The Daily Bruin

The university has secured group-rate tickets to a Portland Trail Blazers game, and you are invited!

Join in on “George Fox Night at the Moda Center” when the Blazers take on the Memphis Grizzlies on Thursday, March 12. This is a great opportunity to share a fun night with friends, family and fellow George Fox Bruins.

Ticket prices start at $19 apiece. All participants will receive special savings and a chance to shoot a free throw after the game. Visit this link and use the promo code “GFU.” The order deadline is Friday, Feb. 7.

Questions? Contact Nichole Drew at ndrew@georgefox.edu.

The first round of spring intramural sports starts on Tuesday, Jan. 21. The Hadlock Student Center will be hosting 3-on-3 basketball (women’s and men’s divisions) and 4-on-4 volleyball.

Grab some friends and put a team together or join as a free agent! Sign-ups are on IMLeagues.com and close this Saturday, Jan. 18, at midnight.

Questions? Contact intramurals coordinator Ryan Lacey at intramurals@georgefox.edu.

The library has three faculty study rooms available for those needing a quiet area for study and research. The study rooms may be reserved for one semester at a time (fall, spring, summer).

If you are interested in requesting a room for spring term, please fill out this form. Requests will be prioritized on a first-come, first-served basis. Please note that the form requires a George Fox email address.

Questions? Contact Mary Cameron at mcameron@georgefox.edu.

Plant Services will be repairing a main water line to EHS, Wood-Mar, Lemmons and Brougher tomorrow (Friday). The water will be off in these buildings from noon until 4 p.m.

Please avoid the cordoned-off work zone outside of EHS, as the ground is very soft. Thank you!

Questions? Contact Dixie Downey (ddowney@georgefox.edu).

The Carry the Love tour is coming to George Fox on Monday, Jan. 27, and we could not be more excited! It will be an evening of worship and inspiration to move our generation to love like Jesus.

Join us for a revival of faith in our day. Each year at this event, we unite to worship, encounter God, and activate our calling and purpose. Follow this link to register for free and see the scheduled events.

Questions? Contact Avery Kornoelje (akornoelje19@georgefox.edu).

Join us for an evening of high-level hoops and a Team Emery teddy bear toss! Bring a new teddy bear to the women’s basketball game this Saturday, Jan. 18, at 4 p.m. in Wheeler Sports Center and toss the bear onto the court at halftime. The bears will be collected and donated to local charities and children’s hospitals.

Last year, 371 bears were collected from Bruin fans and distributed to children at local hospitals. Team Emery has donated more than 44,000 teddy bears to sick children over the course of eight years.

Questions? Contact Elise Trask at etrask@georgefox.edu.

Craving Panda Express? Come visit Panda Express in Newberg today (Thursday) from 10 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. to support the George Fox volleyball team’s fundraiser! Make sure to mention our fundraiser to your cashier to help out.

Questions? Contact Sadie Wilson at sadiew18@georgefox.edu.

Make plans to join your colleagues at the next all-employee meeting on Thursday, Jan. 23. We’ll be meeting in Canyon Commons from 3:30 to 5 p.m. (with live streaming in PDS 155B).

Have a shout-out you’d like to give to a colleague for recent work they’ve done? Share it at this link!

Both classical and familiar tunes will fill Bauman Auditorium when a Monster Piano Concert takes the stage for the 14th annual Bösendorfer Concert Series at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 6.

The evening will feature 18 performers playing eight pianos, on many occasions simultaneously, and the university’s Rodgers organ. Those performing include the University Keyboard Ensemble, alumni and students from professor Kenn Willson’s piano studio. Some selections will feature as many as 16 pianists playing at one time.

The program will feature Bach’s Concerto for 3 Pianos, Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, and Beethoven’s 3 Marches as a tribute to the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth. Also included will be Beethoven’s Rondo Capriccioso, featuring three performers at each piano.

The evening will also feature well-known tunes such as Skip to My Lou, Stars Stripes Forever, two modern praise songs, and a hymn in which the audience will be encouraged to join in singing, accompanied by eight pianos and the organ.

Students and employees are entitled to one complimentary ticket. Additional tickets may be purchased for $12 (general admission), $8 (seniors and alumni) and $6 (students and children under 12). They may be purchased online at this link or by calling 503-554-3844.

The 24-hour space in the library will be unavailable in the evening on Friday, Jan. 17, due to the “Loudest Dance” event. The library will reopen at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 18.

Questions? Contact Mary Cameron at mcameron@georgefox.edu.

The library has three faculty study rooms available for those needing a quiet area for study and research. The study rooms may be reserved for one semester at a time (fall, spring, summer).

If you are interested in requesting a room for next year, please fill out this form. Requests will be prioritized on a first-come, first-served basis. Please note that the form requires a George Fox email address.

Questions? Contact Mary Cameron at mcameron@georgefox.edu.

The city of Newberg will be replacing a water meter outside the Stevens Center this Friday, Jan. 17. The water will be off in the entire building from 9 a.m. to noon.

Restrooms will be available in the Hoover building during that time. Questions? Contact Dixie Downey at ddowney@georgefox.edu.

Group fitness classes in the Hadlock Student Center start this week! In addition to our regular classes, we are adding several new classes in the next few weeks (zumba and barre) and some fantastic new instructors.

Group fitness classes are a great way to follow through on your new year’s resolutions or get in shape and make new friends! To sign up for a class, log in to imleagues.com.

Questions? Contact the group fitness coordinator, Kiana Rasubala, at groupfitness@georgefox.edu.

Night to Shine, a prom for teens and adults with special needs, is almost here! The event is happening at Northwest Christian Church from 5 to 9 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 7, and we need volunteers to make it happen.

Every guest of Night to Shine enters this event on a red carpet complete with a warm welcome from a friendly crowd and paparazzi. Once inside, guests receive the royal treatment, including hair and makeup stations, limousine rides, crowns and tiaras, a karaoke room, a catered dinner and dancing.

We cannot make Night to Shine happen without our hundreds of volunteers. If you would like to be a part of Night to Shine 2020, click this link to register.

Questions? Contact Katlyn Kronschnabl at katlyn.kronschnabl@gmail.com.

The university’s Department of Biology and Chemistry invites you to join us for the 10th annual Dalton Lecture at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 27, in Bauman Auditorium. Admission is free.

The presentation, titled “The True Story of Science and Faith,” will be delivered by Ian Hutchinson, a professor of nuclear science and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He will discuss how the widely presumed “warfare myth” that science and religion are at odds is a distortion of both science and faith.

In truth, Hutchinson argues, their relationship is a complex story that ultimately leads to the affirmation that God is revealed both in the “Book of His Word” (the Bible) and the “Book of His Works” (nature).

The lecture is one of two Hutchinson will present on campus. He will also speak at 3 p.m. that Monday afternoon on “Star Power! Scientific Frontiers of Fusion Energy” in Bauman Auditorium.

More information is available on the Dalton Lecture Series webpage. Questions? Call Vetta Berokoff at 503-554-2710.

The George Fox theatre department opens its winter production The Shakers of Mount Lebanon Will Hold a Peace Conference This Month at the end of January. Come join us for this Big Bridge Theatre Consortium play that tells the story of a Shaker community in crisis in the early 20th century.

The show runs in Wood-Mar Auditorium Jan. 30 through Feb. 1 and Feb. 6-8 at 7:30 p.m., and will also include 2 p.m. matinee performances on Sunday, Feb. 2, and Sunday, Feb. 9. Open captioning will be available for select shows.

Students get their own tickets free on both Thursdays, Jan. 30 and Feb. 6. Each student must purchase his or her own ticket using their George Fox email address, and they must bring their ID with them to the door.

Employees are provided with one complimentary ticket for any of the shows. Like students, employees need to order tickets using their George Fox email address and bring their ID to the door.

Reserve your seat online or pick them up at the box office in the Bruin Store (10 a.m. to 2 p.m.). See you at the show!

The university community is invited to a special presentation, “King’s Speech: Preaching Reconciliation in a World of Violence and Chasm,” at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 20, in Hoover 105.

Presenting will be George Fox’s own Sunggu Yang, an assistant professor of Christian ministries. He is the author of two books, King’s Speech: Preaching Reconciliation in a World of Violence and Chasm (2019) and Evangelical Pilgrims from the East: Faith Fundamentals of Korean American Protestant Diasporas (2016), and two books that are in progress, Picasso and Preaching: An Aesthetic Homiletic for the 21st Century and Sacred Waters: Pastoral Essays for Aspiring Preachers.

To learn more about Yang, visit this page. For more information on the event, part of the President’s Speaker Series, contact Missy Terry at terrym@georgefox.edu.

The first round of spring intramural sports starts on Tuesday, Jan. 21. The Hadlock Student Center will be hosting 3-on-3 basketball (women’s and men’s divisions) and 4-on-4 volleyball.

Grab some friends and put a team together or join as a free agent! Sign-ups are on IMLeagues.com and close this Saturday, Jan. 18, at midnight.

Questions? Contact intramurals coordinator Ryan Lacey at intramurals@georgefox.edu.

The university community is invited to a special guest lecture, “The Gardeners’ Dirty Hands: Environmental Politics & Christian Ethics,” on Thursday, Jan. 23, at 7 p.m. in Canyon Commons.

Presenting will be Noah Toly, professor of urban studies and politics & international relations at Wheaton College, where he directs the Center for Urban Engagement. In his lecture, Toly will offer an interpretation of environmental governance that draws upon insights into the tragic – the need to forego, give up, undermine, or destroy one or more goods in order to possess or secure one or more other goods.

Toly will engage Christian and classical Greek ideas of the tragic to illuminate the enduring challenges of environmental politics. He’ll suggest that Christians have unique resources for responsible engagement with global environmental politics while acknowledging the need for mutually agreed, and ultimately normative, restraints.

Toly is being hosted by the William Penn Honors Program. To learn more about his visit, visit this link.

In consultation with student government, campus public safety, plant services, and residence life, we have made minor card lock changes for residence halls for safety and security reasons.

• External main lobby entrances: All undergraduate students, regardless of where they live, will have 24/7 access through their cards.
• Internal doors will be locked 24/7. Residents of that floor will have 24/7 card access. All undergraduate students will have card access during posted visitation hour access.

Questions? Contact David Johnstone at djohnsto@georgefox.edu.