The Daily Bruin

Student supervisors, please submit your students’ December timesheets to HR as soon as you get them. Please do not wait until the end of December if your student employee is finished working for the month. (Students will see an e-nnouncement today reminding them to sign and submit them to you before they leave for the holidays.)

Please be sure the student‘s name is legible on each one and also include each student’s ID number and the cost center number. Also, don’t forget to sign the time sheet, and be sure the student did as well. If the student left without signing it, please send it without the signature, and HR will hold the check until the time sheet is signed. Reminder: If a student delivers his or her own time sheet to HR, it must be in a sealed envelope — a Federal Work Study regulation.

Some of you may have students working over the break. If so, please deliver their time sheets to HR as soon as they have finished their last shift. Time sheets must be received no later than Monday, Jan. 5, in order for the student to be paid on the Jan. 9 pay day, but we need as many as possible before then.

Thanks very much,
HR 

Bedford Holmes’ (Tilikum) farewell event, scheduled from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 19, will now be in the Duke Atrium in the Stevens Center. Please note the location change. The event will be held weather permitting.

Friday, Dec. 19: Closed at 5 p.m.
Saturday-Sunday, Dec. 20-28: Closed
Monday-Wednesday, Dec. 29-31: Open 6 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Thursday-Sunday, Jan. 1-4: Closed
Monday-Friday, Jan. 5-9: Open 6 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturday-Sunday, Jan. 10-11: Closed
Monday, Jan. 12: Open at 6 a.m. 

When there is an emergency campus closure, usually due to inclement weather as was the case earlier this week (and may occur again before winter is over), the university’s policy indicates the following in the Employee Handbook, Section 7.1 Emergency Closure:

• If the university is closed, employees are paid as if they worked.
• If the university has a late opening and/or early closure, employees who work are paid for a full work day.
• If employees cannot make it in, their absence is covered by the use of vacation or is unpaid if vacation is not available.
• Employees who are required to work to assist with facilities and safety issues as a result of the weather (primarily Plant Services employees) will be given time off within the following 30 days equal to the time they worked during the closure.

In addition, employees who happen to be on vacation or using sick leave the day of a closure should record those days/hours as vacation or sick leave the same as they would had the campus been open.

The Department of Performing Arts is selling poinsettias. Red or white are available for $5 each or three for $10. Call ext. 2620 to purchase.

The University Store’s book buyback is Wednesday through Friday, Dec. 17-19, near the store’s main entrance in the SUB. Hours for buyback are from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. See what your books are worth by going to store.georgefox.edu. Select “Main Store” and then “Sell Textbooks” at the top of the screen.

Bon Appetit will serve its annual Christmas banquet from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 17, in the Klages Dining Room. The featured menu item will be roast baron of beef along with holiday treats including egg nog, pumpkin pie, apple-cranberry crisp, and   chocolate chip cheesecake.

Weather permitting, a large group of Dickens carolers will entertain and stroll throughout the dining room. The dinner is free to all students on meal plans, and only $10 per person to the rest of the campus community. Please come in and join us! Questions? Call ext. 2500.

A significant number of our international students will be staying on campus during Christmas break, Dec. 20 through Jan. 11. We are looking for people who would like to invite some international students into their home for a meal or activity during this time.

As always, one of our goals is to help international students learn more about American families and to develop relationships. Christmas break is a great time for this to happen. If you are interested in sharing a meal, activity, or Christmas tradition with an international student, please contact Alex Pia (International Student Services) at ext. 2643 or apia@georgefox.edu or Dianna McIntyre (International  Student Services) at ext. 2649 or dmcintyre@georgefox.edu.

Those wishing to learn more about Chinese culture and language may enroll in a spring semester course titled Chinese Language and Culture. It is three credits and meets Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 12:40 to 1:30 p.m. A visiting professor from Wuhan University of Technology, Professor Wang Haiyeen, will teach the class. She teaches English and is working on her doctorate in American literature.

It’s time again for the library’s annual wassail party! Please take a break on “Dead Day” and join us.

The Murdock Learning Resource Center is hosting the wassail party for students and employees from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, Dec. 15, in the multi-purpose room in the library. Christmas goodies, wassail and coffee will be served.

For those not familiar, wassail is a warm spiced-cider drink.

Bon Appetit will change its hours of service on Monday, Dec. 15, due to “Dead Day.” Klages will not open for breakfast until 8 a.m., so feel free to sleep in. The Bruin Den will be open from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., and the Villa Cafe will be open 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Tickets are still available for the university’s Christmas concert, “O Holy Night,” scheduled Friday through Sunday, Dec. 12-14. The concert features more than 175 musicians from five ensembles in the main-stage performance, and preconcert music featuring six of the university’s chamber ensembles.

Three presentations are scheduled:

Two on-campus performances in Bauman Auditorium
Friday, Dec. 12, 7:30 p.m. (preconcert music begins at 6:30 p.m.)
Saturday, Dec. 13, 7:30 p.m. (preconcert music begins at 6:30 p.m.)

Off-campus performance at Village Baptist Church in Beaverton
Sunday, Dec. 14, 2:30 p.m. (preconcert music begins at 2 p.m.)

Additional information about the concert program or the performing arts department is available by contacting Debbie Hawblitzel (Performing Arts) at ext. 2620.

Ticket information
All faculty, staff and students receive one free ticket that can be picked up at the box office in the University Store. Additional tickets may be purchased in person at the box office or by calling the office at ext. 3844. Tickets also are available at music.georgefox.edu. Tickets are $10 for adults; $8 for seniors and George Fox alumni; and $6 for students and children. The concert features reserve seating, so if you have a favorite seat, make sure you save it now.

You are invited to the English Language Institute’s production of A Christmas Carol at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 12, in Lemmons 8. Enjoy singing carols and a classic story to get you in the Christmas spirit. Admission is free.

Anyone and everyone is welcome to come to the History Club (Phi Alpha Theta) Christmas party at 5 p.m. Friday, Dec. 12, in Hoover 105. We will be watching Joyeux Noel, a movie about the Christmas truce during WWI, and eating pizza and goodies. All are welcome. Come and enjoy the fellowship and free food!

This is to remind you that you and your family are invited to the Baker family’s annual Christmas open house from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 14, at the Edwards House at 402 S. College St., in Newberg.

We look forward to you joining us for light appetizers and holiday sweets as we celebrate the Christmas season together!

Due to the PeopleSoft implementation, Security Services needs to be sure vehicle registration database information is as accurate as possible. Please log on to Bruindata, click on the vehicle registration link (under the “My Data” tab), and check to see that your vehicle information is correct. If you need to update/add more information about your vehicles, click the box that says “replace this vehicle” and enter the requested information.

When finished, click submit and we will see it on our side and change the information for you. If your white staff hangtag has broken, please bring it to the security office, and we will replace it gratis. If you have lost your white hangtag, please bring $5 cash to the security office, and we will issue you a replacement permit.

Adjuncts: If you will be on contract any part of 2009, you will need an updated parking permit. Please update your info on Bruindata, and either mail (Box 6095) or bring your soon-to-expire permit to the security office, and we will update it to a new one for 2009.

Thank you in advance for your assistance in keeping our records as current as possible.

IT reports that FoxTALE will be upgraded to version 1.9 from 6 a.m. Monday, Dec. 29, until 6 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 30. FoxTALE will be unavailable during this time. (All times are Pacific Standard Time).

‘Tis the season to Christmas shop at your Bruin Bookstore. Starting Monday, Dec. 15 (“dead day”),  save 25 percent on all George Fox clothing and 30 percent on all gift items (except diploma frames). Sale ends Tuesday, Dec. 23.

Friday, Dec. 12, 5 p.m. – Women’s basketball vs. Northwest (Wash.), Wheeler Sports Center

Saturday, Dec. 13, 5 p.m. – Women’s basketball vs. Chapman, Wheeler Sports Center

Saturday, Dec. 13, 7:30 p.m. – Men’s basketball vs. Northwest (Wash.), Wheeler Sports Center

In addition to KFOX radio webcasts and LiveStats via the Internet, George Fox will begin live video streaming of Bruin home basketball games this weekend. KFOX will provide simultaneous audio for the live feed. Links to the LiveStats, KFOX webcast, and live video are provided on the schedule portions of the George Fox athletics home page and both the men’s and women’s basketball home pages. Direct links are below.

For live video streaming:
media.georgefox.edu/bruinsports.html

For KFOX radio webcasts:
georgefox.edu/offices/asc/kfoxradio

For TAS LiveStats:
academic.georgefox.edu/~sports/xlive.htm

For more information, contact the sports information office at ext. 2926.

As the university’s locksmith, it is imperative that I keep accurate records of which keys have been issued and to whom they’ve been issued. I have had difficulty maintaining my key records because of people passing on their keys to other people either when they leave George Fox or when they move to another department. In many cases, people have passed on their keys to someone else apart from my knowledge or simply left them somewhere in their former workplace.

All keys are issued from Plant Services, and when people no longer need them they are to be returned to Plant Services. They are not to be passed on. There have been cases in which master keys have gotten lost and never accounted for. This constitutes a major breach of security. If keys were to get into the wrong hands, there is no telling what the consequences of this could be.

If you have moved from one department to another during your tenure at George Fox and still have keys from your old department, please return them to Plant Services. I am asking for your cooperation in this so that we can maintain campuses that are safe for our students and employees.

Thank you,
Alan Thurston (Plant Services)