The Daily Bruin

The university community is invited to the annual Bösendorfer Artist Concert Series, featuring Italian pianist Gianluca Luisi, this Thursday, Feb. 21, in Bauman Auditorium. This marks a return to the university for Luisi, who will perform a series of J.S. Bach and Franz Liszt pieces – as well as a duet piece, Three Preludes by George Gershwin, with professor Kenn Willson – on the university’s Bösendorfer “Imperial” grand piano.

Luisi, who has performed at New York’s Carnegie Hall and at renowned venues around the world, will perform a 7:30 p.m. concert. All George Fox employees and students are entitled to one free ticket they may pick up at the box office in the Pennington House (Portland Center students and employees may call 503-554-3844 to reserve your ticket). Additional tickets are $12 for adults, $8 for seniors and alumni, and $6 for students/children. Tickets are available for purchase online at this link.

The program’s first half includes a series of Bach Fugues, as well as a performance of Beethoven’s Sonata Op. 31 #2 ‘The Tempest.’ The second half features the Gershwin piece and four Liszt compositions. The event concludes with a performance of Chopin’s Polonaise Op. 53 Eroica.

Luisi also will hold a master class at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 20, in Bauman Auditorium, where he will coach piano performance majors. The public is welcome to attend the class at no charge.

To learn more about Luisi, the series or the concert, visit the above link.

The Master of Arts in Teaching program now offers a Special Education endorsement along with the MAT degree! Please contact Admissions Counselor Beth Molzahn (503-554-2264 or bmolzahn@georgefox.edu) for more information.

If you are thinking of working internationally, then you might want to visit Going Global on your BruinCareers home page. We have this great resource for you on a trial basis through April 2013. Locate countries, jobs, internships, employers and H1B visa information.

Faculty or staff: refer your interested students please.

Contact Bonnie Jerke (bjerke@georgefox.edu) if you have questions.

Do you speak another language? Sometimes have to interpret? Interested in being an interpreter? Registration is now open on MyGFU for an exciting May Term opportunity: COMM 285 Community Interpreting (two credits).

Meeting times will be 8 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m. (eight hours) on Monday, May 6; Wednesday, May 8; Friday, May 10; Monday, May 13; and Wednesday, May 15.

An interpreter breaks the language and cultural barrier between parties that are trying to communicate orally. There is a growing need for interpreters across the U.S. as the new field of community interpreting grows in leaps and bounds.

Community interpreting takes place in medical, social and educational settings. This 40-hour course covers interpreting ethics and conduct, interpreter skills and protocols, how to address culture, the settings where interpreting is provided, terminology concerns and standards of practice.

There is an urgent need for interpreters who speak less common and refugee languages. This course is therefore open to native speakers, advanced students of foreign languages and heritage speakers (those who grew up speaking another language at home). The goal is to prepare aspiring interpreters to approach this new profession with poise and confidence, respecting the role boundaries that allow them to be effective language brokers.

Students who successfully complete the course will receive a Certificate of Successful Completion in addition to college credit.

Instructor
Helen Eby is a Certified Court Interpreter for the state of Oregon and a Certified Medical Interpreter. She has interpreted in conference, medical, legal, church and school settings in almost all countries of Latin America and in the United States. She is currently the Assistant Administrator of the Spanish Division of the American Translators Association.

Eby grew up in a totally bilingual environment, and has been involved in teaching languages, translation and interpreting in one form or another since she was 13. She enjoys interpreting in community settings, teaching, hiking, photography and music. She has taught Spanish at Gordon College, and Spanish and math at Covenant School in Arlington, Massachusetts.

Questions? Contact Deborah Berhó (dberho@georgefox.edu)

The BlueZone Store is hosting a book sale in the Textbook Annex (basement floor of the library) during the week of Feb. 11.

Paperbacks are $1, hardbacks are $2. Cash or cost center charge only. No returns or refunds. Hours are approximately 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday (closed 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.).

Questions? Contact Sandy Gidding (sgidding@georgefox.edu).

The university’s third annual Dalton Lecture will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 20, at 7:30 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium. All are welcome to join us for “The Big Bang, Stephen Hawking and God,” presented by Dr. Henry F. Schaefer III, director of the Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry at the University of Georgia, a world-renowned chemist, and a Christian.

Chapel credit will be given for students, and admission is free to all.

Dr. Schaefer will provide a second lecture on Tuesday, Feb. 19, at 7 p.m. in Hoover 105. This scientific, but lighthearted, lecture is entitled, “Third Age of Quantum Chemistry.”

The Dalton Lecture Series is sponsored by the Department of Biology and Chemistry. More information can be found on the Dalton Lecture page or by e-mailing Jane Sweet at jsweet@georgefox.edu.

Get discounted tickets to see Oregon Ballet Theatre’s performance of Swan Lake at the Keller Auditorium on Saturday, Feb. 16, at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets are all in the middle sections of the first balcony and are $62 each – 45 percent off the retail price of $114. Visit broadway.georgefox.edu to buy your tickets, or contact Mary Monahan at mmonahan@georgefox.edu.

We would love to have you join us!

– Alumni and Parent Relations

All George Fox financial aid counselors will be away at the Oregon Association of Financial Aid Administrators Conference Wednesday, Feb. 6, through Friday, Feb. 8.

Please e-mail your counselor in their absence or call the SFS main line (503-554-2230) if you have an urgent matter to discuss. We will do our best to assist you while counselors are away from campus.

All George Fox financial aid counselors will be away at the Oregon Association of Financial Aid Administrators conference Wednesday, Feb. 6, through Friday, Feb. 8. They will be back to serve students and their families Monday, Feb. 11.

This conference provides important updates to federal regulations as well as valuable training on aid administration. Please e-mail your counselor in their absence or call the SFS main line (503-554-2231) if you have an urgent matter to discuss. We will do our best to assist you.

Some of our best Career Services’ resources are available to you on MyGFU:

• Optimal Resume (now Optimal Career) is a system of professional job-search tools including resume, cover letter, eportfolio, website builders and skills assessment along with interview practice. Any work you complete in Optimal Resume can be sent to the review center where it will be reviewed by a professional in the Career Services office (small fee attached).

• Sigi3 is a comprehensive career-planning system available free of charge. It can help you establish and understand a career direction through career assessments, occupational exploration and careers by major. Your activity is recorded in a portfolio which can be brought to the career office with you if you want further consultation.

• BruinCareers is our state-of-the-art jobs database and employer directory. It has event information and registration along with a resource library. Please go in and build a profile so you can access this valuable information, including student employment, internships and full-time employment opportunities.

Additional valuable resources include our staff located on the first floor of Stevens. Come meet us and let’s do careers together. Contact information: careers.georgefox.edu, careers@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2330.

The last day of January is today, Thursday, the 31st. Make sure you turn in your January time sheets to your supervisor at the end of your last shift of the month. You cannot be paid without your supervisor’s signature.

Be sure your name and ID number is typed or printed legibly at the top, it is complete and accurate, and you have signed it. Payday is on Friday, Feb. 15. If you forget to turn in your time sheet on time, you may not get paid on the 15th.

You received a raise! Oregon minimum wage is now $8.95.

Thank you!
– Human Resources

If becoming a teacher appeals to you, and you are not earning your degree in education, please contact Beth Molzahn in grad admissions to learn your next step toward an Initial Teaching License via the Master of Arts in Teaching program right here at George Fox!

E-mail Beth at bmolzahn@georgefox.edu or call her at 503-554-2264.

Beginning Monday, Jan. 28, the U.S. Postal Service is changing some of its services and increasing postage rates. Here is a summary:

• One-ounce letters will increase to 46 cents
• “Parcel Post” is changing to “Standard Mail”
  • The average increase in postage for Standard Mail (Parcel Post) is 21 percent
  • In most cases, Priority Mail will be cheaper than Standard Mail (Parcel Post)
• U.S. Mail tracking will be available
  • Delivery Confirmation will be replaced by tracking service
  • FREE tracking on Priority and Standard Mail (Parcel Post)
  • Available for First Class, Media and Library Rate mail for a 90-cent fee per package

Questions? Contact Sherrie Frost at sfrost@georgefox.edu.

Thinking about becoming a teacher? Please contact Beth Molzahn in grad admissions to learn your next step toward an Initial Teaching License via the Master of Arts in Teaching program right here at George Fox!

E-mail Beth at bmolzahn@georgefox.edu or call her at 503-554-2264.

Wanted: Four adventurous souls to form an awesome coed team to compete in the 2013 Winter Race to 2025.

Through the semester, teams partner with Wycliffe Bible Translators to raise money for a translation project in Cameroon, Africa. In March, teams will compete with others from around the country in a multi-challenge two-day adventure race in the Cascades (Washington).

If you are interested, contact Mary Owen (mowen10@georgefox.edu) for more information and details on registration and transportation. Ages 18 and older are welcome!

This Thursday (Jan. 24), representatives from 21 different Christian camps from around the Pacific Northwest will be on the Newberg campus seeking George Fox students for positions in youth counseling, hosting, adventure camping, horse camping, challenge course facilitating, kitchen staff, lifeguarding, housekeeping and more.

See the entire list of camps here or stop by Career Services on the first floor of the Stevens Center. Christian camp reps will be in the EHS atrium from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Contact Career Services for more information.

The campus community is invited to an “Intellectual Feast” this afternoon (Tuesday) from 4 to 5 p.m. in Hoover 250. Paul Anderson (Religious Studies) will be presenting “A Bi-Optic Hypothesis.”

Synopsis
For a century and a half, the leading gospel-composition theory among New Testament scholars (the Synoptic Hypothesis) has sought to explain possible relations between Matthew, Mark and Luke — leaving out the Gospel of John. In recent years, Anderson sought to advance a theory that explains the place of John among the gospels.

Seeing John and Mark as having two different perspectives from day one, Anderson’s “Bi-Optic Hypothesis” identifies particular relations between John and each of the other gospel traditions, leading to a new overall theory of gospel composition. Paul will outline this theory and its implications.

Coffee, tea and cookies will be provided. All are welcome!

Save the date! The university’s third annual Dalton Lecture will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 20, at 7:30 p.m. Due to the popularity of this lecture series, the event is moving to Bauman Auditorium.

The lecture title is “The Big Bang, Stephen Hawking and God” and will be presented by Dr. Henry F. Schaefer III, the director of the Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry at University of Georgia, a world-renowned chemist, and a Christian. Chapel credit will be given.

Dr. Schaefer will provide a second lecture on Tuesday, Feb. 19, at 7 p.m. in Hoover 105. This scientific, but lighthearted, lecture is entitled, “Third Age of Quantum Chemistry.”

The Dalton Lecture Series is sponsored by the Department of Biology and Chemistry. More information can be found on this page or by e-mailing Jane Sweet at jsweet@georgefox.edu.

Several books rented for fall semester have not yet been returned to the BlueZone Store. Please note that rentals are only for one term, not for the entire year!

If you have a rental book from fall semester, please return it as soon as possible to the BlueZone Store. Any non-returned rentals will be charged beginning Jan. 28. Please return them ASAP.

Questions? Contact Sandy Gidding at sgidding@georgefox.edu.

Many thanks to those of you who have already given your consent to receive your W-2s online. If you haven’t, please consider doing so to enable us to make it available to you sooner, and to make it accessible to you in MyGFU (self service) when you are ready to print it.

This will save the university the time and expense of purchasing and stuffing paper W-2 forms and envelopes (over 2,000 last January). And, of course, it is also friendlier to our environment. In the future, there will be a $5 charge for replacement W-2s issued and mailed in hard copy.

In order to receive a W-2 in online form only (instead of receiving a paper form), the law requires that you give your consent. This should take you only about 30 seconds to do, so I encourage you to take care of it as soon as possible — perhaps right now.

• Log in to mygfu.georgefox.edu
• From the menu at left, select “Self Service”
• Select “Payroll and Compensation”
• Select “W-2/W-2c Consent”
• Read the statement and check the box to give consent
• Enter your GFU password as a confirmation of your identity and click “Continue”
• Click “OK”

You’ll receive a confirmation e-mail of your decision shortly after completing this process. And just to be clear, you will only have to do this once — not every year.

Thank you,
Melodee Powers (HR)