For about two months now I have been working on this website with the assumption that Rowan University students had nothing to do. I had heard it from students over and over again, and I myself felt this way to.

So today I decided to go out and talk to some students and findout exactly what they thought of Glassboro and why.

Eddie Samuel, 20, a marketing and entrepeneur major at Rowan University thinks of Glassboro as a “pretty blue collar town aside from the school.” Samuel, who has followed business says of Glassboro, “the real estate seems pretty depressed.”

But for Samuel he has not experienced the greater part of Glassboro much. “I have had to much experience, I usually just stay in here at Rowan. There isn’t anything to do really.”

When I asked Samuel what there is to do in Glassboro, he stopped thought, and replied by asking me the same question. After a smirk, he said, “well I guess we have a Wal-mart and other stuff.” He immediately began laughing at his reply and added, “yea there is not much to do.”

But Samuel is not alone in this.

On campus I spoke to two brothers who had differing views of Rowan University. Brian Cohn, 21, is a computer engineer at Camden County College, but lives here at Rowan. When asked about Glassboro, Cohn concluded, “Glassboro is a town without a purpose, it was a town based on creating glass, and now the factory is gone. This town is Rowan University.”

But Cohn is more optomistic about the future. He talks about Rowan’s Boulevard Project which he thinks will definitely help bring the college atmosphere to Rowan University.

Others, found Rowan’s atmosphere appealing. Aaron Cohn, Brian Cohn’s brother, said of Glassboro, “I like the rural atmosphere, I think it’s an awesome little town. Its old school America, with small shops in a small town.”

But even Aaron had to admit that their was nothing to do campus, and Landmark was the only attraction outside of it.

The consensus seems to be that Glassboro, is a quaint town. An old one in decline, but revived by the budding University that took off after Henry Rowan donated money to it make it a bigger school. Still, most students are encouraged by the actions of Glassboro’s Revitalization program, which addresses all these needs.