The Daily Bruin

The Nursing Club is hosting its annual Spring Blood Drive on Thursday, April 3, from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Villa Academic Complex (501 N. Villa St.).

To schedule your appointment, go to redcrossblood.org, make an account, and search for “George Fox University April 3.” Or, you can look for our table in the Bruin Den.

This blood drive is open to all students and community members over the age of 16. Each donation can save up to three lives!

If you have any questions, please email gfnursingclub@gmail.com.

The International Club invites you to join us for a Chinese lab from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 3, in Lemmons 5. We will teach you some basic Chinese dialogue.

Snacks, friendship and fun are included! Contact gfu.international.club@gmail.com for more info.

Thank you to all who participated in taking the LibQUAL Library Survey. The library faculty and staff will be reviewing the data as well as your written comments and appreciate your willingness to share your opinions with us.

Congratulations to Amazon card winners whose names were randomly drawn from all who took the survey and entered their email address. Winners have been notified via email.

After being snowed out in February, the Feminism and the Church panel has been rescheduled to this Thursday, April 3, at Shalom. A panel of faculty, students and recent grads will answer questions about what gender equality might look like in our churches and on campus.

We will begin at 9 p.m. in the Cap and Gown Room.

Questions? Contact Grayce Beebe at gbeebe10@georgefox.edu.

See you there!

Come laugh with us this week as our theatre students perform the spring comic murder-mystery The Game’s Afoot. Shows begin tomorrow (Thursday) in Wood-Mar Auditorium! Performance dates are April 3-5 and April 10-13. All shows begin at 7:30 p.m. with the exception of the Sunday, April 13, performance, scheduled as a 2 p.m. matinee.

Students are welcome to attend either Thursday production for free. Employees are entitled to one complimentary ticket, available for pick-up at the Box Office in the Pennington House. A summary of the show and the opportunity to purchase additional tickets are available at theatre.georgefox.edu.

Summer Serve students will be in Romania and Moldova from mid-May to early June, partnering with Word Made Flesh (WMF) to build relationships with youth in WMF’s community centers. You can support the team by donating activity and craft supplies that we can bring along with us!

Please look over the list of needed supplies, and drop off your donation at the SpIL House by Friday, May 2.

• Games like: Guess Who, Memory, I Spy, Dutch Blitz, Connect Four
• Scissors with patterns
• Fancy hole-punch
• Colored paper
• Thread for making bracelets
• Play-Doh
• Coloring markers
• Permanent markers
• Rollerblades (all sizes for children and youth)
• Water guns
• Tennis shoes for ages 6-14
• Volleyballs
• Art supplies
• Ibuprofen
• Gardening gloves
• Guitar strings
• Stencils
• Book on how to recycle paper
• Vitamins
• Used/working laptops (not too old)

Thank you! God bless!

Questions? Contact Trisha Elizarde at telizarde10@georgefox.edu.

Seniors: Now that you have picked up your regalia, please check out the commencement website for all of the details about your big day on Saturday, May 3! Some important highlights include:

• New for the Class of 2014: a senior class picture will be taken at 11:45 a.m. on the quad (sunny weather) or in the new stadium (rainy weather). Wear your regalia!
• Tickets will be mailed in mid-April to your campus box. Each graduate will receive 10 tickets for guests.
• If you want to attend the “other” ceremony to watch friends graduate, you may pick up a ticket at the academic affairs office on the first floor of Stevens. These tickets will be available April 21-30 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
• You have been assigned to either the 10 a.m. or 2:30 p.m. ceremony based on your college. If you want to request to participate in the other ceremony, the Commencement Petition Form will be available through Friday, April 11.
• There is no rehearsal prior to commencement.
• Please arrive at the Wheeler Sports Center one hour before your commencement start time: 9 a.m. for those in the 10 a.m. ceremony and 1:30 p.m. for those in the 2:30 p.m. ceremony.
• Doors will open for guests one hour before the ceremony start time.
• Physically challenged guests are welcome to request seating on the gym floor. Please contact Jennifer Kepler at jkepler@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2140.

Questions? Please contact academic affairs at 503-554-2141. Faculty and staff: Please share this information with your senior students.

ADP graduates: Now that you have picked up your regalia, please check out the commencement website for all of the details about your big day! Some important highlights include:

• Tickets will be available at the Portland Center Grad Night Event on April 9. If you are unable to pick up your tickets, they will be mailed to your home address in mid-April. Each graduate will receive 10 tickets for guests.
• Your ceremony will begin at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 3, on the Newberg campus.
• There is no rehearsal prior to commencement.
• Please arrive at the Wheeler Sports Center by 9 a.m. for information and forming lines.
• Doors will open for guests one hour before the ceremony start time.
• Physically challenged guests are welcome to request seating on the gym floor. Please contact Jennifer Kepler at jkepler@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2140.

The baseball team will take on Puget Sound University this Saturday, April 5 at noon and again at 3 p.m. at Morse Field.

Meanwhile, the softball team will take on Pacific Lutheran for a doubleheader beginning at noon.

Seniors: Now that you have picked up your regalia, please check out the commencement website for all of the details about your big day on Saturday, May 3! Some important highlights include:

• New for the Class of 2014: a senior class picture will be taken at 11:45 a.m. on the quad (sunny weather) or in the new stadium (rainy weather). Wear your regalia!
• Tickets will be mailed in mid-April to your campus box. Each graduate will receive 10 tickets for guests.
• If you want to attend the “other” ceremony to watch friends graduate, you may pick up a ticket at the academic affairs office on the first floor of Stevens. These tickets will be available April 21-30 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
• You have been assigned to either the 10 a.m. or 2:30 p.m. ceremony based on your college. If you want to request to participate in the other ceremony, the Commencement Petition Form will be available through Friday, April 11.
• There is no rehearsal prior to commencement.
• Please arrive at the Wheeler Sports Center one hour before your commencement start time: 9 a.m. for those in the 10 a.m. ceremony and 1:30 p.m. for those in the 2:30 p.m. ceremony.
• Doors will open for guests one hour before the ceremony start time.
• Physically challenged guests are welcome to request seating on the gym floor. Please contact Jennifer Kepler at jkepler@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2140.

Questions? Please contact academic affairs at 503-554-2141. Faculty and staff: Please share this information with your senior students.

As you may have heard, a Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU) accreditation team will visit the Newberg and Portland campuses next week, on April 8-10. Staff and administration are invited to consider meeting with the accreditation team at the staff and administration sessions that will be announced prior to the team’s visit.

At these sessions, or any time during their visit, feel free to speak honestly with the team about your position within the George Fox community and how you see your role as a member of our community working in support of the mission and core themes at George Fox.

Please take some time to review the resources available on our website regarding our George Fox University Mission and Themes as well as the Institutional Report, and at any time, contact academic affairs with any questions you may have regarding the team visit or accreditation process.

Help us understand your experience in chapel and in other spiritual life, leadership and inclusion programs by filling out this five-minute survey. If you complete it we will give you one Chapel Credit. But it must be completed by Friday, April 4.
To fill out the survey go to this link.

Questions? Please contact Jamie Johnson at jejohnson@georgefox.edu.

Interested in getting involved with ASC? We are accepting applications for a finance assistant for the rest of this year and the 2014-15 school year. To learn more and apply, visit this link.

Questions? Please contact Shanna Coulston at scoulston11@georgefox.edu.

As part of Entrepreneurship 300, Team Kamosa will be selling $2 chicken tamales in the Bruin Den from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. this Friday, April 4.

They sell out quickly! Don’t miss out on some delicious tamales and make sure to pre-order today by emailing teamkamosa@gmail.com.

This Saturday, April 5, from 1-3 p.m. we will be having our second community garden work day! We will be working in the garden behind Coffin. If you enjoyed working in the garden last time or were unable to make it and want to give it a try, we would love to have you there.

Chapel elective credit is available for this hands-on event, and there will be a time of discussion after our work. We hope to see you there to enjoy some dirt and hopefully some sunshine.

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

The financial aid office is offering a workshop to all graduating students on loan repayment. The first class is this Wednesday, April 2, 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 9, 16 or 23.

Questions? Contact Johanna Schweitzer at jschweitzer@georgefox.edu

Add you name to the sign-up sheet in the Bruin Den to be entered in a drawing to participate in Survivor Van. The sign-up sheet will be in the form of a poster and will be located on the bulletin board in the den. Sign-ups will close on Friday.

Questions? Please contact Taylor Ellis at tellis12@georgefox.edu.

Randy Woodley (Seminary) visited Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Va., March 12-13, speaking on the concept of “shalom” and discussing his decades-long ministry among Native Americans. Randy was a guest of the university for its Augsburger Lecture Series.

Phil Smith (Philosophy and Christian Studies) will participate in a debate and group discussion at Portland State University on April 9. Titled “Does Anything Supernatural Exist?,” the event will tackle the question of which worldview is superior: supernatural or natural. Phil will argue a supernatural worldview, while Bernie Dehler, president of The Center for Philosophical Naturalism, will argue a naturalistic view. Details on the event are available here.

Ed Higgins’ (English) poem “sf” was published in the Spring 2014 issue of The Common Oddities, a science-fiction fantasy e-zine.

Paul Anderson (Christian Studies) published a review of the film Noah, “Will Noah Sink or Swim? The Buoyancy of the Latest Bible Film,” in the religion blog section of The Huffington Post on March 28.

Ethan Burke (IT) and Tyler Robertson (IT) were named March Employees of the Month.

April 3             Steve Delamarter, Dale Journey
April 4             Deb Mumm-Hill
April 5             Paul Holman, Jared Kamimae-Lanning, John Newberry, Vicki Tschan
April 8             Joel Kelley
April 10           Leah Blake, Cheri Hampton
April 11           Janelle Freitag
April 13           Michael Bevis, Sarah King, Sarah Taylor
April 14           Nell Becker Sweeden, Kathy Rosenbohm

Be sure to support our theatre students by attending the spring comic murder-mystery, The Game’s Afoot. Shows begin this week in Wood-Mar Auditorium! Performance dates are April 3-5 and April 10-13. All shows begin at 7:30 p.m. with the exception of the Sunday, April 13, performance, scheduled as a 2 p.m. matinee.

Students are welcome to attend either Thursday production for free. Employees are entitled to one complimentary ticket, available for pick-up at the Box Office in the Pennington House. Additional tickets may be purchased at theatre.georgefox.edu.

The play has some fun with the legendary character Sherlock Holmes. It tells the story of Broadway star William Gillette, who plays the leading role in the smash hit Sherlock Holmes. Gillette invites his fellow cast members to his home to celebrate the holidays. But when one of the guests is stabbed to death, the festivities in Gillette’s isolated Connecticut castle quickly turn dangerous. Luckily, Gillette has played Sherlock Holmes on the stage and knows exactly what to do to nab the killer before the next victim appears.