The Daily Bruin

This Saturday, Aug. 26, Mail Services will be open between 1 and 4:30 p.m. for you to come pick up your packages.

The Hadlock Student Center will be closed for staff training tomorrow (Thursday). If you plan to rent outdoor equipment such as paddleboards and kayaks, please make arrangements to pick up your equipment today and drop it off on Friday (or another day).

Pick-up and drop-off services will not available when we are closed. If you have any questions, please contact us at studentcenter@georgefox.edu.

If you are looking to get information about on-campus jobs, win prizes, sign up for direct deposit, or fill out your new hire paperwork, come find us at the Community Fair this Friday, Aug. 25!

Stop by the student employment table between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. in the quad to see what’s going on.

Welcome Weekend is almost here! In order for our hundreds of new students to have a seamless move-in experience, we need extra cooperation from the staff, faculty and students already here on Thursday evening, Aug. 24, and Friday, Aug. 25.

Staff and faculty: Please plan to park along the street, in the Bauman or 99W lot on Friday.

Students: If your on-campus residence is Pennington, Edwards, Weesner Village, Hobson, Macy, Sutton, Le Shana, Gulley, Brandt or Newlin halls, we need you to vacate the lots associated with these locations on Thursday morning and stay out of them on Friday.

If you normally park in the Le Shana or Newlin Hall lots, please move your cars as close to Fulton Street as possible so that the areas in front of the buildings remain clear. You can also move your vehicles to the Bauman lot.

Everyone who parks in the Pennington lot, lollipop area, Edwards or Weesner Village needs to move to the 99W lot on Thursday morning. Please keep Sheridan Street clear for easier access for our incoming students!

The lot in between the Roberts Center, Gulley and Brandt halls must be vacated on Thursday evening.

Questions? Please contact Campus Public Safety at 503-554-2090 and view the parking brochure on the CPS website for lot locations. Thank you in advance for your cooperation to help make move-in day the best day ever for our new students!

Beginning this semester, the university is no longer offering its own primary medical care. Rather, we are welcoming a new health care model for students in partnership with Providence Medical Group.

The medical care clinic will continue to be co-located with counseling services, but it will be staffed by providers from Providence Health systems. As such, medical care will be accessed through students’ medical insurance plan similar to when they go to see their own medical care providers at home (with the requisite costs associated with their medical insurance plan such as co-pays and deductibles).

Please note that this change only applies to medical care. Counseling services will continue to be offered to students through George Fox at no additional cost.

We believe students will be well-served by partnering with Providence Medical Group. A couple of anticipated advantages of moving to this model are expanded hours and access to Providence Health system’s expansive network of specialists and medical services.

The new Providence medical services and George Fox counseling services will be housed in the Health and Counseling Center’s current location on campus (Woodward House). We are looking forward to the excellent medical care that Providence will provide and will be communicating details regarding these changes on the Health and Counseling website.

The Maker’s Market will be reopening this Friday, Aug. 25, with limited hours. We will be open from 11:15 a.m. to 3 p.m. On Monday, Aug. 28, we will begin normal hours.

We look forward to seeing everyone again!

Calling all knitters, crocheters, felters and sewists! The “Needle Nerds” will be hosting a Crafting Community Hour on Wednesdays in the Murdock Library from noon to 1 p.m. throughout the fall semester.

Bring your latest project; all small crafts and abilities are welcome! Email Kate Wimer at kwimer@georgefox.edu with questions, or just check in with us during one of our open meetings.

The library is pleased to deliver library materials for participating faculty to their office on the Newberg campus. Library materials must be signed for by the faculty member or persons authorized to sign.

Simply fill out this form to request courier service. If you have any questions, please contact Mary Cameron at mcameron@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2422.

Due to Bruin Sports Day today (Tuesday), Bon Appetit will be opening for lunch earlier. Tuesday only, we will be open from 11 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

Our hours are always updated at georgefox.cafebonappetit.com. Any questions? Please feel free to contact Katie Anderson at andersonk@georgefox.edu.

One of the best things about George Fox is our welcoming spirit. In an effort to extend that gift to our Spanish-speaking community (families, guests and students), we are offering our campus community the opportunity to pick up a button that identifies you as someone who can help in their home language.

If you speak Spanish proficiently and would like to be a resource, we have a button for you! These buttons can/should be worn during large anchor events (Welcome Weekend, Family Weekend, prospective events, etc.) and then displayed on your desk for the rest of the year.

You can pick up these awesome buttons in the Barclay House (SpiL and Parent and Family Programs), beginning tomorrow (Wednesday), between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m., and after Welcome Weekend in Carlee Anglin’s office in the Meridian Street House.

Feel free to contact Megan Fisher at mfisher@georgefox.edu with any questions.

Join the university’s esports camp happening in the Wheeler building today through Friday, Aug. 25! Sign up, bring your kids, and have them join our youth community here at George Fox.

Here are some of the details:

• University lunch included
• Sessions meet from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily
• Build a desktop gaming PC
• As much off-screen time as on-screen time
• Participate in the college esports scene
• Learn physical exercises and techniques you can use to keep your body in peak performance

For more information, please contact Miles Dean at mdean@georgefox.edu or Jerry Sanchez at jsanchez@georgefox.edu.

Hello staff and administrators!

The Professional Development Committee would like to invite you to a Portland Center frozen treat social this Thursday, Aug. 24, from 2 to 2:45 p.m.!

Our committee focuses on promoting personal and professional growth for staff and administrators to promote communication, fellowship, and unity within the George Fox community. We are hopeful that this will be a sweet time to pause, enjoy a frozen treat, and fellowship with your coworkers.

Join us Thursday at the front desk atrium area while supplies last. We will also have gluten free and dairy free options.

Hope to see you there!

Hello staff and administrators!

The Professional Development Committee would like to invite you to a frozen treat social today (Tuesday)!

Our committee focuses on promoting personal and professional growth for staff and administrators to promote communication, fellowship, and unity within the George Fox community. We are hopeful that this will be a sweet time to pause, enjoy a frozen treat, and fellowship with your coworkers.

Join us between 3 and 4 p.m. in the quad in front of Stevens, while supplies last! We will also have gluten free and dairy free options!

Hope to see you there!

Want to start your day off right? Join us for a practice of daily morning prayer! Beginning on Monday, Aug. 28, we will be gathering together daily (Monday through Friday) from 8:30 to 8:50 a.m. in the courtyard outside the Hoover art gallery (until the rains come or we outgrow the space!).

All students, faculty, and staff are all welcome! If you have any questions, please contact Travis Pickell at tpickell@georgefox.edu.

Interested in how politics works at the state level? Curious about public policy and advocacy? Want to meet and hear from state legislators, a campaign manager, a political reporter, a political communications director, a legislative director, a public policy analyst, and more?

If you said yes to any of these questions, then PSCI 285/485: Oregon Politics is the class for you.

Christine Drazan, former minority leader of the Oregon House of Representatives (2019-21) and the Republican candidate for governor (2022), will teach this class aimed at helping students understand and navigate public policy, advocacy, and civic engagement.

This class is offered at both the 200 and 400 levels. Students who take the upper-division version will have more rigorous assignment expectations than those who register for the lower-division option. The class meets on Thursdays from 6:30 to 9 p.m. and is open to all students, freshmen to seniors.

If you have any questions, please contact Caitlin Corning, chair of the Department of History and Politics, at ccorning@georgefox.edu.

We are so excited for our fall semester chapel calendar! The schedule is up on iAttended, and you can check it out for yourself.

If you are an incoming student, make sure you download the iAttended app before school starts. Remember that every student needs to complete 15 chapel credits by the end of each semester. Ten of those credits need to be in Bauman Auditorium at our Tuesday/Thursday chapels, and the other five can be done in chapel or through elective credits.

Looking forward to seeing you there, and we can’t wait to see what God has in store for us this year!

Hello staff and administrators!

The Professional Development Committee would like to invite you to a frozen treat social tomorrow (Tuesday)!

Our committee focuses on promoting personal and professional growth for staff and administrators to promote communication, fellowship, and unity within the George Fox community. We are hopeful that this will be a sweet time to pause, enjoy a frozen treat, and fellowship with your coworkers.

Join us between 3 and 4 p.m. in the quad in front of Stevens, while supplies last! We will also have gluten free and dairy free options!

Hope to see you there!

Oregon Backflow will be on campus testing water devices in all buildings on campus today (Monday) and tomorrow. Water pressure will be affected, and some water may be shut off for brief periods of time as well.

Thank you for your patience and understanding during this time. Contact the Office of Plant Services at plantservices@georgefox.edu with any questions.

When ordering your packages, please remember to use the correct shipping address: 501 N. Villa Road, Newberg, OR 97132. There is an address across the street from the Roberts Center that reads 510 N. Villa Road, and some student packages have been delivered there.

Please note that any misdelivered package(s) to that address will not be brought over to Mail Services, students will not be allowed to pick up packages at that address, and the resident at that address will not be returning any misdelivered packages to the sender.

Please be sure to double-check that your name and correct address is in the shipping information when ordering your packages. If you have any questions, please contact Richard Silver at rsilver@georgefox.edu.

Welcome back!

Attention Windows users: If your PC has become slow or sluggish with any process, please email the IT Service Desk at servicedesk@georgefox.edu. A recent update from Microsoft has introduced some background processes that are not needed and are consuming resources. We are able to resolve this issue quickly and remotely for you if you let us know.