The Daily Bruin

On behalf of International Student Services, we would like to invite you to participate in our annual International Photo Contest!

Have you been abroad and taken fascinating pictures? If so, this is your opportunity to shine and possibly win some prizes! Please go to this link for general guidelines, and feel free to email Louis Liu at lliu11@georgefox.edu for more information.

We look forward to seeing your photos!

Today (Friday), Jay’s Bubble Tea will be selling in the Bruin Den starting at 11 a.m. The tea is just $2, and we will stay in the Den until supplies run out, so make sure to get here early.

For more information or to give us feedback, make sure to follow our Facebook page.

Hope to see you all!

– ENPR300 (entrepreneurship) students

Everyone is invited to attend International Chapel today (Friday) from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. in the International Center/Cultural House.

This week, John Davis will speak on the topic of the faithfulness of God. John and his wife, Dotty, were missionaries in Cambodia for many years and also involved in international student ministry in Denver. They have been great friends to international students on our campus. You are welcome to come, listen, ask questions and be encouraged.

International Chapel is eligible for chapel elective credit. It is designed to help us better understand what it means to be a Christian.

Contact Dianna McIntyre at dmcintyre@georgefox.edu if you have questions.

We are looking to hire 60 peer advisors next fall. If you know of a student who is looking for a way to get involved and might make a great addition to the team, please send them our way!

We are looking for a diverse group of people who can share their experiences and help new students have a wonderful beginning. Applications will be due Monday, March 3. More information can be found at georgefox/fye.

Want to support a worthy cause while enjoying a Jamba Juice? We have the opportunity for you!

This June, the George Fox physical therapy program is sending 12 students and two faculty members to Uganda for a service and research trip. Jamba Juice has agreed to donate 20 percent of its proceeds from their Bridgeport location from 5 to 8 p.m. today (Friday) toward our Uganda service trip.

Please join us and invite your friends to join us in our fundraiser! Go to our Facebook page to print a flier that you will present in order for Jamba Juice to know you want to support us. The Bridgeport Jamba Juice is located at 7136 S.W. Hazel Fern Road in Tualatin.

Questions? Contact Josh Farrester at jfarrester12@georgefox.edu.

Support staff and administrators who did not attend an information meeting last Thursday should make time to “attend” this webinar as soon as possible. It will also be useful for those wishing to review the information. You can watch it at this link.

At the end of the webinar, it will be apparent from the audio that the actual performance review form – the Excel workbook – is being shown to the audience. The visual of the workbook could not be included in the webinar, but by now support staff and administrators should each have received it from their supervisor and can use their own copy to follow along.

Staff and administrators who have not received the workbook from their supervisors yet should email them and ask for them to be sent as soon as possible. They need to be completed and returned to supervisors by Thursday, Feb. 27. Employees and their supervisors should also be reviewing their job descriptions during this time frame – or creating them if none currently exists.

Thanks to Tyler Robertson and Mac Oxford for their excellent, quick work in creating this webinar.

A group from the physical therapy department is traveling to Uganda this summer to serve and advocate for children with disabilities and to conduct research on barefoot running. On Saturday, March 1, from 5 to 8 p.m., we’ll host a fundraising banquet and silent auction in the Cap and Gown Room.

Tickets are $20 each, which includes a wonderful catered dinner, live music, raffle prizes, presentations on our research, and participation in our silent auction. Auction items include many generous donations from businesses all over Oregon.

Please write Ryan at rmackenzie04@georgefox.edu to purchase banquet tickets. We appreciate your support of our PT program and of our trip!

This is a reminder regarding the university’s driving/transportation policy. Our priority is to have policies in place that help ensure the safety and health of all members of our community, and transportation is an important component of this.

Please take a few minutes to review the policy on this page.

There are two separate transportation policies:

1. Policy and Procedures Regarding University Vehicles

2. Policy and Procedures for Driving Personal Vehicles on University Business

You must be approved under each category to drive either a university vehicle or a personal vehicle on university business.

Step 1 – Read the policy

Step 2 – Watch the information videos on FoxTale. Use your GFU login and look for the link on the left side of the navigation bar. Enroll in the University Transportation Policy and Certification site using this enrollment key: PreparedDriver.

Step 3 – Take the quizzes that are also located in FoxTale. Use your GFU login and look for the link on the left side of the navigation bar. Enroll in the University Transportation Policy and Certification site using this enrollment key: PreparedDriver.

Important to note: Please allow a minimum of five days after passing the quiz before your expected use of a university vehicle. If you have not gone through the proper steps to complete the quiz, you will not be allowed to drive a university vehicle.

This policy applies to all employees and students.

Are some of your students struggling with tests? Please encourage them to attend an Academic Resource Center workshop, “How to Get A’s on All Your Tests (or at Least Become a Better Test-Taker),” tomorrow (Friday) from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. in EHS 125. This workshop was originally scheduled for earlier this month but was rescheduled because of our snow day on Feb. 7.

Rick Muthiah, associate director of learning support services, will cover several strategies for improving performance on tests. If you have students you feel would benefit from this workshop, please encourage them to attend.

Questions? Contact Muthiah at rmuthiah@georgefox.edu or ext. 2314.

All are invited to next week’s Liberal Arts and Critical Issues lecture event on  Monday, Feb. 24, when Jen Coleman, outreach director for the Oregon Environmental Council, speaks from 7 to 8 p.m. in Hoover 105. The presentation ties into our theme “State of the World.”

Coleman will present “Toxic Chemicals in Everyday Life,” in which she will discuss the fact that a wide range of toxic chemicals are measurable in the bodies of 97 percent of the U.S. population. Who is responsible for creating this chemical burden, and who pays the price? Coleman will discuss the current state of health science and policy initiative related to toxic chemical management.

The same session is presented from 4:40 to 5:40 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.

Don’t forget to swing by the Bruin Den tomorrow (Friday) for homemade chicken tamales! Students in the ENPR 300 class are selling them for $2 each, so be sure to support your student entrepreneurs at George Fox.

Tamales will be available for purchase during lunchtime, from 11:45 a.m. to 2 p.m. We have a limited supply, so get them before they’re gone!

The Students for Life group on campus will host a prayer vigil this Monday, Feb. 24, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Prayer Chapel. We will be lifting up the issues of life to God in prayer.

To learn more, write StudentsForLifeGFU@gmail.com.

“Prayer lays hold of God’s plan and becomes the link between His will and its accomplishment on earth. Amazing things happen, and we are given the privilege of being the channels of the Holy Spirit’s prayer.” – Elisabeth Elliot

“Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.” – J. Sidlow Baxter

Don’t forget the International Club’s Chinese lab happening today (Thursday) at 6:30 p.m. in Lemmons 5. The topic will be on Lunar New Year/ Valentine’s Day!

For more information, contact us at gfu.international.club@gmail.com.

Join us for snacks, friendship and fun! All are invited.

Members of Team V.C.R. in the Entrepreneurship 300 class are offering the opportunity to customize your own T-shirt. Pre-orders are now being accepted.

Currently, two shirts are available for customization: tie-dye shirts and shirts with custom graphics. For the tie-dye shirts, we will most likely have two packaged kits to choose from – one containing everything you need to make your own shirt and a second, less expensive kit with all the necessary supplies except for the shirt itself. Both kits will likely cost under $10 apiece.

For custom graphics shirts, we are open to accepting custom designs that you submit and we place on your T-shirt. The only requirements are that designs need to be George Fox appropriate and not a trademarked logo such as the Nike swoosh. The designs also need to fit on one piece of paper. These shirts will most likely cost around $10 each.

If you are interested in either of these options, contact Christopher Kampmann at kampmannc13@georgefox.edu. When placing an order for the tie-dye shirts, let him know your kit preference and, if purchasing a shirt, your shirt size. If ordering a custom graphics shirt, send him your shirt size and graphic.

The option that receives the most pre-orders is what we will most likely sell. We would also like to personally reach out to any sports teams or clubs that would like to have their own custom shirt.

Don’t forget tonight’s (Thursday’s) concert in Bauman Auditorium. Kenn Willson, a Bösendorfer Educational Artist and professor of music history and keyboard studies, will present his “Encounters with Beethoven” concert at 7:30 p.m.

Employees and students are entitled to one complimentary ticket each. They can be picked up in the Box Office located in the Pennington House. Additional tickets may be purchased on this page.

Willson will perform German Dance #1, Sonata Op. 31 #3, Sonata Op. 27 #2 (“Moonlight”) and Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee (Tune: Ode to Joy).

When there is an emergency campus closure, usually due to inclement weather as was the case from late afternoon Thursday, Feb. 6, through mid-morning Monday, Feb. 10, the university’s policy indicates the following in the Employee Handbook, Section 7.1 Emergency Closure:

• If the university is closed, employees are paid as if they worked.
• If the university has a late opening and/or early closure, employees who work during the open hours are paid for a full work day.
• If employees cannot make it in, their absence is covered by the use of vacation or is unpaid if vacation is not available.
• Employees who are required to work to assist with facilities and safety issues as a result of the weather or for other reasons (such as Scholarship Competition), will be given time off within the following 30 days equal to the time they worked during the closure.

Staff should record only hours worked on their time sheets for Thursday, Feb. 6, through Monday, Feb. 10. If you were not required to be at work while the university was closed, please record only hours worked until 4 p.m. Thursday and no hours prior to 10 a.m. on Monday. You will be paid your regularly scheduled hours between those times.

When you take corresponding time off, please enter the hours taken in the Holiday row of the specific day, so that it doesn’t show as hours worked, sick leave or vacation. Then please note on the time sheet that these were “snow hours.”

Please note: Employees who happened to be on vacation or using sick leave the day of these closures should record those days/hours as vacation or sick leave, just as they would have had the campus been open.

Questions? Please email hr@georgefox.edu.

The International Club is bringing the Chinese lab back! It will be this Thursday, Feb. 20, at 6:30 p.m. in Lemmons 5. The topic will be on Lunar New Year/ Valentine’s Day!

For more information, contact us at gfu.international.club@gmail.com.

Join us for snacks, friendship and fun! All are invited.

Financial affairs would like to remind all departments that it is George Fox University’s policy to deposit all monies within one week of receipt in the departments. In order to do so, financial affairs needs to receive all cash/checks within that week, and they will be deposited in the bank within 24 hours. This policy also applies to payments received for future events.

If you have questions, please contact Jan Amerson at ext. 2164. Thank you!

Now is the time to submit your request for business cards. Marketing communications will be processing a business card order soon. Place your order directly with B&B Print Source by Tuesday, March 4.

Questions? Contact Danette Newkirk at dnewkirk@georgefox.edu.

Spring break is coming up! Join a Spring Serve Trip and travel to Neah Bay, Wash.; Flying H Youth Ranch; Ghormley Meadows Christian Camp; Seattle; San Francisco; and the Yakima Indian Reservation. These trips go during the break. The cost is only $25 for the entire week, which includes food and transportation! The deadline to sign up for the trips has been extended to Wednesday, Feb. 26.

Applications can be found on the SpiL website on this page. We are also still seeking employee leaders.

If you have any questions or would like more information, contact Kyle Webster at kwebster12@georgefox.edu or Erika Lopez at elopez12@georgefox.edu.