The Daily Bruin

The marketing communications office will be processing a business card order soon. Place your order directly with B&B Print Source by Wednesday, Sept. 17. If you have not already done so, you will need to create a new individual account before you can submit your order.

Please reference the Chart of Account Mappings for 2014-15 budget information.

Contact Danette Newkirk (dnewkirk@georgefox.edu) in marketing communications if you have any questions.

George Fox and Willamette University are co-hosting a two-night debate on the topic “Did America Have a Christian Founding” on successive Thursday evenings in September. Both events are free.

The debate will feature Mark David Hall, the Herbert Hoover Distinguished Professor of Politics at George Fox, and Steven K. Green, a professor in Willamette University’s School of Law. They are among the nation’s leading experts on the relationship between church and state in America.

The opening debate is scheduled from 7 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 18, in Hoover 105. The second session is set from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 25, in Room 121 of Willamette’s School of Law, 245 Winter St., in Salem, Ore. A question-and-answer time will follow the discussions both evenings.

The series is sponsored by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and cosponsored by the William Penn Honors Program of George Fox and Willamette’s Center for Religion, Law & Democracy.

Questions? Contact Hall at ext. 2674.

The Staff Development Conference is coming up on Wednesday, Nov. 5. In an effort to incorporate our staff more fully in our conference, the Staff Development Committee would like to invite any interested staff to form a worship team and lead worship at the conference.

If you have a talent and willingness to serve in this area, please email Barbi Doran at bdoran@georgefox.edu by Friday, Sept. 19.

A big thanks to everyone who served on Serve Day! If you haven’t picked up your Serve Day Discount Card, stop by and see Barbi Doran at the Information Services Desk on the first floor of the Stevens Center.

The Serve Day Discount Card features 15 local businesses and is a multi-use card that does not expire until April 30, 2015. That means you can use the discount card as many times as you want, at as many businesses as you want, until the end of next April. Here is a sample of some of the businesses and their offers:

• Domino’s Pizza: Buy one large pizza, get a second large pizza free (of equal or lesser value, carry-out only)
• Doran Automotive: $5 off oil change and 10 percent off recommended services
• Ray’s Produce: 10 percent off purchase of $10 or more

You must show your discount card at the participating businesses to take advantage of these great offers. Pick up your Serve Day Discount Card today while supplies last!

As many of you are aware, all-community (employee) meetings are held on a monthly basis. The Leadership Team is interested in your feedback about the ongoing success of these meetings as we strive for better communication campus-wide.

Please take a moment to complete the survey at this link. We appreciate your input.

Thank you!

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