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Rams in the News: May 11, 2018

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CLIPS OF THE WEEK

DAVID GIBSON
Why Jesuits are troublemakers: Father Patrick Conroy is part of a proud tradition
New York Daily News 05-03-18
[David] Gibson is director of Fordham’s Center for Religion and Culture.

Fordham Law School’s Feerick Center for Social Justice Receives American College of Trial Lawyers’ 2018 Emil Gumpert Award and $100,000 Grant
Business Wire 05-07-18
Fordham Law School announced today that the Feerick Center for Social Justice has been selected by the American College of Trial Lawyers (ACTL or College) as the 2018 Emil Gumpert Award recipient.

The surprising way millionaire author Mary Higgins Clark spent her first big paycheck
CNBC 05-04-18
“That was when I decided I could afford to go to school,” she tells CNBC Make It, “and I started at Fordham University at Lincoln Center. I graduated at age 50.”

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY

Sex Trafficking: A Domestic Humanitarian Crisis
Medium 05-01-18
“If you think it’s not happening where you live it is and it happens to every race, every ethnicity, every economic group,” said Sergeant Faoud Zahirudin, NYPD Detective on the Vice Enforcement Division’s Human Trafficking Team, at a panel discussion hosted by the Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs at Fordham University last week.

It’s OK To Be Over Your Skis
GlobeST.com 05-02-18
“What does it mean to be in global business today in the 21st century?” moderator MaryAnne Gilmartin, the CEO at L&L MAG and former CEO of Forest City Ratner, asked the speakers at a Fordham Real Estate Institute panel.

Fashion show benefits kids with cancer
The Riverdale Press 05-04-18
Since the inaugural Mount chapter was founded three years ago, the group has expanded its presence to 14 campuses across the nation, including a chapter at Fordham University and another at Stony Brook University on Long Island.

Fordham University Hosts Bronx Celebration Day
Bronx TImes 05-07-18
Fordham University hosted its second annual Bronx Celebration Day on Saturday, April 21 at the university’s Rose Hill Campus Walsh Lot.

WFUV

2018 BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival Lineup: Common, The Breeders, Aimee Mann and More
Billboard 05-02-18
Several live broadcasts from the festival are planned by WFUV, the adult-alternative radio station of Fordham University.

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS

Fugitive Testimony: On the Visual Logic of Slave Narratives by Janet Neary, and: Hope Draped in Black: Race, Melancholy, and the Agony of Progress by Joseph R. Winters (review)
Project MUSE 05-07-18
Fugitive Testimony: On the Visual Logic of Slave Narratives. By Janet Neary. ( New York: Fordham University Press, 2016. Pp. [x], 222. Paper, $27.00, ISBN 978-0-8232-7290-7; cloth, $95.00, 978-0-8232-7289-1.)

ADMINISTRATORS

DAVID GIBSON
Why Jesuits are troublemakers: Father Patrick Conroy is part of a proud tradition
New York Daily News 05-03-18
[David] Gibson is director of Fordham’s Center for Religion and Culture.

DAVID GIBSON
The real controversy at the heart of Catholic fashion
Vox 05-07-18
That debate, according to David Gibson, director of Fordham University’s Center of Religion and Culture, dates back all the way to the Reformation but has been particularly pronounced within Catholicism over the past 50 or so years.

SCHOOL OF LAW

Fordham Law School’s Feerick Center for Social Justice Receives American College of Trial Lawyers’ 2018 Emil Gumpert Award and $100,000 Grant
Business Wire 05-07-18
Fordham Law School announced today that the Feerick Center for Social Justice has been selected by the American College of Trial Lawyers (ACTL or College) as the 2018 Emil Gumpert Award recipient.

Justice Dept. Mulls Credit to Price Fixers With Compliance Plans
Bloomberg 05-08-18
“Whether and under what circumstances” to allow a reduction in fine or otherwise credit an existing program is under review, he told a Concurrences Review conference on antitrust issues in the financial sector at Fordham University Law School.

GABELLI SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Aspen Institute Competition Prompts MBA Students to Innovate for the Good of Business and Society
Aspen Institute 05-03-18
In addition to the schools mentioned above, the Aspen Institute is proud to celebrate the other partnering schools in this year’s program:…Fordham University, Graduate School of Business…

New Research Says CEOs With This 1 Trait Add More Value to Their Companies
Inc. 05-01-18
Researchers from the Stuart School of Business at Illinois Institute of Technology, Lally School of Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University examined a sample of just over 1,200 CEOs who headed S&P 1500 firms between 2000 and 2010.

SCHOOL OF LAW FACULTY

JOEL COHEN
If you ‘take the Fifth,’ does it imply guilt?
The Hill 05-02-18
[Joel] Cohen is an adjunct professor at Fordham Law School.

LU JUN
Over 30? You’re Too Old for Tech Jobs in China
Bloomberg 05-02-18
“Age-dismissal victims rarely ask for help from lawyers,” says Lu Jun, a social activist and visiting scholar at Fordham University School of Law who fought successfully for legislation prohibiting Chinese employers from discriminating against hepatitis B carriers, formerly a common practice.

JED SHUGERMAN
Trump Shakes Up Legal Team, Taking Stronger Stance Against Mueller; Former Trump Campaign Aide Meets with Mueller Team. Aired 5- 6p ET
CNN 05-02-18
JED SHUGERMAN, PROFESSOR OF LAW, FORDHAM UNIVERSITY: Pardoning Manafort would make sure that Manafort would not need to cooperate with Mueller to stay out of federal prison.

JED SHUGERMAN
Did Rudy Giuliani just get Trump in legal trouble? I asked 11 legal experts.
Vox 05-03-18
“Giuliani was not going off script,” said Jed Shugerman, law professor, Fordham University.

JED SHUGERMAN
Barbara D. Underwood: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
Heavy. 05-08-18
Fordham law professor Jed Shugerman wrote that since there are limited days left in session, and “…the role of the New York AG is vital to New York law enforcement in normal times, but it’s urgent now. [”]

JED SHUGERMAN
‘Nothing Changes’: NY AG Will Remain Check On Trump Without Schneiderman
Talking Points Memo 05-08-18
The attorney general and solicitor general offices also work closely together, meaning Underwood is likely aware of any Mueller-adjacent matters Schneiderman was working on, according to Fordham Law professor Jed Shugerman.

JOHN PFAFF
Why Meek Mill’s Release Matters More Than You Think
Rolling Stone 05-03-18
According to research by Fordham University law professor John Pfaff, the terrible spike in incarceration we have seen – and particularly the rise in the number of people serving major time on felony charges – is owed to prosecutors.

JOHN PFAFF
ICE is wrongly designating immigrants as gang members to deport them
Salon 05-07-18
Fordham Law professor John Pfaff once called out The Washington Post for “extrapolat[ing]” facts about MS-13’s presence in Long Island, NY, and Northern Virginia “to the nation as a whole” and warned of “the uncritical acceptance of law enforcement’s narrative.”

SUSAN SCAFID
Woods Cross High teen’s prom dress sparks online debate about cultural appropriation
Idaho State Journal 05-04-18
Fordham Law School Professor Susan [Scafidi], author of “Who Owns Culture?: Appropriation and Authenticity in American Law,” defines cultural appropriation as taking or using of elements, artifacts or knowledge of a certain culture without that culture’s permission.

SUSAN SCAFIDI
Plaid fight: Burberry sues Target over that trademark check
Advertising Age 05-08-18
Target’s plaid, photographed in the filing, and Burberry’s are “substantially indistinguishable, likely rising to the levels of counterfeits rather than mere trademark infringements,” says Susan Scafidi, academic director of the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham Law School.

JOEL R. REIDENBERG
A driver for Amazon stole a customer’s puppy in shocking stunt that highlights one of the biggest dangers facing the tech giant
Business Insider 05-04-18
“It certainly raises privacy concerns, an unknown person coming into your home,” Joel Reidenberg, a professor of law at Fordham University School of Law and the director of the school’s center on law and information privacy, told Business Insider.

DAVID A. ANDELMAN
US is waking up to the deadly threat of cyber war
CNN 05-06-18
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 and a columnist for USA Today.

KAREN J. GREENBERG
CIA: The Gina Haspel controversy runs deeper than her appointment
DW.com 05-08-18
“I think we need to get the facts and all of the facts on the table at this hearing,” said Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham University Law School.

ZEPHYR TEACHOUT
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the leftest of them all?
City & State New York 05-07-18
Christina Greer, an associate professor at Fordham University and a McSilver Fellow at New York University, noted that Cuomo’s ban on fracking occurred after the 2014 gubernatorial contest, when progressive primary challenger Zephyr Teachout campaigned heavily on the issue.

ZEPHYR TEACHOUT
Shocked Albany rushes to find Schneiderman replacement
New York Post 05-08-18
Other possible candidates include Congresswoman Kathleen Rice, Fordham law professor Zephyr ­Teachout and state Sen. Todd Kaminsky.

ZEPHYR TEACHOUT
The leading contenders to be New York’s next attorney general
City & State New York 05-08-18
Cuomo’s 2014 primary challenger [Zephyr Teachout] is a professor at Fordham Law and another prominent critic of the governor.

ZEPHYR TEACHOUT
Here Are Some Contenders to Succeed Schneiderman as New York Attorney General
Bloomberg 05-08-18
They include former Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and Fordham Law School professor Zephyr Teachout, who said Tuesday that she was “seriously considering” a run.

DEBORAH W. DENNO
Nevada Supreme Court hears arguments for using untested paralytic drug in death penalty case
Miami Herald 05-08-18
Fordham University law professor Deborah Denno said in an interview that because many of the drugs used for executions are manufactured in European countries that oppose the death penalty, there has been a reluctance to sell to states for that purpose.

TANYA K. HERNANDEZ
ADVOCACY IN IDEAS: LEGAL EDUCATION AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS.
The Free Library 05-09-18
Tanya K. Hernandez is the Archibald R. Murraya Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law, and author of the forthcoming book Multiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination (NYU Press).

GABELLI SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FACULTY

JULITA A. HABER
Learning While Pedaling At Fordham
Poets & Quants for Undergraduates 05-03-18
It’s not something you hear everyday from a…prof, but Julita Haber, a clinical assistant professor in management at Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business admits it: she’s hyper.

STANLEY VELIOTIS
Did Trump write off his hush-money payments? Another reason we need to see his tax returns
NY Daily News 05-09-18
Veliotis teaches accounting and taxation at Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business.

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION FACULTY

MICHAEL J. GARANZINI, S.J.
Illinois Lincoln Academy Event Has A Decidely ‘Rockford’ Flavor
Northern Public Radio 05-06-18
This year, he returned — as a visiting research faculty member — to Fordham University, where he had taught prior to coming to Loyola.

ARTS AND SCIENCES FACULTY

HANS V. MINNICH
Discovery Center welcomes new director
The Ridgefield Press 05-02-18
Before war is launched on the invasives, the Discovery Center will host Fordham University professor Hans Minnich for a talk on different calendar systems.

JOSEPH A. PERRICONE
Serradifalco. Great Success for Giuseppe Petix with his lectio magistralis in New York on Leonardo Da Vinci.
Il Fatto Nisseno 05-02-18
To present it was the prof. Joseph [A.] Perricone (pictured) who wanted this event to allow Giuseppe Petix to expose his theses on the works of the great master to the students of the American University.
[Translated from Italian]

CHARLES C. CAMOSY
Johnson sees no dichotomy between theology’s “growing edge” and “traditional space”
Crux 05-03-18
[Elizabeth] Johnson [C.S.J.] is retiring this year and spoke to Charles Camosy about her career.

CHARLES C. CAMOSY
James Dobson Speaks Out in Horror Over Alfie Evans’ Death, Urges US Christians to Fight Socialized Medicine
The Christian Post 05-03-18
Charles C. Camosy, a theology professor at Fordham University in New York City, said that the Western world stands at a “crossroads” for how it treats human life.

CHARLES C. CAMOSY
Theologian: Earth must be ‘front and center’ for those who love God
Crux 05-04-18
[Elizabeth] Johnson [C.S.J.] is retiring this year and spoke to Charles Camosy about this aspect of her thought.

ELIZABETH JOHNSON, C.S.J.
Johnson sees no dichotomy between theology’s “growing edge” and “traditional space”
Crux 05-03-18
Elizabeth A. Johnson is the Distinguished Professor of Theology at Fordham University, and one of the most prominent Catholic theologians of the last generation.

ELIZABETH JOHNSON, C.S.J.
Theologian: Earth must be ‘front and center’ for those who love God
Crux 05-04-18
Elizabeth Johnson is the Distinguished Professor of Theology at Fordham University, and one of the most prominent Catholic theologians of the last generation.

MARCIA PALLY
Redeeming Populism: The Promise of a Liberal Covenanted Republic
ABC.net 05-03-18
Marcia Pally teaches at New York University and Fordham University, and is a guest professor in the theology department at Humboldt University in Berlin.

GUY ROBINSON
Spring allergies: Why they hit, how to allergy-proof life and pick foods to limit suffering
LoHud.com 05-03-18
Pollen expert Guy Robinson of Fordham University described the sudden heatwave as a catalyst for an explosion of microspores dusting Westchester and Rockland counties, and triggering the sinus headaches, itchy eyes and running noses of allergy sufferers’ nightmares.

CHRISTINA GREER
“IT FELT LIKE PAGEANTRY.” ADVOCATES UNHAPPY WITH THE WOMEN’S MARCH AND TODAY’S FEMINIST ACTIVISM.
WFUV 05-01-18
Christina Greer is interviewed about the women’s march.

CHRISTINA GREER
Continue to support brave Black women
New York Amsterdam News 05-03-18
Christina Greer, Ph.D., is the 2018 NYU McSilver Institute Fellow and an associate professor at Fordham University, the author of “Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream” and the host of The Aftermath on Ozy.com.

CHRISTINA GREER
The Cynthia Surge
The Weekly Standard 05-03-18
According to Christina Greer, Fordham political scientist and author of Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream, “It’s the first time anyone’s directly courted black women.”

CHRISTINA GREER
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the leftest of them all?
City & State New York 05-07-18
Christina Greer, an associate professor at Fordham University and a McSilver Fellow at New York University, noted that Cuomo’s ban on fracking occurred after the 2014 gubernatorial contest, when progressive primary challenger Zephyr Teachout campaigned heavily on the issue.

PAUL LEVINSON
F8 proved there’s no escape from Facebook
Engadget 05-04-18
“The success of Facebook in these various things that it does, and the fact that it just keeps doing more and more, is a reflection of the fact that [it’s] doing something right [and]that people are enjoying by and large what they’re doing,” said Paul Levinson, professor of communications and media studies at Fordham University.

DOMINICK SALVATORE
University, in the Lum Jean Monnet  the meetings for the Europe Festival
Corriere del Mezzogiorno 05-08-18
After the greetings of Emanuele Degennaro, Rector of Lum, Roberto Martino, dean of the Faculty of Law and Elbano de Nuccio, President of ODEC Bari, the works chaired by Dominick Salvatore will begin.
[Translated from Italian]

DOMINICK SALVATORE
More Than 1,100 Economists Join NTU to Voice Opposition to Tariffs, Protectionism
National Taxpayers Union 05-03-18
Dominick Salvatore is one of the signees.

MICHAEL L. PEPPARD
CHRÉTIENS D’ORIENT, 2000 ANS D’HISTOIRE: A MAJOR EXHIBIT IN FRANCE
Public Orthodoxy 05-03-18
Michael Peppard is associate professor of theology at Fordham University.

NATHANIEL K. WOOD
In religion and economics, cause and effect are very hard to prove
The Economist 05-04-18
This drew a response from Nathaniel Wood, associate director of the Orthodox Christian Studies Centre at America’s Fordham University.

JOHN C. SEITZ
Just How Catholic Is the Met’s New Fashion Exhibit?
Racked 05-07-18
Following Monday’s press preview of the exhibit, Racked reporter Eliza Brooke and Vox religion reporter Tara Burton sat down with John Seitz, a professor in Fordham University’s theology department, to hash out the exhibit’s representations of Catholicism.

OLENA NIKOLAYENKO
Too Early to Celebrate? The Prospects of Armenia’s Velvet Revolution
Political Insights 05-07-18
While speaking to Olena Nikolayenko from Fordham University, the author of the book Youth Movements and Elections in Eastern Europe, about the success of the movement, Professor Nikolayenko distinguished two definitions of success.

HENRY M. SCHWALENBERG
More Than 1,100 Economists Join NTU to Voice Opposition to Tariffs, Protectionism
National Taxpayers Union 05-03-18
Henry M. Schwalenberg is one of the signees.

NINA R. GOSS
International Bob Dylan Conference in Odense
Avisen.dk 05-02-18
Other lecturers: Dr. David Gaines, Professor, Southwestern University[,] Dr. Nina Goss, Associate Professor, Fordham University…
[Translated from Danish]

STUDENTS

For safe schools, give students the support they need
LoHud.com 05-02-18
David Kamerman is a social work intern at Fordham University’s Graduate School of Social Services.

Forest Hills/South Queens Focus
Queens Tribune 05-03-18
The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi recently initiated a number of Queens students at Fordham University.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Gets a Rock Star’s Welcome at DC Premiere of Documentary
Washingtonian 05-03-18
“What do I use it for? Not the selfies,” US Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg tells a crowd of law students at Fordham University in the new documentary RBG.

World Press Freedom Day 2018 – Keeping Power in Check: the Protection of Journalists and Media Workers
UN Web TV 05-03-18
Fordham student Morgan Conley asks a question of high-level reps of UN Nation States at 37:50 in video.

How Mathilde Freund, Vintage Dealer, Spends Her Sundays
The New York Times 05-04-18
Ms. [Mathilde] Freund, who takes classes at Fordham University during the week, has lived in the same one-bedroom apartment overlooking Central Park West for 65 years.

Spring Valley mom, daughter both getting master’s degrees
LoHud.com 05-09-18
About a week later, on May 23, her 23-year-old daughter will be there to cheer on her mom [Gloria Key] as the 51-year-old gets the very same degree from Fordham University.

ATHLETICS

Binghamton grad Rauch earns numerous softball honors from A10
Pressconnects.com 05-08-18
[Paige] Rauch, freshman at Fordham University, earned A10 Rookie of the Year recognition and was named first-team all-conference as a pitcher and second baseman.

News 12 The Bronx Sports
News 12 The Bronx 05-04-18
Coverage of the women’s softball team’s upcoming A-10 game.

Fox 43 Morning News
Fox 43 05-07-18
Chase Edmonds’ mother went to Texas to be there when his name was called at the NFL draft.

ALUMNI

The Arc Westchester Announces New Executive Director
PR Web 05-02-18
[Tibisay (Tibi) Guzmán ] resides in Bronxville and has a B.S. from Fordham University, M.P.S. from The New School for Health Service Administration and a M.A. in Economics from Fordham University.

Local dancer makes it to the Big Apple from the Garden City
WRDW 05-02-18
[Christopher R. Wilson] attended Fordham University and danced with the Alvin Ailey School.

The surprising way millionaire author Mary Higgins Clark spent her first big paycheck
CNBC 05-04-18
“That was when I decided I could afford to go to school,” she tells CNBC Make It, “and I started at Fordham University at Lincoln Center. I graduated at age 50.”

Venable Continues to Grow Its Corporate Practice in New York with the Addition of Bill Haddad
Global Banking & Finance Review 05-05-18
Mr. [Bill] Haddad received his J.D. from Fordham University School of Law in 1994 and his B.S. from the University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School, in 1989.

Memoirs: Ellen Tharp, founder of the Staten Island Ballet
SILive.com 05-07-18
[Ellen Tharp] graduated from Fordham University with a bachelor’s in English and comparative literature, and then studied for two years at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, from which [she]earned a diploma.

WTMO Telemundo has new leaders
Orlando Sentinel 05-07-18
[Luis Roldan] earned a bachelor’s degree in marketing from Fordham University.

OBITUARIES

Charles J. Hickey, 94, Of Toledo, OH, retired
Charles J. Hickey (1923-2018)
Toledo Blade 05-03-18
[Charles J. Hickey] previously taught business and tax law courses at Fordham University in the Bronx.

Sister Vivien Jennings, 83, Of Caldwell NJ, nun and teacher
‘Trailblazing’ Caldwell Religious Educator Passes Away
Patch.com 05-08-18
Sr. Vivien [Jennings] earned a BA in English from Caldwell College, an MA in English from Catholic University, an MS in Communications from Syracuse University and a PhD in English from Fordham University.

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