The Daily Bruin

Do you love working with your hands? Do you enjoy serving your community?

If you answered yes to one, or both of those questions, consider coming to James Project from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m Saturday, February 23, where we will be partnering with Newberg’s Habitat for Humanity. We will be meeting in the Bruins Den.

We will be carefully & skillfully removing some cabinets from a home to be re-sold in Habitat’s Restore to gain profit to build houses for people in great need in the community.

This is an awesome opportunity to serve and get to know people.

If you are interested in joining us or would like to know more, email JP Coordinator Miranda, at mdagostini11@georgefox.edu

We are in the process of planning and pulling together the teams for our annual Spring Serve trips (March 23-30). We have several organizations with whom we have annually partnered in service and are looking for current employee or alumni “advisors” to participate with our Serve Trip student-leaders. These individuals serve as university representatives, support the student leaders on their respective trips, and help keep these experiential ministry opportunities purposeful, successful, educational, and helpful to our hosts.

Our goal is for each trip to have two student leaders who are responsible for all trip coordination and team meetings. The job of the trip advisor would be to come alongside them and to offer support, wisdom, advice (especially in terms of risk-management), and general life-experience and spiritual guidance as the students lead the team.

If you are interested or have more questions, please contact Rusty St. Cyr at rstcyr@georgefox.edu or call ext. 2319. If you know of any alumni who are beyond two years of graduation who would be interested, please feel free to pass on this information to them. We hope to have the advisor roles filled by March 1.

Spring Serve trip descriptions can be found at this link.

Do you run at least three times a week? Would you like to potentially increase your speed/performance/endurance levels? Please help me with my senior Health and Human Performance research study!

I am looking for recreational runners (sorry, no varsity athletes) to help me out with my senior research project.

Please contact Natalie at nmarkland09@georgefox.edu if you are at all interested!

Join us for the fifth installment of the spring Liberal Arts and Critical Issues series this Monday, Feb. 25, in Hoover 105. The theme of this spring’s lecture series is “State of the Union.”

Monday’s session runs from 7 to 8 p.m. and features Dr. Fred Van Dyke, executive director of the Au Sable Institute for Environmental Studies. He will present a lecture titled “Hope and Hopelessness: Overcoming the State of Despair in Modern Conservation,” in which he will argue that, concerning conservation efforts, hope is “not a product of emotional exhortation but a reasoned and confident expectation of an altered future condition relative to present circumstances.”

The same session is presented from 4:40 to 5:40 p.m.; however, it is recommended that the general public attend the evening session, if possible.

Questions? Contact Paul Otto at ext. 2676 or potto@georgefox.edu.

Do you like showing others ways to be a more effective and efficient student?

Do your friends always come to you to look over their papers before they turn them in?

Do you have a GPA above 3.0?

If you answered yes to these questions, you might have a future as an ARC consultant in the Academic Resource Center.

Students who will only be on campus during the fall semester are welcome to apply.

Submit completed materials by Wednesday, March 6.

Applications and additional information are available at the ARC Application page.

The university’s 2013 Dalton Lecture is tonight (Wednesday) in Bauman Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Students who attend will receive chapel credit. The lecture, titled “The Big Bang, Stephen Hawking and God,” will be presented by Dr. Henry F. Schaefer III, director of the Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry at the University of Georgia.

The Dalton Lecture Series is sponsored by the Department of Biology and Chemistry. More information can be found on the Dalton Lecture page or by e-mailing Jane Sweet at jsweet@georgefox.edu.

• Your student account must be paid in full. If on a payment plan, your February payment (or March payment if after March 1) must be received and any amount not covered by your payment plan must be paid.
• Regardless of who pays the deposit, each student must stop by SFS. If the deposit is accepted you will receive a Housing Deposit Confirmation slip. This slip is needed as a record of payment.
• A payment received in any other way won’t be processed as a deposit, but instead will overpay the account or be applied toward the next monthly payment. SFS routinely refunds over-payments, so if you get a refund check you are not expecting please stop by to confirm the status of your deposit.

Need to Request a Housing Accommodation?

If you need to request a housing accommodation for medical or disability reasons, please complete a Housing Accommodation Request. These forms are available in the Student Life Office or on the George Fox website. Requests should be submitted to student life by March 1 in order to be evaluated prior to housing selection.

Questions? Please contact housing@georgefox.edu or refer to the Housing and Residence Life website for additional information.

The university community is invited to the annual Bösendorfer Artist Concert Series, featuring Italian pianist Gianluca Luisi, tomorrow (Thursday), in Bauman Auditorium. This marks a return to the university for Luisi, who will perform a series of J.S. Bach and Franz Liszt pieces – as well as a duet piece, Three Preludes by George Gershwin, with professor Kenn Willson – on the university’s Bösendorfer “Imperial” grand piano.

Luisi, who has performed at New York’s Carnegie Hall and at renowned venues around the world, will perform a 7:30 p.m. concert. All George Fox employees and students are entitled to one free ticket they may pick up at the box office in the Pennington House (Portland Center students and employees may call 503-554-3844 to reserve your ticket). Additional tickets are $12 for adults, $8 for seniors and alumni, and $6 for students/children. Tickets are available for purchase online at this link.

Luisi also will hold a master class at 4 p.m. today (Wednesday), in Bauman Auditorium, where he will coach piano performance majors. The public is welcome to attend the class at no charge.

To learn more about Luisi, the series or the concert, visit the above link.

Interested in strengthening your academic writing skills? Come to “Steps to Writing a Successful Research Paper,” a workshop presented by Writing Consultant Sierra Neiman and Reference Librarian Robin Ashford, on Saturday, March 2. Sessions will take place in PDS 155A.

Please plan to come for one, two or all three of the following segments:

• 1-1:30 p.m.: Using APA style
• 1:45-2:20 p.m.: Steps to writing a successful research paper, including developing a research question, engaging in research, creating a thesis statement, and editing your work
• 2:30-3 p.m.: Using Turabian style

Please R.S.V.P. by e-mailing ssneiman@georgefox.edu.

An all-employee meeting is scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 28, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Hoover 105.

For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available at a stream site that you can access from MyGFU. Simply log into MyGFU and click the “Community Meeting Link” located under “Staff Resources/Faculty Resources.” The link will take you to all the information relating to community meetings and include a live-stream link (the password changes each meeting) and a chat room link.

Videos from previously recorded meetings will be added to this page in the days following. Please bookmark the page for quick access each month.

Thursday, Feb. 21, 2 p.m. – Baseball vs. Corban (Morse Field)
Friday, Feb. 22, 2 p.m. – Baseball vs. Oregon Tech (Morse Field)
Friday, Feb. 22, 3 p.m. – Men’s tennis vs. Pacific Lutheran (GFU campus courts)
Saturday, Feb. 23, 6 p.m. – Men’s tennis vs. Whitman (GFU campus courts)
Sunday, Feb. 24, 2 p.m. – Baseball vs. Pacific (Morse Field)
Sunday, Feb. 24, 2 p.m. – Men’s tennis vs. Linfield (GFU campus courts)

Both Bruin basketball teams will be in action Thursday, Feb. 21, in the Northwest Conference Tournaments. The women will be at Lewis & Clark at 7 p.m., and the men will be at Whitman at 8 p.m. The championships games will be Saturday at the site of the highest-remaining seeds.

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

Urban Outreach, the campus homeless ministry, will be holding a coin drive so we can make simple hygiene packs for our friends on the streets. We’ll also take unneeded winter clothes. Look for us at chapel on Wednesday (Feb. 20) and at your doors on Wednesday and Thursday nights.

Want to help? E-mail Mary Owen (mowen10@georgefox.edu) or Steven Ching (sching10@georgefox.edu).

Anything helps!

Come and join us this Friday, Feb. 22, for a time of prayer for our campus and our community. This is not just for students. This is for faculty and administration as well.

We’ll meet on the quad outside the Bruin Den and walk from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. Questions? Contact Mary Owen at mowen10@georgefox.edu.

Did you know that, as an employee, you get a 25 percent discount in the Bruin Grounds? And you can now create tabs using your cost centers!

We offer sandwiches, wraps, coffee and other treats. We are open from 4 to 11 p.m. every day, so before you head home, don’t forget to stop by Bruin Grounds downstairs in the SUB.

The university will host the Portland Youth Philharmonic, led by Conductor and Music Director David Hattner, for a Monday, Feb. 25, concert in Bauman Auditorium. The 7:30 p.m. performance is free and open to the public, and no tickets are required.

The evening will feature Rachel Graves, winner of PYP’s 2012-13 Concerto Competition, performing Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64. The program also includes William Bergsma’s Chameleon Variations and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, ‘Pathétique.’

The concert is a free preview of PYP’s winter concert to be held in the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall on Saturday, March 2, at 7:30 p.m.

Don’t know what you’re going to do for spring break? Looking for something adventurous? If you answered yes to both of these, you should apply for a Spring Serve trip!

Serve trips are awesome opportunities for Fox students to experience serving others while also building strong relationships with other peers. We will be sending teams to locations in California, Utah, Oregon and Washington. The trips will be gone during spring break (March 23-30).

The applications can be found at this link.

Got questions? Feel free to e-mail Kyle Webster at kwebster12@georgefox.edu or Kaylena Charpentier at kcharpentier10@georgefox.edu.

In honor of Black History Month, Warner Pacific is hosting a Diversity Lecture Series and we would like to offer the opportunity to go to the final segment on Exploring the Paradox of Hip Hop Culture entitled, “Love, Literature, and a Black Man’s Escape from the Crowd,” with guest speaker and author Thomas Chatterton Williams.

We will be taking one van and leaving the Stevens Center parking lot at 5:30 p.m. The event starts at 7 p.m., and we will be returning at its conclusion. We will likely be back on campus by 10 p.m. You are also welcome to meet us there.

The event is today (Tuesday). So if you would like to go, please e-mail Amber Nelson at nelsona@georgefox.edu.

Thank you, and hope to see you there!

Dr. Henry F. Schaefer III will give a scientific, but lighthearted, lecture tonight (Tuesday) entitled “Third Age of Quantum Chemistry.” Dr. Schaefer, a world-renowned scientist, is the director of the Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry at the University of Georgia.

The lecture begins at 7 p.m. in Hoover 105. Please contact Jane Sweet at jsweet@georgefox.edu if you have any questions.

The International Justice Mission club is meeting tonight (Tuesday) from 8:15 to 9:15 p.m. in the Cultural House. Join us in discussing how we, as college students, can fight injustice and advocate for victims of human trafficking!

We will be having hot chocolate and tea, so bring a mug!

Questions? Contact Elizabeth Hope Kenyon at ekenyon11@georgefox.edu.

John Bates began working at the university Feb. 1 as recruiting coordinator and defensive coordinator of the football program. He has an extensive background as a football coach, serving as defensive coordinator for coach Chris Casey at Aloha High School (2011 to present) and, before that, as defensive coordinator and recruiting coordinator at Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln, Neb., from 2004 to 2010. He also coached at Western Oregon University and in Europe – for the Chrysler Vienna Vikings in Austria – in the early 2000s. John earned a master of education degree in secondary education from Whitworth University in 2006 after earning a bachelor’s degree in physical education from the same school in 2000. He began his coaching career at Whitworth in 2000-01. He lives in Carlton with his wife, Dana, a health and human performance professor at George Fox. They have two children – Ryan (7) and Alexandra (4).

Plant Services hired Gary Eckerdt as a mechanic/fabricator III in late January. For the past two years he’s worked as a senior technician/journeyman for Andy’s Auto & Truck Repair of Sherwood. All told, he’s worked in the auto repair industry for 24 years – four of which he spent in Newberg at Matco Tools (2007-09) and Integrity Auto Body (2009-11). Gary lives in Newberg with his wife Shirley and they have two adult children, Jessica and James. The Eckerdts attend Newberg Friends.

Jennifer Farland joined the university in December as assistant director of international admissions. She comes to George Fox with nearly 10 years of experience in higher education and 15 years of experience working with international students. Since the fall of 2003 she held various positions at Western Michigan University, including operations manager for international admissions and services. Jennifer earned a bachelor’s degree in liberal studies from the University of South Dakota and holds a master’s certificate in holistic health from Western Michigan University. She lives in Sherwood with her dog Lucy and cat Leonard and is enjoying looking for a church home in the area.