Iris Mittenaere, representing France, last month was crowned Miss Universe 2016. And while I personally enjoyed the show, chaos broke out on social media platforms. For those who haven’t heard of this competition, Miss Universe is a beauty pageant in which one girl is selected to represent her country. Competition […]
“The sky’s the limit,” Asha Johnson passionately told me after her long shift at News 12 Long Island. She, like many other Old Westbury students, came to this college in hopes of a better future. Asha is quite popular throughout the American Studies department due her perseverance and dedication towards […]
As of October 27th, 2016, Uber has taken up the ambitious task of taking over the sky’s with the long-awaited “flying car.” Since then, Uber has remained relatively quite on how they would tackle the seemingly far-fetched project until it was unveiled on February 6th, that they have hired former […]
Thomas Pascale is the newest deputy chief of University Police. “He is a strong proponent of the community policing model, and is a welcomed addition to our agency,” stated Chief of University Police Steven Siena. According to Pascale, his position consists of assisting Chief Siena and is responsible for supervision […]
Dear Donald Trump, It seems like the whole country has been wondering the same thing for the past month of your presidency: How did the racist, fascist, sexist, homophobic, republican man with no experience manage to win the presidential election? Since the inauguration; which has been deemed the worst inauguration […]
Spring break is one of the few things that college students look forward to during their spring semester. It is a week where you can forget your classes, professors, what comes next on the syllabus, etc. No one is worried about their grades or their GPA or all the other […]
This feel-good drama takes us back to the 1960’s, when segregation and sexism was authorized, and computers were not objects, but people. Prior to IBM mainframes taking over NASA, three African-American women were considered crucial computers who worked at the NASA headquarters at Hampton, Virginia. They played an important role […]
Lingerie has always been considered “night-time wear,” the kind of outfit you throw on to impress your significant other, but is it now socially acceptable to wear lingerie in public? Stores such as Victoria’s Secret and Forever 21 have been advertising slips as everyday wear. According to them, slips are […]
Kristen Stewart came out on the Saturday Night Live stage February 4th wearing quite a risqué outfit. The Twilight star came out wearing Spanx as a dress, sending shock though the audience as well as on social media. The 26-year-old paired her black Spanx slip with a mesh skirt on […]
Kevin Wendell Crumb (James McAvoy), a mid 30’s worker at the Philadelphia zoo that just happens to have dissociative identity disorder, is otherwise a functional member of society. Kevin’s disability is not visible to those who interact with him on a daily basis, and up until now none of his […]
