The Daily Bruin

Mail Services will be open today (Saturday) from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.

Student services offices located in the Stevens Center will be open this morning (Saturday) from 9 a.m. to noon. This includes student accounts, financial aid, the IDEA Center, the registrar’s office, student life and the IT Service Desk.

Do you sing? Did you sing? Do you want to sing? Come join the Master Chorus in Ross 208 on Thursday nights between 7 and 8:30 p.m. this fall to sing Mozart’s Missa Brevis in C major. We start Aug. 30 and end on Nov. 1 with the performance!

That’s 10 weeks, or 15 hours total, to bring this piece to life and sing with wonderful people! Questions? Email Danielle Warner at dwarner@georgefox.edu.

Student services offices located in the Stevens Center will be open tomorrow morning (Saturday) from 9 a.m. to noon. This includes student accounts, financial aid, the IDEA Center, the registrar’s office, student life and the IT Service Desk.

A portion of Carlton Way will be closed on Tuesday, Aug. 28, from 8 a.m. until noon. The area closed will be from the Klages Center main entrance (off Carlton Way) to the engineering loading dock area (south of the entrance). No traffic will be permitted through this area, as they will be operating large cranes.

Thank you for your patience.
– Plant Services

Come watch the Bruin football team compete in the fifth annual Swim Olympics tonight (Friday) at 7:30 p.m. at the Chehalem Aquatic Center. There is no cost for admission.

The Bruins will compete by position in the following events:

• Big splash
• Belly flop
• Medley relay
• Synchronized swim

We hope to see you there! Contact Gabe Haberly (ghaberly@georgefox.edu) with any questions.

Welcome Weekend begins today! With all the new students and their families, we’re expecting more than 2,000 guests on campus Thursday, Aug. 23, and Friday, Aug. 24. Here are a few important details for employees.

Welcoming our Guests
While this may seem obvious, please greet and welcome our guests, ask if they need help, walk them to the Information Tent in front of Stevens if they have a question you can’t answer, and help us make this a special time for our new students and their families.

Schedule
The complete schedule for Welcome Weekend can be found at welcome.georgefox.edu. There are two schedules: students, and families and guests. Changes in this year’s events include a late night trip to Target instead of Fred Meyer and “The Main Event” living area competition in place of the hoedown.

Parking
On Thursday and Friday, we need employees to park in the 99 lot.

Meals
Employees who signed up to be volunteers will receive one complimentary meal ticket to be used at lunch or dinner. Other employees desiring to eat on campus can pay as they enter the meal lines.

Attire & Name Tags
If you have a George Fox polo or dress shirt, please wear it on Thursday and Friday, as well as your name tag.

Questions?
Please call the Welcome Weekend office at ext. 2308 or the Office of Student Life at ext. 2310.

Thank you for being an integral part of welcoming our new students and their families to the George Fox family!

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).

The Department of English and Theatre invites the community to our semester kickoff! Join us from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. this Monday, Aug. 27, in Wood-Mar Auditorium.

We’ll have free food! You’ll also get the opportunity to meet our English and theatre faculty members, as well as our new student writers, actors, poets, technicians, scholars and designers.

We’ll also have information on the 2018-19 theatre season, and you can get the latest news from our two honor societies, Alpha Psi Omega (theatre) and Sigma Tau Delta (English).

See you there! Questions? Contact Kathy Harris (kharris@georgefox.edu).

As the finishing touches are being made on the new Hadlock Student Center, we ask that members of the university community stay away from construction areas of the building. It is very important that you do not walk around unfinished areas, as this poses a safety hazard.

Thank you

Welcome to a new school year! As new and returning students move onto campus this weekend, we wanted to remind you of the fact we are experiencing an impact from the many wildfires throughout the Northwest. Although the air quality is of concern, the threat of fire on or near campus is not an issue.

It is important to know that when the air quality is compromised, even healthy people may experience irritation. Typical symptoms are coughing, scratchy throat, shortness of breath and stinging eyes.

For individuals who are sensitive to poor air quality, the high smoke levels can have a much stronger impact. We strongly recommend that those individuals take appropriate precautions. Please limit your time outdoors, keeping medications such as inhalers and eye drops nearby, and follow guidance from your doctor regarding your personal respiratory management plan.

Please follow these tips to minimize the impact of this poor air quality:

• Pay attention to the air quality reports. Updated color-coded reports can be found at airnow.gov.
• If you have asthma or other breathing-related issues, keep your inhaler or medication with you.
• Modify your activities. Minimize exertion when the air quality is poor.
• If you must be outdoors or exert yourself, such as during move-in, take plenty of breaks.
• Keep windows and doors closed as much as possible.

For those who are concerned about the air quality, you are welcome to watch a live stream of the university welcome event (at 6 p.m. on Thursday) in Bauman Auditorium.

Welcome Weekend begins Thursday! With all the new students and their families, we’re expecting more than 2,000 guests on campus Thursday, Aug. 23, and Friday, Aug. 24. Here are a few important details for employees.

Welcoming our Guests
While this may seem obvious, please greet and welcome our guests, ask if they need help, walk them to the Information Tent in front of Stevens if they have a question you can’t answer, and help us make this a special time for our new students and their families.

Schedule
The complete schedule for Welcome Weekend can be found at welcome.georgefox.edu. There are two schedules: students, and families and guests. Changes in this year’s events include a late night trip to Target instead of Fred Meyer and “The Main Event” living area competition in place of the hoedown.

Parking
On Thursday and Friday, we need employees to park in the 99 lot.

Meals
Employees who signed up to be volunteers will receive one complimentary meal ticket to be used at lunch or dinner. Other employees desiring to eat on campus can pay as they enter the meal lines.

Attire & Name Tags
If you have a George Fox polo or dress shirt, please wear it on Thursday and Friday, as well as your name tag.

Questions?
Please call the Welcome Weekend office at ext. 2308 or the Office of Student Life at ext. 2310.

Thank you for being an integral part of welcoming our new students and their families to the George Fox family!

With fall semester about to start, Mail Services is offering extended hours for a limited time. Please see times below:

• Saturday, Aug. 25, 1:30-4:30 p.m.
• Monday – Friday, Aug. 27-31, 7:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Our regular hours of 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. will return Monday, Sept. 3. If you have any questions, please contact Richard Silver at rsilver@georgefox.edu.

Marketing Communications is hosting a training session for Cascade Server, the system used to update the university website. The session serves as a refresher to those who may already have web editing access, and as an introduction to those who have not done web editing before. It’s set to take place from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 17, in Stevens 307.

If you’re interested in the training session, please fill out this form to RSVP. Please contact Peter Crackenberg (pcrackenberg@georgefox.edu) with any questions.

Not able to attend the training, but still want a refresher on Cascade Server? We have updated documentation that you can review.

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 Bruin Den will be closed Thursday, Aug. 23, due to Welcome Weekend activities taking place in the Klages Center. However, the Bridge Cafe will be open Thursday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. with a full selection of artisan sandwiches, baked goods, grab-and-go items, smoothies, and your favorite espresso beverages.

Marketing Communications will be processing the next business card order on Tuesday, Aug. 27. Submit your request for business cards directly with B&B Print Source before Tuesday.

Questions? Contact Danette Newkirk at dnewkirk@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 tomorrow (Thursday).

• 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 this 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!

Come watch the Bruin football team compete in the fifth annual Swim Olympics this Friday, Aug. 24, at 7:30 p.m. at the Chehalem Aquatic Center. There is no cost for admission.

The Bruins will compete by position in the following events:

• Big splash
• Belly flop
• Medley relay
• Synchronized swim

We hope to see you there! Contact Gabe Haberly (ghaberly@georgefox.edu) with any questions.

Please join President Robin Baker for a special ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Bob and Camille Hadlock Student Center today (Tuesday) at 3:30 p.m. Tours will be available following the dedication.

Questions? Contact Michelle Dawson at mdawson@georgefox.edu.