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Come in and see the Bruin Bookstore’s new Columbia Sportswear and School House products. While you’re here, check out our sale items marked down 33 percent.

Friday, Feb. 3, 6 p.m. – Women’s basketball vs. Pacific (Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym)
Friday, Feb. 3, 8 p.m. – Men’s basketball vs. Pacific (Wheeler Sports Center/Miller Gym)
Saturday, Feb. 4, 6 p.m. – Men’s tennis vs. Cal-Davis (Tualatin Hills Tennis Center, Beaverton, Ore.)

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

The fitness center and gym in Wheeler Sports Center were temporarily closed, cleaned and disinfected on Wednesday afternoon after an individual using the fitness center was treated for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA), a type of staph bacteria.

Most MRSA infections are skin infections that may appear as pustules or boils which often are red, swollen, painful, or have pus or other drainage. They often first look like spider bites or bumps that are red, swollen, and painful. These skin infections commonly occur at sites of visible skin trauma, such as cuts and abrasions, and areas of the body covered by hair.

If you think you may have symptoms, you are encouraged to visit or call the George Fox Health and Counseling Center (503-554-2340).

MRSA infections, as with all staph, are usually spread by having contact with someone’s skin infection or personal items they have used, like towels, bandages, or razors that touched their infected skin.

According to the CDC, here are some of the best ways to prevent MRSA:

• Wash your hands thoroughly. Use soap and water or an alcohol-based hand sanitizer. Experts suggest that you wash your hands for as long as it takes you to recite the alphabet.
• Cover cuts and scrapes with a clean bandage. This will help the wound heal. It will also prevent you from spreading bacteria to other people.
• Do not touch other people’s wounds or bandages.

Do not share personal items like towels or razors. If you use any shared gym equipment, wipe it down before and after you use it. Drying clothes, sheets, and towels in a dryer – rather than letting them air dry – helps kill bacteria.

You can read more info on MRSA at the Center for Disease Control Web site.

Don’t miss the application deadline to apply for Multicultural Student Programs assistant work-study and Peer-2-Peer coordinator internship positions, which is this Friday, Feb. 3.

Click this link for applications.

Stressed out because you don’t know APA style for citations? This workshop is for you. Sue O’Donnell (Psychology) will cover American Psychological Association citation and reference formatting, along with several guidelines for writing in APA style.

The session will be held Friday, Feb. 3, at 10:40 a.m. in Hoover 105.

A senior capstone group has organized Cards of Hope to benefit the Garden of Hope organization as it works to help rescue and rehabilitate victims of sex trafficking in Southeast Asia. Take a look at our six standard photo greeting cards, with 100 percent of the proceeds going directly to Garden of Hope. Only $2 per card!

Visit this Facebook link to see the cards and order. We also offer a customizable card option that allows you to e-mail in any photo to be placed on a greeting card ($3 per card). E-mail orders with the photo you’d like and the quantity desired to: cardsofhopegfu@gmail.com.

Help us send hope to the women and men of Southeast Asia as we support Garden of Hope. To learn more, contact Joel Perri at jperri09@georgefox.edu.

Applications for Spiritual Life Chaplain positions for ’12-’13 are due THIS Friday, February 3rd.

Need an application?

They are still available in the Spiritual Life House and in the SUB.
Please contact spirituallife@georgefox.edu with any questions.

Foxhole Friday is this Friday at 7 p.m. in the Foxhole!

Come see featured artist Joey Bareither’s amazing artwork and be entertained by your peers while sipping your favorite drink! Sign-ups to perform are available on Wednesday, Feb. 1, in the ASC offices. Don’t miss out!

Questions or comments? Contact Margaret Vogt at mvogt10@georgefox.edu

Want to be a contestant?

Applications for bachelor, bachelorette, and dating/engaged/married couples are now available!

You could win the date of a lifetime!

Pick one up outside the ASC office and turn it in by Feb. 6 at 5 pm.

For more information, contact Molly Norton.

The Spring Serve Trip application deadline is fast approaching … but you still have time!

Applications can be found in the Bruin Den outside of the ASC offices and are due back on Monday, Feb. 6, to the Christian Services Office by 5 p.m.

For more information, contact Kaylena Charpentier

The sixth issue of The Crescent comes out today (Wednesday). The women’s basketball team is highlighted. Also, look for articles such as a review of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and an explanation of the new tobacco policy.

Tickets are now available for the university’s winter musical production, She Loves Me. The play opens Thursday, Feb. 2, and runs Thursday through Sunday, Feb. 2-5, and again Thursday through Sunday, Feb. 9-12, in Wood-Mar Auditorium. All shows begin at 7:30 p.m. with the exception of the two Sunday (Feb. 5 and 12) performances, scheduled as 2 p.m. matinees.

Tickets are available at the box office between 10 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. and can be claimed by dropping by or calling 503-554-3844. Tickets are also available online at theatre.georgefox.edu. Employees get one complimentary ticket for any performance, and Thursday nights are free student nights. The box office is now located at the information desk on the first floor of the Stevens Center.

For a synopsis of the play, visit the theatre web page.

W-2s will be mailed to students that received pay in 2011 no later than January 31st to the active Campus Box that is in People Soft. It you don’t have an active Campus Box, it will be mailed to the active Mailing or Home Address in People Soft. Your W-2, which states your earnings and any taxes withheld for the 2011 calendar year, will be needed to file your tax return(s) that are due by April 15th each year. The W-2 also provides information needed to complete the FAFSA. If you want to get started completing your tax return or your FAFSA before you receive your W-2, you can use the year-to-date information from your last pay check of 2011 – probably your December 15th pay check.

Remember that your W-2 form contains confidential information so guard it carefully. For your convenience, you will be able to access your W-2 in MyGFU Self Service after the first of February.

The last day of January is today, Tuesday, the 31st. Make sure you turn in your January timesheets to your supervisor at the end of your last shift of the month.

You cannot be paid without your supervisor’s signature.

Be sure your name and ID number is typed or printed legibly at the top, it is complete and accurate, and you have signed it.

Payday is on Wednesday, February 15th.

If you forget to turn in your time sheet on time, you may not get paid on the 15th.

FYI: Oregon minimum wage is now $8.80.