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INSIDE THE HAWK THIS WEEK:

Benjamin lackey ‘14/the hawk

michael Desciak, ‘14, hits the books in the Drexel library on monday, nov. 29. For more coverage of the rush to finals week, visit our online photo gallery at www.sjuhawknews.com.

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campus controversy Quelled

a Plethora of PuzzlesDe-stress with a double dose of sodoku, mazes,

and crossword puzzles, page 11.

the long-standing battle over Maguire Campus is finally over. Read our coverage on pages 3 and 4.

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Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010

SBAC denies student budget cutsASHLEY CRISO ’12Assistant News Editor

The Student Budget Advisory Board (SBAC), is responsible for allocating about $200,000 worth of funds from the university to over 80 student-run organi-zations on campus. Every year, the SBAC conducts an annual process to determine the allocation of these budgets.

Mahmoud Mustafa,’12, vice president for financial affairs of the University Stu-dent Senate (U.S.S.), requires each student organization on campus to fill out the student budget packets during the annual process. “Its importance to its organization and

any details we need to figure out in order to approve their requests, this year, actu-ally was the first year in the SBAC history

The three Rs: reuse, recycle, Robinson

SAM KOCH ’11Editor-in-Chief

Remember that half-eaten lunch you “ac-cidentally” threw in a recycling can? Ruby Robinson does.Robinson is responsible for collection

of recyclable materials for approximately 70 buildings at Saint Joseph’s University. Hired in the summer of 2007, Robinson loads and unloads her truck four or five times a day as she empties recycling bins across campus. “I have a passion for it,” said Robinson

of recycling. “I’m into it now.”In an effort to preserve as much of the

recyclables as possible during her daily collections, Robinson has been known to rifle through bags in order to pry out an offensive piece of trash, or pull staples out of papers.“My biggest problem is the contamina-

tion,” said Robinson.Last week before Thanksgiving break,

Robinson collected 19 bags of “recy-cling,” 10 of which were actually trash that had to be thrown away. “Well, it’s just sad to contaminate recy-

cling this way,” Robinson said.Trash and food can contaminate a bag

of recyclables, making it more difficult or impossible to recycle the contents of a bin.“It can get frustrating at times when you

see the different things that go in—enve-lopes, for one, because of the sticky part,” Robinson said. “I do have a passion for it. At home, everything gets recycled, ev-erything gets washed out, whereas here it can be frustrating because last week I had more bags of trash than I had recycling.”Robinson said there are some areas of

campus that are better than others when it comes to recycling materials properly and

where we didn’t have to take budget cuts across the board,” he says.The SBAC is composed of two student

members, two Student Union Board (SUB) members, two student senate mem-bers, and two Organization Presidents’ Association OPA members in order to bring broad rationale to the organizational processes. The SBAC rationalizes through