The Daily Bruin

Come worship in community with your living area! Spiritual Life credit is offered for all, not to mention a wonderful time to connect with your neighbors.

Meeting areas are listed below:
Coffin & Edwards – Hoover 102
PCWB – EHS 125
HMS – Hoover 105
Houses & Apartments West + Commuters – Lemmons 8
Houses & Apartments North & East – EHS 102

For more information contact the office of Spiritual Life – spirituallife@georgefox.edu

Are you responsible? Do you have a car? Are you willing to drive students from GFU to the PDX airport or train station? If you’re willing to provide excellent transportation service, we have students needing rides!

You’ll be paid $20 one-way per person. You will not be guaranteed any “jobs”, rather you will be put on a list and students who are interested will contact you.

For more info and the sign-up form go here: https://docs.google.com/a/georgefox.edu/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dFdZeXd2WTU1THQ5czIweUh5QkZCSnc6MQ#gid=0

Have a great photo you’d like to share? Enter our senior business capstone photo contest and help support a great cause!

Cards of Hope is being organized to create photo greeting cards to support The Garden of Hope, which works to protect vulnerable and at-risk children and teenage women from abuse and exploitation in Thailand. You can help Cards of Hope by sending in your best picture of places, nature and local Northwest landmarks.

The winner with the best submission will receive a grand prize of $30 cash!

How to Enter
Each entry consists of a single image and the required information: your name, telephone number, e-mail address and photo location. There is a limit of six entries per person. Photographs must be in digital JPEG or JPG format. E-mail your entry to cardsofhopegfu@gmail.com.

All rights to use of the photo are waived with submission for the contest and a chance at the prize. See terms and details in the information section of our Facebook page.

Questions? Contact Hilary Sarjent at hsarjent07@georgefox.edu.

Mark your calendars for the library’s annual Christmas celebration!

We will host our annual wassail party on Monday, Dec. 12, between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.

Please take a break on Dead Day and join us in the MLRC multi-purpose room for snacks, wassail and coffee. Contact Sue Mills (smills@georgefox.edu) for more information.

It’s our treat to you!

– MLRC staff

Register now for the MLK Day of Service on Monday, Jan. 16, 2012!

This day is similar to Serve Day except we collaborate with 10 other Portland-area universities. Students, employees and those with children over 6 years of age can participate.

History
Three years ago, George Fox started collaborating with area colleges to put on the first service day of its kind in the Portland area, helping to bring unity among schools and to service the needs of the city. Every year, about 1,200 college students join together. We start with a rally, then divide up into teams, mixing with students from various colleges, to do service projects. This year our focus is on access to education.

Our Role
This is an amazing opportunity for us to be a light as leaders and to share Christ’s love through tangible ways of service and collaboration with people from all walks of life. We serve others because we first serve God. Our goal is to bring 120 participants from George Fox this year.

Before signing up, please note the schedule below:

• 7 a.m. – Participants check in at George Fox
• 7:30 a.m. – Bus from campus to Roosevelt High School
• 9 a.m. – Rally
• 10:30 a.m. – Serve projects
• 3 p.m. – Buses/vans will leave and head back to Newberg. We will be back no later than 5 p.m.

Breakfast, lunch and a T-shirt are included in this volunteer event! For more info and to sign-up, click here.

For questions or accommodations, the university’s rep is Shelley Yonemura, director of multicultural student programs. You can contact her at syonemura@georgefox.edu or ext. 2318.

Is there someone at George Fox who has made a difference in your academic career? Someone who ignited a spark to make you want to learn or attend class or who has acted as a role model? Take a moment to write an e-mail, e-card, or traditional “thank you” card to that professor (or other person). Try to be specific as you describe how this person has contributed to your life.

Newberg students can stop by the Student Life office (3rd floor Stevens) front desk or the ARC (MLRC 2nd floor) to pick up a blank card. Of course, one can make or buy one’s own card.

Sign and submit your November time sheet to your supervisor!

The last day of November was yesterday, Wednesday, Nov 30. Make sure you turned in your November time sheets to your supervisor at the end of your last shift of the month. You cannot be paid without your supervisor’s signature. Be sure your name and ID number is typed or printed legibly at the top, it is complete and accurate, and you have signed it. Pay day is on Thursday, Dec. 15.

If you forget to turn in your time sheet on time, you may not get paid on the 15th.  

Thank you!
– Human Resources

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: bmolzahn@georgefox.edu or phone: 503.554.2264.

If you are planning to return to George Fox next semester, please pay special attention to this message about meal plans for the spring 2012 semester.

Starting Jan. 1, 2012, students, who are eligible to do so may change their meal plans in their MyGFU account. (Yes, this is a change from the original message.)

Detailed information about meal plans can be found at this website.

Student Life suggests that EVERYONE confirm their meal plan to be certain that you have the meal plan that you are expecting.

You can change your meal plan and confirm which meal plan you have in your MyGFU account – STUDENT RESOURCES – UNIVERSITY FORMS.

The 21, 14, 10, 10 +Flex, 7 and No Meal Plan all roll over from the fall to the spring semesters.

The 35 Block and the All Flex Plan do NOT roll over. These convert to the No Meal Plan. If you want to renew the All Flex or 35 Block Plan you must add these meal plans to your account in MyGFU.

Please Note: All changes must be processed no later than Friday, Jan. 20, 2012. However, students can always add a meal plan through out the semester by contacting Jere Witherspoon in the student life office.

Accommodations to the meal plan are provided only through documented medical conditions.

All questions about the meal plans should be directed to Jere Witherspoon.

And now, an essay about the meal plan benefits by Dave Johnstone, associate dean of residence life:

The best part of a meal plan has nothing to do with the quality or nutrition of the food. The attractive part of eating on a meal plan is the opportunity to frequently connect with peers and classmates. Sharing a meal, conversation around the table, debriefing the day or anticipating what might unfold is really the gem of being on a meal plan. Historically and culturally communities have been built around food. I am not sure why it works, but sharing a meal is one of most significant ways to build a relationship, hence it strengthens our community. That in itself is a major benefit for being on the meal plan.

The university’s engineering program will host its annual engine competition on Thursday, Dec. 8, when freshmen students showcase the projects they’ve built at the eighth annual “Wobble-Off” at 3:30 p.m. in the Ron Gregory Atrium in EHS.

The demonstration will feature a variety of oscillating steam/air-operated engines. The event is the culmination of the students’ first-year studies in engineering design, solid modeling and machining.

The engines will compete in a variety of categories, including maximum speed, minimum vibration, maximum coast, cost efficiency and creativity/craftsmanship. All are welcome.

Questions? Contact Kristin Bontrager at kbontrager@georgefox.edu.

The International Club is hosting a fundraiser to support women trapped in Kolkata’s sex trade. Freeset is a fair trade business offering employment to these women. They make quality jute bags and organic cotton T-shirts, but their real business is freedom!

We are working with Freeset to support the women and to raise funds for our club. The Indian bags we are selling are eco-friendly and would make great gifts for Christmas. The price of these bags will range from $8 to $15. We encourage you to come and check out the bags before they are all sold out!

Drop by our table in the Bruin Den between 10:30 a.m. and noon and from 4:30 to 7 p.m. through Friday, Dec. 2.

Contact Kaleb Olsen (olsenk10@georgefox.edu) if you have questions.

Come down to the Foxhole, grab a cup of coffee, and get to know students from different cultures at an international coffee house event on Wednesday, Dec. 7, from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.

We have games, food, music and more. Questions? Contact Kaleb Olsen at olsenk10@georgefox.edu.

This is a reminder that the end of the semester is rapidly approaching and it is time to return the textbook(s) you rented from the Bruin Bookstore.

The bookstore will be conducting textbook buyback from Dec. 12  through Dec. 16. Bring in any textbooks you purchased for your classes this semester or others that you did not sell back in the past and get cash back.

If you have any questions, please contact the Bruin Bookstore Textbook Department.

Sandy Gidding, Textbook Manager
Bruin Bookstore
sgidding@georgefox.edu
503-554-2540

Students from an Intro to Video class need some actors for their short film, entitled Oil & Wine. It is a parable of the Good Samaritan.

The following characters are needed for a shoot this weekend:

• Riley: Homeless man around age 20 who is attacked and left for dead
• Jasper: Angry homeless man
• Boss: Angry homeless man
• Gabriel: Hispanic male, read/speak Spanish, around age 18, who helps Riley
• Danilo: Hispanic male, read/speak Spanish, around age 20, who helps Riley
• Alma: Hispanic female, read/speaks Spanish, around late 40s, who cares for Riley
• Camila: Hispanic female, read/speaks Spanish, around 19, who cares for Riley

We will be filming this weekend and would need all actors’ schedules to be open and flexible; some characters will be needed longer than others. Food will be provided.

For more information or if you are interested in any of the parts, please e-mail Onjalai Flake at oflake11@georgefox.edu or call 503-935-3812.

Scholarship Competition is coming up in February! On Friday, February 10 from 4- 5 p.m., there is an activities fair for prospective students to learn about activities available to them on campus.

If you would like your student group or organization to be represented, please e-mail Rebecca Muller at rmuller10@georgefox.edu. Any student group or organization is eligible to participate.

The university theatre program’s Alpha Psi Omega program will present a New Playwrights Festival this weekend!

Come to Wood-Mar Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3, to enjoy new plays written, directed and performed by George Fox students. Donations will be gratefully accepted at the door to help send students to the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival in Fort Collins, Colo., in February.

Thanks for your support of our theatre students! Questions? Contact Hannah Irish at hannahelizabeth89@gmail.com.

ASC and Bruin Heritage Society are teaming up to bring you a night of Christmas festivities on campus on Saturday, Dec. 3!

• 7 p.m. – Christmas on the quad – Join your friends for caroling by candlelight while enjoying the campus lights.
• 8 p.m. – Christmas cookies and cocoa – Come to the Bruin Den for some tasty cookies and cocoa.
• 8:30 p.m. – Christmas movie night in the Bon – There is nothing like A Christmas Story to get you in the mood for the holidays.

There will be a recruiter from The Oaks Camp and Conference Center in the SUB today from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The Oaks is located in a secluded valley at the edge of the Angeles National Forest 65 miles north of Los Angeles. The camp hosts a summer ministry to hundreds of inner-city kids who come from World Impact’s five California city ministries. You can learn more at their website.

Are you interested in a career of service, advocacy, community development and relationships? Then consider majoring in social work!

Come learn more and color a Christmas picture on Wednesday, Nov. 30, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the Bruin Den.

Are you already a social work major? Come hang out with those that share your passions and color a picture. One winner will be selected from among the colored pictures and will win a prize!

This year, 1,274 shoe boxes were packed for Operation Christmas Child! Thank you to everyone who packed a shoe box, came to the packing party, or participated in any other way!

The winners of the campus competition and their prizes are:

• Women’s Dorm Floor: Coffin 3 East – Sweetest Thing Cupcake party
• Men’s Dorm Floor: Coffin 1 West – Abby’s pizza party
• Houses/Apartments Area: East (Le Shana and Lewis Apartments and Kershner, Gail, and Wilder House) – Jem 100 Ice Cream Party
• Commuter: Mike Gush – Coffee Cat gift card

Great job to the winners and to everyone who participated!

Thank you again! And please pray for the children who will receive the boxes!

– Jessi (jfink09@georgefox.edu)