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Rams in the News: March 8, 2019

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CLIPS OF THE WEEK

JACQUELINE REICH
The Golden Age of documentary filmmaking
CBS News 03-05-19
Pogue asked Fordham University film professor Jacqueline Reich, “Jackson’s estate says, ‘You never even talked to us.’ Do they have a point?”

CATHERINE POWELL
Womenomics Is Flipping the Script on Men in Japan
Fortune 03-06-19
Catherine Powell is an adjunct senior fellow in the Women and Foreign Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations and a professor at Fordham Law School.

Patricia Clarkson Talks Ageism, Nudity and More at Miami Film Festival
Hollywood Reporter 03-05-19
From Louisiana State University, [Patricia] Clarkson made her way to Fordham and then to the Yale School of Drama, where she met actors and other talent who became her mentors.

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY

Alex Trebek Net Worth 2019: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
Heavy 03-06-19
In March, Fordham reported that they had raised $18 million with the help of the Jeopardy host, who, along with his wife, Jean, donated $1 million to the Alex Trebek Endowed Scholarship Fund in February.

‘Grab that record’: How Trump’s high school transcript was hidden
Washington Post 03-06-19
In his letter to the president of Fordham University, where Trump spent his first two years of college, studying business administration, Cohen demanded that the records be “permanently sealed” and said any release was “criminality,” which “will lead to jail time.”

Technology has fuelled a surge in academic cheating – it has also made it easier than ever to get caught
The National 03-06-19
A survey conducted by Fordham University in the US found that students who reported cheating had significantly higher grade point averages (3.41 out of 4) than their non-cheating counterparts (2.85 out of 4). The cheats got, on average, B-pluses while the non-cheats got B-minuses.

2U Students, Faculty Get LinkedIn, WeWork Perks
Campus Technology 03-05-19
2U contracts with institutions including Emerson College, Fordham University and Pepperdine to develop and deliver full degree and professional development certificate programs online.

Marketing EDGE Appoints New Members to Board of Trustees
PRLog 03-04-19
The Marketing EDGE Board of Trustees is comprised of industry professionals and academics from organizations such as Citi, EY, Omnicom Group, and ForwardPMX, as well as academic institutions such as Fordham University and SMU, to name a few.

The ABCs Of Fordham University At Rose Hill
The Odyssey 03-05-19
Check out the ABCs of Fordham University at Rose Hill:

Fordham University confirms Cohen warned it not to disclose Trump’s grades
PBS 02-28-19
In support of his testimony, Cohen provided a May 2015 letter he penned to the president of Fordham University, the New York school Trump attended for two years in the 1960s before transferring to the University of Pennsylvania.

City Council Elderly Committee Budget
American Overseas Chinese News Network 02-28-19
According to Fordham University’s report, increasing municipal funding for the elderly population will help improve the health of the population and reduce related expenses.

FORMER SCHOOL OF LAW FACULTY

ALAN M. SIEGAL
Alan M. Siegel Presented with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award by Marquis Who’s Who
24/7 Press Release 03-06-19
Mr. Siegel helped pioneer the Plain English movement in business and government in the early 1970s, was an adjunct associate professor at Fordham University School of Law in New York City, where he taught a ground-breaking course on Writing Contracts in Plain English, and as an adjunct associate professor and co-director of the Communications Design Center at Carnegie Mellon University.

SCHOOL OF LAW FACULTY

CATHERINE POWELL
Womenomics Is Flipping the Script on Men in Japan
Fortune 03-06-19
Catherine Powell is an adjunct senior fellow in the Women and Foreign Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations and a professor at Fordham Law School.

LAWRENCE BRENNAN
Say it ain’t so, CNO! Do more unlawful command influence woes dog Fitz cases?
Navy Times 03-05-19
Including the piece in a CNO product means it’s not just the author’s opinion anymore, added retired Navy Capt. Lawrence Brennan, an attorney who now teaches at Fordham University’s School of Law.

MATTHEW DILLER
Ahead of the Curve: Don’t Go, Foreign LL.M.s
Law.com 03-05-19
Fordham University Law Dean Matthew Diller discusses the slowdown in international students coming to the U.S. for LL.M.s and what that means for law schools.

GEORGE FRIEDMAN
Bills would end mandatory arbitration in adviser, broker contracts
Investment News 03-04-19
“It’s not going to be smooth sailing for Finra or the SEC,” said Mr. Friedman, an adjunct professor of law at Fordham University.

JOHN PFAFF
TEXAS SHERIFFS STAND AGAINST MARIJUANA POLICY REFORM
The Appeal 03-04-19
John Pfaff, a law professor and criminal justice expert at Fordham University and the author of “Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform,” has noted that influential sheriffs and district attorneys associations—as well as state legislatures themselves—are often dominated by such rural, conservative interests.

MICHAEL S. WINOGRAD
Pierce Bainbridge Adds Partners Joan E. Meyer In Washington, D.C. And Michael S. Winograd In New York
ABC KAKE 03-04-19
He has been an adjunct professor of law at the Fordham University School of Law since 2003, where he teaches Legal Writing and Research for LL.M. students.

JAMES COHEN
Will El Chapo Get a New Trial Due to Jury Misconduct? Experts, Former High-Profile Jurors Weigh in
Observer 03-04-19
But multiple members of the El Chapo jury did look at the news, and are now being accused of juror misconduct. It is a serious issue with potential prison time, but James Cohen, a professor at Fordham University School of Law, thinks it is unrealistic that any of the Chapo jurors will actually be sentenced.

CARL MINZNER
Xi firmly in charge as China turns to legislative season
Associated Press 03-03-19
“To my mind, the most important question now is: Which norm is the next to fall?” Carl Minzner, a professor at Fordham Law School in New York City and author of a recent book on Chinese politics, said in an email.

JOHN FEERICK
Circuit court judge to speak at Akron Law event
Akron Legal News 03-01-19
Fordham Law Professor John Feerick, an original drafter of the amendment and Yale School of Medicine Assistant Clinical Professor in Law and Psychiatry

DORA GALACATOS
NYC Economic Justice Groups Refuse To Meet With Trump’s Consumer Financial Protections Bureau Head
Gothamist 02-28-19
In the Donald Trump presidency, what should be an independent watch-dog agency has been co-opted to serve the “interests of the financial services industry, abandoning its founding mission ‘to protect consumers from unfair, deceptive or abusive practices and take action against companies that break the law,'” according to a letter co-signed by Dora Galacatos, Executive Director of the Fordham Law School Feerick Center for Social Justice, and co-director Sarah Ludwig, and legal director Susan Shin of the New Economy Project.

TANYA KATERÍ HERNÁNDEZ
UH Law Center’s Rosenberg Memorial Lecture to focus on multiracials and civil rights
PR Newswire 02-28-19
But, Hernández, the Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law, draws upon court cases to demonstrate that multiracials face the same discrimination as other minority groups because of their “non-whiteness.”

JED SHUGERMAN
Radio Atlantic: President Trump’s New Legal Nightmare
The Atlantic 02-28-19
The Fordham University School of Law professor Jed Shugerman joins Alex Wagner to explain the legal problems President Trump now faces.

MATTHEW GOLD
Beyond Tariffs: What’s Preventing a U.S.-China Trade Agreement?
Knowledge @ Wharton 02-28-19
Wharton’s Minyuan Zhao and Matt Gold from Fordham University discuss what stands in the way of an effective trade deal between the U.S. and China.

GABELLI SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FACULTY

MICHAEL PIRSON
Mediocristan school of going through the motions
Manila Times 03-04-19
Dr. Michael Pirson is an Associate Professor of Management, Global Sustainability, and Social Entrepreneurship at Fordham University.

MARK CONRAD
NU-Q offers executive program on sport communication
Northwestern University in Qatar 03-03-19
Mark Conrad, a professor of law and ethics at Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business and author of “The Business of Sports – Off the Field, In the Office, On the News,” which has been cited in leading journals as one of the most comprehensive texts on the subject, will focus on the ethical breakdowns in governance rules and legal questions found in the operations of international sport federations.

ARTS AND SCIENCES FACULTY

JASON MUNSHI-SOUTH
Did the polar vortex make a dent in the city’s rodent population?
Chicago Reader 03-06-19
And even if a severe cold spell caused a dip in the city’s rat population, the death toll may benefit the survivors, says Jason Munshi-South, urban wildlife expert and professor of biological sciences at Fordham University.

BRYAN MASSINGALE
‘Yes, the church has been complicit in racism’
702 03-05-19
Senior ethics fellow in the Centre for Ethics Education at the Jesuit’s Fordham University in New York, Professor Bryan Massingale speaks to Eusebius McKaiser about whether Christianity has been complicit in racism.

JOHN ENTELIS
Algeria lives where unprecedented protests against President
Correio Braziliense 03-03-19
In an interview to the Courier, John Entelis – a professor of political science at Fordham University (New York) – explained that the protests are related to the absence of political democracy.

JACQUELINE REICH
The Golden Age of documentary filmmaking
CBS News 03-05-19
Pogue asked Fordham University film professor Jacqueline Reich, “Jackson’s estate says, ‘You never even talked to us.’ Do they have a point?”

JACQUELINE REICH
Documentaries’ Golden Age
YouTube 03-04-19
David Pogue talks with filmmakers Dan Cogan and Joe Berlinger, film programmer Thom Powers, and [Fordham University] professor Jacqueline Reich about how recent films like “Finding Neverland” and “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” show the documentary is coming of age.

ANGELA ALAIMO O’DONNELL
Misericordia University plans poetry reading for March 18
Sunday Dispatch 02-28-19
A native of West Wyoming and graduate of Wyoming Area High School, O’Donnell teaches courses in English literature and creative writing at Fordham University in New York City and is associate director of Fordham’s Curran Center for American Catholic Studies.

LEONARD CASSUTO
The MLA Gets Practical: Less Theory, More Profession
Chronicle Vitae 02-28-19
Leonard Cassuto, a professor of English at Fordham University, writes regularly about graduate education in this space.

CHRISTINA GREER
Before Black History Month ends
New York Amsterdam News 02-28-19
Christina Greer, Ph.D., is an associate professor at Fordham University, the author of “Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream,” the co-host of the new podcast FAQ-NYC and the host of The Aftermath and The Counter on Ozy.com.

STUDENTS

Did the polar vortex make a dent in the city’s rodent population?
Chicago Reader 03-06-19
The Norway rat, the species found in U.S. cities, originated in northern China and Mongolia and has evolved to endure frigid winters, says Michael H. Parsons, an urban ecologist and visiting research scholar studying city rats at Fordham University.

Black Excellence
The Wave 02-28-19
Nia Daniels, the sister of Nija Daniels who will be attending Fordham University with a $1,000.00 scholarship, told The Wave it was certainly a night to remember.

ATHLETICS

Lower’s Holden, Fordham making women’s basketball tournament push
Press of Atlantic City 03-05-19
Lauren Holden and the Fordham University women’s basketball team are hoping to make a tournament run.

Defense leads Sharks to Monsignor Martin Class A title
Ken-Ton Bee 03-05-19
The state final, against either St. John Prep or St. John Baptist, is at 5 p.m. Saturday at Fordham University.

PARK STAMPS TICKET TO NYSCHSAA BOYS BASKETBALL TITLE GAME
New Gulf Times 03-03-19
Park, the defending Class A champion, will face Monsignor Farrell for the NYSCHSAA title at 1 p.m. Saturday at Fordham University in New York.

Boys basketball: Adrian Griffin Jr. dunk wows crowd, sparks Stepinac to win
Lohud 03-03-19
The soaring dunk sparked the Crusaders to an 83-63 victory over Xaverian at Fordham University and earned them a third straight trip to the city semifinals.

Cardinal O’Hara boys basketball wins Class B Manhattan Cup
The Buffalo News 03-02-19
O’Hara will face Regis of New York City at 11 a.m. Saturday for the NYSCHSAA Class B championship at Fordham University in New York.

Greely girls defeat Hampden to win second straight ‘A’ basketball title
Bangor Daily News 03-01-19
Fordham University-bound [Anna] DeWolfe scored 13 points in the first half, including the final four, to help the Rangers build a 28-17 lead.

NJ girls hoops: St. John Vianney’s Dawn and Sarah Karpell looking for titles in last run together
Asbury Park Press 02-28-19
Sarah Karpell a senior point guard who will attend Fordham University next year, has been a key cog in the Lancer rotation during her four scholastic seasons.

For Penn State Football & Franklin, 5 Years Later & Opportunityisnowhere
State College 02-28-19
The previous day, the very first speaker of the three-day clinic for mostly youth, middle school and high school coaches was a little-known head coach named Joe Moorhead, of Fordham University.

Hampden girls hope to upset Greely in ‘A’ state title game rematch
Bangor Daily News 02-28-19
[Anna] DeWolfe, who will play at Fordham University, is a two-time Bangor Daily News All-Maine Schoolgirl first-team selection.

February 28
On This Day 02-28-19
1940 – The first televised basketball game was shown. The game featured Fordham University and the University of Pittsburgh from Madison Square Gardens in New York.

ALUMNI

The right belongs to everyone: The Child Warrior to the Top University
Lakimies Uutiset 03-06-19
Mohamed Sidibay, a law student from Fordham University School of Law, a prestigious first year in New York, lost only his five-year-old family as a victim of the civil war in Sierra Leone in 1997.

Interview with Huang Jing: From the body to the heart, this station
724 Lady 03-06-19
Huang Jing stood out from the crowd and went to the School of Law (1905) at Fordham University to study criminal psychology.

Army Col. Angela Woods of Congers receives Rockland’s annual Freedom Award
Lohud 03-06-19
[Angela Woods] studied pre-med at Fordham University and earned her master’s degree in business administration from Marist College in 2014.

Everest Re : Insurance® Adds Ayesha West to Cyber Group
Market Screener 03-06-19
Ayesha [West] holds a JD from the Fordham University School of Law and a B.B.A. from the American University in Dubai.

ST. JOSEPH’S UNION, NOHO 1999
Forgotten New York 03-06-19
[John C.] Drumgoole had always aspired to the Catholic priesthood and after attending St. John’s College in the Bronx, now Fordham University and the Seminary of Our Lady of Angels near Niagara Falls, he was ordained at age 53 in 1870.

Why We Need More STEM Students To Study Abroad
Forbes 03-06-19
[Madeleine Kerr] did an acting conservatory program through Fordham University.

Patricia Clarkson Talks Ageism, Nudity and More at Miami Film Festival
Hollywood Reporter 03-05-19
From Louisiana State University, [Patricia] Clarkson made her way to Fordham and then to the Yale School of Drama, where she met actors and other talent who became her mentors.

Republicans Tag Chiang And DeGiorgio To Represent Manhasset
Manhasset Press 03-05-19
The couple [Dina De Giorgio and Joe D’Alonzo] met at Fordham University, where both received their legal training.

How To Perform A Proper Deadlift (VIDEO)
BlackDoctor.org 03-04-19
Jaena Mebane, a graduate of Fordham University-B.A., Fitness Professional, Bodybuilder and creator of GLUTEUS FABULOUS.

New Partners Yearbook 2019
New Jersey Law Journal 03-04-19
Bryan P. Couch Firm: Connell Foley, Newark Born: 1975 Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Franchise and Distribution; Product Liability and Tort Law Partnership Date: Feb. 12, 2018 Career History: LeClairRyan, Shareholder, 2014–2018; Clyde & Co LLP, Partner, 2010–2013; Connell Foley, Partner 2010, Associate 2000-2009 Law School: Seton Hall University School of Law, J.D., 2000 College: Fordham University, B.A., 1997

Starting Anew: How Kathleen Stahl Rebuilt Her All-Star Agency
Luxury Travel Advisor 03-04-19
Raised in Indiana, [Kathleen Stahl] went to school on the East Coast, earning her B.A. from Georgian Court College and her masters from Fordham.

Roberto Conte Promoted to Vice President, Operations – East
FOX 40 WICZ 03-04-19
Mr. Conte earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Applied Physics and Information Sciences from Fordham University.

Member News — Schepisi Named HNMC VP of Development, President of HNMC Foundation
Commerce and Industry Association of New Jersey 03-04-19
[Holly] Schepisi holds degrees in politics and psychology from Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, and a juris doctorate from Fordham University School of Law.

The Unromantic Truths of Weimar Germany
Los Angeles Review of Books 03-04-19
Marilyn Macron is a graduate of New York University and Fordham University School of Law.

City & State Recognizes Greenberg Traurig’s Ed Wallace on Its 100 Most Powerful New York City Leaders
Times Union 03-02-19
[Ed] Wallace serves as a trusted advisor to his clients. He has represented Columbia University, NYU, and Fordham University in their Manhattan expansions.

Greatest Cardinals No. 32: 2B Frankie Frisch
Belleville News-Democrat 03-02-19
[Frankie Frisch] returned before the end of the season, but the one-time chemistry major at Fordham University knew he and McGraw made a combustible mix.

Bob Calderoni has changed board positions at LogMeIn Inc.
Relationship Science 03-02-19
Bob Calderoni » Executive Chairman at Citrix Systems, Inc.
EDUCATION: • Fordham University

Women’s History Month: Nine Actresses Tell Us About Books and Films That Inspire Them
Variety 03-02-19
[Michaela McManus] moved to New York at 18 to study theater at Fordham University at Lincoln Center.

Insta-Stud: John DeLuca
Homorazzi 03-01-19
John DeLuca hails from Longmeadow, Massachusetts. The 32-year-old actor is a graduate of Fordham University where he was a theater major.

FORMER ASSISTANT U.S. ATTORNEY BENJAMIN ALLEE JOINS YANKWITT LLP
Business Council of Westchester 03-01-19
Valedictorian of his class, [Benjamin] Allee graduated with a J.D. degree from Fordham University School of Law, where he served as editor in chief of the Fordham Law Review.

Talking with Alvin Ailey’s Daniel Harder: Shaping an Incredible Narrative with ‘Lazarus
Edge Media Network 03-01-19
The student dancer in the basketball shirt [Daniel Harder] went on to graduate from the Ailey/Fordham BFA Program in Dance, and is also the winner of the Jerome Robbins/Layton Foundation Scholarship and has performed for leading international choreographers including Nacho Duato, William Forsythe, Donald McKayle, Debbie Allen, and Christopher L. Huggins.

President Cesareo to speak at Men’s Conference
Catholic Free Press 03-01-19
[Francesco Cesareo] earned his master’s and doctorate degrees in late medieval/early modern European history from Fordham University.

WEEKDAY MAGAZINE – The Connection Between Disney and the Bronx
This Is The Bronx 02-28-19
Elisa [Valentino] is co-founder of Travelin’ Cousins travel blog, A native New Yorker, Fordham graduate, and world traveler, she is passionate about The Bronx as a travel destination for locals and tourists.

Solano hires veteran deputy as interim public defender
Daily Republic 02-28-19
[Elena D’Agustino] graduated from Fordham University School of Law in New York.

Integra Partners appoints new CEO
Healthcare Daily Business 02-28-19
[Dominic Paniccia] earned his M.B.A from Fordham University and his B.S. from Manhattan College.

Michael Barry Appointed Head Of I.I.I.’s Communications
Insurance Information Institute 02-28-19
Earlier in [Michael Barry’s] career, the Fordham University graduate was a weekly newspaper reporter and editor on Long Island and the Public Information Officer at the New York State Banking Department.

Candidates’ Corner
The Messenger 02-28-19
[William Bryk] worked [his]way through Manhattan College (B.Sc., Economics) and Fordham University Law School (J.D.).

New York City Ballet And The School of American Ballet Announce Next Generation Of Artistic Leadership
PR Newswire 02-28-19
[Jonathan Stafford] graduated summa cum laude from the Fordham School of Professional and Continuing Studies with a B.A. in Organizational Leadership.

SEC Names Gabriel Benincasa As Its First Chief Risk Officer
Securities and Exchange Commission 02-28-19
[Gabriel Benincasa] earned his J.D. from Fordham Law School and a Bachelor’s in Business Administration from Baruch College.

Niagara falls for opportunity in Vaughan opportunity
The Catholic Register 02-28-19
[Maurizio Bevilacqua] received a Master’s degree in Christian tradition at Fordham University, a Jesuit university in New York City.

Saratoga woman serves as champion of region’s creatives
Daily Gazette 02-28-19
[Maureen Sager] graduated from Rutgers with degrees in English, film and economics before earning a master’s in screenwriting from the American Film Institute in Los Angeles and finally studying business at Fordham University.

DPS, State Police issue summary of 2018 internal affairs investigations
Vermont Business Magazine 02-28-19
[Patti Pallito] holds an M.B.A. from Fordham University and is a C.P.A.

OBITUARIES

John A. Viniello, Of Brewster, NY, Career Coach and Teacher
Visitation, Service For John A. Viniello
Patch 02-28-19
John was Chairman of Admissions of Fordham University between 1969-1973 and joined National Fire Sprinkler Association, serving as President from 1984 until his retirement in 2012, receiving the industry’s highest honor, the Golden Sprinkler Award, in 2005.

Sister Kathleen Tomlonovic, 80, Of Davenport, IA, Educator
Sister Kathleen Tomlonovic
Newton Daily News 03-06-19
S. Kathleen earned degrees in English, BA, Marycrest College, Davenport; Religion, MA, Fordham University, Bronx, N.Y.

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