Two Afghan women-a filmmaker and a humanitarian-will discuss conditions in their native country Monday and Tuesday, March 12 and 13, at Bluffton University.
In the first of three events that are free and open to the public, the documentary film "Afghanistan Unveiled" will be shown at 8 p.m. Monday in Stutzman Lecture Hall in Bluffton's Centennial Hall.
In the cemetery at Rockport Colony, South Dakota, are the small, rectangular grave markers for Joseph and Michael Hofer, each bearing one of the brothers' names, his birth and death dates and, in capital letters beside each brother's name, the word "MARTYR."
The Hofers were so designated by their fellow Hutterites-a communal branch of Anabaptists-following their imprisonment at Alcatraz and what the church regarded as torture and death at the hands of the U.S. Army in 1918, at the close of World War I.
More than 150 members of the Bluffton University community gathered on Friday to reflect on the life-changing events of March 2, 2007, when a bus carrying the Bluffton baseball team to spring-break games in Florida crashed in Atlanta, taking seven lives.
But speakers at the service marking the fifth anniversary of the tragedy also remembered the caring and support that came the community's way in the accident's aftermath.
Bluffton baseball offers shear support to kids with cancer
More than 12,000 children and teenagers are diagnosed with cancer every year. Wednesday afternoon, about 45 Bluffton University baseball players and coaches symbolically showed they care.
Having already raised more than $7,700 in the last month for the St. Baldrick's Foundation-which funds research for potential childhood cancer cures-the baseball Beavers took their support a step further on Wednesday, having their heads shaved in solidarity with young cancer victims.
