The Daily Bruin

The Bruin Bookstore would like to congratulate the following graduating seniors for being door prize winners at the fall Exodus event.

• Xianouang Zhou won a Camelbak Bottle

• Shannon Hallman won a stainless steel thermos

• Tyler Billings won a $15 Subway gift card

• Linsey Wages won a $25 movie pass gift card

• Aaron Swank won a GFU hooded sweatshirt

• Stephanie McGann won an engraved wooden frame

And the grand prize winner was:

• Rochelle Miller, who won an iPod Touch

Congratulations seniors and good luck!

Please help support Chehalem Youth and Family Services by picking up a gift tag on the Giving Tree in the Stevens Center’s Duke Atrium and purchase a gift for a teenage boy or girl. You may leave the unwrapped gift with tag attached under the tree – or bring them to the Office of University Relations (Pennington House). Gift cards are easy and convenient if you are unsure of what to purchase.

Questions? Contact Danya Ochsner (University Relations) at ext. 2121 or dochsner@georgefox.edu.

Midyear commencement is set to take place at 2 p.m. this Saturday, Dec. 19, in Miller Gymnasium on the Newberg campus. Please visit the university’s commencement site to get details, including hooding ceremonies and luncheon information.

The music department is selling poinsettias from the Christmas concert for $5 each. You can pick them up and pay for them at the music office (Ross 201) between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. through Friday, Dec. 18.

The music department wishes you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

An all-employee meeting is set from 3:40 to 5 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 17, in Hoover 105.

For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available for viewing at stream.georgefox.edu/live/commmtg.sdp. For best results, use Mozilla Firefox for your web browser, and your computer must have QuickTime Player installed. Simply copy the link into the address bar of your browser. If you have any problems, contact the Service Desk at ext. 2569.

In addition, a chat room has been set up to allow for interaction. A video recording of the meeting will be available for viewing the following day at itunesu.georgefox.edu.

Marketing Communications is collecting orders for name tags. For those who have regular face-to-face contact with the public and need to order a name tag, you may now submit and view your name tag requests.

Provide the name of the person for whom the name tag is needed; title or department; and the budget to be charged. Examples of title or department include: Dean of Students/Student Life and Admissions Counselor/Admissions. The next order will be placed Monday, Jan. 4, 2010.

Marketing Communications has changed how we process business card orders. The new and improved method allows you to place your order at any time directly from B&B Print Source at eorder.bbprintsource.net/avnet/avlogin.asp.

The login user ID is “gfubc” and the password is “gfu123.”

Please contact Danette Newkirk (Marketing Communications) to walk you through the process the first time.

Student supervisors, please be sure to collect your student employee’s time sheets before they leave for winter break. Please submit these time sheets to Human Resources right away. If students will be working over the winter break, turn time sheets in when they are done for the month.

While we would like the time sheets as early as possible, all December time sheets must be turned in to Human Resources by Tuesday, Jan. 4, by noon. 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, 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 in a sealed envelope.

Note about new students: If you have hired students for December, please hand-deliver their paperwork right away. We need to set up students in the system before the time sheets arrive. If you have hired students to start in January, please submit their paperwork as soon as possible. Thanks very much.

Thanks,
HR

Signs and permanent exterior displays on the George Fox campus need to be approved by marketing communications in order to ensure that the university presents a consistent, professional image to external and internal audiences. In accordance with this policy (Employee Handbook 2.15), campus lamppost banners also need to be created or approved by Marcom prior to printing.

The banners will need to meet a high standard of quality and visual appeal, and be consistent with the university’s visual identity system. Banner materials, whether vinyl or fabric, should be opaque enough for lettering to not be clearly visible on the backside.

For further information or help, please submit a job request on the Marcom webpage or contact Tamara Cissna, director of brand management.

Now is a great time to request new spring course sites, archive and reset courses, and export grades for safekeeping. For new course sites, contact the IT Service Desk and include the course number and name and also whether you want content from your existing course site copied to the new site.

See the FoxTALE Quick Guides website for documentation on archiving and resetting courses to prepare for a new semester.

The last lost and found tables of the semester will be set up from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 15, in the Bruin Den. Any items not recovered by the owners will be donated to charitable causes after this date, so be sure to stop by if you are missing an item!

Join the university in saying farewell to Ron and Carolyn Stansell at a retirement reception from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 14, in the Duke Atrium of the Stevens Center. Ron has served as professor of religion with a missions emphasis for the past 25 years. Carolyn worked in Student Financial Services for seven years and then, together with Ron, led students in our South American Studies Program for the past five years. They will retire this spring upon returning from Bolivia.

Celebrate with us their years of dedication and valuable contributions to George Fox.

Check out the new website for ASC. It includes a school calendar, quick link to university sports, information on ASC members and more. Visit it at asc.georgefox.edu.

Don’t forget the library’s annual wassail party Monday, Dec. 14! Take a break and drop by the MLRC anytime between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. for snacks, wassail and coffee!

Don’t forget: The Baker family invites you and your family to their third annual Christmas open house from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 13, at the Edwards House, 402 S. College St., in Newberg. Join us for light appetizers and holiday sweets as we celebrate the Christmas season together!

The university is seeking a full-time admissions counselor to do recruiting for the School of Education’s EDFL program. This position is currently open only to internal applicants (employees). Please e-mail hr@georgefox.edu to obtain a copy of the job description and transfer request if you are interested in applying for this opening.

To apply, you will need to submit the completed transfer request, cover letter and resume to Human Resources no later than Friday, Dec. 18.

There are only two weeks remaining to do your Christmas shopping! Come check out the new styles of clothing at the Bruin Bookstore and take 25 percent off during our Christmas sale Dec. 14-22. Sale also includes 25 percent off on gift items (does not include diploma frames), 25 percent off on children’s books and 30 percent off on Christmas products.

Store hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. next week, Monday through Friday, during finals.

Senior business capstone groups invite you and your families to join us this Saturday, Dec. 12, for our first community market. It will be held in EHS from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. There will be live Christmas music, great food and local vendors, with a percentage of the sales going toward the Patrick Kibler fund.

Some of the local vendors include Victoria Lavender, Scarf it Up, and authors Dirk Barram, Jim Foster and Erin Macy. Come support the community and our business students while also doing some Christmas shopping.

Any questions e-mail us at dreamlocal@gmail.com.

For those hoping to participate in a semester study program off campus next year, it’s time to get your applications completed and ready to turn in by the deadline on Friday, Jan. 15.

There will be an information table in the Bruin Den on Wednesday, Dec. 16, between 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Stop by with your questions for Lon Fendall, director of the Center for Global Studies.

Please join us in the Bruin Den Annex between noon and 1 p.m. this Monday, Dec. 14, as we celebrate the holiday season with our annual Christmas staff lunch. This year we are pleased to have Bob Gilmore at the piano playing beautiful Christmas music. The cost is $3 per person.