Come join us for an evening of bilingual theatre as George Fox’s Spanish department presents “El Gran Teatro del Mundo” (“The Great Theatre of the World”) by Calderón de la Barca. Join us at 7:30 p.m. tonight (Friday) in Wood-Mar Auditorium. Entry is free!
Questions? Contact Brenna Brutscher at bbrutscher11@georgefox.edu.
This is a reminder that, due to the extra-large group coming for Bruin Preview on Friday, Nov. 7, the auxiliary lunch scheduled for today at 11:45 a.m., has been moved to the Friendsview Auditorium so the Cap and Gown Room can be used for overflow at lunch.
Questions? Contact Wendy Meinhardt at wmeinhardt@georgefox.edu.
Please join us this morning (Friday) for Spanish Chapel! We’ll meet at 10 a.m. in Ross 208 to hear a great message and spend time in worship in Spanish. Our guest speaker will be Jorge Trujillo from Communidad Cristiana Agape in Keizer, Ore.
Chapel elective credit is available. Please contact Kate Lowen at klowen11@georgefox.edu with any questions.
Come out and support your Bruins for our final home football game of the season this Saturday, Nov. 8, against Lewis & Clark College. Kickoff is at 1 p.m. in Stoffer Family Stadium. As this is our last home game, it’s your last chance to come out and be a part of this historic year of Bruin football!
Just show your student or employee ID to get into the game. Additional tickets may be purchased at this site or at the gate. See you there!
The Wheeler Sports Center will be closed tomorrow (Saturday, Nov. 8). The fitness center will remain open, but the rest of the facility will be closed from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Please plan accordingly.
Entrance to the fitness center will be through the hallway near the tennis court on field level.
Are you interested in learning some basic Chinese phrases and pronunciation assistance for students’ names? Would you like to learn a little more about Chinese culture? Then this is the weekly instruction time for you.
Each Friday from noon to 12:50 p.m. at the International Center/Cultural House, our visiting professors from China will be offering a time for our faculty, staff and administrators to learn Chinese language and culture.
We hope you will be able to join us!
For more information, contact Alex Pia (apia@georgefox.edu).
With our Bruin Preview guests on campus today (Friday), it will get very crowded in the dining room during breakfast and lunch. Overflow seating will be available in the Cap and Gown Room for both meals.
We are expecting our guests to come in for breakfast at approximately 8 a.m. so those of you who normally join us for breakfast may want to try and come either before 8 a.m. or after 8:30 a.m. Also, with the large number of guests for lunch we will be serving meals on paper so you may take your food out of the dining room if you prefer.
Please help us welcome Bruin Preview students and their families to campus Thursday (after lunch) and Friday all day by parking somewhere other than the Stevens or Hoover parking lots.
Questions? Contact Mandee Wilmot at awilmot@georgefox.edu or ext. 2248.
Thank you,
Undergraduate Admissions
Due to the extra-large group coming for Bruin Preview on Friday, Nov. 7, the auxiliary lunch scheduled for that day at 11:45 a.m., has been moved to the Friendsview Auditorium so the Cap and Gown Room can be used for overflow at lunch.
Questions? Contact Wendy Meinhardt at wmeinhardt@georgefox.edu.
Come out and support your Bruins for our final home football game of the season this Saturday, Nov. 8, against Lewis & Clark College. Kickoff is at 1 p.m. in Stoffer Family Stadium. As this is our last home game, it’s your last chance to come out and be a part of this historic year of Bruin football!
Just show your student or employee ID to get into the game. Additional tickets may be purchased at this site or at the gate. See you there!
Know of students who need help with MLA style? Encourage them to join us for a workshop, “An Introduction to MLA Style,” today (Thursday) from 10:50 to 11:40 a.m. in Hoover 105.
In this session, Kathy Heininge, associate professor of English, will present key elements of the Modern Language Association style for essays and other written works. MLA is commonly used in humanities courses such as English, literature and modern languages. The workshop is sponsored by the Academic Resource Center.
Please help us welcome Bruin Preview students and their families to campus Thursday (after lunch) and Friday all day by parking somewhere other than the Stevens or Hoover parking lots.
Questions? Contact Mandee Wilmot at awilmot@georgefox.edu or ext. 2248.
Thank you,
Undergraduate Admissions
The College of Engineering invites the university community to its fourth “Earth, Wind, Fire and Water” lecture event tomorrow (Thursday) from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in Lemmons 13. The event is titled “Wind Farms and Wind Energy Systems” and features Bruce Hamilton of Navigant.
This is the fourth of five presentations in the series, dedicated to renewable energy, sustainability, climate change and the environment. The final lecture will be Thursday, Nov. 13, when George Fox engineering professor Chad Stillinger presents “Ocean Wave Energy Systems” in Hoover 105.
Questions? Contact Bob Harder at bharder@georgefox.edu.
Attention George Fox students and employees: If you are a U.S. military veteran or currently in the Reserves, we want to welcome you and your family to Abby’s Pizza in Newberg this Monday, Nov. 10, (the day before Veteran’s Day) between 6 and 8 p.m. We will serve you pizza, potatoes and soft drinks for free.
This will be a great opportunity to get to know other military students and families. Please RSVP and let us know how many you plan to bring. Please email Heidi McLain (hmclain13@georgefox.edu) or Hattie Piske (hpiske13@georgefox.edu) with any questions that you might have.
Thanks!
A panel of three professionals will share how their Christian faith intersects with and impacts their work at a “Faith and Work” session, sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute, this Friday, Nov. 7, at 7 p.m. in Hoover 105. Chapel credit is available for students.
Questions? Contact Noah Ramsey Smith at smithn13@georgefox.edu.
Thank you to all who helped with the 10th annual Choral Conductors Symposium this past weekend. More than 350 students from six area high schools attended this event.
It was noted by one American Choral Directors Association and OSAA official that George Fox University is only one of two universities in Oregon that help promote excellence in music education by providing on-campus workshops for directors and students.
– Loren Wenz
All students and employees are welcome to attend the third installment of the student life discussion series “Symposium: A Forum for Uncommon Conversations.” Our topic for this week is “Church and State: The Role of Christians in Politics.”
Join us tomorrow (Thursday) from 10:50 to 11:40 a.m. in EHS 102 to hear a panel of George Fox community members discuss the ways that faith and politics intersect. The panel will include professor Mark Hall and students Mason Kriz and Lexxs Sutton.
Elective chapel credit is available.
Questions? Please contact Lizzy Riese at eriese11@georgefox.edu.
Contemplative Worship is an elective chapel event that meets in the Prayer Chapel every Thursday morning from 10:50 to 11:30 a.m. Everyone is invited to come use the stillness for prayer and reflection.
Cultural Celebration Week is again scheduling a Cultural Fair, which will include an opportunity for students to share their cultures with our community by hosting a booth during the fair.
The booth consists of a table that can display any variety of cultural artifacts or information, as well as food or activities. Cultures represented in the past included various countries and regions, as well as domestic cultures such as African-American, Hispanic, Texan or Hawaiian. Everyone has a unique culture that they can share!
The Cultural Fair is scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 11, from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Bruin Den. Students organizing their booths can be reimbursed up to $35 for money spent on decorations, posters, food, or anything else that would help them display their culture.
If you would like to participate by hosting a booth, please contact Joanna Cox at jcox@georgefox.edu.
Faculty and staff, please encourage your students to consider sharing their culture at this event!
The CMCO Intermediate Directing class is hosting open auditions for roles in its final projects tonight (Tuesday) from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Auditions are open to both students and employees.
These will be short, two- to five-minute films in a variety of styles, and will typically be shot in a few hours during the weekends of Nov. 15-16 or Nov. 22-23. There is no compensation, but actors will be well fed and will receive a copy of the finished film.
Auditions will take place in the Media Center, at the corner of North and Meridian streets. Please sign up for a time slot on the theatre bulletin board in Lemmons, or just show up at the Media Center.
Actors should come prepared with a short monologue, or we’ll have short scenes available at the check-in desk.
For more information, email Matt Meyer at mmeyer@georgefox.edu.
