The Daily Bruin

Good news! Beginning with the graduating classes of spring 2014, George Fox student email addresses will continue indefinitely. If your department provides information to graduating students about their transition out of George Fox, please be sure any information that you provide regarding their email accounts is up-to-date with this new information.

Below is the information graduates are receiving:

• You can use and access all of your current mail and Google docs.
• You’ll continue to access your email by going to mail.georgefox.edu and using your existing username and password.
• If you are already forwarding your George Fox email, your forwarding will remain intact.
• You can forward your George Fox email address to another email address in the settings of your George Fox Gmail account.

Please contact the Service Desk at servicedesk@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2569 if you have questions about your account.

What better way to end the school year than with free food and sports? Read on for details!

Today (Thursday), FCA is sponsoring a barbecue at the baseball game at 4 p.m. All students with a student ID will get a free grilled hot dog and peanuts. All other fans can purchase a hot dog for $2. Bring a blanket to sit on and be ready to cheer your Bruins to victory! Follow the George Fox Athletics Facebook page to stay up-to-date on the rain plan, if necessary.

Tomorrow (Friday), join us in the gym at 1:30 p.m. as we celebrate nearly 100 incoming freshmen athletes during George Fox’s Commitment Day. Grab a cupcake and give our newest Bruins a rowdy welcome!

Questions? Contact Sarah Reid at sreid@georgefox.edu.

Believe it or not, it is now time to start thinking about our 16th annual Serve Day. We want to get information from our community prior to the summer schedules that take many of you away from campus.

Please take a few minutes to click the link below and fill out this form. It is very important to do so for our planning over the summer. Serve Day will take place on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014.

Make sure you plan accordingly for another great day of service to our community.

Thank you,
Brad Lau

Employee Serve Day Survey

Tonight (Thursday) is the final performance of Alpha Psi Omega’s Third and Oak: The Laundromat, a one-act play by Marsha Norman and directed by Cambria Herrera. The performance is at 10:45 p.m. at the Newberg Coin Laundromat at 1100 N. Springbrook Road.

Tickets are available at the door for $5.

Only two more days! Collection week has been extended through this Friday, April 25, for those who have items to donate toward our Summer Serve garage sale.

If you have items you’d like to donate to a good cause, drop them off at the Spiritual Life House between 2 and 5 p.m. through Friday of this week. All donations will be sold at the Summer Serve garage sale on Saturday, April 26, and will help fund the teams going to Romania/Moldova, Kenya and Argentina.

If you have any questions, feel free to email the spiritual life office at spirituallife@georgefox.edu or Rachel Arias at rarias10@georgefox.edu.

Come join the spiritual life and student life departments in commissioning Sarah Baldwin and Clint Baldwin in their future endeavors! We will host a farewell reception for them from 1 to 3 p.m. Wednesday, April 30, in the Stevens Center’s Duke Atrium.

Sarah served George Fox as the dean of spiritual life and university pastor, and Clint has served as the director of Center for Peace and Justice. Sarah has accepted the position of vice president of student development at Asbury University.

Let’s celebrate this new step in their journey as well as thank them for the time they have spent in developing our campus community!

Today (Wednesday) the normal undergraduate class schedule will be adjusted to accommodate Senior Chapel.

Please use the link below to view the adjusted class schedule. Locate the regular meeting time of your Wednesday classes in the “Regular Schedule” column on the left, and note the times your classes will meet in the “Adjusted Schedule” column on the right. Chapel will be from 10:10 to 11 a.m.

Adjusted Class Schedule (Senior Chapel)

Questions can be directed to registrar@georgefox.edu.

The university’s College of Engineering invites you to its annual Engineering Expo this Friday, April 25. The event will begin with Senior Design project presentations, scheduled from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. in EHS 102, 119 and 125, and the Expo will commence at 3:30 p.m. in the EHS Atrium (Ron Gregory Atrium).

The Expo will feature project displays from the program’s industry-sponsored Senior Design and Servant Engineering teams for companies and organizations, including NASA, Oregon Commission for the Blind, Aprovecho Research Center, InStove, 5-Rock Ranch, City of Newberg, Heshima, Astronics, Yamhill County, CUI, Climax, ODFW, Siemens, Greater Yamhill Watershed Council, Cascade Steel and 3D Systems.

Refreshments are provided. All are welcome! For more information, please contact Kristin Bontrager at kbontrager@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2780.

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

We have some bus tubs set up just outside the dish room for your convenience in returning dishes.

Thank you!

Applications for May Term/Summer housing are available to students on the student life website and in the student life office. Students have until Friday, April 25, to complete the application and return it to student life.

We are asking students to verify their employment by having supervisors email housing@georgefox.edu so we can keep track of this information. As you hire summer workers, please notify the housing department.

Please refer to the 2014 Summer/May Term Housing Application for additional details. These are available online or in the Office of Student Life.

If you have questions, please stop by or call the student life office (ext. 2310) or email housing@georgefox.edu.

All are invited to a farewell reception from 10:30 a.m. to noon on Monday, April 28, in the Stevens Center lobby (Duke Atrium).

The gathering will honor Melanie Hulbert (Sociology), Michael MacLeod (International Studies), Robert Melendy (Engineering), Michael Bevis (English Language Institute) and Jane Scott (Library) for their service to the university.

Please join us to wish them all well!

Thursday, April 24, 4 p.m. – Baseball vs. Corban (Morse Field)
Saturday-Sunday, April 26-27, times TBA – Men’s and Women’s Golf in Northwest Conference Championships (OGA Golf Course, Woodburn, Ore.) – George Fox hosting

For more information, contact the George Fox sports information office at ext. 2926 or visit the George Fox sports website at gfubruins.com.

Don’t forget to join us as we say farewell to longtime employee Eilene Newman at a retirement reception from 2 to 3:30 p.m. today (Wednesday) in the Portland Center’s Room 155. Refreshments will be served.

Eilene has worked at the university for 22 years, starting at the Tilikum Retreat Center. She will be missed! Stop by and wish her well.

Jesse Richards, one of our university pastor candidates, will make a presentation to the community on Thursday, April 24, from 1 to 1:50 p.m. in Duke Center Room 205 (new athletic complex).

The presentation will be 20 minutes in length. At the conclusion of the presentation, there will be a 30-minute question-and-answer time.

If you have any questions, please contact Jere Witherspoon at jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu.

Arrangements have been made with the Yamhill County Elections Office for Mail Services to offer this service. We accept any Oregon ballot (any county), and there is no postage necessary. The deadline for this drop-off site is 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 20. All out-of-state ballots must be mailed with postage.

Thank you
– University Mail Services

Returning students: Your class papers will go into your campus mailbox – and be there when you return in the fall.

Graduating or withdrawing students: Your class papers will be stored at Mail Services for six months. You may stop and ask for them sometime in mid-May.

Questions? Contact Linda Sartwell at lstartwel@georgefox.edu.

The university’s annual Fox Film Festival is this Friday and Saturday, April 25-26! Come support our cinema and media communication students. Friday’s films will be shown at the Cameo Theatre in downtown Newberg at 4:30 p.m. Doors open at 4 p.m. Get your tickets at the Box Office in the Pennington House (one ticket for $4 or two for $6).

The second day of the festival, scheduled for a 6 p.m. start in Bauman Auditorium on Saturday, showcases a different set of films than the Cameo screening. Be sure to make it to both nights to see these great projects. The Bauman screening is a free event.

Questions? Contact Matt Maupin at mmaupin11@georgefox.edu.

Faculty elections will be held for most faculty on Wednesday and Thursday, April 23-24. With 23 different positions to fill, this will be an important opportunity for you to influence the direction of the Faculty Senate, the Faculty Council and the Faculty Personnel Committee, among other offices.

All regular faculty half time and above will receive overnight Tuesday/Wednesday an email from Ron Mock, the 2012-14 Faculty Representative, with instructions for how to vote. We are using a new system this year that will allow for confidential voting while eliminating the risk of double-voting.

Look for the email, follow the instructions, and vote by the end of the day Thursday!

On Wednesday, April 23, the normal undergraduate class schedule will be adjusted to accommodate Senior Chapel.

Please use the link below to view the adjusted class schedule. Locate the regular meeting time of your Wednesday classes in the “Regular Schedule” column on the left, and note the times your classes will meet this Wednesday in the “Adjusted Schedule” column on the right. Chapel will be from 10:10 to 11 a.m.

Adjusted Class Schedule (Senior Chapel)

Questions can be directed to registrar@georgefox.edu.

The all-employee meeting originally scheduled for this Thursday, April 24, has been postponed. It will instead be held from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Thursday, May 8, in Hoover 105 (note location change). Also, since we are moving this month’s meeting to early May, we are canceling the Thursday, May 29, all-employee meeting.

The May 8 gathering will feature a “Graduation” theme. For those at the Portland Center, a live video feed of the meeting will be shown in Room 160.