The Daily Bruin

Craig Taylor (Director of Athletics) will speak at a George Fox Auxiliary luncheon at noon Friday, Feb. 5, in the Cap and Gown Room. Reservations are required and tickets are $7.50 per person.

To make reservations, contact Margene Haworth at 503-538-0604. Reservations should be made by Tuesday, Feb. 2.

The George Fox Auxiliary – open to men and women – has financially supported and promoted the university for more than 90 years. It hosts an annual fundraising holiday bazaar and sponsors luncheons throughout the year.

The university community is invited to hear Paul Anderson’s (Religious Studies) presentation, “The John, Jesus, and History Project: The Story of a Scholarly Consensus Opinion and its Potential Demise,” from 4 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 26, in Hoover 250.

Now in its ninth year at the national Society of Biblical Literature meetings, the John, Jesus, and History Project has enlisted the contributions of leading biblical scholars around the world, seeking to test the viability of two critical platforms: the “dehistoricization of John” and the resultant “de-Johannification of Jesus.” As co-chair of the project and editor of its three volumes, Anderson will share the latest on the potential challenging of the “scholarly consensus” on the subject over the last two centuries.

All are welcome; refreshments provided!

If you have family or close friends in Haiti or who were in the country during the earthquakes, please e-mail me at awinkelman07@georgefox.edu. We want to know how it is affecting students within our community. Also, let us know if you are a student/organization that is trying to help.

Let your voice be heard!
Amanda Winkelman, The Crescent

Saturday, Jan. 23, 3:30 p.m. – Sports Hall of Fame Banquet and Ceremonies, Klages Dining Hall
Saturday, Jan. 23, 6 p.m. – Women’s Basketball vs. Pacific Lutheran, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym
Saturday, Jan. 23, 8 p.m. – Men’s Basketball vs. Pacific Lutheran, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym

The Class of 2010 will be inducted into the George Fox Sports Hall of Fame in ceremonies Saturday, and introduced to the crowd at halftime of the women’s game that evening. Members of this year’s class are Jai Cook (men’s soccer), Mark Tyler (baseball), Mark Halland (track and field), Manfred Rschan (men’s soccer coach), Bob Dexter (meritorious service), and the 1998 women’s volleyball team.

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

Art produced by high school students throughout the region will go on display in the Lindgren Gallery beginning this Tuesday, Jan. 26. The High School Art Northwest show will host an opening reception from 5 to 6:30 p.m. that afternoon. It is a juried exhibit that features cash prizes.

The Health and Counseling Center on the Newberg campus currently has H1N1 vaccines available at no cost to all students and faculty. Please call ext. 2340 to schedule an appointment.

Staff and faculty, we need your help! Please encourage prospective student leaders to attend the Leadership Preview Night at 8:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 25, in Hoover 105. The event invites students to learn a little more about future leadership opportunities on campus.

Telling a student about the leadership potential you see in them may be just the encouragement they need to get involved. Some of the departments represented are: SAAC, Ambassadors, Residence Life, ASC, Bruin Heritage, Multicultural Department, Spiritual Life, Leadership Minor/ADVANCE, Orientation and others.

Please encourage future student leaders to come!

Register today for Kaleo 2010: “When Kids Hurt” with Dr. Chap Clark and Dr. Steve Sherwood. Musical guest will be JJ Heller. For more information and to register, visit kaleo.georgefox.edu.

If you are interested in volunteering your time for the Saturday, Feb. 20 event, please contact Amy Lorenz (University Relations) at alorenz@georgefox.edu or ext. 2134. Discounts and T-shirts are available for volunteers.

Kenn Willson (Performing Arts) will perform in concert at the First Presbyterian Church in Portland at 2 p.m. this Sunday, Jan. 24. Willson will present “Encounters with Beethoven,” a multi-media piano recital with slides and personal insights into Beethoven. Tickets are available at the door and are $10 for general admission and $8 for seniors and students. Learn more at firstpresportland.org.

Leading up to the recital, an interview with Willson will be aired Thursday, Jan. 21, at 6 p.m. and Friday at noon on KBPS (KQAC), or allclassical.org online.

On Thursday, Jan. 21, Howard Kenyon from the Oregon Center for Christian Values (OCCV) will speak about what sex trafficking looks like in Portland and how OCCV is responding. The session runs from 8 to 9 p.m. in Hoover 208 on the Newberg campus.

Check out occv.org to learn more about the organization’s work of uniting Christians to seek God’s justice in Oregon.

This Friday, Jan. 22, will mark the 37th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, a date which marked an important turning point in American history. There will be a display on the quad in remembrance of those missing from our generation.

An all-employee meeting is scheduled from 3:40 to 5 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 4, in Hoover 105. The meeting was originally scheduled for Jan. 28 but had to be changed.

For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available for viewing at stream.georgefox.edu/live/commmtg.sdp. For best results, use Mozilla Firefox for your web browser, and your computer must have QuickTime Player installed. Simply copy the link into the address bar of your browser. If you have any problems, contact the Service Desk at ext. 2569.

In addition, a chat room has been set up to allow for interaction. A video recording of the meeting will be available for viewing the following day at itunesu.georgefox.edu.

Friday is last day to submit nominations for January 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 January Employee of the Month.

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 this Friday, Jan. 22. 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. 4, and will receive a $100 gift certificate to The Allison.

Whether you want students to improve their writing, brainstorm for an upcoming assignment, or meet regularly for academic coaching, the Academic Resource Center consultants are available to support students in their academic pursuits.

The ARC is open Monday through Thursday from 1 p.m. to 10 p.m. and from noon to 4 p.m. on Fridays. To schedule an appointment, students can e-mail the_arc@georgefox.edu, call ext. 2327, or stop by the ARC in the Special Collections Room on the second floor of the library.

The Thursday, Jan. 21 Faculty Teaching Forum has been canceled. Join us on Wednesday, Feb. 3, for the first Faculty Teaching Forum of the semester when Greg Smith, chief information officer, discusses forthcoming educational technologies. More details of the Feb. 3 teaching forum will be posted closer to the event.

Come join the university community in celebrating MLK Day in chapel on Wednesday, Jan. 20. The theme of the 10:40 a.m. event in Bauman Auditorium is “Beloved Community,” after Martin Luther King Jr.’s own desire to see us come together in unity, and will feature Act Six scholar Courtney Greenidge and her family.

Greenidge, a chapel worship leader and multicultural programs assistant, has taken the lead in making this day meaningful and impactful for our community. She will be performing with her family as they sing, speak and invite others to worship through gospel.

Her father, Timothy Greenidge, is a nationally known producer and audio designer. Also joining will be Courtney’s uncle and aunt, David and Deborah Greenidge. David  is senior pastor of Tigard Covenant Church and Deborah is the worship & arts pastor at Turning Point Christian Center in Vancouver, Wash.

The KFOX informational meeting will be on Tuesday, Jan. 19, at 7 p.m. in the Bruin Den (note date change). Come for information on how to be involved.

See you there!

Mark Terry (Visual Arts) will display his work in an exhibit titled “Alchemy: Born of Fire,” an MFA thesis exhibition of ceramic sculpture. The exhibit opens Tuesday, Jan. 19, and runs through Feb. 18 in the Minthorne Gallery.

An opening reception is scheduled Tuesday from 5 to 7:30 p.m. There will also be an artist talk before the reception at 4 p.m. and again at 6:30 p.m. The show includes figurative works featuring spontaneous and organic surfaces derived from primitive firing methodologies.

For more information, call ext. 2619 or e-mail Doug Campbell at dcampbell@georgefox.edu.

Mail Services is serving as an unofficial collection site of Oregon ballots for this month’s election. Ballots are taken by a staff person to an official drop site at the Newberg Police Department. No postage necessary for any Oregon county.

Deadline for our collection: Tuesday, Jan. 26, at 4:30 p.m.

Friday,, Jan. 15, 6 p.m. – Men’s Basketball vs. Willamette, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym
Friday, Jan. 15, 8 p.m. – Women’s Basketball vs. Willamette, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym
Saturday, Jan. 16, 6 p.m. – Men’s Basketball vs. Linfield, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym
Saturday, Jan. 16, 8 p.m. – Women’s Basketball vs. Linfield, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym

Please note the switch of games this weekend, with the men playing first and the women second. All four games will have KFOX radio webcasts, live video streaming, and live stats via the Internet.

Special halftime shows at this weekend’s games feature the St. Francis School Jump Rope Team on Jan. 15 and Chehalem Valley Dance Academy on Jan. 16.

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