The Daily Bruin

When it comes to climate change, many people only think about cars and light bulbs. However here’s a shocking fact — the food system is responsible for one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Did you know that:

• Fossil fuels used to provide electricity for refrigerators, stoves & ovens produce carbon dioxide?
• Over-use of fertilizer on our ball fields and excessive irrigation on farms contributes nitrous oxide?
• Ruminant animals (cows, sheep, goats) emit methane gas through their digestive process and their waste?
• The energy used to produce food that is wasted in the U.S. roughly equals the total carbon footprint of Bangladesh, a country of 150 million people.

On Earth Day, Wednesday, April 22, at lunchtime, Bon Appetit will be celebrating Low Carbon Diet Day. Klages Dining Room will be featuring more than 10 menu items highlighting low-carbon food choices. Each food area will illustrate a key principle of reducing climate change. You will have extensive choices but will be encouraged to taste new items that are more climate-friendly than some regular features. Check out our featured menu.

We also will showcase Bon Appétit’s online Low Carbon Diet Calculator to help you determine the impact of your individual food choices. This fun, interactive calculator is based on best-available science developed by a multi-disciplinary team of experts.

Please join us on April 22 to learn how you can easily lower your carbon impact. For more information, visit CircleofResponsibility.com.

Just a reminder: George Fox will host a national leadership conference, “Spiritual Discernment As Christian Leadership,” May 31 through June 3. The full conference cost of $349 is discounted to $199 for those registering before April 18 and qualifying for a group discount. Register now and save; also, invite church leaders to take advantage of this special opportunity.

See the conference website for more information.

A special price for George Fox students (graduate and undergraduate, no meals or lodging) is $100, and Paul Anderson (Religious Studies) is offering a May Term independent study (1-3 hours) for any interested in attending the conference for credit.

You are invited to come listen to Eric Middleton as he lectures on his book The New Flatlanders at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 16, in EHS 102 on the Newberg campus. Eric is a British teacher/lecturer with master’s degrees in natural sciences, psychology and philosophy. In The New Flatlanders, he challenges traditional ways of looking at reality by engaging readers in a “voyage of discovery starting with questions.”

Join us in Room 160 on April 23 from noon to 1 p.m. for a brown bag ‘Lunch & Learn’ to hear about Jeff VandenHoek’s recent mission trip to India.

He spent 17 days providing “train the trainer” sessions that will ultimately impact 500k children in rural villages. Jeff describes the trip as a continuous “WOW!”, and will share stories and a fascinating PowerPoint — and maybe a few Indian treats.

Bring your lunch and enjoy an hour-long trip to a different world!

The university’s annual Engineering Expo is scheduled at 4:30 p.m. Friday, April 24, in the Ron Gregory Atrium in EHS. The event will feature high school design projects as well as our own engineering class projects and senior design presentations. Lab tours and refreshments provided!

Due to the cost of materials, the pricing for color wide-format printing (posters/banners) has changed in some instances. Many of the prices have been reduced, but some of the basic prices have been raised. Prior to creating your project, please call Elizabeth Holme (Print Services) at ext. 2550 or send your e-mail to eholme@georgefox.edu.

If you have a card that you purchased to make copies in the Info Commons at the Portland Center, please return it to the Library Desk for a refund. We are no longer able to use this card reader system. The last day to turn in your card for a refund is Friday, April 24.

Richard Twiss, cofounder of Wiconi International, will speak and perform with members of the Sicangu Band of the Rosebud Lakota/Sioux Tribe in chapel at 10:40 a.m. Wednesday, April 15, in Bauman Auditorium. For more information, visit wiconi.com. All are welcome!

Tilikum Center for Retreats and Outdoor Ministries will host its seventh annual run/walk event to raise funds to get under-resourced children and youth to summer camp. The event is scheduled for 10 a.m. this Saturday, April 18, at Champoeg State Park.

Participants raise donations per kilometer that they run or walk, with a minimum donation of $35 required to participate in the event. For children 12 and younger, a $5 minimum is required. Participants will receive a T-shirt and prizes will be awarded. This year, there will be special prizes for teams. Gather people from your department, your floor, or any group.

If you are interested in competing as a team of five or more, please call Tilikum at 503-538-2763. Check out 10K information at camptilikum.org.

Starting Tuesday, April 14, Bon Appetit’s evening meal service will move to the South hallway on the 2nd floor.

Evening meals are available Monday through Thursday, 5 to 7 p.m. This meal service will end on April 23 for this semester.

We will no longer be offering meals through Bon Appetit during the week with the opening of the Cafe/Coffeehouse this summer.

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.

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.

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.

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!