The Daily Bruin

The Portland Writing Center will be remaining open over the summer term in a remote capacity. Our writing consultants will be checking the PWC inbox (pwc@georgefox.edu) every morning, Monday through Friday, for any questions or papers that need to be reviewed. If you would like a person-to-person consultation, e-mail the consultants at pwc@georgefox.edu with some potential times, and we’ll respond to your needs as best as we are able.

– Portland Writing Center staff

George Fox is in the process of formulating teams to participate in the community’s Relay for Life event, scheduled from 6 p.m. to 2 p.m. on June 20-21 at Newberg High School. Would you like to walk in the relay this year? If so, please contact Nancy Almquist (Development) this week at ext. 2120 or at nalmquist@georgefox.edu and let her know of your interest. Last year, the Newberg event raised $115,000 in the fight against cancer.

FoxTALE will undergo maintenance and therefore be unavailable from 6 to 6:30 a.m. on Tuesday, May 13.

Lost and Found items at the Portland Center are available in the lobby April 25 to May 2.

Please come by and claim your lost item.

For more information, contact Janis Sanford, Office Manager/Asst. Director-Portland Center at jsanford@georgefox.edu

Richard Reiten, chairman of the board for Northwest Natural Gas and the company’s former CEO, will speak at both spring commencement ceremonies this Saturday, April 26. The university will confer 330 traditional undergraduate degrees and 362 graduate, seminary, and professional studies degrees. About 570 students are expected to participate in the ceremonies.

Undergraduate commencement begins at 2 p.m. in Miller Gymnasium in the Wheeler Sports Center, with audience seating at 1 p.m. The ceremony for graduate, seminary, and professional studies students starts at 7 p.m. in the same location, with seating for guests beginning at 6 p.m.

Also, on the morning of April 26, a baccalaureate service is scheduled at 9:30 a.m. in Bauman Auditorium.

Reiten’s commencement address is titled “A Mission Possible: Making a Difference.” For more scheduling information on commencement weekend, visit the commencement events page.

Engineering will host its second annual Engineering Expo on Friday, April 18, in EHS. From 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Ron Gregory Atrium, engineering class project presentations will be on exhibit.

Then, from 4:30 to 6 p.m., industry-sponsored senior design presentations will be showcased in EHS 102. Featured will be a dry food products automated seasoner for PPM Technologies and a ruggedized portable thermal printer for Tripod Data Systems. Refreshments will be provided.

The complete video of the Apple event held in Klages Dining Room on April 4 is now available for viewing at:

iTunesU:
http://media.georgefox.edu/cgi-bin/itunesustaff.pl

or via Streaming at:
http://media.georgefox.edu/it/AppleEvent.mov

A farewell reception for Tom Johnson (Religious Studies) is scheduled from 2 to 3:15 p.m. Wednesday, April 16, in the John and Marilyn Duke Atrium in the Stevens Center. Tom is retiring from the university after serving in various capacities at George Fox the past 11 years. He and his wife Michele are moving to Whidbey Island, Wash., in their retirement.

PBS videos on demand are no longer available through Bruindata, but may still be accessed through the library.  These videos are available for viewing for any university employee or student.  You can gain access to these “Videos on Demand” via FoxTrax by searching for the keyword “VOD.” 

The Portland Center Library is pleased to have on-location watercolors by Gary Buhler on display.

Gary Buhler is an Assistant Professor of Art at George Fox University. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Art Education from Western Oregon University and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Arizona, Tucson.

Gary’s watercolors portray Northwest scenes of rivers, riverbanks, waterfalls and surrounding landscapes painted in rich blues, greens, and golds with bright white representing the rippling and splashing water.

Come by and take a long look or slip in for a quick peek.

Jan Thomas, administrative assistant for the School of Management’s MBA programs, will be resigning as of April 15 to move to Segway, Alaska, to take a position as an office manager for a tour company.

Please join us in the Portland Center lobby for her farewell reception on Monday, April 14, from 2 to 2:30 p.m. to wish her well.

For more information, contact Amber Russell (Management) at arussell@georgefox.edu or ext. 6179.

Seminary and Graduate Counseling students:

If you are graduating at the end of the month, the last day to turn in your keys without a charge to your account will be Friday, April 25.

Also, if you will not be returning or taking a leave of absence, you will need to return your key. You will be issued a new mailbox when you return.

Questions? Contact Brenda Stewart, Portland Center Mailbox Coordinator at stewartb@georgefox.edu or ext. 6103

The library staff wishes to thank the George Fox community for participating in the recent library service quality survey. Over the past few weeks, 887 students, faculty, staff, and administrators, or 22 percent of the university community, completed the survey. Many respondents also supplied written comments. Library faculty and staff will soon review the data plus all the suggestions and comments with great interest.

Congratulations to these winners whose names were randomly drawn from all who took the survey and entered their e-mail addresses.

iPod Shuffle:
Angela Leder
Annette Ann Korkeakoski-Sears

$25 Amazon gift certificate:
Andrew Miller
Daniel Brunner
Kaitlan White
Kathryn Hite
Susan Corbett-Furgal

The university community is welcome to As it is in Heaven, the theatre department’s final play of the 2007-08 season.

Performances are scheduled April 10-12 and April 17-19 at 7:30 p.m. in Wood-Mar Auditorium. There is also one matinee performance, at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 13.

Synopsis: An 1830s Shaker community in Pleasant Hill, Ky., is set in its ordered ways until a newcomer, Fanny, see angels in the meadow. Soon all the young women are receiving spiritual “gifts” of songs, drawings, ideas, and giggles and completely upsetting the community. Are these gifts an honest resurgence of the original shaker celebration, or something manufactured by Fanny?

Employees receive one complimentary ticket, available for pick-up at the University Store. Students are welcome to see the show free of charge at the two Thursday performances and may pick up those tickets at the University Store. The cost is $10 for general admission, $8 for seniors and alumni, and $6 for students and children under 12. To purchase tickets or find out more, visit theatre.georgefox.edu.

Wednesday morning (April 2) there will be a period of time when FoxTALE will not be functioning. The scheduled time for this planned maintenance outage is from 6 to 6:30 a.m.
Hopefully the outage during this time will not cause any difficulty for you. It was chosen so as to impact the least number of individuals.

George Fox University I.T. Service Desk

servicedesk@georgefox.edu

503-554-2569

Inside Promotions, a business capstone class, is offering its final “Deal of the Week” with CampusPoint, a job and internship service. Register at campuspoint.com:

• It’s a free online service
• Apply for Portland-area positions
• Use company directory

What if you could network with more than 160 recruiters? What if you could learn about numerous job opportunities? What if you could also learn about the nonprofit industry at a special presentation and attend an alumni networking event?

If these questions intrigue you, the First Avenue Career and Graduate School Fair is for you. All you have to do is sign up in Career Services (STV 325; ext. 2330) by 5pm Tuesday, April 1 or visit olapcfirstavenue.org.

The fair is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. on Thursday, April 3, at the University of Portland’s Chiles Center.

The group Partners in Diversity will sponsor an event, “Breakfast for Champions,” from 7:30 to 10 a.m. on Friday, April 4, in Portland Center’s Room 155.

The event allows for networking and education on diversity matters with business and education leaders in the greater Portland area. Breakfast begins at 7:30 a.m., keynote speaker Robin Baker will address the group at 8 a.m., and Perry L Gruber, program and communications manager for Community Solutions, Intel Corporation, will follow with a presentation about corporate responsibility and diversity.

For more information, contact Burel Ford (Multicultural Services) at ext. 2318 or at bford@georgefox.edu.

The university’s offices and libraries will be closed on Friday, March 21, to observe Good Friday. Newberg and Portland libraries also will be closed over Easter weekend.

What if you could network with more than 160 recruiters? What if you could learn about numerous job opportunities? What if you could also learn about the nonprofit industry at a special presentation and attend an alumni networking event?

If these questions intrigue you, the First Avenue Career and Graduate School Fair is for you. All you have to do is sign up in Career Services (STV 325; ext. 2330) or visit olapcfirstavenue.org.

The fair is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. on Thursday, April 3, at the University of Portland’s Chiles Center.