The Daily Bruin

George Fox will serve as host for the final Richard Foster conference: “Empowering Spiritual Transformation in the Local Church: Celebrating 40 Years of Celebration of Discipline.” The event is scheduled for June 10-13. The $40 early registration break expires March 1, and 50 $100 scholarships have been offered to George Fox students, faculty and staff registering before May 1.

You can learn more about the conference here. Contact Paul Anderson (panderso@georgefox.edu) if you have questions.

Marketing Communications will be processing the next business card order on Wednesday, Feb. 14. Submit your request for business cards directly with B&B Print Source before Tuesday, Feb. 13.

Questions? Contact Danette Newkirk at dnewkirk@georgefox.edu.

Happy Saturday! Come out to the Bruin Lacrosse Fan Day today from noon to 1 p.m. at the Austin Sports Complex. Meet the 2018 Bruin team, enjoy a cup of hot chocolate, and learn more about the sport of lacrosse.

Contact Katie Mastropaolo (kmastropaolo@georgefox.edu) for more information.

All staff members are invited to attend this month’s staff lunch at noon on Thursday, Feb. 15, in Canyon Commons. The cost is $3, cash or check only. Please RSVP by noon on Monday, Feb. 12, using this RSVP link.

We hope to see you there!

– The Staff Development Committee

The Academic Resource Center (ARC) has started the hiring process for the 2018-19 academic year.

We are looking for students who are encouraging, organized, solid writers, and clear communicators. If you know a student who fits that description, please send his or her name to Maddie Lowen (mlowen@georgefox.edu).

We welcome applicants from all disciplines as we work to build a cross-disciplinary team.

The city of Newberg will close off Fulton Street to one lane on Tuesday, Feb. 13. Flaggers will be on hand to direct traffic, so expect major delays. Drivers are encouraged to use a different route, as the street will be one lane all day, starting at 7 a.m.

The closure will occur east of the Bauman parking lot entrance at the top of the hill, past Thomas Lane and the West Wheeler/LeShana parking lot entrance. Cars will be able to enter the Le Shana lot from the east entrance off Fulton Street. It is unclear if there will be access to the Wheeler Circle lot. Entrance to the Bauman parking lot will be unaffected.

Thank you for your patience as the city corrects an issue with their sewer line traveling across Fulton Street.

The music of Star Wars, Bach and Scott Joplin will fill the university’s Bauman Auditorium when a Monster Piano Concert takes the stage for the 12th annual Bösendorfer Concert Series at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 15.

The evening will feature 16 performers playing eight pianos, on many occasions simultaneously. Among those performing will be local organist Dan Miller, the piano duet team of Eduard Gavril and Sorin Frisan, the university’s String Ensemble and Keyboard Ensemble, George Fox alumni, and members of George Fox music professor Kenn Willson’s recruiting studio.

The program will feature pieces by John Williams, from the Star Wars films; Joplin’s ragtime classic The Entertainer; a Bach Concerto; the music of Dave Brubeck; Beethoven’s Für Elise, with a jazz arrangement for four pianos; and Bach’s Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring, featuring four pianos.

All employees and students are entitled to one free ticket. All tickets are reserved seating and are available at this link or at the University Box Office by calling 503-554-3844. To get your free ticket online, click “Okay” after making your seat selection, select “GFU Employee” or “GFU Student” in the drop-down menu on the ticket selection screen, and proceed to checkout.

Additional tickets are $12 for general admission, $8 for seniors and alumni, and $6 for students and children under 12.

More information about the evening and the concert series is available at this link.

The nursing group going on a serve trip to Kenya is hosting a bottle/can drive tomorrow (Saturday)! Please let us know if you would like us to come pick up your post-Super Bowl-party bottles/cans on or before Feb. 10!

Text “AfricaServe” to 503-863-0662 or to 253-766-9693 to request a pick-up service. We’ll be doing pick-ups between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.

Thanks! Contact Hannah Thom (hthom16@georgefox.edu) with any questions.

Want to learn more about the fastest-growing game in the country? Come out to the Bruin Lacrosse Fan Day tomorrow (Saturday) from noon to 1 p.m. at the Austin Sports Complex.

Meet the 2018 Bruin team, enjoy a cup of hot chocolate, and learn more about this exciting sport. See you on Saturday!

Contact Katie Mastropaolo (kmastropaolo@georgefox.edu) for more information.

The undergraduate admissions office is welcoming its second round of scholarship competitors today (Friday) for our annual Scholarship Competition. Please be considerate of guests by avoiding parking in the Stevens and Hoover parking lots these two days.

If you have any further questions, contact Kelly Friesen at kfriesen@georgefox.edu or ext. 2248.

Interested in learning more about technology and how it applies to the educational experience? You are invited to a free conference hosted by the Oregon Technology in Education Network (OTEN) on Saturday, Feb. 24, at Pacific University’s Forest Grove campus. George Fox is a founding member of the OTEN consortium.

The gathering will feature peer-reviewed presentations from university faculty and other educators from across Oregon and the Northwest. We would like to encourage faculty and staff who have been innovating with their teaching to register for the free half-day conference (8 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.).

For more information, please take a look at the conference website here.

The undergraduate admissions office is welcoming its second round of scholarship competitors today and tomorrow (Thursday and Friday) for our annual Scholarship Competition. Please be considerate of guests by avoiding parking in the Stevens and Hoover parking lots these two days.

If you have any further questions, contact Kelly Friesen at kfriesen@georgefox.edu or ext. 2248.

Please join us for the university libraries’ inaugural ​​”Fox @ the Fireside” event on Thursday, Feb. 15, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Murdock Learning Resource Center.

Gather around the fireplace with coffee and light refreshments to hear artist Jennifer Lichtenberg discuss her process and answer questions about her “I am afraid​” ​art ​exhibit on display for Black History Month beginning Feb. 9.

About the exhibit
During the 2016-17 academic year, the Graduate School of Counseling staff and faculty committed​ ​themselves​ ​to a book group, reading through and processing the work of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me. In the book, Coates addresses what it means to inhabit an African American body in today’s America. Jennifer created “I am afraid” in response to Coates’ work.

Check out additional resources on Black History Month and Dr. Clayborne Carson’s lecture on the “Fox @ the Fireside” LibGuide.

Questions? Email library@georgefox.edu.

What made a successful CPA, who was a partner at a top accounting firm, jump the career tracks and land at his alma mater as the director of athletics? Come find out at the next College of Business Industry Insiders event on Thursday, Feb. 15, from 11 to 11:50 a.m. in Canyon Commons 103.

Enjoy a great lunch and hear how Adam Puckett listened to God’s call as he made this seismic career jump. Will you have what it takes to follow God’s call in your life? Register here before noon on Tuesday.

Contact Colleen Sump (csump@georgefox.edu) for more information.

FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 8 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Wednesday, Feb. 14, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

During this maintenance update, Fall 2017 course sites will be hidden to students (current semester course sites will be unaffected and remain visible to students).

If you want to make any of those course sites visible to students after this update, select Administration>Edit settings. In the “General” section, look for the “Visible” setting and change “Hide” back to “Show.” Scroll to bottom and “Save changes.”

Questions? Email servicedesk@georgefox.edu or call 503-554-2569.

Graphic design and animation student Sydney Zuyus has designed a line of hand-inked cards, perfect for “ring by spring,” to give to your Sadies date, and just in time for Valentine’s Day!

Each one is $3, and there is free delivery to student boxes on campus. Email her at szuyus16@georgefox.edu for info, and check out her Facebook page, AnxiousArtwork, for designs!

The university’s Department of Biology and Chemistry invites you to join us for the eighth annual Dalton Lecture at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 22, in Bauman Auditorium. Come hear Dr. Simon Conway Morris, professor of evolutionary palaeobiology from the University of Cambridge, speak on the topic “Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe?”

Visit the Dalton Lecture webpage or contact Vetta Berokoff (vberokof@georgefox.edu) for more information.

The campus community is invited to upcoming Black Student Union events as we celebrate Black History Month in February. Join us for any of the following:

Friday, Feb. 16: Movie Night
BSU will be joining the international student organization to go see the movie Black Panther. We will provide a ticket and transportation, but only 10 spots are available. Sign up here.

Tuesday, Feb. 20: Matheteis
Ever heard of gentrification? If you have, join the Matheteis conversation about gentrification on Tuesday, Feb. 20, from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in Canyon Commons. If you haven’t, come anyway! Snacks and elective chapel credit offered!

Thursday, Feb. 22: Linfield Trip
We are going to Linfield to see Jane Elliot! We will join Linfield for their Black History Month celebration on Thursday,  Feb. 22. We will leave Stevens at 6:30 p.m. Food provided!

Friday, Feb. 23: Koinonia
Join us for the first-ever Koinonia featuring BSU from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in Canyon Commons. There will be free food, elective chapel credit and free T-shirts. The night will include dinner, worship (special guest), small-group discussions, and conversations around the “I’m Not Racist” video by Joyner Lucas.

Contact Romare Ashford (rashford16@georgfox.edu) with any questions.

George Fox will host the Oregon Symphony for the 31st appearance in Bauman Auditorium on Friday, Feb. 23, at 8 p.m. The concert is a gift from George Fox honorary board member Ken Austin, cofounder of A-Dec, with his late wife Joan.

A limited number of tickets have been provided for George Fox employees. Tickets are limited to two per employee on a first-come, first-served basis through the Office of Event Services, 1109 E. Hancock St. Reservations may be taken for the Portland Center only.

Remaining tickets (limit of additional two per person) will be available through Friday, Feb. 9. If you find you are not able to attend, please return your tickets for another employee to use.

Questions? Please contact Michelle Dawson at mdawson@georgefox.edu or ext. 2029.

Bob Gilmore, who began as a professor at George Fox in 1964 and who, in recent years, was known as a Spanish tutor and the man who would sing Happy Birthday to You to employees over the phone, died on Sunday, Feb. 4. A memorial service for Bob will be held on Saturday, Feb. 24, at 11 a.m. at Newberg Friends Church, 307 S. College St.

The university community is invited to attend.