FRANKLIN, Ohio - The Bluffton University women’s soccer team traveled to face Franklin College and fell in a heartbreaker on Saturday, Oct. 17. A couple late Grizzly goals dropped the Beavers to 6-8 overall and 2-3 in the Heartland Conference. Franklin improves to 12-1 on the season and stays undefeated in the HCAC at 5-0.
OBERLIN, Ohio - The Inter-Regional Rumble cross country meet at Oberlin College presented the Bluffton University harriers a great opportunity to run season-best and personal-record times. The Beavers delivered while running among 30+ teams from throughout the state of Ohio as well as Pennsylvania, New York, Michigan, Indiana, Minnesota, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia, many of whom are nationally ranked within their respective NCAA regions.
Dr. Rebecca Janzen, an assistant professor of Spanish at Bluffton University, will present a program Tuesday, Oct. 27, on her newly published book, “The National Body in Mexican Literature: Collective Challenges to Biopolitical Control.”
Beginning with a reception at 3:45 p.m., the event is free and open to the public in Bluffton’s Musselman Library Reading Room.
Dr. Lucia Unrau, a pianist and professor of music at Bluffton University, will present a faculty recital with Michigan musicians Sandra Jackson and David Jackson at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 25, in Bluffton’s Yoder Recital Hall. The recital is free and open to the public.
The performance is one of several this fall featuring Unrau and Sandra Jackson, an assistant professor of clarinet at Eastern Michigan University and Unrau’s summer colleague at Interlochen (Mich.) Arts Camp.
Cyneatha Millsaps, lead pastor at Community Mennonite Church in Markham, Ill., will discuss “Living and Trusting the Word of God” in Bluffton University’s Spiritual Life Week forum on Tuesday, Oct. 27.
Millsaps, also the multicultural liaison for the Illinois Mennonite Conference, will speak at 11 a.m. in Founders Hall, telling how a group of young Mennonites made a difference in her neighborhood after moving there. The presentation is free and open to the public.
