The Daily Bruin

The Office of Commuter Life will be hosting a relationship retreat Feb. 8-10, 2019. The retreat is open to undergraduate married, engaged or seriously dating couples (one person per couple must be an undergraduate George Fox student). There will be a small fee per couple for a weekend-long retreat on the Oregon Coast.

The second part of the retreat is a “Great Date Night” scheduled for Sunday, March 10, from 5 to 8 p.m. Mark your calendar now for both events and save the dates if you hope to attend. More information will be coming in the months to come.

Any questions should be directed toward Kristi Welker (kwelker@georgefox.edu) or Tyler Welker (twelker@georgefox.edu).

Have you joined the National Society of Leadership and Success? Wondering what you need to become an inducted member on Friday, Nov. 16? Please email NSLS@georgefox.edu to get help with this information.

The next speaker broadcast, which is free and open to the campus community, will be tomorrow night (Monday) at 6:30 p.m. in Canyon Commons 101 and 102. Light snacks will be provided. We hope to see you there!

Any questions should be directed to Kristi Welker by emailing kwelker@georgefox.edu or calling 503-554-2308.

The Photography Club’s first outing will be happening today (Sunday). We will be visiting the Holcomb Creek Trestle outside of Hillsboro and the Portland Japanese Garden. We will be carpooling from the George Fox campus. We will be meeting in the circular parking lot beside Pennington and Klages and leaving around 10 a.m. We plan to return to campus around 3 p.m.

Snacks will be provided, but we highly suggest bringing a lunch or money to pay for lunch. The Japanese Garden also has an admission fee of $13.50 for students. Please bring a camera or your phone with you for taking photos, as well as a rain jacket and boots.

Please sign up at this link if you plan to go.

If you have any questions or concerns, please email Tsacha Hyneman (thyneman17@georgefox.edu.)

A group of students within the NURS 401 Community Health class has partnered with the Bruin Community Pantry (BCP) to assess the needs regarding food insecurity on our campus. We would appreciate your feedback and input!

The survey should take about five to 10 minutes to complete. The feedback we receive will be used to better understand the community population and needs to be met. If there are needs and appropriate recommendations made, it will be shared with those overseeing the pantry on campus. We also encourage you to share this survey with other peers.

Thank you for your time, consideration, and valuable feedback!

For the purposes of this survey, food insecurity is defined by The Department of Agriculture as a lack of consistent access to enough food for an active and healthy life.

Please use your university email to gain access to this survey.

Please contact Tiffany Nguyen (tnguyen13@georgefox.edu) with any questions.

Are you coming?

The theme for this year’s Fall Retreat is R E S T, which comes from Mark 6:31, where Jesus says, “Let’s go off by ourselves to a quiet place and rest awhile.” We will spend the weekend learning to lean into the belief that God is the ultimate provider of rest.

The Fall Retreat will be Nov. 9-11 at Twin Rocks Camp. This will be a time carved out especially for you and your needs in this busy season. There will be worship, a speaker, fun activities and fellowship with one another.

For more info or questions, go to this link under the “Get Involved” tab. To register and pay, follow this link.

We hope you can make it! Faculty, please tell your students about this opportunity.

For more information, contact SpIL (spirituallife@georgefox.edu).

Come and join our Stewards of Sustainability Club meeting to get involved in making our campus more sustainable! Our next meeting is from 4 to 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 31, in EHS 325.

The club’s goal is to educate and empower George Fox students to be good stewards of the earth. At this meeting, the leadership will be presenting the club constitution for approval by the attending students. We will also be forming multiple committees to take on special projects related to environmental sustainability.

If this interests you or if you want to be a part of a committee, come see what we’re all about!

Contact Kristina Peterson (petersonk15@georgefox.edu) for more information.

Calling all COMM students! Lambda Pi Eta is hosting its annual COMM Department Trivia Night on Tuesday, Nov. 6, from 7 to 9 p.m. in the FoxHole!

This is a fantastic opportunity to get to know more about Lambda Pi Eta, meet and hang out with fellow COMM students, and, of course, the chance to beat your favorite professors at trivia! We will be providing snacks and fun; now all we need is you!

If you want to know more, please email Tyler Smith at tsmith14@georgefox.edu.

The Photography Club’s first outing will be happening tomorrow (Sunday). We will be visiting the Holcomb Creek Trestle outside of Hillsboro and the Portland Japanese Garden. We will be carpooling from the George Fox campus. We will be meeting in the circular parking lot beside Pennington and Klages and leaving around 10 a.m. We plan to return to campus around 3 p.m.

Snacks will be provided, but we highly suggest bringing a lunch or money to pay for lunch. The Japanese Garden also has an admission fee of $13.50 for students. Please bring a camera or your phone with you for taking photos, as well as a rain jacket and boots.

Please sign up at this link if you plan to go.

If you have any questions or concerns, please email Tsacha Hyneman (thyneman17@georgefox.edu.)

All are invited to a Reader’s Theatre performance of The Light Princess, a fairy tale by George MacDonald, at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 2, in Wood-Mar Auditorium.

The readers are members of Professor Gary Tandy’s Advanced British Literature class under the direction of Hope Bellinger, a senior theatre major. The presentation is suitable for children.

For more information, contact Gary Tandy (gtandy@georgefox.edu).

Hear from Norah Otondo, the program director for Quilts for Empowerment, about her journey of faith and resilience in the face of stigmatization and suffering on Friday, Nov. 9, at 7 p.m. in the Intercultural House.

QFE is a local nonprofit that works toward personal and economic empowerment for sexual assault and obstetric fistula survivors in Kenya. This is Norah’s first time traveling outside of Africa to share her story.

If you would like to hear a voice that often goes unheard, engage in discussions at a multicultural event, see the beautiful art quilts created by survivors, and learn how QFE is empowering women, then please come!

Light refreshments and good company will be present. Elective chapel credit is offered.

Contact Justine Hostetler (jhostetler16@georgefox.edu) for more information.

Interested in hearing from one of your distinguished professors on dating and discernment? Come to the Penn lobby on Monday, Oct. 29, at 8:30 p.m. for an informal couch lecture by Abigail Favale, director of the William Penn Honors Program and an associate professor of English.

Elective chapel credit is available.

Get ready for a spooky night of swing dancing tonight (Saturday) in the FoxHole from 6:30 to 9 p.m.

Come wearing a costume to show your Halloween spirit, and maybe have the chance to win the best costume! Dance to Halloween music, eat snacks and play fun dancing games!

Questions? Contact Andrea Alsager (aalsager17@georgefox.edu).

George Fox University’s Department of Mathematics and Applied Science invites you to attend presentations of the third annual SIMIODE Challenge in Differential Equation Modeling at 1 p.m. today (Saturday) in EHS 102. Admission is free.

Teams from George Fox and area universities will present their best mathematical interpretation and analysis of a question chosen from the following:

• Could conflict between patrilineal clans in early human history explain the sudden drop in Y-chromosome diversity in the Neolithic era?
• How would you design a rotating pendulum to dramatically initiate a cascade of dominoes for a museum exhibit?
• How could climate change affect animal populations, such as the pine snake, whose male/female ratio at the embryonic stage has been shown to vary with temperature?

SIMIODE is a community of educators who promote active engagement in STEM education. Supporting documentation on the research behind these questions can be found here.

Questions? Contact Corban Harwood at rharwood@georgefox.edu.

Are you coming?

The theme for this year’s Fall Retreat is R E S T, which comes from Mark 6:31, where Jesus says, “Let’s go off by ourselves to a quiet place and rest awhile.” We will spend the weekend learning to lean into the belief that God is the ultimate provider of rest.

The Fall Retreat will be Nov. 9-11 at Twin Rocks Camp. This will be a time carved out especially for you and your needs in this busy season. There will be worship, a speaker, fun activities and fellowship with one another.

For more info or questions, go to this link under the “Get Involved” tab. To register and pay, follow this link.

We hope you can make it! Faculty, please tell your students about this opportunity.

For more information, contact SpIL (spirituallife@georgefox.edu).

If you are currently majoring in communication, marketing, management, business, journalism or anything similar, please take a few minutes to fill out this survey. The data will be used in a final essay for Professional Writing. Please use this link to access the survey.

Thank you for your help!

Disclaimer:
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.

The Wilderness First Aid class will meet on Saturday, Oct. 27, and Sunday, Oct. 28, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Hoover and still has room for anyone who is interested.

This is a great course for individuals who recreate in the outdoors or work in a camp or wilderness setting. Participants will receive two full days of hands-on instruction and gain confidence in their ability to provide aid to those in need.

Additional course information can be found on the registration form. Completed registration and full payment should be made by today (Friday). Space is available on a first-come first-served basis.

Contact Keith Schneider at kschneid@georgefox.edu with questions.

The Intercultural Resource Center is hosting the third annual Voices Conference in Bauman Auditorium and various Canyon Commons rooms beginning tonight (Friday) from 5:30 to 9 p.m. The event also runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. tomorrow.

This multicultural leadership conference is open to people from all backgrounds and cultures. Our vision is to create space for students, faculty, staff and community members to engage in meaningful conversations about being multicultural leaders in an increasingly diverse society.

Well-known leaders and speakers Leroy & Donna Barber and Alexia Salvatierra will be leading workshops and discussions regarding social justice, leadership and diversity. There will be elective chapel credit offered for students.

You can register here. For more information about specific times and locations, check out our event page.

Hope to see you there! Contact Rachel Leong (rleong16@georgefox.edu) or Bryce Coefield (bcoefield@georgefox.edu) for more information.

Is your ultimate goal pharmacy school? Join us today (Friday) at 1 p.m. for a casual drop-in informational meeting to learn about what it takes to get into a pharmacy program.

University of Montana Skaggs School of Pharmacy will be on campus in EHS 202 to share information and answer any questions you might have.

Contact Vetta Berokoff vberokof@georgefox.edu if you have any questions.

The university community is invited to a special William Penn Honors Program lecture featuring Bradley Campbell, coauthor of The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars, in Hoover 105 at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 7. The title of his presentation is “Dignity, Victimhood and the Future of the University.”

Campbell, a sociologist, will discuss the challenges that new moral concepts and related trends are posing to scholarship, free speech and students’ well-being at contemporary universities, along with some possible solutions. The lecture is free and open to the public.

For more information, contact Helen Morse (hmorse@georgefox.edu).

Interested in taking the stage for the theatre department’s 10!10!10! 10-minute play festival? Join us for auditions from 8 to 10 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 30, in Wood-Mar Auditorium.

Callbacks will take place Thursday, Nov. 1, from 6 to 10:30 p.m. in Wood-Mar Auditorium. We are in need of seven males and 15 females.

To prepare, theatre majors/minors should come with a fully memorized and rehearsed 90-second contemporary monologue. Non-majors can perform a cold reading from a monologue that is provided for them.

Sign up for an audition slot on the theatre call board in the Lemmons lobby. Contact Rhett Luedtke (rluedtke@georgefox.edu) for more information.