The Daily Bruin

A big thank you to everyone who served on Serve Day 2014! Remember to use your Serve Day Discount Card! There are a variety of great discounts you can take advantage of. Here are just a few:

• Jac’s Deli & Frozen Custard – Single scoop of custard with $5 purchase, toppings extra
• Papa Murphy’s Pizza – $4 off any regular-menu-priced pizza
• Pogy’s Subs – 10 percent off entire order (dine-in/take-out only, excludes delivery)

The Serve Day Discount Card features 15 local businesses and is a multi-use card that does not expire until April 30, 2015. That means you can use the card as many times as you want, at as many participating businesses as you want, until the end of April. You must show your discount card at the participating businesses to take advantage of these great offers.

If you haven’t picked up your Serve Day Discount Card, stop by and see Barbi Doran at the Information Services Desk on the first floor of the Stevens Center. Pick one up today while supplies last!

University theatre auditions for the spring show, These Shining Lives by Melanie Marnich, are coming up next week. General auditions will take place from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 9, with call-backs scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 10-11, from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Auditions will be in Wood-Mar Auditorium, and Rhett Luedtke will be directing the production.

How to prepare: Prepare a fully memorized and rehearsed 90-second dramatic monologue of your choice for the general audition. Call-backs will feature cold readings.

Sign-up sheet: Sign up for an audition time slot on the theatre call board in Lemmons Center (across from the theatre offices).

Questions? Contact Rhett at rluedtke@georgefox.edu.

The marketing communications office will be processing a business card order soon. Place your order directly with B&B Print Source by Monday, Feb. 9. If you have not already done so, you will need to create a new individual account before you can submit your order.

Please reference the Chart of Account Mappings for 2014-15 budget information. Contact Danette Newkirk (dnewkirk@georgefox.edu) in marketing communications if you have any questions.

It’s time to order university stationery. For order instructions, go to the marketing communications website. Continue to purchase all non-departmental stationery (including “second-sheet letterhead”) through the university’s print services.

Orders are due by Monday, Feb. 9.

Do you know of a deserving senior who demonstrates outstanding services as a servant leader on campus or in the community? You can honor that person and the activity of voluntary service by nominating him/her for the CW Perry Servant Leadership Award.

The trustees of the Barney II and Moore Foundations have established the CW Perry Servant Leadership Award at George Fox University to reward leadership in the area of community and ministry service.

Only seniors (graduating in May 2015) are eligible for award consideration. Up to four $1,000 awards will be given annually. Each award recipient will be required to set aside $250 of this gift to the charitable organization of his or her choice. The remaining $750 will be distributed to the award recipient in the form of a cash award.

The aim of this award is to promote the ideals of servant leadership in the George Fox University community.

In order for your nominee to qualify, this nomination form MUST be received by Friday, Feb. 13, 2015. If you have any questions, please contact Jere Witherspoon at jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu or phone 503-554-2316.

Click this link to go to the nomination form.

Join us for chapel today (Tuesday) to hear from guest speaker Eric Knox. Knox is an associate pastor at the Imago Dei Community and founder of the “Holla Foundation.” Chapel will be in Bauman Auditorium at 10:50 a.m. Chapel credit is available.

On Tuesday night, come hear from Shekinah Davis at Shalom at 9 p.m. in the Cap and Gown Room. Chapel elective credit is available.

On Wednesday night, come hear from Steve Sherwood in Bauman Auditorium at 7 p.m. Chapel credit is available.

Want to see who our upcoming speakers will be? Download our spring chapel calendar here. For more information, visit spirituallife.georgefox.edu or email spirituallife@georgefox.edu.

FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 8 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Monday, Feb. 9, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

During this maintenance update Fall 2014 course sites will be hidden to students. If you want to make any of those course sites available to students after this update, select “Edit settings” in the Course Administration block. Located in the General section, look for the Visible setting and change “Hide” back to “Show.” Scroll to bottom and “Save changes.”

Questions? Contact the IT Service Desk at servicedesk@georgefox.edu.

You have until this Thursday, Feb. 5, to submit your 2015-16 tuition remission requests. This is a firm deadline.

To access instructions and forms, please go to this page. The tuition remission section is located at the top of the page.

Please be sure to read the instructions before you begin completing a Tuition Remission Request Form – you will be glad you did (and so will we!).

Questions? Contact Darby Thiessen at dthiessen@georgefox.edu.

Starting today (Monday) through Friday, Feb. 6, Plant Services and an outside company will be performing our annual fire extinguisher maintenance service. During this time we will be in and out of residential areas. If you have any questions about this service, please contact the Plant Services office at ext. 2010.

Thank you for your patience during this time.
– Plant Services

Current sophomores: You will soon be receiving an email with information regarding how to register for Juniors Abroad 2016 and details of our upcoming informational meeting. The meeting is scheduled for Thursday, March 5, at 6 p.m. in Hoover 105.

Questions? Please contact Lynn Scott at lscott@georgefox.edu.

FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 8 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Monday, Feb. 9, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Questions? Write the IT Service Desk at servicedesk@georgefox.edu.

The campus community is invited to the second installment of the “Finding Our Way in Postmodern America” Liberal Arts and Critical Issues series tonight (Monday) in Hoover 105. The session runs from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. and features Cynthia C. Gomez, director of Cultural Centers at Portland State University and commissioner at the Oregon Commission on Hispanic Affairs.

Gomez will present “Intersectional Identities and Conceptions of Self,” in which she will examine the ways in which our intersectional identities, as they relate to our ability to reach our full human potential, are shaped by large structural, historical and economic forces.

Questions? Contact Paul Otto at ext. 2676 or potto@georgefox.edu.

Do you know students who are interested in applying to the nursing program this year? Please let them know about an informational meeting scheduled from 6 to 7 p.m. this Wednesday, Feb. 4, in Hoover 103. We will be going through the application, due dates, and answering their questions about the School of Nursing.

Questions? Contact Rachel Powell at rpowell@georgefox.edu.

Are you a pre-nursing student applying to the nursing program this year? Then you will not want to miss an informational meeting scheduled from 6 to 7 p.m. this Wednesday, Feb. 4, in Hoover 103. We will be going through the application, due dates, and answering your questions about the School of Nursing. See you there!

Questions? Contact Rachel Powell at rpowell@georgefox.edu.

Items and information commonly missed/excluded when submitting Expense Reimbursement Requests to financial affairs:

1. Number each receipt consecutively and put that number in the “Item #” column, one line per receipt.
2. Give an explanation of line-items, particularly noting the business purpose of each expenditure. This is critical and is an IRS requirement for an “Accountable Reimbursement Plan,” as noted in the IRS rules which this comes under. Use more than one line per transaction, if needed. A “business purpose” is a short note on the form that says what the cost is and why it is related to what we do at George Fox. An example is, “Food purchased for department volunteers.” What not to say is, “Food.” This would not be acceptable and would be rejected if ever audited by the IRS. If you are traveling, be sure to include the destination in the description column (e.g. “Fundraising conference – Denver, Colo.”)
3. For reimbursement of personal auto usage, list the actual miles traveled in the “Miles” column. The spreadsheet will automatically calculate the total in the next column.
4. Any meals being reimbursed must, by IRS rules, include the names of those at the meal, their connection to George Fox, and the business purpose for the meal. The exception to this is when meals are incurred while traveling on university business. To be as careful as possible, you should carefully note that this is the case.
5. The person being reimbursed must print, sign and date the form in the appropriate place near the bottom of the form.
6. The person who approves spending for the one being reimbursed must approve this report by printing, signing and dating in the appropriate place at the bottom of the form. If the amount being reimbursed is over the amount that the budget manager can approve, the ERR must go to the next level for approval, according to George Fox approval policies.
7. If you need to be reimbursed from more than one fund, department or program, use separate ERR forms for each cost center. Approvals would also have to come from the budget managers where appropriate.

Questions? Contact Matt Hammar at mhammar@georgefox.edu.

Interested in learning Chinese? We’ll be resuming our Chinese labs tomorrow (Tuesday) at 6:50 p.m. in the International Center/Cultural House. We will have excellent Chinese teachers spend an hour with us. We are going to have conversation, as well as discussion, which is always fun. We also offer snacks.

Come join us for fun with Chinese culture! Looking forward to see you all.

Questions? Contact Sihui Zhu at szhu13@georgefox.edu.

Need help writing research papers? Attend the Academic Resource Center’s workshop, “Steps to Writing a Successful Research Paper,” this Thursday, Feb. 5, from 10:50 to 11:40 a.m. in Hoover 105.

Gary Tandy, professor of English, and Sarah Hardy, public services librarian, will conduct the session, in which they will provide a step-by-step, organized guide on how to use campus and Internet resources for successful research. Questions? Contact Rick Muthiah at rmuthiah@georgefox.edu or ext. 2314.

Know students who need help writing research papers? Encourage them to attend the Academic Resource Center’s workshop, “Steps to Writing a Successful Research Paper,” this Thursday, Feb. 5, from 10:50 to 11:40 a.m. in Hoover 105.

Gary Tandy, professor of English, and Sarah Hardy, public services librarian, will conduct the session, in which they will provide a step-by-step, organized guide on how to use campus and Internet resources for successful research. Questions? Contact Rick Muthiah at rmuthiah@georgefox.edu or ext. 2314.