The Daily Bruin

If so, today’s meeting is essential for you! Meet in EHS 109 at 6 p.m.

This meeting’s topics include admission requirements, the application process, resources available to you at GFU, and much more.  If you have any questions, please contact John Schmitt or Paul Chamberlain.

If you are not able to attend, but consider yourself a pre-professional health student, please contact Jane Sweet (jsweet@georgefox.edu) so that you can be added to the Pre-Professional Health Student contact group.

Undergraduate Field Experience (PSYC 475) is an applied experiential learning component of the psychology major. If you want to understand the who, what, how, when, and where of this course, join us for an information meeting from 4:30 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 9, in Hoover 102.

Come play in creation with Experiential Ministries on November 13! Meet in the Bruin Den at 9 a.m. We’ll be back around 3 p.m.

We will spend the day kayaking the lower Clackamas River. There is no charge for students, but there are only 11 spots available. No experience is required.

Pick up a liability form outside the ASC offices and return it to the ASC offices ASAP in order to secure your spot.

Questions? E-mail Paige at pcopenhaver09@georgefox.edu

The Department of Religious Studies invites you to join us for the events of Quaker Focus Week beginning Monday (Nov. 8). Come learn more about George Fox University’s heritage as we focus on Quaker spirituality. Events are as follows:

Monday: Howard Macy speaks in chapel
Tuesday: At 4 p.m., students will share about their recent trip to another Quaker college (in the religious studies department.)
Wednesday: Jamie Johnson speaks in chapel

Please join us!

Goldfish are up for adoption in the biology department! Take home a new friend for your home, office or pond. See Teresa Arnold, or anyone in the department, for access to the tank.

Come and celebrate culture and talent during this year’s Cultural Celebration Week by attending the first-ever World’s Got Talent event, a night of amazing performances from all over the world. You won’t want to miss it!

Seats are limited. You can get a free ticket in the Bruin Den starting Monday, Nov. 8, through Friday, Nov. 12, between 12:30 and 1:30 p.m. Or go to Student Life at any time and pick one up. First come, first serve.

World’s Got Talent will be held at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 17, in Wood-Mar Auditorium.

Food is the one of the best way to share your culture with others. International club invites you and your friends form different countries to make a dish together and compete for a prize on November 17th from 5:30 to 7 PM in the Cap and Gown Room.

Invite friends to cook a cultural recipe to win a prize!

First price: $30 Fred Meyer Gift card
Second price: $20 Fred Meyer Gift card
Third price: $10 Fred Meyer Gift card
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: November 11th
Email Tina: wlin09@georgefox.edu

Instructions:
Work in a group of no more than 4 people
Prepare food serving 5-6 people
Bring your food to the Cap & Gown Room
Give a brief food presentation
Beverages & plates/utensils will be provided.

Come enjoy delicious food and vote for your favorite  flavor!

This Monday, Nov. 8, is the last Liberal Arts and Critical Issues lecture of the semester. We will host five speakers who will speak about interfaith dialogue and initiatives. Our guests include Jews, Christians and Muslims involved in interfaith groups in the Portland area.

Sessions are scheduled from 4:40 to 5:40 p.m. and from 7 to 8 p.m. in Hoover 105.

If you have any questions, please contact Caitlin Corning at ext. 2673 or via e-mail at ccorning@georgefox.edu.

Do you know of a deserving senior who demonstrates outstanding service as a servant leader on campus or in the community? You can honor that person and the activity of voluntary service by nominating him or her for the C.W. Perry Servant Leadership Award.

Visit this site for the nomination form. The nomination due date has been moved to Friday, Nov. 12.

Family Weekend is here!  Our campus will be full this weekend with families and friends.  Check out our web site, familyweekend.georgefox.edu, to see the complete schedule of events.

Reminder to students on the meal plan:
Friday:
Dinner will be served in Klages.  No tickets are needed for this dinner.  Please swipe your student body card as usual.

Saturday:
Breakfast will be located in Cap and Gown
Lunch will be located in Cap and Gown.  Klages Dining Hall is reserved for families and their students who pre-registered for the event’s luncheon.  Registrations for the luncheon are sold out.

Have a great weekend with your family and friends!

Submitted by Amy Lorenz alorenz@georgefox.edu

Come play in creation with Experiential Ministries on November 13th! Meet in the Bruin’s Den at 9:00 AM. We’ll be back around 3:00 PM.

We will spend the day kayaking the lower Clackamas River. There is no charge for students, but there are only 11 spots available. No experience is required.

Pick up a liability form outside the ASC offices and return it to the ASC offices ASAP in order to secure your spot.

Questions? Contact Paige Copenhaver atpcopenhaver09@georgefox.edu

Get some sun and dirt time. Drink some apple cider. Thursday (Nov 4) at 5:30 p.m. come help put the community garden to bed. Whether you are part of the garden or not, come join the fun!

We’ll be doing some final harvesting and preparing the beds to sleep over the winter. We’ll also have some apple cider to enjoy this autumn event! The community garden is located just north of the Villa Academic Complex and is near Coffin Hall.

The university community is invited to two concerts on campus this Friday and Saturday, Nov. 5-6.

Jazz Concert
On Friday, jazz saxophonist Allan Chase will perform with the university’s Jazz Ensemble and a faculty trio at 7:30 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium.

All employees and students are entitled to one individual complimentary ticket, available for pick-up in the Bruin Bookstore. Additional tickets cost $10 (good for a family of four), and can be purchased by calling the University Box Office at ext. 3844, online, or in the lobby the night of the concert.

Family Weekend Concert
On Saturday, the university’s Family Weekend fall concert is scheduled at 4 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium. Admission is free. The event will feature performances by the university’s Women’s Chorale, String Ensemble, Men’s Ensemble, Concert Choir and Symphonic Band.

For more information about either concert, contact Debbie Hawblitzel in the Department of Performing Arts at ext. 2620.

1. Our topic is called No Afghan Child Left Behind.

The survey is located at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Z3CJNFV .

Thanks,
Brooke
Katie
Derek
Kelton

2. Want to find out how much you know about Jesus in the Qur’an? Take our survey to find out!

Link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RM789YR

Group Members: Jenny Barram, Sarah Robison, Trista Buxton, Tysin Senestraro

Thank you!

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.

Come audition for “Doubt” and Ten!Ten!Ten! (GFU’s ten-minute play festival) Saturday, November 6th from 10AM to 1PM in Wood-Mar. Sign up in Ross for a time slot between 10am and 1pm.

Theatre majors, minors, and scholarship students need to prepare a memorized 90-second contemporary monologue, but all others may choose to cold read a monologue provided at the audition.

Questions? Email Hannah Irish at hirish07@georgefox.edu

Have fun! Break a leg! See you Saturday!

The Bruin Bookstore will be open this Saturday, Nov. 6, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. for Family Weekend. Come check out the sale on this year’s new product: Sweatpants, regularly priced at $19.99 each, will be two for $30, and select hoodies, normally $29.99, will be two for $40.

All other imprinted clothing and gifts will be 20 percent off! The Family Weekend sale will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both Friday and Saturday.

Commuters: Come grab some breakfast and fellowship this Friday with fellow commuters. The goal of this is to connect with one another and create more of a community amongst commuters. This will be happening the first Friday of every month.

We’ll meet in Stevens 209 from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m.

Students, Mail Services needs your help! Please, make sure your name and box number are clearly written on all your class papers. Many faculty return class papers though the campus mailbox syatem.  If personnel at Mail Services cannot read your name and box number, the class paper will not be delivered to you.

Submitted by Linda Sartwell (lsartwell@georgefox.edu)

A student-led group invites you to participate in wear-a-hijab day Thursday, Nov. 4, as a way to show support for Muslim women in America. Help challenge the negative stereotypes attributed to Islam and felt by Muslim women who choose to wear the hijab. The event is being hosted by the Islam and the West student research group.

Headscarves donated by the university’s Muslim Student Association can be picked up in the Bruin Den between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. A talkback session is scheduled in Hoover 103 at 6 p.m. that night. Hope to see you there!

The Center for Peace and Justice/Center for Global Studies invites all George Fox undergraduates to submit up to three poems in the spirit of William Stafford.

Three students will be selected to win $50 and guaranteed placement in a poetry anthology honoring Stafford. The submission deadline is Dec. 8.

E-mail submissions to: william.stafford.poetry@gmail.com. Questions? Contact peaceandjustice@georgefox.edu.