The Daily Bruin

Students are invited to support their peers at this year’s Christmas Concert, scheduled Dec. 9-11 in Bauman Auditorium. Students who attend Friday night’s 7:30 p.m. performance are entitled to one free ticket.

You can select your free concert ticket online at this link. If you elect to attend one of the other performances, you may purchase tickets at the same link. There is another 7:30 p.m. performance on Saturday and a 2:30 p.m. matinee on Sunday.

Questions? Contact Debbie Hawblitzel at dhawblit@georgefox.edu.

Contemplative Worship is held every Thursday at 10:50 a.m. in the Prayer Chapel! Join us this week as we explore the Examen, a prayerful reflection of gratitude.

Robin and Ruth Baker cordially invite employees to celebrate together the great mystery of Christ the Lord at the Christmas Concert on Sunday, Dec. 11, at 2:30 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium.

Employees are entitled to four complimentary tickets for Sunday’s matinee or a single ticket for any of the other performances (on Dec. 9 or 10). Following the concert on Sunday, employees are invited to a Christmas open house at the president’s home from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at 402 S. College St., in Newberg.

You can select your concert tickets online at this link (be sure to select “GFU Employee” in the drop-down menu on the page that pops up after making your seat selection). If selecting your complimentary seats for Sunday, you may disregard the note that states employees are only entitled to one ticket per event; however, you must still select “Okay, I will bring my ID to the door” in the drop-down menu.

Questions? Contact Missy Terry at terrym@georgefox.edu.

Want to play some fun games tomorrow night (Thursday)? Come to Fox and Friendsview! We are having a game night with ping-pong, board games, free food and much more at Friendsview Retirement Community. Meet at Le Shana at 6:45 p.m. so we can head over together!

Questions? Contact Kaheela Reid at jamesprojectgfu@gmail.com.

Are you a writer? An artist? Today (Wednesday) is your last day to send your work to George Fox’s poetry and prose journal, The Wineskin. Send your art, poetry or prose (fiction and nonfiction) to gfuwineskin@gmail.com.

The deadline is today at noon. Enter for a great chance to be published and to win the prizes!

Contact Chelsea Gritten (cgritten13@georgefox.edu) with any questions.

Do you play a wind instrument? Join the pep band for basketball games!

We’ll have three rehearsals – on Dec. 7, Jan. 11 and Jan. 18 – and will play at four games (Jan. 20, Jan. 27, Feb. 4 and Feb. 11). Rehearsals will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Ross 210.

Contact Sydney Soetenga at soetenga18@gmail.com if you have questions or just show up at the first rehearsal in Ross on Dec. 7.

Don’t wait until the last minute to schedule an ARC appointment. There are only three and a half more week until finals.

The week of Nov. 16-23 is already booked. If you need an appointment between Nov. 15 and Nov. 23, please stop by the ARC and put your name on the waiting list. If you have already scheduled an appointment and need to cancel, please do so as soon as possible so we can open that time up to other students.

To schedule an appointment, go to arcschedule.georgefox.edu.

The university community is invited to an all-employee meeting from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 17, in Hoover 105.

The event will be live-streamed at the Portland Center in Room 160.

Fall 2016 grads: Stop by our Grad Night Open House tomorrow (Wednesday, Nov. 16) to pick up your cap and gown between 4 and 6:30 p.m. at the Portland Center (PDS 155).

Meet with student accounts, alumni, Jostens and Bruin Store representatives while also enjoying snacks with your cohort and other George Fox graduates!

Questions? Contact Darla Norgren at dnorgren@georgefox.edu.

A relief effort for refugees in the Portland area begins this week!

The Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon is accepting a variety of items to distribute to Muslim families in need. It is our duty to help provide relief for those in need and welcome these people to our country in any way possible. Items needed include:

• Lamps
• Dishes, pots, pans and silverware
• Toiletries (soap, toothpaste, deodorant, towels, etc.)
• Towels and washcloths
• Bed linens, warm blankets, pillows
• Diapers

All of these items can be dropped off either at the SpIL House or in one of the labeled boxes in the Canyon Commons. Any contributions that can be made are greatly appreciated!

If you want to know more about the effort watch this video.

If you have questions about the supply drive, contact Tania Del Real at tdelreal13@georgefox.edu or Austin Wisenbaker at awisenbaker13@georgefox.edu.

Bruins, it’s time to pack into Miller Gymnasium for basketball season. Don’t miss the women’s season kickoff tonight and the men’s on Friday!

Tuesday (tonight), 7 p.m. – Women’s basketball vs. Multnomah University
Friday, Nov. 18, 7 p.m. – Men’s Basketball vs. Claremont-Mudd-Scrips
Saturday, Nov. 19, 6 p.m. – Women’s basketball vs. Northwest University

For more information, contact the sports information office at ext. 2926 or visit the George Fox sports website at gfubruins.com.

Interested in gaining some insight as to what our international students think about George Fox and of their experience in America? Check out this semester’s issue of the newsletter International Voices and get to know some of these students a bit better.

It is International Education Week. In recognition, our chapel guest today (Tuesday) is Vicente Pinto, a George Fox alumnus originally from California who has taught high school Spanish for the past three years. He has also been a missionary in Honduras, the United Kingdom and Kenya. Join us at 10:50 a.m. in Bauman Auditorium.

On Wednesday night at 7 p.m., Jamie Johnson will speak in Vespers on Romans 16.

With the holidays quickly approaching, the finance department would like to bring to your attention the schedule for processing check requests and expense reimbursement requests to accommodate the short holiday weeks.

Please refer to the Forms page on the finance department website to view the Accounts Payable Holiday Payment Processing Schedule.

Happy Holidays!
– The Finance Team

Come to the Bruin Store today and tomorrow (Nov. 15-16) for our two-day sale!

The sale includes 25 percent off the following:

• Nike products
• Men’s, women’s and kids’ sweatshirts and sweatpants
• Beanies and other cold-weather accessories
• Blankets
• Drinkware
• Diploma frames
• iEssentials tech accessories

Follow @the_bruin_store on Instagram for pictures and more information!

Go Bruins!

Hannah Stevenson (Student Accounts) left the university in October.

Kathy Heininge (English) gave two presentations at the annual American Conference for Irish Studies West meeting in Montana Oct. 23-26. The first was titled “Emma Donoghue’s Manipulation of Genre” and the second was part of a roundtable discussion between senior scholars and upcoming scholars called “Why I Chose Irish Studies.”

Debra Worden (Business) coauthored an article, with Diane Schooley of Boise State University, that was recently published in the Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning, the leading publication of the Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education. The article, “Perceived and Realized Risk Tolerance: Changes During the 2008 Financial Crisis,” examines the belief that the recent financial crisis caused households to become less tolerant of financial risk, and thus modify the composition of their portfolios.

Gary Buhler (Art) is showing his urban landscape paintings at Warner Pacific College in Portland through Friday, Nov. 18. Visit the exhibit between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. daily in the college’s Egtvedt Hall (Room 203). The school is located at 2219 S.E. 68th Ave., in Portland.

Don Powers (Biology) was awarded honorable mention recognition for his hummingbird research by the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust. Powers was among those nominated for the Trust’s Lynwood W. Swanson Scientific Research Award at the 2016 Murdock College Science Research Conference in Spokane, Wash., Nov. 4.

Ed Higgins’ (English) flash fiction story, “Strawberry Daiquiris And A Hot Summer Night,” was reprinted in the Oct. 12, 2016, issue of the literary magazine The Drunken Llama. It was first published in 2014 in Flash Fiction Magazine. Also, two of his senryu poems, “the careless plumber” and “leftover haiku,” are in Failed Haiku: A Journal of English Senryu (Issue 11, Nov. 5, 2016).

Rick Muthiah (Director of Learning Support Services) led a session, “Field Experience Policies and Practices for Students with Disabilities,” at the fall conference of the Oregon Association of Higher Education and Disability (ORAHEAD) in Newport, Ore., Nov. 2-4.

Paul Anderson (Christian studies) published an article, “Compassionate Concern – Seeing Truth in the Face of the Other,” in the Nov. 3 edition of the Huffington Post. Paul was also the featured speaker at the Genealogical Society of Washington County’s monthly meeting in Hillsboro on Nov. 12, speaking about Quaker founders of American ideals and culture. Specifically, he traced the influence of William Penn and early Quaker governors of the colonies upon the ethos of American democracy and society.

Brian Snider (Computer Science) published and presented a paper titled “Classification of Respiratory Effort and Disordered Breathing during Sleep from Audio and Pulse Oximetry Signals” at the 41st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2016) in Shanghai, China, earlier this year.  In conjunction with this, he also received a $500 National Science Foundation travel grant for the conference.

Nov. 16            Carol Jaquith
Nov. 17            Abigail Favale, Kristine Nelson, Sue O’Donnell
Nov. 18            Kathleen Jones, Gina Miller
Nov. 19            Nathanael Ankeny, Bob Hamilton, Heather Rainey
Nov. 21            Ryan Tafflinger
Nov. 22            Corban Harwood
Nov. 23            Laura Simmons, Sarah Stevenson
Nov. 24            Tamara Reams
Nov. 27            Ryan Jacobson
Nov. 28            Peg Hutton

Are you a writer? An artist? George Fox’s poetry and prose journal, The Wineskin, is accepting submissions for only a couple more days. Send your art, poetry or prose (fiction and nonfiction) to gfuwineskin@gmail.com by Wednesday, Nov. 16.

The deadline is tomorrow at noon. Enter for a great chance to be published and to win the prizes!

Contact Chelsea Gritten (cgritten13@georgefox.edu) with any questions.

Final reminder: Please send your nominations for Employee of the Month to Lisa Burton at lburton@georgefox.edu by the end of the day today (Monday), and come for the presentation at the all-employee meeting this Thursday.