The Daily Bruin

If you have a child aged 23-26 whom you would like to add to your medical/dental insurance coverage, now is the time to enroll them (deadline is March 18). The Health Care Reform law allows dependents to be covered regardless of student or marital status, even if they have other coverage at their own employer.

To add your child, you must complete the enrollment form for Pioneer or Kaiser (available on this web page). We cannot add your child based on an e-mail or phone request. By enrolling your child, you are committing to this coverage for one year (through March 31, 2012) unless your child becomes eligible for other coverage through their own or a spouse’s employer (and then you will only be allowed to stop their coverage if you tell us within 30 days of the other coverage start date).

Questions? Contact Lisa Burton in HR.

This is a reminder that the George Fox University Seminary Fair will be Thursday, March 10. Please come by the Hoover lobby from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. to meet representatives from schools that include:

• Emmanuel School of Religion
• George Fox Evangelical Seminary
• Mars Hill Graduate School
• North Park Theological Seminary
• Regent College
• Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
• University of Dubuque Theological Seminary
• Western Seminary

Contact Chloe Lee-Zorn, Career Services graduate assistant, at leec07@georgefox.edu if you have questions.

Come, bring your lunch, and learn what it’s like to live in Afghanistan or the UAE (United Arab Emirates). George Fox students with Middle Eastern ethnicity will share such experiences as growing up in an an Islamic society, living in one of the most highly affluent cities in the world (Abu Dhabi), and  dealing with the daily realities of family and friends in a war-ravaged nation.

These presentations will be interactive, so there will be opportunities for questions and dialogue. Feel free to drop in and leave as your schedule permits.

Join us Wednesday, March 9, from noon to 1:30 p.m. in Cap and Gown Room A.

Questions? Contact Alex Pia at apia@georgefox.edu or ext. 2643.

The university’s International Justice Mission chapter invites the community to its next meeting at 7:50 p.m. Wednesday, March 9, in the Le Shana lobby. The group deals in large part with the issue of sex-trafficking on both a global and local scale, and what steps we can do to combat it.

Two major focuses of the chapter are prayer and how we can get involved in the community. Please come see how you can get involved as well.

Questions? Contact Stephen Kenyon at skenyon09@georgefox.edu.

All are welcome to James Pick’s senior composition recital at 6 p.m. this Saturday, March 12, in Bauman Auditorium. Hear a diverse collection of James’ original compositions performed by 13 performers, including James at the piano. Enjoy pieces for saxophone, flute, violin, two pianos and a choir.

A missions commissioning event is scheduled from 5 to 6 p.m. Thursday, April 14, for anyone going on a missions trip over the summer. I am hoping to get an idea of how many people will attend the event. If you are thinking about attending, please e-mail Roy Abdun-Nur at missionsatgfu@gmail.com.

Food will be provided and it will last just under an hour. We will meet in the Cap and Gown Room.

Please complete the LibQUAL+® Lite Library Survey. If you have already filled out the survey, thank you! If not, please take about six minutes to go to this link and help us by taking the survey.

Only you can tell us how well we are serving your library needs. You also will have the opportunity to win prizes.

A New Abolitionists Faith & Film event – a showing of the film Born Into Brothels – is scheduled Tuesday, March 8, at 9 p.m. in EHS 102. The documentary tells the story of the inspiring nonprofit foundation Kids With Cameras, which teaches photography skills to children in marginalized communities.

We hope you can come and develop a deeper understanding of what life in these communities is like.

The Academic Resource Center is hosting a workshop, “Mid-term Grades and You: What You Can (and Should) do with Your Mid-term Grades,” at 10:40 a.m. this Friday, March 11, in Lemmons 8.

Rick Muthiah, dean of learning support services, and Kathi Gatlin, senior enrollment counselor, will present at the session. They will discuss some ways for students to make use of mid-term grade information available on MyGFU or from their professors.

Please let you students know about this opportunity. For more information, contact Rick at rmuthiah@georgefox.edu.

This Monday, March 7, Kent Thornburg, director of the Heart Research Center at Oregon Health and Science University and professor of cardiovascular medicine, will speak on “Embodying the Dream: Health and Disease in America.” He will present from 4:40 to 5:40 p.m. and from 7 to 8 p.m. in Hoover 105.

His presentation is part of the university’s Liberal Arts in Critical Issues spring lecture series focusing on the future of the American Dream. For more information, please contact Caitlin Corning at ext. 2673 or ccorning@georgefox.edu

If you plan to nominate anyone for the Administrative Staff Member of the Year and/or Support Staff Member of the Year awards, please submit your nomination no later than Monday, March 21. A form can be used but is not required.

Simply state why you think the person is deserving of the award – his or her contributions to the university, its students, and its employees. Indicate what was done, who was impacted, and how this impact was and can be observed. In other words, what makes this person stand out in your mind? Winners will each receive a plaque and a $500 check at the employee recognition event on May 2. Please send nominations to Peggy Kilburg via e-mail or to Box 6108.

Please go to this site if you would like to read more about these awards, see the list of eligible employees and previous winners, or to download and use the nomination form.

Finally, apologies to Jonathan Morell and Erin Cruthirds, who were inadvertently left off the list of eligible employees attached to the e-mail sent on Feb. 24.

The university community is invited to a farewell reception in honor of Janis Tyhurst (Library) from 3 to 4:30 p.m. on Friday, March 4, in the Stevens Center Atrium. Janis has accepted a position in Saudi Arabia and will be leaving the university March 8 after more than 12 years of service.

Are you interested in learning from top executives how to be successful in the professional world? Come to the Professional Executive Seminar on Tuesday, March 15!

Speakers will include the CEO of Les Schwab, the vice president of Medical Teams International and the senior vice president of US Trust.

Join us from 6 to 8 p.m. in Hoover 105.

Faculty, please tell your students about this opportunity.

Anyone planning to take the Graduate Record Exam (GRE) will benefit from knowing the test has been “newly revised.” The test-taking experience and the structure/length have undergone revisions. Go to this site for details.

If you have further questions, contact Career Services at ext. 2330 or careers@georgefox.edu.

Stop by the Cap and Gown Room on Sunday, March 6, between 4:30 and 7 p.m. or Monday, March 7, between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. to take part in the Orphan Experience put on by Children’s Hope Chest. E-mail spirituallife@georgefox.edu with any questions.

Learn more at hopechest.org

Don’t forget: The George Fox University Seminary Fair is coming up on Thursday, March 10. Please come by the Hoover lobby from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. to meet representatives from schools including:

• Emmanuel School of Religion
• George Fox Evangelical Seminary
• Mars Hill
• North Park
• Regent College
• Trinity
• Dubuque
• Western Seminary

Contact Chloe Lee-Zorn, Career Services graduate assistant, at leec07@georgefox.edu if you have questions.

Saturday, March 5, 11 a.m. – Baseball vs. Pacific Lutheran (2), Morse Field
Saturday, March 5, 1 p.m. – Men’s tennis vs. Pacific, GFU campus courts (at Tualatin Hills Tennis Center, same time, if courts are wet)
Sunday, March 6, noon – Baseball vs. Pacific Lutheran, Morse Field
Sunday, March 6, noon – Softball vs. Pacific (2), Morse Field

The men’s home tennis match that had been scheduled for Friday versus Willamette has been postponed and will be made up in southern California when both teams are there playing other teams during spring break March 19-27.

Baseball and softball games are tentative, pending dry weather. Baseball may be rescheduled for Tigard High School’s artificial turf field Sunday and Monday if necessary. Watch for further bulletins, call the sports information office at ext. 2926 for updates, and check the Bruin sports website at gfubruins.com.

What can be done to bring awareness and offer solutions concerning the sex trade industry? George Fox will host a New Abolitionists event next week that addresses the issue of sex slavery at both the local and international levels.

Following is a listing of planned events:

Monday, March 7

• Keynote speaker Tom Davis from Children’s HopeChest, a Christian-advocacy organization that provides support for orphans in more than 70 locations worldwide, will speak during chapel at 10:40 a.m. In addition, a short film, Kavi, will be shown during chapel. Kavi, a 2010 Academy Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Film, is a fictional story highlighting the issue of modern slavery through bonded labor.

• Children’s HopeChest will set up Orphan Experience, an interactive, multi-sensory art exhibit that draws viewers into the stories of orphans by displaying media presentations as well as artifacts, such as clothing or food, that are taken from HopeChest’s program sites. Drop by between 8 and 10 a.m. or 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the Cap and Gown Room.

Tuesday, March 8

• The film Born into Brothels will be shown at 9 p.m. in the EHS 102. Directed by Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski, Born into Brothels depicts the lives of several children living in the red light district of Calcutta, where their mothers are prostitutes. Briski, a New York-based photographer, teaches the children how to use cameras and shows them how to look at the world with different eyes.

Wednesday, March 9

• Stephanie Mathis will speak during chapel at 10:40 a.m. Mathis is the spiritual formation director at Warner Pacific College and an activist for the Oregon Center for Christian Values, which educates Christians on social issues and works to stop sex trafficking in Oregon and around the world.

The university will present its annual juried Student Art Exhibit March 10-31 in the Minthorne and Lindgren galleries. The exhibit begins with an opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, March 10, in the two galleries. An outside jury has selected the work that will be shown.