CLIPS OF THE WEEK

Mary Higgins Clark: A Novel Way to Make Millions
The Wall Street Journal [podcast]10-15-18
“I was heading back to my night school class at Fordham…” // How does a girl from the Bronx become a bestselling author who’s penned more than 50 books? Mary Higgins Clark joins [fellow Fordham alumna]Veronica Dagher to reveal how she rose to become the “Queen of Suspense.”

ARISTOTLE PAPANIKOLAOU and GEORGE DEMACOPOULOS
Ukraine’s Spiritual Split From Russia Could Trigger a Global Schism
The Atlantic 10-11-18
The Ukrainian Church had sought independence from the Russian one for decades, but it only became “inevitable after the Russian military excursion in eastern Ukraine, no question about it,” said Aristotle Papanikolaou, a co-chair of Orthodox Christian studies at Fordham University…George Demacopoulos, the other chair of Orthodox Christian studies at Fordham, told me an independent Ukrainian Church would strip the Russian Church of a third of its jurisdiction, and Russia would “symbolically suffer a very big blow because they have been presenting themselves as the leaders of the Orthodox world in the 21st century.”

CLINT RAMOS
Broadway Designer Clint Ramos to Head Fordham University’s Theatre Design and Production Track
Playbill 10-15-18
Beginning spring 2019, Tony-winning designer Clint Ramos will lead the design and production tracks in the theatre department at Fordham University.

Trump set to pick Catholic lawyer as next White House counsel
Catholic News Agency 10-15-18
[Pat] Cipollone attended Fordham University before earning his J.D. at the University of Chicago School of Law in 1991.

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY

US: HEIs widen test-flexible policies for international students
The Pie News 10-11-18
Fordham University, for example, implemented test-flexible policies that allow some international applicants to present alternative exams to the SATs and ACTs, starting in the 2018-2019 admissions cycle.

FORMER ADMINISTRATORS

JEFFREY VON ARX, S.J.
Fifty Years Since the Summer of ’69 and The Society of Jesus
The Heights 10-16-18
In 1998, Von Arx learned that Fordham University was looking for a new dean of its college of arts and sciences. Based on his time as an administrator at Georgetown, he decided that he could be a good fit in the new role.

SCHOOL OF LAW FACULTY

TANYA K. HERNANDEZ
Gavin McInnes and the Proud Boys: Misogyny, Authoritarianism, and the Rise of Multiracial White Supremacy
WNYC 10-16-18
Tanya Hernández, professor of law at Fordham University and the author of the forthcoming book Multiracials and Civil Rights, and David Neiwert, author of Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump, and correspondent for the Southern Poverty Law Center, join the program to help make sense of this current phenomenon.

KAREN J. GREENBERG
Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, How Guantanamo Set the Stage for the Kavanaugh Hearings
Tom Dispatch 10-14-18
Karen J. Greenberg, a TomDispatch regular, is the director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law and the author of Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State.

DAVID A. ANDELMAN
The global right surges as Donald Trump enjoys victory
CNN 10-09-18
David A. Andelman, visiting scholar at the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School and director of its Red Lines Project, is a contributor to CNN, where his columns won the Deadline Club Award for Best Opinion Writing.

JED SHUGERMAN
Some Democrats discuss impeaching Justice Brett Kavanaugh
One News Page 10-10-18
Jed Shugerman, a law professor at Fordham University, joined CBSN to discuss.

ZEPHYR TEACHOUT
Special challenges for progressives in election of New York’s AG
Peoples World 10-09-18
An associate professor of law at Fordham University, Teachout lost her 2016 challenge against Rep. John Faso (NY CD 19).

MATT GOLD
Will the New NAFTA Deliver?
University of Pennsylvania Wharton 10-09-18
Fordham’s Matt Gold and Andrea Bjorklund from the McGill Faculty of Law discuss what the USMCA will mean for the U.S., Mexico and Canada.

YOUNGJAE LEE
Trump said Kavanaugh was ‘proven innocent.’ He wasn’t.
Greenwich Time 10-09-18
It’s common for jurors to believe that a defendant committed the crime charged, yet still vote “not guilty” because they aren’t certain it’s been proven to the satisfaction of the legal system, according to Youngjae Lee, criminal law professor at Fordham University School of Law.

GABELLI SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FACULTY

N.K. CHIDAMBARAN
Building a better annuity
Fast Company 10-09-18
Chidambaran, an associate professor of finance at the Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University who specializes in fintech.

DAWN LERMAN
The Trump administration has a habit of renaming government groups
WKSU 10-10-18
Changing the name of a government entity may reflect changed priorities, a shift in the direction it’s going in, or an attempt to show you’re in control, according to Dawn Lerman, a business professor at Fordham University.

MARK CONRAD
Abuse Scandals May Put Olympic Antitrust Immunity In Doubt
Law 360 10-10-18
“It could have some significant effect on the way all these governing bodies are run because a lot of their policies are based on restrictions, [such as]who can compete and who cannot, whether people can compete in other activities or competitions,” said Mark Conrad, a law and ethics professor at Fordham University and expert on legal issues in international sports.
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MARK CONRAD
Family of Junior Seau Settles Case Against N.F.L.
The New York Times 10-05-18
“If you’re talking about pure dollars and cents, it’s safe to make that assumption,” said Mark Conrad, the director of the sports business program at Fordham University.

MARK CONRAD
Column: What if they had an Olympics, but no one would host?
Associated Press 10-12-18
“They’ve got to rethink the whole model,” said Mark Conrad, who runs the sports business program at Fordham University.

FORMER ARTS AND SCIENCES FACULTY

ELIZABETH JOHNSON, C.S.J.
Cardinal Wuerl led high-profile endeavors in 32 years as a bishop
Catholic Philly 10-15-18
It was during his chairmanship of the doctrine committee that committee members declared a 2007 book by Fordham University theologian Sister Elizabeth A. Johnson, a Sister of St. Joseph, to be “seriously inadequate as a presentation of the Catholic understanding of God.”

JOSEPH R. CAMMAROSANO
The Development of Economic Thought: An Overview
Peixun 10-10-18
Joseph R. Cammarosano is professor emeritus of economics at Fordham University.

ARTS AND SCIENCES FACULTY

J. PATRICK HORNBECK II
Pope Francis accepts D.C. cardinal’s resignation amid scandal
CBS News 10-12-18
Patrick Hornbeck, chair of the theology department at Fordham University in New York, said in September that many people were “looking to Pope Francis to show a degree of leadership on this matter that he hasn’t yet shown.”

CLINT RAMOS
Tony-Winning Designer Clint Ramos to Lead Fordham’s Design and Production Major
Broadway World 10-15-18
Decorated designer Clint Ramos, currently represented on Broadway by Once On This Island and Torch Song, has just joined the staff at Fordham University heading up their Design and Production track.

QUAMRUL HAIDER
Harnessing the solar energy absorbed by the oceans
The Daily Star 10-14-18
Quamrul Haider is a Professor of Physics at Fordham University, New York.

BARAT ELLMAN
Israel must lift its bar on US student Lara Alqasem
Yahoo! News Canada 10-10-18
Barat Ellman, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Theology, Fordham University

MICHAEL E. LEE
Revolutionary Saint Oscar Romero
ABC Radio National 10-10-18
Professor Michael Lee of Fordham University is author of the new book Revolutionary Saint: The Legacy of Oscar Romero and he recalls his martyrdom.

CHRISTINE MCCARTHY
Signs of hope in new Catholic saints
The Citizens’ Voice 10-15-18
CHRISTINE MCCARTHY holds a Ph.D. in systematic theology and ethics from the Department of Theology at Fordham University.

CHRISTINA GREER
Cuomo Challengers Level Critiques; Will Anything Stick?
Gotham Gazette 10-10-18
Dr. Christina Greer, political science professor at Fordham University, also pointed to the governor’s strengths in the general, chiefly the campaign cash at his disposal.

CHRISTINA GREER
Episode 10: November Stakes
FAQ NYC 10-10-18
“I’m a political scientist and professor at Fordham University, host of The Aftermath with Christina Greer on OZY.com and author of Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream, and interested in all things cities and Black politics.”

NICHOLAS TAMPIO
‘Fortnite’ teaches the wrong lessons
The Conversation U.S. 10-12-18 (& several other outlets)
Nicholas Tampio, Associate Professor of Political Science, Fordham University

PAUL LEVINSON
WTF? How lots of shows are dropping F-bombs (and why broadcast should, too)
Entertainment Weekly 10-10-18
“The restriction was and continues to be a blatant violation of the First Amendment,” argues media studies/communication expert Paul Levinson of Fordham University.

ARISTOTLE PAPANIKOLAOU
“Cisma” en la Iglesia ortodoxa: Rusia y Ucrania convierten su conflicto en una guerra religiosa
BBC Mundo 10-12-18
[Translated from Spanish] It was not something completely new, as theologian Aristotle Papanikolau, professor of Theology and director and co-founder of the Center for Orthodox Christian Studies at Fordham University in the United States, reminds BBC World.

ARISTOTLE PAPANIKOLAOU and GEORGE DEMACOPOULOS
Ukraine’s Spiritual Split From Russia Could Trigger a Global Schism
The Atlantic 10-11-18
The Ukrainian Church had sought independence from the Russian one for decades, but it only became “inevitable after the Russian military excursion in eastern Ukraine, no question about it,” said Aristotle Papanikolaou, a co-chair of Orthodox Christian studies at Fordham University. Ukraine will join several other countries that have their own independent national Churches, among them Serbia, Greece, and Romania.
George Demacopoulos, the other chair of Orthodox Christian studies at Fordham, told me an independent Ukrainian Church would strip the Russian Church of a third of its jurisdiction, and Russia would “symbolically suffer a very big blow because they have been presenting themselves as the leaders of the Orthodox world in the 21st century.”

GEORGE DEMACOPOULOS
Tensions between Russia, Ukraine spill over to Byzantine world of Orthodox church
Stars and Stripes 10-10-18
“It really undermines all their advertising, or marketing so to speak, of their role on the globe,” said Professor George Demacopoulos, co-director of the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University.

GEORGE DEMACOPOULOS
Tensions between Russia and Ukraine spill over to Byzantine world of Orthodox church
The Washington Post 10-10-18
“It really undermines all their advertising, or marketing, so to speak, of their role on the globe,” said George Demacopoulos, co-director of the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/world/europe/tensions-between-russia-and-ukraine-spill-over-to-byzantine-world-of-orthodox-church/2018/10/10/89222b92-c802-11e8-9b1c-a90f1daae309_story.html?noredirect=on

ASIF SIDDIQI
A Russian Soyuz Rocket Launch Failed, But Its Abort Safety System Saved Lives
Space.com 10-15-18
Today’s vehicle type, a Soyuz-FG rocket, is the only design currently certified to carry humans. It has been launching since 2001 and has long been slated to be replaced by a newer model, although it has not previously failed, Asif Siddiqi, a space historian at Fordham University, told Space.com.

STUDENTS

Entrance exams in November for 8th-graders wanting to attend Mercy High
Connecticut Post 10-10-18
“Four years at Mercy High School allowed our daughter Lindsey [Fritz] (a 2018 graduate attending Fordham University in New York City) to grow academically, socially, physically and spiritually. Mercy fostered her development both in the classroom as well as the community.”

ATHLETICS

Norwalk Old Timers name next group of honorees
LMT Online 10–09-18
[Carl Paight] later coached as an assistant at Western Connecticut State College, Fordham University and Weston High School.

Analysis: DePaul University women’s head coaches’ pay ranks 40th in nation
Prairie State Wire 10-10-18
Fordham University, NY, NCAA Division I-FCA, 8,275, $116,821, 7

Charleston claims overall IOR honors
Scuttlebutt Sailing News 10-09-18
Frank Loughran of Fordham University – a Senior and History major– made history himself by leading Fordham to victory in their first-ever IOR, taking first in PHRF Class 2 on the J/124 Tenebrae.

ALUMNI

Meskers: Democratic candidate focuses on economy, social justice in House race
Connecticut Post 10-13-18
The candidate [Steve Meskers] waited tables to pay tuition at Fordham University and graduated in 1980. He went on to earn an MBA in finance at Pace University.

WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM ROSTER CONTINUITY?
Fansided 10-11-18
Rory Masterson is originally from South Carolina but graduated from Fordham University in the Bronx.

Sony is working on next-generation PlayStation 5 hardware
Vaaju 10-11-18
As for academics, Adam [Thrones] earned a degree in business from Fordham University.

President Donald J. Trump Announces Eighteenth Wave of Judicial Nominees, Eighteenth Wave of United States Attorney Nominees, and Thirteenth Wave of United States Marshal Nominees
Imperial Valley News 10-10-18
[Philip] Halpern received his B.S., magna cum laude, from Fordham University, and his J.D. at Elizabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University.

Trump set to pick Catholic lawyer as next White House counsel
Catholic News Agency 10-1d-18
[Pat] Cipollone attended Fordham University before earning his J.D. at the University of Chicago School of Law in 1991.

Adult Playwriting Workshop at Darien Arts Center
Darien Patch 10-15-18
Over thirty of Jason Pizzarello’s plays are published and have been produced in all 50 states and in 22 countries, including … Half Right, with director Michelle Bossy and the Fordham Alumni Company…

Educator returns to Greenwich for interim post in Folsom House
New Canaan News 10-10-18
[Andrew] Byrne studied biology and math at Bates College in Maine, earned his master’s in secondary education from the University of Massachusetts as well as a master’s in education administration and supervision from Fordham University, and participated in Fordham University’s Executive Leadership program.

New Canaan resident pens STORY: the art of standing out
Hamlet Hub 10-10-18
[Kimberly Norton] received a BA in Psychology with Honors at Connecticut College, and her PhD in Clinical Psychology with High Honors at Fordham University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences where she was a teaching fellow and Presidential Scholar.

OBITUARIES

Father John Edward, 79, Of Pittsburgh, PA, priest and educator
Father John Edward Reiss Obituary
WKBN 10-09-18
He also earned a Master of Science Degree from Fordham University in New York and completed seminary studies at Mount Alverna Seminary in Wappingers Falls, New York and Washington Theological Consortium in Washington, D.C.

Theodore “Ted” Ginsberg, 93, Of New City, NY, lawyer
Theodore “Ted” Ginsberg
Legacy.com 10-13-18
After the war, Ted enrolled in NYU, and then Fordham University School of Law.