The Daily Bruin

The Tilikum 10K is fast approaching! Our ninth annual scholarship fundraising event will take place on Saturday, April 9, at Champoeg State Park in St. Paul. It includes a 10K/5K run, 5K walk, and a Kids 5K walk/run.

You can participate by running, sponsoring another runner, or making a direct donation to our scholarship fund. Find out more information and register online here.

All proceeds from the Tilikum 10K are used directly to help under-resourced children and youth come to camp. We appreciate your support!

The Office of Spiritual Life is collecting prayer requests from staff and faculty for the Parents Day of Prayer on Saturday, March 12. These requests will then be given to George Fox parents as they join together to pray for our community. Requests can be specific or general and can be in regards to yourself, students or our campus at large.

Please send your requests to Sarah Baldwin at sbaldwin@georgefox.edu.

Flexible Spending Online Enrollment: Thank you for trying something new! We have improved the instructions for enrolling online and posted them on the benefits web page. Before you start, open the instructions posted here. Also, some have found that it’s easiest to enroll using Internet Explorer (Firefox can freeze at the end).

Emergency Travel Assistance: Because of our switch to Regence as our life and disability insurance carrier, employees who are eligible for life insurance (.75 FTE or above for at least one year) also receive free emergency travel assistance with Medex starting April 1. Review or print details from the life insurance section of this web page.

Remember, open enrollment election forms and any changes are due in HR on March 18. Contact Lisa Burton with questions at 503-554-2183.

Join us on Thursday, March 10, from 5 to 8:30 p.m. to celebrate the opening of a new art exhibit at the Portland Center library. Seminary professor Laura Simmons will share her photography in a show entitled “God Made the Flower Beautiful.” It will be on display until April 27.

Interested in growing your own food this spring, summer and fall? Come find out more information tonight (Wednesday) at 8 p.m. in the Hoover lounge. You can be part of the community garden at George Fox. There’s nothing like home-grown tomatoes from the garden.

If you know of someone whose recent contributions make him or her worthy of being named March Employee of the Month, please take a few minutes to send an e-mail to Peggy Kilburg that includes a specific summary of the person’s contributions (past 30 days or so) and any other relevant information about the person.

The deadline for nominations is Friday, March 25. The President’s Executive Leadership Team will select the recipient, and the winner will receive a certificate and a $100 gift card at our next community meeting.

Newberg-Dundee Police informed George Fox University last week that they have closed as unfounded the case of a reported on-campus sexual assault on April 13, 2010, and are considering criminal charges against the former George Fox student for filing a false police report.

The police statement and other resources are available at georgefox.edu/incident.

The university strives to provide a safe and supportive environment for all of our students and is committed to responding quickly and appropriately to any report of sexual assault or threatening behavior. We encourage students to review the sexual assault policy in the Student Handbook under Community Policies, which outlines reporting guidelines as well as available resources for victims of sexual assault.

If you have questions, please contact the Office of Student Life at 503-554-2316.

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.

Applications are now being accepted for 2011-12 ARC consultants. If you know students who write well, are thoughtful learners, and desire to support peers in their academic success, please encourage them to apply. Students who will only be on campus during the fall semester are welcome to apply. Completed materials are due by Friday, March 18.

Applications and additional information are available at the ARC Application page.

We need your old chairs – recliners or La-Z-Boys (no folding, office or dining chairs). Please consider donating your old chair to Dusty Ward (Hobson, Macy and Sutton Halls AAC) or Sarah Jobson (Hobson, Macy and Sutton Halls AC) by Friday, March 11.

The HMS and Pennington/Carey/Willcuts/Beebe living areas are trying to start a new tradition – “The Chairiot Challenge” – but need your help.

No delivery necessary. We’ll come pick it up! Contact Sarah Jobson for more information at sjobson@georgefox.edu.

Don’t forget to join us for chapel Wednesday (March 2), when Stephen Newby, director of university ministries and center for worship at Seattle Pacific, joins us. The morning also will feature gospel choirs from George Fox and SPU.

The month of March is Women’s History Month. Celebrate with us as we raise awareness, give appreciation and encouragement. In honor of the occasion, there is a pink “awareness tree” in the quad.

Attention all artists! We are in need of a T-shirt design for this year’s James Bond-themed Mr. Bruin pageant. The winner of the best T-shirt design will receive a $5 giftcard to their favorite coffee shop.

Please e-mail your designs to Shannon Donohue (sdonohue09@georgefox.edu) by Monday, March 7. Good luck!

The university’s International Justice Mission chapter invites the community to its next meeting at 7:50 p.m. Wednesday, March 2, 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.

Would you please take a few minutes to submit your February time sheet (support staff) or time-off report (administrators) to your supervisor right away? As always, please be sure it is complete (including your ID number), 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.)

Click this link for staff time sheets and download this page for administrator time-off reports.

A tip to help you remember to do this each month: Set a recurring appointment on your Outlook or Google calendar for the first business day of each month with a brief notation: “Turn in time sheet.” That gives you one less thing to have to remember.

A word about the late campus opening of Feb. 24: If you were scheduled to work, record the hours that you would have worked had the campus opened as usual. This includes temporary employees and student employees. If you were not able to get to campus by 10 a.m. or at all, you should use vacation for the time you missed after 10 a.m.

If you were on vacation or took a sick day on Feb. 24, you should record the full day off as vacation or sick leave.

For more information about campus closure policy, visit the university’s website.

The LibQUAL+® Lite Library Survey is now available online. Please take a moment to fill out the George Fox libraries’ survey about the quality of our service. Click this link to access the survey. To learn more about it, visit this page on the library site.

The survey is available any time of the day or night through Friday, March 18, and you can enter to win prizes!

All Newberg staff are invited to join the Staff Development Committee and special guests Tuesday, March 1, from 9 to 10:30 a.m. in VAC 117 for a time of worship, praise and refreshments. Please join us!

Don’t forget to join us for chapel Wednesday (March 2), when Stephen Newby, director of university ministries and center for worship at Seattle Pacific, joins us. The morning also will feature gospel choirs from George Fox and SPU.

Staff and students: The lost and found cupboards are stuffed to the brim with “found” items! Please come to the security house to look for your lost items before Thursday, March 10, as all remaining items will be donated to the May Serve garage sale (March 12) on that date.

Mark McMinn (PsyD) will present a faculty lecture, “Toward a Healthy View of Food,” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 1, in Hoover 105.

Mark’s presentation will encourage a new conversation about food – one that emphasizes health and celebration. According to Mark, “Today’s positive psychology movement, the material nature of Christianity, and contemporary social movements emphasizing local, just, sustainable food production all converge to make conversations about food replete with hope.”

Please join us.