Bluffton University art majors Victoria Watkins of Mansfield, Ohio, and Sarah Gilman of Knoxville, Tenn., will present their senior exhibit, “Pop Fiction,” representing artwork they have created at Bluffton, in the Grace Albrecht Gallery in Sauder Visual Arts Center.
The exhibit will be open to the public from Dec. 1-19; gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 1-5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. An artist reception will be held from 2-4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 7.
Registration for the second annual Be A Beaver Triathlon, to be held Saturday, May 30, 2015, will begin on Monday, Dec. 1.
Participants may register online at www.3disciplines.com; cost is $60 for individuals and $100 for relay teams, but those who register during the month of December will receive a $10 discount when using the code 14HOLIDAY.
Participants in the third annual Giving Tuesday—a global initiative to encourage charitable giving amid holiday consumerism—can direct their generosity for the first time to Bluffton University on Tuesday, Dec. 2.
The university hopes to raise $10,000 in online gifts in 24 hours that day. The amount raised will be matched, up to $10,000, by an anonymous donor’s gift to the Bluffton Fund. To make a gift, go to https://connect.bluffton.edu/
While “The Hunger Games” tells a grisly tale of oppression and violent revolution, pastor Chet Miller-Eshleman believes that it’s also a tale of fulfillment of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount.
For Miller-Eshleman, pastor at LifeBridge Community Church in Dover, Ohio, the popular fiction series doesn’t glorify violence, but instead calls for the blessing of the weak and the poor as commanded by Jesus.
After years of seeking a concise way to describe what he sees as the essence of an effective strategy, Dr. George Lehman hopes he has found it.
Lehman, chair of business studies and director of graduate programs in business at Bluffton University, told a campus colloquium audience on Nov. 14 that he thinks “strategic opportunism” is an apt new name for a new understanding of strategy.
