The university’s International Justice Mission chapter is hosting a fund-raiser April 8-10, in the Student Union Building during lunch (11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.). Support IJM by buying a beaded bracelet and picking up more information about IJM and how you can support the organization. For more information, visit ijm.org or e-mail Joanna Cox at jcox05@georgefox.edu.
The university will host a Chamber Concert, featuring performances by many of our chamber ensembles including the Flute Ensemble, Handbell Ringers, Trumpet Quartet, Clarinet Quartet, Keyboard Ensemble, Early Music Ensemble, and Women’s Chorale, at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 7, in Bauman Auditorium. There is no admission charge, and doors open at 7 p.m.
The following evening, April 8, the Chehalem Symphony Orchestra will perform a free concert at 7:30 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium. The symphony consists of George Fox University students, faculty, and residents of the greater Portland area. Pieces performed will include Capriccio Espagnol Op. 34 by Nicholas Rimsky-Korsakov and Symphony No. 3 in C Major by Jean Sibelius.
The Jazz Dessert, originally scheduled for April 15, has been canceled.
Congratulations to the following prize-winning students for the health survey drawing:
Jonetta Blum
Jacob Lowen
Brad Higgins
Pamela Duhrkoop
You are invited to faculty sharing from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. Friday, April 4, in Hoover 105. The topic of discussion will be “Faculty Evaluations: What and How.” Since the method and content of evaluations are in the process of being changed, the Faculty Council thought it would be good to have an opportunity to discuss some of the many variables involved in evaluations. Please join the discussion. Refreshments will be served.
The Disability Services Office is trying to identify students who are fluent in ASL who might be willing to serve as a resource when we have deaf or hard of hearing students on campus. There may be opportunities (paid and volunteer) to put your signing ability to use.Â
If you can sign, please e-mail your name and contact number to Jere Witherspoon at jwithers@georgefox.edu.
Bruin Preview –Thursday, April 10 & Friday, April 11
• Avoid the crowds in the Bon by eating before 5:30 p.m. or after 6 p.m. on Thursday.
• Avoid parking in the Steven’s Center lot, so that visitors will have space.
Welcome prospective students as they visit our campus!
The admissions office is hosting Bruin Preview for prospective students Thursday, April 10, and Friday, April 11. This is an important event for prospective students to visit our campus. Please join us in offering up your Steven’s Center parking spots to our guests on Thursday and Friday.
Parking is available for employees in the lots at Bauman Auditorium and Pennington Hall.
Thank you for your consideration; it is greatly appreciated.
– Admissions
Please come support our May Serve trip to Thailand by donating money to us while we wash your car! We will wash from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 5, at the Newberg Tire Factory.
A Portland musical theatre series, Staged!, will honor the life work of George Fox alumna Tera Bloodgood Ewert (’97) by adding one performance to its successful run of the musical Les Miserables.
The performance, scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday, April 14, at the World Trade Center Theatre in Portland, will benefit the Gulu Rehabilitation Center for Children of War in Uganda, West Africa — an outreach sponsored by World Vision, a charity Tera worked with before her death two years ago this spring. She had devoted her life to helping women and children around the world.
The show also has ties to Newberg and George Fox, with several alums and community members involved in the theatre company. Tickets for the show range from $21 to $25 and can be purchased at brownpapertickets.com. For more information, visit stagedpdx.org.
Today, Thursday,  April 3, is the LAST DAY to verify your summer address.Â
Please stop by the tables in the Bruin Den between 11:00 – 3:00 p.m. (Otherwise, you have to stop at Mail Services to do this.)
The last information meeting about the new Performance Review and Planning Process for support staff and administrators is at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, April 3, in VAC 117. Please attend if your schedule allows it.
In advance of attending a meeting, employees are encouraged to review the Performance Review and Planning Form at georgefox.edu/offices/hr/PRPForm03-08.doc and the Employee Self Review Form at georgefox.edu/offices/hr/EmployeeSelfReveiw.doc.
If you have not already done so, please submit your March time sheet (support staff) or time-off report (administrators) this week. Please be sure it is complete, accurate, and signed by both you and your supervisor before sending it to HR at Box 6108. The link on the HR website for these documents is georgefox.edu/offices/hr/forms.html.
If your supervisor is not available to sign it this week, please send a copy to HR and keep the original until it has been signed.
You are invited to attend the final Mu Kappa event of the year.
Mu Kappa will host a potluck on Sunday, April 13 at 6:00 pm in the Commuter Lounge on Sheridan Street.
The main dish, beverages, plates and utensils will be provided.
You are welcome to bring a dessert or some other kind of side-dish to share.
Please RSVP by Friday, April 11 to Mark Kelley – kelleym07@georgefox.edu
The university community is welcome to As it is in Heaven, the theatre department’s final play of the 2007-08 season.
Performances are scheduled April 10-12 and April 17-19 at 7:30 p.m. in Wood-Mar Auditorium. There is also one matinee performance, at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 13.
Synopsis: An 1830s Shaker community in Pleasant Hill, Ky., is set in its ordered ways until a newcomer, Fanny, see angels in the meadow. Soon all the young women are receiving spiritual “gifts” of songs, drawings, ideas, and giggles and completely upsetting the community. Are these gifts an honest resurgence of the original shaker celebration, or something manufactured by Fanny?
Employees receive one complimentary ticket, available for pick-up at the University Store. Students are welcome to see the show free of charge at the two Thursday performances and may pick up those tickets at the University Store. The cost is $10 for general admission, $8 for seniors and alumni, and $6 for students and children under 12. To purchase tickets or find out more, visit theatre.georgefox.edu.
Actual Discussion overheard in ASC Offices:
Ben Gowan: Hey, Matt Hollen, you’re the new Chaplain!
Matt Hollen: Yea!
Ben: What are you going to do now?
Matt: Make more chaplains!
Ben: Awesome!… Who’s the lucky lady?
Matt: Not baby chaplains! Chaplains to help with all the ministries…
Applications for Men’s Chaplain, Women’s Chaplain, Worship Chaplain, Prayer Chaplain and Retreats Chaplain available in the SUB. Â
Applications are due Friday, April 11.
The annual Fox Film Festival is scheduled for 5 p.m. Friday, April 11, at the Cameo Theater in downtown Newberg, and at 6 p.m. Saturday, April 12, in Bauman Auditorium. The cost is $4 for Friday’s showing and free on Saturday.
Please join the cinema and media communication department as we celebrate and show off our year of hard work. Each night will feature different films and have a “People’s Choice” award. Saturday’s show will include a short awards ceremony. The filmmakers are going to dress up to celebrate our special event, and we invite you to join us.
Questions? Contact filmfestival@georgefox.edu.
Thursday, April 3 – Men’s tennis vs. Whittier, campus courts, 3 p.m.
Friday, April 4 – Men’s tennis vs. Willamette, campus courts, 1 p.m.
Saturday, April 5 – Baseball vs. Whitworth (2), Morse Field, noon
Men’s tennis vs. Green River CC (exhibition), campus courts, 1 p.m.
Women’s tennis vs. Green River CC (exhibition), campus courts, 1 p.m.
Sunday, April 6 – Softball vs. Willamette (2), Morse Field, noon
Baseball vs. Whitworth (2), Morse Field, noon
Women’s tennis vs. Pacific, campus courts, 2 p.m.
Monday, April 7 – Track & field in Northwest Conference Multi-Events, Colcord Field, 10 a.m.
Tuesday, April 8 – Track & field in Northwest Conference Multi-Events, Colcord Field, 10 a.m.
For more information, contact the university’s sports information office at ext. 2926.
If you have any ideas for permanent additions to campus we’d love to hear them.
The ASC Student Project Fund was created to provide George Fox with those things that students desire most. Projects in the past have included the firing pit near Bauman, the pool table in the FoxHole, and the outdoor furniture you see in the quad.
Are there things you want to see? Check out the bright green information sheet in the SUB today.
The deadline for proposals is 5:00 p.m. Thursday, April 3.Â
If you have any questions please feel free to contact Shane Walker at swalker04@georgefox.edu.
Wednesday morning (April 2) there will be a period of time when FoxTALE will not be functioning. The scheduled time for this planned maintenance outage is from 6 to 6:30 a.m.
Hopefully the outage during this time will not cause any difficulty for you. It was chosen so as to impact the least number of individuals.
George Fox University I.T. Service Desk
503-554-2569
The university will introduce its Apple-only Computers Across the Curriculum program with an “Apple on Campus” event from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Friday, April 4, in the Klages Dining Room.
Learn how technology is shaping and being shaped by higher education. Also, enter to win an iPod Touch by swiping your ID card between 10:30 and 10:45 a.m. (you must be present at the drawing to win). Featured speakers from Apple and George Fox will be on hand, and light refreshments will be provided. More information is available at it.georgefox.edu/appleshow.
