The Daily Bruin

The School of Business will host a VIP lecture featuring Richard G. Reiten, retired chief executive officer of Northwest Natural, at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 13, in EHS 102.

Reiten will present on the topic “Ethics and Values – Your Code for the Road.” There is no charge to attend.

Reiten served as CEO of Northwest Natural Gas from 1997 until 2002. He joined the company as president and chief operating officer and was elected to the board in 1996. He was appointed to the additional position of chairman of the board in September 2000, a position he held until 2005.

For more information on the event, contact Nancy Almquist at ext. 2120.

The 2009-10 yearbooks are in! The books will be available in the SUB starting Wednesday, Oct. 13, and will continue to be available until at least Friday, Oct. 15. These books are free to sophomores, juniors and seniors and are available on a first-come, first-served basis (once they’re gone, they’re gone). You are responsible to get your own book (just look for the table with the yearbooks on it and pick one up).

Employees, if you work in an area (such as the library or alumni relations) that gets a book for the office every year, please contact Hannah Wilcox at hwilcox06@georgefox.edu, and we will make sure that you get one. Thank you!

Questions? E-mail Hannah at the above address.

Exciting new changes are being made to the Christmas celebration for George Fox employees! After experiencing tremendous growth in the number of students and employees over the last 20 years, the long-held campus Christmas celebration is being retired.

The new event will be hosted for George Fox employees (halftime and over) and their spouses (no children, please), and will include free admission to the performing arts department’s Christmas concert, “It Came Upon the Midnight Clear.” This spectacular performance, involving more than 175 students, is adding a third on-campus concert this year to accommodate all who want to attend.

The celebration is set for Saturday, Dec. 11. It will include:

• Hors d’oeuvres and dessert, featuring special music, Christmas carols, and a devotional, at 5:30 p.m. in the Stevens Center
• Christmas Concert: “It Came Upon the Midnight Clear,” at 7 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium

Hors d’oeuvres reception
Invitations will be sent in the mail. Responses for the reception should be sent to the Office of University Relations by Dec. 6.

Concert
George Fox employees may pick up their tickets – limit two per employee – starting Wednesday, Dec. 1, at 9 a.m. at the first-floor Information Center in Stevens Center. Phone reservations will not be taken except for employees at the Portland and Salem centers. (If you find you will not be able to attend the concert, please return your tickets).

Robin and Ruth Baker look forward to starting this new tradition with you!

An exhibit of drawings by John Calabrese, titled “Black and White: Mood Images,” is now on display in the Lindgren Gallery. The pieces, inspired by film noir, will be up through Nov. 12. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Abby Rine will share her research on the subject “Is Sin Sexed? Luce Irigaray on Sin and Feminine Subjectivity” at an “Intellectual Feast” hosted by the Department of Religious Studies on Tuesday, Oct. 12. Come join us for good conversation and refreshments. The presentation runs from 4 to 5 p.m. in Hoover 250.

The university community is invited to a public lecture by a Rutgers professor, Andrew Murphy, who will present “Persecuting Quakers? The Politics of Conscience in Early Pennsylvania” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21, in Hoover 105.

Murphy has written about religious liberty in general and on Quakers and religious liberty more specifically. Among his many publications are: Prodigal Nation: Moral Decline and Divine Punishment from New England to 9/11, Conscience and Community: Revisiting Toleration and Religious Dissent in Early Modern England and America, and The Political Writings of William Penn. He is currently writing a book entitled Liberty, Toleration, and Law: The Political Thought of William Penn.

Questions? Contact Mark David Hall (Political Science) at mhall@georgefox.edu.

Marketing Communications will host a staff/faculty portrait session from 2 to 4 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 22, in our Le Shana Hall studio. These high-quality studio portraits will be used on the university website and will be available for professional promotional use.

Please call or e-mail Danette Newkirk at ext. 2125 to let us know if you are coming. You can still come without prior notice, but your university photo ID will be required.

Have you wondered how health care reform is affecting your benefits? The HR department will be tracking and communicating the changes as they become effective on the Benefits webpage. Please check this page regularly for updates. There are two changes that affect your flexible spending account – one immediately and one Jan. 1.

Career Services will host a Graduate School Emphasis Week Oct. 18-22. The week will include a “Getting Into Graduate School” presentation from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 20, in Stevens 109; a George Fox graduate schools fair from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21, in the Hoover lobby; packets of information for students; and a discussion blog on Career Services’ website.

Registration for the Oct. 20 presentation is available on Bruin Careers and is limited to the first 40 people.

Interested in seeing what some of our theatre alumni are up to? Come see the staged reading of “Rabbit Hole” by David Linsay-Abaire at the Hillsboro Actors Repertory Theatre in Hillsboro Oct. 15-16. The show stars George Fox theatre alumni Tara (Strever) Beanblossom, Jordan Beanblossom and Jessie (Sarver) Pick, and is directed by Stephen Pick. Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. shows are $8 at the door. The venue is located at 185 S.E. Washington St., in Hillsboro.

Please come and support your theatre alumni!

The sex talk originally scheduled by Spiritual Life for Tuesday night (Oct. 11) has been postponed until the spring. We still look forward to seeing you in Wednesday’s chapel, when we will be hearing from faculty panels on “What I Wish I Would Have Known” at various locations on campus.

For details on what panel is meeting where, visit spirituallife.georgefox.edu. We look forward to worshiping with you.

Interested in living or working overseas, but not sure how to do it? The Big Guide can help. The Office of Career Services has a subscription to this great interactive website that allows you to access its abundant resources for free.

Visit careers.georgefox.edu and find the link under “News and Updates” to activate your free account. Once registered, you can network with others interested in living or working abroad, both inside and outside of George Fox, and can access numerous videos and text resources to help you prepare for your upcoming adventure.

If you have any questions, contact Career Services at ext. 2330, via e-mail at careers@georgefox.edu, or in person at our new location on the first floor of the Stevens Center.

The university’s annual Salsa Dance is set for next Saturday, Oct. 16, from 8 to 10 p.m. in Wheeler Sports Center. The dance will feature live instruction for the first hour for those interested in learning. Refreshments and dance contest prizes will be available.

Questions? Contact Shane Gill at sgill09@georgefox.edu.

Copies of the voters’ pamphlet for the Oregon general election are now here. Pick one up from the counter by the Associated Student Community offices and Bruin Den or get one from the counter in the hallway of Mail Services. The pamphlet has information about the canditates running for office as well as the different measures that are on the ballot.

Thank you to the 155 employees who responded to a request earlier this month to update your ethnicity and race information to allow the university’s data to be in sync with the new reporting requirements of the U.S. Department of Education.

There are still about 350 employees who have not yet taken time to do this; hence, this second request. Your voluntary self-reporting will help the university (and Sheila Abercrombie in particular) more easily and accurately report this data (in aggregate only) on reports such as IPEDS.

If you have not already done so, would you please take just a minute or so to update your information now?

1. Log into MyGFU.

2. Navigate to Self Service > Campus Personal Information > Ethnicity. (The message in the screen mentions “students” but it is applicable to employees as well.)

3. If you indicated racial/ethnic information to George Fox in the past, it will be shown. Respond to the questions, and check the “The information is correct as entered” box.

4. Click Submit.

Again, reporting your race and ethnicity is voluntary but it is very helpful to us as we assess our programs and serve our diverse world.

As in previous years, we are slightly modifying our dining hours in Klages over fall break weekend. They will be as follows:

Friday, Oct. 8

Breakfast: 8:30-10 a.m.
Lunch: 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Dinner: 5-6:30 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 9

Cont. Breakfast: 9-10 a.m.
Brunch: 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Dinner: 5 – 6:30 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 10

Cont. Breakfast: 9-10 a.m.
Brunch: 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Dinner: 5-7 p.m.

The Bruin Den and Villa Cafe will be closed on Friday.

Saturday, Oct. 9, 11 a.m. – Men’s golf in George Fox Invitational, Chehalem Glenn Golf Course

Saturday, Oct. 9, noon – Women’s soccer vs. Pacific Lutheran, Austin Sports Complex

Sunday, Oct. 10, 7:30 a.m. – Men’s golf in George Fox Invitational, Chehalem Glenn Golf Course

Sunday, Oct. 10, 2:30 p.m. – Men’s soccer vs. Pacific, Austin Sports Complex

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

Student Life is hosting a Majors Fair from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 15, in the Hoover and EHS atriums. Encourage your students to check it out!

The Newberg campus will be closed Friday, Oct. 8, for the mid-semester holiday. All offices, the Bruin Bookstore and the library will be closed.

The George Fox Behavioral Health Clinic is offering a free eight-week parenting class for parents of ages 1-18. Build better relationships with your kids and get better behavior, too! Snacks provided. Sorry, no childcare is provided.

Sessions last from 5:30 to 7 p.m. each Monday from Monday, Oct. 11, through Monday, Nov. 29. Classes meet in the new Behavioral Health Clinic building next to the Villa Academic Complex on Villa Road in Newberg.

Questions? Contact Joel Gregor at jogregor@georgefox.edu.