The Daily Bruin

Quaere Verum, a group of students concerned about the ongoing violence and chaos currently happening in Kenya, invite you to join them in setting aside Ash Wednesday (Feb. 6) as a day of prayer and fasting for the situation there and the people affected by it.

You are invited to join with Quaere Verum members in the Foxhole at 8:30 a.m. and again at 5 p.m. to briefly pray together. If you choose not to fast, please be mindful and prayerful of Kenya throughout the day.

Multicultural Services invites you to a showing of Pride, a film about overcoming severe adversity with faith and persistence. It features Crash star Terrance Howard and tells the story of a determined Jim Ellis, who starts a swim team for troubled teens at the Philadelphia Department of Recreation.

Date/Time: Thursday, Feb. 7, 7-9:30 p.m.
Location: EHS 102

Each university student, staff, and faculty member is entitled to one complimentary ticket to Black Boy, the one-man play featuring Broadway actor Charles Holt. The production is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. this Friday and Saturday, Feb. 8-9, in Wood-Mar Auditorium. The complimentary tickets are available at the University Store. To purchase additional tickets, visit theatre.georgefox.edu.

“Get in Step with George Fox University” is the theme of Homecoming 2008, scheduled this Friday and Saturday, Feb. 8-9, on the Newberg campus. Hosted by Alumni Relations, this annual celebration includes a diverse selection of events designed to help alumni reconnect with each other and with the university.

Festivities include a Five O’Clock People concert on Friday night, the Alumni Celebration Brunch Saturday morning, class reunions (for the classes of 1938, 1948, 1968, 1978, 1983, 1988, and 1998) Saturday afternoon, and a young alumni gathering at Abby’s Pizza on Saturday night. Additionally, this year’s schedule features two special affinity reunions: one for alumni of Pacific College (George Fox pre-1949), and one for alumni of Steve Grant’s (Health and Human Performance) ballroom dance classes.

To find out more about these events, as well as information about the homecoming basketball games and the theatre production Black Boy, visit homecoming.georgefox.edu.

You are invited to attend an opening reception and view chosen artworks from high schools in Oregon and Washington. The reception for “High School Art Northwest” is scheduled from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7, in the Lindgren Gallery.

The university community is invited to attend the opening reception of the Visual Arts department’s faculty exhibit, “Psalms,” from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7, in the Minthorne Gallery.

Please join us Tuesday, Feb. 5, at lunch, dinner, or both as we feature special Mardi Gras menus. Lunch includes chicken and andouille etouffee, fried oyster po boys with cajun remoulade, and grilled cheddar grit cakes with smoked pepper sauce. Lunch is served from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Dinner features smoke-roasted pork loin with andouille milk gravy over buttermilk mashed potatoes; jambalaya with shrimp, sausage, and chicken; sweet corn and vegetable gumbo; and our version of the classic Bananas Foster. Dinner is served from 4:30 to 7 p.m.

– Denny Lawrence, Bon Appetit

An Orientation Information Meeting will be held Wednesday, Feb. 6 at 6 p.m. in Stevens 208. Come find out how you can help at Orientation by serving on the Orientation Committee or as an Orientation Leader.

Questions? Contact Joel Perez at jperez@georgefox.edu.

Orientation Committee Applications are now available at the Student Life Office. 

Six to seven students will be chosen to assist in the planning of Orientation.  Pick up an application today!

Questions? Contact Joel Perez  at jperez@georgefox.edu.

The Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) welcomes applications for the William E. Simon Fellowship.

The Simon Fellowship is a $40,000 unrestricted cash grant awarded to those graduating college seniors who have demonstrated passion, dedication, a high capacity for self-direction, and originality in pursuit of a goal that will strengthen civil society. In addition, two $5,000 cash awards are made to two other outstanding students.

Examples of how recipients may use the award include:• Engage directly in the civic life of their community.
• Help to create opportunity for others, including job creation.
• Advance their expertise.
• Fund the ultimate realization of their noble purpose.

Deadline is February 15, 2008.

More information and application guidelines available at www.simonfellowship.org.

Mulitcultural Services and the university’s theatre department invite the George Fox community to the production Black Boy, a one-person play featuring Broadway actor Charles Holt, on Feb. 8-9. Performances begin at 7:30 p.m. both nights in Wood-Mar Auditorium.

Synopsis: Holt plays Richard Wright and a host of additional characters in Wynn Handman’s adaption of Wright’s influential 1945 autobiography Black Boy.

What was life like in the Jim Crow South of the United States as an African American boy in 1908? What were the hardships one had to overcome? In what way was a person buoyed by hope, pride, and dignity? Those questions and others are addressed in the production.

The play is being presented in recognition of Black History Month. Holt has been performing Black Boy for the last seven years throughout the United States. To find out more on Holt and the play, go to charlesholtproductions.com.

Tickets are $10 for general admission, $8 for seniors and alumni, and $6 for students and children under 12. Tickets may be purchased at the box office by calling 503-554-3844 or online at theatre.georgefox.edu.

Courageous leadership with Wes Davis

Wes Davis is a creative and inspiring leader who uses humor to help people understand and experience what it means to become the church and go on a mission with Jesus.  A former youth pastor, he is the lead pastor of Newlife Church, a fast growing new church plant in Silverdale, Washington.

Come to Kaleo 2008 Saturday, February 23 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium.

Traditional undergraduate students are free!   Don’t miss out on a great opportunity.

Check out www.georgefox.edu/kaleo for more information.

Questions? Want to volunteer?  Contact Amy Lorenz @ 503-554-2134 or alorenz@georgefox.edu.

Tickets are still available for the Five O’clock People concert scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 8, in Bauman Auditorium. The event marks the return of one of George Fox’s favorite Christian bands.

Student tickets are $5 and are available for purchase at a table in the Bruin Den. Tickets may also be purchased online for $10 each at georgefox.edu/alumni/focp.html. All tickets purchased online or over the phone will be at will call the day of the concert.

The Student Talent Show is presented by Capstone Booking.

Money generated by this event will go to the Patrick Kibler Fund, a fund set up to help finance business majors.

We are trying to keep the cost low enough for students and faculty to attend while also trying to generate money for the fund.

Please help by taking the following survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=GjG_2bhw4wms0NHNmUgRPIVA_3d_3d

Thanks,
Capstone Booking

1098T Tuition Statements, for claiming educational tax credits, have been mailed to students who were charged tuition in 2007.

The IRS requires that we mail forms to your permanent home address. We suggest that you ask your parents, or whoever resides at that address, to watch the mail for the 1098T. It will arrive addressed to you.

For information about educational tax benefits, visit this link: http://www.georgefox.edu/offices/stu_fin_srv/1098t.html.

The campus community is invited to attend an artist talk and closing reception for the ceramics exhibit now on display. The event will feature stories about significant pieces in the collections.

Date: Friday, Feb. 1
Location: Minthorne Gallery and Hoover 102
Time: 7-8 p.m.

What holiday is celebrated on Feb. 1? It’s National Freedom Day. The purpose of this holiday is to promote good feelings, harmony, and equal opportunity among all citizens and to remember that the United States is a nation dedicated to the ideal of freedom.

Major Richard Robert Wright Sr., a former slave, fought to have a day when freedom for all Americans is celebrated. When Wright got his freedom, he went on to become a successful businessman and community leader in Philadelphia. He chose Feb. 1 as National Freedom Day because it was the day in 1865 that President Lincoln signed the 13th Amendment – the amendment to outlaw slavery – to the Constitution.

Wright gathered national and local leaders together to write a bill declaring Feb. 1 “National Freedom Day,” and President Harry Truman signed the bill in 1948 to make it official.

One day left to complete Bruindata scholarship applications!

Go to your Bruindata account to complete the donor funded scholarship process.  You must write an essay to complete the process.

The scholarship application site will close at 8:00 a.m. on February 1.  There will be no extensions.

Questions can be directed to James Oshiro at joshiro@georgefox.edu.

Thursday, Jan. 31 is the last day for homecoming court nominations! 

Please vote online at http://www.georgefox.edu/offices/asc/homecoming/voting.html.

Career Services will be hosting a Christian Camp Day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 31, in the EHS Atrium. All those interested in learning more about summer camp employment opportunities are welcome to attend. More than 20 camps will be represented at the event.

For more information, call ext. 2330 or e-mail careers@georgefox.edu.