The Daily Bruin

George Fox University faculty and staff members (.5 and above) may receive one complimentary ticket for each regularly scheduled theatre show and music department event. This ticket is valid for any performance.

Employees may reserve their tickets by coming to the box office located in its new location in the Pennington House. These tickets are transferable and may be given to another patron.

Box office hours are Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. If you have questions, call the box office at 503-554-3844.

The support staff conference is next week, on Tuesday, Oct. 23. Our keynote speaker, Christopher Meade, director of the MBA programs, will speak on the topic “Anchor Deep.”

This nautical-themed conference will stop at two “ports of call” of your choice. Support staff are already pre-registered for the conference, but please complete a registration form at this link – Staff Fall Conference Registration – if you haven’t done so already. The selections for choosing your port of call are on this form, as well as indication for any dietary restrictions.

The conference will take place from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Family Life Church in Newberg. The church is located at 502 St. Paul Highway.

Questions? Contact Dixie Downey at ddowney@georgefox.edu.

The university’s theatre season kicks off next Thursday, Oct. 25, with a fall comedy, The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni. The show runs for two weekends, Oct. 25-27 and Nov. 1-3 at 7:30 p.m. and Oct. 28 and Nov. 4 at 2 p.m. All shows are scheduled in Wood-Mar Auditorium.

Tickets can be purchased online at theatre.georgefox.edu or by calling 503-554-3844.

All George Fox students may receive a complimentary ticket for Thursday evening performances. All faculty and staff are entitled to one complimentary ticket for any show of the run.

Please note: The university box office is now located in the Pennington House on the GFU campus. Box office hours are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Online tickets can be purchased at any time.

Play Description: This celebrated comic masterpiece, written in 1743 in the great Italian tradition of Commedia Dell’Arte, tells the story of Truffaldino, a young, simpleminded and occasionally clever servant who finds himself in over his head when he impulsively agrees to manage two masters at the same time without either of them knowing about it. The play also features two pairs of swooning lovers, two angry fathers, and a host of additional simpleminded servants.

The Yamhill County Commission race and contests for two Oregon House of Representatives seats will be spotlighted in a candidates forum on Tuesday, Oct. 23, on the Newberg campus.

The event, sponsored by the Christian Chamber of Commerce of the Northwest, is scheduled 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. in the Villa Academic Complex.

Answering questions in the moderated forum will be:

• Yamhill County Commission candidates Allen Springer of McMinnville and Denise Bacon of Newberg
• House District 24 candidate Jim Weidner, Republican of Yamhill (Democratic challenger Kathy Campbell of McMinnville is unable to attend due to a scheduling conflict)
• House District 25 candidates Kim Thatcher, Republican of Keizer, and Paul Holman, Democrat of Newberg

Coffee, tea and pastries will be available at the meeting, which is free for Chamber members who R.S.V.P. at cccnw.net. A $5 donation is suggested from non-members and guests who R.S.V.P. For more information, go to the Chamber’s website or call 503-928-8354.

George Fox will host the school’s seventh annual Choral Conductor’s Symposium in Bauman Auditorium this Saturday, Oct. 20, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. More than 500 hundred students from eight local high schools, and their directors, will perform a prepared program and be critiqued by Rodney Eichenberger, a world-renowned choral director.

Following their performances, the groups will attend clinics in which the directors and choirs will work one-on-one with George Fox University professors Brent Weaver, who will work on improving choirs’ sight-reading skills, and vocal instructor Cynthia McGladrey, who will address the issue of teaching proper singing technique in choir rehearsal.

The GFU Concert Choir will perform at the end of the morning and afternoon sessions, at 11:20 a.m. and 4:20 p.m., respectively. The Newberg choir is scheduled to perform from 10:35 to 11:15 a.m. All are invited to attend the concert free of charge.

To learn more, contact Debbie Hawblitzel at ext. 2620 or dhawblit@georgefox.edu.

All students eligible for fall 2012 commencement are invited to participate in an evening of celebration! Grad Night is an exclusive event commemorating your achievements at George Fox University.

Come walk the red carpet, pick up your regalia, enjoy refreshments, and enter to win fabulous door prizes! Join us from 4 to 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 27, in PDS 155.

You’ll have the chance to meet with representatives from the alumni office, student financial services, career services, information technology, and the registrar office.

Questions? Contact Emily Maynard at emaynard@georgefox.edu.

Long-term care insurance information meetings are scheduled Tuesday through Friday this week.

• The first meeting is at the Portland Center on Tuesday (Oct. 16) at 9 a.m. in Room 281.
• On Wednesday (Oct. 17), there will be two meetings on the Newberg campus, one at 10:30 a.m. in VAC 180 and the other at 2 p.m. in the Executive Dining Room.
• Webinars and two more Newberg campus meetings are scheduled throughout the week as well. Please click here for the details.

These meetings provide a great opportunity to learn more about long-term care insurance. If you decide it is a good approach to protect your financial future, during this special enrollment you can sign up with streamlined underwriting (few or no health questions to answer, depending on your age).

Questions? Contact Lisa Burton at lburton@georgefox.edu.

Formal graduation announcements and class rings are now available through Jostens. Delivery takes several weeks, so order soon to have materials ready before fall commencement.

Order online at: jostens.com/georgefoxuniversity

Don’t forget to show your George Fox spirit by helping out our business capstone team, Bruin Pride, by designing, drawing and coloring a T-shirt!

Designs are due by tomorrow (Wednesday, Oct. 17), for a chance to win one of three gift cards. Mail your design to box #4238 or post it on our Facebook page here.

Voting for the best designs will begin on Thursday, Oct. 18. Come by our table in the Bruin Den between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. to vote on your favorites!

Voters’ Pamphlets for the Nov. 6, 2012, general election are available for pick-up at the following locations:

• University Mail Services
• SUB Post Office lobby
• VAC Post Office lobby

If you have questions, please e-mail Linda Sartwell lsartwel@georgefox.edu

Thanks!
– Mail Services

Are you pre-medicine, pre-dentistry, pre-veterinary, pre-physical therapy, pre-optometry, pre-pharmacy, etc.? Get informed on what it takes to get into a professional health program by attending a pre-professional information meeting tomorrow (Wednesday) at 5:30 p.m. in EHS 125.

The topics covered at the meeting will include admission requirements, the application process, and resources available to you at GFU. This meeting is an annual event, so you may not need to attend if you have done so before. New interested students should plan on it!

If you have any questions, please contact Jane Sweet at jsweet@georgefox.edu or John Schmitt at jschmitt@georgefox.edu. If you are not able to attend, but consider yourself a pre-professional health student, please contact Jane so that you are added to the pre-professional health student contact group.

Faculty members, please tell students you think may be interested about this opportunity.

Interested in grad school? A “Getting into Grad School” info session, led by Career Services graduate assistant Jeffrey Schloemer, is scheduled from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 22, in Hoover 102.

If you’re wondering about what it takes to get into graduate school, this is the meeting for you! Get information on how to use an admissions timeline; excel at the GRE and MAT grad exams; select the right grad schools and programs; and prepare a curriculum vitae, cover letter and essay.

Register at this link!

All are welcome to hear Jim Triggs, executive director of the Heritage Program of the Saint John’s Bible Project at Saint John’s University in Minnesota, share with us the latest in this 15-year undertaking. Come join us for this “Intellectual Feast,” hosted by the Department of Religious Studies, this afternoon (Tuesday) from 4 to 5 p.m. in Hoover 103.

Jim will bring copies of the latest edition for display and discuss the latest developments in the leading illustrated and hand-calligraphied Bible project in the world today.

Questions? Contact Paula Hampton at phampton@georgefox.edu.

Please send an e-mail to Peggy Kilburg by Wednesday, Oct. 17, if you would like to nominate a colleague for October Employee of the Month with a summary of this person’s contributions and/or outstanding performance in the past 30 days or so.

The winner will be announced and presented with a $100 gift card to The Allison at our community meeting on Thursday, Oct. 25.

The second faculty “Coffee & Conversation” of the fall is titled “Assigning Students Work: How Much Is Too Much?” Join us from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 19, in the Executive Dining Room.

“Coffee & Conversation” sessions address “burrs under the saddle” – those persistent, annoying problems and challenges that seem to come with the work but drain an inordinate amount of time and energy. Student complaints about too heavy of a workload may be an issue you struggle with. How do you decide what is fair to expect? Do you expect too much? Not enough? How can you tell?

• Come if you wonder how other faculty approach this question.
• Come if you are looking for tools to gauge workload fairly.
• Come if you have all the answers.
• Come if all you have are questions.
• Come if you just want to have some free coffee and goodies and listen to the discussion.

Questions? Contact Gary Sehorn at gsehorn@georgefox.edu.

This is a reminder of tonight’s (Monday’s) “Islam and the West” Liberal Arts and Critical Issues event, featuring a showing of the film Welcome to Shelbyville in Hoover 105 from 7 to 8 p.m.

The film tells the story of racial interaction between whites, African Americans, Hispanics and Somalian Muslims in the small town of Shelbyville, Tenn. The same session is presented from 4:40 to 5:40 p.m.; however, it is recommended that the general public attend the evening session, if possible.

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

This year Bon Appetit has joined with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society as a corporate sponsor to help raise funds for cancer research.  LLS is the world’s largest voluntary health organization dedicated to funding patient support services, advocacy and promising cancer research.

Between October 15-26, you can buy as many  lunches or dinners as you want in Klages Dining Room for just $5 cash each time you purchase with all proceeds going to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society to support their very worthy efforts.

This is a great chance for commuter students, staff and faculty to have a great meal and help support a great cause.

If anyone would like to make a personal contribution, please click on the following link:

http://pages.lightthenight.org/oswim/portlndL12/bonappetitgeorgefox

The Wheeler Sports Center is CLOSED Saturday & Sunday (Oct. 13-14) and will open Monday, Oct. 15 at 6 a.m.

Due to fall break, Bon Appetit is changing hours of service this weekend as follows:

• Friday, Oct. 12: Breakfast, 8:30-10 a.m.; lunch, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.; dinner, 5-6:30 p.m.
• Saturday, Oct. 13: Continental breakfast , 9-10 a.m.; brunch 11:30-1 p.m.; dinner, 5-6:30 p.m.
• Sunday, Oct. 14: Continental breakfast, 9-10 a.m.; brunch, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.; dinner, 5-7 p.m.

Have a great weekend!

Due to the fall break holiday, both the Bruin Den and Villa Cafe will be closed on Friday, Oct. 12. Have a great weekend, and we will see you all on Monday!