The Daily Bruin

The Center for Peace and Justice welcomes the university community to a series of Woolman Peacemaking Forum events next week. We are pleased to welcome Emmanuel Katongole, associate professor of theology and world Christianity at Duke Divinity School and co-director of the Duke Center for Reconciliation, for our 26th annual forum.

The theme of the week is “Reconciling All Things,” and all Woolman events count for spiritual life credit. Following is a schedule of events:

• On Sunday, April 10, a multi-media presentation entitled 1.4 Billion Reasons will be presented from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in Hoover 105. Co-written by Jeffrey Sachs, world renowned economist, and developed as a part of the Global Poverty Project, the presentation encourages citizens to be part of the global movement to end extreme poverty.
• On Monday, April 11, Hibakusha, Our Life to Live will be shown at 6:30 p.m. in Lemmons 8. Produced by award-winning producer David Rothauser, the documentary tells the stories of Japanese, Korean and American survivors of the 1945 atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
• Katongole will speak in chapel in Bauman Auditorium Wednesday, April 13, at 10:40 a.m. The topic of his presentation will be “From Mulabe to Newberg: Lessons Along the Way.”
• Also on Wednesday, April 13, Katongole will present the Woolman lecture, “Justice and Peace: Hopes that are the Wrong Size for this World,” at 7:30 p.m. in Hoover 105. Joining Katongole will be Micah Bournes, one of the scriptwriters for The Voice of Justice, a short film that personifies justice and injustice.
• Finally, a Peace and Justice Symposium is scheduled for Thursday, April 14, in the Quaker Heritage Room on the second floor of the Murdock Learning Resource Center. Refreshments will be served at 7:15 p.m., and the program will begin at 7:30 p.m. with presenters Colin Saxton, superintendent of the Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends, and Laura Goble, director of the Moreau Center for Service and Leadership.

For more information about the guests and for a full schedule of events, visit the event website. Contact Melanie Newell at 503-554-2686 if you have questions.

Attention students, family members and employees: We are offering a low-cost GRE preparatory course for those interested in improving their scores. The course will be taught by a fourth-year doctoral student in GFU’s Graduate Department of Clinical Psychology. This is also a great opportunity to learn about significant changes coming to the GRE August of 2011.

Courses are scheduled May 5, May 12 and May 19 from 7 to 9 p.m. on the Newberg campus (location TBA).

The course will include tips for success, strategies, practice questions, as well as access to a full-length test. A snack and book will also be provided. Registration has been extended through April 25. If you have questions, contact Chloe Lee-Zorn at leec07@georgefox.edu, or drop by the Career Services’ office or call 503-554-2330 to register.

Career Services would greatly appreciate your input on how to optimize career services for students. Please join students from 8 other liberal arts colleges in Oregon to share your views via the following brief survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/liberalarts

Responses entered by 5 p.m. on Monday, April 18, will be entered into a drawing, with 10 respondent names to be drawn at random, each to receive a $30 cash prize.

The information collected from this survey is analyzed solely by the career center staff of the 9 participating schools in our career consortium, details of which are at www.olapcfirstavenue.org. Our sole purpose is to improve continuously our career services to students and alumni. Please feel free to contact me with any questions about the survey, and be assured that we pay very close attention to student and alumni input. It is our privilege to assist you in pursuing your career goals, and we wish you the best of luck and success in all of your academic and career pursuits. Please contact our office for assistance with all your career-related needs. Thank you!

Consider PHIL 180 Ethics, with Phil Smith.

Ethics is required for Philosophy, Engineering, and Nursing majors, and counts as an elective for General Education Humanities.

Ethics consists of an analysis of the ethical theories and systems by which persons make judgments and choices, with special attention to contemporary moral issues and the modern revival of virtue theory.

FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 8 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Tuesday, May 17, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Come join us this morning (Friday) for First Friday Worship, a time of music worship and a word from Shelia Provoast. This will be our last First Friday of the year, so we hope you can make it! Chapel credit is available. We look forward to worshiping with you!

Internships available in Multicultural Student Programs (MSP) for the 2011-2012 school year!

-Publicity Intern
-Event Intern(s)

Help plan and coordinate events, promote programs and services, and design marketing campaigns. The internships are 10 hours a week for credit.  Plan cultural awareness events for campus, gain experience, and learn about diversity!

Apply through BruinCareers!

Questions? Email Shelley Yonemura at syonemura@georgefox.edu

Staff and faculty, we are hosting many potential students today (Friday) for Bruin Preview, and are asking you to please sacrifice your parking spots in the Stevens, Hoover and Wood-Mar lots to accommodate our guests and their families.

Please park on Sheridan Street, the campus side of Meridian Street or North Street, or use the Bauman lot. Thank you for helping to welcome these potential students!

– Security Services

Come see the theatre department’s spring play, Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. Performances this week are on Friday and Saturday night at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. The show is also scheduled Thursday through Saturday, April 14-16, at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, April 17, at 2 p.m. All performances take place in Wood-Mar Auditorium.

All George Fox employees receive one complimentary ticket. Students will be admitted free on Thursday, April 14. Your complimentary ticket is only available at the Box Office in the Bruin Bookstore. Additional tickets are $12 for adults, $8 for alumni and seniors, and $6 for students and children under 12.

To purchase tickets or read a synopsis of the play, visit theatre.georgefox.edu.

The university’s Tilikum Center for Retreats & Outdoor Ministries will host a variety of family retreats throughout the summer that will give grandparents, parents and children an opportunity to step out of their daily lives and spend a weekend being renewed spiritually and relationally through community activities.

Retreats include a mother/daughter weekend (May 6-8), father/son retreat (June 17-19), grandparents/grandchildren event (July 5-8), a single moms family camp (July 8-10) and a father/daughter retreat (Aug. 5-7).

For details on specific camps, visit tilikum.georgefox.edu. Call Joan Littlefield at 503-538-2763 if you have questions.

Don’t forget Thursday’s (April 7) Thai folk dance drama program scheduled from 1 to 2:30 p.m. at the Newberg Friends Church, 307 S. College St. There also will be an evening performance on campus, beginning at 9 p.m. Thursday in Hoover 105.

The performance is being presented by the Christian Communications Institute (CCI) of Payap University in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The program will feature a number of dances from the various regions of Thailand, as well as a traditional Thai melodrama (Likay) with English translation.

Admission is free. Contact Melanie Newell at peaceandjustice@georgefox.edu for more information.

Internships available in Career Services for the 2011-2012 school year!
Marketing/Graphic Design Intern(s)
Professional Activities Intern(s)
Professional Activities International Student Intern
Help plan and coordinate events, promote programs and services, and design marketing campaigns. The internships are 8-10 hours a week for credit.
Benefits of being a Career Services Intern:
-work in a team
-access to career leads
-develop professional skills
-flexible hours
Apply through BruinCareers! Also, check out our Summer Marketing Internship!

Want to get involved and work alongside different groups of students?

ASC is accepting applications for next year’s Student Organizations Coordinator!

This position oversees all Student Organizations, working with the ASC Vice-President and Activities Committee. Applications are due Friday, April 8t at 5pm. Forms are outside of the ASC Office.

Questions? Please contact Emily Jordan at ejordan08@georgefox.edu.

As commencement rapidly approaches and our catering events ramp up with all the end-of-year activities, we realize we are missing a lot of equipment. Will you please check your offices, rooms, break room cupboards, drawers and refrigerators for any equipment (pump pots, bowls, platters, silverware, serving utensils, etc.) that may be hiding in those areas and somehow didn’t get returned to us?

We will be happy to pick up anything recovered, or just bring it by. Send us an e-mail at catering@georgefox.edu and we’ll arrange to retrieve anything and everything!

Thank you,
Denny Lawrence, Bon Appetit

Career Services will host its annual Healthcare Career Fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday, April 11, in the Cap and Gown Room at no charge to students. This fair is specific to students of the nursing, biology, chemistry and allied health majors. Students will have the opportunity to network with employers and discuss volunteer, internship and/or career opportunities.

Faculty members, please tell your students about this opportunity. For more information, contact Angela Doty at adoty@georgefox.edu.

Survey Number One

INTERRACIAL DATING. Share your experiences and thoughts about this provocative topic. I am trying to figure out the interracial dating patterns, trends, and even students’ attitudes toward interracial dating. This will be part of my senior research project.

Link to survey:

https://spreadsheets0.google.com/a/georgefox.edu/viewform?formkey=dGgyTjNWMDFOYk1uclRORDRQVlZka2c6MQ

Lisa Stills

Survey Number Two

Take a one minute survey on Media and Religion and how it affects your daily life.

Survey Link- http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RFRVWGT

Kacey Parks Kparks07@georgefox.edu

Survey Number Three

This survey is about nutrition and the effects of the American Dream.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FZH2FYS

Thank You,

Henry Balensifer
Jael Chambers
Nicole Baggett
Tiffany Hayes
Kaleb Dieker

Survey Number Four

How much do you know about nutrition? Test your knowledge it only takes 20 seconds!

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/F6YJGSW

By: Andrew Magnuson, Kellie Higa, Margaret Hollingworth, Bethany Foster, and Autumn Van Meter

Survey Number Five

“Do you think you could pass the citizenship test? Our LACI group wants to test the effectiveness of the American school systems. Please take our survey!”

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LACI-AmericanIgnorance

Thanks!
Brianne Emel – bemel06@georgefox.edu
Treve Widmer
Brianna Nap
Ashley VanMeter
Lizzy Alaimo

Disclaimer:
These surveys are student generated and are not to be associated with any official research conducted by faculty and staff at George Fox University. Any views or opinions presented in these surveys are solely those of the students and do not represent those of George Fox University. The distribution of these surveys is a service provided to George Fox University students as they prepare their research required by the curriculum. Students are required to have department approval. Any questions about these surveys should be directed to the students associated with the survey in question.

The university community is invited to the final Faculty Research Forum of the year during which Jim Smart will speak on the topic of “Genetically Engineering Mice to Understand Biology and Disease.” The forum is scheduled for Friday, April 8, from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. in Hoover 105.

Did you know your best offense in a tight job market is to be prepared?  Please don’t underestimate the competition you will face and sharpen your job search skills by using Optimal Resume now-at your fingertips on MyGFU/Career Services.  For a modest fee you can build a resume, coverletter, eportfolio, website, complete a skills assessment and practice interviewing.  If any of these are sent to the review center, your career services professionals will give you feedback online.

Contact us with questions at x. 2330 or atcareers@georgefox.edu or come in for a career conversation.  We are invested in your best future.

Attention:  Freshman, Sophomores, Juniors
Today’s the last day!

Summer address collection:
Please take care of this today.
Place:  Table by ASC Offices in Bruin Den area.
Times:  10:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Why: Your campus mailbox will be closed the last day of finals.
You have two options:
1.      Request to keep your mailbox open part or all of the summer.
2.      Close your mailbox for the summer.  We will forward your mail (during the summer) to the address you give us.
a.      (We will re-open your same mailbox in the fall – two weeks before school starts.)
You can always stop at or call Mail Services to make changes if your summer plans change.
It will only take a minute of your time!
Sponsored by University Mail ServicesA

Interested in leading ministries of mentorship, service trips, community services, missions, or a homeless ministry?

Applications for Christian Services Committee positions are outside of the ASC offices, and they are due to the ASC Supreme Court Chief Justice on  Monday, April 11 by 5 p.m.

Any questions? Contact Kristy Luther, Christian Services Director, or Lauren Johnson, 2011-12 CSD.