The Daily Bruin

We still have Bruin Directories to give away! Stop by the ASC offices or e-mail asccommunicationsdirector@georgefox.edu with your name and box number to have yours delivered today!

A memorial service for Richard Twiss, an adjunct faculty member at George Fox Evangelical Seminary, will be at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, March 10. The service will be held at Living Hope Church, 2711 N.E. Andresen Road, in Vancouver, Wash.

Live online streaming will be made available. Please check the Wiconi website for more information.

Check out the BlueZone Store’s “Item of the Month” …

All full-priced crew neck sweatshirts and hoodies are 25 percent off during the month of March!

Please encourage your graduating students to attend the Spring 2013 Exodus Fair beginning Wednesday, March 6 and Thursday, March 7.

The event runs March 6-7. Those graduating this May should plan to attend either day in the Stevens Center (Duke) Atrium. Students can pick up their cap and gown, order graduation announcements, enjoy some free food, and much more!

Employees and students: While there are security personnel on duty 24/7, obviously we can’t be patrolling everywhere at once, so here is how we need your eyes and ears: If you see something or somebody that doesn’t seem to “fit” or “belong” here on campus, the first office you should immediately call is security.

It’s fairly difficult to look for a suspicious person, or to check out something odd long after the occurrence and when the trail is cold. If you haven’t done so yet, please program the security number in your cell phone (503-554-2090) and call us! We’d much rather find out that something is a false alarm, then find out days later that many people saw a suspicious person, or an odd circumstance, and nobody called us to investigate.

Please try and include as many descriptors of the person/car/situation as possible to help in our investigation. No detail is too small! Also please remember that security officers are available to walk you to your car or residence after dark if you are unable to walk with a buddy. Blue light emergency phones that call directly to security are located in the Bauman, Le Shana and VAC parking lots, as well as in the South Canyon by the Pavilion.

Thank you,
Security Services

We need about 20 extras (10 guys and 10 girls) to be audience members for a comedy club scene in our film “Timothy Truelove’s Date With Destiny.”

If you are interested, it will be this Saturday, March 9, from 12:45 to  6 p.m. in the Media Comm Center. You will need to bring two separate outfits, a business professional outfit and a hipster outfit. We will have lots of snacks and a lunch break.

Please let us know A.S.A.P. if you are interested and can make it. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to e-mail either of the producers, Sarah Bartolome at sbartolome11@georgefox.edu or Pax Magaway at pmagaway10@georgefox.edu.

Thanks and please help us by spreading the word!

Students and employees: Are you interested in making a little cash while helping out our art department? If so, consider being a model for our art students. It pays $8.95 per hour.

Interested? Contact Cheri Hampton at champton@georgefox.edu or ext. 2619 to learn more.

Is there a colleague you think is deserving of being named Employee of the Month for March? If someone comes to mind, please submit a nomination via e-mail to Peggy Kilburg by Wednesday, March 20, with a summary of this person’s recent contributions and any other relevant information.

The person selected by the President’s Executive Leadership Team will be honored with a citation and a $100 Visa gift card at our next community meeting.

Congratulations again to Mandee Wilmot on being named February Employee of the Month.

Thank you to the 168 who have turned in your yellow open enrollment election forms. As a reminder to the other 300: Please return them by Friday, March 15.

Enrollment forms and detailed information are on the employee benefits web page.

Additional reminders:

• Kaiser offers vision insurance in the medical plan, and Pioneer offers discounts for vision (see this link)
• Although alternative care is not covered by our medical plans, many of the costs are reimbursable by the flex plan (read more here)
• Both health plans offer personalized online health assessments and resources to keep you and your family informed and healthy!

Questions? Contact Lisa Burton at lburton@georgefox.edu.

Don’t forget: Dr. Doreen Dodgen-Magee will address issues related to technology in our lives when she comes to campus today (Monday) through Wednesday as guest speaker for the Spring Theological Conference.

The schedule for the week includes:

• Monday, March 4 – “You’ve Been Hacked: How technology has taken you hostage (and how your parents are to blame),” chapel (10:40 a.m. in Bauman Auditorium)
• Tuesday, March 5 – “Powered-Off Zone: A space to engage, play, and create” (2-6 p.m. in the Bruin Den)
• Tuesday, March 5 – “Finding Your Sweet Spot: Brain health and multiple intelligences information to help you increase engagement in your first (real) life,” Shalom (9 p.m. in Cap & Gown Room)
• Wednesday, March 6 – “Pushing the Pause Button: Practical tips for learning to be still, bored, and centered,” chapel (10:40 a.m. in Bauman Auditorium)

Dr. Dodgen-Magee is a licensed psychologist, truth communicator and Jesus follower. The Spring Theological Conference is sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies. For more information, contact Paula Hampton at ext 2650.

This is a reminder that the George Fox University Day of Prayer is Saturday, March 9. In preparation, the spiritual life office is gathering personal prayer requests from faculty, administrators, staff, students and their families.

Please send your prayer request to spirituallife@georgefox.edu by Tuesday, March 5. Write your prayer request in the way that you would like it to read for the Day of Prayer (please include your name in the request unless you would like it to be unnamed).

Send any questions to Kayin Griffith at kgriffith@georgefox.edu.

If you have a student who is studying:

• Allied Health
• Biology
• Chemistry
• Health and Human Performance
• Nursing
• Social Work

Encourage them to check out the Health Care Career Fair today (Monday) in the upper Hoover lobby from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This will be a great time for them to interact with employers from local and regional healthcare facilities for possible job and internship opportunities!

To see a list of the 2013 Health Care Career Fair Participants, click this link.

Questions? Contact Corina Burke in the Career Services Office at ext. 2330 or cburke@georgefox.edu.

Don’t forget tonight’s (Monday’s) Liberal Arts and Critical Issues lecture featuring Joel Perez, dean of inclusion and leadership at George Fox. He will present “Actions are Illegal, Never People: Comprehending the Complexity of Immigration in the U.S.”

The session runs from 7 to 8 p.m. in Hoover 105. Questions? Contact Paul Otto at ext. 2676 or potto@georgefox.edu.

Join us today (Monday) as the financial affairs department presents at a “Let’s Work Together” session from noon to 1 p.m. in the Cap and Gown Room. Come and learn what really happens to all that paperwork that you are continually required to “submit” to the finance office and how we can work together to try to make that paperwork shuffle as painless as possible.

Bring your lunch (or grab one in the Bruin Den) and join us for a time of networking with a fun and interactive presentation.

Questions? Contact Becky Jensen at rjensen@georgefox.edu.

The George Fox University Day of Prayer is Saturday, March 9. In preparation, the spiritual life office is gathering personal prayer requests from faculty, administrators, staff, students and their families.

Please send your prayer request to spirituallife@georgefox.edu by Tuesday, March 5. Write your prayer request in the way that you would like it to read for the Day of Prayer (please include your name in the request unless you would like it to be unnamed).

Send any questions to Kayin Griffith at kgriffith@georgefox.edu.

If you have a student who is studying:

• Allied Health
• Biology
• Chemistry
• Health and Human Performance
• Nursing
• Social Work

Encourage them to check out the Health Care Career Fair on Monday, March 4, in the upper Hoover lobby from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This will be a great time for them to interact with employers from local and regional healthcare facilities for possible job and internship opportunities!

To see a list of the 2013 Health Care Career Fair Participants, click this link.

Questions? Contact Corina Burke in the Career Services Office at ext. 2330 or cburke@georgefox.edu.

The fifth faculty “Coffee & Conversation” of the year is titled “Grading as a Conversation: Using Assessment as a Part of Teaching.” Sharing their stories will be Dwight Kimberly, Mark Terry, Amy Dee and Mike Foster. Join us from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. on Monday, March 11, in Hoover 104.

• Come if you wonder how this might be a part of your teaching.
• Come if you have your own experiences to contribute to the conversation.
• Come if you just want to have some free coffee and “world-famous” scones made by Brenda Burg and listen to the discussion!

Questions? Contact Gary Sehorn at gsehorn@georgefox.edu.

Friday, March 1, 3:30 p.m. – Women’s tennis vs. Willamette (GFU campus courts)
Saturday, March 2, 11 a.m. – Women’s tennis vs. Pacific (GFU campus courts)
Saturday, March 2, 11 a.m. – Baseball vs. Lewis & Clark, DH (Morse Field)
Saturday, March 2, noon – Softball vs. Puget Sound, DH (Morse Field)
Sunday, March 3, noon – Baseball vs. Lewis & Clark (Morse Field)
Saturday, March 3, noon – Softball vs. Puget Sound, DH (Morse Field)

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

Next week, Dr. Doreen Dodgen-Magee will address issues related to technology in our lives when she comes to campus Monday through Wednesday, March 4-6, as guest speaker for the Spring Theological Conference.

The schedule for the week includes:

• Monday, March 4 – “You’ve Been Hacked: How technology has taken you hostage (and how your parents are to blame),” chapel (10:40 a.m. in Bauman Auditorium)
• Tuesday, March 5 – “Powered-Off Zone: A space to engage, play, and create” (2-6 p.m. in the Bruin Den)
• Tuesday, March 5 – “Finding Your Sweet Spot: Brain health and multiple intelligences information to help you increase engagement in your first (real) life,” Shalom (9 p.m. in Cap & Gown Room)
• Wednesday, March 6 – “Pushing the Pause Button: Practical tips for learning to be still, bored, and centered,” chapel (10:40 a.m. in Bauman Auditorium)

Dr. Dodgen-Magee is a licensed psychologist, truth communicator and Jesus follower. She had one of the first computers in her class when she was a graduate student “a million years ago,” and was the last person in her family to get an iPhone. She is a reluctant geek and an avid reader of research.

The Spring Theological Conference is sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies. For more information, contact Paula Hampton at ext 2650.

Don’t forget the all-employee meeting scheduled for this afternoon (Thursday), from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Hoover 105.

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.”