The Daily Bruin

A free live interactive webinar for prospective language teachers is scheduled from 1 to 2 p.m. Thursday, March 4, in EHS 217. The session, entitled “ESL Vocabulary Instruction and Academic Preparation,” will focus on strategies to prepare students for mainstream classrooms.

The presenter will be Dr. Frances Boyd, a professor at Columbia University and coeditor of Longman’s NorthStar series. All interested faculty, students and staff are welcome to attend.

Tom Potiowsky, state economist for the state of Oregon, will speak at a School of Business speaker series event on Friday, March 12, at The Grand Hotel at Bridgeport in Tigard.

Potiowsky will speak from 7 to 9 a.m. on “The Big Dipper: Another Roller Coaster Ride for the Oregon Economy and You,” a session focusing on the economy and the process of recovery. The fee is $20, which includes a continental breakfast. Payment must be received by Monday, March 8.

To learn more, get directions or register, visit georgefox.edu/business/events.html.

DVDs featuring Valentina Lisitsa, the pianist who visited the university for its fourth annual Bösendorfer Concert Series last week, are available for purchase. The DVDS cost $20 apiece and include works by Liszt, Ravel, Chopin and Rachmaninoff. Exact cash or checks, made out to George Fox University, are accepted.

If interested in learning more or purchasing a copy, contact Kenn Willson (Performing Arts) at kwillson@georgefox.edu.

The Community Garden is getting ready for its fourth annual season. If you are interested in finding out what’s involved, please come to a short meeting on Monday, March 1, to find out. This is open for students or faculty or staff and others.

The garden is a great way to have inexpensive, delicious food. You can be a member even if you will be out of Newberg for the summer. Come find out more at the Hoover Lounge (second floor). You have the option of attending an 8 p.m. or 9 p.m. meeting.

If you haven’t done so yet, please fill out this short anonymous survey for The Crescent about the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy surrounding homosexuals in the military. Results will be printed in the March 3 edition of The Crescent.

Thank you,

The Crescent Staff.

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I am looking for two actors, one male and one female, who are available this coming Monday, March 1st, from about 1:40-4. For my Intermediate Directing class we direct short scenes from actual movies for an hour during our class. This Monday, I will be directing a scene from the movie “Penelope.” If you are interested, please contact me at stremayne06@georgefox.edu (If you have a class that gets out at 2:30 and are interested, let me know.) Thank you.

This Monday, March 1, Melanie Hulbert, associate professor of sociology, will speak on issues of body image and popular culture for the university’s Liberal Arts in Critical Issues Forum. Melanie specializes in sociology gender issues and the family. She recently received an award of excellence from WorldatWork Journal for her research on gender roles in the workplace.

Hulbert will speak from 4:40 to 5:35 p.m. and from 7 to 7:55 p.m. in Hoover 105. For additional information, contact Caitlin Corning (History) at ext. 2673 or ccorning@georgefox.edu.

The Trauma Response Institute, coordinated by the Graduate Department of Counseling, is launching a program to assist humanitarian aid workers.

The focus of upcoming meetings is in support of Haitian missionaries and earthquake relief workers. Meetings are scheduled from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on March 2, April 6 and May 4 at the Portland Center. There is no cost to attend.

The purpose is to offer simple tools to help prepare for or mitigate the emotional impact of witnessing severe human suffering. If a Haiti responder flier finds its way into your mailbox, please consider giving it to your pastor, missions chairperson, or friend connected to service in Haiti. Also, for George Fox employees interested in joining a TRI responder peer support team, stay tuned for information about a training in psychological first-aid for peer responders.

You can learn more about the humanitarian aid program at responder.georgefox.edu.

Thanks for sharing the flyers!

Anna Berardi
Director, Trauma Response Institute

Several music students will take to the Bauman Auditorium stage during the first week of March to present recitals. Come support these students as they perform. Admission is free.

• On Monday, March 1, Andrew Magnuson (guitar) and Stephen Crabb (percussion) will present a junior degree recital at 6 p.m.
• On Monday, March 1, Roman Kolyvanov will present a senior degree composition recital at 7:30 p.m.
• On Thursday, March 4, J Rourke (voice) will present a junior recital at 6 p.m.
• On Thursday, March 4, Aimee Smith will present a senior degree composition recital at 7:30 p.m.
• On Friday, March 5, Emily Yarnold (voice) will present a senior degree recital at 7:30 p.m.

Chapel on Monday, March 1, will be the first “Spi.L. Experiment,” featuring different places to engage in different acts of worship. We encourage you to experience an act of worship that you don’t normally relate to, or have a background in. The places and their focuses are as follows:

Prayer Chapel: A Word-Centered Life
Bauman Auditorium: A Prayer-Filled Life
Foxhole: A Spirit-Empowered Life
EHS 102: An Incarnational Life
Hoover 105: A Virtuous Life
Cap and Gown: A Compassionate Life

Sessions will run from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m.

Dr. Chris Koch, professor of psychology and director of assessment, will present the spring 2010 Faculty Lecture, now in its 55th year. In “It’s (Almost) All in the Eyes” Chris will present research combining strategies used to study attention and perception in order to examine how people perceive facial emotions.

The presentation is set for 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 2, in Hoover 105.

If you haven’t already, go pick up an application to be one of next year’s multicultural club officers. They are in the Bruin’s Den.

 Available positions:

President

Vice president

Coordinator

Activities director

Public relations

Marketing director

Secretary

 Apps are due tomorrow @ 5pm. Turn them into the Student Life front desk.

The Career Services Office of George Fox University with help from the Graduate Department of Clinical Psychology is conducting a research study on the college to career transition for women graduating from college and moving into the workplace. We hope to use the results to better serve our graduating women in the future as they face this transition and would like to specifically offer you follow-up consultations if desired.

 The study will involve two survey measures that will take about 30 minutes total to complete, in addition to travel time to and from the Career Services office.  To compensate for your time, the first 30 students to respond will be given a $5.00 Starbucks Gift Certificate.   If you are interested in participating in this study, or would like additional information, please contact Chloe Lee at leec07@georgefox.edu or at 503-839-7765.

Please fill out this short anonymous survey for The Crescent about the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy surrounding homosexuals in the military. Thank you, The Crescent Staff.

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Etiquette Dinner 2010: “Becoming the Better You”

 Come to the Etiquette Dinner: Professional Etiquette for Your Career Success on Wednesday, March 3 from 5:30 – 7:30 pm in the Cap & Gown Room.

 Event Highlights:

– Fabulous 3 course meal plus free dessert @ Connections and Confections

– Professionalize your image; poised and    confident

– Make strong first impressions in the job search

– Learn dinner etiquette from a certified trainer

– Learn about dressing for success

 Proper etiquette is more important than you may think for your future success.

 Ticket sales are extended to Monday, March 1 in the SUB 11-1 pm or by contacting the Career Office at careers@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2330.

 If you have any questions feel free to contact Kendyl Tarbell at ktarbell07@georgefox.edu

 Presented by Career Services, www.careers.georgefox.edu

Come see our own University Players as they present a worship experience through story, drama, movement and song. The “Players Presents” performances are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. both Friday and Saturday, Feb. 26-27, in  Wood-Mar Auditorium. Admission is free; however, a $3 donation is encouraged.

The Players, a touring group made up of eight students, will showcase their talents in this year’s theme, “Threshold.” A short profile of the troupe is now on the university’s website.

On Friday, Feb. 26, a group of women will meet to participate in serving women who are involved in the sex trade in Portland. We will eat dinner together at 4:30 p.m. in the Bruin Den and then leave for Rahab’s Sisters, an organization that provides hospitality and a supportive presence to women marginalized by the sex industry, at 5 p.m.

There, we will listen to and serve women from the streets of Portland. For more information, contact Ashley Brown at outofthedawn@msn.com.

Just a reminder that a senior business capstone group is planning a Community Saturday Market from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. this Saturday, Feb. 27, in EHS.

The event will include food, live music and a wide variety of goods from local vendors. Participants will include authors Dirk Barram, Jim Foster and Erin Macy, as well as vendors Sweetest Thing Cupcakes and Yamhill Candles. A percentage of sales will go toward the Patrick Kibler Fund and the Women’s and Children’s Shelter of Newberg.

On Wednesday, March 3, Holocaust survivor Ursula Bacon will speak at 7 p.m. in Hoover 103. Ursula fled Nazi Germany with her parents in 1939 and landed in Shanghai, China, along with more than 18,000 other Middle European Jews. The family spent most of the war years in a Japanese-controlled “Designated Area,” often referred to as the “Shanghai Ghetto.”

She has written a book about her experiences, Shanghai Diary, A Young Girl’s Journey from Hitler’s Hate to War-torn China. For more information, contact Caitlin Corning (History) at ext. 2673 or Clint Baldwin (Center for Peace and Justice) at ext. 2685.

 

Don’t forget to turn in your February timesheets to your supervisor at the end of your last shift this week, or on Monday, March 1st. Be sure your name is typed or printed legibly at the top, it is complete and accurate, and you have signed it.  Payday is on Monday, March 15th.  Thank you!

– Human Resources