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PRESIDENT TETLOW

Tania Tetlow: A mayor who lived his faith
Nola.com 09-07-2022
Tania Tetlow is president of Fordham University, and former president of Loyola University New Orleans.

Power Women
PoliticsNY 08-24-2022
Dr. Tania Tetlow is the first woman and lay person to serve as president of Fordham University in its 181-year history (and before that, at Loyola University New Orleans.) Tetlow is a lawyer and law professor. She worked as a federal prosecutor in New Orleans and directed a domestic violence law clinic at Tulane.

In an apocalyptic age of polarization, Catholic leaders must not shy away from the healing language of faith.
America Magazine 08-18-2022
Tania Christina Tetlow became the president of Fordham University in New York in July. From 2018 until this year, she was president of Loyola University New Orleans. She is the first woman and the first layperson to hold those positions at those Catholic universities.

Giving up Perfection with Tania Tetlow, President of Fordham University
The Seismic Shift with Michelle Johnston 08-10-2022
It’s tempting to believe that if leaders strive to maintain an aura of perfection, this effort will then trickle down throughout our organization and make everyone want to be better. Today, Michelle and Tania Tetlow, President of Fordham University, are here to share stories as to why this couldn’t be further from the truth of leading effectively. Tania reflects that her moments of imperfection often achieved the greatest level of trust with her teams.

Presidencies of Firsts
Future U Podcast 05-30-2022
Two storied Jesuit institutions, the College of Holy Cross and Fordham Universities, have their first lay presidents. But Vincent Rougeau and Tania Tetlow are also both trained lawyers and each one respectively is the first Black president and first woman president to lead their institutions.

TOP STORIES

First-Generation College Graduate Honors the Sacrifices Her Parents Made
NBC Nightly News 07-24-2022
22-year-old Tiffany Ferreira celebrated graduating from New York’s Fordham University by sharing her success with the people who made it all possible: her parents. After her ceremony, Ferreira placed her cap on her mother and wrapped her father with her gown, the gesture honoring her parents and the sacrifices they made immigrating from Brazil for their family to have a better life in the U.S. Now, she is the first college graduate in her family.

Vin Scully, Voice of the Dodgers for 67 Years, Dies at 94
The New York Times 08-02-2022
Mr. Scully began broadcasting at Ebbets Field in 1950, when he was a slender, red-haired 22-year-old graduate of Fordham University and a protégé of Red Barber.

Pope Francis meets transgender guests of Rome church
The Associated Press 08-11-2022
Francis praised a recent Outreach event at New York’s Jesuit-run Fordham University, and encouraged organizers “to keep working in the culture of encounter, which shortens the distances and enriches us with differences, in the same manner of Jesus, who made himself close to everyone.”

US disrupts North Korean hackers that targeted hospitals
The Associated Press 07-19-2022
“If you report that attack, if you report the ransom demand and payment, if you work with the FBI, we can take action,” [Deputy Attorney General Lisa] Monaco said at the International Conference on Cyber Security, hosted by Fordham University. “We can follow the money and get it back; we can help prevent the next attack, the next victim; and we can hold cybercriminals accountable.”

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY

Move in Day at Fordham
NY1 08-28-2022
On hand for the big day was Fordham University President Tania Tetlow, who started in July as the first woman and lay person to lead the Jesuit school. “So excited. This is my first year, too. So we’re in this together. This will always be a special class for me,” said Tetlow. “The main thing we want them to feel is welcome, and that they immediately start finding their friends, their peers, a sense of belonging here on campus.”

Pope Francis meets transgender guests of Rome church
The Associated Press 08-11-2022
Francis praised a recent Outreach event at New York’s Jesuit-run Fordham University, and encouraged organizers “to keep working in the culture of encounter, which shortens the distances and enriches us with differences, in the same manner of Jesus, who made himself close to everyone.”

US disrupts North Korean hackers that targeted hospitals
The Associated Press 07-19-2022
“If you report that attack, if you report the ransom demand and payment, if you work with the FBI, we can take action,” Monaco said at the International Conference on Cyber Security, hosted by Fordham University. “We can follow the money and get it back; we can help prevent the next attack, the next victim; and we can hold cybercriminals accountable.”

FBI and NSA directors warn of evolving foreign interference threat ahead of US midterms
CNN 07-19-2022
“We have to be concerned about hybrid threats,” [FBI Director Christopher] Wray said at a cybersecurity conference at Fordham University in New York. That includes a situation in which foreign operatives might use an “unremarkable cyber incident” to sow “panic or lack of confidence in our election infrastructure,” Wray said.

U.S. seizes $500,000 in ransom paid to North Korean hackers, official says
Reuters 07-19-2022
Monaco, speaking at a cybersecurity conference at Fordham University in New York, said authorities had returned the stolen funds to victims including the hospital and a medical center in Colorado.

US ‘Disrupted’ North Korean Hackers Who Breached Health Sector
Bloomberg 07-19-2022
“The hospital’s leadership faced an impossible choice: Give in to the ransom demand, or cripple the ability of the doctors and nurses to provide critical care,” Monaco said at the International Conference on Cyber Security at Fordham University in New York.

A Film Produced by Martin Scorsese Looks at the Catholic Church’s Treatment of the L.G.B.T.Q. Community
The New Yorker 06-27-2022
This past weekend, Fordham University, a Jesuit institution, hosted Outreach, a conference, organized by [Father James] Martin, on the place of L.G.B.T.Q. people in the Church, featuring the mix of workshops, listening sessions, and liturgies that makes up his ministry these days.

US ‘actively defending against foreign interference and influence’ in midterms, Cyber Command says
CNN 08-25-2022
US officials also “have to be concerned about hybrid threats,” Wray said at a cybersecurity conference at Fordham University in New York. That includes a situation in which foreign operatives might use an “unremarkable cyber incident” to sow “panic or lack of confidence in our election infrastructure,” Wray said.

FBI and NSA directors warn of evolving foreign interference threat ahead of US midterms
CNN 07-19-2022
“We have to be concerned about hybrid threats,” [FBI Director Christopher] Wray said at a cybersecurity conference at Fordham University in New York. That includes a situation in which foreign operatives might use an “unremarkable cyber incident” to sow “panic or lack of confidence in our election infrastructure,” Wray said.

ADMINISTRATORS

DAVID GIBSON
Pope Francis heads to Canada with apology on the agenda
The Washington Post 07-23-2022
David Gibson, the director of Fordham University’s Center on Religion and Culture, said Francis’s handling of the abuse crisis has likely influenced his handling of this moment and shaped his approach to apologies: that they should be addressed to the specific victims, after meeting with them and listening to them.

DAVID GIBSON
Catholic news operations to shutter in New York
Crain’s 07-27-2022
David Gibson, director of Fordham University’s Center on Religion and Culture, called the bishops’ decision to shut down Catholic News Service “boneheaded.” Of the two closures announced within weeks of each other, Gibson said, “Neither move seems particularly well thought out.”

DAVID GIBSON
Sexual assault allegations could harm Quebec cardinal Marc Ouellet’s papacy hopes, says Vatican observer
The Globe and Mail 08-17-2022
Regardless of their merit, the new accusations could destroy his chances of one day being elevated to the papacy, and deal a considerable setback to the conservative faction that favours him for that role, according to David Gibson, a veteran Vatican observer.

SCHOOL OF LAW FACULTY

CHERYL BADER
Karen Bass got a USC degree for free. It’s now pulling her into a federal corruption case
Los Angeles Times 09-07-2022
“The judge has to weigh the risk that a juror will say: ‘Bad guy. Did this before. I’m convicting’ versus understanding the permissible relevance of the evidence,” said Cheryl Bader, a former federal prosecutor and a law professor at Fordham University.

JED SHUGERMAN
Biden’s Student-Debt Rescue Plan Is a Legal Mess
THE ATLANTIC 09-04-2022
Jed Shugerman is a professor at Fordham Law, a visiting professor at Boston University School of Law, and the author of The People’s Courts and shugerblog.com.

BRUCE GREEN
As Midterms Near, Election Rule Raises Dilemma for Trump Inquiries
The New York Times 09-04-2022
Bruce Green, a Fordham University professor and a former federal prosecutor, said the rule was more of a “weak restraint,” a “word of mouth, cautionary policy” that should not be “over-read.” In particular, he said, it should not extend to blocking investigative steps the government undertakes in private simply because it “might make its way into the newspapers and have something to do with an election.”

BRUCE GREEN
DOJ revelations could place Trump lawyers in legal peril of their own, experts say
ABC News 09-01-2022
Bruce Green, who directs a center for legal ethics at Fordham University, told ABC News that means Trump’s lawyers “either knowingly misled the government, there was a miscommunication, or they unwittingly conveyed false information at the behest of someone else at the office of Donald Trump.”

JED SHUGERMAN
Biden’s Student Loan Plan Could Face a Protracted Legal Fight
The New York Times 09-01-2022
Jed Shugerman, a professor at Fordham Law School, said he was concerned that the Biden administration’s lawyers were “sloppy” in using the 2003 law as a basis for such sweeping debt forgiveness. He predicted that the policy would be frozen.

JED SHUGERMAN
Republicans are readying lawsuits to block Biden’s student debt plan
The Washington Post 09-01-2022
Jed Handelsman Shugerman, a professor at Fordham Law School, said the Justice Department memo justifying the policy because of the coronavirus did not fit either the nature of the broad action or the way the White House has defended it.

JED SHUGERMAN
Could the Courts Block Biden’s Student Loan Relief Plan?
The New York Times 08-31-2022
Jed Shugerman, a Fordham Law School professor, doesn’t think so. Although he supports some form of student debt relief, he believes the administration made a tactical mistake by tying it to the pandemic-related state of emergency.

JED SHUGERMAN
Does President Biden even have the power to cancel student debt?
News Nation 08-30-2022
Joining me now, someone who studied the issue closely, Professor Jed Shugerman. 

BRUCE GREEN
Towering Over Midtown: The Penn Station Super-Talls
The New York Times 08-30-2022
“It’s a silly argument to say if I appointed you then you can’t contribute to me, but if my predecessor appointed you, then I can hit you up for donations,” said Bruce Green, a professor at Fordham University Law School and a former member of the New York City Conflicts of Interest Board.

KARUNA PATEL
A scarcity mindset prohibits progress in NYC high school admissions
Daily News 08-30-2022
Patel is deputy director of Fordham Law School’s Feerick Center for Social Justice, which founded and convenes the New York City High School Application Advisory Committee (HSAAC).

JED SHUGERMAN
Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan criticized by Republicans and a few Democrats
CBS News 08-25-2022
Jed Shugerman, a professor at Fordham Law School, called a Tuesday Justice Department memo rationalizing the president’s decision “weak.” 

ZEPHYR TEACHOUT
Column: ‘Quiet quitting’ is just a new name for an old reality
The Los Angeles Times 08-25-2022
Zephyr Teachout of Fordham Law School observed in a recent piece in the New York Review of Books that the technology allowing employers to keep workers under surveillance has improved to the point that for some workers it’s inescapable. But Teachout also recounts her experience as a personal assistant to a rich writer living on Park Avenue whose intrusive treatment of Teachout and the other staff fostered intense paranoia. 

JOHN BROOKS
President Biden poised to announce some form of student loan forgiveness: Sources
ABC News 08-23-2022
“The president has some pretty broad authority under the Higher Education Act,” said John Brooks, a law professor at Fordham University who focuses on federal fiscal policy.

JOHN BROOKS
Fordham Law Professor John Brooks discusses student loan forgiveness
WNYW-NY (FOX) 08-23-2022
“I think is relatively certain. Whether it will apply to everybody and how high the amount will be, is a big question.” Professor John Brooks is a Fordham Law professor.

KAREN GREENBERG
Trouble for Donald Trump?
CNN 08-19-2022
I see a lot of trouble for the former president. I think they’re sort of laying it out bit by bit, like the January 6th Committee did of telling us a little bit at a time and then more and more. I think the obstruction charge is extremely important. It carries a potential penalty of 20 years, and it is starting to look like these three statutes that they mentioned are all relevant.

DEBORAH DENNO
Oklahoma, with a history of botched lethal injections, prepares to start executing a man a month
CNN 08-20-2022
“It’s just yet one more reckless move by Oklahoma,” Deborah Denno, a Fordham University law professor, told CNN of the state’s scheduled execution timetable, which she said is in line with its staunch, decadeslong record of capital punishment.

TANYA KATERI HERNANDEZ
In California’s largest race bias cases, Latino workers are accused of abusing Black colleagues
Los Angeles Times 08-22-2022
For a forthcoming book, “Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality,” Tanya Kateri Hernandez, a Fordham University law professor, combed through legal records, interviewed U.S. civil rights leaders and attorneys and traced the history of Latino workplace discrimination against Black people, including Afro-Latinos, highlighting scores of court cases.

DEBORAH DENNO
What did the state of Alabama do to Joe Nathan James in the three hours before his execution?
The Atlantic 08-14-2022
Deborah Denno, a law professor and the founding director of the Neuroscience and Law Center at Fordham Law School, emphasized to me that James’s case is only the latest in a long sequence of botched executions that challenge the constitutionality of lethal injection on Eighth Amendment grounds.

BRUCE GREEN
Why the sharing of Alex Jones’s text messages is ‘really wild.’
The New York Times 08-04-2022
Bruce Green, a law professor at Fordham, where he directs a center for law and ethics, said that Mr. Bankston, as part of that process, had almost certainly requested texts and emails Mr. Jones had sent pertaining to Sandy Hook.

LAWRENCE BRENNAN
Putin’s new law of the sea discussed on Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera 08-01-2022
Prof. Lawrence Brennan discusses Putin’s new law of the sea policy on Al Jazeera 
There could be terrible importance about the timing. This undoes centuries of traditional maritime law, law of the high seas, and and undoes more than half a century of very good naval relations between the former Soviet navy and now the Russian Navy and the U.S. Navy.

SUSAN SCAFIDI
Nike, Adidas Sneaker Hole Case Makes Third Federal Circuit Trip
Bloomberg Law 08-01-2022
If Nike successfully defends the patent, it could force Adidas and others to obtain licenses to use the resource-saving method to manufacture knitted sneakers, said Susan Scafidi, a fashion law professor at Fordham University.

BRUCE GREEN
Court Win Bolsters Push to Highlight Prosecutors’ Misconduct
The New York Times 07-22-2022
“Most prosecutors don’t get sanctioned and most lawyers don’t get sanctioned,” said Bruce Green, who directs a center for legal ethics at Fordham University. Mr. Green is not among the law professors who filed the complaints.

JED HANDELSMAN SHUGERMAN
New Insights Into Trump’s State of Mind on Jan. 6 Chip Away at Doubts
The New York Times 07-04-2022
Two law professors, Alan Z. Rozenshtein of the University of Minnesota and Jed Handelsman Shugerman of Fordham University, likewise opposed prosecution until seeing Ms. Hutchinson, writing on the Lawfare blog that she changed their minds because she provided “proof of intent.”

JED SHUGERMAN
The conservative Supreme Court is just getting warmed up
Politico 06-30-2022
That decision could wind up at the Supreme Court within a year or two, prompting the justices to consider whether Congress went too far in delegating power to the SEC. “Anything that relies on a very general mandate from Congress is at risk,” Fordham University Law Professor Jed Shugerman said.

SEAN GRIFFITH
The SEC’s Climate-Disclosure Rules Violate the First Amendment
National Review 06-29-2022
Sean Griffith is the T.J. Maloney Chair and professor of law at Fordham University School of Law.

DEBORAH DENNO
The Supreme Court’s Unusual Move on the Death Penalty
Politico 06-28-2022
But, as Fordham law professor Deborah Denno told LAW360, the court’s ruling keeps alive a narrow legal avenue for challenging methods of execution and gives some rare “breathing room” to death row inmates who wish to litigate what is about to happen to them.

GABELLI SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FACULTY

LERZAN AKSOY
Eco-Labeling in Fashion: What Consumers Want
ADWEEK 06-29-2022
“Segmentation really matters,” Lerzan Aksoy, marketing professor at Fordham, managing director of the Responsible Business Coalition and lead author of the report, told Adweek. For example, brands that target the first group of sustainability-minded consumers should ensure that eco-conscious marketing directly prioritizes the same things that their consumers do.

MARK CONRAD
Top player likely won’t be able to compete at US Open
ABC News 07-12-2022
Mark Conrad, a professor of law and ethics at Fordham University who specializes in sports law and business, told ABC News he would be “very, very surprised if there were a change in policy, especially with the latest variants.”

ARTS AND SCIENCES FACULTY

CHRISTINA GREER
Congresswoman Elise Stefanik and the Midterm Elections
NY1 09-07-2022
We’re joined by Christina Greer, a New York one political commentator and a Fordham University professor who is also a co-host of FAQNYC podcast here in the studio.

CHRISTINA GREER
MSNBC 08-30-2022
‘No real agenda to run on’: Supporters question Trump’s campaign as election approaches
Associate Professor of political science at Fordham University, Christina Greer, and MSNBC Contributor Steve Benen join MSNBC’s Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber to talk about Trump’s re-election campaign. With only 129 days to go until the presidential election, Greer explains “this country is really hurting … when you go to the polls, can you ask yourself, ‘are you better off today than you were four years ago?’”

CHRISTINA GREER
Is Democracy on the Ballot?
MSNBC 08-26-2022
Let’s bring in Associate Professor of political science at Fordham University, Christina Greer. It’s great to see you. Democrats, some have wanted Joe Biden to come in and campaign. He was campaigning with the gubernatorial candidate, Wes Moore in Maryland. Others have said, no thanks, we appreciate the offer but please don’t come campaign in our state right now. But let’s talk about that message, kind of a foundational argument about the stakes this Fall that democracy is on the ballot.

CHRISTINA GREER
The Takeaway from New York’s and Florida’s Primary Elections
WNYC 08-24-2022
We speak with associate professor of political science at Fordham University Christina Greerand former Florida Republican Congressman David Jolly about the primary election results in Florida and New York.

VICENTE RUBIO-PUEYO
We Need to Escape This Dystopia and Open New Horizons of Hope
Jacobin 08-24-2022
For Jacobin, Vicente Rubio-Pueyo spoke with Yolanda Díaz on the heels of her visit to the United States, where she met with Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, Bernie Sanders, Ilhan Omar, and trade union representatives of Starbucks.

CHRISTINA GREER
De Blasio, Red Sox Lover, Heads to Harvard
The New York Times 08-24-2022
Christina Greer, a political scientist at Fordham University, said Mr. de Blasio’s new role showed that he was still focused on being a national figure, a criticism that followed the mayor as he campaigned in South Carolina, Nevada, Iowa and New Hampshire during a failed run for president during his second term.

GIACOMO SANTANGELO
The Uncertain Economy: The history of recessions in America
CBS MoneyWatch  08-17-2022
This inflationary period we are experiencing right now may be new for a lot of people, but it’s not new for the economy.

CRISTINA TRAINA
The meaning behind Pope Francis’ meeting with transgender people
Newsy 08-18-2022
“If he were to do that, which I don’t think Pope Francis will, but if he were to do that, he would not want to do it without support from the Curia and the College of Cardinals,” said Cristina Traina, professor of Catholic theology at Fordham University.

MONIKA McDERMOTT
Liz Cheney is the leader of the anti-Trump Republican resistance – where does it go now?
The Guardian 08-22-2022
“She set herself up to be that, to be the force that is going to stand up and fight because very few people have come forward and taken such a powerful stance,” said Monika McDermott, a political science professor at Fordham University in New York.

CHRISTINA GREER
How a Storied Phrase Became a Partisan Battleground
The New York Times 08-21-2022
“The Republican Party is using it as a dog whistle,” said Christina Greer, an associate professor of political science at Fordham University. “They are saying here is the potential of what you can have, if we can exclude others from ‘stealing it’ from you.”

CHRISTINA GREER
What to Know About New York’s Aug. 23 Primary Election
The New York Times 08-20-2022
Voter turnout will be a big factor in both races, said Christina Greer, a political scientist at Fordham University. “When you think about a district like the 10th or the 12th, those are the two districts in New York where I would argue a disproportionate number of people are not in New York City right now,” Professor Greer said.

ROBERT CHOINIERE
The first phase of the global synod has come to a close. What have we learned?
America Magazine 08-18-2022
Robert Choiniere is a professor of theology at Fordham University and the creator of the website Synodmeetings.com. He served as director of pastoral planning for the Diocese of Brooklyn and as a lay minister in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston.

JESSICA BALDWIN-PHILIPPI
Trump rakes in millions off FBI search at Mar-a-Lago
The Washington Post 08-17-2022
“Trump as a candidate and fundraiser has always had an impressively dedicated set of constituents who are particularly mobilized by anger,” said Jessica Baldwin-Philippi, a professor at Fordham University who researches how political campaigns use digital communications. “A threat, a negative, a time when you lose, can actually be lucrative.”

CHRISTINA GREER
What to Know About New York’s 2nd Round of Primary Elections
The New York Times 08-13-2022
Voter turnout will be a big factor in both races, said Christina Greer, a political scientist at Fordham University. “When you think about a district like the 10th or the 12th, those are the two districts in New York where I would argue a disproportionate number of people are not in New York City right now,” Professor Greer said.

MICHAEL H. PARSONS and JASON MUNSHI-SOUTH
Why So Many Cars Have Rats in Them Now
The New York Times 08-03-2022
During the pandemic, rat sightings have also gone up (or at least more New Yorkers have complained about them). Between 2020 and 2021, the number of calls to the 311 hotline increased by well over 8,000, according to NYC Open Data. Michael H. Parsons, a research scholar at Fordham University and an urban rat expert, is the co-author of a 2020 study on increased hotline calls about rodents. “When things started shutting down, the rats lost access to their usual food sources,” he said.
Like other New Yorkers, rats had to improvise and adapt. “Rats can adjust to human behavioral shifts very quickly,” said Jason Munshi-South, a biology professor at Fordham who has conducted research with Dr. Parsons. “So when the pandemic altered our behavior, it impacted the rats as well.” 

EMILY KREBS
New 988 hotline draws criticism that it could lead to a police response, but advocates say it’s misguided
NBC News 07-29-2022
Still, even low rates of intervention — such as the 2% figure — are an issue, said Emily Krebs, a Fordham University assistant professor who studies suicide and shared criticism of 988 on Twitter. 

BETH KNOBEL
Audio not available
WCBS 880 07-28-2022
They know that the entire country has her [Brittney Griner] in mind right now. They [Russia] are absolutely in the driver’s seat, which is why they’re pushing for what we call an asymmetrical trade. They want to trade some people that are not really guilty at all, or guilty of very small crimes, for a man Victor Bout, a convicted arms dealer who is guilty of massive crimes. Thanks for joining us, former CBS news Moscow bureau chief and current Fordham University journalism Prof. Beth Knobel. 

HEATHER DUBROW
First Impressions
The Chronicle of Higher Education 07-25-2022
Heather Dubrow likes to kick off the first class by introducing two versions of herself. First, Dubrow, a professor of English at Fordham University, enters the classroom dressed “fairly formally,” she wrote in an email, and sits or stands behind the desk. She says something like: “Good morning. I am Professor Dubrow. Please record these policies for the course.”

CHRISTINA GREER
In Battle to Beat Democratic Titans, a Lawyer in Sneakers Bets on Youth
The New York Times 07-14-2022
“That’s a hard needle to thread,” said Christina Greer, a political scientist at Fordham University. “Essentially, he’s saying, I will do the same thing they are doing, just minus 40 years’ experience.”

CHRISTINA GREER
In Nadler-Maloney Matchup, Does Suraj Patel Stand a Chance?
The New York Times 07-14-2022
“That’s a hard needle to thread,” said Christina Greer, a political scientist at Fordham University. “Essentially, he’s saying, I will do the same thing they are doing, just minus 40 years’ experience.”

SAUL CORNELL
Supreme Court turns to history: How does past speak to the present?
Christian Science Monitor 07-11-2022
“The past is really a different place,” says Saul Cornell, a professor of American History at Fordham University, “and most of us would not be very happy or very comfortable if we had to live [there].”

SAUL CORNELL
How Clarence Thomas gets the History of Gun Regulation Wrong: And a Modest Proposal to Make Gunmen put up Surety Bonds
Informed Consent 06-24-2022
As Fordham University’s Saul Cornell points out, the Originalist misuse of history, has ironically enough, provoked loads of new historical research that further undermines the arguments of Scalia and Thomas, among others.

SAUL CORNELL
Cherry-picked history and ideology-driven outcomes: Bruen’s originalist distortions
SCOTUSblog 06-27-2022
Saul Cornell is the Paul and Diane Guenther chair in American history at Fordham University and adjunct professor of law at Fordham Law School.

ANJALI DAYAL
“America is cracking on all sides”
La Presse 07-11-2022
Anjali Dayal, a political science professor at Fordham University in New York, thinks the evocation of the risk of civil war in the US context is ill-advised.

MONIKA L. MCDERMOTT
Gun reform finally passed Congress after almost three decades of failure – what changed?
The Conversation 07-07-2022
Monika L. McDermott, Professor of Political Science, Fordham University

ELIZABETH STONE
Are You an “Uncle Sam” or a “Lady Liberty”?
Slate 07-04-2022

WESTENLY ALCENAT
Black Lives and the Fourth of July
The Nation 07-03-2022
Westenley Alcenat is an assistant professor of history and urban and American studies at Fordham University.

JOHN DAVENPORT
An endless arms race: How to fight the NRA’s absurd solution to mass shootings
Salon 07-05-2022
John Davenport teaches political philosophy at Fordham University. His most recent book, “A League of Democracies,” lays out a plan to meet rising global threats from resurgent autocracies.

JOHN DAVENPORT
Shared blame for Russia’s war on Ukraine is not realism — it’s irrational
National Catholic Reporter 07-05-2022
John J. Davenport teaches political philosophy, including just war theory, human rights, global governance, democratic theory, and related topics at Fordham University in New York City. His recent book is A League of Democracies (Routledge, 2019).

TIFFANY YIP
Most white parents don’t talk about racism with their kids
The Conversation 07-02-2022
Tiffany Yip, Professor of Psychology, Fordham University

GIACOMO SANTANGELO
Inflation Blame Game Targets Consumers And Workers
Forbes 06-24-2022
“If we raise wages, that’s going to add to inflation,” says Giacomo Santangelo, a senior lecturer in economics at Fordham University. “But consumers are left holding the bag. When policy makers turn around and go in order to fix the situation, we’re going to raise the taxes on corporations. How do you think they’re going to respond? They’re going to raise prices on consumers. They’re going to lay off workers. They’re going to bring in more automation.”

MARK NAISON
WSKA History Detectives
WSKA 06-26-2022
History Detectives visits Dr. Mark Naison, Professor of History and African & African American Studies at Fordham University to discuss the origin of hip-hop.

SOPHIE MITRA
https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/Social-Security-benefits-play-key-role-in-17267875.php
New Haven Register 06-27-2022
Sophie Mitra, Professor of economics, Fordham University

CHRISTINA GREER
New York Gubernatorial Primary
NY1 06-28-2022
For analysis on this important moment in New York politics, we bring in Christina Greer. She’s a professor of political science at Fordham University, co-host of the FAQ NYC podcast.

CHRISTINA GREER
New York Governor Hochul Set to Win Democratic Primary as Tougher Fight Looms
Bloomberg 06-28-2022
“Nothing is impossible,” said Christina Greer, associate professor of political science at Fordham University, citing the possibility of low election turnout and voter indifference. And the differences between Hochul and her potential Republican general election challengers are starker than ever — especially following the Supreme Court’s decision Friday to overturn Roe v. Wade.

SASHA ANN PANARAM
THE WORLD CONTINUES TO NEED OCTAVIA E. BUTLER
Public Books 06-21-2022

STEPHEN HOLLER
Objective Reality May Not Exist at All, Quantum Physicists Say
Popular Mechanics 06-29-2022
“The Brazilian researchers have devised a mathematical framework and corresponding experimental configuration that allows the testing of quantum theory, particularly understanding the nature of complementarity by studying the physical realism of the system,” Stephen Holler, an associate professor of physics at Fordham University, tells Popular Mechanics.

CHRISTOPHER AUBIN
Physicists spellbound by deepening mystery of muon particle’s magnetism
Nature 06-30-2022
Two preliminary results from this energy ‘window’ were posted on the arXiv preprint repository in April 2022: one by Christopher Aubin at Fordham University in New York City, and his collaborators, and the other by Gen Wang at the University of Aix-Marseille in France.

TYESHA MADDOX
A Walk Through Little Caribbean in Brooklyn
The Bowery Boys 06-28-2022
Tom and Greg are joined on the show today by Dr. Tyesha Maddox, assistant professor of African and African-American Studies at Fordham University, to discuss the history of Caribbean immigration into the United States (and into New York City specifically).

ALUMNI

Betty Gilpin Is a Vivid Talker
The New York Times 09-05-2022
Ms. [Betty] Gilpin eventually attended the Loomis Chaffee School, a private boarding school in Windsor, Conn., before studying theater at Fordham University in Manhattan, a place she knew she could “harvest weirdness.”

The truth of what Biden can — and can’t — achieve with Saudi Arabia
The Washington Post 07-28-2022
Nicholas DeAntonis earned his Ph.D. in history from Fordham University. He is working on a book manuscript titled, “Freeing the ‘Unfortunates’: The Global Movement to Abolish Slavery in Saudi Arabia.”

Manhattan Project, a decade of inspiration led to Forest Hills native’s first novel
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 07-26-2022
[Sarah James] majored in playwriting and American studies at Fordham University in New York City. After college, she moved to Chicago and spent three years focusing on her improv work with Second City and iO Theater. James then moved to Los Angeles for a screenwriting graduate program at the University of Southern California.

First Generation College Graduate Honors the Sacrifices her Parents Made
NBC Nightly News 07-24-2022
22-year-old Tiffany Ferreira celebrated graduating from New York’s Fordham University by sharing her success with the people who made it all possible: her parents. After her ceremony, Ferreira placed her cap on her mother and wrapped her father with her gown. The gesture honoring her parents and the sacrifices they made immigrating from Brazil for their family to have a better life in the U.S. Now, she is the first college graduate in her family.

BookLife Talks with Edward Roy
Booklife by Publisher’s Weekly 05-23-2022
The BookLife Prize describes Bullets in the Fire: The Saga of New York Red, which chronicles the life of Erma Louise Hill, as a story “of perseverance in the face of both unimaginable abuse at a young age, and the more mundane struggles of adulthood as a single parent.” We spoke with Hill’s son, Edward Roy, and discussed what the Prize called his successful embodying of “his mother’s voice by creating a consistent narrative style that illustrates her inner complexity and nuances.”

Black Pride Legends Continue The Fight Forward
Forbes 06-23-2022
“When my late partner and I moved to D.C., we made the conscious decision to move into Ward 8,” said [Phillip] Pannell, an alumnus of Fordham University. “We as a couple believed we should do something to help our community. So we moved to the community we saw the most need.”

Stamford schools’ head of college, career program named state administrator of the year
New Haven Register 06-26-2022
[Rebecca] Wilson, who has a bachelor’s degree from Sacred Heart University and a master’s degree from Fordham University, is working on acquiring a doctoral degree in counselor education and supervision, the district said.

STUDENTS

Why Aren’t New York City Subway Stations Air-Conditioned?
The New York Times 08-25-2022
“Oh, my God, it feels like a boiler room,” said Mr. [Ajah] Harley, a student at Fordham University, describing how his August subway rides have been going so far. “The sweat is coming down your face. You wipe it off and then it’s just right back on your head.”

Two brothers build a business
Yahoo News 07-21-2022
Now a 19-year-old sophomore at Fordham University in New York City, Tommy [Savino] is studying business. His brother is 16, a junior in high school.

ATHLETICS

Fordham Wins 2022 Football Opener
News 12  09-01-2022
Expectations are high at Fordham as the Rams were picked to finish second in the Patriot League’s preseason poll on Thursday. 

Weissert Pitches in Bronx for First Time in MLB
Yes Network 09-06-2022
They will go to the bullpen. First up will be Greg Weissert, and the kid that went to Fordham University pitching in the Bronx here for the first time. He made his Major League debut in Oakland.

Tailgating at Fordham
Fox 61 Morning News 09-07-2022
I would tailgate with my parents when they would come visit Fordham. Fordham Rams—four and three right now—and I was always amused at, like, how much the focus was put on the food and you’d be like, guys, there’s a game going on as well. But it was more about the gathering, about the party. Go Rams!

Fordham Hoops v. Bucknell on the Simpsons
The Simpsons 09-05-2022
Come on, Fordham, Bucknell’s got no rim protection. They’re garbage. Just cover the spread. (groans) Hey, Homer. How’s it clangin’? I’’m, uh, just tunin’ in to a little college hoops.

Greg Weissert bounces back after dismal debut
Daily News 08-31-2022
It didn’t take Greg Weissert long to get over his major league debut. The rookie right-hander came out of Thursday night’s game after having hit two batters with his first two major league pitches and had a balk in between. He’d walked the next two guys and forced Aaron Boone to come out and get him.

Yankees call up ‘bulldog’ Greg Weissert to help ailing bullpen
The New York Post 08-25-2022
Weissert, who will be active for Thursday night against the A’s, spent three years pitching at Fordham University before being drafted by the Yankees in the 18th round in 2016. The 27-year-old right-hander, who also played at Bay Shore High School on Long Island, will be the first Fordham player to play for the Yankees since Johnny Murphy in 1946.

The Beautiful Mind of Chase Edmonds, Part I: ‘I was scared ****less’
Go Long 07-27-2022
Miami hasn’t won a playoff game since 2000? That can change in 2022 (really!) because of the team’s new top running back. Everything [Chase] Edmonds has been through created a mind unlike any in the NFL.

Los Angeles, land of the misnamed sports teams
The Los Angeles Times 08-23-2022
The Los Angeles Rams have also been the Cleveland Rams, the Los Angeles-Rams-of-Anaheim-Stadium, and the St. Louis Rams. Fordham University, the Jesuit institution in New York, claims to have blessed the team with its name, thanks to some priggish divines at the school.

OBITUARIES

Vin Scully, 94, Hall of Fame Broadcaster
Vin Scully, Dodgers broadcaster for 67 years, dies at 94
The Associated Press 08-03-2022
Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully, whose dulcet tones provided the soundtrack of summer while entertaining and informing Dodgers fans in Brooklyn and Los Angeles for 67 years, died Tuesday night. He was 94.

Vin Scully, Voice of the Dodgers for 67 Years, Dies at 94
The New York Times 08-02-2022
Mr. Scully began broadcasting at Ebbets Field in 1950, when he was a slender, red-haired 22-year-old graduate of Fordham University and a protégé of Red Barber.

Legendary broadcaster Vin Scully remembered for eloquence, class behind the mic
CBS2 08-03-2022
“His fingerprints are all over WFUV Sports,” WFUV sports director Bobby Ciafardini said. “Obviously, the legacy from that period of time, calling the games and setting the standard for play-by-play … Throughout the years, being able to come back and work with the students at workshops and be available to them for critiques and analysis and words of encouragement.”

With Scully in the Booth, California Baseball Took Root
The New York Times 08-003-2022
But nothing or nobody in the latter-day covered wagons would transport and transplant baseball to the Left Coast better than a young man not long removed from the Fordham campus in the Bronx and the broadcasting booth in Brooklyn named Vin Scully.

Vin Scully Was Los Angeles
The New York Times 08-03-2022
“When I was in college, I wrote for The Times, so you probably saw my byline,” Scully said eagerly to begin an interview with The New York Times earlier this summer for a story about Gil Hodges, as if his days at Fordham University were just around a recent corner.

Vin Scully treated me like a friend from our very first meeting: Michael Kay
New York Post 08-03-2022
He immediately disarmed me with stories and spoke about our connection, having both gone to Fordham. In a moment, he was a friend, and his demeanor told you that he was happy to meet you and actually was delighted to spend time talking.

What made Vin Scully so great would not be accepted by today’s networks
New York Post 08-04-2022
It was baffling to hear Michael Kay, during YES’s Mariners-Yankees on Wednesday, recall Scully, a fellow Fordham and school radio station WFUV alum, as the best. Prior to Scully’s passing, it was equally odd to read that John Sterling idolized Scully.

Remembering Vin Scully, the longtime Los Angeles Dodgers announcer and beloved voice of baseball
ESPN 08-03-2022
He began with the team as a 22-year-old graduate of Fordham University, at the invitation of the legendary Red Barber who saw in Scully an “appealing young green pea” whose earnest Irish lilt would connect with listeners.

Vin Scully and Bill Russell: Essential voices lost
NBC Sports 08-03-2022
Scully did college football, college basketball, boxing… everything, in the mid- and late 1940s after graduating from Fordham. He once broadcast a frigid football game from the roof of Fenway Park without a coat or gloves, because he had expected to work indoors. Respect.

VIN SCULLY’S LASTING LEGACY: ‘THE GREATEST STORYTELLER EVER’
Fox Sports 08-03-2022
He was born for his profession, dreaming at an early age of one day becoming a sports announcer. After graduating from Fordham University, where he was an outfielder for the baseball team, his dream took shape.

Vin Scully, Legendary Baseball Announcer and Committed Catholic, Dies at 94
National Catholic Register 08-03-2022
After receiving his elementary education from the Sisters of Charity, he graduated from Fordham University in 1949, having majored in communications. While at Fordham, Scully took a seminar class on eloquentia perfecta, a hallmark of Jesuit education, which relates to the art of writing and speaking well.

Vin Scully Dead at 94: 5 Things to Know About the Longtime Los Angeles Dodgers Sportscaster
Us Magazine 08-03-2022
Scully became a student broadcaster while studying at NYC’s Fordham University, where he helped found the school’s WFUV radio station. He was also a sports editor at the school’s Fordham Ram newspaper, and he called games for the university’s baseball, football and basketball teams.

Vin Scully, Voice of Baseball’s Los Angeles Dodgers, Dies at 94
Bloomberg 080-03-2022
He began his broadcasting career while at Fordham University in New York, working baseball games for the school’s radio station. He also played two seasons as a center fielder.

Vin Scully, The Greatest Announcer Of All Time, Passes Away At Age 94
Sports Illustrated  08-03-2022
The game will miss him dearly, despite the fact he retired in 2016. But he was also a humanitarian who had a genuine love for people. He was so proud of his Jesuit education at Fordham Prep School and later at Fordham University.

Yankees fans cheer Vin Scully after moment of silence; Aaron Boone reflects on broadcasting giant
Nj.com 08-03-2022
The first words from the greatest voice that baseball ever might have been mama and dada back in the day in the Bronx.Broadcasting legend Vin Scully, who died Tuesday night at age 94, was born in the borough. He grew up in Manhattan, but returned to the Bronx to attend high school at Fordham Prep and college at Fordham University.

Legendary broadcaster Vin Scully remembered for eloquence, class behind the mic
New York Folk 08-04-2022
“His fingerprints are all over WFUV Sports,” WFUV sports director Bobby Ciafardini said. “Obviously, the legacy from that period of time, calling the games and setting the standard for play-by-play … Throughout the years, being able to come back and work with the students at workshops and be available to them for critiques and analysis and words of encouragement.”

Legendary Vin Scully could have belonged to New York
New York Post 08-03-2022
Scully broadcast Dodgers games for 67 years. The first eight of those years, he called New York home and Ebbets Field his home office, this son of Washington Heights, who graduated from Fordham Prep in 1944 and Fordham U in 1949.

Los Angeles Dodgers pay tribute to legendary broadcaster Vin Scully
CNN 08-06-2022
A graduate of Fordham University, Scully began his career with the Dodgers in their original home in Brooklyn, New York, when he was recruited by Hall of Fame broadcaster Red Barber to be the third man on the broadcast crew.

Vin Scully, legendary sports broadcaster and Los Angeles Dodgers icon, dies at 94
CBS Sports 08-03-2022
Scully, who called various nationally televised football and golf contests for CBS Sports from 1975 to 1982, started his broadcasting career in 1949 after attending Fordham University, where he studied journalism and was a student broadcaster.

Vin Scully, a Babe Ruth of the broadcast booth, dies at 94
The Washington Post 08-03-2022
After graduating in 1949 from New York’s Fordham University — where, in addition to calling basketball and football games, he also played outfield for the baseball team for two years — he got his first radio job at Washington’s WTOP-AM, working as a fill-in on various sports broadcasts.

Vin Scully, the famed Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster, dies at 94
NPR 08-08-2022
Vincent Edward Scully was born in 1927 in the Bronx. He grew up a Giants fan. But after graduating from Fordham University, he was recruited by the legendary broadcaster Red Barber.

The Beautiful Life of Vin Scully
Sports Illustrated 08-03-2022
Freshmen at Fordham, including Vin Scully, Class of ’49, take a seminar class taught by the most accomplished faculty called eloquentia perfecta. It emerged from the rhetorical studies of the ancient Greeks, codified in Jesuit tradition in 1599. It refers to the ideal orator: a good person speaking well for the common good. It is based on humility: the speaker begins with the needs of the audience, not a personal agenda. Vin Scully was that ideal orator.

George Alexander, 88, of Los Angeles, science writer
George Alexander, L.A. Times reporter who chronicled space exploration, dies
Los Angeles Times 08-03-2022
Born in 1934, Alexander grew up in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn. A lifelong Dodgers fan, he lived a stone’s throw from Ebbet’s Field, the team’s former home. He attended Fordham University in New York.

Andrew J. Maloney, 90, of Greenwich, CT, former federal prosecutor
Andrew J. Maloney, prosecutor who took down John Gotti, dies at 90
The New York Times 08-18-2022
After leaving the military, Mr. Maloney worked as an engineer for the city while attending Fordham University Law School at night. He graduated in 1961 and went to work as an assistant United States attorney in the Southern District of New York, which covers Manhattan, the Bronx and six downstate counties.

Richard Dujardin, 77, of Providence, RI, longtime religion reporter
Richard Dujardin wrote about faith in Rhode Island, and embraced it himself
The Providence Journal 08-16-2022
Born in 1944, Richard Dujardin grew up in Queens, went to an all-male Catholic high school and then majored in journalism at Fordham University in the Bronx. Two weeks after graduating, he was a reporter at The Providence Journal.

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