The Daily Bruin

FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Monday, July 22, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Our new students and their families will be on campus this Friday, July 12 to attend Genesis. Please help to warmly welcome our guests by giving up your parking places in the Stevens, Hoover and Wood-Mar parking lots. Parking is available in the Pennington lot, on the campus side of Meridian Street, Sherman and North streets, and the Bauman lot (limited due to construction).

Please also tell your summer work-study students to avoid parking in those lots on Friday.

Thank you,

Undergraduate Admissions Office

• Returning students may move into campus housing for Fall Semester 2013 beginning at 8:00 AM on Saturday, August 31. 
• Residence Halls and Suites will be closed for Christmas break (December 21, 2013 at noon through January 12, 2014 at noon) and Spring break (March 22, 2014 at noon through March 30, 2014 at noon).
• Residence Halls open for Spring Semester on January 12 at noon.
• Campus housing closes for the academic year at noon on May 3, 2014.

You can also find these dates and more information on the Residence Life webpage.

Please e-mail housing@georgefox.edu with questions.

Just a reminder: The location of the BlueZone Store Textbook Annex has changed over the summer. The new textbook annex is located at 1109 E. Hancock St., in Newberg.

The best way to get your textbooks is by logging on to our website at gfubookstore.com and ordering them online. Have them shipped directly to your home. It’s always free shipping.

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

Mail and Print Services will be closing at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, July 3, to allow time to relocate back to the location in the North Street Annex. We will reopen at 9 a.m. Friday, July 5.

Hope you have a safe and blessed holiday.

– Mail and Print Staff

This is a reminder that the Wheeler Sports Center will close at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, July 3, and remain closed until Monday, July 8, at 6 a.m.

Due to the upcoming holiday, both the Bruin Den and Villa Café will be closed this Thursday and Friday, July 4-5. The Villa Café also will be closed on Wednesday, July 3.

Have a safe and happy Fourth of July, and we will see you on Monday, July 8.

Mail and Print Services will close at noon on Friday, June 28, for year-end inventory and relocation of equipment. Please have your outgoing mail items and outgoing UPS items in by 11:30 a.m. Please submit any print jobs by 11 a.m.

Reminder: We will be relocated temporarily in Lemmons 12 and 13 on Monday through Wednesday next week, July 1-3.

Thank you for your assistance in getting jobs in early so that we can service you in a timely manner during our move.

Questions? Call Sherrie Frost at ext. 2556.

Bon Appetit wants to thank everyone at the Villa for their support as we worked with the university in hosting the Old German Baptist Brethren Conference. As a thank you, we will have free coffee and cookies at the Villa Cafe from 7:30 to 10:30 a.m.

After years of praying and preparation, Jere Witherspoon (Student Life) is having knee replacement surgery on Monday, June 24. Before she has this procedure, we want to pray for a successful surgery and a speedy recovery. Please join us today (Friday) in the student life office from 11:30 a.m. to noon to wish Jere well and say a word of prayer.

Even if you can’t make it to this gathering, please keep her in your thoughts and prayers during this procedure and recovery.

One of our ice cream freezers died last week and 1,500 ice cream novelties thawed. We refroze them and they may not look good, but they taste great!

Please come by anytime today (Friday) and get one or fill an ice chest, as we can’t use them and we hate to throw them away.

– Bon Appetit

Please note a correction on the e-nnouncement that appeared yesterday. The temporary location for mail and print services July 1-3 will be in Lemmons 12 and 13, not Calder 12 and 13.

Questions? Contact Sherrie Frost at ext. 2556.

Summer core fitness classes are now being offered in Minthorn Hall from 8 to 9 a.m. Tuesday and Thursday mornings. There is no fee to participate.

We will not have class on the following dates:

• Thursday, July 4
• Tuesday, July 30
• Thursday, Aug. 1

The last day is TBA (sometime in mid-August). Questions? Contact Patty Findley at pfindley@georgefox.edu.

We want to thank everyone on campus for their support these past few days as we’ve worked hard jointly with Event Services and Custodial Services and many others to take good care of our Old German Baptist Brethren summer conference attendees.

As a thank you, we will have free coffee and cookies for everyone on campus today (Wednesday) from 8 to 11 a.m. in the Bruin Den.

To a person, these attendees have fallen in love with our campus and have expressed a strong desire to possibly return in future years. Way to go Fox!

University Mail and Print Services will be temporarily relocating into Calder 12 and 13 for three days, July 1-3. The power to the North Street Annex will be turned off during that time. Limited services as follows:

Mail Services

• Incoming mail and packages received in Calder 12
• Mail and package pick-up in Calder 12 (no access to current mailboxes in the North Street Annex)
• Limited outgoing U.S. Mail Services
• No outgoing UPS, FEDEX, etc.
• No outgoing packages over 25 pounds
• No outgoing bulk discounted mailings
• No address list processing
• Courier to Portland all three days (items to be in Mail Services by 9:45 a.m.)

Print Services

• Color and black/white printing available
• Limited production ability – no large quantity jobs
• No envelope addressing

Please plan your print and mail items accordingly. Bring any large quantity or detailed jobs into Print Services and Mail Services the week of June 24. Be aware that our turnaround time may be longer due to limited access to our equipment and supplies at our temporary location. We are here to serve and we will do our best to accommodate your requests during this time.

Questions? Contact Sherrie Frost ext. 2556.

As of today (Monday), the financial aid office is relocating to the second floor of the Stevens Center (STV 220), next to admissions. All staff contact information remains the same. You are invited to stop by and see our new home.

This fall marks the third year that all incoming first-year students will been given a “Common Reading” as part of the First Year Seminar program. The campus community is invited to join our incoming students in reading Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion by Gregory Boyle.

Consider adding the book to your summer reading list, and keep your eyes open for more information about Common Reading events during the fall semester. If you need more motivation, check out this short LA Times article about the book.

Contact Rick Muthiah (rmuthiah@georgefox.edu) if you have questions or would like to help with Common Reading activities.

To learn more, read the press release on this year’s Common Reading Program.

You may have noticed that Google is constantly working to improve its products. There are new features and changes that come out almost weekly, and we are working hard in IT to keep up with these new changes.

One way you can learn about them is to subscribe to our TechTips forum. Receive in your e-mail updates, hints and tips relevant to George Fox University-supported software, including Microsoft Office, Windows 7, Google Apps, Keynote and PowerPoint, Apple OS, iOS features and more related to George Fox systems.

Check out the latest update: Google has combined the storage capacity between Gmail and Drive and we now have a combined capacity of 30GB. Subscribe to TechTips and you can review all of our past posts to find information that is helpful to you.

This is a reminder that our Summer Serve team is collecting the following items to take to Romania and Moldova for at-risk and orphaned children. Here is a list of items needed. We’d so much love your help gathering them. We need these items by Friday, June 14, at noon.

If you are able to provide any of the below items please drop them by the Spiritual Life House (located on the corner of Sheridan and Meridian) between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday. If our office is closed, please leave the donations by our front door and we will take care of it when we return. For more information, e-mail spirituallife@georgefox.edu or call 503-554-2320.

Thank you!

Craft Supplies:

• Bracelet-making kits: thread and beads
• Colored construction paper or normal color paper
• Whiteboard markers and cleaning solution
• Stamps and stencils for making cards and art
• Fabric paint/markers
• Craft sticks (popsicle sticks)
• Glitter glue
• Assorted, bright-colored fabric (fun fabric)
• 7-, 9- and 12-inch zippers (assorted colors)
• Sets of plain cards and envelopes for greeting-card making
• Fun paper (with designs) for card-making
• Craft glue
• Foam/3D double-sided tape
• Staplers
• Pattern-edged scissors
• Thin & thick colored ribbon

Sporting Goods:

• Large duffel bags or suitcases
• Ping pong paddles
• Tennis shoes for 7- to 15-year-olds
• Basketballs, volleyball
• Roller blades
• Badminton rackets and birdies
• Jump ropes

Tools:

• Utility knife
• School backpacks
• Gardening gloves
• Screwdriver
• Lice shampoo

Toys:

• Gifts for birthdays (both girls and boys; can be simple toys or any other ideas)
• Face paint/body paint
• Party balloons and water balloons
• Educational puzzles (at least 500 pieces)
• Board games (that can be played without knowledge of English)
• Chinese checkers
• Birthday party hats
• Santa hats
• Uno

As many of you know, the university will be hosting more than 1,300 members of the Old German Baptist Brethren Church for its annual conference beginning this Friday, June 14, through next Tuesday, June 18.

Because of the size and complexity of this conference, both the Bruin Den and the Villa Cafe will be closed the following days and times:

Bruin Den: Closed June 14-18

Villa Cafe: Closed June 14-21

Thank you for your understanding and support during this very busy time for the campus.