Natasha Trethewey, the Poet Laureate of the United States, will deliver Bluffton University’s annual Keeney Peace Lecture at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 15, in Founders Hall.
Trethewey will read from her work—including the Pulitzer Prize-winning 2006 collection “Native Guard”—during her presentation, titled “On Poetry and History.” The event is free and open to the public.
The Bluffton University volleyball team had visions of handing Coach Yarnell his first-ever victory over Heidelberg University when the Beavers traveled to Tiffin on Tuesday, Oct. 1.
A solid 25-18 showing in the lidlifter gave the visitors hope before Heidelberg returned to form and made quick work of Bluffton during the next three sets (25-18, 25-13, 25-17). Bluffton slipped to 8-12 on the season, while Heidelberg improved to 8-9 overall.
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.
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.
