The Daily Bruin

Employees are invited to attend an all-community meeting from 4 to 5 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 11, in Hoover 105. The meeting will provide employees an opportunity to receive campus updates. Your participation is strongly encouraged.

For those at the university’s four 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.

Students, staff and faculty, your last chance to reunite with your lost items will be this Friday, Dec. 12, from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Bruin Den. All items not claimed by their owners will be donated to charitable causes by Dec. 19.

Please join the university community in saying farewell to Al Zimmerman (Planned Giving) at a reception from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Monday, Dec. 15, in the John and Marilyn Duke Atrium in the Stevens Center. Refreshments will be served.

Al is leaving the university to serve as executive director of the Portland-based Northwest Christian Community Foundation, a conduit for generating gifts in support of a wide range of Christian ministries. Al has worked at George Fox for three years.

The university community is invited to participate in Kaleo, George Fox’s annual conference designed for those who engage with youth. Shane Claiborne will speak on the theme “Ordinary Radicals.” A conference summary: “We desire our youth not to simply be believers in Christ, but followers of Christ – ordinary people living radically in the love of Jesus Christ, called to bring forth another world among us.”

Kaleo is scheduled from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 7, in Bauman Auditorium. Online registration is now open at kaleo.georgefox.edu. Questions? Contact Amy Lorenz (University Relations) at ext. 2134 or alorenz@georgefox.edu.

Since Melissa Rosenberry decided to stay home and be a full-time mom following the birth of her daughter this fall, the university needs to fill an administrative assistant I (Pay Range 3) position in undergraduate admissions.

The schedule will likely be 32 hours per week for nine months each year and 25 hours per week during the summer. 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. A completed transfer request, cover letter and resume must be submitted to HR no later than Tuesday, Dec. 16, at 5 p.m.

The George Fox Dance Performance class will present “So we think we can dance” at 9 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 10, in the Wheeler Sports Center gym. Come join us for 30 minutes of entertainment and lots of good laughs. The students have worked hard in preparing for the show, so come relax, laugh, have fun and cheer them on.

Undergraduate psychology is hosting a psychology majors Christmas lunch from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 11, in Cap & Gown A. The university community is invited to bring a lunch and join the faculty in decorating Christmas cookies. Cookies, Christmas music, and general fun will be provided.

The university’s IT department never asks for you to supply personal information in an e-mail. There are numerous e-mail messages currently being used to try and deceive people into divulging personal information to unknown recipients. The e-mails try to pass themselves off as official and are sent to .edu and .org e-mail addresses. Do not respond to these e-mails. The senders of the messages are identity thieves.

Here is a sample of one such message:

ATTENTION: EDU WEBMAIL SUBSCRIBER:

This mail is to inform all our {EDU WEBMAIL} users that we will be upgrading our site in a couple of days from now. So you as a subscriber of our site you are required to send us your mail account details so as to enable us know if you are still making use of your mail box.

Further informed that we will be deleting all mail account that is not functioning so as to create more space for new user. so you are to send us your mail account details which are as follows:

*User name:
*Password:

Failure to do this will immediately render your email address deactivated from our database. Your response should be send to the following e-mail address.

Your Admin Manager: edu.sub.2008@live.vvv

Yours In Service,

Mrs. Kaushik Mohan

Employees are invited to attend an all-community meeting from 4 to 5 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 11, in Hoover 105. The meeting will provide employees an opportunity to receive campus updates. Your participation is strongly encouraged.

For those at the Boise and Portland centers, 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.

Attention faculty: During the Community Christmas Worship Service, scheduled from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 10, you are invited to take part in an impromptu faculty choir. We will be singing “Joy to the World” and “Hark the Herald Angels Sing.” There will not be rehearsal; directions will be announced in chapel.

The choir will be directed by Brent Weaver (Performing Arts). If you have questions, contact Sarah Baldwin (Spiritual Life) at ext. 2321 or sbaldwin@georgefox.edu.

Please join us for the all-campus Christmas worship service featuring President Robin Baker and the university choir on Wednesday, Dec. 10, in Bauman Auditorium. The service will go from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. For more information, contact the Office of Spiritual Life at spirituallife@georgefox.edu.

Don’t forget: The university will present its annual Christmas concert this week. The Department of Performing Arts will present “O Holy Night!” 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.

Help a family in need and take part in Adopt a Family, an outreach sponsored by the university’s nursing club. This year, the club is helping the Clarks, a family of four whose dad recently got laid off. There is a Christmas tree outside of the nursing office with ornaments that have items the family needs/wants. More instructions are by the tree if you would like to help. Thanks for your generosity.

The Baker family invites you and your family to their 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!

Please join us for the all-campus Christmas worship service featuring President Robin Baker and the university choir on Wednesday, Dec. 10, in Bauman Auditorium. The service will go from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. For more information, contact the Office of Spiritual Life at spirituallife@georgefox.edu.

Attention faculty: During the Community Christmas Worship Service, scheduled from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 10, you are invited to take part in an impromptu faculty choir. We will be singing “Joy to the World” and “Hark the Herald Angels Sing.” There will not be rehearsal; directions will be announced in chapel.

The choir will be directed by Brent Weaver (Performing Arts). If you have questions, contact Sarah Baldwin (Spiritual Life) at ext. 2321 or sbaldwin@georgefox.edu.

The end of the semester is fast approaching, and Security Services would like to reunite students with their lost items before Christmas break. If you have items hanging around your offices/closets that have been left behind, please get them to the security office ASAP so we can hopefully match them up with their owners.

Thanks,
Security Services

A reminder as you are registering for spring 2009: If you are planning to teach English abroad or in a community program, don’t miss this opportunity to learn the basics. Take COMM 350 Introduction to Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL).

The course will be offered in spring 2009, scheduled Mondays and Wednesdays from 3:40 to 4:55 p.m. The next time it will be offered is spring of 2011. COMM 350 Introduction to TESOL can be taken on its own or as part of the TESOL minor.

For more information, contact Martha Iancu (ESL) at ext. 2641 or at miancu@georgefox.edu.

Don’t forget the Staff Lunch on Monday, Dec. 8 in the Cap and Gown Room.  Come enjoy food and fellowship.  Cost  $3

Come to show your appreciation and to bid farewell to Bedford Holmes, executive director of Tilikum.

Friday, Dec. 19
3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Cap and Gown rooms