The Daily Bruin

Join us for “Thy Kingdom Come” focus in Shalom with Lisa Espineli Chinn. Lisa is the director of InterVarsity’s international student ministry and will share how her vocation serves God’s kingdom.

We’ll meet beginning at 9 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 24, in the Cap and Gown Room. Questions? Contact Rachel Stewart at rstewart09@georgefox.edu.

We are in need of six actors (of high-school looking age) for a 25-minute short student film.

The synopsis: Push the bully holds cruel dominion over the school, earning his respect through fear and deprecation. When new kid John Williams enters the school and challenges his sovereignty, Push must fight to retain not only his power, but also his very identity.

The six roles we are searching for are:

• Push the bully is not short, nor is he tall. With his smile he could get away with murder.
• Eugene Kraft is Push’s righthand man. Eugene is afraid of Push, and loves seeing Push bully anybody beside himself.
• John Williams is a prince. A hero. He is well-read, well-bred, and well traveled. He is tall with blond hair and steely blue eyes.
• Frank is one of Push’s favorite victims. Frank is overweight. And he has a lisp.
• Slud is another of Push’s favorite victims. Slud has a disability that requires the use of forearm crutches.
• Clob, another of Push’s favorites, looks radioactive. Clob has acne and is ugly under his acne.

We also need some giggling high school girls who have crushes on  Williams the new kid, and also someone to play a very short role of a maid/mother, and possibly a damsel in distress.

This is a non-paying gig, but we will provide meals during long shoot days, a DVD of the film will be provided when its done, and also great seats at the premiere.

We are planning on shooting the weekends of Feb. 10-12, 17-19 and 24-26. Auditions are this Thursday and Friday, Jan. 26-27, at the Portland Center near Tigard at 7 p.m.

Questions? Contact Carissa Hoffman at choffman09@georgefox.edu.

If you are a benefits-eligible employee and there is any possibility that you will use tuition remission during the 2012-13 academic year (fall, spring and/or summer semesters), whether for yourself, a spouse, and/or dependent(s), a Tuition Remission Request Form for each person needs to be submitted no later than Wednesday, Feb. 1.

Please go to the Employee Benefits, Forms and Resources page for the link to instructions for completing the Tuition Remission Request Form(s) and to the forms themselves. Please note: This year there is a separate form for the adult degree program and the elementary education degree-completion program. Please be sure to read this information before you begin completing a Tuition Remission Request Form.

Questions? Contact Peggy Kilburg at pkilburg@georgefox.edu.

The Lunar New Year was on Jan. 23. Want to know how some of the Asian countries celebrate their new year? Come to the Cap and Gown Room on Thursday, Jan. 26, anytime between 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. to enjoy the atmosphere of Lunar New Year.

This event, sponsored by International Student Services, is being hosted to celebrate diversity and the richness of this cultural event. Different booths of cultural elements in Lunar New Year will be presented. You will get the chance to learn how to make dumpling and spring rolls in addition to many other fun and interesting activities.

For more information, please contact Lishan Zeng at lzeng09@georgefox.edu.

Join us tonight (Monday) as Terry Steele (Sociology) speaks on the characteristics of the Millennial generation and its possible influences on the church. Terry will speak from 7 to 8 p.m. in Hoover 105.

If you have questions, please contact Caitlin Corning, director of the Liberal Arts and Critical Issues program, at ccorning@georgefox.edu or ext. 2673.

Bob Goff, founder of Restore International, will share his experience with vocation and the calling of Christ. Join us in this continuation of the “Let Your Life Speak” series in this morning’s (Monday’s) chapel beginning at 10:40 a.m. in Bauman Auditorium.

Save the date! The George Fox University Department of Biology and Chemistry invites you to join us for our second annual Dalton Lecture Series event, “God of Antimatter,” featuring Dr. Gerald Gabrielse, Harvard’s Leverett Professor of Physics, at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 20.

Dr. Gabrielse has won Harvard’s Levenson Prize for exceptional teaching and the Ledlie Prize for exceptional research. He is currently the chair of the Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics of the American Physical Society.

Dr. Gabrielse will address questions such as “What role does faith have in a scientist’s life?” and “Is there more to our world than science can say?”

The presentation will be held in Wood-Mar Auditorium and will be free of charge. A reception and George Fox student research poster session will follow. Please contact Jane Sweet at jsweet@georgegox.edu if you have any questions.

The Office of Financial Affairs is updating its process for employee expense reimbursements. As you know, employee expense reimbursements have always been by check, but starting Feb. 6 employees will now have the option of receiving reimbursements via direct deposit or by paper check.

The new guidelines are as follows:

Effective Feb. 6

• For those who sign up for direct deposit: If your Expense Reimbursement Form is received in the Office of Financial Affairs by Monday, your deposit will be processed on Thursday of that week. If it’s received after Monday, it will be processed on Thursday of the following week. Please note that payment may take up to 48 hours to appear in your account.

Effective March 1

• For those who choose to have reimbursements processed as a check: Checks will be cut only on the first Monday of each month. If your Expense Reimbursement Form arrives in the Office of Financial Affairs by 5 p.m. on the 20th of the month, your payment will be included in the next check run. If your paperwork arrives after the 20th of the month, it will not be processed until the following month’s check run. (Example: If your paperwork arrives before Feb. 20, the check will be cut on the first Monday in March. If your paperwork arrives after Feb. 20, your check will be cut on the first Monday of April.)

If you want your reimbursements to be set up as direct deposit you’ll need to download, complete and submit the authorization form to the financial affairs office. The form can be found on the FAO’s Common Forms webpage.

If you have any questions, please contact Andy Dunn at adunn@georgefox.edu or ext. 2162.

At 8 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 3, George Fox will host the Oregon Symphony in Bauman Auditorium for its 25th appearance in Newberg. 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 Monday, Jan. 23, at 9 a.m. at the first-floor Information Center in the Stevens Center.

Phone reservations will not be taken except for employees at the Portland and Salem centers.

On Friday, Jan. 27, 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.

For more information, contact Vangie Pattison at ext. 2121 or epattison@georgefox.edu.

Greetings from Human Resources!

Your W-2 (tax document) will go out in campus mail by Tuesday, Jan. 31.

Since these are also being transmitted to the IRS, please make sure that your home address is correct in PeopleSoft. Please go to mygfu.georgefox.edu. Log in and click “Self-Service” in the menu at the left. Choose “Campus Personal Information” and then “Addresses” to update your home address if necessary.

Questions? Contact Melodee Powers at mpowers@georgefox.edu.

Thank you!

Don’t forget the all-employee meeting scheduled for this afternoon (Thursday) 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.” It is the bottom link in that section.

In addition, a chat room has 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.

Students have multiple activities to juggle: Class, assignments, friends, family, activities, the list goes on. In this workshop, Rick Muthiah (Dean of Learning Support Services) will provide tools and tips for managing your time effectively.

Join us on Friday, Jan. 20, from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. in EHS 125. Faculty members, please tell your students about this opportunity.

Does your office have a shredder? If so, here is some new recycling information you need to know.

When your shredder is full, what do you do with the paper? If you empty the shredding into a black plastic bag or into the blue recycling bags, it is considered trash and gets thrown out.

In order for us to be better stewards, custodial services is beginning a new program of providing rolls of clear bags for this purpose. When the bag gets full just pull them out, tie them off and place to the side. Then your custodial cleaning crew will be able to collect these bags as recycling and place them in the appropriate bin for pickup.

If your shredder does not currently have any plastic bags, please e-mail custodial at dastlefo@georgefox.edu and we will be sure you get some to you quickly. If you have additional questions about what is recyclable, follow this link to the recycling page on the university’s website.

Friday, Jan. 20, 6 p.m. – Women’s basketball vs. Pacific Lutheran, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym
Friday, Jan. 20, 8 p.m. – Men’s basketball vs. Pacific Lutheran, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym

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

Mail Services experienced a problem with our tracking system and was unable to input all of the packages from the holiday weekend. We are processing them as quickly as possible. We appreciate your patience as we work diligently to get your packages ready for you. If you receive an e-mail today from “Mail Tracker” with the subject line, “GFU Mail Services Package Notification,” you have a package in Mail Services.

If you stopped by on Tuesday and we could not locate your package, please print off the e-mail notification with the package number, bring it to our customer service window, and we will be able to deliver your package to you. We apologize that we were unable to look up packages or search through all the incoming packages to locate your individual package when you were at the window yesterday.

Again, we thank you for your patience with us as we progress through the large number of packages.

Join us for MLK chapel today (Wednesday)! Dr. T. Allen Bethel, senior pastor at Maranatha Church (maranathapdx.org) in Portland will speak on having faith to make a difference and relating it to Martin Luther King Jr.

In addition, The Voices of Praise gospel choir and performer Asiel Thompson will be leading us in worship. Join us from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. in Bauman Auditorium.

“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase” – MLK Jr.

The university’s School of Business will host a free presentation, “The Spirit of Servant Leadership,” featuring guest Larry Spears, from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. Friday, Jan. 27, at the Portland Center.

Spears, president and CEO of the Larry C. Spears Center for Servant-Leadership of Indianapolis and a servant-leadership scholar at Gonzaga University, will speak on the theme of the spirit of servant leadership – a practice adopted by some of the world’s top corporations over the past five decades.

In fact, in recent years, more than a dozen Fortune 500 “Best Companies to Work For” have actively practiced servant leadership, including Starbucks, Southwest Air, Men’s Wearhouse and Synovus Financial. Spears will speak on the personal and organizational elements of servant leadership that have stood the test of time, such as listening, foresight, awareness and building community.

Interested parties should R.S.V.P. to this link by Friday, Jan. 20. Coffee and tea will be served at the event. Questions? Contact Darla Norgren at ext. 6176 or dnorgren@georgefox.edu.

Mail Services is an unofficial drop site for all Oregon ballots. Arrangements have been made with the Yamhill County Elections Office for us to offer this service. We accept any Oregon ballot (any county), and there is no postage necessary. The deadline for this drop-off site is 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 31. All out-of-state ballots must be mailed with postage.

Thanks!
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Jan Marshall of Portland Rescue Mission will address how best to confront the growing challenge of homelessness in today’s society when she speaks at the Tuesday, Jan. 24, Newberg meeting for the Christian Chamber of Commerce of the Northwest. The meeting is from 7:30 to 9 a.m. in the Villa Academic Complex.

Marshall, senior ministry specialist for Portland Rescue Mission, has been in rescue mission ministries since 1970. She has served on the board of the Association of Gospel Rescue Missions, a national group, and joined Portland Rescue Mission in 2000. She is also a contributing author in the book Shepherding Women in Pain by Bev Hislop of Western Seminary in Portland.

Marshall now focuses her ministry at Portland Rescue Mission on expanding outreach to women at the Burnside Shelter downtown and nurturing vital relationships with churches, businesses and individual donors.

Coffee, tea and pastries will be available at the meeting, which is free for newly renewed Chamber members who R.S.V.P. at cccnw.net. A $5 donation is suggested from non-members and guests who R.S.V.P.

For more information, go to the Chamber’s website listed above or call 503-928-8354.

George Fox students and staff are invited to join the Newberg community to celebrate Christian unity on Wednesday, Jan. 18, at Newberg Christian Church. Four area pastors and two George Fox students have planned the event, and the George Fox Gospel Choir will perform.

The evening begins with a potluck dinner at 5:30 p.m. followed by a service at 7 p.m. that will celebrate our oneness in Christ while recognizing how our diversity enriches the body of Christ both in Newberg and around the world.

Come as you are and support members of the GFU Gospel Choir and hear testimony of God’s work happening in and around Newberg! Newberg Christian Church is located at 2315 Villa Road.

Questions? Contact Lauren Veltkamp at lveltkamp10@georgefox.edu.