The Daily Bruin

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.

The times, they are a-changin’! And this is especially important to remember if you’re participating in spring commencement on Saturday, April 30, in Miller Gymnasium. Please note the start times for this year’s ceremonies:

• 10 a.m.: Graduate and Adult Degree Completion Ceremony
• 3 p.m.: Traditional Undergraduate Ceremony

Questions? Please contact Karlyn Fleming at kfleming@georgefox.edu. Thank you!

Be sweet and help send students to Nicaragua! There are two sweet opportunities this week to support the psychology department’s mission/research trip to help at-risk girls rescued from poverty in Central America.

• Buy a Sweet: Cookies, brownies, and more will be available for sale from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the Bruin Den every day this week. Come indulge for a good cause!
• Send a Crush: Send a Crush can to someone you care about on Valentine’s Day. Just fill out an order form in the Den and place it in the drop box there. Include the full name of the person you’re sending it to, where they live on campus, and a short message (optional). Or,  you can send your order through e-mail to Lyndsee Landon (llandon10@georgefox.edu) or through campus mail to Box #5304.

Some of you have some concerns about the presentation, worship and experience of Monday’s chapel. Spiritual Life is sponsoring a listening session on Thursday, Feb. 10, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Foxhole.

Sarah Baldwin, Andrea Crenshaw, Jamie Johnson, Steve Sherwood and Rusty St. Cyr will be available to listen to any and all of your concerns about this chapel or any other chapel. You are welcome to stop by between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. and stay briefly or for the whole time.

The nursing department is assembling Health Hope Kits for Medical Teams International through Feb. 23! Each Hope Kit will be sent to children in orphanages, refugee camps, or families in disaster. If you’re interested in participating in our global health outreach, you can pick up a list of needed donations outside the nursing office (Hoover 214) today.

Just another reminder that applications for Spring Serve are due MONDAY, February 14! If you are curious about more specifics for the trips, there are descriptions for each trip next to the applications.
Applications available in the Bruin Den in front of the ASC offices.

Always feel free to e-mail me at sstoecker07@georgefox.edu.

Have questions about Monday’s chapel speaker? Great. There are more opportunities for discussion besides Monday night’s panel talk. Ray Aldred is speaking in chapel again on Wednesday, and there will be a talk-back after chapel in the Cap and Gown Room.

Also, Rev. Aldred is speaking at the Intellectual Feast on Tuesday at 4 p.m. in the Hoover Lounge (second floor). Please join the conversation. Ray is helping us ask questions and talk about important matters of life, creation and Creator.

Hey guys & gals,

This is your friendly James Project Reminder. We will be helping out Habitat for Humanity this coming weekend. It should be a blast! For more information about the Newberg Area Habitat for Humanity, check out this link.

We’ll be meeting in the Bruin’s den on Saturday, February 12th at 8:45 a.m., and we’ll get back around 4:00 p.m.(long day, but well worth it). And as always we’ll provide you lunch too.

Sign up by Wednesday night In the BRUIN’s DEN (there will be a sign-up sheet out on one of the tables). We’re limited to 15 people, so sign up soon.

God Bless,
Daniel Wulff

Be one of the lucky four couples to join us for a free, quiet, romantic Valentine’s Day dinner on Monday, Feb. 14, at 5:30 p.m. in the Bruin Den Annex.

Bon Appetit will be selecting the best four original Valentine’s Day poems and preparing a gourmet four-course dinner for the winners and their special someone. (We are the judges and our decisions are final.)

Please submit your original poem with your name and phone number to our Bon Appetit office right away. Submissions can either be sent via e-mail to catering@georgefox.edu, or you can pick up a hard copy form at our cashier’s desk where you swipe your cards.

Winners will be announced and notified this Friday. This contest is open to all students, and they need not be on any meal plan to enter. Both men and women are eligible to submit their original poems. Contact Denny Lawrence, Lisa Miles or Jane McShane if you have any questions.

Do you want to win a date of a lifetime? Come to the Bon this Friday, Feb. 11, at 9 p.m. to the Dating Game!