The Daily Bruin

Would you please take a few minutes to submit your February time sheet (support staff) or time-off report (administrators) to your supervisor right away? As always, please be sure it is complete (including your ID number), accurate, and signed by both you and your supervisor before sending it to HR at Box 6108. (If your supervisor is not available to sign it, please send a copy to HR and keep the original until it has been signed.)

The link on the HR website for staff time sheets is: georgefox.edu/offices/hr/TimesheetFeb10.xls.
Administrator time-off reports are available at: georgefox.edu/offices/hr/Timeoffreport2010.pdf.

DVDs featuring Valentina Lisitsa, the pianist who visited the university for its fourth annual Bösendorfer Concert Series last week, are available for purchase. The DVDS cost $20 apiece and include works by Liszt, Ravel, Chopin and Rachmaninoff. Exact cash or checks, made out to George Fox University, are accepted.

If interested in learning more or purchasing a copy, contact Kenn Willson (Performing Arts) at kwillson@georgefox.edu.

Amy Dee and Ken Badley (School of Education) will present “Authorizing Ourselves in the Classroom” at a Faculty Teaching Forum scheduled from 12:40 to 2 p.m. Wednesday, March 3, in Cap and Gown A.

The discussion will cover how professors authorize themselves in front of students and how this happens in a culture of care, “informationism,” and a new generation of students’ expectations.

To reserve a lunch, e-mail Jere Witherspoon (jwithers@georgefox.edu) by 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 2. 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 (FTFs). The schedule of upcoming sessions is available online. Video podcasts of FTFs will be available on iTunesU.

The Community Garden is getting ready for its fourth annual season. If you are interested in finding out what’s involved, please come to a short meeting on Monday, March 1, to find out. This is open for students or faculty or staff and others.

The garden is a great way to have inexpensive, delicious food. You can be a member even if you will be out of Newberg for the summer. Come find out more at the Hoover Lounge (second floor). You have the option of attending an 8 p.m. or 9 p.m. meeting.

The university’s science departments will host a Science Open House for George Fox families from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 16, in EHS and Wood-Mar. Come enjoy a fun-filled evening delighting in science. There will be interactive displays, thrilling demonstrations, and a child-friendly dinner. Come join us!

This Monday, March 1, Melanie Hulbert, associate professor of sociology, will speak on issues of body image and popular culture for the university’s Liberal Arts in Critical Issues Forum. Melanie specializes in sociology gender issues and the family. She recently received an award of excellence from WorldatWork Journal for her research on gender roles in the workplace.

Hulbert will speak from 4:40 to 5:35 p.m. and from 7 to 7:55 p.m. in Hoover 105. For additional information, contact Caitlin Corning (History) at ext. 2673 or ccorning@georgefox.edu.

The Trauma Response Institute, coordinated by the Graduate Department of Counseling, is launching a program to assist humanitarian aid workers.

The focus of upcoming meetings is in support of Haitian missionaries and earthquake relief workers. Meetings are scheduled from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on March 2, April 6 and May 4 at the Portland Center. There is no cost to attend.

The purpose is to offer simple tools to help prepare for or mitigate the emotional impact of witnessing severe human suffering. If a Haiti responder flier finds its way into your mailbox, please consider giving it to your pastor, missions chairperson, or friend connected to service in Haiti. Also, for George Fox employees interested in joining a TRI responder peer support team, stay tuned for information about a training in psychological first-aid for peer responders.

You can learn more about the humanitarian aid program at responder.georgefox.edu.

Thanks for sharing the flyers!

Anna Berardi
Director, Trauma Response Institute

Several music students will take to the Bauman Auditorium stage during the first week of March to present recitals. Come support these students as they perform. Admission is free.

• On Monday, March 1, Andrew Magnuson (guitar) and Stephen Crabb (percussion) will present a junior degree recital at 6 p.m.
• On Monday, March 1, Roman Kolyvanov will present a senior degree composition recital at 7:30 p.m.
• On Thursday, March 4, J Rourke (voice) will present a junior recital at 6 p.m.
• On Thursday, March 4, Aimee Smith will present a senior degree composition recital at 7:30 p.m.
• On Friday, March 5, Emily Yarnold (voice) will present a senior degree recital at 7:30 p.m.

Chapel on Monday, March 1, will be the first “Spi.L. Experiment,” featuring different places to engage in different acts of worship. We encourage you to experience an act of worship that you don’t normally relate to, or have a background in. The places and their focuses are as follows:

Prayer Chapel: A Word-Centered Life
Bauman Auditorium: A Prayer-Filled Life
Foxhole: A Spirit-Empowered Life
EHS 102: An Incarnational Life
Hoover 105: A Virtuous Life
Cap and Gown: A Compassionate Life

Sessions will run from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m.

Dr. Chris Koch, professor of psychology and director of assessment, will present the spring 2010 Faculty Lecture, now in its 55th year. In “It’s (Almost) All in the Eyes” Chris will present research combining strategies used to study attention and perception in order to examine how people perceive facial emotions.

The presentation is set for 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 2, in Hoover 105.

Come see our own University Players as they present a worship experience through story, drama, movement and song. The “Players Presents” performances are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. both Friday and Saturday, Feb. 26-27, in  Wood-Mar Auditorium. Admission is free; however, a $3 donation is encouraged.

The Players, a touring group made up of eight students, will showcase their talents in this year’s theme, “Threshold.” A short profile of the troupe is now on the university’s website.

On Friday, Feb. 26, a group of women will meet to participate in serving women who are involved in the sex trade in Portland. We will eat dinner together at 4:30 p.m. in the Bruin Den and then leave for Rahab’s Sisters, an organization that provides hospitality and a supportive presence to women marginalized by the sex industry, at 5 p.m.

There, we will listen to and serve women from the streets of Portland. For more information, contact Ashley Brown at outofthedawn@msn.com.

Student supervisors, please submit your students’ February time sheets to HR right away – by Wednesday, March 3, at 3 p.m.

Please be sure the student’s name, ID number and cost center number is legible on each one. Also, don’t forget to sign them and be sure the students did as well. If the student is not available to sign it this week, please send it without the signature, and HR will contact the student. Please do not send students to HR to sign their time sheets. Federal Work Study regulations require that students delivering their own time sheets must have them placed, by you, in a sealed envelope.

If you happen to still have any paperwork to submit on a newly hired student who worked in February, please hand-deliver it right away– no later than Monday, March 1. We need to set up students in the system before the time sheets arrive.

Thanks very much.
HR

Just a reminder that a senior business capstone group is planning a Community Saturday Market from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. this Saturday, Feb. 27, in EHS.

The event will include food, live music and a wide variety of goods from local vendors. Participants will include authors Dirk Barram, Jim Foster and Erin Macy, as well as vendors Sweetest Thing Cupcakes and Yamhill Candles. A percentage of sales will go toward the Patrick Kibler Fund and the Women’s and Children’s Shelter of Newberg.

On Wednesday, March 3, Holocaust survivor Ursula Bacon will speak at 7 p.m. in Hoover 103. Ursula fled Nazi Germany with her parents in 1939 and landed in Shanghai, China, along with more than 18,000 other Middle European Jews. The family spent most of the war years in a Japanese-controlled “Designated Area,” often referred to as the “Shanghai Ghetto.”

She has written a book about her experiences, Shanghai Diary, A Young Girl’s Journey from Hitler’s Hate to War-torn China. For more information, contact Caitlin Corning (History) at ext. 2673 or Clint Baldwin (Center for Peace and Justice) at ext. 2685.

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.

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.