The Daily Bruin

Print Services is proud to announce the reduction in the cost of producing color copies. Prices still will include the paper of your choice from the many colors and types available on a daily basis. Prices will range from 40 cents per side to 10 cents per side based on the total number of letter size copies. We also have new pricing for legal and tabloid sizes, and transparencies.

Call ext. 2550 with any questions regarding your printing needs or e-mail Print Services at printservices@georgefox.edu.

Join the group Timothy’s Charge in the “tent of meeting” as we read through the Bible aloud in the quad from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday, Jan. 21, through the end of the week. Entitled “Josiah’s Gift,” the project will continue with a rotation of readers until finishing with Revelation (projected to be Friday or Saturday).

Sign up in the Bruin Den this Friday, Jan. 23, or at the tent itself starting Monday for a half-hour time slot to be a part of the proclamation of God’s Word on campus.

The university community is invited to the first Students in Recital of the spring semester from 12:40 to 1:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 30, in Bauman Auditorium. Please join the Department of Performing Arts in supporting our music students as they present their work.

The department also will be hosting two senior recitals in Bauman Auditorium next week. The first will be presented by flautist Emily Blanshan at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 30. The second will be presented by flautist and mezzo-soprano Rachael Swafford at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 31. There is no admission charge for the recitals.

Want to advertise an event on KFOX radio and on its website? Visit kfoxradio.georgefox.edu and go to announcement requests. Please make sure you make requests two weeks before the event (if possible) so we have ample time to get it broadcast and posted to the website.

Employees are invited to attend an all-community meeting from 4 to 5 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 22, 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.

The Multicultural Club and Multicultural Services are hosting Rwandan Enric Sifa for a “music and munchies” event from 9 to 11 p.m. Friday, Jan. 23, in the Klages Dining Room.

Sifa was orphaned by the tragic events of the 1994 genocide and its devastating impact to his country. At age 9 he began to live on the streets. At 14, through music, Enric committed his life to God. Today at the age of 21, Enric has composed more than 60 songs in both his Kinyarwanda language and English. He has appeared on Rwandan TV and radio, performed for government dignitaries, and toured three times in the United States with the music group Hindurwa. Enric released his first solo CD in December 2007.

As an update to the FDA’s peanut butter recall, the list of suspected products contaminated with salmonella has increased to now include several retail snack and ice cream items. Brands affected include Little Debbie, Perry’s Ice Cream and several items produced by Kelloggs. Nationally branded grocery store jars of peanut butter have not been included in the recall.

There is currently a great deal of concern about products containing peanut butter because the salmonella bacteria has been found in products produced by the Peanut Corporation of America plant in Blakely, Ga. Those products were, in turn, shipped to other food manufacturers and were used in the production of a wide variety of candies, crackers, cookies and other items.

To ensure the safety of the items we purchase and make from scratch, Bon Appetit is continuing its ban of all peanut butter and related products.

At this point, it’s impossible to predict how long this ban will go on. We will keep everyone informed as we receive daily updates from the FDA and our distributors.

Thank you for your patience and understanding. Additional information can be found on the FDA website.

The campus community is invited to a book signing event with MaryKate Morse (Seminary) from 4 to 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 26, in the Portland Center Library. Her new book is titled Making Room For Leadership: Power, Space and Influence. The Portland Center bookstore will have copies available for purchase.

Bon Appetit is asking all students this week to scrape all their uneaten food and beverages into a series of five-gallon buckets adjacent to the dishroom prior to putting their trays into the dishroom window.

Estimates from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency suggest that at least 18 percent of all municipal solid waste that reaches landfills is food. That waste amounts to 31 million tons per year. Researchers estimate 40 to 50 percent of the food produced in this country is never consumed, owing to losses along the entire food chain.

We will be weighing the wasted food every day and posting the results near the dishroom. Last week, we saved and weighed all the scrapings from each tray and averaged 311 pounds of wasted food/beverages per day. Our goal is to request everyone pay closer attention to the foods and beverages you take in order to reduce waste by 25 percent by the end of the semester. If we can together accomplish that, we will have prevented more than 8,000 pounds of uneaten food from reaching our landfills.

Please join the university community in saying farewell to Al Zimmerman (Planned Giving) at a reception from 4 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 20, in the Duke Atrium in the Stevens Center. Refreshments will be served. The event was postponed twice previously because of inclement weather.

Al left 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. He had worked at George Fox for three years.

Faculty are invited to attend a Faculty Teaching Forum, “Notes from a Career in Teaching,” from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 22, in Hoover 104 (Hoover-Hatfield Library).

What are foundational lessons you have learned from your experience as a teacher? Join in a conversation about 10 teaching lessons learned by Murray Sperber, a professor for more than 40 years. You can read Sperber’s Chronicle of Higher Education article ahead of time, but doing so won’t be necessary for fruitful discussion.

To reserve a lunch, e-mail Jere Witherspoon (jwithers@georgefox.edu) by 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 20. Everyone is welcome to attend the session, whether bringing a lunch or reserving a lunch.

All faculty — full time, part time, and adjunct — are invited to attend Faculty Teaching Forums (FTFs). Video podcasts of FTFs will be available at the “Events and Resources” link on the Center for Teaching and Learning website.

Beginning Saturday, Feb. 21, and ending just before spring break, the university is hosting a female professor of linguistics and English language from Ukraine. Arrangements for her visit were made by the Marshall Christian Foundation, a group that arranged for three professors to visit last year.

If you or someone you know would provide room and some meals for this professor, please contact Lon Fendall (Center for Global Studies). There will be a small stipend to help with cost.

Over the three-day weekend (8 a.m. Jan. 17 to 5 p.m. Jan. 19, PST), IT will be installing critical updates to the PeopleSoft system. These updates are necessary to process Federal Financial Aid changes as well as the 2008 payroll W2’s.

Faculty and administrators will not be able to access course rosters or schedule information while the system is down. Faculty teaching courses this weekend should access their class rosters prior to Saturday morning when the system goes down. Also, all administrative functions in the production system will be unavailable over the weekend.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

The university will close Monday, Jan. 19, to observe the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. There will be no day or evening classes or chapel at the Newberg campus, and the Portland Center, Salem Center and Boise Center will be closed. Also, all the university’s offices, libraries and bookstores will be closed.

The university community is invited to attend an artist talk and opening reception for the art exhibit “Mentors: Northwest Artists Who Teach” on Tuesday, Jan. 20. The artist talk begins at 4 p.m. in Hoover 102, followed by the reception from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Minthorne Gallery. The exhibit will run through Feb. 26.

The campus community is invited to attend the opening reception for the Alumni Art Exhibit, scheduled from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 16, in the Lindgren Gallery. The exhibit will run through Jan. 29.

MaryKate Morse (Seminary) will sign copies of her new book, Making Room for Leadership: Power, Space, and Influence, at the Portland Center Library from 4 to 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 26.

Saturday, Jan. 17, 6 p.m. – Women’s basketball vs. Linfield, Wheeler Sports Center
Saturday, Jan. 17, 8 p.m. – Men’s basketball vs. Linfield, Wheeler Sports Center

The Bruin women’s team is on a record winning streak at 14-0 and is ranked 11th nationally in both the D3hoops.com and WBCA polls.

All Bruin home basketball games are webcast on KFOX and offer live video streaming.  Click on the links found on the schedule section of the Bruin athletics home page or each basketball team’s home page.

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

In March of 2008, the university’s libraries conducted a major user satisfaction survey using LibQUAL, a web-based survey from the Association of Research Libraries. A summary of survey results is available on the library’s blog, accessible at blogs.georgefox.edu/library/?p=191.

The University Store is offering a 10 percent discount on all school supplies and art products. The sale ends Friday, Jan. 23. Store hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday (closed on Monday, Jan. 19.)