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. Â No tickets are needed for this dinner. Â 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. Â 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.
Career Services’ annual BYOS/BYOP open house is this Saturday during Family Weekend. Students, this is a great opportunity to explore the resources that Career Services has to offer. Be sure to bring your parents, too!
The event will include refreshments, games, our new Career Services video, a career chat with Bonnie Jerke, director of Career Services, and demos of all of our software programs and resources. Join us from 2 to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 6. Come for the whole event and enter to win prizes just for showing up!
If you have any questions or would like to find out more about Career Services, please contact us via e-mail (careers@georgefox.edu), phone (ext. 2330), our website (careers.georgefox.edu), or by dropping by our office on the first floor of the Stevens Center.
We look forward to seeing you!
If you would like help registering or selecting a professional for Professional Preview Day, a Career Services representative will be available in the Bruin Den on Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 3-4, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. to help you. You can also stop by the Office of Career Services on the first floor of Stevens for assistance during normal business hours. All are welcome!
If you would like to speak with a Professional Preview Day intern personally, you can set up a time with Jenny (jbruinier07@georgefox.edu) or Aimee (smitha06@georgefox.edu), stop by the table in the Bruin Den, or drop in to Career Services during our office hours (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 12:30-3:30 p.m. and Wednesday 12:30-2:30 p.m. and 3:30-5 p.m.).
Reminder: The deadline for Professional Preview Day registration is this Friday, Nov. 5. Sign up through BruinCareers to secure your spot.
They were once in your shoes, now take a step in theirs. Professional Preview Day matches you with an alumni professional in your field. These alumni were once in the place you are today and now they are successful in the professional world. Come take a look at where you can be after graduation!
Faculty, please encourage your students to sign up.
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 link for the nomination form. Nominations are due Friday, Nov. 5.
Tickets are still available for the university’s fall theatre production, Euripides’ Ion. The show is a world premiere of Paul D. Streufert’s translation of the Greek tragedy.
The show runs this Thursday through Saturday, Nov. 4-6, and the following Thursday through Sunday, Nov. 11-14, in Wood-Mar Auditorium. Performances are scheduled at 7:30 p.m. each night with the exception of the Sunday, Nov. 14 show, scheduled as a 2 p.m. matinee.
All George Fox University employees receive one complimentary ticket. Students will be admitted free on both Thursdays. Your complimentary ticket is only available at the Box Office in the Bruin Bookstore. Additional tickets are $12 for adults, $8 for alumni and seniors, and $6 for students and children under 12. To purchase tickets or read a synopsis of the play, visit theatre.georgefox.edu.
If you are enrolled in this spring’s fashion show production class, then come to this week’s meeting to discuss all of the details. Hope to see you there.
Thursday November 4th at 4:15 in Lemmons 2
Questions? Email Shannon Donohue at sdonohue09@georgefox.edu
The university’s Center for Global Studies and Center for Peace and Justice are hosting a panel Tuesday, Nov. 2, related to the panelists’ participation at the Lausanne Movement’s Third Congress on World Evangelization in Cape Town, South Africa, in October. Chapel credit is available for those students who attend.
Panel members include President Robin Baker, Sarita Gallagher (Religious Studies) and the university’s missional-practitioner-in-residence, David Chronic.
Join us at 7:30 p.m. in Hoover 105. A reception will follow.
For more information on the Lausanne Movement, visit lausanne.org. For more information on this event, please contact Melanie Newell at mnewell@georgefox.edu.
Two Big BlueZone events this week.
Opening Night of the play ION by Euripides
Thursday, November 4, 2010
7:30pm
Students get a FREE ticket to the play for opening night.
Pick up your ticket in the Bruin Bookstore.
Volleyball game vs local rival Linfield
Saturday, November 6, 2010
7:00pm
Students are encouraged to wear BlueZone shirts to each of these events to show support and Bruin Unity
Questions? Email Valerie Rogers at vrogers@georgefox.edu
