The Daily Bruin

Serve Day is next Wednesday! The entire university community will unite together for our 13th annual Serve Day, participating in a variety of service opportunities in Newberg and the surrounding area.

Here’s the schedule:

7:30-8:30 a.m. – Continental breakfast begins/bag your own lunch (provided by Bon Appétit)
8:20 a.m. – Kick-off celebration on the quad lawn
9 a.m. – Groups meet at numbered stakes on lawn (commuters meet in front of Bauman) and depart for service site
Lunch – Eat with your group at the service site
3-4 p.m. (approximate) – Participants return to campus
4 p.m. – Church Connection Fair and Volunteer Fair begin
4:30 p.m. – Campus celebration, games, activities fair begin
4:30-6:30 p.m. – Dinner

The cost of breakfast and the evening dinner is covered for all members of the university community (excluding family members). If you would like to invite family or friends to the community celebration and would like to purchase dinner tickets, please fill out this form. If you are not a team leader and would like to purchase a lunch, please fill out this form (gluten-free lunches are available by request on the morning of Serve Day).

If you have any questions, please contact your team leader or e-mail serveday@georgefox.edu.

Marketing Communications will host a staff/faculty portrait session from 1 to 4 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 15, in the Cap and Gown Room. These high-quality studio portraits will be used on the university website and will be available for professional promotional use.

Please call or e-mail Danette Newkirk (dnewkirk@georgefox.edu or ext. 2125) to let us know what time you are planning to come. You can still come without prior notice.

It’s our first Movie on the Lawn of the semester! Join us for a showing of Cool Runnings on Friday, Sept. 2, between 9 and 11 p.m. in the amphitheater. Snow cones, popcorn and candy will be available.

Questions? Contact Stephanie Grosse at sgrosse10@georgefox.edu.

August is now behind us, so please submit your August time sheet (support staff) or time-off report (administrators) this week. Be sure it is complete, accurate and signed by both you and your supervisor before sending it to HR at Box 6108.

If your supervisor is not available to sign your time sheet by Tuesday, Sept. 6, please send a copy to HR and keep the original until it has been signed. Links to the time-off report and the August time sheet can be found at this link.

Please nominate a colleague that would be deserving of this month’s Employee of the Month award by submitting your nomination via e-mail to Peggy Kilburg by Monday, Sept. 19. It should be a summary of this person’s recent contributions and any other information that you believe makes this person deserving of this award.

The President’s Executive Leadership Team will select the recipient from the nominations submitted, and the winner will be honored with a citation and a $100 gift card to The Allison at our next community meeting.

We hope that members of the university’s staff will join us for four fun-filled lunches. Our goal is to bring our community together by having fun together.

• Sept. 19 – Outdoor barbecue: Come enjoy a wonderful barbecue lunch on the quad. Enjoy visiting with friends, playing Frisbee or other lawn games.
• Nov. 14 – Holiday theme: Come enjoy a holiday style meal. Entertainment TBA
• Jan. 30 – “Souper Bowl”: We will be celebrating the Super Bowl! Wear your favorite team colors or jersey and come enjoy a warm bowl of soup in a wonderful bread bowl, play some sports trivia and enjoy sports bloopers.
• April 16 – Build your own nachos and enjoy a performance by the University Players.

All lunches will be at noon in the Cap & Gown Room unless otherwise noted. Cost is $3.

Questions? Contact Sherri Moore at smoore@georgefox.edu.

This is an invitation for anyone connected with the George Fox community to join our online community of Quaker (Friends) students, faculty and staff. If you are interested in learning about events, opportunities, and information connected to the Quaker community, please e-mail Jamie Johnson (jejohnson@georgefox.edu) to be added to the group.

If you have any empty two-liter plastic soda bottles, could you please drop them off in the admissions office before Tuesday, Sept. 6? They will be used for Serve Day. Thanks so much!

You are invited to meet us in the Spiritual Life House (corner of Sheridan and Meridian) for a time to connect with God and each other through Scripture and prayer every Monday through Friday from 2:40 to 2:55 p.m.

The opening reception for an art exhibit featuring the work of Craig Goodworth will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 1, in the Minthorne Gallery.

An artist talk session is also scheduled at 4 p.m. Goodworth’s pieces will be on display through the end of September. Contact the Department of Visual Arts at ext. 2619 for more information.

The university community is invited to a free showing of the play A Suicide Note from a Cockroach this Friday, Sept. 2, in Wood-Mar Auditorium.

The play puts a comic twist on the existential dilemma of being an immigrant in the U.S. It is directed by Carlos Alexis Cruz, an adjunct professor at George Fox, and is the debut production of Portland’s Pelú Theatre. You can read more about the play here.

Questions? Contact Bryan Boyd at bboyd@georgefox.edu.

If you have students in your department who are working for you during the chapel hour or who are in an internship on Mondays and Wednesdays, please send spiritual life the list of those students along with their ID number. Exemptions must be processed by Friday, Sept. 23.

Students with an internship on Mondays or Wednesdays or who work during the chapel hour are eligible for partial chapel credit exemption. If you have questions about the chapel policy, check out our spiritual life website.

The Fitness Center will be closed between 8 and 9 a.m. this Friday, Sept. 2, for electrical repairs.

Student Supervisors,

We thought we would clear up some conflicting information that you have received from HR. For your students who worked all summer, the last day of summer employment was Aug. 28. Starting Aug. 29, all students must use the Academic Year time sheet. The last three days of August are to be included on the September time sheet.

For your students who started work for the school year early (Aug. 26 or earlier), you must submit an August time sheet for them through Aug. 31. Time sheets are due in HR on Friday, Sept. 2, for a payday of Sept. 15.

Make sure you have all paperwork submitted to HR for your student employees by Friday, Sept. 2.

Thank you,
HR

George Fox faculty and staff will be receiving Spiritual Life calendars in their campus mailboxes by the end of next week. If you would like to see what is happening on the calendar, you can download a PDF of it from our Spiritual Life website. Speaker information and our new blog are also available via our website.

Faculty, staff and students: If you are interested in signing up for the C-CERT (Campus Community Emergency Responder Team) training that will be offered in September, you will need to register online at this link by Tuesday, Sept. 13.

Staff application and course information will be sent via campus mail after your registration is received. Students will receive course information once your registration has been received.

Questions? Contact Ed Gierok (Security Services) at egierok@georgefox.edu.

For clarification: If you are in need of service and/or supplies for all copiers on campus, contact Print Services at ext 2551.

For service and supplies for individual printers on campus, contact the University Store (bookstore).

Your IT department would like to call your attention to opportunities that now exist for your mobile Internet-enabled devices. iGFU, our new mobile portal, has many tools that can help you navigate your way through a new school year.

Check out this link for help configuring your mobile device.

All printer service requests need to be submitted by the online form. A link to this form can be found at the bottom of each of our web pages at store.georgefox.edu.

Click here for the URL for the form. This form is for printers only (not photocopiers).

Questions? Contact John Stewart at jstewart@georgefox.edu.

This semester, Paul Anderson (Religious Studies) will conduct two classes on the basis of a Quaker approach to spirituality. Any students desiring a deeply spiritual learning adventure are invited to join him and others in either or both of these classes: RELI 260 (History and Doctrine of Friends, M-W-F, 8:40-9:30 a.m. Hoover 207) and RELI 350 (Spiritual Formation, Tuesday/Thursday, 2:45-4 p.m., Hoover 207).

Both classes will be conducted as a meeting for worship in which learning is welcomed, with instructor and students alike joining together as “humble learners in the school of Christ,” according to Anderson.

For further information, contact Paul at panderso@georgefox.edu or at ext. 2651.