The Daily Bruin

Starting next week, you’ll be able to see some changes happening around the Portland Center South building.

The 2nd floor student lounge area will begin its transformation into a coffeehouse. The project is scheduled to be completed mid-August.

In the meantime, the student lounge amenities will be moved into the study hall area further south on the 2nd floor.

The coffee and fresh vending machines curently in the student lounge will be removed and the Pepsi and snack machine will move into the Information Commons (computer area near the front of the library).

The 1st floor north wing restrooms by the front office will also be completely renovated this summer.

If you have questions, please feel free to contact Janis Sanford, Site Supervisor at 503.554.6164 or by email.

The Portland Center will be CLOSED on Friday, April 10 for Good Friday.

The building will also be closed on Saturday, April 11, however the Portland Center Library will be open 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Employees and students will need their ID cards to access the building on Saturday to use the library.

This is your final reminder that your university password has been set to expire at 9 a.m. Monday, April 13, as part of the university’s annual password reset for all students, faculty and staff. Please login to Bruindata to change your password before that date.

All accounts with passwords that remain unchanged will be locked at 9 a.m. Monday, April 13, preventing you from using university services. Once this occurs, you will need to contact the IT Service Desk to get your password reset. Based on the recommendations of our auditing firm and following best practices, we will be changing university logins at regular intervals. For details, please refer to the password change policy on the IT website. We need to complete a campus password reset prior to the end of the spring semester.

Note: You are not being asked to send your login information to anyone. Rather, you are using the current university password change process that allows the individual to reset their own password.

Password Self-Service Feature
Once you have reset your password, you will be presented with the option to set “security questions” for your account. If you choose not to enter answers at this time, you can later create a self-service password reset option by logging into Bruindata, selecting the “My Data” tab and then “Security Questions.” You will need to answer two security questions from the drop-down list and provide a non-George Fox e-mail address to activate this option. If you forgot your password, a temporary password will be sent to your non-George Fox e-mail, allowing you to log into Bruindata and change your university login password.

There has been a growing trend of employees’ children being on campus for extended periods during the work day, including some on a fairly regular basis. For a number of good reasons, including liability issues, the university’s policy does not allow children in the workplace. The exact policy in the employee handbook can be found on page 57, and may be read online.

Thanks for your cooperation in adhering to this policy.

– Human Resources

On Monday, April 13, the students in Liberal Arts and Critical Issues (GE Senior Capstone) will be presenting 40 research exhibits on the Future of the American Dream from noon to 3:30 p.m. in the EHS and Hoover atriums. All are encouraged to attend. This is also an excellent opportunity for juniors taking GEED 490 next year to gain a better understanding of this part of the course.

For additional information, or if you have questions, please contact Caitlin Corning (History) at ext. 2673 or ccorning@georgefox.edu.

Stonyfield Farms Yogurt has issued a recall for its quarts of Organic Fat Free Plain Yogurt with code dates of May 6-7, 2009.

Sold only in grocery stores, the UPC number is 52159 00006 with time stamp of 22:17 through 23:59. No other Stonyfield products are affected by this recall. Bon Appetit does not purchase this brand for George Fox.

Stonyfield Farms has received several reports of customers noticing an off-taste when eating the product, but have not received any reports of any illness of any kind after consuming the product. You should contact your retailer if you need more information.

– Bon Appetit

There is still time to sign up for the university’s tour of Alpine Europe to see the Passion Play at Oberammergau, Germany, in early-summer 2010. There are currently 20 people registered for the trip.

Open to all employees, students, alumni, parents and friends of George Fox, the 11-day tour, departing May 31, will include visits to the beautiful European cities of Frankfurt and Munich, Germany; Salzburg, Austria; and Lucerne and Interlaken, Switzerland. Among many other highlights, the tour will include travel through the Rhine Valley, Black Forest, and the Swiss, Austrian and Bavarian Alps. Additionally, visits are planned to Neuschwanstein and Heidelberg castles, and Rothenburg, Germany’s best-preserved medieval town.

The highlight of the trip will be the Passion Play, an inspiring one-day play that dates back nearly 375 years and is performed for sold-out audiences every 10 years in a magnificent outdoor covered amphitheater with the Bavarian Alps as a backdrop.

To read the full itinerary, request more information and register for the trip, visit the alumni site.

Contact Alumni Relations at alumni@georgefox.edu with questions.

The Portland Center will be closed Friday, April 10, for Good Friday. On Saturday, April 11, the Portland Center Library will be open regular hours from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The building will be locked on Saturday, so students and employees will need to use their ID card for access to the facility.

With the deadline for filing tax returns just over a week away, this might be a good time to be sure you still have your W-2. If you have lost it and need a replacement W-2, please e-mail HR (hr@georgefox.edu) to request it and include your ID number. It may take two business days to process a replacement W-2, so please submit your request by Thursday, April 9, if you will need one. Please don’t wait until next week. You will be notified by e-mail when your W-2 is ready.

You can still work on your tax return while you wait for your W-2 by using the information from your Dec. 31 pay statement, available online. Go to mygfu.georgefox.edu to get to the PeopleSoft login screen. Use the same user ID and password that you use to log in to e-mail. Open “Self Service” in the menu on the left and click on “Payroll and Compensation.” You will see a list of all of your pay statements that have been processed in PeopleSoft (beginning with our first payroll on Oct. 31). Click on the pay date in the far left column labeled “Check Date” to open your statement as a PDF file.

This is a reminder that your university password has been set to expire at 9 a.m. Monday, April 13, as part of the university’s annual password reset for all students, faculty and staff. Please login to Bruindata to change your password before that date.

All accounts with passwords that remain unchanged will be locked at 9 a.m. Monday April 13, preventing you from using university services. Once this occurs, you will need to contact the IT Service Desk to get your password reset.

Based on the recommendations of our auditing firm and following best practices, we will be changing university logins at regular intervals. For details, please refer to the password change policy on the IT website. We need to complete a campus password reset prior to the end of the spring semester.

Note: You are not being asked to send your login information to anyone. Rather, you are using the current university password change process that allows the individual to reset their own password.

Password Self-Service Feature
Once you have reset your password, you will be presented with the option to set “security questions” for your account. If you choose not to enter answers at this time, you can later create a self-service password reset option by logging into Bruindata, selecting the “My Data” tab and then “Security Questions.”

You will need to answer two security questions from the drop-down list and provide a non-George Fox e-mail address to activate this option. If you forgot your password, a temporary password will be sent to your non-George Fox e-mail, allowing you to log into Bruindata and change your university login password.

Spring is the time to start planning ahead for fall printing. Print Services welcomes your last-minute jobs, but we function much better if we don’t have to be doing everything last minute. So the more lead time we have, the happier you (and we) will be.

Those who will need copyright permission for fall 2009 classes should collect resources now and submit your requests to Print Services before you leave for the summer. If you do have a rush order, we recommend you send it via e-mail and then call to confirm the submission. Or, you may bring your order in and, if feasible, wait for it.

Questions? Contact Elizabeth Holme at eholme@georgefox.edu or at ext. 2550.

Thank you.

– Print Services

Plan now to share your culture with others. Each of us has a culture — where we grew up, family, ethnicity, experiences. Are you willing to share a piece of who you are with the university community? Want to know more? Come to a planning meeting from 10:40 to 11:30 a.m. Friday, April 17, in the Bruin Den on the Newberg campus to learn how your voice and your story can be shared. We are looking for students and employees to be part of a fall 2009 event.

Questions? Contact Shelley Yonemura (Multicultural Services) at ext. 2318 or syonemur@georgefox.edu.

Free tickets for the Worcester Cathedral Choir are still available from the University Relations office. The office will be open Monday, April 6, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Please contact Amy Lorenz at ext. 2134 or at alorenz@georgefox.edu if you would like tickets.

The evening begins with an evensong service at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 6, in Bauman Auditorium. The concert follows at 8:15 p.m.

You are invited to the May Serve 2009 Benefit Banquet at 6 p.m. Saturday, May 3, in the Klages Dining Hall on the Newberg campus. The event will include a silent auction and variety show. Tickets are $10 per person, with all proceeds going to the South Africa May Serve team.

To purchase tickets, call the Office of Spiritual Life at ext. 2320 or ext. 2323, or e-mail mayserve@georgefox.edu. Childcare provided!

George Fox Evangelical Seminary will present “An American Theology of the Land” as its spring 2009 Ministry in Contemporary Seminar Series.

The details:

Friday, April 17
9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Portland Center
Register online at: seminars.georgefox.edu
Cost: $35 (individual); $30 per person (more than one in group); $25 (students/alumni/staff)

Join a participatory dialogue on building a theology of the land …

• Reflect on a Native American holistic view of creation and ecological stewardship
• How can the Christian church address the issues of Western triumphalism in a multicultural world?
• What lessons do Native American followers of Christ have for the contemporary church?

Guest presenters:

• Richard Twiss, director of Wiconi International Ministries (Lakota Sioux)
• Robert Francis, Mid-America Indian Fellowship (White River Band Cherokee)
• Terry LeBlanc, North American Institute of Indigenous Theological Studies (Mik Maq)

George Fox participants:

• Randy Woodley, seminary adjunct professor and director of Eagles’ Wings Ministries (Keetoowah Cherokee)
• R. Larry Shelton, theology professor
• Daniel Brunner, church history/theology and earthkeeping professor
• Stephen Delamarter, Old Testament/Ancient Near East
• Corey Beals, Philosophy/earthkeeping professor

Questions? Contact Jean Borgman (Seminary) at jborgman@georgefox.edu.

If you have not already done so, please submit your March time sheet (support staff) or time-off report (administrators) this week. Please be sure it is complete, accurate and signed by both you and your supervisor before sending it to HR at Box 6108. If your supervisor is not available to sign it, please send a copy to HR and keep the original until it has been signed.

We have added spaces to include your Cost Center and Employee ID numbers since that information is needed to access your record in PeopleSoft, so please take an extra moment to provide that information. You can find your Employee ID number on Bruindata and/or on your pay statement.

Link to the Time-off Report: georgefox.edu/offices/hr/Timeoffreport.doc

Link to March Time Sheet: georgefox.edu/offices/hr/TimesheetMar09.xls

Thanks!

– Human Resources

Attention student employee supervisors: March student time sheets must be in HR no later than Friday, April 3, so please have them hand-delivered to HR as soon as you get them. If you are not on the Newberg campus, please fax your student time sheets to 503-554-2186 and then send the originals to HR in campus mail. Also, please check to be sure all of your students have submitted their time sheets to you and follow up with any who have not.

And, as always, we appreciate you checking for the following:

• Student’s name (be sure it is legible)
• Student’s ID number
• Cost center number
• Student’s signature (If the student forgot to sign it, please bring it to HR anyway. Do not send students to HR to sign time sheets.)
• Your signature

Reminder: If a student delivers his or her own time sheet to HR, it must be in a sealed envelope to comply with Federal Work Study regulations.

Thanks very much.

– Human Resources

Your password has been set to expire at 9 a.m. on April 13 as part of the annual password reset for all university students, faculty and staff. Please login to Bruindata to change your password.

All accounts with passwords that remain unchanged will be locked on Monday, April 13, at 9 a.m., preventing you from using university services. Once this occurs, you will need to contact the IT Service Desk to get your password reset.

Based on the recommendations of our auditing firm and following best practices, we will be changing George Fox login at regular intervals. For details, please refer to the password change policy on the IT website. We need to complete a campus password reset prior to the end of the spring semester.

Password Self-Service Feature
Once you have reset your password, you will be presented with the option to set “security questions” for your account. If you choose not to enter answers at this time, you can later create a self-service password reset option by logging into Bruindata, selecting the “My Data” tab and then “Security Questions.” You will need to answer two security questions from the drop-down list and provide a non-GFU e-mail address to activate this option. If you forgot your password, a temporary password will be sent to your non-GFU e-mail allowing you to log into Bruindata and change your university login password.

Note: See this same message was sent to your university e-mail account regarding the password change process. You are not being asked to send your login information to anyone but rather using the current university password change process that allows the individual to reset their own password.

Ruth Baker and Lori Allen invite the women of George Fox to a movie night at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 14, in EHS 102 on the Newberg campus. All female faculty, staff and administration employees, as well as female spouses of faculty, staff and administration, are welcome.

We will watch the movie Chocolat and have a talk-back session facilitated by Polly Peterson (Writing/Literature). Join us for great connections and some really good chocolate. Contact Lori Allen for more information at 503-487-6648.

George Fox will host a national pastoral leadership conference, “Spiritual Discernment As Christian Leadership,” on the Newberg campus May 31 through June 3. The event will feature a panel of leading Christian thinkers from around the country.

Sponsored by the George Fox University Congregational Discernment Project, the conference will address the issue of how Christ effectively leads the church in unity. Plenary sessions, workshops and panel discussions with pastors, teachers and authors will provide attendees with a vision for unity and the tools to practice this leadership approach.

Plenary speakers will be Lloyd Ogilvie, Graham Standish, Paul Anderson, Ruth Haley Barton, Peter Bouteneff, and Leith Anderson. All George Fox students, employees and alumni receive a $50 group discount (registering before May 1); save $100 by registering before April 1.

Be sure to pass the word on to church leaders who might be interested. For more information, visit discernment.georgefox.edu or contact Paul Anderson (Religious Studies) at panderso@georgefox.edu.