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For more information, please contact [email protected]. ■ 4a _ George Fox University •t . ft ^ ^ New Iff — George GFU 48 hour F o x H a l l fi l m p r o j e c t of Fame Inductee w Arts & Culture | page 5 Sports I page 3 THE VOICE OF THE STUDENTS SINCE 189 Volume CXXVIil Issue 1 O c t o b e r 5 , 2 0 11 facebook.com/thecrescent.georgefox Crescent at a Glance Homecoming: changing tradition News New professors: Ben Frankamp and Nate Peach Sports Former student joins the U.S. Bobsled team Students ready for the new football team* Feature Center for Peace and Justice seeks to promote heartfelt conversations with symposium A r t s & C u l t u r e DVD review:Tree of Life George Fox sport fens enjoy the festivities of last year's homecoming Photo courtesy of GEORGE FOX By Sarah Brase alumni. Student activities began Monday, and there are special reunions planned for the Uni Crescent Staff alumni events will begin Saturday. There are versity Players, seminary, and biology and chem several opportunities this weekend designed for istry departments. Specific events have been This year homecoming is taking on a whole students to connect with the alumni. created for alumni of ail ages to reconnect them new look. For the past 40 years, the homecom Friday afternoon Alumni Relations Is putting with the George Fox community. ing tradition has been held In the spring. Re on a Career Connections event designed for stu While there are separate events planned turning to the fall this year, the schedule has dents to network with alumni. Students will be for the students and alumni, Larson reiterated expanded to provide more opportunities for the able to ask questions and "connect with people the significance of homecoming. "The purpose alumni to connect with their alma mater and the who are out in careers that interest them," said of Homecoming is all about connecting the current students at George Fox University. Larson. George Fox community together. It's a chance Robby Larson, director of Alumni Relations, During the women's soccer game on Sat to bring family together," he said. said, "Homecoming is about being a part of urday, there will be a tailgating party, allow Larson encouraged students to "give home the George Fox family. It's a chance for alumni ing Bruin sports fans, both past and present, to coming a chance as it is easy to associate home Opinion to return back to a place that has been a huge come together and support the team. coming with high school. impact in their lives. They come back as part of The debate on female Sunday morning, a special homecoming "Homecoming is a great opportunity to the community again, and are able to interact connect with people who have come before with faculty, students, and their alma mater." worship service is planned for students and pastors rages on alumni. Music will be led by Olivia Pothoff and them," he said. ASC Activities Director Stephanie Grosse other George Fox alumni. Larson said he is "excited to see the special Enrique's Jorney: love it or said, "There Is an instant connection coming New this year. Alumni Relations is hosting moments that happen during Homecoming hate it? from the same place. We are all connected a Homecoming Gala, a semi-formal event that weekend... It's very powerful to see the love through George Fox." Alumni Relations and ASC allows members of the reunion classes a chance that alumni have for this place.That's why we do partnered together this year to plan events that to reunite with their classmates. In addition, homecoming." would help connect current students with the Professor tells filmmaker^s story George Fox culture... like B y To r i N u n n e n k a m p She also enlisted the help of the production of "Blue Like Crescent Staff George Fox students Tyler Jazz," momentum picked up Assistant Professor of Robertson, Danielle Gelger, f o r G i b s o n . youVe never experienced it Cinema and Media Commu and David Reid, along with Hailing back to Taylor's nications Sarah Gibson has recent graduate, Aubrey Fer years as a musician, HM Mag THE BLURGH. always loved telling other guson. The new medium azine cites his first musical hit people's stories, and has just they used allowed them to as "i Want To Be a Clone," the recently closed a chapter on compile all of their informa- name that sparked the title AtoaTV» • »-j»WT«inr Steve Taylor. Her online inter for the documentary Web site, active documentary about tobeaclone.com. Taylor was published August The site traces the life of SNrchli(\(uie(<( 1 after first pitching the idea "We tried to make Taylor practically from birth to him seven years ago. it accessible to,.. through his experiments and As a Christian musician successes in music and film. About Ihls lite and filmmaker, Taylor has As an interactive documenta tn tftg otOMfC hx [the] fan who m a d e w a v e s w i t h h i s c o n Untrmue-AKt wants to know ry, it also features interviews troversial lyrics and Is now with Taylor's friends and col what Steve had for directing the movie adapta leagues, clips of songs and tion of "Blue Like Jazz." He also breakfast." shows, and quotes from con convinced the Newsboys to temporary critics. Gibson's keep the formally unknown one regret in making the doc Phota! But icriouil^.... t r a c k , " K i s s M e , " o n t h e i r Hlec job ChrH Martin and umentary IPad-compatible album. When she learned is the lack of Flash-animated Joarph Oetanev. htia:/».t«/nniWPaL this, Gibson decided to begin tion without weeding out pieces to make it even more researching his life. large sections, "but that's also interactive. At the last minute Gibson, the downside,"said Gibson. Taylor does not make an who had already compiled The project had stalled appearance in the film, but enough film for a traditional for a while at the same time his involvement In its creation documentary, proposed the as the lack of funding for Th Blureh is The Crescent's blog and goes live today! The Blurgh will feature photos, videos online project as a grant for and blurbs about George Fox culture, it is edited by Tyler Zimmerman and Sadie Olson. "Blue Like Jazz." With the See FILMMAKER | page 2 Follow it at http://thebiurgh.tumbir.com. George Fox University faculty. r e c e n t i n fl u x o f f u n d s t o October 5, 2011 NEWS FILMMAKER: The site is all about accessiblility to everyone. Continued from page 1 New professors on the block supports Gibson's wish that her au received the rrews that Georg® dience has "the Steve Taylor experi B y A l e x G a m e z instructing at George Fox, Peach worked as an ence without having Steve Taylor Crescent Staff economics professor at Colorado State Univer there." The beginning of fall semester welcomed sity; it was here that Peach earned a master's While the online documentary Ben Frankamp, adjunct professor of chemistry. and doctorate degree in economics. Peach com was published in August, there Frankamp is an alumnus of George Fox ('00) and pleted his Bachelor of Science in international are no immediate plans to release business at Messiah College, a private Christian school,"said Peach. f=riiltv as received a doctorate in organic chemistry at the Peach praised the George Fox faculty as the traditional film. In November, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Prior to liberal arts college in Grantham, Pennsylvania. Gibson plans to travel to Nashville This past summer. Peach returned to Colora being "some of the most interesting " om coming to George Fox, Frankamp worked in the to present the original documen do State and pursued a doctorate in philosophy. peopie i have met." Likewise, in classroom. pharmaceutical industry at Bend Research, a tary "Steve Taylor Is Not Dead" with contract research firm. Once the time came for official placement post Peach has observed students' "I never considered teaching," he said. "But graduate school, it wasn't long before Peach delve into the economic issues . Taylor at Lipscomb University. She an opportunity at Fox came up and I took it." ing themselves in thought-provoking q^^stions^ hopes the 40-minute film, which "i also get the impression that many students has been finished for three years, Nearly brand new to teaching, Frankamp's will be released on DVD at some first experience at the white board was are engaged...through tra-curricuiar activities, i feel that the level of point after the presentation. teaching a course at Chemekata Community The site remains largely com College this past summer.