The Daily Bruin

Urban Outreach is making care packages for the homeless we meet with in Portland and Salem. Drop off donations of hygiene items and other small goods in the blue bin outside of the Outreach Ministries office.

Also, join us on Saturday, April 12, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Bruin Den to help stuff the bags and write encouraging notes! Stay as long as you want and also learn more about serving the poor.

Email Steven Ching (sching10@georgefox.edu) for more information.

Since the glow-in-the-dark slip-n-slide was such a success, we decided to turn it up a notch and have a glow-in-the-dark pool party! It will be happening tonight (Friday) at the Chehalem Aquatic Center from 9:30 to 11:30 p.m. DJ Rhino will be there, and we will have snacks!

If you have questions or want more info, contact Brogan Groth at bgroth12@georgefox.edu.

If you were unable to attend Grad Night at the Portland Center Wednesday, you can pick up your regalia from your program administrative office.

For more information on commencement, visit this link.

In celebration of D3 Week, the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee is providing free cupcakes for George Fox student-athletes and fans on Friday, April 11! The cupcakes will be upstairs in Wheeler near the coaches’ offices and will be offered all day.

Questions? Please contact Megan Arnoldy at marnoldy10@georgefox.edu.

Don’t forget to join the university’s French and cinema programs for the second part of the Fox French Film Festival tonight (Friday) in Lemmons 8.

Opening the night will be The Chorus, a story taking place in the late ’40s, about little Pierre, a badly behaved boy who attends a dreary boarding school presided over by a strict headmaster. New teacher Mathieu brightens up the place and organizes a choir, leading to the discovery of Pierre’s musical talents. It shows at 7 p.m.

Also that night, at 9 p.m., Of Gods and Men will be featured, which tells the story of eight French Christian monks who live in harmony with their Muslim brothers in a monastery perched in the mountains of North Africa in the 1990s. When a crew of foreign workers is massacred by an Islamic fundamentalist group, fear sweeps though the region.

Filmgoers will also have the chance to indulge in crêpes and other French fare during the intermission between the shows.

Questions? Contact Isabelle Corneaux at icorneaux@georgefox.edu.

Are you excited about the return of football to George Fox? Do you love to cheer on our Bruin teams? If so, we have an opportunity for you!

This Saturday, April 12, we’ll host cheer tryouts beginning at 10 a.m. in the Wheeler Sports Center’s dance room. No experience is necessary to try out! Just come dressed in athletic clothing and laced-up tennis shoes. Registration forms will be available at the tryout.

Have questions? Don’t hesitate to contact Shaunna Stutzman at shaunna.stutzman@gmail.com.

Friday, April 11, 3 p.m. – Men’s tennis vs. Willamette (GFU campus courts)
Friday, April 11, 5 p.m. – Softball vs. Lewis & Clark; makeup game (Morse Field)
Sunday, April 13, noon – Softball vs. Pacific, DH (Morse Field)

For more information, contact the sports information office at ext. 2926 or visit the George Fox sports website at gfubruins.com.

Are you a missionary kid, third culture kid, or interested in hearing about this group’s interesting global experiences? The Mu Kappa Club is having its second to last meeting of the year today! Please join us in the Macy basement after evening chapel April 9 for some tea, snacks, and good conversation.

Questions? Please contact Carrie Gradin at mailto://cgradin12@georgefox.edu

We are still in need of overnight hosts for tomorrow night. Prospective students will be arriving on Thursday night and we need students who are willing to host them. You will host them for the night and they will leave you Friday morning.

Please consider this awesome opportunity! You’ll also receive a drink coupon for the FoxHole. The Admissions office appreciates your help!

Please email Keisha Gordon at: kgordon@georgefox.edu if you’d be willing to host. Thanks!

Did you miss last week’s loan repayment class? No worries! It is being offered again tonight April 9 at 5 p.m. in Stevens 209. The workshop will cover topics such as how to afford your loan payments and what do if you can’t as well as loan forgiveness options.

If you are not able to attend this week, the class will also be offered on either April 16, or 23. Don’t miss it!

Questions? Contact Johanna Schweitzer at jschweitzer@georgefox.edu

Your votes have been tallied and the winners of this year’s International Photo Contest are on display today (Wednesday) and tomorrow (Thursday) in the Steven Center’s atrium (Duke Atrium). Come see if the photos you chose won and enjoy seeing the places our students and employees have visited.

Do you have a desire to lead worship? MUSI 340, Creating, Planning, and Leading Worship will help you develop your philosophy of worship as well as further your tools and knowledge to lead worship. If you are interested in chapel band or Kerygma (a.m. chapel), this class is an amazing opportunity to further your experience.

MUSI 340 is a three-credit class meets Tuesdays and Thursdays during spring semester with Professor Bobby Gaither, worship pastor at Grace Baptist Church. The class is only offered every other year, but due to student interest a petition is being filed to offer the class next spring (2015).

If you are interested in this class, we need 15 signatures to further the process of offering it next spring. The petition can be signed on this Google doc link.

Come support our music students this week at two concerts in Bauman Auditorium! Admission is free to both events.

On Thursday, April 10, the university’s Keyboard Ensemble, String Trio 1, String Trio 2, String Duet, Women’s Chorale, Handbell Ringers, Flute Ensemble, Chamber Choir and Brass Quintet will perform a Spring Chamber Concert at 7:30 p.m.

Then, on Friday, April 11, our Jazz Combo and Jazz Ensemble will perform a Spring Jazz Concert at 7:30 p.m. Pieces scheduled to be played include Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein II’s “Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise;” Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart’s “Have You Met Miss Jones;” Duke Ellington’s “Jack the Bear;” and Pat Metheny’s “Another Life.”

See you there!

The university community is invited to hear from Makoto Fujimura, an internationally renowned artist, twice this week.

Today (Wednesday), Fujimura will speak in the 10:40 a.m. chapel service in Bauman Auditorium. Then, this Saturday, April 12, he will be in Bauman again for a 7:30 p.m. presentation, “A Conversation with Makoto Fujimura on Faith, Art and Culture.” The session will include a showing of the artist’s new documentary film, Golden Sea, and a discussion session with him about the arts. There is no charge to attend.

Prior to Saturday’s campus visit, a 5 p.m. pre-event opening is scheduled at the Chehalem Cultural Center, where Fujimura’s work is now on display in the center’s Parrish Gallery. The Chehalem Cultural Center is located at 415 E. Sheridan St., in Newberg.

The event is cosponsored by the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, the Chehalem Cultural Center, and George Fox’s Department of Visual Art and Design and William Penn Honors Program. More information is available at this link. More about Fujimura is available at makotofujimura.com.

Bruin Preview families will begin arriving around 2 p.m. on Thursday, April 10. Please help us welcome these visitors to campus by parking your car somewhere other than the Stevens or Hoover parking lots after lunch Thursday, and all day Friday.

Thanks so much!

The Blazer game against the Sacramento Kings is tonight! The game starts at 7 p.m. at the Moda Center. We will not be providing rides, so you will need to find your own transportation.

After the game, go to Gate A-9 because George Fox students will get to shoot hoops on the court!

For more info or if you have questions, contact Brogan Groth at bgroth12@georgefox.edu.

The university’s politics program invites you to join us for a free presentation by Jay Bruce, associate professor of philosophy at John Brown University. He will present “Is Social Justice a Threat to Liberty?” at 6 p.m. Friday, April 11, in Hoover 105.

Two students from the philosophy club will offer responses to the presentation question.

Bruce holds degrees in engineering, religion and philosophy, including a PhD from Baylor University, an MA from the University of Oxford and an AB from Dartmouth College. His first book, Rights in the Law: The Importance of God’s Free Choices in the Thought of Francis Turretin, was published last year.

Questions? Contact Mark David Hall at 503-554-2674.

Last Friday, the university provided the media and the public with a statement on its decision regarding a transgender student and on-campus housing. For those who have not seen it, it is at this link.

Hello students! Bruin Preview is this week and we are in need of more overnight hosts for Thursday, April 10. We’re expecting around 200 students for this event, so we want to make it great. Students have the opportunity to connect with students who are looking at coming to George Fox and convince them that this is the place to be!

If you are interested in being a host, please email Keisha Gordon at kgordon@georgefox.edu. You also get a free coffee card out of the gig . . . need I say more?

Don’t forget to join us for Sheila Bartlett’s retirement celebration today (Tuesday) from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in the EHS Atrium (Ron Gregory Atrium) on the Newberg campus. Milk and cookies will be provided, along with Sheila’s request of garden veggies!

See you there!