The Daily Bruin

The International Club invites everyone to a Chinese class tonight (Tuesday). Feel free to join us in the International Center/Cultural House from 6:30 to 8 p.m.

We will spend the first 30 minutes getting to know each other and review what we have learned before. The main learning time is from 7 to 8 p.m., so if some of you can’t be there until 7 p.m. you can still attend the class.

I hope to see you there, and I enjoyed the company of each of you last time.

Thank you,
Yali He (yhe11@georgefox.edu)

George Fox participates in the Tuition Exchange program, through which employees may apply for their dependents to receive tuition benefits at another private educational institution. Detailed information about this program is available on a PDF available on the GFU website.

If you are interested in this for your eligible dependent, please read the information on the web page carefully and send the required applicant information to Karlyn Fleming at kfleming@georgefox.edu.

Please note that this is not the same as Tuition Remission (tuition benefits at George Fox). If you have questions about Tuition Remission, please contact the human resources office.

As our new international students are settling into their classes and establishing relationships, we would like to connect them with an American family who would serve as a friend and a point of contact outside of campus. Our past students have highly valued this opportunity to know an American family as a friend. Would you consider serving as a Fox Friendship Family?

The minimum requirements are to provide your telephone number to your students, host the students in your home for at least two meals during the school year, be available for regular contact with your students, and commit to pray for your students. If you would like to continue your relationship with the students who stayed with you during orientation, please let us know by calling or e-mailing Alex Pia (apia@georgefox.edu; ext. 2643) or Dianna McIntyre (dmcintyr@georgefox.edu; 2649) as soon as possible.

For those of you who choose to be a Fox Friendship Family, we would like to invite you as our guest for a dessert for families and students on Monday, Oct. 8, from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Cap and Gown Room. You will not need to bring anything. Please save the date.

The Academic Resource Center is hosting a workshop, “The Most Common Editing Errors – And What To Do About Them,” this Friday, Oct. 5, from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. in Hoover 105. Bill Jolliff, professor of English, will lead the session.

Description
Most of us don’t worry too much about a writing mistake or two. It’s what we have to say that really matters, right?

Well, yes – and no.

The bad news is that too many editing errors can keep our readers from taking us – and our ideas – seriously. The good news is that most of our errors are relatively easy to fix, once we figure out which ones we’re prone to make.

In this workshop, Bill will identify the 10 errors that professors are most likely to mark on student work, and he’ll demonstrate how to fix them.

Questions? Contact Rick Muthiah (rmuthiah@georgefox.edu or ext. 2314)

All university women are invited to a Ladies Movie Night next week!

Join us for the movie Blue Like Jazz at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 9, in EHS 102. Dessert will be provided!

Staff, faculty and students: The lost and found is filled to overflowing already, and the first lost and found tables of the school year will be set up on Tuesday, Oct. 2, in the Bruin Den from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Please stop by during that time to look for your lost items, as any items not claimed by their rightful owners will be donated to charitable causes immediately following.

All are welcome to join us for the fifth “Islam and the West” Liberal Arts and Critical Issues series lecture tonight (Monday) in Hoover 105. The session runs from 7 to 8 p.m. and features Manar Alattar, a biology instructor at Portland Community College.

Alattar will present “Women and Islam,” in which she will share how the experience of Muslim women varies from place to place and era to era. She also will share her experiences as a Muslim woman living in Oregon. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions.

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

Please join us today (Monday) from noon to 1 p.m. for the first “Let’s Work Together” presentation, showcasing the IT department, in the Cap and Gown Room. Bring your lunch and be prepared to learn and be dazzled.

Questions? Contact Molly Hickok at mhickok@georgefox.edu.

– Staff Development Committee

Learn how you can help partner with Bon Appetit and support the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and their quest to find a cure for cancer!

Volunteer Opportunity Informational Meeting
Tuesday, Oct. 2
4:30 – 6:30 p.m. in the Bruin Den (ongoing conversation about volunteer opportunity – come when you can)
Free cookies & hot cocoa from Bon Appétit
Speakers: Stephanie Fagerstrom, volunteer coordinator, “Light the Night Walk” and George Fox alumna, and Amelia Pitts, campaign manager, “Light The Night Walk”

Event support is needed for the “Light the Night Walk” on Saturday, Oct. 27, at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. Volunteer opportunities include set-up, event support and clean-up. There are four-hour shifts starting at 9 a.m. and going until 9 p.m. Come help when you can! They need 100 volunteers on the day of the event to ensure it is a success!

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s “Light The Night Walk” funds lifesaving research and support for people battling cancer. Friends, families and coworkers form fundraising teams and millions of consumers help by donating at retail outlets. These efforts culminate in inspirational, memorable evening walks in more than 200 communities each fall across North America.

Please come see us on Oct. 2 and join us on Oct. 27 to help save a life.

Questions? Contact Denny Lawrence at dlawrenc@georgefox.edu.

This is just a friendly reminder that the Office of Spiritual Life will be putting on a garage sale Monday through Thursday, Oct. 8-11. Donations are welcomed!

If you wish to donate, drop off the items at the SpiL House on the corner of Sheridan and Meridian streets. If no one is there, leave the donations on the porch. All proceeds will benefit Summer Serve.

Questions? Contact Cristian Boanca (cboanca11@georgefox.edu)

If you have not already completed the paperwork for students you have hired or rehired this fall, please do so just as soon as you can and send it to HR. For all student employees, this includes an offer letter. For students who have not worked (for GFU) before, a W-4 and I-9 are also needed, and a direct deposit form is encouraged (but not required).

Even though a student submits a time sheet, he or she cannot be set up in the payroll system and be paid without these documents. Please take a few minutes to be sure this paperwork has been submitted for all of your student employees today if possible and no later than Monday, Oct. 1.

As always, we very much appreciate your efforts with and on behalf of our students.

– HR

The campus community is invited to a multimedia presentation, “Eyewitness Gaza,” from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 3, in Hoover 105.

The event, cosponsored by the Center for Peace and Justice and the religious studies department, features the photography of Skip Schiel, a Cambridge, Mass.-based photojournalist who has been traveling to Israel and Palestine to investigate and portray conditions and struggles since 2003.

In “Eyewitness Gaza,” Schiel presents the plight and struggles of youth four years after the devastating Israeli attacks of Operation Cast Lead, along with the possible implications of the Arab Spring for all the people in Gaza.

To learn more, go to this link or write to peaceandjustice@georgefox.edu.

Join us for a Slam Poetry Night tonight (Thursday) from 9 to 10 p.m. in the Cap and Gown Room as part of Latino Heritage Month. Come support performers as they share their stories of belonging, culture and identity (all cultures are welcome to share).

For more information, contact Julio Bautista at jbautista11@georgefox.edu. The event is sponsored by the Inclusion and Student Leadership Department. Find us on Facebook: facebook.com/ISLP.GFU.

Don’t forget the all-employee meeting scheduled for this afternoon (Thursday) at 3:30 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, Sept. 27, 7 p.m. – Volleyball vs. Colorado College (Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym)
Friday, Sept. 28, 7 p.m. – Volleyball vs. Whitman (Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym)
Saturday, Sept. 29, 5 p.m. – Volleyball vs. Whitworth (Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym)
Sunday, Sept. 30, noon – Women’s soccer vs. Willamette (Austin Sports Complex)

The athletics department has also announced new ticket prices for the 2012-13 sports seasons for volleyball, men’s and women’s soccer, and men’s and women’s basketball, which actually went into effect with the onset of the 2012 fall seasons. New prices, which mark the first adjustment for the Bruins in several years, are as follows:

• $7 – Adults
• $5 – George Fox alumni
• $3 – Non-GFU students (grades one through college) and seniors 60 and older
• $2 – “Classic Bruins” (GFU alumni who graduated 50 or more years ago)
• Free – GFU faculty and staff and their immediate families with valid school ID; GFU students with valid school ID; and children 6 and under who are not yet in school

For all postseason events, such as Northwest Conference tournament contests or NCAA regional or national competitions, all spectators must pay for admission, including members of the George Fox community. For additional information or to make arrangements for season tickets, which are not usually advertised to the public, contact the George Fox athletics department at 503-554-2910 or via e-mail at pfindley@georgefox.edu.

All are invited to the fifth installment of the “Islam and the West” Liberal Arts and Critical Issues series on Monday, Oct. 1, in Hoover 105. The session runs from 7 to 8 p.m. and features Manar Alattar, a biology instructor at Portland Community College.

Alattar will present “Women and Islam,” in which she will share how the experience of Muslim women varies from place to place and era to era. She also will share her experiences as a Muslim woman living in Oregon. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions.

The same lecture 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.

Bruin Directories are officially being made available to faculty and staff this year! The project is underway and in an effort to make the deliveries as timely as possible, the order form is available now! You can access it at this link.

Please fill it out soon so we can get a rough estimate on how many to order. Thanks for your support!

Questions? Contact Margaret Vogt at asccommunicationsdirector@georgefox.edu.

Don’t forget this afternoon’s retirement celebration for Larry Osborn, who is leaving us after 22 years of service to the university. Larry has been the mechanic and metal fabricator for the university and the previous property manager for Tilikum.

We will gather from 3 to 4 p.m. in the Cap and Gown Room. Questions? Contact Debby O’Kelley at dokelley@georgefox.edu.

An all-employee meeting is scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 27, at 3:30 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.” 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.

As a George Fox employee you are eligible for a 15 percent discount on your calling plan from Verizon Wireless. Discount only applies to lines billing at $34.99 or higher and account name must be that of the employee. If account is not in the employee’s name, it can be changed at a local Verizon Wireless retail store, or by calling Verizon Customer Care at 1-800-922-0204.

To register your line for your employee discount, follow these simple steps:

1. Go to verizonwireless.com/discounts

2. Enter your work e-mail address and select “Check for Discounts.”

3. You will receive an e-mail. Click the “Get Started” button in the e-mail to continue the registration process.

4. Click on the “Enroll Now” button under “Existing Verizon Wireless Customer.”

5. Your information will be reviewed, and if approved you will be notified that your discount will appear in one to two billing cycles.

If you have any questions, please contact Andy Dunn.