The Daily Bruin

 

The KFOX informational meeting will be on Tuesday, Jan. 19, at 7 p.m. in the Bruin Den (note date change). Come for information on how to be involved.

See you there!

Students…find additional funding for next year! The online application is now open for 2010-11 donor-funded GFU scholarships.

To apply, sign on to your mygfu account. Under Student Resources, you will see “2010 Newberg UG Scholarships”. Clicking on this site will take you to the sign-in page. Read information and instructions carefully.

The site will automatically close on March 1, 2010 at 5:00 pm.

The online application is now open for 2010-11 donor-funded GFU scholarships.

To apply, sign on to your MYGFU account. Under Student Resources, you will see “2010 Newberg UG Scholarships”.

Clicking on this site will take you to the sign-in page. Read information and instructions carefully.

The site will automatically close on March 1, 2010 at 5:00 pm.

Mark Terry (Visual Arts) will display his work in an exhibit titled “Alchemy: Born of Fire,” an MFA thesis exhibition of ceramic sculpture. The exhibit opens Tuesday, Jan. 19, and runs through Feb. 18 in the Minthorne Gallery.

An opening reception is scheduled Tuesday from 5 to 7:30 p.m. There will also be an artist talk before the reception at 4 p.m. and again at 6:30 p.m. The show includes figurative works featuring spontaneous and organic surfaces derived from primitive firing methodologies.

For more information, call ext. 2619 or e-mail Doug Campbell at dcampbell@georgefox.edu.

Friday, January 15

Saturday, January 16

This Friday and Saturday, BlueZone takes over Miller gymnasium.  

The Bruin Basketball teams will be playing Willamette on Friday evening and Linfield on Saturday evening.  

Tip off both nights will be 6pm and 8pm.

Wear your BlueZone shirt and bring your friends. 

 

(Note: after this weekend, there are only four more home games!)

Tuesday, January 19^th, 4:30-5:30pm 

Klages Cafeteria. 

Don’t miss dinner on Tuesday!  Please remember to bring an extra warm weather clothing item to donate to the homeless community.

SAAC is collecting warm clothing to donate to YCAP, who will in turn give them out to the homeless in Yamhill County.

Also, watch five of your friends SCARF IT  in a competitive eating contest!  

 sponsoring organization: SAAC

Come to the first Greenroom of the semester! Bauman Auditorium 10:40am to 11:30am (Chapel time). Join other students to give praise and glory to God the Creator and not ourselves. See you there and maybe invite a floormate.

Mail Services is serving as an unofficial collection site of Oregon ballots for this month’s election. Ballots are taken by a staff person to an official drop site at the Newberg Police Department. No postage necessary for any Oregon county.

Deadline for our collection: Tuesday, Jan. 26, at 4:30 p.m.

Friday,, Jan. 15, 6 p.m. – Men’s Basketball vs. Willamette, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym
Friday, Jan. 15, 8 p.m. – Women’s Basketball vs. Willamette, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym
Saturday, Jan. 16, 6 p.m. – Men’s Basketball vs. Linfield, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym
Saturday, Jan. 16, 8 p.m. – Women’s Basketball vs. Linfield, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym

Please note the switch of games this weekend, with the men playing first and the women second. All four games will have KFOX radio webcasts, live video streaming, and live stats via the Internet.

Special halftime shows at this weekend’s games feature the St. Francis School Jump Rope Team on Jan. 15 and Chehalem Valley Dance Academy on Jan. 16.

For more information, call the sports information office at ext. 2926 or visit the Bruins’ official website at gfubruins.com.

IMPORTANT:  With the upcoming transition for the Portland Center Bookstore, we will need to finalize textbook purchases for Spring 2010.  If you have not yet purchased your Spring books, please do so as soon as possible!

If your course begins later in the semester, you will need to purchase those books early as well!  We will begin the process of vendor returns the week of January 25.

 

The Fitness Center is open from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. on all days that Newberg campus classes are in session with the exception of class times. If it’s necessary for you to work out during a class session, please e-mail the instructor to gain permission to do so. Class times are: Monday through Wednesday, 7:40-10:30 a.m. and 11:40 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and Thursday from 7:25 to 9:55 a.m. and 1:40 to 2:30 p.m. Here’s to a happy and healthy 2010!

 

Be sure to check out the brand new Crescent website at georgefox.edu/crescent. It’s also on Twitter: gfucrescent. Thank you for reading!

Due to the campus being closed on Monday, Jan. 18, both the Bruin Den and the Villa Cafe will not be open and will resume normal hours of service on Tuesday, Jan. 19.

Bon Appetit will also be changing meal hours in Klages for meal-plan students to the following:

Saturday & Sunday:
Continental Breakfast: 8-10 a.m.
Brunch: 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Dinner: 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.

Monday:
Breakfast: 8-10 a.m.
Lunch: 11 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Dinner: 4:30 – 7 p.m.

 

 

Contact Hannah Wilcox at hwilcox06@georgefox.edu with questions.

 

The Fitness Center, gym, racquetball courts, etc. will be closed from 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 15, until 6 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 19, in observance of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.