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Be cautious when you download apps! The app stores are crowded with of fake apps that will take your passwords and personal information. These fakers may access your phone’s camera and microphone, listening in on your conversations and watching your every move. Fake apps do everything from pop-up ad scams […]
This semester SUNY Old Westbury is implementing their online course evaluations. There will be no more paper evaluations given out in class like past semesters, but students will still be given time to fill out their evaluations during class time. Last semester they tried out both the online and […]
“There’s nothing happening over there,” complained said Banusa Sivanesathasan, a senior at SUNY Old Westbury and former reporter for Old Westbury Television (OWTV). The studio is inactive and students who wish to gain television experience are lacking a teacher. This semester Sivanesathasan has been using station equipment to shoot, however […]
The role and influence of the executive branch has been expanding and strengthening with every passing administration for decades. Some of the most powerful tools in the presidential toolbox are executive actions: executive orders and memorandums. Donald Trump promised he would be different than any other president in our history, […]
Andrea Navedo stars as Xiomara Villanueva in the hit CW show Jane the Virgin. Navedo received her bachelor’s degree in theater, a major that no longer exists, at SUNY Old Westbury. Navedo said, “I went to Old Westbury because it was the only school that took me. I applied to […]
Beginning this fall, SUNY Old Westbury will be applying a number of changes in the School of Education. Although the changes have been made for the benefit of future students, there have been a number of disagreements from students already enrolled in the program. In the past, the School of […]
Steven Abreu, a junior majoring in special education, was threatened with arrest on March 24th by the campus police while he was registering voters in the Campus Center. He videoed the incident which immediately went viral on the Internet. At press time, it had 50,000 views on Facebook and 4,000 […]
