The Daily Bruin

Are you a …

Risk warrior?
Catan settler?
Eurogame connoisseur?
or just someone who enjoys a good game of cards?

We’re forming a Board Game Club, and hope to start in January with weekly game nights open to all students. Come ready to share your favorites and to try something new.

Because this is the busiest time of the semester for most of us, our goal is to do most of the work of planning and filling out the paperwork necessary to become a club during winter break. If you’re interested in being a member or in helping to plan the club, contact Matt Staples (mstaples14@georgefox.edu)

We can’t wait to play with you!

Come join the Latinx Heritage Club for our Christmas Fiesta! We will be having food, games and music. Bring a friend and come have a good time before finals week!

The fiesta runs from 5 to 8 p.m. this Friday, Dec. 8, in the Intercultural Resource Center. Contact Stephanie Garcia Cruz (sgarciacruz14@georgefox.edu) with any questions.

Hope to see you there!

The Graduate School of Physical Therapy is excited to present its fourth annual research symposium today (Tuesday) from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in Canyon Commons 101 and 102. Physical therapy doctoral faculty and students will showcase eight rehabilitation research topics. Light refreshments will be served.

Please contact Linda Dallof at 503-554-2451 or ldallof@georgefox.edu with any questions.

The university community is invited to a special presentation, “Defending Faith: The Politics of the Christian Conservative Legal Movement,” at 6:45 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 7, in Hoover 102.

Daniel Bennett, an assistant professor of political science at John Brown University, will make the presentation. Bennett’s research is focused on the intersection of American politics, law and religion. He earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from George Fox, then worked for a year in the audit and inventory management industry before starting work on his doctorate. His PhD is in political science from Southern Illinois University. He recently published his first book, Defending Faith: The Politics of the Christian Conservative Legal Movement.

For more information, contact Mark David Hall at mhall@georgefox.edu.

More than 120 summer internships at leading Portland companies and organizations are being made available to students of color through the Emerging Leaders Internship Program (ELI). The goal is to increase the number of diverse people who are in leadership throughout the Portland area. Faculty, be sure to tell our students about this opportunity!

Businesses including Salt & Straw, Yahoo, Dave’s Killer Bread, Wieden & Kennedy, and the Black United Fund look forward to seeing our students’ applications and are offering positions for all types of majors. Applications are due Jan. 31.

To learn more, contact Jenny Elsey (jelsey@georgefox.edu) or Joe Thouvenel (jthouvenel@georgefox.edu).

Attention lovers of poetry, prose, and art! Stop by Canyon Commons during Late Night Breakfast (Monday, Dec. 11, at 10 p.m.) to pick up your free copy of The Wineskin, the university’s literary and art magazine with poetry, prose, art, and photography submitted by your fellow George Fox students!

Questions? Contact Kiale Palpant (kpalpant16@georgefox.edu).

In an effort to streamline the employment process for new student employees, Employee Empowerment is announcing the following new process for the Newberg campus student employees.

Student supervisors, when employment is offered to a student employee on the Newberg campus, please take the following steps:

1. Generate an offer letter in the timekeeping system
2. Send the new student worker to Employee Empowerment for orientation during business hours, BEFORE their first shift. Ensure the student brings acceptable ID for their I9 form and documentation from their bank if they plan to enroll in direct deposit.
3. Employee Empowerment will assist the student in accepting their offer letter.
4. Employee Empowerment will fill out the W4, I9 and Direct Deposit paperwork with the student.
5. Employee Empowerment will provide an overview of the timekeeping system.
6. Employee Empowerment will provide an overview of resources for student employees.

After a student has completed student employee orientation at Employee Empowerment, they may begin working their shifts in your department.

As always, contact Employee Empowerment anytime you have questions. Kasondra Silva (ksilva@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2184) is your student employment manager and an expert in all things related to student employment.

George Fox is a private college, so if students can pay to enroll, they can certainly pay for their books, right? Not necessarily. Click this link to see stories of undergraduate students who would have benefited from help buying course materials.

For some students, purchasing textbooks can make the difference between a college education and dropping out of college. The Textbook Assistance Fund has been created to provide assistance to undergraduate students who cannot purchase required textbooks or course materials due to financial hardship.

We invite you to donate to the Textbook Assistance Fund. One faculty member contributed a portion of royalties, turning income from book sales into funds that enable students to acquire textbooks. See the invitation to contribute if you are interested in making a tax-deductible donation to the fund.

Contact Rick Muthiah (rmuthiah@georgefox.edu) if you have questions about the Textbook Assistance Fund.

On Wednesday, Dec. 6, residence life will offer a women’s self-defense class from 7 to 9:30 p.m. for George Fox students and employees (location TBA). Teaching it will be an officer in the Newberg-Dundee Police Department who has offered these classes in the local community for the last decade.

The class size will be limited. Female students can sign up (free of charge) in the student life office on the third floor of the Stevens Center. Participants will also be required to to sign a waiver form in order to participate. All participants need to be 18 years or older as of Dec. 6.

The class will involve a mixture of listening and practice. The instructor is able to modify and adapt techniques to match most physical limitations, so please do not self-select out of this training due to physical limitations.

If you have any questions, please contact David Johnstone at djohnsto@georgefox.edu.

In preparation for Winter Formal, the Swing Dance Club and Latin Heritage Club will be hosting dance lessons! Swing dance lessons will be held on the following days …

• Today (Monday)
• Wednesday, Dec. 6

Also, Bachata lessons will be held on the following days …

• Tuesday, Dec. 5
• Thursday, Dec. 7

All lessons will be in the Foxhole from 6 to 7 p.m. We hope to see you there! Contact Shelby Bauer (sbauer16@georgefox.edu) with any questions.

This Advent season, the Office for Spiritual Life welcomes you to enjoy The Advent Project: A collection of meditations by students at George Fox University  The collection features daily readings and Scripture meditations meant to guide participants through the four weeks of Advent leading to Christmas.

The student writers, who represent various academic majors and years in school, were nominated for this project by George Fox faculty and student life staff. As you read their words, know that it is their hope and ours that during this season of Advent, you will remember that the God who promised is faithful, and that you will find hope, peace, joy and love in the God who made his dwelling among us.

Grace and Peace to you this Advent season,
– The Office for Spiritual Life

Attention faculty: Sign up now for a special session of Search Advocate Training!

Rebecca Hernandez and Laura Hartley will offer a two-day training session Jan. 3-4, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., with breakfast and lunch provided both days! Join us and learn about the changing legal landscape in hiring, equitable hiring practices, and how you can better prepare yourself to be on a search committee.

If you’re interested, please click on this link. For more information, please contact Rebecca at rhernandez@georgefox.edu or Laurie Fair at lfair@georgefox.edu.

Meal plans have been rolled over for the spring semester, and charges have been applied to your bill. Students who are eligible to change their meal plan for the spring semester will be able to do so starting Monday, Dec. 18. After this date, please log in to your Housing & Meal Plan Intent Form to make this change. Keep in mind that students living on campus are eligible for meal plans based on the number of completed credits earned.

If you are expecting to change your meal plan for the spring semester and you don’t have the options you were hoping to find, you may need to wait until all your grades have been entered to complete this change. Grades are generally due by Dec. 25. Changes made after Jan. 8, 2018, may be subject to our refund policy. The final deadline for all declining meal plan changes will be Friday, Jan. 19, 2018.

Please refer to our policies and procedures on the Meal Plan Policies & Procedure page. If you have any questions or concerns, contact Jere Witherspoon (jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2316) in the student life office. When inquiring about your meal plan via email, please include your student ID number.

The university community is invited to a farewell reception for Lynn Andrews, vice president for advancement, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. today (Monday) in the Stevens Center’s Duke Atrium.

Lynn is leaving the university to start a new position as the leader of development for her parish, as well as to establish a new foundation for Catholic education in the Archdiocese of Portland. Swing by to wish her well!

Want a merry and peaceful Christmas break? Complete your 2018-19 FAFSA! You are invited to a FAFSA workshop hosted by the George Fox financial aid counselors – our gift to you.

When:

• Wednesday, Dec. 6 from 5 to 6:30 p.m.
• Monday, Dec. 11 (Dead Day) from 2 to 4:30 p.m.

Where: MLRC 20 (library basement computer lab)

What to bring:

• Your FSA ID (Don’t remember it? Find it at fsaid.ed.gov)
• Your 2016 W-2s and federal tax return

Sign up here so we know how many snacks to bring. Questions? Contact the Financial Aid Office at fa@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2302.

This Thursday Dec. 7, come support George Fox theatre’s honor society, Alpha Psi Omega, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. at the MOD Pizza in Sherwood (21370 S.W. Langer Farms Pkwy., #132). This fundraiser will help us raise money to go to the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival in February.

MOD will give 20 percent of what you spend back to us if you show our flier, so spread the news! To get the flier, either go to the main office in Minthorn or visit this Facebook event page to get a digital copy. The more people who know, the better! So, come and support our theatre students at MOD Thursday!

Contact Lauren Vander Aarde (lvanderaarde15@georgefox.edu) with questions.

So you landed a great internship or job. Now what do you do to really CRUSH IT so that you get a job offer or fantastic recommendation?

Today (Monday) at noon in Canyon Commons 101, come hear insider tips on how to be a rock star intern or employee from a special guest whose passion is helping students thrive in their internships and new careers. The session will run until 12:50 p.m.

Contact Colleen Sump (csump@georgefox.edu) for more information.

Are you interested in a missions trip that uses psychological study to learn from and serve ministries to poor children? Come to an information session on a May 2018 trip to Nicaragua! We’ll meet today (Monday) from 4 to 5 p.m. in Hoover 207.

If you can’t make it, but would like to know more, email Kelly Chang at kchang@georgefox.edu. Here is a link to more information.

Hey everyone! Fox and Friendsview is happening tonight (Monday)! This is a great opportunity to make an elderly person’s day and is a ton of fun. We’ll meet in the Bauman lobby at 6:15 p.m. and will walk over together.

If you have any questions, please email Kyla Norell at knorell16@georgefox.edu. Hope to see you there!

All undergraduate business majors and undergraduate business faculty are encouraged to attend our business and economics department portrait shoot. You will receive an electronic copy of your portrait to use on LinkedIn and with your resume materials.

The portrait shoot is free. It is scheduled between 9 and 11:15 a.m. tomorrow (Tuesday) on the first floor of the Hoover Academic Building. Your portrait will be added to the portrait walls in the College of Business. Please sign up here.

Contact Kelly Borror (kborror@georgefox.edu) with any questions.