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$4800 will be awarded to the 09-10 senior student selected by Student Financial Services to receive the Frederic and Dorothy Vechery Christian College Consortium Scholarship. 

Requirements:   
09-10 Senior with GPA of 3.3 that has exhibited leadership and is pursuing a career in a church vocation, missions or other form of ministry OR comes from a family serving in such a career field.

If you are interested in applying, please email your Financial Aid Counselor for an application:

Chris Schlarbaum, Last name A-K
Marla Sweningson, Last name H-O
Terri Crawford, Last name P-Z

Deadline for the application is Thursday, March 5 at 5:00 p.m.

 Registration for the All-Campus Spring Retreat is now open.  Stop by the Bruin Den between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.  Don’t miss out on this encouraging and fun-filled weekend on the beach!

Parents of George Fox students will gather at the Newberg campus and in homes along the West Coast to pray for the George Fox University community from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, March 14. We are gathering prayer requests that will guide this time of prayer.

If you have a prayer request that you would like to be remembered in prayer, please send your request to the Office of Spiritual Life at spirituallife@georgefox.edu. If you would like the request to be anonymous, please indicate so in your e-mail. Please e-mail your requests by this Friday, Feb. 26.

Beginning Monday, March 2, the Mail Services courier will be delivering to the Salem campus on Mondays and Thursdays each week. Service to the Portland Center will continue each day Monday through Friday.

Items for the Portland or Salem campuses must be brought to University Mail Services by 9:45 a.m. and clearly labeled to show the intended recipient or department.

“Oregon Field Guide” filmed a segment on hummingbird flight bio-mechanics and energetics for Oregon Public Broadcasting. The episode features our very own Don Powers (Biology) along with Bret Tobalske, his research collaborator.

The segment will air on OPB TV at 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26, and again at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, March 1. The segment is entitled “Hummingbirds aren’t just fun to watch, scientists are discovering they still have a lot to learn from them.”

ASC will have blue “Bruins” foam fingers in the SUB on Thursday, February 26 from 11:50 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.  Support the women’s basketball team on their historic run, and grab a piece of Bruin history for just $1.00!

Attention Students: 

If you have been planning on applying for one or more of the Bruindata Scholarships and have yet to do so, this week is your last week before it’s too late.

Sunday, March 1 at 8:00 a.m. the door of opportunity will be closed.  Please complete the process prior to then. Student Financial Services will not be able to accept applications after that day and time.

If you are interested in global issues, love to travel, enjoy learning about other cultures and foreign languages, and have a heart for community service, the Peace Corps may be the right fit for you. The organization will host an on-campus  information session and application workshop from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 3, in Lemmons 15 on the Newberg campus.

Come to this Peace Corps event to learn more about living and working overseas. To learn more, visit the Peace Corps website.

Housing selection for Fall 2009 is coming up soon.

Housing selection will run in one round. You will complete a short series of forms in BruinData. The selection forms will be up March 16-21 (the week before Spring Break). Placements will be made during the break.

There are a few changes from last year:

• There is no off-campus sign-up page for seniors. Only seniors who wish to live on-campus need to go through the selection process. If you are not certain of your senior status then e-mail housing@georgefox.edu to confirm your status. Please see http://www.georgefox.edu/offices/student_life/residence/offcampus.html for more information about qualifying for off-campus housing.

• Fall 2009 class registration will not have a bearing on housing selection.

• Most groups will have more housing options available to choose from. Please note that groups still must have at least 5 people in order to include Le Shana hall as a living area preference.

We’ll have more information posted here and around campus each week. You can also stop by the Student Life Office to ask questions or send your questions to housing@georgefox.edu.

Jeff VandenHoek (School of Management) will give leadership to the newest School of Management graduate program — a full-time MBA program that will launch on the Newberg campus this August. It will be a highly integrative, intense, intentional, cohort-based, 11-month program. We welcome referrals. Contact VandenHoek at jvandenh@georgefox.edu for more information, or visit the MBA page on the university’s website.

Due to a reallocation of resources to the full-time MBA and the accreditation process, we will faze out the Executive Track MBA program with its current cohorts when they graduate in 2010. Twenty-two executives have graduated, and 24 are currently in the Executive Track MBA program. To hear Dean Ken Armstrong’s announcement about the changes, visit the university’s iTunes U site. Scroll to “Campus Spotlight” and click on “School of Management.”

The Department of Performing Arts will continue its busy recital season next week. All events will be held in Bauman Auditorium.

On Wednesday, March 4, Chris Guyer, clarinet, will present a senior recital at 7:30 p.m.

On Friday, March 6, the second Students in Recital event is scheduled from 12:40 to 1:30 p.m. That, evening at 7:30 p.m., pianists including Kenneth Willson, Barbara Stewart, Dan Miller, Becca Couch, Bethany Taft, Joseph Forster, James Pick, Cameron DeWhitt, Allen Cassell, Andrew Payne and Beth Sellers will present a multi-piano extravaganza.

Finally, at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 7, Emily Yarnold, soprano, and Ashley Salisbury, mezzo-soprano, will present their junior recital.

Please join us in supporting our students. Admission is free.

You’re invited to join the university’s International Justice Mission Chapter for a sex-trafficking awareness event from 7 to 11 p.m. Thursday, March 5, in the Duke Atrium of the Stevens Center. The gathering will include food, live music, and plenty of chances to learn more about this very serious issue and ways that you can create change here in Oregon and abroad.

To next year’s Juniors:

Please download a copy of the information sheet on the juniors abroad website: Sign Up Instructions for May 2010 Juniors Abroad
There will also be a:

JUNIORS ABROAD INFORMATION MEETING
6:00 PM, Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Hoover Room 105

Information on waiting in line and the annual tent city will also be presented at this meeting.

Please make every effort to attend this meeting.

____________________________
Paul Chamberlain, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry
Director of Juniors Abroad
503-554-2702
EHS 320

Are you ready to help new students during Orientation and First Year Seminar?! 

Make a difference for new students by applying to be an Orientation Leader/Peer Advisor!  This is an important role and applications are due Friday, February 27 to the Student Life Office. 

Download an application here: http://www.georgefox.edu/offices/student_life/forms.html. 

Questions? Contact Meredith Dougherty at mdougher@georgefox.edu.

Orientation Committee application deadline extended to Friday, February 27! 

Help prep for Orientation and assist new students in August!  Download an application at http://www.georgefox.edu/offices/student_life/forms.html and return it to the Student Life Office. Your help is needed!

Join Bon Appetit Tuesday as we celebrate Fat Tuesday for lunch and dinner in Klages Dining Hall. Lunch will feature a cajun-style gumbo along with muffaletta sandwiches and dirty rice.

We’ll kick it up a notch for dinner as we serve pecan-crusted chicken with creole meuniere sauce, blackened redfish and smoked sausage, shrimp and chicken jambalaya, and Bananas Foster for dessert.

Free to those on meal plans and only $7.75 for everyone else. Wear your smile, get some beads and enjoy some great food and music.

Thursday, Feb. 26
7 p.m. – Women’s basketball vs. Whitman (Northwest Conference Tournament), Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym

Friday, Feb. 27
2 p.m. – Women’s tennis vs. Linfield, George Fox campus courts

Saturday, Feb. 28
11 a.m. – Men’s tennis vs. Lewis & Clark, George Fox campus courts
11 a.m. – Men & women’s track and field in Frank Haskins Invitational (dual meet vs. Linfield), Colcord Field
7 p.m. – Women’s basketball vs. TBA (Northwest Conference Tournament), Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym

Tickets for the Northwest Conference Women’s Basketball Tournament are $6 for adults and $3 for students 18 and under and seniors 55 and over. Students from the participating schools in each tournament game will be admitted free with a valid student ID card. Regular season passes are not valid for any postseason events such as the NWC Tournament or NCAA playoffs. The Bruins are 25-0 and ranked No. 2 nationally (WBCA poll).

For more information, contact the sports information office at ext. 2926.

Four art classes are in need of models for several sessions each.  Try one or more and get paid for sitting still!  You must be eligible for employment (have documentation to fill out an I-9 form or have worked on campus before). 

Please contact Sierra in the Art department at sholder06@georgefox.edu.

You are represented on the university’s Safety Committee. Please read the minutes posted at your location (Physical Plant and Mail Room in Newberg; Portland location TBA). If you have any comments and/or concerns, please contact one of the following:

Dan Schutter (Chair, Safety Officer), Teresa Arnold (Secretary, Science/Chemical Hygiene), Linda Sartwell (Staff), David Hansen (Faculty), Lisa Burton (HR), Trini Marquez (Plant Services), Ed Gierok (Security), Charlie Kamilos (Portland Center), Carl Anderson (Tilikum), and Steve Petzold (Engineering)

The Department of Performing Arts is pleased to present an array of performances this week. All events will be held in Bauman Auditorium unless noted.

On Tuesday, Feb. 24, the Chehalem Symphony Orchestra will perform a 7:30 p.m. concert under the direction of Ben Brooks in its first concert of the semester.

On Wednesday, Feb. 25, Sharayah Bodnar, bass clarinetist and mezzo-soprano, will present a junior recital at 7:30 p.m.

On Thursday, Feb. 26, the department’s small chamber ensembles will present their first concert of the semester. Featured will be the university’s String Ensemble, Early Music Ensemble, Flute Ensemble, Handbell Choirs, Low Brass Ensemble.

On Friday, Feb. 27, a vocal master class is scheduled in Ross 208 from 12:40 to 1:30 p.m. That same evening, Libby Tate, soprano, will present a senior recital at 7:30 p.m.

To cap off the week, on Saturday, Feb. 28, Rachel Consenz, soprano, and Nick Grant, baritone, will present a junior recital at 7:30 p.m.

Please join us in supporting our students. Admission for all performances is free.