Capstone Booking Presents ISSAKAR Concert
When: Saturday January 26, 2008
Where: Bauman Auditorium
Time: 7:00pm
Price: $10.00 per ticket- You can get the tickets in the Bookstore
Contact Cherie Beck for discounted tickets at Cbeck04@georgefox.edu
“I only have 50 tickets at a discounted rate so make sure you get them fast.”
Mark Terry (Visual Arts) has planned the following events in connection with the current ceramics exhibit now up in the Minthorne Gallery:
Both events are free and open to the public.
The theatre department is presenting the student-directed Winter One-Act Festival Thursday through Saturday, Jan. 31 to Feb. 2, in Wood-Mar Auditorium. Performances begin at 7:30 p.m. each evening. Come and support these students as they act, direct, and design this event.
The cost is $6 for students, $8 for seniors and alumni, and $10 general admission. Buy tickets online, at the University Store, or by phone at ext. 3844. Students get in free on Thursday night (Jan. 31) if they get their ticket ahead of time from the bookstore.
A faculty business meeting is scheduled from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. (11:40 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Mountain time) on Friday, Jan. 25. The Newberg meeting will be in Hoover 105; Portland attendees will meet in PDS 281; and Boise employees will meet in the Boise Center conference room.
A thought from the Faculty Handbook on the values behind faculty business meeting: “Access and participation – All faculty members, regardless of official position, possess judgment and insight potentially useful in decision making.”
– Academic Affairs
Interested in coordinating Orientation for new students? Applications for Orientation co-coordinator are available in the Office of Student Life. Completed applications are due by Friday, Feb. 1.
Contact Joel Perez (Student Life) for more information.
Soul Food Buffet
Wednesday, Jan. 23, 4:30 p.m. – 7 .pm. in Klages Dining Room
Sponsored by Bon Appetit and Multicultural Services
Please join us for dinner Wednesday night for an authentic Soul Food Buffet as we celebrate with the Multicultural Club the birthay of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Along with all your Mo-Town favorites, we’ll be serving Smoked Carlton Farms BBQ Ribs, Southern Style Fried Chicken, Yams, Black Eyed Peas, Collards, Cornbread, Peach Cobbler & Sweet Potato Pie.Â
Staff/Faculty/Guests $10.
Denny Lawrence, Â dlawrenc@georgefox.edu
Interested in coordinating Orientation for new students?
Applications will be available in the Student Life office beginning Tuesday, Jan. 22 for Orientation Co-Coordinator and due Friday, February 1.
Contact Joel Perez at jperez@georgefox.edu with questions.
Employees are invited to attend an all-campus meeting from 4 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 22, in Hoover 105. The meeting will provide employees an opportunity to receive campus updates, be involved in planning processes, and dialogue with President Robin Baker. Your participation is strongly encouraged.
Students returning for the 2008-09 year and who have an active interest in peace and justice issues and/or have been involved in addressing these issues are invited to apply for the Hazel Steinfeldt Peace Studies Scholarship. There are 3 or 4 scholarships of up to $3,000 each for the coming academic year.Â
Log on to Bruindata for more information and to fill out an application. Applicants must write an essay about your interests and get a faculty recommendation that supports your application. Turn in your essay and recommendation to Lon Fendall, Director of the Center for Peace and Justice, Box 6262.Â
As for other GFU scholarships, the application deadline is Friday, Feb. 1.
Questions? Call Lon at ext. 2685 or stop by his office on the first floor of Stevens near the Registrars’ office.
Want to spend a semester abroad? How about in Uganda?
Come to the Go-Ed Africa Informational Meeting Wednesday, Jan. 30 from 7:00-9:00pm in the Foxhole.
Students from previous semesters of Go-Ed Africa will be there to answer questions, show photos, and tell stories about this incredible semester abroad program.
For more information contact Charith Norvelle at cnorvelle04@georgefox.edu.
Look for the racquetball sign-up sheet in the Student Union Building on the intramural bulletin board today. Sign-ups will be open for the rest of January. The tournament will begin on February 1. All levels of players are welcome.Â
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Email Tyler Robison at trobison06@georgefox.edu for questions.
The university will close Monday, Jan. 21, to observe the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. There will be no day or evening classes or chapel services at the Newberg campus, Portland Center, or Salem Center. Also, the university’s offices, libraries, and bookstores will be closed.
A service trip to Portland is scheduled Monday, with transportation leaving from the Stevens Center lot in Newberg at 9 a.m. The trip will include visits to the Burnside Rescue Mission and the Next Step Transitional Facility. Call Burel Ford (Multicultural Services) at ext. 2318 or via e-mail (bford@georgefox.edu) for more details.
FoxServe will be unavailable for access from 5 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 19, through 5 p.m. Monday., Jan. 21 (Pacific Time). This interruption to normal service is to take care of some planned maintenance on the server system. You may be more familiar with FoxServe as your “H” drive (personal drive space). Some other ways FoxServe might be utilized is as departmental drive space; you might see it as a “K” drive, “R” drive or similar “lettered†drive.
This planned outage is not expected to affect the Portland campus data storage locations and does not have any affect on FoxTALE or FoxFiles.
Please contact the IT Service Desk if you have concerns or questions about this planned maintenance outage.
– IT Service Desk
Please Note: To see if you will be affected by this outage, double-click on My Computer (Windows) or select Connect To Server from the Go menu (Mac). Look at the network drives listed. If any drive has “foxserve†in its name/address then it will not be available. A few of our H: drives and many of our shared drives actually reside on Foxserve in Newberg.
The 2007 Oregon income tax booklets have arrived and are available for students and employees in the hallway by Mail Services and the Print Room, located in the North Street Annex.
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Capstone Booking Presents ISSAKAR Concert
When: Saturday, January 26, 2008
Where: Bauman Auditorium
Time: 7:00pm
Price: $10.00 per ticket- You can get the tickets in the Bookstore
Contact Cherie Beck for discounted tickets at Cbeck04@georgefox.edu
“I only have 50 tickets at a discounted rate so make sure you get them fast.”
Employees are welcome to a 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 8, concert marking the return of one of George Fox’s favorite Christian bands, Five O’clock People, to the Bauman Auditorium stage. This concert is a great chance for fans, new and old alike, to share in the music of this critically acclaimed group.
Admission is $10 per person. Tickets will go on sale Tuesday, Jan. 22. To purchase your tickets, stop by the University Relations office or visit http://www.georgefox.edu/alumni/focp.html. All tickets purchased online or over the phone will be at will call the day of the concert.
Questions? Contact Vickie Timmons (University Relations) at vtimmons@georgefox.edu or at ext. 2131.
The George Fox University Boise Center will close on Monday, Jan. 21, 2008, for MLK day.
On Friday, March 14, 2008, the Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce and the Small Business Success Center will host an unprecedented learning opportunity for women in business. The Global Athenaeum, to be presented from a pre-recorded live broadcast in New York, will be from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the George Fox University Boise Center.
Cost is $89 per individual ticket, or $80 per person for groups of five or more registering together.
This event is presented by George Fox University and sponsored by Washington Trust Bank.
For more information, click here.
Come down to the Foxhole Sunday through Thursday nights from 7:00-11:00pm for coffee, milkshakes, smoothies and cookies!
The Foxhole is located downstairs in the SUB.
Interested in coordinating Orientation for new students in the Fall?
Applications will be available in the Student Life office beginning Tuesday, January 22 for Orientation Co-Coordinator and due Friday, February 1.
Contact Joel Perez at jperez@georgefox.edu with questions.
