The Daily Bruin

Tomorrow is the day! Hear from Norah Otondo, the program director for Quilts for Empowerment, about her journey of faith and resilience in the face of stigmatization and suffering at 7 p.m. in the Intercultural Resource Center.

QFE is a local nonprofit that works toward personal and economic empowerment for sexual assault and obstetric fistula survivors in Kenya. This is Norah’s first time traveling outside of Africa to share her story.

If you would like to hear a voice that often goes unheard, engage in discussions at a multicultural event, see the beautiful art quilts created by survivors, and learn how QFE is empowering women, then please come!

Light refreshments and good company will be present. Elective chapel credit is offered.

Contact Justine Hostetler (jhostetler16@georgefox.edu) for more information.

Do you want to help elevate our students’ work-study experience here at Fox?

If you answered “Yes” to this question, sign up to attend a student supervisor training. During this time together, we will cover the following:

• George Fox workplace culture
• Student employee hiring process
• Coaching student employees
• Corrective action process

Please take a moment to sign up for one of the selected dates here.

If you have any questions, please contact Kasondra Silva via email at ksilva@georgefox.edu.

Save the date for our holiday chapels! Thanksgiving Chapel is on Tuesday, Nov. 20, at 10:50 a.m., and Christmas Chapel is set for Tuesday, Dec. 4, at 10:50 a.m.

Join us for communion and testimonies of gratitude as we prepare our hearts for the Thanksgiving holiday. We encourage employees to attend these holiday chapels!

Make plans to attend the Department of Music’s Chamber Concert, featuring a diverse collection of George Fox’s vocal, string and keyboard musicians, tomorrow (Thursday) at 7:30 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium.

Admission is free! For more information, contact Danielle Warner (dwarner@georgefox.edu).

Would you like to help our exercise science students learn while improving your own health? Health and Human Performance and Employee Empowerment are partnering to offer employees the chance to participate in an exciting new health and wellness program.

As part of the program, you will have an appointment in the exercise science laboratory to get a comprehensive health and fitness assessment that includes the following measurements: blood pressure, blood glucose, body composition, resting electrocardiogram, resting metabolic rate, cardio-respiratory fitness, muscular strength, and flexibility.

Following these measurements, an exercise science student will develop a customized two-month exercise prescription based on your measurements. Following this two-month program, you will have a chance to perform follow-up assessments to measure your progress. The goals of the program are to improve your aerobic and muscular fitness, health and well-being!

If you would like to learn more, click here to receive the details of the program. We can only serve the first 30 to respond, so do not wait! The deadline to sign up is Monday, Nov. 19.

For more information, please contact Mary Imboden, assistant professor of exercise science, at mimboden@georgefox.edu.

The university community is invited to a special William Penn Honors Program lecture featuring Bradley Campbell, coauthor of The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars, in Hoover 105 at 7:30 p.m. tonight (Wednesday). The title of his presentation is “Dignity, Victimhood and the Future of the University.”

Campbell, a sociologist, will discuss the challenges that new moral concepts and related trends are posing to scholarship, free speech and students’ well-being at contemporary universities, along with some possible solutions. The lecture is free and open to the public.

For more information, contact Helen Morse (hmorse@georgefox.edu).

Do you like pizza? Of course you do! Come support the Haiti SpiL trip team at Round Table Pizza in Newberg between 4 and 9 p.m. today (Wednesday).

The Haiti team will be going to the country this winter break to provide health education, host youth conferences, and help with the needs of the nonprofit organization MamaBaby Haiti. Mention you are there to support the Haiti team and 20 percent of your purchase will go toward supporting the team!

See you there! Contact Amanda Heckmann (aheckmann14@georgefox.edu) for more information.

Do you want to help elevate our students’ work-study experience here at Fox?

If you answered “Yes” to this question, sign up to attend a student supervisor training. During this time together, we will cover the following:

• George Fox workplace culture
• Student employee hiring process
• Coaching student employees
• Corrective action process

Please take a moment to sign-up for one of the selected dates here.

If you have any questions, please contact Kasondra Silva via email at ksilva@georgefox.edu.

The entire George Fox community is invited to join together to sing Christmas carols and enjoy cookies and hot cocoa on Friday, Nov. 30, from 5 to 6 p.m. in Pennington Plaza on the Newberg campus.

Join us as we celebrate the start of the holiday season with a Christmas tree-lighting ceremony. Contact Hannah Butler (hbutler@georgefox.edu) or Michelle Dawson (mdawson@georgefox.edu) with any questions.

Good news! Information Services is here to help! We have resources to assist you in finding:

• Employee extensions
• Campus box numbers
• Department/employee locations
• Name pronunciations

Follow these steps to check out resources available to employees in the Data Wiki on the George Fox website.

1. Click on this link to go to the Data Wiki and login using your George Fox username and password.
2. You will be redirected to the “Main Page” where you will find links to these documents under “Resources”:

• Employee Extension/Box List (this can also be found here, on our main web page, no login required)
• Employee Location by Department
• Employee Name Pronunciation Guide

Questions? Email Barbi Doran at bdoran@georgefox.edu.

The School of Physical Therapy is excited to host Dr. Kim E. Eppen, physical therapist and clinical specialist at the University of Iowa, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 15, in Canyon Commons 101.

Dr. Eppen will present the topic “Exercise Prescription in Chronic Disease.” The primary objectives for this lecture are to identify the relationship between inactivity and chronic disease, discuss physical activity guidelines for “general health benefits,” and discuss the role of physicians and other healthcare providers in assessing and prescribing physical activity/exercise for prevention and/or management of chronic disease.

Everyone is encouraged to attend this free event. Light refreshments will be served.

Questions? Contact Linda Dallof at ldallof@georgefox.edu.

Fall Retreat is this weekend! Did you register?

The theme for this year’s retreat is R E S T, which comes from Mark 6:31, where Jesus says, “Let’s go off by ourselves to a quiet place and rest awhile.” We will spend the weekend learning to lean into the belief that God is the ultimate provider of rest.

The retreat will be Nov. 9-11 at Twin Rocks Camp. This will be a time carved out especially for you and your needs in this busy season. There will be worship, a speaker, fun activities and fellowship with one another.

For more info or if you have questions, go to this link under the “Get Involved” tab. To register and pay, follow this link.

We hope you can make it! Faculty, please tell your students about this opportunity.

For more information, contact SpIL (spirituallife@georgefox.edu).

The Graduate School of Physical Therapy is excited to present its fifth annual research symposium on Tuesday, Dec. 4, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in Canyon Commons 101 and 102. Physical therapy doctoral faculty and students will showcase nine rehabilitation research topics. Light refreshments will be served.

Please contact Linda Dallof at 503-554-2451 or ldallof@georgefox.edu with any questions.

Summer Service and Immersion (SpIL) trip applications are open! These are two- to three-week-long trips in May and June. This year we are going to Romania/Moldova with Word Made Flesh, Kenya with Open Arms International, and Israel/Palestine with Global Immersion.

To learn more about these trips, join us for an info session tomorrow (Tuesday) immediately after chapel in Bauman Auditorium (11:45 a.m.).

Applications can be found at georgefox.edu/spiltrips. Applications are due Dec. 1, 2018! Teams begin preparing fundraising campaigns in December before winter break.

For more information, visit our website or email Monik Kadarmanto (mkadarmanto@georgefox.edu). Faculty, please encourage students to apply.

The Nutrition Matters grant at George Fox is sponsoring upcoming cooking demonstrations. If you would like to learn how to make a healthy meal, join us in Canyon Commons on Thursday, Nov. 8, from 5 to 6 p.m. to learn how to make breakfast food!

Emily Forbes, a George Fox alumna and local nutritionist, is passionate about helping students learn to make healthy meals. You will walk away with knowledge on how to make a dish, a sample and the recipe! It’s like watching a cooking show, but you actually get to taste the food! Join us!

Any questions should be directed to Kristi Welker at kwelker@georgefox.edu.

George Fox Library’s “Fox at the Fireside” event is back this year with another round of exciting guests!

This Friday, Nov. 9, from 3 to 4 p.m., gather around the Murdock Library fireplace with coffee and light refreshments to chat with Guadalupe García McCall, award-winning young adult fiction author and assistant professor of English, about her latest books!

Her novel, Shame the Stars (Tu Books, 2016), was chosen as Texas’ Great Read 2018 by the Center for the Book in affiliation with Texas State Library and the Library of Congress. Her most recent novel, All the Stars Denied (Tu Books, 2018), has already received a starred review from School Library Journal. She will read selections from these two novels, share some stories, and open the space for further conversation around the fireplace.

For more information, visit this link.

The Health and Counseling Center will be joining forces with the School of Nursing for two flu shot clinics on campus.

Get your flu shot for $20 (free for students on PacificSource student insurance plan) on either Thursday, Nov. 8, or Thursday, Nov. 15, between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. The Nov. 8 session will be in Canyon Commons; the Nov. 15 clinic will be in Roberts 117.

Nursing students will administer the vaccinations while under the direct supervision of nursing faculty as well as the university’s school nurse. Come support our nursing students!

Contact Molly Hickok (mhickok@georgefox.edu) for more information.

George Fox partners with Hillsboro Airporter to provide shuttle service to Portland International Airport. Students will be expected to work directly with Hillsboro Airporter to reserve their spot.

Here are the details:

• Each shuttle can fit five to six passengers. The cost per student is based on the total number of passengers during the scheduled times, so if you can fill one shuttle, the cost per student could be as low as $15 (if you have a total of six passengers). Cost for one student is $65.
• Make your reservations more than 24 hours in advance and Hillsboro Airporter can group you together. To reserve your spot, go online to Hillsboro Airporter & Car Service LLC.
• Hillsboro Airporter accepts cash or credit card for payment. Parents can call Hillsboro Airporter with a credit card to pay for their student’s fare.
• Hillsboro Airporter has 24/7 service. It will work with students and their families, putting students together to lower the cost of the fare.

Other options for transportation can be found on this website. Questions? Contact the Office of Student Life (jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2316).

Do you like pizza? Of course you do! Come support the Haiti SpiL trip team at Round Table Pizza in Newberg between 4 and 9 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 7.

The Haiti team will be going to the country this winter break to provide health education, host youth conferences, and help with the needs of the nonprofit organization MamaBaby Haiti. Mention you are there to support the Haiti team and 20 percent of your purchase will go toward supporting the team!

See you there! Contact Amanda Heckmann (aheckmann14@georgefox.edu) for more information.

The Bruin Store will be closed tomorrow (Tuesday) for our annual inventory. We will reopen on Wednesday, Nov. 7, with our normal store hours. You are always free to shop online at georgefoxshop.com.

Thanks and Go Bruins!

Contact Michael Simmons with any questions (msimmons@georgefox.edu).