The Daily Bruin

George Fox has a strong tradition of alumni serving in the Peace Corps. Lisa White, regional recruiter for Peace Corps, will visit campus on Friday, Feb. 12 to host an information session in Hoover 104 from 10:30 a.m. to noon for students. She is also available for mini class presentations between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. Those interested in hosting her in class may contact Lisa directly at 206-239-6618.

Faculty, please encourage those students who might have an interest in the Peace Corps to attend Friday’s session.

What will you be doing this time next year?

Learning celebrity gossip…or learning a new language?

Updating your résumé…or updating friends on foreign travels?

Making a student loan payment…or making a difference?

 Peace Corps Information Session, Friday, February 12 from 10:30AM to 12:00PM in Hoover 104.

 Apply for a life-defining experience in the Peace Corps <http://www.peacecorps.gov/?cid=SROlisaNewYearEmail> , ranked a best place to launch a career by BusinessWeek in 2009. Programs include:

Agriculture, Education, Health, Environment, Business, Information and Communication Technology, and Youth and Community Development.

Benefits include the following: Living allowance; Medical and dental care; 48 paid vacation days; Possible student loan deferment and partial cancellation; Graduate school opportunities <http://www.peacecorps.gov/gradschool?cid=SROlisaNewYearEmail>  during or following service; and Language, technical and cross-cultural training

 Life is calling. How far will you go?

Programs are filling fast. Apply now at www.peacecorps.gov/application <http://www.peacecorps.gov/application>

Orientation Coordinator Applications due today at 5 p.m. in the Student Life Office. 

Great opportunity!  Full-time summer job beginning in June with potential to work through the Fall semester.  Make a difference in the lives of new students by helping to plan and organize new student orienation events. Serious commitment of time and energy required but incredibly rewarding- and a lot of fun!

 Application can be found at www.georgefox.edu/orienationapp

 Questions? Contact Stephanie St. Cyr at sstcyr@georgefox.edu

The May Serve Team is looking for individuals to help design a t-shirt. The desins must have something to do with Africa and be limited to two colors. Designs are due Feb. 15th. Please email submissions to Paul Klatt.

If you are interested in going on a spring serve trip please pick up an application in the SUB. Applications are due February 12, 2010. If you have any questions please contact Alexis Powell at apowell06@georgefox.edu.

This Monday, Feb. 8, Craig Detweiler, an author and the director of the Center for Entertainment, Media and Culture at Pepperdine University, will speak on finding spiritual themes in culture with his presentation of “Beyond the Bubble: The Common Ground of Culture” at the university’s Liberal Arts and Critical Issues Forum.

Detweiler recently wrote and produced the documentary A Purple State of Mind. His recent books include Into the Dark: Seeing the Sacred in the Top Films of the 21st Century, A Purple State of Mind: Finding Middle Ground in a Divided Culture, and Halos and Avatars: Playing Video Games with God.

Two sessions are scheduled, from 4:40 to 5:35 p.m. and from 7 to 7:55 p.m. Both will take place in Hoover 105 on the Newberg campus.

For more information, contact Caitlin Corning at ccorning@georgefox.edu or ext. 2673, or visit georgefox.edu/laci.

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Plant Services and the National Fire Fighter Corporation will be performing the annual fire extinguisher inspection on the Newberg campus during the week of Feb. 8. They will be entering every building on campus to check and label each fire extinguisher.

Thank you,
Plant Services

The university’s Center for Peace and Justice is hosting John Perkins, an admired American Civil Rights activist, Wednesday and Thursday, Feb. 10-11. He will speak in chapel, as a guest at the 25th annual Woolman Peacemaking Forum, and twice on Thursday. The theme of the forum is “Are We Achieving Racial Justice Reconciliation?”

Perkins has been a durable voice for justice and reconciliation, especially through the lenses of community development. He is the founder of Voice of Calvary Ministries (Jackson, Miss.), Harambee Christian Family Center in Pasadena, the John M. Perkins Foundation, and the Christian Community Development Association.

Below is his Feb. 10-11 schedule. The campus community and the general public are welcome to all sessions free of charge.

Wednesday, Feb. 10
10:40- 11:30 a.m.
“Follow me to Freedom”
Bauman Auditorium

7:30-9 p.m. (Woolman Peacemaking Forum Lecture)
“The High and Low Points of Five Decades of Work for Racial Justice”
Hoover 105

Thursday, Feb. 11
8:40- 10:30 a.m.
“Justice as an Essential Part of Discipleship”
Edwards-Holman Science Center 125

Noon-1:15 p.m.
“Leading as an Ordinary Radical”
Discussion of Perkins’ new book coauthored with Shane Claiborne
Cap and Gown Room (bring your own lunch)

Please send an e-mail to Peggy Kilburg if you would like to nominate a support staff member or administrator for Employee of the Month for February.  Your e-mail should include the person’s name, job title, a concise but specific summary of this person’s  recent contributions (past 30 days or so) to the university, its students, and/or its employees (what was done, who was impacted, etc.), and any other information that you believe makes this person deserving of this award.

Please submit your nomination by Friday, Feb. 19. The President’s Executive Leadership Team will then select the Employee(s) of the Month from the nominations submitted. The winner(s) will be announced at the all-employee meeting on Thursday, Feb. 25, and will receive a $100 gift card to The Allison.

Homecoming festivities are planned on the Newberg campus Friday and Saturday, Feb. 5-6. Among the planned events are affinity reunions for those who went on one of the university’s May Serve trips or enrolled in the school’s engineering major; reunions for the classes of 1950, 1970, 1980, 1985, 1990, and 2000; an alumni celebration brunch; the theatre’s presentation of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s A Grand Night for Singing; and men’s and women’s basketball games both nights.

For a complete schedule of homecoming events, visit homecoming.georgefox.edu.

Come to Greenroom today at 10:40 in Bauman.

“I will praise the LORD while I live; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being.”

Copies of C.S. Lewis’ book The Great Divorce are now on sale for $5 in the Office of Spiritual Life. Drop by to purchase a copy, then attend a discussion about it at a campus book club meeting at 9 p.m. Tuesday, March 9, in the Foxhole.

Join us to hear some fascinating stories about Minthorn Hall, the oldest building on campus, at a staff lunch from noon to 1 p.m. Monday, Feb. 8, in the Cap and Gown Room. Clyde Thomas (Plant Services) will host, and special guests will include Gerald and Margaret Lemmons, Gene and Betty Hockett, Sam Farmer, and Clyde’s mother, Esther May Thomas.

The cost is $3 per person.

Come cheer on your Bruins at the basketball games this weekend (Feb. 5-6) as we celebrate National Girls & Women in Sports Day & Pink Zone. Free raffle for “pink t-shirts” and fun half-time contest during women’s game!!

Then, support our senior women athletes during half-time of the men’s game as we honor them for their contribution to George Fox athletics over the years!! Don’t forget to wear pink too!!

See you at the games!!!

All Portland Center employees are invited to join us as the Staff Development Committee hosts a Worship Event on Friday, Feb. 12.  We will worship and pray together, and we’ll hear from some of our own about how God is moving among us.

Come ready to embrace God and our community from 9 to 10:30 a.m. in room 155A. There will be light refreshments at the end of the time.

Hope to see you there!

For more information or details, contact Bruce Arnold at ext. 6127 or barnold@georgefox.edu.

MyGFU will be unavailable on Thursday, Feb 4, from 6 p.m. to midnight for scheduled software updates. This impacts all campuses and individuals. During the downtime, students and faculty can find links to technology resources on the IT website under User Resources.

Students: georgefox.edu/offices/inst_technology/resources/student_resources.html

Faculty: georgefox.edu/offices/inst_technology/resources/faculty_resources.html

An all-employee meeting is scheduled from 3:40 to 5 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 4, in Hoover 105. The meeting will include an update from President Robin Baker, who will present a report on Institutional Vulnerability and Strategic Responses in Today’s Market in relation to George Fox.

Come join us for an hour of worship in Spanish! We will sing Spanish worship songs with the student-led band and listen to a visiting pastor from our commmunity.

All are welcome to join in from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 12, in Hoover 105.

Friday, Feb. 5, 6 p.m. – Women’s Basketball vs. Whitman, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym
Friday, Feb. 5, 8 p.m. – Men’s Basketball vs. Whitman, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym
Saturday, Feb. 6, 6 p.m. – Women’s Basketball vs. Whitworth, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym
Saturday, Feb. 6, 7 p.m. – Men’s Tennis vs. College of Idaho, West Hills Racquet Club, Beaverton, Ore.
Saturday, Feb. 6, 8 p.m. – Men’s Basketball vs. Whitworth, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym

The Bruins will celebrate National Girls and Women in Sports Day and the “Pink Zone” promotion for breast cancer awareness and research during the Friday basketball doubleheader. Twenty senior student-athletes and athletic training students will be honored at halftime of the men’s game that night. “Pink Zone” T-shirts will be on sale, and proceeds from the sales as well as a portion of the gate receipts will go to the Susan G. Komen Foundation.

Saturday is homecoming, with the Homecoming Court to be introduced at halftime of the men’s game.

For more information, contact the sports information office at ext. 2926 or visit the Bruins’ website at gfubruins.com.