The Daily Bruin

The university community is invited to hear Doug Bandow speak on “The American Republic Turned Superpower: The Founders Were Right about Entangling Alliances Then and Now” this Monday, Oct. 18, at 6:30 p.m. in Hoover 105.

Bandow, a former special assistant to President Ronald Reagan and now senior fellow at the Cato Institute, writes regularly for leading publications such as Fortune magazine, National Interest, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Times. The event is made possible by the Jack Miller Center through a grant from M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust.

Questions? Contact Mark David Hall at mhall@georgefox.edu.

After 22 years of faithful service to George Fox University, Chief of Staff Melissa Terry will be retiring.

Please join us in a celebration send-off on Monday, Oct. 18, at 4 p.m. in Canyon Commons 101-102. A short program will take place at 4:30 p.m.

If you have questions, please contact Michelle Dawson at mdawson@georgefox.edu.

After 20 months of creating theatre in digital and outdoor venues, the university’s theatre program is returning to Wood-Mar Auditorium for our fall production of Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare. The show runs Thursday through Saturday, Oct. 21-23 and Oct. 28-30, at 7:30 p.m., and concludes with a Sunday matinee on Oct. 31 at 2 p.m.

COVID Precautions

All patrons must be masked. Our ticketing system will automatically place one empty seat on either side of your ticket purchase to create extra space between you and the patrons next to you. We encourage all patrons to be vaccinated to help protect our actors and fellow audience members from COVID-19.

Livestream Option

If you are uncomfortable attending the production in person due to the pandemic – or can’t make the trip for any reason – please feel free to purchase our livestream options available on either Saturday, Oct. 30, at 7:30 p.m., or Sunday, Oct. 31, at 2 p.m.

Special Ticket Options for Students, Faculty and Staff

Students may acquire free tickets for Thursday night performances. George Fox faculty and staff are entitled to one free ticket for the run of the show. Both options may be selected when you purchase or select your tickets in our online ticketing system (please use your George Fox email address when obtaining tickets).

Purchase tickets at theatre.georgefox.edu, or call the performing arts box office at 503-554-3844. You can read a synopsis of the show here.

Interested in a thought-provoking discussion? This week on George Fox Talks, Abigail Favale hosts an important and timely conversation with Professor Bill Jolliff on what happens when reading causes us problems – emotionally, spiritually, morally and otherwise.

Give it a listen by subscribing to George Fox Talks on your phone’s podcasting app on Apple, Spotify or Amazon. Or watch it on our YouTube channel. You can find all of our new George Fox Talks materials, and a growing list of newer faculty publications and archived lectures, at this link.

Would you join the cause and help us boost our internet presence by (a) subscribing to our YouTube channel, (b) subscribing to the podcast on whatever app you use on your phone, and (c) reviewing the podcast on Apple podcasts? We appreciate it!

– Brian Doak (bdoak@georgefox.edu)

Mail Services wants to remind you to please come pick up your packages by the end of today (Wednesday). To help accommodate you, we will be staying open until 5 p.m.

If you have any questions, please contact Richard Silver at rsilver@georgefox.edu.

The mailroom will be closed on student payday this month, which is Thursday, Oct. 14, due to the school closure on Friday, Oct. 15.

If you have a paycheck to pick up, they will be available in the HR office from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow (Thursday), and then available in the mailroom again starting at 8 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 18.

Contact Beth Hampton (bhampton@georgefox.edu) with any questions.

Come help save three lives and stop by the blood drive at Abby’s pizza (1913 Portland Road, in Newberg) on Friday, Oct. 22!

The event, hosted by the Red Cross and organized by the university’s Nursing Club, runs from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Bring a friend or family member and help our community and those in need. Snacks and juice will be provided.

Questions? Contact Kendyl Sandersen (ksandersen19@georgefox.edu).

University Recreation is hosting its annual fall rock-climbing competition at the Hadlock Student Center on Friday, Oct. 29! This event is a day of fun and friendly competition that is suitable for climbers of all skill levels. In fact, the majority of climbers are beginners and/or are in their first year of climbing consistently.

All George Fox students, employees, and UREC members are invited to participate in this competition. If you’re interested, please register here by Thursday, Oct. 14, to guarantee you get a properly sized T-shirt and to secure the climbing time that you want.

Climbing sessions are now 90 minutes each. The event will last from 3 to 10 p.m., and an award ceremony with door prizes will be held at 9 p.m. All climbers are encouraged to come back. Costumes are also highly encouraged for the competition, as it will be Halloween weekend.

The competition costs $10, which helps cover the cost of the T-shirts that all competitors will receive. Unfortunately, there is no way to register without this fee. However, we do have sponsorship spots available if anyone is struggling financially but would still like to participate. Please let us know. Likewise, let us know if you would like to sponsor a climber.

Competition rules and details can be found here.

If you have any questions about sponsor opportunities or about the Rocktoberfest Climbing Competition, contact Moriah Clock (mclock20@georgefox.edu).

Prominent Christian political commentator and attorney David French will issue a call for robust civility in politics at a free presentation in Bauman Auditorium at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 1. The talk, entitled “Jesus Loves Your Political Enemies, and America Needs You to Love Them Too,” is available via a Zoom stream; those who attend in person are required to wear masks.

French is a senior editor at The Dispatch and a columnist for Time magazine. A graduate of Harvard Law School, he served as a lecturer at Cornell Law School. After law school, he practiced law with a focus on religious liberty issues.

He advises Christians not to wait for our political leaders to fix America’s drift toward bitter division. “There is no policy fix for malice and misinformation” he says. “There is no five-point plan for national harmony.” Instead, French says it is up to the church to build a healthier political culture, embracing people across the political spectrum, keeping the Ninth Commandment (against bearing false witness), and demonstrating love for our political enemies.

He speaks to Christians concerned about the polarization and alienation metastasizing in our communities, and in politics at every level, both nationally and locally. French’s most recent book is “Divided We Fall: America’s Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation.”

The event is being hosted by the George Fox Civility Project, an initiative launched during the 2020-21 academic year out of concern about the polarization and alienation in political culture at every level (national, state and local). It sponsors events, publishes a newsletter, and maintains a website with information about civility.

For more information, contact Civility Project director Ron Mock at civility@georgefox.edu.

As a part of your George Fox experience, we offer free group fitness classes for students and employees! Our experienced instructors teach a variety of classes, including MMA, Circuit Training, HIIT, Barre, Yoga, and Zumba.

If you’re interested, you can sign up here via IMLeagues.

If you have any additional questions regarding group fitness, email Angel Glockling (aglockling@georgefox.edu).

Did you know that there is a way to register formal complaints?

While most student concerns and complaints can and should be resolved informally, there is a formal general complaint procedure described in the “Support for Students” section of the Undergraduate Student Handbook as well as on the Graduate/DPS Policies page of the website.

Please note that these procedures cover complaints of a general nature and do not supersede specific policies involving special cases such as grade appeals, sexual harassment, etc., which are covered elsewhere in the Student Handbook, Catalog or Graduate/DPS Policies.

Questions? Email Jere Witherspoon at jwithers@georgefox.edu.

Are you interested in working with a group of engineering students to help them better understand living with physical limitations? If so, we would love to work together!

Our focus as a servant engineering team is to better understand the challenges of living with physical limitations, in an effort to design and produce a prototype device to aid in everyday life activities! The limitation can be small or large; our goal is to learn more about all aspects of adaptive and assistive devices.

If you are interested, or if you know somebody who would be, please fill out this form.

Questions? Contact William Anderson at wanderson19@georgefox.edu.

Mail Services is moving! On Monday, Oct. 18, Mail Services will officially be its new space in the Roberts Center and no longer in the North Street Annex building.

We will be accessible from the doors facing Sherman Street. To prepare for the big move, we will be closed Oct. 14-17. Therefore, please come pick up your packages by the end of the day on Wednesday, Oct. 13.

If you have any questions, please contact Richard Silver at rsilver@georgefox.edu.

Did you know that most scholarship applications open in the late fall and close mid-late spring? That means that now is the perfect time to start looking for scholarships for next year!

Please reach out to our Scholarship Resource Center to schedule an appointment or to request more information on where to look for external scholarships.

Questions? Contact Soren Sweet (ssweet@georgefox.edu).

We’re pushing back the start time for our Wednesdays/Fridays morning yoga class to begin at 6:30 a.m. in the Hadlock Student Center.

Start your morning by quieting your mind and moving your body with a blend of Hatha/Vinyasa yoga to align, strengthen and promote flexibility in the body! Click here to sign up.

Questions? Email Angel Glockling (aglockling@georgefox.edu).

The Voices Project Conference is back in person this year! We will be kicking off the two-day-long conference on Friday, Oct. 15, in Bauman Auditorium, with doors opening at 5:30 p.m.

The event runs from 5:30 to 8 p.m. on Friday in Bauman, and from 9:45 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday in Canyon Commons. This year’s theme is “Identity: The Beauty, Scars, Trauma, and Power of BIPOC.” Each year, the conference highlights multicultural and multiethnic leadership in the U.S. It’s open to all students and faculty and community members.

Interested? To learn more and to register, visit this link. Questions? Email Vlad Salas Moreno (vsalasmoreno18@georgefox.edu).

The mailroom will be closed on student payday this month, which is Thursday, Oct. 14, due to the school closure on Friday, Oct. 15.

If you have a paycheck to pick up, they will be available in the HR office from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 14, and then available in the mailroom again starting at 8 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 18.

Contact Beth Hampton (bhampton@georgefox.edu) with any questions.

Need a devoted friend and endless entertainment? Goldfish are available for adoption through the biology department!

Stop by EHS 202 anytime between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. starting today (Monday). There will be bags to tote them home. Goldfish are perfect for dorm rooms and outdoor ponds. Come pick up your scaly swimming friend!

Questions? Contact Teresa Arnold (tarnold@georgefox.edu).

Come see our talented music faculty perform in a free concert tonight (Friday) at 7:30 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium!

Performers include Kathleen Lavengood (violin), Heather Blackburn (cello), Graham Middleton (trombone), Nathanael Ankeny (alto sax), Hana Lim (piano), Michael Barnes (piano), and Dwayne Corbin (percussion).

See you there! Contact Dwayne Corbin (dcorbin@georgefox.edu) for more information.

Come bid on a variety of artworks during our second annual Alumni + Faculty auction!

This auction supports the art and design department’s Chroma Award, given to underserved students pursuing equity and diversity in the visual arts. Auction items range from design consultation services to paintings to ceramic vessels, and opening bids start as low as $15!

This auction doubles as a showcase of alumni and faculty work that will be available for viewing both online and in our campus galleries (Minthorne and Lindgren). Check out our bidding site today, and remember that the deadline to bid on these items is 11:55 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 25!

Questions? Contact Chandler Brutscher at cbrutscher@georgefox.edu.