The Daily Bruin

You are invited to enjoy holiday luncheons presented by the Family and Consumer Sciences Quantity Food Production class on Friday, Dec. 4, and Friday, Dec. 11. The menu features a choice of pan-seared chicken breast stuffed with spinach and herb cheese, or roasted garlic-rosemary pork loin with cranberry orange sauce. Meals are served with savory russet and yam mashed potatoes with bacon and sautéed broccoli with red pepper. Beverages, soup or salad, and seasonal desserts are included.

Seating will be from noon to 12:30 p.m., with dining until 1:30 p.m., in Lemmons 5. The cost is $10 per person in advance. Make reservations by e-mailing Helen Morse at hmorse@georgefox. To-go meals and special dietary needs gladly accommodated.

Come wish Kendra Irons well as she finishes her final semester at George Fox and completes her move to Texas. As an associate professor, Kendra has been an important part of our Religious Studies Department for the past six and a half years.

A farewell reception is scheduled from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 2, in the Hoover Lounge (Hoover 250). Both colleagues and students will miss her.

Please send an e-mail to Peggy Kilburg (HR) if you would like to nominate a support staff member or administrator for Employee of the Month for December. Your e-mail should include the person’s name, job title, a concise but specific summary of this person’s  recent contributions (past 30 days or so) to the university, its students, and/or its employees (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, Dec. 11. The President’s Executive Leadership Team will then select the Employee(s) of the Month from the nominations submitted. The winner(s) will be announced at the all-employee meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 16, and will receive a $100 gift card to The Allison.

The university will be closed Thursday and Friday, Nov. 26-27, for the Thanksgiving holiday. All offices, bookstores and libraries will be closed those two days.

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!

Thomas Peng (China and East Asia Studies Program) will speak at a George Fox Auxiliary luncheon scheduled for noon Friday, Dec. 4, in the Cap and Gown Room. Reservations are required and tickets are $7.50 per person.

Also appearing will be several international students. To make reservations, contact Margene Haworth at 503-538-0604 by Tuesday, Dec. 1.

The Bruin Bookstore will close early this Wednesday, Nov. 25, for the Thanksgiving holiday. The store will reopen at 8 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 30. All the bookstore employees wish everyone a safe and restful holiday break.

We will be closing the Bruin Den at 1:30 p.m. and the grill will close at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 25, in anticipation of the Thanksgiving holiday. We will reopen on Monday, Nov. 30.

Wishing everyone a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and friends.

– Bon Appetit

With the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, Bon Appetit will be revising the hours of service in the Klages Dining Room for those students remaining on campus throughout the holiday. Following is the schedule.

Wednesday dinner: 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Thursday bunch: 10:30-11 a.m.
Dinner:  4-4:30 p.m.
Friday & Saturday brunch: 10:30-11 a.m.
Dinner: 5-5:30 p.m.
Sunday brunch: 10:30-11 a.m.
Dinner: 5-7 p.m.

For those students who are anticipating to be eating meals with us on Thanksgiving Day, please let us know by signing up at our front desk so that we know how much food to prepare.

The Bruin Bookstore invites you to gobble up the savings of leftover and reduced merchandise during our “Turkey Sale” on Thanksgiving week, Monday through Wednesday, Nov. 23-25. It’s a great opportunity to buy gift items to stuff in Christmas stockings!

The store is open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday and Tuesday and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday.

Time change update: An edited recording of the ASC town hall of Nov. 10, in which a discussion took place regarding a proposed campus fire pit project, will be broadcast on KFOX at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 24. Listen online at kfoxradio.georgefox.edu. This is two hours earlier than originally reported.

An edited recording of the ASC town hall of Nov. 10, in which a discussion took place regarding a proposed campus fire pit project, will be broadcast on KFOX from 8 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 24. Listen online at kfoxradio.georgefox.edu.

Everyone is encouraged to come to the Bruin Basketball games this Friday, but if you are unable to attend in person, watching on the Internet should be a better experience this year. Stretch Internet is the host that will be delivering our video stream. We are excited because the quality should be better thanks to more bandwidth and better production software.

Check out the schedule by clicking this Stretch Internet link. The first games to be broadcast will be Friday’s (Nov. 20) home openers.

– IT

The Fitness Center will be closed from 5 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 25, until 6 a.m. Monday, Nov. 30, for the Thanksgiving holiday.

This Monday, Nov. 23, between 12:30 and 4 p.m., the seniors in Liberal Arts and Critical Issues will be presenting their research on the Majority World and the West. We will have 39 project tables located in Hoover and EHS. Please drop by and see what the seniors have been doing this semester.

The university’s Symphonic Band will host the Oregon State University Wind Ensemble in concert this Thursday, Nov. 19, at 7:30 p.m., with a performance by the university’s percussion ensemble as well.

Selections include Auite of Old American Dances by Robert Russell Bennet; Red Cape Tango by Michael Daugherty; Mercury Rising by Michael Daugherty; Millenium Cannons by Kevin Puts and arranged by Mark Spede; Irish Tune from County Derry by Percy Grainger; Bells for Stokowski by Michael Daugherty; and The Circus Bee by Henry Filmore.

The concert will be held in Bauman Auditorium. Admission is free.

The university will honor its 2008-09 national-champion women’s basketball team with a championship banner-raising ceremony before the team’s home opener against Concordia this Friday, Nov. 20.

The ceremony is scheduled for 5:30 p.m., with the game set to tip off at 6 p.m. in the Wheeler Sports Center. The game will be followed by the men’s home opener against Claremont-Mudd-Scripps at 8 p.m.

The pregame ceremony commemorates the Bruins’ surprising 2008-09 season, when they posted a perfect 32-0 record despite returning just one senior and bringing in 10 freshmen. Admission is $5 for adults, $3 for students, and $1 for seniors and children under 12. Tickets are available at the door.

A student art exhibit by Rachel Belgard is now on display in the Murdock Learning Resource Center. The show,  entitled “Tangible Design,” runs through December.

Artist’s statement on the show:
“I have always been a tactile person and think that designing first outside of technology is a far more thrilling rabbit hole to dive down than straight computer work. I thrive off of tackling the bull of design and wrestling with the infinite solutions there are to cleverly and tangibly explore. Happy accidents make my day and naturally happen when design is taken physically by the horns. These unforeseen problems lead you down the hazy path of brainstorming to an unseen end.

“When I start designing I crave to feel the uncertainty that it is actually possible. A goal in design for me is to the restore the human element in graphic expression. Every piece in this show has been handled tangibly in someway, bringing natural nuances and depth that are unable to be captured artificially.”

If a balance of more than one year of vacation accrual remains after December time sheets and time-off reports are processed (in January), the employee will lose the portion that exceeds one year’s accrual.

To determine your accrual rates and how much you may need to use by Dec. 31, HR has prepared a chart and instructions for support staff and a chart and instructions for administrators to be used along with the information on your Oct. 30 pay statement. Links to both can be found at georgefox.edu/offices/hr/EmployeeBenefits/beneforms.html.

They also provide useful information about the balances on your monthly pay statements. If you have any questions after you have reviewed your vacation balance, please contact HR for assistance.

In just three short weeks, our lost and found cabinet has filled to capacity. Please stop by Security Services during office hours to see if your missing item is in the security office.

Thanks,
Security Services