The Daily Bruin

Attention: The deadline for submitting summer forwarding address information is Friday, April 24.

If you have not completed a summer address card yet or replied to Linda Sartwell’s email please complete one of the following:

1.  Fill out a summer address card, found in lobbies of Beebe and Sub Post Offices.
       a. Indicate if you want your mailbox left open or where you want your mail forwarded.
2.  Reply with your summer address information to the email from Linda Sartwell.
3.  Fill out a summer address card using this link:

Thanks for your help!
– Mail Services

The Department of Performing Arts will present its Spring Concert, the final performance of the academic year, at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 24, in Bauman Auditorium. The concert will feature the Concert Choir, Chamber Singers, Women’s Chorale and the Symphonic Band. Please come and support the dedicated work of our music students and faculty as they close the spring performance season.

A nutrition class invites all students and staff to stop by a nutrition expo outside the Cap and Gown Room in the Student Union Building. Student teams have created displays about many current nutrition topics such as eating disorders, obesity, saving food dollars and stocking a healthy pantry, the Vitamin D deficiency epidemic, malnutrition, sugar, and many more topics. The expo runs through Friday, April 24.

If you haven’t yet and you would still like to, this is your last chance to go to Spanish Chapel on Friday, April 17 in Hoover 105 at 10:40am.

Please come!

Ever thought of working with college students as a profession?

Come hear insight from current Student Life professionals Friday, April 17 from 10:40-11:30 a.m. in Stevens 208.  Gain practical information to see if higher education is the career for you.

Come celebrate Earth Day at the George Fox community garden on Wednesday, April 22. Beginning at 6 p.m., we will be planting and preparing the garden beds for summer crops. Come to find out more about the community garden, located adjacent to the Villa Academic Complex, and how to be involved. All are welcome.

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