The Daily Bruin

Don’t forget, this is the last week to contribute to the Backpack Project Food Drive!

Through Friday, March 15, please bring your food donations to the bins provided in the lobby of the Portland Center. Suggested items include: cans of chili, soup, ravioli in meat sauce, boxes of mac & cheese, small juice boxes (100 percent juice only, no foil containers), individual serving fruit cups, healthy snacks, small packages of dried fruits, oatmeal cups, etc.

Monetary donations can be made at the Information Desk. A $100 donation sponsors a child for weekend meals for the entire school year. Donation checks made out to Fremont United Methodist Church will be tax deductible.

Questions? Contact Emily Maynard at emaynard@georgefox.edu.

The First Avenue Career Expo is Friday, April 5! This is a great opportunity to network with more than 100 different companies and graduate schools. It will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the University of Portland’s Chiles Center.

• For a list of attending companies, click here.
• For a list of attending graduate schools, click here.
• To register online, click here.

Registration cost is $10, but a fee waiver can be earned by having the student attend the “How to Work a Job Fair” info session in the Career Service’s office on either March 13, 15, 21, 22, or April 2 from 12:30 to 1 p.m.

Questions? Contact Corina Burke at ext. 2330 or cburke@georgefox.edu.

We will be hosting Peace’d Together – An Intercultural Conference on the Newberg campus in April! The purpose of the event is to initiate dialogue that will assist us as we bridge gaps that culturally separate us, find truth where each of our roads cross, and celebrate the contribution each of us bring to the diversity of God’s kingdom and the George Fox community.

It will be held in various buildings on campus Friday, April 12, from 7 to 9 p.m. and Saturday, April 13, from 9 a.m to 6 p.m. The key speakers will be Pastor Tory Campbell, Dr. Caleb Rosado, Dr. Keith Dempsey partnering with graduate student Amber Nelson, Dr. Joel Perez, Dr. Melanie Hulbert and the SCORR Team.

To register, click this link. The conference is hosted by the Department of Inclusion & Student Leadership Programs of George Fox.

We hope to see you there. This is a free conference that will be amazing!

All are invited to the university’s annual Day of Prayer Saturday, March 9. Join us for a call to prayer and worship led by Sarah Baldwin, dean of spiritual life and university pastor, and Josh Tryan, a senior who serves as our worship band leader.

We’ll meet in the west end of the Klages Dining Room from 10 a.m. to noon. Following will be a prayer walk around campus led by members of our Parent Council and a “virtual” walk held in Klages.

Questions? Call the Alumni & Parent Relations Office at 503-554-2134.

At the end of next week Urban Outreach will be putting together care packages for our friends living on the streets of Portland and Salem. To those of you who helped in the coin drive, thank you! That will help a lot toward the cost. I don’t know that we can afford to put everything into them that I had hoped, though. So here’s the plan: I’ll let you all in on the creation of these packages.

Following is a list of items I hope to put in each package.

Travel size of the following: shampoo, soap, toothbrush, toothpaste, deodorant, comb, floss, one large black trash bag (believe me, it comes in handy), one or two travel-size packs of wet wipes and a pair of socks

One mini care kit containing: Q-tips, Band-Aids, cotton balls, sterilizing swabs and medical tape

Please e-mail me if you would like to contribute any quantity of the items on this list, or if you have ideas about something else to include. I have thought of including small pocket New Testaments, or at least having them available.

Let’s see what God does!

God bless,
Mary Owen (mowen10@georgefox.edu)

A memorial service for Richard Twiss, an adjunct faculty member at George Fox Evangelical Seminary, will be at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, March 10. The service will be held at Living Hope Church, 2711 N.E. Andresen Road, in Vancouver, Wash.

Live online streaming will be made available. Please check the Wiconi website for more information.

Check out the BlueZone Store’s “Item of the Month” …

All full-priced crew neck sweatshirts and hoodies are 25 percent off during the month of March!

This is a reminder that the George Fox University Day of Prayer is Saturday, March 9. In preparation, the spiritual life office is gathering personal prayer requests from faculty, administrators, staff, students and their families.

Please send your prayer request to spirituallife@georgefox.edu by Tuesday, March 5. Write your prayer request in the way that you would like it to read for the Day of Prayer (please include your name in the request unless you would like it to be unnamed).

Send any questions to Kayin Griffith at kgriffith@georgefox.edu.

The George Fox University Day of Prayer is Saturday, March 9. In preparation, the spiritual life office is gathering personal prayer requests from faculty, administrators, staff, students and their families.

Please send your prayer request to spirituallife@georgefox.edu by Tuesday, March 5. Write your prayer request in the way that you would like it to read for the Day of Prayer (please include your name in the request unless you would like it to be unnamed).

Send any questions to Kayin Griffith at kgriffith@georgefox.edu.

The Portland Center food drive for the Northeast Portland Backpack Lunch Program begins Monday, March 4!

The program serves more than 170 students at four Northeast Portland schools. Oregon hunger statistics are higher than the national average. We can’t solve this problem completely, but our community can make a world of difference to this group of children!

From March 4 through March 15, please bring your food donations to the bins provided in the lobby of the Portland Center. Suggested items include: cans of chili, soup, ravioli in meat sauce, boxes of mac & cheese, small juice boxes (100 percent juice only, no foil containers), individual serving fruit cups, healthy snacks, small packages of dried fruits, oatmeal cups, etc.

Monetary donations can be made at the Information Desk. A $100 donation sponsors a child for weekend meals for the entire school year. Donation checks made out to Fremont United Methodist Church will be tax deductible.

Questions? Contact Emily Maynard at emaynard@georgefox.edu.

The university’s Master of Arts in Teaching full-time program that begins this June is still accepting applications for admission. Be in touch with Admissions Counselor Beth Molzahn (bmolzahn@georgefox.edu) for your next step!

Interested in strengthening your academic writing skills? Come to “Steps to Writing a Successful Research Paper,” a workshop presented by Writing Consultant Sierra Neiman and Reference Librarian Robin Ashford, on Saturday, March 2.

Please plan to come for one, two, or all three of the following segments:

• 1-1:30 p.m.: “Using APA Style”
• 1:45-2:20 p.m.: “Steps to writing a successful research paper,” including developing a research question, engaging in research, creating a thesis statement, and editing your work
• 2:30-3 p.m.: “Using Turabian style

This event is free to current George Fox students. Please R.S.V.P. by e-mailing ssneiman@georgefox.edu.

Interested in taking classes this summer at a discounted rate? The university is offering its largest summer class program ever, with more than two dozen course offerings online and another 30 on campus during May Term.

Traditional undergraduate, adult degree and non-George Fox students may take up to three online summer courses at a cost of $452.50 per credit. Courses range from “Principles of Accounting,” “Art History” and “Bible Survey” to “Film Studies,” “United States History from 1865” and “World of Math.” The majority of online courses run June 1 through July 26 and are limited to 20 students per class. To learn more or register, visit the online classes page on the university’s website. A list of courses is available here.

Also available are on-campus classes for traditional undergraduates, the majority of which meet during the month of May. The cost is also $452.50 per credit, and classes are limited to 20 students. Among the course offerings are “Drawing I,” “Beginning Ceramics,” “Bible Survey,” “Persuasive Communication,” “Human Anatomy and Physiology” and “Intro to Literature.” A full list of on-campus courses is here. Students may register for one class per term and can do so on MyGFU.

To learn more about the summer class program, visit this summer classes page or contact Gary Tandy at gtandy@georgefox.edu.

Faculty, please let students know about this opportunity.

Lisa Sharon Harper, director of mobilizing for Sojourners, will be on campus tomorrow (Wednesday) for the university’s 28th annual Woolman Peacemaking Forum. The theme of the event is “Shalom – Holistic Peace for a Fragmented World.” Her visit has been arranged by the university’s Center for Peace and Justice.

Harper has written extensively on tax reform, comprehensive immigration reform, health-care reform, poverty, racial justice, and transformational civic engagement for publications and blogs, including The National Civic Review, God’s Politics blog, The Huffington Post, Urban Faith, Prism and Slant33.

She is the author of two books: Evangelical Does Not Equal Republican … or Democrat and Left, Right & Christ: Evangelical Faith in Politics.

She will speak three times on campus Wednesday:

• In chapel at 10:40 a.m., on “Shalom and the Fall”
• In a talk-back session immediately following chapel, in the Cap and Gown Room from noon to 1 p.m.
• In an evening presentation, titled “Shalom and Systemic Injustice,” from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in Hoover 105

For more information on Harper’s visit or the forum itself, contact Clint Baldwin at cbaldwin@georgefox.edu. To learn more about Harper, click here.

Paul Anderson has been invited to the Pulitzer School of Journalism at Columbia University in New York City in the interest of commending the program to strong Fox students who are good writers and intellectually curious. Any interested students are invited to gather this afternoon (Monday) from 3:40 to 4:30 p.m. in Hoover 250 for an inventory of student interests and callings.

Questions? Contact Paul at panderso@georgefox.edu.

The Portland Writing Center has one opening for a writing consultant. To qualify for this student-employment position, you must have excellent academic writing skills and the ability to effectively teach those skills to others, attention to detail, strong interpersonal skills, and a willingness to become proficient in both APA and Turabian manuscript styles.

Initially, this position will be for five hours per week and will begin A.S.A.P. There is a potential for increased hours beginning in the fall. For more information or to request an application, contact Rick Muthiah at rmuthiah@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2314.

Come and watch two of the region’s top-ranked men’s tennis teams battle it out (No. 1 George Fox Bruins vs. No. 6 Whitman)! This is one of the biggest matches of the season, and we need your support!

We will have free pizza for all students and staff who present their university ID card.

The match is at 6:30 p.m. tonight (Saturday), rain or shine. It will be contested at the Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation District, 15707 S.W. Walker Road, in Beaverton.

Go Bruins!

The university’s 2013 Dalton Lecture is tonight (Wednesday) in Bauman Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Students who attend will receive chapel credit. The lecture, titled “The Big Bang, Stephen Hawking and God,” will be presented by Dr. Henry F. Schaefer III, director of the Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry at the University of Georgia.

The Dalton Lecture Series is sponsored by the Department of Biology and Chemistry. More information can be found on the Dalton Lecture page or by e-mailing Jane Sweet at jsweet@georgefox.edu.

Interested in strengthening your academic writing skills? Come to “Steps to Writing a Successful Research Paper,” a workshop presented by Writing Consultant Sierra Neiman and Reference Librarian Robin Ashford, on Saturday, March 2. Sessions will take place in PDS 155A.

Please plan to come for one, two or all three of the following segments:

• 1-1:30 p.m.: Using APA style
• 1:45-2:20 p.m.: Steps to writing a successful research paper, including developing a research question, engaging in research, creating a thesis statement, and editing your work
• 2:30-3 p.m.: Using Turabian style

Please R.S.V.P. by e-mailing ssneiman@georgefox.edu.

In honor of Black History Month, Warner Pacific is hosting a Diversity Lecture Series and we would like to offer the opportunity to go to the final segment on Exploring the Paradox of Hip Hop Culture entitled, “Love, Literature, and a Black Man’s Escape from the Crowd,” with guest speaker and author Thomas Chatterton Williams.

We will be taking one van and leaving the Stevens Center parking lot at 5:30 p.m. The event starts at 7 p.m., and we will be returning at its conclusion. We will likely be back on campus by 10 p.m. You are also welcome to meet us there.

The event is today (Tuesday). So if you would like to go, please e-mail Amber Nelson at nelsona@georgefox.edu.

Thank you, and hope to see you there!