The Daily Bruin

Please note a correction to the rehearsal dates for the university’s mass singing of Vivaldi’s Gloria. Practices will be on Mondays and Tuesdays April 5-6, 12-13 and 19-20, between 3:30 and 4:30 p.m. in Ross 208.

All those with singing experience are invited to join in singing with the choir at the final concert of the spring semester, at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 23, in Bauman Auditorium.

For more information, contact Debbie Hawblitzel at dhawblit@georgefox.edu.

Please note that, due to the Good Friday holiday, both the Bruin Den and Villa Cafe will be closed on Friday, April 2. Have a great Easter weekend.

Debbie Melton, the director of admissions for Oregon Health and Science University’s MD program, will visit George Fox at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 6, in Hoover 103. She will speak about the OHSU School of Medicine and its admissions process.

The session will include an opportunity for questions and answers following her talk. If you are interested in attending medical school at OHSU, this is a wonderful opportunity. Joining Debbie will be Lori Toner and Ebony Lawrence, also from OHSU.

Loren Wenz would like to invite those in the university with singing experience to join a mass choir for a singing of Vivaldi’s Gloria at the final concert of the spring semester, at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 23, in Bauman Auditorium.

Those interested will need to attend practices between 3:30 and 4:30 p.m. on the following dates: April 5-6, 12-13, and 19-20. Practices will take place in Ross 208.

For more information, contact Debbie Hawblitzel at dhawblit@georgefox.edu.

Join us in Hoover 105 on Wednesday, March 31, for a showing of the movie Papers from 6 to 8 p.m. Following the movie, a panel discussion will take place and feature the producer of Papers, an immigration attorney, and a community activist.

Papers is the story of undocumented youth and the challenges they face as they turn 18 without legal status. The event, hosted by the office of transitions and inclusion, is being held in commemoration of Cesar Chavez and his dream of human rights in education.

About 65,000 undocumented students graduate every year from high school without “papers,” and the door to their future slams shut.

Don’t fool around at the First Avenue Career Fair coming up on Wednesday, April 7! Prepare for the fair by attending this Thursday’s Pizza Chat from noon to 1 p.m. in Stevens 220. You’ll obtain strategies for working a career fair to your advantage. Sign up in advance at careers@georgefox.edu.

Faculty, please advise your students of this opportunity.

Please join the women of George Fox for pizza and a movie Tuesday, March 30, in Hoover 105. Dinner will be served at 5:30 p.m., and the movie Lars and the Real Girl begins at 6:30 p.m. See you there!

After 32 years of service to the university, communication arts professor Richard Engnell is retiring this spring. To honor his contributions, a legacy book is being created. Colleagues and former students of Richard are invited to send thoughts, wishes, stories and memories of him to Valerie Rogers (vrogers@georgefox.edu) so they may be included in the book.

Submissions are due by Friday, April 2. A retirement reception for Richard is scheduled later in the month (details to be announced).

Student supervisors, please submit your students’ March time sheets to HR right away – by Monday, April 5, by 3 p.m. Since there is a holiday on Friday, April 2, payroll processing time will be short, so meeting this deadline is crucial.

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 March, please hand-deliver it right away – no later than Wednesday, March 31. We need to set up students in the system before the time sheets arrive.

Thanks very much.
HR

Be sure to verify that any changes you requested to your medical insurance, your cash-in-lieu of insurance and/or your dental insurance are reflected in the deductions portion of your March 31 pay statement. For flexible spending, the March 31 deduction is the last one of the current plan year so you won’t see a change in your flex spending deduction until April 30.

Amy Dee and Ken Badley (School of Education) will present “Authorizing Our Students” at a Faculty Teaching Forum from 12:40 to 2 p.m. Wednesday, March 31, in Cap and Gown A.

The session will explore ways to give students voice and choice in the courses we teach while remaining true to course objectives.

To reserve a lunch, e-mail Jere Witherspoon (jwithers@georgefox.edu) by 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 30. 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.

It’s not an April Fool’s joke. After almost 13 years, Tory Cole is really leaving us to pursue her dream of becoming a nurse. A farewell reception for her is scheduled from 2 to 4 p.m. Thursday, April 1, in the Duke Atrium in the Stevens Center.

On May 1, Tory will graduate with her bachelor’s degree in nursing from George Fox and has decided to resign now to allow for plenty of time to study during the month of April. Please join us as we say goodbye to a wonderful colleague and congratulate her on this impressive accomplishment.

The next two fiscal years’ holiday schedules have been finalized and approved and are now available for employees to view at:

georgefox.edu/offices/hr/2009-10_2011-12%20Holidays%20Final.pdf

A student creation care group is hosting “Unplugged,” an evening of acoustic music, conversation and a bonfire, from 8 to 9 p.m. Thursday, April 1, in the campus quad.

Attendees will play instruments and roast homemade smores over the fire. The event encourages people to “unplug yourself from electricity and reconnect together,” according to event organizers. Bring an instrument to play, turn your phone off, unplug your computer, and be sure to turn your lights off before heading over.

To learn more, contact Corey Beals at cbeals@georgefox.edu.

The Bruin Bookstore will close at 5 p.m. this Thursday, April 1, and will be closed for Good Friday and the rest of the Easter weekend. The store will reopen at 8 a.m. on Monday, April 5.

The Accelerated Christian Education schools will hold their Regional High School Competitions on campus this week Tuesday through Friday. Nearly 200 students representing 15-20 schools will compete in events such as Bible Memory, Poetry, Speech, Writing, Music, Art, Basketball, Track, Drama, Photography, Spelling, Science and Social Studies.

This year marks the 23rd year A.C.E. has held the Regional Convention on our campus.

The A.C.E. Leadership Team will be set up in Bauman Greenroom if anyone needs to be directed toward them. For other questions, call Event Services at extension 2027.

Please join the women of George Fox for pizza and a movie on Tuesday, March 30, in Hoover 105. Dinner will be served at 5:30 p.m., and the movie Lars and the Real Girl begins at 6:30 p.m. Please R.S.V.P. to Lori Allen at allen.redpants@gmail.com by Monday, March 29. Thank you and see you there!

Following is University Mail Services’ schedule for spring break:

Open: Monday through Thursday, March 22-25, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Closed: Friday, March 26

Courier Service:
Portland Center: Normal schedule, Monday through Thursday
Salem campus: Normal schedule Monday and Thursday only

Do you have unused office supplies that you don’t know what to do with? Did you get more than you needed or ordered the wrong item and it’s now sitting on a shelf collecting dust?

To be better stewards of university resources, we would like to put those unused items to use. On Monday, March 22, bring your excess items to Stevens 101 between 9 a.m. and noon. We will sort and arrange these items, and on Tuesday, March 23, and Wednesday, March 24, between 1 and 4 p.m., you can come back and “shop” for items for your department.

Here are the guidelines:

• All items must be either new or in good condition. Please, no junk.

• No one will be getting department credit back for donated items. They will just go to help the university departments as a whole.

• All items that you select to take are for university use only. They cannot be for you personally.

If you have questions, please contact either Kathi Becker (ext. 2166) or Karon Bell (ext. 2162).

Following are Fitness Center hours for spring break.

Closed: Friday, March 19, at 5 p.m. through Sunday, March 21.

Open: March 22-25, 6 to 8 a.m.; 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.; 4 to 7 p.m.

Closed: March 26-28

The Fitness Center will be locked between sessions.