The Daily Bruin

The Bruin Community Pantry is looking for volunteers for the fall 2023 semester.

Our program continues to grow! Last year (July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023) we had 6,139 visits to the food bank.

• 78% were undergraduates
• 8% were people from the community
• 5% were employees
• 5% were graduates
• 4% were alumni

If you are interested in volunteering in some capacity, please contact Jere Witherspoon at jwithers@georgefox.edu.

Ways to Volunteer (contact Jere if interested.)

• Leftovers: Very flexible schedule
• Food deliveries: Tuesdays, 10 to 11 a.m.
• Panera Bread restocking: Fridays and mornings but flexible
• Substitute at the food bank

Volunteers at the food bank must be able to commit to a weekly schedule for the entire fall semester. Other volunteer opportunities have more flexibility.

The food bank will soon be moving from Roberts Center to Lewis Apartment 1. While at this time we do not have a move date, we will also need help moving spaces.

For more information, check out the Bruin Community Pantry website.

Interested in learning more about credit? Join a Canopy Employee Assistance Program webinar to learn what range of credit scores are needed for different loan programs, including low and zero down payment loans, down payment assistance programs, and what it takes to have a good credit score.

Register here for the event, scheduled from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 16.

Join registered dietitian, Kayla, and chef, Tim, for a virtual Providence Community Teaching Kitchen session that focuses on how to create a heart-healthy meal you will love. It meets from noon to 1 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 21.

Together, we’ll share a recipe for blueberry pecan salad with goat cheese and grilled chicken accompanied by fruit-infused water.

We’re excited to announce that, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 25, we will be hosting our Community Fair as part of Welcome Weekend. We invite you to take part!

We will provide a 10 X 10 tent, one table and two chairs. You would provide any paperwork or other items you would like to be made available to students or family members/guests.

Please complete this Google Form to let us know of your interest in participating. Thank you!

Questions? Please reach out to Kara Holcombe at kholcombe@georgefox.edu.

Last call! Welcome Weekend is our chance to welcome each and every new student as they step onto campus.

With such a large incoming class, we need all hands on deck as we each do our part to make students and their guests experience the Be Known promise. And who better to do that than our own faculty and staff? Please join us on Friday, Aug. 25, to welcome our new students!

Please complete this form if you would like to join our team to volunteer, and we will contact you with further instructions.

Questions? Contact Kara Holcombe at kholcombe@georgefox.edu.

The Office of Undergraduate Admissions is hosting a large Summer Visit Day tomorrow (Friday). With close to 700 visitors expected on campus, we are asking George Fox students and employees to help extend the Be Known promise throughout the day. Here’s what you can keep in mind:

• Use street parking instead of campus parking lots. Guests will be arriving on campus at 8:30 a.m. and will fill the main campus parking lots.
• All visitors will take a campus tour at 10 and 11 a.m. Be mindful of guests walking through main buildings on campus.

If you have questions, email visit@georgefox.edu or call Lauren Hill at 503-554-2245.

You are invited to participate in a Zoom webinar, “Time Management: Capturing Your Time Thieves,” scheduled from 10 to 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 17.

Struggling to get it all done each day and feeling overwhelmed? Juggling workload, family obligations, squeezing in time to see our friends and set aside some time for ourselves? It can be a lot! But chances are, we can accomplish our goals with just a few adjustments to our approach.

We’ll explain how we get off track and provide practical tools for achieving our goals when it feels like there is never enough time.

We are doctoral clinical psychology students at George Fox University conducting a study on adversity and eating. The study involves filling out an online survey, which will take approximately 20 minutes total to complete. Participants will receive a $15 Amazon gift card upon successful completion of the survey.

If you have any questions or are interested in participating in our study, please contact the researchers, Delaney O’Brien and Natasha Eades, at adversityeatingstudy@gmail.com.

Please let me know if you have any questions or need further info from us.

Dear George Fox Community,

We would like to announce that the George Fox Prayer Network will officially be launching this fall semester! We are a student-led, faculty-supported initiative that seeks to unify, highlight and embolden the voices of prayer in our community.

As part of our soft launch this summer, we have released a summer prayer guide you can access here. We are inviting students, faculty and parents alike to join us in prayer. Please read more about this initiative on the first page of the guide, and consider joining the prayer network to receive monthly prayer guides this coming academic year!

Please contact the spiritual life office at spirituallife@georgefox.edu with “Prayer Network” in the subject line if you have any questions about this new initiative.

Blessings.

The Office for Spiritual Life is looking for Life Group leaders for our fall 2023 Life Groups series (the weeks of Sept. 18 through Nov. 10). Life Groups are small groups of undergraduate students who meet together for prayer, Bible study and fellowship. Groups meet weekly for 60 to 90 minutes.

This fall our groups will be either in person or completely via Zoom (this provides access for our George Fox Digital students). Life Groups through the Office for Spiritual Life led by a George Fox staff or faculty member will be spiritual-life-credit eligible in order to encourage students to engage in high-quality spiritual formation experiences that are participatory and offer ongoing community.

To sign up, please fill out this form by Thursday, Aug. 17. If you have questions, reach out to Cyndi Murillo cmurillo@georgefox.edu.

Come see our first-ever George Fox Theatre community production! Featuring a cast of students, employees, alumni and community members, this hilarious adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic Sense and Sensibility will be performed under the stars in our beautiful amphitheater. The show will run between Aug. 30 and Sept. 9 (check here for times and dates).

Tickets are on sale now! Visit the link above to to purchase them.

The Portland Writing Center is seeking a new writing consultant who is enthusiastic about helping fellow graduate and degree-completion students understand the components of effective writing.

Portland Writing Center consultants are current adult degree-completion and graduate students who work eight to 10 hours per week meeting with students in Zoom or email sessions through the Portland Writing Center.

Writing consultant duties include helping students with the following:

• Thinking through ideas for a writing assignment
• Considering writing choices with regard to audience, focus, purpose, cohesion, and organization
• Developing ideas with specific evidence
• Improving research strategies
• Applying proper documentation and formatting, and understanding basic grammar and mechanics
• Academic coaching, which is helping students with school/life balance

Click here for a consultant job description, and apply on Handshake. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.

For more information, contact Heather Harney, Portland Writing Center director, at hharney@georgefox.edu.

Disability & Accessibility Services is looking for several exam proctors for the upcoming year. If you are interested in helping students with disabilities with test accommodations, we are looking for individuals who can work independently, enjoy working with all kinds of people, and want a flexible work schedule 0-10 hours a week.

Sound like you? Apply to join our team! If you have any questions, contact Carrie Kisling at ckisling@georgefox.edu. Apply on Handshake.

Interested in science fiction? Ever wondered about how people in the past imagined the future? Then HIST 485: The Past of the Future may be for you.

HIST 485: The Past of the Future is a cultural history of science fiction in which students explore the artifacts of science fiction genre (short stories, novels, pulp fiction, radio shows, film, graphic novels, games, music, and TV shows) and consider their place in the historical context in which they were produced.

We’ll engage a variety of these throughout the semester with possible science fiction “artifacts,” including Voltaire’s Micromégas, Shelley’s Frankenstein, Hawthorne’s Rappacini’s Daughter, Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues, H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine, A Trip to the Moon (the first sci-fi movie), comics such as Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, the War the the Worlds radio show, Godzilla (original film, 1954), the original Star Trek, David Bowie’s Space Oddity, Afrofuturism, and lots more!

If you have questions about this class, please contact Paul Otto at potto@georgefox.edu.

As a new academic year approaches, the Bruin Community Pantry food bank will undergo some significant changes. First of all, sometime in mid-August, we will be relocating to Lewis Apartment #1. The Lewis Apartments are right across from the Roberts Center on Sherman Street, at 1404 Sherman St.

We don’t know the exact date we’ll be moving, but we anticipate that when we do we will be closed for at least a week. Please check the Bruin Community Pantry website for updates.

You are always welcome to email Jere Witherspoon at jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu with any questions or to get updates.

Thank you for being a part of our community!

Interested in further developing your leadership skills? We encourage you to enroll in a new one-credit, pass/no-pass class this fall, Introduction to Multicultural Leadership, taught by D’Metri Mattocks and Dave Johnstone.

Increasingly our campus and our world builds teams which are diverse in perspectives, worldviews and cultures. We want to provide a few tools and prompts to begin developing skills on how to strengthen or be part of such teams.

The class, called LEAD 260 (“Leadership ADVANCE” in the course schedule), will be experiential, conversational, a little experimental, and hopefully fun and engaging. All are welcome. It will meet on Thursdays from noon to 1:15 p.m.

No current leadership role is necessary. No past experience is necessary. There are no prerequisites.

Please contact D’Metri Mattocks at dmattocks@georgefox.edu or Dave Johnstone at djohnsto@georgefox.edu if you have questions.

The university community is invited to the Interprofessional Primary Care Institute’s (IPC Institute) annual Primary Behavioral Healthcare Essentials three-day Continuing Medical Education (CME) session via Zoom Aug. 24-26.

Dr. Patti Robinson, cofounder of the Primary Care Behavioral Health (PCBH) model and Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, will speak, as will Dr. Julie Oyemaja an early PCBH implementer, clinician and relational leader.

Discounted registration is available for George Fox students, team members and alumni. For more information and to register, please visit this link.

Beyond Backpacks is looking for George Fox volunteers to help children pick out school supplies and have fun on the afternoon of Saturday, Aug. 19. The organization provides a shopping experience to local children in need of backpacks and school supplies.

Volunteers are needed from 1:15 to 3:30 p.m. to guide students and their families through the process, and assist at supply and activity tables. Also, we’re looking for a student to be Pennington Bear and greet the families at check-in. The event will be held at Northwest Christian Church (2315 Villa Road, Suite 100).

Last year, George Fox students and employees volunteered at our first Newberg event. The school-age children enjoy interacting with Fox students, giving them an opportunity to meet college students and see the possibilities for their future.

If you would like to volunteer, please complete our 2023 Volunteer Form by Aug. 11. If you’re a student and interested in being Pennington, please email Piper Parks at pparks@georgefox.edu.

For more information on the organization, visit beyondbackpacks.org.

We are doctoral clinical psychology students at George Fox University conducting a study on adversity and eating. The study involves filling out an online survey, which will take approximately 20 minutes total to complete. Participants will receive a $15 Amazon gift card upon successful completion of the survey.

If you have any questions or are interested in participating in our study, please contact the researchers, Delaney O’Brien and Natasha Eades, at adversityeatingstudy@gmail.com.

Please let me know if you have any questions or need further info from us.

The Bridge Café will be closed today (Friday) for a staff meeting. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. We will see you Monday morning!