The Bluffton University Social Work Club will hold a canned food drive that will begin Monday, Oct. 20, and culminate with “trick or canning” during community trick-or-treat night on Thursday, Oct. 30.
Collection boxes will be set out Oct. 20 at Common Grounds and Community Market in Bluffton, as well as in Marbeck Center, Centennial Hall and College Hall on campus. University students will then seek additional donations—all of which will go to the Bluffton Area Food Pantry—during “trick or canning” in the community from 6-7:30 p.m. on Oct. 30.
Bluffton University’s mathematics department will host its 13th annual math competition for high school students on Saturday, Nov. 8, in Stutzman Lecture Hall in Centennial Hall. All of the day’s activities are free.
The test, which begins at 9:45 a.m., includes only short-answer questions covering high school math topics through precalculus. Cash prizes will be awarded, and test scores of seniors considering attending Bluffton may be used to award renewable scholarships of up to $1,000 per year. Scholarship awards will be offered by January 2015.
BLUFFTON, Ohio - Bluffton University sophomore Miguel Alicea (Westerville/South) helped the Beavers seal a 31-17 win at Rose-Hulman Saturday with a late touchdown and has been named the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Football Player of the Week on defense. It marks the third time this season Bluffton has had a Player of the Week following Jordan Watkins (Reynoldsburg) and Brad Swavel (Marion/Ridgedale).
By Ryan Schadewald,
sports information assistant
The Bluffton University football team made the long trip to Terre Haute, Ind. worth it as they pulled off the upset over the previously-unbeaten Rose-Hulman Engineers, 31-17.
BLUFFTON, Ohio - The Bluffton University men’s soccer team battled to the end, but came up just short with a 1-0 loss to Earlham College on Saturday, Oct. 11 . The 18 shots, including seven on frame were not enough. Bluffton fell to at 4-9 overall with a 1-2 mark in the HCAC. Earlham improved to 1-9-1 on the season with a 1-2 record in the HCAC as well.
