The Daily Bruin

Don’t forget this afternoon’s (Tuesday’s) “Intellectual Feast” with Esther L. Meek, professor of philosophy at Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pa. Esther is visiting for the university’s Spring Theological Conference.

She will speak at today’s “Feast,” hosted by the College of Christian Studies, at 4 p.m. in Hoover 250. All are welcome to attend.

The theme for the conference is “Loving in Order to Know: A How-to for Knowing and Being.”

Housing selection for Fall 2014 begins next week on Monday, March 17. The online housing form will be accessible through Friday, March 21.

To participate in selection make sure your housing deposit is paid by 5 p.m. on Thursday, March 20. To pay this, please go to the student accounts office located on the first floor of Stevens. The deposit should be paid with check or cash since they do not accept credit or debit in their office.

Before paying please be aware of the following:

• Your student account must be paid in full. If on a payment plan, your March payment must be received and any amount not covered by your payment plan must be paid.
• Regardless of who pays the deposit, each student must stop by Student Accounts. If the deposit is accepted you will receive a Housing Deposit Confirmation slip. This slip is needed as a  record of payment.
• A payment received in any other way won’t be processed as a deposit, but instead will overpay the account or be applied toward the next monthly payment. Student Accounts routinely refunds over-payments, so if you get a refund check you are not expecting please stop by to confirm the status of your housing deposit.

Additional details regarding housing selection are posted on the Housing and Residence Life website.

Questions?  Contact housing@georgefox.edu or stop by the student life office.

Please complete the LibQUAL Lite Library Survey. If you have already filled out the survey, thank you! If not, we ask you to take about six minutes to click the link below and help us by taking the survey.

Only you can tell us how well we are serving your library needs, and you can enter to win prizes!

LibQUAL Lite Library Survey

Interested in getting elective chapel credit while getting to enjoy God’s creation? Come to the community garden work day this Saturday, March 15, from 1 to 3 p.m.

We will work on preparing the garden for summer by cleaning it up and will take time to discuss why creation care is important and how that relates to the community garden. We would love to see you there and build community through service together.

This is an interactive chapel experience that will be a fun time of getting a little dirty in nature.

Questions? Contact Cherice Bock at cbock@georgefox.edu.

If you are a missionary kid, third-culture kid, or are interested in hearing about their diverse backgrounds, come to the Mu Kappa Club meeting in the Macy basement after evening chapel tomorrow (Wednesday).

There will be games, snacks and tea! Bring your friends!

If you have any questions, please contact:
Carrie Gradin (cgradin12@georgefox.edu)
Jamie Whisler (jwhisler12@georgefox.edu)
Bree Thomas (bthomas13@georgefox.edu)

On Thursday, March 13, the summer serve teams will be selling quesadillas and cookies in the Bruin Den from 9 p.m. to midnight.

All proceeds will benefit the upcoming summer serve trips. Take a study break, or stop by while waiting to sign up for your trip during tent city, and help us fund raise for our trip! Come hungry!

Questions? Contact ksimonsen13@georgefox.edu

You won’t want to miss the Salsa Dance this Friday, March 14, at the Chehalem Cultural Center. We will have a DJ and lessons available during the dance.

The dance starts at 8 p.m.

Salsa lessons are happening today (Tuesday) and tomorrow (Wednesday) in the Bruin Grounds (formerly Foxhole). Lessons will take place at 9 p.m. each night.

Come learn some moves so that you can be ready for the Salsa Dance happening this Friday, March 14.

Tent City is this Thursday, March 13!

If you are participating you must have at least one person from your group in your tent at all times starting at 10 p.m. Thursday until 8 a.m. Friday morning.

Make sure you’re not late!

All are invited to join us for a session, “Women Serving AND Leading: The Role of Presence and Power in Servant Leadership,” from 3:30 to 5 p.m. tomorrow afternoon (Tuesday) in EHS 102 on the Newberg campus. Our own MaryKate Morse from the seminary will be presenting.

Women and men in institutional environments can default to traditional roles of men primarily leading and women primarily serving. Jesus led and served, and he invited women and men to do the same.

This presentation by MaryKate explores the unique challenges women face as servant-leaders and suggests ways men and women might support each other on the journey. We hope you can join us! Refreshments will be served. The event is sponsored by the Leadership Development Initiative.

Questions? Email Sarah Baldwin at sbaldwin@georgefox.edu.

This is a reminder that College of Business Dean Candidate Murray MacTavish will speak today (Monday) on the topic, “What is your three- to five-year vision for a College of Business in a Christian university? Considering today’s higher education climate, what are the key success factors that will promote George Fox’s College of Business to not only survive, but to thrive, in the future?”

The presentation will be from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. in EHS 102 on the Newberg campus. Murray is currently the MBA director and associate professor of leadership and international management at Trinity Western University in British Columbia, Canada.

We welcome your input and participation in this process.

Questions? Contact Jeff VandenHoek at jvandenh@georgefox.edu.

Join us tonight (Monday) for the Liberal Arts and Critical Issues lecture featuring Elaine Brouwer, director of Alta Vista, an educational organization based in Seattle. She will speak from 7 to 8 p.m. in Hoover 105 on the topic “Spaces Where Learners Flourish,” in which she will explore the sorts of “spaces” that provide particularly favorable environments in which learners can thrive in the present and in the future we cannot see.

Questions? Contact Paul Otto at ext. 2676 or potto@georgefox.edu.

Esther L. Meek, professor of philosophy at Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pa., will speak Tuesday and Wednesday, March 11-12, for the university’s annual Spring Theological Conference.

Meek will address the community at a Tuesday “Intellectual Feast” hosted by the College of Christian Studies (4 p.m., Hoover 250), and at morning chapel on Wednesday (10:40 a.m., Bauman Auditorium). She’ll also visit philosophy classes and meet on campus with Sophilo (Philosophy Club). The theme for the conference is “Loving in Order to Know: A How-to for Knowing and Being.”

A writer, teacher, speaker and conversationalist, Meek especially likes to think and talk about how we know (epistemology). She’s the author of several books. Her latest, A Little Manual for Knowing, will be available for purchase during the conference.

For more information about Meek and her visit to George Fox University, visit this page or contact Paula Hampton (phampton@georgefox.edu).

At this point in the semester you should have around 7 chapel credits. To check on the status of your chapel credits, please check your MyGFU (under students resources and then chapel- you will see a list of all events with a check next to every event attended. Your requirement and amount of credits still needed is at the bottom of this page).

There are 12 more events for credit this semester and as a reminder you may earn up to 5 of your total credits from chapel electives. We are always adding electives to our list. If you have podcast permission granted through a chapel waiver form, remember you can watch podcasts for credit.

Questions:
What’s the policy?
All undergraduate students who have less than 93 accumulative credits and are not 23 by the beginning of the 2014 spring semester must earn 15 chapel credits by Friday, April 25th. An overview of our deficiency policy and explanation of where to find the podcast and the chapel credit form found on your mygfu account.

I went to chapel but my credit isn’t showing up?
If you went to a chapel event but your credit isn’t showing up you may send us a summary of the chapel at spiritaullife@georgefox.edu with you ID number.

Why do I need to go to chapel, I’m a senior?
If you are a senior, in order for the system to recognize you as a senior you must have 93 accumulative credits. You must not actually have 93 credits prior to this semester. Good news! If you are a fourth year student we just need you to request that the registrar’s office sign an waiver form clarifying this is indeed your fourth year. Here is the waiver form.

If you have any questions, please e-mail our staff at:  spirituallife@georgefox.edu or stop by our office at the corner of Sheridan and Meridian.

The sign-up sheet for the 24 1/2-Hour Play Festival is up in Lemmons on the theatre department’s board. We are looking for actors and crew. No experience is necessary; all students are invited to participate.

The annual 24 1/4-Hour Play Festival will bring together three teams of playwrights, directors, actors and designers to create three 10-minute plays in 24.5 hours! The event will begin on Friday, March 14, at 7 p.m. and end with a performance on Saturday, March 15, at 7:30 p.m. in Wood-Mar Auditorium.

For questions or comments, please contact Susan Carlson at scarlson10@georgefox.edu.

When does life begin? What is the meaning of life? How can we stand up for our beliefs while demonstrating kindness and respect? These questions challenge our society and our faith every day.

If you are searching for answers or want to know more about advocating for life, we encourage you to attend a special chapel event on Monday, March 17, when the university’s Students for Life group will host a chapel from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Cap and Gown Room. We have been blessed with the opportunity to hear from guest speaker Rebekah Barnes, who will share her knowledge on the biblical approach to life, as well as provide apologetics training on the topic of life. Elective chapel credit is available.

Questions? Email studentsforlifegfu@gmail.com

“Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect.” (I Peter 3:15).

“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.” (Matthew 25:40)

This is a reminder to attend the ribbon cutting of our new IDEA Center! Grab a bite to eat and take some time to network with guests from different industry sectors. The open house is today (Friday) from 2:30 to 4:15 p.m. in the Duke Atrium on the first floor of the Stevens Center. Special sessions include:

• 2:40 p.m. in Duke Atrium: “Making Your Career Your Calling” – US Digital CEO David Madore
• 3 p.m. in Stevens 209: “Many Roads Lead to High Tech” – Victor Solano, User Experience Manager, Autodesk (you don’t need to be in a tech major to attend)
• 3 p.m. in Stevens 107: “Getting and Nailing the Interview” – Aliza Scott, VP of HR and Organizational Development, Tripwire
• 3-4 p.m.: Networking for those not attending a class session
• 4 p.m.: Ribbon cutting with President Robin Baker

We’ll host several industry professionals representing a wide range of careers. Meet these guests and check out their job/internship links at careers.georgefox.edu.

Questions? Contact Sidney Tafflinger at stafflinger@georgefox.edu or ext. 2330.

College of Business Dean Candidate Murray MacTavish will speak Monday, March 10, on the topic, “What is your three- to five-year vision for a College of Business in a Christian university? Considering today’s higher education climate, what are the key success factors that will promote George Fox’s College of Business to not only survive, but to thrive, in the future?”

The presentation will be from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. in EHS 102 on the Newberg campus. Murray is currently the MBA director and associate professor of leadership and international management at Trinity Western University in British Columbia, Canada.

We welcome your input and participation in this process.

Questions? Contact Jeff VandenHoek at jvandenh@georgefox.edu.

Do you love helping others uncover their potential? Do you like showing others ways to be a more effective and efficient student? Do your friends always come to you to look over their papers before they turn them in? Do you have a GPA above 3.0? If you answered yes to these questions, you might have a future as a consultant in the Academic Resource Center (ARC).

Application material for the 2014-15 academic year is available at this link. Completed materials are due by today (Friday), March 7. Contact Rick Muthiah (rmuthiah@georgefox.edu, 503-554-2314) if you have questions.

All are invited to join us for a session, “Women Serving AND Leading: The Role of Presence and Power in Servant Leadership,” from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 11, in EHS 102 on the Newberg campus. Our own MaryKate Morse from the seminary will be presenting.

Women and men in institutional environments can default to traditional roles of men primarily leading and women primarily serving. Jesus led and served, and he invited women and men to do the same.

This presentation by MaryKate explores the unique challenges women face as servant-leaders and suggests ways men and women might support each other on the journey. We hope you can join us! Refreshments will be served. The event is sponsored by the Leadership Development Initiative.

Questions? Email Sarah Baldwin at sbaldwin@georgefox.edu.