The Daily Bruin

Cesar Chavez Week is right around the corner, and I want to invite you to come celebrate with us! We will host various events throughout the week, including a special dinner in “the Bon” with Mexican and Filipino food!

Below is the schedule:

Tuesday, April 1
Reflection on Cesar Chavez’ Legacy and the Topic of Immigration
Location: Hoover 105
Time: 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 2
Mexican Arts and Crafts and Cuisine
Location: Cultural House
Time: 9 p.m.

Thursday, April 3
Dinner Celebration at the Bon with Edna Vazquez
Location: “The Bon”
Time: 5 p.m.

Friday, April 4
“Cesar Chavez Movie”*
Location: Regal Movies on TV Stadium 16
Time: 6 p.m.
*The first 20 to express interest will have their admissions ticket paid for, courtesy of the Latino Heritage Club. To sign up, email Nancy Vazquez at nvazquez12@georgefox.edu.

Questions? Contact Nancy Arellano at narellano11@georgefox.edu.

The university’s French and cinema programs have joined forces to present the third Fox French Film Festival on concurrent Fridays, April 4 and April 11.

Opening the festival will be Astérix and Obélix Meet Cleopatra, a big-budget box-office comedy about the French comic book heroes created in the 1960s. Their adventures have sold 280 million copies to date in Europe. It shows at 7 p.m. on Friday, April 4, in Hoover 105.

Also that night in the same location, Séraphine will be featured at 9 p.m. This extraordinary French-Belgian biographical film tells the dramatic story of French paintress Séraphine de Senlis, a middle-aged housekeeper in the early 1900s. Untaught and following what she regards as religious inspiration, she finds great appreciation in the beauty found in nature.

Filmgoers will also have the chance to indulge in crêpes and other French fare during the intermission between the shows. There is no admission charge and are open to all.

Two different films, Les Choristes (The Chorus) and Des Dieux et des Hommes (Of God and Men), will be shown on April 11. Details to follow.

Questions? Contact Isabelle Corneaux at icorneaux@georgefox.edu.

The International Club is hosting a Chinese Lab this Thursday, March 20, at 6:30 p.m. in Lemmons 5! This time we will be teaching you basic Chinese dialogues that you can use in campus.

Come for snacks, friendship and fun! Contact gfu.international.club@gmail.com for more info.

Be sure to support our theatre students by attending the spring comic murder-mystery, The Game’s Afoot. Shows are scheduled in Wood-Mar Auditorium April 3-5 and April 10-13. All shows begin at 7:30 p.m. with the exception of the Sunday, April 13, performance, scheduled as a 2 p.m. matinee.

Students are welcome to attend either Thursday production for free. Employees are entitled to one complimentary ticket, available for pick-up at the Box Office in the Pennington House. Additional tickets may be purchased at theatre.georgefox.edu.

The play has some fun with the legendary character Sherlock Holmes. It tells the story of Broadway star William Gillette, who plays the leading role in the smash hit Sherlock Holmes. Gillette invites his fellow cast members to his home to celebrate the holidays. But when one of the guests is stabbed to death, the festivities in Gillette’s isolated Connecticut castle quickly turn dangerous. Luckily, Gillette has played Sherlock Holmes on the stage and knows exactly what to do to nab the killer before the next victim appears.

Are you still interested in being a Peer2Peer mentor? If you are, we have extended the deadline to midnight Sunday, March 30.

Now is the chance to have your voice heard. Go to igfu.georgefox.edu to vote for the 2014-15 Central Committee team. Voting closes on Wednesday, March 19, at 5 p.m.

Here is how you vote: Go to igfu.georgefox.edu, click on “MyGFU” – “ASC voting” – and cast your vote!

Questions? Please contact Shanna Coulston at scoulston11@georgefox.edu.

The new class ARTD415, called Professional Design Collaboration, will be offered during spring 2015. Discover the principles and practices used by multiple design disciplines. You will gain collaborative experience with regard to branding, promotion and marketing as you design a complete package for a business event. Enrollment is limited, so sign up early!

Questions? Please contact  Lauri Smith at smithl@georgefox.edu.

Announcing a.m. chapel worship team auditions for the 2014-15 academic year. The morning chapel teams are under the oversight of the university’s performing arts department.

Applications for leaders, leader apprentices and team members are located on the second floor of the Ross building outside the music department office. Please fill out an application and sign up for an audition slot posted on the department office door.

Auditions are being held March 31-April 2. For more information, email Robert Gaither at rgaither@georgefox.edu.

Please complete the LibQUAL Lite Library Survey. If you have already filled out the survey, thank you! If not, we ask you to take five to seven minutes to click the link below and help us by taking the survey.

Only you can tell us how well we are serving your library needs, and you can enter to win one $50 or 10 $25 Amazon gift cards.

LibQUAL Lite Library Survey

Do you have an interest in criminal justice? Or, faculty members, do you know of students who are interested in this topic? The social work department is offering a special topics course, Introduction to Criminal Justice (SWRK 285), in the fall 2014 semester.

This course will provide students with an introduction and overview of the system of criminal justice operated in the United States today. The course will provide an overview of the philosophy of criminal law, theories of deviance, and of the nature and extent of crime in America.

The theory, structure and operation of each of the principle components of the Criminal Justice System (i.e., police, courts and corrections) will be examined in detail.

Questions? Contact Clifford Rosenbohm at crosenbo@georgefox.edu.

Come support Button Up, a George Fox senior capstone business group. We will have a table in the Bruin Den today (Monday) from noon to 2 p.m. to place orders for personalized custom-made buttons. We are always accepting orders at buttonup2013@gmail.com.

Don’t forget to join us for the Liberal Arts and Critical Issues lecture tonight (Monday), as Kent Thornburg, the M. Lowell Edwards Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University, speaks from 7 to 8 p.m. in Hoover 105. Thornburg will speak on “Capitalism and Selling Sickness in the USA.”

Questions? Contact Paul Otto at ext. 2676 or potto@georgefox.edu.

The Housing Selection Form will be open for groups to sign up by noon today (Monday, March 17). The form will be available through Friday, March 21.

In order to participate in Housing Selection each student needs to have paid a $150 Housing Deposit to Student Accounts. Students have until Thursday, March 20, to pay the deposit and participate in the selection process.

To sign up for housing with your group, simply login to the form here. Once logged into this form you will be given access to your housing code. You will then need to share this code with the rest of your housing group. Only one person from each group needs to complete the remainder of the form using each roommate’s code. There are step-by-step directions in the form that will walk you through the following:

• Entering housing codes for the group
• Confirming your roommate choices
• Ranking the order of your preferred housing

If you do not have a group, you can still participate in housing selection as an individual. In this case, we will look at placing you with others who have an opening in their living area. Please note that placing individuals often takes longer, as we need to place groups in housing first. This means you may not know your housing assignment until later in April or May.

If you would like help filling out the Housing Form, please stop by the student life office. Someone with the housing staff will be able to walk you through this and answer questions as you go.

For additional information about housing selection, please refer to the Housing and Residence Life website. If you have questions, please stop by or call the student life office at ext. 2310 or housing@georgefox.edu.

A new option has just been approved that will allow current and entering students to meet part of the general education humanities requirement.

In place of a fine arts course, a student may satisfy the fine arts general education requirement through participation in a music ensemble. To meet the requirement, a student must earn at least 3 credits total across six different semesters (i.e. students participating in more than one ensemble cannot “double count” one semester as two for the purposes of this requirement).

A student may participate in different ensembles in different semesters. During or shortly after completion of the sixth semester, the student must arrange with the Music Department office to complete a milestone assignment in order to finish the requirement. Eligible ensembles are: Men’s or Women’s Chorale, Concert Choir, Symphonic Band, and Chehalem Symphony Orchestra. Please note that due to NASM accreditation rules, music majors are not eligible for this general education substitution.

Any current student (except those graduating this May) able to complete six semesters of ensemble participation before graduation can take advantage of this new option.

Questions? Please email Debbie Hawblitzel at dhawblit@georgefox.edu.

When does life begin? What is the meaning of life? How can we stand up for our beliefs while demonstrating kindness and respect? These questions challenge our society and our faith every day.

If you are searching for answers or want to know more about advocating for life, we encourage you to attend a special chapel event tonight (Monday), when the university’s Students for Life group will host a chapel from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Cap and Gown Room. We have been blessed with the opportunity to hear from guest speaker Rebekah Barnes, who will share her knowledge on the biblical approach to life, as well as provide apologetics training on the topic of life. Elective chapel credit is available.

Questions? Email studentsforlifegfu@gmail.com

“Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect.” (I Peter 3:15).

“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.” (Matthew 25:40)

Thank you to all who participated in the Advising Survey. The winners of the drawing were:
Rebekah Halstead
Trevor Rousseau
Peter Zinn
Jaynani Cababat
Victoria Nelson
Andrew Sickler

Questions or comments? Please contact Molly Hickok at mhickok@georgefox.edu.

Would you mind helping out a student? My classmates and I are in the Liberal Arts and Critical Issues class this semester and part of our project includes a brief survey. Please help us if you have a few minutes.

Sex Education and the Perception of Sex in the Church

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.

Who is this Jesus? Called a great teacher by some and by others crazy and demon-possessed, the person of Jesus Christ has intrigued and inspired people for centuries. Yet, who is Jesus really?

This May (May 5-23) we will offer Bible 260, Life of Christ, with Sarita Gallagher. The class will meet from 9 a.m. to noon daily in Hoover 208. She will be leading a hands-on exploration of the teaching and person of the most influential person in history, Jesus Christ. We will examine the teachings of Jesus Oregonian-style as we visit the beautiful vineyards, farms and monasteries of the Willamette Valley.

This course, Bible 260, will fulfill the 3 credit hours General Education Requirement elective.

Questions? Please contact Paula Hampton at phampton@georgefox.edu.

The financial aid office is offering a workshop to all graduating students on loan repayment. Join us on either April 2, 9, 16 or 23 at 5 p.m. in Stevens 209. The workshop will cover topics such as how to afford your loan payments and what do if you can’t, as well as loan forgiveness options.

Questions? Pleas contact Johanna Schweitzer at jschweitzer@georgefox.edu.

Make sure to see the 24 1/2-Hour Play Festival tonight (Saturday) at 7:30 p.m. in Wood-Mar Auditorium. The performance runs about half an hour, and everything you see is written, cast, rehearsed and prepared all in 24 1/2 hours.

Click here to see the event on Facebook. Click here to see last year’s hilarious performance.

If you have questions or comments, please contact Susan Carlson at scarlson10@georgefox.edu.