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.
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.
This three-way discuss took place over Christmas vacation in their Grove Street home front room. Unfortunately, the conversation went in way too many directions to take accurate notes. This is a simple paraphrase and only scratches the surface. To bring you up to speed, the following may help:
John: 2004 BHS grad; 2008 University of Chicago, BA linguistics, minor in Slavic languages and literatures; May 2010 MA, Berkeley, linguistics; in Ph.D. program in linguistics, expects to be completed in May 2013.
A blue bird in Bluffton...in a manner of speaking. The Icon spotted this license plate from Missouri over Christmas on Main Street. Check out the bird on the bottom of the plate.
The photo of Charlie Hankish triggers a host of fond memories: his story as a boy accompanying his father or uncle on a wagon trek conducting tourists from Beirut to Jerusalem and Holy Land sites. . . .
his making a circuit as a peddler in northwest Ohio, falling in love with Bluffton and deciding to make it his American home. . . .
