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Come hear James Waller, an expert on the Holocaust and genocide, talk about the role of the church in responding to such events. Dr. Waller has spoken to the State Department and the CIA. He also is the author of numerous books, including Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing. 

Waller will speak from 4:40 to 5:35 p.m. and from 7 to 7:55 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 2, in Hoover 105. His presentation is part of the university’s Liberal Arts and Critical Issues Forum. For more information, contact Caitlin Corning (History) at ccorning@georgefox.edu.

The Disability Services Office is accepting applications for a student employee whose primary role will be to convert texts into electronic formats for students with disabilities. Other tasks might include reading for a student, overseeing tests for individual students, and communicating with professors to best assist students with disabilities. Computer skill, comfort with learning new technology, and ability to work independently are essential. Training on specific software processes will be provided.

Submit student employment application (from the Human Resources Student Employment Information page) and a letter describing interest and qualifications to Rick Muthiah (Student Life office or Box 6197) by Wednesday, November 11, 2009.

Check out details on the Disability Services website.

Audition for Rodgers and Hammerstein’s A Grand Night for Singing & Alpha Psi Omega’s New Playwright Festival.
 
General Auditions:

Monday, November 9 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. in Woodmar Auditorium.

For A Grand Night for Singing:
Prepare a 90 second comedic monologue and a Rodgers and Hammerstein song with music for the accompanist.

For APO’s New Playwright Festival:
Prepare a 90 second monologue.

Sign up for an auditon time slot on the door to the Theatre and Fine Arts Offices, Ross Center 101.

Callbacks:

Tuesday, November 10 & Wednesday, November 11 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

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

Do you have the voice and the desire to sing the national anthem during the 2009-2010 Bruin basketball season? Auditions are scheduled for Monday, Nov. 2, in the Wheeler Gymnasium. Audition a cappella in order of arrival, beginning at 7 p.m.

Open to students, faculty, staff and friends and relatives. Please don’t bring your pets.

October timesheets for student employees are due Monday, November 2. If you haven’t already, please submit your October timesheet to your supervisor to ensure that you are paid on Monday, November 16.  Be sure your name is typed or printed legibly at the top, it is complete and accurate, and you have signed it.  Thank you.

– Human Resources

Please send an e-mail to Peggy Kilburg (HR) if you would like to nominate a support staff member or administrator for Employee of the Month for November. Your e-mail should include the person’s name, job title, a concise but specific summary of this person’s recent contributions (past 30 days or so) to the university, its students, and/or its employees (what was done, who was impacted, etc.), and any other information that you believe makes this person deserving of this award.

Please submit your nomination by Friday, Nov. 13. The President’s Executive Leadership Team will then select the Employee(s) of the Month from the nominations submitted. The winner(s) will be announced at the all-employee meeting on Thursday, Nov. 19, and will receive a $100 gift card to The Allison Inn & Spa, including its restaurant, Jory.

The Multicultural Club is hosting an intercultural conference Nov. 13-14 on the Newberg campus that will include guest speakers in regards to diversity. Meals are provided (breakfast, lunch and ice cream social). To get details and register online, visit the conference’s website.

Would you please take a few minutes to submit your October time sheet (support staff) or time-off report (administrators) to your supervisor right away? As always, please be sure it is complete (including your ID number), accurate and signed by both you and your supervisor before sending it to HR at Box 6108. (If your supervisor is not available to sign it, please send a copy to HR and keep the original until it has been signed.)

The link on the HR website for staff time sheets is: georgefox.edu/offices/hr/TimesheetOct09.xls

The administrator time-off reports is at: georgefox.edu/offices/hr/Timeoffreport.doc

A tip to help you remember to do this each month: Set a recurring appointment on your Outlook calendar for the first business day of each month with a brief notation, “Turn in time sheet.” That gives you one less thing to have to remember.

Student supervisors, please submit your students’ October time sheets to HR right away — by Tuesday, Nov. 3. If you have any “stragglers,” we will take those as late as Wednesday morning, Nov. 4, but there should be very few. Please deliver all other time sheets to HR by Tuesday.

Please be sure the student’s name, ID number and cost center number is legible on each one. Also, don’t forget to sign them and be sure the students did as well. (If the student is not available to sign it this week, please send it without the signature, and HR will contact the student.) Please do not send students to HR to sign their time sheets.

Federal Work Study regulations require that students delivering their own time sheets must have them in a sealed envelope. If you happen to still have any paperwork to submit on a newly hired student, please hand-deliver it right away, no later than Monday, Nov. 2. We need to set up students in the system before the time sheets arrive.

Thanks very much.
HR

Mid-term grades can provide a wake-up call for students who aren’t doing well in one or more courses. 

This session will provide ideas for addressing common reasons for poor performance and alternatives that students have for salvaging the semester.

Rick Muthiah from the Center for Teaching and Learning will lead the session.

Tuesday ~ Nov. 3, 2009
6:30 p.m.  ~ STV 207

All Francophones are invited to attend the presentation of four sketches in French: Y’a un Bug, Il suffit de s’en souvenir, Le Discours and Le Juste Mot. Performances begin at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4, in EHS 102. A reception will follow.

A small band of commuters have already begun to set aside time on Mondays from noon to 1:30 p.m. to “break bread” together in the Bruin Den Annex with the intention of knowing and growing together spiritually.  Any and all commuters are welcome to join us.  Discussions will vary and will be driven by this intention to get to know one another better by learning more about how our life journeys are enveloped by God’s story.

Contact Rusty St. Cyr at rstcyr@georgefox.edu for more information.

Attention seniors who are graduating in December,

Congratulations on your impending graduation! As you prepare to leave us, the university has organized a special event to help you tie up all the loose ends before graduation day arrives.

On Thursday, Nov. 5, we will host the Fall Exodus Grad Fair from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Cap and Gown Room. There, you will be able to:

• Pick up your cap and gown

• Verify graduation with the registrar’s office

• Conduct or schedule an exit interview with Financial Aid

• Visit with Career Services

• Connect with Alumni Relations

• Get information on mail forwarding

• Order graduation announcements

• Get sized and order a class ring

• Order alumni products

In short, all the departments you need to see before you graduate will be gathered in one location. This makes the exit process more efficient for both students and various departments. Complimentary food and drinks will be available, and there will be a chance to win great door prizes.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact Andy Dunn at ext. 2543 or at adunn@georgefox.edu.

Attention Fox Ladies:

Powder Puff Football sign-ups will be on the Intramural board next week. Please stop by and sign up to play. Games will be held on Saturday, November 21 starting at 9 a.m. on the Colonial Memorial Field inside the track.

Each game will be an hour long.  Freshmen will play sophomores, and juniors will play seniors.  The winners will then play each other.

Contact Stacie Laughlin at slaughlin07@georgefox.edu for more information.

Want to act in a comedic short film that will likely be seen at this year’s Fox Film Festival? “Adventures in Matchmaking” is a lighthearted short film that combines themes of misadventure, friendship and the often-hilarious situations that arise out of trying to play matchmaker.

Auditions for the film are scheduled for noon Saturday, Oct. 31, in the Media Center. The cast time commitment would be an initial read through and orientation meeting, as well as one to two weekends of filming (starting within the next two weeks). No previous acting experience is required to audition.

In preparation for auditions, contact Elizabeth Wallace (producer) at ewallace07@georgefox.edu to obtain a copy of the script. Those interested also need to print out a schedule (for the next month) and list any Friday, Saturday or Sunday conflicts.

We hope to see you there!

All faculty and staff are invited to attend the presentation “Working with International Students” from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30, in Lemmons 13. Contact Joel Perez at ext. 2305 or Alex Pia at ext. 2643 for more information.

About a dozen tickets remain for Friday night’s (Oct. 30) bilingual performance of Canta Y No Llores, a play put on by the Northwest’s premier Latino arts and culture organization, the Miracle Theatre Group, in Portland.

Multicultural Services is offering discounted tickets for the 8 p.m. performance. For more information on the show, visit milagro.org.

This is opening night and the audience is invited to stay afterward for a complimentary reception catered by a local restaurant. Visit the Office of Student Life (third floor of Stevens) and pay cash or check for a $10 ticket. This is half off the regular cost. Please stop by no later than 5 p.m. to pay.

The university’s visual arts department will host work by two Biola University professors, Kurt Simonson and Jon Anderson, beginning Tuesday, Nov. 3, through Dec. 2. The exhibit, to be displayed in the Minthorne Gallery, is entitled “Kurt Simonson: Northwoods Journal & Jonathan Anderson: Impasse.”

The exhibit opens with an artists’ talk at 4 p.m. Tuesday, followed by an opening reception from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the Minthorne Gallery.

The theatre department’s fall production of The Diviners will be showing on Nov. 5-7 and Nov. 12-14 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 15, at 2 p.m. The production is a redemptive tale of a charismatic but backsliding preacher and his close newfound friendship with the eccentric Buddy Layman as they help each other divine for truth, faith and hope.

All George Fox students will receive one complementary ticket for Student Night on Thursday night. Your complimentary ticket is only available at the Box Office in the Bruin Bookstore. Additional tickets are available for purchase at theatre.georgefox.edu.

The theatre department’s fall production of The Diviners will be showing in Wood-Mar Auditorium on Nov. 5-7 and Nov. 12-14 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 15, at 2 p.m. The production is a redemptive tale of a charismatic but backsliding preacher and his close newfound friendship with the eccentric Buddy Layman as they help each other divine for truth, faith and hope.

All university employees will receive one complementary ticket for any night. Your complimentary ticket is only available at the Box Office in the Bruin Bookstore. Additional tickets are available for purchase at theatre.georgefox.edu.