The Daily Bruin

Come and watch two of the region’s top-ranked men’s tennis teams battle it out (No. 1 George Fox Bruins vs. No. 6 Whitman)! This is one of the biggest matches of the season, and we need your support!

We will have free pizza for all students and staff who present their university ID card.

The match is at 6:30 p.m. tonight (Saturday), rain or shine. It will be contested at the Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation District, 15707 S.W. Walker Road, in Beaverton.

Go Bruins!

With inclement weather expected this weekend, the George Fox men’s tennis team has announced plans for their three scheduled home tennis matches Feb. 22-24 in case of rain.

Friday’s match with the Pacific Lutheran University Lutes (2-0, NWC 2-0) is scheduled for 3 p.m., but if it rains, the match will be moved to the Tualatin Hills Tennis Center in Beaverton and will start at 6 p.m.

On Saturday, the Bruins take on the Whitman College Missionaries (1-1, NWC 1-0), who are ranked No. 13 nationally and No. 6 in the West Region. That match will definitely be moved from the campus to the main indoor facility at Tualatin Hills in Beaverton. The start time will remain the same at 6 p.m.

Sunday’s contest with the Linfield College Wildcats (0-2, NWC 0-2) is set for 2 p.m. on campus, but if the weather is uncooperative, the match will be moved ahead two hours to noon at Tualatin Hills.

The George Fox Symphonic Band will perform Johan de Meij’s Lord of the Rings Symphony at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28, in Bauman Auditorium. All are invited, and admission is free.

We are in the process of planning and pulling together the teams for our annual Spring Serve trips (March 23-30). We have several organizations with whom we have annually partnered in service and are looking for current employee or alumni “advisors” to participate with our Serve Trip student-leaders. These individuals serve as university representatives, support the student leaders on their respective trips, and help keep these experiential ministry opportunities purposeful, successful, educational, and helpful to our hosts.

Our goal is for each trip to have two student leaders who are responsible for all trip coordination and team meetings. The job of the trip advisor would be to come alongside them and to offer support, wisdom, advice (especially in terms of risk-management), and general life-experience and spiritual guidance as the students lead the team.

If you are interested or have more questions, please contact Rusty St. Cyr at rstcyr@georgefox.edu or call ext. 2319. If you know of any alumni who are beyond two years of graduation who would be interested, please feel free to pass on this information to them. We hope to have the advisor roles filled by March 1.

Spring Serve trip descriptions can be found at this link.

Do you run at least three times a week? Would you like to potentially increase your speed/performance/endurance levels? Please help me with my senior Health and Human Performance research study!

I am looking for recreational runners (sorry, no varsity athletes) to help me out with my senior research project.

Please contact Natalie at nmarkland09@georgefox.edu if you are at all interested!

Join us for the fifth installment of the spring Liberal Arts and Critical Issues series this Monday, Feb. 25, in Hoover 105. The theme of this spring’s lecture series is “State of the Union.”

Monday’s session runs from 7 to 8 p.m. and features Dr. Fred Van Dyke, executive director of the Au Sable Institute for Environmental Studies. He will present a lecture titled “Hope and Hopelessness: Overcoming the State of Despair in Modern Conservation,” in which he will argue that, concerning conservation efforts, hope is “not a product of emotional exhortation but a reasoned and confident expectation of an altered future condition relative to present circumstances.”

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.

The university’s 2013 Dalton Lecture is tonight (Wednesday) in Bauman Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Students who attend will receive chapel credit. The lecture, titled “The Big Bang, Stephen Hawking and God,” will be presented by Dr. Henry F. Schaefer III, director of the Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry at the University of Georgia.

The Dalton Lecture Series is sponsored by the Department of Biology and Chemistry. More information can be found on the Dalton Lecture page or by e-mailing Jane Sweet at jsweet@georgefox.edu.

The university community is invited to the annual Bösendorfer Artist Concert Series, featuring Italian pianist Gianluca Luisi, tomorrow (Thursday), in Bauman Auditorium. This marks a return to the university for Luisi, who will perform a series of J.S. Bach and Franz Liszt pieces – as well as a duet piece, Three Preludes by George Gershwin, with professor Kenn Willson – on the university’s Bösendorfer “Imperial” grand piano.

Luisi, who has performed at New York’s Carnegie Hall and at renowned venues around the world, will perform a 7:30 p.m. concert. All George Fox employees and students are entitled to one free ticket they may pick up at the box office in the Pennington House (Portland Center students and employees may call 503-554-3844 to reserve your ticket). Additional tickets are $12 for adults, $8 for seniors and alumni, and $6 for students/children. Tickets are available for purchase online at this link.

Luisi also will hold a master class at 4 p.m. today (Wednesday), in Bauman Auditorium, where he will coach piano performance majors. The public is welcome to attend the class at no charge.

To learn more about Luisi, the series or the concert, visit the above link.

An all-employee meeting is scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 28, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Hoover 105.

For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available at a stream site that you can access from MyGFU. Simply log into MyGFU and click the “Community Meeting Link” located under “Staff Resources/Faculty Resources.” The link will take you to all the information relating to community meetings and include a live-stream link (the password changes each meeting) and a chat room link.

Videos from previously recorded meetings will be added to this page in the days following. Please bookmark the page for quick access each month.

Thursday, Feb. 21, 2 p.m. – Baseball vs. Corban (Morse Field)
Friday, Feb. 22, 2 p.m. – Baseball vs. Oregon Tech (Morse Field)
Friday, Feb. 22, 3 p.m. – Men’s tennis vs. Pacific Lutheran (GFU campus courts)
Saturday, Feb. 23, 6 p.m. – Men’s tennis vs. Whitman (GFU campus courts)
Sunday, Feb. 24, 2 p.m. – Baseball vs. Pacific (Morse Field)
Sunday, Feb. 24, 2 p.m. – Men’s tennis vs. Linfield (GFU campus courts)

Both Bruin basketball teams will be in action Thursday, Feb. 21, in the Northwest Conference Tournaments. The women will be at Lewis & Clark at 7 p.m., and the men will be at Whitman at 8 p.m. The championships games will be Saturday at the site of the highest-remaining seeds.

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

Urban Outreach, the campus homeless ministry, will be holding a coin drive so we can make simple hygiene packs for our friends on the streets. We’ll also take unneeded winter clothes. Look for us at chapel on Wednesday (Feb. 20) and at your doors on Wednesday and Thursday nights.

Want to help? E-mail Mary Owen (mowen10@georgefox.edu) or Steven Ching (sching10@georgefox.edu).

Anything helps!

Come and join us this Friday, Feb. 22, for a time of prayer for our campus and our community. This is not just for students. This is for faculty and administration as well.

We’ll meet on the quad outside the Bruin Den and walk from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. Questions? Contact Mary Owen at mowen10@georgefox.edu.

Did you know that, as an employee, you get a 25 percent discount in the Bruin Grounds? And you can now create tabs using your cost centers!

We offer sandwiches, wraps, coffee and other treats. We are open from 4 to 11 p.m. every day, so before you head home, don’t forget to stop by Bruin Grounds downstairs in the SUB.

The university will host the Portland Youth Philharmonic, led by Conductor and Music Director David Hattner, for a Monday, Feb. 25, concert in Bauman Auditorium. The 7:30 p.m. performance is free and open to the public, and no tickets are required.

The evening will feature Rachel Graves, winner of PYP’s 2012-13 Concerto Competition, performing Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64. The program also includes William Bergsma’s Chameleon Variations and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, ‘Pathétique.’

The concert is a free preview of PYP’s winter concert to be held in the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall on Saturday, March 2, at 7:30 p.m.

Dr. Henry F. Schaefer III will give a scientific, but lighthearted, lecture tonight (Tuesday) entitled “Third Age of Quantum Chemistry.” Dr. Schaefer, a world-renowned scientist, is the director of the Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry at the University of Georgia.

The lecture begins at 7 p.m. in Hoover 105. Please contact Jane Sweet at jsweet@georgefox.edu if you have any questions.

The International Justice Mission club is meeting tonight (Tuesday) from 8:15 to 9:15 p.m. in the Cultural House. Join us in discussing how we, as college students, can fight injustice and advocate for victims of human trafficking!

We will be having hot chocolate and tea, so bring a mug!

Questions? Contact Elizabeth Hope Kenyon at ekenyon11@georgefox.edu.

Do you run at least three times a week? Would you like to potentially increase your speed/performance/endurance levels? Please help me with my senior Health and Human Performance research study!

I am looking for recreational runners (sorry, no varsity athletes) to help me out with my senior research project.

Please contact Natalie at nmarkland09@georgefox.edu if you are at all interested!

You can now create tabs using your cost centers in Bruin Grounds! We offer sandwiches, wraps, coffee, and other goodies!

We are open from 4 to 11 p.m. every day. So before you head home, don’t forget to stop by Bruin Grounds located downstairs in the SUB! You won’t want to miss out!

Dr. Doreen Dodgen-Magee will address issues related to technology in our lives when she comes to campus March 4-6 as guest speaker for the Spring Theological Conference.

The schedule for the week includes:

• Monday, March 4 – “You’ve Been Hacked: How technology has taken you hostage (and how your parents are to blame),” chapel (10:40 a.m. in Bauman Auditorium)
• Tuesday, March 5 – “Finding Your Sweet Spot: Brain health and multiple intelligences information to help you increase engagement in your first (real) life,” Shalom (7 p.m. in Cap & Gown Room)
• Wednesday, March 6 – “Pushing the Pause Button: Practical tips for learning to be still, bored, and centered,” chapel (10:40 a.m. in Bauman Auditorium)

Dr. Dodgen-Magee is a licensed psychologist, truth communicator and Jesus follower. She had one of the first computers in her class when she was a graduate student “a million years ago,” and was the last person in her family to get an iPhone. She is a reluctant geek and an avid reader of research.

Doreen is passionate about helping people experience life in all its richness, complexity, boredom and wonder. She fills her own time with seeing clients, speaking around the country, taking African dance lessons, doting on her kids (a college sophomore and high school senior), practicing contemplative prayer, and attempting to find the most shocking (and truth-telling) YouTube clips to share at places like George Fox University.

The Spring Theological Conference is sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies. For more information, contact Paula Hampton at ext 2650. All sessions are open to the public.

Paul Watson, director for Cityteam International’s recovery center in Portland, will outline his agency’s innovative outreach efforts and how they are applicable to local businesses and ministries when he speaks Tuesday, Feb. 26, at the monthly Newberg meeting of the Christian Chamber of the Northwest. The meeting is from 7:30 to 9 a.m. in the Villa Academic Complex.

Watson split his childhood between Hong Kong, Malaysia, India and Singapore while his parents planted churches as career missionaries for the Southern Baptist Convention. Watson earned a bachelor’s degree in English literature at the University of North Texas and minored in business administration.

In 2007, through Cityteam (cityteam.org), Watson started training and coaching church planters and church planting organizations worldwide. In 2010, he traveled 75,000 miles and trained people in the United Kingdom, France, Indonesia, Malaysia, Lebanon, Egypt, Germany, and through the U.S. In 2011, he traveled 85,000 miles.

Watson last year moved to Portland to take his current position. Cityteam Portland provides 72,000 meals a year. It helps, on average, 84 people per night, 365 days per year, to receive a shower, clean clothing and a safe place to sleep. Watson and his team seek to meet the physical needs of the homeless, addicted and alcoholic while seeking to catalyze disciple-making movements in the Northwest.

For more information on the meeting, visit christianchambernorthwest.com or call 503-928-8354.