. 30	Quiet Riots: Mennonites, Black and Latino/a Identity, and the Politics of Interracial Alliances Felipe Hinojosa, assistant professor, Texas A&M University
Nov. 2	Menno Simons Lecture: Entering Whitman’s America: A Theopoetics Of Public Life Scott Holland, associate professor of theology and culture and director of peace studies at Bethany Theological Seminary, Richmond, Ind., and lead minister of Monroeville Church of the Brethren, Pittsburgh
Nov. 6	Flood the Luminous Body: Erin Coleman-Cruz Shares Experiences of Integrating Art into Life Erin Coleman-Cruz, Northern Illinois University Art Museum, DeKalb
Nov. 9	Staley Lecture: A View from the Underside: The Legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Al Staggs, D.M., performing artist
Nov. 13	Welcoming the Stranger at the Door: My Experience in Refugee Resettlement in the United States Karrie Peterson, graduate student in social work, Washington University, St. Louis, former employee with Interfaith Refugee and Immigration Services (Chicago) and International Rescue Committee (Washington, D.C.)
Nov. 16	What Christians Should Know about Judaism Patricia Shelly, professor of Bible and religion
Nov. 20	Giving Jesus a Bad Name: Christian Responses to Westboro Baptist Church’s Military Funeral Protests Rebecca Barrett-Fox, Ph.D. candidate in American Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence
Nov. 23	The Darwinian Revolution: The Perspective after 150 Years Jon Piper, professor of biology
Nov. 27	NO CONVOCATION — Thanksgiving Break
Nov. 30	To be announced
Dec. 4	To be announced
Dec. 7	What Christians Should Know about Islam Patricia Shelly, professor of Bible and religion
Dec. 11	Messiah sing, Bethel College Mennonite Church

	Spring 2009 Schedule
Feb. 6	A Conversation on Racial Profiling Kevin Myles, president, Wichita Branch, NAACP
Feb. 9	The Conflict in Gaza: Perspectives from the Jerusalem Seminar Jerusalem Seminar participants
Feb. 13	Weathering an Economic Downturn in Kansas: More Taxes or Less Spending? Duane Goossen, Director, Division of the Budget, State of Kansas, Topeka
Feb. 16	“I Am Not a Social Activist,” Ron Sider, president, Evangelicals for Social Action, Eastern University, St. David’s, Pennsylvania
Feb. 20	Awakening from the Spell of Hypnotic Consumerism Darryl Dahlheimer, Program director, Lutheran Social Services Financial Counseling Service, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Feb. 23	Bethel Jazz Band
Feb. 27	Study Abroad/Interterm Travel reports
March 2	David Munnelly Band
March 6	Staley Lecture, Living as an Ordinary Radical Shane Claiborne, founding member of The Simple Way faith community and author of The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
March 9	Conflict and Rape in the Congo: Women Struggling for Peace Sara Reschly, former staff member, Christian Peacemaker Teams, Chicago, Illinois
March 13	The Importance of Identity in a World of Diversity Margaret (Cynthia) Peacock, Kolkata, India; Tigist Tesfaye, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Bert Lobe, St. Jacob’s, Ontario, Canada; Global Church Advocates, Mennonite World Conference
March 16	Young Alumni Award convocation: Creating Change for the Health Care of Tomorrow Jennifer Scott Koontz, M.D., Via Christi Sports Medicine, Wichita
March 20	Dealing with the Challenges; A Contrarian Agrarian’s View of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Godliness Ken King, founder of Jako, Inc., an organic and sustainable agriculture farm near Hutchinson
March 23	NO CONVOCATION — Spring Break
March 27	NO CONVOCATION — Spring Break
March 30	To Be Announced
April 3	To Be Announced
April 6	Affirming the Conservative Voice in Convocation: An Attempt at Conversation
April 10	NO CONVOCATION — Good Friday
April 13	Forensics Road Show
April 17	Common Ground Among the Abrahamic Faiths Jerald Dirks, clinical psychologist (ret.), Hesston
April 20	Student Senate convocation
April 24	The Sword, the Diamond, the Mirror & Me Balbir Mathur, president, Trees for Life, Wichita
April 27	C. Henry Smith Oratorical Contest
May 1	Jazz, Image, Story: The Language of Faith Duane Friesen, professor emeritus of Bible and religion; Jim Mininger, president of Lithuania Christian College (ret.), and Vern Rempel, pastor, First Mennonite Church, Denver, Colorado
May 4	Breaking Plowshares into Peaces Neal Eash, associate professor & soil scientist, Department of Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
May 8	Yes We Can: Creating Change through Personal Action Jyothi Bathina, Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, New York
May 11	Awards Convo
May 15	No convocation

	Fall 2008 Schedule
Sept. 1	Animal House/Bethel Brad Born, vice-president for academic affairs
Sept. 5	Introduction to convocation and new faculty and staff
Sept. 8	Differentiate Yourself Barry Bartel, president, Bethel College
Sept. 12	At What Cost? Patterns of Alcohol Use, Abuse, and Addiction Among College Students and Responsible Responses Chad Childs, director, Regional Prevention Center of South Central Kansas at Mirror, Inc., Newton, Kansas
Sept. 15	Never Ignore, Never Forget: A 1,300-Mile Relay Against Genocide Matthew Heck and Michael Gurley, seniors at Wichita East High School, Wichita, Kansas; Aaron Gurley, sophomore, Friends University, Wichita, Kansas
Sept. 19	Encountering “Enemy Combatants”; Photographing Guantanamo Detainees. Travis Heying, photographer, The Wichita Eagle, Wichita, Kansas
Sept. 22	Student Senate convocation and club fair
Sept. 26	A Castle on the Prairie: Bethel’s ‘Old Main’ in Word and Image Robert Regier, professor emeritus of art; Keith Sprunger, Oswald H. Wedel professor emeritus of history
Sept. 29	Honors Convocation: Social Networking, Social Undoing? Christine Crouse-Dick, assistant professor of communication arts, 2008 Ralph P. Schrag Distinguished Teacher Award recipient
Oct. 3	Gas Pump Panic: Science, Energy, and the Environment in the Arctic Stan Senner, executive director, Audubon Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska
Oct. 6	Dinner (Or, A Deranged Event Staged in a Theoretical Mansion, in Which Time and History Have Been Grossly Suspended and What We Know as the Laws of Physics Wildly Subverted, Conducted as an Inquiry into the Genius of Madness and the Art of the Faux Pas, and Having as a First Course to be Served to a Cast of Sixteen Eccentrics a Dish of Carrot Cabbage Salad Meant to Tickle Every Palate) Chris Janzen, art faculty, Fresno Pacific University, and Jesse Nathan, free-lance writer and cultural critic, Berkeley, California
Oct. 10	Promoting Change: Engaging Allies and Bystanders in Preventing Sexual Violence Mary Stolz, coordinator of program services, and Horace Santry, community outreach coordinator, Wichita Area Sexual Assault Center, Wichita, Kansas
Oct. 13	Considering The Sacred Cosmos Terence Nichols, professor of theology, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota
Oct. 17	Election 2008
Oct. 20	NO CONVOCATION — Fall Break
Oct. 24	Hope Rises from the Ashes of My Lai Mike Boehm, executive director for Madison Quakers, Inc., Madison, Wisconsin
Oct. 27	A Conversation with the Author of Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Claudia Rankine, Pomona College, Claremont, California
Oct. 31	The Science of Sleep CBS 60 Minutes and staff from Wichita Clinic-Bethel sleep medicine clinic
Nov. 3	Menno Simons lecture: The Prophetic Political Dissent of the Anabaptists: Then and Now James Stayer, professor emeritus of history, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Nov. 7	Is Diversity Enough? Christians and Difficult Conversations about Race Regina Shands Stolzfus, assistant professor of sociology, Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana
Nov. 10	True Encounters: Are We Ready to Learn from People of Other Cultures? James R. Krabill, senior executive for global ministries, Mennonite Mission Network
Nov. 14	From Scalpels to Sequencers: Reflections on Fifty Years of Change in the Biological Sciences Wayne Wiens, professor of biology
Nov. 17	Higher Learning Commission Accreditation review HLC Self-Study Steering Committee
Nov. 21	To be announced
Nov. 24	A Woodwind Clinic The Lieurance Woodwind Quintet, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas
Nov. 28	NO CONVOCATION — Thanksgiving Break
Dec. 1	Is It God’s Universe? Owen Gingerich, professor emeritus of astronomy and the history of science, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Dec. 5	To be announced
Dec. 8	The Wonderful World of Chemistry Gary Histand, professor of chemistry
Dec. 12	Messiah sing, Bethel College Mennonite Church

	Spring 2008 Schedule
Feb. 8	Introduction to Convocation, Dale Schrag, convocation coordinator Things I’ve Learned While Serving Hannah Klaassen, Jewish Vocational Services and Catholic Charities volunteer, Kansas City, Kansas; Dan Regier, Community Home Repair Projects of Arizona volunteer, Tucson, Arizona
Feb. 11	Bethel College: More Than You’ll Ever Know Arthur Marks, 2008 Young Alumnus Award Winner
Feb. 15	The Greatest Stories Never Told: A Lecture/Concert John McCutcheon, noted folk singer and instrumentalist
Feb. 18	The Bethel College Presence at the Kansas Music Educators’ Association Annual Meeting Bethel College Concert Choir, Bethel College Jazz Ensemble I, Bethel College Jazz Combo
Feb. 22	Study abroad reports
Feb. 25	Staley Lecture, Digital Christianity: How Technology and Media Are Shaping Faith. Presentation 1: The Electronic Gospel: Why Changing the Methods Always Changes the Message Shane Hipps, pastor, Trinity Mennonite Church, Glendale, Arizona
Feb. 29	At What Price Security? A Case of Mistaken Identity Brandon Mayfield
March 3	Hollywood, the Honeybee, and Small-Town Kansas Brent Barkman, chairman of the board of Golden Heritage Foods, Hillsboro, Kansas
March 7	Up Close and Personal The Wailin’ Jennys, Canadian folk music trio (in Memorial Hall)
March 10	Until It’s Gone—Ending Poverty in Our Nation, in Our Lifetime Scott Miller, co-founder and CEO of Move the Mountain Leadership Center, Ames, Iowa
March 14	Mexican-American Lowriders: The Space of Culture in Everyday Life Benjamin Chappell, assistant professor of American studies, University of Kansas
March 17	Perennial Wheat Breeding Via Chromosome Mapping Matt Arterburn, assistant professor of biology, Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas
March 21	NO CONVOCATION — Good Friday
March 24	Multicultural Club convocation
March 28	Mennonites and the Military: Bridging the Gap Tim Huber and Michael Sharp, Military Counseling Network, Bammental, Germany
March 31	NO CONVOCATION — Spring Break
April 4	NO CONVOCATION — Spring Break
April 7	The Sapphire Trio: A Persian Gulf Tour Margaret Baldridge, violin; Maxine Ramey, clarinet; Jody Graves, piano
April 11	“Mommy, Where Do Scholarships Come From?” The Bethel College Development Team: Sondra Koontz, vice president for advancement; Fred Goering, director of development; Toby Tyner, associate director of development
April 14	Sexual Assault: Is It Really All About Power and Control? Diana Schunn, executive director, Child Advocacy Center of Sedgwick County
April 18	The Anatomy of Coincidence Matt Kaiser, University of Kansas School of Medicine student, Kansas City, Kansas
April 21	Student Senate convocation
April 25	What’s a Thresher? Remembering Bethel’s Symbolic History John Thiesen, director of the Mennonite Library and Archives
April 28	C. Henry Smith Peace Oratorical Contest presentations
May 2	To be announced
May 5	The Mexican-American Community in Newton Ray Olais, Newton High School art faculty
May 9	Mozart, Mary, and the Magnificat William Eash, professor of music
May 12	Awards convocation
May 16	To be announced

	Fall 2007 Schedule
Aug. 27	(Formal opening of school. Special time: 7 p.m.) Omnes supervenientes hospites tamquam Christus suscipiantur; Or, “A Separate Kitchen,” Brad Born, vice president for academic affairs
Aug. 31	Introduction to convocation and new faculty & staff
Sept. 3	Find Your Space Barry Bartel, president, Bethel College
Sept. 7	Student Senate Convocation and Club Fair
Sept. 10	Living Among the Ayatollahs: Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) in Iran David and Linda Kusse-Wolfe, Quaker clergy studying at the Imam Khomeini Institute in Qom, Iran (MCC Exchange Program)
Sept. 14	From Bethel to Big Bird; A Broadcaster’s Journey Jesse Huxman, director of content, KPTS, Wichita
Sept. 17	The Second Mile: Reflections on My Friendship with Gen. David Petraeus John C. Murray, pastor, Hesston (Kan.) Mennonite Church
Sept. 21	NO CONVOCATION
Sept. 24	From Bombs to Classics: the Curious History of the Great Books Idea Daniel Born, vice president for post-secondary programs, The Great Books Foundation, and editor, The Common Review
Sept. 28	Everything I Needed or Wanted to Know I Learned From Football George Rogers, former Bethel College defensive coordinator, athletic director, and dean of students, now corporate treasurer, Whitewing Construction, Newton
Oct. 1	Honors Convocation—The Promise of Digital Media: Resources for Scholarship Dwight Krehbiel, professor of psychology, and recipient of the 2007 Julius A. and Agatha Dyck Franz Community Service Award
Oct. 5	Understanding Jazz: An American Art Form Ben Markley, doctoral candidate in jazz studies, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado; Robert McCurdy, former director of jazz studies, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho; James Pisano, assistant professor of music, Bethel College
Oct. 8	Choices Col. Peter Garibaldi, chief of staff, 3rd Medical Command, U.S. Army
Oct. 12	Not What You Say, But How You Say It Nathan Regier, director of process solutions, Prairie View
Oct. 15	FALL BREAK—NO CONVOCATION
Oct. 19	No “End of Time”: A Window Into the Native American Worldview Raylene Hinz-Penner, Washburn University, Topeka
Oct. 22	“Master for Us All”: the Mathematics of Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) Edward Sandifer, professor of mathematics, Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, Connecticut
Oct. 26	Know Why You Do What You Do Jeff King, LCSW, Prairie View
Oct. 29	Menno Simons Lecture: Flour and Yeast Rudy Wiebe, award-winning Canadian novelist
Nov. 2	Cluster Munitions Survivors’ Tour Bassam Chamoun, Ansar, South Lebanon; Sida Douangtasivilai, Ban Hay, Xieng Khouang Province, Laos; Raed Mokaled, Nabetiah, Lebanon; Phounsy Phasavaeng, Sekong province, Laos
Nov. 5	Flannery O’Connor, Writer for Wingless Chickens L. Lamar Nisly, professor of English, Bluffton (Ohio) University
Nov. 9	Bethel College Talent Show
Nov. 12	Undergraduate research reports
Nov. 16	Green Chemistry Gary Histand, associate professor of chemistry, Bethel College
Nov. 19	The Lure of Conspiracy and the Boredom of History: The Kennedy Assassination Revisited William Juhnke, professor of history, Graceland University, Lamoni, Iowa
Nov. 23	THANKSGIVING BREAK — NO CONVOCATION
Nov. 26	Spoken Among the Trees—A Poetry Reading Jeff Gundy, professor of English, Bluffton (Ohio) University
Nov. 30	An African Perspective Samuel Bankole, Sennai Fiseha, Yenikah Fon, Judith Lusenaka, Rachel Maingu, Patricia Ngigi (Bethel students)
Dec. 3	The Convergence of Cultures: On the Road from Zaporozhye to Khiva Sharon Eicher, associate professor of business and economics, and James Juhnke, professor emeritus of history
Dec. 7	Messiah Sing (held at Bethel College Mennonite Church)

Feb. 2: "Promoting and Protecting the Health of the Public: Practicing Toxicology at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration," Peter Goering, research toxicologist, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Feb. 5: "Introduction to Convocation," Dale Schrag, convocation coordinator
Feb. 5: "Introduction to The Bethel College Project," John Sheriff, executive vice president for institutional development
Feb. 9: Interterm Travel Reports
Feb. 12: "Systemic Racism in Education," Conrad Moore, Damascus Road trainer
Feb. 16: "Why Wages Don’t Fall During a Recession," Truman Bewley, dean of graduate studies, economics, Yale University
Feb. 19: "Taking Risks: Christian Faith and Politics," Gilberto Flores, denominational minister, Mennonite Church USA
Feb. 23: Multicultural Club convocation
Feb. 26: "Racial/Ethnic Differences in Health: 10 Key Facts," Arneatha Martin, co-founder of Wichita’s Center for Health and Wellness
March 2: "Report from Iran," Patricia Shelly, professor of Bible and religion and member of U.S. Religious Iran Delegation representing Mennonite Church USA
March 5: "Sacrifice Honored and Remembered," Karen Ross Epp, author of "With Love Stan: A Soldier’s Letters from Vietnam to the World"
March 9: "Protecting Your Personal Information: An Introduction to Encryption," Susan Loepp ‘89, the 2007 Bethel College Young Alumnus Award recipient and associate professor of mathematics, Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.
March 12: "Understanding Afro-Cuban Music and Its Influences on American Music," Ryan Korb, Afro-Cuban percussionist, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point
March 16: Study Abroad Reports
March 19: Spring Break — No Convocation
March 23: Spring Break — No Convocation
March 26: "Belgrade from the Air," Djordje Maricic, senior from Belgrade, Serbia, and Mark Jantzen, associate professor of history
March 30: "Communists, Gringos, Farm Workers, Chicanos: The Troubled Worlds of Cesar Chavez," Felipe Hinojosa, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Houston
April 2: "The Truth About the World-Famous DOVE Campaign: A Look Behind the Ad Agency Scenes from Ogilvy Düsseldorf/Germany," Joachim Strate, managing director, Ogilvy and Mather, Düsseldorf, Germany
April 6: Good Friday — No Convocation
April 9: C. Henry Smith lecture contest
April 13: Forensics road show
April 16: Staley Lecture: "Stories from the Street," Jimmy Rienzo, street musician, Denver, Colo.
April 20: Student Senate convocation
April 23: "Two Prairie Tales: A Story of Manipulation and a Story of Restoration," Jon Piper, professor of biology
April 27: "Making the A-List"
April 30: International student convocation
May 4: "Carmina burana," William Eash, professor of music
May 7: Academy Award Shorts, Sondra Koontz, vice president for advancement
May 11: Awards Convocation

Aug. 28: Formal opening of school — "Called Out, Called In and Called Forth," Brad Born, interim dean and vice president for academic affairs
Sept. 1: Introduction to convocation; introduction to new faculty
Sept. 4: "Walking Away from Happy Valley," John Sheriff, interim president
Sept. 8: "Ethical Dilemmas in Sport," D. Stanley Eitzen, professor emeritus of sociology, Colorado State University
Sept. 11: Student Senate convocation
Sept. 15: to be announced
Sept. 18: "Reflections on Right Remembering: The Case of Michael Sattler," Dale Schrag, director of church relations
Sept. 22: "History Held Hostage: The Agony of the Middle East," Father Bob Layne, rector, St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church, Newton
Sept. 25: "Islam and Media in America," Dr. Nabil Seyam, head of Islamic School in Wichita
Sept. 29: to be announced
Oct. 2: Honors convocation — "Come With Me: Journeys in Music and Emotion," Karen Bauman Schlabaugh, professor of music
Oct. 6: Fall Fest convocation — "A Bethel College Talent Show"
Oct. 9: "Meet Your New President," Barry Bartel, president
Oct. 13: to be announced
Oct. 16: Fall Break — No Convocation
Oct. 20: "Walk a Mile in My Shoes: An Immigration Story," Nayely Arreola, student, Fresno Pacific University, Fresno, California
Oct. 23: "The Sounds of Silence: A Solesmes Sabbatical," William Eash, professor of music
Oct. 27: A Dialogue on Immigration
Nov. 3: "Fairness in the Fields," Josh Chittum, Oxfam CHANGE leader
Nov. 6: Bible Lecture — "Slavery, Sabbath, War and Women Revisited," Willard Swartley, professor emeritus of New Testament, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Elkhart, Indiana
Nov. 10: " 'Los Angeles at its Best': The daKAH Hip Hop Orchestra, Public Concerts, and the Production of a Multicultural Urban Public," Marina Peterson, assistant professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts, Ohio University, Athens Ohio
Nov. 13: "Chosen: Biblical Texts, Group Identity and Peacemaking," Rich Meyer, Palestine Project support coordinator, Christian Peacemaker Teams
Nov. 17: to be announced
Nov. 20: Business Ethics Class
Nov. 24: Thanksgiving Break — No Convocation
Nov. 27: "Dubious Angels: Poems After Paul Klee," Keith Ratzlaff, professor of English, Central College, Pella, Iowa
Dec. 1: to be announced
Dec. 4: Undergraduate Research Reports
Dec. 8: Messiah Sing — Bethel College Mennonite Church

Feb. 3: "A New Beginning"
Feb. 6: John Sheriff, "Bethel's Hedgehof Concept"
Feb. 10: Interterm Travel Reports
Feb. 13: Lawrence Hart, "Reconciliation at the Washita"
Feb. 17: Julie Hart, "The War on Terrorism and Drugs in Colombia: Perspectives on the Ground"
Feb. 20: "Sex Signals"
Feb. 24: Braden Dragomir, "A Closer Walk"
Feb. 27: "Sticks and Stones: A Conversation about Our Conversations"
Mar. 3: to be announced
Mar. 6: Duane Goossen, "How Kansas Spends Your Money"
Mar. 10: Mark McCormick, "Why Are We So Poor?"
Mar. 13: Suzanne Wedel, "One If by Air; Two If by Land! Critical Care Transport: From Chaos to Collaboration"
Mar. 17: Cynthia Peacock and Twila Miller, "Being Christian in a Multi-religious Culture: How Does/Should One Respond to the Caste System, Arranged Marriages, the Dowry System, etc.?"
Mar. 27: Young Alumnus Award recipients
Mar. 31: Philip D. Gingerich, "Evolution: The Fossil Record and the Origin of Whales"
Apr. 3: General education discussion reprise
Apr. 7: C. Henry Smith oration contest
Apr. 10: George M. Marsden, "How 'Otherworldly" Fundamentalism Became Political" (Staley Lecture)
Apr. 17: Forensics Road Show
Apr. 21: to be announced
Apr. 24: "A Conversation about the Death Penalty"
Apr. 28: International student convocation
May 1: Music Department convocation
May 5: "A Book That Made a Difference"
May 8: David Long, pottery demonstration
May 12: Awards Convocation

Aug. 29: Formal Opening of School; E. LaVerne Epp, "Mind on Fire"
Sept. 2: Introduction to Convocation
Sept. 9: Meet the New Faculty
Sept. 12: Student Senate Convocation
Sept. 16: Kate Brubacher, "The Faces of Suffering: Liberian Widow Refugees"
Sept. 19: Paul Lewis, "The Promise and Peril of Cognitive Mediation in Schizophrenia"
Sept. 23: Weldon Nisly, "A Mennonite Pastor's Journey to Becoming a Benedictine Oblate"
Sept. 26: John Rempel, "Reality and Illusion at the United Nations: Confessions of a (not so) Innocent Bystander?"
Sept. 30: Steve Jones and Friends, Fall Festival Jazz Concert
Oct. 3: Brad Born, "The Sports Complex: A Call to Play"
Oct. 7: J. Fred Humphrey, "Self-Interest and the Common Good"
Oct. 10: Dwight Krehbiel, "Undergraduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity"
Oct. 14: Robb Davis, "Faith and Malaria"
Oct. 17: Palden Gyatso, Tibetan Buddhist monk, "Transforming Suffering into Compassion"
Oct. 21: Matthew Schrag, "The Mathematics of an Airline"
Oct. 28: Larry Friesen and Ada Schmidt-Tieszen, "Living on the Margins: Getting by in the U. S."
Oct. 31: Jaime Adrián Prieto Dalladares, "The Abundance of Oral Tradition in the Construction of Anabaptist History" (Menno Simons Lecture)
Nov. 4: C. R. Snyder, "Is Hope a Good Thing?"
Nov. 7: Student forum on General Education Review
Nov. 11: Larry Rasmussen, "God and Earth: The Everlasting Covenant"
Nov. 14: Thanks for the Memories: Farewell to E. LaVerne Epp
Nov. 18: Bethel College Unplugged
Nov. 21: Jo Becker, "Children as Weapons of War"
Nov. 28: Open Road (men's octet)
Dec. 5: John McCabe-Juhnke, "Monday Morning Live"
Dec. 9: Christmas Gala

Feb. 4: Program Review Team, "Program Review Review"
Feb. 7: Robert Regier, "Visual Journeys, Visual Voices"
Feb. 11: Interterm Travel Reports
Feb. 14: Poetry Festival
Feb. 18: Jim Wallis, "Peacemaking in Hard Times"
Feb. 21: Felipe Hinojosa, "Chicana/o Spaces: Race, Power, and Resistance in Greater Mexico"
Feb. 25: Diana Schunn, "The Real CSI and Its Effects on Sexual Assault"
Feb. 28: Howard J. Shipp, Jr., "Black History: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times"
Mar. 4: "An Exercise in Shaping the Cross-Cultural Future of Bethel College General Education"
Mar. 7: Kathryn Kasper and Merle Schlabaugh, "Opera Excerpts: A Faustian Adventure"
Mar. 11: "A Conversation with Pres. LaVerne Epp
Mar. 14: Forensics Road Show
Mar. 18: Loren Larson, "A Celebration of Mathematics at Bethel: Fortieth Anniversary of the Putnam 'Win'"
Mar. 21: Raylene Hinz-Penner and Lawrence Hart, "Finding Sacred Ground: Lawrence Hart's Journey"
Apr. 4: Jalane Schmidt, "From 'Witchcraft' to 'Folklore': Racial and Religious Hybridity in Afro-Cuban Religions"
Apr. 8: Forum Theater
Apr. 11: Eric Massanari, "On Belay: Lessons Learned at the End of My Rope"
Apr. 15: David Long, "The Art of the Apocalypse"
Apr. 18: R. Bruce Woods, "Living Life beyond the Warranty"
Apr. 22: William Eash, "Requiem aeternam"
Apr. 25: Student Senate
Apr. 29: Lee Lever and Doug Luginbill, "The Marriage Amendment: Two Pastoral Perspectives"
May 2: C. Henry Smith Peace Oration Contest winners
May 6: Bethel College Dance Ensemble, "The Dance of Oz"
May 9: Sondra Koontz, "Academy Award Shorts"
May 13: Awards Convocation

Aug 30: President E. LaVerne Epp, "Curious George"
Sept. 3: Dale Schrag, "Introduction to Convocation"
Sept. 6: "A Stadium Celebration"
Sept. 10: Amy Barker, "A Theological Pilgrimage"
Sept. 13: Mark McCormick, "What He's Done for Me"
Sept. 17: Club Fair and Senate Elections
Sept. 20: Ron Roberson, "Light from the East? A Methodist Who Became a Catholic Looks at the Orthodox Churches"
Sept. 27: Bud Welch, "From Rage to Reconciliation"
Oct. 1: Brad Born, "Popeye, Chick, X-Men and the Justice League: the Revelation of Comic Books"
Oct. 4: Triple Play, "Understanding All That Jazz"
Oct. 8: Arthur W. Marks, "Still 'Ain't Misbehavin': A Musical Revue"
Oct. 11: BIFL students, "A Revealing Look at the Last Book of the New Testament"
Oct. 15: Gary Histand, "The Wonderful World of Chemistry"
Oct. 18: James Juhnke and Lowell Peachey, "An Atypical Presidential Debate"
Oct. 22: Randy Brown and Carolyn McGinn, "The 31st District State Senate Race"
Oct. 29: Duane Friesen, "The Story of a Love Affair"
Nov. 1: Lee Palmer Wandel, "Textual Communities: Theologians and Evangelicals" (Menno Simons lecture)
Nov. 5: Undergraduate research reports
Nov. 8: Galen Gisler, "Calculating the Future: The Meteor Impact That Killed the Dinosaurs"
Nov 12: Ted (Swartz) and Lee (Eshleman), "Humor and Faith: A Holy Accident" (Staley lecture)
Nov. 15: ?
Nov. 19: Sandra Birdsell, "Headlines Then and Now: Katya and the Birth of a Personal, Historical, Novel
Nov. 22: Donna Sweet, "HIV/AIDS: Definitely Not Gone, but Forgotten by Many"
Dec. 3: Michael Davis, "The Jewish World of Yesterday and Today"
Dec. 6: "A Book That Made a Difference"
Dec. 8: Annual Messiah sing
Dec. 10: Christmas Gala

Feb. 6: Mark E. McCormick, "The Delightful Burden of Feeling Too Deeply"
Feb. 9: Curt Goering, "Human Rights, Iraq, and the 'War on Terror' "
Feb. 13: Cookie Wiebe, "Blame It on Bethel: Service for Life"
Feb. 15: (7:30pm) Naim Stifan Ateek, "The Use and Misuse of the Bible in Palestine: An Historical and Theological View" (Bible lecture)
Feb 16: Naim Stifan Ateek, "Jonah: The First Palestinian Liberation Theologian" (Bible lecture)
Feb. 16: (7:30pm) Naim Stifan Ateek, "The Bible and the Land" (Bible lecture)
Feb. 20: Interterm travel reports
Feb. 23: Andrew Rice, "Exploiting Sept. 11th for Pre-Emptive War: How Our National Tragedy Was Used to Launch an Unjustified War"
Feb. 27: Travis Heying, "Iraq from a Kansas Perspective"
Mar. 1: The Bartered Bride opera excerpts
Mar. 5: Donna Sibaai, "Life as an American Muslim"
Mar. 8: Cheryl L. Stucky, "From Bethel to Berlin and Beyond: A Science Journey" (Young Alumni award convo)
Mar. 12: Brad Gregory, "Why History Matters"
Mar. 15: Ami Regier, "Seeing a Sacred Truce in the Landscape: Visual and Literary Notes from a Quick Trip to Athens"
Mar. 19: Forensics road show
Mar. 29: Arvis Arvette, "The New World Order: How It Affects Human and Civil Rights"
Apr. 2: Steve Shawl, "Highlights from the Hubble Telescope"
Apr. 5: Ronald Barker, "The Story of an Air Force Fighter Pilot"
Apr. 12: International student convo
Apr. 16: Bethel and Beyond, African-American Alumni Association
Apr. 19: C. Henry Smith Peace Oration finals
Apr. 23: Anga Rory (Joyful Spirit), Paraguayan dance troupe
Apr. 26: Student Senate
Apr. 30: William Eash and Brad Born, "Dona nobis pacem: a Celebration of Peace or a Celebration of War?"
May 3: Joseph Goering, "Finding the Holy Grail: An Historian's Quest"
May 7: Douglas T. Shima and Bill Rich, "Law Day 2004: The 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas"
May 10: Music department convo
May 14: Awards convo

Sept. 2: E. LaVerne Epp, "Like the Green, Beginning Again"
Sept. 5: Dale Schrag, "Convocation: Why Are We Here?"
Sept 8: "Windows into the Lives of Bethel's New Faculty"
Sept. 11: Christopher White, "Born on 9/11: The Making of a Marine Turned Veteran for Peace"
Sept. 15: Club Fair and Senate Elections
Sept. 22: John McCabe-Juhnke, "Living to Perform - Performing to Live: My Tour of Life's Stages" (honors convo)
Sept. 26: 2002-2003 Study Abroad students, "The World is Our Classroom"
Sept. 29: Jonathan B. Hook, "Self-Esteem and Indian Mascots"
Oct. 3: Thane Chastain, "Content Analysis in Communication Research: The Simpsons - A Case Study in Cartoon Verbal Aggression" (Fall Fest convo)
Oct. 6: Robert Hull, "Dealing with People You Wish Would Go Away"
Oct. 10: A Plagiarism Primer
Oct. 13: Rhonda Holman, "Newspapers Make You Smarter - Or Should"
Oct. 17: Brent Noel, "Forum Theatre"
Oct. 20: D. Paul Miller, "Senior Olympics and Life Style"
Oct. 24: John Simmering, "Perspectives on Alcohol Use and Abuse"
Oct. 31: "Travels with Jonah and John: A Window into BIFL"
Nov. 2 (7:30pm): Jean Janzen, "Mud: The Mound That Saves Us" (Menno Simons lecture)
Nov. 3 (11 am): Jean Janzen, "Water: Wailing in the Shower" (Menno Simons lecture)
Nov. 3 (7:30pm): Jean Janzen, "Fire and Air: Breathing the Light" (Menno Simons lecture)
Nov. 4: (7:30pm): Jean Janzen, "Text: Marking the Stone" (Menno Simons lecture)
Nov. 7: C. Leo Hartshorn, "Drumming for Peace: Rhythmic and Irenic Pedagogy or Teaching Peace with a Funky Beat" (Staley lecture)
Nov. 10: C. Leo Hartshorn, "Drumming for Peace: Rhythmic and Irenic Pedagogy or Teaching Peace with a Funky Beat" (Staley lecture)
Nov 14: Bethel College Unplugged
Nov. 17: Summer 2003 Undergraduate Research Reports
Nov. 21: Bethel College Dance Festival
Dec. 1: Student Summer Science Internship Reports
Dec. 5: Rajmohan Gandhi, "The Legacy of My Grandfather for Peacemaking Today"
Dec. 8: Jerry Stein, "Asubpeeschoseewagong/Grassy Narrows First Nation: Sovereignty, Treaty Rights, and Logging Road Blockade"

Feb. 7: Laurence A. Marschall, "Measuring the Age of the Universe"
Feb. 10: Paul Rudy: "Anthropological Impulses in the Creative Process: 'I'll have my eggs unscrambled please' "
Feb. 14: Bryan Dietrich, poetry reading from Krypton Nights
Feb. 17: Service Day: Megan Goering, Mark Smith
Feb. 21: Multicultural Life
Feb. 24: Interterm Travel Reports
Feb. 28: Loren L. Johns, "The Left Behind Series: Vision of God at Work?" (Bible Lecture)
Mar. 3: Paul Schrag, Wendy Funk Schrag, Young Alumni Award Convocation
Mar. 7: Students for Social Chagen
Mar. 10: Bethel Internships: Learning Outside the Classroom
Mar. 14: Todd Davis, poetry reading from Ripe
Mar. 17: Charles Snowdon, "Primate Family Values: Monogamy and Cooperative Infant Care"
Mar. 31: Kristi Smith, "Don't Kill for Me"
Apr. 4: Patricia Kaurouma, "Sacred Music of Duke Ellington"
Apr. 7: Sondra Koontz, Academy Award Shorts
Apr. 14: Deanell Reece Tacha, chief judge, 10th District Court of Appeals
Apr. 21: C. Heny Smith Peace Oration finals
Apr. 25: Noel Rasor, "Seeing Urban America: The Landscapes of Urban Redevelopment"
Apr. 28: Student Senate
May 2: G. Joseph Pierron, Richard B. Walker, Douglas T. Shima, "The United States Supreme Court in Review"
May 5: Forensics Road Show
May 9: Music Department
May 12: Awards Convocation
May 16: Bethel College Unplugged

Sep 6: E. LaVerne Epp, "Packing for College and Playing Large"
Sep 9: All Campus Forum, "9/11 One Year Later"
Sep 13: Club Fair and Senate Elections
Sep 16: 2001-02 Study Abroad Students, "The World is Our Classroom"
Sep 20: Mahat Farah el-Khoury, "Women and Peacemaking in Syria"
Sep 23: Diane Flickner, "Champions of Character - A Standard Higher Than Victory"
Sep 27: Summer 2002 Undergraduate Research Reports
Sep 30: Dwight Krehbiel, "Why I Love Science (and Hope You Will Too)" (honors convo)
Oct 4: Garry Boston, "Politics 2002"
Oct 7: Jonathan W. Jantz, "The Effects of Television and Videos on Adolescents and Subsequent Violence"
Oct 11: Fall Festive Jazz Concert, Bethel College Faculty Jazz Quartet
Oct 14: Adrian Melott, "Our Universe: Its Earliest Times, Its Ultimate Fate"
Oct 18, 20, 21: James E. Brenneman, "A Subversive Holiness: Studies in the Book of Exodus" (Staley Lectures)
Oct 25: Kjell Ove Nilsson, "Martin Luther and the Protestant Revolution"
Oct 28: no convo, Fall Break
Nov 1: Spanish Department, "Dia del los Muertos: The Mexican Celebration Representing Unity between Life and Death"
Nov 3-5: C. Arnold Snyder, "The Rich Legacy of Anabaptist Spirituality" (Menno Simons Lectures)
Nov 8: Kenneth Armitage, "The Galapagos Islands: The Enchanted Isles"
Nov 11: Student Development, "Substance Abuse"
Nov 15: Student Summer Science Internship Report
Nov 18: Duane Friesen, panel discussion on The Politics of Jesus by John Howard Yoder
Nov 22: Kathryn Kasper, "Too Many Sopranos," excerpts from the fall opera
Nov 25: to be announced
Nov 29: no convo, Thanksgiving break
Dec 2: Department of English, "Creative Writing at Bethel College"
Dec 6: Charles Epp, "Litigation and Social Reform"
Dec 9: Renee Dreiling and Phyllis Abrams, "Community: Contemporary and Contemplative"
Dec 13: annual Christmas convocation

Feb 8: Schuyler Jones, "Background to the Situation in Afghanistan"
Feb 11: Keith Ratzlaff, poetry reading
Feb 15: Multicultural Life
Feb 22: Clayton Koppes ('67), "What Every Yale [Bethel] Freshman Should Know . . . But Didn't in 1963"
Feb 24-26: Perry Yoder, "Songs of the Kingdom" (Bible Lectures)
Mar 1: Interterm travel reports
Mar 4: Karl Friesen, Kurt Friesen, Gwen Neufeld, Jeff Stehman, "Riding the Hype: Five Years in the Internet Business" (Young Alumni Convo)
Mar 8: "Learning Outside the Classroom" (Bethel internships)
Mar 11: Keith Sprunger, "Finding History and Excitement in Your Kansas Hometowns"
Mar 18 morning: John McCabe-Juhnke, "Performance in Prison: Doing Theater While Doing Time"
Mar 18 evening: Student Development, Damascus Road Team, film "The Legacy"
Mar 22: "Bethel College Unplugged" (Bethel College student folk artists)
Mar 25: Kate Campbell, folk singer
Apr 8: Doris Bergen, "Gender and Genocide"
Apr 12: Forensics Road Show
Apr 15: Jeanine Hathaway, poetry reading
Apr 19: Student Senate
Apr 22: C. Henry Smith Peace Oration finals
Apr 26: Music Department
Apr 29: David McReynolds, "Socialism in the 21st Century"
May 3: Jim Goering, "Some Thoughts on Future Global Challenges and the Christian Professional's Response"
May 6: to be announced
May 10: Honors Convo

Aug 28: Douglas A. Penner, "Education and Imperfection: Living and Learning in the Real World" (opening convo)
Aug 31: Steve Unruh, progressive folk/rock concert
Sep 7: "The World is Our Classroom", 2000-2001 study abroad students
Sep 10: Club fair and Senate elections
Sep 14: Thorvald Holmes, "Who's at Home on the Range"
Sep 17: Clayton Koppes, "What Every Yale [Bethel] Freshman Should Know . . . But Didn't in 1963" [cancelled]
Sep 21: Student summer internship reports
Sep 24: Billy McCray, "A Voice from the Community"
Sep 28: June Alliman Yoder, "Remember and Do Not Forget: Sacred Stories of Our Lives" (Staley Lectures)
Oct 1: June Alliman Yoder, "Remember and Do Not Forget: Sacred Stories of Our Lives" (Staley Lectures)
Oct 5: Summer 2001 undergraduate research student reports
Oct 8: Mark Jantzen, "Flunking History Could Kill You: The Role of History in the Conflicts of the Former Yugoslavia"
Oct 12: Susan Schultz Huxman, "You've Come a Long Way Baby: Milestones of U. S. Women in Sport" (Fall Fest convo)
Oct 19: Kahlil Green, "Realities of Prison Life: A View from the Hutchinson Correctional Facility"
Oct 26: Dale Suderman, "Banality and Euphoria: The Art of 'Getting High'"
Oct 29: Alan Kreider, "Oath-Taking and Truth-Telling" (Menno Simons Lectures)
Nov 2: Bethel professors panel, "Neuroscience and the Soul"
Nov 5: "The World of International Students"
Nov 9: A. Emerson Wiens, "Technology, the God That Limps"
Nov 12: Bethel College Peace Club, "Report from Mobilization for Global Justice, Washington, D. C."
Nov 16: Jerry Herbert, "Citizen Disciples: What's the Gospel Got to do with America?"
Nov 19: John Sheriff, "Where the Meanings, are"
Nov 26: Advent hymn sing
Nov 30: "Prairie Nutcracker", "Informance"
Dec 3: "Student Poets Read Their Work"
Dec 7: Christmas convo

Feb 2: Shukura Sentwali, "Africa's Contribution to World Civilization: Forgotten or Never Taught?"
Feb 8: Prairie Wind Dancers, "Stories of Addiction"
Feb 9: Interterm 2001: Travel Reports
Feb 12: Raylene Hinz-Penner, "Valentines: Poems for the Birds, the Saints, and Eros"
Feb 16: Carmen Pauls, "Hungry, Thirsty, a Stranger: Mennonite Central Committee Responds to the Humanitarian Crisis in Iraq"
Feb 19: Shana Goering and Jesse Graber, Service Day
Feb 23: Treva Reimer, "Carnival in Rio!"
Feb 26: Seiichi P. T. Matsuda and Bonnie Bartel, "Experimenting with Food" (Young Alumni Award)
Mar 2: "Learning outside the Classroom" (Bethel internships)
Mar 5: Multicultural Life: Alumni
Mar 9: Henry Holden, "Don't Dis the Ability"
Mar 12: Jeff Gundy, "Rhapsody with Dark Matter"
Mar 26: to be announced
Mar 30: John Janzen and Reinhild Janzen, "Voices from the Aftermath of War in Rwanda"
Apr 2: Bill Born, "I'll Know It When I See It: Campus Forum on Pornography on the Internet"
Apr 6: Multicultural Life Students
Apr 9: Ronald Sider, "Justice for the City: An Historic Opportunity for American Christians" (Bible Lecture)
Apr 16: Student Senate: 2001-2002 candidates
Apr 20: C. Henry Smith Peace Oration finals
Apr 23: Bethel College Forensics Showcase
Apr 27: Norma Kehrberg, "The Cross in the Land of the Khukuri"
Apr 30: Sonda Bandy Koontz, "Academy Award Shorts"
May 4: Music Department: Ensemble Showcase
May 7: Honors convo
May 11: William Eash, "Haydn's 'Creation': Evolution of a Masterwork"

Aug 29: Douglas A. Penner, "Listen for the Call" (opening school convo)
Sep 1: Bret Boyer, solo guitar
Sep 4: Harold Schlechtweg, "Labor Day Reflections: The Need for Unions Today
Sep 8: Michael Meade, "Violence and Apathy amongst Modern Youth"
Sep 11: Club fair and Senate elections
Sep 15: Student summer internship reports
Sep 18: to be announced
Sep 22: Chuck Neufeld, "Can You Live with It? With What You've Gathered, That Is?" (Staley Lectures)
Sep 25: Chuck Neufeld, "So You're Packed, Now What? From Obligation to Privilege!" (Staley Lectures)
Sep 29: Summer 2000 undergraduate research student reports
Oct 2: Ami Regier, "Reading Elbib Doownosiop Eht Backwards: Narrative Ethics and Readers' Ethics in the Twentieth-Century Novel" (honors convo)
Oct 6: Ken Hiebert, "The Spirit of a Place" (Fall Fest convo)
Oct 9: Christine Downey, "Campaign 2000: Kansas Senate, District 31"
Oct 13: Carls Nolla, "Campaign 2000: 4th Congressional District"
Oct 16: Karen Klassen Harder, "Reflections on Africa"
Oct 20: Adam Knapp, "The Role of Sports in Society"
Oct 27: Abner Hershberger, "Reading Our Culture through Visual Art"
Oct 30: Mark Noll, "Who Are Today's Evangelicals and What Are They Up To?" (Menno Simons Lectures)
Nov 3: Terry Chappell, "Safety in Medicine"
Nov 6: Student Senate, "Who Are We and What Are We Doing?"
Nov 10: Academic Fair
Nov 13: Martin Chislom, "The Year Was: Frederick Douglass's Life"
Nov 17: International students
Nov 20: John Sheriff, "Untitled #2: By Any Other Name"
Nov 27: Bob Gress, "Kansas Wildlife"
Dec 1: Department of English, "Creative Writing at Bethel College"
Dec 10: Christmas Convocation

Feb 7: "Bethel Internships: Theory into Action"
Feb 11: Albert Goldbarth, "Poems Approaching Valentine's Day"
Feb 14: Mara Vanderslice, "Life before Debt: Jubilee 2000"
Feb 18: Lauren Perkins, "Your Media"
Feb 21: "Interterm Travel: Student Reports"
Feb 25: Larry Friesen, Jim Harder, Karen Klassen Harder, "Sabbatical Experiences in the Field"
Feb 28: Multicultural Student Organization
Mar 3: Ivars Peterson, "Moebius Fantasies and Other Excursions into Mathematical Art"
Mar 6: Leticia Palacioz Nielsen, "Forming Disciples of Christ and the Stewardship Way of Life" (Young Alumna Award)
Mar 10: Cynthia Doyle, "The Journey: North Newton and Back" (African-American Alumni Reunion)
Mar 12: J. Denny Weaver, "Salvation through the Slain Lamb" (Bible Lectures)
Mar 13: J. Denny Weaver, "Atonement: A Conversation with Black Theology" (Bible Lectures)
Mar 13: J. Denny Weaver, "Atonement: A Conversation with Feminist and Womanist Theology" (Bible Lectures)
Mar 14: J. Denny Weaver, "Atonement: The Bible and Defenders of Anselm" (Bible Lectures)
Mar 17: Donald C. Holsinger, "Islam and the West: Coming Clash of Civilizations?"
Mar 27: Bill Born, "Student Development: Campus Housing Plans 2000-2001"
Mar 31: Administrative Cabinet
Apr 3: "Microcosmos" (documentary film) [not shown?]
Apr 7: Marjean Harris, "To Eat or Not to Eat: Is That the Question?"
Apr 10: Marie Snider, "Too Young . . . Too Old"
Apr 17: Student Senate 2000-2001 candidates
Apr 24: Bethel College Forensics Showcase
Apr 28: Music Department Honors students
May 1: C. Henry Smith Peace Oration finals
May 5: Sol y Sombra, Wichita salsa band
May 8: Honors Convocation
May 12: William Eash, "Yo, Elijah! 'Sup?"

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