The Daily Bruin

The Internal Revenue Service has issued the 2016 optional standard mileage rates used to calculate the deductible costs of operating an automobile for business.

Beginning on Jan. 1, 2016, the standard mileage rates for the use of a car will be 54 cents per mile for business miles driven, down from 57.5 cents for 2015.

Please make sure you use the correct/current Expense Reimbursement Request Forms. Turn in separate sheets for 2015 and 2016 mileage. These forms are found at this link.

Please contact Matt Hammar at ext. 2162 or Jen Klapp at ext. 2170 with questions.

Come to the kick-off event for @GFUbizcareers, a career-focused series of workshops held on seven Fridays throughout spring semester. These workshops are sponsored by the College of Business and the IDEA Center and will include lunch.

The kickoff event is tomorrow (Friday) from noon to 12:50 p.m. in Hoover 103 and will provide excellent advice for your career-building efforts! A professional career coach will share what you need to know to help you prepare for and land a great job in your field.

@GFUbizcareers is bringing in industry experts in all areas of business who will offer advice and share tips so that you can make the most of your college years and be prepared for the career of your dreams.

Faculty, please let your students know about this opportunity.

Questions? Contact Colleen Sump at csump@georgefox.edu.

Your chance to get involved with our neighboring community is finally here, with the opportunity to be a part of MLK Day of Service in Portland!

Feel free to stop by the SPIL Annex, next to the ASC office, between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. today (Thursday) if you want help registering or have questions about the day.

MLK Day of Service takes place on Monday, Jan. 18. You can register and find more information about what the day will look like here.

If you have any questions or concerns, please email spirituallife@georgefox.edu.

The alumni relations office is looking for an original painting of the Centennial Tower done for a George Fox Christmas card in 1998 by alumnus Ken Gilmore (see photo). The painting was last seen in the Pennington House in the summer of 2014.

If you know of its whereabouts, please contact the alumni office at alumni.georgefox.edu or 503-554-2134.

Thank you

Your chance to get involved with our neighboring community is finally here, with the opportunity to be a part of MLK Day of Service in Portland!

We are still in need of many volunteers to reach our goal! Feel free to stop by the SPIL Annex, next to the ASC office, between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. today (Wednesday) or tomorrow if you want help registering or have questions about the day.

MLK Day of Service takes place on Monday, Jan. 18. You can register and find more information about what the day will look like here.

If you have any questions or concerns, please email spirituallife@georgefox.edu.

Our academic clubs are sponsoring Minute to Win It games tonight (Wednesday) from 10 to 11 p.m. in Miller Gym! Games include the Oreo game, golf ball stacking, Ka-Broom and others. Come join us after the Leadership Preview Night and learn about our clubs while competing to win a grand prize!

Tomorrow (Thursday) come participate in a campus photo scavenger hunt! Our hobby clubs are sponsoring the event and the chance to win a prize. The event starts at 8 p.m., so pick up your clues in the EHS atrium and talk to some of our amazing club presidents.

Finally, on Friday we’re hosting “Club-A-Dub-Dub.” Come celebrate with us after the basketball games at a grand finale of Clubs Week – a foam party on the quad! Bring your bathrobes, rubber duckies and your dancing shoes. Come represent your club and find out more about your new favorite clubs.

Questions? Contact Erika Lopez at elopez12@georgefox.edu.

What does the Bible say about immigration? Come see the short film The Stranger: Immigrants, Scripture, and the American Dream at 7 p.m. tomorrow (Thursday) in Hoover 105. A discussion will follow.

This presentation is cosponsored by the sociology department and the Center for Peace and Justice. Contact Chris Morrissey (cmorrissey@georgefox.edu) if you have any questions.

The Academic Resource Center will be open for business starting next week, on Jan. 19. Hours are Monday through Thursday, 1 to 10 p.m., and Friday from noon to 4 p.m. If you would like to have an ARC consultant come speak to your class about the services we offer, feel free to contact Melanie Mock at mmock@georgefox.edu.

If you are requiring that students visit the ARC or if you are hoping the ARC will facilitate writing groups for your class, please let us know by contacting Hannah Adderely at hadderely@georgefox.edu. To help facilitate our own work with your students, please consider sending along any support material, including assignment sheets and rubrics, to Hannah as well.

We kept all of the lost and found items over break just in case you were too busy to come and retrieve your lost items before Christmas. However, the lost and found is at critical mass, so please come to the security office before Friday afternoon to pick up your items lost between Nov. 20 and now, as all remaining items will be donated to charitable causes at that time.

Thank you,
Security Services

The Newberg Public Library is in need of volunteers for its school-district-wide “Oregon Battle of the Books Practice Battles” for elementary students. George Fox volunteers have stepped forward in the past, and the hope is that more will volunteer this year.

Oregon Battle of the Books is a statewide reading program designed to encourage a love of reading. This competitive reading program involves 692 schools in Oregon this year. The library is in need of moderators (read the questions, act as final judge) and scorekeepers for this event, as well as help with set-up and take-down.

On Friday, Jan. 29, a volunteer training for moderators and scorekeepers will take place at the library (503 E. Hancock St.) from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. On Saturday, Jan. 30, at 8:30 a.m. volunteers will arrive for the battles. Battles begin shortly after 9 a.m.

In Newberg and Dundee, all six public elementary schools are participating, with between 15 and 85 students from each school. This district-wide event allows elementary youth to practice with their peers before battles for points begin. Each school may send only one team to the regional competition in February.

Questions? Contact Korie Jones Buerkle at korie.buerkle@newbergoregon.gov.

In the event of a campus- or city-wide emergency such as a severe winter storm, flood or major earthquake, employees, students and visitors to George Fox should be prepared to keep safe and possibly assist in recovery. Therefore, we are providing life-saving C-CERT training for any and all interested persons.

In an effort to make it easier for more people to participate, we are doing a hybrid course of online instruction combined with lunch-hour training once a week to build knowledge and skills as a CERT member. The weekly meetings will be every Tuesday starting Feb. 2 and last from noon to 1 p.m.

For more information and to sign up, go to the security services webpage.

The College of Engineering welcomes Ben Giudice this semester as an assistant professor of civil engineering. He arrives from Sacramento, Calif., where he was a senior environmental engineer (2013-15) and a project engineer (2009-12) with Robertson-Bryan Inc., of Elk Grove, Calif. Also, during his tenure at the University of California, Davis, from which he earned a PhD in environmental and water resources engineering in 2012, Ben was a graduate student researcher for the school’s Civil and Environmental Engineering Department (2005-12). He also taught environmental hydrogeology for Calvin College’s engineering department in 2011. Previously, he was an engineering technician with Soil and Materials Engineers of Grand Rapids, Mich., (2004) and a writing tutor in the Rhetoric Center at Calvin College, from which he earned a bachelor of science in engineering degree in 2005. He also holds a master’s degree in environmental engineering from the University of California, Davis (2007). Ben lives in Newberg with his wife Mary and children Luke (6), Vivian (4) and Eleanor (1).

Heather Groenlund, hired in February of 2015 on a temp basis, has joined the financial affairs office staff full time as an accounting specialist, specializing in deposits. While working at George Fox over the past 11 months, Heather also worked as a personal assistant. She has also been a camp host at Tilikum Retreat Center since the spring of 2014 and will continue to work there on weekends. Previously, she worked for five years as the administrative assistant at Milgard Manufacturing in Tualatin, Ore. She has also been a merchant teller and foreclosure adviser. Heather attended Mt. Hood Community College and lives in Newberg with her cat Simba. She attends Grace Baptist Church in Newberg.

The registrar’s office welcomes Elise Porter as an enrollment specialist this month. Since last August, Elise has served as the university’s Phonathon supervisor in the development office, a position she began after graduating from George Fox with a bachelor’s degree in psychology in the spring of 2015. While an undergraduate student, Elise worked as a Phonathon caller (2012-15) and served as president of the university’s Psychology Club her senior year. Upon graduating, she was awarded one of the psychology department’s top student awards. Elise lives in Tualatin with two fellow George Fox psychology graduates and attends Colossae Church in Tigard.

Terry Peters, who left the university in the fall, returned to work as an electrician in plant services in December.

Jennifer McCollum (Biology) left the university after relocating out of the area with her family.

Kenn Willson (Music) presented his “Encounters with Beethoven” concert three times in the fall – once at George Fox in September, once in Klamath Falls, Ore., in October, and finally at the Classic Piano Company in Portland in November as part of its “Classics and Croissants” series. Kenn also presented master classes at the Klamath Falls and Classic Piano Company engagements.

Lisa Graham McMinn (Writer in Residence) published her book To the Table: A Spirituality of Food, Faith, and Community (Brazos Press, January 2016). An interview with Lisa was conducted by Publishers Weekly and published on its site last month.

Don Powers (Biology) published a study, “Heat dissipation during hovering and forward flight in hummingbirds,” in the journal Royal Society Open Science in December. Powers and associates, including 2011 George Fox graduate Keely Corder, discovered that the birds have “windows” for heat loss – areas around the eyes, armpits and feet where feather density is low, allowing them to maintain their constant body temperature. For years, how birds dissipate extra heat during flight has been poorly understood. An infrared thermal camera was used to make the findings. The study has since been publicized by the BBC, Science (online) and other media outlets.

Brenda Morton’s (Education) article, “Barriers to Academic Achievement for Foster Youth: The Story Behind the Statistics,” won the Association for Childhood Education International’s Journal of Research in Childhood Education Distinguished Education Research Article Award for 2015. The ACEI annually identifies a Distinguished Education Research Article from the articles published in the year’s volume of the Journal of Research in Childhood Education. Taylor and Francis, the publisher of JRCE, provides $1,000 as an award to the author (or authors) of the selected article. The article is selected by the members of the JRCE Editorial Advisory Board as an illustration of superior research and excellent writing on a topic of high importance for the field.

Ed Higgins (English) published his poem “Autumn Apocalypse” in December in the online issue of the journal Plum Tree Tavern.

Paul Anderson (Christian Studies) published an article, “The Social Conscience of the Saint John’s Bible II – On Syrian Refugees and the Reversals of Christmas,” on the Huffington Post’s religion blog Dec. 21.

Jan. 12              Jeff Cameron, Tim Rahschulte, Shannon Scott
Jan. 13              Kim Rapp
Jan. 14              Jim Steele
Jan. 15              Janeen Dillow, Debbie Hawblitzel
Jan. 16              Kelly Friesen
Jan. 17              Christine Austin
Jan. 18              Dwayne Astleford, Robin Baker, Matt Dyment, Dorothy Miranda
Jan. 19              Paul Fodge, David Liu
Jan. 20              Caroline Jovanovich
Jan. 22              Kyle Pfeiffer, John Smith
Jan. 23              Ted Allen, Bill Buhrow, Mike Foster, John Johnson, Kris Molitor
Jan. 24              Matt Stump

Would you like to be involved in student leadership next year? Please come to the Leadership Preview event tonight (Wednesday) in Bauman Auditorium at 8:15 p.m. (after chapel)!

Learn how to get involved in residence life, spiritual and intercultural life, ASC or Peer Advising. Choose which area you want to learn about, ask current leaders questions, and learn the requirements. Student life seeks to hire a diverse group of students; all are encouraged to apply! Chips and guacamole will be served (at the end)!

Questions? Contact Stephanie St. Cyr at sstcyr@georgefox.edu.

Do you love details, or are you a graphic designer? Are you a leader who loves a challenge? The student life office is looking to hire two students to work over the summer who will help to plan Welcome Weekend.

If you are interested in being a part of something big this summer, please apply! See the application link here at the bottom of the page. Experience is not required, but preferred.

Applications will be due in the student life office by 5 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 29.

Questions? Contact Stephanie St. Cyr at sstcyr@georgefox.edu.

It’s a new year and a new you, so come sign up to play intramural outdoor soccer! Sign-ups are in the Bruin Den this week! Please put your team name and your team captain’s name, phone number and email so we can send you the schedule.

Games will start on Monday, Jan. 18. If you have any questions, email Justine Benner at jbenner12@georgefox.edu.

The Students for Innovation, Design, and Entrepreneurship (S.I.D.E.) are hosting an exciting event on Saturday, Feb. 13. Side Quest will be a day dedicated to rapid innovation and creativity. If you want to have fun inventing for a day (and the chance to win some cash) you should participate in this event!

Registration for Side Quest is opening soon. Teams can have between three and eight members, two of whom need to be from each the College of Engineering and the College of Business. You can also register as an individual and we (S.I.D.E.) will try to place you in a team. However, registered teams have priority over individual registrations, so being on a team is more likely to guarantee your participation.

Get your team fast because we are limiting the event to 12 teams. Registration will proceed on a first-come, first-served basis. Teams and individuals that will be participating will be informed through an email after registration has closed (which is whenever we get enough teams, so it could be any day before Feb. 13).

Questions? Contact Bryan Neufeld at bneufeld12@georgefox.edu.

Show your Bruin spirit at this Friday’s basketball games against Whitman College and you could win free pizza for you and your friends! It’s a competition among living areas, and the most spirited group will have pizza delivered to their dorm right after the games end. Check with your RA, AAC or commuter rep for face paint and poster-making supplies.

See you at the gym at 6 p.m. on Friday for Bruin basketball!

Faculty, staff and administrators: If you are new to George Fox, please register your vehicle(s) on MyGFU. You will need your DMV registration card in front of you to complete the registration form. If you need to register more than one car, please register your vehicles one right after the other. If you want to purchase a second permit for $5 cash, you can do so in the security office.

Please remember to put your campus PO box along with your campus’ physical mailing address for the “mailing address” part of the registration, as all permits will be sent via campus mail. Every staff/faculty member receives one gratis parking permit; any additional permits or replacements for lost permits can be purchased for $5.

Adjuncts: If you did not register during last summer or fall, your 2015 permit has now expired and you will need to go on MyGFU and register your vehicles. If you registered last summer or fall, your parking permit is valid until December of this year and no further action is required.

Portland employees do need to register if you are frequently on the Newberg campus.

Questions? Contact Nadine Kincaid at nkincaid@georgefox.edu.