Students, faculty and staff, please come and join us for our annual Thanksgiving chapel at 10:40 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 24, in Bauman Auditorium. Hot cider and donuts will be provided. Come celebrate this holiday season by sharing what you are thankful for.
The lost and found is stuffed to the brim with lost items! If you are missing that coffee mug, water bottle, book, or hoodie, etc., please stop by the security office between 7 a.m. and 4 p.m. to look for your lost items.
We will be doing one last lost and found table in the Bruin Den before semester’s end, but please come and look for your lost items before then at the security office. All items not reunited with their owners will be donated to charitable causes at semester’s end.
iConnect is a resume workshop that walks you through the ins and outs of strategic job search skills.  Come visit Career Services on the first floor of Stevens Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. The workshop includes a demo of Optimal Resume.  Drop-ins are welcome!
Questions? Sydney Tafflinger at stafflinger@georgefox.edu
Seniors graduating in December or at the end of the school year are encouraged to come to the Fox Hole and get your senior picture taken either Monday, Nov. 22, between 10:15 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. or Tuesday, Nov. 23, between 4:30 and 6:30 p.m.
E-mail L’Ami editor-in-chief Hannah Wilcox at hwilcox06@georgefox.edu with any questions.
The Center for Peace and Justice and Center for Global Studies will host the second symposium of the semester on Thursday, Nov. 18. Please join us as we learn about two of our faculty members’ involvement with issues of peace and justice.
Speakers:
Ed Higgins – Professor of English
Marcella Gowan – Assistant Professor of Nursing
Time: 7:15 p.m. – Treats
Program: 7:30- 9 p.m.
Location: Quaker Heritage Room (upstairs in the library)
A question-and-answer session will follow. Chapel credit is available for those students who attend. For more information on this event, please contact peaceandjustice@georgefox.edu.
Academic Affairs has announced a new spring commencement schedule. The following schedule will be implemented next semester:
Saturday, April 30, 2011
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!
Don’t forget the women’s brown bag lunch event, featuring Barbara Palmer, this Monday, Nov. 22, from noon to 1:15 p.m. in the Cap and Gown Room. All faculty, administrators and staff are invited. For those at the regional sites, the event will be streamed at this link.
Barbara is senior vice president and market executive of U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management, and has served on the university’s board of trustees for 17 years. From her wealth of experience, she will share with us her leadership journey and thoughts about mentoring and being mentored.
The event is being sponsored by the Women’s Leadership Development Committee. Please bring your own lunch. Beverages and cookies will be served.
Steve Sherwood (Religious Studies) will join with students to share about the partnership between the university and the Young Life organization at the next George Fox Auxiliary luncheon, scheduled for noon Friday, Dec. 3, in the Cap and Gown Room. Reservations are required and tickets are $7.50 per person.
To make reservations, contact Margene Haworth at 503-538-0604 by Tuesday, Nov. 30.
Everyone is invited to an open house at the new International Center/Cultural House (formerly the Moore House) Thursday, Nov. 18, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The house was recently remodeled and now serves as a lounge area for international and underrepresented domestic students. It also houses the offices of International Student Services and international admissions.
We would love to have you come visit our new space. Refreshments will be served.
1. “Perceptions of the hijab”
My name is Jennifer Salame and I am part of the Islam and the West Class. My research group including Brittany Wick, Bethany Muhr, Hannah Fisher, and Man Ho Wong would like to send out a survey titled “Perceptions of the hijab” to the student body.
Below is the link for our survey.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YJZRFG6
2. Newberg Downtown Survey
The Downtown Newberg Coalition has hired our marketing research class to generate responses from four different groups: students, shoppers, visitors and local businesses. Our specific group is targeting undergraduate and graduate students at the Newberg campus.
Kate Shepherdson, Kassie Wymore, Jackie Hamlin & Rita Yi (kshepherdson07@georgefox.edu)
BUSN 450 – Marketing Research & Planning
Please take a few minutes to fill out this survey about shopping, restaurants, and attractions in the Newberg area, specifically Downtown. We want the student perspective on what businesses YOU WANT HERE! It takes about 5 minutes. As a thank you, you’ll receive $1 off ANYTHING at Chapters! Look for it in your mailbox.
https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/georgefox.edu/viewform?formkey=dGNiTl9NbndaOF9wQS05NzY4YUdySVE6MQ
3. Did you know that there are as many Muslims in China as there are in Afghanistan?
We are researching American and Chinese students’ opinions about Muslims in China. We’d love to get your opinion!
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/H3WLKX8
David Masulis (dmasulis@yahoo.com), Kaitlin Christenson, Kirsten McCammon, Kelong Yan
Jackie Hamlin, Kate Shepherdson, Kassie Wymore and Rita Yi
BUSN 450 – Marketing Research & Planning
4. This is a very short survey for Senior Capstone about how people feel about the Christian church.
It is completely anonymous and it only takes about two minutes.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/H36N9KW
Mikaela mchristman07@georgefox.edu
Sarah
Jingjing
Justin
Disclaimer:
These surveys are student generated and are not to be associated with any official research conducted by faculty and staff at George Fox University. Any views or opinions presented in these surveys are solely those of the students and do not represent those of George Fox University. The distribution of these surveys is a service provided to George Fox University students as they prepare their research required by the curriculum. Students are required to have department approval. Any questions about these surveys should be directed to the students associated with the survey in question.
Don’t forget: World’s Got Talent is Wednesday night (Nov. 17)! For those of you who have your tickets, head on over to Wood-Mar Auditorium for an exciting show!
Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Be there first for the best seats. Show starts at 8 p.m.
We have extra mums in various fall colors from Bruin Preview for sale. You can purchase the chrysanthemum flowers for $5 in the admissions office (second floor of Stevens Center).
They make great Thanksgiving centerpieces!
Cinema & Media Communications students need a male actor to act in a film project for the Camera & Lighting class. It’s a short, comical script about what happens when a Twilight-obsessed girl meets a real vampire. Shooting is expected to take place this weekend, November 19-20.
If you are interested, please let me know as soon as possible! Thank you.
Sarah Tremayne
stremayne06@georgefox.edu
The Department of Performing Arts invites you to James Pick’s senior piano recital this Saturday, Nov. 20, at 7:30 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium. The program will include compositions by Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Chopin and Muczynski. Violinist Kathleen Lavengood and cellist Jerry Bobbe will join James onstage for Muczynski’s First Piano Trio.
George Fox is investing in Yamhill County by partnering with the Mid-Willamette Valley United Way in a workplace campaign from now through Dec. 31. Within the next few days you will receive a letter from President Robin Baker regarding your opportunity for involvement in a Community Care Fund that will directly benefit local nonprofit organizations.
Every donor has the opportunity to designate their dollars for an impact area, or for a specific organization. Please take a moment to read through the brochure and donation form accompanying the letter. Send your gifts or requests for payroll deduction to Human Resources at Box 6108 by Dec. 31, 2010.
Please direct all questions to Sheri Philips, executive director of University Relations, at ext. 2114 or sphilips@georgefox.edu.
Ever thought about how Hollywood and the media portray Arabs? Come watch Reel Bad Arabs in Hoover 210 at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 17, and join our GEED 490 class in thinking about how Hollywood has vilified a people. We look forward to seeing you there. And bring a friend or two!
Questions? E-mail Lindley King at lking06@georgefox.edu. You can also preview the film by watching the trailer.
There will be an Information Meeting for ALL May 2011 Juniors Abroad students on Wednesday, November 17 in Lemmons 8 from  6:00-6:45 PM.
Please make every effort to attend. Â If you cannot, due to class, make sure that someone takes notes for you.
Submitted by Lynn Scott: lscott@georgefox.edu
Candy Schlott (Bookstore) retired from the university at the end of October. She had been the textbook coordinator at George Fox for nearly 10 years.
Chris Steele (Tilikum) left the university at the end of October, saying he is “eagerly anticipating where the Lord is leading him next.â€
Joel Perez (Student Life) served on a panel for “The Dream Act Research Practice,†presented as a webinar through the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) in September.
Keith Dempsey and Lori DeKruyf (Graduate Counseling) made a presentation, “Cross-Cultural Mentorship: Mission Impossible?,†at the 2010 Western Association for Counselor Education and Supervision Conference, held in Sacramento, Calif., Nov. 4-7. Also present at the conference was masters in counseling student Amber Nelson, who led a roundtable on “Working with Bi-Racial Clients.â€
Previously, Lori gave a daylong training seminar for school counseling site supervisors in the Salem-Keizer School District on Oct. 15.
Robin Ashford (Library/Portland Center) published an article, “QR Codes and Academic Libraries: Reaching Mobile Users,†in College & Research Libraries News, a publication of the Association of College & Research Libraries.
Ed Higgins (English) published a poem, “coyote,†in the fall 2010 issue of Haiku Reality, a Serbian online haiku journal.
Abigail Rine’s (English) short story “The Woman in the Garden†won first place in the 2010 Caper Literary Journal Maravillosa Contest, a prize that includes online and print publication. In addition, her stories “Ordinary Frog†and “The Bear Pit†are to be published by the literary journals zaum and Melusine, respectively. Rine also has a critical essay, entitled “Jeanette Winterson’s Love Intervention: Rethinking the Future,†that will be published by Palgrave in a forthcoming edited collection.
Cindy Howard (Registrar) and Kristin Bontrager (Engineering) were named the university’s October and November employees of the month, respectively.
Nov. 16 Carol Jaquith
Nov. 17 Sue O’Donnell
Nov. 18 Kathleen Jones, Shary Wortman
Nov. 19 Bob Hamilton
Nov. 21 Ryan Tafflinger
Nov. 22 Vern Choin, Dwight Kimberly
Nov. 23 Laura Simmons
Nov. 24 Waneen White, Tamara Jones, Mark Sundquist
Nov. 26 Larry Weber
Nov. 28 Clella Jaffe
Nov. 29 Arden Butler, Michelle Conrad, Kristina Findley, Barbara Lybarger
