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Staff Writer Jack Trabucco wrote an article this week explaining how he feels about Managing Editor Tara Lonsdorf's professional experiences. Except, he didn't live them. So now, she explains it back to him. - Photo via Pixabay

Lonsdorf: No, That Was Not the End of the Discussion

Tara Lonsdorf April 20, 2021

Managing Editor’s Note: Since publishing my recent article about hostility I’ve encountered as a student journalist, I’ve received overwhelming support from students, staff and faculty alike. One...

Managing Editor Tara Lonsdorf shares anecdotes about times Rowan University staff have treated The Whit with hostility over minor mistakes. She also writes about how her relationship with this kind of unconstructive criticism has changed over the past four years. - Multimedia Editor / Alexander Rossen

Lonsdorf: Discussing Hostility I’ve Faced From Rowan University Staff as a Student Journalist

Tara Lonsdorf April 14, 2021

One of my first conflicts as a Whit editor occurred when a staff member of a cultural organization called The Whit “disgusting” for not having sent a reporter to cover one of her events. She, a...

Members of Women of Westby pose for a photo. From left to right: Charlotte Steinman, Liliana Munoz Lozada, Candice Wright, Jennifer Araya, Noel Waldron and Victoria Esquilin. - Multimedia Editor / Alex Rossen

Spotlight: You (Yes, You) Can Be a Woman of Westby, Too

Tara Lonsdorf April 7, 2021

Editor's Note: This article has been updated to reflect Liliana Muñoz Lozada's role as a leader of Women of Westby. Senior advertising major Noel Waldron has spent a good portion of her time at Rowan...

- Managing Editor / Tara Lonsdorf

Timeline: Reflecting on a Year Since We Left Due to COVID

Tara Lonsdorf March 24, 2021

Since March 16, 2020 life for Rowan students has changed drastically. Let’s take a look at some of the best and worst news stories of the past year. Extended Spring Break Begins (March 16, 2020):...

You think this Pikachu card is cute? Well, good luck getting ahold of it. - Graphics Editor / Jana Jackstis

Gotta Catch ‘Em… None? How a Pandemic Gutted the Pokémon Card Hobby in South Jersey

Tara Lonsdorf March 24, 2021

Rowan University sophomore English and education major Jason Evers has just one regret about his Pokémon card collection: starting too late. By the time he’d decided to begin collecting again, after...

Students volunteer for mini games at RAH's $10,000 Bingo during the spring 2018 semester. - File Photo / Amanda Palma

Mourning the Loss of Rowan’s Bingo Culture

Tara Lonsdorf March 17, 2021

For Rowan students, the pandemic has taken a lot. It’s taken our fall sports, our hands-on learning opportunities, our Thirsty Thursday dages where ratio is three to one and the beer is absolutely disgusting...

The statue of Henry Rowan stands outside Savitz Hall, an administrative building on campus where the Office of Financial Aid is located. - File Photo / Amanda Palma

Rowan University Decreases Maximum Merit Aid for Incoming Freshmen

Tara Lonsdorf March 17, 2021

The incoming Rowan class of 2025 will no longer be able to cover full tuition with merit scholarships. Maximum merit aid available to incoming freshmen is now $10,000 per academic year and cannot be exceeded...

Elizabeth Ann is the first black-footed ferret to be cloned. She is 50 days old in this image. - Photo via Revive and Restore

Lonsdorf: Can Clones Solve the Biodiversity Crisis?

Tara Lonsdorf March 3, 2021

In February, news broke of the first cloned endangered North American animal, a black-footed ferret named Elizabeth Ann. Her birth is the result of cells cryogenically stored in 1988 from an individual...

RCBC dental hygienist, Estafany, poses with Tara Lonsdorf before her cleaning and examination. Both are Rowan students: Lonsdorf an undergrad in geology, Estefany training to be a dental hygienist. - Photo by RCBC Dental Hygiene Clinic receptionist / Mary Kay

RCBC Dental Hygiene Students Cleaned my Teeth for Three Hours and $5

Tara Lonsdorf February 17, 2021

For $5 and approximately seven hours of your life, Rowan College at Burlington County (RCBC) dental hygiene students will oblige to tell you everything wrong with your body from the neck up. At least,...

"Opticks" is a stainless steel and alumnium sculpture created by Beth Nybeck using the handwritten notes from Rowan engineering students as reference. It is meant to convey a student's head being filled with mathematical knowledge. - Photo from Rowan University Public Art Libraries.

Lonsdorf: STEM Majors, Consider Joining Student Publications

Tara Lonsdorf February 10, 2021

One of the most unique parts of my Rowan experience has been spending four years on The Whit - with three years as a full editor and one as an editor-in-chief - while never formally studying journalism....

Robinson Hall hosts the Department of Political Science and Economics, where O'Byrne formerly taught. He has been accused of threatening to withhold wages from an intern at the Camden County Historical Society. - Image from College of Science and Mathematics

Adjunct Accused of Threatening Intern’s Wages No Longer at University

Tara Lonsdorf February 10, 2021
"As a leader of a nonprofit CCHS, a professor at Rowan, and a caucasian man in a position of power, I thought you’d protect me," reads one of Helen's final responses to O'Byrne, “Instead you threatened my livelihood and career during a pandemic, knowing I’d be vulnerable. You knew what you were doing.”
Are there aliens under the Hoover Dam? You decide. - Images from Wikimedia Commons, edited by Managing Editor / Tara Lonsdorf

Lonsdorf: Hoover Dam Requires Your Mythology, America

Tara Lonsdorf February 3, 2021

If you’ve never visited the Hoover Dam, allow me to describe for you its permeating endorsement of the occult. Garbled green angel statues with angry faces strike vertical wings skyward. Meanwhile,...

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