The Daily Bruin

Commuter students: Please be reminded that you should take time to review the Student Handbook. Since you are living off campus and are not attending all-area meetings through Residence Life, this is your reminder from the Office of Commuter Life to review our community’s expectations of you.

The Undergraduate Student Handbook is significant resource that serves to articulate the lifestyle standards, community policies and other aspects of being a member of the George Fox community. While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the information in this handbook, it is not a binding contract and it may be changed, updated, amended and/or modified at any time by action of appropriate university personnel.

Students of George Fox University are responsible for reviewing and adhering to all published university policies. We hope that you find this searchable handbook to be a tool that is both informative and helpful. The handbook can be found at studenthandbook.georgefox.edu.

If you have any questions regarding the Handbook, please email studentlife@georgefox.edu.

The library is pleased to deliver library material for participating faculty to their offices on the Newberg campus. All library material must be signed for by the faculty member or persons authorized to sign. If you have used this service in the past or if you are signing up for the first time, please click on this link and fill out the form.

Questions? Contact Patty Vanier at pvanier@georgefox.edu or ext. 2425.

Faculty, please submit requests for fall semester course reserves as soon as possible. Materials are processed in the order received and can take up to five days to complete.

Please fill out and submit this form. If you have any questions, please contact Patty Vanier at pvanier@georgefox.edu or ext. 2425.

The Serve Day employee placements for this year’s event, on Wednesday, Sept. 12, have been emailed out to all half-time-and-above employees!

If you have not received your placement, please email serveday@georgefox.edu.

The Office of Student Life is excited to announce the start of Bruin Community Pantry, an initiative seeking to address the real problem of hunger (“food insecurity”) on campus. It’s our goal to help meet the needs of community members who, for one reason or another, do not have access to enough healthy food.

Four different components of Bruin Community Pantry include:

Food Pantry
All George Fox community members have access to the pantry, located in the Roberts Center (Room 110). Community food drives will be held to provide non-perishable items for the pantry, and athletic teams will facilitate food drives during home games.

Contact student life for a list of items non-perishable food and household items needed for the pantry. Donations are now being accepted in the student life office on the third floor of the Stevens Center.

Hospitality
Partnerships with local businesses for “gifts in kind” have been established with Bon Appetit, Newberg’s Grocery Outlet and Ray’s Produce. A variety of pre-packaged foods are available for students, located at hospitality tables in the student life office, spiritual life office, and the Intercultural Resource Center (Moore House). The tables are open during office hours, which are generally 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.

The Duke Athletic Center will host a peanut butter and jelly sandwich bar that is available to all George Fox students.

Leftovers
The student life office will arrange for quality leftover food to be stored in a refrigerator in our office. All food donated will be adequately contained and dated. Food not picked up in the appropriate amount of time will be disposed of.

Students participating in this program can sign up by contacting our office. A waiver is required for anyone participating in the Leftovers program.

Outreach
Partnering with existing local outreach initiatives facilitated by spiritual life, students who want to support their efforts will be connected to their programs.

We live in a society with easy access to processed food. When you eat whole foods, you’re getting food in its natural state. This aspect of our outreach will endeavor to provide cooking classes in various living areas on campus using recipes from “Eat well on $4 a day, Good and Cheap.”

For more information, visit this link or contact Jere Witherspoon in the student life office (jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2312).

Now is the time to order university stationery. The collective order helps keep costs low – the higher the volume, the lower the cost. Consequently, it is most economical to overestimate needs and store a small surplus.

I will be accepting orders through Wednesday, Aug. 22. For order instructions, go to the marketing communications website. Continue to purchase all non-departmental stationery (including “second-sheet letterhead”) through the university’s Office of Print Services.

Please contact me if you have any questions.

Thank you,
– Danette Newkirk (dnewkirk@georgefox.edu)

With the return of staff and faculty to campus today, summer student employees need to now park where their 2018-19 parking permits allow in order to free up the staff lots and visitor rows for staff and faculty who have returned to work.

The 2018-19 parking brochure is available on the Campus Public Safety website if you are unsure where your permit allows you to park, or come and see the parking map in person at the Campus Public Safety office.

Thank you for all of your hard work this summer!

Staff, administrators and faculty: Please pass this on to your summer student employees.

It takes an army of volunteers to ensure that all the logistics for football games are handled in an organized and efficient way. For that reason, George Fox organized the Bruin Brigade, consisting of a group of volunteers who will handle everything from directing game-day traffic and selling tickets to serving as parking lot coordinators and cleaning up after the game.

There are four home games this season, and we need volunteers to serve this year! Please reach out if you are considering finding a new way to be involved while supporting George Fox football and connecting to the community.

• Sept. 8 vs. Howard Payne: Arrive at 11 a.m.; kickoff is 1 p.m.
• Oct. 6  vs. Whitworth (Homecoming): Arrive at 11:30 a.m.; kickoff is 1:30 p.m.
• Oct. 20 vs Linfield (Family Weekend): Arrive at 11:30 a.m.; kickoff is 1:30 p.m.
• Nov. 10 vs. Puget Sound: Arrive at 11:30 a.m.; kickoff is 1:30 p.m.

Please contact Mckenna Tillotson (mtillotson@georgefox.edu) to sign up or if you have questions.

Marketing communications has a new form for submitting web requests. If you have our job request form bookmarked, you may need to refresh your browser to see the “Request a Web Job” button on the marketing communications webpage.

A copy of your completed from will be emailed to you from Google Forms in place of a confirmation email from Danette Newkirk. The new form includes the option of uploading files when you enter your request.

Contact Danette (dnewkirk@georgefox.edu) if you have questions.

The Office of the President has developed a Presidential Appearance Request Form that will assist in managing the president’s schedule. The president strives to accommodate as many engagement requests which support the mission of the university as possible. The completion of this form is required for anyone desiring the president (and spouse) be present and/or participate at an event.

We appreciate your patience with scheduling the president’s complex calendar. The link to the form can also be found on the President’s Office contact page and will be posted on the “Resources for Current Employees” and “Resources for Faculty” pages as well.

Please note: It is expected that the requestor has followed procedures and obtained the approval of their administrator prior to submitting the request.

George Fox’s football team is proud to welcome you back to another exciting season of Bruin football. Over the last four seasons, the Bruins have led the way in home attendance in the Northwest Conference.

Coming into the 2018 season, the program had two players named to the D3football.com preseason All-American Team, the most of any NWC school. Come out and show your spirit as the Bruins host Howard Payne University at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 8, in their home opener.

All George Fox employees are entitled to free entry into the uncovered general admission bleachers at home football games when they show their George Fox ID at the gate. Children under 10 are also admitted for free. Additional tickets can be purchased at the gate or in advance here.

Employees who are interested in purchasing reserved season tickets in the covered grandstands can do so here.

If you have questions, please contact Mckenna Tillotson at mtillotson@georgefox.edu.

Welcome Weekend is almost here! In order for our hundreds of new students to have a seamless move-in experience, we need extra cooperation from the staff and students already here on Thursday, Aug. 23.

• If your on-campus residence is Pennington, Edwards, Weesner Village, Hobson, Macy, Sutton, LeShana, Gulley or Brandt, we need you to vacate those lots Wednesday evening and stay out of them until Friday morning.
• If you normally park in the Le Shana lot, please move your cars as close to Fulton Street as possible so that the area in front of the building is clear, or move your cars to the Bauman or Morse lot Wednesday night.
• Everyone in the Pennington lot and “lollipop area,” Edwards or Weesner Village needs to move to the lot on 99W Wednesday night.
• Please keep Sheridan Street clear for easier access for our incoming students.
• The Morse lot and the front lot only of the Roberts Center are also available for Thursday. The lot in between the Roberts Center and Gulley and Brandt halls must be vacated Wednesday night.
• If you are going on a retreat next week, you MUST move your cars to the Bauman, Morse or 99W lots before leaving on your retreat. Please don’t block up the entire moving-in flow with your left-behind cars!

Questions? Please contact Campus Public Safety at 503-554-2090 and also view the parking brochure on the CPS web pages for lot locations.

Thank you in advance for your cooperation to help make next Thursday be the best day ever for our new students!

The Serve Day employee placements for this year’s event, on Wednesday, Sept. 12, have been emailed out to all half-time-and-above employees!

If you have not received your placement, please email serveday@georgefox.edu.

All employees, half time and above, are required to attend the all-community meeting​ (absences must be approved by your vice president)​, scheduled from 8 to 11:30 a.m. tomorrow (Wednesday) in the Canyon Commons dining hall on the Newberg campus. Coffee and danishes will be served beginning at 8 a.m., with the program to follow, and the event concludes with lunch served at 11:30 a.m.

The meeting will include a time of worship and devotions, ​an update from President Robin Baker and the VP team​​, and employee service awards.

Contact Missy Terry at terrym@georgefox.edu with any questions. See you there!

Campus Recreation is hosting a Wilderness First Aid course on on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 27-28. The cost to current George Fox students is $100. Space in the class is limited, so please register early if you are interested.

Additional details can be found on the registration form.

Contact Keith Schneider at kschneid@georgefox.edu with questions.

Fall semester is right around the corner and Print Services is in full swing. Plan your syllabus printing accordingly and get them turned in before class starts. You can email your syllabus to printservices@georgefox.edu.

In order to get your syllabus returned in a timely manner, please have them to Print Services by the end of day on Tuesday, Aug 21.

Thank you,
Print Services
503-554-2550

We trust you are excited about the new Hadlock Student Center (HSC)! Assuming everything continues on schedule, the fitness center portion of the facility will be open with limited hours (tentatively 4 to 9 p.m.) beginning Monday, Aug. 27 (anticipated grand opening and full hours will begin Monday, Sept. 3). This is subject to change if there are unexpected delays in construction.

If you use the fitness center in Wheeler, you’ll notice most of the space has been cleared in anticipation of remodeling it for athletics’ use since the HSC will be opening soon. Due to this upcoming remodeling of the Wheeler fitness center space, some equipment has been moved into the adjacent dance studio space (Wheeler 211) for general student and employee use until the HSC opens. The squat racks are also still available for use and are in their original spot.

There are more limited hours for this interim space in Wheeler, as it will now be open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday (closed Saturday and Sunday). We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience during this transitional period and trust that the new space in the HSC will make it worth the wait!

Questions? Contact Rob Simpson (simpsonr@georgefox.edu) regarding the HSC or Adam Puckett (apuckett@georgefox.edu) regarding the Wheeler Sports Center space.

With the new academic year comes new changes in parking policies. This letter is to inform you of those changes ahead of time so you can act accordingly.

All changes mentioned in this email begin with the 2018-19 academic year. The university, not Campus Public Safety (formerly Security Services), has elected to bill all commuters for your annual parking permit automatically.

Your student account will be charged each semester through Student Financial Services. Additionally, there is an increase in the cost of the parking permit: $100 per semester ($200 annually).

When you go online to register your vehicle on MYGFU, under “GFU Resources,” click on “Vehicle Registration.” There will be no cost shown, and you will enter your vehicle information.

Complete instructions on vehicle registration can be found on Campus Public Safety’s website. Once you have completed the vehicle registration process, your permit will be mailed to you in 14 to 21 days at the mailing address you provided during the vehicle registration process.

For those who live nearby and would rather walk or ride a bike to campus, an online form will be available to request a refund for the permit charge. Please read the form thoroughly to understand the conditions of your refund. Information on where to access this form will be announced in an upcoming Daily Bruin.

Those of you living in the Good Neighbor area, when you bring in the required proof of residence to receive your free parking permit, your information will be submitted to Student Financial Services for a refund of permit charges. Details about parking off-campus can be found on the Off-Campus Parking website.

Please watch this summer for any changes regarding parking policies or permits. Check your George Fox email regularly or you might miss something important.

If you have any questions, please call Campus Public Safety at 503-554-2090. Details about the university’s parking policies can be found on the Campus Public Safety website: Parking 101.

Bruin Community Pantry (BCP) is an Office of Student Life-led initiative seeking to address the real problem of hunger (“food insecurity”) on campus. It is our goal to help meet the needs of our community who, for one reason or another, do not have access to enough healthy food.

We are currently soliciting donations for the BCP. Those wishing to contribute by donating money can contact Jere Witherspoon (jwithers@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2316) for more information.

Here is a list of suggested donation items:

• Boxed meals, such as mac and cheese and Hamburger Helper
• Rice
• Pasta
• Quinoa
• Tortilla and pita chips
• Beef jerky
• Crackers and cereal
• Cheese sticks
• Nuts
• Peanut butter, jelly and honey
• Applesauce pouches and fruit cups
• Protein bars, granola bars and fruit bars
• Dried fruit (cherries, figs, blueberries)
• Coffee and tea
• Hot sauces
• Canned veggies, fruits, beans and meats
• Chili and soups
• Salsa and marinara sauce
• Chicken and vegetable broth
• Salt, pepper, garlic powder, spices of any kind
• Oil
• Shampoo, conditioner, toothbrushes and toothpaste
• Body wash
• Tissues
• Toilet paper
• Paper towels
• Laundry and dish soap
• Notebooks, pens, pencils and lined paper

Donations can be dropped off at the student life office on the third floor of the Stevens Center during regular business hours. Any excess of items donated will be delivered to FISH in Newberg. We will take donations of non-perishable food items and essential toiletries throughout the year.

All George Fox community members have access to the pantry, located in the Roberts Center (Room 110). Community food drives will be held throughout the year to provide non-perishable items for the pantry.

We are looking for volunteers for this year’s Welcome Weekend and would love any help you can offer! This event is a great chance to connect with new students and their families as they begin their journey with us on campus. Volunteers are needed on Thursday, Aug. 23.

If you are interested in serving please click this link.