The university community is invited to Paul Otto’s lecture tracing the use of wampum in ceremony, trade, currency and friendship. Please join us at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 5, in Hoover 105 and learn the history of these “Beads of Power.â€
Interested in learning more about Chinese language, history and culture? Beginning this Thursday, Sept. 30, the International/Cultural House will host an educational and fun meeting dedicated to Chinese culture. Learn more about our Chinese students and the activities they enjoy. Try learning some Chinese. The meeting is scheduled for every other Thursday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., and all are welcome.
The International/Cultural House, formerly a commuter lounge, is located across from the Pennington parking lot. For more information, please contact Lishan Zeng at lzeng09@georgefox.edu.
This Friday, Oct. 1, Sue O’Donnell (Psychology) will present a workshop, “Using APA Format Effectively,” beginning at 10:40 a.m. in Hoover 105. The session will cover American Psychological Association citation and reference formatting, along with several guidelines for writing in APA style.
Interested in looking at a digital solution for giving students immediate feedback? Join IT for a session on how to use the FoxTALE Grade Book as part of your assessment tool kit.
IT will host two face-to-face sessions: On Tuesday, Oct. 5, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at the Portland Center (Room 210) and on Thursday, Oct. 7, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in Hoover 211. Can’t make it? Join our webinar on Wednesday, Oct. 6, from 3 to 4 p.m. Pacific (PDT).
Space is still available for these sessions. Sign up on this R.S.V.P. form. For details on what this session covers, see Add Assignments and Grades printable instructions at Faculty Quick Guides for FoxTALE.
See all of the faculty and staff development sessions IT hosts at Schedule of Events.
The Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends and the university’s Center for Peace and Justice would like to invite all students, faculty and staff to this weekend’s conference: “Christians and Immigration in a Land of Contradictions: A Call to Biblical Action.”
On Friday and Saturday, join with other concerned Christians as we educate ourselves about immigration in the United States. Together, we will examine details of immigration law and history, hearing firsthand stories about the immigrant experience and be inspired by fellow Christians working to share the love of Christ with our immigrant brothers and sisters. Although there is no charge for those from George Fox, participants are asked to register online at this link.
For a detailed schedule of events, please see our page on the university’s website.
Questions? E-mail peaceandjustice@georgefox.edu.
We hope to see you this weekend.
Blessings,
George Fox Center for Peace and Justice
Join us Wednesday (Sept. 29) in chapel to hear from our speaker, Shauna Niequist, author of Bittersweet and Cold Tangerines. She will be sharing on the paradox topic of “Bitter/Sweet.”
Shauna also will share with us in an evening chapel at 7:30 p.m. in Lemmons 8, where a free copy of Bittersweet will be given to the first 25 people. We look forward to worshiping with you!
Tickets are still available for this Thursday’s concert featuring internationally acclaimed pianist Valentina Lisitsa in Bauman Auditorium. The performance begins at 7:30 p.m.
Lisitsa will play a selection of Chopin and Liszt pieces in celebration of their 200th birthdays (Chopin was born in 1810 and Liszt in 1811). She is making the appearance to benefit the Friends of Music program, the main resource fund for the university’s Bösendorfer concert series.
Tickets are only $5 for all university students and employees (get your ticket at the box office). To learn more about Lisitsa, visit valentinalisitsa.com. Don’t miss seeing this gifted pianist perform!
This Friday (Oct. 1) from 8 to 10 p.m., come to the university’s track and play Disney carnival games, enjoy Disneyland-style food, sing Disney karaoke, and win fabulous prizes! We will be giving away Disneyland tickets, a 32-inch TV, and an iHome. Dress up as your favortie Disney character and you will be in the running for a best costume prize as well!
Tilikum Center for Retreats & Outdoor Ministries’ annual Potlatch celebration is Saturday, Oct. 16, at 7 p.m. in the Klages Dining Room. All are welcome, and the registration deadline is Monday, Oct. 11.
The event celebrates past donors and program supporters and presents the camp’s “Foundations for the Future, Phase 2†campaign. To R.S.V.P., call 503-538-2763 or e-mail tilikum@georgefox.edu.
Student supervisors: The first pay day of the new school year for student employees is Friday, Oct. 15. For us to meet this deadline, we need your students’ September time sheets by Tuesday, Oct. 5, by 5 p.m.
Please be sure the student’s name, ID number and cost center number is legible on each one. Also, don’t forget to sign them and be sure the students did as well. Please do not send students to HR to sign their time sheets.
If you still have paperwork for new or returning student employees, please get it turned in as soon as possible.
Thanks so much for helping us get our students paid in a timely manner!
– HR
For the past few years, George Fox has utilized FOXALERT as a method of notifying the Newberg campus faculty, staff and students in the event of a campus-wide emergency. Each semester we update the FOXALERT database with your current contact information that we download from MyGFU. For this system to work, it is vital that you take a few minutes to update your contact information.
If you have not done so recently, please update your contact information by signing into MyGFU. Following are the steps to take:
In the near future, we will test FOXALERT as well as give you information on opting in or out to receive text messages. Your safety is very important to us. Please work with us to provide you with timely information should an emergency arise.
If you have questions, please contact Jere Witherspoon (Student Life) at jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu.
Sincerely,
Brad Lau, VP of Student Life
Once a year, Bon Appétit issues an “Eat Local Challenge†to all of our chefs. On Tuesday, Sept. 28, come to Klages Dining Room between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. and enjoy a lunch that is made completely of ingredients from within a 150-mile radius of the café. This act, while seemingly simple, has far-reaching implications.
Local farmers, who use more sustainable growing practices, act as stewards of the land. By buying from local growers, we can all help support sustainable farming practices that nourish and replenish the local land rather than stripping it. We have the power to ensure that the food we buy is produced in a manner that steers away from pesticides, hormones and antibiotics.
This year’s menu includes:
Soups: Roasted corn bisque and beefy tomato broth with fresh spinach
Entrees: Trager-smoked Carlton Farms pulled pork sliders; oven-roasted blue and Butterball potatoes with summer squash; marinated Draper Valley grilled chicken with local melons and jalapeño sofrito; simple greens with blueberry vinaigrette
Hand food: Oregon albacore tuna tostadas; yellow tomato criolla-roasted fingerling potatoes; crème fresh cabbage saw and pimento d’Espelette
Vegetarian: Ratatouille-stuffed Oregon star tomatoes and cranberry bean and corn succotash
Expo: Leafy spinach salad with pickled Red Zeppelin onions, Yamhill County fried mushrooms, poached blueberries, Fraga Farms chipotle goat cheese and Blossom vinegars honey vinaigrette
Pizza: Pear and gorgonzola or fresh tomato and butcher shop jalapeno cheddar summer sausage
Sweets: Ace High apple bars with Melcher’s Farm hazelnuts; Marylhill Orchards peach cobbler
Please come join us. Cost is only $6.75. This is a great opportunity to enjoy the bounty of our community for everyone not on meal plans.
The university community is invited to Paul Otto’s lecture tracing the use of wampum in ceremony, trade, currency and friendship. Please join us at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 5, in Hoover 105 and learn the history of these “Beads of Power.”
Faculty, please encourage students who might be interested to attend this week’s ARC workshop. On Wednesday, Sept. 29, Rick Muthiah (Learning Support Services) will present “Effective Procrastination: How to Use Your Time Well,” designed to help students differentiate between healthy and problematic procrastination. Rick also will discuss methods for students to use their time effectively to achieve learning goals.
The session begins at 6:30 p.m. in Stevens 208.
Join us to hear author Shauna Niequist as she speaks in chapel Wednesday, Sept. 29. Following chapel at 11:30 a.m., she will be signing copies of her books at the Bruin Bookstore from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Her books, Bittersweet and Cold Tangerines, will be available at a discount in the store. Refreshments will be provided.
That night, Niequist also will be speaking at a special evening chapel beginning at 9 p.m. in Hoover 105.
Join us at North Valley Friends Church this Saturday, Sept. 25, to help build and establish the Newberg peace trail. Visit the project website to learn of the vision and plan. It is “a place for peace, to learn about peace, to celebrate peace” put together by North Valley Friends and the surrounding Newberg community, including the university’s Center for Peace and Justice.
If interested, please send us an e-mail R.S.V.P. at peaceandjustice@georgefox.edu. We’ll meet at 9 a.m. outside in the Stevens Center parking lot to carpool. If you have a car, please bring it. You will be working on putting the language and quote boards on the peace poles, preparing the ground and building the forms for the bench pads, and working on the path leading from the walking trail to the labyrinth. There may also be space for you to assist with labyrinth design.
We will work until around mid-afternoon, depending on how many people assist with the project. Lunch will be provided to all of the workers.
– Center for Peace and Justice/Center for Global Studies
Marketing Communications is collecting orders for name tags. For those who have regular face-to-face contact with the public and need to order a name tag, you may now submit and view your name tag requests. Click on this link to place your order.
Provide the name of the person for whom the name tag is needed; title or department; and the budget to be charged. Examples of title or department include: Dean of Students/Student Life and Admissions Counselor/Admissions. The next order will be placed Friday, Oct. 1.
Saturday, Sept. 25, 11 a.m. – Men’s & women’s cross country in Bruin Alumni Race, Champoeg State Heritage Area, St. Paul, Ore.
For more information, contact the sports information office at ext. 2926 or visit the Bruin athletics website at gfubruins.com.
We’re pleased to announce that, starting this week, we began offering an express line in the Bruin Den for those students, staff and faculty who would like to quickly purchase a salad or sandwich and a bottled beverage. We’re opening this line from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. daily, and at this time we’re set up to only accept cash.
If you’re in a hurry or just want something quick to take back to your office or room, this is a great way to beat the lines. We’re excited to offer this service, and we hope enough people will take advantage of it so that we can make it permanent. If you have any questions or suggestions, please let us know!
Thanks go to Nadine in Security Services for suggesting this idea.
– Bon Appetit
If you’ve been searching for where you can find your photo booth pictures from Serve Fest, you’ll be able to find them now. Click on this link to check them out.
