The Daily Bruin

If there is any possibility that you will use tuition remission during the 2010-11 academic year, whether for yourself, a spouse, and/or dependent(s), you must complete a Tuition Remission Request Form for each person and submit it by Monday, March 1.

Please click on this link for instructions for completing the Tuition Remission Request Forms, including links to the forms themselves. Please be sure to read this information before you begin completing a Tuition Remission Request Form. If you have questions after reading the information, please e-mail Peggy Kilburg (HR) at pkilburg@georgefox.edu for assistance.

For information about the Tuition Exchange program, contact Karlyn Fleming (Academic Affairs) at kfleming@georgefox.edu.

Tickets are still available to see internationally acclaimed pianist Valentina Lisitsa, who will perform for the university’s fourth annual Bösendorfer Artist Concert Series at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25, in Bauman Auditorium.

The performance will feature all 24 of Chopin’s Etudes. Each university employee and student is entitled to one complimentary ticket. Additional tickets are $10 for adults, $8 for alumni and seniors, and $6 for students and children under 12. To purchase tickets, visit music.georgefox.edu, or call the university box office at ext. 3844.

Lisitsa has toured throughout Europe, Japan, South America and North America. She has collaborated with the Sao Paulo Symphony, the Prague Chamber Orchestra, and the Chicago Symphony, and has performed with the likes of Lynn Harrell, Jimmy Lin, Roberto Diaz, Ida Haendel, and Hilary Hahn. For more information, visit valentinalisitsa.com.

Juniors Abroad May 2011 Information Meeting: March 3, 2010 at 6:00 PM in Hoover 105.

 Additional information can be found at juniorsabroad.georgefox.edu Paul Chamberlain, Director of Juniors Abroad,  pchamberlain@georgefox.edu

Do you know of students who need assistance? The Student Support Network (SSN) is designed to identify and support students who are struggling academically, socially or personally. The SSN consists of a small team of faculty, staff and administrators representing a variety of departments who are invested in the academic and personal success of the university’s undergraduate students.

Students are referred to the SSN by concerned members of the George Fox community who submit an Intervention Alert Form online. For more information, check out the SSN website. For more information, contact Jere Witherspoon at jwithers@georgefox.edu or ext. 2316.

Free tickets are available for the Portland Renovation and Remodeling Show scheduled March 12-14 at the Portland Coliseum. The event features hundreds of exhibits with home improvement experts available to show attendees what is new for building, remodeling, decorating and landscaping homes.

Employees can request two tickets each ($8 value) by e-mailing hr@georgefox.edu.

KFOX has spent some money on upgrading our equipment and we now sound better than ever. Don’t believe us? Check us out at kfoxradio.georgefox.edu.

Listen in anytime, anywhere for music 24/7 as well as student shows and sports broadcasting. Can’t go to a basketball or baseball game? Home and away games are streamed online.

Thoughts, questions, complaints or suggestions for the station? Want to get involved? E-mail the station manager, Aubrey, at  aferguson07@georgefox.edu.

Please fill out this short anonymous survey for The Crescent about the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy surrounding homosexuals in the military.  If the link does not work, you can copy and paste it in a new window.  Thank you, The Crescent Staff.

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Attention Newberg Undergrad Students:  Your opportunity to apply for additional GFU scholarships for the 2010-11 academic year will soon come to a close. March 1st @ 5:00 pm is the deadline.  Student Financial Services strongly encourages you to NOT wait until the last minute allowing for plenty of time to complete the process.  

Log on today at www.mygfu.georgefox.edu.  Look under Student Resources to find “2010 Newberg Undergrad Scholarships” to apply.

So you want to be a nurse!  Come to the informational meeting to learn about: the nursing program, the nursing application process, and what a nursing student does.

 Monday, March 1st in Lemmons 8 from 7-8 PM

Come enjoy FREE dessert while you mingle with Alumni in your prospective career field. Live music, delicious dessert, and a raffle!

Wednesday, March 3rd in the EHS Atrium at 7:45PM

Come support one of the senior business capstone groups at the monthly Community Saturday Market scheduled from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. this Saturday, Feb. 27, in EHS.

There will be food, live music (including Chad Strutz from Just Lions and a local children’s violin group), and a wide variety of goods from local vendors. Participants will include authors Dirk Barram, Jim Foster and Erin Macy, as well as vendors Honest Chocolate and Yamhill Candles. A percentage of sales will go toward the Patrick Kibler Fund and the Women’s and Children’s Shelter of Newberg.

Hope to see you there!

The Health and Counseling Center hired Dana Ferrin as the university nurse last week. She has worked as a registered nurse for the West Linn Plastic Surgery Center since 2007. Before that, she was a labor and delivery nurse at hospitals in Tacoma, Wash., Nashville, Tenn., Salt Lake City and in Oregon City between 1987 and 1993. She then took time off from the profession to raise her children, Kasey (16) and Karter (13), with husband Will. Dana earned a bachelor of science degree in nursing from Washington State University’s Intercollegiate Center for Nursing Education in 1987. She lives in West Linn and is a Willamette “Wyldlife” Young Life leader. Her home church is Willamette Christian Church in West Linn.

Tanya Rooney joined Plant Services as a custodian last week. For the past two years, she worked as an assembly technician for DCI International, a dental equipment manufacturer in Newberg. Before that, she was a homemaker and raised two children, Leah and Daniel. Tanya lives in Newberg and attends Newberg Fellowship.

Tom Head’s (School of Business/International Studies Program) essay, “Envisioning a Moral Economy,” was recently published by Pendle Hill. The piece tackles such questions as “What is the place of moral values in the way we structure our economy?” and “Should the teachings of Jesus be considered when we address such questions as ‘How is work fashioned?’ ‘What do we own?’ and ‘Where do we live?’”

Through a M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust grant ($405,000) for Christian school capacity building, Gary Kilburg and Scot Headley (School of Education) have been serving K-12 Christian schools in Oregon and Washington through the SOE’s Mentoring Institute. The institute’s Christian School Leadership Program is providing mentoring and professional development services involving more than 100 educators in about 25 schools. The program will continue into its third year during the 2010-11 academic year.

Rob Felton (Marketing Communications) has been elected to the board of the Newberg Downtown Coalition as president. The NDC follows the National Main Street four-step approach (organization, design, promotion and economic restructuring) to revitalizing downtown commercial districts. An organizing meeting for the NDC is planned for Monday, March 1, at 6:30 p.m. in Hoover 102.

Scot Headley and Linda Samek (School of Education), along with Sean McKay (IT), have been serving on the steering committee for the International Community of Christians in Teacher Education. The committee has been working on a draft constitution and bylaws for the formation of an association of teacher educators affiliated primarily with CCCU institutions. The group is working toward creating a formal association at the biennial conference of the ICCTE, hosted in May of 2010 at LeTourneau University. Headley and Samek are set to assume leadership roles with the new association, beginning two-year terms in May.

Linda Samek (School of Education) presented a session, “Creating and Sustaining Change with Boyer’s Scholarship of Application,” at the annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education in Atlanta on Feb. 21. Karen Buchanan (School of Education) also presented a workshop at the conference, teaming up with colleagues from four other institutions to present “Assessment Literacy for the 21st Century.”

Ed Higgins (English) published a poem, “A Slow Wisdom,” in the February issue of The Bicycle Review, an online literary journal.

Debbie Berhó (Communication Arts/Foreign Languages) had an article, “Communication, Language Learning and Faith,” published in the online journal Didache: Faithful Teaching, Volume 9, No. 2.

Some of Tim Timmerman’s (Visual Arts) art appears in the current Winter 2009-10 issue of Ruminate, a print magazine of faith in literature and art.

Paul Anderson’s (Religious Studies) essay, “The John, Jesus, and History Project – New Glimpses of Jesus and a Bi-Optic Hypothesis,” was published on the Bible and Interpretation website (bibleinterp.com/articles/john1357917.shtml), a biblical studies site that receives more than 300,000 visits per month. Also, on Feb. 11, Anderson’s work was featured on the “Matters of Faith” weblog by Bill Tammaeus, in his article, “A New Way to Find Jesus.” The article references a major essay forthcoming in the March issue of the Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus by James Charlesworth of Princeton Theological Seminary, who cites Anderson’s work in signaling a paradigm shift in Jesus studies, overturning 150 years of critical scholarship – from ignoring John to including John.

Anderson will speak on “The Riddles of the Fourth Gospel” at Reedwood Friends Church April 21-May 26 (six Wednesday evenings, 6:30-8 p.m.), and on “The Beast, the Antichrist, and 666” at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral (four Wednesday evenings, 7-8:30 p.m.) in Portland. All are welcome.

Feb. 23     Mark Weinert
Feb. 24     Corey Beals
Feb. 25     Brian McLaughlin
Feb. 28     Andrea Crenshaw
March 2    Gary Kilburg, Winston Seegobin
March 3    Kayin Griffith, Rhett Luedtke
March 5    Patsy Engle

As most everyone knows, when classes started up this semester we began monitoring the uneaten food being returned to our dishroom after each meal. Our reasons for monitoring our waste is based upon the fact that energy used to produce food that is wasted in the U.S. (3 percent of total U.S. energy) roughly equals the total carbon footprint of Bangladesh, a country of 150 million people.

Using the week of Jan. 18 as our baseline, we averaged 6.14 ounces of waste per meal served. With the week of Feb. 20 just completed, the average waste generated has dropped down to 3.94 ounces per meal served, a reduction of 36 percent.

Great job to everyone! Let’s keep it up, as every reduction means less waste going to our landfills.

Denny Lawrence,
Bon Appetit

In our continuing efforts to be good stewards of the resources we manage, starting Feb 1 we entered into an agreement with Standard Biodiesel, which has started picking up our used fryer oils and recycling them into 100 percent renewable biodiesel.

Unlike most waste oil recyclers that transport used cooking oil overseas and make it into animal feed and cosmetics, we’re now going to be converting our waste cooking oils into a source of renewable energy.

We’ve also started supplying some of our used fryer oil again to Brian McLaughlin (IT) who, for the past several years, has been operating his vehicle with filtered used fryer oils from restaurants throughout the area.

If you have any questions, please give me a call.

Denny Lawrence,
Bon Appetit

The Health & Counseling Center would like to remind anyone traveling abroad this spring and summer to prepare early for your vaccinations. We have many openings now, so schedule soon so we can find a time that meets your schedule.

What are employers really looking for in the interview? What steps can you take to stand out in the interview process?

Answer these questions and more at the next part in the iConnect Workshop series hosted by Career Services from 11:30AM to 1:30PM on Tuesday, February 23 in Stevens 220. We’ll discuss interviewing tips and strategies that will help you excel in the interview process. Sign up by email: careers@georgefox.edu.

Career Services is inviting you to GET SMARTER Social Media Workshop Saturday February 27th, 11AM to 12:30PM in Stevens 208. Enhance your job search savvy and take your job search to the next level with this social media workshop, where you will:

 • Discover powerful tools to connect, engage in conversations, build expertise, and land a job • Explore amazing possibilities with LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook • Write a profile that stands out in the crowd and gets your noticed • Create and maintain your professional identity like a seasoned professional

 These tools will be presented by Amy Taylor, an expert in the social media field. Register at careers.georgefox.edu by Thursdsay, February 25th to take advantage of this opportunity.

The Etiquette Dinner is fast approaching on Wednesday, March 3 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. in the Cap and Gown Room.

 Get tickets now at Career Services or in the SUB from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. this week.  Tickets are $10.00 for meal plan students and $14 for non-meal plan students.

 Remember, if you put your name on the list in Career Services, you still need to pay for your ticket and fill out the registration form.  You are not guaranteed a spot without doing so.

 Please email Kendyl Tarbell at ktarbell07@georgefox.edu or call Career Services at ext. 2330 for more information.