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How Do You Stay on Top of Media News? Try Our Podcast!

Listen to our New Media News Podcast! This Week: Facebook is for Friends not News! Will Mark Zuckerberg Change the Future of the News (Feed?) Muckrock’s Slack Channel for Journalists. How Has Mobile Shaped Citizen Journalism? Is Snapchat Discover News with a Millenial Twist? Did Social Media Ride to the […]

First OWWR Meeting of the Spring:  All Are Welcome!
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First OWWR Meeting of the Spring: All Are Welcome!

Old Westbury Web Radio: OWWR is the student run online radio station of SUNY College at Old Westbury. All Old Westbury students are welcome to join and make our  station even more radio-active! If you are curious about the opportunity email the station at radio@oldwestbury.edu

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Global Media News: The New Media Newsroom Edition!

Listen to our New Media News Podcast! This Week: Fake Follower Furor! Celebrity Death Hoax:  Twitter & Fake News Brands Should Listen Before They Speak:  Social Listing for Marketers. Twitter’s New Tool: Easy Video to Compete with SnapChat? Jailed for Tweeting in Turkey:  What is Erdogan Afraid of Now? Adpocalypse!  […]

MALS: OW’s Stairway to Postgrad
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MALS: OW’s Stairway to Postgrad

  Since 2015, the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS) program here at OW has been helping students further their education at an affordable price that’s close to home. This program was developed for over a year, engaging professors from all different departments to create a new program to […]

Online Course Evaluation
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Online Course Evaluation

  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 […]

Civil Jury Finds SUNY Old Westbury Professor at Fault in Rape Lawsuit
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Civil Jury Finds SUNY Old Westbury Professor at Fault in Rape Lawsuit

Professor William A. Knack, PhD/Lohud.com   On March 17, 2017, a Westchester civil jury found Dr. William A. Knack, an associate professor of psychology at SUNY Old Westbury, guilty of rape. Noelle Feldman, 58, of Pound Ridge, had accused the 65-year-old psychologist of sexual assault at his home-office in 2013. […]

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Debate 2016: A Perspective Eight Years in the Making

By Bobby Reilly In 2008, Hofstra hosted its first Presidential Debate between then-Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain, and I began my first semester as a college student at the university.  Four years later, though no longer a student, I made my way back to Hofstra University to attend […]

Wild Wild Old Westbury Parking
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Wild Wild Old Westbury Parking

During the first weeks of the fall 2017 semester, parking has been severely limited at SUNY Old Westbury. Residual equipment from the PGA tour and an increase in enrollment due to the recently unveiled Excelsior scholarship served as main culprits. On October 2nd, a campus wide e-mail was sent out […]

Make Germany Great Again: Far Right Wins in Historic Election
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Make Germany Great Again: Far Right Wins in Historic Election

By Bobby Reilly Cologne, Germany – An estimated 400 Germans took to the cobblestoned streets in the historic city of Cologne as the results of their national election became frighteningly clear.  These highly organized and passionate protesters were an eclectic bunch.  Most were young, some were old; not all shared […]

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Vehicle Catches Fire in Campus Center Parking Lot

Two cars were burnt to a crisp in the fifth row of the Campus Center parking lot near the student union. A gold 2000 Chevy Impala started the fire and it spread to a 2013 G35 Infinity.  According to Deputy Chief of Police, Thomas Pascale, “the fire started at approximately […]