The Daily Bruin

The university will host a pair of concerts this week. Both events are scheduled in Bauman Auditorium, and admission is free.

On Tuesday, April 12, the Chehalem Symphony Orchestra will perform at 7:30 p.m. Among the selections scheduled is Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 14, by Samuel Barber, featuring Kathleen Lavengood, assistant director of orchestra, on violin. The orchestra, directed by Paul Featherstone, also will perform Finlandia, written by Jean Sibelius; Clair De Lune, by Claude Debussy; and Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47, by Dmitri Shostakovich.

On Friday, April 15, the university’s jazz band will perform its annual spring concert at 7:30 p.m. The group will perform two Duke Ellington compositions: Cottontail and Rocking in Rhythm. They also will perform Moten Swing, by Buster and Bernie Moten, and One O’clock Jump, by Count Basie.

A student jazz combo will perform Autumn Leaves, by Joseph Kosma and Johnny Mercer, Blue Bossa, by Kenny Dorham, and Tenor Madness, by Sonny Rollins. The jazz band is conducted by Nathanael Ankeny.

A reception in honor of Dwight Kimberly (Biology) is scheduled for Monday, April 25, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. in the EHS Atrium. Come by and wish Dwight well. He is retiring after 25 years at the university.

Good Friday and Earth Day both fall on Friday, April 22, this spring. The university campuses will be closed. How about joining a grassroots effort initiated by students to clean up the Hess Creek Canyon on the Newberg campus?

Work will start at 9 a.m. and end at 1 p.m. Bring your enthusiasm, work shoes and gloves. Water and break refreshments will be provided.

Questions? Contact Debby O’Kelley at dokelley@georgefox.edu.

Join us in the Klages Dining Room between 4:30 and 7 p.m. for a Hawaiian luau with authentic island food on Tuesday, April 12! The evening will include special dance performances by students and professor Kelly Chang.

The cost is $10 for dinner and free for those on the meal plan. The menu includes:

• Catch of the day
• Chicken long rice
• Kahlua pork
• Vegetarian yakisoba noodles
• Sticky rice
• Lomi-lomi salmon
• Macaroni salad
• Tossed green salad
• Tropical fruit salad
• Pani popo rolls
• Assorted Hawaiian desserts

If you have questions, contact Shelley Yonemura at syonemura@georgefox.edu.

The university’s cinema and media communication students will showcase their work from the past year at the annual Fox Film Festival this Saturday, April 16. The festival will start at 6:30 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium, with doors opening at 6 p.m.

The festival is free and open to the public. The evening also will include an awards ceremony. For more information, contact Matt Meyer at ext. 2596.

Join us for chapel today (Monday) to hear from Brad Lau, vice president of student life. We hope you can come and hear the word that he has to share with our community. We look forward to worshiping with you!

Winning photos from last week’s contest will be on display from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Stevens Center lobby. Congratulations to the following winners for their exceptional photos:

• Best of Show: Future Actors, submitted by Brendon Reed
• People:
  First Place: Aboriginal, Kevin Brown
  Second Place: Basket Case, Emily Scott
  Third Place: Pray With Us, Hannah Souter
• Landscape and Architecture:
  First Place: One Way Out, D.J. Wolf
  Second Place: Cow in SZ, Nick Ogle
  Third Place: Clean Again, D.J. Wolf
• Culture:
  First Place: Tibetan Prayer Flags Rustling in the Wind, Brendon Reed
  Second Place: A Day at Work, Lindley King
  Third Place: Camel For Your Thoughts, Jennifer Salame

New diploma frames to fit the newly sized diplomas are now available at the Bruin Bookstore. You may also purchase them at our online store: store.georgefox.edu. Just select the “Gifts & Supplies” tab.

Come join us today (Saturday, April 9) from noon to 5 p.m. in the Stevens Center atrium for Taste of the Valley, a display of fabulous local culinary artisans and George Fox’s own artists. Enjoy free samples and a silent auction.

All proceeds from the Senior Business Capstone project will be donated to FISH (Friends in Service to Humanity). Contact Elisabet Moseng at elisabetmoseng@gmail.com for more information.

Wear your pajamas to the Bruin Bookstore on Friday, April 15, and receive a 25 percent discount on any clothing or gift purchase in the store!

The university community is invited to Karon Bell’s retirement party, scheduled from 3 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, April 12, in the Stevens Center lobby.

Karon has been with the university since May of 1985. Drop by to wish her well. There will be a basket for those who wish to give her a card.

The Center for Peace and Justice welcomes the university community to a series of Woolman Peacemaking Forum events next week. We are pleased to welcome Emmanuel Katongole, associate professor of theology and world Christianity at Duke Divinity School and co-director of the Duke Center for Reconciliation, for our 26th annual forum.

The theme of the week is “Reconciling All Things,” and all Woolman events count for spiritual life credit. Following is a schedule of events:

• On Sunday, April 10, a multi-media presentation entitled 1.4 Billion Reasons will be presented from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in Hoover 105. Co-written by Jeffrey Sachs, world renowned economist, and developed as a part of the Global Poverty Project, the presentation encourages citizens to be part of the global movement to end extreme poverty.
• On Monday, April 11, Hibakusha, Our Life to Live will be shown at 6:30 p.m. in Lemmons 8. Produced by award-winning producer David Rothauser, the documentary tells the stories of Japanese, Korean and American survivors of the 1945 atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
• Katongole will speak in chapel in Bauman Auditorium Wednesday, April 13, at 10:40 a.m. The topic of his presentation will be “From Mulabe to Newberg: Lessons Along the Way.”
• Also on Wednesday, April 13, Katongole will present the Woolman lecture, “Justice and Peace: Hopes that are the Wrong Size for this World,” at 7:30 p.m. in Hoover 105. Joining Katongole will be Micah Bournes, one of the scriptwriters for The Voice of Justice, a short film that personifies justice and injustice.
• Finally, a Peace and Justice Symposium is scheduled for Thursday, April 14, in the Quaker Heritage Room on the second floor of the Murdock Learning Resource Center. Refreshments will be served at 7:15 p.m., and the program will begin at 7:30 p.m. with presenters Colin Saxton, superintendent of the Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends, and Laura Goble, director of the Moreau Center for Service and Leadership.

For more information about the guests and for a full schedule of events, visit the event website. Contact Melanie Newell at 503-554-2686 if you have questions.

Attention students, family members and employees: We are offering a low-cost GRE preparatory course for those interested in improving their scores. The course will be taught by a fourth-year doctoral student in GFU’s Graduate Department of Clinical Psychology. This is also a great opportunity to learn about significant changes coming to the GRE August of 2011.

Courses are scheduled May 5, May 12 and May 19 from 7 to 9 p.m. on the Newberg campus (location TBA).

The course will include tips for success, strategies, practice questions, as well as access to a full-length test. A snack and book will also be provided. Registration has been extended through April 25. If you have questions, contact Chloe Lee-Zorn at leec07@georgefox.edu, or drop by the Career Services’ office or call 503-554-2330 to register.

FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 8 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Tuesday, May 17, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Come join us this morning (Friday) for First Friday Worship, a time of music worship and a word from Shelia Provoast. This will be our last First Friday of the year, so we hope you can make it! Chapel credit is available. We look forward to worshiping with you!

Staff and faculty, we are hosting many potential students today (Friday) for Bruin Preview, and are asking you to please sacrifice your parking spots in the Stevens, Hoover and Wood-Mar lots to accommodate our guests and their families.

Please park on Sheridan Street, the campus side of Meridian Street or North Street, or use the Bauman lot. Thank you for helping to welcome these potential students!

– Security Services

Come see the theatre department’s spring play, Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. Performances this week are on Friday and Saturday night at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. The show is also scheduled Thursday through Saturday, April 14-16, at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, April 17, at 2 p.m. All performances take place in Wood-Mar Auditorium.

All George Fox employees receive one complimentary ticket. Students will be admitted free on Thursday, April 14. Your complimentary ticket is only available at the Box Office in the Bruin Bookstore. Additional tickets are $12 for adults, $8 for alumni and seniors, and $6 for students and children under 12.

To purchase tickets or read a synopsis of the play, visit theatre.georgefox.edu.

The university’s Tilikum Center for Retreats & Outdoor Ministries will host a variety of family retreats throughout the summer that will give grandparents, parents and children an opportunity to step out of their daily lives and spend a weekend being renewed spiritually and relationally through community activities.

Retreats include a mother/daughter weekend (May 6-8), father/son retreat (June 17-19), grandparents/grandchildren event (July 5-8), a single moms family camp (July 8-10) and a father/daughter retreat (Aug. 5-7).

For details on specific camps, visit tilikum.georgefox.edu. Call Joan Littlefield at 503-538-2763 if you have questions.

Don’t forget Thursday’s (April 7) Thai folk dance drama program scheduled from 1 to 2:30 p.m. at the Newberg Friends Church, 307 S. College St. There also will be an evening performance on campus, beginning at 9 p.m. Thursday in Hoover 105.

The performance is being presented by the Christian Communications Institute (CCI) of Payap University in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The program will feature a number of dances from the various regions of Thailand, as well as a traditional Thai melodrama (Likay) with English translation.

Admission is free. Contact Melanie Newell at peaceandjustice@georgefox.edu for more information.

As commencement rapidly approaches and our catering events ramp up with all the end-of-year activities, we realize we are missing a lot of equipment. Will you please check your offices, rooms, break room cupboards, drawers and refrigerators for any equipment (pump pots, bowls, platters, silverware, serving utensils, etc.) that may be hiding in those areas and somehow didn’t get returned to us?

We will be happy to pick up anything recovered, or just bring it by. Send us an e-mail at catering@georgefox.edu and we’ll arrange to retrieve anything and everything!

Thank you,
Denny Lawrence, Bon Appetit