The Daily Bruin

Come support one of the senior business capstone groups at the monthly Community Saturday Market scheduled from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. this Saturday, Feb. 27, in EHS.

There will be food, live music (including Chad Strutz from Just Lions and a local children’s violin group), and a wide variety of goods from local vendors. Participants will include authors Dirk Barram, Jim Foster and Erin Macy, as well as vendors Honest Chocolate and Yamhill Candles. A percentage of sales will go toward the Patrick Kibler Fund and the Women’s and Children’s Shelter of Newberg.

Hope to see you there!

As most everyone knows, when classes started up this semester we began monitoring the uneaten food being returned to our dishroom after each meal. Our reasons for monitoring our waste is based upon the fact that energy used to produce food that is wasted in the U.S. (3 percent of total U.S. energy) roughly equals the total carbon footprint of Bangladesh, a country of 150 million people.

Using the week of Jan. 18 as our baseline, we averaged 6.14 ounces of waste per meal served. With the week of Feb. 20 just completed, the average waste generated has dropped down to 3.94 ounces per meal served, a reduction of 36 percent.

Great job to everyone! Let’s keep it up, as every reduction means less waste going to our landfills.

Denny Lawrence,
Bon Appetit

In our continuing efforts to be good stewards of the resources we manage, starting Feb 1 we entered into an agreement with Standard Biodiesel, which has started picking up our used fryer oils and recycling them into 100 percent renewable biodiesel.

Unlike most waste oil recyclers that transport used cooking oil overseas and make it into animal feed and cosmetics, we’re now going to be converting our waste cooking oils into a source of renewable energy.

We’ve also started supplying some of our used fryer oil again to Brian McLaughlin (IT) who, for the past several years, has been operating his vehicle with filtered used fryer oils from restaurants throughout the area.

If you have any questions, please give me a call.

Denny Lawrence,
Bon Appetit

Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2 p.m. – Baseball vs. Corban, Morse Field
Thursday, Feb. 25, 7 p.m. – Women’s Basketball vs. Lewis & Clark (NWC Tournament), Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym
Friday, Feb. 26, 2 p.m. – Men’s Tennis vs. Puget Sound, campus courts
Saturday, Feb. 27, 10 a.m. – Men’s Tennis vs. Pacific Lutheran, campus courts
Saturday, Feb. 27, 10:30 a.m. – Men’s & Women’s Track in Frank Haskins Double Dual Meet, Colcord Field
Saturday., Feb. 27, 11 a.m. – Baseball vs. Menlo (2), Morse Field
Saturday, Feb. 27, Noon – Softball vs. Eastern Oregon (2), Morse Field
Saturday, Feb. 27, 7 p.m. – Women’s Basketball vs. TBA (NWC Tournament), Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym (tentative)
Sunday, Feb. 28, Noon – Baseball vs. Menlo, Morse Field

George Fox will host Lewis & Clark Thursday in the semifinals of the Northwest Conference Women’s Basketball Tournament, and will host the championship game Saturday if the Bruins win. Tickets for all NWC Tournament games are $6 for adults and $3 for students, children 12 and under, and seniors 55 and up.

NWC passes are the only passes that are valid for this tournament; regular-season passes will not be accepted. Only students who attend the schools participating in the tournament will be admitted free with a valid college ID; faculty and staff will need to purchases tickets.

The men’s basketball team will play at Linfield College Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Northwest Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament. The Bruins are the No. 3 seed, the Wildcats No. 2. The Bruins could host an NWC Tournament game Saturday if they win Thursday and No. 4 seed Lewis & Clark upsets No. 1 seed Whitworth.

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

Students Andrew Magnuson (guitar) and Stephen Crabb (percussion) will present a junior degree recital at 6 p.m. Monday, March 1, in Bauman Auditorium. Admission is free.

The Department of Performing Arts is pleased to present a senior degree composition recital featuring the work of Becca Chromey at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 26, in Bauman Auditorium. Admission is free.

Need help formatting and citing your English papers? Come to an MLA workshop in Stevens 109 at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 24. If you have any questions, contact the Academic Resource Center.

This is a reminder that a special staff worship event is scheduled from 9 to 10:45 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24, in Wood-Mar Auditorium. The theme for the gathering is “Embrace: God Embraces Us; We Embrace God.” The featured speaker is Carol Brazo (School of Education).

Come and be part of something special where the Newberg staff community can share together and pray together. Refreshments will follow in the EHS Atrium.

Cara Peck, a federal government representative working for the EPA, will be on campus from noon to 1:15 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 25, in Stevens 209.

Peck will share the background on the Partnership for Public Service (George Fox’s Career Services is a partner), and speak on breaking down the four common myths about federal employment (low pay, only based in Washington D.C., must have political science background, and “too much bureaucracy”). She also will share her personal federal story, her career path, and resources for helping students find and pursue jobs in the federal government.

Faculty members, please encourage your students who might be interested in this presentation to attend.

Please R.S.V.P. to Career Services at ext. 2330 or careers@georgefox.edu, for this pizza chat.

If you did not get a chance to pick up a yearbook from last year (2008-09), the week of Feb. 22-26 is your last chance to get your copy!

There will be books out in the Bruin Den starting Monday, Feb. 22, but there is a limited number of books left, so it’s first come, first served. The last day of this event will be determined by how fast the books run out.

Faculty and staff, please help get the word out about these books, especially to those students who may not receive e-nnouncements.

Questions? Contact Hannah Wilcox at hwilcox06@georgefox.edu.

Oregon Symphony ushers are needed for the Saturday, March 13, performance in Bauman Auditorium. The concert will be led by conductor Carlos Kalmar and feature Vivienne Elborne and actor David Ogden Stiers of M*A*S*H fame. The program will feature classical music from composers Richard Strauss, Ralph V. Williams and Frederick Delius.

If you are interested in volunteering to usher for the concert, please contact Danya Ochsner (University Relations) at ext. 2121 or by e-mail at dochsner@georgefox.edu.

Need help formatting and citing your English papers? Come to an MLA workshop in Stevens 109 at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 24. If you have any questions, contact the Academic Resource Center.

The all-employee meeting originally scheduled for next Thursday, Feb. 25, has been canceled. The next meeting is scheduled for Thursday, March 18, from 3:40 to 5 p.m. in Hoover 105.

Friday, Feb. 19, 6 p.m. – Women’s Basketball vs. Lewis & Clark, Wheeler Sports Center / Miller Gym
Friday, Feb. 19, 8 p.m. – Men’s Basketball vs. Lewis & Clark, Wheeler Sports Center / Miller Gym
Saturday, Feb. 20, 9:30 a.m. – Women’s Tennis vs. Southern Oregon, GFU campus courts
Saturday, Feb. 20, noon – Softball vs. Corban (2), Morse Field

The women’s basketball team has already clinched home-court advantage for all of the Northwest Conference Tournament Feb. 25 and 27 and can win the conference championship outright with a win. The men’s basketball team is tied for third in the conference with Lewis & Clark and can secure its first NWC Tournament berth since 1998 with a win.

The women’s tennis match on Saturday was originally scheduled for Tualatin Hills Tennis Center but has been moved back on campus due to a lack of available courts at THTC and expected nice weather. The Corban doubleheader is the season opener for the softball team.

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

The university will host its annual Winter Chamber Concert at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 22, in Bauman Auditorium. Doors open at 7 p.m. and there is no admission charge.

The university’s sixth annual Kaleo conference will be held Saturday, Feb. 20, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium. Our featured speakers are Chap Clark from Fuller Seminary and our own Steve Sherwood (Religious Studies). Their sessions will focus on how we can be equipped for ministering to teens who are hurt and isolated.

George Fox employees are welcome to attend (register at the door) for the $30 discounted employee fee. For more information, check out georgefox.edu/kaleo.

Wednesday is the last day to submit nominations for February Employee of the Month. Please send an e-mail to Peggy Kilburg (HR) if you would like to nominate a support staff member or administrator for this honor. Your e-mail should include the person’s name, job title, a concise but specific summary of this person’s contribution(s) to the university, its students, and/or its employees in the past 30 days or so (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 Wednesday, Feb. 24. 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 next all-employee meeting and will receive a $100 gift certificate to The Allison.

Perhaps you saw members of the university’s International Justice Mission at lunch in the Bruin Den last week; now come to the actual meeting at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 18, in Hoover 206. Join us as we prayerfully respond to injustice as a community and further the fight against sex trafficking and human trafficking locally and abroad.

Join the Department of Performing Arts in the first recital of the season! Bethany Muhr and Matt Hill will present their degree trumpet recital in Bauman Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 18. Admission is free.

The university community is invited to a Faculty Research Forum featuring Kelly Chang, assistant professor of psychology, from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 19, in Hoover 105 on the Newberg campus.

In May 2009, Chang and a team of George Fox students worked with at-risk young girls living on a landfill in Nicaragua. She will speak of this experience and her ongoing work with the in-country organization.