Mirror - Vol. 33, No. 24 - April 03, 2008

              WEEK OF APRIL 3,2008
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Nautical
Nissan:
Maintenance truck
found in bottom of pond
BY JESS MITCHELL
Lynne McDonald/The Mirror
Cleanup, cleanup, everybody everywhere: Grace Duy '10, above left, and Sarah Bolt '10, above right, help to water seal a wooden
playground at Sterling House in Stratford, Conn., along with other Fairfield volunteers. Their efforts were part of Hunger Cleanup,
which celebrated its 20th anniversary this year and has raised nearly $10,000. Hunger Cleanup's goal is to try to end hunger and
homelessness in America. Fairfield students were sent to a variety of local locations including AmeriCare, the Caroline House, the Sal-vation
Army and Mohonk Children's Home, which has been a site for each of the past 20 years. Nearly 500 students participated and
local organizations, such as Subway, A&S and Mike's Pizza, donated food for the volunteers. Hunger Cleanup is taking donations until
the end of April in hopes of reaching its goal of raising $10,000. See the full story on p 2.
Breaking down the FUSAbudget
BY CHRISTOPHER HALISKOE
As FUSA continues to pimp pumpkins,
bring in Ludacris, and create street signs,
one question often comes to mind: Who
foots the bill?
When mid-April rolls around, FUSA
officials gear up for yet another budget ap-proval
session. The
budget was overseen
this year by two-term
FUSA Treasury sec-retary
Tim Dee '08.
"The budget does
play a large role in the
operations of FUSA,
mostly with program-ming,"
said Dee.
A total of 69 per-cent
of the budget is
allocated to FUSA event programming.
The $263,500 that the FUSA budget
holds is funded by the $85 student fee that
is a component of the student tuition.
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Dee said that the FUSA budget is
negotiated between the incoming FUSA
president and the incoming secretary of the
treasury, positions now held by Jeff Seiser
'10 and Nicole Barone '09, respectively.
Seiser said he "needs to
sit with the executive board
and see where the money has
gone."
He said he has a general
understanding about what the
money was used for, but
wants to see specifics to de-termine
whether any part of
the organization should have a
greater allocation of funds.
Dee explained the pro-cess
of budget allocation.
"I look at the expenses
of FUSA for the previous
three years and look at any
other organizations that have
been spending their money
wisely and could use a budget
increase," said Dee.
In the 2007-2008 budget, FUSA de-voted
$69,000 to special events, with an
additional $33,000 going toward major
SEE "FUSA" ON p. 6
20072008 FUSA Budget
Tom:
Photo Illustration by Rob Fitzgerald
Cash, money: Last year's budget played a large role in
FUSA's operations; next year's will be announced soon.
Easter Sunday: A strange and
unlikely time for a felonious "joy ride"
that would come to a splashing halt in
Bellarmine pond.
Around 9 p.m. that night, a stu-dent
reported headlights coming from
the water of the pond, located near the
Barlow Road entrance.
Public Safety arrived at the pond
across from the Dolan School of
Business at the same time as Fairfield
Police.
A quarter-ton 1991 Nissan pickup
truck, one of 38 maintenance trucks
on campus, was found submerged in
the water.
"The truck was pretty well
drowned and water was sucked into
the engine," said Ted Hunyadi, direc-tor
of operations on campus.
Hunyadi called the incident "sus-picious"
and said the truck, which had
70,000 miles on it, was totaled.
All gates on campus were locked
over Easter weekend, excluding the
Peter Caty/The Mirror
Riding dirty: A Fairfield maintenance
truck was discovered on Easter Sun-day
submerged in the Dolan School of
Business pond.
main entrance and, according to
Hunyadi, the truck was parked in the
Maintenance Complex located next to
the Pepsico Theater since it was last
used on Thursday afternoon.
"Anybody could've gotten into
the maintenance yard," he said. "I
don't think it could've been a stu-dent."
Public Safety officer Mike Lau-zon
said the incident is still under
investigation, but said that someone
probably went into the maintenance
yard, found the vehicle unlocked,
then started it up and went for a
"joyride."
The keys were in the ignition
when Fairfield Fire Department pulled
the truck out of the water, however
no one was "supposed" to be driv-ing
the truck that night, according to
Lauzon.
Divers from the police and fire
SEE "MAINTENANCE" ON P. 6
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p. 20