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Bluffton schools achieve five consecutive years of 100 percent scoring on state indicators

Posted by Fred Steiner on September 2, 2010 - 5:23pm

Perhaps Bluffton needs a sign at the edge of town reading: "Buffton Schools - five consecutive years of perfect 100 percent in meeting each of the state report card indicators."

After all, other students, with state athletic titles do it. Let's brag about our achievements. Ours certainly rank among the best in the state.

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A grand old state

Posted by Fred Steiner on September 2, 2010 - 5:04pm

Ohio is a grand state, but Arizona is the Grand Canyon State. Or, so says the Arizona license plate. The Icon spotted this western in the Bren-Dell parking lot at Bluffton University.

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Regional news
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Cross-cultural experiences impact students, director of Bluffton program finds

Posted by Fred Steiner on September 2, 2010 - 5:00pm

Since 1997, Dr. Lynda Nyce has led seven groups of Bluffton University students to southern Texas and northern Mexico for a few weeks as part of the university's cross-cultural program.

Last winter, while on a leave of absence in France, the sociology professor found out that for many of the participants, those experiences were life-changing. And now, back on campus and directing the program, she wants to see if other former students have similar reactions to their Bluffton cross-cultural travels.

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Bluffton University
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Bluffton professor to discuss imprisonment in gothic literature

Posted by Fred Steiner on September 2, 2010 - 4:57pm

Dr. Cynthia Bandish, associate professor of English at Bluffton University, will present her sabbatical research, "Exploring the Themes of Imprisonment in Gothic Novels," at a Bluffton Colloquium Friday, Sept. 10. The event, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 4 p.m. in Stutzman Lecture Hall in Centennial Hall.

Bandish studied many gothic novels during her sabbatical last fall, focusing on books written in the 1790s but set in the Middle Ages. She delved into the way these novels indirectly reflect events that were taking place during the French Revolution.

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Bluffton University
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Bluffton's kaleidoscope

Posted by Fred Steiner on September 1, 2010 - 8:17pm

Where is it? What is it? Is it looking up, down, or straight ahead? Or, it is a kaleidoscope with most of the colors missing. If you stood in a certain point on the second floor of Bluffton University Centennial Hall and looked up, this is what you would see. It's the skylight of the building.

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In the wilds of Penn's woods

Posted by Fred Steiner on September 1, 2010 - 4:20pm

Just when you think you've seen every possible vanity plate a new one comes into view. Take this one for example. It's a Pennsylvania plate. The Icon spotted it on West College Avenue near Bren-Dell Hall.

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