The Daily Bruin

The time has come once again to begin the process of selecting our undergraduate “Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities & Colleges” nominees for the 2014-15 academic year.

Staff, faculty and administrators are invited to respond to this selection process. For more information, check out the Who’s Who website.

For those of you who have contact with our undergraduate population, you have the opportunity to make nominations by selecting 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 mid-year or spring (December 2014 or May 2015).

In addition, they all have a 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

One-hundred and forty-five students are eligible for nomination based on GPA alone. We will record your 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.)

To make your selection, please select 20 students in the list on this survey. Please choose no more than 20 students.

Please contact Jere Witherspoon in the student life office if you have any questions. Please mark your selection of 20 students no later than Friday, Oct. 24.

The William Penn Honors Program is hosting an open house for faculty and staff from 4 to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 29, in the Pennington House. Come check out the Pennington House remodel and enjoy some refreshments and a time of fellowship.

We hope you can come! Contact Jane Sweet if you have questions.

Have some students who could use some pointers on writing research papers? The Academic Resource Center is hosting a workshop, “Steps to Writing a Successful Research Paper,” today (Thursday). Gary Tandy, professor of English, and Sarah Hardy, public services librarian, will lead the session, scheduled from 10:50 to 11:40 a.m. in Hoover 105. Encourage your students to attend.

Here is a synopsis of the workshop:

Research papers can seem overwhelming, but following a step-by-step, organized approach can make your life much less stressful. This session will walk through those steps and guide you to campus and Internet resources to help make you a research pro.

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

Contemplative worship is held in the Prayer Chapel every Thursday from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. Elective chapel credit is available. All are invited to come sit in the presence of God to pray, listen and contemplate.

Both the Wheeler Sports Center and Fitness Center will be closed on Friday, Oct. 10, for the mid-semester holiday.

Know students who want to study abroad next year? Encourage them to come to an informational meeting to learn about how to apply, when applications are due and all the exciting programs we offer.

The meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 16, in Hoover 105.

Questions? Contact Lynn Scott in the Center for Study Abroad at lscott@georgefox.edu or ext. 2150.

Security would like to remind everybody to slow down while driving around and through campus and to obey the speed limit. A staff member in a crosswalk was nearly hit this week by an inattentive driver speeding down Sheridan Street.

If a pedestrian is trying to cross on a crosswalk, stop and let them cross. Please approach crosswalks slowly and look for pedestrians before driving through them. Please also drive slowly on Fulton Street around the football stadium, as residents from Friendsview visit campus frequently on foot.

The College of Engineering invites you to a series of lectures this fall that tackle the topics of renewable energy, sustainability, climate change and the environment. The five-part series, titled “Earth, Wind Fire and Water,” begins with a presentation on Thursday, Oct. 16. Following is a listing of presentations.

All lectures are scheduled from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. and are free of charge.

• Thursday, Oct. 16: “Landfill Gas Energy Systems,” featuring Jason MacKenzie of Energyneering, Lemmons 13
• Thursday, Oct. 23: “Small-Scale Nuclear Power Systems,” featuring J.J. Arthur of NuScale Power, Hoover 105
• Thursday, Oct. 30: “Hydro-Power and Fish Passage in Oregon,” featuring Greg Apke of Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, Hoover 105
• 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.

FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 8 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Monday, Oct. 13, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

During this maintenance update Spring and Summer 2014 course sites will be hidden to students. If you want to make any of those course sites available to students after this update, select “Edit settings” in the Course Administration block. Located in the General section, look for the “Visible” setting and change “Hide” back to “Show.” Scroll to bottom and “Save changes.”

Questions? Contact the IT Service Desk (servicedesk@georgefox.edu)

The Newberg campus will be closed Friday, Oct. 10, for the mid-semester holiday. All offices, the BlueZone Store, Mail Services and the library will be closed.

Hours of service in the Klages Dining Room will change over the fall break weekend as follows:

• Friday, Oct. 10: Breakfast 8:30-10 a.m., lunch 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m., dinner 5-6:30 p.m.
• Saturday, Oct. 11: Continental breakfast 9-10 a.m., brunch 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m., dinner 5-6:30 p.m.
• Sunday, Oct. 12: Continental breakfast 9-10 a.m., brunch 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m., dinner 5-7 p.m.

Regular hours of service resume Monday morning.

Do you have students who could use some pointers on writing research papers? The Academic Resource Center is hosting a workshop, “Steps to Writing a Successful Research Paper,” tomorrow (Thursday). Gary Tandy, professor of English, and Sarah Hardy, public services librarian, will lead the session, scheduled from 10:50 to 11:40 a.m. in Hoover 105. Encourage your students to attend.

Here is a synopsis of the workshop:

Research papers can seem overwhelming, but following a step-by-step, organized approach can make your life much less stressful. This session will walk through those steps and guide you to campus and Internet resources to help make you a research pro.

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

Staff, faculty and students: The lost and found is overflowing! Thirty-five water bottles are waiting for their owners to claim them, and around 20 of you will need your hoodies and jackets when it rains next week. It’s hard to pass a test without your notebooks, notes, and zip drives, and aren’t you missing your sunglasses this week?

If you are missing items, please come to the security office during office hours to see if your missing items have been turned in. Be sure to bring your photo ID when you come!

Copies of the Voters’ Pamphlet for the Oregon General Election (Nov. 4, 2014) are now available. Pick one up from a stand in the hallway of the SUB post office or get one from the counter in the hallway of University Mail Services.

The pamphlet has information about the candidates running for office as well as the different measures that are on the ballot.

The Center for Peace and Justice is hosting a forum on creation care as part of this year’s Global Issues Forum. Join us from 2 to 3:30 p.m. tomorrow (Thursday) in the Murdock Learning Resource Center for “Vocation Through the Lens of Creation Care.”

Our special guests will include Luke Gascho, executive director of the Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center at Goshen College; Rev. Alexia Salvatierra, author, consultant and lecturer; and our own faculty who specialize in the area of creation care. Faculty, staff and students who have an interest in engaging with others in the community of creation care at George Fox are encouraged to participate!

In addition, Gascho will speak at an open session about the Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center from 11 a.m. to noon in the Cap and Gown Room the same day. His talk is open to faculty, students and staff to attend, and no registration is required. Light refreshments will be available.

As space is limited for the MLRC session, please contact Jennifer Kepler at jkepler@georgefox.edu to register to attend.

Flu shots are now available! Please call 503-554-2340 to schedule an appointment at the Health and Counseling Center. The shot is free if you have the GFU United Healthcare student insurance or $20 if you have any other insurance.

Bon Appetit has partnered with the Latino Heritage Club to serve traditional Latin dishes during dinner hours (4:30-7:30 p.m.) on the evenings of Oct. 8 and 15 in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month. Come enjoy some delicious foods from different Latin countries!

Have you seen those awesome George Fox Bruins scarves floating around campus? They are now available to be purchased for $15. Visit the River Street House behind Stevens Center between 8 and 10 a.m. this week or email Sarah Reid to get yours.

You won’t want to show up to a soccer or football game without one!

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. Thursday, Oct. 30, in Hoover 103. The campus community is invited to attend at no charge.

Sahner’s lecture 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 this lecture, and a reception for 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.

The College of Business has an opening: Interim Director of Part-Time MBA Program, pay range I. This position will be open internally through 5 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 13. If you would like to learn more about this position, please contact Kera Hallman in the Office of Human Resources.