BCC MEETING (link never changes) Tuesday, January 19th @ 6:30pm EST
Bethune Tropical Frost Week
Frost week is here! Get ready for a fun filled Frosh like experience this winter semester! Bethune College presents :
Last Resort : Bethune Tropical Frost Week
Join us between January 4th-8th with a huge welcome back week long celebration with a tropical theme. Get excited for the new semester with events such as movie night, bingo, arts and crafts, casino night, smoothie recpies and our own version of nuit blanche! Let’s get warm with our Bethune family on these cold cold winter nights.
Last Resort : Bethune Tropical Frost Week
Join us between January 4th-8th with a huge welcome back week long celebration with a tropical theme. Get excited for the new semester with events such as movie night, bingo, arts and crafts, casino night, smoothie recpies and our own version of nuit blanche! Let’s get warm with our Bethune family on these cold cold winter nights.
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Student Counselling, Health & Well-being is happy to announce that the Mental Health & Wellness Student Initiative Fund is now live! This fund aims to support innovative and inclusive student-led initiatives that promote a healthy, inclusive and supportive environment that fosters mental health and well-being among members of the York student community. The deadline for proposals is February 28, 2020 at 11:59 p.m. Additional information including how to apply can be found here.
As the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) has ended, students can find more information regarding transitioning to new benefits here.
Pentadragon Games
Below you can find the Bethune College Council Constitution. The college council bible if you will.
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WHY BETHUNE?
Affiliated with the Faculty of Science & Lassonde School of Engineering
at York University, Norman Bethune College offers numerous programs and leadership opportunities to enrich and support the student life.
at York University, Norman Bethune College offers numerous programs and leadership opportunities to enrich and support the student life.
Student Ombuds Services (SOS)Offers academic support programs, such as Peer Mentoring system and Peer Tutoring network, and informative workshop sessions, such as Medical/Dental/Pharmacy school admission workshops, for affiliated students.
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BETHUNE ATHLETIC COMMITTEE (BAC)Represents the Bethune College community with intramural sports; offers countless types of sports at both recreational and competitive level, as well as numerous leadership opportunities.
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Dr. Norman Bethune
The college is named after Dr. Henry Norman Bethune, a Canadian-born physician, prominent in science and politics of the early 20th century. Dr. Bethune made great strides in the treatment of tuberculosis and succession of blood-transfusions. Bethune had been a great advocate of medicare before its time in Canada. Bethune even played large parts as a battlefield medic during the 1930’s in aiding the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, and the Spanish Civil War. Norman Bethune’s lifetime had been successful in attaining international interest, and had put Canada in the spotlight during a time preceding its autonomy. As students of this college, we look to be Dr. Bethune's embodiment and use his name as a spark for our own endeavours.
Bethune College is one of the great colleges of York University. Founded in 1971, as College G, started out in the basement of the Steacie Science building. Bethune College had existed in the infancy of York University, as it was originally directed towards African and Third-World Studies. By 1988, the college had transitioned to the disciplines of science and engineering, to the college we know as today.
