The first 200 students in line on Friday and Saturday nights will be admitted free courtesy of the ASC. Come and cheer on the Bruins at 7 p.m. as they take their 1st step toward the defense of their national title. Wear Blue, Gold or White!
On Saturday, March 13, from 9 a.m. to noon, about 200 parents will come together at George Fox and various locations to pray for our campus and students. We would like to invite you to send the Office of Spiritual Life prayer requests that we can give to the parents. Please e-mail prayer requests to spirituallife@georgefox.edu by this Thursday, March 4.
Registration for Juniors Abroad, May 2011, will be on Friday, March 12, beginning at 8 a.m. in the registrar’s office in Stevens Center. This will be a special registration for Juniors Abroad trips only.
You cannot line up for registration before noon on Thursday, March 11.
ATTENTION ALL COMMUNICATION MAJORS!
Learn important career information from GFU Communication Alumni at the Communication Career Seminar.
Come Tuesday, March 9 at 6:00 pm for refreshments and information for career success in the Cap and Gown Room.
Sponsored by Lamda Pi Eta.
For more information, contact Caitlin Bletscher at cbletscher05@georgefox.edu
Speaker and author Shane Claiborne will be on the Newberg campus to speak three times on Monday, March 8.
Claiborne will speak in chapel at 10:40 a.m. in Bauman Auditorium and be available for a talk-back session afterwards in the Cap and Gown Room. He also will speak that afternoon from 4:40 to 5:35 p.m., when he presents on the topic “Counter Culture: Christians for a New Monasticism†at the Liberal Arts in Critical Issues forum in Hoover 105. Finally, he will speak from 9 to 10 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium.
Claiborne is the author of several books, including Jesus for President, Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers and The Irresistible Revolution. He also coauthored Follow Me to Freedom with Dr. John Perkins. A prominent Christian activist, Claiborne travels extensively speaking about peacemaking, social justice and Jesus. He is the founder of The Simple Way, a monastic community in Philadelphia.
Please note: Claiborne was originally scheduled to speak at 7 p.m.; that meeting has been moved to 9 p.m.
Questions? Contact Kayin Griffith at ext. 2320 or Caitlin Corning at ext. 2673.
The university’s women’s basketball team, ranked No. 5 in national polls, will open the NCAA Division III Tournament with a home game against Louisiana College this Friday, March 5, at 7 p.m. in Wheeler Sports Center.
Louisiana College is making its first NCAA tournament appearance after going 24-2. George Fox (25-2) enters as the Northwest Conference champion after defeating Puget Sound 77-51 in the conference finals last weekend.
Also playing Friday in Wheeler will be Puget Sound (23-4) and the University of Redlands (22-5), who will meet in the other West Regional semifinal at 5 p.m. The winners of Friday’s games will play in the same gym at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 6, for the right to advance to the tournament’s Sweet 16.
Ticket prices for both evenings are $6 for adults and $3 for students, children, and seniors 55 and older. Children age 2 and under are free. Tickets may be purchased in advance beginning Wednesday at the George Fox athletics department office in Wheeler. Northwest Conference and other passes are not valid for NCAA tournament games.
For additional information, contact the athletics department at ext. 2910.
Do you like showing others ways to be a more effective and efficient student? Do your friends always come to you to look over their papers before they turn them in? Do you have a GPA above 3.0?
If you answered yes to these questions, you might have a future as an ARC consultant in the Academic Resource Center.
Applications are now being accepted for the 2010-11 academic year. Students who will only be on campus during the fall semester are also welcome to apply. Submit completed materials by Friday, March 5.
More information is available at georgefox.edu/arc/application.html.
The Undergraduate Admissions Office is looking for interns to help in the recruitment of future Bruins. This is a professional internship opportunity for the 2010-2011 school year that you can have without leaving campus! The business and communication experience alone makes it a worthwhile resume-builder. The Admissions Office is a fast-paced, high-reward environment that encourages strong teamwork and is sure to give you a professional experience. Pick up an application in the Admissions Office today!
The Department of Performing Arts will present a Winter Choir Concert beginning at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 9, in Bauman Auditorium.
The concert will feature the Women’s Chorale, Vocal Jazz Ensemble, Chamber Singers and Concert Choir. The Concert Choir’s performance will be a preview of its performance at the regional American Choral Directors Association convention the following Saturday. Please come and support our choir students in the first choral concert of the semester.
Four music students will take to the Bauman Auditorium stage during the second week of March to present recitals. Come support these students as they perform. Admission is free.
As a reminder, three music students are presenting recitals in Bauman Auditorium this week. On Thursday, March 4, J Rourke (voice) will present a junior recital at 6 p.m., and Aimee Smith will present a senior degree composition recital at 7:30 p.m.
Also, on Friday, March 5, Emily Yarnold (voice) will present a senior degree recital at 7:30 p.m.
A free live interactive webinar for prospective language teachers is scheduled from 1 to 2 p.m. Thursday, March 4, in EHS 217. The session, entitled “ESL Vocabulary Instruction and Academic Preparation,” will focus on strategies to prepare students for mainstream classrooms.
The presenter will be Dr. Frances Boyd, a professor at Columbia University and coeditor of Longman’s NorthStar series. All interested faculty, students and staff are welcome to attend.
Tom Potiowsky, state economist for the state of Oregon, will speak at a School of Business speaker series event on Friday, March 12, at The Grand Hotel at Bridgeport in Tigard.
Potiowsky will speak from 7 to 9 a.m. on “The Big Dipper: Another Roller Coaster Ride for the Oregon Economy and You,†a session focusing on the economy and the process of recovery. The fee is $20, which includes a continental breakfast. Payment must be received by Monday, March 8.
To learn more, get directions or register, visit georgefox.edu/business/events.html.
DVDs featuring Valentina Lisitsa, the pianist who visited the university for its fourth annual Bösendorfer Concert Series last week, are available for purchase. The DVDS cost $20 apiece and include works by Liszt, Ravel, Chopin and Rachmaninoff. Exact cash or checks, made out to George Fox University, are accepted.
If interested in learning more or purchasing a copy, contact Kenn Willson (Performing Arts) at kwillson@georgefox.edu.
The Community Garden is getting ready for its fourth annual season. If you are interested in finding out what’s involved, please come to a short meeting on Monday, March 1, to find out. This is open for students or faculty or staff and others.
The garden is a great way to have inexpensive, delicious food. You can be a member even if you will be out of Newberg for the summer. Come find out more at the Hoover Lounge (second floor). You have the option of attending an 8 p.m. or 9 p.m. meeting.
If you haven’t done so yet, please fill out this short anonymous survey for The Crescent about the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy surrounding homosexuals in the military. Results will be printed in the March 3 edition of The Crescent.
Thank you,
The Crescent Staff.
I am looking for two actors, one male and one female, who are available this coming Monday, March 1st, from about 1:40-4. For my Intermediate Directing class we direct short scenes from actual movies for an hour during our class. This Monday, I will be directing a scene from the movie “Penelope.” If you are interested, please contact me at stremayne06@georgefox.edu (If you have a class that gets out at 2:30 and are interested, let me know.) Thank you.
This Monday, March 1, Melanie Hulbert, associate professor of sociology, will speak on issues of body image and popular culture for the university’s Liberal Arts in Critical Issues Forum. Melanie specializes in sociology gender issues and the family. She recently received an award of excellence from WorldatWork Journal for her research on gender roles in the workplace.
Hulbert will speak from 4:40 to 5:35 p.m. and from 7 to 7:55 p.m. in Hoover 105. For additional information, contact Caitlin Corning (History) at ext. 2673 or ccorning@georgefox.edu.
The Trauma Response Institute, coordinated by the Graduate Department of Counseling, is launching a program to assist humanitarian aid workers.
The focus of upcoming meetings is in support of Haitian missionaries and earthquake relief workers. Meetings are scheduled from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on March 2, April 6 and May 4 at the Portland Center. There is no cost to attend.
The purpose is to offer simple tools to help prepare for or mitigate the emotional impact of witnessing severe human suffering. If a Haiti responder flier finds its way into your mailbox, please consider giving it to your pastor, missions chairperson, or friend connected to service in Haiti. Also, for George Fox employees interested in joining a TRI responder peer support team, stay tuned for information about a training in psychological first-aid for peer responders.
You can learn more about the humanitarian aid program at responder.georgefox.edu.
Thanks for sharing the flyers!
Anna Berardi
Director, Trauma Response Institute
Several music students will take to the Bauman Auditorium stage during the first week of March to present recitals. Come support these students as they perform. Admission is free.
Chapel on Monday, March 1, will be the first “Spi.L. Experiment,” featuring different places to engage in different acts of worship. We encourage you to experience an act of worship that you don’t normally relate to, or have a background in. The places and their focuses are as follows:
Prayer Chapel: A Word-Centered Life
Bauman Auditorium: A Prayer-Filled Life
Foxhole: A Spirit-Empowered Life
EHS 102: An Incarnational Life
Hoover 105: A Virtuous Life
Cap and Gown: A Compassionate Life
Sessions will run from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m.
