The Daily Bruin

Today (Wednesday) is the last day to register to serve on Monday, Jan. 21, to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, dream, and the change he sparked in our nation.

We will meet in the Stevens Center parking lot at 6:30 a.m. and bus to Concordia together for the rally and service. We’ll arrive back on campus around 4 p.m.

You can register at this link.

Contact Shelley Yonemura (syonemura@georgefox.edu) or Amber Nelson (nelsona@georgefox.edu) with questions.

“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?'” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Are you interested in seeing Oregon Ballet Theatre’s performance of Swan Lake (Feb. 16) or Broadway Across America’s performance of War Horse (Feb. 27)? It’s not too late to get discounted tickets for both of these shows!

Visit broadway.georgefox.edu or contact Mary Monahan at 503.554.2134. Swan Lake tickets are $62 each, which is 45 percent off the retail price of $114. War Horse tickets are $47 each. All seats are in the middle three sections of the first balcony.

Tonight (Tuesday) at Shalom we invite you to come watch and discuss a documentary called “In Search of Shalom: White People in Reconciliation.”

The documentary explores the experiences of both white and non-white students at Christian universities, but emphasizes how white people can better enter into racial reconciliation.

As usual, Shalom will meet in the Cap and Gown Room at 9 p.m.

Senior Onjalai Flake is in the running for an internship with the Ellen Degeneres show and is seeking the support of the George Fox community. Her fellow students created a video in support of her efforts. This YouTube video needs as many views as possible. The more views, the better her chances.

So, all you need to do is click the link above and watch. Please also feel free to share it with as many people as possible. Onjalai is a broadcast journalism and communication arts major, and this opportunity would open up many doors for her.

The time has come once again to begin the process of selecting our undergraduate “WHO’S WHO” nominees for the 2012-13 academic year.

For those of you who have contact with our undergraduate population, you have the opportunity to make nominations by selecting 20 students who you feel are worthy of recognition from the students who qualify for selection. These students are eligible for nomination and expect to graduate either mid-year or spring (December 2012 or May 2013).

Please follow this link for more instructions and nomination form.

Please feel free to contact Jere Witherspoon for more information.

The all-employee meeting set for next Thursday, Jan. 24, has been moved to Bauman Auditorium. The meeting is scheduled from 3:30 to 5 p.m. and will feature information about Stoffer Family Stadium and the track and field and football programs.

For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available at a stream site that you can access from MyGFU. Simply log into MyGFU and click the “Community Meeting Link” located under “Staff Resources/Faculty Resources.”

If you have tickets for the Oregon Symphony performance on Friday, Jan. 18, and find that you will not be able to use them, please return the tickets to the box office as soon as possible. We have a wait list of those who are hoping to receive any tickets turned in.

Thank you,
Mary Monahan (mmonahan@georgefox.edu)

For your convenience, GFU Mail Services will be opening its customer service window at 7:30 a.m. on Monday, Jan 14. Please expect some waiting at the window throughout the day due to the large number of packages we have to distribute (more than 1,400 on our shelves).

We thank you in advance for picking up your packages as soon as possible.

– Mail Services

A beginning guitar class and private guitar lessons are being offered this spring at George Fox. Get credit while learning to play the guitar!

Here are the details:

• The Beginning Guitar Class is offered for those new to the guitar who want to learn in a fun group setting (Tuesdays/Thursdays 9:40-10:30 a.m.). Learn to play popular folk, rock and worship songs while learning to jam with others and read music. This class is designed to be fun! MUSI 250-A
• Private Lessons/Applied Guitar is offered to bring your playing to the next level. Whether you are an absolute beginner or a seasoned player, all levels are welcome. Learn in a relaxed one-on-one setting with an experienced teacher. All styles are covered, including jazz, blues, rock, worship, folk, etc. MUSA 105/305 GT

Lessons are taught by George Fox guitar professor Dave Iula (daveiula.com). E-mail Dave with questions or for more info: daveiula1@gmail.com.

“The Power and Pitfalls of Social Media” will be the topic when Matt Payne of Beaverton-based Social Bridge Media speaks at the monthly Newberg meeting of the Christian Chamber of the Northwest on Tuesday, Jan. 22. The meeting is from 7:30 to 9 a.m. in the Villa Academic Complex.

After working for a small business, a Fortune 500 company and nonprofits, Payne founded Social Bridge Media to help businesses, government agencies, and non-profits understand, develop and implement smart social media strategies. Payne keeps up on the ever-changing social media world and aims to communicate it to his customers in ways they can understand and implement.

Coffee, tea and pastries will be available at the meeting, which is free for Chamber members who R.S.V.P. at cccnw.net. A $5 donation is suggested from non-members and guests who R.S.V.P.

For more information, go to the Chamber’s website listed above or call 503-928-8354.

Friday, Jan. 11, 6 p.m. – Women’s basketball vs. Whitworth (Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym)
Friday, Jan. 11, 8 p.m. – Men’s basketball vs. Whitworth (Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym)
Saturday, Jan. 12, 4 p.m. – Women’s basketball vs. Whitman (Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym)
Saturday, Jan. 12, 6 p.m. – Men’s basketball vs. Whitman (Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym)

Please note that Saturday’s games are two hours earlier than the usual start times, in order to allow the Whitman teams extra time for their return travel.

For more information, contact the sports information office at ext. 2926 or visit the George Fox sports website at gfubruins.com.

Many thanks to those of you who have already given your consent to receive your W-2s online. If you haven’t, please consider doing so to enable us to make it available to you sooner, and to make it accessible to you in MyGFU (self-service) when you are ready to print it.

This will save the university the time and expense of purchasing and stuffing paper W-2 forms and envelopes (over 2,000 last January). And of course, it is also friendlier to our environment. In the future, there will be a $5 charge for replacement W-2s issued and mailed in hard copy.

In order to receive a W-2 in online form only (instead of receiving a paper form), the law requires that you give your consent. This should take you only about 30 seconds to do, so I encourage you to take care of it as soon as possible – perhaps right now:

1. Log in to mygfu.georgefox.edu
2. From the menu at left, select “Self Service”
3. Select “Payroll and Compensation”
4. Select “W-2/W-2c Consent”
5. Read the statement and check the box to give consent
6. Enter your GFU password as a confirmation of your identity and click “Continue”
7. Click OK

You’ll receive a confirmation e-mail of your decision shortly after completing this process. And just to be clear, you will only have to do this once — not every year.

This full-time position is currently open only to internal applicants (employees). Temporary employees may also apply, but external applications are not being accepted.

If you would like a copy of the job description, please e-mail hr@georgefox.edu. To apply, please submit a completed transfer request, cover letter, and resume to Human Resources.

The position will close on Wednesday, Jan. 16, at 5 p.m. The link to the transfer request form can be found here.

Would you please take a minute to check your Dec. 28 pay statement (through MyGFU self-service) to be sure the address on it is correct? If so, you need do nothing. If not, please send an e-mail to hr@georgefox.edu with your current address.

This will ensure that we get this information correct on your W-2 (available by Jan. 31), always a good thing.

Mail Services is running out of room to store packages as they arrive on campus. If you are on campus this week, please pick up any packages you have as soon as possible. This will help you to avoid the long line on Monday at our service window.

Thanks in advance for your help.

– Mail Services

Please note the location change for this Thursday’s (Jan. 10) IT workshops. The following workshops have been moved from MLRC 013 to the Lemmons 3 Computer Lab:

• Sync Your Files with Google Drive (1 p.m.)
• Adobe Acrobat Basic Forms (2 p.m.)
• Open Lab with IT Help (3 p.m.)

See our website for more information. Questions? E-mail servicedesk@georgefox.edu

The Bruin Den is open this week (Jan. 7-11) from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Regular hours will resume next week.

Happy New Year from all of us at Bon Appetit!

On Friday, Jan. 18, at 8 p.m., George Fox will host the Oregon Symphony in its 26th appearance in Newberg. George Fox employees (halftime and over) may pick up their tickets – limit two per employee – on a first-come, first-served basis starting today (Tuesday) at 9 a.m. at the Box Office in Pennington House.

Phone reservations (503-554-3844) will not be taken except for employees at the Portland and Salem centers.

Questions? Contact Vangie Pattison at epattison@georgefox.edu.

On Friday, Jan. 18, George Fox will host the Oregon Symphony in its 26th appearance in Newberg at 8 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium. The concert is free to George Fox employees – a gift from George Fox board member Ken Austin and his wife, Joan, founders of A-dec.

The Austins have provided the university with a limited number of tickets for its employees. These tickets are separate from those to be issued by the Newberg Area Chamber of Commerce to the general public.

George Fox employees (halftime and over) may pick up their tickets – limit two per employee – on a first-come, first-served basis starting Tuesday, Jan. 8, at 9 a.m. at the Box Office in Pennington House. Phone reservations (503-554-3844) will not be taken except for employees at the Portland and Salem centers.

On Monday, Jan. 14, beginning at 9 a.m., any remaining tickets (again, a limit of two per person) will be available – also on a first-come, first-served basis – to those who sign up on a waiting list. If you find you will not be able to attend the concert, please return your tickets for another employee to use.

Questions? Contact Vangie Pattison at epattison@georgefox.edu.

Staff, faculty and adjuncts: Now is a good time to log on to MyGFU and review your vehicle information to see if it is up to date. Use the minus button to the right of the listing if you no longer have a vehicle, and click on “Add Additional Vehicle” if you need to add a vehicle.

Please e-mail Nadine Kincaid at nkincaid@georgefox.edu to note any vehicle additions/subtractions so your parking permit assignments can be updated as well on the Security Services database.

Adjuncts: Your parking permits expired Dec. 31, 2012, if you didn’t get an updated one for 2013 in December, so please come to the security office to procure one for 2013 if you will be on contract.

Additional staff/faculty permits are available for just $5 cash each, so save some early-morning frustration and come to the security office for additional permits if needed.

Questions? Call Security Services at 503-554-2090 or e-mail Nadine at the above e-mail address.