Bluffton University will host Game Day @ Bluffton Saturday, Sept. 3, when the Beavers meet Kalamazoo College in their football home opener at 2 p.m. at Salzman Stadium. Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for children; children under 5 are admitted free.
Before the game, a picnic-style lunch will be available in a tent at the stadium from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Cost is $6.
Parking for visitors to Bluffton University's campus will be altered during ongoing construction of the Health and Fitness Education Center (HFEC).
"Visitors and guests are important members of our campus community. It is important to us that during the construction efforts, we make parking spaces available to these guests and those persons who use handicapped parking areas," said Kevin Nickel, vice president for fiscal affairs. "We hope the temporary parking shortage does not deter guests from enjoying Bluffton University campus events."
Bluffton University is welcoming eight new faculty members in 2011-12.
Joining the faculty as assistant professors are Denise Durenberger, in business; Dr. Ross Kauffman, in Bluffton's new public health program; Dr. J. Walter Paquin, in social work; Dr. Jon Peterson, in music; and Jackie Wyse Rhodes, who will begin work in the religion department next spring semester.
The village of Bluffton will see its annual population spike this weekend, beginning Friday, Aug. 26, with about 280 new first-year and transfer students moving onto the Bluffton University campus.
New student move-in, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, will open a weekend on which other Bluffton undergraduates will return to campus for the start of classes Monday, Aug. 29.
Bluffton University's men's and women's soccer teams will hold a car wash fund-raiser from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 27, according to Rick Nussbaum, coach for both teams.
The annual donation car wash hosted by the soccer teams takes place at Springfield Fireworks between McDonald's and Taco Bell on State Route 103.
All donations are appreciated go toward helping with hotel costs in Chicago for the team's season openers with Moody Bible Institute/Benedictine (men) and St. Joseph's College (women) on Sept. 2 and 3.
After a two-year absence, tennis is back as a varsity sport at Bluffton University. J. Ronald Huber, who is also a member of the athletics halls of fame at both the university and Shawnee High School in Lima, Ohio, will direct the women in 2011. Coach Huber has a young team with no seniors, but plenty of enthusiasm.
