The Daily Bruin

An all-employee meeting is scheduled from 3:40 to 5 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 4, in Hoover 105. The meeting was originally scheduled for Jan. 28 but had to be changed.

For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available for viewing at stream.georgefox.edu/live/commmtg.sdp. For best results, use Mozilla Firefox for your web browser, and your computer must have QuickTime Player installed. Simply copy the link into the address bar of your browser. If you have any problems, contact the Service Desk at ext. 2569.

In addition, a chat room has been set up to allow for interaction. A video recording of the meeting will be available for viewing the following day at itunesu.georgefox.edu.

Friday is last day to submit nominations for January Employee of the Month. Please send an e-mail to Peggy Kilburg (HR) if you would like to nominate a support staff member or administrator for January Employee of the Month.

Your e-mail should include the person’s name, job title, a concise but specific summary of this person’s contribution(s) to the university, its students, and/or its employees in the past 30 days or so (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 this Friday, Jan. 22. 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, Feb. 4, and will receive a $100 gift certificate to The Allison.

The Academic Resource Center (ARC) is Open for Business

Whether you want to improve your writing, brainstorm for an upcoming assignment, or meet regularly for academic coaching, the ARC consultants are available to support you in your academic pursuits.

The ARC is open Monday-Thursday from 1:00 p.m. to 10 p.m. and from noon-4:00 p.m. on Fridays. To schedule an appointment, email the_arc@georgefox.edu, call 503-554-2327, or stop by the ARC in the Special Collections room on the second floor of the library.

Whether you want students to improve their writing, brainstorm for an upcoming assignment, or meet regularly for academic coaching, the Academic Resource Center consultants are available to support students in their academic pursuits.

The ARC is open Monday through Thursday from 1 p.m. to 10 p.m. and from noon to 4 p.m. on Fridays. To schedule an appointment, students can e-mail the_arc@georgefox.edu, call ext. 2327, or stop by the ARC in the Special Collections Room on the second floor of the library.

The Thursday, Jan. 21 Faculty Teaching Forum has been canceled. Join us on Wednesday, Feb. 3, for the first Faculty Teaching Forum of the semester when Greg Smith, chief information officer, discusses forthcoming educational technologies. More details of the Feb. 3 teaching forum will be posted closer to the event.

Come join the university community in celebrating MLK Day in chapel on Wednesday, Jan. 20. The theme of the 10:40 a.m. event in Bauman Auditorium is “Beloved Community,” after Martin Luther King Jr.’s own desire to see us come together in unity, and will feature Act Six scholar Courtney Greenidge and her family.

Greenidge, a chapel worship leader and multicultural programs assistant, has taken the lead in making this day meaningful and impactful for our community. She will be performing with her family as they sing, speak and invite others to worship through gospel.

Her father, Timothy Greenidge, is a nationally known producer and audio designer. Also joining will be Courtney’s uncle and aunt, David and Deborah Greenidge. David  is senior pastor of Tigard Covenant Church and Deborah is the worship & arts pastor at Turning Point Christian Center in Vancouver, Wash.

 

The KFOX informational meeting will be on Tuesday, Jan. 19, at 7 p.m. in the Bruin Den (note date change). Come for information on how to be involved.

See you there!

Students…find additional funding for next year! The online application is now open for 2010-11 donor-funded GFU scholarships.

To apply, sign on to your mygfu account. Under Student Resources, you will see “2010 Newberg UG Scholarships”. Clicking on this site will take you to the sign-in page. Read information and instructions carefully.

The site will automatically close on March 1, 2010 at 5:00 pm.

The online application is now open for 2010-11 donor-funded GFU scholarships.

To apply, sign on to your MYGFU account. Under Student Resources, you will see “2010 Newberg UG Scholarships”.

Clicking on this site will take you to the sign-in page. Read information and instructions carefully.

The site will automatically close on March 1, 2010 at 5:00 pm.

Mark Terry (Visual Arts) will display his work in an exhibit titled “Alchemy: Born of Fire,” an MFA thesis exhibition of ceramic sculpture. The exhibit opens Tuesday, Jan. 19, and runs through Feb. 18 in the Minthorne Gallery.

An opening reception is scheduled Tuesday from 5 to 7:30 p.m. There will also be an artist talk before the reception at 4 p.m. and again at 6:30 p.m. The show includes figurative works featuring spontaneous and organic surfaces derived from primitive firing methodologies.

For more information, call ext. 2619 or e-mail Doug Campbell at dcampbell@georgefox.edu.

Friday, January 15

Saturday, January 16

This Friday and Saturday, BlueZone takes over Miller gymnasium.  

The Bruin Basketball teams will be playing Willamette on Friday evening and Linfield on Saturday evening.  

Tip off both nights will be 6pm and 8pm.

Wear your BlueZone shirt and bring your friends. 

 

(Note: after this weekend, there are only four more home games!)

Tuesday, January 19^th, 4:30-5:30pm 

Klages Cafeteria. 

Don’t miss dinner on Tuesday!  Please remember to bring an extra warm weather clothing item to donate to the homeless community.

SAAC is collecting warm clothing to donate to YCAP, who will in turn give them out to the homeless in Yamhill County.

Also, watch five of your friends SCARF IT  in a competitive eating contest!  

 sponsoring organization: SAAC

Come to the first Greenroom of the semester! Bauman Auditorium 10:40am to 11:30am (Chapel time). Join other students to give praise and glory to God the Creator and not ourselves. See you there and maybe invite a floormate.

Mail Services is serving as an unofficial collection site of Oregon ballots for this month’s election. Ballots are taken by a staff person to an official drop site at the Newberg Police Department. No postage necessary for any Oregon county.

Deadline for our collection: Tuesday, Jan. 26, at 4:30 p.m.

Friday,, Jan. 15, 6 p.m. – Men’s Basketball vs. Willamette, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym
Friday, Jan. 15, 8 p.m. – Women’s Basketball vs. Willamette, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym
Saturday, Jan. 16, 6 p.m. – Men’s Basketball vs. Linfield, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym
Saturday, Jan. 16, 8 p.m. – Women’s Basketball vs. Linfield, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym

Please note the switch of games this weekend, with the men playing first and the women second. All four games will have KFOX radio webcasts, live video streaming, and live stats via the Internet.

Special halftime shows at this weekend’s games feature the St. Francis School Jump Rope Team on Jan. 15 and Chehalem Valley Dance Academy on Jan. 16.

For more information, call the sports information office at ext. 2926 or visit the Bruins’ official website at gfubruins.com.

IMPORTANT:  With the upcoming transition for the Portland Center Bookstore, we will need to finalize textbook purchases for Spring 2010.  If you have not yet purchased your Spring books, please do so as soon as possible!

If your course begins later in the semester, you will need to purchase those books early as well!  We will begin the process of vendor returns the week of January 25.

 

The Fitness Center is open from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. on all days that Newberg campus classes are in session with the exception of class times. If it’s necessary for you to work out during a class session, please e-mail the instructor to gain permission to do so. Class times are: Monday through Wednesday, 7:40-10:30 a.m. and 11:40 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and Thursday from 7:25 to 9:55 a.m. and 1:40 to 2:30 p.m. Here’s to a happy and healthy 2010!