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New Brunswick City Council Passes Paid Sick Leave Ordinance

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Ordinance 121501, guaranteeing paid sick and safe leave to certain New Brunswick workers, passed at the city council meeting on December 16. The ordinance will take effect in January 2016.

The legislation also calls for a sick pay administrator to deal with enacting the ordinance and handle any complaints. Maria Cody, currently the rent control coordinator of New Brunswick, will fill that role.

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Local Band Asks, “Won’t You Take Me to Funky Town?”

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Rob Romano asked to meet us at Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts, where he’s a senior majoring in printmaking.

Our meeting pulled Romano away from a performance art piece that had involved a man walking around pots and pans. It's a Mason Gross thing.

Romano is the frontman of Professor Caveman, a band popular in New Brunswick’s basement scene.

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Rutgers Hosts Free Public Conference Addressing Urban Heritage

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—The Rutgers Department of Art History's Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies program will be hosting a conference called "Shifting Cities: Urban Heritage in the 21st Century" from Thursday, November 12 through Sunday, November 14.

All events are free and open to the public, although pre-registration is required.

You can register for the conference online at chaps.rutgers.edu/register.html.

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Founder of Rutgers Digital Film Program Ousted as New Major Launches

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Until last spring, Dena Seidel was director of the Rutgers Center for Digital Filmmaking in the Mason Gross School of the Arts.

Seidel founded the program, building it up from nothing, her supporters say.  And this year, the school for the first time is offering a new major in filmmaking.

But Seidel is no longer at Rutgers, unable to see the fruits of her labor blossom, and a growing number of students are crying foul about her abrupt departure.