The Daily Bruin

The university’s Trauma Response Institute is teaming with Medical Teams International to host a free home disaster preparedness workshop from 9:30 to 11 a.m. this Saturday, May 14, at the Portland Center.

Oregon is at risk of a disaster similar to the 8.9 earthquake that struck Japan on March 11. This week’s workshop will teach us how to be more prepared at home and at work to survive a similar event.

Ian Yocum, battalion chief with Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue, will share about his Medical Teams International (MTI) relief work in Japan and the struggles that continue to challenge their recovery. Also present will be Mike Lueck, emergency management coordinator with the Tigard Police Department and a trainer for Tigard Community Emergency Response Teams.

The workshop is free but donations will be accepted, with all proceeds going toward MTI’s disaster relief effort in Japan. For more information, contact Anna Berardi at ext. 6104 or aberardi@georgefox.edu.

Take a break and join your colleagues for ice cream between 2:30 and 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 10, in the EHS Atrium. Student employees are also invited to attend this event, sponsored by the Staff Development Committee.

The last day for items to be picked up from Phase II will be Friday, May 6. Items left will be donated to charity. Phase II is set up in the Macy basement between 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

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

Thursday, May 5, is the National Day of Prayer! The Continental Congress’ proclamation in 1775 set aside a day of prayer. Find a National Day of Prayer sanctioned event in your area by clicking this link.

Please return all rental regalia to the Bruin Bookstore as soon as possible so we can return it to the vendor. Make sure you return it in the original pouch.

Thank you,
Bruin Bookstore

Financial Affairs reports that some counterfeit money is being handed out in the Newberg area. We had one in our deposit today and have no way to know where it came from. What we had was a $10 bill, but others could be around also.

The best way to tell is by holding the bill up to a light. There should be a narrow strip running from top to bottom of the bill and a picture of the president (only seen when held up to the light) on the side of the bill. We do not feel this was passed to us intentionally, but it should be something we all watch for.

If you have any questions, please contact Jan Amerson in Financial Affairs at ext. 2164.

With several guests visiting campus this week, please be considerate when parking. The Bauman lot will be the primary parking area for those attending the OSAA state choir competition through Saturday, so please use the Stevens or Wood-Mar lots.

Also, a Target commercial is being filmed on various locations on campus Thursday and Friday. Please leave the Pennington, Le Shana and Winters parking lots open for the crew’s trucks and vehicles.

About 50 members of a film crew will be on the Newberg campus Wednesday through Friday (May 4-6) to film a series of advertisements for Target. The video and still photography will be used in a back-to-school online advertising campaign in the fall.

The commercials were created by national ad firm Wieden+Kennedy and are being filmed by a local film company. They will be filming in the Klages Dining Hall, Bruin Den, Pennington Hall, Le Shana Hall and Winters Apartments. Please leave the Pennington, Le Shana and Winters parking lots open for their trucks and vehicles.

For more information, contact Rob Felton (503-554-2129).

Print Services will be open all summer and is ready to fill all of your orders. The more items that we have prior to your departure will make your return in late August that much easier.

A very important item to send in before you leave is anything that holds copyright. If you are not sure that you will use it, but might, that is OK; we don’t have to make the purchase but we do need at least eight weeks to be able to get the copyright permission.

When you send your request, please include the title and ISBN of the actual book or magazine that we will be making the copies from. Also, be sure to include your name, a phone number and/or an e-mail where we can reach you, the class name, class number, exact page numbers, and copyright year. Send us the actual book and we will be ready to make the copies as soon as you approve its use.

Questions? Contact Elizabeth Holme at eholme@georgefox.edu or ext. 2550.

Print Services will be closed on Friday, May 13, for partial remodel. Please submit jobs early in the week so that they can be completed before the closure.

Questions? Call Sherrie Frost at ext. 2556.

Just a final reminder to join your Newberg campus colleagues for the annual employee recognition event Wednesday afternoon, May 4, beginning at 3 p.m. in Wood-Mar Auditorium.

The president will share year-end remarks, and presentations will be made for service awards and employee of the year awards. We also will honor retirees. Immediately following, refreshments will be served in the EHS Atrium.

More than 3,600 high school students representing 60-plus choirs will visit the Newberg campus to compete in the Oregon School Activities Association’s 25th annual state choir championships Thursday through Saturday, May 5-7.

The event, scheduled in Bauman Auditorium, will feature schools at all classification levels. Class 3A, 2A and 1A choirs will compete on Thursday, May 5; Class 4A and 5A students will compete on Friday, May 6; and Class 6A choirs will convene on Saturday, May 7. Specific choir performance times are available on the OSAA website at osaa.org/choir.

Ticket information is available at osaa.org/tickets.

Take a break and join your colleagues for ice cream between 2:30 and 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 10, in the EHS Atrium. Student employees are also invited to attend this event, sponsored by the Staff Development Committee.

Faculty and administrative assistants: Please submit textbook requests for fall 2011 immediately, if you have not done so already. We are beginning to order books this week.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Contact Sandy Gidding at sgidding@georgefox.edu if you have questions.

Phase II will open for viewing on Wednesday, May 4, at 9 a.m., in the Macy basement. Please enter from the southwest rear entrance. Signs will be posted.

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

If you have any extra inter-office envelopes, please route them to Mail Services.

Thank you

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 county ballot and there is no postage necessary. The deadline for this drop-off site is 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 17. All out-of-state ballots must be mailed with postage.

Thanks!
University Mail Servcies

Staff, faculty, May Term and summer workstudy students: Many of you have been wondering if Staff/Resident East/Resident West/Commuter parking lot restrictions still apply during May Term and the rest of the summer. During the summer, staff and faculty still need to park in the staff-only lots like Hoover, Wood-Mar, Stevens and around Minthorne and Mail Services.

The visitor rows in Hoover and Stevens need to always be kept free for the frequent visitors to campus. If there are spots available in the staff lots after the workday has begun, then students can potentially use those spots. However, there will be many times this summer when those empty spots will be needed for various groups and events happening on campus like the state choir competition this week, Genesis, Northwest Yearly Meeting, etc. We’d like to ask you to not park there when we have big events on campus.

If your summer residence is the Woolman, Winters, or Lewis apartments, please keep your cars in those parking lots and walk to your work assignments. Also, please keep watching E-nnouncements for further parking updates when various lots need to be kept empty.

If you have questions, contact Nadine Kincaid at nkincaid@georgefox.edu.

Thanks!
– Security Services

The Leadership Institute for Group Discernment is scheduled on the Newberg campus May 16-19. The registration cost of $325 has just been discounted to $100 for all George Fox employees and students. This is an excellent value for a state-of-the art seminar on consensus-oriented leadership!

Questions? Contact Paul Anderson at panderso@georgefox.edu.

Just a reminder: FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 8 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Tuesday, May 17, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.