Enterprise Car Share is open and ready for business. You can pick up a coupon in the student life office for a special offer: $1 to join. The coupon expires Dec. 31, 2016.
For more information, go to EnterpriseCarShare.com/GeorgeFox.
Today marks the beginning of National Novel Writing Month, during which prospective writers will attempt the challenge of writing 50,000 words in one month. Though it may be a difficult thing for college students to manage, there will certainly be more than a few people on campus doing so.
With this in mind, the Write Way’s first meeting for the month of November will be dedicated to making plans and working toward this goal. Anyone planning on taking part in this is invited to come to Hoover 210 at 4:30 p.m. this Thursday, Nov. 3.
Contact David Shelby (dshelby14@georgefox.edu) with any questions.
Want a chance to win a $10 Dutch Bros. gift card? Help out HHPE senior seminar students by tracking what you eat for a week! We would love your help!
For more information, please email Kelsea Meyers at kmeyers13@georgefox.edu.
We have two employers on campus this week that you can connect with! Today (Tuesday) TeachBeyond, a network of Christian schools abroad, will be in the Bruin Den hoping to connect with juniors and seniors who might be considering working overseas after graduation.
Then on Thursday, Nov. 3, Summit Adventure, a Christian outdoor ministry, will be in Canyon Commons to talk with students about both summer jobs and internship opportunities!
The visitors will be on campus between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on those two days.
Contact the IDEA Center if you have questions.
Join us for the final Cooking 101 demonstration just in time for Bruin Preview! Emily Forbes and Nutrition Matters will be in the Bridge Café at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 3, to show students how to make healthy food the easy way. Join us and get the chance to sign up for a free cookbook full of easy and cheap recipes!
Contact Kelsey Herschberger (kherschberger14@georgefox.edu) with any questions.
Come to the Newberg Burgerville on Thursday, Nov. 17, between 5 and 8 p.m., as 10 percent of your purchase will help support the March 2017 George Fox Haiti trip!
Questions? Contact Sydney Soetenga at soetenga18@gmail.com.
Aeon Skoble, a professor of philosophy at Bridgewater State University who describes himself as a philosophical anarchist, will give a lecture based on his book Deleting the State this Thursday, Nov. 3, at 6:30 p.m. in Hoover 105. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Contact Mark David Hall (mhall@georgefox.edu) with any questions.
Bruin fans, this is your last chance to watch our fall sports play at home before the season ends. Don’t miss your opportunity to cheer for our seniors in their last games wearing Old Gold and Navy Blue.
Friday, Nov. 4, 7 p.m. – Volleyball vs. Puget Sound, Wheeler Sports Center
Saturday, Nov. 5, 11 a.m. – Women’s soccer vs. Pacific Lutheran, Austin Sports Complex
Saturday, Nov. 5, 2 p.m. – Football vs. Pacific, Stoffer Family Stadium
For more information, contact the sports information office at ext. 2926 or visit the George Fox sports website at gfubruins.com.
You’re invited to audition for Ten! Ten! Ten!, a one-act play festival. Auditions for student-directed, 10-minute plays will be held tonight (Tuesday) from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Sign up for a time slot on the theatre callboard in Lemmons! Theatre majors/minors should prepare a 90-second monologue. Monologues will be provided for non-majors to read from.
Callbacks will be held Wednesday, Nov. 2, from 6:30 to 11 p.m.
We’d love to see you there! Contact Aliya Whitehill (awhitehill14@georgefox.edu) with questions.
A colloquium, “Playing with Fire: Spiritual Formation from the Inside Out,” will focus on cultivating spiritual disciplines and be facilitated by Doreen Dodgen-Magee. It will meet for four Tuesdays in November, on Nov. 8, 15, 22 and 29, at 4 p.m. in Hoover 102.
Doreen has 23 years of experience working in private counseling practice with individuals and groups. She describes herself as a reluctant “geek,†spending inordinate amounts of time interacting with scholarly research, tech trends, and pop culture around the topic of technology and how the digital domain is shaping us. She is passionate about engaging people around this topic, and that passionate energy pours forth regardless of who she is with.
Students attending receive chapel credit valued one more than the number of times they attend (i.e., going all four times would be worth five chapel elective credits).
Questions? Contact Jamie Barrett at jbarrett14@georgefox.edu.
Sign up to carry a flag representing a cultural heritage of personal meaning to you at the Tuesday, Nov. 15, chapel service, in honor of International Education Week. Click this link to sign up by Monday, Nov. 7.
A brief dress rehearsal will be held in advance of the Nov. 15 chapel in Bauman Auditorium (chapel begins at 10:50 a.m.). All carrying flags will be required to attend.
Questions? Contact Hongyang Yin (hyin13@georgefox.edu) for more information.
Our servant engineering team is conducting research to develop a product/method to help improve water conservation efforts in high-drought areas in the U.S.
We would love for you to take a brief (3-5 minutes) survey by clicking the link below and answering the questions. The answers you provide will greatly help us in furthering our product development.
Thanks!
– Joel Gleghorn (jgleghorn12@georgefox.edu)
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.
Fall Justice Conference Leader Lisa Sharon Harper is our guest in chapel at 10:50 a.m. tomorrow morning (Tuesday) in Bauman Auditorium. She focuses on the common good and radical justice.
Lisa is the founding executive director of New York Faith and Justice, an organization at the hub of a new ecumenical movement to end poverty in New York City. Her passion is building a bridge to Christ.
In Vespers Wednesday night at 7 p.m. in Bauman, we’ll take a look at the second half of Romans 12!
Do you have questions about getting internships as an art student? Are you curious about what opportunities are out there? Come to Art Talk tonight (Monday) to dialogue with a panel featuring representatives from the IDEA Center along with some current art students in internships to hear some of your questions get answered.
We’ll meet at 6 p.m. in the ballroom at the Chehalem Cultural Center, 415 E. Sheridan St. Come early for a costume contest and refreshments in the spirit of Halloween!
Contact Annie Lunt (alunt13@georgefox.edu) with questions.
The lost and found is once again filled to the brim and will be emptied on Friday, Nov. 4, at 2 p.m. All items not reunited with their owners will be donated to charitable causes at that time, so please stop by the security office if you are missing items. If the item was lost before the first of October, it has already been donated and is no longer in the lost and found.
Questions? Call security at 503-554-2090, or stop by the security office during business hours. If we’ve already contacted you about a found item, please come and retrieve it before Friday!
The School of Nursing is excited to announce our upcoming Health Fair! We will be in the EHS (Ron Gregory) Atrium from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 11.
Come see what our nursing students have been learning in their Health Promotion class. Participate in their interactive displays and earn tickets for our great raffle prizes!
Everyone who comes will receive a gift from our generous sponsors: Bob’s Red Mill Natural Foods, The Moore Institute for Nutrition and Wellness Grant, and the Hazelnut Marketing Board.
Come and learn how to “Be Happy and Be Healthy.” Questions? Contact Caroline Wildhaber (cwildhaber@georgefox.edu).
Fall Carnival is taking place tonight (Monday)!
There will be popcorn, cotton candy, henna, inflatable jousting, a costume contest at 9 p.m., a pie-eating contest at 9:30 p.m., carnival games and more! We’ll even have a mechanical bull! The fun begins at 8 p.m.
So dress up in your Halloween costume and come to Wheeler for a night of fun and get some awesome prizes and food! (No masks allowed … thanks).
Contact Ashley Meyer (ameyer14@georgefox.edu) with questions.
George Fox’s Center for Peace and Justice invites you to the Fall Justice Conference today (Monday) and tomorrow. Our theme this year is “Peace: Personal and Global.” Please join us as we hear from author and chief church engagement officer of Sojourners, Lisa Sharon Harper.
Lisa will share from her book, The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right. Shalom is what God declared. It is what the kingdom of God looks like. It is when all people have enough, and families are healed. Come hear about what we can do to bring shalom to our nations, our communities and our souls!
A university- and community-wide event will be held tonight in EHS 102 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Treats provided! Lisa will also speak in chapel tomorrow from 10:50 to 11:40 a.m. in Bauman Auditorium. Her book will be available for purchase at both events.
Contact Rebecca Hernandez (rhernandez@georgefox.edu) if you have any questions.
Join us for the next Liberal Arts and Critical Issues presentation of the semester tonight (Monday), when “Religious Pluralism in Indonesia” will be discussed in Hoover 105. The same presentation will be made from 5 to 6 p.m. and from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Dwight Burton, a political science instructor at George Fox, and Monik Kadarmanto, a LACI instructor, will explore the history and context of religious pluralism in Indonesia and emphasize the value personal relationship and experience bring to building bridges across culture and religion.
The theme for this semester’s LACI series is “Islam and the West.” For more information, contact Laurie Fair at lfair@georgefox.edu.
The interconnected clocks on campus are having an issue, running four or five minutes late. This is due to a faulty time base which will be replaced later this week when parts come in.
Thank you and sorry for this inconvenience.
