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 This seminar costs $50 per person. To register please contact Jack Lyda at 503.554.6188. You will need to pay the fee and pick-up the materials before the session. 

A career management seminar is scheduled at the Portland Center from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, March 14. Sponsored by the School of Professional Studies, the seminar is for those interested in discovering their God-given abilities and translating them into organizations, positions, and job titles. Also covered are networking resources, resume writing, and what will it take to be hired in this job market.

Seminar leader Peter DePaoli has 30 years of career guidance experience and is an adjunct professor in the SPS program. Contact him at pjbraveheart@juno.com to learn more.

Mark your calendars for next week’s events presented by the Department of Performing Arts …

The annual Honors Recital will be held at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 16, in Bauman Auditorium. This recital features select students chosen from the top performers in our Honors Recital competition, including Matt Hill (trumpet), Bethany Taft and Becca Couch (piano duet), Joseph Forster (piano), Kamila Kuhn (flute), Nick Luchterhand (alto saxophone), Cameron DeWhitt (piano), James Pick (piano), Jennie Fryer (mezzo-soprano), Emily Yarnold (soprano), Becca Couch (mezzo-soprano), Qingquan “Tara” Li (piano), Julianne Kilmer (soprano), and Ben Tissell (baritone). Please join us for an evening of fabulous music and support the hard work of our students.

On Wednesday, March 18, Julianne Kilmer (soprano) will present her senior recital at 7:30 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium.

The Winter Band Concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 19, in Bauman Auditorium.

Finally, on Friday, March 20, a Vocal Masterclass will be held in Ross 208 at 12:40 p.m.

All events are free.

The Department of Performing Arts presents the following events this week in Bauman Auditorium:

On Thursday, March 12, Emily Nicole Jones (mezzo-soprano) and Emily Jackson (soprano) will present their senior recital at 7:30 p.m.

On Friday, March 13, the George Fox University Jazz Band will perform at 7:30 p.m.

On Saturday, March 14, Teddi Teague (mezzo-soprano) will present her senior recital at 7:30 p.m.

Admission is free for all events.

Employees are invited to attend an all-community meeting from 4 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 17, in Hoover 105. The meeting will provide employees an opportunity to receive campus updates. Your participation is strongly encouraged.

For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available for viewing at stream.georgefox.edu/live/commmtg.sdp. For best results, use Mozilla Firefox for your web browser, and your computer must have QuickTime Player installed. Simply copy the link into the address bar of your browser. If you have any problems, contact the Service Desk at ext. 2569.

After 5 p.m. during the week and on Saturdays, we have been extended an opportunity to use the parking area across from the South building’s west entrance in the Triangle Terrace complex. The owners have asked however, that we DO NOT park directly in front of the buildings.

Please also DO NOT park in the lot during regular business hours or leave your car parked in their lot overnight. Your car may be towed. Please abide by the guidelines so that we can maintain our positive relationship with our neighbors.

One note about our own parking areas: DO NOT park along yellow or red curbs or in the loading zones. We have established these areas for safety purposes.

For questions, please email Janis Sanford, Site Supervisor.

As a preventative security measure, all exterior doors at the Portland Center South Building will automatically lock at 7:15 p.m. and will be locked ALL day on Saturdays.

You will be required to use your GFU ID card in the card reader to gain access to the building after 7:15 p.m. or on Saturdays. You do currently need your ID card to access the North building at all times.

Doors will NOT be allowed to be propped open.

Please stop by the front office during regular business hours (Monday-Thursday 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. or Friday 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.) to have your ID card checked for validity. If your card is faulty, a new one will be printed for you free of charge.

If you have questions, please contact Janis Sanford, Site Supervisor by email or by phone at 503-554-6164.

The Department of Performing Arts will present its annual Honors Recital at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 16, in Bauman Auditorium. This recital features select students chosen from the top performers in our Honors Recital competition. Please join us for an evening of fabulous music and support the hard work of our students.

You can now access the university’s Safety Committee minutes on FoxFiles. Follow the instructions below to bookmark them.

1. Log in to FoxFiles.

2. Click the yellow folder titled “Root” on the upper left side.

3. On the right side of the screen, click the “Committees” folder and then the “Safety Committee” folder.

4. In the dark blue band at the top, to the right of the directory name, click the blue ribbon with plus sign icon.

5. A bookmark will be added to your list of bookmarks on the left.

6. When you log in to FoxFiles again, you can just click the bookmark on the left to quickly go to the “Safety Committee” directory.

Tilikum Center for Retreats and Outdoor Ministries will host its seventh annual run/walk event to raise funds to get under-resourced children and youth to summer camp. The event is scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday, April 18, at Champoeg State Park.

Participants raise donations per kilometer that they run or walk, with a minimum donation of $35 required to participate in the event. For children 12 and younger, a $5 minimum is required. Participants will receive a T-shirt and prizes will be awarded. This year, there will be special prizes for teams. Gather people from your department, your floor, or any group.

If you are interested in competing as a team of five or more, please call Tilikum at 503-538-2763. Check out 10K information at camptilikum.org.

George Fox will host the Oregon Symphony in its 21st appearance in Newberg at 8 p.m. Friday, March 20. The concert is free to George Fox employees — a gift from George Fox board member Ken Austin and his wife, Joan, founders of A-dec.

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 (half time and over) may pick up their tickets — limit two per employee — on a first-come first-served basis starting at 9 a.m. Thursday, March 12, at the first floor Information Center in Stevens Center. Phone reservations will not be taken except for employees at the Portland and Salem centers.

Beginning at 9 a.m. Wednesday, March 18, 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.

If you have not already done so, please submit your February time sheet (support staff) or time-off report (administrators) this week. Please be sure it is complete, 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.

We have added spaces to include your Cost Center and Employee ID numbers since that information is needed to access your record in PeopleSoft, so please take an extra moment to provide that information.

The Time-Off Report Form and the February Time Sheet Form are available on the HR site.

How would you like to live in a country with an inflation rate of 231 billion percent? This year’s Peacemaking Forum speaker, Victor Nakah, lives and works in Zimbabwe, where an uncontrolled rate of inflation is only one of the problems that have to be faced on a daily basis. Nakah is a college president and pastor and will be speaking at a number of the forum events Monday and Tuesday, March 9-10.

Monday, March 9
10:40-11:30 a.m.
“The Greatest Commandment,” Victor Nakah
Chapel, Bauman Auditorium

12:45- 3:45 p.m.
“The Imprint of Colonialism in Zimbabwe,” Victor Nakah
Portland Center, American Church History class

1:40-2:30 p.m.
“Beyond Our Differences,” DVD and discussion led by Kendra Irons (Religious Studies)
Hoover 206, World Religions class

3-4 p.m.
“Building Peace on a Full Stomach,” Deborah Scott, Mennonite Central Committee
Stevens 101

6-7 p.m.
Informal meal With Victor Nakah, $5,  Bruin Den Annex
R.S.V.P. to Center for Peace and Justice, ext. 2685

7:30-9 p.m.
The Woolman Lecture: “Jesus, the Ancestor of Peace,” Victor Nakah
Calder Lecture Hall, Lemmons 8; reception following

Tuesday, March 10
2:45-4 p.m.
“Possibilities for Peacemaking in Zimbabwe,” Victor Nakah
Stevens 109, International Conflict and Peace class

On Wednesday, March 4, from 6 to 8:30 p.m., the Portland Center will sponsor a free resource event, Re-Boot, for people experiencing economic distress due to changes in our economy. Cosponsored by the Graduate Department of Counseling’s Individual & Family Matters Counseling Center and the Trauma Response Institute, it will take place in the Portland South building.

The event will host individuals and organizations offering information on a variety of topics, including where to turn for housing assistance, maximizing shopping dollars, job searching on the Internet, managing pet care on a tight budget, and helping children understand changes in the family’s living situation.

Room 155 in the Portland South building will serve as the main information area. In a separate classroom, people will get a chance to view a variety of dollar-stretching video clips from the numerous consumer advice segments aired by local television stations. Five-minute neck and hand massages, as well as yoga exercises parents can teach their children, also will be offered.

The Portland South building will be open at 5:30 p.m. for participating organizations to set up their information tables. We’ll also set aside the back portion of the lobby for childcare. We’re inviting all members of the George Fox community to participate according to your interest and availability.

If you have an idea for a table, are willing to help out with childcare, or would like to help usher guests from one arena to another, please contact Amy McClung, our volunteer coordinator, at ext. 6060. For more information, you may also contact Anna Berardi at ext. 6144.

George Fox received the lone first-round bye in the NCAA Division III Women’s Basketball National Tournament and will open the tournament with a home game Saturday, March 7, against the winner of a first-round game between Chapman University and Occidental College.

Saturday’s game in the Wheeler Sports Center’s Miller Gym begins at 7 p.m. Tickets are $6 for adults and $3 for students, children and seniors 55 and older. Advance tickets will go on sale in the George Fox athletics office on Wednesday and must be purchased in person. Tickets also will be available at the door. Regular season passes are not valid for the NCAA playoffs.

Campus station KFOX Radio will webcast the game, and LiveStats and live video streaming also will be available.

George Fox, ranked No. 2 in the USA Today/ESPN/Women’s Basketball Coaches Association poll and No. 3 in the D3hoops.com poll, is one of two remaining undefeated teams in D-III women’s basketball. The Bruins will be making their third straight appearance in the national tournament, fourth in five years, and sixth in 10 seasons of NCAA eligibility. They have a 7-5 record in NCAA postseason play, reaching the “Sweet 16” in 2000, 2005, and 2008, and the “Elite 8” in 2005.

The Bruins earned the Northwest Conference’s automatic bid to the playoffs by winning the conference tournament with victories over Whitman College and the University of Puget Sound.

The university’s theatre department invites the community to its spring production, The Triumph of Love, March 5-7 and March 12-15 in Wood-Mar Auditorium. Performances take place at 7:30 p.m. March 5-7 and 12-14 and at 2 p.m. on March 15.

The play, directed by Rhett Luedtke (Performing Arts), is an 18th-century romantic comedy filled with all the confusions and complexities of love. Princess Leonide’s world turns upside down when she falls in love with a young man who can rightfully usurp her kingdom. Unfortunately, her love interest is being tutored by an over-rational philosopher who hates love and has taught the young man to hate women. So Leonide and her maid, Corine, dress up as men, invade the philosopher’s estate and try to prove to the men that love conquers all.

Employees receive one complimentary ticket, available for pick-up at the University Store. Students are welcome to see the show free of charge on Thursday, March 5, and Thursday, March 12, and may pick up those tickets at the University Store. The cost is $10 for general admission, $8 for seniors and alumni, and $6 for students and children under 12. To purchase tickets or find out more, visit theatre.georgefox.edu.

The Department of Performing Arts continues the busy recital season this week with exciting performances from our students. All events will be held in Bauman Auditorium.

On Wednesday, March 4, Chris Guyer, clarinet, will present a senior recital at 7:30 p.m.

On Friday, March 6, from 12:40 to 1:30 p.m., the second Students in Recital of the semester is scheduled. Then, at 7:30 p.m. that evening, pianists Kenneth Willson, Barbara Stewart, Dan Miller, Becca Couch, Bethany Taft, Joseph Forster, James Pick, Cameron DeWhitt, Allen Cassell, Andrew Payne, and Beth Sellers will present a “Multi-Piano Extravaganza.”

Finally, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 7, (please note the time change), Emily Yarnold, soprano, and Ashley Salisbury, mezzo-soprano, will present their junior recital.

Please join us in supporting our students. Admission is free.

Appointment times are still available with Shane Roghaar, our TIAA-CREF representative, who will be available for one-hour meetings between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. March 10 (Portland Center), March 11 (Newberg) and March 12 (Newberg). You may make an appointment with him to discuss your investments using the online reservation system. See the invitation posted on the HR/Benefits Web page.

Employees in other locations, or those who are not available at this time, may call Shane to arrange a telephone consultation at 503-452-6981.

George Fox undergraduate and graduate students are eligible to apply for student research funding through the Richter Scholarship program. The second round of scholarship applications are due by 4 p.m. Tuesday, March 31. The program provides stipends and supply funds for research in collaboration with a faculty member.

Please turn in applications to Carol Jaquith (Psychology) at Box 6127, or deliver to Hoover 110. For details, visit the university’s Richter Scholarship page.

Ushers are needed for the Oregon Symphony concert scheduled in Bauman Auditorium at 8 p.m. Friday, March 20. Ushers also are needed for the Worcester Cathedral Choir event scheduled for Monday, April 6. Please contact Danya Ochsner (University Relations) at ext. 2121 if you can help.

Ticket and event information on both concerts will be forthcoming in e-nnouncements.

Friday, Feb. 27, marked the advent of employees no longer receiving printed direct deposit statements. Instead, employees will be able to view (and print) their pay statements through PeopleSoft by following these simple steps:

• If you do not already access PeopleSoft, you can use this link to get to the sign-in page. If you haven’t already added the login address to your favorites, this would be a good time to stop and do that.
• Use the same user ID and password that you use to login to e-mail and Bruindata.
• Open “Self Service” in the menu on the left and click on “Payroll and Compensation.” You will see a list of all of your pay statements that have been processed in PeopleSoft (beginning with our first payroll on Oct. 31) with some basic information included in each of the columns.
• Click on the pay date in the far left column labeled “Check Date” to open your statement as a PDF file. You can then print it if you want a hard copy, you can save the PDF file to another folder, or you can just refer to it again in the future in PeopleSoft.

Please note: If you have difficulty getting the self-service system to function correctly, please contact the IT service desk at ext. 2569.

This new process helps the university be a good steward of both financial and natural resources by reducing paper and envelope usage. It also will save significant time for staff in both HR and Mail Services.

Employees who are not on direct deposit will continue to receive their paychecks with statements attached through the mail. However, all employees (except student employees) are strongly encouraged to sign up for direct deposit.