The Daily Bruin

The deadline for student and employee shoe boxes for Operation Christmas Child is Friday, Nov. 18.

If you need an empty shoe box(es) to pack and/or labels, stop by the Bruin Den during lunch or contact Jessi Fink (jfink09@georgefox.edu).

Packed shoe boxes can be turned in to the ASC offices, to Barbi Doran at the Information Desk in the Stevens Center, or brought to the Coffin basement on Wednesday, Nov. 16, from 8 to 10 p.m.

For more information about Operation Christmas Child and our effort on campus, visit this Facebook site.

Questions? Contact Jessi at the above e-mail address.

The university’s International Justice Mission chapter will host its annual event, “Closing the Gap: Addressing the Mentality Behind Sex Slavery,” next week. The four-day event will address the issue of sex trafficking.

Here is the schedule:

• On Monday night (Nov. 14) the movie Born Into Brothels will be shown in Bauman Auditorium at 8 p.m. Students can receive chapel credit for attending.
• Tuesday and Wednesday will feature panels of speakers from the Portland metro area and from George Fox faculty in Hoover 102 at 8 p.m. both nights.
• On Thursday, the event concludes with a free concert by advocacy band Jubilee in the Foxhole at 8 p.m.

If you have any questions, please contact Lauren Peña at lpena10@georgefox.edu, or see posters on campus bulletin boards.

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 (jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu or ext. 2316) in the student life office if you have any questions.

You are invited to join MAT middle level/high school teacher candidates as they read stories and poems Monday, Nov. 14, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Coffee Cottage in Newberg. As part of their coursework, these language arts and social studies teacher candidates will experience firsthand an opportunity to promote the publishing aspect of the writing process as they consider ways to give voice to their middle and high school students.

Additionally, the night is intended to serve as a means to model how teachers can work toward creating partnerships between schools and the communities they serve. Each of the 12 teaching candidates will be sharing up to five minutes of reading from his or her own poetry or narrative writing (perhaps a compelling essay or two). The two-hour sharing will be comprised of two (possibly three) rounds, depending on the time. Please feel free to join us for an enjoyable evening.

Questions? Contact Ken McChesney at kmcchesney@georgefox.edu.

Alpha Psi Omega, the university’s theatre honor society, will present a night of one-act plays directed, acted and produced by students.

Join us for one of three performances (all three plays to be presented each night):

Nov. 10, 11 & 12 at 7:30 p.m.
Wood-Mar Auditorium
Admission is “pay what you will”

The three plays presented:

July 7, 1994 by Donald Margulies
Directed by Ben Vawter
An examination of doctor’s life as she works and lives in the inner city. Her conversations with her patients reveal troubled lives that mirror what we see around us today.

Mr. Foot by Michael Frayn
Directed by Heidi Thurston
An businessman seems to have formed a better relationship with his twitching foot than with his somewhat envious wife.

603 by Imad Farajin
Directed by Annaliese Anderson
Four Palestinian men share a cramped prison cell listening to the buses come and go outside. Will the next bus be the one to take them home?

Visit this Facebook link to learn more about event.

Don’t forget the two concerts scheduled in Bauman Auditorium this week. On Thursday, Nov. 10, a Chamber Concert will take place at 7:30 p.m. and feature a clarinet trio, a keyboard ensemble, a low brass ensemble, a string ensemble and handbell ringers. Selections to be played will include works by Mendelssohn, Mozart, Debussy and Brahms.

On Sunday, Nov. 13, the Chehalem Symphony Orchestra will perform beginning at 3 p.m. The orchestra, directed by Paul Featherstone, will perform works by Beethoven. Kenn Willson (Performing Arts) is the guest soloist for a piano concerto. Featured will be a cadenza written by James Pick (2011 graduate) reflecting on Kenn’s comparing Beethoven to rock ‘n roll of the 19th century.

Both concerts are free. Contact Debbie Hawblitzel at ext. 2620 for more information.

Dr. David Tyler, a chemistry professor at the University of Oregon, will present a seminar on new photochemically degradable plastics for the environment at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 14, in EHS 102.

Dr. Tyler will speak about “green” plastics, the research his group has done to develop a new class of plastics, and research into controlling when plastics start to degrade. After the seminar, students will have the opportunity to chat with him about grad studies at the University of Oregon.

The seminar is sponsored by the Department of Biology and Chemistry. All are invited!

Please contact Jane Sweet at jsweet@georgefox.edu if you have any questions.

“Why would Chinese parents, from a secular culture, send their children to a Christian school? I thought the best way to answer this question was to ask them directly.”

So reads the latest blog entry from President Robin Baker, who recently traveled to China to meet with parents of current Chinese students. To read more, visit his blog site and check out the most recent entry posted, “Chinese parents appreciate role of faith in education.”

Mail Services is in need of packing “peanuts” – the small Styrofoam pieces used for padding when shipping packages. If you have any that you can donate to us, it would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Mail Services

The university community is invited to two concerts scheduled in Bauman Auditorium this week. On Thursday, Nov. 10, a Chamber Concert will take place at 7:30 p.m. and feature a clarinet trio, a keyboard ensemble, a low brass ensemble, a string ensemble and handbell ringers. Selections to be played will include works by Mendelssohn, Mozart, Debussy and Brahms.

On Sunday, Nov. 13, the Chehalem Symphony Orchestra will perform beginning at 3 p.m. The symphony will perform works by Beethoven (Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92, Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 37 and Symphony No. 3 in Eb Major, Op. 55 Eroica). The cadenza for the first movement is a unique collaboration between James Pick (spring 2011 graduate) and Kenn Willson (Performing Arts), with a little inspiration from Beethoven.

Both concerts are free. Contact Debbie Hawblitzel at ext. 2620 for more information.

The lunch for support staff originally scheduled for Monday, Nov. 14, has been moved to Monday, Dec. 5. It will be at noon in the Cap and Gown Room.

See you then for holiday festivities!

Did you attend Cultural Celebration Week? Please click here to fill out a quick and easy survey to give us feedback on our annual event.

If you have specific questions, please contact Alex Pia (apia@georgefox.edu), Dianna McIntyre (dmcintyr@georgefox.edu) or Shelley Yonemura (syonemura@georgefox.edu).

If you missed our second annual “State of Diversity Address” with Joel Perez during Cultural Celebration Week, it is now available on iTunes U. In it, he speaks about the ongoing work we are doing at the university to make our community more inclusive and welcoming.

If you have questions, please contact Joel, dean of transitions and inclusion (jperez@georgefox.edu) or Shelley Yonemura, director of multicultural student programs (syonemura@georgefox.edu).

The deadlines for shipping those Christmas packages are posted in the lobbies of the SUB and Beebe post offices – as well as at University Mail Services.

We offer the following U.S. Mail Services: Priority, First Class and Parcel Post.

This USPS link contains the deadlines for these services as well as Express Mail. On this link, scroll down and you will see three tabs: One each for Military, International and Domestic.

Questions? Contact Linda Sartwell at lsartwel@georgefox.edu.

We have chrysanthemums left from Family Weekend. They make great hostess gifts or “I am thankful for you” gifts for the season.

Cost is only $3 each. Come to the Pennington House on the Newberg campus to pick up yours. Or call Evangeline Pattison at ext. 2121 to have one set aside.

We are still in need of many willing servants to serve as ushers at the December commencement ceremony on Saturday, Dec. 17. Hand out programs, direct graduates’ family and friends to their seats, and help make graduation a special event for all involved. All employees who participate as ushers will be paid $25 through payroll.

• See that special student graduate
• Be a part of an exciting event
• Volunteer in a much-needed area of service

Please let Lynn Scott (lscott@georgefox.edu) know A.S.A.P. if this is something you would like to be a part of. Thank you for considering being involved in this memorable event.

We will soon be conducting a test of FoxAlert, the Newberg campus emergency notification system.

In the unlikely event of an emergency, you would be potentially notified through three different methods:

• Cell phone
• E-mail
• Text message

However, for either of these methods to work you must enter your personal contact information in your MyGFU account.

Here’s how you do it:

• Login to your MyGFU account
• Click on SELF SERVICE
• Click on CAMPUS PERSONAL INFORMATION
• Click on PHONE NUMBERS
• On the PHONE TYPE pick list, choose the phone type you are registering
• Type in your contact information
• Click SAVE
• If you need to add a number, first click on ADD A PHONE NUMBER
• Make sure you click SAVE after each change

When contacted by phone, the number you will see is: “503-554-2007.”

Your safety is very important to us. Thank you for your participation!

If you have questions, please contact Jere Witherspoon (jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu) or Nadine Kincaid (nkincaid@georgefox.edu).

Thanks for your attention to this matter, and please enter the requested information into MyGFU today!

A national juried art exhibition, “Expressions of Faith,” opens in the university’s Minthorne Gallery with a reception and artist talk on Thursday, Nov. 10.

The exhibit will feature pieces by artists including Susan Black, David Blow, Martha Chetelain, Kerri Jones, Angela D. Lee and others. It opens with a talk at 4:10 p.m. in Hoover 105 and a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. in the gallery.  The show runs through Dec. 8.

To learn more, contact Cheri Hampton at ext. 2619 or champton@georgefox.edu.

The lost and found tables will be set up on Wednesday, Nov. 9, from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Bruin Den. Please stop by to see if your lost item is there. All items not reunited with their owners will be donated to charitable causes after the tables are finished.

Join us in welcoming Laurel Bunker, campus pastor at Bethel University, as she shares in chapel this morning (Monday). See you in Bauman Auditorium at 10:40 a.m.