The Daily Bruin

Do you want free admission to attend the First Avenue Career Expo? If so, stop by and attend one of our “How to Work a Job Fair” info sessions today (Thursday) or tomorrow (Friday) in the Career Services office from 12:30 to 1 p.m.

To register for the First Avenue Career Expo, visit olapcfirstavenue.org.

Questions? Contact Career Services at ext. 2330 or careers@georgefox.edu.

Faculty, please let your students know about this opportunity.

Don’t forget to turn in your March time sheets to your supervisor at the end of your last shift this week before you leave for spring break. If you are working over the break, turn them in after your last shift of the month.

Sunday, March 31, is the last day of the month. Be sure your name is typed or printed legibly at the top, it is complete and accurate, and you have signed it. Payday is on Monday, April 15.

Thank you!
– HR

Seniors, are you stuck on Craigslist as your main resource for finding employment? Perhaps you would like to expand your avenues for finding employment after graduation? Career Services can help you define the best resources for finding employment. Come see us for any of the following:

1. Senior Consultation; basic job search questions answered (get your free mug)
2. Optimal Job Candidate Program; skilled up and ready to go (on careers.georgefox.edu)
3. Emerging Professional Career Plans; put your future on paper/computer screen (on careers.georgefox.edu)
4. Get 20 free starter business cards for making connections while still a student.
5. Maximize use of BruinCareers and Careercenterjobs.org.
6. Check out the First Avenue Expo at olapcfirstavenue.org.

We’ve got your back. Career Services, located on the first floor of Stevens (503-554-2330, careers@georgefox.edu)

A class, PSCI 354 Christianity and Politics in the United States, will be offered in spring 2014 and taught by Mark David Hall.

This course is designed to be accessible to sophomores, juniors and seniors from any major. There are no prerequisites. It considers three basic questions:

1. How have Christianity and politics been related historically in America?
2. How are Christianity and politics related today?
3. How should Christianity and politics be related?

Interested? To learn more, contact Vetta Berokoff at vberokof@georgefox.edu.

Are you looking for work after graduation?

If so, our First Avenue Career Expo is one of the top sources for:

• Full-time jobs
• Internships
• Summer jobs

Join us Friday, April 5, at the University of Portland’s Chiles Center from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. to network with more than 75 companies for job and internship placement.

To register and view a complete list of companies attending, click here.

Transportation is available!

Questions? Contact the Career Services at 503-554-2330 or careers@georgefox.edu.

All are welcome to attend the Spring 2013 Faculty Lecture and Richter Scholars Symposium today (Tuesday) beginning at 5 p.m. This event will begin in the Hoover lobby with student presentations of their scholarship funded by the Richter Scholars program.

At 5:30 p.m., Terry Huffman will give a presentation in Hoover 105 on his most recent book, entitled American Indian Educators in Reservation Schools. Dr. Huffman is the George Fox University 2012 Graduate Researcher of the Year.

The Portland Center South building will be testing our emergency procedures with an emergency evacuation drill early Wednesday evening, March 20. This is a mandatory participation event.

When you hear the alarm sound, please proceed calmly to the nearest exit and proceed to the designated meeting spot directly in line with north, east and west building exits. A safety committee member will inform you when the drill is complete and you are allowed to re-enter the building.

For the past year, we’ve been in conversation with our risk management/insurance company as well as completed a comprehensive review of best practices to reduce risk and liability related to the transportation of students, faculty and staff. You will find the new policy at this link. Please review this very carefully and feel free to contact Plant Services or Brad Lau if you have any questions.

We are not yet ready to implement the personal vehicle aspect of the policy, but are ready to implement the policies and procedures guiding the use of university vehicles.

In order to check out and drive University vehicles (as well as to rent and drive Enterprise vehicles on university business), a student and/or employee driver must be on the “approved driver’s list.” This means that the following has occurred (a minimum of five days before the student or employee plans to pick up and drive a university vehicle):

1. The student or employee has read and agreed to the policy.
2. The student or employee has viewed the 15-minute training video.
3. The student or employee has taken a quiz that requires approximately 10-15 minutes.
4. A background check of the student’s or employee’s driving record has been completed and meets the criteria described in the university policy.

Once all this has been completed and verified (and assuming all the criteria are met), the employee’s or student’s name will be added to the approved driver’s list and university vehicles can be checked out and driven. This process will need to be completed annually for students and once every three years for employees. Of course, there is much more information in the policy, so please review it carefully.

To begin the process of becoming an approved driver, please login to FoxTALE on this page and follow directions.

The new policy is effective immediately, so please take care of this as soon as possible if you plan to drive a university vehicle on university business. When you pick up the vehicle, you will need to show Plant Services your driver’s license and verbally verify that you have current personal automobile insurance (even though university insurance provides coverage for the use of university vehicles).

FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 8 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Monday, March 25, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you have questions, please contact the IT Service Desk.

Join us for the First Avenue Career Expo! This is a great opportunity to network with over 100 companies and graduate schools. It will be Friday, April 5, at the University of Portland’s Chiles Center.

• For a list of companies, click here.
• For a list of attending graduate schools, click here.
• To register online, click here.

For more information, contact the Corina Burke at ext. 2330 or cburke@georgefox.edu.

Do you want free admission to attend the First Avenue Career Expo?

If so, stop by and attend one of our “How to Work a Job Fair” info sessions today (Friday) in the Career Services office from 12:30 to 1 p.m.

For more information and to register for the First Avenue Career Expo, visit olapcfirstavenue.org or visit your Career Services office!

We will be hosting Peace’d Together – An Intercultural Conference on the Newberg campus in April! The purpose of the event is to initiate dialogue that will assist us as we bridge gaps that culturally separate us, find truth where each of our roads cross, and celebrate the contribution each of us bring to the diversity of God’s kingdom and the George Fox community.

This is a free conference and promises to be amazing! It will be held in various buildings on campus Friday, April 12, from 7 to 9 p.m. and Saturday, April 13, from 9 a.m to 6 p.m. The key speakers will be Pastor Tory Campbell, Dr. Caleb Rosado, Dr. Keith Dempsey partnering with graduate student Amber Nelson, Dr. Joel Perez, Dr. Melanie Hulbert and the Student Congress on Racial Reconciliation (SCORR) team.

Even though this is a free event be sure to register for the conference using your GFU e-mail address! You need to be registered in order to attend the conference.

To register, click this link. The conference is hosted by the Department of Inclusion & Student Leadership Programs of George Fox.

We hope to see you there!

Our “How to Work a Job Fair” info session is today (Wednesday) in the Career Services office from 12:30 to 1 p.m.

If you attend this session, your registration fee for the First Avenue Career Expo will be refunded!

For more information and to register for the First Avenue Career Expo, visit olapcfirstavenue.org or visit your Career Services office!

Faculty, please let your students know about this opportunity.

The textbook list for summer semester (including May Term) will go online Monday, April 1. Books will begin arriving the following week. If you are signed up for a course, please wait until the summer listing is posted before ordering to ensure you are getting the correct books.

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

Don’t forget, this is the last week to contribute to the Backpack Project Food Drive!

Through Friday, March 15, please bring your food donations to the bins provided in the lobby of the Portland Center. Suggested items include: cans of chili, soup, ravioli in meat sauce, boxes of mac & cheese, small juice boxes (100 percent juice only, no foil containers), individual serving fruit cups, healthy snacks, small packages of dried fruits, oatmeal cups, etc.

Monetary donations can be made at the Information Desk. A $100 donation sponsors a child for weekend meals for the entire school year. Donation checks made out to Fremont United Methodist Church will be tax deductible.

Questions? Contact Emily Maynard at emaynard@georgefox.edu.

The First Avenue Career Expo is Friday, April 5! This is a great opportunity to network with more than 100 different companies and graduate schools. It will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the University of Portland’s Chiles Center.

• For a list of attending companies, click here.
• For a list of attending graduate schools, click here.
• To register online, click here.

Registration cost is $10, but a fee waiver can be earned by having the student attend the “How to Work a Job Fair” info session in the Career Service’s office on either March 13, 15, 21, 22, or April 2 from 12:30 to 1 p.m.

Questions? Contact Corina Burke at ext. 2330 or cburke@georgefox.edu.

We will be hosting Peace’d Together – An Intercultural Conference on the Newberg campus in April! The purpose of the event is to initiate dialogue that will assist us as we bridge gaps that culturally separate us, find truth where each of our roads cross, and celebrate the contribution each of us bring to the diversity of God’s kingdom and the George Fox community.

It will be held in various buildings on campus Friday, April 12, from 7 to 9 p.m. and Saturday, April 13, from 9 a.m to 6 p.m. The key speakers will be Pastor Tory Campbell, Dr. Caleb Rosado, Dr. Keith Dempsey partnering with graduate student Amber Nelson, Dr. Joel Perez, Dr. Melanie Hulbert and the SCORR Team.

To register, click this link. The conference is hosted by the Department of Inclusion & Student Leadership Programs of George Fox.

We hope to see you there. This is a free conference that will be amazing!

All are invited to the university’s annual Day of Prayer Saturday, March 9. Join us for a call to prayer and worship led by Sarah Baldwin, dean of spiritual life and university pastor, and Josh Tryan, a senior who serves as our worship band leader.

We’ll meet in the west end of the Klages Dining Room from 10 a.m. to noon. Following will be a prayer walk around campus led by members of our Parent Council and a “virtual” walk held in Klages.

Questions? Call the Alumni & Parent Relations Office at 503-554-2134.

At the end of next week Urban Outreach will be putting together care packages for our friends living on the streets of Portland and Salem. To those of you who helped in the coin drive, thank you! That will help a lot toward the cost. I don’t know that we can afford to put everything into them that I had hoped, though. So here’s the plan: I’ll let you all in on the creation of these packages.

Following is a list of items I hope to put in each package.

Travel size of the following: shampoo, soap, toothbrush, toothpaste, deodorant, comb, floss, one large black trash bag (believe me, it comes in handy), one or two travel-size packs of wet wipes and a pair of socks

One mini care kit containing: Q-tips, Band-Aids, cotton balls, sterilizing swabs and medical tape

Please e-mail me if you would like to contribute any quantity of the items on this list, or if you have ideas about something else to include. I have thought of including small pocket New Testaments, or at least having them available.

Let’s see what God does!

God bless,
Mary Owen (mowen10@georgefox.edu)

A memorial service for Richard Twiss, an adjunct faculty member at George Fox Evangelical Seminary, will be at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, March 10. The service will be held at Living Hope Church, 2711 N.E. Andresen Road, in Vancouver, Wash.

Live online streaming will be made available. Please check the Wiconi website for more information.