The Daily Bruin

Friday, April 10
Noon – Men’s golf in George Fox Invitational at The Reserve GC, Aloha, Ore.
Noon – Baseball vs. Whitman (2), Morse Field
2 p.m. – Softball vs. Pacific (2), Morse Field

Saturday, April 11
Noon – Baseball vs. Whitman (2), Morse Field
Noon – Softball vs. Pacific (2), Morse Field

For more information, contact the sports information office at ext. 2926.

Students making a service trip to Nicaragua this May are selling bracelets with the message “Esperanza” (hope) from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, April 9, in the Bruin Den. Come support our students as they raise money for a trip during which they will serve a ministry that rescues at-risk girls on the streets. Come learn more!

The Student Life Office is hiring student employees for the 2009-10 academic year.

Responsibilities and duties include:
1.  Share office duties with other students: mail pick up and delivery, receptionist duties, switchboard coverage as needed, triage of students, photocopying, filing and other duties as assigned.
2.  Organize and monitor shared office supplies.
3.  Create bulletin boards and other types of creative communication endeavors.
4.  Data entry.

Qualifications:
1.  Eligible for federal work study.
2.  Previous experience in an office environment.
3.  Interest in Student Life programs and willingness to serve students.
4.  Excelling communication skills.
5.  Integrity and maintenance of confidentiality.
6.  Ability to understand and follow instructions.
7.  Knowledge to operate a variety of office equipment and computer programs including:
   -  Microsoft Word
   -  Excel
   -  Access
   -  Website maintenance a plus
   -  Propensity to learn new software systems.
8.  Initiative, accuracy and the desire to pay attention to detail.
9.  Self motivated.
10. Team player.

To apply, complete the Student Employment Application.  Submit the application along with a cover letter expressing your desire to work in Student Life.

Applications are due to the Student Life Office by Thursday, April 9.

Contact Megan Marsh at mmarsh@georgefox.edu or ext. 2311 with any questions.

Do you want to work for Public Relations next year? The positions of Web Editor, Media Designer and Print Designer are available.  If you are creative, innovative and want to build your portfolio then pick up an application in the SUB across from the Bon.

Applications are due Monday, April 13.

Contact Annie Smith at asmith07@georgefox.edu for more information.

ASC Missions is accepting clothing donations between April 7 and April 17. A sale will take place in the quad, with proceeds going toward Transitions Global’s effort to set up a safe house for sex-trafficked girls in Portland. Drop off items in the barrel in the Student Union Building, and look for a sale the last week of classes.

Stonyfield Farms Yogurt has issued a recall for its quarts of Organic Fat Free Plain Yogurt with code dates of May 6-7, 2009.

Sold only in grocery stores, the UPC number is 52159 00006 with time stamp of 22:17 through 23:59. No other Stonyfield products are affected by this recall. Bon Appetit does not purchase this brand for George Fox.

Stonyfield Farms has received several reports of customers noticing an off-taste when eating the product, but have not received any reports of any illness of any kind after consuming the product. You should contact your retailer if you need more information.

– Bon Appetit

There is still time to sign up for the university’s tour of Alpine Europe to see the Passion Play at Oberammergau, Germany, in early-summer 2010. There are currently 20 people registered for the trip.

Open to all employees, students, alumni, parents and friends of George Fox, the 11-day tour, departing May 31, will include visits to the beautiful European cities of Frankfurt and Munich, Germany; Salzburg, Austria; and Lucerne and Interlaken, Switzerland. Among many other highlights, the tour will include travel through the Rhine Valley, Black Forest, and the Swiss, Austrian and Bavarian Alps. Additionally, visits are planned to Neuschwanstein and Heidelberg castles, and Rothenburg, Germany’s best-preserved medieval town.

The highlight of the trip will be the Passion Play, an inspiring one-day play that dates back nearly 375 years and is performed for sold-out audiences every 10 years in a magnificent outdoor covered amphitheater with the Bavarian Alps as a backdrop.

To read the full itinerary, request more information and register for the trip, visit the alumni site.

Contact Alumni Relations at alumni@georgefox.edu with questions.

Attention:  By this time in the semester, all traditional undergraduate students who do not have senior status should have about 16 Spiritual Life credits.   If you still need Spiritual Life credit, there are 9 more Spiritual Life credit opportunities left in this semester. 

For more information about these events you can check them out in Bruindata or on the Spiritual Life Calendar:

http://www.georgefox.edu/offices/spirituallife/chapel/SL_Calendar.pdf.

For more information about the Spiritual Life credit requirement policy, including what to do if you are deficient, please check out the Spiritual Life website:

http://www.georgefox.edu/offices/spirituallife/chapel/sl_credit.html. 

If you know you will be deficient, you may want to begin the following procedure:
1. Watching  chapel podcasts
2.  Filling out the following form for each watched podcast http://www.georgefox.edu/offices/spirituallife/chapel/form.html.

If you have any questions or concerns please email spirituallife@georgefox.edu.

The George Fox Medallion Search is back!

Taking place the week of April 13-17, all students can participate in this exciting campus treasure hunt, with the winner receiving a $200 cash reward.

A custom-engraved medallion will be hidden somewhere outside on the George Fox University Newberg campus. It will not be buried and no structures need to be disturbed or climbed to find it.

Starting Monday morning, one clue will be revealed each day at 10 a.m. of the week-long event. Clues will be sent as a Facebook message to all members of the Bruin Heritage Society Facebook Group. To get the clues, you must join the Bruin Heritage Society Facebook Group. To join the group, click here: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/group.php?gid=7222987586

Email bruinheritage@georgefox.edu or post a message on the Facebook group with questions.

Stop at the SUMMER ADDRESS table in the Bruin’s Den by the ASC Offices.
– You may request to have your mailbox open all summer – or part of the summer.
– We can forward your mail to your home address or to a different address.

We just need to know what to do with your mail after Finals Week.

Where: Table in Bruin’s Den by ASC offices
Dates: Tues, Wed, Thurs April 7, 8, 9
Times: 10:30 am – 3:00 PM

Please take care of this so your mail delivery will continue after finals week. Thanks!

Celebrate Oregon Arbor Week this week by planting trees in Hess Creek Canyon on Tuesday, April 7. We will be meeting on the bridge at 3 p.m. and working until 7 p.m., but feel free to join us whenever you can. Trees, tools and snacks will be provided, so just come ready for some light work. The canyon is the backyard of our campus; come help make it better.

With the deadline for filing our tax returns just over a week away, this might be a good time to be sure you still have your W-2, which is required to be filed with your taxes.  If you have lost it, you can get a replacement W-2 for a $5 replacement fee. 

If you need one, please email HR at hr@georgefox.edu with your request and include your ID number.  It may take 2 business days to process a replacement W-2, so please submit your request by Thursday, April 9 if you will need one.

You will be notified by email when your W-2 is ready.  Please bring $5 with you when you come to pick it up.  This cannot be handled as a payroll deduction on a future pay check.

You can still work on your tax return while you wait for your W-2 by using the information from your December 10 pay statement.  If you don’t still have it, it is available online as a PDF:

Go to http://mygfu.georgefox.edu to get to the People Soft login screen.  Use the same user ID and password that you use to log in to email and Bruindata. Open “Self Service” in the menu on the left and click on “Payroll and Compensation.” You will see a list of all of your pay statements that have been processed in PeopleSoft (beginning with our first payroll on October 10). Click on the pay date in the far left column labeled “Check Date” to open your statement as a PDF file.

Please note the correct link to the Crescent poll question regarding regarding students’ opinion of profanity: http://tinyurl.com/CrescentPollStudents10.

The Crescent wants to know what GFU students think of swearing.  Thank you for your input.

The George Fox Behavioral Health Clinic is offering an eight-week, educational parenting skills group free of charge. The group, designed for parents of all ages, will meet from 4:30 to 6 p.m. each Monday from April 20 through June 8. The sessions will help parents develop behaviors they want from their kids without getting angry, improve bonding with their children, improve child compliance with directions, and reduce power struggles with children.

Please encourage anyone you think could benefit from this class to sign up. Please sign up with Tammy O’Doherty (Graduate Department of Clinical Psychology) at the VAC or via e-mail at GFBHC@georgefox.edu.

This is a reminder that your university password has been set to expire at 9 a.m. Monday, April 13, as part of the university’s annual password reset for all students, faculty and staff. Please login to Bruindata to change your password before that date.

All accounts with passwords that remain unchanged will be locked at 9 a.m. Monday April 13, preventing you from using university services. Once this occurs, you will need to contact the IT Service Desk to get your password reset.

Based on the recommendations of our auditing firm and following best practices, we will be changing university logins at regular intervals. For details, please refer to the password change policy on the IT website. We need to complete a campus password reset prior to the end of the spring semester.

Note: You are not being asked to send your login information to anyone. Rather, you are using the current university password change process that allows the individual to reset their own password.

Password Self-Service Feature
Once you have reset your password, you will be presented with the option to set “security questions” for your account. If you choose not to enter answers at this time, you can later create a self-service password reset option by logging into Bruindata, selecting the “My Data” tab and then “Security Questions.”

You will need to answer two security questions from the drop-down list and provide a non-George Fox e-mail address to activate this option. If you forgot your password, a temporary password will be sent to your non-George Fox e-mail, allowing you to log into Bruindata and change your university login password.

It’s the time of year full of sunshine, applications and elections.  If you’re hoping to be a part of George Fox’s student community, consider being a Class Representative. 

Applications are outside the ASC offices in the SUB.  Please submit them to the Supreme Court Chief Justice by Monday, April 13.

If you have any questions, contact Lauren Kewley by email at lkewley06@georgefox.edu or by phone at 503.554.3003, or Dana Bowers at dbowers08@georgefox.edu.

Plan now to share your culture with others. Each of us has a culture — where we grew up, family, ethnicity, experiences. Are you willing to share a piece of who you are with the university community? Want to know more? Come to a planning meeting from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. Friday, April 17, in the Bruin Den on the Newberg campus to learn how your voice and your story can be shared. We are looking for students and employees to be part of a fall 2009 event.

Questions? Contact Shelley Yonemura (Multicultural Services) at ext. 2318 or syonemur@georgefox.edu.

Free tickets for the Worcester Cathedral Choir are still available from the University Relations office. The office will be open Monday, April 6, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Please contact Amy Lorenz at ext. 2134 or at alorenz@georgefox.edu if you would like tickets.

The evening begins with an evensong service at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 6, in Bauman Auditorium. The concert follows at 8:15 p.m.

The Crescent wants to see what GFU students think of swearing.  Answer the most recent poll question regarding your opinion of profanity at: http://tinyurl.com/CrescentVOSPoll10.

The Crescent values and appreciates your opinion. Thanks!

Celebrate Hawaiian culture and get a taste of the islands at a luau from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 8, in the Klages Dining Hall. The cost is $7.75 for anyone not on a meal plan. No additional costs to students on a meal plan; just bring your ID card.