A worldwide philanthropic movement dubbed “Team Trees” has raised over $14 million since Oct. 25 in an effort to plant 20 million trees by 2020. The fundraiser was started by YouTubers MrBeast and Mark Rober through the Arbor Day Foundation, which has pledged to plant one tree for every dollar donated.

If you happen to be familiar at all with the Asian American experience, there might be a club for you. Fusion, a multicultural club under the International Resource Center (IRC), cultivates a community for Asian American students. It meets at the IRC at 7 p.m. on the first Thursday of every month. There is free food and a comfortable area for people of color to share their experiences and point of view on being Asian American or whatever the meeting’s prompt may be.

In mid-February, selected students from George Fox University (GFU) will attend the 2020 Student Congress on Racial Reconciliation (SCORR) at Biola University in La Mirada, Cal. The Intercultural Resource Center (IRC) seeks to select students to engage in conversations about diversity in a biblical and academic setting. The SCORR team trains together before and after the conference to learn why racial reconciliation is important and how to start similar conversations on campus. The conference takes place Feb. 22 and 23.

NEWBERG, ORE. –The religious component of incoming students’ general education classes has changed drastically this year with the addition of two new classes, THEO 101 and THEO 102. Both classes are titled “I Believe” and focus on a basic deconstruction of the Apostle’s Creed and biblical theology.

The first play of the year at George Fox University was the musical comedy “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder.” Based on a 1907 novel by Roy Horniman, the Tony-winning show opened at GFU on Oct. 17 and ran for eight showings.

When Justine Hostetler opened and read the email, it left her with “a gut feeling that something about it was off — not just off, but very wrong.” In asking students to protect themselves using precautions that were largely being followed during both assaults, the email shifted the responsibility of attacks from the perpetrator to the survivor.

George Fox University (GFU) received $1.2 million dollars in federal grants to treat individuals with Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) and Substance Use Disorder (SUD). The grant will fund eight doctoral students with $25,000 annual stipends for three years while treating patients at two clinics: Chemawa Indian School Primary Care Clinic in Salem and the Providence Medical Group in Newberg. The program will begin this fall.

In April of this year, Hong Kong’s government proposed a bill that would alter their current legislation. If passed, arrested citizens could be extradited back to the mainland for further prosecution outside of Hong Kong’s system. Much of the general public saw this as an infringement on their rights and took action.

As of Oct. 8, over 1,300 lung injury cases in 49 states have been reported related to e-cigarette use/vaping, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Twenty-six people have died across 21 states, including two in Oregon, in a wave of symptoms that is still being investigated.

From Sept. 20 to 27, people from Melbourne, Prague, Delhi, Portland and many other cities came together with a common goal. Worldwide, around 4 million people showed up to march, sign petitions, hold signs, and challenge their governments to do better regarding climate change.