The Daily Bruin

Last week, all employees received an e-mail from Missy Terry (President’s Office) with important information regarding the upcoming Presidential Inauguration, March 6-7. This e-mail contained a schedule of events, class cancellation specifics, office closure information, and procedures for the academic processional occurring at the installation ceremony.

As a reminder, we ask that all employees register for the events that they plan to attend by this Friday, Feb. 29. The registration form is available at georgefox.edu/inauguration/registration-form3.html.

We hope that you will choose to take part in this historic celebration. The entire series of events has been crafted to highlight the entire university and what makes this such a special place.

To clarify one item from the e-mail, faculty should register for the installation ceremony (even though their involvement is expected) so that the proper number of chairs can be reserved in Bauman Auditorium.

The full schedule of events is available at georgefox.edu/inauguration.

If you would like another copy of Missy’s e-mail sent to you, please e-mail Robby Larson, inauguration co-chair, at rlarson@georgefox.edu.

Do you know of a graduating senior or alum that is heading out or currently engaged in significant volunteer service?

Please consider nominating young adults heading out or currently engaged in long-term volunteer work for the $1,000 Krista Colleague Service and Leadership Development Grant.

Nominations are due March 20. The nomination criteria and nomination forms are available at: kristafoundation.org/top.php?page=program.

Each year, through a nomination process, a new class of “Krista Colleagues” receive a $1,000 Service and Leadership Development grant and mentoring support as they head out for an extended period of volunteer or vocational service with other organizations (PeaceCorp, Jesuit Volunteer Corp, Presbyterian Young Adult Volunteers, AmeriCorp, etc.).

Nomination forms also are available from Paul Otto (History) at ext. 2676.

The student group Quaere Verum will continue to sponsor a time of prayer for Kenya in the Foxhole every Wednesday at 5 p.m. The university community is invited.

As part of a nursing research project on campus, students are educating the university community about the automated external defibrillator (AED), a computerized medical device that checks a person’s heart rhythm and recognizes a rhythm that requires a shock. It also gives the rescuer the steps that need to be taken to save a life. The device should be used any time a person collapses and is not moving or breathing and has no heartbeat.

George Fox has one AED. It is located in the trainers’ room and can be accessed by any trainer.

TIAA-CREF consultants will visit the Newberg campus and the Portland Center in March to offer personal financial counseling sessions. Consultants will help you:

• Develop long-term strategies
• Find the right allocation mix for you
• Develop your own strategy
• Learn about TIAA-CREF retirement income flexibility

Employees may schedule an appointment during one of the following dates:

Monday, March 3: Portland Center, Room 296
Tuesday, March 4: Newberg campus, Hoover 104
Wednesday, March 5: Newberg campus, Hoover 104

Time: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Individual consultant: Shane Roghaar

To schedule an appointment, visit the TIAA-CREF website at tiaa-cref.org/moc.

If you have not already submitted a Tuition Remission Request and you anticipate using any tuition remission benefit during the 2008-09 academic year, please complete a Tuition Remission Request Form and submit it by Monday, March 3.

Go to georgefox.edu/offices/hr/EmployeeBenefits.index/beneforms.html and scroll about halfway down the page to find the link to important information for completing the Tuition Remission Request Forms and the forms themselves. It is important to read the one page of information before you begin completing a Tuition Remission Request Form. Incomplete forms will be returned without being processed.

For information about the tuition exchange program, contact Missy Terry (President’s Office). Again, completed TR request forms must be in Human Resources by March 3. If you miss the deadline, your tuition remission cannot be guaranteed for next year.

The LibQUAL+â„¢ Library Survey is now available. Please take a moment to fill out the survey about the quality of the George Fox library service. The survey is available any time of the day or night from Feb. 25 through March 19. Participants are eligible to win prizes.

Survey URL: http://survey.libqual.org/index.cfm?ID=629358

George Fox will host Lewis & Clark College in the semifinal game of the Northwest Conference Women’s Basketball Tournament at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 27, in the Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym. The winner will advance to the title game at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash., on Friday, Feb. 29, also at 7 p.m.

Ticket prices for all tournament games, as established by the league office, are $6 for adults and $3 for children 12 and under and seniors 65 and older. Students from the participating schools will be admitted free with their student ID card. Northwest Conference passes are also valid for tournament games. Faculty and staff from the schools are required to have tickets.

For more information, contact the athletics office at ext. 2910.

Join Bon Appetit Tuesday, Feb. 26, for its Allisyn Bridges special Raspberry Mocha. Purchase a 20-ounce beverage for the price of a 16-ounce drink. Prices are good at both the Bruin Den and the Villa Cafe.

Starting February 25 we’re going to feature special menu items selected by many of our customers.

Join us Monday, February 25 for the “Tiffany Tangen Breakfast Special” featuring 2 scrambled eggs, crisp smoked bacon, 12 grain toast and a small Starbucks coffee all for $4.25.

The breakfast specials will be available from 8 am to 10 am, Monday through Friday, during normal Bruins Den business hours.

The Liberal Arts Critical Issues (G.E. Senior Capstone) program is looking for faculty and staff to volunteer to sit on an oversight committee for this fall’s course. The oversight committee would meet two to three times during spring semester to help identify books and speakers for the fall class on Islam. If you are interested in assisting, please contact Caitlin Corning (History) or D. Elizabeth Todd (Communication Arts).

A Faculty Teaching Forum on library databases is scheduled from noon to 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28, in the Executive Dining Room. Janis Tyhurst and Jane Scott (Library) will present information about Choice Reviews Online, CQ Researcher, and Facts on File World News Digest.

Tired of getting, reviewing, and keeping track of those little white review cards? Want to find out what is being published in your field without looking through those cards? Choice Reviews Online can focus your searches and help you lose those little white review cards.

Frustrated with the rhetoric of sound-bite news? Want to find out the rest of the story? CQ researcher is a useful tool for getting objective in-depth information on political and social issues.

Need to know what happened on this day in history – 50 years ago – or want to read the text from a historical document like the Mayflower Compact? Use Facts on File World News Digest.

To reserve a lunch, e-mail Jere Witherspoon (Student Life) by 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 26. 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.

As security has monitored the parking lots lately, we have seen many vehicles with items such as laptops, purses, wallets, cell phones, and other items that would be of interest to thieves. Please help deter them by securing these items in other areas out of plain view. Your cooperation is appreciated.

– Security Services

Inside Promotions, a business capstone class, is offering a “Deal of the Week” with Great Clips in Newberg. Just show your university ID and get $2 off any haircut and 10 percent off professional products. The promotion runs through the end of April.

Proceeds from the “Deal of the Week” program support the business capstone project. Questions? Contact Tyler Lacoma at tlacoma04@georgefox.edu.

Friday, Feb. 22
1 p.m. – Women’s tennis vs. Pacific Lutheran, Tualatin Hills Tennis Center, Beaverton, Ore.*
1 p.m. – Men’s tennis vs. Pacific Lutheran, Tualatin Hills Tennis Center, Beaverton, Ore.*
6 p.m. – Women’s basketball vs. Whitworth, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym
8 p.m. – Men’s basketball vs. Whitworth, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym

Saturday, Feb. 23
11 a.m. – Men’s tennis vs. Lewis & Clark, George Fox’s campus courts (to be rescheduled in case of rain)
Noon – Baseball vs. Concordia-Portland, Morse Field
2:30 p.m. – Women’s tennis vs. Southern Oregon, Tualatin Hills Tennis Center, Beaverton, Ore.*
4 p.m. – Women’s basketball vs. Whitman, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym
6 p.m. – Men’s basketball vs. Whitman, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym

Sunday, Feb. 24
10:30 a.m. – Men’s golf in George Fox Invitational I, Centennial Golf Course, Medford, Ore.*

Monday, Feb. 25
9 a.m. – Men’s golf in George Fox Invitational I, Centennial Golf Course, Medford, Ore.*

*Though not in Newberg, George Fox is host of event

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

George Fox and Providence Newberg Medical Center will host a public health forum featuring Dr. David Barker – a physician and researcher who discovered the relationship between birth weight and the risk of coronary heart disease – from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, in Wood-Mar Auditorium.

Barker, a physician and professor of clinical epidemiology at the University of Southampton in England and a professor in the Department of Medicine and the Heart Research Center at Oregon Health and Science University, will speak on “Halting the Epidemic of Diabetes and Heart Disease.”

The forum is free and open to the public. In addition to seating in Wood-Mar Auditorium, a live feed of the presentation will be available in Hoover 105.

Barker, MD, PhD, is internationally renowned for what was named the “Barker Hypothesis” by the British Medical Journal in 1995. In 1989, with University of Southampton colleagues, he showed for the first time that people who had low birth weight are at greater risk of developing coronary heart disease. His theory is now widely accepted in the medical community.

ater studies he conducted showed that low birth weight also is associated with an increased risk of high blood pressure, stroke, and Type 2 diabetes. In all, Barker has published more than 200 papers and written or edited five books about the developmental origins of chronic disease.

His Oregon connection began in 2003, when he joined the faculty at the Heart Research Center at OHSU to study how nutrition and growth before birth and during early childhood alter the development of the heart. He is a research partner with Dr. Kent Thornburg, a member of the George Fox Board of Trustees and a 1967 George Fox graduate. Thornburg helped arrange the forum.

For more information, contact Sharon Pilon (Development) at 503-554-2115, or Mike Antrim, senior public affairs and marketing coordinator at Providence Newberg Medical Center, at 503-537-1699.

Professional publication is an increasingly important, but sometimes intimidating, responsibility of university faculty. David Sherwood (Social Work), editor of the journal Social Work & Christianity for 25 years, will lead a Faculty Teaching Forum workshop on writing for publication from noon to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 20, in the Executive Dining Room.

Participants will review issues such as the types of articles that might be appropriate, selection of journals for submission, writing form and style, the peer review process, using editorial feedback, and appropriate ethics. Participants also will discuss their ideas and questions about writing and publication.

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.

Employees are invited to attend an all-campus meeting from 4 to 5 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, in Hoover 105. The meeting will provide employees an opportunity to receive campus updates, be involved in planning processes, and dialogue with President Robin Baker. Your participation is strongly encouraged.

During the inauguration of President Robin Baker scholarship will be showcased with a display of books recently published by faculty. The books will be on display during the reception hour of the Inaugural Banquet on Friday evening, March 7, at Rolling Hills Community Church. Guests at the banquet will receive a flier from our online bookstore with a promotional code for free shipping.

If you have written a book that was published after June 2006, please send an e-mail to Ronecca Dockter (Development) by this Friday, Feb. 22, with the title of the book in the body.

In case students ask, Bon Appetit recently made a change with its serving lines at lunch to increase efficiency and speed up the lines.

Based upon the suggestions of approximately 50 business students, the same menu selections are now available on both serving lines without reducing the number of selections and variety. The feedback has been positive thus far; however, there is a perception that the number of menu choices have been reduced. Please be assured the variety and selection have not changed whatsoever, and we’re still preparing the same number of choices as before.

Many thanks to those who have given us their feedback. We’re now investigating the feasibility of doing the same at dinner. Please let me know if you have any questions.

-Denny Lawrence, Bon Appetit