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Mail Services is open today (Saturday) between 1 and 4:30 p.m. So, feel free to stop by and pick up your packages.

Mail Services is located in the Roberts Center and can be accessed from the doors on the East Sherman Street side. If you have any questions, please reach out to Richard Silver at rsilver@georgefox.edu.

The Office for Spiritual Life invites everyone to join us for all-campus worship at 11 a.m. tomorrow (Sunday) in Bauman Auditorium. This will be our kickoff worship event for the year, and we will be offering chapel credit for it.

Come and worship! Questions? Contact spirituallife@georgefox.edu.

Mail Services will be open tomorrow (Saturday) between 1 and 4:30 p.m. to allow returning students to pick up their packages. Any outgoing packages or cash transactions will not be accepted.

Mail Services is located in the Roberts Center and can be accessed from the doors on the East Sherman Street side. If you have any questions, please reach out to Richard Silver at rsilver@georgefox.edu.

For the very first time, students staying on campus can enter their own maintenance request! Best methods to hang up a poster, bunking beds and many more topics are covered on Plant Services’ new webpage.

Please check out this great resource for information, including how to submit a maintenance request. Thank you!

Want to polish up your Spanish-speaking skills? Want to learn how to serve God’s purposes while doing so? Sign up for the Spanish for Ministry course! There are no prerequisites.

Register now in MyGeorgeFox for SPAN 285, Spanish for Ministry, taught by Jiroo Kuroda. In class we will learn about effective and God-honoring mission trips and prepare our hearts for national and international service within Spanish-speaking communities, among other topics.

No prerequisites are required, but a basic understanding of Spanish is necessary.

Note: MyGeorgeFox says the class meets at 4:15 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but we will be agreeing on a better time for all students that join.

Contact Jiroo at jkuroda@georgefox.edu with any questions.

The Catholic Campus Fellowship group is offering a carpool service to drive students to Sunday morning mass (8 a.m. or 10:30 a.m.) at St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Newberg this fall.

Please email Lorretta Krautscheid for more information at lkrautscheid@georgefox.edu.

The federal government released information about a student debt relief plan on Aug. 24. This includes:

• The final extension of the student loan repayment pause through Dec. 31, 2022
• Providing targeted debt relief to low- and middle-income families
• Making the student loan system more manageable for current and future borrowers

We are currently awaiting further guidance from the Department of Education. You can find more information about the plan at studentaid.gov/debt-relief-announcement.

Important Note: The debt relief only applies to loans disbursed by June 30, 2022. This means loans for the 2022-23 school year do not qualify for this program.

To view your personal federal student loan and Pell grant history, login to your dashboard at studentaid.gov.

Questions? Contact Aaron Geist at ageist@georgefox.edu.

Welcome back to Fox! If you will be parking on campus, there are a few changes you should be aware of.

• The Pennington (Penn) parking lot and the River Street lot will only be available to students who have a Penn parking permit. No other residents or commuters will be allowed to park there. Employees should also refrain from parking in these lots.
• The row of parking spaces facing Sheridan street in the Stevens lot has been converted to student parking and will be reserved for resident and commuter permit holders. There are 22 spaces.
• Overflow parking for staff and students will be available at the Highway 99 lot, which is right next to Steve’s Automotive. Do not park in spaces marked off for Steve’s Automotive.
• Remember the Morse lot, near the baseball fields, on the north side of campus is also another option for overflow parking.

Any questions? Call the Campus Public Safety office at 503-554-2090.

As we get close to the start of the term, there are an increasing number of scam and phishing attempts around campus. These have primarily come in the form of emails and text messages. Often they are asking for wire transfers, advertising fake job postings or asking users to open documents.

So that you don’t fall victim to these attempts, please review the guidelines below.

If you feel you’ve received a suspicious email or text, check the following:

• Check the sender’s address or phone number. If it is unrecognizable or something similar to, but not exactly the same as the sender’s normal email address, it could be a phishing attempt. Please note that a similar email address does not mean the original email address has been compromised; this is called a spoofing account.
• Any link or odd instructions. If the email directs you to click on a link (even something familiar such as iTunes, etc.) or input sensitive information, it could be an attempt to get your password or other important information. Do not reply to the email or text. Always verify requests for sensitive data or transfers of money in person or by directly calling a known phone number.

If you feel that you have received some sort of phishing attempt:

1. If you receive an email or text message that you suspect is a phishing attempt, you should forward it to servicedesk@georgefox.edu with an explanation.
2. You should not click any links or open any attachments.
3. When Google identifies that an email may be phishing or suspicious, they might show a warning or move the email to Spam.
4. If an email wasn’t marked correctly, follow the steps below to mark or unmark it as phishing.
   1. On a computer, go to Gmail
   2. Open the message.
   3. Next to Reply <–, click “More” (represented by three dots vertically stacked).
   4. Click “Report Phishing”
5. Request that anyone who has been emailed via the attempt also report it as phishing in their inbox.
6. If you did not click on any links or reply, you do not need to do anything further.
7. If you did click on a link or send a reply with sensitive information, you’ll want to change your password as soon as you can in my.georgefox.edu (this will automatically update your email password). Then go through the Settings in your Gmail account to look for anything amiss, such as an unfamiliar forwarding address, filter or vacation-responder that you never created.

Feel free to call the Service Desk at 503-545-2569 if you would like help walking through these steps.

With construction on the new chapel set to begin, please be mindful of your surroundings as you make your way around campus.

When walking through campus, please use the Crisman Crossing bridge instead of the Wheeler bridge or the Wheeler access road (Amphitheater Way). All trails in the canyon leading north of the Wheeler access road will be closed until further notice.

Please contact Plant Services at plantservices@georgefox.edu with any questions.

Construction is about to begin on George Fox’s new chapel. Beginning Monday, Aug. 29, Carlton Way will be closed from the Murdock Library to North Street until further notice. This applies to both vehicular traffic and foot traffic.

Interested in a volunteer opportunity to serve our awesome Bruin football fans? Then Bruin Brigade is the place for you!

The Bruin Brigade is a team of volunteers who help at the ticket tent, gates, and direct traffic in the parking lots prior to every home game. The team arrives two hours before kickoff and are free to enjoy the rest of the game starting at halftime.

All volunteers will receive a meal prior to each game they volunteer, free entry into the second half of the game, and a T-shirt.

If this sounds like something you would like to help with, please email Mindy Mickelson in the athletics department at mmickelson@georgefox.edu with your first and last name, the games you can volunteer, your cell phone number, and your T-shirt size.

Please note: We are asking for a three-game commitment to receive a T-shirt. Volunteers working the gates will need to be willing to use their phone to scan in tickets through the HomeTown Gate app (free on app store). WiFi is available at the gates.

2022 Football Schedule:

• Saturday, Sept. 17, vs. Chapman at 7 p.m.
• Saturday, Oct. 1, vs. Pacific Lutheran at 4:30 p.m. (Homecoming & Hall of Fame)
• Saturday, Oct. 15, vs. Puget Sound at 1:30 p.m.
• Saturday, Oct. 29, vs. Linfield at 1:30 p.m. (Family Weekend)
• Saturday, Nov. 5, vs. Lewis & Clark at 4:30 p.m.

George Fox University is committed to providing a supportive learning environment and fostering safe, healthy relationships among our students. This is especially true for a Christ-centered community such as ours that seeks to love God and others.

We have contracted with Vector Solutions/Safe Colleges to provide training and education on these important topics.

The two required courses are:

• Sexual Violence Prevention for Undergraduate Students
• Alcohol and Other Drugs

Failure to complete these courses by the deadline will result in a fine being placed on your account for each course not taken.

The two courses that we are strongly suggesting are:

• Active Shooter: Run, Hide Fight for Students
• Mental Health Awareness

Undergraduate students will be sent invitations via email by Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022. The deadline for both required courses will be Sept. 26, 2022.

If you are a student-athlete and have already taken the course Sexual Violence Prevention for Undergraduate Students you do NOT need to take it again.

Please contact the program administrator, Jere Witherspoon, at jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu if you have any questions or concerns.

We need the following areas cleared of vehicles by 4 p.m. today (Wednesday) to facilitate students moving in this weekend. Please move your vehicle if it is parked in:

• Bauman/Ross lot
• Spaces in front of HMS
• Southwest row of the Pennington lot that faces the residence hall.

We appreciate everyone making space for our students to move in. For more information, call Campus Public Safety at 503-554-2091.

Mail Services wants to hear from you! Share with us how we are doing and tell us about your experience at Mail Services. Please use this link to fill out the survey.

Contact Richard Silver at rsilver@georgefox.edu with any questions.

Interested in helping out on Bruin game days? Know the game of football? Maybe you have production experience? Athletics is looking for a detail-oriented faculty, staff or student to help in the control room during all five home football games, scheduled on Sept. 17, Oct. 1, Oct. 15, Oct. 29 and Nov. 5.

Sound like something you’d be great at? Contact Jenéa Walters at jshoemaker@georgefox.edu for more information.

Join us at 10:50 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 30, for Fall Academic Convocation Chapel in Bauman Auditorium. Professor Amanda Robert, our 2021-22 Undergraduate Teacher of the Year, will present the faculty address.

Come start the year off blessed as we worship together and welcome students to campus! Contact Laurie Fair at lfair@georgefox.edu with any questions.

Welcome back to Fox! If you will be parking on campus, there are a few changes you should be aware of.

• The Pennington (Penn) parking lot and the River Street lot will only be available to students who have a Penn parking permit. No other residents or commuters will be allowed to park there.
• The row of parking spaces facing Sheridan street in the Stevens lot has been converted to student parking and will be reserved for resident and commuter permit holders. There are 22 spaces.
• Overflow parking for staff and students will be available at the Highway 99 lot, which is right next to Steve’s Automotive. Do not park in spaces marked off for Steve’s Automotive.
• Remember the Morse lot, near the baseball fields, on the north side of campus is also another option for overflow parking.

Any questions? Call the Campus Public Safety office at 503-554-2090.

The campus is abuzz with activities as we begin to lay the groundwork for our new art annex and chapel. Various construction zones will interrupt and change what we have come to expect as we walk through campus.

As faculty, staff, students and neighbors, we all share a responsibility for our personal safety around campus, especially in those areas where construction traffic will be most prevalent. Please review these construction zone safety tips.

If you have any safety concerns or questions, please reach out to Kim Knoernschild, our environmental health and safety specialist, at kknoernschild@georgefox.edu.

The Office of Spiritual Life is looking for Life Group leaders for this fall (the weeks of Sept. 19 through Nov. 7). We welcome our employees, current seniors, alumni, family members of George Fox employees and students, and members of our wonderful local churches to consider leading a group.

Life Groups are small groups of undergraduate students who meet together for prayer, Bible study and fellowship. Groups meet weekly for 60 to 90 minutes and gather either in person or completely via Zoom (this provides access for our George Fox Digital students).

Life Groups through the Office of Spiritual Life will also be SpIL-credit eligible in order to encourage students to engage in high-quality spiritual formation experiences that are participatory and offer ongoing community. To sign up as a leader, please fill out this form by Friday, Aug. 26.

For more information, visit this webpage or contact the spiritual life office at spirituallife@georgefox.edu.