The Daily Bruin

More than 60 choirs featuring the talents of more than 3,000 high school students will visit campus to compete in the Oregon School Activities Association’s 26th annual state choir championships Thursday through Saturday, May 3-5.

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

Doors open at 8 a.m. each morning, and the competition begins at 9 a.m. At the conclusion of the performances in a classification, the outstanding groups will be recognized. General admission tickets are $8 for adults and $5 for students and will be available for purchase onsite. No charge cards will be accepted at the gate.

Choirs qualify for the event by winning their respective league competition or by meeting a specified quality scale and getting selected on an at-large basis.

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 ballot (any county), and there is no postage necessary. The deadline for this drop-off site is 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 15. All out-of-state ballots must be mailed with postage.

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University Mail Services

Staff, faculty and students: There are still some slots that need to be filled in order for next week’s C-CERT training to take place. If you have been considering taking this valuable emergency preparedness training, please contact Ed Gierok (ext. 2090) as soon as possible.

A minimum of three more people need to sign up in order for this training to happen next week, so please sign up soon!

The training is from Monday to Saturday, May 7-12. Sessions are from 8 a.m. to noon in EHS 125.

Staff and students: Summer is a busy time for potential new students coming to campus to visit, and we’d like to welcome our visitors with a place to park. Rows have been set aside in the Hoover, Stevens and VAC lots for visitors, and security would like to ask you to please park elsewhere and to keep those rows free for our visitors.

Coming up, new students and their families will be on campus May 17-18 for Genesis, and we’d like to offer them the Hoover, Stevens and Wood-Mar lots for parking. Please park on the campus side of Meridian, on Sheridan and North Street, and in the Bauman lot on those two days. The Pennington lot will be used for convention guests that week, so leave it empty as well.

Thank you in advance for your consideration of our guests.

If you have questions, contact Nadine Kincaid at nkincaid@gmail.com.

The Veterans Certifying Official in the student financial services office has an opening for a VA work study position. An applicant must be a veteran or receiving VA educational benefits under a transfer of entitlement and currently registered for classes. “GFU Student Employment” eligibility not required. For all chapters except CH 33, students must be training at a minimum of three-quarters time. For CH 33, rate of pursuit must be at least 75 percent.

Please print and complete the Student Employment Application found at this link. Forms should be returned to Sherri Moore in the student financial services office.

If you have questions, please contact Sherri at smoore@georgefox.edu.

Plant Services is hosting its annual Phase II event this week. Items will be open for viewing in the Macy basement between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday, May 2-3, and from 8 a.m. to noon on Friday, May 4.

At the end of every school year, many students leave behind good usable items for those who need them. These items often include blankets, clothing, kitchen supplies, small appliances, radios, room decorations, little tables, etc.

To help keep the dumpsters from overflowing and to be better stewards of our resources, Phase II was initiated. Many students have benefited from these items. For example, summer work-study students often find items they need for apartment living.

After students and staff view these items, they are donated to local charities.

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

Any students wishing to earn between 1-4 hours of summer academic credit for the Discernment-Oriented Leadership Special Study should contact Paul Anderson by Friday afternoon (May 4).

This special study (CHMN 485; PSTD 585) is built upon the student’s participation in the Leadership Institute for Group Discernment May 21-24 at Tilikum (http://goodnewsassoc.org/leadershipinstitute/) and additional research tailored to the student’s interests.

The wireless network foxguest is being replaced with foxpublic and will be upgraded to WPA2 for better encryption and security. If you are currently using foxguest, you will be required to move to either foxwifi or foxpublic.

We encourage students and employees to use foxwifi and visitors to the campus to use foxpublic. Please contact the service desk at 503-554-2569 if you need assistance connecting to wireless. The wireless password can be found on the main page of MyGFU.

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For the first time, we are able to offer Spanish interpreting services at our traditional undergraduate commencement ceremony.

This service will be available only in Miller Gymnasium, and a ticket to Miller Gym is required. Headsets are limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis beginning at 2 p.m. on April 28 (one hour prior to commencement).

If this service would be helpful to you or a family member, please stop by the information table in the Wheeler Sports Center’s lower lobby.

If you have questions, please contact Joel Perez, dean of transitions and inclusion, at jperez@georgefox.edu.

The Veterans Certifying Official in the student financial services office has an opening for a VA work study position. An applicant must be a veteran or receiving VA educational benefits under a transfer of entitlement and currently registered for classes. “GFU Student Employment” eligibility not required. For all chapters except CH 33, students must be training at a minimum of three-quarters time. For CH 33, rate of pursuit must be at least 75 percent.

Please print and complete the Student Employment Application found at this link. Forms should be returned to Sherri Moore in the student financial services office.

If you have questions, please contact Sherri at smoore@georgefox.edu.

Please be sure to sign and submit your April time sheet to your supervisor at the end of your last shift of the school year.

As always,

• Please be sure your name is typed or printed legibly at the top
• Check it for accuracy and completeness, and
• Sign it and submit it to your supervisor

Payday is on Tuesday, May 15

Paychecks will be mailed to the most recent address on file with Mail Services, UNLESS you are working on campus this summer and have an open campus box. In that case, your check will go there instead.

Thanks for your help in getting your time sheets to HR on time. And thank you, too, for your work and contribution to the department/s in which you have worked this academic year. We hope you have a fabulous summer.

If you are working on campus this summer, please plan to attend a summer orientation on Monday, April 30, at 9 a.m. in Hoover 105.  This required meeting will provide important information you will need as a summer employee.

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The Bruin Den will close at 2 p.m. Friday, April 27, and will reopen Monday, April 30, with summer hours (8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Monday through Friday).

Villa Cafe closes early: The Villa Cafe will close at 2 p.m. on Friday, April 27.

This Friday and Saturday, April 27-28, students will be eating in the Cap and Gown Room as the dining room is being used for graduation events. Breakfast and lunch hours on Friday are normal, but dinner is from 4:30 to 6 p.m.

On Saturday, breakfast is from 9 to 10 a.m. and lunch, our final board meal, is from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Bon Appetit congratulates the class of 2012!

Graduating seniors and other non-returning students:

Key return envelopes are found in all of the post office lobbies as well as at the service window at Mail Services. Put your name and box number on the key envelope (key inside), seal the envelope, drop the envelope in campus mail, or return key envelope to Mail Services.

Mailbox keys must be returned by 5 p.m. Friday, April 27, to avoid a $15 key charge to your student account.

If you have questions, please e-mail Linda Sartwel at lsartwel@georgefox.edu

Thanks!

Following are Wheeler Sports Center hours for this summer:

• Friday, April 27, closed at 5 p.m.
• Saturday-Sunday, April 28-29, closed
• Monday-Friday, April 30-Aug. 24:
  open 6 to 8 a.m., 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 4 to 8 p.m.

The center will be closed on weekends, on Monday, May 28 and on Wednesday, July 4.

Questions? Contact Patty Findley at ext. 2910 or pfindley@georgefox.edu.

Students: Several jackets and other items have been turned in to the lost and found this past week. If you are missing an item, please stop by the security office during office hours to look for it, or call ext. 2090 to inquire about your item before you leave for the summer.

There are also a large number of car keys. Do you know where yours are? All unclaimed items will be donated to charitable causes during the summer.

For more information, please contact Nadine Kincaid at nkincaid@georgefox.edu.

The 14th Annual Fox Film Festival was a complete success! It broke the record of attendance at the Cameo screening! As the committee plans for next year, please take three minutes and complete this survey about this recent exciting event if you were able to attend either night.

Thanks!

Learn to make those gorgeous hanging baskets that grace our George Fox quad area. You will learn this valuable lesson on how these beauties are assembled and help us in the process.

Join us Wednesday, May 16, beginning at 9 a.m. at the Plant Services Building at 1101 Villa Road. We will work on baskets for about four hours.

You are welcome to join in the class at any time. Please contact the Plant Services office at 503-554-2010 if you have questions.

This could be the best year for the university’s Community Garden yet … are you interested in being a part of it?

Here are some highlights to note:

• We’re trying a new, lower-maintenance form of gardening (less weeding, less watering)
• We’re putting in a fruit tree orchard (apples, pears, figs, more!)
• We are benefiting from the fact that we double dug all our beds last year and the soil is great

So, if you would like to join the garden this year, please let Corey Beals know by the end of the week. He can be contacted at cbeals@georgefox.edu.

Joining the garden involves a $10 joining fee (or $15 if not a student) and adopting a bed that you will plant, tend and harvest (or share in this work/harvest with others). We will have work/eating parties on Wednesday evenings.

There will be no delivery of student mail after 2 p.m. on Friday, April 27. This allows time for Mail Services to convert mailboxes from spring semester to summer time use.

Mail delivery to campus boxes that have been requested to remain open will begin on Monday. Forwarding of mail for all other students will also begin next week.

Questions? Contact Linda Sartwell at lsartwel@georgefox.edu.