Rowan University

Police raided the off-campus home of three Rowan University students Friday morning, seizing marijuana and more than $1,000 in cash. Christopher Panella, 19, was charged with possession with intent to distribute, according to Glassboro police. His roommates, Kyle Seery, 20, and Michael Ninta, 20, were charged with simple drug possession. They were released pending a future court date. Rowan officials will review the charges and could take disciplinary action against the students, a university spokesman said.

Robert Hess leaves two trash bins outside his house: one for his family and another for Rowan University students who live nearby. A few years ago, his son, then 5, was playing barefoot in the front yard when he stepped on a broken bottle, presumably left by an inconsiderate student. "I remember pulling glass out of his feet," Hess, 38, said Tuesday. His situation reflects the relatively new reality Glassboro residents face. While the borough trumpets redevelopment efforts and new attractions downtown, students are increasingly living in the town's residential areas - partly as a result of the construction.

After 143 candidates and a yearlong search, Rowan University appointed a provost yesterday. Helen Giles-Gee will be coming to Rowan from the State University of New York at Cortland, where she has been dean of professional studies since 1998. She also has been associate vice chancellor for faculty affairs for the 11-school University of Maryland system. The Alabama native, who has degrees in science education, psychobiology and zoology from the University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers University, has also taught at Rutgers and Cheyney University.

Stephen Sweeney took the lectern Friday morning, looked out at a sea of undergraduates dressed in the robes he had never gotten to wear, and addressed the university he had not attended but has had a continuing hand in shaping. "This event is about much more than a diploma that you'll proudly display on a wall. It symbolizes the beginning of a new and exciting chapter for each of you. And I'd be lying if I said I didn't envy you," the New Jersey Senate president told the 2,195 students and 13,000 guests at Rowan University's undergraduate commencement ceremony in Glassboro.

On one flat-screen, a young woman talks about being stalked. On a monitor across the room, another sexual-assault victim describes the incident that changed, and still haunts, her life. "The next thing I remember, he was on top of me," she tells the interviewer. "I distinctly remember saying, 'I don't want to do this.' " Her name is Katya Palsi, and on the day we meet she is watching herself on video in a Rowan University editing suite, hoping that her candor will help prevent what happened to her when she was 15 from happening to others.

After a young woman in her neighborhood committed suicide in April, Pamela Robb vowed to attend the Camden Trauma Summit. "If one of us is hurting, we're all hurting," said Robb, 58, the tenant association president at the Northgate II high-rise in North Camden. A Camden resident for a half-century, Robb was among 150 citizens, clergy, and public health and safety professionals who gathered Monday at the Cooper Medical School of Rowan University. The relentless toll that violence exacts on Camden, a big small town that's been called America's most dangerous city, was the focus of the summit.

The Rowan University women's track and field team won the Eastern College Athletic Conference championship in Springfield, Mass., on Friday. Among the highlights, Shailah Williams (Pemberton) won the 400 meters in 56.32 seconds. Vanessa Wright (Haddonfield) came in second in the 1,500 and the 4x800 squad of Vanessa Valdes, Jessalynn Wright (Cherokee), Melirah Search and Vanessa Wright finished second. In the men's competition, Rowan's Demetrius Rooks (Absegami) won the 400 hurdles.

In the 27 years that Stanley Austin has lived at the South Fifth Street rowhouse in Camden where his wife grew up, he's raised five children and started a DJ business. Austin's memory-full house will be torn down, along with another dozen properties, as Rowan University paves the way for Block 189 to be transformed into a parking garage with first-floor shops. The block is bounded by Fifth, Benson, Williams, and Washington Streets. Since June, Rowan has been in negotiations with the owners of 22 properties that make up the block behind the new Cooper Medical School of Rowan University.

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Stephen Sweeney took the lectern Friday morning, looked out at a sea of undergraduates dressed in the robes he had never gotten to wear, and addressed the university he had not attended but has had a continuing hand in shaping. "This event is about much more than a diploma that you'll proudly display on a wall. It symbolizes the beginning of a new and exciting chapter for each of you. And I'd be lying if I said I didn't envy you," the New Jersey Senate president told the 2,195 students and 13,000 guests at Rowan University's undergraduate commencement ceremony in Glassboro.

The Rowan University women's track and field team won the Eastern College Athletic Conference championship in Springfield, Mass., on Friday. Among the highlights, Shailah Williams (Pemberton) won the 400 meters in 56.32 seconds. Vanessa Wright (Haddonfield) came in second in the 1,500 and the 4x800 squad of Vanessa Valdes, Jessalynn Wright (Cherokee), Melirah Search and Vanessa Wright finished second. In the men's competition, Rowan's Demetrius Rooks (Absegami) won the 400 hurdles.

After a young woman in her neighborhood committed suicide in April, Pamela Robb vowed to attend the Camden Trauma Summit. "If one of us is hurting, we're all hurting," said Robb, 58, the tenant association president at the Northgate II high-rise in North Camden. A Camden resident for a half-century, Robb was among 150 citizens, clergy, and public health and safety professionals who gathered Monday at the Cooper Medical School of Rowan University. The relentless toll that violence exacts on Camden, a big small town that's been called America's most dangerous city, was the focus of the summit.

Carroll B. Shingleton Jr., 84, of Moorestown, the president, chairman and CEO of the former Burlington County Trust Co. from 1980 to 1984 and Moorestown Citizen of the Year in 1991, died of cancer on Thursday, April 25, at Virtua Memorial in Mount Holly. Mr. Shingleton, known as CB, became executive vice president of First Fidelity Bank after the banks merged in 1984 and served there until 1989. He was a senior vice president for business development at First Peoples Financial Corporation in Haddon Township from 1990 to 1992.

It has happened fast for Adonis Jennings. It has also been a long road. "I've worked hard to make this happen," Jennings said of his emergence as one of the most highly recruited football players in the state in the class of 2014. A junior wide receiver at Timber Creek, Jennings has generated plenty of buzz this spring. He was the only South Jersey player on the list when the ESPN 150 was announced a couple of weeks ago. A four-star recruit, he was No. 132 nationally and No. 5 in New Jersey.

Rowan University learned Monday that it would receive more than $117 million in state funds to expand and improve academic buildings, and Rutgers University will receive more than $55 million for enhancements in Camden. The money will flow from a $750 million capital improvement fund for higher education created by a bond referendum question approved by voters in November, and an additional $550 million in bond reauthorizations recently approved by the Legislature. "This is wonderful news, a wonderful day," said Rowan president Ali Houshmand.

Quilts for Kids, a Fairless Hills charity that makes quilts for children with life-threatening illnesses or who have suffered abuse, named Michael J. Kline treasurer. He is a partner at Citrin Cooperman, Philadelphia.   Brian J. Hoffman has been named to the board of Select Greater Philadelphia, the economic-development arm of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce. He is a partner at Citrin Cooperman, Philadelphia.   Visit Bucks County, a tourism-promotion agency, named Ron Gilbert to its board.

In the 27 years that Stanley Austin has lived at the South Fifth Street rowhouse in Camden where his wife grew up, he's raised five children and started a DJ business. Austin's memory-full house will be torn down, along with another dozen properties, as Rowan University paves the way for Block 189 to be transformed into a parking garage with first-floor shops. The block is bounded by Fifth, Benson, Williams, and Washington Streets. Since June, Rowan has been in negotiations with the owners of 22 properties that make up the block behind the new Cooper Medical School of Rowan University.

TRENTON - Gov. Christie and Rutgers University's president believe a higher education merger can be completed on time, although nearly 2,000 items are still on the to-do list as the July 1 deadline approaches. Christie said he's confident that Robert Barchi, Rutgers' president, can complete the deal, which breaks up the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and gives most of it, including a coveted medical school, to Rutgers. The deal also links Rutgers-Camden with Rowan University for new academic collaborations, though it does not merge the two South Jersey schools as initially proposed.