The Daily Bruin

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.

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!

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

Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2 p.m. – Baseball vs. Corban, Morse Field
Thursday, Feb. 25, 7 p.m. – Women’s Basketball vs. Lewis & Clark (NWC Tournament), Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym
Friday, Feb. 26, 2 p.m. – Men’s Tennis vs. Puget Sound, campus courts
Saturday, Feb. 27, 10 a.m. – Men’s Tennis vs. Pacific Lutheran, campus courts
Saturday, Feb. 27, 10:30 a.m. – Men’s & Women’s Track in Frank Haskins Double Dual Meet, Colcord Field
Saturday., Feb. 27, 11 a.m. – Baseball vs. Menlo (2), Morse Field
Saturday, Feb. 27, Noon – Softball vs. Eastern Oregon (2), Morse Field
Saturday, Feb. 27, 7 p.m. – Women’s Basketball vs. TBA (NWC Tournament), Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym (tentative)
Sunday, Feb. 28, Noon – Baseball vs. Menlo, Morse Field

George Fox will host Lewis & Clark Thursday in the semifinals of the Northwest Conference Women’s Basketball Tournament, and will host the championship game Saturday if the Bruins win. Tickets for all NWC Tournament games are $6 for adults and $3 for students, children 12 and under, and seniors 55 and up.

NWC passes are the only passes that are valid for this tournament; regular-season passes will not be accepted. Only students who attend the schools participating in the tournament will be admitted free with a valid college ID; faculty and staff will need to purchases tickets.

The men’s basketball team will play at Linfield College Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Northwest Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament. The Bruins are the No. 3 seed, the Wildcats No. 2. The Bruins could host an NWC Tournament game Saturday if they win Thursday and No. 4 seed Lewis & Clark upsets No. 1 seed Whitworth.

For more information, visit the George Fox athletics website at gfubruins.com or call the sports information office at ext. 2926.

Students Andrew Magnuson (guitar) and Stephen Crabb (percussion) will present a junior degree recital at 6 p.m. Monday, March 1, in Bauman Auditorium. Admission is free.

The Department of Performing Arts is pleased to present a senior degree composition recital featuring the work of Becca Chromey at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 26, in Bauman Auditorium. Admission is free.

Need help formatting and citing your English papers? Come to an MLA workshop in Stevens 109 at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 24. If you have any questions, contact the Academic Resource Center.

This is a reminder that a special staff worship event is scheduled from 9 to 10:45 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24, in Wood-Mar Auditorium. The theme for the gathering is “Embrace: God Embraces Us; We Embrace God.” The featured speaker is Carol Brazo (School of Education).

Come and be part of something special where the Newberg staff community can share together and pray together. Refreshments will follow in the EHS Atrium.