The Daily Bruin

The Fitness Center will be closed on Saturday, May 2, and Sunday, May 3, and reopen for summer hours on Monday, May 4.

As you are cleaning out your dorms and offices this week, it would be greatly appreciated if you would bring back to Bon Appetit any dishware you may have taken out of the building with you during the course of the school year or that got left in offices, conference rooms, etc.

We have some bus tubs set up on a cart just outside the dish room for your convenience in returning dishes. Thank you!

– Bon Appetit

The community garden moved to a new location! There is a lot of work to be done this season to get the new space up and running, and we are looking for interns to help out this summer. Internships will run May through August. (If you are going on Juniors Abroad, that can be negotiated.) All interns should be in Newberg most of the summer and commit to coming to weekly garden work days.

Continuing students will receive a stipend of $400. A committed intern could request to take up to two of the following positions.

• Planting & Harvesting Intern: Create and facilitate a planting schedule. Organize individual gardeners to pay specific attention to one crop or area of the garden. Work with garden coordinator to make a plan for what will happen at the garden each week. Approximately 3-4 hours/week.

• Community Engagement & Social Media Intern: Communicate the opportunity to participate in the garden with George Fox and Newberg community. Work with planting and harvesting intern and garden coordinator to publicize garden activities and plans. Network with other community gardens in Newberg. Solicit donations from local garden retailers and to the food bank. Approximately 3-4 hours/week.

• Writing Intern: Attend weekly garden work days and write weekly reflections and/or updates for the community garden blog.

• Artist Intern: Attend weekly garden work days and help beautify the new garden. This might include decorative markers for each crop, garden art of your choice, helping design an herb spiral, or other ideas you have. It could also include paintings, sketches, or photos/videos of the garden to post on social media in collaboration with the writing intern.

Interested applicants should send an email with a concise description of any relevant experience, why they are interested in the job, and summer availability to Cherice Bock (cbock@georgefox.edu) by Saturday, May 2. Applicants should also have one professor or employer send a reference letter.

It’s commencement week at George Fox! The majority of graduate programs, including those at George Fox Evangelical Seminary, will host commencement ceremonies on Friday and Saturday, May 1-2, at various locations. Details on when and where they will take place are available at this link.

One commencement ceremony for traditional undergraduates and Department of Professional Studies graduates will be held on Saturday, May 2, at 2:30 p.m. in Stoffer Family Stadium. For more information, visit this page.

Ken Beebe, a 1982 George Fox University graduate (BA, sociology) who has spent the past 21 years serving as executive director of Twin Rocks Friends Camp and Conference Center, will be Saturday’s commencement speaker.

Students, staff, faculty, families and community members are welcome to join the community garden this summer. We will have weekly work days and potlucks, and you will soon begin bringing home fresh produce.

To learn about upcoming work days and how to get involved, email Cherice Bock at cbock@georgefox.edu, and/or join our Facebook page.

The community garden moved to a new location! There is a lot of work to be done this season to get the new space up and running, and we are looking for interns to help out this summer. Internships will run May through August. (If you are going on Juniors Abroad, that can be negotiated.) All interns should be in Newberg most of the summer and commit to coming to weekly garden work days.

Continuing students will receive a stipend of $400. A committed intern could request to take up to two of the following positions.

• Planting & Harvesting Intern: Create and facilitate a planting schedule. Organize individual gardeners to pay specific attention to one crop or area of the garden. Work with garden coordinator to make a plan for what will happen at the garden each week. Approximately 3-4 hours/week.

• Community Engagement & Social Media Intern: Communicate the opportunity to participate in the garden with George Fox and Newberg community. Work with planting and harvesting intern and garden coordinator to publicize garden activities and plans. Network with other community gardens in Newberg. Solicit donations from local garden retailers and to the food bank. Approximately 3-4 hours/week.

• Writing Intern: Attend weekly garden work days and write weekly reflections and/or updates for the community garden blog.

• Artist Intern: Attend weekly garden work days and help beautify the new garden. This might include decorative markers for each crop, garden art of your choice, helping design an herb spiral, or other ideas you have. It could also include paintings, sketches, or photos/videos of the garden to post on social media in collaboration with the writing intern.

Interested applicants should send an email with a concise description of any relevant experience, why they are interested in the job, and summer availability to Cherice Bock (cbock@georgefox.edu) by Saturday, May 2. Applicants should also have one professor or employer send a reference letter.

International Student Services will be hosting a garage sale this summer to raise money for an international student emergency fund. If you can donate to this cause, please bring your old or new items to the International Student Services office at 1110 E. Meridian St., any time between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Questions? Contact Joanna Cox at jcox@georgefox.edu.

A huge box of lost and found items was just turned in to the lost and found from Wood-Mar Auditorium. If you have lost something either while performing in a play or attending something in Wood-Mar, please stop by the security office before the end of the week to check for your lost items.

All unclaimed items will be donated to charitable causes next week.

The Office of Spiritual & Intercultural Life warmly welcomes you to our baccalaureate service, the opening event of graduation weekend. It is scheduled for this Friday, May 1, from 7 to 8 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium and will be a commissioning service for our graduating seniors and their families, remembering all of our graduates’ special accomplishments from their time here at George Fox.

All are welcome to attend, and Spanish and Mandarin Chinese translation will be available for those who wish to enjoy the service in those respective languages. It is a non-ticketed event; simply come and enjoy! Attire is business casual.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the Office of Spiritual & Intercultural Life at spirituallife@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2320.

Here is the Bon Appetit schedule for this week:

• Tuesday-Thursday, April 28-30: Normal hours at all locations except no late-night Bruin Den Thursday

• Friday, May 1
  
  • Klages: breakfast and lunch normal hours; dinner from 4:30 to 6 p.m.
  • Bruin Den, Bruin Bites and Villa Cafe: closing at 2 p.m.

• Saturday, May 2
  
  • Klages: breakfast from 9 to 10 a.m.; lunch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Saturday lunch is the last board meal of the semester. The Bruin Den will open on Monday, May 4, with summer hours (8 a.m. – 2 p.m.).

Good luck on your finals, congratulations to all graduating seniors, and we hope you all have a wonderful summer!

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, furniture, etc. In an effort to keep the dumpsters from over flowing 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  through May 3 at 4  p.m.

The items gathered 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, such as: Rescue Mission, Unwed Mothers Homes, Love Inc., or Goodwill.

Barrels will be placed in the following locations:

• The dorm lobbies of Edwards, Pennington, Le Shana, Coffin, Hobson, Macy and Sutton.
• On the porches or patios of Weesner, Riley, Chapman, Hoskins, Armstrong, Campbell, Fulton St., Villa Rd.,
  North St., Gail, Kershner, Barclay and Wilder Houses.
• Outside of the first floor of Beebe, Carey and Willcuts.
• Near Woolman 2-3, Winters 201-2 and Newlin apartments.
• Lewis and Weesner Village laundry rooms.

Please do not place the following into the barrels:

• Undergarments and socks
• Large appliances or furniture
• Food or chemicals (Place these items in a box next to the barrels)

There are large drop boxess for your trash located strategically around campus. By law, computers and TVs cannot go into the trash. Please place them beside the barrels with a note if it is broken.

Have a great summer and may the Lord bless you as you go!

Looking for kitchen furnishings for your new apartment? Need any dishes, pots or pans? The era of the Food Lab has come to an end, and all of the supplies need to go. So come to the Kitchen Lab garage sale today (Monday) in Lemmons 4 , from 1 to 3 p.m.

There will not be prices on anything; rather, we are asking for donations for any items taken!

Questions? Please contact Lynn Scott at lscott@georgefox,edu.

Come support the Nicaraguan Serve team and buy tacos for $1 in the Bruin Den today (Monday) between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.! We will be going to Nicaragua in the beginning of June for a medical missions trip with the university’s nursing program.

We are also selling SAVE cards for $1, which are discount cards for local businesses.

Questions? Contact Molly Hearn at mhearn12@georgefox.edu.

Students Pan and Annelise are publishing their first EP! We will be selling them for $3 each to cover the production cost. The sale will be today (Monday), from 4 to 6 p.m. in front of the library, and from 10 p.m. to midnight in the Bruin Den by Late Night Breakfast.

Come out and support the dynamic duo!

Questions? Contact Yixuan Pan at ypan12@georgefox.edu.

Learn to make the gorgeous hanging baskets that grace our George Fox quad area. You will learn this valuable lesson on how these beauties are assembled and help us in the process.

Join us on Wednesday, May 13, starting at 9 a.m. We will be working on the baskets for approximately four hours, and you are welcome to join in the class at any time. We’ll meet in the Plant Services Building at 1101 Villa Road.

Questions? Contact Debby O’Kelley at dokelley@georgefox.edu.

The front of the Stevens Center is closed this morning (Monday), from approximately 8:30 a.m. to noon. Plant Services will be pressure washing the Stevens Plaza area, using a fire hose to minimize closure time. Please use the side and back entrances to enter the building.

Thank you!
– Plant Services

Get cash for your books! Textbook Buyback will be held during finals week in the BlueZone Store (not the Annex), between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. daily. After May 1, students may sell books at Neebo.com (free shipping provided).

Rental books are also due by Friday, May 1. Books rented through the Neebo website may be shipped to Neebo directly, using the “Return Your Rental” link at the bottom of our home page (Neebo.com).

Questions? Contact Sandy Gidding at sgidding@georgefox.edu.

Ladies and Gents! Today (Saturday), from 7 to 9 p.m., we have our usual swing dancing event in the Foxhole for great music and great people. We hope to see you there!

Questions? Please contact MaKenna Hickey at mhickey13@georgefox.edu.

Come support the Nicaraguan Serve team and buy tacos for $1 in the Bruin Den on Monday, April 27, between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.! We will be going to Nicaragua in the beginning of June for a medical missions trip with the university’s nursing program.

We are also selling SAVE cards for $1, which are discount cards for local businesses.

Questions? Contact Molly Hearn at mhearn12@georgefox.edu.

Please be courteous for track and field guests this week. We are hosting the Northwest Conference Championships today (Saturday), and all athletic facilities will be set up to accommodate the 400 competing student-athletes and 2,000 spectators.

Duke, Wheeler and Stoffer Family Stadium will be closed entirely for the meet. If you park in the Bauman lot, you will need to walk to the right of the building to get to campus. The left side, nearest the track and field, will be closed.

Please feel free to come out and support our track and field team. Students with ID cards receive free admission. NWC rules require faculty and staff to pay.