The Daily Bruin

The Disability Services Office is accepting applications for a student employee whose primary role will be to convert texts into electronic formats for students with disabilities. Other tasks might include reading for a student, overseeing tests for individual students, and communicating with professors to best assist students with disabilities. Computer skill, comfort with learning new technology, and ability to work independently are essential. Training on specific software processes will be provided.

Submit student employment application (from the Human Resources Student Employment Information page) and a letter describing interest and qualifications to Rick Muthiah (Student Life office or Box 6197) by Wednesday, November 11, 2009.

Check out details on the Disability Services website.

Audition for Rodgers and Hammerstein’s A Grand Night for Singing & Alpha Psi Omega’s New Playwright Festival.
 
General Auditions:

Monday, November 9 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. in Woodmar Auditorium.

For A Grand Night for Singing:
Prepare a 90 second comedic monologue and a Rodgers and Hammerstein song with music for the accompanist.

For APO’s New Playwright Festival:
Prepare a 90 second monologue.

Sign up for an auditon time slot on the door to the Theatre and Fine Arts Offices, Ross Center 101.

Callbacks:

Tuesday, November 10 & Wednesday, November 11 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Email Rhett Luedtke at rluedtke@georgefox.edu for details.

Do you have the voice and the desire to sing the national anthem during the 2009-2010 Bruin basketball season? Auditions are scheduled for Monday, Nov. 2, in the Wheeler Gymnasium. Audition a cappella in order of arrival, beginning at 7 p.m.

Open to students, faculty, staff and friends and relatives. Please don’t bring your pets.

October timesheets for student employees are due Monday, November 2. If you haven’t already, please submit your October timesheet to your supervisor to ensure that you are paid on Monday, November 16.  Be sure your name is typed or printed legibly at the top, it is complete and accurate, and you have signed it.  Thank you.

– Human Resources

The Multicultural Club is hosting an intercultural conference Nov. 13-14 on the Newberg campus that will include guest speakers in regards to diversity. Meals are provided (breakfast, lunch and ice cream social). To get details and register online, visit the conference’s website.

Mid-term grades can provide a wake-up call for students who aren’t doing well in one or more courses. 

This session will provide ideas for addressing common reasons for poor performance and alternatives that students have for salvaging the semester.

Rick Muthiah from the Center for Teaching and Learning will lead the session.

Tuesday ~ Nov. 3, 2009
6:30 p.m.  ~ STV 207

All Francophones are invited to attend the presentation of four sketches in French: Y’a un Bug, Il suffit de s’en souvenir, Le Discours and Le Juste Mot. Performances begin at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4, in EHS 102. A reception will follow.

A small band of commuters have already begun to set aside time on Mondays from noon to 1:30 p.m. to “break bread” together in the Bruin Den Annex with the intention of knowing and growing together spiritually.  Any and all commuters are welcome to join us.  Discussions will vary and will be driven by this intention to get to know one another better by learning more about how our life journeys are enveloped by God’s story.

Contact Rusty St. Cyr at rstcyr@georgefox.edu for more information.

Attention seniors who are graduating in December,

Congratulations on your impending graduation! As you prepare to leave us, the university has organized a special event to help you tie up all the loose ends before graduation day arrives.

On Thursday, Nov. 5, we will host the Fall Exodus Grad Fair from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Cap and Gown Room. There, you will be able to:

• Pick up your cap and gown

• Verify graduation with the registrar’s office

• Conduct or schedule an exit interview with Financial Aid

• Visit with Career Services

• Connect with Alumni Relations

• Get information on mail forwarding

• Order graduation announcements

• Get sized and order a class ring

• Order alumni products

In short, all the departments you need to see before you graduate will be gathered in one location. This makes the exit process more efficient for both students and various departments. Complimentary food and drinks will be available, and there will be a chance to win great door prizes.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact Andy Dunn at ext. 2543 or at adunn@georgefox.edu.

Attention Fox Ladies:

Powder Puff Football sign-ups will be on the Intramural board next week. Please stop by and sign up to play. Games will be held on Saturday, November 21 starting at 9 a.m. on the Colonial Memorial Field inside the track.

Each game will be an hour long.  Freshmen will play sophomores, and juniors will play seniors.  The winners will then play each other.

Contact Stacie Laughlin at slaughlin07@georgefox.edu for more information.

Want to act in a comedic short film that will likely be seen at this year’s Fox Film Festival? “Adventures in Matchmaking” is a lighthearted short film that combines themes of misadventure, friendship and the often-hilarious situations that arise out of trying to play matchmaker.

Auditions for the film are scheduled for noon Saturday, Oct. 31, in the Media Center. The cast time commitment would be an initial read through and orientation meeting, as well as one to two weekends of filming (starting within the next two weeks). No previous acting experience is required to audition.

In preparation for auditions, contact Elizabeth Wallace (producer) at ewallace07@georgefox.edu to obtain a copy of the script. Those interested also need to print out a schedule (for the next month) and list any Friday, Saturday or Sunday conflicts.

We hope to see you there!

About a dozen tickets remain for Friday night’s (Oct. 30) bilingual performance of Canta Y No Llores, a play put on by the Northwest’s premier Latino arts and culture organization, the Miracle Theatre Group, in Portland.

Multicultural Services is offering discounted tickets for the 8 p.m. performance. For more information on the show, visit milagro.org.

This is opening night and the audience is invited to stay afterward for a complimentary reception catered by a local restaurant. Visit the Office of Student Life (third floor of Stevens) and pay cash or check for a $10 ticket. This is half off the regular cost. Please stop by no later than 5 p.m. to pay.

The university’s visual arts department will host work by two Biola University professors, Kurt Simonson and Jon Anderson, beginning Tuesday, Nov. 3, through Dec. 2. The exhibit, to be displayed in the Minthorne Gallery, is entitled “Kurt Simonson: Northwoods Journal & Jonathan Anderson: Impasse.”

The exhibit opens with an artists’ talk at 4 p.m. Tuesday, followed by an opening reception from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in the Minthorne Gallery.

The theatre department’s fall production of The Diviners will be showing on Nov. 5-7 and Nov. 12-14 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 15, at 2 p.m. The production is a redemptive tale of a charismatic but backsliding preacher and his close newfound friendship with the eccentric Buddy Layman as they help each other divine for truth, faith and hope.

All George Fox students will receive one complementary ticket for Student Night on Thursday night. Your complimentary ticket is only available at the Box Office in the Bruin Bookstore. Additional tickets are available for purchase at theatre.georgefox.edu.

Correction: The student registration deadline for Professional Preview Day is Monday, November 9.

Professional Preview Day is Wednesday, November 18.  Go to www.careers.georgefox.edu to view the Chooser’s Guide and sign up.

Contact Career Services at ext. 2330 for more information.

Come to Shalom: Taize Service Thursday, October 29 at 9 p.m. in the Cap and Gown Room.  Chapel credit is available.

Friday, Oct. 30, 7 p.m. – Volleyball vs. Pacific, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym
Saturday, Oct. 31, 11 a.m. – Women’s Soccer vs. Puget Sound, Morse Field (note time change from previously announced noon start)
Saturday, Oct. 31, 7 p.m. – Volleyball vs. Linfield, Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym

The men’s and women’s cross country teams will be participating in the Northwest Conference Championships at McIver State Park in Estacada, Ore., starting at 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 31.

For more information, visit the Bruin athletics website at gfubruins.com or call the sports information office at ext. 2926.

Signups are posted on the Intramural bulletin board outside the bookstore in the SUB for the following intramural sports:

Men’s 3 on 3 Basketball
Women’s 3 on 3 Basketball
Dodgeball

If you are interested, please follow the directions on the board before the sign-ups are taken down on FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30th at 9:00 PM.

Please visit the intramural website: http://intramurals.georgefox.edu, and contact Jared Nagreen (jnagreen06@georgefox.edu) with any questions

“Piece together your future” at the annual Professional Preview Day on Wednesday, November 18 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Visit www.careers.georgefox.edu to see the list of professional preview hosts and select your top 3 choices.  Complete the registration form and submit it online by 5 p.m. Monday, November 6.  You will be matched with a professional of your choice and will spend invaluable time at their place of employment networking and gathering information to help with your own career decisions.

One student who attended last year stated, “I feel that all the activities pertaining to my experience were equally interesting and informative, and I thoroughly enjoyed and learned from my experiences.”

Contact Career Services at ext. 2330 for more information.

Do you like showing others ways to be a more effective and efficient student?  Do your friends always come to you to look over their papers before they turn them in?  Do you have a GPA above 3.0?

ARC Consultant applications for the 09-10 spring semester are due Friday, November 13.

Application material is available at http://www.georgefox.edu/arc/application.html or on Job Connect at jobconnect.georgefox.edu.

Contact Rick Muthiah at rmuthiah@georgefox.edu for more information.