The Daily Bruin

If you have not already done so, please submit your January time sheet (support staff) or time-off report (administrators) this week. Please be sure it is complete, accurate, and signed by both you and your supervisor before sending it to HR at Box 6108. The link on the HR website for these documents is: georgefox.edu/offices/hr/forms.html.

If your supervisor is not available to sign it, please send a copy to HR and keep the original until it has been signed. And one last reminder for completing time sheets: Do not write any hours on the date marked holiday (Jan. 21) unless you worked the holiday.

– Human Resources

The university’s annual Health and Benefits Fair is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15, in the Cap and Gown Room. This is the kickoff event for Benefits Open Enrollment; watch for more information about that soon.

The fair is a great opportunity to talk to your benefit reps as well as health and wellness professionals without cost or commitment. Get your hearing tested, pick up some antioxidants, and check your body fat (and then stop for food samples). Event also includes door prizes.

Questions? Contact Lisa Burton (Human Resources) via e-mail or at ext. 2183.

The Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) welcomes applications for the William E. Simon Fellowship.

The Simon Fellowship is a $40,000 unrestricted cash grant awarded to those graduating college seniors who have demonstrated passion, dedication, a high capacity for self-direction, and originality in pursuit of a goal that will strengthen civil society. In addition, two $5,000 cash awards are made to two other outstanding students.

Examples of how recipients may use the award include:• Engage directly in the civic life of their community.
• Help to create opportunity for others, including job creation.
• Advance their expertise.
• Fund the ultimate realization of their noble purpose.

Deadline is February 15, 2008.

More information and application guidelines available at www.simonfellowship.org.

A faculty teaching forum scheduled from noon to 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7, in the Executive Dining Room will focus on creating a tool for evaluating your own classes at midterm.

You will get to put together, using ideas from your colleagues, a tool that fits the course or courses you teach. We will share several examples of mid-course evaluations other faculty use. Bring your own and bring your ideas. Tom Johnson (Religious Studies) will lead the discussion.

To reserve a lunch, e-mail Jere Witherspoon (Student Life) by 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 5. Everyone is welcome to attend the session, whether bringing a lunch or reserving a lunch.

All faculty — full time, part time, and adjunct — are invited to attend faculty teaching forums. Video podcasts of FTFs will be available at the “Events and Resources” link on the Center for Teaching and Learning website.

Mulitcultural Services and the university’s theatre department invite the George Fox community to the production Black Boy, a one-person play featuring Broadway actor Charles Holt, on Feb. 8-9. Performances begin at 7:30 p.m. both nights in Wood-Mar Auditorium.

Synopsis: Holt plays Richard Wright and a host of additional characters in Wynn Handman’s adaption of Wright’s influential 1945 autobiography Black Boy.

What was life like in the Jim Crow South of the United States as an African American boy in 1908? What were the hardships one had to overcome? In what way was a person buoyed by hope, pride, and dignity? Those questions and others are addressed in the production.

The play is being presented in recognition of Black History Month. Holt has been performing Black Boy for the last seven years throughout the United States. To find out more on Holt and the play, go to charlesholtproductions.com.

Tickets are $10 for general admission, $8 for seniors and alumni, and $6 for students and children under 12. Tickets may be purchased at the box office by calling 503-554-3844 or online at theatre.georgefox.edu.

Courageous leadership with Wes Davis

Wes Davis is a creative and inspiring leader who uses humor to help people understand and experience what it means to become the church and go on a mission with Jesus.  A former youth pastor, he is the lead pastor of Newlife Church, a fast growing new church plant in Silverdale, Washington.

Come to Kaleo 2008 Saturday, February 23 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium.

Traditional undergraduate students are free!   Don’t miss out on a great opportunity.

Check out www.georgefox.edu/kaleo for more information.

Questions? Want to volunteer?  Contact Amy Lorenz @ 503-554-2134 or alorenz@georgefox.edu.

Tickets are still available for the Five O’clock People concert scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 8, in Bauman Auditorium. The event marks the return of one of George Fox’s favorite Christian bands.

Student tickets are $5 and are available for purchase at a table in the Bruin Den. Tickets may also be purchased online for $10 each at georgefox.edu/alumni/focp.html. All tickets purchased online or over the phone will be at will call the day of the concert.

Tickets are still available for the Five O’clock People concert scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 8, in Bauman Auditorium. The event marks the return of one of George Fox’s favorite Christian bands.

Admission is $10 per person. To purchase your tickets, stop by the University Relations office or visit http://www.georgefox.edu/alumni/focp.html. All tickets purchased online or over the phone will be at will call the day of the concert.

Questions? Contact Vickie Timmons (University Relations) via e-mail or at ext. 2131.

1098T Tuition Statements, for claiming educational tax credits, have been mailed to students who were charged tuition in 2007. The IRS requires that we mail forms to your permanent home address. We suggest that you ask your parents, or whoever resides at that address, to watch the mail for the 1098T. It will arrive addressed to you.

For information about educational tax benefits, visit this link: http://www.georgefox.edu/offices/stu_fin_srv/1098t.html.