The Daily Bruin

On Wednesday, March 4, from 6 to 8:30 p.m., the Portland Center will sponsor a free resource event, Re-Boot, for people experiencing economic distress due to changes in our economy. Cosponsored by the Graduate Department of Counseling’s Individual & Family Matters Counseling Center and the Trauma Response Institute, it will take place in the Portland South building.

The event will host individuals and organizations offering information on a variety of topics, including where to turn for housing assistance, maximizing shopping dollars, job searching on the Internet, managing pet care on a tight budget, and helping children understand changes in the family’s living situation.

Room 155 in the Portland South building will serve as the main information area. In a separate classroom, people will get a chance to view a variety of dollar-stretching video clips from the numerous consumer advice segments aired by local television stations. Five-minute neck and hand massages, as well as yoga exercises parents can teach their children, also will be offered.

The Portland South building will be open at 5:30 p.m. for participating organizations to set up their information tables. We’ll also set aside the back portion of the lobby for childcare. We’re inviting all members of the George Fox community to participate according to your interest and availability.

If you have an idea for a table, are willing to help out with childcare, or would like to help usher guests from one arena to another, please contact Amy McClung, our volunteer coordinator, at ext. 6060. For more information, you may also contact Anna Berardi at ext. 6144.

George Fox received the lone first-round bye in the NCAA Division III Women’s Basketball National Tournament and will open the tournament with a home game Saturday, March 7, against the winner of a first-round game between Chapman University and Occidental College.

Saturday’s game in the Wheeler Sports Center’s Miller Gym begins at 7 p.m. Tickets are $6 for adults and $3 for students, children and seniors 55 and older. Advance tickets will go on sale in the George Fox athletics office on Wednesday and must be purchased in person. Tickets also will be available at the door. Regular season passes are not valid for the NCAA playoffs.

Campus station KFOX Radio will webcast the game, and LiveStats and live video streaming also will be available.

George Fox, ranked No. 2 in the USA Today/ESPN/Women’s Basketball Coaches Association poll and No. 3 in the D3hoops.com poll, is one of two remaining undefeated teams in D-III women’s basketball. The Bruins will be making their third straight appearance in the national tournament, fourth in five years, and sixth in 10 seasons of NCAA eligibility. They have a 7-5 record in NCAA postseason play, reaching the “Sweet 16” in 2000, 2005, and 2008, and the “Elite 8” in 2005.

The Bruins earned the Northwest Conference’s automatic bid to the playoffs by winning the conference tournament with victories over Whitman College and the University of Puget Sound.

The university’s theatre department invites the community to its spring production, The Triumph of Love, March 5-7 and March 12-15 in Wood-Mar Auditorium. Performances take place at 7:30 p.m. March 5-7 and 12-14 and at 2 p.m. on March 15.

The play, directed by Rhett Luedtke (Performing Arts), is an 18th-century romantic comedy filled with all the confusions and complexities of love. Princess Leonide’s world turns upside down when she falls in love with a young man who can rightfully usurp her kingdom. Unfortunately, her love interest is being tutored by an over-rational philosopher who hates love and has taught the young man to hate women. So Leonide and her maid, Corine, dress up as men, invade the philosopher’s estate and try to prove to the men that love conquers all.

Employees receive one complimentary ticket, available for pick-up at the University Store. Students are welcome to see the show free of charge on Thursday, March 5, and Thursday, March 12, and may pick up those tickets at the University Store. The cost is $10 for general admission, $8 for seniors and alumni, and $6 for students and children under 12. To purchase tickets or find out more, visit theatre.georgefox.edu.

George Fox undergraduate and graduate students are eligible to apply for student research funding through the Richter Scholarship program. The second round of scholarship applications are due by 4 p.m. Tuesday, March 31. The program provides stipends and supply funds for research in collaboration with a faculty member.

Please turn in applications to Carol Jaquith (Psychology) at Box 6127, or deliver to Hoover 110. For details, visit the university’s Richter Scholarship page.

The Spring Faculty Lecture, “Channeling the Inklings: A Dialogue About Writing Group Success,” will be presented by Ed Higgins, Polly Peterson, Melanie Springer Mock (Writing/Literature), and Kendra Weddle Irons (Religious Studies) from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, March 3, in Hoover 105.

The presenters will examine the use of writing groups for teaching and scholarship and discuss their group’s parallel to the Inklings, a famous English writing group that included C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien.

Parents of George Fox students will gather at the Newberg campus and in homes along the West Coast to pray for the George Fox University community from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, March 14. We are gathering prayer requests that will guide this time of prayer.

If you have a prayer request that you would like to be remembered in prayer, please send your request to the Office of Spiritual Life at spirituallife@georgefox.edu. If you would like the request to be anonymous, please indicate so in your e-mail. Please e-mail your requests by this Friday, Feb. 26.

Beginning Monday, March 2, the Mail Services courier will be delivering to the Salem campus on Mondays and Thursdays each week. Service to the Portland Center will continue each day Monday through Friday.

Items for the Portland or Salem campuses must be brought to University Mail Services by 9:45 a.m. and clearly labeled to show the intended recipient or department.

If you are interested in global issues, love to travel, enjoy learning about other cultures and foreign languages, and have a heart for community service, the Peace Corps may be the right fit for you. The organization will host an on-campus  information session and application workshop from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 3, in Lemmons 15 on the Newberg campus.

Come to this Peace Corps event to learn more about living and working overseas. To learn more, visit the Peace Corps website.

Jeff VandenHoek (School of Management) will give leadership to the newest School of Management graduate program — a full-time MBA program that will launch on the Newberg campus this August. It will be a highly integrative, intense, intentional, cohort-based, 11-month program. We welcome referrals. Contact VandenHoek at jvandenh@georgefox.edu for more information, or visit the MBA page on the university’s website.

Due to a reallocation of resources to the full-time MBA and the accreditation process, we will faze out the Executive Track MBA program with its current cohorts when they graduate in 2010. Twenty-two executives have graduated, and 24 are currently in the Executive Track MBA program. To hear Dean Ken Armstrong’s announcement about the changes, visit the university’s iTunes U site. Scroll to “Campus Spotlight” and click on “School of Management.”

You’re invited to join the university’s International Justice Mission Chapter for a sex-trafficking awareness event from 7 to 11 p.m. Thursday, March 5, in the Duke Atrium of the Stevens Center. The gathering will include food, live music, and plenty of chances to learn more about this very serious issue and ways that you can create change here in Oregon and abroad.

You are represented on the university’s Safety Committee. Please read the minutes posted at your location (Physical Plant and Mail Room in Newberg; Portland location TBA). If you have any comments and/or concerns, please contact one of the following:

Dan Schutter (Chair, Safety Officer), Teresa Arnold (Secretary, Science/Chemical Hygiene), Linda Sartwell (Staff), David Hansen (Faculty), Lisa Burton (HR), Trini Marquez (Plant Services), Ed Gierok (Security), Charlie Kamilos (Portland Center), Carl Anderson (Tilikum), and Steve Petzold (Engineering)

Homecoming 2009 is set to take place this Friday and Saturday, Feb. 20-21, on the Newberg campus. Hosted by Alumni Relations, this annual celebration includes a diverse selection of events designed to help alumni reconnect with each other and with the university.

Highlights of Homecoming 2009 include the Winter Music Concert on Friday night; the Alumni Celebration Brunch Saturday morning; class reunions (for the classes of 1939, 1949, 1969, 1979, 1984, 1989, and 1999) Saturday afternoon; and a Young Alumni Gathering at Abby’s Pizza on Saturday night. Additionally, this year’s schedule features two special affinity reunions — one for alumni of the George Fox football program, and one for alumni of any George Fox business program.

Homecoming also features the final two nights of conference basketball play for both the men and undefeated women squads.

To find out more, visit homecoming.georgefox.edu.

The university’s library website has been upgraded. You can now search all of the library’s Web pages from a convenient search box on the library’s homepage.

Alumna and author Dawn Herzog Jewell will be on the Newberg campus on Monday, Feb. 16, to talk about her work helping victims of sex trafficking. She will be speaking in chapel at 10:40 a.m. in Bauman Auditorium and host a book signing at 11:45 a.m. in the University Bookstore. She is the author of Escaping the Devil’s Bedroom.

Herzog Jewell’s chapel talk will weave the stories of individual victims of sexual exploitation with an examination of the realities that got them there in North America and overseas. She also will highlight ministries that are reaching one life at a time through prayerful visits to strip-clubs, bars and seedy streets.

There is now a Prayer Request box in the Portland Center prayer chapel.

If you would like to share a prayer concern with the PrayerNet team you can do so by placing a request in the prayer box. PrayerNet is a group of employees who seek to strengthen and serve the GFU community through intercessory prayer.

Career Services invites the university community to visit a website, The Big Guide to Living and Working Overseas, to learn more about traveling abroad to study, volunteer, intern, teach, travel or work.

The online guide shows everyone from first-year students to graduates how to build their credentials and prepare for work in the global economy. Discover opportunities, acquire skills, and develop the all-important global perspective with this easy-to-use interactive guide. Registration is required.

Don’t forget to register for Kaleo 2009, scheduled from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. this Saturday, Feb. 7, in Bauman Auditorium. We desire our youth not to simply be believers in Christ, but followers of Christ — ordinary people living radically in the love of Jesus Christ, called to bring forth another world among us.

Come and enjoy worship and teaching with guest speaker Shane Claiborne and worship leader Aaron Strumpel. The event also features workshops covering more than a dozen topics.

Ticket prices for faculty, staff, and graduate students are $37. Traditional undergraduate students are free. Online registration ends on Friday, Feb. 6.

If you have any questions, contact Amy Lorenz (University Relations) at 503-554-2134 or alorenz@georgefox.edu.

Shane Claiborne, author of Irresistible Revolution and guest speaker for the Kaleo youth ministry conference Saturday and the Monday, Feb. 9, chapel, will host a talk-back session after chapel from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Bruin Den Annex. Students and employees are invited to attend.

Learn about the issue of racism in Portland through the film Grandma Zula’s Legacy at 6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 2, in EHS 102 (note room change) on the Newberg campus. Meet the film’s creator and producer through a talkback discussion.

Please come a few minutes early to enjoy munchies and get a seat. Free for all students.

George Fox Evangelical Seminary and Shapevine are co-hosting “Recalibrating Concepts of Church” from 2 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 4, in Bauman Auditorium.

Authors Len Sweet, MaryKate Morse, Frank Viola, Alan Hirsch, and Dan Kimball will discuss their books and engage in conversation with each other and the audience. Lance Ford will moderate. Online registration is available at seminars.georgefox.edu. An optional $15 roundtable dinner and book-signing event is scheduled afterwards from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.