The Daily Bruin

School is about to begin and so is your friendly local Students for Life Club! Coming soon are details about time and place of meetings. But we wanted to give you plenty of time to get this opportunity on your calendar: In the spirit of the school’s MLK Day of Service, our club will be doing some volunteering, too!

Classes are canceled on Monday, Jan. 19, for MLK Day. Want to get off campus and do a little volunteering? Service is always good for the soul and the resumé! Answer this one-question survey to let us know if you’ll join us. We’re going to Portland; more details are provided when you click on this survey link.

Thursday, January 22 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. is the Christian Camp Summer Job Fair happening in EHS Atrium.

The IDEA Center highly encourages students to use your summer in internship and work experiences that complement your career pathway to develop skills, experiences and connections. Working at a Christian summer camp is a great opportunity for students pursuing ministry, education, or other youth development careers.

Questions? Please contact: Sidney Tafflinger, stafflinger@georgefox.edu

W-2 Forms are now paperless: Have you consented?

2014 year-end W-2 Forms will be issued by Friday, Jan. 30, online in “Self Service” for all employees, including student employees. If you would like to receive this form online, the law requires that you give your consent. Those who do not give consent will still receive a paper W-2. If you consented in the past, you do NOT need to do so again.

You can verify your consent status or give consent for the first time by following the steps below. It only takes about 30 seconds, so I encourage you to take care of it as soon as possible — perhaps right now? Here’s how:

1. Log in to mygfu.georgefox.edu
2. From the menu at left, select “Self Service”
3. Select “Payroll and Compensation”
4. Select “W-2/W-2c Consent”
5. Check your current status. Does it say “Consent Received?” If so, thank you! You’re done. If it does not say “Consent Received” …
6. Read the statement and check the box to give consent
7. Enter your GFU password as a confirmation of your identity and click “Continue”
8. Click “OK”

You’ll receive a confirmation email of your decision shortly after completing this process. And just to be clear, you will only have to do this once — not every year.

Thanks very much. Let me know if you have any questions.

Katie Sol
Human Resources
ksol@georgefox.edu

Are you interested in joining Concert Choir? You can audition next week! During the first week of the spring semester (Jan. 12-16), choir audition sign-ups will be on the door to Ross 201.

Choir auditions will take place in Ross 202 (Loren Wenz’s office) that Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to noon. You can pick up an audition packet on the wall to the left of the music office doors.

Questions? Contact the music department at ext. 2620 or Loren Wenz at lwenz@georgefox.edu.

Don’t miss your chance to see our Bruin basketball teams as they battle the Pacific Lutheran University Lutes this Friday evening. The undefeated and 10th-ranked women’s team takes the court at 6 p.m., and the men’s team follows at 8 p.m. See you in Wheeler!

While most student concerns and complaints can and should be resolved informally, there is a formal general complaint procedure described in the “Support for Students” section of the Undergraduate Student Handbook as well as on the Graduate/DPS Policies page of the website.

Please note that these procedures cover complaints of a general nature and do not supersede specific policies involving special cases such as grade appeals, sexual harassment, etc., which are covered elsewhere in the Student Handbook, Catalog or Graduate/DPS Policies.

Students who are eligible to make changes to their meal plan will be able to do so starting Jan. 5, 2015, through Jan. 23, 2015.

Please log into your MyGFU account, look in University Forms and then Meal Plan Form.

For more information about meal plans, please check out the Meal Plan Options page on the Student Life website.

If you have any questions about the meal plans, please contact Jere Witherspoon in the Office of Student Life. You may also phone her at 503-554-2316. The student life office is on the third floor of the Stevens Center.

On Monday, Jan. 19, George Fox students, staff and faculty will, for the sixth straight year, join with more than 1,000 students from Portland-area colleges and universities to commemorate the life, ideals and ministry of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a “day on” of voluntary service and reflection.

The MLK Day of Service is a collaborative effort of Portland-area universities and colleges facilitated by the Oregon Campus Compact, and we are always proud of how well George Fox is represented each year at this event. Annually, it is the largest mobilization of college students in the country to serve on MLK Day!

Volunteers will gather at Concordia University and serve in the Cully neighborhood of northeast Portland. Transportation from George Fox will be provided.

This year’s theme is “Healthy Schools, Thriving Communities.” In order to receive a free T-shirt and participate in this day of serving activities you must register at this link before Jan. 9, 2015.

Questions? Contact Rusty St. Cyr at rstcyr@georgefox.edu.

FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 9 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Tuesday, Dec. 30, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

– IT

The Wheeler upstairs lobby will be closed today (Wednesday) as we refinish the floors.

Thank you,
Plant Services

This is a correction to contact information for the IT Service Desk. We published the wrong email address in an announcement yesterday. The correct email to contact the IT department is servicedesk@georgefox.edu.

We apologize for the confusion.

– IT

On Sunday, Dec. 21, the Newberg Fire Department will be doing a “burn-to-learn” on the Wilhite and Lyda houses, at 1419 E. North St. and 607 N. Villa Road, respectively.

Fire crews will arrive at the site around 6:30 to 7 a.m. and will start with the Wilhite House. It will go slow at first as they do various exercises involving small fires inside the house, but they expect to let it go and be fully ablaze by about 11 am. They will do the Lyda House similarly in the afternoon. The houses are being burned down to prepare the area for the construction of a new residence hall.

Questions? Contact the plant services office at 503-554-2010.

On Monday, Jan. 19, George Fox students, staff and faculty will, for the sixth straight year, join with more than 1,000 students from Portland-area colleges and universities to commemorate the life, ideals and ministry of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a “day on” of voluntary service and reflection.

The MLK Day of Service is a collaborative effort of Portland-area universities and colleges facilitated by the Oregon Campus Compact, and we are always proud of how well George Fox is represented each year at this event. Annually, it is the largest mobilization of college students in the country to serve on MLK Day!

Volunteers will gather at Concordia University and serve in the Cully neighborhood of northeast Portland. Transportation from George Fox will be provided.

This year’s theme is “Healthy Schools, Thriving Communities.” In order to receive a free T-shirt and participate in this day of serving activities you must register at this link before Jan. 9, 2015.

Questions? Contact Rusty St. Cyr at rstcyr@georgefox.edu.

FoxTALE will be unavailable from 5 to 8 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Monday, Dec. 22, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Questions? Contact IT at it@servicedesk.edu.

Tomorrow (Thursday, Dec. 18), George Fox University libraries will transition to a new library system. We are in the fourth and final group as the 37-member Orbis Cascade Alliance transitions from stand-alone library systems to one shared library system.

The new system will improve the research experience for our students and faculty and allow us to better manage our resources. However, please be aware that there will be some bumps along the way as we make this migration. As one example, Summit Borrowing will be routed through interlibrary loan (a slower process) until Jan. 20. More information can be found at this link.

Found by the police department: a woman’s Schwinn Cruiser 6 bicycle. It is black and tan. It has a wire basket attached to the handle bars.

If someone thinks it is theirs, they can call 503-538-8321. Any officer can help them identify and recover it.

Just a reminder: The Bruin Den is open this week from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Stop by for breakfast, a holiday coffee drink (10 percent off peppermint hot chocolate or gingerbread latte) or lunch. We are featuring a daily lunch special in addition to our full grill menu and assorted grab-and-go items.

Bon Appetit wishes you all a joyous holiday season!

Are you interested in joining Concert Choir? You can audition in January! During the first week of the spring semester (Jan. 12-16), choir audition sign-ups will be on the door to Ross 201.

Choir auditions will take place in Ross 202 (Loren Wenz’s office) that Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to noon. You can pick up an audition packet on the wall to the left of the music office doors.

Questions? Contact the music department at ext. 2620 or Loren Wenz at lwenz@georgefox.edu.

Are you planning to study abroad during the 2015-16 academic year? If so, applications are due by Friday, Jan. 16, at 5 p.m. Please go to the online application to start this process, and follow instructions on turning in the application.

Questions? Please email Lynn Scott at lscott@georgefox.edu or stop by the Center for Study Abroad in Lemmons 9.