The 16th Annual UP Day at Joe Etzel Field is scheduled for Friday, April 5, at 3 p.m., when the Pilots take the mound against the visiting Gonzaga Bulldogs. All employees and family members are invited to attend the game at no charge and also enjoy complimentary hot dogs (vegetarian option too), chips and soda. There will also be prizes raffled off every half-inning. Please allow as many employees to attend the game as possible. A rain date is set for Friday, April 26 versus Loyola Marymount. For more information contact Jon Brooks at 7431 or brooksj@up.edu.
Events
Jim Murphy Lecture
Jim Murphy, a 1991 MBA graduate of the University and executive vice president/international at Costco Wholesale, will be a featured speaker for the Dr. Robert B. Pamplin Jr. School of Business Administration’s 2013 Leadership Speakers Series on Tuesday, April 2, at 7:10 p.m., in the Bauccio Commons Board Room. His lecture is free and open to all.
Murphy is responsible for directing the activities and expansion of Costco’s operations outside of North America and for U.S.-based global buying and export groups. Murphy also serves on the University’s board of regents. For more information contact Pete Rooks, Center for Entrepreneurship, at 8914 or rooks@up.edu.
Margaret Hogan Lecture
University of Portland professor emerita Margaret Monahan Hogan will present a lecture, “Resistance: Its Costs and Its Limits,” on Wednesday, April 3, at 7 p.m., in Buckley Center room 163. Her talk is free and open to faculty, staff, students, and the public. Hogan’s presentation will provide a framework to consider the costs and limits of resistance. Her lecture will include Thomas Aquinas’ teachings on obedience; examples of resistance in recent history including the Kreisau Circle and its opposition to the Nazi Party during World War II; and present day religious liberty. For more information contact Jamie Powell, Garaventa Center, at 7702 or powell@up.edu.
Founders Day, Tuesday April 9
The University’s annual Founders Day celebration will take place on Tuesday, April 9. Four sessions of student presentations will be held in place of regularly scheduled classes, and all students and faculty are encouraged take part in the day’s events, featuring senior presentations, panel discussions, recitals, and more. Classes scheduled to begin after 4 p.m. will be held as usual. Founders Day was first celebrated at the University in 1902, when University founder Most Rev. Alexander Christie visited the school he had established on The Bluff the summer before. For more information, including a schedule of the day’s events, go to www.up.edu/foundersday.
Margaret Hogan Lecture
University of Portland professor emerita Margaret Monahan Hogan will present a lecture, “Resistance: Its Costs and Its Limits,” on Wednesday, April 3, at 7 p.m., in Buckley Center room 163. Her talk is free and open to faculty, staff, students, and the public. Hogan’s presentation will provide a framework to consider the costs and the limits of resistance. Her lecture will include Thomas Aquinas’ teachings on obedience; examples of resistance in recent history including the Kreisau Circle and its opposition to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party during WWII; and present day religious liberty.
For more information contact Jamie Powell, Garaventa Center, at 7702 or powell@up.edu.
John Orr Lecture, New Location
John Orr will present a lecture, “Scenes of Reading, Sites of Contest: Listening to Henry Adams’s Marginalia,” as part of the Communication Studies Colloquium Series, on Wednesday, March 27, from noon to 1 p.m., in Shiley Hall room 206 (moved from Buckley Center room 102). His talk is free and open to faculty, staff, students, and the public. Light snacks will be served and attendees are invited to bring their lunches. For more information contact C. Vail Fletcher, communication studies, at 503-943-7351 or fletcher@up.edu.
2013 Bauccio Lecture: Larry Baer
San Francisco Giants chief executive officer Larry Baer will deliver the annual Bauccio Lecture in Entrepreneurship on Thursday, April 11, at 4:15 p.m., in Buckley Center Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to faculty, staff, students, and the public. The Bauccio Lecture in Entrepreneurship was established with a $250,000 Defining Moment Campaign gift from Fedele Bauccio ’64, ’66 and his wife, Linda. The gift enables the University to offer a forum for guest speakers to share ideas and experiences about how new ventures are created. For more information contact the Center for Entrepreneurship at 7769 or ecenter@up.edu.
Easter Holy Week Schedule
The University will celebrate Holy Week with the following services in the Chapel of Christ the Teacher:
- March 24: Palm Sunday Mass, 10:30 a.m. and 9 p.m.
- Monday, March 25: Mass, 12:05 p.m.; Reconciliation, 9:30-10:30 p.m.
- Tuesday, March 26: Mass, 12:05 p.m.; Campus Wide Stations of the Cross, 6 p.m.
- Wednesday, March 27: Mass, 12:05 p.m.; Reconciliation, 5 to 5:30 p.m.
- March 28: Holy Thursday, Morning Prayer, 9 a.m.; Mass of the Lord’s Supper, 4:30 p.m.; the Chapel is left open until midnight for individual prayer in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament
- March 29: Good Friday—the Chapel is open all day for prayer; Morning Prayer at 9 a.m.; The Passion Service, 3 p.m.
- March 30: Holy Saturday—the Chapel is open all day for prayer; Morning Prayer, 9 a.m.; Easter Vigil, 8:30 p.m.
- March 31: Easter Sunday, Mass at 10:30 a.m. only, no 9 p.m. Mass.
For more information contact campus ministry at 7131 or mccreary@up.edu.
Pamela Olson Lecture
Author Pamela Olson will present her experiences working and living in Palestine in a lecture/slide show in St. Mary’s on Monday March 25, from 6 to 7:15 p.m. Olson wrote Fast Times in Palestine after living in Ramallah for two years. She found herself attending Yasser Arafat’s funeral, guiding Israeli friends around the West Bank, being held at gunpoint and injured by a stun grenade, and witnessing the 2005 Disengagement from inside the Gaza Strip. Check her website at www.pamolson.org/index.html for more information. Her book will be available for sale at the lecture.
SAA Easter Egg Hunt
The Student Alumni Association (SAA) will host their 5th Annual Easter Egg Hunt on the east side Quad, near Howard Hall, on Sunday, March 24, following Palm Sunday Mass and brunch, around 12 noon. The event is open to children of all alumni, staff, faculty, and friends of the University. There will be pastries and coffee available as well. For more information contact Marena Collin at collin@up.edu.