The Daily Bruin

Join us for a FoxTALE Gradebook open lab hosted by your educational technology team. Come to work on your FoxTALE Gradebook or to get your 2016 spring courses ready. Sessions are scheduled on the following dates:

• Wednesday, Dec. 16, 1-3 p.m. in PDS 220 (Portland)
• Thursday, Dec. 17, 1-3 p.m. in MLRC 018 (Newberg)

Visit the Schedule of Events page to RSVP and view more events scheduled for Jan. 4-7 and spring semester.

– Your Educational Technology Team (servicedesk@georgefox.edu)

The Wheeler Fitness Center hours over Christmas break are as follows:

• Open 6 to 8 a.m., 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 5 to 7 p.m., Monday through Friday
• Closed weekends
• Closed Christmas Eve (Dec. 24), Christmas (Dec. 25) and New Year’s Day (Jan. 1)

Thank you and have a Merry Christmas!

– Wheeler Fitness Center staff

The December payday is Wednesday, Dec. 30. Both Thursday, Dec. 31, and Friday, Jan. 1, are holidays this year.

Reminder: Please have all payroll items turned in to human resources by noon on Thursday, Dec. 17.

Thank you,
Katie Sol, Human Resources (ksol@georgefox.edu)

The university’s College of Engineering invites you to its Winter Expo today (Thursday) in Wood-Mar Auditorium and the EHS Atrium. Following is the schedule:

12:30-1:30 p.m. – Air Engine Displays (EHS Atrium)
Freshmen students display their working engines

2-3:30 p.m. – Wobble-Off Competition (Wood-Mar Auditorium)
Freshmen engineering students compete with their air engines for maximum speed and coast, minimum pressure, cost efficiency and aesthetics

All are welcome to come see what our students are working on. For more information, please contact Adina McConaughey at ext. 2780.

The lost and found is full yet again, and we are certain you’d love to have your lost items back before Christmas break. Please come to the security office to look for your lost items before you leave for Christmas, as all unclaimed items will be given to charitable causes during break.

Questions? Contact Nadine Kincaid at nkincaid@georgefox.edu.

You’re invited to join the health and human performance and athletic training faculty and staff as we celebrate our senior HHPE and athletic training majors. They will exhibit their senior research projects via poster presentation from 10 to 11 a.m. tomorrow (Friday) in the Wheeler Sports Center’s upper lobby.

You will learn about the care and feeding of your body as you work to improve your health and quality of life.

Questions? Contact Byron Shenk at bshenk@georgefox.edu.

With the holidays quickly approaching, the finance department would like to bring to your attention the schedule for processing check requests and expense reimbursements to accommodate the short holiday weeks.

Please click this link to view the holiday check run schedule posted on the “Forms” page of the finance department’s website. Please check this webpage periodically for any changes to the current schedule. If you have questions, contact Jen Klapp at jklapp@georgefox.edu.

Please note that the finance department will be closed from Thursday, Dec. 24, through Friday, Jan. 1, so no checks will be available from accounts payable during this time.

Thank you and Happy Holidays!

– The Finance Department

Still need to shop for friends and family this Christmas? The Bruin Store has what you’re looking for!

Today (Thursday), save on all apparel and gifts. Get 20 percent off one item, 25 percent off two items, or 30 percent off three items or more.*

We hope to see you at the Bruin Store!

– Michael Simmons (msimmons@georgefox.edu)

*Other discounts cannot be applied to this sale. Sale includes in-store purchases only.

The Athletic Training Student Club is teaming up with the Newberg Fire Department to assist with its annual toy drive. Each year, the Newberg Fire Department organizes a “Toy & Joy” program by collecting toys and cash donations. The money generated is used to purchase toys for local children in need.

The need for toys increases each year, yet the program funds do not always keep up with that increased demand. We invite you to help us give local children in need a wonderful Christmas!

Here are the details:

• We will have a table set up prior to and during the men’s basketball game this Saturday, Dec. 12 (3 to 5:30 p.m.).
• Donations can be dropped off in Dana Bates’ office in Wheeler.
• Donations can be toys priced around $15 suitable for kids up to 15 years old; cash donations are also accepted.
• The fire department will not accept any dangerous or weapon-like toys, nor will they accept electronics.

Thanks for supporting this cause!

Questions? Contact Matthew Alvarez at malvarez13@georgefox.edu.

Be sure to join us for Tefillah, our prayer ministries on campus! We’re hosting two events today (Thursday) in the Prayer Chapel, located behind Edwards Hall next to the stairs to the canyon.

Contemplative worship is at 10:50 a.m. Currently, we’re going through traditions of how people have met God in the quiet. Chapel credit is available, so for those of you who need credit be sure to take advantage of this opportunity.

Lifted Hands, our time of intercessory prayer, will follow at 2 p.m. Be sure to join us as we lift up our campus in prayer together!

Questions? Contact Amanda Kitz at akitz13@georgefox.edu.

Winter Formal is approaching quickly, and it is time to tune up those swing dancing skills!

Coast to Coast will be teaching free swing dancing lessons for those who need to learn before the dance. Lessons will be held today (Wednesday) at 5:30 p.m. in the racquetball courts located in Wheeler.

Night Strike is an organization that serves the homeless population in downtown Portland. This Thursday, Dec. 10, all transfer students and Transfer Club members are invited to volunteer with Night Strike at Liberation Street Church.

We will be meeting in the parking lot by the Duke Athletic Center at 5 p.m. We will begin serving at 6 p.m. Afterwards, we will stop by Voodoo Doughnuts!

Questions? Please contact Sarah Tuemmler at stuemmler14@georgefox.edu.

Due to the Christmas holiday break we will have three fewer days to process December payroll. Please have all payroll items turned in to human resources by noon on Thursday, Dec. 17. Payday will be on Thursday, Dec. 31.

Payroll Reminders:

• If you have had a change of address, please be sure that it is up to date in MyGFU. Click on “Self Service” and update in “Campus Personal Information” by Jan. 8 to ensure that we have your correct address for W-2 processing.
• Remember that one year’s worth of vacation accrual can be rolled over into the next year. Dec. 31 is the date by which you must “use it or lose it.” Here is the link to the staff and administrator accrual tables.

Thank you,
Katie Sol, Human Resources
ksol@georgefox.edu

Friends of the Newberg Mill is partnering with George Fox to help alleviate some of the stress of the holidays for mill families, due to the recent layoffs.

We are collecting toys for children ranging from toddlers to teens, along with pet supplies (food, treats, beds, toys, etc). Some possible gift ideas include sports gear, stuffed animals and non-violent toys. If you have any donations, please drop them off at the ASC office in the Student Union Building no later than Monday, Dec. 14.

Thank you for helping make a difference in this time of need.

Questions? Contact Emily Veer at eveer13@georgefox.edu.

Finals week is approaching fast – and so is the time to sell back your textbooks. If you have any unwanted books that the bookstore can’t buy back, feel free to donate them to any of our Better World Book collection bins around campus.

We take all books. They will be donated, help raise funding for global literacy, or get repurposed. All books will stay out of landfills. The collection bins will be located in the Minthorn Mail Room, outside the Bruin Store and in the SUB.

Questions? Contact Heather Harney at hharney12@georgefox.edu.

Be sure to join us tomorrow (Thursday) from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. in the Stevens Center (Duke) Atrium to celebrate and bid a fond farewell to our very own James Oshiro, director of financial aid.

He has accepted a position at Hawaii Pacific University on the beautiful Island of Oahu. This is an incredible opportunity for him and his family, so please join us as we say “Aloha” and “Mahalo” to James for nine years of service to the university! Refreshments will be served.

Know students who are looking for assistance in the job search process? Encourage them to attend Thursday’s job search strategies workshop hosted by the IDEA Center. The workshop will go over all the how-to’s of the job search process and will help students build a strategic plan.

The session runs from 10:50 to 11:40 a.m. in Stevens 209.

Questions? Contact Kaitlyn Ragan in the IDEA Center at kragan@georgefox.edu.

Whether you’re a graduating senior, a sophomore needing a summer job, or a junior looking for an internship, Thursday’s job search strategies workshop is for you! The workshop will go over all the how-to’s of the job search process and will help you build a strategic plan to land the position you want.

Join us from 10:50 to 11:40 a.m. in Stevens 209. Faculty, please let your students know about this session.

Questions? Contact Kaitlyn Ragan in the IDEA Center at kragan@georgefox.edu.

Still need to shop for friends and family this Christmas? The Bruin Store has what you’re looking for!

Today and tomorrow (Wednesday and Thursday), save on all apparel and gifts. Get 20 percent off one item, 25 percent off two items, or 30 percent off three items or more.*

We hope to see you at the Bruin Store!

– Michael Simmons (msimmons@georgefox.edu)

*Other discounts cannot be applied to this sale. Sale includes in-store purchases only.

Tonight (Wednesday), our final Vespers of the semester will be a “Lessons and Carols” service held in three different locations at our normal time, 7 p.m. Choose one of the following (the same service will happen in each location):

• Hoover 105
• Lemmons 8
• Wood-Mar Auditorium

If you have any questions, please contact us at spirituallife@georgefox.edu.

Merry Christmas!