The Daily Bruin

Are you looking for student employment? Want a fun, resume-building job? Are you an outgoing person who loves talking with others? Look no further! We have a job for you!

The Phonathon Team is looking for new team members to join us starting in early February. Phonathon Team Members serve as ambassadors of George Fox by establishing and maintaining a connection to the university with its constituents (alumni, parents and friends of George Fox). Comprehensive training is provided.

Build your resume by learning negotiation skills, customer service skills, relationship building, and working in a team environment. We are located in Coyote Place, one mile off campus, and reliable transportation – rain or shine – is required!

Apply through Bruin Careers and look for position ID #457: Phonathon Team Member.
Deadline to apply: January 31.

If you have any questions, please contact Mandria Montplaisir, director of annual giving, at mmontplaisir@georgefox.edu.

Save the date! The university’s third annual Dalton Lecture will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 20, at 7:30 p.m. Due to the popularity of this lecture series, the event is moving to Bauman Auditorium.

The lecture title is “The Big Bang, Stephen Hawking and God” and will be presented by Dr. Henry F. Schaefer III, the director of the Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry at University of Georgia, a world-renowned chemist, and a Christian. Chapel credit will be given.

Dr. Schaefer will provide a second lecture on Tuesday, Feb. 19, at 7 p.m. in Hoover 105. This scientific, but lighthearted, lecture is entitled, “Third Age of Quantum Chemistry.”

The Dalton Lecture Series is sponsored by the Department of Biology and Chemistry. More information can be found on this page or by e-mailing Jane Sweet at jsweet@georgefox.edu.

If you are a benefits-eligible employee and there is any possibility that you will use tuition remission during the 2013-14 academic year (fall, spring and/or summer semesters), whether for yourself, a spouse, and/or dependent(s), a Tuition Remission Request Form for each person needs to be submitted no later than Friday, Feb. 1.

Please go to this page for the link to instructions for completing the Tuition Remission Request Form(s) and to the forms themselves. Please be sure to read this information before you begin completing a Tuition Remission Request Form.

Do you know of a student looking for employment? Development has openings for student employment with evening hours. The phonathon team is looking for new team members to join us starting in early February.

Phonathon team members serve as ambassadors of George Fox by establishing and maintaining a connection to the university with its constituents (alumni, parents and friends of George Fox). Comprehensive training will be provided.

Members build their resume with skills in negotiation, customer service, relationship building, and working in a team environment. We are located in Coyote Place, one mile off campus, and reliable transportation is required — rain or shine!

Let your students know to apply through Bruin Careers and look for position ID #457: Phonathon Team Member.

The deadline to apply is Jan. 31.

For more information, contact Mandria Montplaisir, director of annual giving, at mmontplaisir@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2116.

Join us for a Super Bowl-themed staff lunch on Friday, Jan. 25, at noon in the Cap and Gown Room. Our menu features chicken nachos with all the trimmings, salad and cookies.

As part of the festivities, we’ll be asking for three enthusiastic volunteers to test their Super Bowl knowledge in a Jeopardy-style trivia game.

The cost is $3. See you there!

Fox Express will be bringing Slick’s Big Time BBQ again to the home basketball games this weekend (Jan. 18 & 19)! There will be a variety of food items, including pulled-pork sliders smothered in Slick’s signature barbecue sauce, smoked beef sliders with gluten-free whiskey barbecue sauce, and so much more.

Come support the team while enjoying great food for only $3 to $6! If you have any questions, please contact Meng Dong (mdong11@georgefox.edu).

Several books rented for fall semester have not yet been returned to the BlueZone Store. Please note that rentals are only for one term, not for the entire year!

If you have a rental book from fall semester, please return it as soon as possible to the BlueZone Store. Any non-returned rentals will be charged beginning Jan. 28. Please return them ASAP.

Questions? Contact Sandy Gidding at sgidding@georgefox.edu.

Due to the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on Monday, Jan. 21, both the Bruin Den and Villa Cafe will be closed that day. They will resume their normal hours on Tuesday.

The hours of service in Klages for students on meal plans will also change slightly this weekend. Please note the following changes:

• Saturday and Sunday: breakfast 8-10 a.m., brunch 10 a.m.-1 p.m., dinner 4:30-6:30 p.m.
• Monday: breakfast 8-10 a.m. and lunch 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Normal hours of operation resume with dinner on Monday.

Eight-hundred regular and student employees have given consent to receive their W-2s online. If you are not among these, please consider doing so no later than 10 a.m. this Friday, Jan. 18. There are several advantages:

• It will be available to you sooner
• It will be accessible to you in MyGFU (self service) when you are ready to print it. If you should misplace it after your print it, you won’t have to pay $5 for a replacement copy. You simply reprint it.
• It will save the university the time and expense of purchasing and stuffing paper W-2 forms and envelopes.

Here is how you give your consent; it should take you only about 30 seconds:

1. Log in to http://mygfu.georgefox.edu
2. From the menu at left, select “Self Service”
3. Select “Payroll and Compensation”
4. Select W-2/W-2c Consent
5. Read the statement and check the box to give consent
6. Enter your GFU password as a confirmation of your identity and click “Continue”
7. Click “OK”

You’ll receive a confirmation e-mail of your decision shortly after completing this process.

Tickets are available for employees to attend the Portland Renovation & Remodeling Show scheduled Friday through Sunday, Jan. 25-27, at the Portland Memorial Coliseum. This 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 pick up two tickets each ($8 total value) at the Information Services Desk in the Stevens Center. Children under 18 are free. Portland employees can request tickets by e-mailing Barbi Doran. Visit this link for vendor coupons for the event.

Would you please take a moment to review this brief “position announcement” and share this opportunity with anyone you know that might provide a good fit?

This temporary full-time professional is needed to assist with the spring (February-April) workload in Career Services and will have responsibility to:

• Counsel students seeking internship and job search guidance
• Assist director in managing Optimal Resume online reviews
• Provide administrative lead to First Avenue Career Expo preparation
• Connect with employers seeking relationship and information
• Supervise intern who is working on OLAPC First Avenue Career Expo and the Healthcare Fair
• Support current programming and plan and coordinate healthcare fair
• Assist with software
• Teach online course, depending on registrations

We are seeking someone who is familiar with George Fox and the Career Services office/functions and can “hit the ground running.” A bachelor’s degree with career-related experience is required; master’s degree is preferred. Also needed is a high level of technology proficiency and basic career development knowledge.

Please direct interested individuals to submit a letter, resume and application to Human Resources no later than next Friday, Jan. 25. Materials can be sent via fax (503-554-2186), e-mail to hr@georgefox.edu, U.S. Mail, or dropped off in HR. Applications can be found at this link.

Students:

Whether or not you have a vehicle, you MUST either register your vehicle, or indicate you do NOT have a vehicle on MyGFU before the Add/Drop date of Friday, Jan. 25, to avoid a $25 non-refundable fee for a parking permit.

Please log on to MyGFU and click on “Self Service.” Next click on “University Forms,” and the “Student Vehicle Registration” link will pop up in the middle of the page. Click on that and either input your vehicle information, or check the box “not bringing a vehicle to campus.”

If you registered a vehicle, a permit will be issued and sent to Mail Services where you will sign for it. If you do NOTHING, the fee will be assessed after the Add/Drop date. Parking permits are only $25 per semester, so please don’t delay in getting your vehicle registered!

Questions? Call Security Services during office hours at 503-554-2090 or e-mail Nadine Kincaid at nkincaid@georgefox.edu.

If you have tickets for the Oregon Symphony performance on Friday, Jan. 18, and find that you will not be able to use them, please return the tickets to the box office as soon as possible.

We have a wait list of those who are hoping to receive any tickets turned in. Tickets can be turned in at the box office up until 5 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 18, or at the door of Bauman Auditorium the evening of the event.

Thank you,
Mary Monahan (mmonahan@georgefox.edu)

We’re looking for 53 extras for a student film. The film, Timothy TrueLove’s Date With Destiny, is in the style of Wes Anderson films such as Moonrise Kingdom and The Royal Tannenbaums, as well as the film Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.

Needed:

• 15 extras 30 years and older to play a hard, cynical crowd at a comedy club
• 15 extras to look like hipster college students
• Six girls to swoon over a body builder
• Five to six people dressed up for a fancy restaurant
• Five to six people dressed in vintage 1950s-looking attire
• Two girls to be friends with one of the lead characters
• Three extras for a scene at the park
• We are also looking for a scrawny, pre-teen to play a cop (this will be a minor speaking role)

There will be an open casting call this Monday,  Jan. 21, from 10 a.m. to noon in the Media Communications Center (across the street from Lemmons).

If you would like to be an extra for this film, or if you have any further questions, please contact Sarah Bartolome at sbartolome11@georgefox.edu.

Need tennis balls? Come and get them for free in the upper lobby of the Wheeler Sports Center. We have boxes of used tennis balls that have used up their competitive life and are ready for the next phase.

Take a whole box or bring a sack and load up. Your dog will love you for it and so will we.

Many thanks to those of you who have already given your consent to receive your W-2s online. If you haven’t, please consider doing so to enable us to make it available to you sooner, and to make it accessible to you in MyGFU (self service) when you are ready to print it.

This will save the university the time and expense of purchasing and stuffing paper W-2 forms and envelopes (over 2,000 last January). And, of course, it is also friendlier to our environment. In the future, there will be a $5 charge for replacement W-2s issued and mailed in hard copy.

In order to receive a W-2 in online form only (instead of receiving a paper form), the law requires that you give your consent. This should take you only about 30 seconds to do, so I encourage you to take care of it as soon as possible — perhaps right now.

• Log in to mygfu.georgefox.edu
• From the menu at left, select “Self Service”
• Select “Payroll and Compensation”
• Select “W-2/W-2c Consent”
• Read the statement and check the box to give consent
• Enter your GFU password as a confirmation of your identity and click “Continue”
• Click “OK”

You’ll receive a confirmation e-mail of your decision shortly after completing this process. And just to be clear, you will only have to do this once — not every year.

Thank you,
Melodee Powers (HR)

Starting to think about summer employment? Be an agent of change through camp ministry!

Attend the Christian Camp Fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. next Thursday, Jan. 24, in EHS. There are 21 camps from around the Pacific Northwest interested in hiring George Fox students for various positions, including youth counseling, adventure camping, horse camping, challenge course facilitating, kitchen staff, life-guarding, housekeeping and more!

Stop by Career Services for the full list of camps attending.

The Health & Counseling Center has a limited number of flu shots available for employees and students. It is an especially bad flu season this year, so get one while it’s still available!

Please call the Health Center at 503-554-2340 to schedule an appointment ($15).

A beginning guitar class and private guitar lessons are being offered this spring at George Fox. Get credit while learning to play the guitar!

Here are the details:

• The Beginning Guitar Class is offered for those new to the guitar who want to learn in a fun group setting (Tuesdays/Thursdays 9:40-10:30 a.m.). Learn to play popular folk, rock and worship songs while learning to jam with others and read music. This class is designed to be fun! MUSI 250-A
• Private Lessons/Applied Guitar is offered to bring your playing to the next level. Whether you are an absolute beginner or a seasoned player, all levels are welcome. Learn in a relaxed one-on-one setting with an experienced teacher. All styles are covered, including jazz, blues, rock, worship, folk, etc. MUSA 105/305 GT

Lessons are taught by George Fox guitar professor Dave Iula (daveiula.com). E-mail Dave with questions or for more info: daveiula1@gmail.com.

In reviewing your department expenses, you will notice credit card charges being posted to a new account: 52009 – Advance Clearing. Charges are being temporarily posted to this account to make sure the expenses are included in the proper month.

These charges will be moved to their normal expense accounts in subsequent months.