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Rams in the News: September 14, 2018

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CLIPS OF THE WEEK

Fordham University To Observe Cardinal Dulles’ Centenary
Catholic New York 09-12-18
Fordham University, where Cardinal Dulles spent the last 20 years of his distinguished life and career, will begin a yearlong observance of the milestone with a conference examining his legacy and continuing impact on the Catholic Church in the United States and around the world.

CHRISTIANA ZENNER
The Painful But Important Lessons I Learned After My Father’s Suicide
Mind Body Green 09-10-18
In this essay, Christiana Zenner, Ph.D., a Fordham University theology professor and longtime friend of mindbodygreen, shares what she experienced after her father took his own life—and how she learned to find healing.

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY

UB reaches all-time highs in annual U.S. News rankings
The Buffalo News 09-10-18
UB was 11th among schools from New York State, behind Columbia, No. 16 Cornell University, No. 30 New York University, No. 33 University of Rochester, No. 49 Rensselear Polytechnic Institute, No. 53 Syracuse University, No. 70 Fordham University, as well as Binghamton, Stony Brook and Yeshiva University (all three tied at No. 80).

The Top 25 B.A. Theatre Programs for 2018-19
OnStage Blog 09-16-18
1. Fordham University – New York, NY

Big 10: The 10 Most Represented Colleges on Broadway in the 2018-2019 Season
Playbill 09-11-18
10. Fordham University

The Top 25 College Dance Programs for 2018-19
OnStageBlog.com 08-21-18
2. The Ailey School at Fordham University – New York, NY

Fordham University To Observe Cardinal Dulles’ Centenary
Catholic New York 09-12-18
Fordham University, where Cardinal Dulles spent the last 20 years of his distinguished life and career, will begin a yearlong observance of the milestone with a conference examining his legacy and continuing impact on the Catholic Church in the United States and around the world.

SCHOOL OF LAW

Trump wants Attorney General Jeff Sessions to investigate op-ed writer
MSN 09-07-18
Former CIA director John Brennan listens during a panel at The Center on National Security at Fordham Law School in Manhattan, New York, U.S., September 4, 2018. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

Fordham Law Kicks off Celebration of 100 Years of Women
Morningstar 09-11-18
Fordham Law School will host a reception to kick off a multi-event celebration commemorating 100 years of women at the law school.

SCHOOL OF LAW FACULTY

ZEPHYR TEACHOUT
Eating Matzo Ball Soup With Zephyr Teachout
GQ 09-12-18
A professor at Fordham University, she has been preaching against the status quo with the zest of a thousand lemons and the zeal of a thousand suns. “Politicians don’t like me,” she says with a wide if a little lupine smile, “but it’s not my job to be popular with them. My boss is the People of New York.”

ZEPHYR TEACHOUT
Bernie Sanders Endorses Zephyr Teachout For New York Attorney General
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Monday endorsed Zephyr Teachout for New York
Huffington Post 09-10-18
state attorney general, potentially giving the Fordham University law professor a boost for Thursday’s election.

ZEPHYR TEACHOUT
Two climate hawks are running for New York attorney general — and the soul of the Democratic Party
Grist 09-10-18
Two have vowed to take up Schneiderman’s considerable environmental mantle, and each already has a noteworthy environmental victory under her belt: New York City’s public advocate Letitia “Tish” James, who helped lead a movement to divest the metropolis’s pension funds from the fossil fuel industry; and Fordham University law professor Zephyr Teachout, who was instrumental in pushing the state to ban fracking. Both candidates have promised to play hardball with the Trump administration, crack down on polluters, and bring justice to at-risk New Yorkers facing environmental hardship.

ZEPHYR TEACHOUT
Zephyr Teachout Gets an Ultrasound in Her Latest Campaign Ad
Daily Intelligencer 09-11-18
Teachout, who mounted an unsuccessful primary challenge against Governor Andrew Cuomo in 2014, had planned to continue working as a law professor at Fordham University until the birth of her first child, but then former attorney general Eric Schneiderman resigned in May amid allegations of physical abuse from several women.

ZEPHYR TEACHOUT
How I Get It Done: Zephyr Teachout
The Cut 09-11-18
The 46-year-old Fordham Law professor and constitutional law expert is no newcomer to the political stage: she ran for governor in 2014 and attempted a bid for Congress in 2016.

DAVID A. ANDELMAN
Commentary: Trump’s dangerous Asian game
Reuters 09-11-18
David A. Andelman, a former foreign correspondent for the New York Times and CBS News, is visiting scholar at the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School and author of “A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today.”

TRICIA BACON
Why al-Qaida is still strong 17 years after 9/11
The Conversation 09-11-18
Tricia Bacon is a fellow at Fordham University’s Center for National Security and a non-resident fellow with George Washington’s Center for Extremism.

JOHN PFAFF
Want To Reduce Mass Incarceration? Fund Public Defenders
ESpeak.in 09-11-18
John Pfaff, a professor of law at Fordham University, has analyzed filings in state courts which show that prison populations ballooned over the 1990s and 2000s largely because of prosecutorial decisions

JOHN D. FEERICK
How ‘The Caine Mutiny’ and the paranoid Capt. Queeg influenced the debate over the 25th Amendment
The Washington Post 09-10-18
They didn’t want a similar situation — an “Article 184″ in the amendment — where a vice president or others could simply usurp the commander-in-chief’s power at the mere utterance of the word “disabled,” explained John D. Feerick, professor and former dean of Fordham School of Law, who assisted in drafting the amendment in the 1960s.

KAREN J. GREENBERG
Afghanistan: The State of America’s Longest War
Bloomberg 09-11-18
Michael O’Hanlon, senior fellow in foreign policy at Brookings Institution, and Karen Greenberg, director at Fordham University School of Law Center on National Security, examine the costs and accomplishments of the United States’ war in Afghanistan.

KAREN J. GREENBERG
Why these 9/11 monsters still haven’t faced a trial
New York Post 09-11-18
“The fact that we can’t try these individuals is such an incalculable disservice to the citizens of this country,” said Karen Greenberg, director of The Center on National Security at Fordham Law School.

GABELLI SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FACULTY

ALBERT GRECO
Cengage aims to disrupt the college textbook market
Reuters 09-10-18
Fordham marketing professor, Albert Greco, has studied the textbook publishing market, as well as Cengage’s plans.

MARK CONRAD
The Last of the Bookies
Mel Magazine 09-08-18
It’s a slow process, but by the end of the year, something like 10 states will have legalized sports gambling in some form, shape or size,” says Mark Conrad, director of the sports business program at Fordham University.

ARTS AND SCIENCES FACULTY

CHRISTIANA ZENNER
The Painful But Important Lessons I Learned After My Father’s Suicide
Mind Body Green 09-10-18
n this essay, Christiana Zenner, Ph.D., a Fordham University theology professor and longtime friend of mindbodygreen, shares what she experienced after her father took his own life—and how she learned to find healing.

CHRISTINA GREER
WNYC/New York Election Plans: National Call-In Show, Digital Features, Political Podcast Feed
All Access 09-10-18
The national radio show, “AMERICA ON THE LINE,” hosted by WASHINGTON POST reporter and MSNBC contributor JONATHAN CAPEHART, launches TODAY (9/10) and will air MONDAYS through THURSDAYS 8-9p (ET) for nine weeks in the election run-up. WNYC reporters and a roster of pundits including THE FEDERALIST’s BEN DOMENECG, FORDHAM UNIVERSITY’s CHRISTINA GREER…

CHRISTINA GREER
Republicans fundraise to save ‘unlikeable’ Ted Cruz as former spokesman warns Beto O’Rourke could win crucial Texas seat
The Independent 09-10-18
Christina Greer, a professor of political science at Fordham University in New York, said Mr Cruz’s race had to placed against the broader context of insurgents from both parties performing well these year.

CHRISTINA GREER
Diversity in Attorney General’s Race Is Celebrated: Whoever Wins Will Make History.
The New York Times 09-09-18
“We have this leftist, progressive label for New York City and New York State,” said Christina Greer, an associate professor of political science at Fordham University, “but you scratch the surface and we are not as progressive as we think.”

NICHOLAS TAMPIO
BOOK REVIEW of “Common Core: National Education Standards and the Threat to Democracy” by Nicholas Tampio. Reviewer: Charles E. Phelps
Education Watch International 09-10-18
Academic nose-thumbing condescension toward citizen activists should not be possible in the case of Nicholas Tampio’s Common Core: National Education Standards and the Threat to Democracy.

QUAMRUL HAIDER
In memory of Imtiaz Habib
The Daily Star 08-08-18
Quamrul Haider is a Professor of Physics at Fordham University in New York

ARISTOTLE PAPANIKOLAOU
Ukraine Orthodox Church seeks spiritual split from Russia
DW Akademie 09-07-18
Aristotle Papanikolaou, a professor of theology and co-director of the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University in the US, told DW that if Ukraine is granted the right to create an independent church, it could create a schism in the Orthodox Church, with some Orthodox churches recognizing this independence and others rejecting it.

GARRETT BROAD
“POLITICS AT THE DINNER TABLE” BY GARRETT BROAD
Imagine with Plymouth University 08-28-18
Garrett M. Broad is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University in New York City, and the author of More than Just Food: Food Justice and Community Change.

J. PATRICK HORNBECK II
Cardinal Donald Wuerl to discuss potential resignation with Pope Francis
CBS News 09-12-18
Patrick Hornbeck, chair of the theology department at Fordham University in New York, said “it’s anyone’s guess what happens next.”

ROBERT HUME
How the Texas Supreme Court Nixed an Anti-litter Ordinance
Waste360.com 09-11-18
* Fordham University political scientist Robert Hume has suggested that a decision “backed with references to cases, statutes and other materials is likely to appear more important than a [decision]that is less well defended.

ALUMNI

Recovery at Wildwood Farm focus of A&E TV Show ‘Addiction Unplugged’
News Times 09-10-18
The 54-year-old [Michael Hinkley] traces his interest in creating Wildwood Farm back to a class on gay issues as a graduate student at Fordham University.

Former beauty queen Kamie Crawford wants young women to dream fearlessly
Rolling Out 09-11-18
The enterprising beauty earned her degree in communications from Fordham University

OBITUARIES

Anna Dolgov, 47, Of Moscow, Russia, journalist
In Memoriam: Anna Dolgov
The Moscow Times 09-11-18
At the time of her death, she was a graduate student at Fordham University, studying for a master’s degree in big data and cybersecurity.

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