The Daily Bruin

Come support men’s and women’s basketball at Bruin FanFest on Saturday, Jan. 26, in Wheeler Gymnasium. The event begins at 3:30 p.m., just prior to the 4 p.m. tip-off of the women’s basketball game against Lewis & Clark. The men will tip off at 6 p.m.

The activities will include:

• A Polaroid photo booth
• A bounce house
• A raffle and prizes  (show a picture with “Mama Bear” and get some free Stand Tall swag!)
• Crafts
• A henna tattoo artist
• Face painting
• A basketball shootout
• Cotton candy
• Exclusive Bruin FanFest T-shirt for sale ($6)
• And more!

All activities are free, and everyone who wears Bruin gear will get free admission to the basketball games!

Finally, the evening will also include a teddy bear toss, “Bruins and Bears,” during halftime of the women’s game, for which the school is collecting new teddy bears as a donation to sick children in hospitals. Teddy bears can be purchased beforehand and brought to the game, or at the ticket tables at the game.

Questions? Contact Mckenna Tillotson (mtillotson@georgefox.edu).

Please take note: The January all-employee meeting, originally scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 24, in Canyon Commons, has been canceled.

We will meet again in the same venue from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 28.

The university community is invited to Bauman Auditorium for “An Evening of Jazz” featuring saxophonist and flutist Erica von Kleist at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 26.

Von Kleist will play with the university’s Jazz Ensemble and Faculty Jazz Quartet. She is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music and established herself early on in her career on the New York jazz scene.

She has performed, toured and made Grammy-Nominated recordings with various artists, including the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society, Chris Potter, Sean Jones, Seth MacFarlane, and Rufus Reid.

Students and employees are entitled to one complimentary ticket. Additional tickets can be purchased here.

In addition to the concert, von Kleist is doing a masterclass on Friday, Jan. 25, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in Ross 208. School-age students who come (middle schoolers and high schoolers) can get a voucher for a free ticket to the concert.

Volleyball’s rise in popularity over the past 30 years has created a growing need to better understand the biomechanical causes for shoulder injuries, particularly in youth volleyball players.

The biomedical engineering program is inviting a candidate to speak to how their research lab uses motion capture to analyze the mechanics of hitting a volleyball with the goal of creating better best-practices guidelines for strength and conditioning and repetition counts.

Join us from 3 to 4 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 24, in EHS 102 to hear about several ongoing experiments in the lab, including using impulse and momentum techniques to estimate the forces on the body during a hit and ways to compare variation in types of motions. The presentation will highlight connections between the undergraduate engineering curriculum and the research techniques.

Questions? Contact Adina McConaughey (amcconaughey@georgefox.edu).

The Office for Spiritual Life is looking for post-college Life Group leaders for our six-week spring Life Groups (the weeks of Feb. 11 through March 22). Life Groups are small groups of undergraduate students who meet together for prayer, Bible study and fellowship.

Groups meet weekly for 60 to 90 minutes at the time and location of your choosing. Participants will select the group they wish to participate in based on the details that leaders provide.

We welcome our employees, alumni, family members of George Fox employees and students, and members of our wonderful local churches to consider leading a group. Our spring leader meeting will take place on Thursday, Jan. 31, from noon to 1:30 p.m., and lunch will be provided.

For more information and to sign up, visit this webpage or contact the Office for Spiritual Life at spirituallife@georgefox.edu.

The politics department invites the university community to a special guest lecture, “Will America Ban Hate Speech?,” at 7 p.m. tonight (Tuesday) in Hoover 105.

Presenting will be Arthur Milikh, associate director and research fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s B. Kenneth Simon Center for Principles and Politics. Milikh conducts research on America’s founding principles, oversees the center’s research portfolio, and gives talks on the tenets of the American political tradition to policymakers, political leaders and the public.

Contact Angela Umfleet at 503-554-2678 for more information.

Interested in mentoring children in foster care? Come to a training and get certified to serve with Foster Parents’ Night Out. Sign up using this link. The training is scheduled from 6 to 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 24, in Lemmons 5.

Contact Cana Buckley (cbuckley17@georgefox.edu) with any questions.

Night to Shine is back on Friday, Feb. 8! Night to Shine is a special-needs prom sponsored by the Tim Tebow Foundation, complete with a red-carpet entrance, limos, dinner, professional hair and makeup, karaoke and lots of dancing!

We are looking for volunteers to be buddies to our special guests. We also have many other volunteer opportunities. To sign up to volunteer, go to newbergcc.org/ntsvolunteer. Have questions? Contact Katlyn Kronschnabl at katlyn@newbergcc.org.

The George Fox theatre department opens its winter musical Jane Eyre this month. Come join us for a compelling and powerful musical adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s masterpiece.

The show runs in Wood-Mar Auditorium Jan. 31 through Feb. 2 and Feb. 7-9 at 7:30 p.m., and will also include 2 p.m. matinee performances on Sunday, Feb. 3, and Sunday, Feb. 10. Open captioning will be available for the shows on Feb. 3 and Feb. 7.

Student tickets are free both Thursdays, Jan. 31 and Feb. 7. Bring your student ID to the door. Employees are provided with one complimentary ticket for any of the shows.

Reserve your seat online and bring your George Fox ID with you to show at the door. You may also purchase additional tickets online. Tickets are also available for pick-up at the box office in the Bruin Store (10 a.m. to 2 p.m.).

For more information, visit this page. See you at the show!

There is still time to put together an intramural volleyball team. Sign-ups are on IM Leagues, and they close today (Monday) at midnight. Games begin tomorrow in the Hadlock Student Center.

If you have any questions, email intramurals@georgefox.edu.

The university community is invited to the Chehalem Cultural Center to commemorate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., today (Monday). This year’s theme is “A Message of Hope.”

In addition to spoken word, musical and vocal performances, we are excited to welcome our guest speaker, Miles K. Davis, president of Linfield College. Doors open at 5:30 p.m.; the program begins at 6 p.m., followed by a reception and resource fair. The center is located at 415 E. Sheridan St.

Contact Rick Muthiah at rmuthiah@georgefox.edu for more information.

On Tuesday, Feb. 19, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the IDEA Center is hosting its third annual Job & Internship Fair. Employers from the Portland area and beyond will be on campus to talk with students from all majors, looking to recruit for various jobs and internships.

This is an amazing opportunity for our students to connect with industry-leading companies right here on campus. If you could, please encourage your students to register for this event through Handshake. Your partnership is much appreciated!

We would love to provide resume help/preparation before the event so they can go into the fair feeling confident.

Questions? Contact Grace Tissell at gtissell@georgefox.edu.

Be sure to join us for the staff lunch tomorrow (Tuesday) at noon in Canyon Commons 101-102. We’d love to have you join us for fellowship and a delicious meal! The cost is $3 (cash, check, debit or credit).

If you forgot to RSVP last week, you can still do so at this link. See you there!

The Bruin Den, Bruin Bites and Bridge Cafe will all be closed on Monday, Jan. 21, in observance of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

All three cafes will resume normal hours of operation on Tuesday. We would also like to thank you for your patience and understanding this past week while the Bruin Bites was closed. It will be open again starting Tuesday, Jan. 22!

There is still time to put together an intramural volleyball team. Sign-ups are on IM Leagues, and they close this Monday, Jan. 21, at midnight. Games begin on Tuesday, Jan. 22, in the Hadlock Student Center.

If you have any questions, email intramurals@georgefox.edu.

The university’s offices and libraries will be closed Monday, Jan. 21, to observe the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

On the Newberg campus, the Hadlock Student Center will be open from noon to 11 p.m. that day, and the Bruin Store will be open from noon to 2 p.m. In-store pick-up orders can be retrieved during those hours in the store (no longer in the FoxHole).

The politics department invites the university community to a special guest lecture, “Will America Ban Hate Speech?,” at 7 p.m. this Tuesday, Jan. 22, in Hoover 105.

Presenting will be Arthur Milikh, associate director and research fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s B. Kenneth Simon Center for Principles and Politics. Milikh conducts research on America’s founding principles, oversees the center’s research portfolio, and gives talks on the tenets of the American political tradition to policymakers, political leaders and the public.

Contact Angela Umfleet at 503-554-2678 for more information.

We are now taking applications for spring break serve trips! SpiL trips are week-long trips March 24-31.

This year, we are going to:

• Urban Impact (Seattle)
• Outdoor Oregon (Ashland, Oregon)
• Camp Attitude (Foster, Oregon)
• Mending Wings (Wapato, Washington)
• Portland 101 (Portland)

Applications to be a student leader are also available. If you have been on a trip before, consider joining a team as a student leader! Applications can be found on the SpiL website.

Applications are open through February. For more information or if you have any questions, email Monik Kadarmanto at mkadarmanto@georgefox.edu.

Faculty, please encourage students to apply!

If you are interested in learning what it means to be an ally, please come join us for a conversation with our “allyship panel” from 4 to 5:30 p.m. today (Friday) in Canyon Commons’ banquet room.

You will be hearing from students and faculty about their experiences of either having been or being an ally. The goal is to better educate our campus on the importance of being an ally to better support our students of color. Everyone is welcome!

Contact Jessica Coyne (jcoyne17@georgefox.edu) for more information.

Writing is one of the highest-impact learning practices, regardless of discipline. And writing skills make your students more employable. But the key is for them to practice writing as often as possible over the entirety of their college education. You don’t need to be an expert in writing to assign writing in your course and help students.

Sponsored by the Academic Resource Center and the Department of English, a faculty development series, “Integrating Writing in the Classroom,” offers workshops for creating effective writing assignments in any course and training in best practices for responding and grading students’ writing. The series is appropriate both for faculty who want to know basic foundational concepts or are a seasoned teacher looking for new ideas.

Sessions are scheduled on three successive Tuesdays, on Jan. 22, Jan. 29 and Feb. 5, between 10:50 and 11:50 a.m. in EHS 325.

• Session 1: Designing Writing Assignments that Engage Students as Learners, Thinkers, and Writers
• Session 2: Reading, Commenting On, and Grading Student Writing
• Session 3: Workshop a Writing Assignment for Your Class

Each session satisfies one hour of faculty development credit. Brooks Lampe will be serving as instructor.

Click this link to sign up, and contact Brooks Lampe (blampe@georgefox.edu) or Julia James (jjames@georgefox.edu) with any questions.