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Would you like to pursue an advanced degree at Oxford or Cambridge at no cost? If so, come hear​ Joseph Clair, director of the William Penn Honors Program and recipient of the prestigious Gates Scholarship​, speak about what you should be doing as a first-, second-, or third-year student to prepare to apply for such scholarships.

Joseph will speak at 8 p.m. tonight (Wednesday) in Hoover 105. Pizza and drinks will be provided. If you have any questions, please contact Mark David Hall at mhall@georgefox.edu.

Faculty, please let your students know about this session.

Come join us from 1 to 3 p.m. on Halloween afternoon (Saturday) to harvest the last of our community garden produce and to put the garden to bed for the winter. We will have a variety of produce to take home, including potatoes, pumpkins and squash.

If you’ve been part of the garden since last spring and want to see how it’s grown, stop by! If you’ve never been to the garden but are interested in learning more, you are welcome to join! (Parents are welcome, too, since it’s Family Weekend.) The garden is located east of the Austin Sports Complex’s soccer field, in the field at the corner of Villa and Crestview.

Questions? Contact Cherice Bock at cbock@georgefox.edu.

Residence life, ASC and security services are teaming up to sponsor self-defense training for interested women on campus. The one-day session will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 7, at a location to be determined.

The training is relevant to all athletic and non-athletic types and can be modified to differing physical abilities and challenges. The class is limited to 20 women, and sign-ups are now open in the Office of Student Life.

The cost is $25 for non-undergraduates; there is no cost for undergraduate women. This is open to any female member of the George Fox community.

Questions? Contact Dave Johnstone at djohnsto@georgefox.edu.

Come learn how easy and delicious it is to cook healthy meals. Emily Forbes, a George Fox alumna, will demonstrate simple recipes while offering tips and tricks to empower you in your own kitchen. She will also give ideas on how to optimize your choices in “The Bon” for those on a meal plan. Free samples are provided each session, along with recipes.

Sessions take place from 6 to 7 p.m. in Hoover 105. Events are sponsored by the “Nutrition Matters” program.

Scheduled sessions:

• Wednesday, Oct. 28: Go to breakfast
• Wednesday, Nov. 4: “Soul bowl” basics (brown rice, black beans, etc.)
• Wednesday, Nov. 11: Super simple soup

Questions? Contact Marcella Loprinzi-Hatfield at mloprinzihatfield@georgefox.edu.

The university community is invited to an all-employee meeting from 3:30 to 5 p.m. this Thursday, Oct. 29, in Hoover 105. The event will be live-streamed at the Portland Center in Room 160.

Please join us for one (or all) of the upcoming William Penn Honors Program lectures.

Colin Noble: Friday, Oct. 30, 4:30 p.m. (Family Weekend), Hoover 105 (chapel credit available)
Noble, chaplain at William Clarke College in Sydney, Australia, will give a talk titled, “Resting for God.” He has spent the last three decades living on four continents and working in government, corporate, academic and pastoral settings.

After working in international banking in Tokyo for several years at the height of the Japanese economic boom, he pursued theological studies at Regent College. He then taught at the University of Sydney for 14 years before taking up his current position as chaplain to an educational community of 1,700 people, a role he has held since 2005.

Melissa Lane: Monday, Nov. 2, 7:30 p.m., Wood-Mar Hall
Lane, Class of 1943 Professor of Politics at Princeton University, will give a talk titled, “The Politics of Unsustainability: Plato on the Logic of Constitutional Change.” Lane’s books include The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter (Princeton, 2015); Eco-Republic (Princeton, 2012); Plato’s Progeny (Duckworth, 2001); and Method and Politics in Plato’s Statesman (Cambridge, 1998).

Wilfred M. McClay: Thursday, Nov. 5, 7:30 p.m., Hoover 105
McClay is the G.T. and Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty at the University of Oklahoma and also director of the Center for the History of Liberty. His talk is titled, “Why Religious Liberty Matters.” McClay’s book, The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America, won the Merle Curti Award of the Organization of American Historians for the best book in American intellectual history.

More about each speaker is available on this page. All events are free.

Questions? Please contact Jane Sweet at honors@georgefox.edu or call 503-554-2152.

Come wish Jan Lefebvre well as she retires from George Fox as an executive assistant in the advancement office. She has faithfully served at George Fox for almost 30 years. We wish her happiness and success in this next phase of life.

Please join us to celebrate her well-deserved retirement this Thursday, Oct. 29, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. (note new time) in the advancement office, located in the Meridian Street Building at 215 N. Meridian St.

See you there!

Please join us today (Tuesday) for the all-employee lunch between 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. in the Cap and Gown Room. The cost of lunch is $3. Hope to see you there!

How can the Pope claim to be infallible? Do we find ultimate authority in the Bible or tradition? What’s wrong with contraception?

Bring your tough and honest questions about Catholicism to a Q&A forum from 7 to 8:30 p.m. tonight (Tuesday) in Hoover 105. Rev. Gerard Olinger, VP for student affairs and assistant professor of political science at the University of Portland, will lead the event. Try to stump Father Gerry and his fellow priests!

The forum, hosted by the George Fox Catholic Campus Fellowship, will conclude with an explanation and celebration of the Catholic Mass. Chapel elective credit is available.

Contact Abigail Favale at afavale@georgefox.edu with inquiries.

Come see what’s new at the Bruin Store …

• Embroidered George Fox hats: $20
• Navy and gold coffee tumblers: $11.95
• Gray George Fox rain jackets: only $36

While you’re here check out our lounge area! We have great titles by fantastic authors such as C.S. Lewis, Parker Palmer, Richard Foster and Henri Nouwen. New titles are arriving daily.

FYI: Your Bruin Store will be getting a wider array of gifts and clothing in the coming days and weeks, so if you haven’t found what you’re looking for yet, chances are you will find it soon at your Bruin Store!

Would you like to pursue an advanced degree at Oxford or Cambridge at no cost? If so, come hear​ Joseph Clair​, director of the William Penn Honors Program and recipient of the prestigious Gates Scholarship​, speak about what you should be doing as a first-, second-, or third-year student to prepare to apply for such scholarships.

Joseph will speak at 8 p.m. this Wednesday, Oct. 28, in Hoover 105. Pizza and drinks will be provided. If you have any questions, please contact Mark David Hall at mhall@georgefox.edu.

Faculty, please let your students know about this session.

Chinese Lab is meeting tonight (Tuesday) from 7 to 8 p.m. in Lemmons 2. Come join us to learn some Chinese and enjoy free snacks and drinks.

Shalom this week is welcoming some special guests you won’t want to miss! We’re partnering with the International Justice Mission to bring Door to Grace here to speak with us about the work they do in downtown Portland, working with girls who are being sex trafficked.

If you would like to engage in discussion on justice in Portland and hear the stories of people who have dedicated their lives to working with this vulnerable population, come to the Cap and Gown Room at 9 p.m. tonight (Tuesday). We’ll see you there!

Questions? Contact Amanda Kitz at akitz13@georgefox.edu.

The Office of Marketing Communications is now accepting orders for university Christmas cards. You can see this year’s card here. (Note: To open the zip file, you must click the “Download” button located at center top of the screen). An image of the front of the card also appears on the request form.

Please submit your request at this link by Friday, Nov. 6. The cost will range between 50 and 75 cents per card.

Contact Danette Newkirk at dnewkirk@georgefox.edu with any questions.

The time has come once again to begin the process of selecting our undergraduate “Who’s Who” nominees for the 2015-16 academic year.

For those of you who have contact with our undergraduate population you have the opportunity to make nominations by selecting up to 20 students who you feel are worthy of recognition from the students who qualify for selection. These students are eligible for nomination and expect to graduate either midyear or spring (December 2015 or April 2016).

Please take a few minutes to make your selections for this award! You do NOT need to choose 20 students … just up to 20! Please mark your selections no later than Friday, Nov. 13, 2015. Please choose up to 20 but no more than 20 students.

Click on this link to make your selections:

Who’s Who Nomination Form

In addition, these students all have a cumulative GPA of at least 3.50 and have turned in their application for degree. Other criteria for choosing a student include their demonstration of:

• Personal integrity
• Involvement in the George Fox community
• Service to the community at large

A total of 155 students are eligible for nomination based on GPA alone. We will record the top-20 selections and determine the top-25 choices university-wide. We will then invite the top 25 students to respond. All students who respond will be awarded the “Who’s Who” honor.

(Please note: There may be others who qualify to be on this list, but because they have not registered for commencement at the time of the selection process, they are not on this list.)

Please contact Jere Witherspoon (jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu) in the student life office if you have any questions.

Join us for two special discussion sessions sponsored by the Office of Student Life:

Forum 1: Calling & Purpose
Thursday, Oct. 29
10:50 to 11:40 a.m.
EHS 125

A 30-minute video featuring Os Guiness, Jessica Kim and Scott Harrison. After the video, we’ll have a panel discussion featuring:

• Bree Stairs, area coordinator
• Mitzi Martinez, senior management major
• Joseph Clair, director, William Penn Honors Program

Forum 2: Leadership & Education – the Impact of Empathy
Thursday, Nov. 12, 10:50 a.m.
EHS 125

We’ll host a panel discussion featuring:

• Markayla Shattuck, junior psychology major
• Neal Ninteman, associate professor of civil engineering
• Kyle Webster, senior Christian ministries major
• Justine Haigh, associate professor of marketing & MBA director

Chapel credits are available for both events.

Questions? Contact Jere Witherspoon in the Office of Student Life at ext. 2316 or jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu.

Those using Fox360 will notice a few changes to the interface; these changes change the way you access student information from the Fox360 “My Students” page. To learn more about what has been updated, see the system provider’s review of new features.

Contact Rick Muthiah (rmuthiah@georgefox.edu) if you have questions.

Come hear a special speaker, Lutaaya Abdul, share about the work he is doing in Uganda through the African Hearts Orphanage. He will visit with us on Tuesday, Nov. 3, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in EHS 102.

Lataaya grew up in the slums of Kampala. He was introduced to Christ at a school that taught the gospel through music. Since then, he has started African Hearts Orphanage, an orphanage for vulnerable young people to improve their safety and physical, spiritual and emotional health and future well-being.

The organization’s target population is children who are living on the streets, many of whom have been orphaned by HIV or abandoned or victimized by family violence. The organization currently operates two homes housing former street children in Senge. Children living in these homes are taught the Bible and are provided with shelter, food, love and education. Lataaya’s visit is being sponsored by the Center for Study Abroad.

Questions? Contact Lynn Scott at lscott@georgefox.edu.

We will host some employers on campus this week specifically to talk to our students about exciting job opportunities! Encourage students to stop by the SUB to talk with them about what they do and how they can be a part of it. Sessions are from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. both days.

Tuesday, Oct. 27: Tektronix
This company is looking for electrical and computer engineers interested in software and/or hardware, as well as mechanical engineers interested in small-scale mechanical design, thermal design, EMC and electrical interconnect systems.

Wednesday, Oct. 28: UPS
UPS is looking for students in all majors, offering part-time paid positions that also provide excellent education assistance programs to help you pay for school.

More information is available at the IDEA Center or by contacting Kaitlyn Ragan (kragan@georgefox.edu).

Faculty, please let your students know about these opportunities.

There’s still one more opportunity to attend an Internship and Career Fair at Portland State University this Thursday, Oct. 29! There will be nearly 100 employers who are looking to hire students for internships and full-time positions. Come to network and learn from industry guests about different careers and companies!

Take a look at this link to see who will be there. If you are interested in going, please let us know by filling out this form. The IDEA Center will be providing free transportation (leaving at 10 a.m.)​ and name tags for students who sign up. The event runs from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The IDEA Center would love to help you prepare! Come by to see how a career coach can help get you ready to make a great impression with employers.

Faculty, please let your students know about this opportunity.

Questions? Contact Kaitlyn Ragan at kragan@georgefox.edu.