The Daily Bruin

There are currently four openings we are seeking to fill. They are associate director of clinical practices, director of the office of student success, student accounts specialist II, and website usability and search engine optimization (SEO) administrator.

The link to each of these position announcements can be found at jobs.georgefox.edu. If you know of someone you believe might provide a good fit for any of these jobs, please refer them to the website for information about the duties and qualifications and for instructions for applying.

Just a reminder: Dr. Doreen Dodgen-Magee will address issues related to technology in our lives when she comes to campus 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 – “Finding Your Sweet Spot: Brain health and multiple intelligences information to help you increase engagement in your first (real) life,” Shalom (7 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.

The university’s Accounting Club is offering free tax preparation and e-filing assistance to employees and local residents. Dates for help sessions are four Saturdays: March 2 and 9 and April 6 and 13.

The Tax-Aide program is designed to help taxpayers prepare their returns. The service is especially geared toward senior citizens, students, individuals with lower incomes, and those who have limited English proficiency. Anyone, however, is eligible for assistance. The only exception is for those whose return is deemed too complicated.

Help will be available from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on each of the dates. All sessions will meet in Hoover 102 and 103. A sign-up sheet will be available 30 minutes before each session. All sessions are first come, first served.

Those seeking assistance are to bring photo identification, Social Security cards or individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers, birthdates for family members, the current year’s tax package (if you received one), and all appropriate tax forms (W-2, 1099-INT and 1099-DIV, SSA-1099 or RRB-1099, 1099R, etc.).

If applicable, it is also advised that patrons bring a list of child tax credit information; a list of medical, taxes, interest, contributions and miscellaneous expenses; child and disabled dependent care information; bank routing and account numbers; and a copy of their 2011 federal and state returns, if available.

To e-file a joint return, both spouses must be present to sign the required forms. To find out more, contact Seth Sikkema at ext. 2813.

It has come to Security Service’s attention that several children of staff and faculty have been using their parents’ staff permit and car to drive to campus, and have been seen parking in staff lots and going to class. Unfortunately, this is a violation of the staff parking permit, which is to be used only by the staff member to whom it was assigned.

It isn’t an issue if your student always comes to school with you, but if they are driving one of your cars to school, they must register the car themselves and park in the proper non-staff lot. If both student and staff share a family car, the staff member should leave a note on the dashboard when it is them driving, and the student should take down the staff permit and park in the proper lot for their student permit when they are the driver.

If you have a vehicle situation that is outside of these parameters, please contact security at ext. 2090 or nkincaid@georgefox.edu and we will work together for a suitable solution.

Thanks!

It’s time to order university stationery. For order instructions, go to the marketing communications website. Continue to purchase all non-departmental stationery (including “second-sheet letterhead”) through the university’s print services.

Orders are due by Monday, March 4.

Just a reminder that an all-employee meeting is scheduled for this Thursday, Feb. 28, 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.”

Do you crave companionship? Unconditional devotion? You need a goldfish! Or a troubling of goldfish (I don’t know why a group of goldfish is called a “troubling,” since they are delightful companions.)

Come to the lab (EHS 202) during office hours (7 a.m. to 5 p.m.) and take yours home today. Ziploc travel containers provided for your new friend’s comfort and containment. I’ll meet you by the aquarium if you need help. Adoptions open until all find homes.

– Teresa Arnold (tarnold@georgefox.edu)

Come support the university’s theatre department by attending the University Players’ thought-provoking performance of drama and music. The theme of our production this year is “The Gospel of Enough.”

Join us Friday, March 8, at 7:30 p.m. in Wood-Mar Auditorium.

Free admission!

What is ‘The Gospel of Enough?‘
This year, the University Players explore the fear, anger, sadness and joy that surround our inner tensions and deepest longings, and they celebrate the good news found in the realization that what we really need, and want, may simply be enough.

Don’t forget tonight’s (Monday’s) Liberal Arts and Critical Issues lecture in Hoover 105. The session runs from 7 to 8 p.m. and features Dr. Fred Van Dyke, executive director of the Au Sable Institute for Environmental Studies. He will present a lecture titled “Hope and Hopelessness: Overcoming the State of Despair in Modern Conservation.”

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

Come and watch two of the region’s top-ranked men’s tennis teams battle it out (No. 1 George Fox Bruins vs. No. 6 Whitman)! This is one of the biggest matches of the season, and we need your support!

We will have free pizza for all students and staff who present their university ID card.

The match is at 6:30 p.m. tonight (Saturday), rain or shine. It will be contested at the Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation District, 15707 S.W. Walker Road, in Beaverton.

Go Bruins!

With inclement weather expected this weekend, the George Fox men’s tennis team has announced plans for their three scheduled home tennis matches Feb. 22-24 in case of rain.

Friday’s match with the Pacific Lutheran University Lutes (2-0, NWC 2-0) is scheduled for 3 p.m., but if it rains, the match will be moved to the Tualatin Hills Tennis Center in Beaverton and will start at 6 p.m.

On Saturday, the Bruins take on the Whitman College Missionaries (1-1, NWC 1-0), who are ranked No. 13 nationally and No. 6 in the West Region. That match will definitely be moved from the campus to the main indoor facility at Tualatin Hills in Beaverton. The start time will remain the same at 6 p.m.

Sunday’s contest with the Linfield College Wildcats (0-2, NWC 0-2) is set for 2 p.m. on campus, but if the weather is uncooperative, the match will be moved ahead two hours to noon at Tualatin Hills.

The George Fox Symphonic Band will perform Johan de Meij’s Lord of the Rings Symphony at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28, in Bauman Auditorium. All are invited, and admission is free.

We are in the process of planning and pulling together the teams for our annual Spring Serve trips (March 23-30). We have several organizations with whom we have annually partnered in service and are looking for current employee or alumni “advisors” to participate with our Serve Trip student-leaders. These individuals serve as university representatives, support the student leaders on their respective trips, and help keep these experiential ministry opportunities purposeful, successful, educational, and helpful to our hosts.

Our goal is for each trip to have two student leaders who are responsible for all trip coordination and team meetings. The job of the trip advisor would be to come alongside them and to offer support, wisdom, advice (especially in terms of risk-management), and general life-experience and spiritual guidance as the students lead the team.

If you are interested or have more questions, please contact Rusty St. Cyr at rstcyr@georgefox.edu or call ext. 2319. If you know of any alumni who are beyond two years of graduation who would be interested, please feel free to pass on this information to them. We hope to have the advisor roles filled by March 1.

Spring Serve trip descriptions can be found at this link.

Do you run at least three times a week? Would you like to potentially increase your speed/performance/endurance levels? Please help me with my senior Health and Human Performance research study!

I am looking for recreational runners (sorry, no varsity athletes) to help me out with my senior research project.

Please contact Natalie at nmarkland09@georgefox.edu if you are at all interested!

Join us for the fifth installment of the spring Liberal Arts and Critical Issues series this Monday, Feb. 25, in Hoover 105. The theme of this spring’s lecture series is “State of the Union.”

Monday’s session runs from 7 to 8 p.m. and features Dr. Fred Van Dyke, executive director of the Au Sable Institute for Environmental Studies. He will present a lecture titled “Hope and Hopelessness: Overcoming the State of Despair in Modern Conservation,” in which he will argue that, concerning conservation efforts, hope is “not a product of emotional exhortation but a reasoned and confident expectation of an altered future condition relative to present circumstances.”

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.

The university’s 2013 Dalton Lecture is tonight (Wednesday) in Bauman Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Students who attend will receive chapel credit. The lecture, titled “The Big Bang, Stephen Hawking and God,” will be presented by Dr. Henry F. Schaefer III, director of the Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry at the University of Georgia.

The Dalton Lecture Series is sponsored by the Department of Biology and Chemistry. More information can be found on the Dalton Lecture page or by e-mailing Jane Sweet at jsweet@georgefox.edu.

The university community is invited to the annual Bösendorfer Artist Concert Series, featuring Italian pianist Gianluca Luisi, tomorrow (Thursday), in Bauman Auditorium. This marks a return to the university for Luisi, who will perform a series of J.S. Bach and Franz Liszt pieces – as well as a duet piece, Three Preludes by George Gershwin, with professor Kenn Willson – on the university’s Bösendorfer “Imperial” grand piano.

Luisi, who has performed at New York’s Carnegie Hall and at renowned venues around the world, will perform a 7:30 p.m. concert. All George Fox employees and students are entitled to one free ticket they may pick up at the box office in the Pennington House (Portland Center students and employees may call 503-554-3844 to reserve your ticket). Additional tickets are $12 for adults, $8 for seniors and alumni, and $6 for students/children. Tickets are available for purchase online at this link.

Luisi also will hold a master class at 4 p.m. today (Wednesday), in Bauman Auditorium, where he will coach piano performance majors. The public is welcome to attend the class at no charge.

To learn more about Luisi, the series or the concert, visit the above link.

An all-employee meeting is scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 28, 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.” 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.

Thursday, Feb. 21, 2 p.m. – Baseball vs. Corban (Morse Field)
Friday, Feb. 22, 2 p.m. – Baseball vs. Oregon Tech (Morse Field)
Friday, Feb. 22, 3 p.m. – Men’s tennis vs. Pacific Lutheran (GFU campus courts)
Saturday, Feb. 23, 6 p.m. – Men’s tennis vs. Whitman (GFU campus courts)
Sunday, Feb. 24, 2 p.m. – Baseball vs. Pacific (Morse Field)
Sunday, Feb. 24, 2 p.m. – Men’s tennis vs. Linfield (GFU campus courts)

Both Bruin basketball teams will be in action Thursday, Feb. 21, in the Northwest Conference Tournaments. The women will be at Lewis & Clark at 7 p.m., and the men will be at Whitman at 8 p.m. The championships games will be Saturday at the site of the highest-remaining seeds.

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

Urban Outreach, the campus homeless ministry, will be holding a coin drive so we can make simple hygiene packs for our friends on the streets. We’ll also take unneeded winter clothes. Look for us at chapel on Wednesday (Feb. 20) and at your doors on Wednesday and Thursday nights.

Want to help? E-mail Mary Owen (mowen10@georgefox.edu) or Steven Ching (sching10@georgefox.edu).

Anything helps!