The Daily Bruin

The baseball team will take on Puget Sound University this Saturday, April 5 at noon and again at 3 p.m. at Morse Field.

Meanwhile, the softball team will take on Pacific Lutheran for a doubleheader beginning at noon.

Seniors: Now that you have picked up your regalia, please check out the commencement website for all of the details about your big day on Saturday, May 3! Some important highlights include:

• New for the Class of 2014: a senior class picture will be taken at 11:45 a.m. on the quad (sunny weather) or in the new stadium (rainy weather). Wear your regalia!
• Tickets will be mailed in mid-April to your campus box. Each graduate will receive 10 tickets for guests.
• If you want to attend the “other” ceremony to watch friends graduate, you may pick up a ticket at the academic affairs office on the first floor of Stevens. These tickets will be available April 21-30 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
• You have been assigned to either the 10 a.m. or 2:30 p.m. ceremony based on your college. If you want to request to participate in the other ceremony, the Commencement Petition Form will be available through Friday, April 11.
• There is no rehearsal prior to commencement.
• Please arrive at the Wheeler Sports Center one hour before your commencement start time: 9 a.m. for those in the 10 a.m. ceremony and 1:30 p.m. for those in the 2:30 p.m. ceremony.
• Doors will open for guests one hour before the ceremony start time.
• Physically challenged guests are welcome to request seating on the gym floor. Please contact Jennifer Kepler at jkepler@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2140.

Questions? Please contact academic affairs at 503-554-2141. Faculty and staff: Please share this information with your senior students.

As you may have heard, a Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU) accreditation team will visit the Newberg and Portland campuses next week, on April 8-10. Staff and administration are invited to consider meeting with the accreditation team at the staff and administration sessions that will be announced prior to the team’s visit.

At these sessions, or any time during their visit, feel free to speak honestly with the team about your position within the George Fox community and how you see your role as a member of our community working in support of the mission and core themes at George Fox.

Please take some time to review the resources available on our website regarding our George Fox University Mission and Themes as well as the Institutional Report, and at any time, contact academic affairs with any questions you may have regarding the team visit or accreditation process.

Help us understand your experience in chapel and in other spiritual life, leadership and inclusion programs by filling out this five-minute survey. If you complete it we will give you one Chapel Credit. But it must be completed by Friday, April 4.
To fill out the survey go to this link.

Questions? Please contact Jamie Johnson at jejohnson@georgefox.edu.

Interested in getting involved with ASC? We are accepting applications for a finance assistant for the rest of this year and the 2014-15 school year. To learn more and apply, visit this link.

Questions? Please contact Shanna Coulston at scoulston11@georgefox.edu.

As part of Entrepreneurship 300, Team Kamosa will be selling $2 chicken tamales in the Bruin Den from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. this Friday, April 4.

They sell out quickly! Don’t miss out on some delicious tamales and make sure to pre-order today by emailing teamkamosa@gmail.com.

This Saturday, April 5, from 1-3 p.m. we will be having our second community garden work day! We will be working in the garden behind Coffin. If you enjoyed working in the garden last time or were unable to make it and want to give it a try, we would love to have you there.

Chapel elective credit is available for this hands-on event, and there will be a time of discussion after our work. We hope to see you there to enjoy some dirt and hopefully some sunshine.

Questions? Please contact Crystal Colella at ccolella10@georgefox.edu.

The financial aid office is offering a workshop to all graduating students on loan repayment. The first class is this Wednesday, April 2, at 5 p.m. in Stevens 209. The workshop will cover topics such as how to afford your loan payments and what do if you can’t, as well as loan forgiveness options.

If you are not able to attend this week, the class will also be offered on either April 9, 16 or 23.

Questions? Contact Johanna Schweitzer at jschweitzer@georgefox.edu

Add you name to the sign-up sheet in the Bruin Den to be entered in a drawing to participate in Survivor Van. The sign-up sheet will be in the form of a poster and will be located on the bulletin board in the den. Sign-ups will close on Friday.

Questions? Please contact Taylor Ellis at tellis12@georgefox.edu.

Randy Woodley (Seminary) visited Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Va., March 12-13, speaking on the concept of “shalom” and discussing his decades-long ministry among Native Americans. Randy was a guest of the university for its Augsburger Lecture Series.

Phil Smith (Philosophy and Christian Studies) will participate in a debate and group discussion at Portland State University on April 9. Titled “Does Anything Supernatural Exist?,” the event will tackle the question of which worldview is superior: supernatural or natural. Phil will argue a supernatural worldview, while Bernie Dehler, president of The Center for Philosophical Naturalism, will argue a naturalistic view. Details on the event are available here.

Ed Higgins’ (English) poem “sf” was published in the Spring 2014 issue of The Common Oddities, a science-fiction fantasy e-zine.

Paul Anderson (Christian Studies) published a review of the film Noah, “Will Noah Sink or Swim? The Buoyancy of the Latest Bible Film,” in the religion blog section of The Huffington Post on March 28.

Ethan Burke (IT) and Tyler Robertson (IT) were named March Employees of the Month.

April 3             Steve Delamarter, Dale Journey
April 4             Deb Mumm-Hill
April 5             Paul Holman, Jared Kamimae-Lanning, John Newberry, Vicki Tschan
April 8             Joel Kelley
April 10           Leah Blake, Cheri Hampton
April 11           Janelle Freitag
April 13           Michael Bevis, Sarah King, Sarah Taylor
April 14           Nell Becker Sweeden, Kathy Rosenbohm

Be sure to support our theatre students by attending the spring comic murder-mystery, The Game’s Afoot. Shows begin this week in Wood-Mar Auditorium! Performance dates are April 3-5 and April 10-13. All shows begin at 7:30 p.m. with the exception of the Sunday, April 13, performance, scheduled as a 2 p.m. matinee.

Students are welcome to attend either Thursday production for free. Employees are entitled to one complimentary ticket, available for pick-up at the Box Office in the Pennington House. Additional tickets may be purchased at theatre.georgefox.edu.

The play has some fun with the legendary character Sherlock Holmes. It tells the story of Broadway star William Gillette, who plays the leading role in the smash hit Sherlock Holmes. Gillette invites his fellow cast members to his home to celebrate the holidays. But when one of the guests is stabbed to death, the festivities in Gillette’s isolated Connecticut castle quickly turn dangerous. Luckily, Gillette has played Sherlock Holmes on the stage and knows exactly what to do to nab the killer before the next victim appears.

All interested employees are invited to follow-up conversations regarding the Gender Culture Survey. If you would like to discuss the survey and the recommendations, or have questions and comments, please join Sarah Baldwin and other members of the Gender Culture Survey Task Force on Thursday, April 3, at one of these times:

• Noon to 1 p.m. (bring your own lunch) in Cap and Gown Room
• 4-5 p.m. (refreshments will be served) in Stevens 207

Questions? Contact Sierra Neiman at sneiman@georgefox.edu.

Today is the first day we are collecting your summer address info!

You have three options for your mail over the summer:

1. Request to keep your mailbox open part or all of the summer
2. Give us an address where we can forward your mail during the summer. (We will close your mailbox and reopen the same mailbox for you two weeks before school starts in the fall.)
3. Any combination of the above.

Where: Bruin Den (by the ASC offices)
When: Today, Wednesday and Thursday
Time: 10:30 a.m. – 3 p.m.

It will take less than a minute. Plus you get candy!

The university community is invited to hear Makoto Fujimura, an internationally renowned artist, writer and speaker who formerly served as a presidential appointee to the National Council on the Arts, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 12, in Bauman Auditorium.

“A Conversation with Makoto Fujimura on Faith, Art and Culture” will include a showing of the artist’s new documentary film, Golden Sea, and a discussion session with Fujimura about the arts. There is no charge to attend.

Prior to the campus visit, a 5 p.m. pre-event opening is scheduled at the Chehalem Cultural Center, where Fujimura’s work is currently on display in the center’s Parrish Gallery. The Chehalem Cultural Center is located at 415 E. Sheridan St., in Newberg.

The evening will conclude with a post-event reception in the Lindgren Gallery, where Fujimura will be available to sign books. The reception will be co-hosted by Mark Terry of the university’s Department of Visual Art and Design and Joseph Clair, director of the William Penn Honors Program.

The event is cosponsored by the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, the Chehalem Cultural Center, and George Fox’s Department of Visual Art and Design and William Penn Honors Program. More information is available at this link. More about Fujimura is available at makotofujimura.com.

Fujimura is recognized worldwide as a “cultural shaper.” He was a presidential appointee to the National Council on the Arts from 2003 to 2009, and his work is exhibited in galleries around the world. He’s also widely recognized as one of the key illustrators of the St. John’s Bible, the first fully illuminated manuscript to have been commissioned in more than 500 years.

The university’s politics program invites you to join us for a free presentation by Jay Bruce, associate professor of philosophy at John Brown University. He will present “Is Social Justice a Threat to Liberty?” at 6 p.m. Friday, April 11, in Hoover 105.

Two students from the philosophy club will offer responses to the presentation question.

Bruce holds degrees in engineering, religion and philosophy, including a PhD from Baylor University, an MA from the University of Oxford and an AB from Dartmouth College. His first book, Rights in the Law: The Importance of God’s Free Choices in the Thought of Francis Turretin, was published last year.

Questions? Contact Mark David Hall at 503-554-2674.

Cesar Chavez Week is upon us, and I want to invite you to come celebrate with us! We will host various events throughout the week, including a special dinner in “the Bon” with Mexican and Filipino food!

Below is the schedule:

Tuesday, April 1
Reflection on Cesar Chavez’ Legacy and the Topic of Immigration (chapel credit available)
Location: Hoover 105
Time: 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 2
Mexican Arts and Crafts and Cuisine
Location: Cultural House
Time: 9 p.m.

Thursday, April 3
Dinner Celebration at the Bon with Edna Vazquez, a local artist
Location: “The Bon”
Time: 5 p.m.

Friday, April 4
“Cesar Chavez Movie”*
Location: Regal Movies on TV Stadium 16
Time: 6 p.m.
*The first 20 to express interest will have their admission ticket paid for, courtesy of the Latino Heritage Club. To sign up, email Nancy Vazquez at nvazquez12@georgefox.edu.

Questions? Contact Nancy Arellano at narellano11@georgefox.edu.

Know of students looking for a job, internship or summer employment? If so, encourage them to check out the First Avenue Career Expo, scheduled from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. this Friday, April 4, at the University of Portland. George Fox’s Idea Center is participating in the event and encourages students seeking employment or an internship to attend.

More information and registration are available at olapcfirstavenue.org.

Looking for a job, internship or summer employment? If so, come check out the First Avenue Career Expo, scheduled from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. this Friday, April 4, at the University of Portland. George Fox’s Idea Center is participating in the event and encourages students seeking employment or an internship to attend.

For more information and to register, please visit olapcfirstavenue.org.

April’s Employee of the Month award will be the last one until September – no foolin’! If you know someone you believe deserves this recognition, now is the time to submit that nomination. Please send an email to Peggy Kilburg by Wednesday, April 16, with a summary of this person’s recent contributions and any other information that makes him or her deserving of this award.

The President’s Executive Leadership Team will select a recipient from among the nominees, and the winner will be honored with a citation and a $100 Visa card at our community meeting on Thursday, April 24.

Congratulations again to Ethan Burke and Tyler Robertson on being named March Employees of the Month.