The Daily Bruin

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.

– Human Resources

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.

Returning students: Class papers being returned to you after finals week will be in your campus mailbox when you come back.

Non-returning students: Your class papers will be held at Mail Services for six months. You can stop at Mail Services and ask for them the second week of May or later.

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

Graduating seniors and other non-returning students: Remember to return your mailbox key by Friday, April 27, to avoid a $15 key charge to your student account.

Returning students should keep their mailbox keys over the summer.

For more information, please contact Linda Sartwell at lsartwel@georgefox.edu.

Good News Associates will again sponsor its annual Leadership Institute for Group Discernment in Newberg. Designed to help Christian leaders come to consensus and unity around a common sense of Christ’s leading, the event is scheduled May 21-24 at the Tilikum Retreat Center.

A limited number of George Fox student scholarships are available (reducing the cost from $325 to $50), and it can be taken for credit as a special study with Paul Anderson for 1-4 hours (CHMN 485 or PSTD 585).

Contact Paul Anderson (panderso@georgefox.edu) if you have questions or would like more information.

The university will host two commencement ceremonies this Saturday, April 28. This year, the ceremony for graduate, seminary and adult degree programs is scheduled for 10 a.m., while the undergraduate ceremony is set for 3 p.m. Both will take place in Miller Gymnasium in the Wheeler Sports Center. A live streaming of the undergraduate ceremony will be shown in Bauman Auditorium.

Angela Bymaster, a 2000 alumna of George Fox who become an MD and now works for the Santa Clara County Homeless Healthcare Program, will speak to the undergraduates. Jeanette Eggert, an associate professor of math and physics at Concordia University in Portland, Ore., will address the graduate, seminary and adult degree program students. Audience seating begins an hour before each ceremony.

Commencement can be viewed live at this link 15 minutes prior to the start of the ceremony.

Also on Saturday, undergraduate department receptions are scheduled at 1 p.m. For a complete guide to commencement events, visit this page.

Is there someone at George Fox who has made a difference in your academic career? Someone who ignited a spark to make you want to learn or attend class or who has acted as a role model? Take a moment to write an e-mail, e-card, or traditional “thank you” card to that professor (or other person). Try to be specific as you describe how this person has contributed to your life.

Newberg students can stop by the SUB to pick up a blank card. Of course, one can make or buy one’s own card.

Security services is striving to provide you with the opportunity to get involved by joining our Campus Community Emergency Response Team (C-CERT). We will be hosting training daily from 8 a.m. to noon the week of May 7-12 in EHS 125.

Volunteers will be the first on-the-scene emergency responders to an event that happens on campus, especially when firefighters, police and public safety are overwhelmed with requests for help and could be slowed down by impassable streets and other damage.

In a large-scale disaster, George Fox needs to be prepared to be self-sufficient, too. This is why we are providing this training. Become part of the team and be prepared.

More information is available at this link, and you can also sign up for the upcoming training in May via the link.

Questions? Contact Nadine Kincaid at nkincaid@georgefox.edu.

Sign up today for Run for Romania! Run for Romania will be held at 9 a.m. on Sunday, April 22, at the Newberg campus track. It is a 5K walk that will benefit the June Serve team’s trip to Romania and Moldova this summer.

In this year’s June Serve, a group of George Fox students and faculty that will partner with the organization Word Made Flesh, which seeks to serve Jesus amongst the poorest of the poor in Romania and Moldova.

Registration is $30 for adults and $15 for children (12 and under) and $15 for George Fox Students. To register, go to this link.

There will be registration on Sunday starting at 8 a.m..

For more information, please contact Brian Goodwin at bgoodwin10@georgeofox.edu

Just a reminder: Please check your MyGFU to make sure that you are on track with your chapel credit.

You are responsible to make sure that all of your credits are correct. All chapel credit is due this Friday, April 20, at 11:59 p.m.

For more information, please contact Spiritual Life at spirituallife@georgefox.edu.