The Daily Bruin

Security Services has key chain whistles with the security phone number on them available in the Office of Student Life. Please feel free to stop by and pick one up.

Remember to stop by Plant Services’ surplus equipment and inventory sale Thursday and Friday, April 15-16, in the Villa Academic Complex. The sale runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. both days and will include furnaces, appliances, duct work, cabinets, light fixtures, doors, laminate pieces, desks, panel walls, couches, tables, side chairs, bookshelves, and much more.

Urban Services’ scheduled trip to Salem this Friday, April 16, has been canceled. However, the group will be going to Portland Friday as scheduled, leaving from the Bruin Den at 5:30 p.m.

Are you interested in health care or medical missions? Come hear Devin Harrison, MD, present “Medical Missions: Eye Care in Africa,” at 4:15 p.m. Thursday, April 15, in Hoover 105. Dr. Harrison worked in Nigeria for two years caring for some of the world’s neediest patients, performing eye surgeries and training local doctors.

For his efforts, he received the 2008 American Academy of Ophthalmology Humanitarian Award. Contact Jim Smart if you have any questions.

Now is the time to submit your request for business cards. Marketing Communications will be processing a business card order soon. Place your order directly from B&B Print Source by Tuesday, April 20.

The login user ID is “gfubc” and the password is “gfu123. You may contact Danette Newkirk (Marketing Communications) if you have any questions.

Now that we have had an opportunity to see how the Blackboard Connect works, it is time for another message about how to update your information in MyGFU.

For this new system to work, it is essential for you to enter your personal cell phone number into MyGFU. Please follow these simple directions to enter your personal cell phone number:

• Login to your MyGFU account
• Click on SELF SERVICE
• Click on CAMPUS PERSONAL INFORMATION
• Click on PHONE NUMBERS
• On the PHONE TYPE pick list, choose the phone type you are registering.
• Type in your cell phone number
• Click SAVE
• If you need to add a number, first click on ADD A PHONE NUMBER
• Make sure you click SAVE after each change

Thank you for taking the time to do this today. If you have any questions, please contact Jere Witherspoon (jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu) in the Office of Student Life.

Friday is last day to submit nominations for April Employee of the Month – our last employee of the month award this academic year.

Please send an e-mail to Peggy Kilburg (HR) if you would like to nominate a support staff member or administrator for April 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 Friday, April 16. The President’s Executive Leadership Team will then select the Employee of the Month from the nominations submitted. The winner will be announced at the all-employee meeting on Thursday, April 22, and will receive a $100 gift card to The Allison.

Tax day is coming! Be sure you stop at Mail Services to have your tax letters weighed to determine if you have enough postage. The Internal Revenue Service will not accept them if there is not sufficient postage.

The campus community is invited to enjoy an adaptation of Quo Vadis: a Story of Christianity in Ancient Rome at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 16, in the Villa Academic Complex’s Room 117 (there is a 7 p.m. prelude to the show).

This is the final performance of the English Language Institute’s Level D speech class under the direction of Ron Parrish. Ron will be saying “aloha” to us and moving to Hawaii.

Cinema and media communication students will showcase their work from the past year at the annual Fox Film Festival this Friday and Saturday, April 16-17.

Friday’s films will be shown beginning at 4:45 p.m. at the Cameo Theater in downtown Newberg. Tickets are $5 (cash only) and will be sold at the Cameo box office prior to the presentation. Films that night will showcase productions that do not contain copyrighted material.

On Saturday, a free showing is set for 6:30 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium and will feature films that do contain copyrighted material. An awards ceremony will follow Saturday’s session, and desserts will be served. Films featured the first night will not be repeated on the second night.

The Bruin Bookstore will host its annual PJ sale this Friday, April 16, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wear your pajamas to save on computer-related items, electronics, supplies, art products, clothing and gifts ranging from 10 to 50 percent off.

Get to know your local farmers and learn more about locally grown products at the university-sponsored Farm Meet scheduled from 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, April 20, at the Chehalem Cultural Center.

Farmers, gardeners, cooks and food enthusiasts will be on hand to offer brief talks while offering samples of their foods. In addition, clips from the movies Locavore, Fresh and Food Revolution will be shown. A $2 suggested donation will go to organizations seeking to promote local, ethical, healthy and delicious ways of eating.

The Chehalem Cultural Center is located just north of the city library at 415 E. Sheridan St. More details are available at georgefox.edu/green/farm-meet-2010.

What do students value and desire for their college instruction? What are students’ views of educational technology, type and amount of homework, grading, and other class-related topics? A panel of undergraduate students will share their perspectives on these questions at the final Faculty Teaching Forum of the spring semester.

Join the session “Student Voices on Teaching and Learning” from noon to 1:20 p.m. Thursday, April 15, in Cap and Gown Room A. Students scheduled to participate include Heather Clifton (non-traditional first-year elementary education major), Bret Reordan (first-year chemistry major) Caroline Aust (sophomore elementary education major), Alex Gamez (junior psychology major), Vanessa Wilkins (junior cinema and media communication major) and Timothy Fouch (senior nursing major).

To reserve a lunch, e-mail Jere Witherspoon (jwithers@georgefox.edu) by 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 13. 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). Video podcasts of FTFs will be available on iTunesU.

The university’s engineering department will host its annual Engineering Expo on Friday, April 23, between 4:30 and 6:30 p.m. in the Ron Gregory Atrium in EHS.

The event will feature industry-sponsored senior design and servant engineering projects, as well as high school design projects, first robotics displays and other engineering class projects and demonstrations. Refreshments provided.

Paul Anderson (Religious Studies) will teach a six-week series (April 18 to May 26) at Reedwood Friends Church on “The Riddles of the Fourth Gospel.” The series can be taken as a one-hour May term class (BIBL 485) if desired. Marcus Borg will join Paul for a public dialogue on the “Gospels and Jesus in Bi-Optic Perspective” on May 19 and a special Saturday, May 22, session.

Sessions meet from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesdays and Sundays from 11 a.m. to noon. Reedwood Friends Church is located at 2901 S.E. Steele, in Portland. There is no charge, and the public is welcome.

On Tuesday, April 20, the Bruin Bookstore will donate all proceeds from that day to the 2010 May Serve team that is getting ready to head to Swaziland, Africa. Support May Serve while sporting the newest George Fox gear!

This Monday, April 12, 180 seniors will present their group projects on Christianity and American popular culture in the EHS and Hoover atriums from 12:30 to 4 p.m. Please take the time to stop by and see what the students have been working on this semester. Questions? Contact Caitlin Corning.

Are you interested in health care or medical missions? Come hear Devin Harrison, MD, present “Medical Missions: Eye Care in Africa,” at 4:15 p.m. Thursday, April 15, in Hoover 105. Dr. Harrison worked in Nigeria for two years caring for some of the world’s neediest patients, performing eye surgeries and training local doctors.

For his efforts, he received the 2008 American Academy of Ophthalmology Humanitarian Award. Contact Jim Smart or Jane Sweet if you have any questions.

Get your car washed to support the 2010 May Serve team. We’ll be headed to Swaziland, Africa, in less than a month, and your donations would be very appreciated. The car wash is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 17, at the Newberg Les Schwab.

Join us for a staff lunch at noon Monday, April 12, in the Cap and Gown Room. Jan Lefebvre (Advancement) will share about her recent trip to Haiti, where, during a missions trip with a group of ladies from her church and Lifeline Christian Mission, they experienced the devastating earthquake one day after their arrival. Lunch is $3 per person.