The Daily Bruin

Graduating seniors: Please watch your campus box for a package notice to pick up your commencement tickets in Mail Services. Each graduate will receive six tickets to Miller Gym and six tickets to Bauman Auditorium.

If you need additional tickets, please speak with fellow graduates. Thank you and congratulations!

The finance department would like to announce the launch of our “Bean Counter Alerts.” These alerts will be short e-nnouncements sent out one to two times a month to share information regarding things you need to know about the finance department as well as tips and hints to help you navigate all things financial here at George Fox.

We would love to hear from you, so if you have questions please e-mail them to Kathi Becker (kbecker@georgefox.edu) and we’ll include the answers in future “Bean Counter Alerts.”

With this inaugural alert we want to let you know there are new updated forms available for your use that can be found on our Common Forms page. The new forms available are:

• Updated Check Request and Rush Check Request, Interdepartmental Charge-IDC, Petty Cash Log, all of which now have room to add a JL Code (if applicable)
• Expense Reimbursement Request, which has a column added for a JL Code (if applicable), as well as the mileage reimbursement being increased to 0.565 per mile.

If you have any questions regarding the new forms, please contact Andy Dunn.

Have you ever wanted to live for an entire academic semester in another part of the world?

Join the Center for Global Studies in Hoover 102 from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., Thursday, April 11 to hear about previous student’s experiences, learn what various programs fit into your own major, and to plan ahead for your own time abroad. There will also be a raffle give away and tacos for dinner!

See you there!

Do you speak another language? Sometimes have to interpret? Interested in being an interpreter? Registration is now open on MyGFU for an exciting May Term opportunity: COMM 285 Community Interpreting (two credits).

Meeting times will be 8 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m. (eight hours) on Monday, May 6; Wednesday, May 8; Friday, May 10; Monday, May 13; and Wednesday, May 15.

An interpreter breaks the language and cultural barrier between parties that are trying to communicate orally. There is a growing need for interpreters across the U.S. as the new field of community interpreting grows in leaps and bounds.

Community interpreting takes place in medical, social and educational settings. This 40-hour course covers interpreting ethics and conduct, interpreter skills and protocols, how to address culture, the settings where interpreting is provided, terminology concerns and standards of practice.

There is an urgent need for interpreters who speak less common and refugee languages. This course is therefore open to native speakers, advanced students of foreign languages and heritage speakers (those who grew up speaking another language at home). The goal is to prepare aspiring interpreters to approach this new profession with poise and confidence, respecting the role boundaries that allow them to be effective language brokers.

Students who successfully complete the course will receive a Certificate of Successful Completion in addition to college credit.

Instructor
Helen Eby is a Certified Court Interpreter for the state of Oregon and a Certified Medical Interpreter. She has interpreted in conference, medical, legal, church and school settings in almost all countries of Latin America and in the United States. She is currently the Assistant Administrator of the Spanish Division of the American Translators Association.

Eby grew up in a totally bilingual environment, and has been involved in teaching languages, translation and interpreting in one form or another since she was 13. She enjoys interpreting in community settings, teaching, hiking, photography and music. She has taught Spanish at Gordon College, and Spanish and math at Covenant School in Arlington, Massachusetts.

Questions? Contact Deborah Berhó (dberho@georgefox.edu)

Many students have received 2013-14 Financial Aid Award Notifications from Student Financial Services.  If you have not yet heard about funding for the next academic year and are wondering why, here are a few reasons:

• Your FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) has not yet been received at the university.
• Your FAFSA has been received but is rejected.  This  is often due to a missing student and/or parent signature.
• You have filed the FAFSA but have missing documents that are required for packaging your financial aid.  Please check your myGFU “to do” list to see what is needed.
• You are not yet registered full time (12+credits per semester)  in both Fall and Spring of next year.

Please note:  If you are graduating in December 2013, please contact your financial aid counselor to let her know so she can prepare your aid package accordingly.

Your aid counselors are:

Last names beginning
A through E  Chris Schlarbaum
cschlarb@georgefox.edu
F through K  Janet Herron
jherron@georgefox.edu
L through R  Marla Sweningson
mswening@georgefox.edu
S through Z Theresa Schierman
tschierman@georgefox.edu

The Fox Film Festival is a week from Friday! Tickets are for the Cameo screening at 4:30 p.m. on April 19 and have the potential to sell out this year. Thus, to eliminate lines at the Cameo itself when doors open at 4 p.m., the Festival Committee has decided to pre-sell tickets.

So don’t miss any part of the videos being screened by waiting in line at the Cameo! Tickets are available now for purchase on a first-come first-served basis at the university’s Box Office, the Cameo, and from three Festival Committee members: Carissa Gobble, Sandra Conlon and Molly Norton.

Tickets are $4 for one and $6 for two.

For more information, contact Carissa or the Film Festival Committee at filmfestival@georgefox.edu.

Please join us in the Executive Dining Room on Tuesday, April 17, from noon to 1:30 p.m. (or until you need to leave) for a conversation on “Evangelicalism & Gender” facilitated by Melanie Mock and Kendra Irons. Feel free to bring a brown-bag lunch.

Questions? Contact Sarah Baldwin at sbaldwin@georgefox.edu.

The Career Services office is accepting applications for our 2012-13 internships. Click on the links below for more information and to apply:

• Professional Activities Intern(s)
• Marketing Intern(s)
• Professional Activities International Student Intern

Stop by the Career Services office on first floor of the Stevens Center for more information!

Are you interested in dancing at George Fox?

This Friday, April 12, the George Fox Dance Team will be providing information about tryouts for the upcoming school year. Team representatives will be in the Bruin Den from 10 a.m. to noon to answer any questions you have. Dancers of all levels and styles are welcome!

If you cannot meet them at the table, you can e-mail Casey Bowman at cbowman10@georgefox.edu for more information.

Time is running out!

Bruin Heritage is looking for one junior and one sophomore student to sign up to participate in Survivor Van on Thursday, April 11.

If you would like to sign up, please contact Taylor Ellis at tellis12@georgefox.edu

During the fall of 2012, George Fox students were surveyed to measure their financial literacy. Results from our analysis suggest that while a number of factors determine financial literacy, the strongest predictor is the respondent’s race. We believe that George Fox could greatly improve students’ ability to manage their finances through targeted educational programs.

On Wednesday, April 17, we invite you to join us as we discuss our findings from 10:30 to 11:40 a.m. in Hoover 105. Taking part in the presentation will be Nate Peach from our School of Business and Drew Van der Werff, a senior finance student.

The presentation, titled “Enrolled to Succeed or Ignored to Fail?,” will be based on the article “Determinants of the Financial Literacy of Undergraduate Students: A Survey-Based Analysis” by Peach, Ryan Halley and Van der Werff.

Questions? Contact Kelly Borror at kborror@georgefox.edu.

FoxTALE will be upgraded from Moodle version 2.2 to version 2.4 on Monday, Aug. 26, 2013, from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., to stay in alignment with updates at moodle.org. FoxTALE will not be available during this time. No preparation is required by faculty.

Here are some of the highlights of the new version:

• All icons will change. See the mapping from old to new icons.
• Assignments will be enhanced and have a new look and feel. There is only one type of assignment with many customizable features.
  • Existing assignments will be automatically converted to the new format. No action is required.
• Drag and drop files from your computer onto your course home page. The files will be added as resources.

Sign up now for one of the 30-minute webinars on Monday, April 29, that highlights the new version.

Old FoxTALE available until Aug. 31, 2013
Here’s a reminder that old FoxTALE (foxtale19.georgefox.edu) will be available until Aug. 31, 2013. If you have additional course sites that need to be copied from old FoxTALE to new (current) FoxTALE, please contact the IT Service Desk.

If you have any questions, please contact the IT Service Desk.

All ages and experiences are welcome to attend a hip-hop dance class this Saturday, April 13, taught by George Fox senior Casey Bowman. There will be two class sessions:

• 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., for beginning – intermediate levels
• 1-2:30 p.m., for intermediate – advanced levels

The classes will be held at Chehalem Valley Dance Academy (311 E. 1st St.), and only cost $5 OR five cans of food! (Food will be donated to Newberg F.I.S.H.)

You can pick up and drop off the registration form in the business office in Hoover (first floor). Registration forms and payment are due by 3 p.m. on Friday, April 12.

For more information, e-mail Casey at cbowman10@georgefox.edu.

Our Marketing 260 group is doing a project on starting a cafe, and we are conducting a survey to help with our results. Our cafe is college-student focused. That’s right, we are focused on addressing your needs! Please take a moment and give us some feedback!

This survey will only take one to two minutes and consists of five questions. Click on this link to access it.

Thank you so much!
– JennaLea (jferestad12@georgefox.edu)

Join us for a Table Talk session Thursday, April 11, as we talk about immigration. Table Talk is a lunchtime gathering in which George Fox staff, faculty and students can dialogue about issues related to diversity.

Conservatives, liberals, Christians and people of all kinds are welcome to come and discuss how faith interacts with our views of immigration.

Come to the Cap and Gown Room at noon to join in the discussion. Bring your lunch and a friend, too.

Questions? Contact Drew Miller at dmiller09@georgefox.edu.

Attention:  Freshman, Sophomores, Juniors
Today’s the Day!
Summer Address Collection will be held today, tomorrow  and Thursday – April 9, 10, 11.

• Place:  Table in Bruin Den area.
• Times:  10:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
• Why: Your campus mailbox will be closed the last day of finals.

We will need from you:

1. A request from you to keep your mailbox open part or all of the summer.
2. An address where we can forward your mail just for the summer

We will re-open your same mailbox in the fall – two weeks before school starts.

It will only take a minute of your time!
Sponsored by University Mail Services

If you have questions, please email lsartwel@georgefox.edu
Thanks!

Help send us to Romania! Come to Wendy’s (3400 Portland Road) on Saturday, April 20, to get your car washed and donate to the 2013 Romania/Moldova Summer Serve team.

We will be there from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., so grab a bite and let us wash your car.

Questions? Contact Patty Blakeslee at pblakeslee11@georgefox.edu.

After 35 years of service to George Fox, Hank Helsabeck is retiring this spring. The provost is hosting a retirement celebration for him from 3 to 5 p.m. on Monday, April 29, in the Klages Dining Room.

Come join us as we celebrate Hank and his contributions to the university. Prior to his current role as dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, he was a math professor and department chair. He also started the computer science program – and taught himself everything there is to know about the degree in order to teach it. He was also a regular participant on the “GFU Ruins” Hood-to-Coast team for many years.

If you plan to attend the reception, please R.S.V.P. using this form. If you cannot make it, you can use the same form to write Hank a message.

– Office of Academic Affairs

Esther Mombo, a Kenyan leader and educator, will visit campus today (Tuesday). You are invited to hear her in a class session and at a worship opportunity:

Seminar Presentation, 4:10 p.m., Stevens 101: Mombo, a Quaker educator and author who has written on such diverse topics as women’s issues, HIV/AIDS, Christian-Muslim relations, and poverty in Africa, will speak to the International Studies Senior Seminar from 4:10-5:25 p.m. Guests are welcome to this seminar session. Contact Tom Head at thead@georgefox.edu for more information.

Shalom Worship, 9 p.m., Cap & Gown Room: Come and hear Esther as she shares her story of seeking shalom in her native land of Kenya. Contact Jamie Johnson at jejohnson@georgefox.edu for more information.

Come support our theatre department by attending our spring romantic comedy, Enchanted April. The show runs Thursday through Sunday, April 11-14, and Thursday through Sunday, April 18-21, in Wood-Mar Auditorium. All performances begin at 7:30 p.m. with the exception of the two Sunday shows, scheduled as 2 p.m. matinees.

To purchase tickets online and read a play synopsis, visit theatre.georgefox.edu. Tickets may also be purchased by calling 503-554-3844.

All George Fox students may receive a complimentary ticket for Thursday evening performances. All faculty and staff are entitled to one complimentary ticket for any show of the run. Tickets are available for pick-up in the Box Office located in the Pennington House. Box Office hours are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays. Online tickets can be purchased at any time.