The Daily Bruin

Tonight (Wednesday), residence life will offer a women’s self-defense class from 7 to 9:30 p.m. for George Fox students and employees (location TBA). Teaching it will be an officer in the Newberg-Dundee Police Department who has offered these classes in the local community for the last decade.

The class size will be limited. Female students can sign up (free of charge) in the student life office on the third floor of the Stevens Center. Participants will also be required to to sign a waiver form in order to participate. All participants need to be 18 years or older as of Dec. 6.

The class will involve a mixture of listening and practice. The instructor is able to modify and adapt techniques to match most physical limitations, so please do not self-select out of this training due to physical limitations.

If you have any questions, please contact David Johnstone at djohnsto@georgefox.edu.

The women’s basketball team is returning home this Saturday, Dec. 9, for a game against California-Santa Cruz. Come cheer on the basketball team in your best Christmas gear and compete in an Ugly Sweater Contest. Tip-off is at 4 p.m. in the Wheeler Sports Center.

As the Advent season begins this week, the Office for Spiritual Life would love to share the The Advent Project: A Collection of Meditations by George Fox University Students.

Each Sunday of Advent opens with a chapter title indicating the theme for the week and offering a guiding Bible passage from the Gospel of Luke. The student writers were nominated for this project by George Fox faculty and student life staff, and represent various academic majors and years in school.

We hope you enjoy!

Attention faculty: Sign up now for a special session of Search Advocate Training!

Rebecca Hernandez and Laura Hartley will offer a two-day training session Jan. 3-4, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., with breakfast and lunch provided both days! Join us and learn about the changing legal landscape in hiring, equitable hiring practices, and how you can better prepare yourself to be on a search committee.

If you’re interested, please click on this link. For more information, please contact Rebecca at rhernandez@georgefox.edu or Laurie Fair at lfair@georgefox.edu.

The undergraduate admissions office, in conjunction with the William Penn Honors Program, will welcome hundreds of guests for its second annual William Penn Honors Fellowship Day this Thursday and Friday, Dec. 7-8.

Please be considerate of our guests by avoiding parking in the Stevens and Hoover parking lots Thursday afternoon and all day Friday. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Kelly Friesen at ext. 2248 or kfriesen@georgefox.edu.

Come see what our engineering students have been working on this semester at the annual Wobble-Off and air engine display event tomorrow (Thursday) in the Engineering Innovation Center.

From 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., feel free to talk with freshmen as they display their working air engines. From 7 to 8:30 p.m, freshmen engineering students will compete with their air engines in multiple categories. Come cheer them on!

Contact Adina McConaughey (amcconaughey@georgefox.edu) for more information.

Tomorrow (Thursday), come support George Fox theatre’s honor society, Alpha Psi Omega, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. at the MOD Pizza in Sherwood (21370 S.W. Langer Farms Pkwy., #132). This fundraiser will help us raise money to go to the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival in February.

MOD will give 20 percent of what you spend back to us if you show our flier, so spread the news! To get the flier, either go to the main office in Minthorn or visit this Facebook event page to get a digital copy. The more people who know, the better! So, come and support our theatre students at MOD Thursday!

Contact Lauren Vander Aarde (lvanderaarde15@georgefox.edu) with questions.

If you have purchased a car in Oregon this past summer or fall, and have yet to register it with the State of Oregon DMV, please do so before Dec. 31, as registration and title fees are rising on Jan. 1!

If it has already been 30 days since you’ve purchased a vehicle and you have yet to register it, the DMV adds a $25 late fee. If it has been more than 60 days since you purchased the vehicle and you haven’t registered it, the late fee is $50 plus the registration fee and title fee. So, save yourself some money and get your cars registered within 29 days after purchase, and take care of it before year’s end.

– Security Services

The lost and found is again filled to the brim! Be sure to stop by the security office before you leave for Christmas break, as all unclaimed items will be donated to charitable organizations the afternoon of Dec. 15. If you have found items, please get them to the security office as soon as possible!

Questions? Contact Nadine Kincaid (nkincaid@georgefox.edu).

Newberg Curves (a locally owned, women-only gym) has offered to waive 100 percent of its enrollment fee for George Fox employees and students.

The business has scheduled the next two Thursdays (Dec. 7 and Dec. 14) as an open house specifically to accommodate the George Fox community. You may visit them either day from 6 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. or from 4 to 7 p.m. to take advantage of this offer!

Questions? Call Curves directly at 503-554-0899, or contact Darby Thiessen at ext. 2188.

Come join us at 10:10 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 7, as the theatre department presents its annual 10-minute play festival, Ten! Ten! Ten!

Six 10-minute plays, one night only (mature themes)! Cost is a $2 suggested donation. All plays will be performed in Wood-Mar Auditorium.

Contact Reid Arthur (rarthur16@georgefox.edu) with questions.

Tonight (Wednesday) is our last Vespers of the semester. Where did time go?!

Join us as we get into the Christmas spirit by singing Christmas carols and thinking about what Advent really means. Come fellowship with one another as we enjoy our last chapel gathering of the semester.
Hope to see you in Bauman Auditorium  at 7 p.m.!

The Bruin Store’s December two-day sale is your last chance to save on all George Fox apparel and gifts!

Get 25 percent off:

• Nike, Champion, League apparel
• All headwear (excluding cold-weather headwear)
• All drinkware (mugs, tumblers, water bottles)

Sale is valid in-store and online at georgefoxshop.com.

Note: The Bruin Store will be closed Wednesday, Dec. 6, for annual inventory and will reopen on Dec. 7. If you desire to shop and save on Dec. 6, shop at georgefoxshop.com!

Come and enjoy Christmas music during a special staff lunch today (Wednesday) at noon in Canyon Commons 101-102. Come take a break with coworkers while enjoying student-led Christmas music. Cost is only $3. See you there!

Contact Peg Hutton (phutton@georgefox.edu) with questions.

Come and enjoy Christmas music during a special staff lunch tomorrow (Wednesday) at noon in Canyon Commons 101-102. Come take a break with coworkers while enjoying student-led Christmas music. Cost is only $3. See you there!

Contact Peg Hutton (phutton@georgefox.edu) with questions.

Come see what our engineering students have been working on this semester at the annual Wobble-Off and air engine display event this Thursday, Dec. 7, in the Engineering Innovation Center.

From 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., feel free to talk with freshmen as they display their working air engines. From 7 to 8:30 p.m, freshmen engineering students will compete with their air engines in multiple categories. Come cheer them on!

Contact Adina McConaughey (amcconaughey@georgefox.edu) for more information.

Come out for the final Shalom of the semester tonight (Tuesday)! We’ll meet at 8:30 p.m. in Canyon Commons for a time of fellowship, worship and the Christmas spirit! See you there!

The Office for Spiritual Life has become aware of a need in the Newberg School District with regard to the upcoming holiday break. Forty-eight percent of students in the Newberg School District participate in the free lunch program, and 168 of the students experience homelessness.

Over the winter break, these children and families will have difficulty getting the meals that they need. The spiritual life office is collecting monetary donations and gift cards to local grocery stores and restaurants to aid our neighbors during the Christmas holiday. Please direct gift cards and/or donations to the Office for Spiritual Life before Dec. 15. Thank you!

Contact Jamie Noling-Auth (jnolingauth@georgefox.edu) with any questions.

The George Fox community is setting up a “Meal Train” for Tai and her family during the next few weeks. Please click on the link below to access the site for details and the opportunity to sign up for a meal.

Meal Train for Tai Harden-Moore and Family

You are welcome to prepare a meal or have takeout food delivered.

Please contact Jere Witherspoon (jwithers@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2316) if you have any questions.

As the Advent season begins this week, the Office for Spiritual Life would love to share the The Advent Project: A Collection of Meditations by George Fox University Students.

Each Sunday of Advent opens with a chapter title indicating the theme for the week and offering a guiding Bible passage from the Gospel of Luke. The student writers were nominated for this project by George Fox faculty and student life staff, and represent various academic majors and years in school.

We hope you enjoy!