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MRSA poses small risk for youth population ERIN PETENKO ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
Antibiotic-resistant MRSA infections are typically thought to occur at hospitals and strike the elderly. But incidents can arise in more unusual locations, sometimes to those without any hospital or health care exposure, said Dr. Fernanda Lessa, a medical epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
They can even occur at Rutgers, despite its population of predominately young students. “It is rare, but it still happens. … When it happens, it is very severe,” she said. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is a staph infection that causes red and swollen skin and spreads to other organs of the body, according to the National Institute SEE MRSA ON PAGE 4
Bike lockers have been installed at Livingston Yellow Lot to allow students to safely park their bikes. TIANFANG YU / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
U., city launch bike safety initiative JUAN SACASA CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Health centers at Rutgers, such as the Hurtado Health Center on the College Avenue campus, use CDC-recommended guidelines to prevent MRSA infection. TIANYUN LIN
Bicycles, one of the most commonly stolen items on campus, will now be protected by a new measure of safety — 5-by-6-foot stainless steel bike lockers. Dorothy Le, Rutgers’ senior transpor tation planner for
Rutgers Depar tment of Transpor tation Ser vices, said the newly-installed bike lockers are located on Cook campus in Lot 98A and the Livingston campus Yellow Lot. “Our hope is to make travel between campuses easier and convenient,” Le said. “We want to assist our students [in finding]
a safe and reliable alternative to bus transpor tation.” A semester rental would cost $25, two semesters costs $40 and students can rent for a full year for $50. Currently, only five of the 40 bike lockers on campus SEE INITIATIVE ON PAGE 5
BUILD program aids RBS women’s success KATIE PARK CORRESPONDENT
The Zimmerli Art Museum displays French painter Louis Anquetin’s work as a part of the “Sports and Recreation in France” exhibit. SOURCE: ZIMMERLI.RUTGERS.EDU
Exhibit highlights sports, recreation JILLIAN PASTOR STAFF WRITER
Although Rutgers’ recent inclusion in the Big Ten Conference is a significant moment in Rutgers sports history, people have been celebrating sports and leisure for centuries before. In honor of joining the Big Ten, the Zimmerli Art Museum on the College Avenue campus opened a
new exhibit on Sept. 2 celebrating art from 19th century France that highlights the sports and recreation of that era. The inclusion of the new 19th-century French sports and recreation exhibit intends to also bring more foot traffic into the museum. Christine Giviskos, the organizer of the exhibit and the associate curator of European art at the Zimmerli, got the idea to put together
a sports- and recreation-themed exhibit after Rutgers was admitted into the Big Ten Conference. She got the works from other collections and was excited to combine the pieces. “I really want to change the way people look at museums. I want it to be something people and students alike can enjoy without having to SEE RECREATION ON PAGE 5
As Hailee Bellusci enters her final year of college and begins finishing her curriculum as a student in the Rutgers Business School, she knows she will walk away with a skill not taught in any of her courses: golfing. She is not a member of the golf team, nor does she have any experience in golf prior to college. But as a member of Women Business Undergraduates in Leadership Development, a leadership program for high-achieving and motivated women in RBS, it is one unexpected perk she is lucky enough to experience. As a budding career woman in modern-day corporate America, she is honing her golf skills, readying to play all 18 holes at a future company retreat. But until she graduates, she is still an active part of Women BUILD, networking with former BUILD alumni and learning about effective leadership and communication skills. Women BUILD, formerly known as the Women’s Business Leadership Initiative, is a three-component program divided into three years. In the first year, students participate in an orientation where they develop their knowledge about the
pervasive effects of gender discrimination in the corporate workplace. The second year offers more practical opportunities to apply BUILD concepts. Students have the opportunity to attend leadership roundtables, participate in a global citizenship project that tests their business knowledge and experience, mentor sophomores in BUILD, take on leadership positions in planning a business summit and network with powerful women. To continue onto the third year, invitations are issued to the top-performing students. Students become ambassadors of BUILD and represent the organization at corporate events within and outside the University. Once a woman completes all three steps of the program, she earns the Women BUILD certificate in Women’s Business Leadership. The mission of Women BUILD is multi-faceted, said Sangeeta Rao, assistant dean for mentoring programs at RBS. She wants to build women into strategic and business-minded thinkers with an ethical and global perspective. “We give [the students] the knowledge and the skills in order to [accomplish that],” she said. Bellusci has been a member of BUILD since her sophomore year, SEE PROGRAM ON PAGE 4
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