The Daily Bruin

FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 8 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Tuesday, June 7, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

The George Fox University Payment Estimator for next year is now available online and ready for use! This planning tool is extremely helpful for families as they get a jump on their planning for the coming academic year. Information on how to begin monthly payments is also available with the estimator. It’s not too early to begin planning and making payments now!

Simply go to: http://www.georgefox.edu/offices/stu_fin_srv/forms.html and select the Payment Estimator hyperlink.

Students, if someone else helps you with your tuition payments, you will want to forward this link to them as well!

The School of Business invites students and employees to a free speaker series event featuring Norman Bodek, CEO of PCS Press. He will present “The Human Side of LEAN/The Harada Method” from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. on Friday, June 3, in Room 155 at the Portland Center.

For the past 20 years, Bodek has worked tirelessly to bring the best of Japanese management theory to America. He is credited with discovering and publishing the works of Dr. Shigeo Shingo and Taiichi Ohno, the inventors of the Toyota Production System. His knowledge has been gleaned from taking more than 70 trips to Japan and visiting 250 plants.

Following is a synopsis of his presentation:

“The key ingredient currently missing in many businesses is consideration of the employee. The Harada Method, which is the second pillar of Lean, focuses on the employee. What if we told the employee that we were interested in their personal progression? What if we simply planted a foundation for personal growth, whether intellectual or physical, or a creative combination of the two? Would this new, more-focused, better-skilled employee be an asset? Of course!”

Join us for a discussion on the role of individuals in industry. Among the questions we will discuss:

• How do we humanize industry?
• How we can create a more focused and better skilled employee?
• How does employee respect and trust affect quality and outcomes?

R.S.V.P. at this link. Questions? Contact Amber Russell at arussell@georgefox.edu.

Over the past 13 years, Elizabeth Holme has done a phenomenal job in keeping the costs down and maintaining the same prices for printing and copying. However, effective May 16, Print Services has increased its cost of photocopying and printing.

The new price for black and white copies and prints on 8.5 x 11 and 8.5 x 14 is 5 cents for front sides and 3 cents for back sides. The price will double for 11 x 17 and larger.

Color copy and printing on 8.5 x 11 and 8.5 x 14 will be 25 cents per side. For 11 x 17 and larger the price will be 50 cents per side.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to give us a call at ext. 2550 and 2551.

We’re pleased to announce that, starting this week, the Villa Cafe will be open weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. In addition to great beverages and freshly baked goodies, we’ll be featuring homemade soups and a daily luncheon special.

Also, if you work at VAC or plan on being there this summer during the noon hour, we’d appreciate it if you’d take a few moments to complete this survey to assist us in serving you better.

Thanks for your support.

Denny Lawrence,
Bon Appetit

Back by popular demand is our Expo Special during lunch at the Bruin Den every Tuesday and Thursday from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. You can check out our weekly lunch specials at this website. You can find them under the “Cafes” tab, from which you can click “Bruin Den” and “Weekly Menu.”

For those of you who haven’t yet discovered iGFU, the university’s new mobile app for smartphones and iPads, it now also includes the daily Bruin Den lunch special. You can access iGFU at igfu.georgefox.edu and tap “Today’s meals at The Bon.”

Check it out and let us know what you think!

– Denny Lawrence
Bon Appetit

We are welcoming about 100 new students and their families for Genesis this Thursday and Friday, May 19-20. If you or your summer student employees have been parking in the Wood-Mar/Hoover/Stevens staff lots, we would like to ask you to please give up your spots on Thursday and Friday for our guests.

There is plenty of parking in the Pennington lot, on Sheridan and Meridian streets, and in the Bauman lot. Thank you for helping us to welcome our incoming students!

Knock em Dead Secrets & Strategies for Success in an Uncertain World with Martin Yate CPC, NY Times bestseller!

This is the last webinar of our Spring Grad Series on Job Search techniques brought to you by Career Services!  Whether your concerns are resumes, job search, turning interviews into offers, job security, climbing the ladder of success, choosing or changing careers, pursuing your dreams or owning your own business, here’s an integrated blueprint for success.

Join us Wednesday, May 18, from noon-1:00 p.m. in the Career Services office (first floor of Stevens).

Questions? Contact us at 503-554-2330 or careers@georgefox.edu

Remember to come to Plant Services Wednesday morning (May 18) at 9:30 a.m. to learn how to make the hanging baskets that grace our campus every summer. You’ll also be helping us in the process.

Questions? Call ext. 2010.

Thank you,
Plant Services

Just a reminder: FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 8 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Tuesday, May 17. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Found in Wheeler Sports Center’s Room 211 (Dance/Mirror Room): A battery for a Canon camera. Call Patty Findley at ext. 2910 or e-mail her at pfindley@georgefox.edu to claim it.

This year, the Newberg Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast is featuring an alumni a capella group, Rescue. If you are interested in attending as our guests, I have tickets I would like to give away. Call me or e-mail right away if you are interested.

The event is this Saturday, May 14, from 8 to 10 a.m. in the Klages Dining Room, so let me know soon!

Thank you,
Nancy Almquist, ext. 2120

Print Services will be closed on Friday, May 13, for remodel work.

Questions? Contact Sherrie Frost at ext. 2556.

Mark your calendars and come learn to make those gorgeous hanging baskets that grace our quad area. You will learn the valuable skill of how these beauties are assembled and help us in the process.

Join us on Wednesday, May 18, in the Plant Services building at 1101 Villa Road. We’ll begin at 9:30 a.m. and go 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.

You work out, right? You should be working on your career, too! Obtain tips, tools and exercises to build up the strength, endurance and scope of your career in today’s more competitive market. Develop your personal career fitness system!

Our next webinar, taught by expert Peter Weddle, is part of a series on Job Search Techniques for the graduate brought to you by Career Services. It is Wednesday, May 11, from noon to 1 p.m. in the Career Services office (first floor of Stevens Center).

Questions? Contact Angela Doty at adoty@georgefox.edu.

We will be cleaning out Wheeler Sports Center’s lockers in June. If you want to protect your locker and the things in it, e-mail Patty Findley (pfindley@georgefox.edu) with your locker number and we won’t cut the lock off and donate the contents to those less fortunate.

So you know, saying something like “three lockers in from the left side” doesn’t do it. I need a number.

Thank you,
Patty Findley

The last day for items to be picked up from Phase II will be Friday, May 6. Items left will be donated to charity. Phase II is set up in the Macy basement between 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

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

Thursday, May 5, is the National Day of Prayer! The Continental Congress’ proclamation in 1775 set aside a day of prayer. Find a National Day of Prayer sanctioned event in your area by clicking this link.

Financial Affairs reports that some counterfeit money is being handed out in the Newberg area. We had one in our deposit today and have no way to know where it came from. What we had was a $10 bill, but others could be around also.

The best way to tell is by holding the bill up to a light. There should be a narrow strip running from top to bottom of the bill and a picture of the president (only seen when held up to the light) on the side of the bill. We do not feel this was passed to us intentionally, but it should be something we all watch for.

If you have any questions, please contact Jan Amerson in Financial Affairs at ext. 2164.

With several guests visiting campus this week, please be considerate when parking. The Bauman lot will be the primary parking area for those attending the OSAA state choir competition through Saturday, so please use the Stevens or Wood-Mar lots.

Also, a Target commercial is being filmed on various locations on campus Thursday and Friday. Please leave the Pennington, Le Shana and Winters parking lots open for the crew’s trucks and vehicles.