The Daily Bruin

Don’t wait until the first day of classes to pick up your textbooks! Instead, swing by the bookstore’s textbook pick-up party during Welcome Weekend, down in the FoxHole.

Textbook pick-ups will be available for students who placed their orders online and have prepaid for their items. Our pick-up party will take place on Saturday, Aug. 24, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and on Sunday, Aug. 25, from noon to 3 p.m. Be sure to bring your student ID, and we will see you then!

Questions? Contact Paige Jacobs at pjacobs@georgefox.edu.

Come audition for George Fox theatre’s fall musical comedy, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, by Freedman and Lutvak.

Here is the info …

• General Auditions: Thursday, Aug. 29 (fully rehearse and memorize a 90-second comic monologue and one minute of a Broadway song of your choice (bring sheet music to the audition). Sign up for a five-minute audition slot on the theatre call board in the Lemmons Center. All auditions will take place between 7 and 10 p.m.
• Callbacks: Friday, Aug. 30 (7-10 p.m.) and Saturday, Aug. 31 (10 a.m. to 2 p.m.). Callbacks will feature cold readings from the script, dance auditions and vocal work.
• Rehearsals: Monday through Friday from 7 to 11 p.m. and four hours on Saturday. However, we will work around your schedule conflicts. Rehearsals start on Monday, Sept. 2, at 7 p.m.
• Show Dates: Oct. 17-19 & 24-26 at 7:30 p.m. and Oct. 20 and 27 at 2 p.m.
• Need Help or Have Questions? Contact Rhett Luedtke (director) at rluedtke@georgefox.edu.

Due to the high volume of calls received by the Office of Student Accounts, we urge you when you call to please leave a message so we can return calls in the order they are received.

Having the Student ID in your message and stating the reason for your call will expedite the return call. The fastest response will be to email at studentaccounts@georgefox.edu.

Thank you so much for your help!

George Fox’s athletics department and Chehalem Parks and Recreation are excited to announce the fifth annual Bruins Sports Day. Girls and boys entering the second through eighth grades this fall will have the opportunity to pick one of 11 sports to participate in an afternoon clinic, free of charge. 

The event takes place from 12:30 to 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 20. Check-in begins at 12:30 p.m. at the site of your sport. Early registration is encouraged. Space is limited!

Register at this link.

Interested in being a lead or an extra for a video introducing chapel? 

The chapel video producer is recreating a chapel service and looking for talent this Friday, Aug. 16, from 10:45 a.m. to noon in Bauman Auditorium. Let him know if you are interested and able to help out on this shoot!

Feel free to email David Pascual-Matias (dpascualmatias16@georgefox.edu) for clarification or concerns.

Starting Monday, Aug. 19, Mail Services is excited to announce it now has a dedicated area to prepare and send all of your outgoing packages. Come to where Print Services used to be and you will have access to all of the packaging supplies you need.

No more standing in long lines and no more holding up the lines. We want to make your time as efficient and friendly as possible. Same high level of customer service … just a new location.

We look forward to seeing you all! If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Richard Silver at rsilver@georgefox.edu.

IT is excited to announce a new single sign-on (SSO) process for George Fox systems. We have replaced our current SSO provider, and this Friday, Aug. 16, Gmail and FoxTALE will be included in this change.

This new process will allow you to use more apps by only logging into a system once.

The library will be conducting a student employee training event on Sunday, Aug. 25. Therefore, the 24-hour space will not be available from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The 24-hour space will reopen at 2:30 p.m.

Do you want to join the Bruin Drumline? Join us for an introductory rehearsal from 4:30 to 5:20 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 28, in Ross 210, and see if you’d make a good fit!

We would love to have you play with us at football games and other athletic activities!

Contact Colin Meyer at cmeyer16@georgefox.edu if you have any questions.

This Friday, Aug. 16, Plant Services will be cleaning the large Wheeler/Le Shana parking lot. The construction fence for the Newlin residence hall is down, so we would like to clean the entire lot before the cars start arriving.

Please be sure to park elsewhere on Friday (you can park in the North Street parking lot that day) so that we can clean the area thoroughly.

Thank you for your cooperation!

FoxTALE will be upgraded on Friday, Aug. 16, and unavailable 6 a.m. to 4 p.m (Pacific Time). We apologize for any inconvenience.

Questions? Contact servicedesk@georgefox.edu or call 503-554-2569.

Are you looking for a place to develop your musicianship as a singer, find community, and fulfill your fine arts requirement? Join choir! Click on this link for more information.

To sign up for an audition, click here.

The Bruin Den reopens today (Monday) with summer hours of operation (8 a.m. to 2 p.m.). However, we will be closed tomorrow (Tuesday) for our all-employee back-to-school meeting.

Please have all vehicles out of the Wood-Mar parking lot by Friday, Aug. 16, at noon. The crane will be moving into place the new HVAC on the roof. 

On Saturday, the parking lot, Wood-Mar and EHS will be closed for the crane work. Thanks for your cooperation, and don’t get your car trapped inside the lot for the weekend!

Wednesday we mailed a bill to each student with a balance due. This new statement has a very different look and feel.

Change can be hard, even when it is positive change, so to assist with questions that may arise we have a web page designed to answer anticipated questions. Simply go to sa.georgefox.edu and choose “FAQ,” or you can search the George Fox website for “Student Accounts FAQ.”

We are looking for George Fox-approved driver(s) to pick up first-year incoming international students at the Portland International Airport on Friday, Aug. 16, and Saturday, Aug. 17.

These pick-ups are clustered to scheduled times between 8:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. only. Pay is offered. If you would like more information, please contact Rebecca Hernandez at rhernandez@georgefox.edu or at ext. 2147.  

In following up from the all-employee meeting on July 25, we want to remind you that George Fox is changing its single sign-on process today, Aug. 7.

All current systems using single sign-on (ie. Library services, StarRez, Handshake, Slate, etc.) will be directed to a new login page. On Aug. 16, we will also add Gmail and FoxTALE.

Please note: The first time you log in you will be asked to enter a secondary email as well as choose security questions and an image. This is to confirm your account going forward; after entering this information in once, you will not need to do it again.

Questions? Contact the Service Desk at servicedesk@georgefox.edu.

These are the last few days to visit the museum exhibit in the Stevens Center on international students and the English Language Institute. There will be a new exhibit next week on our Quaker heritage in the early years of the college.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Caitlin Corning (ccorning@georgefox.edu or museum@georgefox.edu). 

As we approach the new academic year, all guests of the Hadlock Student Center must resign the waiver for the 2019-20 academic year.

Please take a few moments to complete the waiver, which can be found on our homepage or by logging to your MyGeorgeFox (formerly MyGFU) account to take care of this. 

Questions? Contact Rob Simpson at simpsonr@georgefox.edu.

Come audition for George Fox theatre’s fall musical comedy, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, by Freedman and Lutvak.

Here is the info …

• General Auditions: Thursday, Aug. 29 (fully rehearse and memorize a 90-second comic monologue and one minute of a Broadway song of your choice (bring sheet music to the audition). Sign up for a five-minute audition slot on the theatre call board in the Lemmons Center. All auditions will take place between 7 and 10 p.m.
• Callbacks: Friday, Aug. 30 (7-10 p.m.) and Saturday, Aug. 31 (10 a.m. to 2 p.m.). Callbacks will feature cold readings from the script, dance auditions and vocal work.
• Rehearsals: Monday through Friday from 7 to 11 p.m. and four hours on Saturday. However, we will work around your schedule conflicts. Rehearsals start on Monday, Sept. 2, at 7 p.m.
• Show Dates: Oct. 17-19 & 24-26 at 7:30 p.m. and Oct. 20 and 27 at 2 p.m.
• Need Help or Have Questions? Contact Rhett Luedtke (director) at rluedtke@georgefox.edu.