Juniors Nathan Campbell and Kyle Schmidt, candidates for Student Senate president at Bluffton University in 2012-13, will debate at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 21, in Founders Hall. The Bluffton Forum is free and open to the public.
Campbell, a history major from Dunkirk, Ohio, and Lawrence, a business administration and economics major from Berne, Ind., will address questions submitted by Student Senate members and take others from the audience.
Bluffton University's Jazz Ensemble and Concert Band will take center stage for the annual winter instrumental concert, at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 26, in Yoder Recital Hall.
The concert is free and open to the public; a free-will offering will be taken during intermission for music scholarships.
Dr. Adam Schattschneider, professor of music, will direct the Jazz Ensemble in seven numbers, including arrangements of "How High the Moon," "Tuxedo Junction" and "Lazy River."
Dr. J. Walter Paquin, an assistant professor of social work at Bluffton University, will address "Two Steps Forward, Still Three Steps Behind: African-American Homeownership in the U.S." at 4 p.m. Friday, Feb. 24, in Stutzman Lecture Hall in Bluffton's Centennial Hall. The colloquium is free and open to the public.
Paquin will present results of his study of home purchases from the late 1990s and early 2000s to determine whether households buy homes in better neighborhoods than where they rented.
Bluffton University baseball players are going to bat against childhood cancer. Most, however, won't be taking their hair to the plate with them.
More than 40 Bluffton players-plus coaches-have been raising money this month for the St. Baldrick's Foundation, a Monrovia, Calif.-based charity committed to funding the most promising research to find cures for childhood cancer.
