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Community gathers outside Wellness Center to discuss mental health following student’s fall from RoBo garage

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Community gathers outside Wellness Center to discuss mental health following student’s fall from RoBo garage

By The Whit Staff

This afternoon, following an incident at the Rowan Boulevard parking garage, students and faculty came together to discuss issues revolving around the Wellness Center and its handling of student mental health.

The impromptu meeting was held on the front steps of the Wellness Center. Discussion between participants focused on the experiences of themselves and those of people they know, as well as what improvements they think could be made at Rowan.

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Student falls from Rowan Boulevard parking garage

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Student falls from Rowan Boulevard parking garage

By The Whit Staff

At approximately noon today, an incident involving a student occurred at the Rowan Boulevard parking garage, as confirmed by Rowan Public Safety.

A male student fell from the parking garage near the Barnes & Noble and is in critical condition at Cooper University Hospital, according to an email to the university community by Joe Cardona, the vice president for university relations. Cardona declined to comment about the incident outside of the information provided in the email.

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Meet the 18-Year-Old Youth Organizer Fighting for a Greener Philly

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Meet the 18-Year-Old Youth Organizer Fighting for a Greener Philly

A staff organizer for the nationally known Sunrise Movement and a participant in Friday’s climate strike, Abigail Leedy looks to inspire her generation — and those before hers — to fight climate change.

By Alexander Heller

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Does Social Media Polarize Our Elected Officials? Short Answer, Yes. Long Answer, It’s Complicated

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Does Social Media Polarize Our Elected Officials? Short Answer, Yes. Long Answer, It’s Complicated

By Alexander Heller

Social media has changed the way people interact in politics in the U.S. and how politicians interact with their constituents. Since the founding of both Facebook and Twitter, politics as a whole became more heated and more personal. Suddenly, large swaths of people have the power to voice their concerns, albeit at the behest of qualified politicians. As people are becoming more involved with the political process it begs the question. How does social media influence political participation in the U.S.?

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Steve Sweeney visits Rowan to discuss New Jersey’s fiscal condition and future

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Steve Sweeney visits Rowan to discuss New Jersey’s fiscal condition and future

By Alexander Heller

On Monday evening, New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney visited Rowan’s Business Hall to discuss the state’s fiscal condition and its future to the public.

Held by the Rowan Institute for Public Policy and Citizenship (RIPPAC), the purpose of the meeting was to address the fiscal concerns that are plaguing New Jersey, as well as to discuss the financial issues that New Jersey students are currently facing.

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How Radio and Craigslist prove there is indeed a Central Jersey

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How Radio and Craigslist prove there is indeed a Central Jersey

By Alexander Heller

Imagine living in a place where the majority of the population in your state says doesn’t exist. You’ve lived in that area all your life believing it’s real as well as seeing the evidence yourself. However, one man’s truth is another man’s fallacy. This is the case for many New Jerseyans who’ve lived in the mythical land of Central Jersey. The Central Jersey debate has often been used as a means to bridge the divide of North and South Jersey, but more often than not Central Jersey has been seen as a laughing stock for many. No longer.

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Hard Work Yields Perfection

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Hard Work Yields Perfection

By Alexander Heller

I had to grab a Lyft to Philadelphia, due to my car acting up for the past two weeks. The ride from Glassboro to Philadelphia and back totaled around $105. Even when I’m drunk, that’s quite a rare occasion for me to be spending that much cash going to the city. As soon as my driver picked me up, my eyes were set on my destination: Kadillac Tattoo of Mount Airy, Philadelphia. The 40 minute ride on Route 76 and Lincoln Drive was not only graced with a brisk autumn day, but a collection of beautiful autumn colored leaves that danced with the sunlight, as if it were from a forest scene in a fantasy film.

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Is the criticism of the media over their coverage of the Mueller investigation justified?

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Is the criticism of the media over their coverage of the Mueller investigation justified?

By Alexander Heller

Just as we journalism majors were enjoying some much needed downtime during spring break, the Special Counsel’s office of Robert Mueller III decided to end its nearly two year investigation into whether or not Donald Trump and his campaign colluded with Russia to sway the 2016 election into his favor. As the Special Counsel was gathering evidence and indicting 34 individuals, the answer as to whether or not Russia attempted to influence the 2016 election was an unequivocal yes throughout the Justice Department, the Intelligence Community and the Special Counsel’s office. 

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Catholic priests must be held accountable

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Catholic priests must be held accountable

By Alexander Heller

In mid August, a grand jury released a statement reporting that more than 300 priests had sexually abused children all across Pennsylvania. Spanning seven decades, nearly all of these cases were protected by church leaders and were consequently covered up over the years. 

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