The Daily Bruin

Now that December is underway, it is time to think about whether someone you know is deserving of the December Employee of the Month award. If so, please submit your nomination via e-mail to Peggy Kilburg by Tuesday, Jan. 2. Please share about the qualities this person has demonstrated and provide specific examples of his or her contributions in the last month or so.

The President’s Executive Leadership Team will review the nominations and select a recipient. The winner will be honored with a citation and a $100 Allison gift card at our next community meeting early in 2012.

Don’t forget our next “Let’s Learn Together” session on PowerPoint is happening tomorrow (Tuesday) from noon to 1 p.m. If you haven’t signed up yet, there are still spots available. Please do so with the link below. The event will be available to watch on a stream site (to be provided tomorrow morning).

Click on this link to reserve your spot for the session. We look forward to seeing you there! Please e-mail Rachel Powell (rpowell@georgefox.edu) if you have questions.

Chapel this morning (Monday) is “Worship With Your Living Area” beginning at 10:40 a.m.

Here are the locations:

• HMS – Hoover 105
• PCWB – EHS 125
• CoEd – Hoover 102
• N+E Houses and Apartments – Lemmons 8
• W Houses and Apartments and Commuters – EHS 102

Note: Locations for houses, apartments and commuters are listed incorrectly in the Spiritual Life calendar.

Join us as we watch Exit Through the Gift Shop, a documentary-style film created by legendary European street artist Banksy. In the film, viewers encounter street artists and their craft as seen through the eyes of one artist.

The film will begin at 8 p.m. tonight (Monday) in Hoover 105. Spiritual life credit is available!

Questions? E-mail Rachel Stewart at rstewart09@georgefox.edu.

Have a great photo you’d like to share? Enter our senior business capstone photo contest and help support a great cause!

Cards of Hope is being organized to create photo greeting cards to support The Garden of Hope, which works to protect vulnerable and at-risk children and teenage women from abuse and exploitation in Thailand. You can help Cards of Hope by sending in your best picture of places, nature and local Northwest landmarks.

The winner with the best submission will receive a grand prize of $30 cash!

How to Enter
Each entry consists of a single image and the required information: your name, telephone number, e-mail address and photo location. There is a limit of six entries per person. Photographs must be in digital JPEG or JPG format. E-mail your entry to cardsofhopegfu@gmail.com.

All rights to use of the photo are waived with submission for the contest and a chance at the prize. See terms and details in the information section of our Facebook page.

Questions? Contact Hilary Sarjent at hsarjent07@georgefox.edu.

Mark your calendars for the library’s annual Christmas celebration!

We will host our annual wassail party on Monday, Dec. 12, between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.

Please take a break on Dead Day and join us in the MLRC multi-purpose room for snacks, wassail and coffee. Contact Sue Mills (smills@georgefox.edu) for more information.

It’s our treat to you!

– MLRC staff

Register now for the MLK Day of Service on Monday, Jan. 16, 2012!

This day is similar to Serve Day except we collaborate with 10 other Portland-area universities. Students, employees and those with children over 6 years of age can participate.

History
Three years ago, George Fox started collaborating with area colleges to put on the first service day of its kind in the Portland area, helping to bring unity among schools and to service the needs of the city. Every year, about 1,200 college students join together. We start with a rally, then divide up into teams, mixing with students from various colleges, to do service projects. This year our focus is on access to education.

Our Role
This is an amazing opportunity for us to be a light as leaders and to share Christ’s love through tangible ways of service and collaboration with people from all walks of life. We serve others because we first serve God. Our goal is to bring 120 participants from George Fox this year.

Before signing up, please note the schedule below:

• 7 a.m. – Participants check in at George Fox
• 7:30 a.m. – Bus from campus to Roosevelt High School
• 9 a.m. – Rally
• 10:30 a.m. – Serve projects
• 3 p.m. – Buses/vans will leave and head back to Newberg. We will be back no later than 5 p.m.

Breakfast, lunch and a T-shirt are included in this volunteer event! For more info and to sign-up, click here.

For questions or accommodations, the university’s rep is Shelley Yonemura, director of multicultural student programs. You can contact her at syonemura@georgefox.edu or ext. 2318.

Don’t forget: You and your family are invited to join the Robin Baker family at the president’s annual Christmas Open House this Sunday, Dec. 4. Drop by the Edwards House (402 S. College St.) anytime between 5 and 7 p.m.

We will serve light appetizers and holiday sweets as we celebrate the Christmas season together!

Questions? Contact Missy Terry at ext. 2101 or terrym@georgefox.edu.

We always appreciate receiving time sheets and time-off reports in a timely fashion, but we are especially anxious to receive these as early in December as possible. This will ensure having plenty of time for processing and data entry in spite of extra vacation and holiday time off.

Would you please take a few minutes to submit your November time sheet (support staff) or time-off report (administrators) to your supervisor right away? As always, please be sure it is complete, accurate and signed by both you and your supervisor before sending it to HR at Box 6108. (If your supervisor is not available to sign it, please send a copy to HR and keep the original until it has been signed.) Go to this HR link for these documents.

A tip to help you remember to do this each month: Set a recurring appointment on your calendar for the first business day of each month with a brief notation, “Turn in Timesheet.” That gives you one less thing to have to remember, allowing you to save your brain space for other important stuff.

Thank you,
– HR

Student supervisors: Pay day for student employees is Thursday, Dec. 15. For us to meet this deadline we need your students’ November time sheets by Monday, Dec. 5, by 3 p.m. If you are on the Newberg campus, please hand-deliver the time sheets. If you send them with a student, make sure you place them in a sealed envelope. Any time sheets received after this deadline may not get paid on the 15th.

Please be sure the student’s name, ID number and cost center number is legible on each one. Also, don’t forget to sign them and be sure the students did as well. Please do not send students to HR to sign their time sheets.

Thanks so much for helping us get our students paid in a timely manner!

– HR

Don’t forget the all-employee meeting scheduled for this afternoon (Thursday) from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Hoover 105. Also please note that the Thursday, Dec. 15, meeting has been canceled.

For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available at this stream site. A chat room has also been set up, and a video recording of the meeting will be available for viewing in the days following the meeting at itunesu.georgefox.edu.

The university’s engineering program will host its annual engine competition on Thursday, Dec. 8, when freshmen students showcase the projects they’ve built at the eighth annual “Wobble-Off” at 3:30 p.m. in the Ron Gregory Atrium in EHS.

The demonstration will feature a variety of oscillating steam/air-operated engines. The event is the culmination of the students’ first-year studies in engineering design, solid modeling and machining.

The engines will compete in a variety of categories, including maximum speed, minimum vibration, maximum coast, cost efficiency and creativity/craftsmanship. All are welcome.

Questions? Contact Kristin Bontrager at kbontrager@georgefox.edu.

The International Club is hosting a fundraiser to support women trapped in Kolkata’s sex trade. Freeset is a fair trade business offering employment to these women. They make quality jute bags and organic cotton T-shirts, but their real business is freedom!

We are working with Freeset to support the women and to raise funds for our club. The Indian bags we are selling are eco-friendly and would make great gifts for Christmas. The price of these bags will range from $8 to $15. We encourage you to come and check out the bags before they are all sold out!

Drop by our table in the Bruin Den between 10:30 a.m. and noon and from 4:30 to 7 p.m. through Friday, Dec. 2.

Contact Kaleb Olsen (olsenk10@georgefox.edu) if you have questions.

Come down to the Foxhole, grab a cup of coffee, and get to know students from different cultures at an international coffee house event on Wednesday, Dec. 7, from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.

We have games, food, music and more. Questions? Contact Kaleb Olsen at olsenk10@georgefox.edu.

University administrators, faculty and staff:

Please take just a few minutes to help our Energy Systems class by taking this short survey. The results will help us determine the carbon footprint that George Fox leaves on the environment every year.

The survey is available at this link.

Thanks,
Kristin Bontrager (kbontrager@georgefox.edu)

Students from an Intro to Video class need some actors for their short film, entitled Oil & Wine. It is a parable of the Good Samaritan.

The following characters are needed for a shoot this weekend:

• Riley: Homeless man around age 20 who is attacked and left for dead
• Jasper: Angry homeless man
• Boss: Angry homeless man
• Gabriel: Hispanic male, read/speak Spanish, around age 18, who helps Riley
• Danilo: Hispanic male, read/speak Spanish, around age 20, who helps Riley
• Alma: Hispanic female, read/speaks Spanish, around late 40s, who cares for Riley
• Camila: Hispanic female, read/speaks Spanish, around 19, who cares for Riley

We will be filming this weekend and would need all actors’ schedules to be open and flexible; some characters will be needed longer than others. Food will be provided.

For more information or if you are interested in any of the parts, please e-mail Onjalai Flake at oflake11@georgefox.edu or call 503-935-3812.

Thank you to all who contributed to a successful Operation Christmas Child campaign! The George Fox and Newberg Friends communities packed 1,274 shoe boxes, including around 900 boxes at the campus packing party on Sunday, Nov. 20.

Thank you again! Please pray for the children who will soon receive the boxes.

– Jessi Fink (jfink09@georgefox.edu)

The university theatre program’s Alpha Psi Omega program will present a New Playwrights Festival this weekend!

Come to Wood-Mar Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3, to enjoy new plays written, directed and performed by George Fox students. Donations will be gratefully accepted at the door to help send students to the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival in Fort Collins, Colo., in February.

Thanks for your support of our theatre students! Questions? Contact Hannah Irish at hannahelizabeth89@gmail.com.

Just a reminder: If you haven’t already done so, please make your nominations for the Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges.

The time has come once again to begin the process of selecting our undergraduate “Who’s Who” nominees for the 2011-12 academic year. You may or may not have contact with our undergraduate population. For those of you who do not have contact with our undergraduate population, please disregard the rest of this message.

For those of you who do have contact with our undergraduate population, you have the opportunity to make nominations by selecting 20 students who you feel are worthy of recognition from the students who qualify for selection. These students are eligible for nomination and expect to graduate either midyear or in the spring (December 2011 or April 2012).

Please click on this link for more instructions and to make your nomination(s). Choose no more than 20 students and mark your selection(s) no later than Wednesday, Nov. 30.

Contact Jere Witherspoon via e-mail or at ext. 2316 if you have any questions.

Applications for spending a semester off campus (studying abroad) for next school year, fall 2012 and spring 2013, are due the first Friday of spring semester – Jan 13, 2012. Interested students should attend an informational meeting scheduled for Thursday, Dec. 8, from 8 to 9 p.m. in Hoover 103.

The meeting will discuss the different semester programs available to students as well as application procedures and timeline. Questions regarding finances and credits will be answered. There will be ample time for Q&A with Clint Baldwin and Melanie Newell following the meeting. Three students recently returning from studying abroad will share about their experiences in South Africa, Rwanda and Australia.

Faculty are advised to inform their students about this meeting.

Questions? Contact Melanie Newell at mnewell@georgefox.edu.