The Daily Bruin

Soul Food Buffet

Wednesday, Jan. 23, 4:30 p.m. – 7 .pm. in Klages Dining Room

Sponsored by Bon Appetit and Multicultural Services

Please join us for dinner Wednesday night for an authentic Soul Food Buffet as we celebrate with the Multicultural Club the birthay of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  Along with all your Mo-Town favorites, we’ll be serving Smoked Carlton Farms BBQ Ribs, Southern Style Fried Chicken, Yams, Black Eyed Peas, Collards, Cornbread, Peach Cobbler & Sweet Potato Pie. 

Staff/Faculty/Guests $10.

Denny Lawrence,  dlawrenc@georgefox.edu

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

The university will close Monday, Jan. 21, to observe the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. There will be no day or evening classes or chapel services at the Newberg campus, Portland Center, or Salem Center. Also, the university’s offices, libraries, and bookstores will be closed.

A service trip to Portland is scheduled Monday, with transportation leaving from the Stevens Center lot in Newberg at 9 a.m. The trip will include visits to the Burnside Rescue Mission and the Next Step Transitional Facility. Call Burel Ford (Multicultural Services) at ext. 2318 or via e-mail (bford@georgefox.edu) for more details.

FoxServe will be unavailable for access from 5 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 19, through 5 p.m. Monday., Jan. 21 (Pacific Time). This interruption to normal service is to take care of some planned maintenance on the server system. You may be more familiar with FoxServe as your “H” drive (personal drive space). Some other ways FoxServe might be utilized is as departmental drive space; you might see it as a “K” drive, “R” drive or similar “lettered” drive.

This planned outage is not expected to affect the Portland campus data storage locations and does not have any affect on FoxTALE or FoxFiles.

Please contact the IT Service Desk if you have concerns or questions about this planned maintenance outage.

– IT Service Desk

Please Note: To see if you will be affected by this outage, double-click on My Computer (Windows) or select Connect To Server from the Go menu (Mac). Look at the network drives listed. If any drive has “foxserve” in its name/address then it will not be available. A few of our H: drives and many of our shared drives actually reside on Foxserve in Newberg.

The 2007 Oregon income tax booklets have arrived and are available for students and employees in the hallway by Mail Services and the Print Room, located in the North Street Annex.

There are two kinds:

• Full-Year Residents
• Part-Year Residents and Nonresidents

Employees are welcome to a 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 8, concert marking the return of one of George Fox’s favorite Christian bands, Five O’clock People, to the Bauman Auditorium stage. This concert is a great chance for fans, new and old alike, to share in the music of this critically acclaimed group.

Admission is $10 per person. Tickets will go on sale Tuesday, Jan. 22. To purchase your tickets, stop by the University Relations office or visit http://www.georgefox.edu/alumni/focp.html. All tickets purchased online or over the phone will be at will call the day of the concert.

Questions? Contact Vickie Timmons (University Relations) at vtimmons@georgefox.edu or at ext. 2131.

Friday, Jan. 18, 6 p.m. – Women’s basketball vs. Lewis & Clark, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym

Friday, Jan. 18, 8 p.m. – Men’s basketball vs. Lewis & Clark, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym

Contact the sports information office at ext. 2926 for more details.

Employees and spouses have the opportunity to attend a workshop that provides self-discovery and financial planning instruction and tools as well as presentations on how to become engaged in rewarding volunteer and/or post-retirement paid activities.

This workshop is being offered for the first time to Oregon Independent Colleges Association members at a special discounted price of $150 (includes both the employee and spouse), which covers lunch and materials.  Sign up today while space is still available.

Employees have the choice between two dates: Saturday, Jan. 19, or Friday, Jan. 25. Both sessions will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Portland Center.

Register by e-mail at kshimada@lifebydesignnw.org or by contacting Life by Design Northwest at 503-731-6650. Participants will be sent a pre-work packet electronically (for those registering for Jan. 19) or via mail (for those registering for Jan. 25).

All George Fox University students (undergraduate and graduate), as well as alumni from the class of 2007, are invited to apply for the honor of presenting a project during the reception prior to the March 7 inaugural dinner for the university’s 12th president, Robin E. Baker, PhD.

Selected applicants will be invited to attend the inaugural banquet and will give casual presentations to attendees during the reception hour, answering questions and explaining their projects when people approach them.

Additional information    Online application

Tom Johnson (Religious Studies) is available to meet privately with members of the faculty who would like to work on some aspect of their teaching. He also is available to visit classes. The feedback is one-to-one and strictly confidential; no records are kept or shared with anyone else.

The service is a part of Tom’s regular contract with new faculty and is available to others as they have the time and the interest. Contact Tom at ext. 2663 or at tjohnson@georgefox.edu.

Brewin’ Calendars, a senior capstone project to benefit the Patrick Kibler Memorial Fund, are available for purchase. Cherish your memories throughout the year with a personal calendar. Simply send 13-plus pictures to brewincalendars@gmail.com and they will be designed and delivered within a week.

The price is $12.99. For added customizations, such as personalized dates, the cost is $14.99 (group rates available).

Due to heavy class loads this semester, the Fitness Center will not be open for general use Monday through Thursday from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Please do not ask to be an exception to this rule.

You are cordially invited to join in the celebration of MLK during the week of Jan. 21-25 in the following events:

Jan. 21: Service day, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Rescue Mission, Next Step Transitional Facility and the Wherehouse.
Jan. 22: “Beloved Community” with Steve Sherwood (Religious Studies) in Hoover 105, 7-8 p.m.
Jan. 23: Chapel with singer Julianne Johnson, accompanied by Michael Allen Harrison and a message from Matt Hennessee
Jan. 24: Film and discussion on MLK, EHS 102, 7-8:30 p.m.
Jan. 25: Serve with Urban Ministries, meet in Bruin Den at 6 p.m.

In the best interest of the university, all painting is to be evaluated and completed by Plant Services. Painting is done on a cyclical basis. Requests for painting will be placed on the schedule according to the discretion of the paint department. To have your painting need evaluated, a work request can be submitted with the approval of the building monitor. Each request is evaluated against the condition of the rest of the campus before painting commences to make sure that decent areas are not taking precedence over areas that are in poor condition. There is a palette of colors available for discussion.

Painting that is requested which falls outside the parameters of normal maintenance cycles will be evaluated by Plant Services and may be charged to the requesting department. Wall finishes other than paint also require review and approval by Plant Services. Outside contractors may be retained and will be supervised by Plant Services.

In student housing, when a transition of residents occurs, the campus painter in consultation with the superintendent of building repair and the director of housing will determine whether a location should be painted before the maintenance cycle requires that it be done.

Questions? Contact Debby O’Kelley (Plant Services) at dokelley@georgefox.edu.

Volunteers are needed to help with Kaleo 2008, scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 23.  Volunteers will be needed at various times. Volunteers will receive a $10 discount off of their registration and a free Kaleo T-shirt. For more information, contact Amy Lorenz (Alumni Relations) at alorenz@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2134.

Join us in honoring MLK Day with a day of service on Monday, Jan. 21. Service opportunities include the Burnside Rescue Mission and the Next Step Transitional Facility. Transportation will be provided from the Stevens Center lot at 9 a.m., with arrival back at George Fox scheduled for approximately 4 p.m. Please call Burel Ford (Multicultural Services) at ext. 2318 or via e-mail (bford@georgefox.edu) for more details and to sign up.

Religious Studies is hosting an “Intellectual Feast” from 4 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 15, in the Hoover Lounge. The program:

“Contemplating Epiphanies”
Kendra Irons and Creative Non-Fiction

What do a tractor and communion have to do with each other?
Come and find out …

David Sherwood (Social Work), editor of the journal Social Work & Christianity for a number of years, will be available this semester to consult with faculty regarding publication, particularly in journals, and to provide editorial assistance with writing projects. Some of the areas David may be able to help with include:

• Identifying and refining publishable writing projects
• Understanding what editors in general or specific journals are looking for
• Understanding the realities of the manuscript submission, review, and revision processes
• Individualized editorial consultation and feedback on writing projects

Faculty at any campus may contact David at dsherwood@georgefox.edu and consultation can be conducted via e-mail or face-to-face on the Newberg campus.

Faculty, staff, and students are invited to the inaugural Spring Peace and Justice Symposium session sponsored by the Center for Peace and Justice. The event is scheduled from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 16, in the Special Collections Room on the second floor of the library on the Newberg campus.

Clint Baldwin (Political Science) will make an opening statement, followed by an introduction by President Robin Baker. Presenters will be Lisa McMinn (Sociology) and Mark McMinn (Psychology).

The symposium will explore and celebrate the diversity of approaches for exemplifying Christ’s all-inclusive call to peace and justice in our lives.

Questions? Contact Baldwin (cbaldwin@georgefox.edu) or Lon Fendall (Center for Global Studies and Center for Peace and Justice) at lfendall@georgefox.edu.

Multicultural Services will host a trip to Portland State University to hear civil rights pioneer Marian Wright Edelman on Thursday, Jan. 17. A van will leave the Stevens Center parking lot in Newberg at 5:30 p.m. for the 7 p.m. lecture, held in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

Wright Edelman, president of the Children’s Defense Fund, has been an advocate for disadvantaged Americans her entire professional life. She began her career in the mid-’60s when, as the first black woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar, she directed the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund office in Jackson, Miss. In 1968, she was counsel for the Poor People’s Campaign that King began organizing before his death.

General admission is $10 per person; it is free for those with a valid student ID. For more information, contact Burel Ford (Multicultural Services) via e-mail or at ext. 2318.