The Daily Bruin

FoxTALE will be unavailable tomorrow (Wednesday) from 6 to 8 a.m. Pacific Time for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

During this time, the 2019 summer course sites will become hidden to student view. If you want to make any of the 2019 summer course sites visible to students, follow these steps: 

• Select action (gear) menu > Edit settings
• In the “General” section, look for the course visibility setting
• Change “Hide” back to “Show” 
• “Save changes” at the bottom

Questions? Contact servicedesk@georgefox.edu or call 503-554-2569.

FoxTALE will be unavailable tomorrow (Wednesday) from 6 to 8 a.m. Pacific Time for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Questions? Contact servicedesk@georgefox.edu or call 503-554-2569.

The Fusion Asian American Club would like to invite all students to join them on their pumpkin patch outing at the French Prairie Gardens in St. Paul! Fusion will meet up for this event at the Intercultural Resource Center at 12:30 p.m. this Saturday, Oct. 19.

Please bring $4 cash for admission and extra money for other goodies like apple cider, donuts and pumpkins. Sign up here. Please indicate on the form if you are able to drive carpooling students.

Questions? Contact fusion.gfu@gmail.com.

A group of servant engineers is gathering data about transportation on and around campus. It would be a great help if you could fill out this survey. 

Questions? Contact Curtis Andersen at candersen17@georgefox.edu.

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.

Make your voice heard by participating in the Student Satisfaction Inventory, a national survey on all aspects of the college experience. You should have received an email yesterday (Monday) with a link to the survey.

Your responses will help George Fox administrators identify what is going well and what needs improvement. Completing the survey gives you the chance to win one of two $100 Amazon gift cards.

Questions? Contact Rob Bohall, director of assessment, at rbohall@georgefox.edu.

Are you a student-athlete? Want to learn about creatine and its effects? A group of students is looking to recruit student-athletes who would like to see the effects supplemental creatine can have on athletic performance.

Participants will be asked to partake in a study for four weeks, complete short pre- and post-testing surveys, and take a sports performance assessment.

If you would like to help, contact Caleb Kagawa at ckagawa15@georgefox.edu.

Carter Bedsole has joined the university to work as a software architect for the new Catalyst College. A 2019 alumnus of George Fox, from which he earned a bachelor’s degree in both computer science and mathematics, he gained industry experience as a probability research intern at the University of Connecticut in the summer of 2018 and as a software design engineer for Tektronix in Beaverton after graduation. As a student at George Fox, Carter served as a resident assistant from 2017 to 2019. Also during his student days, he was part of a George Fox team of three that placed first in the state of Oregon in an Association for Computing Machinery-sponsored programming contest. He lives in Beaverton with his wife, KariAnna, also a George Fox graduate, and attends Church of the Vine, an Anglican church in Newberg.

The university welcomes Kirby Killen as an enrollment manager in the registrar’s office. She arrives from Joan Austin Elementary School in Newberg, where she has served as an educational assistant since February of this year. Prior to that, Kirby lived in Oklahoma, where she worked as the director of freshman experience at Oklahoma Christian University (2016-18) and as a freshman counselor (2012-16). She holds both a bachelor’s degree in psychology (2012) and an MBA (2016) from Oklahoma Christian University. Kirby lives in Newberg and attends Newberg Church of Christ.

Samantha Parrish (Campus Public Safety), Ally Weatherford (Social Work) and Edwin Espana (Plant Services) are no longer at the university.

With the reorganization of the registrar’s office, the following employees have been promoted: Nancy Fawver, to senior associate registrar; Tamara Reams, to associate registrar; Rachel Ryan, to assistant registrar; and Britny Scholz, to assistant registrar.

Sonia Rademacher has been promoted to the position of buyer in the plant services office.

Tricia Hornback (Intercultural Studies, Center for Peace & Justice) authored an article, “The Shifting Sands of American Indian Education in the Northwestern United States,” in the International Journal of Diversity in Education. The article provides an overview of significant historical influences affecting American Indian education and identifies encouraging emerging trends in American Indian education in the Northwest. Specific examples of encouraging trends in increased tribal involvement observed in federal Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) and Northwest public school districts are provided. Examples include educational partnerships with the Navajo Nation as well as Northwest tribes such as the Lummi Nation, Spokane Indian Tribe, Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, and the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs.

George Fox employee Paul Fodge (Mathematics) is featured in an article, “A Custom Adaptive Tandem Trike,” that appears in Recumbent & Tandem Rider magazine (#64). The piece, written by engineering adjunct professor Nick Gilbert, details how the university’s servant engineering program undertook a project to build a custom wheelchair tandem bicycle to allow Fodge and his granddaughter to go for rides together.

An article in the fall issue of Advance, the magazine of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities, highlights what George Fox is doing to address food insecurity on campus. In the piece, titled “More Than Just a Meal,” the university’s Bruin Community Pantry is featured, along with insight on the subject from Jere Witherspoon (Student Life). You can read it here.

Some George Fox seniors have created a pilot study examining the comparative benefits of protein or creatine supplementation on exercise performance in resistance-trained college students. Please fill out this survey here.

By filling out this survey, you are giving consent to use the following information in a research study. All information will be confidential. 

Questions? Contact Madelynn Krotzer at mkrotzer16@georgefox.edu.

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.

All are welcome to attend a lecture by Nicholas Buccola, titled “The Fire is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America.” It will be presented tomorrow (Tuesday) at 6:30 p.m. in Hoover 105.

Buccola is a professor of political science at Linfield College and the founding director of the Frederick Douglass Forum on Law, Rights, and Justice. He is also the author of The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass: In Pursuit of American Liberty.

Questions? Contact Mark Hall at mhall@georgefox.edu.

Are you interested in studying abroad? The Center for Study Abroad is hosting an information meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 16, at 6 p.m. in EHS 125.  

Come to the information meeting for more details about specific programs, the application process, and application due dates. A representative from the registrar’s office will be there to answer questions about classes and transfer credits. Study abroad ambassadors will also be in attendance to answer questions and offer guidance. 

Questions? Contact Lynn Scott at lscott@georgefox.edu or Paul Chamberlain at pchamberlain@georgefox.edu, or stop by the Center for Study Abroad. 

George Fox University students and staff are exclusively invited to access the Columbia Employee Store from now until this Sunday, Oct. 20! 

The employee store offers an employee discount (40 to 50 percent off regular retail pricing) and all of the latest products from SOREL, Mountain Hardwear, prAna, and Columbia Sportswear.

To access the store, bring this invite, your George Fox ID card, and a personal photo ID.

The invite is valid for you and four guests; you must be present. The invite grants store access only; the offer is not valid online. Find store location and hours here.

Questions? Contact Nichole Drew at ndrew@georgefox.edu.

Everybody is welcome to audition for George Fox theatre’s winter drama, The Shakers of Mount Lebanon Will Hold a Peace Conference This Month. General auditions will be on Monday, Oct. 21, from 7 to 9:30 p.m. in Wood-Mar Auditorium.

Prepare a 90-second dramatic monologue for the audition. If you are not a theatre major or minor and don’t have a monologue, there will be a few available at the audition sign-in table. Sign up for an audition time slot on the Lemmons theatre bulletin board.

Callbacks will be on Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 22 and 23, from 7:30 to 10 p.m.

Contact Rhett Luedtke at rluedtke@georgefox.edu for details.

Pre-med, pre-dental, pre-veterinary, and psychology students are encouraged to attend a special scholarship presentation for those interested in furthering their healthcare education.

Join us in Hoover 105 this Wednesday, Oct. 16, at 3 p.m. for some great scholarship information. Register here for the event.

Questions? Contact Jordan Nelson at jnelson@goergefox.edu.

Check out this week’s George Fox athletics home game:

• Women’s volleyball vs. Linfield College – Saturday, Oct. 19, 6 p.m., Wheeler Sports Center

Questions? Visit the athletics website.

Join the George Fox climbing community on Friday, Nov. 1, from 4:30 to 9:30 p.m. for Rocktoberfest, our fall bouldering competition. This is going to be a night of friendly competition with a raffle throughout the evening for participants. 

The event is open to students, staff and faculty. There will be two sessions running from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. in Hadlock. Sign up for beginner (V0-V3) or advanced (V4+) divisions for men and women. Registration opens tomorrow (Tuesday) on IMLeagues.com.

Questions? Contact Keith Schneider at kschneid@georgefox.edu.

Would you be interested in helping a group of students gather data on the benefits of exercise for attention span?

The study will be conducted on Tuesday, Oct. 22, and Thursday, Oct. 24, from 1:30 to 3 p.m. at the Hadlock Student Center. The study will involve a 1.5-mile run and a short attention span test.

If you have any questions or would like to sign up, contact Faustino Alonzo at Falonzo16@georgefox.edu.

Up to 40 percent of food in the United States is never eaten. At the same time, one in eight Americans struggles to put enough food on the table. Research shows that 40 percent of all college students in a 30-day period did not have access to enough food.

What can you do to alleviate this problem? Join George Fox University’s effort to address both problems during Weigh the Waste Week! 

Today (Monday) we will be collecting all the food waste from lunch to determine how much food is wasted. Volunteer to help collect the food waste.

Tomorrow (Tuesday) get the results and make the pledge to take only what you eat and have a clean plate by the end of your meal. Sign the pledge by writing your name on a paper plate. These paper plates will be displayed on a wall in the dining room.

Everyone who signs the pledge will be entered into a random drawing to win a $50 gift card to Grocery Outlet, so please write your name clearly.

On Wednesday, Oct. 16, all are welcome to visit local Farm to Fork vendor Mustard Seed Organics at 2 p.m. This Thursday, Oct. 17, there will be more chances to sign the pledge and learn about food waste.

On Friday, Oct. 18, we will be collecting all the food waste from lunch. If we can show a 30 percent reduction in food waste from Monday’s lunch, Bon Appetit will donate an entire pallet of oatmeal to the Bruin Community Pantry! Volunteers are needed to help collect food waste for this event as well.

If you are interested in volunteering for any of these events or would like to join us on the farm tour, contact Shannon Tivona at shannon.tivona@cafebonappetit.com.

Are you interested in studying abroad at Tokyo Christian University in Tokyo, Japan? Our program offers students the chance to study Japanese as well as several other courses.

A representative will be on campus on Tuesday, Oct. 29, to answer questions about the program and provide more details to students. Come by the Lemmons conference room between 3 and 4 p.m. to talk about the program!

Questions? Email Lynn Scott (lscott@georgefox.edu) or Paul Chamberlain (pchamberlain@georgefox.edu).