The Daily Bruin

The theatre department will present its spring production, The Triumph of Love, this Thursday through Sunday, March 12-15, in Wood-Mar Auditorium. Performances take place at 7:30 p.m. each night through Saturday and at 2 p.m. on Sunday.

The play, directed by Rhett Luedtke (Performing Arts), is an 18th-century romantic comedy filled with all the confusions and complexities of love. Employees receive one complimentary ticket, available for pick-up at the University Store. Students are welcome to see the show free of charge on Thursday, March 12, and may pick up those tickets at the University Store.

The cost for additional tickets 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 the university’s theatre site.

Mark your calendars for next week’s events presented by the Department of Performing Arts …

The annual Honors Recital will be held at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 16, in Bauman Auditorium. This recital features select students chosen from the top performers in our Honors Recital competition, including Matt Hill (trumpet), Bethany Taft and Becca Couch (piano duet), Joseph Forster (piano), Kamila Kuhn (flute), Nick Luchterhand (alto saxophone), Cameron DeWhitt (piano), James Pick (piano), Jennie Fryer (mezzo-soprano), Emily Yarnold (soprano), Becca Couch (mezzo-soprano), Qingquan “Tara” Li (piano), Julianne Kilmer (soprano), and Ben Tissell (baritone). Please join us for an evening of fabulous music and support the hard work of our students.

On Wednesday, March 18, Julianne Kilmer (soprano) will present her senior recital at 7:30 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium.

The Winter Band Concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 19, in Bauman Auditorium.

Finally, on Friday, March 20, a Vocal Masterclass will be held in Ross 208 at 12:40 p.m.

All events are free.

The Department of Performing Arts presents the following events this week in Bauman Auditorium:

On Thursday, March 12, Emily Nicole Jones (mezzo-soprano) and Emily Jackson (soprano) will present their senior recital at 7:30 p.m.

On Friday, March 13, the George Fox University Jazz Band will perform at 7:30 p.m.

On Saturday, March 14, Teddi Teague (mezzo-soprano) will present her senior recital at 7:30 p.m.

Admission is free for all events.

A group of men and women being trained for pastoral work and other leadership positions in their churches in Rwanda would like to learn the basics of computer operation to help them get jobs to support their ministry. For this training, at least two laptops are needed, with Windows and Office on them.

If you have such a computer you’re not using and would be willing to donate it for this project, the Juniors Abroad group going to Rwanda in May could deliver it. If interested, contact Lon Fendall (Center for Peace and Justice/Center for Global Studies) at ext. 2685 or lfendall@georgefox.edu.

Join student Kohleun Adamson as she shares poetry and creative nonfiction from her time spent in the Middle East exploring life writing and its relation to peace building. Kohleun will share during an “Intellectual Feast” at 4 p.m. Tuesday, March 10, in the Hoover Faculty Lounge.

In Jordan and the West Bank, Kohleun met with Arab women of various national heritages, collecting stories from their lives, in their own voices. Come hear some of these stories retold, dialogue about this unique avenue for peace building, and enjoy some food.

You are invited to attend the opening reception for the Student Art Exhibit from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 10, in the Minthorne and Lindgren galleries. Enjoy artwork created by George Fox students during the past year. Prize winners will be announced and refreshments will be served.

Employees are invited to attend an all-community meeting from 4 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 17, in Hoover 105. The meeting will provide employees an opportunity to receive campus updates. Your participation is strongly encouraged.

For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available for viewing at stream.georgefox.edu/live/commmtg.sdp. For best results, use Mozilla Firefox for your web browser, and your computer must have QuickTime Player installed. Simply copy the link into the address bar of your browser. If you have any problems, contact the Service Desk at ext. 2569.

Spring is upon us, and plans for this year’s George Fox community garden are blooming. A meeting to discuss this year’s garden projects is scheduled at 9 p.m. Wednesday, March 18, in the second-floor lounge of the Hoover Academic Building. Plans this year are to add a new watering system, a new variation of crops, and gardening education. Find out how to get involved and learn more about community garden membership and our mission and vision.

With funding from the Clella Iles Jaffe Cross Cultural Endowment Fund, undergraduate and graduate students are invited to apply for grants for projects and activities that will promote cross-cultural understanding and racial or ethnic reconciliation in a global or significantly diverse context.

Priority will be given to projects dealing with:

• Racial reconciliation
• Peacemaking
• Organizational communication
• Cinema/media/broadcast
• The communication arts in general
• Cross cultural experiences that will enhance the student’s professional career

Grants may not be used for research projects and trips, Juniors Abroad, semesters off campus, and service programs.
Students may apply by submitting a letter of application and description of the project or experience, along with a faculty letter of support, to: Lon Fendall, director of the Center for Global Studies and the Center for Peace and Justice (lfendall@georgefox.edu). Inquiries are welcome about the suitability of project ideas.

Applications are due on March 31. A faculty committee will meet shortly after that and decide which proposals to fund.

The Department of Performing Arts will present its annual Honors Recital at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 16, in Bauman Auditorium. This recital features select students chosen from the top performers in our Honors Recital competition. Please join us for an evening of fabulous music and support the hard work of our students.

You can now access the university’s Safety Committee minutes on FoxFiles. Follow the instructions below to bookmark them.

1. Log in to FoxFiles.

2. Click the yellow folder titled “Root” on the upper left side.

3. On the right side of the screen, click the “Committees” folder and then the “Safety Committee” folder.

4. In the dark blue band at the top, to the right of the directory name, click the blue ribbon with plus sign icon.

5. A bookmark will be added to your list of bookmarks on the left.

6. When you log in to FoxFiles again, you can just click the bookmark on the left to quickly go to the “Safety Committee” directory.

Following are Department of Performing Arts events scheduled next week. All take place in Bauman Auditorium, and admission is free.

On Thursday, March 12, at 7:30 p.m., Emily Nicole Jones (mezzo-soprano) and Emily Jackson (soprano) will present a senior/junior recital.

On Friday, March 13, at 7:30 p.m., a Jazz Band concert is scheduled.

Finally, on Saturday, March 14, at 7:30 p.m., Teddi Teague (mezzo-soprano) will present her senior recital.

Please join us in supporting our students.

All staff are invited to join us for staff lunch at noon Monday, March 9, in the Cap and Gown Room. The University Players will be performing for us as we enjoy our lunch and fellowship with each other. The cost is only $3.

This is a final reminder of events presented by the Department of Performing Arts this weekend. All events take place in Bauman Auditorium.

On Friday, March 6, from 12:40 to 1:30 p.m., a Students in Recital is scheduled, followed by a Piano Master Class for current piano students in the Greenroom at 4 p.m. Then, at 7:30 p.m., pianists Kenneth Willson, Barbara Stewart, Dan Miller, Becca Couch, Bethany Taft, Joseph Forster, James Pick, Cameron DeWhitt, Allen Cassell, Andrew Payne, and Beth Sellers will present a “Multi-Piano Extravaganza.”

Finally, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 7 (please note the time change), Emily Yarnold, soprano, and Ashley Salisbury, mezzo-soprano, will present their junior recital. Admission is free. Please join us in supporting our students and faculty.

In addition, there will be an off-campus opportunity to see one of our faculty, Dr. Kenn Willson (Performing Arts) perform with Kenneth Beare (tenor) and Maria Choban (piano). They will perform “Winterreise and Fantasy in f-minor” in their “Death by Schubert” performance. It will be held at the Southminster Presbyterian Chuch (at the corner of Denney and Hall in Beaverton) at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 7. Tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for seniors and students or $20 for a family. Children under 12 are free. 

The South Africa May Serve team is putting on a taco night after Shalom at 10 p.m. Thursday, March 12, in the Bruin Den. Support our team by buying a taco for a $1. Come by for a late-night study snack and fun.

Tilikum Center for Retreats and Outdoor Ministries will host its seventh annual run/walk event to raise funds to get under-resourced children and youth to summer camp. The event is scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday, April 18, at Champoeg State Park.

Participants raise donations per kilometer that they run or walk, with a minimum donation of $35 required to participate in the event. For children 12 and younger, a $5 minimum is required. Participants will receive a T-shirt and prizes will be awarded. This year, there will be special prizes for teams. Gather people from your department, your floor, or any group.

If you are interested in competing as a team of five or more, please call Tilikum at 503-538-2763. Check out 10K information at camptilikum.org.

George Fox will host the Oregon Symphony in its 21st appearance in Newberg at 8 p.m. Friday, March 20. The concert is free to George Fox employees — a gift from George Fox board member Ken Austin and his wife, Joan, founders of A-dec.

The Austins have provided the university with a limited number of tickets for its employees. These tickets are separate from those to be issued by the Newberg Area Chamber of Commerce to the general public. George Fox employees (half time and over) may pick up their tickets — limit two per employee — on a first-come first-served basis starting at 9 a.m. Thursday, March 12, at the first floor Information Center in Stevens Center. Phone reservations will not be taken except for employees at the Portland and Salem centers.

Beginning at 9 a.m. Wednesday, March 18, any remaining tickets (again, a limit of two per employee) will be available — also on a first-come first-served basis — to those who sign up on a waiting list. If you find that you are not able to attend the concert, please return your tickets for another employee to use.

Friday, March 6

2 p.m. – Men’s tennis vs. Puget Sound, George Fox campus courts

Saturday, March 7

11 a.m. – Men’s golf in George Fox Tournament at Trysting Tree Golf Course, Corvallis, Ore.

11 a.m. – Baseball vs. Lewis & Clark (DH), Morse Field

Noon – Men’s tennis vs. Willamette, George Fox campus courts

6 p.m. – Women’s tennis vs. College of Idaho at Tualatin Hills Tennis Center, Beaverton, Ore.

7 p.m. – Women’s basketball vs. Chapman or Occidental, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym (NCAA Division III National Tournament)

Sunday, March 8

10 a.m. – Men’s tennis vs. College of Idaho, George Fox campus courts

Noon – Baseball vs. Lewis & Clark (DH), Morse Field

Tickets for the NCAA Division III Women’s Basketball National Tournament game on Saturday are now on sale in the athletics department office. The cost is $6 for adults and $3 for students, children, and seniors 55 and older. Everyone must have a ticket. This is an NCAA postseason event and regular season passes are not valid for admission. Advance tickets may be purchased in person (no over-the-phone sales) from the athletics office. This is highly recommended to avoid long lines at the ticket booths on game night. Tickets also may be purchased at the door. The No. 2-ranked Bruins (27-0) will host either Chapman or Occidental in a second-round game after drawing the only bye of the tournament.

Because classes are over before Cinco de Mayo, join Bon Appetit this Thursday, March 5, to celebrate our own “Cinco de Marzo” for dinner between 4:30 and 7 p.m. in the Klages Dining Hall.

Great Mexican foods, festive music and strawberry “margarita smoothies” will make it a memorable evening. Free to all students on board plans and only $7.75 for everyone else.

Chapel will take on a different format on Wednesday, March 4. Spiritual Life is hosting its annual Faculty Journeys chapel at various locations on campus. This is an opportunity to hear from a faculty member of your choice about their personal spiritual journey. Chapel credit is available and worship singing will take place at each venue. Below are the faculty members and venues where they will be sharing:

Kathy Heininge, Stevens 209
Dwight Kimberly, Lemmons 8
Ron Mitchell, EHS 102
Sue O’Donnell, Hoover 105
Byron Shenk, Stevens 207

Join us at 10:40 a.m. Wednesday at any of these locations.