The Daily Bruin

Is there someone at George Fox who has made a difference in your academic career? Someone who ignited a spark to make you want to learn or attend class or who has acted as a role model? Take a moment to write an e-mail, e-card, or traditional “thank you” card to that professor, tutor, administrator, classmate, or other person. Try to be specific as you describe how this person has contributed to your life.

Newberg students can stop by the SUB to write a note; Portland Center students can stop at the Information Desk. Of course, one can make or buy one’s own card.

It’s time to sign up for MLK Serve Day 2013! I know it seems early, but it is just so we can prepare for the approximately 1,000 volunteers that day. Will you be one of them? Our 2013 MLK Day will have a special focus on literacy.

Did you know that…

• Only one-third of all students entering high school are proficient in reading
• Only about 15 percent of African-American students and only 17 percent of Hispanic students are proficient in reading entering high school (NAEP Reading, 2009)

Register here today to be a part of the largest collective movement in the nation on MLK day!

The details:

When: Jan. 21, 2013
Time: Meet in Stevens at 6:30 a.m., where we will bus to Portland together
Why: Promote literacy in accordance to Dr. King’s dream

Not Returning next semester?
Be sure you have filled out a forwarding address card for your US Mail. Forms are loctaed on the counters at Beebe, SUB and the Main Mail Center in North Street Annex.
Also, remember to return your mailbox key before you leave campus to avoid a $15.00 key charge.

Questions:  Please email lsartwel@georgefox.edu

Returning Students: Please keep your mailbox key over the Christmas break.  We will hold all of your packages here at Mail Services and your mail will be in your campus mailbox when you come back in January.

If you have questions, please email lsartwel@georgefox.edu

Students, here are a few reminders for vehicle registration for next semester:

-If you are bringing back the same car after break, or have previously registered as NOCAR, then you have nothing else to do. However, if you have neglected to either register your vehicle, or haven’t checked the box as NOT having a vehicle, your account will be charged $25 after the Add/Drop date in January (Jan. 25th). So, save yourself some money and go on myGFU and either register your car or check the box for not having a vehicle.

-If you are changing housing status, and either moving from one side of the campus to another, or moving off-campus, you will need to scrape off your current permit (razor blades available in the Security office)and bring it to Security so we can get you set up with the proper permit.

-If you’ve been registered as NOCAR, but are bringing back a car after break, please go back on myGFU and click on the minus sign to the right of your NOCAR listing BEFORE typing in your vehicle information in the empty boxes. Simply erasing NOCAR and inputting a license plate number will NOT go through on myGFU, so be sure and use the minus sign FIRST.

–Security is always willing to answer questions, so don’t hesitate to call us at ext. 2090 if you have further questions.

This is a reminder that at 12 p.m. this Wednesday the last opportunity to sign up for transportation from the airport, train station or possibly carpooling.

Read all the info here.

Sponsored by:  Inclusion and Student Leadership Programs

Becoming a teacher? Please contact Beth Molzahn in Graduate Admissions to learn your next step toward an Initial Teaching License via the Master of Arts in Teaching program right here at George Fox!

E-mail: bmolzahn@georgefox.edu or phone: 503-554-2264

Faculty: Please submit course reserve material A.S.A.P. for spring semester. Materials are processed in the order received and can take up to five days to complete. For all requests, please fill out and submit the online form, located here.

If you have any questions, please contact Patty Vanier at ext. 2425 or pvanier@georgefox.edu.

The faculty courier service will be suspended over the Christmas break and will resume on Monday, Jan. 14, 2013.

Questions? Contact Patty Vanier at pvanier@georgefox.edu.

If you have lost items since Nov. 20, please come to the Security House to see if they have been turned in before you leave for Christmas break. Any items not reconnected with their owners will be donated to charitable causes next Monday, Dec. 17.

Office hours are from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., or you can call ext. 2090 to talk to the officer on duty if it is after those hours.

With just four days left in the semester, please look around your offices and send any “found” items over to the security office as quickly as possible so that students will have time to reconnect with their lost items before they leave for Christmas break.

Thanks!
– Security Services

The Swaziland Summer Serve teams from 2012 and 2013 will be conducting a fundraiser in the Bruin Den Tuesday through Thursday of this week. Timbali Crafts is a ministry/business in Swaziland allowing local women to sell handmade crafts and handbags.

We will be selling many of their free-trade items in order to continue supporting the locals and their ministry. Visit us between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.

Questions? Contact Andrew Harding (aharding09@georgefox.edu)

More than 250 students will receive undergraduate and graduate diplomas at the university’s midyear commencement ceremony on Saturday, Dec. 15, in the Wheeler Sports Center. Seating begins at 1 p.m., and the ceremony will start at 2 p.m.

Tickets are not required; however, seating is limited to 10 guests per graduate. At 1:45 p.m., a live broadcast of the ceremony will be available to watch at this link.

Dr. William M. Schniedewind, a professor of biblical studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a 1984 alumnus of George Fox, will serve as commencement speaker. He holds the Kershaw Chair of Ancient Eastern Mediterranean Studies at UCLA and is chair of the school’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures.

Don’t forget! Textbook Buyback is this week, Monday through Friday, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the BlueZone Store in the SUB.

The financial affairs office will process the last check run of the year on Friday, Dec. 21. In order to ensure your expense reimbursement and/or check request is processed, we must receive your paperwork no later than 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 18. If your paperwork arrives after the 18th, it will be processed after the New Year.

Questions? Contact Andy Dunn at adunn@georgefox.edu.

To provide students and families with updates and important information for December, Student Financial Services has posted online the most recent version of our newsletter. Please visit this link to read the SFS News archives. The most recent edition is “December 2012.”

You can also sign up to automatically receive future newsletters.

Please join us for the Portland Center wassail party this afternoon (Monday)! Stop by the lobby between 2 and 6 p.m. for Christmas treats, hot beverages, and a good dose of holiday cheer!

Join the Christmas celebration at the library’s annual wassail party today (Monday) between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Take a break and join us in the MLRC multi-purpose room for snacks, wassail and coffee. It’s our treat to you!

Questions? Contact Sue Richie (srichie@georgefox.edu).

Please join your colleagues for the final all-employee lunch of the semester on Tuesday, Dec. 11, in the Cap and Gown Room. It will run from 11:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.

Merry Christmas!

Monday, Dec. 10, is “Dead Day.” Breakfast in Klages will start at 8 a.m., and the Bruin Den will have reduced hours, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Villa Cafe will be closed.