The Daily Bruin

The undergraduate admissions office is getting ready to welcome 150 prospective students to our Spring Bruin Preview today (Friday)!

Each of you, as you interact with families and students, play a role in helping to determine whether they choose George Fox, so thank you for helping ensure our families and students feel welcomed and cared for by our community.

In the spirit of hospitality, please avoid parking in the Hoover and Stevens parking lots today to ensure close parking for our guests.

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to reach out to Kelly Friesen at ext. 2248 or kfriesen@georgefox.edu.

The Latinx Heritage Club invites the public to listen to a lecture, “The Cowboy and the Goddess: Television News’ Mythmaking about Immigrants,” presented by guest speaker Otto Santa Ana, a professor in Chicana/o Studies from UCLA.

This interactive presentation will focus on the empirical analysis of contemporary U.S. network television news stories on immigrants. Join us this Monday, April 8, at 6:30 p.m. in Hoover 105.

Questions? Contact Sabrina Sanchez at ssanchez16@georgefox.edu.

Are you looking for a full-time summer job? Join the financial aid office as an office assistant and help us prepare students for the upcoming school year. Apply on Handshake today!

Questions? Contact Jordan Nelson at jnelson@georgefox.edu.

Do you play an instrument or sing? Have you wondered if you could help lead worship in Vespers?

We are looking for band members for the 2019-20 school year, and we want you to sign up for an audition at this link. Auditions are on Monday, April 8, at 7 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium.

Questions? Contact Jamie Johnson (jamiej@georgefox.edu).

Complimentary tickets are available to the 2019 Portland House & Outdoor Living Show coming up April 12-14 at the Oregon Convention Center. Employees can pick up two tickets each ($10 total value) at the Information Services desk in the Stevens Center.

We have a limited supply, so please request/pick them up only if you are reasonably certain you will attend. Portland and Salem employees can request tickets by emailing Barbi Doran at bdoran@georgefox.edu.

Children 18 and under are welcome to attend the show for free.

On his recent trip to England, President Robin Baker had the opportunity to visit a pen museum in Birmingham, a city that was once the center of pen manufacturing in the world.

The trip not only gave Robin, a collector of pens, a chance to learn more about his hobby, it inspired him to reflect on how the practice of writing has changed dramatically in recent years. You can read his thoughts in this blog post.

Do you have back or neck pain? Would you like to have it looked at for free while also helping out our physical therapy students?

Our second-year students are looking for volunteers for Thursday, April 18, from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. or from 3 to 4 p.m. in the Roberts Center. If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Linda Dallof at ldallof@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2451 to sign up.

Seniors: We hope you are finding motivation in this final stretch after spring break. To help celebrate you, we are having a little party!

Tomorrow (Friday), from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the FoxHole, we will have free dinner graciously provided by Chipotle, a little trip down memory lane highlighting your time here, a time to catch up with your class just one month before graduation, some tips from a grad on how to stay connected relationally and spiritually and what he wished he knew when he graduated, and your free shirts.

We hope you can make it to invest in your class just one last time and celebrate your time here at George Fox!

Questions? Contact spirituallife@georgefox.edu.

Come enjoy George Fox’s Jazz Band in the Hadlock Student Center from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 7.

Enjoy dancing with the Swing Dance Club. Semiformal wear is highly recommended. Students and employees are welcome to join us!

Note: Please do not wear shoes that will leave black scuff marks.

Questions? Contact Andrea Alsager at aalsager17@georgefox.edu.

The William Penn Honors Program invites the public to a free lecture, “Rethinking Azusa: If It Wasn’t for the Women,” presented by professor and author Keri Day, tonight (Thursday) at 7:30 p.m. in Hoover 105.

Day, an associate professor of constructive theology and African American religion at Princeton Theological Seminary, will present a moving examination of the Azusa Street Revival of 1906 to 1915 and powerfully weave her talk into the contemporary concerns of today.

Day’s teaching and research interests are in womanist/feminist theologies, social critical theory, cultural studies, economics, and Afro-Pentecostalism. She is the author of Unfinished Business: Black Women, The Black Church, and the Struggle to Thrive in America (2012) and Religious Resistance to Neoliberalism: Womanist and Black Feminist Perspectives (2015).

She is at work on her third book manuscript, which explores how early Pentecostalism contributes to the religious and democratic imagination. In 2017, she was recognized by ABC News as one of six black women at the “center of gravity” in theological education in America.

For more information about the event, click here. Questions? Contact Nancy Schifferdecker at nschifferdecker@georgefox.edu.

The Cybersecurity Club is welcoming Patterson Cake, a network penetration testing and ethical hacking instructor, for a question and answer session on Tuesday, April 9, from 6 to 7 p.m. in EHS 119.

Expect to hear how you can start your cybersecurity career now and what employers are looking for in new grads. RSVP here.

Questions? Contact Daniel Rohwedder at drohwedder16@georgefox.edu.

Don’t miss the screening of Guardians of the Galaxy in the Hadlock Student Center tonight (Thursday) at 7:30 p.m. There will be snacks!

Questions? Contact activities@georgefox.edu.

The university pastors warmly invite you to attend the undergraduate baccalaureate service on Friday, May 3, from 7 to 8:15 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium. Baccalaureate is a commissioning service for our graduating seniors and the opening event of the graduation festivities.

Join with us as we support, pray and commission our graduates into all that God has for them as they conclude their time here. Attire for the event is business casual.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the Office for Spiritual and Intercultural Life at spirituallife@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2320.

Hi Bruins! Would you like to be in a promo video for Student Activities? We will be filming today (Thursday) at 2 p.m. in the Hadlock Student Center.

Contact Austin Carrero at acarrero16@georgefox.edu if you are interested.

As part of the MKTG 480: Marketing Management and Strategy class, a team of students has been asked to start a micro-business. We have came up with a housecleaning service called “Clean Freaks.”

We are looking for clients in the Newberg area who are in need of a good clean, and we provide a discount for students. We clean kitchens, living rooms, individual rooms, and more!

For more information about our prices and services, call us at 425-422-2411, visit our website, or contact Freddy Centeno at fcenteno14@georgefox.edu.

We are now taking student applications for attending the Sundance Film Festival! Apply here.

In January 2020, selected George Fox students are traveling to the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. The Sundance Film Festival is widely regarded as the most prestigious annual showcase for new work from American and international independent filmmakers. 

Along with the Sundance Festival, George Fox students will also be attending the Windrider Forum, a venue for conversations about the intersection of faith and film.

We are tentatively scheduled to attend from Jan. 26 to Feb. 1. Attending students will be required to notify professors in advance of anticipated absences, and create appropriate academic work plans. Personal costs for students will be approximately $975 (not including food and incidentals), depending on airline and lodging costs.

You do not need to be a cinematic arts or communication major to attend.  Applications from all full-time undergraduate students will be considered, but we will be limited to traveling with approximately 10 to 12 selected students.

During the spring 2020 semester, CMCO 285/485, a selected topics course, will be offered on “Independent Cinema,” and will connect to the Sundance trip experience. Students will have the option (not requirement) of registering for this course to receive credit connected to the Sundance and later semester experiences.

Further questions? Contact Steve Classen, chair of the Department of Communication and Cinematic Arts, at sclassen@georgefox.edu.

We are still in need of willing volunteers to serve as ushers at spring commencement on Saturday, May 4. Come help take tickets at the gate, hand out programs, direct graduates’ family and friends to their seats, and make graduation a special event for everyone!

All George Fox employees who participate as ushers will have the option to receive $50 through payroll, or take three hours off in lieu of this gift. Non-George Fox volunteers will receive a gift card in the same amount. 

Please contact Laurie Fair at ext. 2140 or Lfair@georgefox.edu if you would like to volunteer.

Do you use your earbuds every day? How do you like your earbuds? Would you like to help improve the general products and service of the earbuds industry? Please help some MBA students by filling out this survey about earbuds.

Questions? Contact Jeff Zhao at jzhao17@georgefox.edu for more information.

Disclaimer: These surveys are student generated and are not to be associated with any official research conducted by faculty and staff at George Fox University. Any views or opinions presented in these surveys are solely those of the students and do not represent those of George Fox University. The distribution of these surveys is a service provided to George Fox University students as they prepare their research required by the curriculum. Students are required to have department approval. Any questions about these surveys should be directed to the students associated with the survey in question.

Come to the Photography Club meeting tonight (Thursday) to learn how to create a portfolio website. The meeting will be from 6 to 7 p.m. in Lemmons 3. Please bring some of your photography work with you (in digital formats such as .jpg) to add to your website.

Questions? Contact Tsacha Hyneman at thyneman17@georgefox.edu.

The Biology Student Council invites you to listen to a talk by Dwight Kimberly, who will be discussing “Living with Mystery: My Big Questions of Life.” Come to EHS 102 on Monday, April 8, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Chapel credit is available.

Questions? Contact Brooke Bowers at bbowers17@georgefox.edu.