The Daily Bruin

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Make plans to join us on Saturday, Aug. 14, for our fourth motorcycle rally, departing from the Newberg campus. If you are a street motorcycle rider, we want to hear from you so we can send you an invitation. Also, let us know if you are interested in the longer Tillamook Route (185-225 miles), or the short ride through Yamhill County Wine Country (100-125 miles).

Please contact us by May 15 to let us know of your interest at alumni@georgefox.edu. To find out more, visit the Motorcycle Rally page on the alumni website.

The School of Business’ Justine Haigh, associate professor of marketing, will present “Beyond corporate social responsibility: What about the consumer?” at a summer speaker series event Friday, June 11. Haigh will speak from 7 to 9 a.m. at The Grand Hotel at Bridgeport, located just off I-5 at the Durham Exit in Tualatin.

Presentation synopsis:
With all the hype these days about corporate social responsibility (CSR), we seem to enjoy finger pointing, blogging, and tweeting about unruly organizations and their failure to adhere to the law, ethical standards, and/or international norms. Caught up in these debates, however, we seldom think about how our own consumption patterns may actually harm the social good. So, how do we rationalize our conduct? What do we tell ourselves to justify recent purchases from organizations that we know do not practice socially responsible behavior?

Haigh will present a cross-cultural comparison of ethical consumer behavior. In exploring these issues, corporations’ ethical principles will be considered, but importantly the focus will be on each of us – the global consumer – and how we position ourselves as morally justifiable in our behaviors.

To read more and to register, go to the School of Business site. The cost to university students and employees is $10 (others pay $20), which includes a continental breakfast.

Tilikum Center for Retreats and Outdoor Ministries invites mothers and daughters to take time out and retreat together in a relaxing, country setting May 7-9.

Highlights include teaching and relationship-building sessions, singing and worship, campfire time, a hayride, crafts, and challenge course activities, along with plenty of time to simply be together, mother and daughter. It’s a wonderful opportunity to walk upon common ground while celebrating your differences and exploring God’s design for your lives.

Learn more at tilikum.georgefox.edu.

A continuing education opportunity for church leaders, the Leadership Institute for Group Discernment, will be hosted on the university’s Newberg campus May 17-20.

The institute is a three-and-a-half-day experience empowering church leaders in facilitating group discernment. It will integrate theological, spiritual and practical organizational processes, helping church leaders from different traditions understand and implement discernment-oriented leadership within their own settings, with the ultimate goal of leading to consensus and unity within the church.

For-credit options are available through George Fox University and George Fox Evangelical Seminary; all are welcome. For more information, contact Jan Wood, director of Good News Associates, via the Good News Associates website.

The university will host two commencement ceremonies on the Newberg campus Saturday, May 1. The traditional undergraduate ceremony will take place in Miller Gymnasium/Wheeler Sports Center at 2 p.m., with audience seating at 1 p.m. Tickets are required for the traditional undergraduate ceremony.

The graduate, seminary and School of Professional Studies ceremony will take place in the same Wheeler Sports Center location at 7 p.m., with audience seating at 6 p.m.

In addition, the baccalaureate service is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Saturday in Bauman Auditorium. Baccalaureate is an undergraduate worship service providing graduating seniors, their families, faculty, administrators, staff and other guests the opportunity to worship.

More information on this weekend’s events are available on the commencement website.

Donate your used textbooks to Word Made Flesh to support its people and ministries. Just drop off your textbooks at the Spiritual Life House. Sarah Baldwin will mail them in and the money will go to WMF.

Click this link for more information.

Textbook Buyback at the Portland Center.  Tuesday through Thursday, April 27 – 29, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Room 161 (former bookstore space).

You can  Check buyback prices by clicking the link. If you have questions, email John Stewart, Bruin Store e-commerce and marketing coordinator at jstewart@georgefox.edu

What would you do with seven times more space in your inbox? George Fox e-mail will deliver that and more in early June. You can find more information on this transition at the E-Mail Conversion website.

What is changing? When will this happen? Why are we changing? Find out more on the E-Mail Conversion FAQ page.

Don’t miss your chance to participate in Empty Bowls: A Night for Haiti and receive a ceramic bowl with a soup dinner for $12 (maximum $48 per family) this Friday, April 16, between 4:30 and 7:30 p.m. in the Klages Dining Room. If you haven’t submitted your R.S.V.P. yet, go to georgefox.edu/haiti. Walk-ins are welcome as well.

The City of Tigard has issued an emergency alert in regards to a 500+ participant march on Highway 99W from Darmouth Road to Main Street in Tigard. This march will be taking place starting at 4 p.m. on Thursday, April 15.

Please be aware of this potential disruption of your commute to or from GFU Portland Center.

OSP, City of Tigard Police Department, and ODOT are all working to ensure the safety of the motorists and foot traffic on Highway 99W. They anticipate the largest area of disruption to be on Highway 99W and at the exit from Highway 217 and 99W.

The seminary is hosting an information meeting about its new Christian Earth Keeping (CEK) offering at noon Thursday, April 22, in Portland Center 260. Bring your lunch and get answers about the seminary’s newest 12-hour concentration. Daniel Brunner (Seminary) and the CEK academic team will be available to answer any of your questions. Beverages and cookies provided.

Are you interested in health care or medical missions? Come hear Devin Harrison, MD, present “Medical Missions: Eye Care in Africa,” at 4:15 p.m. Thursday, April 15, in Hoover 105. Dr. Harrison worked in Nigeria for two years caring for some of the world’s neediest patients, performing eye surgeries and training local doctors.

For his efforts, he received the 2008 American Academy of Ophthalmology Humanitarian Award. Contact Jim Smart if you have any questions.

Paul Anderson (Religious Studies) will teach a six-week series (April 18 to May 26) at Reedwood Friends Church on “The Riddles of the Fourth Gospel.” The series can be taken as a one-hour May term class (BIBL 485) if desired. Marcus Borg will join Paul for a public dialogue on the “Gospels and Jesus in Bi-Optic Perspective” on May 19 and a special Saturday, May 22, session.

Sessions meet from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesdays and Sundays from 11 a.m. to noon. Reedwood Friends Church is located at 2901 S.E. Steele, in Portland. There is no charge, and the public is welcome.

Are you interested in health care or medical missions? Come hear Devin Harrison, MD, present “Medical Missions: Eye Care in Africa,” at 4:15 p.m. Thursday, April 15, in Hoover 105. Dr. Harrison worked in Nigeria for two years caring for some of the world’s neediest patients, performing eye surgeries and training local doctors.

For his efforts, he received the 2008 American Academy of Ophthalmology Humanitarian Award. Contact Jim Smart or Jane Sweet if you have any questions.

The university community is invited to attend a book release party for Steve Sherwood, who recently released Embraced: Prodigals at the Cross. Join us Friday, April 23, between 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. in the Hoover Faculty Lounge on the Newberg campus.

Thank you graduating students for attending Exodus 2010. We were so happy to celebrate all that you’ve accomplished.

Prize drawing winners were:

• GFU Alumni license plate holder     Christine Louie
• GFU Logo travel coffee mug              Amber Zeiders
• GFU Logo water bottle                       Kris Meisner
• Lazer Photo frame                               Becca Reel
• GFU “monkey fleece” jacket              Emilio D. Vela
• 1 GB i-pod                                              Kelsey Westling
• 2 GB i-pod                                              Kailey Dieker

Feedback regarding the event can be emailed to Janis Sanford, Portland Center Site Supervisor at jsanford@georgefox.edu

The university’s offices and libraries will be closed on Friday, April 2, to observe Good Friday. The Newberg library will be closed Friday and Sunday but will be open between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. Saturday. The Portland Center library will be closed Friday through Sunday.

The Career Management Seminar sponsored by the School of Professional Studies will be on April 10, 2010 in Room 285b will feature speaker Peter DePaoli.  Peter is an adjunct professor at GFU with over 30 years of career development experience.  Through this seminar you will come to understand and assess your God given talents, and apply your interests to tangible work positions.

The cost of this seminar is $50.

For more information please contact Jack Lyda at lydaj@georgefox.edu or 503.554.6188
Please sign up by Friday, April 2.

Please note a correction to the rehearsal dates for the university’s mass singing of Vivaldi’s Gloria. Practices will be on Mondays and Tuesdays April 5-6, 12-13 and 19-20, between 3:30 and 4:30 p.m. in Ross 208.

All those with singing experience are invited to join in singing with the choir at the final concert of the spring semester, at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 23, in Bauman Auditorium.

For more information, contact Debbie Hawblitzel at dhawblit@georgefox.edu.