You asked for it … you got it. After many long months, Bon Appetit has finally gotten the “all-clear” — and starting Thursday night, April 2, we are having a peanut butter blowout. Join us in Klages Dining Hall that night as we feature more than 20 different toppings to make your own long-awaited creation of creamy goodness. Imagine the possibilities!
Would you like the opportunity to trade in your older CAC computer on a new Apple?
If this sounds like you, stop by the Service Desk between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. beginning April 6.
We also have limited quantities of a special bundle that includes the Apple MacBook and iPod Touch. The total cost of this package is $1,100.00
The cost of the computer alone is $1050.00 through this trade-up opportunity.
The iPod Touch is not available for sale separately at this time.
Here is a list of the maximum current value of the CAC computers that can be applied toward the purchase of a MacBook, or the MacBook and iPod Touch bundle. These are maximum values that apply only if the computer is in good shape with only reasonable wear.
2007 MacBook $600
2007 HP 6710/6320 $600
2006 iBook $200
2006 HP 6125 $200
2005 iBook $100
2005 HP 6110 $100
The value of your current CAC computer can be applied toward the purchase of a new Apple model/bundle and you must pay the difference in cost in order to receive the new Apple MacBook. The new Apple MacBook being offered has the following specifications:
Shell: White Polycarbonate
Processor: Intel Core2 Duo 2.0GHz
RAM: 2GB
Hard Drive: 120GB
Optical Drive: SuperDrive
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M
2 year Apple Parts Agreement Warranty
To answer the obvious question: No, you cannot charge the difference to your student bill, you will need to pay with either cash, check or credit card. All payments for this will be handled in Student Financial Services starting on the afternoon of April 6. You must visit the Service Desk first in order to have the value of your computer assessed and for a bill to be created.
For more details, please visit the I.T. Service Desk or email cac@georgefox.edu
The admissions office is hosting Bruin Preview for prospective students this Thursday, April 2, and Friday, April 3. This is an important event for prospective students to visit our campus. Please join us in offering up your Stevens Center parking spots to our guests on Thursday and Friday.
Parking is available for employees in the lots at Bauman Auditorium and Pennington Hall.
Thank you for your consideration. It is greatly appreciated.
– Admissions
• Avoid the crowds in the Bon by eating before 5:30 p.m. or after 6 p.m. on Thursday
• Avoid Steven’s parking lot, so that visitors will have space
Welcome prospective students as they visit our campus!
George Fox Evangelical Seminary will present “An American Theology of the Land” as its spring 2009 Ministry in Contemporary Seminar Series.
The details:
Friday, April 17
9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Portland Center
Register online at: seminars.georgefox.edu
Cost: $35 (individual); $30 per person (more than one in group); $25 (students/alumni/staff)
Join a participatory dialogue on building a theology of the land …
Guest presenters:
George Fox participants:
Questions? Contact Jean Borgman (Seminary) at jborgman@georgefox.edu.
The world languages department will host the first multilingual chapel in Spanish, French, and Japanese at 10:40 a.m. this Friday, April 3, in Hoover 105. All are invited, especially those studying a language. Please come!
If you haven’t already, please submit your March timesheet to your supervisor right away to ensure that you are paid on Thursday, April 9. (Pay day is one day early due to the Good Friday holiday falling on April 10.)Â
Please be sure your name and ID number are typed or printed legibly at the top, and sign it before you give it to your supervisor.  Thank you.
– Human Resources
If you have not already done so, please submit your March time sheet (support staff) or time-off report (administrators) this week. Please be sure it is complete, accurate and signed by both you and your supervisor before sending it to HR at Box 6108. If your supervisor is not available to sign it, please send a copy to HR and keep the original until it has been signed.
We have added spaces to include your Cost Center and Employee ID numbers since that information is needed to access your record in PeopleSoft, so please take an extra moment to provide that information. You can find your Employee ID number on Bruindata and/or on your pay statement.
Link to the Time-off Report: georgefox.edu/offices/hr/Timeoffreport.doc
Link to March Time Sheet: georgefox.edu/offices/hr/TimesheetMar09.xls
Thanks!
– Human Resources
Attention student employee supervisors: March student time sheets must be in HR no later than Friday, April 3, so please have them hand-delivered to HR as soon as you get them. If you are not on the Newberg campus, please fax your student time sheets to 503-554-2186 and then send the originals to HR in campus mail. Also, please check to be sure all of your students have submitted their time sheets to you and follow up with any who have not.
And, as always, we appreciate you checking for the following:
Reminder: If a student delivers his or her own time sheet to HR, it must be in a sealed envelope to comply with Federal Work Study regulations.
Thanks very much.
– Human Resources
Your password has been set to expire at 9 a.m. on April 13 as part of the annual password reset for all university students, faculty and staff. Please login to Bruindata to change your password.
All accounts with passwords that remain unchanged will be locked on Monday, April 13, at 9 a.m., 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 George Fox login 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.
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-GFU e-mail address to activate this option. If you forgot your password, a temporary password will be sent to your non-GFU e-mail allowing you to log into Bruindata and change your university login password.
Note: See this same message was sent to your university e-mail account regarding the password change process. You are not being asked to send your login information to anyone but rather using the current university password change process that allows the individual to reset their own password.
Chapel Planning Team applications extended to Friday, April 3 by 5 p.m.
We need your help with chapel! If you’re interested in the paid position of chapel coordinator, worship band leader, stage designer or graphic designer please check out the applications in the SUB, Spiritual Life House, or on JobConnect.
For more questions contact spirituallife@georgefox.edu.
Check out the “Who is My Neighbor?” exhibit that opens at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 1, in the 515 Villa Street House (by the VAC parking lot). Move through interactive displays that focus on the exploitation of others, culture and race, homelessness, and body image. Questions? Contact Meredith Dougherty (Student Life) at mdougher@georgefox.edu.
Alpha Psi Omega, the Spanish and theatre departments and Multicultural Services are co-hosting a Spanish reader’s theatre, “Teatro de las Bohemias!,” at 6 p.m. Thursday, April 2, in Wood-Mar Auditorium.
Come see George Fox students perform scenes in Spanish from two Spanish plays. Free refreshments will be served.
Ruth Baker and Lori Allen invite the women of George Fox to a movie night at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 14, in EHS 102 on the Newberg campus. All female faculty, staff and administration employees, as well as female spouses of faculty, staff and administration, are welcome.
We will watch the movie Chocolat and have a talk-back session facilitated by Polly Peterson (Writing/Literature). Join us for great connections and some really good chocolate. Contact Lori Allen for more information at 503-487-6648.
The annual Lip Sync event is scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday, April 2, in Bauman Auditorium. Come enjoy a great show with nine lip sync acts competing for a grand prize of $300. The evening will include special appearances by some staff members.
Career Services is hosting a panel discussion, “Women and Work: Managing Multiple Roles,” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 31, in Hoover 105. Successful professionals will be on campus to provide you with insight and encouragement on the challenges of balancing careers and family life. Chapel credit is offered for students, and the event will feature refreshments and door prizes.
The Student Life Office is hiring student employees for the 2009-10 academic year.
Responsibilities and duties include:
1. Share office duties with other students: mail pick up and delivery, receptionist duties, switchboard coverage as needed, triage of students, photocopying, filing and other duties as assigned.
2. Organize and monitor shared office supplies.
3. Create bulletin boards and other types of creative communication endeavors.
4. Data entry.
Qualifications:
1. Eligible for federal work study.
2. Previous experience in an office environment.
3. Interest in Student Life programs and willingness to serve students.
4. Excelling communication skills.
5. Integrity and maintenance of confidentiality.
6. Ability to understand and follow instructions.
7. Knowledge to operate a variety of office equipment and computer programs including:
  - Microsoft Word
  - Excel
  - Access
  - Website maintenance a plus
  - Propensity to learn new software systems.
8. Initiative, accuracy and the desire to pay attention to detail.
9. Self motivated.
10. Team player.
To apply, complete the Student Employment Application. Submit the application along with a cover letter expressing your desire to work in Student Life.
Applications are due to the Student Life Office by Thursday, April 9.
Contact Megan Marsh at mmarsh@georgefox.edu or ext. 2311 with any questions.
Spring Graduates: Commencement information is available on the commencement web page found at:
http://www.georgefox.edu/offices/academic_affairs/commencement/index.html.Â
The following faculty members were granted tenure at the university’s recent board of trustees meeting: Lori DeKruyf (Graduate Counseling), Bob Hamilton (Engineering), Kendra Weddle Irons (Religious Studies), Rhett Luedtke (Performing Arts), Lisa McMinn (Sociology), and Gary Spivey (Engineering).
The board also approved promotions. Promoted from assistant to associate professor were Corey Beals (Religious Studies), Melanie Hulbert (Sociology), Sue O’Donnell (Psychology), and Mary Peterson (Graduate Psychology). Also, Judy Keeney (Education) was promoted from instructor to assistant professor.
Joel Perez (Student Life) presented a workshop, “Hard Lessons to Learn: Dealing with Racial Incidents on a Christian Campus,†at the SCORR (Student Congress on Racial Reconciliation) conference held at Biola University in La Mirada, Calif., in February.
Kathy Heininge’s (Writing/Literature) book Buffoonery in Irish Drama: Staging 20th Century Post-Colonial Stereotypes is now available from Peter Lang Publishing. Generations of Irish playwrights have tried to assert the reputation of the stage Irish figure as other than comic, but each effort was in its turn assailed as buffoonery. Using post-colonial and performative theory, Heininge’s book demonstrates the ways the Irish struggled to create a sense of identity in a colonial structure and explores the distortion and appropriation of that new identity that elicit further calls to eradicate negative stereotypes. Demonstrating the pervasiveness of the reclamation efforts, Buffoonery in Irish Drama covers a wide range of well-known and obscure plays to show the trajectory of 20th century drama that brings us into a globalized 21st-century Ireland.
Ed Higgins’ (Writing/Literature) poem “We two†was published in the March 2009 issue of Earthshine, an online poetry journal. In addition, the current online issue of Tattoo Highway features his poem “Polyphemous Remembers the Taste of Greeks.†Ed recently attended the annual Conference on College Composition and Communication in San Francisco, participating in an all-day “Writing Teachers Writing” workshop in which he read some of his own creative nonfiction and poetry.
The women’s basketball national championship T-shirts have arrived at the University Store. Two different styles are available, and one style has youth sizes. Get yours today in celebration of the team’s perfect 32-0 season. Congratulations Bruins!
