The Daily Bruin

The university has been working on implementing a new registrar/billing software system for spring semester 2009, and we need your help.

First, please register for spring 2009 courses in Bruindata by 5 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 4. If you have already registered and plan on making changes, please complete those as well. This will help prevent registration delays during the transition.

Secondly, read your e-mails from the enrollment services, registrar and student financial (billing) offices regarding changes. The e-mails will be short with critical information you will need. We appreciate your help and will continue to keep you informed using e-mail and e-nnouncements.

The Portland Center will operate on holiday hours this Thanksgiving week. The buildings will close at 5 p.m. on Wednesday and will re-open on Monday, Dec. 1, at 8 a.m. Have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Enrollment Services office:
Monday:  8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Tuesday: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Wednesday: 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Library:
Monday:  8 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Tuesday: 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Wednesday: 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Bookstore:
Monday:  9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Tuesday: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Wednesday: 8 a.m. to noon

The university community is invited to George Fox’s annual Christmas celebration on Saturday, Dec. 6. Following is a schedule of planned activities.

6:15 – 6:45 p.m.

• Christmas carols and candlelight devotional service at the Centennial Clock Tower

6:30-8:30 p.m. (in Stevens Center, Hoover, EHS atriums)

• Photos with Santa
• Craft activities
• Cookie decorating
• Live entertainment
• Refreshments

6:30—8:30 p.m. (in Stevens Center parking lot)

• Horse-drawn wagon rides
• Bonfire
• Hot cocoa

The Orbis Cascade Alliance, in conjunction with Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), is finalizing work on the new Summit catalog. Summit is the system for ordering books and media from other academic libraries in Washington and Oregon.

On Monday, Dec. 1, the catalog will have a new look and functionality. With one search, this new catalog will allow you to discover materials from both the Summit system and the WorldCat catalog. The service will remain the same, but there will be some changes. Many of these changes are expected to be temporary as we migrate to the new system.

For your convenience, we have listed many of these changes on a link off the library homepage. If you have any questions, be sure to ask a library staff member or a librarian. The library is excited to bring you better searching and discovery tools.

To learn more, read an FAQ on the Summit catalog at the Orbis Cascade site.

Tickets are now on sale for the university’s Christmas Concert, “O Holy Night!,” presented by the Department of Performing Arts Friday through Sunday, Dec. 12-14. This year’s concert features more than 150 musicians from five ensembles in the main-stage performance, and preconcert music featuring six of the university’s chamber ensembles.

Three presentations are scheduled:

Two on-campus performances in Bauman Auditorium
Friday, Dec. 12, 7:30 p.m. (preconcert music begins at 7 p.m.)
Saturday, Dec. 13, 7:30 p.m. (preconcert music begins at 7 p.m.)

Off-campus performance at Village Baptist Church in Beaverton
Sunday, Dec. 14, 2:30 p.m. (preconcert music begins at 2 p.m.)

Tickets may be purchased online now at music.georgefox.edu, or (two weeks prior to the event) at the University Box Office by calling ext. 3844. Tickets are $10 for adults; $8 for seniors and George Fox alumni; and $6 for students and children. All faculty, students and staff receive one free ticket, available for pick-up in the University Store. The concert features reserve seating, so if you have a favorite seat, make sure you save it now.

For additional information, contact Debbie Hawblitzel (Performing Arts) at ext. 2620.

Tickets are now on sale for the university’s Christmas Concert, “O Holy Night!,” presented by the Department of Performing Arts Friday through Sunday, Dec. 12-14. This year’s concert features more than 175 musicians from five ensembles in the main-stage performance, and preconcert music featuring six of the university’s chamber ensembles.

Three presentations are scheduled:

Two on-campus performances in Bauman Auditorium
Friday, Dec. 12, 7:30 p.m. (preconcert music begins at 7 p.m.)
Saturday, Dec. 13, 7:30 p.m. (preconcert music begins at 7 p.m.)

Off-campus performance at Village Baptist Church in Beaverton
Sunday, Dec. 14, 2:30 p.m. (preconcert music begins at 2 p.m.)

Tickets may be purchased online now at music.georgefox.edu, or (two weeks prior to the event) at the University Box Office by calling ext. 3844. Tickets are $10 for adults; $8 for seniors and George Fox alumni; and $6 for students and children. All faculty, students and staff receive one free ticket, available for pick-up in the University Store. The concert features reserve seating, so if you have a favorite seat, make sure you save it now.

For additional information, contact Debbie Hawblitzel (Performing Arts) at ext. 2620.

The Portland Center Library is hosting an art show by Kathleen Jones through December. In the artist’s words: “I strive for a feeling of peace in my paintings. My experiences of hiking in the woods of Oregon and Glacier National Park provide the inspiration for these pieces. I have come to understand more deeply that we are created to love and respond to beauty.”

The university community is invited to see the show free of charge.

Midyear commencement is set to take place at 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 20. Please visit the university’s commencement site to get details, including hooding ceremonies and luncheon information.

Brian Swarts, national coordinator for the U.S. Micah Challenge, will lead a symposium from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 18, in the Murdock Learning Resource Center’s Special Collections Room on the second floor.

Come and meet Swarts to find out about the U.S. Micah Challenge, a campaign that is part of a global network dealing with worldwide poverty. Swarts will discuss the goals of his organization and present some opportunities for George Fox students to get directly involved. Refreshments will be served at 7:15 p.m.

Just a reminder: You must show your university ID card when attending home basketball games. Please go to the ticket table, show your ID and have your hand stamped. Playoff games are not covered.

The School of Management will host a roundtable discussion from 7 to 9 a.m. Friday, Nov. 14, in the Portland Center’s Room 285. Dean Ken Armstrong (School of Management) will moderate a panel of experts who will discuss the global financial crisis.

There are three ways to participate:

• Live from Portland Center. Visit the School of Management’s events site to register.
• Newberg video conference in Hoover 105
• Follow the Web cast

Additional information is available at the School of Management site. Registration for Newberg attendance is not necessary. 

Start your holiday shopping early and enjoy some festive snacks at the George Fox Auxiliary’s annual holiday bazaar and silent auction Friday and Saturday, Nov. 7-8. The bazaar runs from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Friday and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday in the Ron Gregory Atrium.

The silent auction also runs Friday from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and goes from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday in the Hoover Atrium. Several new vendors are participating in the event this year.

The library is having a book sale Nov. 3-14.

Hardbacks are $2 and paperbacks are $1

There is a little something for everyone. Come by and look.

The university’s theatre department invites the community to its fall musical, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Nov. 6-9 and Nov. 12-16 in Wood-Mar Auditorium. Performances take place at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 6-8 and 12-15 and at 2 p.m. both Sundays, Nov. 9 and 16.

The play, directed by Teresa Thuman, is set in the early 1920s, when small-town girl Millie Dillmount moves to New York City. There, she encounters the jazz and glamour of the city, as well as danger and intrigue. The play was adapted from the 1967 Oscar-winning film of the same name, starring Julie Andrews and Mary Tyler Moore.

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, Nov. 6, and Wednesday, Nov. 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 Staff Development Committee would like to say a big thank you to everyone who participated in the Love INC non-food pantry drive. Together, we collected dozens of boxes for those in need, including 3,383 toothbrushes, 558 rolls of toilet paper, 485 containers of dental floss, as well as lots of shampoo, conditioner, baby products, shaving supplies, household cleaners, body soap and more.

Thank you for demonstrating love for our neighbors in need.

– Staff Development Committee

The university’s iTunesU site, devoted to higher education podcasting, is now included in Apple’s public search through the iTunesU tab under the iTunes Store. This marks an upgrade to the site’s profile, as previously George Fox’s site was not searchable in the larger community of iTunesU.

Thanks go to John Taggart and others in IT, as well as the Marketing Communications staff, for getting the site upgraded. We invite you to check it out at itunesu.georgefox.edu.

Two quick notes for users of our Information Commons computers.

1. Six of the computers have now been updated to Microsoft Office 2007 for those who wish to use this newer version of the software.  The updated machines are numbers 13-18 and are located closest to the Reference Desk.
2. Also, we have a new scanner to replace the one that broke over the summer.  It is on computer 18 on the far wall.  Instructions for using the scanner are provided.

The courier to George Fox’s Salem Center will be changing days starting this Thursday, Oct. 30. Mail Services will deliver mail to Salem on Tuesdays and Thursdays. There will be no Salem courier service on Fridays starting this week.

George Fox University is excited to announce a tour of alpine Europe to see the Passion Play at Oberammergau, Germany, in early-summer 2010.

Open to all employees, students, alumni, parents and friends of George Fox, our 11-day tour, departing May 31, will include visits to the beautiful alpine European cities of Frankfurt and Munich, Germany; Salzburg, Austria; and Lucerne and Interlaken, Switzerland. Among many other highlights, the tour will include travel through the Rhine Valley, Black Forest, as well as the Swiss, Austrian and Bavarian Alps. Additionally, visits are planned to Neuschwanstein and Heidelberg castles, and Rothenburg, Germany’s best-preserved medieval town.

The highlight of the trip will be the Passion Play, an inspiring one-day play, dating back nearly 375 years, which is performed for sold-out audiences every 10 years in a magnificent outdoor covered amphitheater with the Bavarian Alps as a backdrop.

To read the full itinerary, request more information, and register for the trip, click here.

Career Services is hosting Getting into Grad School: Admission Made Easy Thursday and Friday, Oct. 30-31. Following are the details:

Two sessions to choose from: 
Thursday, Oct. 30, 12:30-1:30 p.m., Stevens 220 or
Friday, Oct. 31, 2:30-3:30 p.m., Stevens 220
R.S.V.P. to careers@georgefox.edu or call ext. 2330

Presenter: 
Jennifer Pop, Grad Assistant
MS, MA Clinical Psychology; fourth-year PsyD

Available in our Career Center:

• GRE Bulletin (Graduate Record Exam)
• GMAT Bulletin (Graduate Management Admissions Test)
• LSAT Bulletin (Law School Admissions Test)
• “How to” guides for admissions
• Practice exam and graduate school reference books
• Excellent online resources