The Daily Bruin

Faculty, staff and students: If you are interested in signing up for the C-CERT (Campus Community Emergency Responder Team) training that will be offered in September, you will need to register online at this link by Tuesday, Sept. 13.

Staff application and course information will be sent via campus mail after your registration is received. Students will receive course information once your registration has been received.

Questions? Contact Ed Gierok (Security Services) at egierok@georgefox.edu.

Finalizing your class schedule? Consider our online courses, GEED 214-Selecting a major, 216-Getting ready for an internship, and 218-learning job search skills to find employment. As an emerging professional, you will benefit greatly from having a career game plan. Let us help you move that along. Our courses are listed under General Education in the course schedule.

For more information or contact Sidney at x. 2330, or atcareers@georgefox.edu.

We still have some great internships to offer this year in our Career Services office. Our past interns have had exceptional experiences, growing professionally. You will learn how to plan, market and execute events along with administrative records management, budget, communication, and public relations training. These internships must be set up for credit through you academic advisor.

Go to BruinCareers for more information or contact Sidney at x. 2330, or atcareers@georgefox.edu. We might be just what you need and vice versa.

General Auditions for the Fall Show & Winter Musical

Steel Magnolias                                          She Loves Me
[Directed by Jan Powell]      &             [Directed by Rhett Luedtke]

Wednesday, August 31  from 7:00 -10:00 p..m.  in Wood-Mar Auditorium

How to Prepare:

1) If auditioning for Steel Magnolias, prepare a fully memorized 90 second monologue of your choice for the general audition.
2) If auditioning for Steel Magnolias and She Loves Me (or just She Loves Me), prepare both a 90 second comic monologue and a song from a musical of your choice (one minute max. for song). Please bring a copy of the sheet music for the accompanist.

The audition sign-up sheet is on the first floor of Ross Hall on the theatre audition board.

Email Rhett Luedtke, rluedtke@georgefox.edu for details

For clarification: If you are in need of service and/or supplies for all copiers on campus, contact Print Services at ext 2551.

For service and supplies for individual printers on campus, contact the University Store (bookstore).

Faculty and staff, just a reminder as fall semester is upon us: If you encounter any kind of technical problem in the classrooms please let us know.  The on-call phone number for Portland IT is 503-593-4921.

IT staff and student hours are posted in every classroom. If you can’t reach us, or if you’d rather e-mail regarding non-urgent technical issues, please write to us at pdxtech@georgefox.edu.

Your IT department would like to call your attention to opportunities that now exist for your mobile Internet-enabled devices. iGFU, our new mobile portal, has many tools that can help you navigate your way through a new school year.

Check out this link for help configuring your mobile device.

All printer service requests need to be submitted by the online form. A link to this form can be found at the bottom of each of our web pages at store.georgefox.edu.

Click here for the URL for the form. This form is for printers only (not photocopiers).

Questions? Contact John Stewart at jstewart@georgefox.edu.

This semester, Paul Anderson (Religious Studies) will conduct two classes on the basis of a Quaker approach to spirituality. Any students desiring a deeply spiritual learning adventure are invited to join him and others in either or both of these classes: RELI 260 (History and Doctrine of Friends, M-W-F, 8:40-9:30 a.m. Hoover 207) and RELI 350 (Spiritual Formation, Tuesday/Thursday, 2:45-4 p.m., Hoover 207).

Both classes will be conducted as a meeting for worship in which learning is welcomed, with instructor and students alike joining together as “humble learners in the school of Christ,” according to Anderson.

For further information, contact Paul at panderso@georgefox.edu or at ext. 2651.

All of the George Fox University community is invited to attend the Newberg Fred Meyer College Night which will begin at 11 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 25. Enjoy many freebies and 10 percent off all food and 20 percent off of everything else. Hope to see you there!

University Mail Services will be open on this Saturday only, Aug. 27, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Avoid the long lines on Monday. Stop by and pick up any packages you might have waiting or pick up your key if you do not have it yet.

It’s now under two weeks until our 13th annual Serve Day! On Wednesday, Sept. 7, we will send out about 1,700 employees and students to serve nearly 80 sites in Newberg and the surrounding area.

All Serve Day assignments have been sent out to employees; a confirmation e-mail of where you will be going will be sent out next week. If you have any questions about your assignment, let Rachel Lee know by e-mailing serveday@georgefox.edu. Those students who live on campus will receive their assignments from their RA.

Each year, Serve Day impacts communities and assists individuals all over the region. It even results in new relationships, as evidenced by this “apple story.”

Students-over 300 of you have yet to either register your vehicle, or to register as NOT bringing a vehicle to campus. If you have not done this by the add/drop date of Aug. 9, you WILL be issued and charged for a non-refundable parking permit regardless of whether or not you have a vehicle, so please don’t delay!

Mirage Tribal will be performing at the Underground Coffee House, located next to the Shari’s Restaurant on Friday September 2 at 7:00 p.m.
It will be night of culture displaying various forms of Tribal Belly Dance. Performances by Anya Frolova, Emily Batdorf, and Pilar Beier will highlight the night.

George Fox Outdoors Club & Experiential Ministries teams up Sunday morning to head out to our local Trappist Abbey (http://www.trappistabbey.org/) to hike in God’s creation.

We’ll meet in the Stevens parking lot at 5:00 a.m. If you are able to drive, we’d love it if you could volunteer your car.

We’ll be returning around 8:00 a.m. or earlier. You can find more info on the “George Fox Outdoors Club” facebook page.

Just a reminder that meal plans start this coming Saturday beginning with breakfast for all students on one of the board plans.

Due to Welcome Weekend, our hours throughout the weekend will be as follows:

Saturday
Breakfast: 8-9:30 a.m.
Lunch: noon – 1 p.m.
Dinner: 5-6:30 p.m.

Sunday
Continental breakfast: 8-9:30 a.m.
Brunch: 11 a.m.- 1 p.m.
Dinner: 5-6:30 p.m.

Our normal hours will commence on Monday with breakfast at 7:15 a.m.

Please remember to bring your university ID card for all meals throughout the weekend as we will be scanning beginning with Saturday breakfast.

The university is welcoming more than 600 new students and their families on Thursday, Aug. 25. They must have a place to park as they move in, so please willingly give up your parking places in the Stevens, Hoover, Wood-Mar and Pennington lots. You can park on Sheridan Street, the campus side of Meridian Street, North Street or the Bauman lot.

Once the new students move in, the Pennington lot will be off-limits for staff/faculty, as all spots are needed for the students who live in that area. Thank you for helping to welcome our new students with empty parking lots!

– Security Services

The first George Fox Auxiliary meeting of the year is a dinner meeting at the Villa Academic Complex on Tuesday Aug. 30, at 6 p.m. New faculty will be introduced.

The cost is $8 per person, and reservations should be made by Aug. 26 with Judy Woolsey at 503-538-7314.

Guitar lessons and classes are being offered on campus this fall. Following is a description of the options available:

BEGINNING CLASS GUITAR (MUSI 250-A) is offered for those new to the guitar who want to learn in a fun group setting (Tuesdays/Thursdays, 9:40-10:30 a.m.). Learn to strum and pick popular worship songs while learning to read music.

PRIVATE LESSONS/APPLIED GUITAR (MUSA 105/305 GT) is offered to bring your playing to the next level. One-on-one lessons cover beginners all the way to very experienced players. Sign up and get some new skills and techniques. All styles are covered, including jazz, blues, rock, worship, folk, etc.

Lessons are taught by George Fox guitar professor Dave Iula. He has performed at many churches in Portland (Beaverton Foursquare, Southlake Church, Rolling Hills, Imago Dei Community) as well as Porland’s finest clubs (Jimmy Mak’s, The Blue Monk, Mississippi Studios).

E-mail Dave for more info: daveiula1@gmail.com.

Each year at new student orientation, alumni take the stage to keep one of the university’s oldest traditions alive by singing the official George Fox University song, “Close Beside Chehalem’s Mountain,” to our new students and their parents. Once again this year, all alumni are invited to participate in this tradition on Thursday, Aug. 25, in the quad.

Alumni are invited to participate regardless of whether they know the song by heart or need to look at the sheet music. A short practice session will take place before the event begins. New students and their parents will be invited to sing the first verse and chorus at the end of the presentation.

Event Schedule

by 6:40 p.m. – Please arrive at the Hoover Academic Building lobby
6:40 p.m. – Short practice session
7 p.m. – The university welcome begins on the quad
7:05 p.m. – The group is introduced and takes the stage
7:15 p.m. – Exit the stage (alumni have the option of staying for the remainder of the event)
8 p.m. – The university welcome ends

Questions? Contact Robby Larson at rlarson@georgefox.edu.