The Daily Bruin

Are you a missionary kid, third-culture kid, or would be interested in hearing about this group’s interesting and diverse experiences? If so, come to the Mu Kappa Club’s end-of-the-year party in the Sutton Cafe on Wednesday, April 16! This will go from 8 to 10 p.m.; please feel free to drop in and out whenever you can. There will be ice cream sundaes as well as other yummy desserts!

If you have any questions, feel free to contact:
Carrie Gradin, cgradin12@georgefox.edu
Jamie Whisler, jwhisler12@georgefox.edu
Bree Thomas, bthomas13@georgefox.edu

Fellow seniors: As our final semester winds down, I’m sure we are all busy with final projects and graduation plans. On that note, I am desperately in need of about 15 extra graduation tickets and hope some of you will be able to help me out!

There are baked goods, a coffee, or even a small amount of monetary compensation per ticket up for grabs!

Please e-mail me, Alyssa Asdell, at aasdell11@gmail.com if you have extra tickets for the 2:30 p.m. ceremony. Thank you!

Join us this Saturday, April 19, from 1 to 3 p.m. for our final community garden work day. We will be doing some planting for the summer and enjoying community together! You can receive chapel elective credit for this event. We will be discussing “Jesus in the Ground” and connections of gardening and this holy weekend of Christ’s resurrection. Hope to see you at the community garden behind Coffin!

Questions? Please contact Crystal Colella at ccolella10@georgefox.edu.

The university welcomes Lisa Mariea Fithian, DNP, MSN, RN, as director of the School of Nursing. She brings more than 30 years of experience in the nursing profession. Most recently, Lisa served as a Clackamas County Health Centers’ nursing supervisor (2012-14), where she assisted in opening a new primary care clinic at Sunnyside Health & Wellness Center in Clackamas. Previously, she managed CareOregon’s CareSupport Department (2009-12) and worked for four years as a night shift charge RN and neonatal resuscitation RN at Kaiser Sunnyside Hospital in Clackamas. She taught in and chaired the nursing department at Clackamas Community College in Oregon City (1994-2004) and was a professor of nursing at Clark College in Vancouver, Wash. (2005-06). Lisa held positions as a nurse manager, chief nurse executive, staff RN and nursing faculty in Ohio, Utah and California during the 1980s and early 1990s. She holds a Master of Science in Nursing in nursing administration from the University of California, San Francisco (1994), a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) from Case Western Reserve University (1982), and a bachelor’s degree in biology from John Carroll University (1979). Lisa has four adult children ranging in age from 20 to 29. East Hill Foursquare Church in Gresham has been the church home of Lisa and her family since 1994. She will be on campus part time until July 1, when she will assume the full-time director role from Darcy Mize, who is serving as interim director through June.

Andrew Fleming joins the university this month as a computer support specialist in the IT department. Andrew has spent the past two years doing computer and video freelance work, and has also been the computer support technician at Camp Tilikum. While a student at the university between 2009 and 2012, he worked part time during the academic year and full time during the summers as a service desk support employee in IT. He is the son of Jim and Karlyn Fleming and lives in Newberg. He enjoys photography, video production and wood working in his free time. Andrew attends West Salem Foursquare Church, where he volunteers as a youth group leader and supports a variety of church ministries.

Brian Gardner (Development) left the university in late March to serve as vice president for university advancement at Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, Ind. Reporting to the CEO of residential education, Brian will oversee the university advancement division, work closely with President David Wright (a George Fox alumnus), and serve on the President’s Executive Council.

An article that Deb Drecnik Worden (Business) coauthored with Diane Schooley-Pettis, professor of finance at Boise State University, was recently published in the Financial Services Review (Vol. 22), the journal of the Academy of Financial Services. The article, titled “Accumulating and Spending Retirement Assets: A Behaviorial Finance Explanation,” stems from their research, which examines which individuals choose to participate in pension plans or set aside additional retirement funds in IRAs. A recent report from The Investment Company Institute reported that 33 percent of Americans have neither an IRA nor an employer retirement plan.

Gary Buhler (Art) is the featured artist in the current issue of Triggerfish Critical Review (#12), an online journal. In addition, his watercolor, “Morrison Steel,” was accepted into the Emerald Spring Juried Show in Springfield, Ore., a national exhibition that will be on display in the Emerald Art Center for the month of May starting May 3.

Ed Higgins (English) published his poem “Escaped Poems” in the April 2014 issue of Contemporary Haibun Online. The piece also includes commentary/analysis from one of the editors, Ray Rasmussen, who is highly regarded in haiku/haibun circles. Included also are links to some of his other pieces and the republication of two of Ed’s haibun pieces from other journals. In addition, Ed’s poem “Wasps” appeared in the Spring 2014 issue of the Irish literary/arts journal The Linnet’s Wings.

Paul Anderson (Christian Studies) has been appointed Professor Extraordinary of Religion at the North-West University of Potchefstroom, South Africa, as a means of bringing credibility to the university and helping faculty and students conduct and publish their research from afar. Paul will also be a Fulbright Specialist Visiting Professor at the Radboud University of Nijmegen in Netherlands this May. Finally, as founding coeditor of the Johannine Monograph Series (Wipf & Stock), Paul recently wrote the foreword to Volume 1 in the series, A Commentary on John, by Rudolf Bultmann, arguably the most significant New Testament book in the 20th century.

John Knox (Christian Studies) published an article, “Future Emphasis of the Church in the Pacific Northwest,” this month in Christ and Cascadia, an online journal sponsored by the Fuller Institute of Theology and Northwest Culture.

April 15             Terrie Boehr, Mike Campadore
April 17             Eilene Newman
April 18             Judy Deale
April 19             Rebecca Williams
April 22             Laura Fisk, Jeff VandenHoek
April 23             Terrance Steele
April 25             Terri Beecroft, Mark Ocker, Valerie Sherwood, Richard Silver
April 26             Dana Ferrin, Emma Glennen
April 27             Pat Vandehey

Find ways to give back to your community! We have spiritual life- and community-based volunteer opportunities available on our website. If you are looking to positively impact your community and gain valuable experience, check out the possibilities at this link or on Facebook at facebook.com/CommunityBridge2013.

The social work MACRO class is organizing a diaper-packaging party to support impoverished families in Yamhill County. You are free to join us from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, April 21, in the Cap and Gown Room.

Working on behalf of the organization Healthy Families, we are creating a night you can come and watch a movie, eat pizza and package diapers for the families living in our county who cannot afford them! How fun and heartwarming is that?

So please come and bring friends. Let’s come together for food, conversation and for the families who need help.

Questions? Contact Micah Schuler at micah.e.schuler@gmail.com.

This week the Academic Resource Center’s schedule is full; we have no availability. If you need an appointment, consider coming to the ARC when you have time for a consultation. Possibly a consultant’s schedule will have cleared, and he or she can meet with you.

If you have an appointment but no longer need it or cannot meet during your scheduled time, please cancel your appointment to make the time available for others.

Questions? Write the_arc@georgefox.edu.

Come join us in the Cap and Gown Room at 9 p.m. this Thursday, April 17, for the “Colored White Panel” during Shalom.

The panel will focus on informing white students about white privilege, white guilt (how to move away from this mind-set), and white ethnic identity development.

If you have questions that you would like to discuss during the panel, email Inclusion and Student Leadership Programs at islp@georgefox.edu by Wednesday at midnight. We will review the questions and choose some to ask during the panel.

Questions? Contact Aby Cordova at acordova10@georgefox.edu.

Spring formal tickets go on sale today (Tuesday)! Tickets will be $5 for pre-sale and $7 at the door. You can buy them outside of the ASC offices starting at 11:30 a.m.

For more information and/or questions, contact Sarah MacKenzie at smackenzie11@georgefox.edu.

You are invited to join us as we say farewell to longtime faculty member Clella Jaffe at a reception from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Wednesday, April 23, in the Stevens Center lobby (Duke Atrium). Refreshments will be served.

Clella has worked at the university for 19 years. During that span, she’s served as a professor of communication arts; as chair of the Department of Communication Arts (2004-present); as director of forensics (eight years); and as a leader or co-leader of 10 Juniors Abroad trips. She also did a six-week May Term teaching exchange in Wuhan, China.

Clella also served on the William Penn Honors Committee, as a faculty rep, on Faculty Council and on the Personnel Committee. She’s also been involved in policy and procedures, student appeals, the advising task force, and numerous search committees.

She said her plans are to travel, garden and maintain friendships.

After years of study and observation, the Portland Center Library hours will change on Monday, May 5.

The new library hours are:

• Monday – Thursday, 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.
• Friday, 10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
• Saturday, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.

The change in library hours does not affect the hours of the Learning Commons or the hours of Institutional Technology (IT). The hours for the Learning Commons and the hours for IT will not change.

Charlie Kamilos,
Portland Center Librarian

Marketing communications is collecting orders for name tags. For those who have regular face-to-face contact with the public and need to order a name tag, you may submit your request at this link.

Be sure to provide the name of the person for whom the name tag is needed; title or department (optional); and the budget to be charged.

The next order will be placed on Monday, April 28. Questions? Contact Danette Newkirk at dnewkirk@georgefox.edu.

Now is the time to submit your request for business cards. Marketing communications will be processing a business card order soon. Place your order directly with B&B Print Source by Monday, April 28.

Questions? Contact Danette Newkirk at dnewkirk@georgefox.edu.

Applications for May Term/Summer housing are now available to students on the student life website and in the student life office. Students have until Friday, April 25, to complete the application and return it to student life.

We are asking students to verify their employment by having supervisors email housing@georgefox.edu so we can keep track of this information. As you hire summer workers, please notify the housing department.

Please refer to the 2014 Summer/May Term Housing Application for additional details. These are available online or in the Office of Student Life.

If you have questions, please stop by or call the student life office (ext. 2310) or email housing@georgefox.edu.

If you are interested in May Term or summer housing, please submit an application to the student life office by Friday, April 25. To be considered for on-campus housing during this time, students need to meet one of the following criteria:

• Enrolled in May Term classes
• Working full time (40 hours per week) for the university as a summer employee
• Participating in research as a summer research scholar

Please refer to the 2014 Summer Housing Application for additional details. These are available online or in the student life office.

If you have questions, please stop by or call the student life office (ext. 2310) or email housing@georgefox.edu.

Aloha! Join the Hawai’i Club as we host our “Voyage to Hawaii” Luau on Wednesday, April 16, in the Klages Dining Room.

Hawaiian food, including kalua pork, chicken katsu, and loco moco, will be served at 4:30 p.m., followed by entertainment of Hawaiian music, chant and hula dancing at 5:30 p.m. There will also be a photo booth for people to take luau pictures.

All are welcome to learn and experience a Hawaiian luau. The event is free to students on the meal plan; the cost is $10 for non-plan attendees.

Also, we are in need of volunteers to help us set up between 2 and 4 p.m. If you can help, swing by!

“Mahalo!”

Team Kamosa, as part of the Entrepreneurship 300 class, is selling $2 chicken tamales one more time before the year ends! This time, there will not be sales during lunch. Sales will only be through pre-orders.

Place your order today my emailing teamkamosa@gmail.com, and enjoy your tamales on Wednesday, April 23.

This is our last team challenge. Please help us finish strong!

Come join us as Erin Johnson’s SWRK 393 Macropractice class canvasses the Newberg and Dundee neighborhoods to hang door hangers to raise awareness for the need for a new pool facility. We’ll be out on the streets from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. this Saturday, April 19.

Why should you participate?

1. Snacks
2. Free T-shirt
3. Because you care about building communities

If you want to volunteer, please register at this link. If you want to know more about the cause, visit the website and “like” the Facebook page.