The Daily Bruin

The semester’s last issue of The Crescent comes out today (Wednesday). Check it out!

If you are not planning on using your employee tickets for the Christmas Concert on Sunday, Dec. 11, please return them to the Box Office. The concert is sold out and there are community members who would like to attend.

Thanks!

The countdown to finals has begun! This year a group of students are collaborating with the university’s Center for Peace and Justice and Center for Global Studies to run a book drive in partnership with Better World Books to raise money for Invisible Children, an organization dedicated to bettering the lives of children in Central Africa through advocacy and education.

The book drive begins Monday, Dec. 12, and ends Friday, Dec. 16. Drop books in the four donation bins on campus: in the Stevens Center lobby, Bruin Den, EHS Atrium and outside the bookstore.

The Rationale
Through this book drive, unwanted books become the means to rebuild
 schools and provide scholarships to students in northern Uganda.

On college campuses,
 many
 thousands of
 amazing
 books are
 thrown out every year at the end of the semester. Because books
 change edition
s so frequently, there are always many books that the bookstore buys
 back for pennies, or
 not at all. These are the books we want you to donate. Some
 of you will
 even
 donate books
 you can sell back because
 you want to support the
 cause.

Which Books to Donate
Textbooks are
 the
 best
, but
 any book
 coming from our campus will
 do, including everything from classical
 fiction to a
 book on microwave
 cooking.

Students, staff, faculty and administrators: Don’t hesitate to donate as many books as you can. If they can’t be sold by Better World Books, at least they will be recycled instead of filling landfills.

If you have specific questions about which books qualify, please e-mail Melanie Newell at mnewell@georgefox.edu or visit this link.

Please note changes in courier service during the holiday season.

Courier service to the Salem campus will be on the following days: Thursday, Dec. 8; Monday, Dec. 12; and Thursday, Dec. 15. There will be no courier service to Salem Dec. 16 through Jan. 6. Normal Monday and Thursday delivery to Salem will resume on Jan. 9, 2012.

Service to the Portland Center will be every day, Monday through Friday, except during university holidays. There will be no service on Dec. 23, 26 and 27, and no service on Monday, Jan 2, 2012.

Questions or concerns? Please contact Sherrie Frost at ext. 2556.

The MLK Serve Day is coming up! Join us with 10 other universities in serving the Portland community on Monday, Jan. 16, 2012.

We are making signing up easy. Just come to the Bruin Den today (Tuesday) or Wednesday from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and get registered. This will be a fun day to serve, make new friends and share Christ’s love with the community. Breakfast, lunch and a free T-shirt will be provided!

You can also sign up at this link by clicking “Register Here.”

For more information, visit the event’s Facebook page or contact Shelley Yonemura (syonemura@georgefox.edu).

As part of the diversity education workshop series, the Office of Transitions and Inclusion is hosting a workshop on working with international students. The workshop will be facilitated by Alex Pia and Diana McIntyre and take place on Monday, Dec. 12, from 3 to 5 p.m. in Stevens 209.

If you would like to attend, you must R.S.V.P. by 5 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 9, to either Joel Perez (jperez@georgefox.edu) or Abby Burgess (aburgess@georgefox.edu).

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.