The Daily Bruin

The university’s Symphonic Band will perform in concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 14, in Bauman Auditorium. The concert will feature performances of Yasuhide Ito’s Gloriosa (Gururiyoze) – Symphonic Poem for Band, Frank Techeli’s Shenandoah, Samuel R. Hazo’s Go!, Gordon Jacob’s An Original Suite, and John Philip Sousa’s Hands Across the Sea.

The Symphonic Band will perform under the direction of Patrick Vandehey. Richard Elliott, assistant band director, will conduct the piece “Go!”

There is no admission charge. For more information, call ext. 2620.

The School of Business will host a VIP lecture featuring Richard G. Reiten, retired chief executive officer of Northwest Natural, at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 13, in EHS 102.

Reiten will present on the topic “Ethics and Values – Your Code for the Road.” There is no charge to attend.

Reiten served as CEO of Northwest Natural Gas from 1997 until 2002. He joined the company as president and chief operating officer and was elected to the board in 1996. He was appointed to the additional position of chairman of the board in September 2000, a position he held until 2005.

For more information on the event, contact Nancy Almquist at ext. 2120.

The IJM chapter at GFU deals in large part with the issue of sex-trafficking on both a global and local scale, and what steps we can do to combat it. Two major focuses of the chapter is prayer, as well as how we can get involved in the community. Please come and see how you can get involved as well!

Wednesday, October 13rd at 8:50 PM in the Le Shana lobby

Questions? Amy McDonald: amcdonald07@georgefox.edu

This Pizza Chat will focus on how to select a major and the resources available to students deciding what to major in. Pizza is provided!! Participants are asked to sign-up in advance by going to your MyGFU page. Click on Career Services and then Bruin Careers.  Create an account and search “Career Events.”

Thursday, October 14th from 12:00-1:00 PM in the Career Services office on Stevens 1.

The 2009-10 yearbooks are in! The books will be available in the SUB starting Wednesday, Oct. 13, and will continue to be available until at least Friday, Oct. 15. These books are free to sophomores, juniors and seniors and are available on a first-come, first-served basis (once they’re gone, they’re gone). You are responsible to get your own book (just look for the table with the yearbooks on it and pick one up).

Employees, if you work in an area (such as the library or alumni relations) that gets a book for the office every year, please contact Hannah Wilcox at hwilcox06@georgefox.edu, and we will make sure that you get one. Thank you!

Questions? E-mail Hannah at the above address.

Interested in living or working overseas, but not sure how to do it? The Big Guide can help. The Office of Career Services has a subscription to this great interactive website that allows you to access its abundant resources for free.

Visit careers.georgefox.edu and find the link under “News and Updates” to activate your free account. Once registered, you can network with others interested in living or working abroad, both inside and outside of George Fox, and can access numerous videos and text resources to help you prepare for your upcoming adventure.

If you have any questions, contact Career Services at 503-554-2330 or via e-mail at careers@georgefox.edu.

Exciting new changes are being made to the Christmas celebration for George Fox employees! After experiencing tremendous growth in the number of students and employees over the last 20 years, the long-held campus Christmas celebration is being retired.

The new event will be hosted for George Fox employees (halftime and over) and their spouses (no children, please), and will include free admission to the performing arts department’s Christmas concert, “It Came Upon the Midnight Clear.” This spectacular performance, involving more than 175 students, is adding a third on-campus concert this year to accommodate all who want to attend.

The celebration is set for Saturday, Dec. 11. It will include:

• Hors d’oeuvres and dessert, featuring special music, Christmas carols, and a devotional, at 5:30 p.m. in the Stevens Center
• Christmas Concert: “It Came Upon the Midnight Clear,” at 7 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium

Hors d’oeuvres reception
Invitations will be sent in the mail. Responses for the reception should be sent to the Office of University Relations by Dec. 6.

Concert
George Fox employees may pick up their tickets – limit two per employee – starting Wednesday, Dec. 1, at 9 a.m. at the first-floor Information Center in Stevens Center. Phone reservations will not be taken except for employees at the Portland and Salem centers. (If you find you will not be able to attend the concert, please return your tickets).

Robin and Ruth Baker look forward to starting this new tradition with you!

An exhibit of drawings by John Calabrese, titled “Black and White: Mood Images,” is now on display in the Lindgren Gallery. The pieces, inspired by film noir, will be up through Nov. 12. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Abby Rine will share her research on the subject “Is Sin Sexed? Luce Irigaray on Sin and Feminine Subjectivity” at an “Intellectual Feast” hosted by the Department of Religious Studies on Tuesday, Oct. 12. Come join us for good conversation and refreshments. The presentation runs from 4 to 5 p.m. in Hoover 250.

The university community is invited to a public lecture by a Rutgers professor, Andrew Murphy, who will present “Persecuting Quakers? The Politics of Conscience in Early Pennsylvania” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21, in Hoover 105.

Murphy has written about religious liberty in general and on Quakers and religious liberty more specifically. Among his many publications are: Prodigal Nation: Moral Decline and Divine Punishment from New England to 9/11, Conscience and Community: Revisiting Toleration and Religious Dissent in Early Modern England and America, and The Political Writings of William Penn. He is currently writing a book entitled Liberty, Toleration, and Law: The Political Thought of William Penn.

Questions? Contact Mark David Hall (Political Science) at mhall@georgefox.edu.

Marketing Communications will host a staff/faculty portrait session from 2 to 4 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 22, in our Le Shana Hall studio. These high-quality studio portraits will be used on the university website and will be available for professional promotional use.

Please call or e-mail Danette Newkirk at ext. 2125 to let us know if you are coming. You can still come without prior notice, but your university photo ID will be required.

Have you wondered how health care reform is affecting your benefits? The HR department will be tracking and communicating the changes as they become effective on the Benefits webpage. Please check this page regularly for updates. There are two changes that affect your flexible spending account – one immediately and one Jan. 1.

Career Services will host a Graduate School Emphasis Week Oct. 18-22. The week will include a “Getting Into Graduate School” presentation from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 20, in Stevens 109; a George Fox graduate schools fair from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 21, in the Hoover lobby; packets of information for students; and a discussion blog on Career Services’ website.

Registration for the Oct. 20 presentation is available on Bruin Careers and is limited to the first 40 people.

Interested in seeing what some of our theatre alumni are up to? Come see the staged reading of “Rabbit Hole” by David Linsay-Abaire at the Hillsboro Actors Repertory Theatre in Hillsboro Oct. 15-16. The show stars George Fox theatre alumni Tara (Strever) Beanblossom, Jordan Beanblossom and Jessie (Sarver) Pick, and is directed by Stephen Pick. Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. shows are $8 at the door. The venue is located at 185 S.E. Washington St., in Hillsboro.

Please come and support your theatre alumni!

The sex talk originally scheduled by Spiritual Life for Tuesday night (Oct. 11) has been postponed until the spring. We still look forward to seeing you in Wednesday’s chapel, when we will be hearing from faculty panels on “What I Wish I Would Have Known” at various locations on campus.

For details on what panel is meeting where, visit spirituallife.georgefox.edu. We look forward to worshiping with you.

The 2010 Back to School issue of Student Health 101 was distributed to subscribing student email addresses last week. If you did not get the email and would like to receive the online health magazine, it can be accessed at http://readsh101.com/georgefox.html or you can find a link on the Health & Counseling page of the GFU website.

ASC is now accepting proposals for additions to campus through the Student Project Fund. The Student Project Fund is a fund set aside to see student initiated ideas executed on campus through ASC. Examples have been the Ampitheater and the currently being built fire pit.

They are due October 22.

Questions? Contact Brady Mordhorst at bmordhorst07@georgefox.edu

This Pizza Chat will focus on how to select a major and the resources available to students deciding what to major in. Pizza is provided!! Participants are asked to sign-up in advance by going to your MyGFU page. Click on Career Services and then Bruin Careers.  Create an account and search “Career Events.”

October 14, 2010 from 12-1 PM in the Career Service Office on Stevens 1.

Interested in living or working overseas, but not sure how to do it? The Big Guide can help. The Office of Career Services has a subscription to this great interactive website that allows you to access its abundant resources for free.

Visit careers.georgefox.edu and find the link under “News and Updates” to activate your free account. Once registered, you can network with others interested in living or working abroad, both inside and outside of George Fox, and can access numerous videos and text resources to help you prepare for your upcoming adventure.

If you have any questions, contact Career Services at ext. 2330, via e-mail at careers@georgefox.edu, or in person at our new location on the first floor of the Stevens Center.

The annual Salsa Dance is going to be held next Saturday, October 16th from 8pm-10pm in Wheeler Sports Center. The dance will feature live instruction for the first hour for those interested in learning. Refreshments and dance contest prizes will be available.

Please Shane Gill at sgill09@georgefox.edu for further information.