The Bluffton University football team is raising funds for the program by selling cards offering discounts at local businesses.
The cards, which cost $10 apiece, are valid until April 13, 2012, and cover nearly two dozen businesses where discounts are available. Most of them are restaurants either in Bluffton-including Burger King, East of Chicago Pizza, Common Grounds and Arby's-or in Findlay.
For more information, contact any football player or Chris Gable, athletics department secretary, at 419-358-3227.
The Bluffton University baseball team plated runs in five innings, including a six-run third inning and a four-run fourth as the Beavers beat Heartland Conference opponent Earlham College 15-3 on April 12, 2011. Bluffton improved to 2-9 in the HCAC and 10-16 overall with their second victory over Earlham in as many weeks. The Quakers slipped to 11-13 on the season and 4-7 in the conference.
The Bluffton University softball team hosted Heartland Conference rival Defiance College on Wednesday, April 13, and split the doubleheader. The Beavers lost 5-3 to the Yellow Jackets, but came back to win the second game, 4-3. Bluffton improved to 6-4 in the HCAC and 14-13 overall. Defiance moved to 3-3 in the conference and 11-17 overall.
Bluffton University's next five-year strategic plan was a primary topic at the spring meeting of the university Board of Trustees April 8 and 9.
"In today's rapidly changing higher education environment, timely strategic planning is more crucial than ever," Bluffton President Dr. James M. Harder observed.
"Bluffton needs to anticipate future opportunities for growth that align with our institutional mission. At the same time, we must ensure that a Bluffton education continues to meet the changing needs and expectations of our students and of society."
How a society can escape poverty begins with having more, or better versions, of four things, a Bluffton University economist says.
Leading the list are more, and better, ideas, Dr. Jonathan Andreas, an assistant professor of economics at Bluffton, told a campus audience April 5. Outlining global poverty history at the university's annual Civic Engagement Forum, Andreas credited improved technology, "more than anything else," with helping alleviate poverty in the last 200 years.
