Following are fall Fitness Center hours in the Wheeler Sports Center. Please do not ask to work out during posted class times. Thank you.
Monday & Wednesday
6-7:30 a.m.
Noon-1:40 p.m.
2:30-11 p.m.
Tuesday & Thursday
6-7:30 a.m.
8:50-9:40 a.m.
Noon-12:40 p.m.
2:30-11 p.m.
Friday
6 a.m. – 1:40 p.m.
2:30-7 p.m.
Saturday
10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Sunday
2-6 p.m.
Religious Studies is hosting an Intellectual Feast, discussing the topic “Quaker Approaches to Higher Education” from 4 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 15, in Hoover 250.
Outlining their essays in the most recent issue of Quaker Religious Thought, Jamie Johnson will present on “From Cutting Edge to Chopping Block: Reclaiming a Quaker Approach to Christian Higher Education,” and Paul Anderson will present on “The Mission of the Christ-Centered Quaker College.”
Come and learn about this important topic together, and share your own views as well. Free copies of the QRT issue to the first 20 attenders. Refreshments provided!
The Department of Performing Arts will kick off the concert season with the first performance of the year this weekend. The Symphonic Band and Concert Choir will host a concert to end their retreat Saturday, Sept. 12, at 7:30 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium. Admission is free and all are welcome to attend.
The Bruin Bookstore’s hours are now 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday. Starting Sept. 19, the bookstore will be open on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., except during George Fox holiday weekends, the Christmas break and the summer season.
Do you teach anything about environmental science, ecology, creation care, sustainability in any of your courses? Or perhaps you teach an entire course dedicated to one of these topics?
The Creation Care Committee wants to know about it. Please let us know even if you just teach on such a topic one day out of the entire course. We are trying to get an inventory of where creation care and the environment are being taught in our curriculum. Also, let us know if you are hoping to teach on such matters or would like to in the future. Please respond to Corey Beals at cbeals@georgefox.edu with your response.
From the helicopter flash to the hour and half of brawling, there was plenty of excitement for the Bruin Brawl on Serve Day, Sept. 9. Bruin Junior, newly made, was torn to shreds, and in the excitement, the university sign in front of Wood-Mar was delettered. The sophomores successfully took the head of Bruin Junior off campus, winning the brawl. Here are the points rewarded for this brawl:
Freshmen: 20 points – Class Pride
Sophomores: 50 points – Winning the brawl
Juniors: 0 points
Seniors: 0 points
The next staff lunch is scheduled for noon Monday, Sept. 14, in the Cap and Gown Room. Come enjoy good food and the company of friends. The food is $3; the friends are priceless.
There is still opportunity to participate in this spring’s South American Studies Program in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Check it out at bolivia.georgefox.edu, then contact Lon Fendall (lfendall@georgefox.edu) or Carolyn Stansell (cstansell@georgefox.edu) in the Center for Global Studies in Stevens 123.
Information will also be available at general off-campus studies meetings Wednesday, Sept. 16, from 4 to 5 p.m. in Stevens 208 or Tuesday, Sept. 22, from 6:15 to 7 p.m. in Stevens 209.
“How Great is Our God” is the theme for this year’s Staff Development Conference, scheduled from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 20, at Family Life Church in Newberg. This will be a day of encouragement, as well as a fun-filled day of learning and serving together. All staff members are expected to attend. Watch your campus mailbox for more information.
Urban Services begins Friday, Sept. 18, in the Bruin Den. The ministry’s theme this year is “Beyond Charity.” The group will leave at 5 p.m. for Salem, so come at 4:30 p.m. to eat together before we leave. A Portland team leaves at 5:30 p.m. See you there!
Please join the Staff Development Committee give HUGS (hats, umbrellas, gloves and scarves) to Love INC from Sept. 9 through Oct. 19. Items not covered by food stamps are also gladly being accepted. Donations can be placed in the brightly decorated barrels located in lobbies throughout the Newberg and Portland campuses.
Due to a last-minute conflict, Provost Patrick Allen will not be leading Thursday’s regularly scheduled Faculty Teaching Forum. Instead, a panel of George Fox professors will take part in a roundtable discussion about teaching practices that have been effective at the university.
The session will still meet from noon to 1:20 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 10, in Cap and Gown Room A (note different location than on academic calendar). All faculty – full time, part time, and adjunct – are invited to attend Faculty Teaching Forums (FTFs). Video podcasts of FTFs will be available on iTunesU.
Tilikum is offering an opportunity for women who are ready for a different kind of retreat experience Oct. 2-4. Planned activities include the challenge course, a vineyard hike, and lake canoeing. These will be directly tied to your life, woven together with times of goal-setting and reflection.
Cost is $199 per person. Current university students and employees receive 25 percent off ($149). For more information and to register, please see the link on the Tilikum website, camptilikum.org.
Serve Day is this Wednesday, Sept. 9. The flow of the day is as follows:
7:30-8:30 a.m.: Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m.: Kickoff celebration on the quad
8:55 a.m.: Gather at your numbered post and leave
Noon: Eat lunch with your group at the service site
4 p.m.: Return to campus for volunteer, church, and activities fair celebration with mechanical surf board and giant water slide
4:30-6:30 p.m.: Complimentary dinner for the George Fox community
Please note that breakfast and lunch are complimentary for all employees but lunch is not. If you would like to buy a lunch for $6.25 on Serve Day, please come to the information table outside of the Stevens Center.
Thank you!
Through Friday, there will be a poster in the Office of Spiritual Life for Alexander Spycher’s family. If you would like to stop by and sign your name and leave an encouraging note, the Spycher family would greatly appreciate it. Alexander, a 21-year-old transfer student, unexpectedly passed away last Thursday, Sept. 3.
The spiritual life office is located on the corner of Sheridan and Meridian in the Sheridan Street House. Office hours are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Department of Visual Arts will host an exhibit, “Trial By Fire,” in the Minthorne Gallery beginning with an artists’ talk and reception on Tuesday, Sept. 8. Artists Kim Hamblin (mixed media), Landry Deese (ceramics), Ruri (claywork) and David Carmack Lewis (paintings) will share about their work at 4 p.m., followed by a reception from 5 to 6:30 p.m.
The show runs through Oct. 1 and features wood-fired porcelain, wood-fired clay pieces and paintings. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
The library is pleased to announce that we now provide access to a suite of 32 periodical and reference database products from Gale/Cengage. Examples of our new databases are Gale’s Academic OneFile, covering a broad range of disciplines and subject-specific databases such as the Health & Wellness Resource Center and Business & Company Resource Center.
A complete list of these new databases is available. Databases can also be found at the Databases A-Z list on the library’s home page (library.georgefox.edu), and in some library subject guides.
The university’s History and Political Science Department is hosting the 17th Hoover Symposium from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 3, in Hoover 105.
Joshua Hawley, author of Theodore Roosevelt: Preacher of Righteousness, will speak on the origins of the conservationist movement. Kendrick A. Clements, author of Hoover, Conservation, and Consumerism, will address the question of whether Hoover was a conservationist, an environmentalist, or something else. A panel of experts will consider whether or not history can offer practical lessons for modern environmentalists.
Registration and lunch are free for the first 100 people who register. Contact Mark Hall (Herbert Hoover Distinguished Professor of Political Science) at 503-554-2674 or mhall@georgefox.edu to register or for further information.
The Timothy’s Charge ministry is hosting a weekly Bible study led by Professor Byron Shenk this semester. The study will meet in Hoover 102 from noon to 1 p.m. on Tuesdays, with the first study set for Sept. 8. All members of the George Fox community are invited. Feel free to bring your lunch.
This is a reminder that employees are able to purchase a lunch on the morning of Serve Day (Wednesday, Sept. 9) by paying $6.25 at the information table outside of the Stevens Center. If you would like to do this, please e-mail us at serveday@georgefox.edu with your name so that we know how many to expect. Thank you!
