5 Questions: FSU President Joe Scalia

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1. What is your best memory at Fanshawe so far?
“I have so many! That's hard... I guess coming back; I was here for a year, 2005—2006, and then there was a faculty strike, and then I decided not to return. I took a year off, and worked, and sort of hated it. I decided I'd smar ten up and I'd come back and take it more seriously. And I did — I was a custodian and from there it just snowballed into today, so coming back and having the friends I have now, it's a good memory. The best decision I made was coming back to college.”

2. What is one thing we should know about you, and one thing we shouldn't know about you?
“One thing you should know about me is that I'm pretty good at following up on things. When I want to do something, I know the steps that need to be done to do it. I've been pretty consistent with following through on my goals in the past couple of years. “One thing you shouldn't know about me? Outside of work, I'm really lazy. When I get home, I don't want to do anything. I order take-out, because I don't want to make dinner, you know? I just want to put my feet up, and sort of veg out.”

3. What is a service/event/etc. the FSU offers that no one knows about?
“We have an award, we also have a bursary, so we give money to students. The bursary is for a part-time work study student who works at the Student Union, the award is for a SAC member... it's hard to say ‘the best', but I guess the one who stands out the most on SAC gets this award, and it pays their tuition. So it pays to get involved.”

4. What's something weird that has happened to you since you joined the FSU?
“You get a lot more attention, that's for sure. People want to be your friend now; people you'd see in the halls for years, all of a sudden want to go up and talk to you, and before they didn't. I don't know if that's something weird that's happened to me, but it is weird to me, the amount of attention that I'm getting.”

5. What's an FSU service that has helped you out?
“We hire a lot of staff, and most of them are students, right? I wouldn't be here if I wasn't a staff member; I was a custodian, like I mentioned, and then a videographer, and after all of that, working for FSU for two years, [I can say] having staff, having the services that we do that hire students has helped me, big time.”