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Bluffton University will host a fall concert featuring its Camerata Singers and Concert Band at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 13, in Yoder Recital Hall.

The concert is free and open to the public. A free-will offering will be taken for music scholarships during intermission.

Dr. Mark J. Suderman, professor of music, conducts Camerata Singers, a select, 25-voice chamber choir. Pianist Ana Yoder will accompany the chorus, which will present six numbers, including Mozart’s “Laudate Pueri” and a Virginia slave song, “Don’t Be Weary, Traveler.”

Dr. Rudi Kauffman, an assistant professor of restorative justice at Bluffton University, will discuss “Counting the Cost: Analyzing the Humanitarian Impacts of Just War-making” at 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 11, in Stutzman Lecture Hall in Centennial Hall.

Free and open to the public, the campus colloquium has been postponed one week, from Oct. 4, due to a scheduling conflict.

Here's the new fall menu at Mustard Seed Cafe

Mustard Seed celebrates fall with seasonal additions to its menu. 

An example of this new fare includes the Autumn Cobb Salad, made with spicy pecans, gorgonzola, bacon, hard-boiled egg, apple and avocado over a leafy mix with an apple cider vinaigrette.  One of the new fall sandwiches is the Autumn BLE, which is designed with bacon, arugula, shallot, fried egg, maple cream spread on homemade sourdough bread.

Bluffton University will celebrate Homecoming Oct. 10-13, including a day filled with activities for alumni and the community on Saturday, Oct. 12.

Squash and Apple Bake
(Provided by the Bluffton University Nutrition Association)

2 lb. butternut, acorn squash
2-3 apples
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup butter or margarine
1 Tbsp. flour
1 tsp. salt
1/4 cup chopped pecans (optional)
Add nutmeg and cinnamon to taste

1 - Cut the end of the squash and peel. Peel and core the apples. Cut the squash and apples into 1 inch cubes and place in casserole dish.

By Brittany Roth

After spending their first Friday on campus since the beginning of the year, the Beavers were excited to get back on the road Saturday to travel to Mount Union to face Marietta College along with the #8 ranked host school.

The first match was a long and intense battle against a Marietta squad that took down the Beavers on the opening weekend at the Sommer Center Spiketacular. In the first set Bluffton welcomed two injured players back into the lineup.

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