The Daily Bruin

Know students who are pre-professional health bound? Encourage them to learn how MedSend healthcare professionals bring physical and spiritual healing to the nations. One of MedSend’s primary activities is to offer student loan repayment grants to healthcare professionals who are headed for career healthcare mission service.

Students are welcome to learn more about this opportunity tonight (Wednesday) at 7 p.m. in EHS 102. More information is available by contacting Jennifer McCollum at jmccollum@georgefox.edu.

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 George Fox faculty, staff and administrators to learn Chinese language and culture.

The first session will be this Friday at noon. We hope you will be able to join us!

Questions? Contact Alex Pia at apia@georgefox.edu.

All students and employees are welcome to attend the second installment of the student life discussion series, Symposium: A Forum for Uncommon Conversations. Our topic for this week is “Stories of Struggle: Christians and Mental Health.”

Join us Thursday, Oct. 30, from 10:50 to 11:40 a.m. in EHS 102 to hear Bill Buhrow and Kris Kays share about mental health issues on our campus. We will also hear from a student about their personal experiences with mental health at Fox.

Elective chapel credit is available. Questions? Please contact Lizzy Riese at eriese11@georgefox.edu.

The College of Engineering will host its third “Earth, Wind, Fire and Water” lecture event tomorrow (Thursday) from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in Hoover 103 (please note the location change). The event is titled “Hydro-Power and Fish Passage in Oregon” and features Greg Apke of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.

This is the third of five presentations in the series, dedicated to renewable energy, sustainability, climate change and the environment. Future presentations include:

• Thursday, Nov. 6: “Wind Farms and Wind Energy Systems,” featuring Bruce Hamilton of Navigant, Lemmons 13
• Thursday, Nov. 13: “Ocean Wave Energy Systems,” featuring Chad Stillinger of George Fox University, Hoover 105

Questions? Contact Bob Harder at bharder@georgefox.edu.

The Department of Art and Design invites the university community to an opening reception for the show “Redemption of Dirt,” featuring the ceramic work of Brian O’Neill and Ron Linn.

Join us tomorrow (Thursday) for an artists’ talk at 4:10 p.m. in Hoover 105, followed by an opening reception from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the Minthorne Gallery. The show will remain up through Nov. 26.

Christian C. Sahner, author of Among the Ruins: Syria Past and Present (Oxford University Press, 2014), will speak on campus at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow (Thursday) in Hoover 105 (please note the location change). The campus community is invited to attend at no charge.

Sahner’s lecture, “The End of Christianity in Syria?,” will explore the roots of Christianity in Syria and seek to place the current predicament in historical perspective. The William Penn Honors Program is sponsoring the event, and a reception for prospective students interested in the honors program will follow. In addition, a special “Visit Day for the Honors Program” is scheduled for Friday, Oct. 31. Please email honors@georgefox.edu if you would like more information or have any questions.

A graduate of Princeton University and the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar, Sahner is currently completing his doctorate at Princeton, focusing on relations between Muslims and Christians in the formative period after the Arab conquests.

As a follow-up to our active shooter training sessions conducted before school started, security encourages you to consider attending a Code4-sponsored seminar, “Front Desk Safety and Security,” on Monday, Dec. 15.

The event is scheduled at the Airport Holiday Inn and will teach you how to deal with dangerous situations, difficult people and emergencies. The cost is $99 if you register via the Code4 website (code4.org) and $109 if you register via phone at 800-622-9391. The course instructor is Captain Joe Puckett, who has spent 21 years in law enforcement and who has worked as a hostage/crisis negotiator.

As a reminder for any staff members planning to attend, you can apply to the Staff Development Committee to be considered for partial reimbursement for the seminar costs on a first-come, first-served basis until the professional development fund is depleted. Check the Staff Development website for details.

“A Motion of Love” is the theme for the university’s annual Quaker Focus Week, Nov. 3-6, on the Newberg campus. Quaker Focus allows the campus community an opportunity to explore its Quaker roots and heritage. Events for students, faculty and the community this year include:

Monday, Nov. 3
9 a.m. – “Quakers in Business, Science and Industry”
An open invitation to visit Paul Anderson’s History & Doctrine of Friends Class (Hoover 210)

Tuesday, Nov. 4
10:50 a.m. – “Doors, Judgment, Love”
University Chapel with Gregg Koskela, lead pastor, Newberg Friends Church (Bauman Auditorium)
9 p.m. – “Listening Together Within the Motion of Love”
Shalom with Mark Almquist (Hoover 105)

Wednesday, Nov. 5
9 a.m. – “Quakers, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Underground Railroad,” a Skype interview with Max Carter of Guilford College in Paul Anderson’s History & Doctrine of Friends Class (Hoover 210)
7 p.m. – “Point Me Home”
University Chapel with a dramatic performance by the University Players (Bauman Auditorium)

Thursday, Nov. 6
10:40 a.m. – Contemplative worship (Prayer Chapel)

“I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the Goodness of God …”
– John Woolman

Are you support staff with van certification? We need two drivers to transport those who cannot or do not wish to drive to and from the Fall Staff Conference next Wednesday, Nov 5.

Vans will leave the Stevens parking lot at 6:45 a.m. and at 7 a.m. and return approximately at 12:30 p.m. The conference will be held at Mountain Park Church, located at 40 McNary Parkway in Lake Oswego.

Please contact Christee Wise (cwise@georgefox.edu) if you are qualified and would be willing to drive a university van.

For students interested in working with spiritual and intercultural life as the global outreach intern for the remainder of the school year, there is a position open.

The description of this position is as follows: SpIL intern for global outreach and service partnerships serve to build bridges between George Fox students and cross-cultural opportunities to serve and learn alongside partnering organizations that model compassionate excellence in cross-cultural ministry and Christian community development.

This particular intern will accomplish this primarily through coordinating weekly cross-cultural outreach and service experiences, events to build our global outreach partnerships, the annual “Global Ministries Fair,” conference participation, other global outreach endeavors of the “SpIL” ministry house, as well as entering into mentoring relationships with the SpIL pastoral staff.

This SpIL intern will serve primarily to build and support volunteer teams, coordinate weekly urban outreach (i.e. Bridgetown Ministries, Nightstrike and Salem partnership, etc.), build deeper collaboration with Word Made Flesh, Open Arms International and Northwest Yearly Meeting Global Ministries, and coordinate our participation in Urbana and/or other global ministry conferences, as well as administrative tasks of the Office of Spiritual Life.

If you are interested in this position, please fill out this application by Wednesday, Nov. 5.

Faculty, please encourage students that you think would be interested to apply.

Email Mikayla Greenwell (mgreenwell12@georgefox.edu) with any questions you may have.

The Fall Staff Conference is next Wednesday, Nov. 5, and we are looking forward to an exciting day with all support staff! Please complete this registration form and select your break-out session if you haven’t done so already. The theme of this year’s conference is  “Sowing, Watering, Reaping.”

The conference is from 8 to 11:30 a.m., with breakfast beginning at 7:30 a.m. for early risers. Our keynote speaker is Deb Mumm-Hill, director of the university’s IDEA Center. The conference will be at Mountain Park Church, 40 McNary Parkway, in Lake Oswego. Please note: Due to allergies, please do not wear perfume or cologne at this event.

Questions? Contact Christee Wise at cwise@georgefox.edu.

The following link is a survey to determine the average and total commuting distance for university employees. The data will be used in an emissions analysis of the George Fox campus using the Clean Air Cool Planet tool.

Here is the link to the survey: Employee Commuting Survey

TechTips Forum post: For people with Macintosh computers, our IT Mac-certified tech, Rich Bass, highly recommends that Mac users do not upgrade to Yosemite (OS 10.10) yet. There are reported issues of Wifi connectivity dropping for many users. The issue doesn’t affect everyone, but there are widespread reports across the web of Wifi issues. Apple will most likely release an update to fix this, but the update hasn’t come out yet.

If you have updated your Mac to Yosemite and are experiencing Wifi connectivity issues (or other problems) since upgrading, you can stop by IT and we can image your computer back to Mavericks (10.9).

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The lost and found has several mysteries we’d like to solve! If you lost your keys to a specific car on Friday afternoon, Oct. 24, please call security at 503-554-2090 to describe the car and where it was parked.

Also, if you lost camera memory cards and can describe some of the photos, please get in touch as well. And lastly, if you called in a lost calculus book on Monday around noon, please call us back!

Alexandra Salter-Blanc, who graduated from George Fox in 2007 with a degree in chemistry, will present her doctoral dissertation research tonight (Tuesday) at 7 p.m. in Hoover 105. Her presentation will focus on the degradation rates and reaction pathways of groundwater contaminants in natural and engineered systems.

After graduating from George Fox, Salter-Blanc went on to graduate school at Oregon Health & Science University and worked with Dr. Paul Tratnyek in the Division of Environmental and Biomolecular Systems within the Institute of Environmental Health. She completed her PhD in June of 2014.

All are welcome!

Whether you teach in the departments of sciences, business or humanities, consider recommending your students visit the Academic Resource Center (ARC).

ARC peer consultants can help your students through all stages of the writing process, from brainstorming topics to critiquing finished papers. If your students would like tips on how to take effective notes or prepare for tests, peer consultants can help.

Located in the university library, the ARC is open Monday through Thursday from 1 to 10 p.m. and on Friday from noon to 4 p.m., except holidays.

Students can get more information or schedule appointments by going to arc.georgefox.edu, writing the_arc@georgefox.edu or by calling 503-554-2327.

Come support the theatre department by attending our fall production, Twelfth Night. The final shows are set to run this Thursday through Sunday, Oct. 30 to Nov. 2, in Wood-Mar Auditorium. All shows begin at 7:30 p.m. with the exception of the Sunday, Nov. 2, performance, scheduled as a 2 p.m. matinee.

Tickets can be purchased online at theatre.georgefox.edu.

New Complimentary Ticket Process
George Fox students and employees can now reserve their complimentary tickets online at theatre.georgefox.edu. All university students and employees may receive one complimentary ticket per production. Complimentary tickets are not transferable and require a current GFU ID be shown at the door. Student complimentary tickets are only available for Thursday’s performance.

Synopsis: One of Shakespeare’s most celebrated comedies, Twelfth Night features Viola’s cross-dressing misadventures as she tries to figure out love and survival in a world of lovesick men. Hilarious reversals and bittersweet misunderstandings ensue, as Viola introduces her ambiguous identity to the misfit oddballs of Illyria – and steals more than one heart in the process. Join us for an evening of buoyant wordplay, raucous slapstick and some of the wittiest love scenes in all of Shakespeare.

Questions? Contact Kathy Harris at 503-554-2670.

Don’t forget to join us tonight (Monday) for the “Islam and the West” Liberal Arts and Critical Issues series. Lisa Ohlen Harris, author of the Middle East memoir Through the Veil, will speak on “My Muslim Sisters” from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. in Hoover 105. In her presentation, Harris will share glimpses into the lives of several Muslim women who befriended her during the years she lived in Jordan and Syria.

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

Know of students who are stressed out because they don’t know APA style for citations? A workshop this Thursday, Oct. 30, is for them. 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.

Please encourage students to join us from 10:50 to 11:40 a.m. in Hoover 105.

Christian C. Sahner, author of Among the Ruins: Syria Past and Present (Oxford University Press, 2014), will speak on campus at 7:30 p.m. this Thursday, Oct. 30, in Hoover 103. The campus community is invited to attend at no charge.

Sahner’s lecture, “The End of Christianity in Syria?,” will explore the roots of Christianity in Syria and seek to place the current predicament in historical perspective. The William Penn Honors Program is sponsoring the event, and a reception for prospective students interested in the honors program will follow. In addition, a special “Visit Day for the Honors Program” is scheduled for Friday, Oct. 31. Please email honors@georgefox.edu if you would like more information or have any questions.

A graduate of Princeton University and the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar, Sahner is currently completing his doctorate at Princeton, focusing on relations between Muslims and Christians in the formative period after the Arab conquests.