The Daily Bruin

This Monday, Nov. 8, is the last Liberal Arts and Critical Issues lecture of the semester. We will host five speakers who will speak about interfaith dialogue and initiatives. Our guests include Jews, Christians and Muslims involved in interfaith groups in the Portland area.

Sessions are scheduled from 4:40 to 5:40 p.m. and from 7 to 8 p.m. in Hoover 105.

If you have any questions, please contact Caitlin Corning at ext. 2673 or via e-mail at ccorning@georgefox.edu.

The Bruin Bookstore will be open this Saturday, Nov. 6, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. for Family Weekend. Come check out the sale on this year’s new product: Sweatpants, regularly priced at $19.99 each, will be two for $30, and select hoodies, normally $29.99, will be two for $40.

All other imprinted clothing and gifts will be 20 percent off! The Family Weekend sale will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both Friday and Saturday.

Please nominate a colleague that you believe is deserving of the November Employee of the Month award. Your nomination should include a concise but specific summary of the person’s recent contributions (past 30 days or so) and any other information that you believe makes this person deserving of this award.

Please submit your nomination via e-mail to Peggy Kilburg by next Friday, Nov. 12. The President’s Executive Leadership Team will then select the recipient from the nominations submitted. Both the October and November awards will be presented at our community meeting on Monday afternoon, Nov. 15, and each will receive a $100 gift card to The Allison.

The university community is invited to hear Rebecca Addleman, Carol Brazo and Tatiana Cevallos present their research on “Internationalizing Teacher Education.” This final Faculty Research Forum of the semester will take place this Friday, Nov. 5, at 10:40 a.m. in Hoover 105. Refreshments will be served.

All  women employees – faculty, administrators and staff – are invited to a:

Brown Bag Lunch
Monday, Nov. 22
Cap and Gown Rooms, Newberg Campus
Noon – 1:15 p.m. (the event will be live-streamed for all other university sites at noon PST).
Guest speaker: Barbara Palmer

Barbara is senior vice president and market executive of U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management, where she has been employed for 37 years. She has management responsibility for two offices in Portland and Vancouver. Barbara has served on the university board of trustees for 17 years and also participates on boards for Transitional Youth, United Way Campaign, Medical Teams International, and Employers for Excellence in Education.

From her wealth of experience, Barbara will share with us her leadership journey and thoughts about mentoring and being mentored.

The Women’s Leadership Development committee invites all women employees on the Newberg campus to join us for this event as we continue exploring leadership development. Please bring your own lunch to this event. Beverages and cookies will be served.

Tickets are still available for the university’s fall theatre production, Euripides’ Ion. The show is a world premiere of Paul D. Streufert’s translation of the Greek tragedy.

The show runs this Thursday through Saturday, Nov. 4-6, and the following Thursday through Sunday, Nov. 11-14, in Wood-Mar Auditorium. Performances are scheduled at 7:30 p.m. each night with the exception of the Sunday, Nov. 14 show, scheduled as a 2 p.m. matinee.

All George Fox University employees receive one complimentary ticket. Students will be admitted free on both Thursdays. Your complimentary ticket is only available at the Box Office in the Bruin Bookstore. Additional tickets are $12 for adults, $8 for alumni and seniors, and $6 for students and children under 12. To purchase tickets or read a synopsis of the play, visit theatre.georgefox.edu.

The university’s Center for Global Studies and Center for Peace and Justice are hosting a panel Tuesday, Nov. 2, related to the panelists’ participation at the Lausanne Movement’s Third Congress on World Evangelization in Cape Town, South Africa, in October. Chapel credit is available for those students who attend.

Panel members include President Robin Baker, Sarita Gallagher (Religious Studies) and the university’s missional-practitioner-in-residence, David Chronic.

Join us at 7:30 p.m. in Hoover 105. A reception will follow.

For more information on the Lausanne Movement, visit lausanne.org. For more information on this event, please contact Melanie Newell at mnewell@georgefox.edu.

This is a reminder that the Bruin Bookstore and textbook annex will be closed all day this Wednesday, Nov. 3, for a transitional inventory. The Box Office will continue to do ticket sales right outside the bookstore between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.

The Bruin Bookstore and textbook annex will be closed all day on Wednesday, Nov. 3, for a transitional inventory. The Box Office will continue to do ticket sales right outside the bookstore between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.

Did you know?
There are children at Sitton Elementary (in North Portland) who don’t have food to eat on the weekend.
It’s true.

Wanna Help?
Bring A Donation of non-perishable items OCT.25 – NOV.6

Portland Center staff & students are teaming together to fill our main lobby with non-perishable items for these kids. Bring your donation to the lobby anytime. Our goal is to see the area overflowing with donations.

Non-perishable food ideas:

• Instant oatmeal
• mini boxes of dry cereal
• Breakfast bars
• canned beef, chicken, ham or tuna
• small jars of mayonnaise
• mac & cheese cups
• fruit cups
• dried fruit
• nuts
• cheese & cracker snacks
• peanut butter & jelly
• canned vegetables
• canned meals-ravioli, etc

If you have questions or would like to volunteer to help pick-up the food from the classrooms or sort it, please contact

Bonnie Nakashimada by email or Janis Sanford by email or phone 503.554.6164

The university community is invited to the final Faculty Research Forum of the semester, to be held Friday, Nov. 5, from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. in Hoover 105. The forum will feature Rebecca Addleman, Carol Brazo and Tatiana Cevallos speaking on their research in leading MAT students through the transformative learning experience of intercultural immersion.

Now is the time to submit your request for business cards. Marketing Communications will be processing a business card order soon. Place your order directly with B&B Print Source by Tuesday, Nov 9.

The login user ID is “gfubc” and password is “gfu123” (please save for future reference). Contact Danette Newkirk (Marketing Communications) if you have any questions.

Student supervisors: Pay day for student employees is Monday, Nov. 15. For us to meet this deadline, we need your students’ October time sheets by Wednesday, Nov. 3, by 5 p.m.

Please be sure the student’s name, ID number and cost center number is legible on each one. Also, don’t forget to sign them and be sure the students did as well. Please do not send students to HR to sign their time sheets.

Thanks so much for helping us get our students paid in a timely manner!

HR

The Bruin Bookstore Textbook Annex is in the process of returning all overstock textbooks to publishers in anticipation of the Nov. 1 transition. All online textbook ordering has been disabled for all programs. The textbook annex will be closed during this process.

Thank you for your patience. We look forward to continuing to serve you under the management of Validis Resources after Nov. 1.

The university will host jazz saxophonist Allan Chase, who has performed with some of the nation’s top jazz musicians, at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 5, in Bauman Auditorium. The concert is being hosted in conjunction with Family Weekend.

All employees and students are entitled to one individual complimentary ticket, available for pick-up in the Bruin Bookstore. Additional tickets cost $10 (good for a family of four), and can be purchased by calling the University Box Office at ext. 3844, online at familyweekend.georgefox.edu, or in the lobby the night of the concert.

Chase will be the featured artist at the fall jazz concert, performing with the university’s Jazz Ensemble and a faculty trio. He is chair of the ear training department at Berklee College of Music in Boston and leads the Allan Chase Trio and the Allan Chase Quartet. Chase has been a soloist on 35 jazz recordings and performed with artists that include Rashied Ali, Joe Morris, Gunther Schuller and John McNeil.

For more information about the concert, contact Debbie Hawblitzel in the Department of Performing Arts at ext. 2620.

Tickets are now available for the university’s fall theatre production, Euripides’ Ion. The show is a world premiere of Paul D. Streufert’s translation of the Greek tragedy.

Show dates are Thursday through Saturday, Nov. 4-6, and the following Thursday through Sunday, Nov. 11-14, in Wood-Mar Auditorium. Performances are scheduled at 7:30 p.m. each night with the exception of the Sunday, Nov. 14 show, scheduled as a 2 p.m. matinee.

All George Fox University employees receive one complimentary ticket. Students will be admitted free on both Thursdays. Your complimentary ticket is only available at the Box Office in the Bruin Bookstore. Additional tickets are $12 for adults, $8 for alumni and seniors, and $6 for students and children under 12. To purchase tickets or read a synopsis of the play, visit theatre.georgefox.edu.

Come wish Candy Schlott farewell at 3 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 26, in the Cap and Gown Room. Candy has been the textbook coordinator for nearly 10 years and her last day of work will be Friday, Oct. 29.

The Bruin Bookstore is hosting one of its largest sales ever in the Cap and Gown Room Friday and Saturday, Oct. 22-23, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

This is the perfect opportunity for you to select gift items for Christmas and other special events. The discounts will never be bigger … please join us!

The all-employee meetings originally scheduled for Oct. 28 and Nov. 24 have been canceled. Instead, an all-employee meeting is scheduled from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 15, in Bauman Auditorium (note the location change).

For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available for viewing at stream.georgefox.edu/live/commmtg.sdp.  If you have any problems connecting, contact the Service Desk at ext. 2569. In addition, a chat room has been set up to allow for interaction. A video recording of the meeting will be available for viewing in the days following the meeting at itunesu.georgefox.edu.