The Daily Bruin

The Staff Development Committee’s ice cream social originally scheduled for today (Wednesday) has been postponed. Please watch E-nnouncements for the event’s new date.

The June Serve team is gathering donated items to take to at-risk children we will be working with in Romania and Moldova. This is a wish-list from our missionary partners in Romania and Moldova.

If you would like to donate any of these items, please bring them to the Spiritual Life House by the end of the month of May. If the door to our office is locked, please leave them on the porch with a note that specifies they are for June Serve.

Items needed:

• School supplies (especially markers, pens, glue sticks)
• Durable soccer balls
• Nerf balls
• Badminton racquets and birdies
• Jump ropes
• Roller blades
• Simple board games
• Go fish
• Uno
• Legos
• Chess/checkers
• Colored construction paper
• Glue sticks
• Elmer’s glue
• Water balloons
• Colored thread (for weaving bracelets)
• Permanent markers
• Blue gel pens
• Gardening gloves
• Blue sticky tack
• Colored chalk
• Fabric paint
• Fabric markers
• Puzzles (for ages 7-10)
• Etch-a-Sketch

Questions? Contact us at spirituallife@georgefox.edu.

Join us at the dedication of the Esther Zemke (Joan Austin’s mother) Memorial Garden at 4 p.m. Tuesday, May 15. The  dedication will be held in front of the Stevens Center.

For more information, contact Vangie Pattison at ext. 2121.

It’s nearly summer time at George Fox University – time to celebrate the reappearance of the sun, time for fellowship, and time to bring out the ice cream.

Your Staff Development Committee would like to invite you to the Ron Gregory (EHS) Atrium between 3 and 4 p.m. on Wednesday, May 9, for ice cream sundaes. Non-dairy and sugar-free options will be available. Take a break with us and feel the love!

– Staff Development Committee

The university’s retirement plan contribution was scheduled to change from 9 percent to 6 percent on the April 30 pay day. However, due to an error in the PeopleSoft settings, the contribution remained at 9 percent. To offset this additional 3 percent contribution on your April pay, only 3 percent of your May 31 pay will be contributed. Thereafter, the contribution will correctly be 6 percent. The PeopleSoft benefit table has been set up for 3 percent on May 31 and 6 percent beginning June 30, to ensure that this situation will not occur again.

We very much apologize for this issue. If you have any questions about it, please contact Lisa Burton or Peggy Kilburg.

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If you are interested in taking part in the American Heart Association’s Heart the Stroke Walk on Saturday, May 19, please e-mail Peggy Kilburg (pkilburg@georgefox.edu) by 1 p.m. this Wednesday, May 9.

This fun, family-friendly event will take place in Portland along the Vera Katz Eastbank Esplanade. The 5K walk (or run if you prefer) promotes exercise and raises funds for cardiovascular disease research and initiatives that promote prevention, treatment and better care for stroke and heart disease patients.

Festivities begin at 8:30 a.m., and the walk begins at 10 a.m. After the walk, you can take your kids to the Kids Zone to enjoy some fun activities. There will also be CPR demonstrations and free blood pressure screenings. Food tents will be available for all participants.

George Fox is pulling together volunteers to support Mohan Nair’s team. Nair is the chief innovation officer at Regence and was executive in residence for the School of Business last fall. He is a friend of Robin Baker and is working to build a strong team for this event. Robin will be at Boise’s commencement that weekend. However, he is showing his support for Mohan and this event by making a $700 donation to his team and will contribute a $10 sponsorship to each of the first 10 employees who volunteer to join Mohan’s team.

To volunteer, please e-mail Peggy and be sure to mark your calendar for May 19. Participants will each get a free T-shirt, so please include your T-shirt size in your e-mail. More information is available about the event at this link.

Due to lack of interest in producing the Bruin Directory, it will not be printed for the 2012-2013 academic year. The Bruin Directory is a student-funded, student-led project, and because of the lack of student involvement with the directory’s design and production, we feel it would be best to allocate those funds to something with more student participation.

We apologize for any inconvenience and welcome any comments or suggestions. Please feel free to fill out this form with any additional thoughts or comments on the matter.

Thank you!

More than 60 choirs featuring the talents of more than 3,000 high school students will visit campus to compete in the Oregon School Activities Association’s 26th annual state choir championships Thursday through Saturday, May 3-5.

The event, scheduled in Bauman Auditorium, will feature schools at all classification levels. Class 3A, 2A and 1A choirs will compete on Thursday, May 3; Class 4A and 5A students will compete on Friday, May 4; and Class 6A choirs will convene on Saturday, May 5. Specific choir performance times are available on the OSAA website at osaa.org/choir.

Doors open at 8 a.m. each morning, and the competition begins at 9 a.m. At the conclusion of the performances in a classification, the outstanding groups will be recognized. General admission tickets are $8 for adults and $5 for students and will be available for purchase onsite. No charge cards will be accepted at the gate.

Choirs qualify for the event by winning their respective league competition or by meeting a specified quality scale and getting selected on an at-large basis.

George Fox is expecting approximately 30 to 40 new international students this fall. They will be arriving on Aug. 17 to begin the international student orientation.

Rather than house these students in empty dorm rooms during orientation, we are looking for about 15 to 20 families who would be willing to have up to two international students stay in their home the nights of Aug. 17-22 (students would be free to be with the families the entire weekend of Aug. 17-19).

Families are asked to provide breakfast and dinner. Lunch will be provided on campus during orientation. We also ask families to provide transportation to George Fox between 8 and 8:30 a.m. and pick students up at approximately 5 p.m. Host families will receive a stipend to help defray some of the costs of meals and transportation.

If you are interested in serving as a host family, please contact Dianna McIntyre (dmcintyr@georgefox.edu) or Alex Pia (apia@georgefox.edu). If you know of others who might be interested, please let us know so we may contact them.

Thank you for your willingness to consider this opportunity.

We’re looking for a 10 good walkers or runners to represent George Fox in the American Heart Association’s Heart & Stroke Walk, scheduled Saturday, May 19, in Portland along the Vera Katz Eastbank Esplanade.

Mohan Nair, chief innovation officer at Regence and executive in residence for the School of Business last fall, is working to build a strong team for this event. Because Robin Baker considers Mohan a colleague, innovator, mentor and friend, he is encouraging George Fox employees to sign up for this event.

Robin will be in Boise that weekend for commencement and unable to personally participate, so to show his support for Mohan and this event, he is making a $700 donation to his team and will contribute a $10 sponsorship to each of the first 10 employees who volunteer to walk/run on Mohan’s team.

This 5K walk (or run) is a healthy, fun, family-friendly event that promotes exercise in our communities and raises funds for cardiovascular disease research and for initiatives that promote prevention, treatment and better care for stroke and heart disease patients. No fundraising is required, although it is certainly an option. Kids and pets on leashes (just to be clear, only pets need to be on leashes) are welcome.

But wait: there’s more! This is not just a walk. Festivities begin at 8:30 a.m., and the walk begins at 10 a.m. After the walk, you can take your kids to the Kids Zone to enjoy some fun activities. And on a more serious note for adults, learn about your heart health with free CPR demonstrations and blood pressure screenings. Food tents will be available for all participants – with complimentary small sandwiches, various snacks and food and beverage samples.

To volunteer for Mohan’s team, please send an e-mail to Peggy Kilburg and mark your calendar for May 19.

More information is available about this event at this link. Please e-mail Peggy if you can join us in this event.

Mail Services is an unofficial drop site for all Oregon ballots. Arrangements have been made with the Yamhill County Elections Office for us 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 15. All out-of-state ballots must be mailed with postage.

Thanks,
University Mail Services

Staff, faculty and students: There are still some slots that need to be filled in order for next week’s C-CERT training to take place. If you have been considering taking this valuable emergency preparedness training, please contact Ed Gierok (ext. 2090) as soon as possible.

A minimum of three more people need to sign up in order for this training to happen next week, so please sign up soon!

The training is from Monday to Saturday, May 7-12. Sessions are from 8 a.m. to noon in EHS 125.

Yellow potted mums are still available for purchase in the Pennington House. Cost is $4 each.

Feel free to swing by when you get a chance!

Staff and students: Summer is a busy time for potential new students coming to campus to visit, and we’d like to welcome our visitors with a place to park. Rows have been set aside in the Hoover, Stevens and VAC lots for visitors, and security would like to ask you to please park elsewhere and to keep those rows free for our visitors.

Coming up, new students and their families will be on campus May 17-18 for Genesis, and we’d like to offer them the Hoover, Stevens and Wood-Mar lots for parking. Please park on the campus side of Meridian, on Sheridan and North Street, and in the Bauman lot on those two days. The Pennington lot will be used for convention guests that week, so leave it empty as well.

Thank you in advance for your consideration of our guests.

If you have questions, contact Nadine Kincaid at nkincaid@gmail.com.

Plant Services is hosting its annual Phase II event this week. Items will be open for viewing in the Macy basement between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday, May 2-3, and from 8 a.m. to noon on Friday, May 4.

At the end of every school year, many students leave behind good usable items for those who need them. These items often include blankets, clothing, kitchen supplies, small appliances, radios, room decorations, little tables, etc.

To help keep the dumpsters from overflowing and to be better stewards of our resources, Phase II was initiated. Many students have benefited from these items. For example, summer work-study students often find items they need for apartment living.

After students and staff view these items, they are donated to local charities.

Questions? Contact Debby O’Kelley at dokelley@georgefox.edu.

IT is offering two instructional workshops on Google E-mail and Google Docs during week of April 30 at its Newberg campus and Portland Center locations.

• Google E-mail How-tos: Wednesday, May 2, 10-11 a.m., Portland Center
• Google Docs – Organization, Sharing and Collaboration: Wednesday, May 2, 11 a.m. – noon, Portland 210
• Google E-mail How-tos: Wednesday, May 2, 2-3 p.m., Stevens 307
• Google Docs Organization, Sharing and Collaboration: Thursday, May 3, 2-3 p.m., Stevens 307

View the schedule and sign up at this link. Questions? Contact Kandie Comfort at kcomfort@georgefox.edu.

The wireless network foxguest is being replaced with foxpublic and will be upgraded to WPA2 for better encryption and security. If you are currently using foxguest, you will be required to move to either foxwifi or foxpublic.

We encourage students and employees to use foxwifi and visitors to the campus to use foxpublic. Please contact the service desk at 503-554-2569 if you need assistance connecting to wireless. The wireless password can be found on the main page of MyGFU.

– IT

Beginning Monday, we will have potted mums for sale from this weekend’s graduation festivities. All are yellow mums with a blue or green pot cover. The cost is $4.

Come to Pennington House anytime after 10 a.m. on Monday, April 30, to get yours. First come, first serve. You may also reserve flowers by e-mailing Mary Monahan at mmonahan@georgefox.edu or calling ext. 2134.

The employee recognition event that has been held in early May for the past few years will be part of the first community gathering at the beginning of the 2012-13 academic year on Friday, Aug. 17.

Service Award recipients, Support Staff Employee of the Year, Administrator of the Year, and retirees will be honored at this event.

The Bruin Den will close at 2 p.m. Friday, April 27, and will reopen Monday, April 30, with summer hours (8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Monday through Friday).

Villa Cafe closes early: The Villa Cafe will close at 2 p.m. on Friday, April 27.