The Daily Bruin

Interested in grant writing or grant management that supports George Fox University? The university’s advancement office invites you to join us for our annual George Fox grant training session on Wednesday, May 12.

Join either our novice or master grant training tracks. Learn more about new grant registration and approval processes, hear from funded grant leaders, and get answers to timely questions.

Please submit this quick survey by Monday, May 10, to RSVP for one of the limited seats. Unable to attend on May 12? Don’t worry: Complete the survey on the above link to indicate your preference for future grant training invitations.

We value your input, and thank you for your help!

– The Advancement Office

Chris Clark, an art professor candidate and award-winning advertising copywriter, designer and faculty member, will present a research presentation on his professional creative practice via Zoom tomorrow (Thursday) at 11 a.m. The campus community is invited to attend.

A graduate of Point Loma University (BA, 1998) and The Academy of Art University in San Francisco (MFA, 2013), he has been the principal and owner of Clark Creative Services since 1997. Clark specializes in art direction and graphic design, as well as copywriting for advertising applications.

Questions? Contact Adina McConaughey at amcconaughey@georgefox.edu.

With mixed emotions, the student life department invites you to a celebration and farewell of our beloved Jenny Elsey.

Please come to an open house today (Wednesday) from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Intercultural Resource Center on East Sheridan Street.

You are welcome to bring a card, but we will have some artistic options for people to participate in to share their care for Jenny.

Please contact Jere Witherspoon (jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu) in student life if you have any questions.

Want to quickly earn a $10 gift card? You’re invited to participate in two short assessments over Zoom that will each take 20 to 30 minutes.

Click here to sign up. Questions? Contact B. Cameron Stumpf (bstumpf16@georgefox.edu).

Disclaimer: These surveys are student generated and are not to be associated with any official research conducted by faculty and staff at George Fox University. Any views or opinions presented in these surveys are solely those of the students and do not represent those of George Fox University. The distribution of these surveys is a service provided to George Fox University students as they prepare their research required by the curriculum. Students are required to have department approval. Any questions about these surveys should be directed to the students associated with the survey in question.

As you’re preparing to move out for the summer, bring your non-perishable food items and clean clothing to the Bruin Store!

We are a drop-off location for the Bruin Community Pantry and the Closet Project. The Closet Project is an initiative started by the Bruin Store to bring affordable semi-professional clothing to students and community members.

The initiative is 100% donation-based, every item is sold for $1, and every dollar is donated back to the Bruin Community Pantry. As you and your classmates have gotten involved, we have been able to stock not only semi-professional clothing, but athletic, casual, and outerwear as well.

If you have items that fit within these categories, please bring them by the Bruin Store during business hours. Any donated items which are outside of these categories will be given to a representative from Newberg High School, who donates them to students and families in need.

Questions? Contact Paige Jacobs (pjacobs@georgefox.edu).

As a reminder, commuter students who have been issued Good Neighborhood parking permits must return them before the end of the school year in order to avoid receiving a $25 charge.

Please bring your Good Neighborhood permit to the Campus Public Safety office before the end of the day on Friday, April 30.

Questions? Call our office at 503-554-2090 or email Elrike Shaw at eshaw@georgefox.edu.

With COVID-19 vaccines becoming readily available, we expect there will be enough flexibility by next semester to begin hosting Swing Dance Club meetings again.

In anticipation of this, new officers have been elected, including Mark Berglin as president, Abigail Reeves as vice president, Emma Ness as treasurer, and several others as dance instructors.

To gauge interest, we created a survey. If you would like to join us in this fun activity, fill out this form.

Note: Filling out the form is not a commitment in any way. It’s purpose is to see how many people may wish to participate, assuming we get permission to meet from the university.

Thank you for your help! Questions? Contact Mark Berglin (mberglin19@georgefox.edu).

The university’s museum currently has a number of exhibits on the Newberg campus.

• In Canyon Commons, there is “Congratulations Graduates!,” which details the events surrounding graduation in the early 1900s and early 2000s.
• In the library, there is “Mary Sutton’s Legacy.” Mary was a faculty member from 1911 to 1963. 
• In the Hoover Kershner Library (Hoover 104), the exhibit is “Levi Pennington: Committed Christian, College President, Humanitarian.” Levi was president of George Fox from 1911 to 1941 and remains Oregon’s longest-serving college president.
• In Pennington House, there is “Welcome to the Pennington’s,” which highlights Levi and Rebecca Pennington’s family life.
• In the Stevens Center, there is “Votes for Women” highlighting some of the roles that women have had at the university, along with “Alan D. Rutherford (1906-1979),” who was the college’s first Black graduate. 

If you have any questions about the exhibits or would like to access any of the museum collections, please contact Caitlin Corning at ext. 2673 or ccorning@georgefox.edu.

At the end of every school year many students have good, reusable items that they do not want to take home over the summer. These items often include blankets, clothing, kitchen supplies, small appliances, radios, room decorations, small furniture, etc.

In an effort to keep the dumpsters from overflowing and to be better stewards of the resources, Phase II was initiated. We are happy to receive reusable items that students do not want to take home now through Sunday, May 2, at 4 p.m.

The items donated are sorted and made available to summer students and staff, with the remainder of the items being given to different organizations in the local area.

Collection locations will only be available in the following dorm lobbies: Newlin, Le Shana, Brandt, Gulley, Edwards, Pennington, Hobson, Macy, Sutton, and Beebe.

There will also be a drop-off location at Plant Services in or near the receiving bay located to the left of the main entrance during normal business hours.

Please consider the following as you think about donating to Phase II:

• Place donated items in bags inside the barrels labeled “Phase II”
• Do not place trash inside barrels labeled “Phase II”
• Do not donate undergarments, socks, or soiled items
• Do not donate large furniture or appliances
• Do not place food in the barrels
• Do not place chemicals in the barrels
• Computers, monitors, and TVs can be placed beside the Phase II barrels. Please leave a note if it is broken.

There will also be large dumpsters for trash located on campus. One will be located near Macy, one between Brandt and Gully, and one behind Klages.

Students who are moving out of Pennington, Edwards, and Weesner Village must vacate their parking spots by 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 1.

The drive-through commencement will be going directly through those areas all day until 7 p.m. on Saturday night. Those who have not vacated those parking areas might be trapped until commencement is over.

Questions? Call the Campus Public Safety office at 503-554-2090 or email Elrike Shaw at eshaw@georgefox.edu.

Were you involved with club activities this year? Maybe you always meant to get around to it? Or maybe you didn’t know clubs existed?

Whatever your experience was, we want to hear from you! Five lucky survey participants will win a $10 coffee gift card!
Please take a few minutes to fill out this survey.

Questions? Contact the clubs director, Genevieve Wolf, at gwolf18@georgefox.edu.

The Office for Spiritual Life is excited to offer internships for the 2021-22 school year. We are hiring for Campus Ministry Interns, Vespers Band Leaders, and a Media and Marketing Intern.

These positions are now open on Handshake and will be open through May 31, 2021. If you have any questions, please contact us at spirituallife@georgefox.edu or call 503-554-2320.

Have you ever received a suspicious-looking email purporting to be from someone you know, or one urging you to take immediate action, or share personal information? If so, you may be interested in learning more about email scams, including email “phishing,” the most common form of email scam.

Join us on Thursday, April 29, at 3 p.m. to hear Janelle Banister, a senior computer science major in the cyber security concentration, present on her research into the human factors behind common email scams.

While the actual mechanisms bad actors use to carry out email scams are technical in nature, this talk is intended for a non-technical audience, and all members of the campus community are invited to attend.

After the presentation, there will be time for questions and discussion; this is a great opportunity to learn more about how to recognize various email scams and protect yourself from being taken advantage of, no matter your degree of technical expertise.

Janelle will be presenting in person in EHS 119, and up to 10 people may attend in person. The presentation and following Q & A session will also be live-streamed via Zoom (passcode: 810674)

Contact Brian Snider (bsnider@georgefox.edu) with any questions, or to RSVP for in-person attendance.

Have you lost a pair of glasses, earbuds or a water bottle? Are you missing keys? Your lost items may be in our lost and found at the Campus Public Safety office.

Please stop by to claim your items that have been turned in. If items remain unclaimed by Friday, April 30, they may be donated.

Questions? Call Campus Public Safety (503-554-2090) or email Elrike Shaw (eshaw@georgefox.edu).

We want to remind you that George Fox University is committed to providing a Christ-centered community that fosters safe living, learning and working settings for students, employees and visitors. A core value of this institution is to maintain a respectful environment for all individuals that is free of the following:

• Sexual harassment
• Sexual assault
• Domestic violence
• Dating violence
• Stalking
• Harassment and discrimination
• Bias-related incidents and hate crimes

These behaviors and actions are contrary to the mission, values and lifestyle standards of our community. It is our firm belief that engaging in any aspect of these behaviors is unacceptable and will not be tolerated by members of the George Fox community. Should an incident of this nature occur, the person is strongly encouraged to report the incident to university personnel.

As we move into finals week, please note that our confidential campus advocate remains available on Monday, Apr. 26th via virtual appointments (contact jgebhard20@georgefox.edu to schedule) and in-person walk-in appointments on Thursday, Apr. 29th, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

You are also encouraged to contact the Title IX Coordinator to make a report.

Jenny Elsey
jelsey@georgefox.edu
503-554-2318
Office Location: Intercultural Resource Center

With mixed emotions, the student life office invites you to a celebration and farewell of our beloved Jenny Elsey.

Please come to an open house this Wednesday, April 28, from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Intercultural Resource Center on East Sheridan Street.

You are welcome to bring a card, but we will have some artistic options for people to participate in to share their care for Jenny.

Please contact Jere Witherspoon (jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu) in student life if you have any questions.

Today (Monday) the Third Culture Kid club will be hosting a picnic at the Intercultural Resource Center on campus from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.

There will be pizza, games, and good company so make sure to join if you’re needing a break from the craziness of finals week!

If you have any questions feel free to reach out to Victoria Prieto at vprieto17@georgefox.edu

Please take a few minutes to complete the George Fox Library Survey. The library is seeking feedback on the quality of our services, collections, and spaces, and we’d love to know your thoughts. The survey should take about five minutes and your response is anonymous.

Questions? Contact Kate Wimer (kwimer@georgefox.edu).

If you are looking for some fun in the sun, stop by Hadlock and rent a paddle board or kayak for the entire day for only $7!

The deal will run until this Saturday, May 1, and is only applicable today (Monday) through Friday. All rentals must be returned the same day as the pick up to get the deal.

Questions? Contact Sarah Kotel (skotel15@georgefox.edu).

Pick up your free copy of George Fox’s yearbook, The Student Collective Volume VII, in Canyon Commons every day except Wednesday during finals week. We’ll be distributing them from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., so swing by!

For those who had them sent to their mailbox, the mailroom will notify you when you can pick them up. At the latest, they must be picked up by Friday, April 30, at 4:30 p.m. Employees are also welcome to pick up a copy of the yearbook for their departments.

For more information on distribution or the online version, check out our Instagram page or our website.

Disclaimer: The Student Collective has a limited number of copies and are given out on a first-come, first-served basis.