The Daily Bruin

The Portland Center Bookstore is looking for ways to better serve the Portland Center community. Attached is a survey regarding the Portland Center Bookstore services and Coffee Cart/Food Services at the Portland Center.

The survey consists of 10 questions and will only take a few short minutes of your time. We would like to have the online surveys completed no later than 5 p.m. on Wed., Feb. 20.

We sincerely appreciate your participation. Your input is invaluable.

Click this link: Bookstore Survey

Please contact John Stewart at ext 6126 if you have any questions about the survey.

Career Services is teaming up with the religion and Christian ministries departments to host a seminary fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26, in the Hoover Academic Building on the Newberg campus. Seminaries from across the country will have representatives present. Get information from Asbury, Ashland, Fuller, George Fox Evangelical, Trinity Western, Phillips, North Park, Western, and Truett

Graduate Department of Counseling students in COUN/MFT 582 Research and Evaluation are working with Michelle J. Cox (Counseling) to investigate baby boomers’ images of God, attachment styles, spiritual transcendence, and emotional well-being.

Student researchers are looking for volunteers born between 1946 and 1964 to complete a 45-minute survey. Anyone willing to participate is asked to contact Michelle via e-mail at mcox@georgefox.edu for more information about the study and when data collection will begin.

A farewell reception for Jules Glanzer (Seminary) is scheduled from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, in the main lobby of the Portland Center. Jules is leaving to serve as president of his alma mater, Tabor College in Kansas.

A bioethics discussion, “Abortion and Breast Cancer, the Missing Link Found,” with Dr. Clem Persaud, PhD, a professor of biotechnology, is scheduled from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 20, in Hoover 105.

Come hear one of the world’s leading biotechnology experts discuss relevant topics of faith and science. Dr. Persaud is a retired professor of biotechnology from Canadore College, Ontario.  He travels extensively leading bioethics discussions on various topics such as stem cells, embryo research, and cloning.

For more information, contact Ryan MacKenzie at rmackenzie04@georgefox.edu.

Our North building has gone to a cardlock system to increase preventative security for our staff that works there. Eventually our main south building will also be using cardlock system in the evenings.

To ensure that you can access the building in the evening once the system is up and running, please stop by the front office at your earliest convenience to have your card tested for encoding. If it needs to be encoded, our front office staff will be able to do that for you at that time. The process takes only 2-3 minutes.  

If you have already come by the front office and had your card encoded, please disregard this email.

Thank you for your cooperation!

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Optimal Resume, now offered through Career Services, is certain to give you the professional advantage you need to compete successfully with other candidates in the market. You will be getting a great value with the complete set of tools available in this Career Services resource system along with consultation on demand.

This new system is now an important prerequisite to getting further assistance – the starting point before you request to see us about any of the above job search tools/skills.

Sign up for an account at: http://georgefox.optimalresume.com or go to Bruindata, click on “My Data,” and click on “Optimal Resume”

Pricing:

Undergrads pay a one-time fee of $25 and can use Optimal Resume as long as you are a student at George Fox, plus six months after graduation.

Alumni pay a $29 fee for one year of use.

A 20 percent discount applies for those who are required to use the system in a course.

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Questions? Contact Career Services at 503-554-2330.

Baruch Meir, an associate professor at Arizona State University, will visit George Fox for the second installment of the university’s newly created Bösendorfer Artist Concert Series at 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 17, in Bauman Auditorium.

Tickets are $10 for adults, $8 for seniors and alumni, and $6 for students and children under 12. Tickets may be purchased at the box office by calling ext. 3844 or by visiting music.georgefox.edu.

In addition to Sunday’s concert, Meir will be offering a public master class to three piano majors – Joseph Forster, Beth Sellers and Becca Couch – at 4 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15, on the Bauman stage. There is no admission fee to attend the master class.

Meir, named a Bösendorfer Concert Artist in 2003, will perform works by Ravel, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, and Galuppi on Sunday. He has performed in Austria, England, France, Israel, Portugal, and throughout the United States.

He has presented solo recitals at the Bösendorfer Saal in Vienna, Austria; Murphy Hall in Los Angeles; and at the Toujours Mozart Festival in Salzburg, Austria. He also has presented master classes at the Music Academy in Vienna, the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem, and universities in the U.S.

A native of Israel, Meir is a summa cum laude graduate of the Rubin Academy of Music of Tel Aviv University, where he earned both bachelor and master degrees in piano performance.

The School of Professional Studies is sponsoring Spiritual Emphasis Week at the Portland Center Feb. 11-14. Each evening from 7:30 to 8 p.m. in the main lobby, there will be music and a brief devotional. Light refreshments will be provided.

This great time of community building and personal reflection is open to all students and employees of George Fox. Please plan on attending these very meaningful times.

For details or questions, contact Mark Ocker at the School of Professional Studies.

Tickets are still available for this Friday and Saturday’s presentation of Black Boy, a one-person play featuring Broadway actor Charles Holt. Performances begin at 7:30 p.m. both nights in Wood-Mar Auditorium.

Holt plays Richard Wright and a host of additional characters in Wynn Handman’s adaption of Wright’s influential 1945 autobiography Black Boy. Holt has been performing Black Boy for the last seven years throughout the United States. More information on the production is available at charlesholtproductions.com.

Employees and students are entitled to one complimentary ticket, available for pick-up at the University Store. Additional tickets are $10 for general admission, $8 for seniors and alumni, and $6 for students and children under 12. Tickets may be purchased at the box office by calling 503-554-3844 or online at theatre.georgefox.edu.

Faculty, staff, and students are invited to the February Peace and Justice Symposium session sponsored by the Center for Peace and Justice.

The event is scheduled from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 13, in the Special Collections Room on the second floor of the library on the Newberg campus. Speaker John Gorlorwulu (School of Management), who grew up in Liberia, West Africa, will speak on “Peacebuilding Challenges and Opportunities in Liberia.”

The symposium will explore and celebrate the diversity of approaches for exemplifying Christ’s all-inclusive call to peace and justice in our lives.

Each university student, staff, and faculty member is entitled to one complimentary ticket to Black Boy, the one-man play featuring Broadway actor Charles Holt. The production is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. this Friday and Saturday, Feb. 8-9, in Wood-Mar Auditorium. The complimentary tickets are available at the University Store. To purchase additional tickets, visit theatre.georgefox.edu.

“Get in Step with George Fox University” is the theme of Homecoming 2008, scheduled this Friday and Saturday, Feb. 8-9, 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.

Festivities include a Five O’Clock People concert on Friday night, the Alumni Celebration Brunch Saturday morning, class reunions (for the classes of 1938, 1948, 1968, 1978, 1983, 1988, and 1998) 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 Pacific College (George Fox pre-1949), and one for alumni of Steve Grant’s (Health and Human Performance) ballroom dance classes.

To find out more about these events, as well as information about the homecoming basketball games and the theatre production Black Boy, visit homecoming.georgefox.edu.

Mulitcultural Services and the university’s theatre department invite the George Fox community to the production Black Boy, a one-person play featuring Broadway actor Charles Holt, on Feb. 8-9. Performances begin at 7:30 p.m. both nights in Wood-Mar Auditorium.

Synopsis: Holt plays Richard Wright and a host of additional characters in Wynn Handman’s adaption of Wright’s influential 1945 autobiography Black Boy.

What was life like in the Jim Crow South of the United States as an African American boy in 1908? What were the hardships one had to overcome? In what way was a person buoyed by hope, pride, and dignity? Those questions and others are addressed in the production.

The play is being presented in recognition of Black History Month. Holt has been performing Black Boy for the last seven years throughout the United States. To find out more on Holt and the play, go to charlesholtproductions.com.

Tickets are $10 for general admission, $8 for seniors and alumni, and $6 for students and children under 12. Tickets may be purchased at the box office by calling 503-554-3844 or online at theatre.georgefox.edu.

What holiday is celebrated on Feb. 1? It’s National Freedom Day. The purpose of this holiday is to promote good feelings, harmony, and equal opportunity among all citizens and to remember that the United States is a nation dedicated to the ideal of freedom.

Major Richard Robert Wright Sr., a former slave, fought to have a day when freedom for all Americans is celebrated. When Wright got his freedom, he went on to become a successful businessman and community leader in Philadelphia. He chose Feb. 1 as National Freedom Day because it was the day in 1865 that President Lincoln signed the 13th Amendment – the amendment to outlaw slavery – to the Constitution.

Wright gathered national and local leaders together to write a bill declaring Feb. 1 “National Freedom Day,” and President Harry Truman signed the bill in 1948 to make it official.

Spring Serve trips are fast approaching and we need employees or alumni leaders to help facilitate the leadership of a trip with two student leaders. The approximate dates are March 21-29. For more information about these trips and responsibilities, contact Andrea Crenshaw (Campus Ministries) at 503-554-2323 or acrensha@georgefox.edu.

Space is still available for the seminary’s Ministry in Contemporary Culture Seminar, featuring author, theologian, and futurist Len Sweet on Tuesday, Feb. 5.

Sweet will speak on “The Influence of Islam on the 21st Century Church” from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Portland Center. Online registration is available through Feb. 1. Click here for more information on the seminar or Sweet.

Questions? Contact Jean Borgman (Seminary) via e-mail or at ext. 6150.

The theatre department is presenting the student-directed Winter One-Act Festival Thursday through Saturday, Jan. 31 to Feb. 2, in Wood-Mar Auditorium. Performances begin at 7:30 p.m. each evening. Come and support these students as they act, direct, and design this event.

The cost is $6 for students, $8 for seniors and alumni, and $10 general admission. Buy tickets online, at the University Store, or by phone at ext. 3844. Students get in free on Thursday night (Jan. 31) if they get their ticket ahead of time from the bookstore.

All George Fox University students (undergraduate and graduate), as well as alumni from the class of 2007, are invited to apply for the honor of presenting a project during the reception prior to the March 7 inaugural dinner for the university’s 12th president, Robin E. Baker, PhD.

Selected applicants will be invited to attend the inaugural banquet and will give casual presentations to attendees during the reception hour, answering questions and explaining their projects when people approach them.

Additional information Online application

Advanced-level graduate student interns from Counseling and Family Therapy will be hosting a gender reconciliation discussion group. The theologically-oriented group is designed to open dialogue about concerns such as:

• Theological anthropology
• Gender roles in marriage
• Gender and the church
• Society and gender relations
• Language and gender
• Gender reconciliation

The group will be meeting from Feb. 13 through April 16 every Tuesday from 5:30-7 p.m. It will consist of six to eight members. Please e-mail Jacob Dickinson or Allison Bradley for additional details. If there is enough interest, another group will be formed.