The Daily Bruin

A May term that is enjoyable?  Yes, yes there is!  Field trips, movies, discussion; come experience Principles of Sociology.  3 credits in 3 weeks!

ASC is looking for graphic design students interested in being involved in the creation of next year’s Bruin Directory. Applications are available outside the ASC offices in the Bruin Den. These positions will be awarded stipends through ASC.

E-mail Tyler VanderZanden at tvanderzande07@georgefox.edu for more information.

Please take this quick survey for Spiritual Life! We have free SpiL T-shirts for the first 15 people to take the survey today!

Come in to the Spiritual Life office to pick up your T-shirt. We’re located on the corner of Sheridan and Meridian.

Click here to take the survey.

Correction to prior e-nouncement: Graduate students may now charge books to their student account at the Bruin Bookstore and at store.georgefox.edu for summer semester. The ability to charge books will remain available (for graduate students only) until end of day on Monday, April 25.

If graduate students need to use their student account for purchases after April 25, they will need to acquire a voucher from student financial services.

The Bruin Bookstore textbook buyback begins next week, Monday through Friday, April 25-29, between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. each day.

We know you want a fist full of cash … and we want to give it to you! Come see us in the SUB, right outside the Bruin Bookstore.

Faculty, please let your students know about the buyback.

Twitter Your Way to a GREAT Job!
Come learn simple techniques to find niche jobs and get noticed before others.

Twitter has exploded to over 100 million users around the world and is rapidly becoming a fantastic career tool. Are you using it effectively?

This is the fifth of a series of nine webinars on job search techniques for the graduate. Join us  Wednesday, April 20 from noon to 1 p.m. in the Career Services office.  If you will be around campus mark your calendars for the last four!

April 27: Mark Goulston, Listening
May 4: Devora Zack, Networking
May 11: Peter Weddle, Career Strategy
May 18: Martin Yate, Job Search

Come and wish Howard Macy well as he retires after 21 years of service to George Fox. As a biblical studies professor and colleague, Howard is loved and appreciated by many students, as well as faculty and staff members. Please bring cards if you like, as well as your special thoughts and hugs.

Join us in the Hoover atrium between 4 and 5 p.m. Tuesday, April 19.

Don’t forget the engineering department’s annual Engineering Expo, featuring project displays from Senior Design and Servant Engineering teams for companies and organizations such as Daimler, A-dec, NASA, 219 Technologies, Providence, 5-Rock Ranch, Medical Teams International, and Oregon Commission for the Blind.

FTC robot scrimmages from local high school FIRST Robotics teams also will be featured. Refreshments are provided and all are welcome!

Join us in the EHS Atrium anytime between 4:30 and 7 p.m. this Thursday, April 21. Contact Kristin Bontrager at kbontrager@georgefox.edu for more information.

Celebrate Earth Day by getting a little dirty!

Join friends and clean up Hess Creek this Friday, April 22, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. There will be wonderful food, community, lots of dirt, and possible singing.

Please R.S.V.P. to broberts06@georgefox.edu if you have a chance, but if you forget, don’t let that stop you from showing up.

See you on Earth Day!

Today’s chapel will feature Dwight Kimberly, professor of biology, in our last lecture series. We look forward to worshiping with you!

Monday night will be Faith and Film viewing How to Train Your Dragon at 9 p.m. in Hoover 105 and EHS 102.

Graduate student account charges are now open for the summer semester. Charges will remain open until end of day on Monday, April 25. If students need to use their student account after April 25, they will need to acquire a voucher from student financial services.

Special guest performers, including internationally renowned opera star Richard Zeller, will join the university’s Symphonic Band and Concert Choir for the annual Spring Concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 19, in Bauman Auditorium.

Zeller, a 1983 George Fox graduate, is one of America’s foremost baritones and is known for his sonorous dramatic voice, a compelling stage presence and musicianship. His opera engagements have included 12 seasons at the Metropolitan Opera and dates at opera houses around the world.

Zeller is among the soloists in a performance of Mozart’s Requiem. Soloists will include Zeller (bass), voice faculty members Maggie Daane (soprano) and Cynthia McGladrey (alto), and Les Green (tenor) of Willamette University.

Also taking the Bauman Auditorium stage will be the university’s Symphonic Band, directed by Pat Vandehey, which will perform George Washington Bicentennial March, by John Philip Sousa; A New Birth of Freedom, (a narrative setting of Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address”) by Randol Alan Bass; and Give us This Day by David Maslanka.

The Concert Choir, conducted by Loren Wenz, will perform O Praise the Lord from the Heavens, by Pavel Chesnokov; O Magnum Mysterium, by Tomas Luis de Victoria; and Sanctus by James Pick, a senior composition major at George Fox.

Tickets cost $10 for adults, $8 for seniors and George Fox alumni, and $6 for students and children. Tickets can be reserved online at music.georgefox.edu, through the University Box Office by calling 503-554-3844, or may be purchased in Bauman Auditorium on the night of the concert.

University Players Tour Group Auditions Next Week!
Auditions- Part 1
Tuesday 4/19
3:30-5 p.m.
Greenroom, Bauman Auditorium
This initial audition will include warm-ups, improve games and team-building exercises.  Come prepared with a writing utensil, clothing made for movement and an idea of your class schedule for the 2011-2012 school year and any potential conflicts for the 2011-2012 season.
You will be asked to sign up for a monologue presentation on Wednesday 4/20.

Monologue Presentations- Part 2
Wednesday 4/20
3:30-5 p.m.
Greenroom, Bauman Auditorium
The monologue should be an original, personal story, told in the 3rd Person, 90 seconds long, memorized, and reflect one of the following themes: “Redeeming the Time”, “The Carpenter’s Workshop”, “The Road”, “Through a Glass Darkly”, or “R.S.V.P.”.

While University Players is a ministry outreach of the Theatre department, auditions are also open to non-Theatre majors with varying degrees of theatre and ministry experience.

For more information about the auditions or the University Players please contact Mark Eaton, Director of The University Players, atmeaton_thinkingcap@yahoo.com

Come get a car wash and support the May Serve Peru team! The team is hosting a car wash at the Newberg Ford Dealership (next to Newberg Hospital on 99W) on Saturday (April 16) from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The price of the wash is donation based. We would love your support!

Questions? Contact Josh Tryan.

Want a delicious Sunday meal? Visit California Pizza Kitchen this Sunday with a fundraising flier and 20 percent of your check goes directly to the May Serve team! Follow this link to print the flier.

This offer is valid on sit-down dining and take-out orders. Thanks for your support! Contact Eric Barton or Rebecca Barnick if you have questions.

Saturday, April 16, 10:30 a.m. – Track & field in Rich Allen Classic, Colcord Memorial Field
Saturday, April 16, noon – Softball vs. Lewis & Clark (2), Morse Field
Saturday, April 16, 1 p.m. – Baseball vs. Lewis & Clark (2), West Linn High School
Sunday, April 17, 1 p.m. – Baseball vs. Lewis & Clark, West Linn High School

Graduating seniors on the softball and baseball teams will be recognized in pre-game ceremonies at their respective games, softball on Saturday and baseball on Sunday.

Schedule change: Next weekend’s baseball series at Linfield in McMinnville has been adjusted. The Bruins and Wildcats will now play two games on Friday at 1 p.m. and a single on Saturday at noon; the single was originally scheduled for Friday and the twinbill on Saturday.

For more information, contact the sports information office at ext. 2926 or visit the George Fox sports website at gfubruins.com.

Survey Number One

Help us out with our final project and take our 10-question survey about faith and religion please please please! We want to know what you’re like!

surveymonkey.com/s/QPKGQP2
Sarah Shipman, David Laughlin, Emily Rampke, and Lucy Chen

Survey Number Two

Shampoo Survey!
Please take this brief survey about your hair washing habits. It is 10 questions and will take about two minutes!

surveymonkey.com/s/VJPZT5N

Thanks so much! Emily, Jenn, and Kinsey

Survey Number Three

Please help me out with my research for a speech I have to give! The survey is about Wal-Mart and it is only 6-8 questions depending on your answers!

surveymonkey.com/s/J9KYMLQ

Steven Campbell

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.

Did you know key employers are saying that candidates are generally unprepared to interview? Use the interviewing module in Optimal Resume to sharpen your skills at your fingertips on MyGFU/Career Services.

Please don’t underestimate the competition you will face looking for employment. Be prepared. On Optimal Resume, you can build a resume, coverletter, eportfolio, website, complete a skills assessment and practice interviewing. If any of these are sent to the review center, your career services professionals will give you feedback online.

Contact us with questions at ext. 2330 or at careers@georgefox.edu, or come in for a career conversation. We are invested in your best future.

Faculty, please let your students know about this great resource.

– Bonnie Jerke,
Career Services

Help support the May Serve team and get a great meal! California Pizza Kitchen is sponsoring a fundraising day on Sunday, April 17, when 20 percent of your check goes directly to the May Serve team traveling to Peru. There are two store locations, in Clackamas and at Bridgeport.

Check out the group on Facebook to print off the required flier. Questions? Contact Eric Barton or Rebecca Barnick.

Please meet us in the Bruin Den at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, April 20, to participate in the Annual Easter Egg Extravaganza! There will be a massive Easter egg hunt all over campus and an Easter Egg Dyeing party in the Bruin Den to follow. Grand prize is $200 cash prize as well as many more prize opportunities! Hope to see you all there!