The Daily Bruin

Senior citizens, board games, fun conversations and potential friendships! Interested in connecting with the elderly folk? Come to the Fox and Friendsview game night this Thursday, Feb. 4, at 6:30 p.m. in the Terrace Room at Friendsview Retirement Community, the building right across the street from the track.

We’ll meet in the Bruin Den around 6:20 p.m. to walk over there together. Feel free to bring your favorite board/card game. Refreshments will be provided.

Questions? Email Nissi Undurthi at nundurthi14@georgefox.edu.

The Wineskin, George Fox’s student literary and art magazine, is now accepting submissions for the Spring 2016 issue. If you are a writer, photographer or artist, this is a great chance to get your work published in a journal.

This issue’s theme is “Seeing and Being Seen.” If you need an inspiration (or a challenge) for your submission, you are free to start there. We are asking for:

• Fiction and non-fiction prose: must be a stand-alone piece (no book excerpts; 1,500-word limit)
• Poetry
• Photography: Include title and send as a 300 dpi image
• Art: Include 300 dpi image (The Wineskin is happy to take a quality image for you; email for more information)

Please submit your best work by Friday, Feb. 19. Winners of each category will receive a $25 gift card of their choice.

Email any questions and/or submission(s) to gfuwineskin@gmail.com. Please email submissions as an attached document.

Quaere Verum stands for seeking the truth. Come eat homemade soup and bread with us and discuss an issue related to social justice.

You can find us at the Campbell House (612 N. Meridian St.) tonight (Tuesday) from 7:30 to 9 p.m.!

Contact Corbin Gronvold (cgronvold12@georgefox.edu) with questions.

Interested in practicing your Spanish? Come to the Mesa de Español to practice speaking Spanish in a fun and casual setting, Fridays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Bruin Den. All are welcome regardless of ability.

Questions? Contact Daniel Roberson at droberson12@georgefox.edu.

George Fox is again getting involved in a special needs prom this year! Newberg Christian Church is looking for volunteers to be buddies to individuals who have special needs as we help give them a prom night they may never experience otherwise.

The “Night to Shine” prom will take place from 5 to 9 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 12, at the church. It will include dinner, limo rides, hair and makeup, shoeshines, karaoke and, of course, lots of dancing! There will be an informational meeting at Newberg Christian Church on Saturday, Feb. 6, at 10 a.m. The church is located at 2315 Villa Road.

Email Katlyn Kronschnabl at kkronschnabl13@georgefox.edu if interested.

Take a break from homework and come join us in Shalom! Tonight (Tuesday) at 9 p.m. in the Cap and Gown, we’re going to engage in a special time of community, worship and exploration of another facet of our new theme, “Being Deeper,” in the context of Relationship Week. Included will be a special (surprise) interactive piece. Don’t miss it!

Also, today at 6 p.m. in Lewis 1 we’re gathering to bake the handmade artisan bread we come together to make each week. Don’t miss this beautiful time of community and wonderful opportunity to take a break and get your hands covered in flour and dough.

We’ll see you there!

– Amanda Kitz (akitz13@georgefox.edu)

Mu Kappa events are back! Come join us tonight (Tuesday) at 7:30 p.m. in the International House (located across the street behind Pennington Hall) for some fun games, snacks and good company!

The purpose of Mu Kappa is to support students who have lived in other countries or whose parents work outside the U.S., typically referred to as “MKs,” “TCKs,” etc. We welcome all such people to our events as well as anyone interested, so take that study break and come hang out for a bit!

We look forward to seeing you! Contact Ethan Shafe (eshafe14@georgefox.edu) with any questions.

Saturday, Feb. 6, 4 p.m. – Women’s basketball vs. Lewis & Clark, Wheeler Sports Center
Saturday, Feb. 6, 6 p.m. – Men’s basketball vs. Lewis & Clark, Wheeler Sports Center

For more information, contact the sports information office at ext. 2926 or visit the George Fox sports website at gfubruins.com.

Bruin-Secure is the new secure wireless network. Connect to it using your George Fox credentials.

The older foxwifi network will be turned off Monday, Feb. 8, so please connect soon. A new wireless guest network will be announced in the coming weeks. Watch for it!

If you have trouble connecting, check out the IT WiFi webpage or contact the IT Service Desk.

We have become aware of a local scam involving job postings. Jobs are being posted for a local company using a local address, but the phone number isn’t local.

If you see local job postings and they request via email for you to cash checks for them and then to send the money back to them, it is bogus and a scam, as the checks are fake. If the email says “.org” or “.gov” at the end, it is not a company.

If you have come across anything like this while job hunting, please contact your local police department with the particulars, and never cash checks, give out your Social Security number, or other identifying information.

– Security Services

Need help with your writing? We have a workshop for you.

Polly Peterson, visiting assistant professor of English, will present “Correcting Common Writing Mistakes” at an Academic Resource Center-sponsored workshop this Thursday, Feb. 4, from 10:50 to 11:35 a.m. in Lemmons 8. The workshop will help you understand, identify and correct the top-10 grammatical errors that annoy professors the most.

Questions? Contact Rick Muthiah at rmuthiah@georgefox.edu.

Join us for the second Liberal Arts and Critical Issues lecture of the semester tonight (Monday), when independent scholar Laura Gifford speaks on the topic “God’s Own Party or Grand Old Phantasm? Contemplating the Growth of the Religious Right” in Hoover 105. The same presentation will be made from 5 to 6 p.m. and from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.

The theme for this semester’s LACI series is “Christianity and Pop Culture.” For more information, contact Laurie Fair at lfair@georgefox.edu.

Join the Intercollegiate Studies Institute Club every Wednesday from 6 to 7 p.m. in the Center Street House for snacks and good conversation about conservative thought!

Book raffles will occur occasionally throughout the semester. Members will have access to ISI conferences located around the nation free of cost, as well as scholarship opportunities.

Questions? Contact Chelsea McCombs at cmccombs13@georgefox.edu.

The music of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Poulenc, Brahms, Schubert, Gershwin and Vandall will be featured in the university’s 10th annual Bösendorfer Concert Series at 7:30 p.m. this Thursday, Feb. 4, in Bauman Auditorium. Performing the pieces will be 18 pianists – comprised of current students, George Fox alumni and pupils from music professor Kenn Willson’s private piano studio.

All employees and students are entitled to one free ticket. Additional tickets are $12 for general admission, $8 for seniors and alumni, and $6 for students and children under 12. All tickets are reserved seating and are available at this link or at the University Box Office by calling 503-554-3844.

Among the pieces to be performed at the “Monster Piano Concert” are Bach’s Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring, Beethoven’s March Op. 45 #1, Brahms’ Eight Waltzes Op. 39, Gershwin’s 3 Preludes, Poulenc’s Elegie, Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos in D major, K.448, and Schubert’s Military March Op. 51 #1.

The culmination of the evening comes when 12 players simultaneously perform two Robert Vandall pieces on six pianos: Ballad and Jubilation! (Tocatta).

You are invited to join the Academic Resource Center staff for an open house this Thursday, Feb. 4, from 3 to 5 p.m.

Come meet our staff, eat some food and hear about our writing and academic coaching services. Our new location is the first floor of the Murdock Learning Resource Center.

See you Thursday!

Have a few spare minutes to fill out a survey regarding ASC? We know survey’s can be a drag, but your voice really matters to us!

How can this campus be improved? How have you been “known” throughout your time at Fox? What would you like to see changed? Tell us anything and everything.

Oh, and a random participant will receive a $50 Amazon gift card.

ASC Survey

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.

In the event of a campus- or city-wide emergency such as a severe winter storm, flood or major earthquake, employees, students and visitors to George Fox should be prepared to keep safe and possibly assist in recovery. Therefore, we are providing life-saving C-CERT training for any and all interested persons.

In an effort to make it easier for more people to participate, we are doing a hybrid course of online instruction combined with lunch-hour training once a week to build knowledge and skills as a CERT member. The weekly meetings will be every Tuesday starting Feb. 2 and last from noon to 1 p.m.

For more information and to sign up, go to the security services webpage.

Swing dancing is back in the Foxhole tonight (Saturday)! Our beginner lesson is at 6:30 p.m., and the advanced lesson starts at 7 p.m. Free dance is from 7:30 to 9 p.m.

Hope to see you there!

Contact Xiaoru Chen (xchen13@georgefox.edu) with questions.

Are you interested in leading or participating in a serve trip over spring break? We are looking for both student and faculty leaders.

If you are interested in participating, applications are due no later than Friday, Feb. 12. If you would like to serve as a student leader, applications are due today (Saturday, Jan. 30). Applications and details on each trip are available at this link.

Contact Mikayla Greenwell (mgreenwell12@georgefox.edu) with any questions.

Bruin-Secure is the new secure wireless network. Connect to it using your George Fox credentials.

The older foxwifi network will be turned off Monday, Feb. 8, so please connect soon. A new wireless guest network will be announced in the coming weeks. Watch for it!

If you have trouble connecting, check out the IT WiFi webpage or contact the IT Service Desk.