Arts & Culture
‘Winter Soldier’ takes box office by storm
This past weekend, “Captain America: Winter Soldier” stormed into theaters across the world. It set a new record for the most money made in an opening weekend in the month of April by a significant amount and left a wide age range of moviegoers satisfied with the experience and eagerly waiting for more. In this more »
Features
Publication has untapped potential
Cardboard Magazine is in a complicated situation. Initially a Northwestern-based blog, Cardboard Magazine has been gradually changing and improving throughout the past year. It has grown from a simple blog with a few hundred views to a magazine with an iPad issue and writers from colleges in multiple regions of the United States. However, the more »
News
Something new is brewing at The Old Factory
For the past four years, The Old Factory Coffee Shop has been a meeting place for Northwestern students and community members looking for good conversation, a comfortable atmosphere and the shop’s signature pour-over coffee that many would consider to be the best in town. None of these qualities will be disappearing anytime soon, but big more »
Opinion
A not-so sanitary send-off
The Beacon you are holding is the last issue that will be created under my advisement. As most of my communications students know at this point, my wife and I are leaving Orange City at the close of this school year to pursue some new opportunities in Des Moines. Many advisors who find themselves in more »
Sports
Raiders gonna raid on the golf course
On Monday the men’s and women’s Golf teams competed and finished third in their respective events. The women opened their spring season at the Midland Invite in Fremont, Neb. The men hosted their annual meet at Landsmeer Golf Club in Orange City. In their spring season debut, the Raiders shot a 384 collectively, finishing nine more »
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NW pounds Hastings after Doane defeats
On Saturday, the Northwestern baseball team went to Hastings, Neb., to play a doubleheader against the Broncos. The Raiders won both games — the first 12-3 and the second 16-3. The Raiders out-hit Hastings in game one 14-7 and were led by juniors Skyler Wheeler and Mitch Peschon, who each had three hits. Peschon hit more »
Raiders even over last week, weather cancels game with M’side
Throughout the past week, the softball team has gone 2-2. The stretch started last Friday with a 4-3 win over nonconference opponent Dickinson State. On Saturday, the Raiders split a doubleheader with Concordia by scores of 3-2 and 2-3. A rain show ended what was supposed to be a doubleheader against Morningside with a 6-4 more »
Shakira’s lips don’t lie
Already a star in Colombia (with her very own statue), Shakira made it to the top in the United States with her first English album’s release in 2001. The majority of current college students were in middle school when Shakira’s “Hips Don’t Lie” was a hit. Remember being an awkward teenager trying to imitate her more »
Extinct sports at NW remembered
Northwestern offers a variety of sports to students, but long before the current student body even knew what college was, two additional sports beyond the traditional ones we typically think of today, could be found on campus. Men’s tennis was a sport that, for many years, had more »
Mediterranean meets Midwest
This week, the Orange City Arts Council welcomes Israeli ensemble Baladino. The band’s last stop on its five-week tour is Orange City, and the weeklong stay will culminate with a concert at 7:30 p.m. on Friday at Northwestern College’s Christ Chapel. The ensemble is based out of Tel Aviv and has only been performing together more »
Students transfer from one community to another
According to the PR Newswire, approximately 60 percent of two-year college students transfer from their first school to go on to complete a four-year degree. In addition, according to Mike Wallinga, the director of institutional research at Northwestern, “nearly one in 10 students at NW transfers more »
Multicultural appreciation multiplies at NW
Five years ago, Northwestern’s student enrollment was 1,168. Almost 95 percent of students were white, with the remaining five percent made up of people from various minority groups. Today only 85.3 percent of the student population is white. This five-year change can be attributed to several factors that more »
Divergent leaves viewers with more questions than answers
“Divergent” takes place in future dystopian Chicago, where everyone is sorted into and classified by faction. The Erudite are smart, the Dauntless are fearless, the Amity are peaceful, the Candor are honest, and the Abnegation are selfless. Each faction has its own rules in society, and the only time someone can change factions is during more »
Campus concert brings bands, blessings
Northwestern welcomed a big-name concert to campus for the first time in over five years. Jeremy Vanderloop, Manic Drive, VOTA and Remedy Drive visited Christ Chapel on Thursday, March 20, as a stop on the March LifeLight Tour. Josh Brewer, the director of LifeLight, also spoke at the event. Because this is the first big more »