The university community is invited to “Lend a Hand: One Hour, One World, Many Promises to End Extreme Poverty,” scheduled from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 19, in the Cap and Gown Room. The event will feature guest speaker Jason Fileta and is being hosted in conjunction with Micah Challenge, an organization dedicated to ending extreme poverty in the world.
The Majors Fair is this Friday, Oct. 14 from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. in the EHS and HVR Atriums.
Come visit and hear from representatives of all departments and majors on campus. Learn more about the majors you are interested in and ask Career Services for their help! All First Year Seminar students are required to attend.
This week we have two days of opportunity to help out the James Project: Saturday, Oct. 16 and Sunday, Oct. 17. We’ll be meeting at 8:30 a.m. Saturday (back around 12:30 p.m.) and at 11:30 a.m. Sunday (back by 3:30 p.m). We’ll assemble in the Bruin Den both mornings.
Saturday we’ll be hanging fliers up around town about the food drive. Sunday we’ll be picking up food from around town.
Try to e-mail by Friday night so we can get a head count: Daniel at dwulff09@georgefox.edu
We will be meeting in the Bruin Den at 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 16, to head to “The Circuit”, Â a sick bouldering gym, so no ropes or pesky harnesses are needed.
Come with any experience level! (back around 11 p.m.) Cost: $10 entrance to gym, $4 to rent shoes. There’s a group as well as a “first time†discount.
Questions? E-mail Daniel at dwulff09@georgefox.edu
Friday, Oct. 15, noon – Women’s Golf in Culturame Women’s Classic, Pumpkin Ridge GC, North Plains, Ore. (GFU host)
Friday, Oct. 15, 7 p.m. – Volleyball vs. Lewis & Clark, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym
Saturday, Oct. 16, noon – Women’s Golf in Culturame Women’s Classic, Pumpkin Ridge GC, North Plains, Ore. (GFU host)
Saturday, Oct. 16, noon – Women’s Soccer vs. Willamette, Austin Sports Complex
Saturday, Oct. 16, 2:30 p.m. – Men’s Soccer vs. Linfield, Austin Sports Complex
Sunday, Oct. 17, 2:30 p.m. – Men’s Soccer vs. Willamette, Austin Sports Complex
For more information, contact the sports information office at ext. 2926 or visit the Bruins’ website at gfubruins.com.
Student Project Fund proposals are now being accepted. Bring your idea for a permanent addition to campus to ASC and see what you want to happen. Past ideas have been the fire pit, amphitheater, bike racks, etc.
Due October 22. Contact Brady Mordhorst at bmordhorst07@georgefox.edu
For the first time in George Fox history, the Multicultural Department is bringing to you World’s Got Talent – a night of cultural celebration with performances from around the world.
Do you have a cultural performance you would like to share with Fox? Let us know about it! All talents from all cultures are welcome: dancing, singing, acting, poetry, spoken word, etc. If you are interested, please e-mail Anya Frolova at afrolova08@georgefox.edu.
Auditions will be held November 2. More information to follow.
Are you interested in mentoring a high school student? Are you eager to serve others in the Newberg community? The Connections Mentor program will be hosting two informational meetings next week. Come hear about the exciting things that will be happening this year and grab an application!
Tuesday, Oct. 19 in Stevens 208 from 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 20 in Hoover 102 from 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Questions? Contact Stephanie at shanna05@georgefox.edu
Beginning in the fall of 2011, we will be adding a common book component to the First Year Experience program. In preparation, we would like to solicit book recommendations from as many people in our community as possible. Please take some time to recommend one or more books for this program.
After we receive recommendations, the committee will begin the task of narrowing the list down to three to five books that we will all read. The decision will be made by the end of February and announced in March. The criteria will include the following three things:
– Socioeconomic
– Race/ethnicity
– Gender
– Religious
– International
You can make a recommendation by clicking on this link.
The university’s Symphonic Band will perform in concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 14, in Bauman Auditorium. The concert will feature performances of Yasuhide Ito’s Gloriosa (Gururiyoze) – Symphonic Poem for Band, Frank Techeli’s Shenandoah, Samuel R. Hazo’s Go!, Gordon Jacob’s An Original Suite, and John Philip Sousa’s Hands Across the Sea.
The Symphonic Band will perform under the direction of Patrick Vandehey. Richard Elliott, assistant band director, will conduct the piece “Go!â€
There is no admission charge. For more information, call ext. 2620.
The IJM chapter at GFU 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 is prayer, as well as how we can get involved in the community. Please come and see how you can get involved as well!
Wednesday, October 13rd at 8:50 PM in the Le Shana lobby
Questions? Amy McDonald: amcdonald07@georgefox.edu
This Pizza Chat will focus on how to select a major and the resources available to students deciding what to major in. Pizza is provided!! Participants are asked to sign-up in advance by going to your MyGFU page. Click on Career Services and then Bruin Careers.  Create an account and search “Career Events.â€
Thursday, October 14th from 12:00-1:00 PM in the Career Services office on Stevens 1.
The 2009-10 yearbooks are in! The books will be available in the SUB starting Wednesday, Oct. 13, and will continue to be available until at least Friday, Oct. 15. These books are free to sophomores, juniors and seniors and are available on a first-come, first-served basis (once they’re gone, they’re gone). You are responsible to get your own book (just look for the table with the yearbooks on it and pick one up).
Employees, if you work in an area (such as the library or alumni relations) that gets a book for the office every year, please contact Hannah Wilcox at hwilcox06@georgefox.edu, and we will make sure that you get one. Thank you!
Questions? E-mail Hannah at the above address.
An exhibit of drawings by John Calabrese, titled “Black and White: Mood Images,” is now on display in the Lindgren Gallery. The pieces, inspired by film noir, will be up through Nov. 12. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Abby Rine will share her research on the subject “Is Sin Sexed? Luce Irigaray on Sin and Feminine Subjectivity” at an “Intellectual Feast” hosted by the Department of Religious Studies on Tuesday, Oct. 12. Come join us for good conversation and refreshments. The presentation runs from 4 to 5 p.m. in Hoover 250.
The university community is invited to a public lecture by a Rutgers professor, Andrew Murphy, who will present “Persecuting Quakers? The Politics of Conscience in Early Pennsylvania” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21, in Hoover 105.
Murphy has written about religious liberty in general and on Quakers and religious liberty more specifically. Among his many publications are: Prodigal Nation: Moral Decline and Divine Punishment from New England to 9/11, Conscience and Community: Revisiting Toleration and Religious Dissent in Early Modern England and America, and The Political Writings of William Penn. He is currently writing a book entitled Liberty, Toleration, and Law: The Political Thought of William Penn.
Questions? Contact Mark David Hall (Political Science) at mhall@georgefox.edu.
Career Services will host a Graduate School Emphasis Week Oct. 18-22. The week will include a “Getting Into Graduate School” presentation from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 20, in Stevens 109; a George Fox graduate schools fair from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21, in the Hoover lobby; packets of information for students; and a discussion blog on Career Services’ website.
Registration for the Oct. 20 presentation is available on Bruin Careers and is limited to the first 40 people.
Interested in seeing what some of our theatre alumni are up to? Come see the staged reading of “Rabbit Hole” by David Linsay-Abaire at the Hillsboro Actors Repertory Theatre in Hillsboro Oct. 15-16. The show stars George Fox theatre alumni Tara (Strever) Beanblossom, Jordan Beanblossom and Jessie (Sarver) Pick, and is directed by Stephen Pick. Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. shows are $8 at the door. The venue is located at 185 S.E. Washington St., in Hillsboro.
Please come and support your theatre alumni!
The sex talk originally scheduled by Spiritual Life for Tuesday night (Oct. 11) has been postponed until the spring. We still look forward to seeing you in Wednesday’s chapel, when we will be hearing from faculty panels on “What I Wish I Would Have Known” at various locations on campus.
For details on what panel is meeting where, visit spirituallife.georgefox.edu. We look forward to worshiping with you.
The 2010 Back to School issue of Student Health 101 was distributed to subscribing student email addresses last week. If you did not get the email and would like to receive the online health magazine, it can be accessed at http://readsh101.com/georgefox.html or you can find a link on the Health & Counseling page of the GFU website.
