The Daily Bruin

Speaker and author Shane Claiborne will be on the Newberg campus to speak three times on Monday, March 8.

Claiborne will speak in chapel at 10:40 a.m. in Bauman Auditorium and be available for a talk-back session afterwards in the Cap and Gown Room. He also will speak that afternoon from 4:40 to 5:35 p.m., when he presents on the topic “Counter Culture: Christians for a New Monasticism” at the Liberal Arts in Critical Issues forum in Hoover 105. Finally, he will speak from 9 to 10 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium.

Claiborne is the author of several books, including Jesus for President, Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers and The Irresistible Revolution. He also coauthored Follow Me to Freedom with Dr. John Perkins. A prominent Christian activist, Claiborne travels extensively speaking about peacemaking, social justice and Jesus. He is the founder of The Simple Way, a monastic community in Philadelphia.

Please note: Claiborne was originally scheduled to speak at 7 p.m.; that meeting has been moved to 9 p.m.

Questions? Contact Kayin Griffith at ext. 2320 or Caitlin Corning at ext. 2673.

The university’s women’s basketball team, ranked No. 5 in national polls, will open the NCAA Division III Tournament with a home game against Louisiana College this Friday, March 5, at 7 p.m. in Wheeler Sports Center.

Louisiana College is making its first NCAA tournament appearance after going 24-2. George Fox (25-2) enters as the Northwest Conference champion after defeating Puget Sound 77-51 in the conference finals last weekend.

Also playing Friday in Wheeler will be Puget Sound (23-4) and the University of Redlands (22-5), who will meet in the other West Regional semifinal at 5 p.m. The winners of Friday’s games will play in the same gym at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 6, for the right to advance to the tournament’s Sweet 16.

Ticket prices for both evenings are $6 for adults and $3 for students, children, and seniors 55 and older. Children age 2 and under are free. Tickets may be purchased in advance beginning Wednesday at the George Fox athletics department office in Wheeler. Northwest Conference and other passes are not valid for NCAA tournament games.

For additional information, contact the athletics department at ext. 2910.

The Department of Performing Arts will present a Winter Choir Concert beginning at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 9, in Bauman Auditorium.

The concert will feature the Women’s Chorale, Vocal Jazz Ensemble, Chamber Singers and Concert Choir. The Concert Choir’s performance will be a preview of its performance at the regional American Choral Directors Association convention the following Saturday. Please come and support our choir students in the first choral concert of the semester.

George Fox will host the Oregon Symphony for its 23rd appearance in Newberg. The concert is free to George Fox employees, a gift from retired George Fox board member Ken Austin and his wife, Joan, founders of A-dec. It is scheduled for 8 p.m. Saturday, March 13, in Bauman Auditorium.

The Austins have provided the university with a limited number of tickets for its employees. These tickets are separate from those to be issued by the Newberg Area Chamber of Commerce to the general public. George Fox employees (halftime and over) may pick up their tickets – limit two per employee – on a first-come, first-served basis starting Thursday, March 4, 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.

On Wednesday, March 10, beginning at 9 a.m., any remaining tickets (again, a limit of two per employee) will be available – also on a first-come, first-served basis – to those who sign up on a waiting list. If you find that you are not able to attend the concert, please return your tickets for another employee to use.

Watch your campus box for more information!

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.

Please send an e-mail to Peggy Kilburg (HR) if you would like to nominate a support staff member or administrator for Employee of the Month for March. Your e-mail should include the person’s name, job title, a concise but specific summary of this person’s  recent contributions (past 30 days or so) to the university, its students, and/or its employees (what was done, who was impacted, etc.), and any other information that you believe makes this person deserving of this award.

Please submit your nomination by Friday, March 12. The President’s Executive Leadership Team will then select the Employee(s) of the Month from the nominations submitted. The winners of both the February and March Employees of the Month will be announced at the all-employee meeting on Thursday, March 18, and each will receive a $100 gift card to The Allison.

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.)

The link on the HR website for staff time sheets is: georgefox.edu/offices/hr/TimesheetFeb10.xls.
Administrator time-off reports are available at: georgefox.edu/offices/hr/Timeoffreport2010.pdf.

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.

Amy Dee and Ken Badley (School of Education) will present “Authorizing Ourselves in the Classroom” at a Faculty Teaching Forum scheduled from 12:40 to 2 p.m. Wednesday, March 3, in Cap and Gown A.

The discussion will cover how professors authorize themselves in front of students and how this happens in a culture of care, “informationism,” and a new generation of students’ expectations.

To reserve a lunch, e-mail Jere Witherspoon (jwithers@georgefox.edu) by 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 2. Everyone is welcome to attend the session, whether bringing a lunch or reserving a lunch.

All faculty — full time, part time, and adjunct — are invited to attend Faculty Teaching Forums (FTFs). The schedule of upcoming sessions is available online. Video podcasts of FTFs will be available on iTunesU.

The university’s science departments will host a Science Open House for George Fox families from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 16, in EHS and Wood-Mar. Come enjoy a fun-filled evening delighting in science. There will be interactive displays, thrilling demonstrations, and a child-friendly dinner. Come join us!

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

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.

Student supervisors, please submit your students’ February time sheets to HR right away – by Wednesday, March 3, at 3 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. If the student is not available to sign it this week, please send it without the signature, and HR will contact the student. Please do not send students to HR to sign their time sheets. Federal Work Study regulations require that students delivering their own time sheets must have them placed, by you, in a sealed envelope.

If you happen to still have any paperwork to submit on a newly hired student who worked in February, please hand-deliver it right away– no later than Monday, March 1. We need to set up students in the system before the time sheets arrive.

Thanks very much.
HR

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.

If there is any possibility that you will use tuition remission during the 2010-11 academic year, whether for yourself, a spouse, and/or dependent(s), you must complete a Tuition Remission Request Form for each person and submit it by Monday, March 1.

Please click on this link for instructions for completing the Tuition Remission Request Forms, including links to the forms themselves. Please be sure to read this information before you begin completing a Tuition Remission Request Form. If you have questions after reading the information, please e-mail Peggy Kilburg (HR) at pkilburg@georgefox.edu for assistance.

For information about the Tuition Exchange program, contact Karlyn Fleming (Academic Affairs) at kfleming@georgefox.edu.

Tickets are still available to see internationally acclaimed pianist Valentina Lisitsa, who will perform for the university’s fourth annual Bösendorfer Artist Concert Series at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25, in Bauman Auditorium.

The performance will feature all 24 of Chopin’s Etudes. Each university employee and student is entitled to one complimentary ticket. Additional tickets are $10 for adults, $8 for alumni and seniors, and $6 for students and children under 12. To purchase tickets, visit music.georgefox.edu, or call the university box office at ext. 3844.

Lisitsa has toured throughout Europe, Japan, South America and North America. She has collaborated with the Sao Paulo Symphony, the Prague Chamber Orchestra, and the Chicago Symphony, and has performed with the likes of Lynn Harrell, Jimmy Lin, Roberto Diaz, Ida Haendel, and Hilary Hahn. For more information, visit valentinalisitsa.com.

Free tickets are available for the Portland Renovation and Remodeling Show scheduled March 12-14 at the Portland Coliseum. The event features hundreds of exhibits with home improvement experts available to show attendees what is new for building, remodeling, decorating and landscaping homes.

Employees can request two tickets each ($8 value) by e-mailing hr@georgefox.edu.

Come support one of the senior business capstone groups at the monthly Community Saturday Market scheduled from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. this Saturday, Feb. 27, in EHS.

There will be food, live music (including Chad Strutz from Just Lions and a local children’s violin group), and a wide variety of goods from local vendors. Participants will include authors Dirk Barram, Jim Foster and Erin Macy, as well as vendors Honest Chocolate and Yamhill Candles. A percentage of sales will go toward the Patrick Kibler Fund and the Women’s and Children’s Shelter of Newberg.

Hope to see you there!

Oregon Symphony ushers are needed for the Saturday, March 13, performance in Bauman Auditorium. The concert will be led by conductor Carlos Kalmar and feature Vivienne Elborne and actor David Ogden Stiers of M*A*S*H fame. The program will feature classical music from composers Richard Strauss, Ralph V. Williams and Frederick Delius.

If you are interested in volunteering to usher for the concert, please contact Danya Ochsner (University Relations) at ext. 2121 or by e-mail at dochsner@georgefox.edu.