The Daily Bruin

James Project, our student-led community service outreach ministry, will be partnering with Newberg Habitat for Humanity this Saturday, Feb. 8.

We will be serving at their new build site on 8th & Blaine. We need people to help from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Meet at the OMC offices (lunch will be provided). There is a limited amount of space, so RSVP as soon as possible if you’re interested in helping out!

Please contact Miranda D’Agostini to RSVP or if you have questions: mdagostini11@georgefox.edu.

The university community is invited to a free presentation by Robert P. George, PhD, from Princeton University this week on the Newberg campus. George will present a lecture entitled “Religious Liberty and the Rights of Conscience” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 6, in Bauman Auditorium.

George is the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and director of the James Madison Program in Ideals and Institutions at Princeton. He is the author of numerous books in the fields of constitutional law, ethics and legal and political theory. His visit is being sponsored by the William Penn Honors Program. More information on George and his presentation is available here.

Note to students: This event is eligible for chapel credit.

Just a friendly reminder that your Chapel Waiver applications are due by 5 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 21, to the Spiritual Life House on the corner of Meridian and Sheridan.

You can find that application link here.

Questions? Please email spirituallife@georgefox.edu

Come dance with DJ Samir in the Bruin Grounds (formerly Foxhole) after the Pink Zone basketball games this Saturday, Feb. 8, between 9:30 p.m. and 12:30 a.m.

Free pizza and a root beer keg will be there.

For more information, please contact Sarah at smackenzie11@georgefox.edu.

Come support your Bruins and breast cancer awareness this Saturday, Feb. 8!

The first 150 people into the game will receive a free Pink Zone shirt!

Wheeler Sports Center
Women’s Game: 6 p.m.
Men’s Game: 8 p.m.

For more information, contact Shanna at scoulston11@georgefox.edu.

Need to send out a student survey? The following guidelines have been established for the distribution of student surveys. Faculty members are encouraged to help facilitate this process.

Please follow these guidelines when submitting student surveys for mass distribution. Send your surveys to Jere Witherspoon in the student life office. Your approved survey request should include all of the following:

1. Your name and email address (may include the list of names from those in your group)
2. Course name and professor
3. Approval for distribution granted by: _______________________ (list department)
4. Short, catchy blurb about the survey no more than 35 words in length
5. A tested, workable link to the survey

An email with all submitted surveys will be sent to all students once a week (on Wednesdays). An identical Daily Bruin announcement will be submitted at the same time to the student Daily Bruin forum. The following disclaimer will be attached to the email and the Daily Bruin announcement:

Disclaimer:
These surveys are student generated and are not to be associated with any official research conducted by faculty and staff at George Fox University. Any views or opinions presented in these surveys are solely those of the students and do not represent those of George Fox University. The distribution of these surveys is a service provided to George Fox University students as they prepare their research required by the curriculum. Students are required to have department approval. Any questions about these surveys should be directed to the students associated with the survey in question.

Please contact Jere Witherspoon if you have any questions about this process.

Interested in joining Little Bruins? Come to the Little Bruins informational meeting tonight (Wednesday) after evening chapel (8:40 p.m.)

We will be meeting in the Bauman Greenroom to talk about what this big brother/big sister program is and how to get involved! We’d love to have you join the mentoring ranks! Applications will be due Thursday, Feb. 20, at 5 p.m.

Applications are available at this link.

It will also be a fun time for Big Bruins to come together and check in with one another, as well as join committees for this term’s Little Bruins events.

For more information, please contact Sydney at sthiessen12@georgefox.edu.

Spring Serve applications are now open! We are sending teams to Ghormley Meadows Christian Camp, Neah Bay, Wash., Seattle, San Francisco and the Yakima Indian Reservation. For more information about the trip, feel free to email us!

The trips are during spring break, Saturday afternoon (March 22) to Saturday (March 29). The application can be found at this link. The applications are due on Feb. 21. No late applications will be accepted.

If you are interested in being a student leader on a trip, the application deadline is Feb. 14. The application can be found on the same site.

If you have any questions or want any more information, please email Kyle Webster at kwebster12@georgefox.edu or Erika Lopez at elopez12@georgefox.edu. We would love to talk with you!

Faculty, please let your students know about this opportunity.

Currently in a serious relationship or engaged? SpIL is sponsoring a premarital class put on by Living Wholehearted!

Starts Tuesday, Feb. 18, 7:30 p.m.

We’ll be talking about family-of-origin, marital expectations, intimacy (sexual, emotional, spiritual), finances and more. Cost is $20 a couple for a four-week class!

Meets Tuesdays from 7:30 to 9 p.m. beginning Feb. 18. Sign up at this link.

For more information, please contact Spiritual Life at spirituallife@georgefox.edu.

Relationship retreat at Lincoln City is coming Feb. 14-16! Sign up now as we have one last spot that just opened up.

Cost is $35 per couple, and the topic is on conflict management. It’s going to be an awesome retreat!

Feb 14-16
Lincoln City Beach

To sign up, go to this link.

Come to Bauman this Friday to watch “The Dating Game”!

See how much couples know about each other and enter to win a date with the bachelor or bachelorette.

Friday, Feb. 7, 7 p.m.
Bauman Auditorium

Did you miss Parade last week? Don’t worry, we have four more opportunities to watch this beautiful theatre production in Wood-Mar Auditorium! Shows will run Thursday through Sunday, Feb. 6-9, with all beginning at 7:30 p.m. with the exception of Sunday’s 2 p.m. matinee.

Student free night is Thursday, Feb. 6, and university employees are entitled to one complimentary ticket for any show. Additional tickets can be purchased here.

You don’t want to miss out on the show that everyone is talking about! Come and watch the story of Leo Frank unfold before you eyes!

Community members are encouraged to join the George Fox University Master Chorus at its first rehearsal on Tuesday, Feb. 11, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in Ross 208 (choir room).

Rehearsals will be every Tuesday in this location in preparation for the April 25 performance of John Rutter’s composition Mass of the Children. Master chorus members will join with the university’s Concert Choir, Women’s Chorale, select Women’s Ensemble from Newberg High School, and the Chehalem Symphony Orchestra. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. that evening.

Participants are expected to have previous choir experience, average to above-average sight reading skills and the ability to attend rehearsals. There is no audition or cost, and director’s permission is required. Music will be supplied by the university.

Questions? Please contact the George Fox Music Department at 503-554-2620.

Come support your Bruins and breast cancer awareness this Saturday, Feb. 8!  The first 150 people into the game will receive a free Pink Zone shirt!

Women’s Game: 6 p.m.
Men’s Game: 8 p.m.

Come dance with DJ Samir in the Foxhole after the Pink Zone basketball games this Saturday, Feb. 15, between  9:30 p.m. and 12:30 a.m.

Free pizza and a root beer keg will be there.

1) Students with junior status (62+ credits) or who will be 20 or older prior to the first day of classes (Aug. 25, 2014) will be eligible to live off campus. Refer to the Off-Campus Information page for additional details.

2) Students living with their parents need to complete an Application to Commute and return it to student life office before July 31.

3) Students who intend to live on campus need to pay a $150 nonrefundable housing deposit in order to participate in housing selection.

Details about the housing deposit:

• You will need to have a current account (as determined by Student Accounts) in order to pay your housing deposit.

• You will be able to pay your deposit through March 20 in Student Accounts, located on the first floor of the Stevens Center.

• The deposit may be refunded if you withdraw it prior to housing selection (March 17) or do not go through housing selection. If you withdraw the deposit prior to selection, you will not be able to participate in this process.

• Once you have received a housing assignment, your deposit will be applied toward fall charges.

• The housing deposit will be forfeited if you opt to live off-campus after being placed in housing or do not return to George Fox in the fall of 2014.

•  If you have been asked to live with an RA or in a house on campus you still need to pay a deposit to secure your housing assignment.

• Note: Students who are eligible to live off-campus and do not submit a housing deposit will automatically be designated as off-campus for the fall of 2014.

4) The Housing Selection Form will be available online from March 17 through March 21. One person from each group will complete this and enter your housing preferences. Beginning March 24, groups will be ranked by average credits and placed accordingly. Housing assignments will be posted through the Housing Form once all groups have been placed on or before April 11.
5) In order to be considered for Le Shana Hall your group will need to have six people. Groups of five will not be considered for Le Shana. Groups of six that are not able to make it into Le Shana may be placed in one of the following locations: two adjacent apartments, two adjacent suites or three adjacent residence hall rooms.

For information about housing selection, please refer to the Housing and Residence Life website or email housing@georgefox.edu with questions.

The university’s Department of Biology and Chemistry invites you to join us for the fourth annual Dalton Lecture at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 10, in Bauman Auditorium.

Dr. Bill Newsome, PhD, an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Professor of Neurobiology at Stanford University School of Medicine, will present “Brain, Mind & Free Will: Did My Neurons Make Me Do It?” Among the questions to be discussed: “Are we just the sum of our neurons?,” “Does my brain shape me, or do I shape my brain?” and “Is freedom of choice an illusion?”

For more information, visit this link. Questions? Contact Paul Chamberlain at pchamber@georgefox.edu.

The Department of English invites you to the Faith and Culture Writers Conference taking place on the Newberg campus Friday and Saturday, March 7-8. A number of well-known writers will be on campus, including Sarah Bessey, Tony Kriz, Sarah Thebarge and Deidra Riggs, among others.

The event also offers the opportunity to meet with literary agents and editors. The conference is for those seeking inspiration in their writing, and in their lives. Cost for students is $30 and includes several meals; others can register for $75 through Feb. 14 at faithandculturewriters.com. More info is also available here.

If you have any questions, please contact Melanie Springer Mock (mmock@georgefox.edu).

Student and faculty panelists will come together at this week’s Shalom to discuss feminism and gender equality in the context of modern Christian culture. Join us at 9 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 6, in the Cap and Gown Room.

How do we restore wholeness between feminism and the church? Is feminism important to men? Where does the tension over gender equality manifest itself on campus? Join us on Thursday to hear panelists provide insight to these questions.

You are invited to a celebration of the Lunar New Year this Saturday, Feb. 8, at 6 p.m. in the west end of Klages Dining Room.

We will have Chinese food for dinner, followed by entertainment from George Fox international students, a video of the Chinese new year celebration, and other festivities.

Tickets are on sale this week through Wednesday, Feb. 5, in the Bruin Den, between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. The cost is $5. Everyone is invited, but tickets are limited, so buy your ticket early.

Questions? Contact Dianna McIntyre (dmcintyre@georgefox.edu)