The Daily Bruin

Come cheer on your George Fox Bruins as they take on the University of Redlands at our opening football game this Saturday, Sept. 4! Kickoff is set for 7:05 p.m. at Stoffer Family Stadium. Wear neon and get ready to be loud!

Admission is free for all George Fox student and employees. Join us pregame for the Starlight Parade at 5:30 p.m. Look for more information from student activities.

A tailgate opens at 5:30 p.m., and vendors will include Chick-Fil-A, Miss Hannah’s Popcorn, and Dutch Bros (can’t get much better than that!) This is a game you won’t want to miss! We’ll see you there, Bruins!

Reminders: Please have all cars removed from the Bauman parking lot by 10 p.m. Friday night.
Per state regulations, masks are required.

Free Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer COVID vaccines are available at the Health & Counseling Center!

We will be scheduling in groups of five to six, as an open vial must be used within a few hours. Call the Health Center today to schedule an appointment at 503-554-2340.

Do you have celiac disease? Are you gluten-intolerant? Come join us for a celiac group open house!

We’ll have celiac-safe goodies, coffee, and time to connect. Come with your ideas for events/activities for the year. If you want to connect with other people who know about avoiding gluten … come on over! We’re meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 7, from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. in the ARC (Murdock library, main floor).

Contact Andrea Byerley (abyerley@georgefox.edu) or Carrie Kisling (ckisling@georgefox.edu) if you have questions or if you’d like to be involved but can’t come on Sept. 7.

Do you have what it takes to survive a zombie outbreak?

The Tactical Adventure Games Club (TAG) is hosting a week-long game of Humans vs. Zombies! It is essentially a week-long game of tag. The humans struggle to survive while the zombies attempt to infect the humans, turning them into more zombies.

Humans vs Zombies is the same game that we play in the “Bruins vs Foxes” event hosted every year by Student Activities. We’ll still be having Bruins vs Foxes in the spring as usual, but there’s no reason we can’t play Humans vs. Zombies as well!

The official rules and sign up can be found here.

The game will begin this Monday, Sept. 6, and continue until Friday afternoon, Sept. 10.

Can you survive a whole week and claim the prizes for your efforts?
Can you infect the most humans and reap your rewards?
Only one way to find out!

If you have any questions or would like clarification, email Zach Cogswell at zcogswell18@georgefox.edu.

We encourage you to join a Life Group! Here is the sign-up form. Life Groups are led by staff, professors, local pastors and church leaders, and seniors and provide a space for students to gather for weekly prayer, Bible study and fellowship.

Groups typically meet for an hour to 90 minutes. Most groups will begin the week of Sept. 20 and end the week of Nov. 12. Your Life Group leader will contact you with additional details by the Friday prior to the start of your group.

This fall, all of our groups will be meeting either by Zoom or in-person. Throughout the pandemic, Life Groups run through the Office of Spiritual Life will also be eligible for SpiL credit.

Questions? Contact the spiritual life office (spirituallife@georgefox.edu).

The Maker Hub would like to welcome back the whole Fox community with a fun game night tonight (Thursday) from 4 to 7 p.m. This will include vintage Atari video games and boardgames.

We are also encouraging folks to bring their own gaming consoles and hook them up to the flat-screen TVs in the meeting rooms. LAN party in the computer lab, anyone? No need to RSVP, just show up!

This event will also double as a Quiz Party. You may be aware that you need to pass a Canvas quiz to gain access to the Maker Hub (link found on the Maker Hub wiki page). But don’t worry, the quiz is not a requirement for the game night; the doors will be propped open.

We are treating it like an open-house event, so bring your friends, have fun, look around, ask questions, and take the quiz if you would like to get connected with the Maker Hub.

Please contact Nick Sullivan (nsullivan@georgefox.edu) if you have questions.

Meridian Street will be closed today (Thursday) from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. while the city of Newberg seals the street surface.

Traffic will not be allowed across the surface, so please find alternate routes. The closure extends 430 feet north of the railroad tracks to East 4th Street (South of Hwy. 99W).

Campus Public Safety will NOT be issuing tickets on Wednesday and Thursday as a result of the road work. Please feel free to park wherever you can find a viable parking spot on campus.

Please do not park in the neighborhoods! Do not park in handicapped parking areas, along yellow or red curbs or in reserved spaces.

Questions? Call Campus Public Safety at 503-554-2090 or email Elrike Shaw at eshaw@georgefox.edu.

University Recreation welcomes everyone to come play and compete in our upcoming intramural season!

We are offering:

• Flag football
• Volleyball
• Doubles Tennis
• Spikeball

Register here by midnight on Friday, Sept. 10, if you are interested. If you have any questions, please contact Angel Glockling at aglockling@georgefox.edu.

George Fox has purchased group memberships for the Chehalem Aquatic and Fitness Center (CAFC), meaning all undergraduate students and university employees are able to use the facility.

If you choose to take advantage of this benefit, please note that CAFC has a more restrictive mask policy than we have in our university fitness areas. Masks are required in all areas except in the pool. Face shields are considered acceptable face covering, but must be worn even while working out.

The policies are in place to protect the large senior population who go to CAFC, so please be respectful of the face-covering requirements when using the facility.

If you have any questions, please email Bill Buhrow at bbuhrow@georgefox.edu, or call CAFC at 503-538-7454.

Disability & Accessibility Services, the Academic Resource Center, faculty, staff, and student leaders are joining together to offer a whole slate of connection opportunities this fall. Click here to indicate your interest in receiving information about one or more of these options! We’d love to have you join us!

• Academic Coaching (all students)
• ADHD Group (all students)
• Autism/Aspergers Group (Newberg campus)
• Becoming a Tutor (all students)
• Celiac/Gluten Free Group (Newberg campus)
• Chronic Illness Group (all students)
• Learning Disability Group (all students)
• Trauma Group (Newberg campus)

Contact Andrea Byerley (abyerley@georgefox.edu) with any questions.

Did you know George Fox has an Autism/Aspergers Group? Come join us tomorrow night (Thursday) for games, snacks and conversation. We will be meeting in Hoover 250 between 6:30 and 8 p.m.

Questions? Contact Carrie Hall at chall@georgefox.edu. Hope to see you there!

University Recreation is offering several OREC (outdoor recreation) trips and activities throughout the coming weeks!

Here are some of the activities being offered in September:

• Intro to longboarding, paddleboarding and kayaking
• Commuter river outing
• Hiking at nearby trails, and
• Whitewater rafting on the Deschutes River!

Please join us for our first Vespers (Wednesday evening chapel) tonight at 7 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium.

This year, Vespers will be happening every other week – and this is our first one! Come worship with us tonight! Be sure to check your iAttended app for other SpiL credit opportunities every week!

Commuters are invited to gather for soup and rolls as a way of starting to connect with other commuters. We will have a simple meal, brief introduction and announcements.

We will start at noon tomorrow (Thursday) in Canyon Commons and serve food until we are out. This is a free event! Contact Dave Johnstone (djohnstone@georgefox.edu) with any questions.

It takes a village to make our football games a success. Interested in a volunteer opportunity to serve our awesome Bruin football fans? Then Bruin Brigade is the place for you!

The Bruin Brigade is a team of volunteers who help at the ticket tent, gates and in the parking lots directing traffic prior to every home game. The team arrives two hours prior to kickoff and are free to enjoy the rest of the game starting at halftime. All volunteers will receive a meal prior to each game they volunteer, free entry into the second half, and a T-shirt.

If this sounds like something you would like to help with, please email Mindy Mickelson in the athletics department at mmickelson@georgefox.edu with your first and last name, the games you can volunteer, and your T-shirt size.

Please note: We are asking for a three-game commitment to receive a T-shirt. Volunteers working the gates will need to be willing to use their phone to scan in tickets through the HomeTown Gate app (free on app store). Wi-Fi is available at the gates.

2021 Football Schedule

• Saturday, Sept. 4, vs Redlands at 7:05 p.m.
• Saturday, Oct. 9, vs Willamette at 1 p.m.
• Saturday, Oct. 23 vs Pacific at 1 p.m.
• Saturday, Nov. 13, vs Whitworth at 1 p.m.

Go Bruins!

The Ping Pong Club is starting again! Everyone, staff included, regardless of skill level, is welcome to come and play. Please fill out this quick survey if you are interested in coming so that we can determine our weekly meeting time. There is no requirement or cost involved other than being a part of George Fox!

Here are some things to look forward to:

• Some new equipment we are looking to use this year!
• Glow-in-the dark ping pong
• A new table so more people can play at once
• Automatic score-keeping machine
• And many more activities!

Please email nredmanbrown20@georgefox.edu or mooreb20@georgefox.edu with any and all questions!

Are you up for being an Ambassador?

Ambassadors are an elite group of students who represent the university to visiting prospective students and families by volunteering two and a half hours each week, greeting and directing campus visitors, hosting visitors for lunch, leading occasional campus tours, sharing about their George Fox experience and generally helping make visitors’ experience awesome. Their work has a big impact on recruiting new George Fox students.

For more info and to apply, visit this link. Applications are due Sept. 12 at 5 pm. Contact Nate McIntyre (nmcintyre@georgefox.edu) with any questions.

This Saturday, Sept. 4, is the Starlight Parade! Wear neon and join the parade to the Bruins’ first football game under the lights.

There will be raffle tickets, prizes, and free T-shirts for 100 lucky students. The parade will pass each residence hall, so check your lobby or Student Activities’ Instagram story to find out what time you and your friends can easily join!

Contact Student Activities (activities@georgefox.edu) with any questions.

Every year, students must review and sign the Hadlock Student Center waiver again in order to use University Recreation programs and services. This waiver can be found on MyGeorgeFox under “Student Resources” and “University Forms.”

The Hadlock Student Center hours have also been updated to the following for the rest of the semester:

• Monday-Friday, 6 a.m. to 11 p.m.
• Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
• Sundays, 2 to 8 p.m.

If you have any questions, please contact AJ Heil at aheil@georgefox.edu.

Meridian Street will be closed today (Wednesday) and tomorrow (Thursday) from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. while the city of Newberg seals the street surface.

Traffic will not be allowed across the surface, so please find alternate routes. The closure extends 430 feet north of the railroad tracks to East 4th Street (South of Hwy. 99W).

Campus Public Safety will NOT be issuing tickets on Wednesday and Thursday as a result of the road work. Please feel free to park wherever you can find a viable parking spot on campus.

Please do not park in the neighborhoods! Do not park in handicapped parking areas, along yellow or red curbs or in reserved spaces.

Questions? Call Campus Public Safety at 503-554-2090 or email Elrike Shaw at eshaw@georgefox.edu.