The Daily Bruin

Come to the kick-off event for @GFUbizcareers, a career-focused series of workshops held on seven Fridays throughout spring semester. These workshops are sponsored by the College of Business and the IDEA Center and will include lunch.

The kickoff event is tomorrow (Friday) from noon to 12:50 p.m. in Hoover 103 and will provide excellent advice for your career-building efforts! A professional career coach will share what you need to know to help you prepare for and land a great job in your field.

@GFUbizcareers is bringing in industry experts in all areas of business who will offer advice and share tips so that you can make the most of your college years and be prepared for the career of your dreams.

Faculty, please let your students know about this opportunity.

Questions? Contact Colleen Sump at csump@georgefox.edu.

Your chance to get involved with our neighboring community is finally here, with the opportunity to be a part of MLK Day of Service in Portland!

Feel free to stop by the SPIL Annex, next to the ASC office, between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. today (Thursday) if you want help registering or have questions about the day.

MLK Day of Service takes place on Monday, Jan. 18. You can register and find more information about what the day will look like here.

If you have any questions or concerns, please email spirituallife@georgefox.edu.

The alumni relations office is looking for an original painting of the Centennial Tower done for a George Fox Christmas card in 1998 by alumnus Ken Gilmore (see photo). The painting was last seen in the Pennington House in the summer of 2014.

If you know of its whereabouts, please contact the alumni office at alumni.georgefox.edu or 503-554-2134.

Thank you

Your chance to get involved with our neighboring community is finally here, with the opportunity to be a part of MLK Day of Service in Portland!

We are still in need of many volunteers to reach our goal! Feel free to stop by the SPIL Annex, next to the ASC office, between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. today (Wednesday) or tomorrow if you want help registering or have questions about the day.

MLK Day of Service takes place on Monday, Jan. 18. You can register and find more information about what the day will look like here.

If you have any questions or concerns, please email spirituallife@georgefox.edu.

Our academic clubs are sponsoring Minute to Win It games tonight (Wednesday) from 10 to 11 p.m. in Miller Gym! Games include the Oreo game, golf ball stacking, Ka-Broom and others. Come join us after the Leadership Preview Night and learn about our clubs while competing to win a grand prize!

Tomorrow (Thursday) come participate in a campus photo scavenger hunt! Our hobby clubs are sponsoring the event and the chance to win a prize. The event starts at 8 p.m., so pick up your clues in the EHS atrium and talk to some of our amazing club presidents.

Finally, on Friday we’re hosting “Club-A-Dub-Dub.” Come celebrate with us after the basketball games at a grand finale of Clubs Week – a foam party on the quad! Bring your bathrobes, rubber duckies and your dancing shoes. Come represent your club and find out more about your new favorite clubs.

Questions? Contact Erika Lopez at elopez12@georgefox.edu.

What does the Bible say about immigration? Come see the short film The Stranger: Immigrants, Scripture, and the American Dream at 7 p.m. tomorrow (Thursday) in Hoover 105. A discussion will follow.

This presentation is cosponsored by the sociology department and the Center for Peace and Justice. Contact Chris Morrissey (cmorrissey@georgefox.edu) if you have any questions.

We kept all of the lost and found items over break just in case you were too busy to come and retrieve your lost items before Christmas. However, the lost and found is at critical mass, so please come to the security office before Friday afternoon to pick up your items lost between Nov. 20 and now, as all remaining items will be donated to charitable causes at that time.

Thank you,
Security Services

The Newberg Public Library is in need of volunteers for its school-district-wide “Oregon Battle of the Books Practice Battles” for elementary students. George Fox volunteers have stepped forward in the past, and the hope is that more will volunteer this year.

Oregon Battle of the Books is a statewide reading program designed to encourage a love of reading. This competitive reading program involves 692 schools in Oregon this year. The library is in need of moderators (read the questions, act as final judge) and scorekeepers for this event, as well as help with set-up and take-down.

On Friday, Jan. 29, a volunteer training for moderators and scorekeepers will take place at the library (503 E. Hancock St.) from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. On Saturday, Jan. 30, at 8:30 a.m. volunteers will arrive for the battles. Battles begin shortly after 9 a.m.

In Newberg and Dundee, all six public elementary schools are participating, with between 15 and 85 students from each school. This district-wide event allows elementary youth to practice with their peers before battles for points begin. Each school may send only one team to the regional competition in February.

Questions? Contact Korie Jones Buerkle at korie.buerkle@newbergoregon.gov.

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.

Would you like to be involved in student leadership next year? Please come to the Leadership Preview event tonight (Wednesday) in Bauman Auditorium at 8:15 p.m. (after chapel)!

Learn how to get involved in residence life, spiritual and intercultural life, ASC or Peer Advising. Choose which area you want to learn about, ask current leaders questions, and learn the requirements. Student life seeks to hire a diverse group of students; all are encouraged to apply! Chips and guacamole will be served (at the end)!

Questions? Contact Stephanie St. Cyr at sstcyr@georgefox.edu.

Do you love details, or are you a graphic designer? Are you a leader who loves a challenge? The student life office is looking to hire two students to work over the summer who will help to plan Welcome Weekend.

If you are interested in being a part of something big this summer, please apply! See the application link here at the bottom of the page. Experience is not required, but preferred.

Applications will be due in the student life office by 5 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 29.

Questions? Contact Stephanie St. Cyr at sstcyr@georgefox.edu.

It’s a new year and a new you, so come sign up to play intramural outdoor soccer! Sign-ups are in the Bruin Den this week! Please put your team name and your team captain’s name, phone number and email so we can send you the schedule.

Games will start on Monday, Jan. 18. If you have any questions, email Justine Benner at jbenner12@georgefox.edu.

The Students for Innovation, Design, and Entrepreneurship (S.I.D.E.) are hosting an exciting event on Saturday, Feb. 13. Side Quest will be a day dedicated to rapid innovation and creativity. If you want to have fun inventing for a day (and the chance to win some cash) you should participate in this event!

Registration for Side Quest is opening soon. Teams can have between three and eight members, two of whom need to be from each the College of Engineering and the College of Business. You can also register as an individual and we (S.I.D.E.) will try to place you in a team. However, registered teams have priority over individual registrations, so being on a team is more likely to guarantee your participation.

Get your team fast because we are limiting the event to 12 teams. Registration will proceed on a first-come, first-served basis. Teams and individuals that will be participating will be informed through an email after registration has closed (which is whenever we get enough teams, so it could be any day before Feb. 13).

Questions? Contact Bryan Neufeld at bneufeld12@georgefox.edu.

Show your Bruin spirit at this Friday’s basketball games against Whitman College and you could win free pizza for you and your friends! It’s a competition among living areas, and the most spirited group will have pizza delivered to their dorm right after the games end. Check with your RA, AAC or commuter rep for face paint and poster-making supplies.

See you at the gym at 6 p.m. on Friday for Bruin basketball!

New to George Fox and have a car? Just log into MyGFU and click on the vehicle registration link underneath “GFU Resources” on the home page. You will need your DMV registration card in front of you, as it will ask you for information like the VIN number, owner’s information, etc.

After registering, you will receive an email with a link for a temporary permit. Print that out and place it on your dashboard until your parking permit arrives to the mailing address you specified.

If you brought back a different car than the one you registered last fall, scrape off your old permit and bring it to the security office with all of your new vehicle’s information. We’ll register the new one in the office and decommission the old one.

If your housing changed over break, and you moved from one side of the campus to the other, or moved off/onto campus, you will also need a new parking permit. Scrape off the old one and bring it to the security office and we can do the exchange in the office.

Need a temporary permit? Any security officer can do it 24/7, so please get one as soon as you arrive on campus with an unregistered car.

Out-of-the-box situation? Contact Nadine Kincaid at nkincaid@georgefox.edu.

Come join us in Contemplative Worship! This Thursday at 10:50 a.m., we’ll continue our journey discovering how to meet God in the quiet. This event will be in the Prayer Chapel behind Edwards Hall, and there is elective chapel credit available.

Questions? Contact Amanda Kitz at akitz13@georgefox.edu.

Shalom is back! Be sure to join us tonight (Tuesday) at 9 p.m. in the Cap and Gown Room as we introduce this semester’s theme and celebrate community together again.

Also, bread making is happening too! Come to Lewis 1 at 6 p.m. to learn how to make the artisan bread we share in Shalom each week. It will be a great time of learning, talking over tea, and having fun together, so don’t miss it!

Questions? Contact Amanda Kitz at akitz13@georgefox.edu.

Do you love George Fox? Want to help prospective students get a taste of the college life? The admissions office is looking for overnight hosts for daily visitors during spring semester!

If you live on campus and are interested in being a host, please fill out this survey. Questions? Please email Kelly Hughton at khughton@georgefox.edu.

If you are already on the overnight host list from fall, there is no need to fill the survey out again.

Friday, Jan. 15, 6 p.m. – Women’s basketball vs. Whitman, Wheeler Sports Center
Friday, Jan. 15, 8 p.m. – Men’s basketball vs. Whitman, Wheeler Sports Center
Saturday, Jan. 16, 4 p.m. – Women’s basketball vs. Whitworth, Wheeler Sports Center
Saturday, Jan. 16, 6 p.m. – Men’s basketball vs. Whitworth, Wheeler Sports Center

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

True poverty is the child who goes to school hungry and the working father who can’t provide enough for his family. Want to know how you can make a career in impacting these impoverished families and individuals? Find out from real-world professionals and how they’ve changed the lives at Break the Poverty Cycle. Join us this Tuesday, Jan. 19, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in Hoover 105.

Chapel credit is available for this unique opportunity to connect with passionate, high-ranking professionals who’ve developed change in the Oregon community. For more information about the event and the panelists to come, visit this link.

Questions? Drop by the IDEA Center or send TJ Haimoto an email at thaimoto13@georgefox.edu.