The Daily Bruin

Take a quick look at what’s coming up in Career Services! Contact us at ext. 2330 or at careers@georgefox.edu, or stop by Career Services on the first floor of the Stevens Center (and in the Bruin Den on Fridays) if you have questions. Please join us! Upcoming events include:

• Grad School Admissions Workshop: Monday, Oct. 22
• Seminary Fair-Plus: Tuesday, Oct. 23
• After Hours Networking for the Emerging Professional: Friday, Oct. 26
• Professional Preview Day: Friday, Nov. 16

If you are considering changing your major and would like some assistance with that, please come to Career Services on Stevens First Floor, call x. 2330 or email us at www.careers.georgefox.edu.  We are equipped to help you sort this out so you can learn the best major fit for you as you go forward.

Stephanie St. Cyr (Student Life) left George Fox after working at the university for nearly three years. She is caring for the family’s two girls and seeking other part-time employment.

Come by the Spiritual Life House anytime today through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. to check out our porch sale! All proceeds go to support Summer Serve 2013!

Questions? Contact Kendra Phillips at spirituallife@georgefox.edu.

Phil Smith (Religious Studies/Professor of Philosophy) will present a paper, “Good Believing: Practical Epistemology in Eleven Moves,” at the Northwest Conference on Philosophy at Oregon State University Oct. 26-27. Also at the conference, he will comment on a paper by Majid Amini (Virginia State University) called “Can the Maximal God Save God?” Phil is also scheduled to guest lecture in Peter Boghossian’s atheism class at Portland State on Oct. 25. The lecture, entitled “Why Faith is a Virtue,” presents core ideas from Phil’s soon-to-be-published book of the same title.

Ed Higgins (English) published three poems – “theodicy,” “I feed my dog” and “Later now, but” – in the fall 2012 issue of Graze, a semi-annual Chicago literary magazine.

Jamie Johnson (Spiritual Life) and Steve Sherwood (Religious Studies) will be participating in Northwest Yearly Meeting’s annual Youth Workers Conference, scheduled in Hood River Nov. 2-4.

Paul Anderson (Religious Studies) appeared on the “Plus or Minus 60” television show in Canton, Ohio, speaking on the Gospel of John (Sept. 24) and delivered five presentations on “New Testament Visions of Cross-Cultural Ministry” at the Missional Leadership Conference at Barclay College in Haviland, Kan. (Sept. 25-27). Paul also presented an apprentice workshop at the Renovare Conference in Wichita, Kan., on “The Congregational Discernment Project” (Sept. 28) and preached at University Friends Church (Sept. 30). Finally, Paul has been at work at getting Elton Trueblood’s book Abraham Lincoln; Lessons in Spiritual Leadership back in print. It will appear this month from HarperOne, in advance of Steven Spielberg’s movie on Lincoln, due out in November.

Clint Baldwin (Center for Peace and Justice/Center for Global Studies) is presenting at the Center for Environmental Leadership’s second annual symposium at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif., Oct. 12-13. The event brings together sustainability coordinators, staff, faculty and administrators actively engaged in campus sustainability efforts at Christian colleges and universities (watch this video to learn more). The CEL also will host a workshop (“Faith Based Sustainability”) at the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education’s annual conference in Los Angeles on Oct. 17.

Mark McMinn (PsyD) is a featured speaker at a symposium, “Into the Counseling Room: Five Approaches to Counseling and Christianity,” hosted by the Bryan Institute for Critical Thought and Practice and Richmont Graduate University Nov. 2-3 in Chattanooga, Tenn. The goal of the symposium is to explore the diverse ways and tensions of relating Christian faith and counseling to people in a clinical setting, according to Bryan Institute Director Daryl Charles. More information is available here.

Roger Newell (Religious Studies) presented on his book, The Feeling Intellect: Reading the Bible with C.S. Lewis, at the Northwest School of Theology (part of Multnomah University) in Bend, Ore., Sept. 28-30.

Carol Jaquith (Psychology) was named September Employee of the Month.

Lindsay Peterson (Admissions) accepted her Administrator of the Year Award at the all-employee meeting Sept. 27. Lindsay was vacationing and unable to attend the August all-community meeting when the 2011-12 administrator and staff award recipients were recognized.

Oct. 9         Sheila Abercrombie, Dana Bates, Brian Doak, Ben Kulpa
Oct. 10       Rob Felton, Jim Smart
Oct. 13       Jason Schwanz, Kathleen Weiss
Oct. 15       Debra Espinor, Elizabeth Licon, Gina Worley
Oct. 16       Clint Baldwin, Richard Shaw
Oct. 20       Paul Becker, Tiffany Caldwell, Cathi Comish
Oct. 21       Teresa Arnold, Helen Morse, Justin Stauffer
Oct. 22       Dwayne Hood

The staff conference is coming Tuesday, Oct. 23, with our keynote speaker, Christopher Meade, director of the MBA programs, speaking on the topic “Anchor Deep.”

In addition, this nautical-themed conference will stop at two “ports of call” of your choice. You are already pre-registered for the conference, but please click on this link – Staff Fall Conference Registration – for more information and to help us make this event even more fabulous! The conference will take place from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Family Life Church in Newberg.

Questions? Contact Becky Jensen at rjensen@georgefox.edu.

Jim Triggs, executive director of the Heritage Program of the Saint John’s Bible Project at Saint John’s University in Minnesota, will share with us the latest in this 15-year undertaking. Jim will bring copies of the latest edition for display and discussion, featuring the latest developments in the leading illustrated and hand-calligraphied Bible project in the world today.

Come join us for this “Intellectual Feast,” hosted by the Department of Religious Studies. We will meet from 4 to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 16, in Hoover 103. All are welcome!

Questions? Contact Paula Hampton at phampton@georgefox.edu.

All university women are invited to a Ladies Movie Night tonight (Tuesday)!

Join us for the movie Blue Like Jazz at 6:30 p.m. in EHS 102. Dessert will be provided!

Tonight (Tuesday), starting at 8:30 p.m., there will be an opportunity to learn about the social work major and how it can help you attain your career goals.  You will be able to meet current majors and hear about their internships. Join us in Lemmons 5.

For more information, please contact Claudia Hirsch at chirsch@georgefox.edu.

If you are thinking of applying to be an RA, peer advisor, student chaplain, spiritual life assistant, run for ASC office next year or any other student leadership position on campus, they you should take LEAD 360.

This course will help prepare you for any student leadership position you wish to hold. It will also make your application look a lot stronger. The course is designed to give you the basic skills you will need in any student leadership position.

If you have questions do not hesitate to contact Joel Pérez at jperez@georgefox.edu.

If you know a student that you think would make an excellent student leader, please encourage them to take the LEAD 360 course offered in the spring.

The course is designed to give students basic leadership skills that they will need to hold any leadership position on campus.

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact Joel Pérez at jperez@georgefox.edu.

This week the George Fox team for “Race to 2025” is in its last stages of preparation for the adventure race (taking place over fall break). On Friday morning, our team of four students will be leaving for Montana to compete with other college teams in an outdoor adventure race with eternal impact.

Before we leave we need your help! As part of “Race to 2025” our team has committed to raising more than $2,000 in donations. This will go directly to funding an active Bible translation project in Cameroon.

Look for us this coming week, selling donuts in the Bruin Den or doing a dollar drive across campus.

If you have a heart for global missions and you want to be a part of bringing God’s Word to unreached people groups, join us in raising money for “Race to 2025.”

To learn more about getting on a “Race to 2025” team during spring semester, or to find out more about the race, check out the website here or contact Mary Owen at mowen10@georgefox.edu.

Abide is hosting a women’s discussion panel starting at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 11, featuring Jere Witherspoon, Shelley Yonemura and Missy Terry.

Come and have your voices heard by asking questions on issues about sexuality, body image, relationships, etc.

For more information, please contact Trisha Elizarde at telizarde10@georgefox.edu.

Looking for a place to be REAL about who you are and what you hope to be?

Abide is providing focused small groups for women with a mentor. These groups aim to generate safe environments to openly discuss issues around relationships, sexuality, body image, self-image, depression, etc. The goal for these groups is to move toward healing in Christ as we receive support and prayer from each other.

Pick up an application at the student life office! Turn them in by Thursday, Oct. 11, to the student life office!

For more information, please contact Trisha Elizarde at telizarde10@georgefox.edu

Would you like an opportunity to see the theatre department’s production of The Servant of Two Masters for free? If you volunteer to usher for one of the shows, you will get to see it free of charge. Below are the dates and times that ushers are needed.

• Thursday, Oct. 25: call time 6 p.m., show time 7:30 p.m.
• Friday, Oct. 26: call time 6 p.m., show time 7:30p.m.
• Saturday, Oct. 27: call time 6 p.m., show time 7:30 p.m.
• Sunday, Oct. 28: call time 12:30 p.m., show time 2 p.m.

• Thursday, Nov. 1: call time 6 p.m., show time 7:30 p.m.
• Friday, Nov. 2: call time 6 p.m., show time 7:30 p.m.
• Saturday, Nov. 3: call time 6 p.m., show time 7:30 p.m.
• Sunday, Nov. 4: call time 12:30 p.m., show time, 2 p.m.

Please contact Jenn Lippert at jlippert09@georgefox.edu if you would like to take advantage of this opportunity.

There will be no outgoing U.S. Mail today (Monday) due to the Columbus Day holiday. Most of the other carriers such as UPS and FedEx will be operating as normal. Campus mail will also be sorted throughout the day.

The courier run to Portland and Salem campuses will continue as scheduled on Monday.

Questions? Contact Mail Services ext. 2555.

Don’t forget to join us tonight (Monday) for the “Islam and the West” Liberal Arts and Critical Issues series in Hoover 105. The session runs from 7 to 8 p.m. and features George Fox alumni who have served in the military in Islamic countries.

The same session is presented from 4:40 to 5:40 p.m.; however, it is recommended that the general public attend the evening session, if possible.

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

The school year is already flying by and the yearbook is underway! The yearbook staff is working hard to capture each moment of this crazy life that is George Fox University. But we can’t be everywhere!

We are enlisting YOUR help, good and photogenic students–after all, YOU are where the action is. We have created a Facebook page where students are free to upload the photos taken throughout the year. Just “like” the George Fox Yearbook on Facebook, and begin submitting for a chance to get photos in the yearbook (to be released in the spring!).

We want to share your memories! Like the page today!

For more information, please contact Jenna Eliel at jeliel10@georgefox.edu

Are you interested in attending a professional health program after George Fox? Are you pre-medicine, pre-dentistry, pre-veterinary, pre-physical therapy, pre-optometry, pre-pharmacy, etc.? Get informed on what it takes to get into a professional health program by attending a pre-professional information meeting at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 17, in EHS 125.

The topics covered at the meeting will include admission requirements, the application process, and resources available to you at GFU. This meeting is an annual event, so you may not need to attend if you have done so before. New interested students should plan on it!

If you have any questions, please contact Jane Sweet at jsweet@georgefox.edu or John Schmitt at jschmitt@georgefox.edu. If you are not able to attend, but consider yourself a pre-professional health student, please contact Jane so that you are added to the pre-professional health student contact group.

Faculty members, please tell students you think may be interested about this opportunity.