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Here’s Your New Media News Update!

This Week on Global Media News: Facebook News: User Data Privacy? Why Does Facebook Collect Non-User Data? Social Media Backlash After Philly Starbucks Incident. Should You Worry about Being Tracked? Firefox Has Your Back. Discord: Is the Chat App for Gamers for You? YouTube Content Creators Dropped after Terms of […]

Business / Media / News / Technology

Facebook Responds to Data Collection of Non-Users

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 […]

Campus News / News / Sports

Women’s Basketball Is Growing Strong!

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 […]

Which Streaming Music Service Is Best?
Entertainment / Media / News

Which Streaming Music Service Is Best?

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 […]

Opinion

Homelessness: An Open Letter

Homelessness is a social justice issue requiring advocacy on campus now. The intersection of education, at risk housing, and hunger instability affect a student’s ability to succeed. Success in college should be based on skills and motivation not parental income or financial stability. This semester in Psychology & Social Justice […]

Opinion

Gun Violence: Years of Bloodshed and No Solution

We wake up in the morning, follow our daily routines, and leave our homes for school or work.  No one wakes up with the realization that this day could possibly be their last. No parents would allow their children to attend school if they knew there was even a possibility […]

From Tide Pods to “Finstagram”
Media / News

From Tide Pods to “Finstagram”

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 […]

Campus / Campus News / News

English Department Accelerates Learning at Old Westbury

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 […]

Ask Dr. Lange about Forensic Accounting!
Campus News / News

Ask Dr. Lange about Forensic Accounting!

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 […]

Taraji P. Henson Gets Acrimonious
Entertainment / News

Taraji P. Henson Gets Acrimonious

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 […]