The Daily Bruin

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.

Mail Services is running low on our supply of packing peanuts, the little Styrofoam pieces. If you have any extra or unwanted ones that you are discarding, please bring them to us. We can take them off your hands.

Thanks,
Mail Services

An all-employee meeting is scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 24, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in VAC 117 (please note location). The original meeting scheduled for Jan. 17 has been canceled.

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.” It is the bottom link in that section. The link will take you to all the information relating to community meetings and include a live-stream link (the password changes each meeting) and a chat room link.

Videos from previously recorded meetings will be added to this page in the days following. Please bookmark the page for quick access each month.

IT is offering Adobe Acrobat Basic Forms, Excel Basics, FoxTALE, and Google webinars and training sessions during the week of Jan. 7.

View the schedule and sign up at this link. Information on how to join each webinar will be delivered via e-mail 24 hours prior to the webinar.

Questions? Contact the Service Desk.

This show will be held Friday through Sunday, Jan. 4-6, at the Oregon Convention Center. It features hundreds of exhibits about – you guessed it – building, remodeling and landscaping.

If you would like to attend this show, you can pick up two tickets (worth $6 each) from Barbi Doran at the Information Services window in Stevens Center. Portland and Salem employees, you can reserve yours by e-mailing Barbi. She will send them to you through campus mail.

We have a limited supply, so please request/pick them up only if you are reasonably certain you will attend this event.

This show will be held Friday through Sunday, Jan. 4-6, at the Oregon Convention Center. It features hundreds of exhibits about – you guessed it – building, remodeling and landscaping.

If you would like to attend this show, you can pick up two tickets (worth $6 each) from Barbi Doran at the Information Services window in Stevens Center beginning Wednesday, Jan.  2. Portland and Salem employees, you can reserve yours by e-mailing Barbi. She will send them to you through campus mail on Jan. 2.

We have a limited supply, so please request/pick them up only if you are reasonably certain you will attend this event.

Along with the new year comes the opportunity to select the first Employee of the Month for 2013. Is there someone you believe is deserving of this recognition? If someone comes to mind, please nominate him or her via e-mail Peggy Kilburg by Friday, Jan. 11, with a summary of this person’s recent contributions and any other information that makes this person deserving of this award. Because of the earlier community meeting this month, there will be no reminder ennouncement about submitting nominations.

The president, provost and vice presidents will select a recipient from among the nominees, and the winner will be honored with a citation and a $100 gift card to The Allison. We will honor both December’s and January’s employees of the month at our next community meeting scheduled for Jan. 17.

Some end-of-semester reminders from IT …

• If you used the FoxTALE grade book for any of your FoxTALE course sites, we recommend that you back up your Fall 2012 grade book to a spreadsheet that is saved outside of FoxTALE. See the instructions here for backing up grades.

Prepare for Spring 2013

• Use your new, empty Spring 2013 sites as the sites in which you will teach. You may import content from another course site. See the instructions here for importing.

• Your Spring 2013 sites are unavailable (hidden) to students. When you are ready to make a site available, go to Settings > Course administration > Edit settings on the course home page. Scroll down to the “Availability” section and select “This course is available to students” from the drop-down menu. Scroll to the bottom of the page and “Save changes.”

• If you have course content to move from old FoxTALE to new FoxTALE, please contact the Service Desk.

Come join us as we honor Arden Butler and celebrate his retirement from George Fox. Refreshments will be served at Plant Services from noon to 1 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 21 (please note the new date).

Questions? Contact Debby O’Kelley at dokelley@georgefox.edu.

Saturday, Dec. 22, 6 p.m. – Women’s basketball vs. Pacific (Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym)

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

FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 a.m. to noon (Pacific Time) on Monday, Jan. 7, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you have questions, please contact the IT Service Desk.

Come join us as we honor Arden Butler and celebrate his retirement from George Fox. Refreshments will be served at Plant Services from noon to 1 p.m. this Thursday, Dec. 20.

Questions? Contact Debby O’Kelley at dokelley@georgefox.edu.

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 university box office will operate under its normal hours of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. this week with the exception of Wednesday, Dec. 19, when it will close at 11:30 a.m. It will also be closed on Friday, Dec. 21.

Beginning Friday, the box office will be closed until Thursday, Jan. 3, when it will resume regular hours. During this time you can reach the box office by e-mail at boxoffice@georgefox.edu. Information on upcoming shows can be found at boxoffice.georgefox.edu, where there is a link labeled “Current Season” to purchase tickets online.

The box office e-mail and phone line will be checked periodically between Dec. 21 and Jan. 2 with response only to urgent requests. All other requests will be responded to on Jan. 3.

Questions? Contact Mary Monahan at mmonahan@georgefox.edu.

We have red poinsettias from midyear commencement for sale. Only $3 for small (6 1/2″) or $7 for large (8 1/2″). They can be purchased in the Pennington House between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.

Questions? Call 503-554-2134.

If you would like to nominate a colleague for December’s Employee of the Month, please e-mail Peggy Kilburg a summary of this person’s contributions/outstanding performance in the past 30 days or so. Nominations should be in by this Friday, Dec. 21.

The winner will be announced and presented with a $100 gift card to The Allison at our January community meeting.

Those who have a connection to Greenleaf Friends Academy are invited to an open-house Christmas party scheduled at Friendsview Retirement Community. Two reception times are scheduled: Monday, Dec. 17, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. and Tuesday, Dec. 18, from 9:30 to 11 a.m.

Both receptions will include refreshments and will take place in the Friendsview Auditorium. They are open to alumni and friends of Greenleaf Friends Academy.

For more information, contact Peggy Hanson at phanson@friendsview.org.