The Daily Bruin

The university’s Department of History and Political Science invites the community to hear Carol Swain, professor of political science and law at Vanderbilt University, on campus today (Wednesday).

Presentations include:

• Chapel address: 10:40 a.m. in Bauman Auditorium
• “The Congressional Black Caucus and Immigration Reform: A Study of Failed Leadership”: 3:45 to 5 p.m., Hoover 105
• “Does Political Correctness Threaten Religious Liberty?: 7-8:30 p.m., Hoover 105

Swain, an award-winning author and media personality, has appeared on BBC Radio, NPR, PBS, C-SPAN and ABC, among other media outlets. She rose from being a high school dropout and teenage mother to earning a PhD from the University of North Carolina and a master’s degree in law from Yale Law School.

She is widely recognized as an expert on race relations, immigration, black leadership and evangelical politics.

To read more about Swain, see this press release. For more about her visit, contact Mark David Hall at ext. 2674.

Craving oranges? Check out the baseball team’s orange sale: 20-pound boxes (about 40 oranges) can be purchased for $24 ($12 is tax deductible). Sales start Sunday, Nov. 6, from any George Fox baseball player (they will be selling door-to-door also). Oranges will be delivered Dec. 3-9.

Contact Marty Hunter at mhunter@georgefox.edu or ext. 2914 for more information. This is your chance to be part of something great! Go Bruins!

This Monday, Nov. 7, the Portland Youth Philharmonic, led by conductor and music director David Hattner, will present a free concert at 7:30 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium.

The program for the concert includes: Malcolm Arnold’s Four Scottish Dances; Elgar’s Enigma Variations, and Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 “Emperor”with Fred Lu, PYP’s 2011 Piano Concerto Competition Winner. The concert is a free preview of PYP’s annual fall concert to be held in the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall on Nov. 12, at 7:30 p.m.

The event is free and open to the public. No tickets are required. For more information, call 503-223-5939.

The third issue of The Crescent comes out today (Wednesday)! Look for it in your mailbox. Read about Occupy Portland, a Vanderbilt professor who is speaking today, a cross country team member’s story, and an opinion about donating blood.

The university community is invited to two concerts on campus this Friday and Saturday, Nov. 4-5, during Family Weekend.

‘An Evening of Jazz’ Concert
On Friday, jazz trumpeter and vocalist Byron Stripling will perform with the university’s Jazz Ensemble and a faculty trio at 7:30 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium.

Stripling is a Basie Band alumnus, known as a spectacular trumpeter with a wide range, beautiful tone, and the ability to blend together many influences in his own style.

All employees and students are entitled to one complimentary ticket, which covers admission for up to four people. Tickets are available for pick-up at the Information Center on the first floor of the Stevens Center or can be ordered online by going to this page and following these directions:

• Click the “Buy Tickets Now” link
• Click “Order” for the jazz concert
• Select “1” under the “Family” tab and “Hold at venue box office” in the “Select Delivery Option” field
• Click “I’m redeeming benefits” link
• Enter your university user ID/ name and submit

Call ext. 3844 if you have questions concerning purchasing tickets.

Family Weekend Concert
On Saturday, the university’s Family Weekend fall concert is scheduled at 4 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium. Admission is free. The event will feature performances by the university’s Women’s Chorale, String Ensemble, Men’s Ensemble, Concert Choir and Symphonic Band.

Among the selections to be performed are The Longest Time (Billy Joel) and The Lion Sleeps Tonight (as recorded by Metropolis), by the Men’s Chorale; Caledonian’s Air from Three Scottish Songs and Dance Into the Day (Mark Patterson) by the Women’s Chorale; Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 (Bach) by the String Ensemble; Rejoice Exultantly (Baroque Comoser Calvisius) and No Time (arr. Susan Brumfield) by the Concert Choir; and The Glory of the Yankee (John Philip) and Vizcaya (Vinter) by the Symphonic Band.

For more information about either concert, contact Debbie Hawblitzel in the Department of Performing Arts at ext. 2620.

Student Life is coordinating university employees who are interested in hosting a student at their family’s Thanksgiving dinner. We will be compiling a list of interested people.

If you would like to put your name on this list, please e-mail Jere Witherspoon (jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu) with the following information:

• Your name
• Contact information (e-mail and phone)
• Number of students you would like to host

If we receive any requests from students, we will do our best to match them with interested hosts. You will be notified by e-mail if a student has been matched with your request no later than Monday, Nov. 21.

It’s time once again for the faculty/staff campaign! Gifts from faculty/staff members make it possible for students to receive tremendous opportunities for spiritual formation, vocational development, and character growth.

On Tuesday, Nov. 1, please watch your in-box for a personal e-mail highlighting videos and students’ testimonies of how these types of opportunities at George Fox deepen their relationship with God and prepare them to connect Christ and culture.

Thank you so much for the difference you make in students’ lives.

If you have any questions, please contact Mandria Montplaisir at mmontplaisir@georgefox.edu.

The next all-employee meeting, originally scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 10, has been canceled and rescheduled for Thursday, Dec. 1, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Hoover 105.

In addition, the Thursday, Dec. 15, meeting has been canceled. Please make a note of these scheduling changes.

Mark McLeod-Harrison will discuss “What’s Wrong with Christian Exclusivism?” at Tuesday’s (Nov. 1) “Intellectual Feast,” hosted by the Department of Religious Studies. Join us at 4 p.m. in the Hoover second-floor lounge. Refreshments provided!

Questions? Contact Paula Hampton at phampton@georgefox.edu.

The university’s Department of History and Political Science invites the community to hear Carol Swain, professor of political science and law at Vanderbilt University, on campus Wednesday, Nov. 2.

Presentations open to the public include:

• Chapel address: 10:40 a.m. in Bauman Auditorium
• “The Congressional Black Caucus and Immigration Reform: A Study of Failed Leadership”: 3:45 to 5 p.m., Hoover 105
• “Does Political Correctness Threaten Religious Liberty?: 7-8:30 p.m., Hoover 105

Swain, an award-winning author and media personality, has appeared on BBC Radio, NPR, PBS, C-SPAN and ABC, among other media outlets. She rose from being a high school dropout and teenage mother to earning a PhD from the University of North Carolina and a master’s degree in law from Yale Law School.

She is widely recognized as an expert on race relations, immigration, black leadership and evangelical politics.

To read more about Swain, see this press release. For more about her visit, contact Mark David Hall at ext. 2674.

Over the past couple of years, many faculty and staff have asked me how to get their estate planning affairs in order. It’s been a joy to connect with so many people on this most important endeavor.

I thought it might be helpful to provide everyone a list of resources that can help you in this often complicated area of your life. If you click the links below, they will provide you with downloadable forms that contain several helpful pieces of information.

• Estate Planning Resource Guide
• Estate Inventory Form
• My Going Home Plan
• Distribution of Tangible Personal Property

As followers of Christ we have an obligation to be sure our affairs are in order — thinking deeply about the people and places that mean the most to us. In order to have a complete estate plan, everyone needs to consider developing the following things:

• A will or living trust
• Durable power of attorney (for finance)
• Advanced healthcare directive
• Disposition of tangible property sheet(s)
• Expression of last wishes

Again, to help get you started, click on the links above. I’m here to assist as well, so please let me know if/how I can serve you best!

Working Together,

K. Gene Christian, Estate and Gift Planning Services
George Fox University
503-936-5350/Direct Line

The student film Pushing 80 is still in need of two remaining roles, a grandma and a main gang member, Felix. We will be shooting one short scene the weekend of Nov. 4-5, so we are in need of filling Felix’s part as soon as we can. We need to fill the Grandma’s part by the weekend of Nov. 11-13. Here is the info about the script and the character descriptions.

A car thief gang of five is raiding a small town of specific vintage cars for a car collector. They do this untraditionally by overtaking the car as its driving down the road. The gang meets its match in the form of a 65-year-old grandma in a red 1970 Corvette Chevrolet.

Felix: Felix is the ring leader of the gang who has the final say in the discussions for the gang. However, he gets his instructions from from a higher-up boss. He has been doing this for years now and is confident in his skills and in his gang’s abilities. Felix is a clean-cut 30-year-old. He is not necessarily buff, but rather uses his intelligence the most. He does all the thinking, but sometimes his anger comes out and dictates his discussions. Felix also feels that he must protect the new girl Scarlet.

Mary (Grandma): Mary is the main protagonist in the film. She is a sweet, typical 65-year-old grandma who loves her simple life but also is able-bodied and independent. She used to be a police officer in her younger days, but nobody ever sees that side of her until she is put in a situation that she needs those skills.

If interested, e-mail the producer at choffman09@georgefox.edu or call our director to set up an audition before Tuesday at 831-331-8397.

Faculty: If you have not yet done so, please submit your textbook requests for spring 2012 as soon as possible. The due date was Oct. 1, and we need them to obtain as many used books as possible to save students money. Please this online form to submit your order.

Thanks to all who have already placed their orders!

Bruin Directories can now be ordered online. The directories are a service to the George Fox community, created by a staff within ASC. We have worked very hard to get the book out to the community in a timely fashion, and we are pleased to say that the books are near completion.

Each Bruin Directory is $5 and the total will be charged to the provided department account number. The directories will be distributed through Mail Services. The deadline for placing orders is Friday, Nov. 4. Please place your orders online at this link.

Thank you for placing your department orders! If you have any questions, contact Carly Halverson at chalverson09@georgefox.edu.

Join IT in November and December for 30-minute webinars on FoxTALE, FoxFiles and Google Docs. View the schedule and sign up at this link. Information on how to join each webinar will be delivered via e-mail 24 hours prior to the webinar.

Student supervisors: Payday for student employees is Tuesday, Nov. 15. For us to meet this deadline we need your students’ October time sheets by Thursday, Nov. 3, by 5 p.m. If you are on the Newberg campus, please hand-deliver the time sheets. If you send them with a student, make sure they are 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

The campus community is invited to the George Fox Auxiliary’s annual holiday bazaar Friday and Saturday, Nov. 4-5. The event will feature more than 20 artisans selling jewelry, art, crafts, plants and food.

The bazaar will be held in two different buildings. The main bazaar will be held in the Ron Gregory Atrium between Wood-Mar Hall and the Edwards-Holman Science Center on Friday, Nov. 4, from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and on Saturday, Nov. 5, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Additional vendors will be set up in the Hoover Academic Building atrium during the same times. Admission is free.

For more information, contact Danya Ochsner at 503-537-8369 or Janet Lyda at 503-538-3032.

Friday, Oct. 28, 7 p.m. – Men’s soccer vs. Puget Sound, Austin Sports Complex
Saturday, Oct. 29, noon – Women’s soccer vs. Willamette, Austin Sports Complex
Sunday, Oct. 30, noon – Women’s soccer vs. Puget Sound, Austin Sports Complex
Sunday, Oct. 30, 2:30 p.m. – Men’s soccer vs. Pacific Lutheran, Austin Sports Complex

The men’s and women’s cross country teams will be competing in the Northwest Conference Championships on Saturday, Oct. 29, hosted by Linfield College at the Willamette Mission State Park near Brooks, Ore. The first race is scheduled for 10 a.m.

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

We are celebrating our annual costume contest at the Bruin Bookstore on Monday, Oct. 31. Wear you costume to the Bruin Bookstore (nothing scary) and we’ll give you 10 percent off your in-store purchase!

You’ll also be entered into our costume contest. The best costume winner will receive a $20 gift card for purchases at the Bruin Bookstore.

The university’s fall show, Steel Magnolias, opens tonight (Thursday) and tickets are available at the box office, now located at the information desk on the first floor of the Stevens Center.

Tonight is free to students, while employees get one complimentary ticket each for any of the performances. The box office is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Additional tickets can be purchased in Stevens or online at theatre.georgefox.edu.

The play runs through Saturday this week and resumes next week, Nov. 3-6, in Wood-Mar Auditorium. All shows begin at 7:30 p.m. with the exception of the Sunday, Nov. 6, performance, scheduled as a 2 p.m. matinee.

Stop by, call 503-554-3844 or e-mail boxoffice@georgefox.edu with any questions. A synopsis of the play is available at theatre.georgefox.edu.