Bluffton University will host open houses for its graduate programs the next two Wednesdays, March 16 in Lima and March 23 in Ottawa.
Hours are 4:30-7 p.m. both next Wednesday at The Meeting Place on Market, 220 W. Market St., Lima, and on March 23 at the Putnam County Educational Service Center, 124 Putnam Parkway, Ottawa.
Bluffton faculty, admissions representatives and current students will be available both evenings to answer questions about the university's master's degree programs in business administration, organizational management and education.
Bluffton University recreation students and intramural staff will host Kid's Night Out from 6-10 p.m. Saturday, March 26, in Founders Hall.
Open to children in grades 1-6, the event costs $13 per child if registered by March 24 and $15 at the door. Families who pre-register more than one child will pay $11 per youngster.
A parent must accompany any child who registers at the door. Checks should be payable to the Bluffton University Recreation Club.
Dr. Gerald Mast, professor of communication at Bluffton University, will deliver the 2011 C. Henry Smith Peace Lecture, "True Evangelical Faith and the Gospel of Peace," at 11 a.m. Tuesday, March 15, in Bluffton's Yoder Recital Hall. His presentation is free and open to the public.
In the lecture, Mast, a Bluffton faculty member since 1996, will explore how people of faith can respond without cynicism or naivet'e to the overwhelming amount of violence and human need in the world.
Bluffton University seniors Peter Kidwell and Brittany Sinnema-Jackson will showcase their artwork during the first of Bluffton's two Senior Exhibitions, March 15-25 in the Grace Albrecht Gallery in Sauder Visual Arts Center.
The exhibit, titled "Controlled Chaos," is free and open to the public, as is a reception for the artists from 2-4 p.m. Sunday, March 20.
Friday, March 11, is the deadline to order a box lunch for Bluffton University's annual Bach's Lunch, set for noon on Friday, March 18, in the Gilliom Room of Mosiman Hall.
Open to the public, Bach's Lunch will feature performances by Bluffton music students. Each box lunch is $6.50 and may be ordered by contacting Jodi Diller in the music department at [email protected] or 419-358-3347. Individuals are also welcome to bring their own lunch.
Sister Helen Prejean, by her own admission, met Lloyd LeBlanc at the worst possible time.
But what he taught her made LeBlanc the hero, she says, of the story that made Prejean possibly the best-known opponent of the death penalty in America.
