The Daily Bruin

Do you ever want late-night snacks on campus without ever leaving your dorm room? Well there is an answer: Banana Bob’s.

This senior capstone business will host its grand opening at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 18, in the Bruin Den.

We offer:

• Late-night snacks (fresh fruit, Cup of Noodle, candy bars, etc.)
• Free on-campus delivery straight to your housing
• Delivery from Banana Bob himself!
• Low prices

Order using Facebook (facebook.com/bananabobs). A kiosk in the Bruin Den is also available. We accept cash, check or credit card.

Open Monday through Thursday 8 p.m. to midnight.

There will be two recruiters in the SUB next week:

Camp Hammer from Santa Cruz, CA will be on campus January 18, to recruit summer staff for their 2011 Summer Programs!

Twin Rocks Camp will be on campus January 19 & 20, also recruiting for their Summer 2011 staff!

Have questions about this? Contact Sidney Tafflinger at stafflinger@georgefox.edu

Welcome back to the new semester! Come and join us today (Friday) at 10:40 a.m. in Bauman Auditorium for First Friday Worship: A time of creative prayer and worship, as we practice shaking off the dust that has settled on our lives. We look forward to worshiping with you!

The university will close Monday, Jan. 17, to observe the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. There will be no day or evening classes or chapel at the Newberg campus, and the Portland Center, Salem Center and Boise Center will be closed. Libraries at all campuses will be closed as well.

Friday, Jan. 14, is the last day to sign up for the MLK Serve Day happening on Monday, Jan. 17. Join seven other universities in serving the city of Portland. All volunteers will meet at 7 a.m. on Monday and return to campus the same day no later than 5 p.m.

To sign up, please visit this link.

The Bruin Bookstore will be open on Monday, Jan. 17 (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day). All textbook purchases or returns will be handled in the store, located in the Student Union Building, due to the library being closed. Bookstore hours next week are 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Thursday; 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday; and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday.

Becoming a Teacher? The application deadline for the GFU Master of Arts in Teaching full time program is right around the corner – February 1st. To access the online application, or download a paper copy, go to: http://tinyurl.com/2476pcj

For a meeting with the Admissions Counselor, email Beth Molzahn at bmolzahn@georgefox.edu.

This Pizza Chat addresses global opportunities and the “gap” year.  Discuss options for living and working abroad and what experiences you’d like to have immediately following graduation prior to entering graduate school or the workforce. Pizza Provided!

Thursday, January 20th at 12:00-1:00 PM at Career Services on Stevens 1.

Participants are asked to sign-up in advance. We look forward to meeting with you!

RSVP: mygfu>Career Services>BruinCareers.
Questions?

Contact us at 503-554-2330 or careers@georgefox.edu.

Scholarship Manager-The GFU Donor Funded Scholarship application process has been delayed.  We are in the process of setting up a few enhancements to, hopefully, make it better for you.  We hope to have it ready for applicants in early February.

We will notify students when it is open for applications.  We will also send out another e-announcement.

Thank you,
Student Financial Services
George Fox University

Monday-Thursday
6-7:30 a.m.
*10:30 a.m.- 1:40 p.m.
*2:30-3:30 p.m.
**3:30-5 p.m.
5-11 p.m.

Friday
6 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Saturday
8 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Sunday
1-7 p.m.

*Unsupervised
**Varsity athletics priority

Note: The Fitness Center is a classroom and should be viewed as such. Please do not ask to work out during class times.

Monday-Thursday
6-7:30 a.m.
*10:30 a.m.- 12:40 p.m.
*1:30-3:30 p.m.
**3:30-5 p.m.
5-11 p.m.
Fridays: 6 a.m. – 7 p.m.

Expanded weekend hours: Saturday, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.; Sunday, 1-7 p.m.

*Unsupervised
**Varsity athletics priority

Friday, Jan. 14, 6 p.m. – Women’s basketball vs. Whitworth, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym
Friday, Jan. 14, 8 p.m. – Men’s basketball vs. Whitworth, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym
Saturday, Jan. 15, 4 p.m. – Women’s basketball vs. Whitman, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym
Saturday, Jan. 15, 6 p.m. – Men’s basketball vs. Whitman, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym

Please note that games are two hours earlier on Saturday to accommodate Whitman travel plans.

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

Looking for some quality classical music? Kenn Willson (Performing Arts) can help. His CD, “Encounters with Beethoven – The Live Recording Project,” is available in the music office on the Newberg campus and on his website.

Did you know that George Fox has a self-service password reset tool available? Login to MyGFU, and click on the “Password Reset Questions” link in the Account Management section to set it up. You will need to select and answer two security questions from the drop-down lists there.

After that, be sure that you have a non-GFU e-mail address submitted within your personal record. To update/verify your non-GFU e-mail address in MyGFU:

1. Click on “Self Service”
2. Click on “Campus Personal Information”
3. Click on “E-mail Addresses”
4. If you do not have a personal or non-GFU e-mail address listed, click on the “Add An Email Address” button to add one to your account
5. Click the “Save” button to complete the process

In the future, if you forget your password, click the “Forgot Password” button on the MyGFU login screen to request a temporary password. You will be asked to provide the answers to your security questions. The temporary password will be sent to your non-GFU e-mail, allowing you to log into MyGFU and change your university login password.

Please contact the Service Desk (503-554-2569) if you have any questions or need assistance with the setting up your security questions.

Nasser Abufarha, a Palestinian-American scholar and social entrepreneur, will present a free lecture, “Insisting on Life: Martyrdom and Fair Trade in Palestine,” on campus Wednesday, Jan. 19. A guest of the university’s Center for Peace and Justice, Abufarha will speak from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in Hoover 105.

Abufarha is the founder of the Palestine Fair Trade Association and Canaan Fair Trade, which is bringing Palestinian olive oil and other traditional foods to mainstream American and European markets, while also improving economic conditions for more than 1,700 farmers in the West Bank. Canaan Fair Trade today is the largest exporter of certified fair trade and organic Palestinian olive oil to America and Europe.

Abufarha is the author of The Making of a Human Bomb: An Ethnography of Palestinian Resistance. The book, described as “required reading” by the American Journal of Sociology, explains how geographic separation of Palestinians and mimetic actions to Israeli state repression will continue to be a source of violence until Palestinians can experience actual rootedness in their land and start to explore alternative exchanges between themselves and Israelis.

The university’s Center for Peace and Justice has collaborated with the Friends of William Stafford to bring several notable poets, including the current and former poet laureates of Oregon, a documentary film maker, and our very own Ed Higgins to the Newberg campus Thursday, Jan. 13, to honor the life and work of this beloved Oregon poet who strove to promote peace and justice through his creativity.

Thursday’s events are free and open to the public. There is no registration required. The day begins with a screening of Haydn Reiss’s new documentary on Stafford, Every War has Two Losers, featuring a discussion with Reiss himself afterward. The event closes at the Coffee Cottage with a musical performance by Bill Joliff and Seth Martin.

Event details and itinerary can be found at this link.

For the past few years, George Fox has utilized FOXALERT as a method of notifying the Newberg campus faculty, staff and students in the event of a campus-wide emergency. Each semester we update the FOXALERT database with your current contact information that we download from MyGFU. For this system to work, it is vital that you take a few minutes to update your contact information.

We are planning a test of the FoxAlert system within the next few weeks!

If you have not done so recently, please update your contact information by signing into MyGFU. Following are the steps to take:

• Login to your MyGFU account
• Click on SELF SERVICE
• Click on CAMPUS PERSONAL INFORMATION
• Click on PHONE NUMBERS
• On the PHONE TYPE pick list, choose the phone type you are registering.
• Type in your contact information
• Click SAVE
• If you need to add a number, first click on ADD A PHONE NUMBER
• Make sure you click SAVE after each change

In the near future, we will test FOXALERT as well as give you information on opting in or out to receive text messages. Your safety is very important to us. Please work with us to provide you with timely information should an emergency arise.

If you have questions, please contact Jere Witherspoon (Student Life) at jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu.

Sincerely,
Brad Lau, VP of Student Life

Snow and icy conditions are in the forecast for this week. We caution you to walk carefully on icy sidewalks and to avoid walking beneath trees whose branches may fall due to snow.

In case of a weather-related campus closure, we want to make sure you have the information you need.

Weather Closure Policy

On rare occasions, classes may need to be canceled and offices closed due to adverse weather conditions or for other emergency reasons.

The provost decides if conditions warrant canceling classes or closing offices for the Newberg campus and the Portland and Salem centers. (Closure decisions in Boise and Redmond are made by local administrators.)

Major considerations are road conditions, ice, utility service disruption, and how long the severe weather or emergency is likely to last. Decisions on day classes are announced by 6:15 a.m., if possible. Most decisions on evening classes are posted by 2:15 p.m..

In no circumstances should employees or students put themselves in danger in an attempt to get to campus.

To find out if a closure decision has been made when bad weather occurs:

* Listen to local radio and television stations
* Call Newsline, the university’s recorded announcements, at 503-554-3868
* Call the George Fox switchboard at 503-538-8383
* Check television and newspaper Web sites:

o kgw.com
o koin.com
o kptv.com
o katu.com
o columbian.com
o oregonlive.com
o flashalert.net

Please submit off-campus study applications to the Center for Global Studies by this Friday, Jan. 14. This is for students wishing to study off-campus in fall 2011 and spring 2012.

Questions? Contact Melanie Newell at mnewell@georgefox.edu.

Come serve with us in the city! The second annual MLK Day of Service, in collaboration with seven other universities, is set for Monday, Jan. 17.

Only 70 spots are left. Any George Fox employee and student may join, but you must sign up online in order to attend. We will meet at 7 a.m. on Monday and return to campus the same day no later than 5 p.m.

For accommodations information and questions, contact Shelley Yonemura (Multicultural Student Programs) at syonemura@georgefox.edu or ext. 2318.