The Daily Bruin

Fear? Panic? Nerves? Come explore who you are in the Acting I: Fundamentals May Term. Within a safe group setting, the focus will be on exploration, discovery, and truthful moments. No leotards, no skills, no problem (specifically for non-theatre majors). Sign up this week!

A May term that is enjoyable?  Yes, yes there is!  Field trips, movies, discussion; come experience Principles of Sociology.  3 credits in 3 weeks!

ASC is looking for graphic design students interested in being involved in the creation of next year’s Bruin Directory. Applications are available outside the ASC offices in the Bruin Den. These positions will be awarded stipends through ASC.

E-mail Tyler VanderZanden at tvanderzande07@georgefox.edu for more information.

Please take this quick survey for Spiritual Life! We have free SpiL T-shirts for the first 15 people to take the survey today!

Come in to the Spiritual Life office to pick up your T-shirt. We’re located on the corner of Sheridan and Meridian.

Click here to take the survey.

Correction to prior e-nouncement: Graduate students may now charge books to their student account at the Bruin Bookstore and at store.georgefox.edu for summer semester. The ability to charge books will remain available (for graduate students only) until end of day on Monday, April 25.

If graduate students need to use their student account for purchases after April 25, they will need to acquire a voucher from student financial services.

The Bruin Bookstore textbook buyback begins next week, Monday through Friday, April 25-29, between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. each day.

We know you want a fist full of cash … and we want to give it to you! Come see us in the SUB, right outside the Bruin Bookstore.

Faculty, please let your students know about the buyback.

Learn how to make those gorgeous hanging baskets that grace our quad area. Join us in the Plant Services building anytime between 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 18. You’ll learn a valuable skill and help us out in the process.

Drop by for all or just part of the four-hour session. Questions? Call ext. 2010.

Thank you,
Debby O’Kelley, Plant Services

Plant Services welcomed Terri Beecroft as a custodian last week. She’s worked the last year as a barista at Coyote Joe’s of Newberg and before that worked as an innkeeper at Abbey Road Farm Bed and Breakfast in Carlton for two and a half years. She lives in Yamhill with her husband Troy and their two girls, Randee and Kylee, and attends Newberg Christian Church.

Richard Silver joined Print Services as coordinator last week. He arrives from Precision Images of Portland, where he was a reprographics specialist, reproducing drawings and documents for customers, for the past 12 years. He also owned Image Computer Systems of Sherwood for five years in the early 2000s and has experience as a sales manager and pricing coordinator in the tech and grocery industries, respectively. He studied business management through the University of Phoenix and attended Northwest Christian University. He lives in Sherwood with his wife Tina. They have two boys, Cameron and Caleb, and attend Countryside Community Church in Sherwood. One of the activities Richard loves to do in his free time is play disc golf.

John Desmond (Plant Services) is leaving the university to take a position in the horticulture field.

Tim Timmerman’s (Visual Arts) book, A Bigger World Yet: Faith, Brotherhood, and Same-Sex Needs, has been released through Bird Dog Press. According to Tim, the book “is about an ache and a longing in our culture for friendship and brotherhood … about emotional orphans with wounds and hungers of the heart … about boys who needed connections to loving men and friends growing up, but instead received abuse and absence. This book is one man’s spiritual odyssey.” It is available on Amazon, at Chapters or through Tim.

Kathy Heininge (English) recently presented her paper, “Eavan Boland and Her Use of the Ablative Case,” to the national meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In it, she examines the influences of Latin grammar on the poetry of Eavan Boland, an Irish poet.

Jim Steele (Business) was a featured speaker at the College & University Professionals Association’s Human Resources Spring Conference at Portland State University on April 15. His topic was “Enlightened HR: Reframing our Role from a Strategic Point of View.”

Dave Johnstone (Student Life) published an article, “Progress to Reconciliation: A Journey with Lewis, Bono and Spider-man,” in Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development (Winter 2011). In the same issue, he published a review of M. Wright & J. Arthur’s (2010) Leadership in Christian Higher Education.

Paul Anderson (Religious Studies) was a plenary speaker at the Friends World Committee for Consultation triennial meetings of the Asia South West Pacific Section, held in Manila, Philippines, earlier this month. The biblical theme was from James 2:14 (faith and works). He developed various aspects of the gospel and its implications for Christian living.

Tim Goodfellow (Student Life) has accepted a position in IT as a programmer analyst. He will transition out of his former position as director of housing in the Office of Student Life. He begins his new job on May 2.

April 20     Tammy O’Doherty
April 22     Tony Pruitt, Jeff VandenHoek
April 25     Mark Ocker, Valerie Sherwood
April 26     Dana Ferrin, Laura Klaus
April 27     Pat Vandehey
April 29     Jeff Woods
May 1        Patrick Allen
May 2        Elaine Smith

Twitter Your Way to a GREAT Job!
Come learn simple techniques to find niche jobs and get noticed before others.

Twitter has exploded to over 100 million users around the world and is rapidly becoming a fantastic career tool. Are you using it effectively?

This is the fifth of a series of nine webinars on job search techniques for the graduate. Join us  Wednesday, April 20 from noon to 1 p.m. in the Career Services office.  If you will be around campus mark your calendars for the last four!

April 27: Mark Goulston, Listening
May 4: Devora Zack, Networking
May 11: Peter Weddle, Career Strategy
May 18: Martin Yate, Job Search

We found an audio recorder in Bauman after the Fox Film Festival on Saturday. If you are missing one, contact Sarah Tremayne at stremayne06@georgefox.edu

Come and wish Howard Macy well as he retires after 21 years of service to George Fox. As a biblical studies professor and colleague, Howard is loved and appreciated by many students, as well as faculty and staff members. Please bring cards if you like, as well as your special thoughts and hugs.

Join us in the Hoover atrium between 4 and 5 p.m. Tuesday, April 19.

Don’t forget the engineering department’s annual Engineering Expo, featuring project displays from Senior Design and Servant Engineering teams for companies and organizations such as Daimler, A-dec, NASA, 219 Technologies, Providence, 5-Rock Ranch, Medical Teams International, and Oregon Commission for the Blind.

FTC robot scrimmages from local high school FIRST Robotics teams also will be featured. Refreshments are provided and all are welcome!

Join us in the EHS Atrium anytime between 4:30 and 7 p.m. this Thursday, April 21. Contact Kristin Bontrager at kbontrager@georgefox.edu for more information.

John Bradley of Portland-based IDAK Group will speak at the Tuesday, April 26, Newberg breakfast for the Christian Chamber of Commerce of the Northwest. The breakfast is from 7:30 to 9 a.m. in the university’s Villa Academic Complex.

Bradley has specialized in screening new hires for more than 35 years. His client organizations include Fortune 500 companies, family-owned businessess, government-owned agencies, and church denominations and mission agencies. He is the president and founder of the IDAK Group in Portland (idakgroup.com).

To learn more about the event, including cost, visit cccnw.net.

Celebrate Earth Day by getting a little dirty!

Join friends and clean up Hess Creek this Friday, April 22, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. There will be wonderful food, community, lots of dirt, and possible singing.

Please R.S.V.P. to broberts06@georgefox.edu if you have a chance, but if you forget, don’t let that stop you from showing up.

See you on Earth Day!

Today’s chapel will feature Dwight Kimberly, professor of biology, in our last lecture series. We look forward to worshiping with you!

Monday night will be Faith and Film viewing How to Train Your Dragon at 9 p.m. in Hoover 105 and EHS 102.

Graduate student account charges are now open for the summer semester. Charges will remain open until end of day on Monday, April 25. If students need to use their student account after April 25, they will need to acquire a voucher from student financial services.

Please note: All employee comp tickets must be picked up at the Box Office in the Bruin Bookstore. If you are an employee at one of the satellite campuses, please send an e-mail to jstewart@georgefox.edu and we will send your comp ticket via campus mail.

Departments wishing to purchase blocks of tickets for an event, please send an e-mail to jstewart@georgefox.edu with the request. Please include a cost center for the charges. Your block of tickets may be reserved for will call, or you may pick them up here at the Box Office in the Bruin Bookstore.