The Daily Bruin

The admissions office is getting ready for Genesis, and we are looking for student volunteers! If you will be around this summer and would like to help out, get free lunch and a free T-shirt, we’d love to have you!

Here are the dates for Genesis this summer: May 14, May 15, May 16, June 17, June 18, June 19, and July 10. Each of the Genesis events are single-day events. You can either help out with just one or as many as you’d like!

If you would like to volunteer, please contact Kelly Coolen at kcoolen@georgefox.edu.

Only if you requested it to be open part or all summer. You could have done this by responding to summer address information emails or if you stopped at the address collection table a couple of weeks ago.

If you need your mailbox to be open and you have not taken care of this, please email Linda Sartwell at lsartwel@georgefox.edu.

Following is information regarding mailbox keys:

• Returning students: Keep your mailbox key all summer.
• Graduating or withdrawing students: Return your mailbox key by the end of finals week to avoid a $15 non-returned key fine – charged to your student account.

Where do I return the mailbox key?
There are key return envelopes on the counters at all post offices. Fill out the envelope and seal the key inside the envelope. Drop the envelope into the campus mail slot. You can also bring the key to mail services (where you pick up packages).

If you get class papers returned to your mailbox after you leave for the summer:

• Returning students: Your class papers will stay in your campus box until you return in the fall.
• Graduating seniors: Mail services will hold your class papers for three months for you to pick them up. After that time, the papers will be shredded.

Class papers will be available for pick-up the second week of May.

There will be no delivery of student mail or class papers after noon on Friday, May 1.

This allows time for mail services to convert mailboxes from spring semester to summertime use. Mail delivery to campus mailboxes that have been requested to remain open will begin on Monday, May 4. Forwarding of U.S. Mail for all other students will also begin next week.

The campus will be a beehive of construction as soon as school finishes, and as many parking lots and curbs as possible will be re-striped/painted this summer. Therefore, we need as few cars as possible being left on campus.

If you are leading a Juniors Abroad or Summer Serve trip, or are away on a business trip, we’d prefer that you be dropped off on campus, and your car isn’t left here. Should that not be possible, your keys must be left with security and we will tell you where to park, depending on weekly construction activity.

Please also relay this information to your Juniors Abroad/Summer Serve trip attendees. Also, George Fox is not responsible for anything that might happen to your car when it is left here. Thank you in advance for your cooperation so plant services can work unhindered this summer!

Questions or an out-of-box situation? Call us at 503-554-2090.

The Fitness Center will be closed on Saturday, May 2, and Sunday, May 3, and reopen for summer hours on Monday, May 4.

As you are cleaning out your dorms and offices this week, it would be greatly appreciated if you would bring back to Bon Appetit any dishware you may have taken out of the building with you during the course of the school year or that got left in offices, conference rooms, etc.

We have some bus tubs set up on a cart just outside the dish room for your convenience in returning dishes. Thank you!

– Bon Appetit

The community garden moved to a new location! There is a lot of work to be done this season to get the new space up and running, and we are looking for interns to help out this summer. Internships will run May through August. (If you are going on Juniors Abroad, that can be negotiated.) All interns should be in Newberg most of the summer and commit to coming to weekly garden work days.

Continuing students will receive a stipend of $400. A committed intern could request to take up to two of the following positions.

• Planting & Harvesting Intern: Create and facilitate a planting schedule. Organize individual gardeners to pay specific attention to one crop or area of the garden. Work with garden coordinator to make a plan for what will happen at the garden each week. Approximately 3-4 hours/week.

• Community Engagement & Social Media Intern: Communicate the opportunity to participate in the garden with George Fox and Newberg community. Work with planting and harvesting intern and garden coordinator to publicize garden activities and plans. Network with other community gardens in Newberg. Solicit donations from local garden retailers and to the food bank. Approximately 3-4 hours/week.

• Writing Intern: Attend weekly garden work days and write weekly reflections and/or updates for the community garden blog.

• Artist Intern: Attend weekly garden work days and help beautify the new garden. This might include decorative markers for each crop, garden art of your choice, helping design an herb spiral, or other ideas you have. It could also include paintings, sketches, or photos/videos of the garden to post on social media in collaboration with the writing intern.

Interested applicants should send an email with a concise description of any relevant experience, why they are interested in the job, and summer availability to Cherice Bock (cbock@georgefox.edu) by Saturday, May 2. Applicants should also have one professor or employer send a reference letter.

It’s commencement week at George Fox! The majority of graduate programs, including those at George Fox Evangelical Seminary, will host commencement ceremonies on Friday and Saturday, May 1-2, at various locations. Details on when and where they will take place are available at this link.

One commencement ceremony for traditional undergraduates and Department of Professional Studies graduates will be held on Saturday, May 2, at 2:30 p.m. in Stoffer Family Stadium. For more information, visit this page.

Ken Beebe, a 1982 George Fox University graduate (BA, sociology) who has spent the past 21 years serving as executive director of Twin Rocks Friends Camp and Conference Center, will be Saturday’s commencement speaker.

Students, staff, faculty, families and community members are welcome to join the community garden this summer. We will have weekly work days and potlucks, and you will soon begin bringing home fresh produce.

To learn about upcoming work days and how to get involved, email Cherice Bock at cbock@georgefox.edu, and/or join our Facebook page.

The community garden moved to a new location! There is a lot of work to be done this season to get the new space up and running, and we are looking for interns to help out this summer. Internships will run May through August. (If you are going on Juniors Abroad, that can be negotiated.) All interns should be in Newberg most of the summer and commit to coming to weekly garden work days.

Continuing students will receive a stipend of $400. A committed intern could request to take up to two of the following positions.

• Planting & Harvesting Intern: Create and facilitate a planting schedule. Organize individual gardeners to pay specific attention to one crop or area of the garden. Work with garden coordinator to make a plan for what will happen at the garden each week. Approximately 3-4 hours/week.

• Community Engagement & Social Media Intern: Communicate the opportunity to participate in the garden with George Fox and Newberg community. Work with planting and harvesting intern and garden coordinator to publicize garden activities and plans. Network with other community gardens in Newberg. Solicit donations from local garden retailers and to the food bank. Approximately 3-4 hours/week.

• Writing Intern: Attend weekly garden work days and write weekly reflections and/or updates for the community garden blog.

• Artist Intern: Attend weekly garden work days and help beautify the new garden. This might include decorative markers for each crop, garden art of your choice, helping design an herb spiral, or other ideas you have. It could also include paintings, sketches, or photos/videos of the garden to post on social media in collaboration with the writing intern.

Interested applicants should send an email with a concise description of any relevant experience, why they are interested in the job, and summer availability to Cherice Bock (cbock@georgefox.edu) by Saturday, May 2. Applicants should also have one professor or employer send a reference letter.

International Student Services will be hosting a garage sale this summer to raise money for an international student emergency fund. If you can donate to this cause, please bring your old or new items to the International Student Services office at 1110 E. Meridian St., any time between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Questions? Contact Joanna Cox at jcox@georgefox.edu.

A huge box of lost and found items was just turned in to the lost and found from Wood-Mar Auditorium. If you have lost something either while performing in a play or attending something in Wood-Mar, please stop by the security office before the end of the week to check for your lost items.

All unclaimed items will be donated to charitable causes next week.

The Office of Spiritual & Intercultural Life warmly welcomes you to our baccalaureate service, the opening event of graduation weekend. It is scheduled for this Friday, May 1, from 7 to 8 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium and will be a commissioning service for our graduating seniors and their families, remembering all of our graduates’ special accomplishments from their time here at George Fox.

All are welcome to attend, and Spanish and Mandarin Chinese translation will be available for those who wish to enjoy the service in those respective languages. It is a non-ticketed event; simply come and enjoy! Attire is business casual.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the Office of Spiritual & Intercultural Life at spirituallife@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2320.

Here is the Bon Appetit schedule for this week:

• Tuesday-Thursday, April 28-30: Normal hours at all locations except no late-night Bruin Den Thursday

• Friday, May 1
  
  • Klages: breakfast and lunch normal hours; dinner from 4:30 to 6 p.m.
  • Bruin Den, Bruin Bites and Villa Cafe: closing at 2 p.m.

• Saturday, May 2
  
  • Klages: breakfast from 9 to 10 a.m.; lunch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Saturday lunch is the last board meal of the semester. The Bruin Den will open on Monday, May 4, with summer hours (8 a.m. – 2 p.m.).

Good luck on your finals, congratulations to all graduating seniors, and we hope you all have a wonderful summer!

At the end of every school year many students have good reusable items that they do not want to take home over the summer. These items often include blankets, clothing, kitchen supplies, small appliances, radios, room decorations, furniture, etc. In an effort to keep the dumpsters from over flowing and to be better stewards of the resources, Phase II was initiated.  We are happy to receive reusable items that students do not want to take home  through May 3 at 4  p.m.

The items gathered are sorted and made available to summer students and staff, with the remainder of the items being given to different organizations in the local area, such as: Rescue Mission, Unwed Mothers Homes, Love Inc., or Goodwill.

Barrels will be placed in the following locations:

• The dorm lobbies of Edwards, Pennington, Le Shana, Coffin, Hobson, Macy and Sutton.
• On the porches or patios of Weesner, Riley, Chapman, Hoskins, Armstrong, Campbell, Fulton St., Villa Rd.,
  North St., Gail, Kershner, Barclay and Wilder Houses.
• Outside of the first floor of Beebe, Carey and Willcuts.
• Near Woolman 2-3, Winters 201-2 and Newlin apartments.
• Lewis and Weesner Village laundry rooms.

Please do not place the following into the barrels:

• Undergarments and socks
• Large appliances or furniture
• Food or chemicals (Place these items in a box next to the barrels)

There are large drop boxess for your trash located strategically around campus. By law, computers and TVs cannot go into the trash. Please place them beside the barrels with a note if it is broken.

Have a great summer and may the Lord bless you as you go!

Looking for kitchen furnishings for your new apartment? Need any dishes, pots or pans? The era of the Food Lab has come to an end, and all of the supplies need to go. So come to the Kitchen Lab garage sale today (Monday) in Lemmons 4 , from 1 to 3 p.m.

There will not be prices on anything; rather, we are asking for donations for any items taken!

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

Come support the Nicaraguan Serve team and buy tacos for $1 in the Bruin Den today (Monday) between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.! We will be going to Nicaragua in the beginning of June for a medical missions trip with the university’s nursing program.

We are also selling SAVE cards for $1, which are discount cards for local businesses.

Questions? Contact Molly Hearn at mhearn12@georgefox.edu.

• If you used the FoxTALE grade book for any of your FoxTALE course sites, back up your 2015 Spring grade book to a spreadsheet that is saved outside of FoxTALE. See the instructions here for backing up grades. You will want to keep an archive of your course grades that cover the last five years.

• Use your new, empty 2015 Summer or Fall sites as the sites in which you will teach. You may import content from another course site. See the instructions here for importing.

• 2015 Summer sites are currently hidden from student view. When you are ready, you can share the sites with your students. Here is a quick guide on how to make the courses available: FoxTALE: Making Courses Visible to Students.

• If your course site is set to Weekly format, your course might show incorrect dates. To change the dates, go to Administration>Edit settings on the course home page. Scroll down to the course start date, and change it to the first day of your 2015 Summer course. Scroll to the bottom of the page and “Save changes.”

Visit the FoxTALE for Faculty webpage for guides and resources and to see the new features coming in the August 2015 FoxTALE upgrade.