The Daily Bruin

George Fox community,

We are so thrilled at the turnout, the Bruin pride and the electricity that filled Stoffer Family Stadium last Saturday as the Bruin football team took the field for the first time in 46 years. What a day! It was one that we’ll all remember for a long time to come.

This Saturday, Sept. 13, the Bruins will host the University of La Verne at 7 p.m. The gates will open at 5:30 p.m., and we want to see all of you there! Please make sure to bring your student or employee ID. We’ll be swiping cards to get people into the game this weekend, so those are your tickets in.

If you need to purchase additional tickets, you can do so at this link. To check out photos from the first game, go here. To watch a video about the program, visit this site.

Go Bruins!

George Fox’s Emergency Text Alert system, called FoxAlert, will be sending out a test text alert this Friday, Sept. 12. This will only be a test!

Please make sure that your personal information page on MyGFU is up to date in order to receive these text alerts, as that is where your contact information is pulled from.

Questions? Please contact security at 503-554-2090.

Mark A. Noll, PhD, the Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, will present the lecture “The Challenges for Christian Learning: Looking Back, Looking Ahead” at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 22, in Wood-Mar Auditorium on the Newberg campus. The event is free and open to the public.

Noll is the author of numerous books, including The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind and The Civil War as a Theological Crisis. During his years at Wheaton College, he was a co-founder of the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and, in 2006, received the National Endowment for the Humanities medal at a White House ceremony.

The lecture is sponsored by the William Penn Honors Program. A reception immediately following the lecture will be held for those interested in learning more about the honors program.

Please contact Jane Sweet at jsweet@georgefox.edu if you have any questions.

Michael Ward, PhD, professor of apologetics at Houston Baptist University and director of the C.S. Lewis Centre in Oxford, England, will visit the Newberg campus to present a lecture, “The Heavens are Telling the Glory of God: C.S. Lewis, Narnia and the Planets,” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 26, in Bauman Auditorium. There is no charge to attend.

Ward is a leading expert on the works of C.S. Lewis and the author of Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis. He is senior research fellow at Blackfriars Hall in the University of Oxford and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to C.S. Lewis. He presented the BBC television documentary, The Narnia Code (2009). As an Anglican clergyman, he served as chaplain of St Peter’s College at the University of Oxford from 2009 to 2012 and as chaplain of Peterhouse at the University of Cambridge from 2004 to 2007.

The lecture is sponsored by the William Penn Honors Program. A reception immediately following the lecture will be held for those interested in learning more about the honors program.

Please contact Jane Sweet at jsweet@georgefox.edu if you have any questions.

The annual World’s Got Talent show is coming up soon and we’re looking for students, employees and alumni who want to showcase their ethnic or cultural talents. Each performance should be around five to eight minutes long.

Auditions are on Wednesday, Sept. 24, from 9:30 to 11 p.m. and Thursday, Sept. 25, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Wheeler Dance Studio. To sign up for an audition time, please go to this link.

The performance day of World’s Got Talent is Saturday. Oct. 18, from 7 to 9 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium. If you have any questions, please contact Rebekah Halstead at rhalstead12@georgefox.edu. The event is sponsored by the intercultural life office.

We are beginning to plan for our weekly Chinese lab sessions! Here is some basic information about the labs:

• One hour per week
• Native Chinese speakers as teachers
• Asian snacks
• Fun time!
• No commitment required, just show up!

It would be helpful for you to let us know what time blocks you are available on Tuesdays or Thursdays. Please fill out this survey to give us your feedback.

Thanks!

Come and join us in celebrating Jonathan and Rachel Morell’s 10 years at George Fox and transition to Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego. The impact they have had on our community is immeasurable. We would like to celebrate their presence with us and bless them as they move to PLNU.

Join us between 3:30 and 5 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 11, in the Duke Atrium of the Stevens Center.

The sidewalk along the south side of the track will be closed today (Tuesday) for repairs. This closure will affect the stairs coming up from the Wheeler locker rooms and the stairs by the tennis courts, as those areas will also be closed.

Students and staff will need to continue along “Amphitheater Way” to Edwards Hall to avoid the sidewalk repair zone. Foot traffic can take the amphitheater route from Edwards Hall to the Fulton Street parking lot, or can cut through the Wheeler Sports Center to access the north end of the track.

Thank you for your patience!

– Plant Services

For the past eight years, we have offered a women’s-only self-defense training session instructed by a Newberg-Dundee Police Department reservist and local martial arts instructor. We will host this year’s class from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 27, at a location to be determined. It is a George Fox-exclusive class and will have limited enrollment. The cost is $25 per person.

Registration is in the student life office (third floor of Stevens Center). Questions? Contact Dave Johnstone at djohnsto@georgefox.edu.

We want to welcome everyone to our first Students for Life Club meeting of the year this Wednesday, Sept. 10, at 5:30 p.m. in Stevens 109! We’ll show a short film, get to know everyone, and hang up some pregnancy resource fliers around campus. Find us on Facebook here for more information about the club and upcoming events.

We also have a movie night coming up a 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 23, in EHS 102, for elective chapel credit! We’ll be showing the film October Baby.

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

• Administrative Assistant II, Department of Biology and Chemistry
• Administrative Assistant IV, Graduate School of Counseling
• Accounts Payable Supervisor
• Administrative Assistant II Office of Spiritual Life, Inclusion and Leadership
• Associate Director of Student Success, Career Coach

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.

Join seminary professor Randy Woodley at his Eloheh Farm for its harvest gathering on Saturday, Sept. 20, at 4:30 p.m. Join us for ceramics, a silent auction, music by Seth Martin, and soup and bread in a beautiful ceramic mug.

A suggested donation is $15. The harvest is made possible by Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends and Newberg Bakery. Support Eloheh and Eagle’s Wings Ministry! Learn more about us on our Facebook page.

Join us for chapel events this week on Tuesday and Wednesday! Chapel will be held in Bauman on Tuesday at 10:50 a.m., when Professor Sarita Gallagher will share about “The hope and peace that we have through Christ.” Chapel credit is available.

Shalom will be held on Tuesday evening at 9 p.m. in the Cap & Gown Room. Chapel elective credit is available.

On Wednesday, chapel will be in Bauman at 7 p.m., when Jamie Johnson will continue our “Unfolding Life” series through the book of Matthew. He will preach on Matthew 4, the temptations of Jesus. Chapel credit is available.

For more information, please visit spirituallife.georgefox.edu. If you have any questions regarding chapel, please email spirituallife@georgefox.edu.

This is a reminder to join us tonight (Monday) as Caitlin Corning, professor of history at George Fox, speaks on the topic “From Mecca to Modern Times: A Historical Survey of Islam.”

The session runs from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. in Hoover 105. The same session is presented from 4:40 to 5:40 p.m.; however, it is recommended that the general public attend the evening session, if possible.

Questions? Contact Paul Otto at ext. 2676 or potto@georgefox.edu.

This is a reminder that we will be hosting a chart of accounts training session in Lemmons #2 today (Friday) from 10 a.m. to noon.

Hope to see you there!

The Finance Team

Back to school and back to Employee of the Month awards! This month marks the sixth anniversary of this tradition that honors our outstanding colleagues.

With so many who have been working so hard to ensure that the new academic year began well for our students, there are probably many whose contributions have especially stood out over the last several weeks. If you know someone you believe deserves special recognition for “above and beyond” kind of work, please send an email to Peggy Kilburg by Friday, Sept. 19, with a summary of this colleague’s recent contributions and any other information that describes why this person is deserving of this award.

The President’s Executive Leadership Team will select the recipient from the nominations submitted, and the winner will be honored with a citation and a $100 Visa gift card at our community meeting on Thursday, Sept. 25.

The campus community is invited to the next installment of the “Islam and the West” Liberal Arts and Critical Issues series this Monday, Sept. 8, in Hoover 105. This time, Caitlin Corning, professor of history at George Fox, will speak on the topic “From Mecca to Modern Times: A Historical Survey of Islam.”

The session runs from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. The same session is presented from 4:40 to 5:40 p.m.; however, it is recommended that the general public attend the evening session, if possible.

Corning will explore why Islam began, where it spread and other basic points of its history. The lecture will provide an overview of the expansion of Islam in the medieval and modern periods and some of the more recent challenges facing Islam.

Questions? Contact Paul Otto at ext. 2676 or potto@georgefox.edu.

Got warts? “Wart Wednesday” will be starting on Wednesday, Sept. 10, and continue every other week throughout the year. Treatment is offered free of charge to all Newberg campus students. Portland Center students and employees are welcome with the $20 co-pay.

Please call the Health Center at 503-554-2340 to schedule your appointment.

Wheeler Sports Center will be closed this Saturday, Sept. 6, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Racquetball courts will be closed. The Fitness Center will remain open, but you will be required to enter through the upstairs hallway, which is on the field level near the tennis courts. No one should be in the building unless they are using the Fitness Center.

Share your Serve Day photos with the George Fox community! Simply tag your photos with #foxserveday when you post to Twitter, Instagram or Facebook. We’ll then share and retweet the best pictures on the university social media pages.