The Daily Bruin

There is still time to sign up for the university’s tour of Alpine Europe to see the Passion Play at Oberammergau, Germany, in early-summer 2010. There are currently 20 people registered for the trip.

Open to all employees, students, alumni, parents and friends of George Fox, the 11-day tour, departing May 31, will include visits to the beautiful European cities of Frankfurt and Munich, Germany; Salzburg, Austria; and Lucerne and Interlaken, Switzerland. Among many other highlights, the tour will include travel through the Rhine Valley, Black Forest, and the Swiss, Austrian and Bavarian Alps. Additionally, visits are planned to Neuschwanstein and Heidelberg castles, and Rothenburg, Germany’s best-preserved medieval town.

The highlight of the trip will be the Passion Play, an inspiring one-day play that dates back nearly 375 years and is performed for sold-out audiences every 10 years in a magnificent outdoor covered amphitheater with the Bavarian Alps as a backdrop.

To read the full itinerary, request more information and register for the trip, visit the alumni site.

Contact Alumni Relations at alumni@georgefox.edu with questions.

This is a reminder that your university password has been set to expire at 9 a.m. Monday, April 13, as part of the university’s annual password reset for all students, faculty and staff. Please login to Bruindata to change your password before that date.

All accounts with passwords that remain unchanged will be locked at 9 a.m. Monday April 13, preventing you from using university services. Once this occurs, you will need to contact the IT Service Desk to get your password reset.

Based on the recommendations of our auditing firm and following best practices, we will be changing university logins at regular intervals. For details, please refer to the password change policy on the IT website. We need to complete a campus password reset prior to the end of the spring semester.

Note: You are not being asked to send your login information to anyone. Rather, you are using the current university password change process that allows the individual to reset their own password.

Password Self-Service Feature
Once you have reset your password, you will be presented with the option to set “security questions” for your account. If you choose not to enter answers at this time, you can later create a self-service password reset option by logging into Bruindata, selecting the “My Data” tab and then “Security Questions.”

You will need to answer two security questions from the drop-down list and provide a non-George Fox e-mail address to activate this option. If you forgot your password, a temporary password will be sent to your non-George Fox e-mail, allowing you to log into Bruindata and change your university login password.

Your password has been set to expire at 9 a.m. on April 13 as part of the annual password reset for all university students, faculty and staff. Please login to Bruindata to change your password.

All accounts with passwords that remain unchanged will be locked on Monday, April 13, at 9 a.m., preventing you from using university services. Once this occurs, you will need to contact the IT Service Desk to get your password reset.

Based on the recommendations of our auditing firm and following best practices, we will be changing George Fox login at regular intervals. For details, please refer to the password change policy on the IT website. We need to complete a campus password reset prior to the end of the spring semester.

Password Self-Service Feature
Once you have reset your password, you will be presented with the option to set “security questions” for your account. If you choose not to enter answers at this time, you can later create a self-service password reset option by logging into Bruindata, selecting the “My Data” tab and then “Security Questions.” You will need to answer two security questions from the drop-down list and provide a non-GFU e-mail address to activate this option. If you forgot your password, a temporary password will be sent to your non-GFU e-mail allowing you to log into Bruindata and change your university login password.

Note: See this same message was sent to your university e-mail account regarding the password change process. You are not being asked to send your login information to anyone but rather using the current university password change process that allows the individual to reset their own password.

George Fox will host a national pastoral leadership conference, “Spiritual Discernment As Christian Leadership,” on the Newberg campus May 31 through June 3. The event will feature a panel of leading Christian thinkers from around the country.

Sponsored by the George Fox University Congregational Discernment Project, the conference will address the issue of how Christ effectively leads the church in unity. Plenary sessions, workshops and panel discussions with pastors, teachers and authors will provide attendees with a vision for unity and the tools to practice this leadership approach.

Plenary speakers will be Lloyd Ogilvie, Graham Standish, Paul Anderson, Ruth Haley Barton, Peter Bouteneff, and Leith Anderson. All George Fox students, employees and alumni receive a $50 group discount (registering before May 1); save $100 by registering before April 1.

Be sure to pass the word on to church leaders who might be interested. For more information, visit discernment.georgefox.edu or contact Paul Anderson (Religious Studies) at panderso@georgefox.edu.

We look forward to gathering together in Hoover 105 this Saturday at 10 a.m. to watch our Bruins play for a NCAA Division III national basketball championship. George Fox will play The College of New Jersey Friday for the right to advance to the title game. We will not be showing the consolation game scheduled for 7 a.m. Saturday morning.

The Internet is an option for viewing the games. Visit this NCAA.com site for a tutorial on gaining access.

George Fox undergraduate and graduate students are eligible to apply for student research funding through the Richter Scholarship program. The second round of scholarship applications are due by 4 p.m. Tuesday, March 31. The program provides stipends and supply funds for research in collaboration with a faculty member.

Please turn in applications to Carol Jaquith (Psychology) at Box 6127, or deliver to Hoover 110. For details, visit the university’s Richter Scholarship page.

The university’s library website has been upgraded. You can now search all of the library’s Web pages from a convenient search box on the library’s homepage.

Looking for information on what resources are available to university students and employees? The newly revamped Resources webpage has the most popular links used by students and employees — Bruindata, E-nnouncements, Employee Directories, and many other commonly used locations. Visit georgefox.edu/resources_for/index.html.

The university will close Monday, Jan. 19, to observe the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. There will be no day or evening classes or chapel at the Newberg campus, and the Portland Center, Salem Center and Boise Center will be closed. Also, all the university’s offices, libraries and bookstores will be closed.

In March of 2008, the university’s libraries conducted a major user satisfaction survey using LibQUAL, a web-based survey from the Association of Research Libraries. A summary of survey results is available on the library’s blog, accessible at blogs.georgefox.edu/library/?p=191.

The university’s libraries are now offering a customizable library toolbar. Use the toolbar for quick access to the library homepage, key library content, searching the catalog, blog updates and more. Add your own gadgets like top YouTube feeds, music and games. Find out more at georgefox.edu/offices/murdock/HowTo/toolbar.html.

IT reports that FoxTALE will be upgraded to version 1.9 from 6 a.m. Monday, Dec. 29, until 6 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 30. FoxTALE will be unavailable during this time. (All times are Pacific Standard Time).

The university’s IT department never asks for you to supply personal information in an e-mail. There are numerous e-mail messages currently being used to try and deceive people into divulging personal information to unknown recipients. The e-mails try to pass themselves off as official and are sent to .edu and .org e-mail addresses. Do not respond to these e-mails. The senders of the messages are identity thieves.

Here is a sample of one such message:

ATTENTION: EDU WEBMAIL SUBSCRIBER:

This mail is to inform all our {EDU WEBMAIL} users that we will be upgrading our site in a couple of days from now. So you as a subscriber of our site you are required to send us your mail account details so as to enable us know if you are still making use of your mail box.

Further informed that we will be deleting all mail account that is not functioning so as to create more space for new user. so you are to send us your mail account details which are as follows:

*User name:
*Password:

Failure to do this will immediately render your email address deactivated from our database. Your response should be send to the following e-mail address.

Your Admin Manager: edu.sub.2008@live.vvv

Yours In Service,

Mrs. Kaushik Mohan

We Need Your Help!

George Fox has been working on implementing a new Registrar/Billing software system for Spring Semester 2009, and we need your help.

1. Register for Spring 09 courses in Bruindata by Thursday, Dec. 4 at 5 p.m. If you have already registered and plan on making changes, please complete those as well. This will help prevent registration delays in during the transition.

2. Read your emails from the Enrollment Services, Registrar’s and Student Financials (billing) offices regarding changes. The e-mails will be short with CRITICAL information you will need.

We appreciate your help and will continue to keep you informed using email and e-nnouncements.

The university has been working on implementing a new registrar/billing software system for spring semester 2009, and we need your help.

First, please register for spring 2009 courses in Bruindata by 5 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 4. If you have already registered and plan on making changes, please complete those as well. This will help prevent registration delays during the transition.

Secondly, read your e-mails from the enrollment services, registrar and student financial (billing) offices regarding changes. The e-mails will be short with critical information you will need. We appreciate your help and will continue to keep you informed using e-mail and e-nnouncements.

The Orbis Cascade Alliance, in conjunction with Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), is finalizing work on the new Summit catalog. Summit is the system for ordering books and media from other academic libraries in Washington and Oregon.

On Monday, Dec. 1, the catalog will have a new look and functionality. With one search, this new catalog will allow you to discover materials from both the Summit system and the WorldCat catalog. The service will remain the same, but there will be some changes. Many of these changes are expected to be temporary as we migrate to the new system.

For your convenience, we have listed many of these changes on a link off the library homepage. If you have any questions, be sure to ask a library staff member or a librarian. The library is excited to bring you better searching and discovery tools.

To learn more, read an FAQ on the Summit catalog at the Orbis Cascade site.

The university’s iTunesU site, devoted to higher education podcasting, is now included in Apple’s public search through the iTunesU tab under the iTunes Store. This marks an upgrade to the site’s profile, as previously George Fox’s site was not searchable in the larger community of iTunesU.

Thanks go to John Taggart and others in IT, as well as the Marketing Communications staff, for getting the site upgraded. We invite you to check it out at itunesu.georgefox.edu.

George Fox University is excited to announce a tour of alpine Europe to see the Passion Play at Oberammergau, Germany, in early-summer 2010.

Open to all employees, students, alumni, parents and friends of George Fox, our 11-day tour, departing May 31, will include visits to the beautiful alpine European cities of Frankfurt and Munich, Germany; Salzburg, Austria; and Lucerne and Interlaken, Switzerland. Among many other highlights, the tour will include travel through the Rhine Valley, Black Forest, as well as the Swiss, Austrian and Bavarian Alps. Additionally, visits are planned to Neuschwanstein and Heidelberg castles, and Rothenburg, Germany’s best-preserved medieval town.

The highlight of the trip will be the Passion Play, an inspiring one-day play, dating back nearly 375 years, which is performed for sold-out audiences every 10 years in a magnificent outdoor covered amphitheater with the Bavarian Alps as a backdrop.

To read the full itinerary, request more information, and register for the trip, click here.

The Orbis Cascade Alliance, in conjunction with Online Computer Library Center, is finalizing work on the new Summit catalog. Summit is the catalog for ordering books and media from other academic libraries in Washington and Oregon. With one search, this new catalog will allow you to discover materials from all over the world. One search will soon allow you access to both the Summit and WorldCat catalogs.

The new catalog will be available to use beginning Dec. 1. Some inconveniences and disruptions in Summit features and functions may be part of the transition. The library is working hard to bring you better searching and discovery tools and will appreciate your patience while we work on implementing the new Summit system.

To learn more, go to orbiscascade.org/index/new-summit to read an FAQ on the new Summit catalog.

FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 10 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 18, for server maintenance and preparation for the fall semester. Please note that your online course(s) will be unavailable during this time.