Interested in grad school or in radio astronomy, space communications or quantum physics?
Come listen to Andrew Janzen, a George Fox grad, today (Friday), from 3 to 4 p.m. in Hoover 102. He will present on “Seeing The Invisible: A Caltech Student’s Research in Radio Astronomy.”
Are you a student interested in racial reconciliation and engaging in deeper conversations about living inter-culturally?
The Intercultural Life office is seeking students who want to Be Known as a Cultural Ambassador. This unique student leadership opportunity is designed to engage and challenge students to gain a better understanding of their culture and other cultures on campus. Skills learned through this training are indispensable in the workplace. In addition to training discussions on campus, students will travel to California to engage in this important conversation with students from other campuses at the Student Congress On Racial Reconciliation Conference.
Applications are available now and are due today (Friday). Click here to apply.
Summer Serve (Spilgrimages) applications are still open! These are two- to three-week-long trips in May and June. This year we are going to:
Applications can be found at the SpIL website under “Get Involved” and “Service + Ministry,” or follow this link.
Applications are now due Nov. 12, 2015!
For more information or if you have any questions, email Mikayla Greenwell at mgreenwell12@georgefox.edu.
Faculty, please encourage students to apply.
The William Penn Honors Program invites you to join us this afternoon (Friday) for a special lecture featuring Colin Noble, chaplain at William Clarke College in Sydney, Australia. He will give a talk titled, “Resting for God” at 4:30 p.m. in Hoover 105.
Noble has spent the last three decades living on four continents and working in government, corporate, academic and pastoral settings. After working in international banking in Tokyo for several years at the height of the Japanese economic boom, he pursued theological studies at Regent College. He then taught at the University of Sydney for 14 years before taking up his current position as chaplain to an educational community of 1,700 people, a role he has held since 2005.
More on Noble is available on this page. Chapel credit is available.
Questions? Please contact Jane Sweet at honors@georgefox.edu or call 503-554-2152.
The campus will look a bit different on Saturday, as we expect to host more than 3,000 guests for Family Weekend and our football game against Linfield. Here are some things to make note of:
Bauman Parking Lot
Be sure to move your cars out of the Bauman parking lot on Friday evening. This space will be dedicated to vendors and tailgating on Saturday. Stop by on Saturday and check out all of the food and activities (including a “Tailgate-or-Treat”) happening before the game!
Entrances to the football game
There will be two entrances into the game and both are located in the Bauman parking lot, directly behind the stadium.
Wheeler Sports Center closed
The Wheeler Sports Center will be closed from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. This means the basketball gym, racquetball courts and locker rooms will be closed. The Fitness Center will remain open for normal business hours, but you will need to enter through the hallway entrance located on the field level, toward the end of the building near the tennis courts. There will be security officers who will ask you where you are headed; just let them know that you are going to work out.
Bauman Walkway
The sidewalk located between the football stadium and Bauman will be closed. Please walk around the building and do not move the barricade.
Barricades
If you see a barricade, it is there for a reason. Please do not move them, jump over them, crawl under them, or unlock them.
Circle Parking Lot
The circle parking lot near Wheeler will be closed for the day. This space is reserved for officials to park in. Officials will arrive as early as 8:30 a.m.
Sideline Passes
No one will be granted field access without a sideline pass. Sideline passes are issued to those who are required to work and/or have official business during the game.
Tickets
Students and staff can show their ID cards at the gate to get into the game. Additional tickets can be purchased online or at the gate by visiting this link.
Family Weekend Tailgating
We are expecting a crowd of 600-plus for Family Weekend! We will have bags available for families to “Tailgate-or-Treat,” so if you or your department/floor would like to bring candy to pass out under the big Alumni and Parent Relations tent from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. we are happy to have you join us!
We hope to see you at the game at 1:30 p.m. and the tailgates prior to that!
Questions? Contact Elise Trask at etrask@georgefox.edu, Sarah Reid at sreid@georgefox.edu, or Megan Fisher at mfisher@georgefox.edu.
Dinner hours in Klages will change slightly today (Friday) due to Family Weekend. We will be featuring “A Taste of George Fox” with a buffet as well as several themed stations, desserts and beverages.
Please note that dinner will be served from 5 to 7 p.m., and the entrance will be at the west end of the dining room.
Questions? Contact Lisa Miles at lmiles@georgefox.edu.
Winter Serve applications are open!
Winter Serve trips are one-week-long trips Jan. 2-9. This year we are going to:
Applications to be a student leader are also available. If you have been on a Serve Trip before, consider joining a team as a student leader!
Applications can be found at the SpIL website under “Get Involved” and “Service + Ministry,” or follow this link.
Applications are due Nov. 12!
For more information or if you have any questions, email Mikayla Greenwell at mgreenwell12@georgefox.edu.
Faculty, please encourage students to apply.
Join the scare and come to HMS for the annual Haunted Basement tomorrow night (Saturday) between 8 and 10 p.m.! Come early and put your name on the list. It starts in the Macy basement. Bring your friends! Hope to see you there!
Questions? Email ralston12@georgefox.edu.
The university’s dance team is hosting a gently used or new warm clothing drive! Please donate jackets, sweaters, gloves, new socks, scarves, hats, etc. There will be a bin in the Bruin Den right outside the ACS office for all donations. Donate between now and Friday, Nov. 6.
Questions? Contact Lauren Kleven at lkleven15@georgefox.edu.
Sign up to carry a flag representing a cultural heritage of personal meaning to you at the Tuesday, Nov. 10, chapel service, in honor of Cultural Celebration Week. Email Tiona Cage (tcage@georgefox.edu) by Wednesday, Nov. 4, with your phone number and the name of the country that you would like to represent. We have more than 50 flags available.
A brief dress rehearsal will be held in advance of the Nov. 10 chapel in Bauman Auditorium (chapel begins at 10:40 a.m.). All carrying flags will be required to attend.
ASC is looking for projects to fund around campus! Outdoor seating? New dance studio? A movie theater? We want your proposals! The form can be found at this link under the “Student Project Fund” section. The deadline to submit ideas is Friday, Nov. 6.
Email Erika Lopez at elopez12@georgefox.edu with any ideas or questions.
Auditions take place tomorrow (Saturday) in Wood-Mar Auditorium from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Please prepare a 90-second contemporary dramatic monologue (for both Spitfire and Ten! Ten! Ten!). If you’d like to audition for the musical, please additionally prepare one minute of a song from a musical (bring your sheet music). Your monologue and song must be fully memorized, prepared and ready to present.
If you are not a major or minor and would like to audition, you may sign up and come to auditions without a monologue. We will have sides or monologues for you to read from.
Callbacks
Sign up for an audition slot in Lemmons, across from the theatre offices!
Questions? Email Rhett Luedtke at rluedtke@georgefox.edu.
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Have you been looking for an opportunity to showcase your dancing abilities? Seeking an outlet for dance performance? The music department is looking for dancers to perform during our annual Christmas Concert Dec. 11-13! Auditions will be held tonight (Friday) from 6 to 7 p.m. in the dance room in Wheeler. We are looking for dancers with some experience in ballet.
Contact Amanda McConaughey (amcconaughey13@georgefox.edu or 503-899-7947) if you are interested or have any questions.
Come join us from 1 to 3 p.m. on Halloween afternoon (Saturday) to harvest the last of our community garden produce and to put the garden to bed for the winter. We will have a variety of produce to take home, including potatoes, pumpkins and squash.
If you’ve been part of the garden since last spring and want to see how it’s grown, stop by! If you’ve never been to the garden but are interested in learning more, you are welcome to join! (Parents are welcome, too, since it’s Family Weekend.) The garden is located east of the Austin Sports Complex’s soccer field, in the field at the corner of Villa and Crestview.
Questions? Contact Cherice Bock at cbock@georgefox.edu.
Please take this survey to determine the various factors that affect students grades at George Fox.
Questions? Please contact Kailee Michelsen at kmichelsen14@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 surveysshould be directed to the students associated with the survey in question.
Sign up to carry a flag representing a cultural heritage of personal meaning to you at the Tuesday, Nov. 10, chapel service, in honor of Cultural Celebration Week. Email Tiona Cage (tcage@georgefox.edu) by Wednesday, Nov. 4, with your phone number and the name of the country that you would like to represent. We have more than 50 flags available.
A brief dress rehearsal will be held in advance of the Nov. 10 chapel in Bauman Auditorium (chapel begins at 10:40 a.m.). All carrying flags will be required to attend.
The campus community is invited to join visiting families for a special Family Weekend fall concert featuring the university’s Chamber Choir, Women’s Chorale, Concert Choir and Symphonic Band tomorrow (Friday, Oct. 30) at 7:30 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium. Special guest the Chehalem Symphony Orchestra will also perform (Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major).
Admission is free and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. Selections will include Cry Out and Shout and Ave Verum Corpus (Chamber Choir); Beside Still Waters and Go Down Moses (Women’s Chorale); The Last Words of David and The Eyes of All Wait Upon Thee (Concert Choir); and Symphonic Fanfare, Stardust and Florentiner March (Symphonic Band).
Questions? Contact Debbie Hawblitzel at dhawblit@georgefox.edu.
Join us this Monday, Nov. 2, for the next Liberal Arts and Critical Issues presentation in Hoover 105. Melanie Springer Mock, professor of English at George Fox, will speak on “It’s Complicated: Orphan Care, International Adoption and the West.” The same presentation will take place from 5 to 6 p.m. and again from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Guests are asked to attend the later session.
Mock will discuss complexities associated with international adoption and address the question, “How can we acknowledge the good parts of international adoption while also recognizing its problematic elements and its reliance on Western privilege?” Her presentation is the ninth in the “Majority World and the West” series.
Questions? Contact Ron Mock at ext. 2680 or rmock@georgefox.edu.
The university community is invited to Light the Fire, a benefit event on Sunday, Nov. 22, to assist the Yamhill Community Action Partnership.
YCAP is a nonprofit in Yamhill County that provides services to focus on self-sufficiency such as youth outreach, energy services, client services and housing, and food bank. Many George Fox students have internships and volunteer at YCAP. This organization is part of our Serve Day sites and has been a big promoter of our community.
Here are the details:
When?
Sunday, Nov. 22, 5-8:30 p.m.
Where?
Ruddick/Wood Restaurant, 720 E. 1st St., in Newberg
Cost?
Dinner is $125 per person and includes dinner by three local chefs. A street party is $20 per person and includes street food, one drink ticket, raffle items, and two bands.
Tickets and Info?
Visit yamhillcap.org/lightthefire
