The Daily Bruin

The Oregon Health Authority recently updated its face-covering guidelines (Oct. 19, 2020):

“Masks, face coverings or face shields are required at all times for employees, contractors and volunteers in public and private workplaces, including hallways, bathrooms, classrooms, elevators, lobbies, break rooms, meeting rooms and other common and shared spaces, unless employees, contractors or volunteers are at a private, individual workspace not shared with other people.” 

Key changes include:

• Face coverings are now required in all conference rooms.
• Mesh masks, lace masks, and masks with valves for exhalation are prohibited.
• Face coverings with openings, holes, gaps, or vents are prohibited.

We appreciate your compliance with these guidelines as we work together to keep one another healthy. If you have questions, contact the COVID operations team at cot@georgefox.edu.

Homemade or store-bought food and beverage snacks may be shared with other employees or students on campus so long as these guidelines are followed:

• Everyone should wash their hands before and after preparing, serving, and eating food. Use hand sanitizer with at least 60% alcohol if soap and water are not available.
• For items like a shared bag of chips or salad, use a clean utensil to get the item out or tip the bag to get the item.
• Use single-use options or identify one person to serve sharable items like salad dressings and condiments, so that multiple people are not handling the items.
• If there is not one person identified to serve food, discourage sharing items like a serving spoon; rather, each person should use their own clean utensil to dish out the food.
• Follow all guidelines regarding space capacity limits and physical distancing, and be sure to wear face coverings (when not eating).
• Remember Bon Appetit is the Newberg campus’s exclusive caterer and is happy to discuss your food and beverage needs for meetings and events.

If you have questions, email the COVID operations team at cot@georgefox.edu.

Have you experienced a loss due to a fire? The Social Work Club invites you to join us for a student peer support group over four Sundays in November.

We’ll be meeting in the student lounge of the Meridian Street House (206 N. Meridian St.) from 6 to 7 p.m. Sundays on Nov. 1, 8, 15 and 22. Snacks and drinks will be provided.

This will offer an open and safe space for us to learn from each other, begin to heal together, and share our experiences of living through a fire. The group will be led by senior Ashley Martin, who experienced the loss of her family’s home and community in the California Camp Fire in fall 2018. 

As students living away from home while a fire destroyed our communities, we may need a space to process the different feelings and experiences related to losing our homes. 

For more information, contact Ashley Martin (amartin18@georgefox.edu).

Come get your fall on with various activities at different locations around campus! Fall Fest will be going on tonight (Saturday) from 7 to 10 p.m.

There will be glow volleyball, Spikeball, fire pits, warm drinks, games, a movie night, a photo booth, and pumpkin carving.

Check out the official list of activities and locations in Activities Weekly or in the “Upcoming” highlights on our Instagram.

Questions? Contact Student Activities (activities@georgefox.edu).

George Fox Digital is hiring an assistant video producer! To qualify, you must be approved for Federal Work-Study. Responsibilities include filmmaking, editing video, designing sets, working with faculty, and more!

We are looking for someone who is willing to learn and collaborate within a team, someone who is a problem solver, has flexible hours, and interested in the video production process from pre-production to post-production. The job is 10 hours per week and is a Federal Work-Study position.

Apply on Handshake here. Got any questions? Email Video Producer Kraig Pruett at kpruett@georgefox.edu.

Today (Friday) is the last day to receive your 30 percent off holiday coupon as part of our Adoption Appreciation Event!

Take a few minutes today to come by the Bruin Store and talk to Paige Jacobs (Bruin Store manager) or Katie Villanueva (Bruin Store textbook manager) about your spring 2021 adoptions. We have a few very brief questions for you, and then you’ll receive a one-time-use coupon for 30 percent off of your entire apparel and gift purchase at the Bruin Store.

The 30 percent off coupon is for ALL faculty, staff, chairs and deans. If you are teaching a course, submitting adoptions on behalf of someone else, or overseeing adoptions for a department, come see us! We don’t want you to miss out.

This coupon can be used online or in store between now and Dec. 31.

Have you experienced a loss due to a fire? The Social Work Club invites you to join us for a student peer support group over four Sundays in November.

We’ll be meeting in the student lounge of the Meridian Street House (206 N. Meridian St.) from 6 to 7 p.m. Sundays on Nov. 1, 8, 15 and 22. Snacks and drinks will be provided.

This will offer an open and safe space for us to learn from each other, begin to heal together, and share our experiences of living through a fire. The group will be led by senior Ashley Martin, who experienced the loss of her family’s home and community in the California Camp Fire in fall 2018.

As students living away from home while a fire destroyed our communities, we may need a space to process the different feelings and experiences related to losing our homes.

For more information, contact Ashley Martin (amartin18@georgefox.edu).

George Fox is once again partnering with Hillsboro Airporter to provide a shuttle service to Portland International Airport for the semester break.

Students will be expected to work directly with Hillsboro Airporter to reserve their spot. If you make your reservations more than 24 hours in advance, Hillsboro Airporter can group you together. To reserve your spot, click here.

Hillsboro Airporter accepts cash or credit card for payment. Parents can call Hillsboro Airporter with a credit card to pay for their student’s fare. It offers 24/7 service. 

Questions? Contact the Office of Student Life (jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2316).

The George Fox museum has a new exhibit in our Stevens Center cases in recognition of the 100th anniversary of the first presidential election in which women could vote.

We have material from the suffrage movement, along with historic presidential campaign buttons from 1904 to 1960. If you have any questions, would like to see the objects outside the cases, or would like to access anything in our collection, please contact Caitlin Corning (ccorning@georgefox.edu).

The full museum catalog can be found at our website.

The Office for Spiritual Life wants to remind you to check your SpiL credit requirement progress in the iAttended app. There are many different opportunities to participate in SpiL credit options between now and the end of the semester. 

We want to highlight one of those opportunities: Scripture memorization. Students can earn one SpiL credit for every 10 verses of the book of James you memorize and recite for a university pastor.

For more information, please email us at spirituallife@georgefox.edu. 

In Sync is our Lip Sync alternative, an event where you choreograph a performance to a mash-up of songs.

Get a team together, start planning your performance, and sign up to audition for a chance to perform on the big stage and win $500. The deadline is Sunday, Nov. 1, at midnight.

Questions? Contact Student Activities (activities@georgefox.edu).

Spring 2021 textbook adoptions are due today (Friday), and the Bruin Store is looking forward to making this as smooth of a textbook adoption process as possible!

All textbook adoptions will need to be submitted through Follett Discover Adopt, the new adoption system implemented in February of 2020.

If you are inputting adoptions on behalf of your department, you can access Discover by clicking here. Please use your university email and the password that you originally created.

If you are teaching (or are linked to) a course, you can access Discover by going to your FoxTALE account and clicking on the “Follett Textbooks” link. You will be automatically logged into the site.

If you are unable to view certain courses, having trouble logging in, or need a refresh on how to input textbook adoptions, please reach out to Paige Jacobs (pjacobs@georgefox.edu) or Katie Villanueva (1478txt@follett.com) at the Bruin Store.

The Bruin Store is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The university community is invited to attend a virtual lecture, “Complicity in Racism: The Path Forward,” put on by the George Fox Honors Program, today (Friday) at 10:30 a.m.

The event features Jemar Tisby, an author, speaker and president of The Witness: A Black Christian Collective, for which he writes about race, religion and culture.

Tisby will explore racial justice solutions and cultural conversations that compel action. For more information regarding Tisby and his presentation, click here.

Registration is required. Please register here for the virtual lecture.

Questions? Contact Nancy Schifferdecker (nschifferdecker@georgefox.edu).

Tonight (Friday) Sigma Zeta is hosting an event in the Stevens Center at 5 p.m.!

Anyone who is a biology, biochemistry/chemistry, exercise science, computer science, and mathematics major is encouraged to come!

You will be supplied with delicious snacks such as popcorn, Lunchables, sliders, and more. Between trivia with professors, games, and fun prizes, this is an event you must not miss! Plus … it’s aloha Friday, so wear a Hawaiian shirt!

Questions? Contact Lydia Peplinski (lpeplinski17@georgefox.edu).

Today (Friday), the academic affairs office is celebrating faculty and staff who had October birthdays.

If you had a birthday in October, please stop by the academic affairs office on the first floor of the Stevens Center today to pick up a birthday treat. Happy birthday!

Tomorrow (Friday), the academic affairs office is celebrating faculty and staff who had October birthdays.

If you had a birthday in October, please stop by the academic affairs office on the first floor of the Stevens Center to pick up a birthday treat. Happy birthday!

Come stop by the Center for Study Abroad’s Program Fair today (Thursday) from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the tennis courts.

This student-run event will showcase all the locations and programs that students have the opportunity to study abroad in.

Our study abroad ambassadors will be there to answer any questions and give further details about the different programs and their personal experiences.

There will also be drawings to win $25 gift cards as well as a chance to win $500 credit toward any of our study abroad programs. We hope to see you there!

Questions? Contact the Center for Study Abroad (studyabroadcenter@georgefox.edu).

Thank you so much to those of you who are using CampusClear.

Our team works on making sure the George Fox community regularly checks in using the app, as well as following up with anyone who reports specific symptoms or testing results.

Updated communication

• Student-athletes and athletic staff using SWAY should use both apps
• If you NEVER come to any George Fox campus, you do not need to complete the form.
  • However, if you come to any George Fox campus – even once every other week – you DO need to complete the form.

Starting Monday, Nov. 2, through the end of the fall semester, each week, a user who completes all five weekday check-ins on CampusClear will be entered in a raffle for one of several coffee gift certificates.

Please help us keep our campus community safe by continuing to check in on CampusClear.

Questions? Please email cot@georgefox.edu.

Today (Thursday), the academic affairs office is celebrating faculty and staff who had October birthdays.

If you had a birthday in October, please stop by and see Peg Hutton at the front desk of the Portland Center to pick up a birthday treat. Happy birthday!

Check out this week’s ARC newsletter! This edition contains tips on homework efficiency and links to Spanish versions of our most popular resource handouts!

A reminder that ARC appointments for the end of the semester fill up quickly! Schedule appointments now for final projects, essays, and study tip appointments. The ARC is available weekly, Monday through Thursday, from 1 to 10 p.m., and Friday, from noon to 4 p.m.

Email the ARC (arc@georgefox.edu) or click here to make an appointment.