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Following Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Congressional testimony last week, the site has again responded to claims of leaking users data. The two day long hearing covered topics such as privacy and data collection of non-users. Facebook product management director David Baser wrote in a Facebook Newsroom post, “Twitter, Pinterest and LinkedIn all have […]
Michael Krasnoff’s first season as head coach of the women’s basketball team at SUNY Old Westbury was 15 years ago. Krasnoff, his coaching staff, and the players have built a top notch program. This success didn’t happen overnight. In his first five seasons at the helm, Old Westbury finished with a […]
Do you use a streaming service to listen to music? Should you? Music is a huge part of everybody’s life. We listen to music in the car, while going to school or work, while exercising, or just about anywhere. There are millions of subscribers on music streaming services such as […]
Are Millennials Responsible for the Spread of Social Media Trends? Social media allows instantaneous access to the ideas, beliefs, and values of others across the world. Some of these ideas then turn into viral trends that people mimic on various social media platforms. Many of these trends are attributed to […]
Old Westbury recently received $20,000 from SUNY for a grant written by Drs. Jacqueline Emery, Margaret Rose Torrell, and Linda Camarasana of the English Department. This grant will fund the development of “co-requisite” courses and workshops as a part of an “Accelerated Learning Program” approach to improving student writing skills at Old […]
The School of Business at SUNY Old Westbury will offer a brand new Master of Science in Forensic Accounting in the fall of 2018. The announcement of this new graduate program even made it to the pages of Accounting Today which quoted our president, Dr. Calvin Butts: “We are very excited […]
Spoiler Alert: This Review Contains a Plot Summary! The word Acrimony refers to bitterness, anger, resentment, ill feeling, bad blood, and animosity. Tyler Perry takes audiences on a journey through emotional turmoil and the evils of revenge with his newest film Acrimony. The movie stars Taraji P. Henson as Melinda […]
Imagine sending your boyfriend a sexy photo and then the next thing you know that photo is on the internet for hundreds or thousands of people to see. Revenge porn has increased along with the surge of social media and this is happening to young girls every day. Kim Kardashian […]
