The Daily Bruin

Reminder: Help is needed to plant the hanging baskets for the campus quad. Visit Plant Services between 9 a.m. and noon on Wednesday, May 12.

The “Jesus Manifesto” seminar originally scheduled for this week at George Fox Evangelical Seminary has been canceled due to scheduling conflicts. The seminary plans to host the event at a future date.

FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 7 a.m. (Pacific Time) Tuesday, May 18, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

– IT

Make plans to join us on Saturday, Aug. 14, for our fourth motorcycle rally, departing from the Newberg campus. If you are a street motorcycle rider, we want to hear from you so we can send you an invitation. Also, let us know if you are interested in the longer Tillamook Route (185-225 miles), or the short ride through Yamhill County Wine Country (100-125 miles).

Please contact us by May 15 to let us know of your interest at alumni@georgefox.edu. To find out more, visit the Motorcycle Rally page on the alumni website.

Career Services is offering a free job search workshop series in May. “Strategy Tools for the Job Seeker,” the first of  six sessions, kicks off the series on Tuesday, May 11, at 4 p.m. in Stevens 220. Sign-ups are available on the Career Services website. Attend one session or all six!

Faculty and staff are encouraged to pass this information along to graduated seniors and recent alumni.

While parking is a bit more relaxed during the summer, certain parking regulations still remain in effect. Please do not park in the visitor rows in the Hoover and Stevens lots so the campus is welcoming to our numerous visitors. Loading-only spaces and marked reserved spaces are still enforced, as are the 10-minute spaces by Mail Services.

Also, all yellow curbs are no-parking fire lanes, and handicapped spaces can only be utilized with a valid handicapped permit. We are also hosting some very large events in the following weeks and months and ask that you please be sensitive about where you park during these events.

Students can park close to their residences regardless of their 2009-10 parking permit designations. Both students and staff may be asked to park in non-staff lots when we host big groups such as Genesis.

Thank you in advance for your cooperation, and please call ext. 2090 if you have specific questions not answered here.

Mail Services reports missing a purple hand truck for the past week. If you have any information concerning its whereabouts, please contact Elizabeth Holme at ext. 2550.

Phase II items will be open for viewing Wednesday through Friday, May 5-7, between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. in the Villa Academic Complex’s north entrance only. Please keep items sorted and neatly stacked for others who wish to participate.

Thank you,
Plant Services

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 county ballot, and there is no postage necessary. The deadline for this drop-off site is 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 11. All out-of-state ballots must be mailed with postage.

Thank you,
Mail Services

Thank you for attending the Summer Student Employee meeting.  We appreciate you!

 Please note:  The web address is wrong on the “Where Do I Find My Pay Statement?” document.  It should be:  www.mygfu.georgefox.edu.

 Thank you!

Remember to attend the Orientation session for all summer student employees Monday at 9 in Hoover 105. It’s a required event, even if you attended last year.

Baccalaureate is this Saturday, May 1 at 9:30 a.m. This is your last opportunity to worship together as a class.  You should line up for Baccalaureate at 8:30 a.m. in the Ross Center Room 208 with your GOWN ON, but NO CAP.  Doors will open for parents at 8:30 a.m. in Bauman.   The faculty speaker is Dr. Corey Beals and the senior speakers are Jon Ciraulo and Shereen Sherman.  

Baccalaureate is one hour and then you are dismissed to move to your departmental receptions.

We will be doing a “sweep” of the men’s locker room during the month of May. If you want to keep your locker and its contents, please let us know. You may e-mail Patty Findley or call ext. 2910 with your locker number and we won’t remove the lock and dispense your gear to those less fortunate.

Tilikum Center for Retreats and Outdoor Ministries invites mothers and daughters to take time out and retreat together in a relaxing, country setting May 7-9.

Highlights include teaching and relationship-building sessions, singing and worship, campfire time, a hayride, crafts, and challenge course activities, along with plenty of time to simply be together, mother and daughter. It’s a wonderful opportunity to walk upon common ground while celebrating your differences and exploring God’s design for your lives.

Learn more at tilikum.georgefox.edu.

A continuing education opportunity for church leaders, the Leadership Institute for Group Discernment, will be hosted on the university’s Newberg campus May 17-20.

The institute is a three-and-a-half-day experience empowering church leaders in facilitating group discernment. It will integrate theological, spiritual and practical organizational processes, helping church leaders from different traditions understand and implement discernment-oriented leadership within their own settings, with the ultimate goal of leading to consensus and unity within the church.

For-credit options are available through George Fox University and George Fox Evangelical Seminary; all are welcome. For more information, contact Jan Wood, director of Good News Associates, via the Good News Associates website.

All students, please empty your campus mailboxes by noon tomorrow. (Friday, April 30th.) Recycle bins are placed in the Post Office lobbies for your convenience.  Your help is greatly appreciated.

Have a great summer!  Your friendly staff from Mail Services.

Learn to make those gorgeous hanging baskets that grace the university’s quad area. You can learn how these beauties are assembled and help us in the process by joining us for a class on Wednesday, May 12, in the Plant Services Building at 1101 Villa Road. The session begins at 9 a.m. and will last approximately four hours.

You are welcome to join in the class at any time.

Thank you,
Plant Services

The Fitness Center hours for the summer are as follows: 6-8 a.m., 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. and 4-8 p.m.

The university will host two commencement ceremonies on the Newberg campus Saturday, May 1. The traditional undergraduate ceremony will take place in Miller Gymnasium/Wheeler Sports Center at 2 p.m., with audience seating at 1 p.m. Tickets are required for the traditional undergraduate ceremony.

The graduate, seminary and School of Professional Studies ceremony will take place in the same Wheeler Sports Center location at 7 p.m., with audience seating at 6 p.m.

In addition, the baccalaureate service is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Saturday in Bauman Auditorium. Baccalaureate is an undergraduate worship service providing graduating seniors, their families, faculty, administrators, staff and other guests the opportunity to worship.

More information on this weekend’s events are available on the commencement website.

Donate your used textbooks to Word Made Flesh to support its people and ministries. Just drop off your textbooks at the Spiritual Life House. Sarah Baldwin will mail them in and the money will go to WMF.

Click this link for more information.