The Daily Bruin

You are invited to be part of a Cesar Chavez discussion (“Si se Puede”) today (Wednesday) beginning at 7:30 p.m. in the Klages Dining Room. We will be learning how to make homemade tortillas and salsa en molcajete. After that, we will enjoy our food while we discuss the “Si Se Puede” theme. Come and learn about the Latino culture from Latino students.

If you have any questions, contact Nancy Arellano (narellano11@georgefox.edu).

Sign up with a team or individually for the George Fox quads sand volleyball tournament, scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, April 13. Players of all skill levels are welcome. We’ll have music, prizes, snacks and a grill.

Come and play or just hang out. It’ll be lots of fun! Hope to see you there. Check out our Facebook page for more details, and feel free to send any questions my way!

Joey Burda (jburda09@georgefox.edu)

Interested in joining our community garden? It is open to all (students, faculty, all employees, others). Participation is open even if you are around only in the spring, summer or fall.

To learn more, attend an informational meeting scheduled at 8:30 p.m. tonight (Wednesday), in the Hoover Lounge (second floor).

Contact Cherice Bock (cbock@georgefox.edu) if you have questions.

Join us today (Wednesday) in chapel as Rev. Samuel Rodriguez joins us. CNN named Rodriguez “the leader of the Hispanic Evangelical movement,” and The Wall Street Journal identified him as one of America’s most influential Hispanic leaders – and the only religious leader on the list.

An Assemblies of God ordained minister since the age of 23, Rodriguez serves as senior pastor of New Season Christian Worship Center in Sacramento, Calif., where he resides with his wife of 23 years, Eva, and their three children.

Come join us at 10:40 a.m. in Bauman Auditorium.

The Bruin Grounds is hosting a benefit concert featuring George Fox alumnus Benjamin Tissell on Saturday, April 6, at 8 p.m. Proceeds will support Ameena Bossier and Bri Phelps, who are going to serve in Swaziland for two months this summer as interns.

The Bruin Grounds will be donating a percentage of what it makes that night from drink purchases. So come enjoy some great music and purchase coffee, milkshakes, smoothies, etc., and support your fellow classmates. Invite your friends!

Hope to see you all there!

The new plan year for benefit-eligible employees has arrived. Please verify your March pay statement (view in MyGFU Self Service) reflects changes you made in medical or dental coverage (if any).

Remember that premiums stayed the same except for Kaiser dental, which went up only 2 percent. Also remember that flexible spending changes will not show on your pay statement until April 30. Please contact Lisa Burton at lburton@georgefox.edu with questions.

The final faculty “Coffee & Conversation” of the spring is titled “Shifting to Online Teaching: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” and will be held from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. on Monday, April 8, in Hoover 104.

Online teaching is an increasingly common format, but few professors feel fully at home in this environment. What are the opportunities and challenges? This “Coffee & Conversation” will feature the experiences of Melanie Hulbert, Brent Weaver, John Knox, Debora Herb-Sepich and Colleen Huffman. All of them are teaching summer online courses.

• Come if you want to get a better understanding of online teaching.
• Come if you are interested in what’s involved in shifting to online teaching.
• Come if you have your own experiences with online teaching to share.
• Come if you just want to have some free coffee and “world-famous” scones made by Brenda Burg and listen to the discussion!

Questions? Contact Gary Sehorn at gsehorn@georgefox.edu.

IT is upgrading the equipment responsible for Newberg department shares (K: drive) over the next six to eight weeks. What you know as the server “foxserve” is being replaced by “fileserve.” There is nothing you need to do to make this happen; IT will migrate your files for you.

Some administrative offices will be migrated in the next two weeks. Academic offices and the remaining administrative offices will be migrated in May, following the completion of the spring semester.

If you are a Windows user, you will see a new drive letter (J: drive) in your Windows Explorer window in the next few days. If you are a Mac user, after the migration you will want to use this new connection string – “smb://fileserve.campus.georgefox.edu/” – and open the Employee Shares folder.

We ask that you refrain from using Fileserve (J: drive) until we migrate your department. We will communicate with point people in each department when your migration gets closer.

If you have any questions, please e-mail servicedesk@georgefox.edu.

The International Justice Mission (IJM) club meets in the Cultural House tonight (Tuesday) at 8:15 p.m. to discuss issues of social injustice in our state and in our world. We’ll also talk about ways to bring awareness and advocacy, specifically about sex slavery.

Join the discussion and advocacy! There will be tea and hot chocolate as well. Questions? Contact Hope Kenyon at ekenyon11@georgefox.edu.

Do you want to learn how to build rain gardens to improve streams in your community? In a series of upcoming workshops, you will locate, design and construct a rain garden on the George Fox University campus at Newberg.

Plan & Design a Rain Garden: April 3, 5:30-9 p.m.

Design a rain garden based on native soil and the surrounding infrastructure. Breakout groups will visit the project site and work together for the design.

Build a Rain Garden: April 20, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Build a rain garden from a final design. We’ll finish construction, amend soil, plant the rain garden, and discuss maintenance. Shovels and gloves will be provided. Dress appropriately for the weather.

Info for both classes:

• Cost: $15/class
• Location: George Fox University, Student Union Building, Cap & Gown Room
• For more info and to register, visit this link.

Questions?: Contact Maria Cahill at greengirl@greengirlpdx.com or 503-334-8634.

Brought to you by the City of Newberg, George Fox University, Oregon State University Sea Grant Extension and Green Girl Land Development Solutions.

Know of students interested in attending this Friday’s First Avenue Career Expo free of charge? Encourage them to attend our “How to Work a Job Fair” info session today (Tuesday) from 12:30 to 1 p.m. in the Career Services office!

If they cannot attend the session today, students should contact Corina Burke at ext. 2330 or cburke@georgefox.edu to discuss an alternate time and date to attend the info session.

Encourage students to visit our Career Services cart out in the quad tomorrow, Wednesday, April 3, to learn more and register for our First Avenue Career Expo! We’ll be there throughout the day.

Come see how the fields of biology, computer science and math come together through exciting new technologies.

Dr. Joseph Gonzales, a senior field applications scientist with Illumina Inc., will give a talk on Wednesday, April 3, at 3:30 p.m. in EHS 102 about Illumnica technologies, and specifically, how they relate to the field of genomics.

The lecture title is “Microarray and Next-Gen Sequencing Technologies: The Genomics Era.” Joseph graduated from George Fox as a math major and biology minor. He went on to get his PhD at the University of Notre Dame.

Illumina develops and manufactures technology that allows researchers to gather, process, and analyze genetic information that can be used to study the cases of disease. If you have any questions, please contact Heather Ayala (hayala@georgefox.edu) in the Department of Biology and Chemistry.

Come kick off the weekend with a fun Friday night celebration filled with music, food and community. Several George Fox students will perform as Hillside Church in Newberg puts on a benefit fundraiser for an orphanage in Haiti that we hope to support with funds, supplies, and a team of people in the summer.

Bring friends and family to celebrate and be a part of something so much bigger than we can even comprehend. The concert is this Friday, April 5, at 8 p.m. at the church, located at 611 N. Main St.

Questions? E-mail Isabella (Izzy) Freeman at ifreeman11@georgefox.edu.

A calling to serve with excellence is a calling also to prepare with excellence! Join us today (Tuesday) from 4 to 5 p.m. in Hoover 250 to hear descriptions of various grad school opportunities among some of the best schools in the land, including the latest on admission and awards.

Faculty will share their knowledge on leading schools for consideration, including what it takes to get in and get funding.

Questions? Contact Paul Anderson at panderso@georgefox.edu.

Applications for May Term/Summer housing are now available to students on the student life website and in the student life office.  Students have until April 26 to complete the application and return it to Student Life.

We are asking students to verify their employment by having supervisors e-mail housing@georgefox.edu so we can keep track of this information. As you hire summer workers, please notify the housing department.

Please refer to the 2013 Summer/May Term Housing Application for additional details. These are available online or in the Office of Student Life.

If you have questions, please stop by or call the student life office (ext. 2310) or e-mail housing@georgefox.edu.

The Accounting Club will be offering assistance in filing tax returns for the Newberg community that is sponsored by the IRS and AARP. It’s first come, first serve! A sign-up sheet will be available 30 minutes before the sessions. Following are the dates and times of each session, which will be located in Hoover 102 and 103 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the following dates:

• April 6
• April 13

Please be aware that we are unable to prepare certain types of complicated returns, including those that involve inventory, depreciation, or rental income. Additionally, we can only do returns for Oregon. But, we can do federal returns for anyone from any state.

If you have any questions, please contact Trevor Fekkes (tfekkes10@georgefox.edu) or Sonia Thannickal (sthannickal10@georgefox.edu).

Don’t forget to join us for our Cesar Chavez celebration on campus this week. Below are the activities/events we have planned.

• Tuesday, April 2: Shalom Faith & Film: A Better Life, followed by an immigration panel discussion, Cap & Gown Room, 8 p.m.
• Wednesday, April 3: Cesar Chavez discussion and Mexican food cooking class, Klages Dining Hall, 7:30 p.m.
• Thursday, April 4: Cesar Chavez documentary hosted by the Latino Heritage Club, Cultural House, 8 p.m.

The purpose of the events is to give you an opportunity to learn about who Cesar Chavez was and what his legacy is. We also want to raise awareness about issues regarding immigration and Latinos in higher education. Ultimately, we want to give you an opportunity to learn about Latinos from Latinos.

If you have any questions, e-mail Nancy Arellano (narellano11@georgefox.edu), Joel Perez (jperez@georgefox.edu), or Julio Bautista (jbautista11@georgefox.edu).

This is your last chance to nominate a colleague this academic year! If there is someone you especially appreciate, whether in your department or another department, please consider submitting a nomination via e-mail to Peggy Kilburg by Wednesday, April 17. Your e-mail should include a summary of this person’s recent contributions and any other information you believe makes this person deserving of being named April Employee of the Month.

The person selected from among the nominees by the President’s Executive Leadership Team will be honored with a citation and a $100 Visa gift card at our next community meeting.

The university community is invited to the theatre department’s 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.

Tickets can be purchased online at theatre.georgefox.edu or 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.

Play Synopsis: Two frustrated housewives, Lotty and Rose, find themselves trapped in the gloom of bleak marriages and perpetual London rain in the winter of 1922. All seems hopeless until they decide to use their dress money and what little savings they have to rent a villa in Italy for the month of April. Joined there by a young English countess and a grumpy English dowager, their lives – and the lives of their two new friends – blossom in mysterious and unexpected ways.