The Wineskin is accepting submissions! The theme for this semester is “INTERRUPTION,†so send us your best poems, stories, essays and artwork in that stream of thought; we welcome thematic interpretation.
The editors are open to a wide range of styles and subject matter, but we are particularly looking for work that pushes boundaries and surprises us with its artistic approach and perspective of the world.
All are welcome to submit, including employees!
Submission Guidelines:
Poetry and prose manuscripts must be submitted as a Word document, in Times New Roman, 12-point font. Please title your pieces and remove your name from the document.
Limit all prose to 1,000 words and send no more than five poems per submission.
For artwork: Files should be named as the title of your piece followed by your name. Please remove all watermarks from your work.
Please join the social work department for our fall virtual Diversity Dialogue on children and families involved with child welfare. The speaker, George Fox social work alumna Rebekah Binderim, program director of The Family Room, will speak on “Reunification Service Partnering with Church Communities.”
The session is set from 5:30 to 7 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 2, on this Zoom link (Meeting ID: 983 0441 4744). Questions? Contact Kim Rapp at rappk@georgefox.edu.
This summer, Kathy Heininge took early retirement after serving 16 years as a professor; she subsequently received faculty emeritus status.
We would like to celebrate her many years of dedication, hard work, and transformative teaching with a Zoom party on Thursday,Oct. 29, at 6:30 p.m. All are welcome to attend, and a Zoom link will be forthcoming.
Do you have photos or memories to share? We are planning to give Kathy a commemorative book as part of her retirement gift and would love to share your memories with her.
Please send Melanie Springer Mock (mmock@georgefox.edu) stories, poems, photos, and tributes by tonight (Sunday) at midnight. While Google Form is preferred, email is also available.
The Lip Sync is back! Get a team together, start planning your performance, and sign up to audition for a chance to perform on the big stage and win $500.
Visit here to sign up for a time slot. The deadline for signing up is midnight on Sunday, Nov. 1.
You are invited to participate in the November 30-30 Challenge! Complete 30 minutes of physical activity and 30 minutes of other wellness activities as many days as you can in the month of November and log it on your own in the calendar.
See this document. We will also be sending you a weekly check-in Google survey every Saturday for you to log your physical activity and self-care activities.
It only takes one hour a day to discover your power and four weeks to start new habits! Complete these daily goals as many days as possible to be entered into a drawing for a prize of up to $200 in value at the end of the month!
Please remember to stay hydrated, wear your mask, and maintain social distance if you are in a public space! Have fun!
Interested in watching your fellow students compete in our virtual cooking competition? This event will resemble Food Network Channel’s Chopped cooking show, but with quite a few modifications.
RSVP here to learn more about and receive the link to our live Zoom showing of Virtually Chopped tonight (Friday) beginning at 7 p.m.
The Health and Counseling Center has three different COVID-19 testing options available, some of which are free. If you feel sick and have any of these symptoms …
Fever of 100.4 or greater
Difficulty breathing (unrelated to Asthma or physical exertion)
Loss of sense of taste or smell
And believe you may have COVID-19, please call the Health and Counseling Center to discuss your options or make an appointment at 503-554-2340.
The free test is a nose swab (not the deep nose probe), and is a rapid test with results in 15 minutes. This antigen test is most accurate at the onset of symptoms and up to seven days after onset.
This test does not meet the requirement for travel into the State of Hawaii and may not meet other travel clearance requirements; therefore, we will not be offering this test for travel purposes.
Questions? Contact the Health and Counseling Center at the number above.
Do you have stress, aches and pains, or just want to feel relaxed? Come by to get a massage from a doctor of physical therapy student and receive free stress management advice!
Our mission is to improve our community’s health by offering discounted massages to students ($15) and employees ($20). We are offering 25-minute massages on Friday, Nov. 6, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Roberts Center 204.
We will be taking all the current precautions related to the delivery of healthcare during COVID-19.
All proceeds will help fund our medical service trip to Uganda. Donations are also welcome. Register here.
Come get your fall on with various activities at different locations around campus! Fall Fest will be going on next Saturday, Oct. 31, from 7 to 10 p.m.
There will be glow volleyball, spikeball, fire pits, warm drinks, games, a movie night, a photo booth, and pumpkin carving.
Check out the official list of activities and locations in Activities Weekly or in the “Upcoming” highlights on our Instagram.
We are seniors in an econometrics class this semester and are building a regression model to find out if we can predict the likelihood of being married for any given student at George Fox given socio-economic characteristics.
We ask about 15 demographic and dating questions, along with some opinion questions. It takes about one minute to do this survey.
These surveys are student generated and are not to be associated with any official research conducted by faculty and staff at George Fox University. Any views or opinions presented in these surveys are solely those of the students and do not represent those of George Fox University. The distribution of these surveys is a service provided to George Fox University students as they prepare their research required by the curriculum. Students are required to have department approval. Any questions about these surveys should be directed to the students associated with the survey in question.
Do you like the type of projects you can accomplish with a full CNC router but would prefer an easier and more “user-friendly†option? You might be interested in the Shaper Origin Handheld CNC Router; the Shaper Origin provides an easy way to engrave wood/acrylic and make precise cuts with minimal tear out.
It excels at making small furniture, boxes/cabinets, shelves, engraved signs, etc. You can download designs from online or create your own. SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) file using Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape, or SolidWorks. Check out this video for some inspiration.
We have the Shaper Origin Handheld CNC Router here in the Maker Hub along with many other creative machines and tools that are available to the George Fox community. Drop by for a chat, visit our Maker Hub wiki, or email Nick Sullivan (nsullivan@georgefox.edu) to ask questions and get connected.
Keep Canyon Commons and our outdoor tent areas free of trash by self-busing your table.
After you leave the dining area, the custodial team will wipe the space so it is available for other students, but they are not responsible for throwing trash away. Thank you!
Life, Together is a series of vignettes that explore the issues and problems within ourselves that prevent us from living well in community. The themes and concepts of these five short plays are inspired by Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s theological writings on Christian community.
Theatre student Maddie Teel has written five short plays (around 10 minutes each) for her Richter Scholar Grant. Five of our student directors have volunteered to direct those five plays and help Maddie develop them into an evening of theatre. The show date will be Tuesday, Nov. 17, at 7:30 p.m.
Auditions:
This Monday, Oct 26, from 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Sign up for a three-minute audition time slot
Prepare a 90-second contemporary monologue
Your choice between comic or dramatic
Zoom link for the audition is here on the sign-up sheet
If you are interested in studying abroad in the summer/fall of 2021 or the spring of 2022, the application will be closing on Jan. 22, 2020. The application can be found here.
If you have any additional questions about programs or the application process, stop by the Center for Study Abroad house or email Lynn Scott (studyabroadcenter@georgefox.edu). We look forward to talking with you!
In order to promote a fun and positive environment around the Halloween and harvest party season, the Office of Student Life has a few tips on avoiding cultural appropriation in your costume choice:
Avoid clothing that belongs to the traditions of a people group other than your own.
Avoid anything that involves blackface, Native/Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, Hispanic, or Latinx representation, etc.
Ask yourself: Why do I want to wear this costume? Could my costume be misunderstood if I don’t understand its origin or cultural context?Â
Not sure what cultural appropriation is? Stop by the Intercultural Resource Center (IRC) and ask Bryce or Jenny about it.
It’s Invisible Disability Week, and we’re excited to bring more visibility to disabilities on campus by launching a student conversation group!
We welcome students who face diverse disabilities to a conversation about navigating life with a disability. Led by a senior social work major who lives with a disability, this group will allow students to share their experiences, consider connections between disability and spirituality, hear from each other, and talk in a safe space with other students with disabilities.
This group will meet for an hour and a half on the Newberg campus on Monday, Oct. 26, or Wednesday, Oct. 28, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. (Lemmons 14).
After one meeting, the group members will decide whether or not to continue meeting. Each group is limited to six participants, but we will work to provide groups for all who are interested. SPIL credit is available.
