The Daily Bruin

Have you checked your mid-term grade report? Depending upon what you find, you need to consider taking some action.

To check your mid-term grades in MYGFU –

CLICK ON SELF-SERVICE

CLICK ON ENROLLMENT

CLICK ON VIEW MY GRADES

CLICK ON THE CORRECT TERM

CLICK ON THE MID-TERM GRADES TAB

Now you need to determine what to do next:

• Consider whether to withdraw from one or more courses if it looks likely that you’ll get an F (or maybe even a D).
• The last date to withdraw is Sunday, March 24, 2013.

You can usually go below 12 hours (at this point in the semester) without impacting your financial aid or housing. However, you should contact representatives in these departments to be certain:

• Residence Life – Dave Johnstone – djohnstone@georgefox.edu
• Student Financial Services – mailto:sfs@georgefox.edu

Withdrawal results in a W on your transcript but does not factor into GPA.

If you were to get an F, it would impact GPA.

• Confirm any thoughts of withdrawing from classes with your advisor.
• Meet with each professor, especially those teaching courses you’re struggling in. Even if your professor doesn’t post mid-term grades, find out from the professor what your grade is.
• Meet with your advisor to discuss options.
• Use labs, help sessions, & the ARC.
• If you think you might have a learning disability, have some assessment done. Contact the Health and Counseling Center at 503-554-2340 or stop by their offices.
• Plan well for fall semester.
• Consider whether you are in the right pathway in terms of a major or career. You might want to enroll in GEED 214: Claim Your Career Calling, a 1-hour online course: This course is offered in the spring semester.

Contact Career Service – careers@georgefox.edu.

If you have any questions, concerns or need direction, please contact Jere Witherspoon – jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu

What does it mean to be a woman? How does religion form our view of women?

On Tuesday, March 19, all are invited to hear from Melanie Mock, Shelley Yonemura, DeLisa Thomas and Suhila Jefery at a “Women, Religion and Work Panel.” We’ll meet at 7 p.m. in Lemmons 8. This event is sponsored by the Inclusion and Student Leadership Programs.

Are you looking for a valuable upper-division elective course for next year? Check out the following courses that the School of Business will be offering:

BUSN 303 – Personal Finance (Fall ’13 & Spring ’14)

This course is designed to prepare students to think critically about their relationship with money, develop their own personal financial philosophy and implement practical application of personal financial management. Topics include relationship with money, biblical financial foundations, budgets, loans, spending, housing, insurance, investments and taxes.

Prerequisites: none; taught by Ryan Halley, finance professor, George Fox

MKTG 485 — Consumer Engagement and Social Networking (Fall ’13)

Marketing is all about connecting … connecting with your customer, connecting with management, connecting with money (budget), and connecting with retail. What is our business? Who are our customers? What does the customer value? Consumer engagement is not a single source of contact but an ongoing “conversation” – developing brand positioning, leveraging user-generated content, and creating a word-of-mouth social audience, all resulting in customer loyalty and influencing behavior. The questions haven’t changed BUT how we tell the story has.

Prerequisites: MKTG 260 (Principles of Marketing); taught by Laurie Koehler, Consumer Campaigns Manager, Intel

ECON 485 — Environmental Economics (Spring ’14)

Students will explore the relationship between the economy and the environment. The efficient management of natural resources, impacts of pollution, and sustainability issues will all be considered. To account for economic growth concerns the scope of analysis includes both the developed and developing world. The primary objective of the course is to increase students’ understanding of policy-relevant, incentive-based solutions to environmental issues.

Prerequisites: Either Econ 201 Microeconomics Principles or ECON 202 Macroeconomics Principles, or permission of the instructor; taught by Nate Peach, economics professor, George Fox

Questions? Contact Ryan Halley at halleyr@georgefox.edu.

Help the Romania/Moldova Summer Serve Team by donating to the coin drive. Our serve team will be going around to On-Campus dorms, houses, and apartments this Monday, March 18 at 7 p.m.. It would be great if you could help. Thank You.

The Housing Selection Form will be open for groups to sign up beginning Monday, March 18 at noon. The form will be available until 5:00 p.m. on Friday, March 22.

In order to participate in Housing Selection each student needs to have paid a $150 Housing Deposit to Student Financial Services. Students have until Thursday, March 21 to pay the deposit and still be eligible to participate in the selection process.

To sign up for housing with your group simply login to the form here and then click on the “Housing Group Signup” link on the left side. Only one person from each group needs to complete the on-line Housing Form. There are step-by-step directions in the form that will walk you through the following:

• Entering housing codes for the group
• Confirming your roommate choices
• Ranking the order of your preferred housing

If you do not have a group to sign up with, you can go through the housing process as an individual. In this case we will work on placing you with other groups that have an opening in their housing.

If you would like help with filling out the Housing Form there is a computer set up in the Student Life Office. Please stop by and one of the housing staff will help answer your questions as you go.

For additional information about housing selection please refer to the Housing and Residence Life website. If you have questions please stop by or call the Student Life Office (ext. 2310) or email housing@georgefox.edu.

For the past year, we’ve been in conversation with our risk management/insurance company as well as completed a comprehensive review of best practices to reduce risk and liability related to the transportation of students, faculty and staff. You will find the new policy at this link. Please review this very carefully and feel free to contact Plant Services or Brad Lau if you have any questions.

We are not yet ready to implement the personal vehicle aspect of the policy, but are ready to implement the policies and procedures guiding the use of university vehicles.

In order to check out and drive University vehicles (as well as to rent and drive Enterprise vehicles on university business), a student and/or employee driver must be on the “approved driver’s list.” This means that the following has occurred (a minimum of five days before the student or employee plans to pick up and drive a university vehicle):

1. The student or employee has read and agreed to the policy.
2. The student or employee has viewed the 15-minute training video.
3. The student or employee has taken a quiz that requires approximately 10-15 minutes.
4. A background check of the student’s or employee’s driving record has been completed and meets the criteria described in the university policy.

Once all this has been completed and verified (and assuming all the criteria are met), the employee’s or student’s name will be added to the approved driver’s list and university vehicles can be checked out and driven. This process will need to be completed annually for students and once every three years for employees. Of course, there is much more information in the policy, so please review it carefully.

To begin the process of becoming an approved driver, please login to FoxTALE on this page and follow directions.

The new policy is effective immediately, so please take care of this as soon as possible if you plan to drive a university vehicle on university business. When you pick up the vehicle, you will need to show Plant Services your driver’s license and verbally verify that you have current personal automobile insurance (even though university insurance provides coverage for the use of university vehicles).

FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 8 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Monday, March 25, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you have questions, please contact the IT Service Desk.

Join us tonight (Monday) for “Speaking Our Mind,” a lecture presented by Kathryn Hickok, publications director for the Cascade Policy Institute. Her presentation is the latest in the university’s spring Liberal Arts and Critical Issues series on the “State of the Union.”

The session runs from 7 to 8 p.m. in Hoover 105. Hickok will discuss how, as citizens, we must explain the “why’s” behind our views to be persuasive in today’s political and public policy debates.

Questions? Contact Paul Otto at ext. 2676 or potto@georgefox.edu.

Are you a student who wants to be published? Need something to add a little beef to your resume? Parents complaining that you’re not doing anything with your education? The Crescent has your solution!

Submit your photos, stories, poetry, art, designs, compositions, creations, and your passion to be published in a 40-page, full-color magazine called The Wineskin! Once part of George Fox’s history and now part of your future, be known in your craft and submit your entries to Sarah Biernacki at sbiernacki12@georgefox.edu or Katherine Vanlandingham at kvanlandingham11@georgefox.edu by Friday, March 22.

We look forward to seeing and sharing your art!

Through free, basic health-care and transformative surgeries, Mercy Ships becomes the face of love in action. The hospital ship Africa Mercy provides first-rate medical professionals, state of the art medical and surgical facilities, and health care training to communities in West Africa that lack those critical services.

A recruiter from Mercy Ships will be in the SUB from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Monday, March 18.

Contact Career Services for more information.

Need to send out a student survey? The following guidelines have been established for the distribution of student surveys. Faculty members are encouraged to help facilitate this process.

Please follow these guidelines when submitting student surveys for mass distribution. Send your surveys to Jere Witherspoon in the student life office. Your approved survey request should include all of the following:

• Your name and e-mail address (may include the list of names from those in your group)
• Course name and professor
• Approval for distribution granted by: _______________________ (list department)
• Short, catchy blurb about the survey no more than 35 words in length
• A tested, workable link to the survey

An e-mail with all submitted surveys will be sent to all students once a week (on Wednesdays). An identical e-nnouncement will be submitted at the same time to student e-nnouncements. The following disclaimer will be attached to the e-mail and the e-nnouncement:

Disclaimer:
These surveys are student generated and are not to be associated with any official research conducted by faculty and staff at George Fox University. Any views or opinions presented in these surveys are solely those of the students and do not represent those of George Fox University. The distribution of these surveys is a service provided to George Fox University students as they prepare their research required by the curriculum. Students are required to have department approval. Any questions about these surveys should be directed to the students associated with the survey in question.

Please contact Jere Witherspoon if you have any questions about this process.

Starting on Monday, March 18, a contractor will begin installation of solar panels on top of Bauman Auditorium. They will not work during scheduled events. If you have questions, you can call Dan Schutter at ext. 2014.

Students:

If you are currently registered as NOCAR, but are planning to bring a car back for the last five weeks of school, there is a reduced registration fee of $15 to register it.

Please go on MyGFU and DELETE your NOCAR listing by using the “minus” button to the right of your listing, and once the boxes have cleared, go ahead and enter your vehicle’s information. A permit will then be sent to Mail Services and you can sign for it there.

Please remember that ALL cars on campus need to have a permit on them. If you bring a car to campus other than the one that is registered, you must come to the security office for a gratis temporary permit.

Questions? Please call Security during office hours at: 503-554-2090.

Join us for the First Avenue Career Expo! This is a great opportunity to network with over 100 companies and graduate schools. It will be Friday, April 5, at the University of Portland’s Chiles Center.

• For a list of companies, click here.
• For a list of attending graduate schools, click here.
• To register online, click here.

For more information, contact the Corina Burke at ext. 2330 or cburke@georgefox.edu.

Do you want free admission to attend the First Avenue Career Expo?

If so, stop by and attend one of our “How to Work a Job Fair” info sessions today (Friday) in the Career Services office from 12:30 to 1 p.m.

For more information and to register for the First Avenue Career Expo, visit olapcfirstavenue.org or visit your Career Services office!

Saturday, March 16, noon – Baseball vs. Willamette, DH (Morse Field)
Sunday, March 17, noon – Baseball vs. Willamette (Morse Field)
Sunday, March 17, 3 p.m. – Women’s tennis vs. Bellevue, exhibition (GFU campus courts)
Tuesday., March 19, 3 p.m. – Women’s tennis vs. Linfield (GFU campus courts)
Tuesday, March 19, 3 p.m. – Baseball vs. Concordia-Portland (Morse Field)

While it is not local, the George Fox women’s golf team is the host for the Phoenix Invitational at the Westbrook Village Golf Course in Peoria, Ariz., Friday and Saturday, March 15-16. Joining the No. 6-ranked Bruins in the tournament are No. 2 Washington-St. Louis, No. 13 Gustavus Adolphus, and three teams receiving votes for the top 25: Redlands, Baldwin-Wallace and St. Mary’s of Indiana.

For more information, contact the sports information office at ext. 2926 or visit the George Fox sports website at gfubruins.com.

We will be hosting Peace’d Together – An Intercultural Conference on the Newberg campus in April! The purpose of the event is to initiate dialogue that will assist us as we bridge gaps that culturally separate us, find truth where each of our roads cross, and celebrate the contribution each of us bring to the diversity of God’s kingdom and the George Fox community.

This is a free conference and promises to be amazing! It will be held in various buildings on campus Friday, April 12, from 7 to 9 p.m. and Saturday, April 13, from 9 a.m to 6 p.m. The key speakers will be Pastor Tory Campbell, Dr. Caleb Rosado, Dr. Keith Dempsey partnering with graduate student Amber Nelson, Dr. Joel Perez, Dr. Melanie Hulbert and the Student Congress on Racial Reconciliation (SCORR) team.

Even though this is a free event be sure to register for the conference using your GFU e-mail address! You need to be registered in order to attend the conference.

To register, click this link. The conference is hosted by the Department of Inclusion & Student Leadership Programs of George Fox.

We hope to see you there!

Interested in learning french? Want to hang out with french-speakers? Come to an informational meeting about the french club to find out what we have in store for the remainder of the semester!

We will be meeting 4:30 p.m. today, March 14.

For more information, please contact Jeannot Djanga at jdjanga10@georgefox.edu

Come one come all!

James Project is partnering with Love INC from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, March 16. We need students who have a heart for serving their community to accomplish the following kinds of tasks this weekend:

• Spreading bark mulch
• House cleaning
• Household maintenance: hang a light fixture, assemble beds
• Yard work; plant bulbs, trim, weed, remove dead plants

If you’re interested in serving this weekend, RSVP to Miranda D’Agostini at mdagostini11@georgefox.edu

Please note that the deadline to pay your housing deposit has been extended to Thursday, March 21. So if you have been unable to pay your deposit so far, there is still time to do so.

Students who pay their deposit before March 21 will still be eligible to participate in housing selection. Paying a deposit between March 18 and 21 will not adversely affect placements in housing as these are based on the group’s average credits. Placements are not evaluated on the basis of who signs up first.

The Housing Selection Form will be available online by noon on Monday, March 18. Only students who have paid a housing deposit will be able to sign up for housing through the online form.

For additional information about housing selection, please refer to the Housing and Residence Life website. If you have questions please stop by or call the Student Life Office (ext. 2310) or e-mail housing@georgefox.edu