The Daily Bruin

George Fox staff: You are one in a million! And, if you are lucky, you will be one in 15! Watch for your sweet opportunity next Tuesday.

This coming Friday and Saturday we are expecting more than 400 additional high school students and parents to join us during Scholarship Competition. They will be eating lunch in Klages between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. on Friday and approximately noon on Saturday.

So, we’d like to ask as many of our regular students not to come for lunch until after 12:30 p.m. on Friday in order to avoid most of the crowds. On Saturday, if at all possible, please arrive and leave before noon or after 1 p.m.

In order to accommodate all of these visitors as well as our regular students, we also will be serving both these meals on disposable paper plates and would like to encourage all George Fox students to take their meals out of the dining room those days so that we have enough room for our visitors. The Cap and Gown Room will be available for overflow.

Thanks for your help and let’s all work to make this a good experience for our visitors and prospective students. By the way, because of this, burger day will be on Thursday.

– Bon Appetit

As a reminder, please give up your parking spots in the Stevens, Hoover and Wood-Mar lots and park on Meridian Street, North Street or Sheridan Street this Friday, Feb. 11, during Scholarship Competition.

Please empty out those three lots so that our potential new students and their families have places to park, as the Bauman lot is extremely full this year. Thank you in advance for your cooperation in welcoming our guests.

– Security Services

Heather B Ayala, PhD, will share her scientific research in a lecture entitled, “The Genetic Dissection of Differential Growth in Plasmodium falciparum and its Relationship to Chloroquine Drug Selection.” The lecture will be held at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 10, in EHS 102. Heather is an associate professor of biology from Bethel College. All are welcome to attend.

The university community is invited to the Faculty Research Forum featuring Brent Weaver (Performing Arts) at 10:40 a.m. Friday, Feb. 18, in Hoover 105. Dr. Weaver will speak on his research into digital media and musical performance – and share his new musical work, Imaginary Scenes.

The times, they are a-changin’! And this is especially important to remember if you’re participating in spring commencement on Saturday, April 30, in Miller Gymnasium. Please note the start times for this year’s ceremonies:

• 10 a.m.: Graduate and Adult Degree Completion Ceremony
• 3 p.m.: Traditional Undergraduate Ceremony

Questions? Please contact Karlyn Fleming at kfleming@georgefox.edu. Thank you!

Be sweet and help send students to Nicaragua! There are two sweet opportunities this week to support the psychology department’s mission/research trip to help at-risk girls rescued from poverty in Central America.

• Buy a Sweet: Cookies, brownies, and more will be available for sale from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the Bruin Den every day this week. Come indulge for a good cause!
• Send a Crush: Send a Crush can to someone you care about on Valentine’s Day. Just fill out an order form in the Den and place it in the drop box there. Include the full name of the person you’re sending it to, where they live on campus, and a short message (optional). Or,  you can send your order through e-mail to Lyndsee Landon (llandon10@georgefox.edu) or through campus mail to Box #5304.

Some of you have some concerns about the presentation, worship and experience of Monday’s chapel. Spiritual Life is sponsoring a listening session on Thursday, Feb. 10, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Foxhole.

Sarah Baldwin, Andrea Crenshaw, Jamie Johnson, Steve Sherwood and Rusty St. Cyr will be available to listen to any and all of your concerns about this chapel or any other chapel. You are welcome to stop by between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. and stay briefly or for the whole time.

The nursing department is assembling Health Hope Kits for Medical Teams International through Feb. 23! Each Hope Kit will be sent to children in orphanages, refugee camps, or families in disaster. If you’re interested in participating in our global health outreach, you can pick up a list of needed donations outside the nursing office (Hoover 214) today.

Interested in learning some tips on how to organize your Web-based Google Mail? IT is offering this session two times on Thursday, Feb. 24.

• 10-11 a.m. in Hoover 211. You can bring your laptop and work on your Mail settings during our session.
• 5-6 p.m. Webinar (from any computer that has access to the Internet)

R.S.V.P. at this Spring 2011 Development Events page. Visit Google Apps Help and E-Mail Quick Guides for more information.

Have questions about Monday’s chapel speaker? Great. There are more opportunities for discussion besides Monday night’s panel talk. Ray Aldred is speaking in chapel again on Wednesday, and there will be a talk-back after chapel in the Cap and Gown Room.

Also, Rev. Aldred is speaking at the Intellectual Feast on Tuesday at 4 p.m. in the Hoover Lounge (second floor). Please join the conversation. Ray is helping us ask questions and talk about important matters of life, creation and Creator.

These valuable coupon books are still good for 10 more months. Get one while they last at the discounted price of $15 at the Information Desk on the first floor of the Stevens Center. You’ll receive $30 in bonus savings cards when you purchase a book.

To George Fox staff:

Your Staff Development Committee knows you are one in a million … and proof will appear on your desk/workspace on Feb. 15!

The annual Scholarship Competition is this Friday and Saturday, Feb. 11-12, and we are expecting about 700 attendees. We are asking you to give up your parking spots in the Stevens, Hoover and Wood-Mar lots, and to park on Meridian Street, North Street and Sheridan Street on Friday.

Please empty out those three lots so that our potential new students and their families have places to park, as the Bauman lot is extremely full this year. Thank you in advance for your cooperation in welcoming our guests.

– Security Services

How does our relationship to the land affect our relationship to God and to others? That is the central question of the Spring Theological Conference this week, Monday through Wednesday (Feb. 7-9).

Join this important discussion at the following events:

• Monday Chapel: Ray Aldred (Cree) asks whether there is a theology of the land.
• Monday Panel: Richard Twiss, Ray Aldred and Randy Woodley respond to questions about God and Land, Lemmons 8 (Calder Lecture Hall), 8 p.m.
• Tuesday Intellectual Feast: Ray Aldred presents “Does God Love the Land?”,  Hoover Lounge, 4 p.m.
• Wednesday Chapel: Ray Aldred presents “Stories of the Land”

Please be aware that the scholarship application for traditional undergraduates returning in 2011-12 is delayed. We are working through some technical issues with access. Please look to E-nnouncements for information when we make it live. We are sorry for the delay.

– Student Financial Services

Join us in Klages Friday night (Feb. 4) for dinner as we help celebrate Chinese New Year 2011, the year of the rabbit.

Chinese New Year starts with the New Moon on the first day of the new year and ends on the full moon 15 days later. The 15th day of the new year is called the Lantern Festival, which is celebrated at night with lantern displays and children carrying lanterns in a parade. The Chinese calendar is based on a combination of lunar and solar movements, which is why the Chinese New Year falls on a different date each year.

The meal is free to meal plan students and only $8 for everyone else.

– Bon Appetit

Saturday, Feb. 5, 6 p.m. – Women’s basketball vs. Lewis & Clark, Wheeeler Sports Center/Miller Gym
Saturday, Feb. 5, 8 p.m. – Men’s basketball vs. Lewis & Clark, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym

For more information, call the sports information office at ext. 2926 or visit the Bruin sports website at gfubruins.com.

How can art forms function as theological media, conveying spiritual realities in ways words cannot? The question will be the topic of a George Fox Evangelical Seminary seminar on Wednesday, Feb. 9, at the Portland Center.

Author Dan Kimball and author and theologian Maggi Dawn will speak at the event, the latest installment of the seminary’s Ministry in Contemporary Culture Seminar series. The half-day event is scheduled from 9 a.m. to noon in Room 155.

The seminar, entitled “A New Creation: The Fusion of Ministry and Creative Arts,” will address the ways in which Christ-followers have used media throughout the ages and present some new ways these media can be used today. Kimball is the author of several books on church leadership and culture, including They Like Jesus, But Not The Church and The Emerging Church. He is also on staff at Vintage Faith Church in Santa Cruz, Calif.

Dawn is based at the University of Cambridge, where she is chaplain and Fellow in Theology at Robinson College. She recently published a book, The Writing on the Wall, which explores some of the most influential stories and ideas from the Bible and the ways they have been woven into Western culture.

Online registration is available at seminary.georgefox.edu and can be found by clicking the “News and Events” link on the left side of the screen. More information about the seminar is available by contacting Jean Oehm Miller at ext. 6150.

Are you interested in missions? We will be hosting Mission Year’s Sara Mendoza Thursday (Feb. 3), and she will be available to answer any questions about the organization (missionyear.org).

If you’re interested in what they do, we welcome you to come talk with Sara. She will be available at lunch in the Bruin Den or at 3:30 p.m. in the Spiritual Life House (on the corner of Sheridan and Meridian). She also will speak in Shalom at 9 p.m. in the Cap and Gown Room. We hope to see you there!