The Daily Bruin

Esther L. Meek, professor of philosophy at Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pa., will speak Tuesday and Wednesday, March 11-12, for the university’s annual Spring Theological Conference.

Meek will address the community at a Tuesday “Intellectual Feast” hosted by the College of Christian Studies (4 p.m., Hoover 250), and at morning chapel on Wednesday (10:40 a.m., Bauman Auditorium). She’ll also visit philosophy classes and meet on campus with Sophilo (Philosophy Club). The theme for the conference is “Loving in Order to Know: A How-to for Knowing and Being.”

A writer, teacher, speaker and conversationalist, Meek especially likes to think and talk about how we know (epistemology). She’s the author of several books. Her latest, A Little Manual for Knowing, will be available for purchase during the conference.

For more information about Meek and her visit to George Fox University, visit this page or contact Paula Hampton (phampton@georgefox.edu).

The sign-up sheet for the 24 1/2-Hour Play Festival is up in Lemmons on the theatre department’s board. We are looking for actors and crew. No experience is necessary; all students are invited to participate.

The annual 24 1/4-Hour Play Festival will bring together three teams of playwrights, directors, actors and designers to create three 10-minute plays in 24.5 hours! The event will begin on Friday, March 14, at 7 p.m. and end with a performance on Saturday, March 15, at 7:30 p.m. in Wood-Mar Auditorium.

For questions or comments, please contact Susan Carlson at scarlson10@georgefox.edu.

When does life begin? What is the meaning of life? How can we stand up for our beliefs while demonstrating kindness and respect? These questions challenge our society and our faith every day.

If you are searching for answers or want to know more about advocating for life, we encourage you to attend a special chapel event on Monday, March 17, when the university’s Students for Life group will host a chapel from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Cap and Gown Room. We have been blessed with the opportunity to hear from guest speaker Rebekah Barnes, who will share her knowledge on the biblical approach to life, as well as provide apologetics training on the topic of life. Elective chapel credit is available.

Questions? Email studentsforlifegfu@gmail.com

“Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect.” (I Peter 3:15).

“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.” (Matthew 25:40)

Mail and print services staff will be attending a three-day training next week, Wednesday through Friday, March-12-14. We will be open our normal hours of 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Print Services will be operated by the student work force. Jobs may be delayed or postponed.

If you have any major print jobs planned during those three days, please contact Richard Silver at ext. 2551 or Marlee Zakrevsky at ext. 2550 today (Friday) or by Monday to discuss the details.

Thank you for your patience with us during the three days of training.

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

• University Pastor/Dean of Spiritual Life, Inclusion, and Leadership
• Video Producer
• Recruitment and Enrollment Counselor: ADP
• Undergraduate Admissions Counselor
• Graduate Admissions Counselor for the Seminary

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.

This is a reminder to attend the ribbon cutting of our new IDEA Center! Grab a bite to eat and take some time to network with guests from different industry sectors. The open house is today (Friday) from 2:30 to 4:15 p.m. in the Duke Atrium on the first floor of the Stevens Center. Special sessions include:

• 2:40 p.m. in Duke Atrium: “Making Your Career Your Calling” – US Digital CEO David Madore
• 3 p.m. in Stevens 209: “Many Roads Lead to High Tech” – Victor Solano, User Experience Manager, Autodesk (you don’t need to be in a tech major to attend)
• 3 p.m. in Stevens 107: “Getting and Nailing the Interview” – Aliza Scott, VP of HR and Organizational Development, Tripwire
• 3-4 p.m.: Networking for those not attending a class session
• 4 p.m.: Ribbon cutting with President Robin Baker

We’ll host several industry professionals representing a wide range of careers. Meet these guests and check out their job/internship links at careers.georgefox.edu.

Questions? Contact Sidney Tafflinger at stafflinger@georgefox.edu or ext. 2330.

College of Business Dean Candidate Murray MacTavish will speak Monday, March 10, on the topic, “What is your three- to five-year vision for a College of Business in a Christian university? Considering today’s higher education climate, what are the key success factors that will promote George Fox’s College of Business to not only survive, but to thrive, in the future?”

The presentation will be from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. in EHS 102 on the Newberg campus. Murray is currently the MBA director and associate professor of leadership and international management at Trinity Western University in British Columbia, Canada.

We welcome your input and participation in this process.

Questions? Contact Jeff VandenHoek at jvandenh@georgefox.edu.

All are invited to join us for a session, “Women Serving AND Leading: The Role of Presence and Power in Servant Leadership,” from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 11, in EHS 102 on the Newberg campus. Our own MaryKate Morse from the seminary will be presenting.

Women and men in institutional environments can default to traditional roles of men primarily leading and women primarily serving. Jesus led and served, and he invited women and men to do the same.

This presentation by MaryKate explores the unique challenges women face as servant-leaders and suggests ways men and women might support each other on the journey. We hope you can join us! Refreshments will be served. The event is sponsored by the Leadership Development Initiative.

Questions? Email Sarah Baldwin at sbaldwin@georgefox.edu.

All are invited to International Chapel this morning (Friday) as we welcome Ping-Yi Shi, who will speak on the topic of how God led her to serve students at George Fox. The title of her talk is: “He plans my future.”

Many of us wonder what our future will be. Ping-Yi will share thoughts on how we can trust God to lead and guide us. You are welcome to come, listen, ask questions and be encouraged. We’ll meet from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. in the International Center/Cultural House.

International Chapel is eligible for chapel elective credit. It is designed to help us better understand what it means to be a Christian.

Friday, March 7, 3:30 p.m. – Men’s tennis vs. Puget Sound (Club Green Meadows, Vancouver, Wash.)
Saturday, March 8, 10:30 a.m. – Track & field in Rich Allen Classic (Colcord Memorial Field)
Saturday, March 8, 11 a.m. – Baseball vs. Pacific, DH (Morse Field Complex)
Saturday, March 8, noon – Softball vs. Lewis & Clark, DH (Morse Field Complex)
Sunday, March 9, 10 a.m. – Women’s tennis vs. College of Idaho (GFU campus courts)
Sunday, March 9, noon – Baseball vs. Pacific (Morse Field Complex)
Sunday, March 9, noon – Softball vs. Lewis & Clark, DH (Morse Field Complex)

The George Fox women’s basketball team will play Whitworth on Friday, March 7, in the first round of the NCAA National Tournament in Walla Walla, Wash., at 5 p.m., followed by West Regional host Whitman vs. Chapman at 7 p.m. The two winners will meet Saturday at 7 p.m. at Whitman for a chance to advance to the Sweet 16 and a sectional at a site to be announced.

For more information, contact the sports information office at ext. 2926 or visit the George Fox sports website at gfubruins.com.

Join us this Saturday, March 8, for the annual Rich Allen Classic track meet and tour the first phases of the new Stoffer Family Stadium, home of Bruin track and field and future home of Bruin football.

While the stadium project isn’t complete, the covered grandstands will provide much-needed shelter from the early-March weather. Additionally, we would love for you to walk through the newly completed Duke Athletic Center and see the plans for the remainder of the project, including artificial-surface field, all-new field event elements, lights, and the video board with integrated timing capabilities.

The Rich Allen Classic track meet runs from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., and the open house for the Duke Athletic Center is open between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m., during which time snacks and refreshments will be served. We’ll also host a Stoffer Family Stadium presentation and prize drawing between 1:30 and 2:15 p.m. in the classroom of the Duke Athletic Center.

Come out and join us!

Tomorrow night (Friday) the board meal in Klages will coincide with the Empty Bowls event, a fundraiser to assist with the medical expenses for Professor Doug Campbell, who suffered a stroke in November 2012.

Hours of service will be 5 to 7 p.m. Here is the menu:

• Make-your-own soup bar, featuring a variety of scratch-made broths and 18 different toppings
• Artisan breads

The cost for adults is $12 each or $10 per person for families of four or more.

The Center for Peace and Justice, the International Justice Mission and Quaere Verum invite you to a showing of the film Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. The film, based on the book by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, will be shown over two nights, with part one tonight (Thursday) and part two on Monday, March 10.

Tonight’s part-one showing will be at 9 p.m. in Shalom (Cap and Gown Room). Monday’s part-two presentation will be at 7 p.m. in the same location. Chapel credit is available for attendance. In addition, a discussion panel – featuring Kathy Heininge, Marcie Gowan, Sarah Baldwin and guest Shoshon Tama-Sweet – will discuss the film at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 11, in the Special Collections Room in the library.

About the Film

Half the Sky focuses on six issues within six countries: Cambodia (sex trafficking), Kenya (economic empowerment), India (intergenerational prostitution), Sierra Leone (gender based violence), Somaliland (maternal health) and Vietnam (education).

Traveling with reporter Kristof and celebrity advocates America Ferrera, Diane Lane, Eva Mendes, Meg Ryan, Gabrielle Union and Olivia Wilde, the series introduces women and girls who are living under some of the most difficult circumstances imaginable – and fighting bravely to change them.

Questions? Contact Annie Stewart at estewart11@georgefox.edu.

Reminder: All check requests, invoices, interdepartmental charges (IDC), or error correction requests you may have for February need to be in the financial affairs office no later than 5 p.m. Monday, March 10. Items received after that time will be processed as March expenses.

Interested in being a chaperone? Next Friday, March 14, between 8 and 10 p.m. at the Chehalem Cultural Center, we will be hosting a salsa dance. Because this is an off-campus event, we need six faculty or staff members present.

Chaperones will be reimbursed $30 for dinner or babysitting. Please email Stephanie St. Cyr at sstcyr@georgefox.edu if you are interested. We would appreciate it so much!

Support Love INC., the Newberg community and our George Fox business capstone project – all while getting the chance to win great prizes!

R. R.A.C.E. is a spring running event through Newberg that will benefit the community and bring it together through interaction with local businesses. R. R.A.C.E. is a unique endeavor that is a fun experience/event where participants can explore Newberg and potentially win prizes. The event is scheduled for Saturday, April 5, from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

The Event: The run will begin at Jaquith Park, where runners will be shown a map of participating businesses throughout Newberg. They will have an allotted amount of time to visit as many businesses as possible to collect a raffle ticket at each and return before the time is up. We will then raffle off prizes, so the more tickets the better your chances of winning!

All profits from R. R.A.C.E. will be donated to Love INC.

For more information or to buy tickets visit our website at this link. You can also “Like” us on Facebook.

Are you cold and wet because you can’t remember where your hoody, raincoat or umbrella wandered off to? Did you reach for a drink of water after that workout only to realize your water bottle is AWOL?

If this describes you, your missing items might have been turned in to the lost and found located in the security office. Please come by during office hours or call 503-554-2090 to see if your lost items have been turned in. If they have not been turned in, we will collect the info about your missing items and add them to our list.

Better yet, write your name on your water bottles, jacket tags, etc. so we can notify you when your lost items are turned in.

Join us for the Liberal Arts and Critical Issues lecture this Monday, March 10, as Elaine Brouwer, director of Alta Vista, an educational organization based in Seattle, speaks from 7 to 8 p.m. in Hoover 105. The presentation ties into our theme “State of the World.”

Brouwer will present “Spaces Where Learners Flourish,” in which she will explore the sorts of “spaces” that provide particularly favorable environments in which learners can thrive in the present and in the future we cannot see.

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.

Please encourage your graduating students to attend the last day of the Spring 2014 Exodus Grad Fair.

Here is the information:

If you are graduating this May, stop by for the last day of the Exodus Grad Fair today (Thursday) between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. in the Stevens Center (Duke) Atrium.

You can pick you your cap and gown, order graduation announcements, enjoy some free food, and much more! You degree is almost done, graduation is around the corner, and it’s time to celebrate.

We hope to see you there!

Have you always wanted to grow your own organic produce but you don’t know how or don’t have the space? Join our community garden this season!

We work together to grow crops, and each one shares in the harvest. We meet weekly to plant, weed, harvest and eat together, between April and August. You can learn more at an informational meeting scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday, March 15, in the Villa Academic Complex.

The garden is open to the first 20 adults who register. The cost is only $15 per adult (no cost for children; scholarships and payment plans are available).

Contact Cherice Bock at cbock@georgefox.edu for more information. You are also invited to visit our Facebook page.