The Daily Bruin

Are you around this summer and want to help new incoming students around Fox? Come help with Genesis! As a Genesis volunteer you receive breakfast, lunch and a free T-shirt, not to mention the opportunity to get to know your future fellow classmates! Here are the dates (you don’t need to be available for all dates):

* May 19, 20
* June 16, 17, 18
* July 8

The Genesis dates are 7:45 a.m.-5:00 p.m. with the exception of the June 16th date, it is only a half day.

Please e-mail Rachel Powell at rpowell@georgefox.edu and please include which dates you are available to help.  Thanks!

The Bruin Bookstore is now on Facebook. Visit this link to check it out.

Log on and become a fan! You’ll be the first to know about sales and special signing events.

Graduating seniors and students who are withdrawing:
Remember to return your mailbox keys before you leave campus in order to avoid a $15.00 key fine.

Key return envelopes are available in Beebe, SUb and at University Mail Services.
Be sure your name and box number are written clearly on the envelopes.
You can drop the key envelope in CAMPUS MAIL or bring it to University Mail Services.

Returning Students:
Keep your mailbox keys over the summer!
If you have questions, please email Linda Sartwell at lsartwel@georgefox.edu

If You Are NOT Listening – You Won’t Get the Job!
You are stressed, trying to make an impression. Learn how to listen and compose the right response.

This webinar taught by expert Mark Goulston, is part of a series on Job Search Techniques for the graduate brought to you by Career Services.  It is Wednesday, April 27 from 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. in the Career Services office (1st Floor Stevens).  If you will be around campus mark your calendars for the last three topics below!

May 4 Devora Zack-Networking
May 11 Peter Weddle-Career Strategy
May 18 Martin Yate-Job Search

If you change grade levels after spring semester and have already received your financial aid package for 2011-12, you may qualify for more Stafford loans.  Contact your Financial Aid Counselor about this increase once all of your spring credits are posted to your academic record.

Last Name:      A-G     Chris Schlarbaum        cschlarbaum@georgefox.edu
Last Name:      H-O     Marla Sweningson        msweningson@georgefox.edu
Last Name:      P-Z     Terri Crawford          tcrawford@georgefox.edu

Before it is all over Seniors, come to the Foxhole for pancakes and lattes made by your ASC team.  Sunday, May 1 after graduation from 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m. in the foxhole. All Seniors are welcome to drop in and eat, drink, talk and be with other graduating friends.

A May church leadership conference is available for May term or summer credit (graduate and undergraduate). The Leadership Institute for Group Discernment will be offered at George Fox May 16-19, and George Fox students (undergraduate and seminary) can take it for academic credit (CHMN 485; PSTD 585) with Paul Anderson.

A special discount is available for college and seminary students on a first-come, first-served basis. Contact Paul at panderso@georgefox.edu for more information.

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.

Stop by the Student Life front desk or the ARC to pick up a blank card, or use your own.

Sponsored by the Academic Resource Center.

If you are still missing items, please come to the security office before the end of the semester, as all items not claimed by April 29 will be donated to charitable causes on May 2.

Thanks,
Security Services

Students: If you are going on Juniors Abroad or May Serve, security would prefer that your vehicles be left off-campus with a friend. However, if that is an impossibility, you will need to leave your keys at the security office and find out where to park your vehicle.

Please leave no valuables in your vehicle, and be sure to lock it!

It’s that time again! Come take a break before finals and eat some breakfast. Late-night Breakfast, April 25, in the Bon, from 10 p.m to 11 p.m.

Tilikum is having a contest to design its artwork for the Day Camp (first through sixth grade) summer camp T-shirt. The theme for the summer and the shirt is “Rooted: Growing in God.”

The winner will receive a T-shirt, a $20 gift card to Chapters, and the satisfaction that 2,000 campers will be wearing their artwork. The contest ends May 3.

Please e-mail Nate Forbes at nforbes@georgefox.edu for more details.

Following are dining hours in Klages over the weekend:

Good Friday, April 22 – school holiday
Breakfast: 9-10 a.m.
Lunch: 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Dinner: 4:30-5:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 23
Brunch: 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Dinner: 4:30-5:30 p.m.

Easter Sunday, April 24
Brunch: 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Dinner: 4:30-5:30 p.m.

Monday, April 25 (dead day)
Breakfast: 8-10 a.m.
Lunch: 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Dinner: 4:30-7 p.m.

On Friday, April 22, both the Bruin Den and Villa Cafe will be closed in observance of Good Friday.

On Monday, April 25, the Villa Cafe will be closed and the Bruin Den will be open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Graduate students may now charge textbooks to their student account at the Bruin Bookstore at this link for summer semester. The ability to charge books will remain available (for graduate students only) until end of day on Monday, April 25.

If graduate students need to use their student account for purchases after April 25, they will need to acquire a voucher from student financial services.

Questions? Contact John Stewart at jstewart@georgefox.edu

The Center for Peace and Justice/Center for Global Studies (CPJ/CGS) is hosting an essay contest: “Fair Trade: A Market-based Approach to Sustainability and Justice.”

The details:

• Open to George Fox students in bachelor’s or master’s degree programs (who have not yet earned master’s degrees), and to students affiliated with Canaan Fair Trade.
• Prize: An award of $250 will be given to a student from each group.
• Competition Guidelines: In 2,000–2,500 words, address the basis, benefits, challenges, and specific impacts of fair trade. Please make sure to provide specific examples (from any region).
• Entry Deadline: July 1, 2011

Learn more on the Fair Trade page on the university’s website. Questions? Contact Melanie Newell at ext. 2686 or mnewell@georgefox.edu.

Faculty, please tell your students about this contest.

Please turn in ASC Activities applications by Monday, April 25 by 5 p.m. in the ASC offices.

Join us in honoring Dwight Kimberly’s contribution to George Fox at his retirement reception in the EHS Atrium this Monday, April 25, between 1 and 2:30 p.m. See you there!

The university’s offices and libraries will be closed on Friday, April 22, to observe Good Friday. The Newberg library will be closed Friday and Sunday but will be open between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. Saturday. The Portland Center library will be closed Friday through Sunday.