Dalton Lecture, ‘The Big Bang, Stephen Hawking and God,’ is tonight

Tuesday, February 19th, 2013

The university’s 2013 Dalton Lecture is tonight (Wednesday) in Bauman Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Students who attend will receive chapel credit. The lecture, titled “The Big Bang, Stephen Hawking and God,” will be presented by Dr. Henry F. Schaefer III, director of the Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry at the University of Georgia.

The Dalton Lecture Series is sponsored by the Department of Biology and Chemistry. More information can be found on the Dalton Lecture page or by e-mailing Jane Sweet at jsweet@georgefox.edu.

Housing Deposit & Selection Reminder

Tuesday, February 19th, 2013

To be eligible to participate in Housing Selection for the 2013-14 academic year, each student needs to have paid his or her $150 housing deposit to Student Financial Services by March 15. Before you pay, please be aware of the following:

  • Your student account must be paid in full. If on a payment plan, your February payment (or March payment if after March 1) must be received and any amount not covered by your payment plan must be paid.
  • Regardless of who pays the deposit, each student must stop by SFS. If the deposit is accepted you will receive a Housing Deposit Confirmation slip. This slip is needed as a record of payment.
  • A payment received in any other way won’t be processed as a deposit, but instead will overpay the account or be applied toward the next monthly payment. SFS routinely refunds over-payments, so if you get a refund check you are not expecting please stop by to confirm the status of your deposit.

Need to Request a Housing Accommodation?

If you need to request a housing accommodation for medical or disability reasons, please complete a Housing Accommodation Request. These forms are available in the Student Life Office or on the George Fox website. Requests should be submitted to student life by March 1 in order to be evaluated prior to housing selection.

Questions? Please contact housing@georgefox.edu or refer to the Housing and Residence Life website for additional information.

Italian pianist returns to campus for Thursday concert

Tuesday, February 19th, 2013

The university community is invited to the annual Bösendorfer Artist Concert Series, featuring Italian pianist Gianluca Luisi, tomorrow (Thursday), in Bauman Auditorium. This marks a return to the university for Luisi, who will perform a series of J.S. Bach and Franz Liszt pieces – as well as a duet piece, Three Preludes by George Gershwin, with professor Kenn Willson – on the university’s Bösendorfer “Imperial” grand piano.

Luisi, who has performed at New York’s Carnegie Hall and at renowned venues around the world, will perform a 7:30 p.m. concert. All George Fox employees and students are entitled to one free ticket they may pick up at the box office in the Pennington House (Portland Center students and employees may call 503-554-3844 to reserve your ticket). Additional tickets are $12 for adults, $8 for seniors and alumni, and $6 for students/children. Tickets are available for purchase online at this link.

Luisi also will hold a master class at 4 p.m. today (Wednesday), in Bauman Auditorium, where he will coach piano performance majors. The public is welcome to attend the class at no charge.

To learn more about Luisi, the series or the concert, visit the above link.

Upcoming Bruin home sports events

Tuesday, February 19th, 2013

Thursday, Feb. 21, 2 p.m. – Baseball vs. Corban (Morse Field)
Friday, Feb. 22, 2 p.m. – Baseball vs. Oregon Tech (Morse Field)
Friday, Feb. 22, 3 p.m. – Men’s tennis vs. Pacific Lutheran (GFU campus courts)
Saturday, Feb. 23, 6 p.m. – Men’s tennis vs. Whitman (GFU campus courts)
Sunday, Feb. 24, 2 p.m. – Baseball vs. Pacific (Morse Field)
Sunday, Feb. 24, 2 p.m. – Men’s tennis vs. Linfield (GFU campus courts)

Both Bruin basketball teams will be in action Thursday, Feb. 21, in the Northwest Conference Tournaments. The women will be at Lewis & Clark at 7 p.m., and the men will be at Whitman at 8 p.m. The championships games will be Saturday at the site of the highest-remaining seeds.

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

Urban Outreach ministry hosting coin drive this week

Tuesday, February 19th, 2013

Urban Outreach, the campus homeless ministry, will be holding a coin drive so we can make simple hygiene packs for our friends on the streets. We’ll also take unneeded winter clothes. Look for us at chapel on Wednesday (Feb. 20) and at your doors on Wednesday and Thursday nights.

Want to help? E-mail Mary Owen (mowen10@georgefox.edu) or Steven Ching (sching10@georgefox.edu).

Anything helps!

All are invited on Newberg Prayer Walk this Friday

Tuesday, February 19th, 2013

Come and join us this Friday, Feb. 22, for a time of prayer for our campus and our community. This is not just for students. This is for faculty and administration as well.

We’ll meet on the quad outside the Bruin Den and walk from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. Questions? Contact Mary Owen at mowen10@georgefox.edu.

Portland Youth Philharmonic performs free concert on campus Feb. 25

Tuesday, February 19th, 2013

The university will host the Portland Youth Philharmonic, led by Conductor and Music Director David Hattner, for a Monday, Feb. 25, concert in Bauman Auditorium. The 7:30 p.m. performance is free and open to the public, and no tickets are required.

The evening will feature Rachel Graves, winner of PYP’s 2012-13 Concerto Competition, performing Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64. The program also includes William Bergsma’s Chameleon Variations and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, ‘Pathétique.’

The concert is a free preview of PYP’s winter concert to be held in the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall on Saturday, March 2, at 7:30 p.m.

Spring Serve Application Deadline Moved

Monday, February 18th, 2013

Don’t know what you’re going to do for spring break? Looking for something adventurous? If you answered yes to both of these, you should apply for a Spring Serve trip!

Serve trips are awesome opportunities for Fox students to experience serving others while also building strong relationships with other peers. We will be sending teams to locations in California, Utah, Oregon and Washington. The trips will be gone during spring break (March 23-30).

The applications can be found at this link.

Got questions? Feel free to e-mail Kyle Webster at kwebster12@georgefox.edu or Kaylena Charpentier at kcharpentier10@georgefox.edu.

Van shuttle available to Diversity Lecture Series event tonight

Monday, February 18th, 2013

In honor of Black History Month, Warner Pacific is hosting a Diversity Lecture Series and we would like to offer the opportunity to go to the final segment on Exploring the Paradox of Hip Hop Culture entitled, “Love, Literature, and a Black Man’s Escape from the Crowd,” with guest speaker and author Thomas Chatterton Williams.

We will be taking one van and leaving the Stevens Center parking lot at 5:30 p.m. The event starts at 7 p.m., and we will be returning at its conclusion. We will likely be back on campus by 10 p.m. You are also welcome to meet us there.

The event is today (Tuesday). So if you would like to go, please e-mail Amber Nelson at nelsona@georgefox.edu.

Thank you, and hope to see you there!

World-renowned scientist speaks tonight on ‘Third Age of Quantum Chemistry’

Monday, February 18th, 2013

Dr. Henry F. Schaefer III will give a scientific, but lighthearted, lecture tonight (Tuesday) entitled “Third Age of Quantum Chemistry.” Dr. Schaefer, a world-renowned scientist, is the director of the Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry at the University of Georgia.

The lecture begins at 7 p.m. in Hoover 105. Please contact Jane Sweet at jsweet@georgefox.edu if you have any questions.

IJM club meets tonight in Cultural House

Monday, February 18th, 2013

The International Justice Mission club is meeting tonight (Tuesday) from 8:15 to 9:15 p.m. in the Cultural House. Join us in discussing how we, as college students, can fight injustice and advocate for victims of human trafficking!

We will be having hot chocolate and tea, so bring a mug!

Questions? Contact Elizabeth Hope Kenyon at ekenyon11@georgefox.edu.

Runners needed for senior reseach project

Monday, February 18th, 2013

Do you run at least three times a week? Would you like to potentially increase your speed/performance/endurance levels? Please help me with my senior Health and Human Performance research study!

I am looking for recreational runners (sorry, no varsity athletes) to help me out with my senior research project.

Please contact Natalie at nmarkland09@georgefox.edu if you are at all interested!

Technology issues discussed at Spring Theological Conference March 4-6

Monday, February 18th, 2013

Dr. Doreen Dodgen-Magee will address issues related to technology in our lives when she comes to campus March 4-6 as guest speaker for the Spring Theological Conference.

The schedule for the week includes:

  • Monday, March 4 – “You’ve Been Hacked: How technology has taken you hostage (and how your parents are to blame),” chapel (10:40 a.m. in Bauman Auditorium)
  • Tuesday, March 5 – “Finding Your Sweet Spot: Brain health and multiple intelligences information to help you increase engagement in your first (real) life,” Shalom (7 p.m. in Cap & Gown Room)
  • Wednesday, March 6 – “Pushing the Pause Button: Practical tips for learning to be still, bored, and centered,” chapel (10:40 a.m. in Bauman Auditorium)

Dr. Dodgen-Magee is a licensed psychologist, truth communicator and Jesus follower. She had one of the first computers in her class when she was a graduate student “a million years ago,” and was the last person in her family to get an iPhone. She is a reluctant geek and an avid reader of research.

Doreen is passionate about helping people experience life in all its richness, complexity, boredom and wonder. She fills her own time with seeing clients, speaking around the country, taking African dance lessons, doting on her kids (a college sophomore and high school senior), practicing contemplative prayer, and attempting to find the most shocking (and truth-telling) YouTube clips to share at places like George Fox University.

The Spring Theological Conference is sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies. For more information, contact Paula Hampton at ext 2650. All sessions are open to the public.

Seeking Peer2Peer Mentors

Sunday, February 17th, 2013

Inclusion and Student Leadership Programs (ISLP) is seeking to hire 10 volunteer position Peer2Peer Mentors.  The P2P program is a resource primarily for incoming underrepresented (first-gen, low-socio status, ethnicity) students who are matched with a student mentor who helps them adjust to college.  Please note that this is different than Orientation Peer Advisors.

Either email Shelley Yonemura, syonemura@georgefox.edu for an application or stop by the front desk of Student Life to pick-up a paper copy.

No U.S. Mail today because of President’s Day holiday

Sunday, February 17th, 2013

There is no incoming or outgoing U.S. Mail today due to the President’s Day holiday. Anything dropped at Mail Services will be postmarked Feb. 19.

UPS and FedEx will be open and delivering packages as normal, and the university’s courier will be going to Portland and Salem campuses. Items must be in Mail Services by 9:45 a.m.

Questions? Contact Mail Services at ext. 2555.

Steele presents on cultural shifts in LACI lecture tonight

Sunday, February 17th, 2013

Just a reminder about tonight’s (Monday’s) Liberal Arts and Critical Issues lecture, scheduled in Hoover 105 from 7 to 8 p.m.

The session features Terrence Steele, a sociology professor at George Fox. He will present “The Changing State of the Union: How the Emerging Culture is Influencing American Culture.”

Questions? Contact Paul Otto at ext. 2676 or potto@georgefox.edu.

Italian pianist Gianluca Luisi returns for Bösendorfer concert Thursday

Sunday, February 17th, 2013

The university community is invited to the annual Bösendorfer Artist Concert Series, featuring Italian pianist Gianluca Luisi, this Thursday, Feb. 21, in Bauman Auditorium. This marks a return to the university for Luisi, who will perform a series of J.S. Bach and Franz Liszt pieces – as well as a duet piece, Three Preludes by George Gershwin, with professor Kenn Willson – on the university’s Bösendorfer “Imperial” grand piano.

Luisi, who has performed at New York’s Carnegie Hall and at renowned venues around the world, will perform a 7:30 p.m. concert. All George Fox employees and students are entitled to one free ticket they may pick up at the box office in the Pennington House (Portland Center students and employees may call 503-554-3844 to reserve your ticket). Additional tickets are $12 for adults, $8 for seniors and alumni, and $6 for students/children. Tickets are available for purchase online at this link.

The program’s first half includes a series of Bach Fugues, as well as a performance of Beethoven’s Sonata Op. 31 #2 ‘The Tempest.’ The second half features the Gershwin piece and four Liszt compositions. The event concludes with a performance of Chopin’s Polonaise Op. 53 Eroica.

Luisi also will hold a master class at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 20, in Bauman Auditorium, where he will coach piano performance majors. The public is welcome to attend the class at no charge.

To learn more about Luisi, the series or the concert, visit the above link.

Last Day for Serve Trip Applications

Thursday, February 14th, 2013

Today, February 15, is the LAST day to send in serve trip applications. Trips will be sent out to locations in California, Oregon, Washington, and Utah.  The trips will take place during Spring Break, March 23-30.

A link to the application and more information on locations can be found here.

If you have any questions, feel free to email Kyle Webster at kwebster12@georgefox.edu or Kaylena Charpentier at kcharpentier10@georgefox.edu.

MacLeod presents at Faculty Research Forum this morning

Thursday, February 14th, 2013

Don’t forget to join us for a Faculty Research Forum featuring Michael MacLeod, associate professor of politics and international studies, this morning (Friday) from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. in Hoover 105.

Michael will present “Follow the Money: How Global Investor Networks Influence Multinational Corporations and Why It Matters to You and Me.”

Lunar New Year celebration is today in Klages

Thursday, February 14th, 2013

The Office of International Student Services is sponsoring a 2013 Lunar New Year event for our campus community. It will include a full meal of delicious Chinese food, musical performances and games.

Join us today (Friday) between 5:30 and 8 p.m. in the west end of the Klages Dining Room. Tickets are $5 and will be on sale in the Bruin Den during the lunch and dinner hours through Thursday.

Questions? Contact Alex Pia (apia@georgefox.edu) or Alice Gozal (agozal10@georgefox.edu).