The Daily Bruin

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.

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.