The Daily Bruin

Bruindata will be retired on Thursday morning, Aug. 27. The services formerly accessed in Bruindata are now available at MyGFU.georgefox.edu.

President Robin Baker will provide a university update and introduce new faculty members at a George Fox Auxiliary luncheon scheduled for noon Friday, Sept. 4, in the Cap and Gown Room. Reservations are required and tickets are $7.50 per person.

In addition to Baker, new faculty members scheduled to speak are Michael Bevis, director of the English Language Institute; Annette Nemetz, assistant professor of management; and Nick Willis, associate professor of mathematics.

To make reservations, contact Margene Haworth at 503-538-0604 by Tuesday, Sept. 1.

Students, staff and faculty: Security Services is boxing up the summer lost and found items, so if you have lost something, please come to the security office between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. before Friday, Aug. 28. All items not claimed by then will be donated to charitable causes.

Financial Affairs is offering a training session on how to create purchase requisitions in PeopleSoft. It is scheduled from 10:30 a.m. to noon Wednesday, Sept. 2, in the Wilhite House (Surf Shack).

The session is a repeat of the sessions offered earlier in the summer. Learn to create a purchase requisition and monitor the requisition through the approval and PO process. Please R.S.V.P. to Karon Bell or Sheila Abercrombie if you will attend.

The University Store’s back-to-school hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday, through Sept. 11. The bookstore will also be open this Saturday, Aug. 29, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The bookstore is also hosting back-to-school specials:

• Select hooded sweatshirts are two for $30

• Select sweatpants are two for $30

• Select tees are two for $15

Also, art and school supplies are 15 percent off. Sale ends Friday, Sept. 11.

The faculty courier will be running again this year between the hours of 9 and 11 a.m. Monday through Friday. If you are interested in signing up for this service, please e-mail the following information: your name, location of pick-up/delivery, and a list of persons that may sign for deliveries to rbraden@georgefox.edu.

A message from Mail Services: The courier will leave the Newberg campus after Friday’s all-employee meeting, arriving later than usual at the Portland Center.

Be sure to turn in your requests for library course reserves no later than Wednesday, Aug. 26, if you wish to have them processed before school starts. The form can be found online.

Requests are processed in the order that they are received and can take up to five days to complete. The beginning of the semester gets a little backed up, and we would appreciate your help by getting your requests submitted as soon as possible. If you have any questions, feel free to call the library circulation desk at ext. 2410 or e-mail mlrcreserves@gmail.com.

The Serve Day committee needs your help for the evening carnival on Wednesday, Sept. 9. If you would be willing to help run a game booth for one hour, please contact Michelle Conrad or Danya Ochsner. The shifts available are 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. or 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.

Bruindata will be down for maintenance between 9 p.m. and 7 a.m. Aug. 19-20.

The university community is invited to learn how to apply foundational biblical principles to basic business concepts at a three-day intensive course.

What: Biblical Entrepreneurship 1 (BE 1)
When: Sept. 17-18, 6:30-9:30 p.m.; Sept.19, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Where: George Fox University Portland Center

Online registration is available, and more information is posted on the course flier and website. Those who register by Sept. 4 receive a $25 discount.

The Portland Center also will host a one-hour session on biblical entrepreneurship from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. Friday, Sept. 4. It will include a 30-minute presentation by Wende Jones, a BE-certified teacher, a panel discussion, and an audience Q&A with the panel.

Also, you are invited to hear about biblical entrepreneurship directly from course founder Patrice Tsague on Wednesday, Sept. 16, when he speaks at the monthly Northwest Christian Chamber of Commerce lunch meeting from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Hayden’s Lakefront Grill, 8187 S.W. Tualatin-Sherwood Road, in Tualatin.

Beat the rush! Don’t wait in line: The textbook annex is open and books are available for fall. Hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. through Aug. 21; starting Aug. 24, hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. You can also order your books online at store.georgefox.edu.


All university employees are requested to attend an all-community meeting scheduled from 8 to 11 a.m. this Friday, Aug. 21.

Activities will begin at 8 a.m. with a ribbon-cutting ceremony in the campus quad to commemorate the recent Klages Dining Hall remodeling project. A breakfast buffet in the dining room will follow. At 9 a.m., the all-community meeting will begin with worship in Bauman Auditorium.

For those at the university’s regional sites, the meeting will be available for viewing at stream.georgefox.edu/live/commmtg.sdp. For best results, use Mozilla Firefox for your web browser, and your computer must have QuickTime Player installed. Simply copy the link into the address bar of your browser. If you have any problems, contact the Service Desk at ext. 2569.

Also, employees at remote sites can interact via a chat room, available at https://edtech.campfirenow.com/32af4.

 A video recording of the meeting will be available for viewing the following day at itunesu.georgefox.edu.

Serve Day assignments are completed and an e-mail was sent to each employee recently with information about the assignment. If you have not received an e-mail, please contact Rachel Lee, Serve Day coordinator, at serveday@georgefox.edu or ext. 2326 so she can make sure you are assigned.

The university’s library will be migrating its catalog and related software to a new server on Thursday, Aug. 13. Foxtrax and library databases will be unavailable from 8 a.m. until Thursday evening.

Access to Mail Services will be limited because of street maintenance scheduled through Thursday, Aug. 13.

Here are the details:

• Access is limited to walking only through Tuesday, Aug. 11.

• On Wednesday, Aug. 12, Mail Services will be closed all day.

• Thursday is limited to walking access only.

Please reference the e-announcement from Plant Services regarding the street and parking lot closures. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope to be fully accessible next Friday, Aug. 14.

If you have any questions or concerns, contact Linda Sartwell at ext. 2555 or Sherrie Frost at ext. 2556.

You are invited to attend the closing event for the PeopleSoft “Catch the Wave” project. We have completed the initial phase of the project as an institution and want to take time together to pause and celebrate our success. There are still more PeopleSoft tasks ahead, but we want to recognize everyone’s effort and hard work. Members of Oracle PeopleSoft and MIS consulting will be joining us.

Please join us from 1:30 to 3 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 12, in Hoover 105.

Ice cream and snacks will be provided. Also, Aug. 12 is approved as Hawaiian shirt day. Wear your Hawaiian shirts!

IT has begun a multiphase wireless upgrade over the next few years. On Tuesday, Aug. 11, the Newberg campus wireless access points will change names. The reconfiguration of the wireless devices will take several hours and will begin at 7 a.m. The current wireless access points names GFU-NEWBERG will be replaced with FOXWIFI. You will no longer need a WEP key to connect; rather, you can sign in using your university login. Specific instructions will be sent to your mailbox early next week.

This will not impact the other campuses at this time.

Next week the following parking lots and Carlton Way will be closed for seal coating and re-striping:

• The Pennington Hall parking lot, the “Lollypop” parking lot (the lot south of the Commons) and the east half of the Bauman parking lot will be closed Monday, Aug. 10, and Tuesday, Aug. 11, for seal coating and re-striping.

• All of Carlton Way from the Pennington Hall parking lot to Center Street (Lemmons Center), and west half of Bauman will be closed Wednesday, Aug. 12, and Thursday, Aug. 13. Carlton Way will be open on Thursday for through traffic only – no parking.

All or parts may of these areas may be closed for cleaning this week.

Pedestrians, please beware of wet tar. If you walk through it, please do not track it into a building.

Questions? Contact Dan Schutter (Plant Services) at ext. 2014.

Alumni Relations invites the university community to George Fox University Night at PGE Park on Friday, Aug. 28, when the Portland Beavers take on the Tacoma Rainiers for a 7:05 p.m. Pacific Coast League baseball game (gates open at 6 p.m.).

Put on a George Fox T-shirt or hat and bring your family and friends to the game. It will be a great way to connect with other George Fox alumni, parents, employees and friends. As a member of the George Fox community, you can purchase discounted tickets in a field-level reserved section, saving $3.50 per ticket.

Highlights will include:

• President Robin Baker throwing out the first pitch
• Private and complimentary ice cream social on the boardwalk after the seventh-inning stretch
• Discounted food items and much more

We hope you will join us as the Bruins cheer for the Beavers! Visit Ticketmaster to order tickets online. The Special Offer Code is GEORGE FOX. You can also order tickets by contacting Katie Hoffner at 503-553-5404 or khoffner@pgepark.com.

Tickets can be picked up at the will call window at PGE Park. Offer not valid at the PGE Park Box Office. Deadline to order tickets is 5 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 27.

Contact Alumni Relations at ext. 2131 or alumni@georgefox.edu with questions.