The Daily Bruin

Did you know that tuition doesn’t cover the full cost of a student’s education?

Whether realized or not, every George Fox student is helped by countless alumni, parents, friends, foundations and others who faithfully give to help subsidize the cost of his or her Fox education. To recognize and honor this tradition of selfless giving, the Bruin Heritage Society and Alumni Relations are hosting our inaugural Tuition Freedom Day today, Feb. 15.

As part of Tuition Freedom Day, students are invited to one of two Celebration Stations (in the Bruin Den and Stevens Center) to learn more and reflect on the personal impact of this generous donor support on their own George Fox experience. Stop by either location to learn more and pick up a special Tuition Freedom Day cupcake!

You can also learn more by visiting this website.

Forum: Come to the Bon to listen to students from different backgrounds on their perspectives of how race and ethnicity has impacted their lives. There will also be a time for everyone to discuss and share their opinions with others.  It will be an important night. You don’t want to miss out!

Wednesday, Feb. 16 at 9:00 p.m. in the Bon

Tonight is our annual Sex Talk, which is an opportunity to have a panel discussion on the topic of sex.

The women’s panel will be held at 9 p.m. in Hoover 105, and the men’s panel will be at 9 p.m. in Lemmons 8. We hope to see you there!

Help! I’m graduating in May! Find out about full-time jobs in the federal government on Wednesday, Feb. 16, at 2 p.m. in Stevens 207

Graduation is rapidly approaching for many of your students. This webinar is for students interested in finding and applying for full-time jobs within the federal government, as well as those advisors seeking to share current information about federal opportunities with their students. During this session, we will highlight a number of agencies and positions across government, and show students how to research, find and apply for an opening that is right for them. The webinar is being held in Stevens 207.

R.S.P.V. via BruinCareers (mygfu> Career Services> BruinCareers)

In honor and celebration of Black History Month, GFU is hosting the 4th Annual Black History Month Dance: Bust-A-Move Saturday, Feb. 26, from 8-10 p.m. in the Stevens Center. There will be a costume contest, so come dressed up in your favorite era and win some sweet prizes! There will be a variety of music for you to enjoy. Come on everyone and BUST A MOVE!

Mark your calendars now for a Nursing Club-sponsored American Red Cross Blood Drive on Thursday, March 10. It will be held in the Villa Academic Complex from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

One donation can save up to three lives! You can sign up at tables on campus in the Bruin Den on Feb. 15-16 between 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. or online anytime at redcrossblood.org using the sponsor code “GeorgeFox.”

A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 12, at Newberg Friends Church for Louise Clarkson. Louise passed quietly on Monday and is survived by her husband Marvin and their three children and grandchildren. Marvin retired from George Fox in 2009 after working as a groundskeeper at the university for 18 years.

Marvin and Louise attended 2nd Street with their son Chuck and grandchildren Joel, Amanda and Caleb. She will be missed.

Need some psychological support for Valentine’s Day? Come join the psychology department and psychology club for a cookie decorating event on Monday, Feb. 14 from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. in the Cap and Gown Room. Why? Because everybody knows cookies are the best coping mechanism.

Need a new friend? Last-minute Valentine gift? Pond stock? The biology department has goldfish up for adoption. There are bags to take them home in by our tank. Have your own Animalia-Chordata-Actinopterygii-Cypriniformes-Cyprinidae-Carassius auratus to lavish attention upon and reap the bubbly reward.

Contact Teresa Arnold at ext. 2724 or tarnold@georgefox.edu for more info.

Plan ahead to join us for chapel Monday morning (Feb. 14) for guest speakers Shane Claiborne from The Simple Way and Chris Lahr from Mission Year. We hope to see you there!

Just a reminder!
Tuesday, February 15th is the last day to donate your formal dresses, shoes, jewelry, and Men’s jackets (get your guy friends to help out!) to the high school students of Savoonga, Alaska!

Your used formal dresses are needed for high school students in the Alaskan village of Savoonga because a first-ever Prom Night will be happening for those students on May 7!  We want to invite you to donate your used prom or formal dresses to the Savoonga village girls by Tuesday, February 15, 2011!  Bring them to the university relations office in Pennington House (1000 Sheridan Street) or to the ASC Offices. We will take responsibility to ship them to this village, located on St. Lawrence Island just below Siberia in the middle of the Bering Sea!

Did you know…
•       Roxie Quick, a 1972 George Fox alumna, is the principal at Hogarth Kingeekuk Sr. Memorial School in Savoonga, where prom night is coming back!
•       The teachers at the school are really excited about this.  They plan to teach etiquette and dance lessons and have the students research how traditional prom nights are put together.
•       The village mothers and grandmothers are also excited.  They plan to alter the dresses, find used shoes and jewelry, and chaperone the dance.

Be part of this movement and love on someone you don’t even know – all for the glory of God!

For more information contact:

Sheri Philips           ext. 2114 or sphilips@georgefox.edu
Evangeline Pattison      ext. 2121 or epattison@georgefox.edu
Kristy Luther                   kluther07@georgefox.edu

Get in the Valentine’s Day spirit and come to the Dating Game tonight at 9pm in the Bon!!!

You have the chance to win the date of a lifetime and many other raffle prizes.

Apply to be an Orientation Coordinator, Peer Advisor or on the Orientation Committee!

The Orientation Program is a great way to get involved on campus!  The jobs are fun and paid.  Find the application on the GFU website by searching Student Leader Application.  Only two references are required.  Coordinator applications due 2/18, Committee applications due 2/22 and Peer Advisor applications are due 2/24.  We want you to be a part!

Questions?  email Stephanie at sstcyr@georgefox.edu

Black Forest Academy is an International Christian School in Southern Germany, primarily serving missionary children Grades 1-12.  Black Forest Academy needs qualified teachers, residence staff, and many other support staff to share their lives with our students.

Recruiter Carrie Carey, be in the SUB on Monday, Feb. 14th, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m., with info session to follow at 2 PM in the Career Services Office.

Please mark your calendars for the George Fox University Seminary Fair!

The event details are as follows:

When: Thursday, March 10, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Where: Hoover Lobby, Newberg campus
Who: We welcome all students, as well as students from other universities, to come and meet recruiters from seminary schools across the country.

The schools represented thus far include: Emmanuel School of Religion, George Fox Evangelical Seminary, Mars Hill Graduate School, Regent College, University of Dubuque Theological Seminary and Western Seminary.

More details will be available as the event approaches. Please contact Chloe Lee-Zorn, MA, Career Services graduate assistant, at leec07@georgefox.edu with any additional questions.

Due to the Scholarship Competition this weekend, we have moved First Friday to tomorrow, Friday, Feb. 11. Sarah Jobson, area coordinator in Hobson, Macy and Sutton halls, will speak to us about humanity’s “belovedness” in the Lord. Join us in Bauman from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. for a time of worshiping our God as one body.

Saturday, Feb. 19, 1 p.m. – Men’s tennis vs. College of Idaho, GFU campus courts (at Tualatin Hills Tennis Center in case of inclement weather)

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

Interested in getting involved with a homeless ministry? Urban Services gives you the opportunity to do just that! The Salem ministry meets at 5 p.m. on both Friday and Saturday in the SUB, and the Portland ministry meets at 5:30 p.m. also in the SUB. Come find out what it is like to serve the homeless and to build relationships with them!

This coming Friday and Saturday we are expecting more than 400 additional high school students and parents to join us during Scholarship Competition. They will be eating lunch in Klages between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. on Friday and approximately noon on Saturday.

So, we’d like to ask as many of our regular students not to come for lunch until after 12:30 p.m. on Friday in order to avoid most of the crowds. On Saturday, if at all possible, please arrive and leave before noon or after 1 p.m.

In order to accommodate all of these visitors as well as our regular students, we also will be serving both these meals on disposable paper plates and would like to encourage all George Fox students to take their meals out of the dining room those days so that we have enough room for our visitors. The Cap and Gown Room will be available for overflow.

Thanks for your help and let’s all work to make this a good experience for our visitors and prospective students. By the way, because of this, burger day will be on Thursday.

– Bon Appetit

Heather B Ayala, PhD, will share her scientific research in a lecture entitled, “The Genetic Dissection of Differential Growth in Plasmodium falciparum and its Relationship to Chloroquine Drug Selection.” The lecture will be held at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 10, in EHS 102. Heather is an associate professor of biology from Bethel College. All are welcome to attend.