The Bluffton University cheerleaders will host a two-day clinic for girls in grades 2-6, leading to a performance at a Beavers football game on Saturday, Oct. 17.
Participants will learn a dance, cheer and chant at the clinic, scheduled for 7-8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 13, and Thursday, Oct. 15, in Bluffton’s Sommer Center.
The performance will take place at halftime of the Oct. 17 game against Earlham on Alumni Field at Salzman Stadium. Kickoff is at 1:30 p.m.
Bluffton University’s Grace Albrecht Gallery will host “Instruments of Peace,” an October exhibition of miniaturist paintings and decal ceramics by Goshen, Ind., artists Justin and Brooke Rothshank.
Opening Oct. 7, the exhibit is free and open to the public through Oct. 30. Gallery hours in the Sauder Visual Arts Center are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 1-5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. A reception for the artists will be held from 10 a.m. to noon on Homecoming Saturday, Oct. 10.
Jeff Gundy, professor of English at Bluffton University, will devote a campus colloquium on Friday, Oct. 2, to his spring 2015 sabbatical in Lithuania. Free and open to the public, his presentation will begin at 4 p.m. in the Kreider Room in Marbeck Center.
Gundy, who also chairs Bluffton’s humanities division, spent last spring semester teaching at LCC International University in Klaipeda, Lithuania. LCC International is an English-language liberal arts university with about 600 students from all over Eastern Europe and a number of Mennonites on the faculty and staff.
Two groups of Bluffton University students will relate their cross-cultural experiences from last spring during campus forums at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 29, in Founders Hall. The presentations are free and open to the public.
Students who traveled to China, Chicago, Great Britain, Kentucky and Botswana will recount their experiences at the 11 a.m. session.
Presenters at the 7 p.m. forum will be students who went to San Antonio, Haiti, New Orleans and Bolivia.
BLUFFTON, Ohio - The Bluffton University Women’s Soccer team outplayed Grace Bible College, maintaining possession throughout the entire game to earn the 2-0 victory. The Beavers jumped to 3-4 on the season while the Tigers dropped to 3-2-1.
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio - The Bluffton University men’s soccer team traveled to Springfield and struggled in a 4-0 defeat at the hands of the Wittenberg University Tigers on Tuesday, Sept. 22. The Beavers fell to 0-6 on the campaign while the win pushed the Tigers to 3-5-2.
