Lost: Racquetball racquet. Was taken from the lost and found roller bin located in the Wheeler equipment room.
Please return to the athletics office with attention to Steve Grant. He will return it to its owner.
The Crescent is now online! Check out George Fox’s latest headlines updated daily! Engage and respond through the website as fellow Bruins inform you of the weekly happenings.
Visit gfuCRESCENT.com
Bruin Directories are now available for pick-up or reservation! If you’d like one, please stop by the main ASC offices (located in the Bruin Den) and ask for one.
If you’d like to have one mailed to you, please send your name and box number to asccommunicationsdirector@georgefox.edu.
Slick’s Big Time BBQ will be at tonight’s (Jan. 25) home basketball games against Lewis & Clark! There will be a variety of food items, which include Championship Pulled Pork Sliders smothered in Slick’s signature barbecue sauce and smoked barbecue beef sliders with gluten-free whiskey barbecue sauce.
Come support the team while enjoying some great food! If you have any questions, please contact Meng Dong (mdong11@georgefox.edu).
Students-
TODAY is the last day to go on myGFU and indicate whether or not you have a car, and registering a car if you have one.
This is required, and failure to do so by end of day TODAY will result in a $25 non-refundable parking permit fee being charged to your account. If you have not either registered as “NOCAR” or registered your vehicle, today is the day!
Please contact Security Services at 503-554-2090 if you have questions!
Jessica Sokoloff will present her junior flute recital at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 1, in Bauman Auditorium. The campus community is invited to attend free of charge.
Jessica will perform Sonata in C Major, BWV 1033 (J.S. Bach), Fantaisie Pastorale Hongroise, op. 26 (Albert Franz Doppler) and Zoom Tube (Ian Clarke). She is instructed by Sophia Tegart.
A reception will follow the recital.
Beginning Monday, Jan. 28, the U.S. Postal Service is changing some of its services and increasing postage rates. Here is a summary:
Questions? Contact Sherrie Frost at sfrost@georgefox.edu.
The first Spanish Chapel of 2013 will be at 10:40 a.m. today (Friday), in the newly renovated Bruin Grounds. Everyone is welcome to come.
If you have questions or would like to get involved with Spanish Chapel, feel free to contact Michelle Gonzalez at mgonzalezramos09@georgefox.edu
Students: Stressed out because you don’t know APA style for citations? A workshop scheduled from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. today (Friday), in Hoover 105, is for you.
Sue O’Donnell, associate professor of psychology, will cover American Psychological Association citation and reference formatting, along with several guidelines for writing in APA style.
Faculty: Please let your students know about this opportunity.
Thinking about becoming a teacher? Please contact Beth Molzahn in grad admissions to learn your next step toward an Initial Teaching License via the Master of Arts in Teaching program right here at George Fox!
E-mail Beth at bmolzahn@georgefox.edu or call her at 503-554-2264.
Friday, Jan. 25, 6 p.m. – Women’s basketball vs. Lewis & Clark (Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym)
Friday, Jan. 25, 8 p.m. – Men’s basketball vs. Lewis & Clark (Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym)
Friday’s special events will include a celebration of National Girls and Women in Sports Day, with all senior student-athletes, student athletic trainers, dancers and cheerleaders being recognized. The evening also will include ceremonies honoring the women’s Northwest Conference championship teams from 2011-12 in basketball, track and field, and golf, as well as “Pink Zone†activities promoting breast cancer awareness and research. All fans are encouraging to wear something pink to the games.
For more information, contact the sports information office at ext. 2926 or visit the Bruin sports website at gfubruins.com.
The campus community is invited to the first installment of the spring Liberal Arts and Critical Issues series this Monday, Jan. 28, in Hoover 105. The theme of this spring’s lecture series is “State of the Union.”
Monday’s session runs from 7 to 8 p.m. and features Rob Saxton, deputy superintendent of public instruction for the state of Oregon. Saxton will present “Education: The Future of Oregon Today,” in which he will share about the plan underway to reform education in the state and lead Oregon toward its most successful future.
The same session is presented from 4:40 to 5:40 p.m.; however, it is recommended that the general public attend the evening session, if possible.
Questions? Contact Paul Otto at ext. 2676 or potto@georgefox.edu.
Wanted: Four adventurous souls to form an awesome coed team to compete in the 2013 Winter Race to 2025.
Through the semester, teams partner with Wycliffe Bible Translators to raise money for a translation project in Cameroon, Africa. In March, teams will compete with others from around the country in a multi-challenge two-day adventure race in the Cascades (Washington).
If you are interested, contact Mary Owen (mowen10@georgefox.edu) for more information and details on registration and transportation. Ages 18 and older are welcome!
For students who are eligible to do so, the deadline for making any reductions in your meal plan is Friday, Jan. 25, 2013.
Information about meal plans can be found on the Meal Plan Options page.
Students who fail to confirm their meal plans, and if eligible, make any changes, will be charged for the meal plan applied to their account even if they did not use the meal plan.
Students select their meal plans on MyGFU. Log in to your account. Click on SELF SERVICE. Under GFU Resources, click on UNIVERSITY FORMS.
If you have any questions about meal plans, please contact Jere Witherspoon in the Student Life Office: jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu.
The campus community is invited to join Outreach Ministries for a prayer walk through Newberg as we lift up our community and the work that God is doing here in our town.
We will walk from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. this Friday, Jan. 25. We’ll meet in front of the Bruin Den by the quad.
If you have questions or would like to affirm that you are coming, please contact Mary Owen (mowen10@georgefox.edu).
P.S. We’re still experimenting with a time that works for a lot of people. Suggestions are appreciated.
“Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”
1 Thessalonians 5:15-19
Currently, ASC, The Associated Student Community, has a subscription for 60 print editions of the NYTimes. Through our subscription, students have access to enjoy a full complimentary access to the NYTimes online.
All that is needed is for students to register with their GFU email the site below. It is however only a 24 hour access, so each time a student chooses to view the NYTimes, they will need to login every 24 hours. Here is the link to get you started.
Students can customize how they view the Times, read back into archived articles from 1851, and search for articles according to topic.
Looking good on paper isn’t enough when it comes to getting hired. You must be able to articulate your value to the employer.
Speaker Doug Rice, Talent Acquisition Manager at Enterprise Holdings, will equip you with strategies for expressing how you are the best candidate for the position in this year’s GFU Career Services How to Get Hired Seminar! Mr. Rice is an expert on assembling resumes, and he has conducted over 2,000 interviews!
The event will take place at 6 p.m. February 6 in Hoover 102.
To register for this wonderful event, simply go to Bruin Careers (My GFU-Career Services- Bruin Careers) and click “registerâ€.
The first Spanish Chapel of 2013 will beat 10:40 a.m. this Friday, January 25 in the newly renovated Bruin Grounds. Our guest speaker will be Bob Gilmore, a retired GFU professor who is a poet and musician. Hope to see you there!
If you have questions or would like to get involved with Spanish Chapel, feel free to contact Michelle Gonzalez at mgonzalezramos09@georgefox.edu
The university invites the campus community to “One Million Bones,” a large-scale national social arts project organized to raise awareness of genocides and mass atrocities going on in the world, this Thursday, Jan. 24, in the Ron Gregory (EHS) Atrium.
The event, scheduled from 6 to 9 p.m., calls for participants to create bones of clay that will be part of a collaborative installation of 1 million bones on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., June 8-10. For every bone created, $1 is being donated to the humanitarian group CARE International for the organization’s work in Somalia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
George Fox’s Center for Peace and Justice and Center for Global Studies are co-sponsoring the event on campus, and the art department is kiln-firing all the bones created. There is no charge to participate, and clay will be provided.
To learn more, contact Clint Baldwin at ext. 2685 or visit onemillionbones.org.
The campus community is invited to the opening reception for an art exhibit in Minthorne Gallery on Thursday, Jan. 24. Tony Caltabiano’s work will be on display in the gallery beginning Thursday and running through Thursday, Feb. 28.
An opening reception for the show, entitled “Three Oceans,” is scheduled from 5 to 7 p.m. Prior to the reception, the artist will speak from 4:10 to 5 p.m. in Hoover 105.
Questions? Contact Cheri Hampton at ext. 2619 or champton@georgefox.edu.
