An information meeting for all May 2012 Juniors Abroad (and Cross-Cultural Study) students is scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 16, from 5:30 to 6:15 p.m. in Hoover 105.
Please make every effort to attend. If you cannot, due to class, make sure that someone takes notes for you.
Are you using a United States Postal Service tray to stow away items around the house or office? Do you use any to transport department mail on campus? If so, it’s time to return them to the owner.
Postal inspectors say that, effective Nov. 26, they will resume their efforts to recover missing and stolen Mail Transport Equipment (MTE) and also seek prosecution against offenders. The resumption of criminal enforcement comes after the postal service offered a two-week amnesty period, encouraging anyone who was in possession of postal service equipment to return it – no questions asked.
“Theft of postal equipment is a federal crime. Replacing missing equipment last year cost the postal service $50 million – money that it can ill afford,” said Guy Cottrell, chief postal inspector. U.S.P.S. says previous efforts to recover MTE and prosecute offenders have been successful.
In 2008, postal inspectors launched the Equipment Recovery Project, an effort to return MTE that leaked out of the postal service network. Since then, postal inspectors have recovered almost 200,000 pieces of MTE, including pallets, trays and tubs, worth more than $4 million.
If you have any U.S. Postal Service tubs or trays, please bring them to Mail Services so they can be returned to the U.S.P.S. Thanks for your cooperation.
– Mail Services
Tuesday, Nov. 15, 7 p.m. – Women’s basketball vs. Corban, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym
Saturday, Nov. 19, 6 p.m. – Women’s basketball vs. Northwest (Wash.), Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym
Saturday, Nov. 19, 8 p.m. – Men’s basketball vs. Northwest (Wash.), Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym
Basketball schedule cards are now available and have been distributed to the campus mailboxes. For additional cards, contact the department of athletics at ext. 2910 or pick some up at one of the ballgames.
All Bruin home basketball games will have live webcasts this season, along with live stats on the Internet and live audio from KFOX campus radio. For more information, contact the sports information office at ext. 2926 or visit the George Fox sports website at gfubruins.com.
We are soliciting recommendations for the 2012 First Year Book. Please take a moment to provide us with recommendations. Criteria for the book is provided on the form available at this link. Thank you in advance.
Joel Perez,
Dean of Transitions and Inclusion
One-credit online career classes are available. Register today!
Select from three online courses designed to fit your career planning needs, as well as your busy schedule. Learn important skills about finding your calling and preparing yourself for a career after college. You can find the courses in the course schedule under General Education.
The university’s International Justice Mission chapter will host its annual event, “Closing the Gap: Addressing the Mentality Behind Sex Slavery,” this week. The four-day event will address the issue of sex trafficking.
Here is the schedule:
If you have any questions, please contact Lauren Peña at lpena10@georgefox.edu, or see posters on campus bulletin boards.
Alpha Psi Omega, the university’s theatre honors society, is hosting a “slam” poetry event on campus at 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9. If you have a passion for crafting strong poetry, please come share your work with us and the rest of the George Fox community! It will be an entertaining and thought-provoking night. Hope to see you there!
If you are interested in presenting poems at this event or simply have questions concerning it, please contact Hannah Adderley (hadderley07@georgefox.edu) More specific details of event to follow soon.
Please join us Monday (Nov. 14) in chapel to welcome our university president, Robin Baker. We look forward to hearing him speak as we continue our series in Acts. See you at 10:40 a.m. in Bauman Auditorium.
In the wake of our recent cultural celebration week the library is putting together a display to explore the different cultural winter holiday traditions. We need your help! If you have any items that the library could borrow from November 11 Â until November 23 please contact us!
In the display case we like to feature a mix of written information and three dimensional artifacts. We are looking for several items to help illustrate the information. If you have something that is used in a winter holiday please help me share it with our George Fox Community. The items will be displayed in a locked case in the library along with information about various holidays around the world.
If you don’t have any items to share but would like to tell us more about traditions in your country, please contact me at kwilder10@georgefox.edu. I would love to hear about the rich diversity represented on campus and be able to share your stories with the rest of the student body. Thank you!
nk you.
Some examples of celebrations we might like to represent:
•    Santa Lucia
•    Shichi-go-san
•    Deepavali/Diwali
•    Eid-al-Adha
•    Hannukkah
•    Tori-no-ichi
•    Kumbh Mela
•    Kwanzaa
•    Boun Phan Vet
•    New Years
•    Keretkun Festival
•    Loi Krathong
On behalf of the Library staff,
Kate Wilder
Shawn McDonald will be doing a free concert for local college students on Sunday, November 13 at 7 p.m.  at the Broadway Coffee House in Salem.
You can learn more about Shawn from his website.
Don’t forget that our First Friday chapel is happening on the second Friday of this month, on November 11. Come and welcome our Bruin Preview students into a time of worship and community.
There is no U.S. Mail service today (Friday), due to the Veterans Day federal holiday. Regular service will resume on Monday, Nov 14. However, to assist us in processing your mail, please bring your outgoing mail items over to Mail Services today so that we can get them ready to go out on Monday.
There is no delay in UPS or FedEx packages. They are operating as normal on the holiday. We will process these packages as they are received.
The University Mail Services is open 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Questions? Contact Sherrie Frost at ext. 2556.
The university is bringing attention to the plight of those in North Korea, hosting a group from the organization “LiNK†(Liberty in North Korea) for a screening of the documentary film Hiding on Thursday, Nov. 17.
The screening, sponsored by the Center for Peace and Justice, will be shown from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in Hoover 105.
Hiding tells the story of how, in the mid-1990s, more than 1 million people died in North Korea – and hardly anyone noticed. Millions starved, hundreds of thousands were imprisoned in concentration camps, and tens of thousands crossed borders seeking food, money, protection and even freedom that they never knew existed. North Korea was, and continues to be, a land with virtually no freedoms – of speech, assembly, religion or movement.
LiNK was organized out of a desire to spread awareness of the atrocities occurring in North Korea. The organization’s official line is “redefining the North Korea crisis through creative storytelling, while providing emergency relief to North Korean refugees and pursuing an end to the human rights crisis.â€
Join us to see the film and hear LiNK “nomads†share their experiences.
Questions? Contact Melanie Newell at mnewell@georgefox.edu of ext. 2686.
The deadline for student and employee shoe boxes for Operation Christmas Child is Friday, Nov. 18.
If you need an empty shoe box(es) to pack and/or labels, stop by the Bruin Den during lunch or contact Jessi Fink (jfink09@georgefox.edu).
Packed shoe boxes can be turned in to the ASC offices, to Barbi Doran at the Information Desk in the Stevens Center, or brought to the Coffin basement on Wednesday, Nov. 16, from 8 to 10 p.m.
For more information about Operation Christmas Child and our effort on campus, visit this Facebook site.
Questions? Contact Jessi at the above e-mail address.
The university’s International Justice Mission chapter will host its annual event, “Closing the Gap: Addressing the Mentality Behind Sex Slavery,” next week. The four-day event will address the issue of sex trafficking.
Here is the schedule:
If you have any questions, please contact Lauren Peña at lpena10@georgefox.edu, or see posters on campus bulletin boards.
Alpha Psi Omega, the university’s theatre honor society, will present a night of one-act plays directed, acted and produced by students.
Join us for one of three performances (all three plays to be presented each night):
Nov. 10, 11 & 12 at 7:30 p.m.
Wood-Mar Auditorium
Admission is “pay what you will”
The three plays presented:
July 7, 1994 by Donald Margulies
Directed by Ben Vawter
An examination of doctor’s life as she works and lives in the inner city. Her conversations with her patients reveal troubled lives that mirror what we see around us today.
Mr. Foot by Michael Frayn
Directed by Heidi Thurston
An businessman seems to have formed a better relationship with his twitching foot than with his somewhat envious wife.
603 by Imad Farajin
Directed by Annaliese Anderson
Four Palestinian men share a cramped prison cell listening to the buses come and go outside. Will the next bus be the one to take them home?
Visit this Facebook link to learn more about event.
Survey #1:
This is a quick 10-question survey to see how well George Fox students can score on a geography test. According to a recent evaluation of 12th-grade students in the U.S., only 20 percent could pass a geography test. We want to see how many college students can answer questions similar to the national high school test.
Thank you so much for your time. Here is the link: kwiksurveys.com?s=OHOEMH_afb9f538
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.
Don’t forget the two concerts scheduled in Bauman Auditorium this week. On Thursday, Nov. 10, a Chamber Concert will take place at 7:30 p.m. and feature a clarinet trio, a keyboard ensemble, a low brass ensemble, a string ensemble and handbell ringers. Selections to be played will include works by Mendelssohn, Mozart, Debussy and Brahms.
On Sunday, Nov. 13, the Chehalem Symphony Orchestra will perform beginning at 3 p.m. The orchestra, directed by Paul Featherstone, will perform works by Beethoven. Kenn Willson (Performing Arts) is the guest soloist for a piano concerto. Featured will be a cadenza written by James Pick (2011 graduate) reflecting on Kenn’s comparing Beethoven to rock ‘n roll of the 19th century.
Both concerts are free. Contact Debbie Hawblitzel at ext. 2620 for more information.
A Christian Ministry in the National Parks will be recruiting in the SUB on Thursday from 10 a.m. to noon. You can learn more at their website “Encountering God in the Wonders of Creation.”
Dr. David Tyler, a chemistry professor at the University of Oregon, will present a seminar on new photochemically degradable plastics for the environment at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 14, in EHS 102.
Dr. Tyler will speak about “green” plastics, the research his group has done to develop a new class of plastics, and research into controlling when plastics start to degrade. After the seminar, students will have the opportunity to chat with him about grad studies at the University of Oregon.
The seminar is sponsored by the Department of Biology and Chemistry. All are invited!
Please contact Jane Sweet at jsweet@georgefox.edu if you have any questions.
