THE DAILY TARGUM
Volume 141, Number 77
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The Rutgers wrestling team puts its 10-match unbeaten streak on the line against No. 19 Virginia tonight at the Louis Brown Athletic Center.
RUSA election brings back old controversy BY CHRIS ZAWISTOWSKI STAFF WRITER
Rutgers University Student Assembly Treasurer Yousef Saleh was elected vice-chair of RUSA last night after a hotly contested debate rekindled tensions over the organization’s decision last semester to
allow the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund to have rights to the meal sign-away program. While the debate was heated, both sides apologized at the end of the meeting and called for unity moving forward.
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FUSION ON THE DANCE FLOOR
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Rutgers College graduate Lisa Vignuolo swears in as Middlesex County Superior Court Judge Wednesday in New Brunswick. She credits her success as a lawyer to her father’s influence and support.
Alumna takes seat on superior court BY AMBIKA SUBRAMANYAM STAFF WRITER
A University alumna attained her childhood dream Wednesday afternoon when she was sworn in as a Middlesex County Superior Court Judge. Former Gov. Jon S. Corzine appointed Judge Lisa Vignuolo, the daughter of prominent lawyer Anthony Vignuolo. Her father, a partner of a local law firm, was one of her main inspirations, she said. “I loved watching my father in court as a child,” said Lisa Vignuolo, a Rutgers College and Seton Hall University School of Law graduate.
She has been working at the same practice as her father — Borrus, Goldin, Foley, Vignuolo, Hyman & Stahl PC — where she was a senior par tner before being appointed. “I wanted to work and serve in the same place my grandparents chose to raise their families,” Lisa Vignuolo said. “I have been incredibly lucky to work with such a great group of professionals, [and retiring from the practice] is the bittersweet part of this process.” Anthony Vignuolo said his daughter always had the desire to be a judge. “In elementary school … when all the other students dressed up
as policemen, firefighters and doctors … Lisa dressed as a municipal court judge,” he said. She also worked as the Prosecutor for the Borough of Milltown, as well as the Public Prosecutor for Milltown and Car teret. While Lisa Vignuolo was incredibly dedicated to her work at the firm, she was equally as dedicated to the field of law itself, Judge Phillip Lewis Paley said. She completed the Joseph Halpern American Inn of Cour t, which is designed to improve SEE COURT
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Latino students protest for immigrant rights
INDEX UNIVERSITY Open mic night gives amateur comedians a chance to show off their humor.
BY COLLEEN ROACHE CORRESPONDENT
OPINIONS An unarmed man robs a bank after deciding that he hates being poor. See if he stole a dart or laurel this week. UNIVERSITY . . . . . . . 3
JOVELLE TAMAYO/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Mason Gross School of the Arts faculty Kimani Fowlin, center, guides participants Deborah Carr, left, and Julie Roth in the free Fusion Dance sample class held Thursday at the Nicholas Music Center on Douglass campus.
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Organizations under the umbrella of the Latino Student Council protest to raise awareness about the New Jersey In-State Tuition Act. Students plan to hold more events during the semester to support passage of the bill.
Chants of “No justice, no peace,” filled the streets last night as students marched in support of legislation to allow children of undocumented immigrants to pay in-state tuition rates at the University. Students from the Latino Student Council, which is made up of various Latino organizations on campus, marched, equipped with picket signs and a megaphone, from the Center for Latino Arts and Culture down College Avenue and George Street.
The protest was organized to raise support for the New Jersey In-State Tuition Act, which never reached the state Senate floor earlier this month. Christian Estevez, a representative from the Latino Action Network, came to show support for the students. “We’re doing this because we tried to do it at the state [level] through legislation, and the state Senate declined to even bring it up for a vote,” Estevez said. “The students realize now that the only way to get equal education for all immigrant students is by demanding it.”
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LEGENDARY AUTHOR J.D. SALINGER DIES AT 91 Renowned author J.D. Salinger died Wednesday at his home in Cornish, N.H., according to an article in The New York Times. He was 91 years old. Salinger’s literary representative Harold Ober Associates, Inc. said the death was from natural causes, according to the article. “Despite having broken his hip in May, his health had been excel-
lent until a rather sudden decline after the new year. He was not in any pain before or at the time of his death,” the agency said in the ar ticle. Author of the acclaimed literary classic “The Catcher in the Rye,” Salinger became a best-selling author after the book was published in 1951, according to the article. The
novel’s protagonist, Holden Caulfield, became America’s bestknown literar y truant since Huckleberry Finn. Salinger is also the author of many other works, including “Nine Stories,” “Franny and Zooey” and “Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction.”
Shortly after the books were published, Salinger left his Manhattan home in 1953 — and literary career along with it — and moved to a 90acre compound on a wooded hillside in Cornish, N.H, where he lived in seclusion for more than 50 years, according to the article. — Ariel Nagi