The Daily Bruin

The music department is sponsoring a one-day residency by the trio Ascendo3, featuring saxophonists Joseph Wytko and Anna Marie Wytko and pianist Walter Cosand. The ensemble will lead a master class for performers and composers today (Friday) at 4 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium, and will present a concert this evening at 7:30 p.m., also in Bauman. All are invited to both events with no admission charge.

Ascendo3 will perform music for saxophones and piano, including arrangements of music by Vivaldi, Beethoven and Poulenc. Dr. Joseph Wytko will also perform “Psalm” for solo saxophone by GFU faculty composer Brent Weaver.

Dr. Joseph Wytko is professor emeritus at Arizona State University and has performed as a soloist and with ensembles all over the world. Dr. Anna Marie Wytko is an assistant professor at Kansas State University and has also performed concerts around the country; her appearance is supported in part by the Yamaha Corporation.

Questions? Contact Brent Weaver at bweaver@georgefox.edu.

On Oct. 8-11, Spiritual Life will host a porch sale to raise money for Summer Serve trips. We need things to sell, and if you are willing to donate them, we will gladly sell them!

If you have something to donate, just bring it by the Spiritual Life House anytime between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. during the week.

There’s still a chance for you to order Bruin Directories for yourself or your department! Fill out the order form at this link by Friday to make sure your get your copies! The cost is $5 per copy.

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

If you were asked “What does it mean to be multicultural?” would you know what to say? Do you think everyone is multicultural? Does that include you?

Come to the Cap and Gown Room with a brown-bag lunch today (Thursday) at noon to discuss these questions as part of the first “Table Talk,” a monthly conversation group that will give students and employees a safe place to discuss diversity and multiculturalism.

For more information, contact Drew Miller at dmiller09@georgefox.edu. Sponsored by Inclusion and Student Leadership Programs.

The marketing communications office will be processing a business card order soon. Place your order directly with B&B Print Source by Wednesday, Oct. 10. If you have not done so already, you will need to create a new “Individual Account” on the form before you can submit your order.

Contact Danette Newkirk (dnewkirk@georgefox.edu) in marketing communications if you have any questions.

Feel free to join us for the sixth installment of the “Islam and the West” Liberal Arts and Critical Issues series on Monday, Oct. 8, in Hoover 105. The session runs from 7 to 8 p.m. and features George Fox alumni who have served in the military in Islamic countries.

“A Soldier’s Perspective” will allow active military personnel and veterans who served in Islamic lands to share their stories. 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.

Although you can’t get free flu shots at our Health and Counseling Center (because it is not a contracted Regence or Kaiser provider), Kaiser members can go to Kaiser to get yours free, and Pioneer members can go to practically any pharmacy/grocery in town for a free flu shot.

You just need to ask first if they are a contracted provider for Regence BCBS and show your insurance card. If the answer is yes, your flu shot is free (except for that little bit of “ouch”).

Join us for chapel this morning (Wednesday) as we welcome Paul Young, author of The Shack, as our special speaker. See you at 10:40 a.m. in Bauman Auditorium!

If you’re interested in walking with a cause, “Out of the Darkness” is this Saturday, Oct. 6. We are meeting at 7:45 a.m. in the Bauman Auditorium parking so that we can get to the World Trade Center in Portland by 8:30 a.m. to catch the opening festivities and start the walk at 10 a.m.

The walk is about two hours long and is free. We only ask $2 of each person to cover the cost of gas. Contact David Brooks at dbrooks11@georgefox.edu to learn more about the event.

Thanks and hope to see you there!

George Fox employees are invited to join alumni and parents at Oregon Ballet Theatre’s 7:30 p.m. performance of The Nutcracker on Saturday, Dec. 15, in the Keller Auditorium. Our tickets are $58 each (40 percent off the retail price of $102.70). All seats are in the first rows and middle three sections of the first balcony.

Contact Mary Monahan at 503-554-2134 or mmonahan@georgefox.edu to get your tickets. Last day to purchase tickets is Oct. 10.

All are welcome to tonight’s (Wednesday’s) multimedia presentation, “Eyewitness Gaza,” from 7 to 8:30 p.m. 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.

Students interested in spending a semester studying off-campus are invited to an informational meeting this Monday, Oct. 8, from 8 to 9 p.m. in Hoover 102.

Students will hear from current George Fox students recently returned from studying off-campus and will learn about the application process.

Faculty, please let your students know about this opportunity.

Questions? Contact Clint Baldwin at cbaldwin@georgefox.edu or ext. 2685.

It’s time to think of a colleague who would be deserving of the Employee of the Month award for October. If someone comes to mind, please send an e-mail to Peggy Kilburg by Wednesday, Oct. 17, with a summary of this person’s recent contributions and any other information that makes this individual deserving of this award.

The President’s Executive Leadership Team will select the recipient from the nominations submitted, and the winner will be honored with a citation and a $100 gift card to The Allison at our community meeting on Oct. 25.

Congratulations again to Carol Jaquith for being named September Employee of the Month.

Flu shots are available at the Health & Counseling Center. The cost for the vaccine is $15 for students and employees.

Due to recent Regence billing changes, we are no longer able to offer flu shots free of charge. Please call the health center at 503-554-2340 to schedule an appointment.

Make plans to join us in hearing Father Bill Moore give his artist talk this afternoon (Tuesday) at 4:10 p.m. in Hoover 105. The reception for his “Stations of the Cross” show will follow immediately at 5 p.m. outside the Minthorne Gallery.

We look forward to seeing you there!

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.

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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!