SUNY Old Westbury mourns the loss of first-year student, Tania Bonilla who died in a motor vehicle accident on Saturday, July 18th. Bonilla was driving on the eastbound on the Southern State Parkway heading towards Sagtikos State Parkway before 3 am when she left the roadway and struck a guardrail […]
Pictures, profits, and peril in the yellow journalism era “You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.” This famous but apocryphal quote, long attributed to newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, encapsulates fears of the lengths to which news companies would go to exploit visual journalism in the late nineteenth […]
Every day, nurses and doctors are constantly on their feet through long stressful hours, saving human lives during this ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. While this past week was National Nurses Week, what special way to honor and give back to nurses by providing them a pair of Nikes. […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all aspects of life. It has brought about the first sabbatical from sports since WWII, but due to quite different circumstances. As we await the return of sports, there is chatter about possible updated formats and proposals to pick up where some sports left off […]
Governor Andrew Cuomo announced during a briefing on April 27th that the medical centers being built on campus (along with the three other locations being built in the state) will be put on hold until the fall flu season, where it is expected for a second wave of the coronavirus […]
“Take what you need, leave what you can,” Elle Mangano of Deer Park wrote on an easel next to a table of food, cleaning, supplies, and toilet paper. With Long Island having the highest unemployment rates in New York State, it was a way to help those unable to pay for […]
A quick look at the First-Year Experience Program Office at SUNY Old Westbury.
In the first episode of Let’s Talk About It, Nina Crawford talks with Old Westbury students and Media and Journalism Professor Karl Grossman. The Old Westbury community discusses the Gayle King’s interview about Kobe Bryant and the allegations against him earlier in his career.
Instagram and Facebook are updating their platforms to promote social distancing during COVID-19 to promote governmental enforced social distancing regulations. Instagram has teamed up with its parent company Facebook, to create an additional option in viewing social media. Users are capable of sharing their likes and favorited photos, videos, and […]
On April 6th, an email was sent out to the SUNY Old Westbury community by Mili Makhijani, chair of the presidential search committee, providing an update of the president search. The advertisement for the president of the college has been finalized and approved by the chancellor’s office and posted to […]
