The Daily Bruin

The university’s annual Fox Film Festival is scheduled for 6 p.m. Friday, April 17, and at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, April 19. Friday’s event is at the Cameo in downtown Newberg and costs $4 (cash only). Lights will go down at 6 p.m., so get there early for a good seat.

On Sunday, films will be shown in Bauman Auditorium free of charge. Refreshments will be served, and DVDs will be on sale.  Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. for a small pre-show, and the lights will go down at 6:30 p.m.

Spiritual Life will host a Gathering event from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. on Friday, April 17, in Bauman Auditorium. Come to worship the Lord with the George Fox community.

Celebrate with our seniors at 10:40 a.m. Wednesday, April 22, at the senior commissioning and campus celebration chapel in Bauman Auditorium. This is a time to celebrate our seniors and send them off with prayer and worship. The senior slideshow also will be shown as we remember our many great times together at George Fox. So come join the celebration!

Are you tired of Facebook and other online networking sites? Do you want a professional look for your online resume? Have you ever wanted to control your online content but not known how? If so, come to a workshop from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Friday, April 17, in Stevens 209 to learn how to create your own digital portfolio. Questions? Contact Andrew Griggs at agriggs05@georgefox.edu.

The university community is invited to attend a celebration rally for the national-champion women’s basketball team from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Monday, April 20, in Bauman Auditorium. Students who attend will earn Spiritual Life credit.

The event will include a video tribute of the season and appearances by former Portland Trail Blazer Jerome Kersey and George Fox alumnus Eric Lautenbach, director of college basketball sports marketing at Nike. Also, Newberg Mayor Bob Andrews will proclaim April 20 as “George Fox University Bruins Women’s Basketball Day” in Newberg.

Monday’s morning rally kicks off a full day of festivities that will include a barbecue, parade and evening party. Here are the details:

Barbecue
Klages Dining Hall, 4:30 p.m.
An on-campus celebration barbecue is scheduled from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. in Klages Dining Hall and, if weather permits, in the Centennial Tower quad. Note: The cost is $7.75 per person (free to students on meal plan).

Parade
Newberg campus and downtown, 6:30 p.m.
At 6:30 p.m., a fire truck will arrive at the Stevens Center to take the team on a short escorted parade around campus and through downtown. The Newberg police and fire departments will escort the team from the center of campus north on Meridian Street, east on Fulton Street, south on Villa Road, west on 99W through downtown and south on Howard Street to the Newberg Public Safety Building, where the Newberg city council will award honorary Newberg citizenship and medallions to the players and coaches at approximately 7 p.m.

Lil’ Cooperstown
705 N. Springbrook Road, Newberg, 7:45 p.m.
The day’s festivities end with a party from approximately 7:45 to 9 p.m. at the Lil’ Cooperstown Restaurant, where the fans can meet the team, request autographs and take photos with the players. The team will be presenting a jersey to be added to the restaurant wall décor.

Visit the celebration events page on the university website for a complete rundown of the day’s activities.

Just a reminder: George Fox will host a national leadership conference, “Spiritual Discernment As Christian Leadership,” May 31 through June 3. The full conference cost of $349 is discounted to $199 for those registering before April 18 and qualifying for a group discount. Register now and save; also, invite church leaders to take advantage of this special opportunity.

See the conference website for more information.

A special price for George Fox students (graduate and undergraduate, no meals or lodging) is $100, and Paul Anderson (Religious Studies) is offering a May Term independent study (1-3 hours) for any interested in attending the conference for credit.

“Yearbook needs your pictures and quotes from the 2008-2009 school year! If you would like to be featured in the yearbook, please send us your original (NOT pictures that have been saved on Facebook, as they are too small to work) pictures with a brief explanation of what is occurring in the photo.

Also, if you have anything you would like to say in reflecting over the past year, please send a brief 1-2 sentence quote.

Thank you in advance,

GFU Yearbook.

Send to: mary.vansteenberghe@gmail.com

All Junior’s are invited to journey to Voodoo Too for free Voodoo Doughnuts on Friday, April 24. We will meet in the Bruin Den at 9:45 p.m. to meet for carpooling, and then we’ll leave for Voodoo Too at 10:00 p.m.

Please contact Josh Borrelli for questions or directions at jborrelli05@georgefox.edu.

Attention: Plant Services is no longer accepting applications for summer student employment.

Applications for our Winter Serve trip to Urbana 2009 are now available!

Urbana is Intervarsity’s missions and outreach conference in St. Louis, Missouri. This December we are taking a group of students to experience God in a new way and seek his will for their lives.

Stop by the Spiritual Life house (on the corner of Sheridan and Meridian) for more information or to pick up an application. Applications are due Wednesday, April 22.

Visit urbana.org for more information on this great event.

Saturday, April 18
Noon – Softball vs. Pacific Lutheran (2), Morse Field

Sunday, April 19
Noon – Softball vs. Puget Sound (2), Morse Field

For more information, contact the sports information office at ext. 2926.

You are invited to come listen to Eric Middleton as he lectures on his book The New Flatlanders at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 16, in EHS 102 on the Newberg campus. Eric is a British teacher/lecturer with master’s degrees in natural sciences, psychology and philosophy. In The New Flatlanders, he challenges traditional ways of looking at reality by engaging readers in a “voyage of discovery starting with questions.”

Join us for Men’s Ministry as we watch and discuss The Shawshank Redemption Friday, April 17 at 8 p.m. at North Street House (located between the VAC and Coffin Hall).

Contact Carl-Eric Tangen at ctangen05@georgefox.edu for more information.

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Drop-in anytime 11am-1pm with your questions. Please RSVP to cwise@georgefox.edu [Please make this email address a hot link] by Wednesday, April 15 at 5pm as we’ll be ordering pizza. (NOTE: This replaces the normally scheduled Optimal Resume Cafe in the Bruin Den)

Optimal Resume Cafe / Pizza Chat
Thursday, April 16
11:00am-1:00pm
Career Services ~ Stevens #220

Come support your engineering freshmen as they demonstrate their latest robotics projects at 1:45 p.m. Thursday, April 23, in the Ron Gregory Atrium in EHS. Refreshments provided. All are invited!

The university’s annual Engineering Expo is scheduled at 4:30 p.m. Friday, April 24, in the Ron Gregory Atrium in EHS. The event will feature high school design projects as well as our own engineering class projects and senior design presentations. Lab tours and refreshments provided!

Due to the cost of materials, the pricing for color wide-format printing (posters/banners) has changed in some instances. Many of the prices have been reduced, but some of the basic prices have been raised. Prior to creating your project, please call Elizabeth Holme (Print Services) at ext. 2550 or send your e-mail to eholme@georgefox.edu.

Searching for an internship or job?

Put some extra power in your search using Optimal Resume. If you haven’t tried it yet, you need to. If you have tried it, come and find out all that Optimal Resume can do for you. Drop-in to Career Services between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Thursday, April 16 with your questions.

Please RSVP to cwise@georgefox.edu by Wednesday, April 15 at 5 p.m. as we’ll be ordering pizza.

NOTE: This replaces the normally scheduled Optimal Resume Cafe in the Bruin Den.

Reminder: If you think you will be short Spiritual Life credits, please watch a podcast of past events and fill out the Spiritual Life credit form at:

https://bruindata.georgefox.edu/ifas7/home/campus/Default.aspx.

This form is also found on our website at spirituallife.georgefox.edu.  

Due to a change of process we are no longer accepting 50 word summary essays.

Would you like a career working with college students?  Ever thought of being in Residence Life, Leadership programming, Campus Ministries, Career Services or Multicultural Services?  The list goes on!

Come hear from current Student Life professionals and their insight Friday, April 17 from 10:40-11:30 a.m. in Stevens 208.  Many jobs exist throughout the U.S. and abroad by working in Student Life departments.  Come hear some practical advice that might help see if this is a career for you!