The Daily Bruin

The Wheeler Fitness Center will be open limited hours, from 4 to 11 p.m., tomorrow (Wednesday) due to Serve Day.

All George Fox employees (.5 FTE and above) have been emailed with their Serve Day placement. Please make sure to find this email and review the logistics so you are well prepared. Many placement details are also posted here for review.

Please note that employees may swing by Canyon Commons from 7 to 8:10 a.m. to pick up a free breakfast. Packed lunches will also be available for purchase by card/cash for $6.75. Please return to the quad to eat your breakfast, enjoy a coffee, and prepare for the Kickoff Celebration at 8:30 a.m. Teams will depart from the quad.

Questions? Feel free to contact serveday@georgefox.edu.

After your team returns to campus from Serve Day on Wednesday, Sept. 14, please join us for a 125th Anniversary Celebration! A birthday picnic will will be free for all George Fox employees, students and children under 12. Additional family members or guests may purchase a meal ticket for $5. Balloons, cake, festivities and a visit from Newberg’s mayor are all in order. Join us!

Questions? Feel free to contact serveday@georgefox.edu.

All are welcome to the semester’s third Liberal Arts and Critical Issues presentation tonight (Monday), when Caitlin Corning, professor of history at George Fox, speaks on the topic “Highlights of the History of Islam” in Hoover 105. The same presentation will be made from 5 to 6 p.m. and from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.

The theme for this semester’s LACI series is “Islam and the West.” For more information, contact Laurie Fair at lfair@georgefox.edu.

Tonight (Monday) at the Chehalem Cultural Center, designer Kathy Mueller will be speaking about her life as a designer and educator. She is practicing in Philadelphia and teaches at Temple University School of Media & Communication.

Mueller’s work has been acknowledged by organizations that include AIGA, Art Directors Club and Type Directors Club, and it has appeared in PRINT, Applied Arts, HOW Books and Rockport publications.

Join us tonight from 6 to 7 p.m. in the ballroom of the Cultural Center (415 E. Sheridan St.)!

Questions? Contact Annie Lunt at alunt13@georgefox.edu.

You are invited to attend and help spread the word for a six-week leadership workshop that is being hosted by athletics. You don’t have to be an athlete or coach to be part of Bruins LEAD. It is simply an opportunity to develop your leadership skills.

We will take basic leadership concepts and spend one hour diving into details of how to develop responsible and respected leaders.

Each week, you will get to hear from one of our coaches on the following topics:

• Sept. 15 – Neal Ninteman on “Exploring Leadership and How to Get and Keep Yourself Motivated”
• Sept. 22 – Marty Hunter on “Confidence and Composure”
• Sept. 29 – Maco Hamilton on “How to Conduct Yourself With Class and Servant Leadership”
• Oct. 13 – Mike Meek on “How to Inspire Your Team and How to Build Winning Team Chemistry”
• Oct. 20 – Branden Thompson on “How to Get Your Teammates Back on Track”
• Oct. 27 – Jessica Hollen on “How to Manage Team Conflict”

All sessions take place from 8:40 p.m. to 9:40 p.m. in Hoover 102.

While some of the content may be specific to athletics and teams, we feel strongly that every person will end up working in a team at some point in their lives and this information can be relevant for everyone on campus.

Thursday, Sept. 15, is our first session. We would love to see you there!

Probably most important … there will be snacks!

Questions? Please contact Kelsea Meyers at kmeyers13@georgefox.edu.

Tomorrow (Tuesday) we are conducting out 10th annual “Burn in the Quad” with the fire department. As part of our fire safety initiatives, this is one of the more dramatic programs on campus, and one of the shortest (lasts about nine minutes). It will take place around 11:50 a.m.

Due to Serve Day, Mail Services will only be open from 2 to 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 14. You are free to pick up packages, but there will be no outgoing mail.

Questions? Contact Richard Silver at ext. 2551 or rsilver@georgefox.edu.

Sign up to serve as a Fox Friendship Family for one or two new international students. You do not have to be married and/or have kids to apply. Friendship families commit to hosting a student or two for dinner or an activity at least once per semester (one-year commitment).

Apply online here by Monday, Sept. 26. For more information, contact Tiona Cage at tcage@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2649.

The university community is invited to attend a free lecture featuring Todd Breyfogle, director of seminars at the Aspen Institute. The lecture will be at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 15, in Hoover 105.

Breyfogle will speak on “The Earthly City and the Ethics of Exchange: Augustine on the Spiritual Economy.” He earned a BA at Colorado College in classics-history-politics and attended Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, where he read ancient and modern history and patristic and modern theology. Breyfogle earned a PhD at the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought and has written numerous essays and book chapters about St. Augustine.

A reception will immediately follow the lecture. Program director Joseph Clair will be in attendance.

Questions? Contact Jocelyn Stein at jstein@georgefox.edu.

Know students who need help with APA style for writing assignments? Encourage them to attend a workshop this Thursday, Sept. 15.

Sue O’Donnell, associate professor of psychology, will cover American Psychological Association citation and reference formatting, along with several guidelines for writing in APA style, at an Academic Resource Center-sponsored workshop, “Using APA Format Effectively,” from 10:50 to 11:40 a.m. in Hoover 105.

Questions? Contact Rick Muthiah at rmuthiah@georgefox.edu.

After your team returns to campus from Serve Day on Wednesday, Sept. 14, please join us for a 125th Anniversary Celebration! A birthday picnic will will be free for all George Fox employees, students and children under 12. Additional family members or guests may purchase a meal ticket for $5. Balloons, cake, festivities and a visit from Newberg’s mayor are all in order. Join us!

Questions? Feel free to contact serveday@georgefox.edu.

All George Fox employees (.5 FTE and above) have been emailed with their Serve Day placement for Wednesday, Sept. 14. Please make sure to find this email and review the logistics so you are well prepared. Many placement details are also posted here for review.

Please note that employees may swing by Canyon Commons from 7 to 8:10 a.m. to pick up a free breakfast. Packed lunches will also be available for purchase by card/cash for $6.75. Please return to the quad to eat your breakfast, enjoy a coffee, and prepare for the Kickoff Celebration at 8:30 a.m. Teams will depart from the quad.

Questions? Feel free to contact serveday@georgefox.edu.

A Grandpa Roy Memorial display has been constructed near the front desk of the Murdock Learning Resource Center (library). Students and employees are invited to stop by to learn more about the life of Roy Hiebert, who was a constant presence on this campus for more than 40 years before passing away in June.

On display is the briefcase he carried every day on his visits to campus. Those who wish to are invited to write a note, a memory, or a thought and leave it with the display. Please feel free to bring your own cards or use the note cards provided. Everything left will be given to Grandpa Roy’s family.

Contact Rachel Thomas at rthomas@georgefox.edu with any questions.

Life Groups are in high demand with our undergraduates this fall! We are only a few days into our promoting period and already all of our evening Life Groups are full.

We still have space in most of our daytime Life Groups, but we could use a few more faculty/staff/spouses/alumni members to offer evening groups ,either in their home or on campus. If you are interested, please sign up this week at this link.

We have a Life Group leader lunch today (Friday) from noon to 1:30 p.m. Groups begin the week of Sept. 18 and end the week of Nov. 7 (eight weeks in length).

Questions? Contact Jamie Noling-Auth at jnolingauth@georgefox.edu.

All are welcome to the semester’s third Liberal Arts and Critical Issues presentation this Monday, Sept. 12, when Caitlin Corning, professor of history at George Fox, speaks on the topic “Highlights of the History of Islam” in Hoover 105. The same presentation will be made from 5 to 6 p.m. and from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.

The theme for this semester’s LACI series is “Islam and the West.” For more information, contact Laurie Fair at lfair@georgefox.edu.

Eight staff and administrator positions are currently open. Listed in order of recency they are:

• Temporary Inquiry and Application Coordinator, Grad Admissions, Portland Center
• Senior Mail Services Specialist (internal candidates only)
• Custodian, Plant Services
• Nurse Practitioner / Physician’s Assistant
• Library Assistant II, Public Services, Half Time
• Groundskeeper, Plant Services
• Applications Analyst, Institutional Technology
• Associate Director of Annual Giving

The link to each of these position announcements can be found at jobs.georgefox.edu. If you know of someone you believe might provide a good fit for any of these jobs, please refer the person to the website for information about the job and instructions about applying.

Passport days are coming to the Newberg campus, and if you need a passport, you won’t want to miss it! Those of you who plan to go on any international trips, you will need a current passport.

On Oct. 27 and 28 a representative from the post office will be here to help you with applying for a new passport or updating your current one. Mark your calendar! More information to come later.

Know students looking for help with one of their classes? Encourage them to check out this link for times and locations of Math Lab, Business Lab, science help sessions, Bible help, and a new Open Study Table.

Note that Math Lab, Business Lab, and the Open Study Table are in a new location this year: the Roberts Center (the building past Canyon Commons). Entry for the evening labs and study table is from the south door of Roberts (toward Sherman Street).

If students have questions about any of these resources, they should contact the department that sponsors the lab or help session. For questions about the Open Study Table, contact Rick Muthiah at rmuthiah@georgefox.edu.

The Academic Resource Center (the ARC) is open Monday through Thursday, from 1 to 10 p.m., and Friday, from noon to 4 p.m. Students can schedule consultations for writing feedback, weekly academic coaching meetings, or general study help.

To make appointments, please visit arcschedule.georgefox.edu. If you are in need of an appointment or have any other ARC-related questions, please contact us at the_arc@georgefox.edu. For more information, including other campus tutoring services, visit arc.georgefox.edu.

We look forward to seeing you in the ARC this semester! Faculty, please let your students know about this resource.