‘Loudest Dance You’ve Never Heard’ is this Saturday

Tuesday, October 28th, 2014

Join us on Saturday, Nov. 1, at 8:30 p.m. in the Murdock Resource Learning Center for the ‘Loudest Dance You’ve Never Heard’, powered by Silent Storm and sponsored by Nerds and Geeks United! Experience a new way of dancing, a silent dance! Instead of dancing with a regular sound system, everyone listens on wireless headphones. Buy your ticket for one dollar between Oct. 27 and Oct. 31 to be entered in a raffle for a pair of Beats Headphones! Only 400 tickets are available, so make sure to get your ticket early. Wireless headphones will be provided for use at the dance.

Questions? Contact Sarah MacKenzie at smackenzie11@georgefox.edu.

LinkedIn workshops every Thursday in the Idea Center

Tuesday, October 28th, 2014

Are you interested in learning how to optimize your LinkedIn profile for specific positions you are interested in? Every Thursday, starting tomorrow Oct. 30, in the Idea Center from 5 to 6 p.m., there will be a workshop available to help you.

Questions? Please contact Jaclyn Simmons at jsimmons12@georgefox.edu.

Interested in a career in healthcare? Learn about MedSend tonight

Tuesday, October 28th, 2014

Are you pre-professional health bound? Learn how God is using MedSend healthcare professionals to bring physical and spiritual healing to the nations. One of MedSend’s primary activities is to offer student loan repayment grants to healthcare professionals who are headed for career healthcare mission service.

Come learn more about this amazing opportunity tonight (Wednesday) at 7 p.m. in EHS 102. If you have any questions, please contact Jennifer McCollum at jmccollum@georgefox.edu.

Chapel is tonight in Bauman Auditorium

Tuesday, October 28th, 2014

Chapel is tonight (Wednesday) at 7 p.m. in the Bauman Auditorium. Come hear from Jamie Johnson as he continues our “Unfolding Life” series. He will preach from Matthew 8 on the cost of following Jesus. Chapel credit is available.

For more information, please visit spirituallife.georgefox.edu or email spirituallife@georgefox.edu.

Mental health is topic at symposium in EHS tomorrow

Tuesday, October 28th, 2014

All students and employees are welcome to attend the second installment of the student life discussion series, Symposium: A Forum for Uncommon Conversations. Our topic for this week is “Stories of Struggle: Christians and Mental Health.”

Join us Thursday, Oct. 30, from 10:50 to 11:40 a.m. in EHS 102 to hear Bill Buhrow and Kris Kays share about mental health issues on our campus. We will also hear from a student about their personal experiences with mental health at Fox.

Elective chapel credit is available. Questions? Please contact Lizzy Riese at eriese11@georgefox.edu.

Student Loan Repayment workshops coming in November

Tuesday, October 28th, 2014

If you received federal loans while attending George Fox, it is a federal requirement that you complete exit loan counseling. The financial aid office is offering workshops to all graduating students on loan repayment starting in November. The workshops will cover topics such as how to afford your loan payments, what to do if you can’t afford them, and loan forgiveness.

To view dates/times and sign up, visit this link.

Questions? Please contact Johanna Schweitzer at jschweitzer@georgefox.edu

Fall Escape registration is available this week

Tuesday, October 28th, 2014

Fall Escape is coming up (Nov. 7-9). Registration will be available this week, through Friday, Oct. 31, in the Bruin Den from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Escape the Newberg bubble with your friends for a weekend! The cost is $20. You will be provided a cabin on the Pacific Coast, workshops with Doreen Dodgen-Magee, and all the amenities that Twin Rocks Friends Camp has to offer for a weekend!

For more information, email Josh Garcia at garciaj11@georgefox.edu.

Note new location for Thursday’s ‘Earth, Wind, Fire and Water’ lecture

Tuesday, October 28th, 2014

The College of Engineering will host its third “Earth, Wind, Fire and Water” lecture event tomorrow (Thursday) from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. in Hoover 103 (please note the location change). The event is titled “Hydro-Power and Fish Passage in Oregon” and features Greg Apke of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.

This is the third of five presentations in the series, dedicated to renewable energy, sustainability, climate change and the environment. Future presentations include:

  • Thursday, Nov. 6: “Wind Farms and Wind Energy Systems,” featuring Bruce Hamilton of Navigant, Lemmons 13
  • Thursday, Nov. 13: “Ocean Wave Energy Systems,” featuring Chad Stillinger of George Fox University, Hoover 105

Questions? Contact Bob Harder at bharder@georgefox.edu.

Art show ‘Redemption of Dirt’ opens tomorrow

Tuesday, October 28th, 2014

The Department of Art and Design invites the university community to an opening reception for the show “Redemption of Dirt,” featuring the ceramic work of Brian O’Neill and Ron Linn.

Join us tomorrow (Thursday) for an artists’ talk at 4:10 p.m. in Hoover 105, followed by an opening reception from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the Minthorne Gallery. The show will remain up through Nov. 26.

Location changes for Thursday’s lecture on Syria

Tuesday, October 28th, 2014

Christian SahnerChristian C. Sahner, author of Among the Ruins: Syria Past and Present (Oxford University Press, 2014), will speak on campus at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow (Thursday) in Hoover 105 (please note the location change). The campus community is invited to attend at no charge.

Sahner’s lecture, “The End of Christianity in Syria?,” will explore the roots of Christianity in Syria and seek to place the current predicament in historical perspective. The William Penn Honors Program is sponsoring the event, and a reception for prospective students interested in the honors program will follow. In addition, a special “Visit Day for the Honors Program” is scheduled for Friday, Oct. 31. Please email honors@georgefox.edu if you would like more information or have any questions.

A graduate of Princeton University and the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar, Sahner is currently completing his doctorate at Princeton, focusing on relations between Muslims and Christians in the formative period after the Arab conquests.

Final Students for Life meetings of year scheduled

Tuesday, October 28th, 2014

Students for Life is hosting its last three meetings of the year in Hoover 102 at 8:30 p.m. on Thursdays (Oct. 30, Nov. 13 and Nov. 20). If you’ve be thinking of checking us out, now’s the time. We look forward to seeing you there!

Our final meeting, on Nov. 20, is actually a film showing offered for elective chapel credit. If you need one last chapel credit, this is a great opportunity for you! We’ll be showing Rape and Other Exceptions to understand how we can better respond to our friends in difficult circumstances.

All invited to take part in Quaker Focus Week events

Tuesday, October 28th, 2014

“A Motion of Love” is the theme for the university’s annual Quaker Focus Week, Nov. 3-6, on the Newberg campus. Quaker Focus allows the campus community an opportunity to explore its Quaker roots and heritage. Events for students, faculty and the community this year include:

Monday, Nov. 3
9 a.m. – “Quakers in Business, Science and Industry”
An open invitation to visit Paul Anderson’s History & Doctrine of Friends Class (Hoover 210)

Tuesday, Nov. 4
10:50 a.m. – “Doors, Judgment, Love”
University Chapel with Gregg Koskela, lead pastor, Newberg Friends Church (Bauman Auditorium)
9 p.m. – “Listening Together Within the Motion of Love”
Shalom with Mark Almquist (Hoover 105)

Wednesday, Nov. 5
9 a.m. – “Quakers, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Underground Railroad,” a Skype interview with Max Carter of Guilford College in Paul Anderson’s History & Doctrine of Friends Class (Hoover 210)
7 p.m. – “Point Me Home”
University Chapel with a dramatic performance by the University Players (Bauman Auditorium)

Thursday, Nov. 6
10:40 a.m. – Contemplative worship (Prayer Chapel)

“I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the Goodness of God …”
– John Woolman

SpIL office seeking global outreach intern

Tuesday, October 28th, 2014

For students interested in working with spiritual and intercultural life as the global outreach intern for the remainder of the school year, there is a position open.

The description of this position is as follows: SpIL intern for global outreach and service partnerships serve to build bridges between George Fox students and cross-cultural opportunities to serve and learn alongside partnering organizations that model compassionate excellence in cross-cultural ministry and Christian community development.

This particular intern will accomplish this primarily through coordinating weekly cross-cultural outreach and service experiences, events to build our global outreach partnerships, the annual “Global Ministries Fair,” conference participation, other global outreach endeavors of the “SpIL” ministry house, as well as entering into mentoring relationships with the SpIL pastoral staff.

This SpIL intern will serve primarily to build and support volunteer teams, coordinate weekly urban outreach (i.e. Bridgetown Ministries, Nightstrike and Salem partnership, etc.), build deeper collaboration with Word Made Flesh, Open Arms International and Northwest Yearly Meeting Global Ministries, and coordinate our participation in Urbana and/or other global ministry conferences, as well as administrative tasks of the Office of Spiritual Life.

If you are interested in this position, please fill out this application by Wednesday, Nov. 5.

Faculty, please encourage students that you think would be interested to apply.

Email Mikayla Greenwell (mgreenwell12@georgefox.edu) with any questions you may have.

LinkedIn event this Wednesday, Oct. 29

Monday, October 27th, 2014

This Wednesday, Oct. 29, from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. in the IDEA center, will be a LinkedIn Networking event. Come learn how to build your LinkedIn profile during this one hour weekly workshop.

Questions? Please contact Jaclyn Simmons at jsimmons12@georgefox.edu.

Meeting for the International Justice Mission is tonight

Monday, October 27th, 2014

The International Justice Mission club invites you to join us for a meeting tonight (Tuesday) from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the International Center-Cultural House. The club raises awareness for human trafficking issues and promotes justice for the oppressed. We welcome new members!

Questions? Please contact Annelise Koeth at akoeth11@georgefox.edu.

Need an appointment with the Academic Resource Center?

Monday, October 27th, 2014

Do you need to visit the Academic Resource Center (ARC)? We currently have appointment times available, but don’t wait too long to schedule an appointment.

The ARC is in the Murdock Learning Resource Center and is open Monday through Thursday, from 1 to 10 p.m. and Friday, from 12 to 4 p.m.

For more information and to schedule appointments, see the ARC website at arc.georgefox.edu or contact us through email at the_arc@georgefox.edu or by phone at 503-554-2327.

Chapel events for this week

Monday, October 27th, 2014

Morning chapel will be on Tuesday (today), at 10:50 a.m. in the Bauman Auditorium.Come hear from Dr. Todd Hall in his talk, titled “The Connected Life”; he will share practical insights that will help you heal your disconnection and develop deep and meaningful connections with God and others. Dr. Todd Hall is a licensed psychologist, professor of psychology at Biola University and a certified MCORE coach. Learn more about his work at drtoddhall.com. Chapel Credit is available.

Shalom will be on Tuesday (today), at 9 p.m. in the Cap and Gown Room. Dr. Todd Hall will also be speaking at Shalom. Chapel elective credit is available.

Evening chapel will be on Wednesday, Oct. 29, at 7 p.m. in the Bauman Auditorium. Jamie Johnson will continue our “Unfolding Life” series. He will preach from Matthew 8 on the cost of following Jesus. Chapel credit is available.

Greenroom will be this Thursday, Oct. 30, at 9:30 p.m. in the Foxhole.

For more information visit spirituallife.georgefox.edu or email spirituallife@georgefox.edu.

Recommendation from IT on the new Apple OS Yosemite

Monday, October 27th, 2014

TechTips Forum post: For people with Macintosh computers, our IT Mac-certified tech, Rich Bass, highly recommends that Mac users do not upgrade to Yosemite (OS 10.10) yet. There are reported issues of Wifi connectivity dropping for many users. The issue doesn’t affect everyone, but there are widespread reports across the web of Wifi issues. Apple will most likely release an update to fix this, but the update hasn’t come out yet.

If you have updated your Mac to Yosemite and are experiencing Wifi connectivity issues (or other problems) since upgrading, you can stop by IT and we can image your computer back to Mavericks (10.9).

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Lost keys, memory cards among items found by security

Monday, October 27th, 2014

The lost and found has several mysteries we’d like to solve! If you lost your keys to a specific car on Friday afternoon, Oct. 24, please call security at 503-554-2090 to describe the car and where it was parked.

Also, if you lost camera memory cards and can describe some of the photos, please get in touch as well. And lastly, if you called in a lost calculus book on Monday around noon, please call us back!

Chemistry alumna presents doctoral research tonight

Monday, October 27th, 2014

Alexandra Salter-Blanc, who graduated from George Fox in 2007 with a degree in chemistry, will present her doctoral dissertation research tonight (Tuesday) at 7 p.m. in Hoover 105. Her presentation will focus on the degradation rates and reaction pathways of groundwater contaminants in natural and engineered systems.

After graduating from George Fox, Salter-Blanc went on to graduate school at Oregon Health & Science University and worked with Dr. Paul Tratnyek in the Division of Environmental and Biomolecular Systems within the Institute of Environmental Health. She completed her PhD in June of 2014.

All are welcome!