The Daily Bruin

The George Fox University Auxiliary will host its annual holiday bazaar and silent auction on campus this Friday and Saturday, Nov. 6-7.

The bazaar will feature more than 20 artisans selling jewelry, art, crafts, plants and food. A silent auction is also planned, featuring donated items from local businesses.

The main bazaar will be held in the Ron Gregory Atrium on Friday, Nov. 6, from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and on Saturday, Nov. 7, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The silent auction will be held in the Hoover Atrium during the same times, closing at 2 p.m. on Saturday.

Admission is free. For more information, contact Danya Ochsner (University Relations) at ext. 2121.

The university will host a free concert performed by the Portland Youth Philharmonic at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9, in Bauman Auditorium.

Led by conductor and music director David Hattner, the concert is a preview of the orchestra’s fall concert to be held in the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall on Nov. 14. The program will feature Kai Talim, the winner of PYP’s Piano Concerto Competition. Selections will include Verdi ballet music from Otello, Beethoven’s Concerto No. 4 (featuring Talim), Debussy’s Fanfare from Le Roi Lear, Bloch’s Two Interludes from Macbeth, and Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet.

No tickets are required for the concert. For more information, call the Portland Philharmonic at 503-223-5939.

There’s still time to turn in your C.W. Perry Servant Leadership Award nominations. Do you know a senior student who displays great servant leadership qualities? Let us know! We are looking for nominations for the award. Only senior students are eligible.

Please visit the award nomination site to find out more and to download the nomination form. Please mail your nomination forms to Kristina Findley, associate dean of student leadership, by Wednesday, Nov. 11.

FoxTALE will be unavailable on Tuesday, Nov. 10, from 6 to 7 a.m. (PST) for scheduled maintenance. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Tickets are now on sale for a Michael Allen Harrison piano concert in Bauman Auditorium on Saturday, Nov. 14.

Harrison, who has performed for such dignitaries as President Clinton and Quincy Jones, will present “A Night Out with Michael Allen Harrison,” a benefit concert for the St. Paul Lutheran School in Sherwood. The concert begins at 6 p.m., with doors opening at 5:15 p.m.

Advance tickets are $20 ($25 at the door) and $10 for students (including George Fox students), seniors and children. Children under 3 are free. There are also a limited number of VIP seats, which reserves a seat within the front two rows and a reception with the artist following the show ($50 each). Tickets may be purchased at the ticketsoregon.com website. More information is available by calling 503-432-9477.

More information on Harrison is available at mahrecords.com.

Come hear James Waller, an expert on the Holocaust and genocide, talk about the role of the church in responding to such events. Dr. Waller has spoken to the State Department and the CIA. He also is the author of numerous books, including Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing. 

Waller will speak from 4:40 to 5:35 p.m. and from 7 to 7:55 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 2, in Hoover 105. His presentation is part of the university’s Liberal Arts and Critical Issues Forum. For more information, contact Caitlin Corning (History) at ccorning@georgefox.edu.

Do you have the voice and the desire to sing the national anthem during the 2009-2010 Bruin basketball season? Auditions are scheduled for Monday, Nov. 2, in the Wheeler Gymnasium. Audition a cappella in order of arrival, beginning at 7 p.m.

Open to students, faculty, staff and friends and relatives. Please don’t bring your pets.

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 November. 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, Nov. 13. 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 Thursday, Nov. 19, and will receive a $100 gift card to The Allison Inn & Spa, including its restaurant, Jory.

The Multicultural Club is hosting an intercultural conference Nov. 13-14 on the Newberg campus that will include guest speakers in regards to diversity. Meals are provided (breakfast, lunch and ice cream social). To get details and register online, visit the conference’s website.

Would you please take a few minutes to submit your October time sheet (support staff) or time-off report (administrators) to your supervisor right away? As always, please be sure it is complete (including your ID number), accurate and signed by both you and your supervisor before sending it to HR at Box 6108. (If your supervisor is not available to sign it, please send a copy to HR and keep the original until it has been signed.)

The link on the HR website for staff time sheets is: georgefox.edu/offices/hr/TimesheetOct09.xls

The administrator time-off reports is at: georgefox.edu/offices/hr/Timeoffreport.doc

A tip to help you remember to do this each month: Set a recurring appointment on your Outlook calendar for the first business day of each month with a brief notation, “Turn in time sheet.” That gives you one less thing to have to remember.

Student supervisors, please submit your students’ October time sheets to HR right away — by Tuesday, Nov. 3. If you have any “stragglers,” we will take those as late as Wednesday morning, Nov. 4, but there should be very few. Please deliver all other time sheets to HR by Tuesday.

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 in a sealed envelope. If you happen to still have any paperwork to submit on a newly hired student, please hand-deliver it right away, no later than Monday, Nov. 2. We need to set up students in the system before the time sheets arrive.

Thanks very much.
HR

All Francophones are invited to attend the presentation of four sketches in French: Y’a un Bug, Il suffit de s’en souvenir, Le Discours and Le Juste Mot. Performances begin at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4, in EHS 102. A reception will follow.

Attention seniors who are graduating in December,

Congratulations on your impending graduation! As you prepare to leave us, the university has organized a special event to help you tie up all the loose ends before graduation day arrives.

On Thursday, Nov. 5, we will host the Fall Exodus Grad Fair from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Cap and Gown Room. There, you will be able to:

• Pick up your cap and gown

• Verify graduation with the registrar’s office

• Conduct or schedule an exit interview with Financial Aid

• Visit with Career Services

• Connect with Alumni Relations

• Get information on mail forwarding

• Order graduation announcements

• Get sized and order a class ring

• Order alumni products

In short, all the departments you need to see before you graduate will be gathered in one location. This makes the exit process more efficient for both students and various departments. Complimentary food and drinks will be available, and there will be a chance to win great door prizes.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact Andy Dunn at ext. 2543 or at adunn@georgefox.edu.

Want to act in a comedic short film that will likely be seen at this year’s Fox Film Festival? “Adventures in Matchmaking” is a lighthearted short film that combines themes of misadventure, friendship and the often-hilarious situations that arise out of trying to play matchmaker.

Auditions for the film are scheduled for noon Saturday, Oct. 31, in the Media Center. The cast time commitment would be an initial read through and orientation meeting, as well as one to two weekends of filming (starting within the next two weeks). No previous acting experience is required to audition.

In preparation for auditions, contact Elizabeth Wallace (producer) at ewallace07@georgefox.edu to obtain a copy of the script. Those interested also need to print out a schedule (for the next month) and list any Friday, Saturday or Sunday conflicts.

We hope to see you there!

All faculty and staff are invited to attend the presentation “Working with International Students” from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30, in Lemmons 13. Contact Joel Perez at ext. 2305 or Alex Pia at ext. 2643 for more information.

About a dozen tickets remain for Friday night’s (Oct. 30) bilingual performance of Canta Y No Llores, a play put on by the Northwest’s premier Latino arts and culture organization, the Miracle Theatre Group, in Portland.

Multicultural Services is offering discounted tickets for the 8 p.m. performance. For more information on the show, visit milagro.org.

This is opening night and the audience is invited to stay afterward for a complimentary reception catered by a local restaurant. Visit the Office of Student Life (third floor of Stevens) and pay cash or check for a $10 ticket. This is half off the regular cost. Please stop by no later than 5 p.m. to pay.

The university’s visual arts department will host work by two Biola University professors, Kurt Simonson and Jon Anderson, beginning Tuesday, Nov. 3, through Dec. 2. The exhibit, to be displayed in the Minthorne Gallery, is entitled “Kurt Simonson: Northwoods Journal & Jonathan Anderson: Impasse.”

The exhibit opens with an artists’ talk at 4 p.m. Tuesday, followed by an opening reception from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the Minthorne Gallery.

The theatre department’s fall production of The Diviners will be showing in Wood-Mar Auditorium on Nov. 5-7 and Nov. 12-14 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 15, at 2 p.m. The production is a redemptive tale of a charismatic but backsliding preacher and his close newfound friendship with the eccentric Buddy Layman as they help each other divine for truth, faith and hope.

All university employees will receive one complementary ticket for any night. Your complimentary ticket is only available at the Box Office in the Bruin Bookstore. Additional tickets are available for purchase at theatre.georgefox.edu.

Friday, Oct. 30, 7 p.m. – Volleyball vs. Pacific, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym
Saturday, Oct. 31, 11 a.m. – Women’s Soccer vs. Puget Sound, Morse Field (note time change from previously announced noon start)
Saturday, Oct. 31, 7 p.m. – Volleyball vs. Linfield, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym

The men’s and women’s cross country teams will be participating in the Northwest Conference Championships at McIver State Park in Estacada, Ore., starting at 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 31.

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

Employees who still have their name badge holders from last week’s staff conference, please return them to Laura Klaus at Box 6229.