The Daily Bruin

Only two more days! Collection week has been extended through this Friday, April 25, for those who have items to donate toward our Summer Serve garage sale.

If you have items you’d like to donate to a good cause, drop them off at the Spiritual Life House between 2 and 5 p.m. through Friday of this week. All donations will be sold at the Summer Serve garage sale on Saturday, April 26, and will help fund the teams going to Romania/Moldova, Kenya and Argentina.

If you have any questions, feel free to email the spiritual life office at spirituallife@georgefox.edu or Rachel Arias at rarias10@georgefox.edu.

Do you want your campus mailbox to be open part or all of summer?

If you have not personally indicated to Mail Services – either by response to emails from Mail Services or requesting it on a summer address card – that you want your mailbox open during the summer, it will be closed the last day of finals. If you have questions, please email Linda Sartwell at lsartwel@georgefox.edu.

What will happen to your mail if your mailbox is closed?

If you have personally emailed your forwarding address in response to emails from Mail Services, or filled out a forwarding address card, your mail will be sent to the address given. If you have questions, please email Linda at the above address.

Come join the spiritual life and student life departments in commissioning Sarah Baldwin and Clint Baldwin in their future endeavors! We will host a farewell reception for them from 1 to 3 p.m. Wednesday, April 30, in the Stevens Center’s Duke Atrium.

Sarah served George Fox as the dean of spiritual life and university pastor, and Clint has served as the director of Center for Peace and Justice. Sarah has accepted the position of vice president of student development at Asbury University.

Let’s celebrate this new step in their journey as well as thank them for the time they have spent in developing our campus community!

Today (Wednesday) the normal undergraduate class schedule will be adjusted to accommodate Senior Chapel.

Please use the link below to view the adjusted class schedule. Locate the regular meeting time of your Wednesday classes in the “Regular Schedule” column on the left, and note the times your classes will meet in the “Adjusted Schedule” column on the right. Chapel will be from 10:10 to 11 a.m.

Adjusted Class Schedule (Senior Chapel)

Questions can be directed to registrar@georgefox.edu.

The university’s College of Engineering invites you to its annual Engineering Expo this Friday, April 25. The event will begin with Senior Design project presentations, scheduled from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. in EHS 102, 119 and 125, and the Expo will commence at 3:30 p.m. in the EHS Atrium (Ron Gregory Atrium).

The Expo will feature project displays from the program’s industry-sponsored Senior Design and Servant Engineering teams for companies and organizations, including NASA, Oregon Commission for the Blind, Aprovecho Research Center, InStove, 5-Rock Ranch, City of Newberg, Heshima, Astronics, Yamhill County, CUI, Climax, ODFW, Siemens, Greater Yamhill Watershed Council, Cascade Steel and 3D Systems.

Refreshments are provided. All are welcome! For more information, please contact Kristin Bontrager at kbontrager@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2780.

Important dates to keep in mind for 2014-15:

• Returning students may move into campus housing for fall semester 2014 beginning at 8 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 23.
• Residence halls and suites will be closed for Christmas break (Dec. 13, 2014, at noon through Jan. 11, 2015, at noon) and spring break (March 21, 2015, at noon through March 29 at noon). 
• Residence halls are open for spring semester on Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015, at noon. 
• Campus housing closes for the academic year at noon on May 2, 2015. 

You can also find these dates and more information on the Residence Life webpage.

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

We have some bus tubs set up just outside the dish room for your convenience in returning dishes.

Thank you!

If you are interested in May Term or summer housing, please submit an application to the student life office by Friday, April 25. To be considered for on-campus housing during this time, students need to meet one of the following criteria:

• Enrolled in May Term classes
• Working full time (40 hours per week) for the university as a summer employee
• Participating in research as a summer research scholar

Please refer to the 2014 Summer Housing Application for additional details. These are available online or in the student life office.

If you have questions, please stop by or call the student life office (ext. 2310) or email housing@georgefox.edu.

All are invited to a farewell reception from 10:30 a.m. to noon on Monday, April 28, in the Stevens Center lobby (Duke Atrium).

The gathering will honor Melanie Hulbert (Sociology), Michael MacLeod (International Studies), Robert Melendy (Engineering), Michael Bevis (English Language Institute) and Jane Scott (Library) for their service to the university.

Please join us to wish them all well!

Thursday, April 24, 4 p.m. – Baseball vs. Corban (Morse Field)
Saturday-Sunday, April 26-27, times TBA – Men’s and Women’s Golf in Northwest Conference Championships (OGA Golf Course, Woodburn, Ore.) – George Fox hosting

For more information, contact the George Fox sports information office at ext. 2926 or visit the George Fox sports website at gfubruins.com.

We are in search of musicians to play in our 2014-15 GFU BlueZone Pep Band. The band will be playing at football games as well as basketball games next year. We require that members are able to read music and have experience playing an instrument. Simple auditions may be requested by the director before participation.

If you have any questions, please contact Jana Boyd at jboyd12@georgefox.edu.

The financial aid office is offering a workshop to all graduating students on loan repayment. There is a class today (Wednesday) at 5 p.m. in Stevens 209. The workshop will cover topics such as how to afford your loan payments and what do if you can’t, as well as loan forgiveness options.

For those unable to attend on Wednesdays, we have also added an additional class on dead day, Monday, April 28, at 11 a.m. in Stevens 209.

Questions? Contact Johanna Schweitzer at jschweitzer@georgefox.edu.

Jesse Richards, one of our university pastor candidates, will make a presentation to the community on Thursday, April 24, from 1 to 1:50 p.m. in Duke Center Room 205 (new athletic complex).

The presentation will be 20 minutes in length. At the conclusion of the presentation, there will be a 30-minute question-and-answer time.

If you have any questions, please contact Jere Witherspoon at jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu.

Arrangements have been made with the Yamhill County Elections Office for Mail Services to offer this service. We accept any Oregon ballot (any county), and there is no postage necessary. The deadline for this drop-off site is 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 20. All out-of-state ballots must be mailed with postage.

Thank you
– University Mail Services

Returning in the fall? Keep your mailbox key over the summer. You will have the same mailbox in the fall.

Graduating or withdrawing? Return your mailbox key before you leave campus to avoid a $15 key charge. There are return key envelopes on the counters in the Beebe, SUB and main post offices. Put your name and box number on the envelope. With key sealed inside the envelope, drop the envelope off at Mail Services (North Street Annex) or drop it into any “ON CAMPUS MAIL” slot.

Questions? Email Linda Sartwell at lsartwel@georgefox.edu.

Returning students: Your class papers will go into your campus mailbox – and be there when you return in the fall.

Graduating or withdrawing students: Your class papers will be stored at Mail Services for six months. You may stop and ask for them sometime in mid-May.

Questions? Contact Linda Sartwell at lstartwel@georgefox.edu.

The university’s annual Fox Film Festival is this Friday and Saturday, April 25-26! Come support our cinema and media communication students. Friday’s films will be shown at the Cameo Theatre in downtown Newberg at 4:30 p.m. Doors open at 4 p.m. Get your tickets at the Box Office in the Pennington House (one ticket for $4 or two for $6).

The second day of the festival, scheduled for a 6 p.m. start in Bauman Auditorium on Saturday, showcases a different set of films than the Cameo screening. Be sure to make it to both nights to see these great projects. The Bauman screening is a free event.

Questions? Contact Matt Maupin at mmaupin11@georgefox.edu.

On Wednesday, April 23, the normal undergraduate class schedule will be adjusted to accommodate Senior Chapel.

Please use the link below to view the adjusted class schedule. Locate the regular meeting time of your Wednesday classes in the “Regular Schedule” column on the left, and note the times your classes will meet this Wednesday in the “Adjusted Schedule” column on the right. Chapel will be from 10:10 to 11 a.m.

Adjusted Class Schedule (Senior Chapel)

Questions can be directed to registrar@georgefox.edu.

Take a break from school and join us at the last event of the year. Spring Formal will be at the Portland World Trade Center from 8 to 10 p.m. on Sunday, April 27.

We’ll have a deejay and lots of food and drinks. This will be an event you won’t want to miss!

For more info and/or questions, contact Sarah MacKenzie at smackenzie11@georgefox.edu.

Take a break from studying and join us for late-night breakfast in the Bon on dead day (Monday, April 28). Doors open at 10 p.m.!