The Daily Bruin

Employees are invited to attend an all-community meeting from 3 to 5 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26, in Bauman Auditorium. The meeting will provide employees an opportunity to receive campus updates. Your participation is strongly encouraged.

For those at the university’s 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.

If you are interested in global issues, love to travel, enjoy learning about other cultures and foreign languages, and have a heart for community service, the Peace Corps may be the right fit for you. The organization will host an on-campus  information session and application workshop from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 3, in Lemmons 15 on the Newberg campus.

Come to this Peace Corps event to learn more about living and working overseas. To learn more, visit the Peace Corps website.

Jeff VandenHoek (School of Management) will give leadership to the newest School of Management graduate program — a full-time MBA program that will launch on the Newberg campus this August. It will be a highly integrative, intense, intentional, cohort-based, 11-month program. We welcome referrals. Contact VandenHoek at jvandenh@georgefox.edu for more information, or visit the MBA page on the university’s website.

Due to a reallocation of resources to the full-time MBA and the accreditation process, we will faze out the Executive Track MBA program with its current cohorts when they graduate in 2010. Twenty-two executives have graduated, and 24 are currently in the Executive Track MBA program. To hear Dean Ken Armstrong’s announcement about the changes, visit the university’s iTunes U site. Scroll to “Campus Spotlight” and click on “School of Management.”

The Department of Performing Arts will continue its busy recital season next week. All events will be held in Bauman Auditorium.

On Wednesday, March 4, Chris Guyer, clarinet, will present a senior recital at 7:30 p.m.

On Friday, March 6, the second Students in Recital event is scheduled from 12:40 to 1:30 p.m. That, evening at 7:30 p.m., pianists including Kenneth Willson, Barbara Stewart, Dan Miller, Becca Couch, Bethany Taft, Joseph Forster, James Pick, Cameron DeWhitt, Allen Cassell, Andrew Payne and Beth Sellers will present a multi-piano extravaganza.

Finally, at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 7, Emily Yarnold, soprano, and Ashley Salisbury, mezzo-soprano, will present their junior recital.

Please join us in supporting our students. Admission is free.

You’re invited to join the university’s International Justice Mission Chapter for a sex-trafficking awareness event from 7 to 11 p.m. Thursday, March 5, in the Duke Atrium of the Stevens Center. The gathering will include food, live music, and plenty of chances to learn more about this very serious issue and ways that you can create change here in Oregon and abroad.

Join Bon Appetit Tuesday as we celebrate Fat Tuesday for lunch and dinner in Klages Dining Hall. Lunch will feature a cajun-style gumbo along with muffaletta sandwiches and dirty rice.

We’ll kick it up a notch for dinner as we serve pecan-crusted chicken with creole meuniere sauce, blackened redfish and smoked sausage, shrimp and chicken jambalaya, and Bananas Foster for dessert.

Free to those on meal plans and only $7.75 for everyone else. Wear your smile, get some beads and enjoy some great food and music.

Beginning with our Friday, Feb. 27 pay day, you will no longer receive a printed pay statement from the university if you are on direct deposit. Instead, you will be able to view (and print if you would like) your pay statement through PeopleSoft by following these simple steps:

1. If you do not already access PeopleSoft, you can use this link to get to the sign-in page. If you haven’t already added the login address to your favorites, this would be a good time to stop and do that.
2. Use the same user ID and password that you use to log in to e-mail and Bruindata.
3. Open “Self Service” in the menu on the left and click on “Payroll and Compensation.”
4. You will see a list of all of your pay statements that have been processed in PeopleSoft (beginning with our first payroll on Oct. 31) with some basic information included in each of the columns.
5. Click on the pay date in the far left column labeled “Check Date” to open your statement as a PDF file. You can then print it if you want a hard copy, you can save the PDF file to another folder, or you can just refer to it again in the future in PeopleSoft.

HR will post an e-nnouncement for the next several months to remind employees on pay day that their statements will be available only online to give people time to get used to this new procedure. This new process helps the university be a good steward of both financial and natural resources by reducing paper and envelope usage. It also will save significant time for staff in both HR and Mail Services.

Employees who are not on direct deposit will continue to receive their pay checks with statements attached through the mail. However, we strongly encourage all employees (except student employees) to get on direct deposit.

Thursday, Feb. 26
7 p.m. – Women’s basketball vs. Whitman (Northwest Conference Tournament), Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym

Friday, Feb. 27
2 p.m. – Women’s tennis vs. Linfield, George Fox campus courts

Saturday, Feb. 28
11 a.m. – Men’s tennis vs. Lewis & Clark, George Fox campus courts
11 a.m. – Men & women’s track and field in Frank Haskins Invitational (dual meet vs. Linfield), Colcord Field
7 p.m. – Women’s basketball vs. TBA (Northwest Conference Tournament), Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym

Tickets for the Northwest Conference Women’s Basketball Tournament are $6 for adults and $3 for students 18 and under and seniors 55 and over. Students from the participating schools in each tournament game will be admitted free with a valid student ID card. Regular season passes are not valid for any postseason events such as the NWC Tournament or NCAA playoffs. The Bruins are 25-0 and ranked No. 2 nationally (WBCA poll).

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

You are represented on the university’s Safety Committee. Please read the minutes posted at your location (Physical Plant and Mail Room in Newberg; Portland location TBA). If you have any comments and/or concerns, please contact one of the following:

Dan Schutter (Chair, Safety Officer), Teresa Arnold (Secretary, Science/Chemical Hygiene), Linda Sartwell (Staff), David Hansen (Faculty), Lisa Burton (HR), Trini Marquez (Plant Services), Ed Gierok (Security), Charlie Kamilos (Portland Center), Carl Anderson (Tilikum), and Steve Petzold (Engineering)

The Department of Performing Arts is pleased to present an array of performances this week. All events will be held in Bauman Auditorium unless noted.

On Tuesday, Feb. 24, the Chehalem Symphony Orchestra will perform a 7:30 p.m. concert under the direction of Ben Brooks in its first concert of the semester.

On Wednesday, Feb. 25, Sharayah Bodnar, bass clarinetist and mezzo-soprano, will present a junior recital at 7:30 p.m.

On Thursday, Feb. 26, the department’s small chamber ensembles will present their first concert of the semester. Featured will be the university’s String Ensemble, Early Music Ensemble, Flute Ensemble, Handbell Choirs, Low Brass Ensemble.

On Friday, Feb. 27, a vocal master class is scheduled in Ross 208 from 12:40 to 1:30 p.m. That same evening, Libby Tate, soprano, will present a senior recital at 7:30 p.m.

To cap off the week, on Saturday, Feb. 28, Rachel Consenz, soprano, and Nick Grant, baritone, will present a junior recital at 7:30 p.m.

Please join us in supporting our students. Admission for all performances is free.

Enrollment packets for benefits should be arriving via campus mail by Monday. Most of them will arrive in a handy envelope provided by Allegiance. However, it’s not just about the flex plan. This envelope includes your custom benefit election form that must be signed and returned to HR by Monday, March 16. We just used the envelopes provided by Allegiance to send all of your information. So look for it and don’t toss it!

Please note: The film Grandma Zula’s Legacy will be shown in Stevens 101 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Monday, March 2. This is a location change from the original announcement. All employees are invited to attend.

Please R.S.V.P. to Joel Perez (Student Life) at jperez@georgefox.edu if you plan to attend.

Last summer, Oregon Field Guide came to the University of Portland and filmed a segment on the hummingbird flight bio-mechanics and energetics work Don Powers (Biology) and Bret Tobalske have been doing the past several years. This segment will air on OPB TV at 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26, and again on March 1 at 6:30 p.m. 

Dan Kimball, author of the book They Like Jesus But Not the Church and Vintage Christianity, will speak in the 10:40 a.m. Monday, Feb. 23, chapel. Following chapel, Dan will be in the Cap and Gown Room for a talk-back session. Bring your lunch and join us!

A Faculty Research Forum, “Why Faith is a Virtue,” based on the work of Robert Adams and Alasdair MacIntyre, will be presented by Phil Smith (Religious Studies) at 10:40 a.m. Friday, Feb. 20, in Hoover 105.

Career Services invites you to attend the university’s Seminary Fair this Tuesday, Feb. 24. Join us in the Hoover Atrium from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. for an opportunity to meet with 12 seminaries. Refreshments included!

The University Store is hosting a 40-percent-off sale on all George Fox-imprinted merchandise (except diploma frames) during its Homecoming Sale Friday and Saturday, Feb. 20-21. Store hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday.

Employees are invited to attend an all-community meeting from 3 to 5 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26, in Bauman Auditorium. The meeting will provide employees an opportunity to receive campus updates. Your participation is strongly encouraged.

For those at the university’s 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.

Come celebrate homecoming week with the Department of Performing Arts as the department presents its homecoming concert featuring the Symphonic Band, Concert Choir, Chamber Singers, and Women’s Chorale. The event will take place at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 20, in Bauman Auditorium. Admission is free.

Join the Department of Performing Arts for a presentation of the Chehalem Symphony Orchestra in concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24, in Bauman Auditorium. Admission is free.