The Daily Bruin

Traditional undergraduate students planning to graduate spring 2016 and have a minimum 3.25 GPA through fall 2012 are eligible to apply for the new Alumni Association Student Scholarship. This is a three-year scholarship for $2,500 per year, totaling $7,500.

Visit the alumni website to read more about the scholarship and download the application. APPLICATIONS ARE DUE NO LATER THAN 5 P.M. ON MONDAY, FEB. 11, 2013. Call the Office of Alumni & Parent Relations at 503-554-2134 with questions.

There will be a recruiter from Mt. Gilliad Bible camp in the Student Union Building from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 16. Every year they hire around 45 college students to serve in various ministries. Available positions include camp counselors, kitchen staff, recreation staff and program staff.

Contact Career Services for more information.

Are you interested in seeing Oregon Ballet Theatre’s performance of Swan Lake (Feb. 16) or Broadway Across America’s performance of War Horse (Feb. 27)? It’s not too late to get discounted tickets for both of these shows!

Visit broadway.georgefox.edu or contact Mary Monahan at 503.554.2134. Swan Lake tickets are $62 each, which is 45 percent off the retail price of $114. War Horse tickets are $47 each. All seats are in the middle three sections of the first balcony.

Tonight (Tuesday) at Shalom we invite you to come watch and discuss a documentary called “In Search of Shalom: White People in Reconciliation.”

The documentary explores the experiences of both white and non-white students at Christian universities, but emphasizes how white people can better enter into racial reconciliation.

As usual, Shalom will meet in the Cap and Gown Room at 9 p.m.

This semester Paul Anderson’s Acts and Writings of Paul Class (BIBL 412) will be engaging Robert Jewett’s text (among others), St. Paul at the Movies, connecting biblical teaching with parallel issues in film. Inquiries are welcome, as are guests at evening film viewings.

For more information, please contact Paul Anderson at panderso@georgefox.edu.

Books? Who needs books? Well … you do. Be sure you have all your textbooks for all your courses. Sure, waiting to see how much a book will be used or sharing a book with a classmate can seem like a money-saving strategy, but performing poorly in a class because you don’t have a book wastes your tuition dollars.

Invest wisely. Buy the books! If you drop a class in the first week or two, you can return the books. Just don’t put yourself in a hole before the semester has gotten started.

For more tips, announcements, and thoughts on student success, like the ARC Facebook page at facebook.com/GFU.ARC.

The Oregon Student Access Commission (OSAC) oversees several hundred scholarships for students from Oregon who are attending Oregon colleges or universities. Go online to oregonstudentaid.gov and apply today for scholarships for next year. Deadline for applications is March 1, 2013.

Senior Onjalai Flake is in the running for an internship with the Ellen Degeneres show and is seeking the support of the George Fox community. Her fellow students created a video in support of her efforts. This YouTube video needs as many views as possible. The more views, the better her chances.

So, all you need to do is click the link above and watch. Please also feel free to share it with as many people as possible. Onjalai is a broadcast journalism and communication arts major, and this opportunity would open up many doors for her.

Many thanks to those of you who have already given your consent to receive your W-2s online. If you haven’t, please consider doing so to enable us to make it available to you sooner, and to make it accessible to you in MyGFU (self service) when you are ready to print it.

This will save the university the time and expense of purchasing and stuffing paper W-2 forms and envelopes (over 2,000 last January). And of course, it is also friendlier to our environment. In the future, there will be a $5 charge for replacement W-2s issued and mailed in hard copy.

In order to receive a W-2 in online form only (instead of receiving a paper form), the law requires that you give your consent. This should take you only about 30 seconds to do, so I encourage you to take care of it as soon as possible — perhaps right now.

1. Log in to mygfu.georgefox.edu
2. From the menu at left, select “Self Service”
3. Select “Payroll and Compensation”
4. Select “W-2/W-2c Consent”
5. Read the statement and check the box to give consent
6. Enter your GFU password as a confirmation of your identity and click “Continue”
7. Click “OK”

You’ll receive a confirmation e-mail of your decision shortly after completing this process. And just to be clear, you will only have to do this once — not every year.

For your convenience, GFU Mail Services will be opening its customer service window at 7:30 a.m. on Monday, Jan 14. Please expect some waiting at the window throughout the day due to the large number of packages we have to distribute (more than 1,400 on our shelves).

We thank you in advance for picking up your packages as soon as possible.

– Mail Services

A beginning guitar class and private guitar lessons are being offered this spring at George Fox. Get credit while learning to play the guitar!

Here are the details:

• The Beginning Guitar Class is offered for those new to the guitar who want to learn in a fun group setting (Tuesdays/Thursdays 9:40-10:30 a.m.). Learn to play popular folk, rock and worship songs while learning to jam with others and read music. This class is designed to be fun! MUSI 250-A
• Private Lessons/Applied Guitar is offered to bring your playing to the next level. Whether you are an absolute beginner or a seasoned player, all levels are welcome. Learn in a relaxed one-on-one setting with an experienced teacher. All styles are covered, including jazz, blues, rock, worship, folk, etc. MUSA 105/305 GT

Lessons are taught by George Fox guitar professor Dave Iula (daveiula.com). E-mail Dave with questions or for more info: daveiula1@gmail.com.

Students,

Select from these two online courses designed to fit your career planning needs, as well as your busy schedule!  Learn important skills about finding your calling and preparing yourself for a career after college.  You can find and register for the courses in the course schedule under General Education.  Contact Career Services at 503-554-2330 for more information.

GEED 214 – Emerging Professional I: Major Selection
GEED 218 – Emerging Professional III: Employment

Many thanks to those of you who have already given your consent to receive your W-2s online. If you haven’t, please consider doing so to enable us to make it available to you sooner, and to make it accessible to you in MyGFU (self service) when you are ready to print it.

This will save the university the time and expense of purchasing and stuffing paper W-2 forms and envelopes (over 2,000 last January). And of course, it is also friendlier to our environment. In the future, there will be a $5 charge for replacement W-2s issued and mailed in hard copy.

In order to receive a W-2 in online form only (instead of receiving a paper form), the law requires that you give your consent. This should take you only about 30 seconds to do, so I encourage you to take care of it as soon as possible — perhaps right now.

1. Log in to mygfu.georgefox.edu
2. From the menu at left, select “Self Service”
3. Select “Payroll and Compensation”
4. Select “W-2/W-2c Consent”
5. Read the statement and check the box to give consent
6. Enter your GFU password as a confirmation of your identity and click “Continue”
7. Click “OK”

You’ll receive a confirmation e-mail of your decision shortly after completing this process. And just to be clear, you will only have to do this once — not every year.

Friday, Jan. 11, 6 p.m. – Women’s basketball vs. Whitworth (Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym)
Friday, Jan. 11, 8 p.m. – Men’s basketball vs. Whitworth (Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym)
Saturday, Jan. 12, 4 p.m. – Women’s basketball vs. Whitman (Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym)
Saturday, Jan. 12, 6 p.m. – Men’s basketball vs. Whitman (Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym)

Please note that Saturday’s games are two hours earlier than the usual start times, in order to allow the Whitman teams extra time for their return travel.

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

Mail Services is running out of room to store packages as they arrive on campus. If you are on campus this week, please pick up any packages you have as soon as possible. This will help you to avoid the long line on Monday at our service window.

Thanks in advance for your help.

– Mail Services

Undergraduate students that have advanced from freshmen to sophomore or sophomore to junior between fall and spring semesters may be eligible to receive an increase to their Federal Stafford loan.  If this is the case and you are interested in the increase, please contact your financial aid counselor right away.  The average increase is $1,000 but can be more.  Call Student Financial Services at 503-554-2300.

The Bruin Den is open this week (Jan. 7-11) from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Regular hours will resume next week.

Happy New Year from all of us at Bon Appetit!

Mail Services is running low on our supply of packing peanuts, the little Styrofoam pieces. If you have any extra or unwanted ones that you are discarding, please bring them to us. We can take them off your hands.

Thanks,
Mail Services

Students who have registered “NOCAR” for fall semester, but are bringing a car back to campus for the spring semester, please follow these steps:

1. Log on to MyGFU and DELETE your “NOCAR” listing by using the minus sign to the right of that listing.

2. Once the boxes are cleared, input your vehicle information and click on OK.

3. Your permit will be sent to Mail Services, and you will need to sign for it there.

PLEASE NOTE: Simply erasing/deleting the “NOCAR” listing and entering vehicle information without using the minus button will NOT work, and your registration will not go through to the security side of the database!

If you are bringing a car to campus temporarily only to move in with, please come to the Security Services office to get a temporary permit at no charge.

Call 503-554-2090 if it is outside office hours, and any officer can make a temporary permit for you.

All vehicles brought to campus must have some type of permit on them.

If you have changed residences from one side of the campus to the other, or moved off-campus over break, you will need to scrape off your parking permit and bring it to the security office during office hours so we can get your registration changed and the proper permit issued. Do the same thing if you are bringing a different car to campus other than what was registered fall semester.

Questions? Call Security during office hours at 503-554-2090, or e-mail Nadine Kincaid at nkincaid@georgefox.edu.

For detailed information about parking on the Newberg campus, please check out this website.

For undergraduate students from Oregon, it is especially important that you file your 2013-14 FAFSA soon. Each year, funding for the Oregon Opportunity Grant runs short for all students that would otherwise qualify. Oregon Student Access Commission (OSAC) oversees this program and must limit funding to early eligible FAFSA filers.

Regardless of whether or not you have actual 2012 income figures for you and (if dependent) your parents, please file before the end of January using an estimate. Those that file in February will most likely not be considered for the grant, which for a typical full-time student is nearly $2,000. Please don’t miss the potential help for your college costs.

Questions? Contact Terri Crawford at tcrawford@georgefox.edu