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Broadway is topic of Bluffton Colloquium

Dr. Melissa Friesen, associate professor of theatre and communication at Bluffton University, will discuss "Mennonites Take Manhattan: Reflections on the Broadway Teachers Workshop" at 4 p.m. Friday, Jan. 28, in Stutzman Lecture Hall in Centennial Hall. The colloquium is free and open to the public.

25 Bluffton faculty, staff honored for service

Honored for the most years of service at Bluffton University^aEURTMs annual Faculty and Staff Recognition Dinner were (left to right) Phill Talavinia, Lawrence Matthews, Sue Van Eman, Gary Schiefer and Larry Kinn.

Bluffton University honored 25 faculty and staff members for their years of service at the university's annual recognition dinner on Jan. 16.

The honorees have been at Bluffton for five, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 years.

Young people can help U.S. fulfill promise: King speaker

Bluffton University students are part of a generation that holds the most hope yet "of making our national creed a reality," a longtime civil rights and racial reconciliation activist said at Bluffton Jan. 18.

Today's young people constitute "a post-racial generation," according to John Perkins, the speaker at the university's annual Martin Luther King Jr. Forum. Americans should be "rejoicing" at having their first black president, he asserted, saying the United States can now possibly become the "one nation" the Founding Fathers desired.

Dr. Lisa Schirch gives Bluffton's Keeney Peace Lecture

Dr. Lisa Schirch, a professor of peacebuilding and founding director of the 3D Security Initiative at Eastern Mennonite University's graduate Center for Justice & Peacebuilding, will deliver Bluffton University's Keeney Peace Lecture on Tuesday, Jan. 25.

Free and open to the public, her Bluffton Forum presentation, "Building Security from the Ground Up: How a Mennonite works with the U.S. military and Iraqi and Afghan community leaders to rethink U.S. strategy," will begin at 11 a.m. in Yoder Recital Hall.

Bluffton routs Earlham 73-49 in Founders Hall (men's)

By Mallory Kemper, sports information intern

The Bluffton University men's basketball team used a dominating performance to upend HCAC rival Earlham College on Saturday, January 15. The Beavers upped their record to 11-4 overall and 4-4 in the Heartland Conference. Earlham slipped to 0-8 in HCAC action and 2-13 for this season.

Bluffton throttles Earlham in 60-40 win over Quakers (women)

By Brandy Bidlack, sports information assistant

The Bluffton University women's basketball team knocked off Heartland Conference rival Earlham College 60-40 on Saturday, January 15, in Founders Hall. Bluffton improved to 6-9 overall and 3-5 in the HCAC. Earlham dropped to 0-8 in the conference and 0-15 on the season. The Quakers' 40 points marked a season-low for the Bluffton defense.

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