The Daily Bruin

The next staff lunch is scheduled for noon Monday, Sept. 14, in the Cap and Gown Room. Come enjoy good food and the company of friends. The food is $3; the friends are priceless.

There is still opportunity to participate in this spring’s South American Studies Program in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Check it out at bolivia.georgefox.edu, then contact Lon Fendall (lfendall@georgefox.edu) or Carolyn Stansell (cstansell@georgefox.edu) in the Center for Global Studies in Stevens 123.

Information will also be available at general off-campus studies meetings Wednesday, Sept. 16, from 4 to 5 p.m. in Stevens 208 or Tuesday, Sept. 22, from 6:15 to 7 p.m. in Stevens 209.

“How Great is Our God” is the theme for this year’s Staff Development Conference, scheduled from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 20, at Family Life Church in Newberg. This will be a day of encouragement, as well as a fun-filled day of learning and serving together. All staff members are expected to attend. Watch your campus mailbox for more information.

Urban Services begins Friday, Sept. 18, in the Bruin Den. The ministry’s theme this year is “Beyond Charity.” The group will leave at 5 p.m. for Salem, so come at 4:30 p.m. to eat together before we leave. A Portland team leaves at 5:30 p.m. See you there!

All undergraduate students, commuters and resident students – have been assigned a campus mailbox.
If you have not picked up your mailbox key, please stop at Mail Services and ask for it. You may have mail in your mailbox!

Thanks!
University Mail Services

Students-Security has processed all the vehicle registrations it has received, and has sent the parking permits to Mail Services. A package notice has been e-mailed to each recipient of a parking permit, and if you have received that e-mail, you need to go to Mail Services and sign for your permit.

We know there have been occasional difficulties with the online registration process, so if you have not received your package notice from Mail Services, please come to the Security Office so we can check the database to make sure your registration went through.

Please come in as soon as possible so we can issue your permit by week’s end. If you have questions, please call 503-554-2090 during office hours, or come to the Security office. Thank you!

Please join the Staff Development Committee give HUGS (hats, umbrellas, gloves and scarves) to Love INC from Sept. 9 through Oct. 19. Items not covered by food stamps are also gladly being accepted. Donations can be placed in the brightly decorated barrels located in lobbies throughout the Newberg and Portland campuses.

Due to a last-minute conflict, Provost Patrick Allen will not be leading Thursday’s regularly scheduled Faculty Teaching Forum. Instead, a panel of George Fox professors will take part in a roundtable discussion about teaching practices that have been effective at the university.

The session will still meet from noon to 1:20 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 10, in Cap and Gown Room A (note different location than on academic calendar). All faculty – full time, part time, and adjunct – are invited to attend Faculty Teaching Forums (FTFs). Video podcasts of FTFs will be available on iTunesU.

Tilikum is offering an opportunity for women who are ready for a different kind of retreat experience Oct. 2-4. Planned activities include the challenge course, a vineyard hike, and lake canoeing. These will be directly tied to your life, woven together with times of goal-setting and reflection.

Cost is $199 per person. Current university students and employees receive 25 percent off ($149). For more information and to register, please see the link on the Tilikum website, camptilikum.org.

Kam’s Coffee House & Catering will be offering evening meals Monday through Thursday evenings on the south end of the second floor of the Portland Center. The first evening meal will be served Tuesday, Sept. 8.Full meal: $7.50 (Entree, salad, & drink)Entree only: $5Salad only: $3Meals will be available 5 to 7 p.m.

Serve Day – Wednesday, September 9

7:30 -8:30a.m. Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m. Kickoff Celebration on the Quad
8:55 a.m. Gather at your # post and leave
12:00 p.m. Eat lunch with your group at the service site
4:00 p.m.  Return to campus/Volunteer, Church, and Activities Fair Celebration with mechanical surf board and giant water slide
4:30-6:30 p.m.  Complimentary dinner for all George Fox community

Contact Rachel Lee, Serve Day Coordinator, at ext. 2326 or serveday@georgefox.edu.

Serve Day is this Wednesday, Sept. 9. The flow of the day is as follows:

7:30-8:30 a.m.: Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m.: Kickoff celebration on the quad
8:55 a.m.: Gather at your numbered post and leave
Noon: Eat lunch with your group at the service site
4 p.m.: Return to campus for volunteer, church, and activities fair celebration with mechanical surf board and giant water slide
4:30-6:30 p.m.: Complimentary dinner for the George Fox community

Please note that breakfast and lunch are complimentary for all employees but lunch is not. If you would like to buy a lunch for $6.25 on Serve Day, please come to the information table outside of the Stevens Center.

Thank you!

Through Friday, there will be a poster in the Office of Spiritual Life for Alexander Spycher’s family. If you would like to stop by and sign your name and leave an encouraging note, the Spycher family would greatly appreciate it. Alexander, a 21-year-old transfer student, unexpectedly passed away last Thursday, Sept. 3.

The spiritual life office is located on the corner of Sheridan and Meridian in the Sheridan Street House. Office hours are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Department of  Visual Arts will host an exhibit, “Trial By Fire,” in the Minthorne Gallery beginning with an artists’ talk and reception on Tuesday, Sept. 8. Artists Kim Hamblin (mixed media), Landry Deese (ceramics), Ruri (claywork) and David Carmack Lewis (paintings) will share about their work at 4 p.m., followed by a reception from 5 to 6:30 p.m.

The show runs through Oct. 1 and features wood-fired porcelain, wood-fired clay pieces and paintings. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.

The library is pleased to announce that we now provide access to a suite of 32 periodical and reference database products from Gale/Cengage. Examples of our new databases are Gale’s Academic OneFile, covering a broad range of disciplines and subject-specific databases such as the Health & Wellness Resource Center and Business & Company Resource Center.

A complete list of these new databases is available. Databases can also be found at the Databases A-Z list on the library’s home page (library.georgefox.edu), and in some library subject guides.

The university’s History and Political Science Department is hosting the 17th Hoover Symposium from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 3, in Hoover 105.

Joshua Hawley, author of Theodore Roosevelt: Preacher of Righteousness, will speak on the origins of the conservationist movement. Kendrick A. Clements, author of Hoover, Conservation, and Consumerism, will address the question of whether Hoover was a conservationist, an environmentalist, or something else. A panel of experts will consider whether or not history can offer practical lessons for modern environmentalists.

Registration and lunch are free for the first 100 people who register. Contact Mark Hall (Herbert Hoover Distinguished Professor of Political Science) at 503-554-2674 or mhall@georgefox.edu to register or for further information.

Michael Bevis was hired to direct the university’s English Language Institute. For the past seven years, he has provided teacher education training, consultation and educational leadership development in Tianjin, China. During that time he also served as a secondary principal at Tianjin International School. Michael also spent three years in Hong Kong as a secondary principal at International Christian School. Stateside, Michael also served as a K-12 teaching principal in Bethel, Mo., while establishing a residential program for children. He also has been a missionary in Malaysia, a community youth services counselor in Texas, and a patient care coordinator at a hospital in Deer Park, Texas. He is a doctoral student in instructional leadership at Nova Southeastern University of North Miami Beach, Fla. He holds a master’s degree in education from Quincy University and a bachelor’s degree in social work from the University of North Texas. Michael recently moved to Newberg along with his wife, Ruth, and their son Micah (16). Michael and Ruth also have two daughters: Bianca, who is attending Wheaton College, and Natasha, who will be transferring to George Fox from John Brown University.

Meredith Dougherty (Student Life) left the university at the end of August and gave birth to a girl, Sela Ruth, at 2:36 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 1. The baby was born at Providence Newberg Hospital and weighed 6 pounds, 15 ounces. Meredith and husband Ryan Dougherty (Student Life) are also parents of 3-year-old Quinn.

Rodger Bufford (Graduate Psychology) co-presented two posters at the 117th annual meeting of the American Psychological Association in Toronto Aug. 6-9. Bufford presented “Religious Affiliation, Religious and Spiritual Practices, and Burnout among Adolescent Residential Staff Members” and “ADHD Differences on the Stanford Binet Intelligence Scale, Fifth Edition.”

Dee Small (Seminary) and her husband celebrated the marriage of their son, Jonathan Small, to Laura Worzniak on Aug. 8, at the Kelty Estate in Lafayette, Ore. The couple honeymooned in Maui and Moloka’i.

Susan De Lessert, a former assistant professor of Spanish and French who taught at the university for 14 years before retiring in 1996, died Thursday, Sept. 3, after a lengthy illness. A native of France, Susan survived her country’s Nazi occupation during World War II before moving to the United States in 1955.

The Timothy’s Charge ministry is hosting a weekly Bible study led by Professor Byron Shenk this semester. The study will meet in Hoover 102 from noon to 1 p.m. on Tuesdays, with the first study set for Sept. 8. All members of the George Fox community are invited. Feel free to bring your lunch.