The Daily Bruin

Don’t forget to join us tonight (Monday) for the “Islam and the West” Liberal Arts and Critical Issues lecture featuring Kambiz Ghaneabassiri, associate professor of religion and humanities at Reed College. The session runs from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. in Hoover 105.

Ghaneabassiri will present “Islam in America,” in which he will provide an overview of the history of Muslims in America, from colonial times to the aftermath of 9/11. The same session is presented from 5 to 6 p.m.; however, it is recommended that the general public attend the evening session, if possible.

Questions? Contact Paul Otto at ext. 2676 or potto@georgefox.edu.

Here are some reminders about check request and expense report procedures:

• Please use 2014/15 forms which can be found at this link.
• Please use the new chart of accounts, which is effective for the 2014/15 fiscal year. All check requests must be signed by the requester and expense reports signed by the payee. You cannot approve your own check requests or expense reports, regardless of dollar amount.
• A printed name, signature and date are required on all forms. Forms will be returned if a printed name, signature and date are not completed.

Authorizations
Requester/payee must get the appropriate approval signature before sending the form to financial affairs. Forms will be returned if the appropriate signatures are not completed.

• Budget Manager – may authorize expenses up to $1,000
• Department Head – may authorize expenses up to $2,499
• Dean – may authorize expenses up to $4,999
• VP – must authorize all expenses over $5,000
• COO – must authorize all expenses over $25,000

Purchase Orders (PO) should be used when ordering merchandise or services for which an invoice requiring payment will be sent to the university. It is the approved method for ordering that the university has adopted and should be used whenever possible.

Please call the finance office at ext. 2162 or ext. 2166 if further help is needed.

Join us in celebrating the grand opening of Word Made Flesh in Portland! The event is $13, which includes dinner as well as Executive Director Leroy Barber’s new book.

A group from George Fox will be leaving from the Spiritual Life House at 4:30 p.m. this afternoon (Saturday) for the 6 p.m. event at 12230 S.E. Harold St., in Portland. Visit the Word Made Flesh website or contact Mikayla Greenwell (mgreenwell12@georgefox.edu) for more information.

Hope to see you there!

Bruin football fans! Tomorrow night (Saturday) the Bruins will host the University of La Verne at 7 p.m. The gates will open at 5:30 p.m. Please make sure to bring your student or employee ID, as your ID card will be your ticket in.

If you need to purchase additional tickets, you can do so at this link. To check out photos from the first game, go here. To watch a video about the program, visit this site.

The campus community is invited to the next installment of the “Islam and the West” Liberal Arts and Critical Issues series this Monday, Sept. 15, in Hoover 105. The session runs from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. and features Kambiz Ghaneabassiri, associate professor of religion and humanities at Reed College.

Ghaneabassiri will present “Islam in America,” in which he will provide an overview of the history of Muslims in America, from colonial times to the aftermath of 9/11. The same session is presented from 5 to 6 p.m.; however, it is recommended that the general public attend the evening session, if possible.

Questions? Contact Paul Otto at ext. 2676 or potto@georgefox.edu.

Wheeler Sports Center will close down at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 13. This means that the racquetball courts will also be closed. The Fitness Center will remain open, but please use the upstairs hallway entry, on field level, near the tennis courts.

Mail Services would like to kindly remind you it is crucial that all department mailings and outgoing deliveries include the five-segment chart of accounts number (e.g., 54510-10000-610100-MG130-ALL). This applies to Print Services as well. All department print jobs must be accompanied with the 5-segment chart of accounts number.

Print requests/jobs and outgoing mail/packages will be delayed if the new chart of accounts number is missing.

Thank you for your help making sure the account numbers are supplied to allow us to process your mail and printing requests in a timely manner through this  accounting transition.

Kindly,
Mail and Print Services

Calling all staff! After a whirlwind of a month, we are certain you need a break, so come and relax at the first-ever staff tailgate lunch!

Football coach Chris Casey will be a featured guest, the weather forecast looks awesome, and Bon Appetit is cooking some authentic tailgate food for us. Cost is a mere $3 for staff members, so we will see you this Monday, Sept. 15, at noon behind the football stadium!

Staff, faculty and adjuncts: Our ticket writers have found a number of your cars parked in staff lots without current staff or adjunct permits. If your white hang tag is in shards, please bring the pieces to the security office so we can issue you a new one. If it is AWOL, it’s a mere $5 cash to procure a new one. Forgot to switch it from the other car? Again, it’s just a mere $5 cash to purchase one per vehicle and make your mornings run smoother!

Adjuncts: Your orange hang tag permit should read, “Valid until 12-31-14.” If yours is ancient, please bring it to the security office so we can update your registration and get you a 2014 permit. If you’ve made updates to your vehicle registrations, please contact Nadine Kincaid so that the records and database can be updated and your permits assigned to your new vehicles.

Questions? Call Nadine at ext. 2090 during business hours.

Thanks!

Interested in learning more about George Fox Evangelical Seminary or theological graduate school in general? You are invited to attend the Seminary and Theological Grad School Virtual Fair on Wednesday, Sept. 17. It will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m.

The virtual fair will allow you to have your questions answered by representatives from multiple graduate institutions during this live and free event.

Reasons to attend:

• Save your valuable time by meeting school representatives in live chat sessions online.
• Have your questions answered without ever leaving the comfort of your computer.
• Only a one-time registration is required to meet multiple schools.
• It’s free to sign up and participate.
• No time commitment. Come to the virtual fair for however long you would like and talk to real representatives from 50 of the top seminary and theological schools.
• Receive detailed information about what degree programs are like for both master’s and doctorate programs.
• Get answers about how much seminary costs and if there is any help available.
• Find out what you get out of getting a George Fox Evangelical Seminary degree.

To make sure you don’t miss this great, free event! Please register at this link.

Bruin football fans! This Saturday, Sept. 13, the Bruins will host the University of La Verne at 7 p.m. The gates will open at 5:30 p.m., and we want to see all of you there! Please make sure to bring your student or employee ID. We’ll be swiping cards to get people into the game this weekend, so those are your tickets in.

If you need to purchase additional tickets, you can do so at this link. To check out photos from the first game, go here. To watch a video about the program, visit this site.

The marketing communications office will be processing a business card order soon. Place your order directly with B&B Print Source by Wednesday, Sept. 17. If you have not already done so, you will need to create a new individual account before you can submit your order.

Please reference the Chart of Account Mappings for 2014-15 budget information.

Contact Danette Newkirk (dnewkirk@georgefox.edu) in marketing communications if you have any questions.

George Fox and Willamette University are co-hosting a two-night debate on the topic “Did America Have a Christian Founding” on successive Thursday evenings in September. Both events are free.

The debate will feature Mark David Hall, the Herbert Hoover Distinguished Professor of Politics at George Fox, and Steven K. Green, a professor in Willamette University’s School of Law. They are among the nation’s leading experts on the relationship between church and state in America.

The opening debate is scheduled from 7 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 18, in Hoover 105. The second session is set from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 25, in Room 121 of Willamette’s School of Law, 245 Winter St., in Salem, Ore. A question-and-answer time will follow the discussions both evenings.

The series is sponsored by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and cosponsored by the William Penn Honors Program of George Fox and Willamette’s Center for Religion, Law & Democracy.

Questions? Contact Hall at ext. 2674.

The Staff Development Conference is coming up on Wednesday, Nov. 5. In an effort to incorporate our staff more fully in our conference, the Staff Development Committee would like to invite any interested staff to form a worship team and lead worship at the conference.

If you have a talent and willingness to serve in this area, please email Barbi Doran at bdoran@georgefox.edu by Friday, Sept. 19.

A big thanks to everyone who served on Serve Day! If you haven’t picked up your Serve Day Discount Card, stop by and see Barbi Doran at the Information Services Desk on the first floor of the Stevens Center.

The Serve Day Discount Card features 15 local businesses and is a multi-use card that does not expire until April 30, 2015. That means you can use the discount card as many times as you want, at as many businesses as you want, until the end of next April. Here is a sample of some of the businesses and their offers:

• Domino’s Pizza: Buy one large pizza, get a second large pizza free (of equal or lesser value, carry-out only)
• Doran Automotive: $5 off oil change and 10 percent off recommended services
• Ray’s Produce: 10 percent off purchase of $10 or more

You must show your discount card at the participating businesses to take advantage of these great offers. Pick up your Serve Day Discount Card today while supplies last!

As many of you are aware, all-community (employee) meetings are held on a monthly basis. The Leadership Team is interested in your feedback about the ongoing success of these meetings as we strive for better communication campus-wide.

Please take a moment to complete the survey at this link. We appreciate your input.

Thank you!

George Fox community,

We are so thrilled at the turnout, the Bruin pride and the electricity that filled Stoffer Family Stadium last Saturday as the Bruin football team took the field for the first time in 46 years. What a day! It was one that we’ll all remember for a long time to come.

This Saturday, Sept. 13, the Bruins will host the University of La Verne at 7 p.m. The gates will open at 5:30 p.m., and we want to see all of you there! Please make sure to bring your student or employee ID. We’ll be swiping cards to get people into the game this weekend, so those are your tickets in.

If you need to purchase additional tickets, you can do so at this link. To check out photos from the first game, go here. To watch a video about the program, visit this site.

Go Bruins!

George Fox’s Emergency Text Alert system, called FoxAlert, will be sending out a test text alert this Friday, Sept. 12. This will only be a test!

Please make sure that your personal information page on MyGFU is up to date in order to receive these text alerts, as that is where your contact information is pulled from.

Questions? Please contact security at 503-554-2090.

Mark A. Noll, PhD, the Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, will present the lecture “The Challenges for Christian Learning: Looking Back, Looking Ahead” at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 22, in Wood-Mar Auditorium on the Newberg campus. The event is free and open to the public.

Noll is the author of numerous books, including The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind and The Civil War as a Theological Crisis. During his years at Wheaton College, he was a co-founder of the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and, in 2006, received the National Endowment for the Humanities medal at a White House ceremony.

The lecture is sponsored by the William Penn Honors Program. A reception immediately following the lecture will be held for those interested in learning more about the honors program.

Please contact Jane Sweet at jsweet@georgefox.edu if you have any questions.

Michael Ward, PhD, professor of apologetics at Houston Baptist University and director of the C.S. Lewis Centre in Oxford, England, will visit the Newberg campus to present a lecture, “The Heavens are Telling the Glory of God: C.S. Lewis, Narnia and the Planets,” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 26, in Bauman Auditorium. There is no charge to attend.

Ward is a leading expert on the works of C.S. Lewis and the author of Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis. He is senior research fellow at Blackfriars Hall in the University of Oxford and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to C.S. Lewis. He presented the BBC television documentary, The Narnia Code (2009). As an Anglican clergyman, he served as chaplain of St Peter’s College at the University of Oxford from 2009 to 2012 and as chaplain of Peterhouse at the University of Cambridge from 2004 to 2007.

The lecture is sponsored by the William Penn Honors Program. A reception immediately following the lecture will be held for those interested in learning more about the honors program.

Please contact Jane Sweet at jsweet@georgefox.edu if you have any questions.