The Bluffton University women’s basketball team improved to 3-0 for the first time since the 1994-95 season after a convincing 75-53 win over the visiting College of Wooster
Fighting Scots on Saturday, Nov. 24, in the Sommer Center. The win not only pushed the Beavers to 3-0, but in the process Bluffton handed the Fighting Scots (2-1) their first loss of the season.
Bluffton got off to a slow start after two buckets by Wooster’s Maura Hall and a three by Karley Walker gave the visitors a 7-2 lead four minutes into the game.
The Bluffton University men’s basketball team was victorious in its first game in the Sommer Center, routing OSU-Lima 89-41 after leading just 43-30 at the break. The Beavers held the Barons to 31.6 percent from the field while shooting 52.1 percent for the game. Bluffton improved to 1-2, while OSU-Lima slipped to 1-8 overall.
The Beavers jumped out to a quick 8-0 lead, forcing the Barons to call their first timeout. The stoppage did not slow the Bluffton offensive attack as the home team opened up a 20-6 lead with 11:20 left in the first half.
Bluffton University will present a history of student life on campus through words and pictures at a campus forum on Tuesday, Nov. 27.
Employing a talk-show format, “Late Night with Student Life: Live from Founders Hall” is free and open to the public beginning at 11 a.m.
Dr. Julie DeGraw, vice president for student life and dean of students, will lead the look back and end with her office’s current mission and how it hopes to serve students.
Bluffton University’s Camerata Singers, University Chorale and Saxophone Trio will headline “A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols,” the university’s annual Christmas choral concert, at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2, in Yoder Recital Hall.
The program is designed around a historical structure of Scripture readings and Christmas carols. The readings, taken from prophetic writings about the Messiah’s coming and from the Christmas story, are interspersed with various Christmas pieces.
Dr. George Lehman, chair of Bluffton University’s Business Studies Division, will discuss a longtime Bluffton business faculty member during a campus colloquium on Friday, Nov. 30.
Lehman’s presentation, “Surveys, Slaw Cutters and Internships: Howard Raid and the Bluffton Business Community,” will begin at 4 p.m. in Stutzman Lecture Hall in Bluffton’s Centennial Hall. It is free and open to the public.
Bluffton University’s new Sommer Center for Health and Fitness Education was a popular place on Nov. 5, the day it opened to the campus community. At their meeting Nov. 9 and 10, the Bluffton Board of Trustees learned just how popular.
