The Daily Bruin

The University Store is hosting a Father’s Day sale. Save 30 percent on all “George Fox Dad” sweatshirts, caps, and mugs in stock the week of June 9-13.

Due to an illness, the Wheeler Sports Center gym floor refinishing project will not be completed in the scheduled time and the gym will remain closed through Thursday, June 12. If the work gets finished before that date, a notification will go out. Thank you for your patience.

Plant Services

You are invited to help Plant Services restore the ecosystem structure and function of Hess Creek Canyon, which includes the establishment of native plant communities. The work will take place Wednesdays from 10:15 a.m. to 3 p.m. through the summer and will mostly involve the removal of invasive plants, mainly ivy. Come and do your part to restore this valuable resource. To find out more, e-mail Debby O’Kelley (Plant Services) at dokelley@georgefox.edu.

Are you willing to get involved in making a difference in Myanmar? On May 3, cyclone Nargis hit the country, killing more than 34,000 people, devastating the Irrawaddy Delta, and destroying Myanmar’s rice crop. Another 1 million people may starve in the next few months if they do not receive rice seeds by the end of June to replant their fields and feed their families.

I have started a project to provide salt-resistant rice seeds to the people of the Irrawaddy Delta. One pound of rice seed costs about $15 and will produce enough rice to feed one person in Myanmar for about six months. One-hundred percent of any donation you can make will go toward purchasing the seeds.

You can donate to the Myanmar Rice Seed project online at nmsi.org/donate.aspx. (Enter your information and designate your gift to “Rice Seed – Myanmar”). New Mission Systems International is a registered U.S. nonprofit, Christian charitable organization and a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability.

Any donations you make to NMSI are secure and tax deductible. To learn more about NMSI, go to: nmsi.org. If you have any questions, please call or e-mail me.

Thank you,

Tricia Hornback (School of Professional Studies)
503-380-0365
tfhornback@verizon.net

Tom and Michele Johnson are moving their belongings to Coupeville, Wash., on Thursday, June 12, and wish to hire three students to help load the truck starting at 4 p.m. In the event students work until 5 p.m., they would like to start loading at 5:15 p.m. They estimate it will take less than three hours, and there are no appliances. Students will be paid $50 each, and pizza and pop will be supplied. Call 503-538-9347 to sign up.

Our colleague, Mark Doyle (Biology), is scheduled to have intestinal surgery at USC in Los Angeles on June 17. Anyone wishing to contribute to his air ambulance costs can send a donation to:

Sauvie Island Community Church
18510 NW Reeder Road, Portland, OR 97231

We need to raise $12,900. Oregon Health Science University faculty and staff, his church friends, and George Fox University faculty, staff, and students are those targeted for this appeal.

Thanks,

Dwight Kimberly, Biology/Chemistry department

The gym floors in the Wheeler Sports Center will undergo refinishing work June 2-8. The gym will be closed during that time and reopen on Monday, June 9.

Floor refinishing work in the Wheeler Sports Center will restrict access this week. Please abide by these instructions to avoid having the building closed to all traffic on these days.

Wednesday, May 28 through Friday, May 30: Racquetball courts closed
Thursday, May 29, through Friday, May 30: Upper and lower lobbies closed

Thursday, May 29, through Friday, May 30:

• To enter the Fitness Center, use doors near the southwest corner of Wheeler (they will be propped open). Locker rooms and restrooms are accessible though outside doors on the lower south side of the building.

• To enter the gym, use outside doors on the north (Fulton Street) side of the building. Locker rooms and restrooms are accessible through the outside doors on the lower south side of the building.

Doors are open during regular summer hours,  6 to 8 a.m., 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., and 4 to 7 p.m.

The university’s offices will close Monday, May 26, to observe Memorial Day.

Interested in learning how to make the hanging baskets that grace the George Fox quad? You are welcome to a 9 a.m. class Wednesday, May 21, at the Plant Services building, 1101 Villa Road. The session will last about four hours, and you may join at any time.

To find out more, contact the Plant Services office at ext. 2010.

The library will be closed from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Monday, May 19, during a scheduled power outage. Access to the library catalog and databases also will be unavailable.

Due to a planned power outage throughout the Commons on Monday, May 19, the Bruin Den will be closed all day and reopen on Tuesday.

Due to PGE’s planned power outage early on Monday, May 19, in the SUB area, the University Store will be closed that day until 1 p.m.

Security Services personnel have noticed many unlocked bicycles left unattended around campus since spring break, and unfortunately, a few have been stolen. Please secure your bicycle at all times with a good lock, and move it to the area where you are currently living on campus.

If you are going to be gone for the weekend or an extended period of time, please put your bike in your apartment. If your bike is currently stored at a bike rack, please mark it with your name by Thursday, May 22. After that date, all bikes not identified as belonging to somebody currently working or residing on campus for the summer will have the chains cut, and they will be stored in the Coffin basement to reduce the attraction to potential thieves.

Any bikes not claimed by the end of September will be donated to charitable causes. Thank you for your cooperation.

– Security Services

The university has the pleasure of welcoming the first group of new incoming students and their parents for Genesis this Thursday and Friday, May 15-16. Please help to make their first “official” day on campus as welcoming as possible by sacrificing your parking spots in the Wood-Mar, Hoover, and Stevens lots.

There are many available parking spaces in the Pennington and Bauman lots, and street-side parking is available on Sheridan and Meridian streets (campus side of Meridian please). Thank you in advance for your cooperation.

– Security Services

George Fox is in the process of formulating teams to participate in the community’s Relay for Life event, scheduled from 6 p.m. to 2 p.m. on June 20-21 at Newberg High School. Would you like to walk in the relay this year? If so, please contact Nancy Almquist (Development) this week at ext. 2120 or at nalmquist@georgefox.edu and let her know of your interest. Last year, the Newberg event raised $115,000 in the fight against cancer.

Check out the University Store’s Sidewalk Sale this Thursday and Friday, May 15-16. Save 50 percent and more on select items. Stop inside and save 20 percent on George Fox merchandise and 30 percent on art and school supplies, World of Good items, and Zulugrass necklaces.

Several George Fox students participated in the filming of an MTV TRL show that will air this Thursday, May 15 at 3:30 p.m. The students were in New York for a fashion merchandising and design study tour and attended a premier of The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. They were asked to return the next day to interact with the movie’s stars in the filming of the MTV show.

Please join the School of Management for a farewell reception for Sandee Robinson from 9 to 10 a.m. Tuesday, May 13, in Hoover 103. Sandee has served the SOM the past two years as administrative assistant for the school and its Doctor of Management program. She also has  served as an undergraduate adjunct faculty member. Sandee is planning to continue her graduate work and pursue her love of teaching.

George Fox is teaming up with the Newberg community to organize a SOLV-sponsored work day in Hess Creek Canyon on Saturday, May 17. Work crews will meet from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., and assignments will include digging two fish swales, removing ivy (no poison oak is present), creating a link between trails, and spreading gravel.

Participants will meet in the Wheeler/Le Shana parking lot, where they will be assigned to a work team. The Newberg Rotary is providing about 100 volunteers, and Clyde Thomas (Plant Services) is seeking university volunteers who would be willing to join them.

Also, there is a need for about 10 individuals to be team leaders. It would involve a half-hour of orientation prior to May 17, either individually or as a group.

For more information, contact Clyde at ext. 2013 or cthomas@georgefox.edu.