The Daily Bruin

If you are starting a new on-campus job, please come to the human resources office with your new hire paperwork by your first day of work. You do not need to make an appointment; just come to 206 N. Meridian St., between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. during the week, and we will be happy to help!

Don’t forget to bring your verification documents (a list of acceptable documents can be found on the George Fox website). Email Kelly Peterson at kpeterson@georgefox.edu with any questions.

Auditions for the performing arts department’s fall production Oliver! The Musical are taking place Tuesday, Sept. 6.

We are looking for an energetic cast of 10 to 25 performers to play a variety of larger-than-life roles, so have fun with it! Signs-ups and audition information can be found on the Wood-Mar Auditorium door on the third floor of EHS. We hope to see you there!

Contact Kathy Harris at kharris@georgefox.edu with any questions.

The Color Run is at 6 p.m. this Friday, Sept. 2! We are kicking off the year with this annual event in front of HMS. Grab your free T-shirt and run through the balloon arch and color with your friends.

Check out the Activities Weekly email for more details.

Coming up:

• Fox Jamboree (previously known as the Hoedown): Friday, Sept. 9, 6 p.m., the quad
• Serve Day Celebration: Wednesday, Sept. 14, 1:30 p.m., the quad
• Fox County Fair: Friday, Sept. 16, 6 p.m., the quad

Contact activities@georgefox.edu with any questions.

With construction on the new chapel set to begin, please be mindful of your surroundings as you make your way around campus.

When walking through campus, please use the Crisman Crossing bridge instead of the Wheeler bridge or the Wheeler access road (Amphitheater Way). All trails in the canyon leading north of the Wheeler access road will be closed until further notice.

Please contact Plant Services at plantservices@georgefox.edu with any questions.

Please keep these registration reminders in mind these next couple of weeks:

• You may add classes yourself in MyGeorgeFox through this Sunday, Sept. 4.
• You may drop classes yourself in MyGeorgeFox through Sunday, Sept. 11.
• You will be charged a $25 drop fee if you drop classes during Week 2, Sept. 5-11.

Please submit the Request Permission to Add a Class form for the following scenarios:

• Enrolling in a closed/full class
• Enrolling in a class with a missing prerequisite
• Enrolling in a class that creates a time conflict
• Enrolling in a class during Week 2 (Sept. 4-9)

View our MyGeorgeFox Instructions for guidance on how to add and drop classes yourself. If you need advice on your class schedule, contact your CAP coach.

FashioNXT is looking for volunteers to help with this year’s production on Oct. 8. Time magazine has called this the No. 1 fashion production outside of New York.

If you are majoring in business, marketing, art, graphic design, or tech, and you have an interest in the fashion industry, I would strongly encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity.

We have had several George Fox students internship at FashioNXT in the past and truly enjoy their experience. Here are some of the opportunities to gain experience at FashioNXT:

• Multi-brand Events Production: Engage in the biggest multi-brand experiential event in the region
• Digital Marketing: Emphasis on helping execute experiential fashion marketing for FashioNXT; involved in learning and executing web analytics (organic/SEO and paid) to social media
• Advertising and Marketing: Learning and executing campaign for the biggest annual fashion show in the region; identify marketing priorities, identifying various sales funnels for each category, and connecting with them through graphics, video, and social media
• PR: Identify and execute ideal media for each sales funnel (brands and patron), and media funnels (press for participating brands); close loop through online and in person engagement
• App Development and App Marketing: Currently developing five apps in event and small business brand and talent eco-system; will continue to develop apps, as well as market the apps that completes to get market adoption

If you are interested, please contact:
Tito Chowdhury
tito@fashionxt.com
503-756-1412

Wade Witherspoon
Employer Relations Manager, Career & Academic Planning Center

University Recreation is excited to welcome you into our recreational facility and programs this year! Students and employees must sign a waiver each year in order to use the Hadlock Student Center.

Please visit this link to sign the waiver for this academic year. The waiver resets on July 1 of every year.

Questions? Contact AJ Heil at aheil@georgefox.edu.

The Office for Spiritual Life is hosting Life Groups this fall (the weeks of Sept. 19 through Nov. 7). Life Groups are small groups of undergraduate students who meet together for prayer, Bible study and fellowship.

Groups meet weekly (for eight weeks) for 60 to 90 minutes. This fall, our groups will be either in person or completely via Zoom. Life Groups through the Office for Spiritual Life will also be spiritual life-credit eligible. To sign up, please fill out this form by Wednesday, Sept. 14.

In the meantime, feel free to check out our GFU SpiL Instagram posts to see descriptions of each Life Group’s theme or topic of study. Most groups will begin the week of Sept. 19. Your group leader will contact you with additional details by the Friday prior to the start of your group.

If you have additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact the spiritual life office at spirituallife@georgefox.edu.

The Margaret Fell Scholars Program invites you to its “Fell Kickoff” dinner and orientation for returning students, early applicants and anyone interested in the program (both theology and non-theology majors are welcome!). We’ll meet at 5:45 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 1, at the Newbergundian Bistro (203 Villa Road).

The program provides an annual scholarship, multi-year fellowship, many books, and unique pastoral development. Come and learn more about the program! Check out this flier to get details about Thursday’s event, and contact Sunggu Yang at syang@georgefox.edu if you have any questions.

The School of Theology invites all – theology and non-theology students – to its fall semester kickoff and new student welcome chapel (“Living Water Worship”)! We’ll gather from 10:50 to 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 8, in Canyon Commons 102.

There will be amazing music, talk, and prayerful moments. Of course, lunch is provided, and you’ll get chapel credit. Come, taste the goodness of the Lord! Check out this flier to learn more, and contact Sunggu Yang at syang@georgefox.edu with any questions.

Mail Services will have extended hours this week only. All employees, departments and students will be able to pick up your packages between 7:30 a.m. and 5 p.m.

Mail Services is located in the Roberts Center and can be accessed from the doors on the East Sherman Street side. If you have any questions, please reach out to Richard Silver at rsilver@georgefox.edu.

The Crescent, George Fox University’s student-run newspaper, is hiring for the 2022-23 school year!

Working for The Crescent is a great opportunity for students who are interested in exploring journalism, improving their writing skills, and working to inform the George Fox community. Not a writer? We are also hiring photographers, a social media manager, and an illustrator!

If you are interested in any of these positions, apply here. Applications close at midnight on Saturday, Sept. 10. Email asccrescent@georgefox.edu with any questions you may have. We look forward to hearing from you!

With construction on the new chapel set to begin, please be mindful of your surroundings as you make your way around campus.

When walking through campus, please use the Crisman Crossing bridge instead of the Wheeler bridge or the Wheeler access road (Amphitheater Way). All trails in the canyon leading north of the Wheeler access road will be closed until further notice.

Please contact Plant Services at plantservices@georgefox.edu with any questions.

Join us at 10:50 a.m. tomorrow (Tuesday) for Fall Academic Convocation Chapel in Bauman Auditorium. Professor Amanda Robert, our 2021-22 Undergraduate Teacher of the Year, will present the faculty address.

Come start the year off blessed as we worship together and welcome students to campus! Contact Laurie Fair at lfair@georgefox.edu with any questions.

Disability & Accessibility Services (DAS) is holding drop-in hours the first week of the semester in our office on the Newberg campus.

Do you need to request accommodations? Do you need to request audio textbooks? Do you want to get your exam requests scheduled for the semester? Do you just have questions or want to see our space? Stop by and someone will be here to answer your questions! There will also be an opportunity for confidential conversation if necessary.

Open House Hours, Murdock Library 109 (Learning Support Services, home of DAS and the ARC)

• Monday, Aug. 29, 10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
• Tuesday, Aug. 30, Noon – 1 p.m; 2:30 – 3:30 p.m.
• Wednesday, Aug. 31, 8 a.m – 9:30 a.m.; 12:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
• Thursday, Sept. 1, 4 p.m. – 5 p.m.
• Friday, Sept. 2, 1 p.m – 5 p.m.

April Garr, associate director of DAS, will be hosting all these sessions. However, if you are unavailable during these times or would like to make an appointment to talk with her, please click here to set up a time that would work for you.

We will also have group sessions in Murdock Library 020 (downstairs) for scheduling tests:

• Monday, Sept. 5, 7:30 p.m – 8:00 p.m.
• Tuesday, Sept. 6, 3 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
• Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

As always, contact us at das@georgefox.edu if you have questions or would like to touch base.

Class.georgefox.edu is a great resource for anyone needing to look up details on a class, including meeting times and location, teaching modality, enrollment limit and waitlist numbers, course description, instructor info and add/drop deadlines.

Just click on a class to see all the details.

The campus is abuzz with activities as we begin to lay the groundwork for our new art annex and chapel. Various construction zones will interrupt and change what we have come to expect as we walk through campus.

As faculty, staff, students and neighbors, we all share a responsibility for our personal safety around campus, especially in those areas where construction traffic will be most prevalent. Please review these construction zone safety tips.

If you have any safety concerns or questions, please reach out to Kim Knoernschild, our environmental health and safety specialist, at kknoernschild@georgefox.edu.

With the combination of rising food costs, inflation and gas prices, food banks are facing significant challenges in getting government-subsidized food. In addition, Yamhill Community Partnership’s (our connection to the Oregon Food Bank) freezer broke, and, due to supply chain issues, it won’t be repaired for several weeks.

This has greatly impacted the Bruin Community Pantry food bank’s ability to provide frozen meat to our clients. Last month we began to purchase ground meat – the easiest meat for our students to prepare – from Grocery Outlet to offset this situation. However, our budget is unable to sustain this for long.

We are reaching out to the George Fox community to let you know about this situation, and invite you to participate in financially supporting this effort or to purchase ground meat and donate it to the Bruin Community Pantry.

If you would like to become a financial partner with the BCP, please contact advancement at giving@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2110 for details on how to either give monthly or make a one-time gift.

If you would like to donate frozen ground meat to the food bank, please contact Jere Witherspoon to arrange a drop-off at the food bank in Roberts 110. You can call or email Jere at jwithers@georgefox.edu or call her at 503-554-2316.

Thank you for considering this opportunity.

When picking up your mail and packages, you must have your student ID or a photo ID with you. A photo on a phone will not be accepted.

If you do not have your photo ID with you, your mail and packages will not be given to you. If you have any questions please contact Richard Silver at rsilver@georgefox.edu.

I am conducting a research study along with researchers at Boise State University and Northern State University. We are studying the experience of high-functioning autistic adults as they go through a job interview.

We are looking for anyone who is a high-functioning autistic individual, over the age of 18, and who has been through a job interview that is willing to be interviewed. The interviews will take place over Zoom at your convenience.

Our aim is to understand the lived experience of these individuals so that we can make recommendations to businesses and practitioners on how to make the job recruitment process more inclusive for individuals of all abilities.

If you would be willing to participate in our study, please contact Andrew Ellestad at aellestad@georgefox.edu.