The Daily Bruin

The university will be closed Thursday and Friday, Nov. 25-26, for the Thanksgiving holiday. All offices, bookstores and libraries will be closed those two days.

Academic Affairs has announced a new spring commencement schedule. The following schedule will be implemented next semester:

Saturday, April 30, 2011

• 10 a.m. Graduate/SPS Commencement Ceremony
• 11:30 a.m. Faculty Lunch honoring retirees, emeriti faculty, award recipients, etc. (Klages West)
• 1 p.m. Department Dessert Receptions
• 2 p.m. Graduates assemble/doors open
• 3 p.m. Traditional Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony

The midyear commencement schedule remains the same, with doors opening at 1 p.m. for the 2 p.m. ceremony. Please contact Karlyn Fleming (kfleming@georgefox.edu) in the Office of Academic Affairs if you have questions. Thank you!

The Health & Counseling Center is coming to the Portland Center to give flu shots from 4 to 6 p.m. on Monday, Nov 15. The cost is $15 or $1.50 if you have the GFU student insurance. FREE for employees with Regence. Call the Health Center to schedule an appointment at 503-554-2340.

This Tuesday, Nov. 16, the Center for Peace and Justice and Center for Global Studies will co-host an event with Invisible Children as part of their “Face to Face” tour. The evening will include a showing of the 40-minute film Go!, which documents three American students who traveled to Uganda, met students their age, and through these relationships saw their lives changed.

In addition, two Ugandans, James and Robert, who have lived through the war and have been involved with Invisible Children’s partner school program, will share their stories and address ways in which students can respond and participate in advocating on behalf of northern Uganda’s children. This will include a talk-back session with a question-and-answer time following the film.

Please join us from 7 to 9 p.m. in Hoover 105.

The Health & Counseling Center will be at the Portland Campus to give flu shots on Monday, November 15 from 4 to 6 p.m. in Room 210.

The cost is $15. It is only $1.50 if you have GFU student insurance. FREE for employees with Regence insurance.

Please call the Health & Counseling Center to schedule an appointment at 503-554-2340.

There will be limited mail service on Thursday, Nov. 11, for Veterans Day.

The details:

• Mail Services will be open during normal hours (8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.), but there will be no U.S. Mail service that day – no incoming or outgoing mail.
• Other carriers such as UPS will be operational on their normal schedule.
• George Fox University mail courier will be on normal schedule to the Portland and Salem centers.

Questions? Call ext. 2556 or contact Sherrie Frost at sfrost@georgefox.edu

George Fox Evangelical Seminary invites the university community to a free lecture featuring Dr. Erhard Gerstenberger, a world-renowned Old Testament scholar, at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 15, at the Portland Center’s Room 155.

Gerstenberger, a German theologian, has authored or edited 15 books and more than 100 articles on Old Testament studies, form criticism, Psalms and ritual studies, practical theology, feminist criticism and liberation theology. He will speak on “Old Testament Theologies and Pastoral Ministry” in the seminary’s Old Testament introduction class.

He has worked as a professor at Yale and at Giessen and Marburg universities in Germany. He’s also served as a pastor in Germany and as a missionary to Brazil. To learn more about Gerstenberger, visit this link. To learn more about his visit, contact Jean Miller ext. 6150.

This Monday, Nov. 8, is the last Liberal Arts and Critical Issues lecture of the semester. We will host five speakers who will speak about interfaith dialogue and initiatives. Our guests include Jews, Christians and Muslims involved in interfaith groups in the Portland area.

Sessions are scheduled from 4:40 to 5:40 p.m. and from 7 to 8 p.m. in Hoover 105.

If you have any questions, please contact Caitlin Corning at ext. 2673 or via e-mail at ccorning@georgefox.edu.

The Bruin Bookstore will be open this Saturday, Nov. 6, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. for Family Weekend. Come check out the sale on this year’s new product: Sweatpants, regularly priced at $19.99 each, will be two for $30, and select hoodies, normally $29.99, will be two for $40.

All other imprinted clothing and gifts will be 20 percent off! The Family Weekend sale will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both Friday and Saturday.

The university’s Center for Global Studies and Center for Peace and Justice are hosting a panel Tuesday, Nov. 2, related to the panelists’ participation at the Lausanne Movement’s Third Congress on World Evangelization in Cape Town, South Africa, in October. Chapel credit is available for those students who attend.

Panel members include President Robin Baker, Sarita Gallagher (Religious Studies) and the university’s missional-practitioner-in-residence, David Chronic.

Join us at 7:30 p.m. in Hoover 105. A reception will follow.

For more information on the Lausanne Movement, visit lausanne.org. For more information on this event, please contact Melanie Newell at mnewell@georgefox.edu.

This is a reminder that the Bruin Bookstore and textbook annex will be closed all day this Wednesday, Nov. 3, for a transitional inventory. The Box Office will continue to do ticket sales right outside the bookstore between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.

The Bruin Bookstore and textbook annex will be closed all day on Wednesday, Nov. 3, for a transitional inventory. The Box Office will continue to do ticket sales right outside the bookstore between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.

Did you know?
There are children at Sitton Elementary (in North Portland) who don’t have food to eat on the weekend.
It’s true.

Wanna Help?
Bring A Donation of non-perishable items OCT.25 – NOV.6

Portland Center staff & students are teaming together to fill our main lobby with non-perishable items for these kids. Bring your donation to the lobby anytime. Our goal is to see the area overflowing with donations.

Non-perishable food ideas:

• Instant oatmeal
• mini boxes of dry cereal
• Breakfast bars
• canned beef, chicken, ham or tuna
• small jars of mayonnaise
• mac & cheese cups
• fruit cups
• dried fruit
• nuts
• cheese & cracker snacks
• peanut butter & jelly
• canned vegetables
• canned meals-ravioli, etc

If you have questions or would like to volunteer to help pick-up the food from the classrooms or sort it, please contact

Bonnie Nakashimada by email or Janis Sanford by email or phone 503.554.6164

Jennifer Hollis, an admissions rep from Harvard Divinity School, will host an information session from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 27. She is seeking to recruit George Fox students (graduate and undergraduate) who wish to further their education in preparation for service and leadership. All are welcome.

The information session is scheduled at the Hotel Monaco in Portland, 506 S.W. Washington St. at Fifth Avenue. Write admissions@hds.harvard.edu or visit the Harvard Divinity School site for more information.

The Bruin Bookstore Textbook Annex is in the process of returning all overstock textbooks to publishers in anticipation of the Nov. 1 transition. All online textbook ordering has been disabled for all programs. The textbook annex will be closed during this process.

Thank you for your patience. We look forward to continuing to serve you under the management of Validis Resources after Nov. 1.

Tickets are now available for the university’s fall theatre production, Euripides’ Ion. The show is a world premiere of Paul D. Streufert’s translation of the Greek tragedy.

Show dates are Thursday through Saturday, Nov. 4-6, and the following Thursday through Sunday, Nov. 11-14, in Wood-Mar Auditorium. Performances are scheduled at 7:30 p.m. each night with the exception of the Sunday, Nov. 14 show, scheduled as a 2 p.m. matinee.

All George Fox University employees receive one complimentary ticket. Students will be admitted free on both Thursdays. Your complimentary ticket is only available at the Box Office in the Bruin Bookstore. Additional tickets are $12 for adults, $8 for alumni and seniors, and $6 for students and children under 12. To purchase tickets or read a synopsis of the play, visit theatre.georgefox.edu.

Come wish Candy Schlott farewell at 3 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 26, in the Cap and Gown Room. Candy has been the textbook coordinator for nearly 10 years and her last day of work will be Friday, Oct. 29.

Paul Anderson (Religious Studies) and Melissa Pucci (admissions rep from Yale Divinity School) will speak on graduate studies for every aspiring leader (Paul) and how YDS (Melissa) would serve the student in his or her preparation for service.

All are welcome to this “intellectual feast.” Join us Tuesday, Oct. 26, from 4 to 5 p.m. in Hoover 250. Refreshments will be provided.

A representative from Yale Divinity School, Melissa Pucci, will visit George Fox on Tuesday, Oct. 26. Please come by the Bruin Den between 3 and 4 p.m. to learn more about the divinity school’s graduate and professional degree programs and study options.

For more information, visit yale.edu/divinity or e-mail Pucci (melissa.pucci@yale.edu) or Paul Anderson (panderso@georgefox.edu).