The SUNY Old Westbury men’s basketball team opened their season on November 8th against John Jay College. It wasn’t the result they were hoping for as they lost by a score of 82 to 63. The game marks the first of a long twenty-five-game season for the Panthers. Sixteen of […]
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The events taking place in Israel and Palestine have brought other situations to light, such as what is happening in the Sudan. In Khartoum, Sudan, according to ABCNews, fighting erupted on April 15, 2023 in light of weeks of tension between General Abdel-Fattah Burhan, the commander of the Sudanese Armed Forces […]
On October 22 and 23, 2023, the SUNY Old Westbury Men’s Golf team competed in the Skyline Conference Championship at Bethpage State Park. The tournament featured 8 of the top teams in the Skyline Conference. At the end of the first day of the tournament, the Panthers sat in fifth […]
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Photo Credits: NASA On October 12th, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft launched and traveled the mitral-rich asteroid. It will travel and orbit the sun between Mars and Jupiter. The spacecraft will also have a depth communication technology demonstration that will test the communications that go beyond […]
Former Old Westbury baseball player turned coach, Mike Manetta, is all smiles after practice. Photo Credits: Jacob Taormina. If you’ve paid any attention to Old Westbury baseball in years, then you probably recognize the name Mike Manetta. Manetta first came to SUNY Old Westbury in the fall of 2017. By […]
On September 21, 2023, a charter bus carrying students and adults from Farmingdale High School crashed on the way to a band camp in Pennsylvania, killing two teachers, leaving five students in critical condition, and injuring several dozen students, according to The Associated Press. Among the survivors was 14-year-old trombone player […]
