The Bluffton University men's basketball team defeated the Defiance College Yellow Jackets in HCAC action when Mychal Hill (London/Jon. Alder) chased down his own miss at the end of the shot clock and sank a fade-away from the wing with 0.8 left to pick up a 57-55 win over Defiance on Wednesday, January 19, at the Weaner Center. The Beavers are 5-4 in the HCAC and 12-4 overall, while Defiance fell to 5-4 in the HCAC and 10-6 overall.
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.
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, 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.
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.
