The Daily Bruin

The University Store’s Christmas sale is running this week and next, concluding Friday, Dec. 21. Save 20 percent on George Fox imprinted items (except diploma frames), World of Good items, and Christmas products. You also save 10 percent on all Burt’s Bees, Prestige cosmetics, and all jewelry. Bookstore hours this week are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday; next week, hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

As you prepare to leave for Christmas break, we also are preparing for the entrance of new students and students returning from study abroad trips. If your living area has an empty spot, please prepare this space to be clean and organized for the possible move of a new or returning student.  This preparation should be complete before you leave for Christmas break. Thank you for your help and cooperation.

If a new student or transfer is placed in your living area, you and your roommates will be notified via e-mail during the break. This information will also be available in Bruin Data under My Data—Student Life/Housing.

If you have any questions please e-mail housing@georgefox.edu.

Have a wonderful Christmas break!

The Center for Teaching and Learning is sponsoring an Introduction to FoxTALE workshop and open lab time for faculty on Thursday, Jan. 3, in the CAI Lab on the third floor of the Stevens Center. An introductory class will be held from 9 a.m. to noon, and consultants will be available during open lab time from 1 to 4 p.m. Please R.S.V.P. to Sheila Abercrombie (IT) if you would like to attend the morning class.

Security Services will set up lost and found tables from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 12, in the Bruin Den. This will be the last time to retrieve your lost items for this year. After 1:30 p.m., remaining items will be given to charitable causes. So, if you are missing items, be sure and stop by the tables.

Clean Sweep is a business created out of George Fox University’s senior capstone business class. As part of our cleaning service, Clean Sweep will arrive with two crewmembers and all supplies needed to clean your home.

The rate for the two person cleaning team is thirty dollars an hour.
Half of our proceeds will be contributed into the Patrick Kibbler Memorial fund.

Services will include but are not limited to
– Dusting
– Vacuuming
– Mopping
– Cleaning showers
– Cleaning toilets
– Wiping counters
– Dusting cobwebs
– Emptying trash bins
– Cleaning appliances
– Cleaning windows

Customize the cleaning you want for your home!

Contact us at georgefoxcleansweep@gmail.com or call Kelsey Burghardt at 503-991-1292.

Students graduating on December 15, 2007 please visit the commencement website: http://www.georgefox.edu/offices/academic_affairs/commencement/
for complete details of the events of the day, including regalia pick-up. 

The front office at the Portland Center will have holiday hours the next three weeks.

On Dec. 17 -21, 27-28, Jan. 2-4, the office will be open 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. with the exception of Wednesday, Dec. 19 and Thursday, Jan. 3, for the new student orientations, on which it will remain open until 6:30 p.m.

The front office will be closed on Dec. 24, 25, 26, 31 and Jan. 1 in celebration of Christmas and New Year.

Bon Appetit will host a Christmas banquet in the Klages Dining Room between 4:30 and 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 13, for all students on meal plans and other guests. Along with strolling carolers, eggnog, and hot apple cider, the menu includes roasted baron of beef, grilled chicken with wild mushroom demi sauce, assorted salads, and Christmas desserts.

Non-meal plan students and guests are welcome for $10 plus cans of food to be donated to Love Inc.

Bonnie Jerke (Career Services) was for a second time invited to review and provide input on another new, pre-published book, Idealist Guide to Nonprofit Careers. She focused on the chapter entitled “The Nonprofit Distance Search.”

Paul Anderson (Religious Studies) presented three papers at the national SBL/AAR meetings in San Diego in November: “John and Qumran: Discovery and Interpretation over Sixty Years” (in the John and Qumran session of the John, Jesus, and History Group); “From One Quest to Another: The Johannine Conception of Authentic Faith as a Response to the Divine Initiative” (in the What We have Heard from the Beginning session of the John, Jesus, and History Group); and “An Incarnational Sacramentality” (in the Quaker Theological Discussion Group).

Three of Paul’s essays also were published this month: “Bakhtin’s Dialogism and the Corrective Rhetoric of the Johannine Misunderstanding Dialogue: Exposing Seven Crises in the Johannine Situation,” in Bakhtin and Genre Theory in Biblical Studies Semeia Studies 63 (Semeia Studies 63, SBL Press); “On Guessing Points and Naming Stars – The Epistemological Origins of John’s Christological Tensions,” in The Gospel of St. John and Christian Theology (Eerdmans); and “Aspects of Interfluentiality between John and the Synoptics: John 18-19 as a Case Study,” in The Death of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel (Peeters, 2007).

Carole Spencer’s (Seminary) new book, Holiness, the Soul of Quakerism (Paternoster Press), was reviewed at the Quaker Theological Discussion Group meetings in San Diego in November. The QTDG sessions were chaired by Corey Beals and Howard Macy (Religious Studies).

Dec. 11   Tatiana Cevallos
Dec. 13   Marvin Clarkson, Steve Grant, Dana Miller
Dec. 14   Gennie Harris, Janelle Townsend
Dec. 15   Paul Corbett-Furgal, Rick Muthiah, Cliff Rosenbohm
Dec. 17   Becky Ankeny, Gary Buhler, Viki Defferding
Dec. 19   Phil Smith
Dec. 20   Howard Macy
Dec. 22   Robin Ashford, Jenny Getsinger
Dec. 23   Rodger Bufford
Dec. 24   Jeong Ahn, Greg Allen, Bethany Goldman
Dec. 25   Danya Ochsner, Debby O’Kelley
Dec. 26   Carol Namburi
Dec. 28   Robert Simpson
Dec. 30   Lori DeKruyf
Dec. 31   Sherrie Frost, Eric Funasaki
Jan. 1     David Hansen, Bob Harder
Jan. 3     Julie Green, Jack Harris, Sarah Marvin, Amber Russell
Jan. 4     Brenda Graf, Chris Koch, Dan Van der water
Jan. 5     Melva Lloyd, Joy Reimann
Jan. 6     Merrill Johnson
Jan. 7     Cathy Peterson

You can donate blankets, gift cards, cleaning supplies, and/or personal hygiene items to the Vernonia flood victims.

Whitney Scott, a George Fox graduate counseling student and school counseling intern at Scappoose High School, will be collecting donations from the George Fox Portland Center community and taking them to the collection point at SHS.

Donation boxes have been placed in the North and South Buildings of the Portland Campus. If you have any questions, please contact Whitney Scott at 503-543-6376, ext. 229.

Counseling and Seminary students:

If you are graduating this semester or not returning in Spring, please return your mailbox key to Sandy Chambers in the front office or drop it in the student services station in the first floor foyer by Friday, Dec. 14.

If your key is not returned, your student account will be charged $15.

The Third Annual Wassail Party was fabulous!

Several hundred students and employees came by the tables for treats and talks. It was so much fun to watch the students enjoy a much-needed break from learning and studying. Many of them asked us to pass along their gratitude for such a wonderful event.

Personally, I was incredibly blessed to watch our community rise up together to provide the treats and hospitality this year. It honestly was a miracle to see how the goodies and snacks multiply like “Loaves and Fishes.” We had so many goodies left over that we’re still snacking on them in the employee lounge.

Thank you to each one who generously gave to support the party. Special thanks to the Portland Center Library for ordering and paying for the wassail.

On behalf of the Portland Center community, “Thank You” to the many people who hosted the event during the day:

Sandy Chambers, Joyce Staats, Brenda Graf, Janeen Dillow, Robin Ashford, Bruce Arnold, Charlie Kamilos, Jeff VandenHoek, Amber Russell, Sara Vulgan, Kathy Grant, Vicki Ring, Janet Moats, Cindy Howard, Jennifer Overstreet, Danielle Ambrose, Melva Lloyd, Jean Borgman, and Darla Samuelson, as well as Barbara Braun and Vern Choin for their help in setting up and tearing down.

Thank you goes to each of you who made, bought or shared in the bringing of the food. You made the day!

I just want to thank all of my George Fox family for the outpouring of love, prayer, thoughts, money, gifts, flowers, and cards. I appreciate everything the Fox community has done for me, and I am so touched by everything that has been done. I am on the road to recovery, and am looking foward to returning next semester.

Thank You,
Arianne Reagor

Interested in a summer 2008 PAID professional internship?Juniors, Seniors, & Graduate Students qualify.

Thank you to all who have participated in the United Way workplace campaign. Pledges and contributions will be accepted in the Human Resources office through Dec. 15. All payroll deductions for pledges made to United Way will run through the calendar year beginning with the January 2008 paycheck.

For more information on the campaign, contact Sheri Philips (University Relations).

Your mail will be in your campus mailbox when you return in Janurary.  Keep your mailbox key.

Beebe and SUB Post Offices will be open during the Christmas break on regular work days.  Hours are posted in the lobbies.

Window Service at University Mail Services is from 8:00 – 4:30pm on regular work days.  Days and hours posted at University Mail Services.

Graduating or withdrawing?

1. You must fill out a blue forwarding address card found in wall racks in the Beebe and SUB Post Office, and at the University Mail Center.  Return completed card to Mail Services.

2. Return your mail box key before you leave campus.  (Avoid a $15.00 key charge.)

3. Questions?  Email lsartwel@georgefox.edu

The nursing department has adopted another family for Christmas, and employees and students are welcome to help. The family includes a working father, a stay-at-home mom, two daughters (ages 5 and 7), and a baby on the way.

Nursing has set up a gift tree on the second floor of the Hoover Academic Building. On it are ornaments with a gift listed on each. To participate, take an ornament, purchase the gift, and give it (wrapped or unwrapped) to Elaine Smith (Nursing). All gifts must be turned in by Wednesday, Dec. 12, so they can be delivered Thursday, Dec. 13, to the family.

Nursing also is seeking a tree and decorations to donate to the family. If anyone is willing to donate these, contact us.

There is also a food bin located by the tree for nonperishable foods (canned, boxed, etc.) for the family. Money collected is going toward the purchase of a gift card so the family can purchase perishable foods (turkey, produce, etc.).

Questions? E-mail Dottie Massey or Megan Davidson.

This is for such a wonderful cause and we appreciate everyone’s help.

Thank you,

– The Nursing Department and The Nursing Association

With Christmas break approaching, we ask that you secure your bikes in your living area or take them home if you don’t plan to use them again. This will cut down the temptation for those who wish to take one as an early Christmas present.

Have a Merry Christmas.

– Security Services