The Daily Bruin

Don’t forget! Applications for off-campus semester programs through George Fox are due the first Friday of spring semester, Jan. 14. Those wishing to spend a semester studying at one of our off-campus study programs during fall 2011 or spring 2012 must apply by this date. Completed applications include faculty recommendations, essays, and approval signatures, so it is best to begin your application as soon as possible!

Applications are available at the Center for Global Studies or online at this link. For program information and policies and procedures, please visit the Center for Global Studies webpage.

For further information, please contact Melanie Newell at mnewell@georgefox.edu

Poinsettias will be sold for $5 after this weekend’s Christmas Concert. You may pay and reserve your poinsettias at any of the performances, but they will not be available for pick-up until after Sunday’s performance.

If you cannot make it on Sunday, they will be available for pick-up on Monday in the music office.

George Fox is again participating in the annual MLK Day of Service in Portland! This is a great opportunity for us to represent the university in the city.

Please register at this link. The event is scheduled from 6:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 17. We’ll be leaving from the Duke Atrium in the Stevens Center. There is no cost to you, as we’ll provide breakfast, lunch and transportation.

Check out last year’s event on YouTube. See who you can find from Fox! Only 125 volunteers can sign up from George Fox, so register early.

Questions? Contact Shelley Yonemura, director of Multicultural Student Programs, at syonemura@georgefox.edu.

Interested in honing your artistic skills? Register now for ARTS 245 (4431), watercolor painting taught by Gary Buhler. Class meets Mondays and Wednesdays from 6:30 to 9 p.m. during spring semester.

Do you want to be more involved with campus events? Do you like taking pictures? If you answered yes to these questions, you should consider working for the darkroom next semester. We take pictures for the Crescent and the yearbook.

If this sounds like something you’d like to try or if you have more questions, e-mail Lindley King at lking06@georgefox.edu right away!

Christmas Cookie Decorating with the Psychology Department
Thursday, December 9th at 12:00 pm in Cap and Gown A&B

Come hang out with the psych club, chat with the professors, and
decorate some Christmas Cookies

Then at 5:00 pm the Psych Club is having Pizza and Christmas Activities in Hoover 105

Students-the last Lost and Found tables of the semester will take place in the Bruin Den on Monday, Dec. 13 between 11 and 1:30pm. Please stop by to look for your lost items as all items not reunited with their owners will be donated to charitable causes Monday afternoon.

Questions? Contact Security at x2090

The yearbook staff wants your fun photos. We would love to see what you captured at sporting events, club activities, or any other main event from this year for the 2010-2011 yearbook. Send pictures as an attachment in an e-mail to Hannah Wilcox at hwilcox06@georgefox.edu. Send pictures of your friends; they will thank you for it!

Don’t forget to drop by the Ron Gregory Atrium in EHS Thursday (Dec. 9) to check out the engineering program’s seventh annual “Wobble-Off” engine competition from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. The demonstration will feature a variety of oscillating steam/air-operated engines built by freshmen students. It 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.

One last reminder: The deadline for submissions to the William Stafford poetry contest is Wednesday, Dec. 8, at midnight. This is an excellent opportunity for students to become published in an upcoming anthology of poetry honoring Stafford. As well, each of the three finalists will receive $50 compensation for their work.

We have received some submissions already, however we would like to see more! Submissions should be electronically sent to william.stafford.poetry@gmail.com.

For more information, click this link. Questions? Write peaceandjustice@georgefox.edu

Mark your calendars for the library’s annual wassail party! Please take a break on Monday, Dec. 13, and join us in the MLRC multipurpose room between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. for free cookies, wassail and coffee.

The International Justice Mission chapter at George Fox invites you to our next meeting at 8:50 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 8, in the Le Shana lobby. The IJM deals in large part with the issue of sex-trafficking on both a global and local scale, and what steps we can do to combat it. Two major focuses of the chapter are prayer and how we can get involved in the community.

Please come and see how you can get involved as well!

A student worker is needed to assist the Center for Peace and Justice and Center for Global Studies for spring semester. This is a paid, 10-hour/week position.

Students engaged with and passionate about issues of peace and justice are encouraged to apply. There is a preference for those with international experience (i.e. study abroad, travel, missions).

Please apply via the new Bruin Careers website. For more information, contact Melanie Newell at mnewell@georgefox.edu.

Faculty and staff members: Please encourage those students whom you feel would be interested in this position to apply.

Thanks to all who participated in the advocacy week for the Morong 43 last week. We gained nearly 200 signatures for our petition letters, which were faxed and mailed out early Monday morning.

Please continue to pray for these 43 prisoners as they enter their fourth day of a hunger strike. The prisoners, their families and friends are calling for their release by Dec. 10, which is deemed International Human Rights Day.

For further updates, please click here to read a recent article. The Morong 43 have now been detained for 305 days. Please continue to pray and spread awareness about this injustice.

Thank you,
Melanie Newell (Center for Peace and Justice)

The Meal Plan form is now activated on MYGFU under University Forms.

There are two things that you need to know before proceeding:

1 ) If you plan to complete enough credits to move into a lower meal plan you will need to wait till grades are posted to your academic record before making the change.

For example – for students on the 21 meal plan: If you have 25 credits completed now and took 15 credits this fall, then 6 of those credits will need to post before you can choose the 14 meal plan.

The absolute deadline for making changes to your meal plan is Friday, January 21, 2011. If there are extenuating circumstances pertaining to getting your grades posted by this deadline, please contact Jere Witherspoon immediately.

2) The system rolls all meal plans over, EXCEPT for the 35 block plan and the All Flex Plan since the meals/points on these two plans carry over from Fall to Spring. If you want to add these additional plans to your account you will need to re-select them in MYGFU in University forms.

Details about Meal Plans can be found on the Student Life website: Meal Plan Options

Students are responsible to confirm their meal plans each semester and make any changes prior to the 2nd Friday of each semester – January 21, 2010.

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.

To select your meal plans on MyGFU:

· Log in to your account.

· Click on SELF SERVICE.

· Under GFU Resources click on UNIVERSITY FORMS.

Please address your questions to:

Jere Witherspoon

Student Life Office

jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu

503-554-2316

Need a ride to and from campus for Christmas break?  We are offering transportation service of $20 per way.  Must sign-up and pay in the Student Life office, Stevens 3rd floor by Friday, Dec. 10th at 5:00 p.m.

Sponsored by:  Multicultural Student Programs Office, Shelley Yonemura, syonemura@georgefox.edu

Don’t miss out on an amazing conference!  Student Congress on Racial Reconciliation (SCORR) is an opportunity for students to learn and grow in their Christian understanding of diversity.

Application deadline has been extended to this Friday, Dec 10th at 12 noon.  Information and application available here:  http://www.georgefox.edu/offices/student-life/multicultural-services/SCORR%20Conference.html

Contact Shelley Yonemura (syonemura@georgefox.edu) with questions.

Come to Ten!Ten!Ten! and watch Fox students perform in the directing class’s ‘ final project–a ten-minute play festival! There will be 12 shows total: 6 on Wednesday and Friday, and the other 6 on Thursday and Saturday.

All will be held at 10:10p.m. in Wood-Mar Auditorium. $1 donation to Alpha Psi Omega for admission.

The university’s Center for Peace and Justice will host an evening with Liberian speaker Saah Joseph, who will present “From Liberia with Love: Experiences of War/A Life of Peace” from 7 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 8, in the Cap and Gown Room.

Joseph grew up as a Christian in Liberia, left his family at a young age, and escaped from the war to Sierra Leone when he was 12. After encountering another war, Joseph fled through three more countries until ending up at a refugee camp.

Joseph has worked with humanitarian organizations, including the Red Cross, for which he helped reunite war-torn families. He returned to Liberia and started to set up schools for refugee children. Currently, Joseph works at an organization called PLAN for the Children Humanitarian Aid. The organization recently started a school in a refugee camp, Mount Barcley, which enrolls 900 children.

In addition to Joseph’s presentation, the evening will include a special musical performance by Lasana “Lazso,” who will sing African gospel songs before and after Joseph’s talk. He too escaped war in his native country and survived persecution, poverty and personal failure.

Questions? Contact Melanie Newell at ext. 2686 or mnewell@georgefox.edu.