The Daily Bruin

The IDEA Center will be hosting one more event this week for students who have yet to declare a major or who have declared a major but are still feeling uncertain about their direction. It will be today (Thursday) at 10:50 a.m. in Stevens 208.

Come hear from a panel of current students and recent graduates who also found it challenging to decide on a major and the steps they took discerning their direction. This session will also include helpful tools and insights aimed at connecting your academic pursuits with your interests and passions.

Questions? Please contact the IDEA Center at idea@georgefox.edu

The annual Polar Bear Swim is here again! Join your fellow students in jumping into a freezing cold lake at night! Come to Camp Tilikum Lake at 7:30 p.m. tonight (Thursday) to brave the frigid waters and get a free sweatshirt. Wear a swimsuit and bring a towel to warm up with after the plunge.

Questions? Please contact Moriah Kimmer at mkimmer11@georgefox.edu.

Five staff and administrator positions are currently open. Listed in order of recency, they are:

• Visit Coordinator, Undergrad Admissions
• Director, University Mail and Print Services
• Director of Intercultural Life
• Area Coordinator, Residence Life
• Software Engineer, Analytics

The link to each of these position announcements can be found at jobs.georgefox.edu. If you know of someone you believe might provide a good fit for any of these jobs, please refer the person to the website for information about the job and instructions about applying.

On Thursday, Feb. 26, our 25Live system will be upgraded to Version 24. This upgrade will greatly increase the speed of entering requests and doing searches. The other thing you will notice is a completely new layout in the Event Wizard. Watch for reminders about the upgrade, which will include when the system will not be available in the early-morning hours of Feb. 26.

Training sessions will be provided for those users new to 25Live and separate sessions for those who just want to explore what’s new. We encourage anyone who uses 25Live on a regular basis to come to one of these sessions. Not only will we show you what’s new, but we’ll provide tips and tricks to using 25Live.

Sessions will be held on Feb. 26 and 27. There will be training on the Newberg campus in our labs. Portland users are welcome to attend a Newberg session or attend a webinar from the comfort of your own office on Friday, Feb. 27.

To sign up for training, please complete our Registration Form by Wednesday, Feb. 25. You must be logged into your George Fox Google account to access the form.

Questions? Email the IT Service Desk at servicedesk@georgefox.edu.

Don’t forget to join us for the university’s fifth annual Dalton Lecture tonight (Thursday) as Dr. William Phillips, a 1997 Nobel Prize winner in physics, presents at 7:30 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium. The free presentation is entitled “Ordinary Faith, Ordinary Science,” in which he will speak on the common ground shared between faith and science. A George Fox student research poster session and dessert reception will follow Phillips’ lecture.

Among the questions Phillips will address are queries that can be particularly troublesome for a Christian: “Why is there suffering if God is good?” “What about all the terrible things done in the name of religion?” and “What about all the good people who are on a different path of faith than Christianity?”

Phillips will also speak this afternoon at 3:30 p.m. on the topic “Time, Einstein and the Coolest Stuff in the Universe” in Wood-Mar Auditorium (please note location update from Wednesday’s announcement).

The Dalton Lecture Series is sponsored by the Department of Biology and Chemistry. More information can be found on the Dalton Lecture page.

Please join in as a George Fox community on Wednesday, Feb. 18, in honor of Ash Wednesday. We will be holding a service in Bauman Auditorium at 1 p.m. to prepare our hearts and minds as we enter the season of Lent.

All are welcome and encouraged to join us!

Due to a bank holiday on your regular payday of Monday, Feb. 16, payday for student employees has been moved up to Friday, Feb. 13.

Happy Valentine’s Day from HR!

Longing for a low-key, low-pressure night full of literary laughs? Then sigh no more: “Bad Poetry Night” is coming on Friday, Feb. 20, from 6 to 9 p.m. in Lemmons 8.

“Bad poetry” doesn’t just mean your middle school love poems (though it certainly could include them). It could be a dramatic reading of a song, a Facebook post, or a series of tweets. It could be a truly awful poem you stumbled across on the Internet. It could be spoken word (or something akin to it). Or it could simply be a “bad” reading of a poem traditionally thought to be “good.”

The sign-up sheet will be posted in the Minthorne mail room. The deadline to sign up is this Friday, Feb. 13. The event is being sponsored by the George Fox chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the international English Honor Society.

Questions? Contact Emily Lund (elund12@georgefox.edu).

There will be an all-scholars meeting today (Thursday, Feb. 12) at 10:50 a.m. in Hoover 103 for all Act Six, MLS and South Central leadership scholars. Come have a bite together and connect. We need your presence. We need your voice. We need your perspective and your help. You are George Fox.

Questions? Please contact Donna Barber at dbarber@georgefox.edu.

The campus community is invited to a Liberal Arts and Critical Issues presentation, “Confessions of a Public School Teacher (Who Sends his Child to Private Christian School,” this Monday, Feb. 16, in Hoover 105. The session runs from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. and features Andrew Milton, a public school teacher in DuPont, Wash., and author of The Normal Accident Theory of Education.

Milton will consider the logical and philosophical implications of educational choices that have spiritual implications. He finds that modern education won’t serve the needs of postmodern learners – but not for the reasons that you might think.

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

Make plans to join the College of Business’ Executive in Residence presentation next Thursday, Feb. 19, as Martin Daum, president and CEO of Daimler Trucks North America, speaks at 7 p.m. in Hoover 105. There is no charge to attend, and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.

Daum will speak on the topic “How Does Christian Faith Help Me in My Business?” He was appointed to his current position at Daimler Trucks North America in June 2009 and is in charge of visionary responsibilities for the company and its affiliated companies.

To learn more about Daum and the Executive in Residence program, visit this page.

Genealogists and family historians of all skill levels are invited to a presentation of the riches of archives for genealogical research. The talk will be followed by a discussion and tour of the archives of George Fox University and the Northwest Yearly Meeting.

Join us at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 17, in the Murdock Learning Resource Center’s multipurpose room. There is no charge to attend.

For more information, please contact the archivist, Rachel Thomas, at rthomas@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2415.

Contemplative Worship will be held today (Thursday) in the Prayer Chapel from 10:50 to 11:40 a.m. Contemplative Worship is dedicated to setting aside time and space to rest in God’s embrace, ask him questions, give him thanks, or whatever the condition of your heart. Elective chapel credit is available.

Who will be representing your voice on campus next year?

The choice is all yours! Come to Bauman Auditorium tonight (Wednesday) at 8:15 p.m. to hear from all of the candidates about what they would like to see happen on campus next year. Drinks and snacks will be provided!

Voting will open on igfu.georgefox.edu immediately following the event.

Questions? Please contact Jake Vanier at jvanier12@georgefox.edu

Nominate a faculty and/or staff member who has had an impact on your experience here at Fox. Those chosen will be featured in the yearbook (The Student Collective) this year. This is a chance for you to show your appreciation for all the hard work they do.

Click here to complete the survey. We appreciate your responses!

Questions? Please visit the Student Collective Team webpage.

Don’t forget to join us for the university’s fifth annual Dalton Lecture tomorrow (Thursday) as Dr. William Phillips, a 1997 Nobel Prize winner in physics, presents at 7:30 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium. The free presentation is entitled “Ordinary Faith, Ordinary Science,” in which he speak on the common ground shared between faith and science. A George Fox student research poster session and dessert reception will follow Phillips’ lecture.

Among the questions Phillips will address are queries that can be particularly troublesome for a Christian: “Why is there suffering if God is good?” “What about all the terrible things done in the name of religion?” and “What about all the good people who are on a different path of faith than Christianity?”

Phillips will also speak Thursday afternoon, Feb. 12, at 3:30 p.m. on the topic “Time, Einstein and the Coolest Stuff in the Universe” in Bauman Auditorium.

The Dalton Lecture Series is sponsored by the Department of Biology and Chemistry. More information can be found on the Dalton Lecture page.

Just a quick reminder that curbs painted yellow are considered as “fire lanes” around campus, and it’s illegal to park by them or to leave a car parked there.

Cars parked outside of marked spots (a line on each side of the vehicle) will be ticketed as parking in a fire lane because emergency vehicles won’t have sufficient room to maneuver closer to a building in case of a fire or emergency.

Please obey this State of Oregon traffic law and park only in marked spaces, especially in the Bauman, Wheeler and VAC lots where it has been problematic.

Thank you!
– Security Services

Join us for a student-directed play coming up on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 27-28, when George Fox University theatre’s Alpha Psi Omega Society presents Eleemosynary, a one-act play written by Lee Blessing and directed by Cambria Herrera.

The play begins at 8:30 p.m. each night and runs for an hour and 15 minutes in the Murdock Learning Resource Center. Tickets will be sold for $5 at the door, and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.

Come hear from former University Pastor Sarah Baldwin tonight (Wednesday) in chapel. Sarah now serves as the VP of student development and dean of students as Asbury University. Chapel will be held in Bauman Auditorium at 7 p.m. Chapel credit is available.

For more information, please visit spirituallife.georgefox.edu or email spirituallife@georgefox.edu.

This is a reminder that all vehicles must be moved out of the Wood-Mar parking lot today (Wednesday) before 5 p.m. Please plan accordingly.

Thank you.