The Daily Bruin

The George Fox Auxiliary invites you to join us next Friday, Jan. 16, for a lunch featuring special guest Chris Casey, head coach of the university’s football team. The event begins at noon in the Cap and Gown Room.

Casey will provide a review of the 2014 football season, the school’s first since 1968. The cost is $8.50 at the door, and reservations must be made by the evening of Wednesday, Jan. 14, by calling or emailing Judy Woolsey at 503-538-7314 or dajuwoo@gmail.com.

Two more auxiliary lunches are scheduled later in the spring semester, on March 13 and May 8.

Students who are eligible to make changes to their meal plan will be able to do so starting Jan. 5, 2015, through Jan. 23, 2015.

Please log into your MyGFU account, look in University Forms and then Meal Plan Form.

For more information about meal plans, please check out the Meal Plan Options page on the Student Life website.

If you have any questions about the meal plans, please contact Jere Witherspoon in the Office of Student Life. You may also phone her at 503-554-2316. The student life office is on the third floor of the Stevens Center.

This annual show will be held Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 9-11, at the Oregon Convention Center. It features hundreds of exhibits about – you guessed it – building, remodeling and landscaping. If you would like to attend this show, you can pick up two tickets (worth $6 each) from Barbi Doran at the Information Services window in the Stevens Center beginning today (Monday).

Portland and Salem employees, you can reserve yours by emailing Barbi at bdoran@georgefox.edu. She will send them to you through campus mail early in January. We have a limited supply, so please request/pick them up only if you are reasonably certain you will attend this event.

Multiple FoxTALE and Google App webinars are scheduled starting the week of Jan. 5 through the end of spring semester. Check our web page for the Schedule of Development Events and sign up by clicking on the RSVP next to any of the sessions listed.

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servicedesk@georgefox.edu

Two staff and administrator positions are currently open. Listed in order of recency, they are:

• Administrative Assistant, Undergraduate Nursing
• Budget Manager

The link to each of these position announcements can be found at jobs.georgefox.edu. If you know of someone you believe might provide a good fit for any of these jobs, please refer the person to the website for information about the job and instructions about applying.

On Monday, Jan. 19, George Fox students, staff and faculty will, for the sixth straight year, join with more than 1,000 students from Portland-area colleges and universities to commemorate the life, ideals and ministry of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a “day on” of voluntary service and reflection.

The MLK Day of Service is a collaborative effort of Portland-area universities and colleges facilitated by the Oregon Campus Compact, and we are always proud of how well George Fox is represented each year at this event. Annually, it is the largest mobilization of college students in the country to serve on MLK Day!

Volunteers will gather at Concordia University and serve in the Cully neighborhood of northeast Portland. Transportation from George Fox will be provided.

This year’s theme is “Healthy Schools, Thriving Communities.” In order to receive a free T-shirt and participate in this day of serving activities you must register at this link before Jan. 9, 2015.

Questions? Contact Rusty St. Cyr at rstcyr@georgefox.edu.

A service to celebrate the life of Aaron Engle will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2015 at Newberg Friends Church (307 S. College St.).

Please contact Steve Fawver (steve@newbergfriends.org) at Newberg Friends Church for more information.

FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 8 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Monday, Feb. 9, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

During this maintenance update Fall 2014 course sites will be hidden to students. If you want to make any of those course sites available to students after this update, select “Edit settings” in the Course Administration block. Located in the General section, look for the Visible setting and change “Hide” back to “Show.” Scroll to bottom and click “Save changes.”

Questions? Contact the IT Service Desk at servicedesk@georgefox.edu.

On Friday, Jan. 16, George Fox will host the Oregon Symphony in its 28th appearance in Newberg at 8 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium. The concert is free to George Fox employees – a gift from George Fox board member Ken Austin, who cofounded A-dec with his late wife Joan.

The university has been provided with a limited number of tickets for its employees. These tickets are separate from those to be issued by the Newberg Area Chamber of Commerce to the general public.

George Fox employees (halftime and over) may pick up their tickets – limit two per employee – on a first-come, first-served basis starting Monday, Jan. 5, at 9 a.m. at the advancement office. Phone reservations (503-554-2134) will not be taken except for employees at the Portland Center.

On Monday, Jan. 12, beginning at 9 a.m., any remaining tickets (again, a limit of two per person) will be available – also on a first-come, first-served basis – to those who sign up on a waiting list. If you find you will not be able to attend the concert, please return your tickets for another employee to use.

Questions? Contact Jill Downing at jdowning@georgefox.edu.

Two staff and administrator positions are currently open. Listed in order of recency, they are:

• Administrative Assistant, Undergraduate Nursing
• Budget Manager

The link to each of these position announcements can be found at jobs.georgefox.edu. If you know of someone you believe might provide a good fit for any of these jobs, please refer the person to the website for information about the job and instructions about applying.

This annual show will be held Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 9-11, at the Oregon Convention Center. It features hundreds of exhibits about – you guessed it – building, remodeling and landscaping. If you would like to attend this show, you can pick up two tickets (worth $6 each) from Barbi Doran at the Information Services window in the Stevens Center beginning today (Monday).

Portland and Salem employees, you can reserve yours by emailing Barbi at bdoran@georgefox.edu. She will send them to you through campus mail early in January. We have a limited supply, so please request/pick them up only if you are reasonably certain you will attend this event.

FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 9 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Tuesday, Dec. 30, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

– IT

The Wheeler upstairs lobby will be closed today (Wednesday) as we refinish the floors.

Thank you,
Plant Services

This is a correction to contact information for the IT Service Desk. We published the wrong email address in an announcement yesterday. The correct email to contact the IT department is servicedesk@georgefox.edu.

We apologize for the confusion.

– IT

In order to get books here in time for spring classes, textbook orders need to be placed before Christmas. Please complete this task before taking time off for the holidays. We will make every effort to get books here in time. Please try to keep cancellations to a minimum since most books are already ordered or have arrived, and may not be returnable.

You can verify your book order in iGFU by selecting the course schedule, then your department/course/section. A textbook icon will be shown in the course header if an order has been submitted; click to see the books.

Thanks for your help. Please email any questions or concerns to Sandy Gidding, textbook manager, at sgidding@georgefox.edu.

On Sunday, Dec. 21, the Newberg Fire Department will be doing a “burn-to-learn” on the Wilhite and Lyda houses, at 1419 E. North St. and 607 N. Villa Road, respectively.

Fire crews will arrive at the site around 6:30 to 7 a.m. and will start with the Wilhite House. It will go slow at first as they do various exercises involving small fires inside the house, but they expect to let it go and be fully ablaze by about 11 am. They will do the Lyda House similarly in the afternoon. The houses are being burned down to prepare the area for the construction of a new residence hall.

Questions? Contact the plant services office at 503-554-2010.

Faculty, please submit requests for spring semester course reserves as soon as possible. Materials are processed in the order received and can take up to five days to complete.

Please fill out and submit the form located here. If you have any questions, please contact Patty Vanier at ext. 2425 or pvanier@georgefox.edu.