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Wellness Center staff prepares to walk banner out during Take Back the Night on April 2. - Managing Editor / Abigail Twiford

Take Back The Night provides unity and community for sexual abuse survivors

Abigail Twiford April 3, 2024

Despite the dreary and damp conditions outside, dozens of people made their way out for Take Back The Night on Tuesday, April 2. The Wellness Center’s annual event invites people throughout the Rowan...

Glassboro Police Department’s efforts is deploying “Party Patrols,” which are groups of officers who patrol every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights. - Graphics Editors / Julia Quennessen

Glassboro PD deploys “Party Patrol” after shooting & stabbing over Halloweekend

Sarah Shockey November 8, 2023

This past Halloween weekend, Glassboro residents and Rowan students were alerted about violent incidents that occurred near campus, with stabbings and gunshots reported.  There was a reported...

Rowan Public Safety hosts an annual Rape Aggression Defense Course to raise awareness and teach students to defend themselves. - Photo via Rowan University

Rowan Public Safety will host Rape Aggression Defense Class to empower and educate students on self-defense

Emily Carabasi November 1, 2023

Since 1989, Rowan University’s Department of Public Safety has offered the Rape Aggression Defense System program—a course that emphasizes awareness, prevention, risk education, and avoidance of various...

Students created the Star of David out of candles over the Rowan torch seal in support of the lives that have been lost to acts of terrorism. - Co-News Editor / Gianna Malgieri

Rowan students attend rally to support those in Israel

Gianna Malgieri and Brendan Cohen October 11, 2023

As a reaction to Saturday’s attack on scores of Israeli civilians near the Gaza Strip by the terrorist group Hamas, Rowan's chapter of Chabad, a world-renowned Jewish organization, created a “rally...

The Wellness Center offers a host of resources including individual and group counseling, reporting resources, ER transportation for evidence collection, Famcare and medications for STI and pregnancy prevention. - Opinion Editor / Sylent Michaels

Rowan navigates college “Red Zone” after sexual assault on campus

Abigail Twiford September 13, 2023

What is Rowan doing to navigate sexual assault during the Red Zone period? Within the first week of the fall semester of 2023, a timely warning from Rowan’s Department of Public Safety was issued...

After students expressed wanting more details in Rowan Alerts and Timely Warning, the most recent one was more descriptive although the correlation between complaints and this email is undetermined. Graphic Editors / Julia Quennessen

Rowan issues more detailed Timely Warning after student shot with BB gun

Madison Miller April 12, 2023

A Rowan student was recently shot with a BB gun off campus just a block away from school grounds, according to the most recent Rowan Timely Warning.  The student did not report any injuries, suspects,...

About once a week, Ta is finding that people who are attempting to steal are the main people harassing sales associates, escalating in the recent years of the pandemic. -Photo via pixabay.com.

Crime Trend: Violence Against Retail Workers

Mya Calderon April 5, 2022

“I think with the pandemic, people are more desperate,” said Luan Ta, a manager of an American Eagle located in the Deptford Mall in Deptford, NJ. “People lost their jobs, they can’t get their...

Rowan students join in solidarity of the Jewish Community after the shooting in Pittsburgh in October 2018. - File Photo / Miguel Martinez

Candlelight vigil held on Rowan’s campus in solidarity with Jewish community

Grace Clevenger October 31, 2018

On Saturday, Oct. 27, suspect Robert Bowers opened fire at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, killing 11 people. To remember and to bring attention to this event, Chabad, Hillel and Alpha Epsilon...

Brooks: What happens when we normalize the "lone wolf" narrative (Photo courtesy of Creative Commons)

Brooks: What happens when we normalize the “lone wolf” narrative

Alexandria Brooks October 4, 2017

It’s safe to say that for most people waking up Monday morning involved being confused and saddened by the shooting that happened Sunday night in Las Vegas at a Jason Aldean concert. Dozens of people...

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