The Daily Bruin

Please help us select amazing peer advisors! If you know of students who might need an avenue to get involved in next year and who would be great at working with new students, please encourage them to apply to be a peer advisor.

Peer advisors lead new students during orientation and participate in the First Year Seminar classes. Males strongly encouraged to apply. Applications can be found on the university’s website and will be due Monday, Feb. 28. Thank you!

Have questions? Contact Stephanie St. Cyr at sstcyr@georgefox.edu.

It’s time to place your order for stationery items with the updated GFU logo. Since only the new logo items are authorized for external use as of July 1, the replacement order will be submitted this spring to accommodate those who are off contract during the summer months and to ensure all departments have supplies on hand in the fall.

Please submit your replacement stationery orders at this link no later than March 15. The fall order may not be received until late October.

Wednesday’s chapel will feature Koby Miller, dean of students from Mid-Continent University. We hope you will come and hear what she has to share with us.

Also, Wednesday night will be another opportunity for chapel credit at Faith and Film featuring the movie Seven Pounds. It will be at 9 p.m. in Hoover 105. Attendance will be limited to 175.

Faculty: All textbook requests for May term and summer term courses are due by Tuesday, March 1. Please submit your requests online at this link.

Requests for fall 2011 will be due April 1.

The university’s International Justice Mission chapter is meeting again at 7:50 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 23, in the Le Shana lobby. The IJM deals in large part with the issue of sex-trafficking on both a global and local scale and what steps we can do to combat it. Two major focuses of the chapter are prayer and how we can get involved in the community.

Please come and see how you can get involved as well. Questions? Contact Stephen Kenyon at skenyon09@georgefox.edu.

Thank you to everyone who donated prom dresses/formal wear for the Prom Dress Drive! We sent 40 dresses and five suit coats to Savoonga, Alaska, this week.

– Sheri Philips, Evangeline Pattison and Kristy Luther

Do you have students who struggle with MLA style? Encourage them to attend an Academic Resource Center-sponsored session, “MLA Basics,” at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 22, in Lemmons 8.

Gary Tandy, professor of English, will cover MLA elements as well as guide attendees to other resources that can assist them in mastering this academic style of writing.

The inaugural lecture of the Dalton Lecture Series, featuring Dr. Kent Thornburg, will begin tonight (Tuesday). Thornburg will present “New Science Wrestles An Old Problem: The Roots of Human Disease” at 7:30 p.m. in Wood-Mar Auditorium.

This lecture will be followed by a reception and student research poster session.

Come help lift up the campus and each other in prayer! The goal is to have 24-hour prayer occurring all weekend (5 a.m. Thursday through 11:59 p.m. Sunday), but we need lots of people to make this happen.

To participate, sign up for a 30-minute time slot (longer if you wish) outside the ASC offices in the Bruin Den and then pray for that length of time in the prayer chapel. The setting is laid back, so feel free to come as a group or by yourself, pray audibly or silently, or simply be still in God’s presence. There will be journals available, music access, coffee for the late nights, and a list of prayer topics for those who don’t know what to pray for. Please come!

Questions/comments/concerns? Feel free to e-mail Elizabeth Teach at eteach06@georgefox.edu or visit the Facebook group/event.

God bless!

Have any old jeans? Spiritual Life will take them! We are in need of jeans for the spring retreat. Please bring the jeans to the Office of Spiritual Life, located on the corner of Meridian and Sheridan streets.

Thanks.

The University Players drama troupe will perform vignettes this Friday and Saturday, Feb. 25-26, at 7:30 p.m. in Wood-Mar Auditorium. Admission is free but donations are encouraged.

The vignettes last from six to eight minutes each and combine music, drama and comedy to present the challenges and joys of the Christian faith. This year’s theme is “Threshing Floor” and challenges people to examine their ways through meditating on Jesus’ parables.

Among the questions tackled in shows this year are “What seeds have been sown in our lives, and by whom?”, “What have we allowed to grow or not grow?” and “What of our harvest will survive the threshing floor?”

It’s playoff time! Come out to support our women as they once again take on the University of Puget Sound Loggers in the first round of the Northwest Conference Basketball Tournament. Game time is set for 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 24, in the Wheeler Sports Center.

Prices set by the NWC are:

• $6 for adults
• $3 for non-GFU/UPS students
• $3 for those 65 and older
• George Fox and UPS students will be admitted free. No passes will be accepted.

We need to rock the gym! And as always, be loud, be proud, be a Bruin!

The Staff Development Committee invites Newberg staff to gather for morning worship on Tuesday, March 1, in VAC 117 from 9 to 10:30 a.m. A time of worship, praise and fellowship (with refreshments) is planned.

Portland staff will gather on March 8.

Evergreen Water Park will be hosting an information session on Tuesday, Feb. 22, at 6 p.m. in EHS 125. Come learn about their new facility in McMinnville as well as the 75-plus job opportunities. R.S.V.P. via BruinCareers (mygfu>Career Services> BruinCareers).

Questions? Contact Angela Doty in Career Services at adoty@georgefox.edu.

Marketing Communications will host a staff/faculty portrait session from 2 to 4 p.m. on Thursday, March 3, in our Le Shana Hall studio. These high-quality studio portraits will be used on the university website and will be available for professional promotional use.

Please call or e-mail Danette Newkirk (ext. 2125) to let us know what time you are planning to come. You can still come without prior notice, but your university photo ID will be required for entrance at the southwest side (the side facing Coffin Residence Hall) of the building.

Now that the month is coming to a close, were you aware that the month of February is Black History Month? Black History Month is an annual celebration of achievements by African Americans and a time for recognizing the roles of African Americans in U.S. history.

Since 1976, every U.S. president has officially designated the month of February as Black History Month.

The group Quaere Verum invites all members of the George Fox community to come listen to the stories of an Iraqi woman named Balsam, who has lived in both the U.S. and Iraq. She is excited to share her story with those willing to listen. She will share at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 21.

QV meets just across the street from the Media Center, in the basement of 603 N. Meridian. The entrance is on the right side of the house. Walk right in, and join us for soup and stories!

For more info, contact millerj06@georgefox.edu.

Quaere Verum invites any members of the George Fox community to come listen to the stories of an Iraqi woman named Balsam. Balsam studied in the U.S. and lived in Iraq during its war times. She is looking forward to sharing stories of her experience with those willing to listen.

We will gather for soup at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 21, and discussion at 7:45 p.m. at 605 N. Meridian St., across from the Media Center (entrance located on the right side of 603 N. Meridian).

For more information, contact Jay Miller at millerj06@georgefox.edu.

Faculty and staff: Please let your students know that the last chance for senior photos is Wednesday, Feb. 23, between 5 and 7 p.m. and Thursday, Feb. 24, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Cap and Gown Room. Please remind any students who are graduating of this last opportunity.

Thank you,
L’Ami (Yearbook) staff

Saturday, Feb. 19, noon – Softball vs. Eastern Oregon (DH), Morse Field
Saturday, Feb. 19, noon – Men’s tennis vs. Puget Sound, GFU campus courts
Saturday, Feb. 19, 6 p.m. – Women’s basketball vs. Puget Sound, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym
Saturday, Feb. 19, 8 p.m. – Men’s basketball vs. Puget Sound, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym
Sunday, Feb. 20, noon – Softball vs. Eastern Oregon (DH), Morse Field
Sunday, Feb. 20, 3 p.m. – Men’s tennis vs. Whitman, GFU campus courts

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