The Daily Bruin

On Monday, April 28, the Villa Café and Bruin Bites will be closed. The Bruin Den hours will be 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. All cafes will be back to regular hours on Tuesday.

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

• Financial Aid Loan Specialist/Processor
• Systems Engineer
• Director of Alumni and Parent Relations
• Executive Assistant to Vice President and Dean of Seminary
• Assistant Director of Sports Marketing
• Director of Annual Giving

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.

The Department of Music invites you to its annual Spring Concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 25, in Bauman Auditorium. The concert features the Chehalem Symphony Orchestra, George Fox Symphonic Band, as well as the university’s Concert Choir, Women’s Chorale and Master Chorus performing Mass of the Children with the Chehalem Symphony Orchestra.

Students and employees are entitled to one complimentary ticket to the performance. Additional tickets are available to purchase online, at music.georgefox.edu, or at the Box Office in the Pennington House.

Take a break from studying and join us for late-night breakfast in the Bon on dead day (Monday, April 28) at 10 p.m.!

The final Fox & Friends event is tonight (Thursday) at 7 p.m.! Join residents at Friendsview for ice cream sundaes and games! Celebrate the coming of summer and a year well-spent with the elderly in the community. A group of students will be meeting in the Bruin Den at 6:45 p.m. to walk over to Friendsview together.

Questions? Please contact Rebekah Harding at rharding12@georgefox.edu.

Good news! Beginning with the graduating classes of spring 2014, George Fox student email addresses will continue indefinitely. If your department provides information to graduating students about their transition out of George Fox, please be sure any information that you provide regarding their email accounts is up-to-date with this new information.

Below is the information graduates are receiving:

• You can use and access all of your current mail and Google docs.
• You’ll continue to access your email by going to mail.georgefox.edu and using your existing username and password.
• If you are already forwarding your George Fox email, your forwarding will remain intact.
• You can forward your George Fox email address to another email address in the settings of your George Fox Gmail account.

Please contact the Service Desk at servicedesk@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2569 if you have questions about your account.

Good news! Beginning with the graduating classes of spring 2014, your George Fox email address will continue indefinitely.

• You can use and access all of your current mail and Google docs.
• You’ll continue to access your email by going to mail.georgefox.edu and using your existing username and password.
• If you are already forwarding your George Fox email, your forwarding will remain intact.
• You can forward your George Fox email address to another email address in the settings of your George Fox Gmail account.

Please contact the Service Desk at servicedesk@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2569 if you have questions about your account.

What better way to end the school year than with free food and sports? Read on for details!

Today (Thursday), FCA is sponsoring a barbecue at the baseball game at 4 p.m. All students with a student ID will get a free grilled hot dog and peanuts. All other fans can purchase a hot dog for $2. Bring a blanket to sit on and be ready to cheer your Bruins to victory! Follow the George Fox Athletics Facebook page to stay up-to-date on the rain plan, if necessary.

Tomorrow (Friday), join us in the gym at 1:30 p.m. as we celebrate nearly 100 incoming freshmen athletes during George Fox’s Commitment Day. Grab a cupcake and give our newest Bruins a rowdy welcome!

Questions? Contact Sarah Reid at sreid@georgefox.edu.

Take a break from school and join us at the last event of the year. Spring Formal will be at the Portland World Trade Center from 8 to 10 p.m. on Sunday, April 27. Tickets will continue to be on sale this week, and will also be sold at the door for $7.

We’ll have a deejay and lots of food and drinks. This will be an event you won’t want to miss!

For more info and/or questions, contact Sarah MacKenzie at smackenzie11@georgefox.edu.

Believe it or not, it is now time to start thinking about our 16th annual Serve Day. We want to get information from our community prior to the summer schedules that take many of you away from campus.

Please take a few minutes to click the link below and fill out this form. It is very important to do so for our planning over the summer. Serve Day will take place on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014.

Make sure you plan accordingly for another great day of service to our community.

Thank you,
Brad Lau

Employee Serve Day Survey

Tonight (Thursday) is the final performance of Alpha Psi Omega’s Third and Oak: The Laundromat, a one-act play by Marsha Norman and directed by Cambria Herrera. The performance is at 10:45 p.m. at the Newberg Coin Laundromat at 1100 N. Springbrook Road.

Tickets are available at the door for $5.

Only two more days! Collection week has been extended through this Friday, April 25, for those who have items to donate toward our Summer Serve garage sale.

If you have items you’d like to donate to a good cause, drop them off at the Spiritual Life House between 2 and 5 p.m. through Friday of this week. All donations will be sold at the Summer Serve garage sale on Saturday, April 26, and will help fund the teams going to Romania/Moldova, Kenya and Argentina.

If you have any questions, feel free to email the spiritual life office at spirituallife@georgefox.edu or Rachel Arias at rarias10@georgefox.edu.

Do you want your campus mailbox to be open part or all of summer?

If you have not personally indicated to Mail Services – either by response to emails from Mail Services or requesting it on a summer address card – that you want your mailbox open during the summer, it will be closed the last day of finals. If you have questions, please email Linda Sartwell at lsartwel@georgefox.edu.

What will happen to your mail if your mailbox is closed?

If you have personally emailed your forwarding address in response to emails from Mail Services, or filled out a forwarding address card, your mail will be sent to the address given. If you have questions, please email Linda at the above address.

Come join the spiritual life and student life departments in commissioning Sarah Baldwin and Clint Baldwin in their future endeavors! We will host a farewell reception for them from 1 to 3 p.m. Wednesday, April 30, in the Stevens Center’s Duke Atrium.

Sarah served George Fox as the dean of spiritual life and university pastor, and Clint has served as the director of Center for Peace and Justice. Sarah has accepted the position of vice president of student development at Asbury University.

Let’s celebrate this new step in their journey as well as thank them for the time they have spent in developing our campus community!

Today (Wednesday) the normal undergraduate class schedule will be adjusted to accommodate Senior Chapel.

Please use the link below to view the adjusted class schedule. Locate the regular meeting time of your Wednesday classes in the “Regular Schedule” column on the left, and note the times your classes will meet in the “Adjusted Schedule” column on the right. Chapel will be from 10:10 to 11 a.m.

Adjusted Class Schedule (Senior Chapel)

Questions can be directed to registrar@georgefox.edu.

The university’s College of Engineering invites you to its annual Engineering Expo this Friday, April 25. The event will begin with Senior Design project presentations, scheduled from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. in EHS 102, 119 and 125, and the Expo will commence at 3:30 p.m. in the EHS Atrium (Ron Gregory Atrium).

The Expo will feature project displays from the program’s industry-sponsored Senior Design and Servant Engineering teams for companies and organizations, including NASA, Oregon Commission for the Blind, Aprovecho Research Center, InStove, 5-Rock Ranch, City of Newberg, Heshima, Astronics, Yamhill County, CUI, Climax, ODFW, Siemens, Greater Yamhill Watershed Council, Cascade Steel and 3D Systems.

Refreshments are provided. All are welcome! For more information, please contact Kristin Bontrager at kbontrager@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2780.

Important dates to keep in mind for 2014-15:

• Returning students may move into campus housing for fall semester 2014 beginning at 8 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 23.
• Residence halls and suites will be closed for Christmas break (Dec. 13, 2014, at noon through Jan. 11, 2015, at noon) and spring break (March 21, 2015, at noon through March 29 at noon). 
• Residence halls are open for spring semester on Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015, at noon. 
• Campus housing closes for the academic year at noon on May 2, 2015. 

You can also find these dates and more information on the Residence Life webpage.

As you are cleaning out your dorms and offices in the next week, it would be greatly appreciated if you would bring back to Bon Appetit any dishware you may have taken out of the building during the school year or that got left in offices, conference rooms, etc.

We have some bus tubs set up just outside the dish room for your convenience in returning dishes.

Thank you!

Applications for May Term/Summer housing are available to students on the student life website and in the student life office. Students have until Friday, April 25, to complete the application and return it to student life.

We are asking students to verify their employment by having supervisors email housing@georgefox.edu so we can keep track of this information. As you hire summer workers, please notify the housing department.

Please refer to the 2014 Summer/May Term Housing Application for additional details. These are available online or in the Office of Student Life.

If you have questions, please stop by or call the student life office (ext. 2310) or email housing@georgefox.edu.

If you are interested in May Term or summer housing, please submit an application to the student life office by Friday, April 25. To be considered for on-campus housing during this time, students need to meet one of the following criteria:

• Enrolled in May Term classes
• Working full time (40 hours per week) for the university as a summer employee
• Participating in research as a summer research scholar

Please refer to the 2014 Summer Housing Application for additional details. These are available online or in the student life office.

If you have questions, please stop by or call the student life office (ext. 2310) or email housing@georgefox.edu.