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College Students are Not Getting Enough Sleep

Raymond Lall spends his week doing what most other third year college students do: going to class, typing up five-page essays, clocking in heavy hours at his part-time job, and being deprived of a sufficient night’s sleep. “My schedule is packed. I get home, try to knock out homework and […]

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Big Win for Diversity at The Oscars, But Is There Still Work to Be Done?

The 2019 Oscars ceremony shockingly turned out to be a decent show. The surprise comes from following the long and messy road going into the 91st Academy Awards, witnessing all the backlash and backpedaling on the Academy’s controversial decisions. Starting with the Kevin Hart fiasco, where Hart was announced to […]

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Multifaith Forum

SUNY Old Westbury hosted a Multifaith panel at the Recital Hall in the Campus Center on February 21. The panel consisted of six guest speakers: Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi who discussed Judaism, Reverend Marcus Tillery who discussed Christianity, Mohammed Hafeez Abdullah who spoke on Islam, Sarabjit Kaur who spoke on Sikhism, […]

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The Lego Movie 2

Back when the original The Lego Movie came out in 2014, expectations for a movie about talking Legos were extremely low. Not considering myself a part of the film’s demographic, I would have normally ignored the film had I not had three baby brothers who were all eagerly excited to see a […]