The Daily Bruin

It’s now just over a week before our 16th annual Serve Day! On Wednesday, Sept. 3 we will send out more than 1,800 employees and students to serve over 100 sites in Newberg and the surrounding area.

Students who live on campus will receive their assignments from their RAs. Additional information will be available in living areas. We encourage students to bring their own water bottles on Serve Day in order to reduce the plastic waste.

Questions? Please contact Andrea Byerley at abyerley@georgefox.edu.

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Come join us for some Ultimate Frisbee fun at the Austin Sports Complex this Thursday night (Aug. 28) from 9 to 10:30 p.m.! Whether you have been playing Ultimate your whole life or have never tossed a Frisbee, come play with us! All are welcome; feel free to bring friends.

Find us on Facebook.

Overnight Ambassadors is a George Fox group that hosts prospective students overnight throughout the year. As students visit campus, we want to make sure that we roll out the red carpet! Our hope is that students will feel welcomed and will want to come back to our school because of their experience at Fox.

If you are passionate about people, enjoy hosting guests and love George Fox, then we want you to be an Overnight Ambassador!

Please fill out this form and we will contact you throughout the year when we need a host. We couldn’t do it without you!

– The George Fox Visits and Events Team
Keisha Gordon – kgordon@georgefox.edu

The WelcomeWeekend wireless network will be closed at noon on Tuesday, Aug. 26. If you still have a connection to this network, please change your connection to use foxwifi instead. You can use the information here to help you connect to foxwifi.

Contact the service desk at ext. 2569 if you need assistance.

Staff, summer work study students and returning students: If you lost something between April of last semester and now, please come to the security office by this Friday, Aug. 29, to claim your lost items, as they will all be donated to charitable causes by end of day Friday.

Several of you were emailed in May about items left behind in your residences; please claim them this week!

Join us this week for chapel in Bauman Auditorium! Today (Tuesday) at 10:50 a.m. will be the Academic Convocation Chapel to celebrate the beginning of the academic year. Nick Willis, undergraduate teacher of the year, will share a message.

On Wednesday at 7 p.m., Pastor Jamie Noling-Auth will share her testimony and begin our “Unfolding Life” series.

Check out this link for more information about chapel speakers.

Please take a few minutes to familiarize yourself with the student handbook. There is important information for you as a community member of George Fox University.

The Graduate/DPS Student Life Policies can be found at this link.

The Undergraduate Student Handbook can be found at studenthandbook.georgefox.edu. There is also a PDF version if you wish to download the handbook to your computer.

Please take a few minutes to familiarize yourself with the student handbook. There is important information for you as a community member of George Fox University.

If you have any questions, please contact the Office of Student Life at studentlife@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2310. Student life is located on the third floor of the Stevens Center.

Larry Mennenga is retiring after 20 years of faithful service as an electrician for plant services. Please join us as we celebrate his retirement at an open house on Thursday, Aug. 28, between 3 and 4:30 p.m. in the plant services break room.

It’s now just over a week before our 16th annual Serve Day! On Wednesday, Sept. 3, we will send out more than 1,800 employees and students to serve over 100 sites in Newberg and the surrounding area.

Employees will receive their Serve Day assignments shortly. If you have any questions about your assignment, let Trisha Elizarde know by emailing serveday@georgefox.edu. Students who live on campus will receive their assignments from their RAs. Additional information will be available in living areas.

Employees are encouraged to park on the gravel lot (down Meridian Street near Fulton Street) on Serve Day unless they were specifically assigned to drive to a serve site. If so, a parking lot/departure site is assigned, which can be found on their email about Serve Day. Stevens will be used for some organizations that are coming to campus to provide transportation.

If you would like a ride to join us for this important forum with our partners at Word Made Flesh and with our friend Joel Pérez (former dean of inclusion at Fox and now dean of students at SPU), plan to meet us at the Spiritual Life House on Sheridan Street at 6 p.m. on Tuesday evening.

Beggars Society is an advocacy meeting of Word Made Flesh. It is a public forum that gathers people together seeking to understand issues of global poverty and injustice.

Contact Mikayla Greenwell at mgreenwell12@georgefox.edu with questions.

Address for event: 14410 SE Ellis St., Portland, OR 97236

Join us in Wheeler tonight (Tuesday) at 6 p.m. for the grand opening of the climbing wall this semester. There will be something for every skill level. We have all the gear you need and instructors to teach basic skills and safety.

We have routes from 5.6 for the beginners on up to 5.12+ for the experienced. The climbing wall is a great place to hang out with some awesome people and climb!

For additional information, contact Spencer Giles (sgiles11@georgefox.edu) or Sam Read (sread11@georgefox.edu).

Semester wall hours will be announced as soon as possible. Climb on!

Due to the excessive number of packages that need to be delivered to students and departments, creating long lines at our customer service window, Mail Services is requesting your assistance by bringing outgoing personal packages (packages that need to be shipped off campus) only between the hours of 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. during the first three weeks of school.

Purchases of shipping supplies and stamps should also be limited to only between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Department packages can be brought to Mail Services anytime during our business hours (8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.)

Thanks,
Mail Services

Welcome to fall semester 2014! Need to add or drop a class? Have a question about a waitlisted class? Need to make any other fall semester schedule changes?

Career and Academic Planning (CAP) coaches will be available during drop-in hours from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, Aug. 25, through Friday, Aug. 29. Drop-in hours will be adjusted starting the second week of the semester. Inquire at the IDEA Center on the first floor of the Stevens Center for more information.

Faculty, please feel free to tell your students about this resource. Thank you!

Questions? Write idea@georgefox.edu

Student accounts and financial aid are open today (Saturday Aug. 23), from 8 a.m. to noon. Knowing how busy you will be next week, let us assist you this morning!

In light of creation care and sustainability, we would like to encourage students and faculty to bring their own water bottles on Serve Day (Wednesday, Sept. 3) in order to reduce the plastic waste at the end of the day. We ask leaders to collect and bag the plastic water bottles that do end up being used so they can be taken to FISH, where they are turned in for 5 cents each.

Let’s do our part to serve the community and the world, even as we stay hydrated on Serve Day. Thank you!

This is a reminder that the chart of accounts training session scheduled for today (Friday, Aug. 22) from 10 a.m. to noon in Stevens 109 will be rescheduled due to all the Welcome Weekend activities.

We will have updated times and dates for additional training posted on the financial affairs website soon.

Thank you,
The Finance Team

Returning students: Mail Services will be open on Saturday, Aug. 23, from noon to 3 p.m. Come get your packages and avoid the long lines on Monday, the first day of classes. Please spread the word to all of your friends!

Also, we will open at 7:30 on Monday morning (Aug. 25) to help the early birds who don’t want to wait in long lines.

If you have questions, please email Linda Sartwell at lsartwel@georgefox.edu.

Is the only number you know on campus “0”?

The Employee Extension and Box List is newly updated and available for you to print! You can find it here. The list is updated approximately every two weeks so you can always be “in the know”! Questions or updates? Contact Barbi Doran at bdoran@georgefox.edu.

Have a wonderful semester!