The Daily Bruin

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.

This Friday and Saturday, April 27-28, students will be eating in the Cap and Gown Room as the dining room is being used for graduation events. Breakfast and lunch hours on Friday are normal, but dinner is from 4:30 to 6 p.m.

On Saturday, breakfast is from 9 to 10 a.m. and lunch, our final board meal, is from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Bon Appetit congratulates the class of 2012!

Following are Wheeler Sports Center hours for this summer:

• Friday, April 27, closed at 5 p.m.
• Saturday-Sunday, April 28-29, closed
• Monday-Friday, April 30-Aug. 24:
  open 6 to 8 a.m., 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 4 to 8 p.m.

The center will be closed on weekends, on Monday, May 28 and on Wednesday, July 4.

Questions? Contact Patty Findley at ext. 2910 or pfindley@georgefox.edu.

The 14th Annual Fox Film Festival was a complete success! It broke the record of attendance at the Cameo screening! As the committee plans for next year, please take three minutes and complete this survey about this recent exciting event if you were able to attend either night.

Thanks!

Student supervisors: Would you please submit your students’ April time sheets as soon as your students finish their last work shifts and no later than Wednesday, May 2? This due date is a little earlier than usual because we won’t have our wonderful student employees here to help process this payroll.

A few reminders:

If your student has school-year hours that are continuing into the first few days of May, please include these hours on a separate May academic year time sheet and submit it to HR as soon as they are done for the year.

A quick checklist of items regarding time sheets:

• Please be sure the student’s name, ID number and cost center number are legible.
• Please total them, sign them and be sure the students did as well. (If a student leaves without signing his or her time sheet, please send it to HR anyway.)
• To keep us in compliance with Federal Work Study regulations, please be sure that if you ask students to deliver their own time sheets, you first place the sheets in a sealed envelope.

If you have any questions, contact Melodee Powers at mpowers@georgefox.edu.

Thanks for all your work this past year in attending to these details. Without you doing your part, it would have been tough to meet our monthly payrolls.

HR

Please be sure your summer student employees attend an orientation this Monday, April 30, at 9 a.m. in Hoover 105. A number of important topics are covered in this meeting, and it is required for all summer student employees.

Questions? Contact Melodee Powers at mpowers@georgefox.edu.

Learn to make those gorgeous hanging baskets that grace our George Fox quad area. You will learn this valuable lesson on how these beauties are assembled and help us in the process.

Join us Wednesday, May 16, beginning at 9 a.m. at the Plant Services Building at 1101 Villa Road. We will work on baskets for about four hours.

You are welcome to join in the class at any time. Please contact the Plant Services office at 503-554-2010 if you have questions.

If you are planning any move requiring help from Plant Services, please fill out a “Relocation Form” located on our Plant Services web page at this link.

Thank You,
Plant Services

This could be the best year for the university’s Community Garden yet … are you interested in being a part of it?

Here are some highlights to note:

• We’re trying a new, lower-maintenance form of gardening (less weeding, less watering)
• We’re putting in a fruit tree orchard (apples, pears, figs, more!)
• We are benefiting from the fact that we double dug all our beds last year and the soil is great

So, if you would like to join the garden this year, please let Corey Beals know by the end of the week. He can be contacted at cbeals@georgefox.edu.

Joining the garden involves a $10 joining fee (or $15 if not a student) and adopting a bed that you will plant, tend and harvest (or share in this work/harvest with others). We will have work/eating parties on Wednesday evenings.

There will be no delivery of student mail after 2 p.m. on Friday, April 27. This allows time for Mail Services to convert mailboxes from spring semester to summer time use.

Mail delivery to campus boxes that have been requested to remain open will begin on Monday. Forwarding of mail for all other students will also begin next week.

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

Returning students: Class papers being returned to you after finals week will be in your campus mailbox when you come back.

Non-returning students: Your class papers will be held at Mail Services for six months. You can stop at Mail Services and ask for them the second week of May or later.

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

Good News Associates will again sponsor its annual Leadership Institute for Group Discernment in Newberg. Designed to help Christian leaders come to consensus and unity around a common sense of Christ’s leading, the event is scheduled May 21-24 at the Tilikum Retreat Center.

A limited number of George Fox student scholarships are available (reducing the cost from $325 to $50), and it can be taken for credit as a special study with Paul Anderson for 1-4 hours (CHMN 485 or PSTD 585).

Contact Paul Anderson (panderso@georgefox.edu) if you have questions or would like more information.

Beginning next week, the courier will be delivering to the Salem campus on Tuesdays only for the summer months. We will deliver this Thursday, April 26, as our final trip for the academic year.

Questions or concerns? Contact Sherrie Frost at ext. 2556.

The university will host two commencement ceremonies this Saturday, April 28. This year, the ceremony for graduate, seminary and adult degree programs is scheduled for 10 a.m., while the undergraduate ceremony is set for 3 p.m. Both will take place in Miller Gymnasium in the Wheeler Sports Center. A live streaming of the undergraduate ceremony will be shown in Bauman Auditorium.

Angela Bymaster, a 2000 alumna of George Fox who become an MD and now works for the Santa Clara County Homeless Healthcare Program, will speak to the undergraduates. Jeanette Eggert, an associate professor of math and physics at Concordia University in Portland, Ore., will address the graduate, seminary and adult degree program students. Audience seating begins an hour before each ceremony.

Commencement can be viewed live at this link 15 minutes prior to the start of the ceremony.

Also on Saturday, undergraduate department receptions are scheduled at 1 p.m. For a complete guide to commencement events, visit this page.

Mark your calendars for a treat!

On Wednesday, May 9, your Staff Development Committee will be serving up ice cream. The university’s annual ice cream social will take place between 2:30 and 3:30 p.m. in the Ron Gregory (EHS) Atrium.