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Rams in the News: April 27, 2018

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CLIPS OF THE WEEK

SNAPS: Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club | Fordham University | The Point Foundation
Crain’s New York 04-19-18
Fordham University held its 17th annual Founder’s Award dinner March 19 at Cipriani Wall Street.

The small-school RB secret is out: Meet NFL draft’s biggest underdog
The New York Post 04-17-18
[Chase Edmonds] is a 5-foot-9, 205-pound running back from Harrisburg, Pa., who rushed for 5,862 yards at Fordham [University], caught 86 passes and scored 74 touchdowns — even after a heartbreaking ankle injury that curtailed his senior season and left him wondering if his NFL dream might have been shattered.

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY

Thalassa Benefit for Fordham’s Orthodox Christian Studies Center, May 15
The National Herald 04-18-18
The Orthodox Christian Studies Center of Fordham University connects cultures, religious traditions, and academic disciplines to advance awareness and knowledge of Orthodox Christianity in public discourse.

Chefs Bring Vegan/Vegetarian Options
Bronx Times 04-19-18
On Friday, March 30, Aramark and the Human Society of the United States trained over 20 chefs from local universities to receive hands-on training to prepare vegan and vegetarian options to Fordham University students.

Media literacy and adolescents: a good fit, but it could be better
Catholic Philly 04-23-18
For her study, [Kasey L.] Powers and three other researchers in New York City — one from Jesuit-run Fordham University and two from the City University of New York — went to rural Indiana, where web access can be chancy, but the school district gives each middle-schooler a Chromebook.

Best Online Master’s in Marketing Degree Programs
The Best Schools 04-19-18
Fordham University designed its online master’s of marketing and communication program to help working professionals.

No Safe Harbor: An Exhibition on Sex Trafficking in the United States
Medium 04-04-18
The exhibition, opening at Fordham University Rose Hill in Canisius Hall on April 5, highlights domestic sex trafficking through a variety of angles: women and girls trapped in a cycle of exploitation; traffickers and johns who fuel the trade; advocates and law enforcement officials tackling the problem; and survivors who have had the chance to start a new life.

SNAPS: Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club | Fordham University | The Point Foundation
Crain’s New York 04-19-18
Fordham University held its 17th annual Founder’s Award dinner March 19 at Cipriani Wall Street.

WFUV

New bathrooms, eats at Forest Hills Stadium
Queens Chronicle 04-19-18
In terms of branching out to new audiences, the promoters have partnered with WFUV, Fordham University’s famous radio station, to broadcast select shows.

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS

Scatter—Freedom!
Project MUSE 04-20-18
GEOFFREY BENNINGTON. SCATTER 1: THE POLITICS OF POLITICS IN FOUCAULT, HEIDEGGER, AND DERRIDA (New York: Fordham University Press, 2016).

Traditions of Eloquence: The Jesuits and Modern Rhetorical Studies ed. by Cinthia Gannett and John C. Brereton (review)
Project MUSE 04-20-18
Traditions of Eloquence: The Jesuits and Modern Rhetorical Studies. Edited by Cinthia Gannett and John C. Brereton. (Bronx, NY: Fordham University Press. 2016. Pp. xx, 444. $35.00 paperback. ISBN 978-0-8232-6453-7.)

New Books in American Religious History: 2018 Year in Preview, Part Two (May-July)
Religion in American History Blog 04-20-18
Grant Brodrecht, Our Country: Northern Evangelicals and the Union during the Civil War Era (Fordham University Press)

SCHOOL OF LAW

Law School Q&A: Does Location Matter?
U.S. News & World Report 04-23-18
That said, alumni of the Fordham University School of Law, tied at No. 37 in the rankings, still fare well in that environment, with more than half of those working in the private sector finding positions in big law firms.

SCHOOL OF LAW FACULTY

JOHN D. FEERICK
Rule of Law Clinic Releases “Reader’s Guide” for the 25th Amendment
Yale Law School News 04-18-18
The Clinic examined the text, legislative history, critical academic commentary, and judicial analyses of the amendment, and consulted closely with leading experts, including Professor John D. Feerick, past Dean of the Fordham University School of Law, a principal drafter of the 25th Amendment who continues to be its preeminent commentator.

JED SHUGERMAN
New York attorney general wants power to bypass Trump pardons
Reuters 04-18-18
Jed Shugerman, a Fordham University law professor, said Schneiderman’s “balanced” proposal both protects people from “repeated harassment” by a single group of prosecutors, and also “protects against pardons being used to obstruct justice.”

JED SHUGERMAN
No Pardon for You, Michael Cohen
Slate 04-17-18
Jed Handelsman Shugerman is a Fordham Law professor and the author of The People’s Courts and shugerblog.com.

JED SHUGERMAN
Could New York state prosecutors bring charges against Cohen even if Trump pardons him?
Vox 04-19-18
Jed Shugerman, a professor at Fordham Law, wrote that those crimes would fall under “scheme to defraud” under New York state law, which means Cohen could face state felony charges.

JED SHUGERMAN
New York’s Gambit to Foil Trump Pardons
The Atlantic 04-19-18
The problem, as Fordham Law Professor Jed Shugerman laid out in Slate Tuesday, is that it simply might not work.

JED SHUGERMAN
Trump warned Cohen could turn on him. TRANSCRIPT: 04/18/2018. The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell
MSNBC 04-18-18
Leading off our discussion now, John Heilemann, national affairs analyst  for NBC News and MSNBC, Jennifer Rubin, conservative opinion writer at “The  Washington” and MSNBC contributor, and Jed Shugerman, professor of law at Fordham University.

JED SHUGERMAN
Jeff Sessions isn’t making a move in the Michael Cohen case that has poisoned his relationship with Trump — and it could be huge for the president
Business Insider 04-24-18
“So, the bottom line is, it felt like it was important for him to spread that work out as a hedge against [Mueller’s] firing,” Jed Shugerman, a Fordham University law professor, told Business Insider.

JED SHUGERMAN
KCBS-AM News
KCBS-AM 04-19-18
Jed Shugerman further explains his Slate article and the complication of specific New York state laws that could affect future trials.

RICHARD J. SOBELSOHN
2018’s Cities with the Most Overleveraged Mortgage Debtors
WalletHub 04-19-18
Richard J. Sobelsohn[,] Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham University

JOHN PFAFF
Trump’s Inquisitor
The New York Review of Books 04-19-18
This shift in charging policy is critical because, as Fordham law professor John Pfaff has shown in his excellent book Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration—and How to Achieve Real Reform, prosecutorial charging decisions were the driving force behind the rise of America’s system of mass incarceration in the last quarter of the twentieth century, when incarceration rates quintupled.

N. CAMERON RUSSELL
Fordham 2018 Report 1: Building Out the House – Music Licensing
The IPKat 04-20-18
“During Thursday afternoon’s session Music Licensing, Termination & Territoriality: Time for Recalibration?, moderator N. Cameron Russell (Center for Law & Information Policy, Fordham Law School) likened the legal developments in U.S. music licensing to building additions to a house.

BRUCE A. GREEN
Will Andrew McCabe Be Prosecuted?
The Atlantic 04-19-18
Bruce Green, a former federal prosecutor who is now a law professor at Fordham University, emphasized the IG’s reputation for independence.

BRUCE A. GREEN
The Comey Memos Won’t Derail the Mueller Probe
The Atlantic 04-20-18
“If corrupt witnesses know what evidence and testimony have already been accumulated, they can build a false story around it without fear of contradiction,” said Bruce Green, a former federal prosecutor and a law professor at Fordham.

BRUCE A. GREEN
Is the Senate Bill to Protect Mueller Constitutional?
The Atlantic 04-23-18
“Presidents can set criminal-justice policy, but—except perhaps in cases with foreign-policy implications—the president does not have constitutional authority to direct a federal prosecutor to initiate or dismiss criminal charges, or to direct how to conduct a particular grand-jury investigation or criminal prosecution,” said Bruce Green, a law professor at Fordham University and a legal-ethics expert who recently co-authored a paper on prosecutorial independence.

ZEPHYR TEACHOUT
An Interview with Zephyr Teachout, Former New York Gubernatorial Candidate
The Politic 04-19-18
ZEPHYR TEACHOUT IS an academic, activist, and former political candidate for governor of New York and New York’s 19th congressional district.

ZEPHYR TEACHOUT
Read These 3 Books on Government Corruption
The New York Times 04-20-18
In this book, [Zephyr] Teachout, a Fordham University Law professor and one-time candidate for governor of New York, makes the case that throughout this country’s history, lawmakers have gone to great lengths to divide the personal from the political.

DAVID A. ANDELMAN
What do Trump and Macron want from each other?
CNN 04-23-18
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.

DAVID A. ANDELMAN
CNN Newsroom With Brooke Baldwin
CNN 04-24-18
David A. Andelman weighs in on President Trump’s potential new deal with Iran.

SUSAN BLOCK-LIEB
Global Lawmakers
Universiteit Van Amsterdam 04-25-18
Susan Block-Lieb is Professor at Fordham Law School, where she holds the Cooper Family Chair in Urban Legal Studies.

MATTHEW A. GOLD
Hawaii Public Radio News
Hawaii Public Radio 04-18-18
Matthew A. Gold weighs in on China’s tariffs on imports.

GABELLI SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FACULTY

IFTEKHAR HASAN
Research: CEOs with Diverse Networks Create Higher Firm Value
Harvard Business Review 04-10-18
Iftekhar Hasan is the E. Gerald Corrigan Chair in International Business and Finance at [Gabelli] School of Business and co-director of the Center for Research in Contemporary Finance.

BENJAMIN M. COLE
Pierre Gramegna Discusses FinTech, sustainable finance, investment funds in New York
Chronicle.lu 04-18-18
Similarly, he had a working lunch with Professor Benjamin Cole of Fordham University, for an exchange of views on virtual currencies and blockchain applications in the financial world and beyond.

JOHN A. FORTUNATO
Parkland School Shooting Puts City’s HR Team Into Crisis Response
Workforce 04-20-18
John Fortunato, a Fordham University communications and media management professor and crisis management expert, advises organizations to train employees who might appear at press conferences to anticipate the types of questions and provide responses that don’t reveal too much information or speculation.

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF RELIGION AND RELIGIOUS EDUCATION FACULTY

KIRK A. BINGAMAN
KNOW YOURSELF: IDENTITY AND PURPOSE OF THE PASTORAL COUNSELING
VeniceOnAir.com 04-19-18
At the conference on April 20 (at the Faculty of theology in via del Seminario – www.fttr.it) one of the top experts on an international level: prof. Kirk Bingaman, Presbyterian minister, professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling at Fordham University – New York.
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ARTS AND SCIENCES FACULTY

CHRISTINA GREER
To the Left, to the Left… But Which Left? Bill de Blasio’s Cuomo-Nixon Dilemma
Observer 04-18-18
Dr. Christina Greer, associate professor of political science at Fordham University, told Observer that de Blasio could endorse the governor for the sake of the party and continuity or break with a sitting governor over his “principles of being a progressive.”

CHRISTINA GREER
Black Intellectuals Tasked With Forging Connections
Diverse Issues In Higher Education 04-19-18
Dr. Christina Greer, an associate professor of political science at Fordham University said it’s important at this time to be unapologetically Black.

CHRISTINA GREER
Don’t Bet on Cynthia Nixon Beating Andrew Cuomo—But She’s All the Way Under His Skin
The Daily Beast 04-20-18
“Everything just sort of seems off,” agreed Christina Greer, a professor of political science at Fordham who is now a McSilver Institute fellow at NYU.

CHRISTINA GREER
The Whitewashing of American City Politics
WNYC 04-20-18
Russell Berman, staff writer for The Atlantic, and Dr. Christina Greer, NYU McSilver Institute Fellow and Associate Professor of Political Science at Fordham University, discuss the stagnant demographics of city politics.

CHRISTINA GREER
If Anyone Can Be America’s First Black Woman Governor, It’s Stacey Abrams
The Daily Beast 04-24-18
Christina Greer is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Fordham University Lincoln Center (Manhattan) campus.

CHARLES C. CAMOSY
A conversation about ‘Humanae Vitae’ may finally be possible
Catholic Philly 04-18-18
[Charles C.] Camosy is an associate professor in the theology department at Jesuit-run Fordham University.

LEONARD D. CASSUTO
As Scientists Speak Out About Science, Women and Young Scholars Lead the Way
The Chronicle of Higher Education 04-19-18
Leonard Cassuto, a professor of English at Fordham University, writes regularly about graduate education for The Chronicle.

CELIA B. FISHER
What’s the Best Way to Talk to a Teen About Sexual Identity?
Healthline 04-19-18
“This is the first study to ask kids about their attitudes on getting sexual healthcare. Pediatricians and general practitioners are the gateway of youth experiences with healthcare, but [these patients]only go once a year, so this is an ideal time to ask [about their sexual activity],” Celia Fisher, PhD, professor of psychology and the chair in ethics at Fordham University in New York who also directs Fordham’s Center for Ethics Education, said in a press release.

ASHA C. CASTLEBERRY
A Woman? No Way!
Center for a New American Security 04-19-18
Asha Castleberry is a professor in Fordham University’s Political Science Department and a fellow at Foreign Policy Interrupted.

CHRISTIANA ZENNER
Access to clean water is a life issue that the church must defend
National Catholic Reporter 04-20-18
[Christiana] Zenner is an associate professor of theology, science and ethics at Fordham University, where she is affiliated faculty in environmental studies and American studies.

MARCIA PALLY
PEN World Voices Festival 2018: “Tell Me What Democracy Looks Like”
Lyn Miller-Lachmann 04-21-18
…and moderator Marcia Pally, professor of theology and multicultural studies at NYU, Fordham University, and Humboldt University in Berlin.

SHONNI ENELOW
The Film Comment Podcast: Musical Performers on Film – Film Comment
Film Comment 04-24-18
In this episode, FC Digital Producer Violet Lucca discusses the bright lights in the musician-actor galaxy with Eric Hynes, curator of film at the Museum of the Moving Image, and Shonni Enelow, the author of Method Acting and Its Discontents: On American Psycho-drama and assistant professor of English at Fordham University.

MOLLY E. ZIMMERMAN
Soccer Heading–Not Collisions–Cognitively Impairs Players
Albert Einstein College of Medicine 04-24-18
Other Einstein authors are Richard B. Lipton, M.D., Mimi Kim, Sc.D., Namhee Kim, Ph.D. (now at Rush University in Chicago), Chloe Ifrah (now at Yeshiva University’s Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology in New York City), and Molly E. Zimmerman,  Ph.D., also at Fordham University, Bronx, NY.

ELIZABETH JOHNSON, C.S.J.
Feminist theologian Elizabeth Johnson retires from teaching, but not theology
National Catholic Reporter 04-25-18
Once feminist theologian St. Joseph Sr. Elizabeth Johnson decided she would retire from teaching at Fordham University, she invited current and former doctoral students, graduate assistants and mentees to help themselves to books from her personal library, many of the volumes marked with annotations in her own handwriting, and at least one containing a personal letter from the author.

GARRETT BROAD
EPISODE 430: GARRETT BROAD AND UMA GRAHAM
Our Hen House 04-07-18
This week, Mariann Sullivan talks with Garrett Broad about the challenges and opportunities related to diversity and inclusion in animal advocacy, how he balances his roles as a scholar and activist, and the results of a public opinion survey he recently conducted with the Nonhuman Rights Project about perceptions of legal rights for animals.

STUDENTS

Social Identity Fashion Show At Queens College
Queens Gazette 04-18-18
This year’s show featured 15 models whose looks were created by design students from the Queens College Textiles and Apparel program, Fordham University, and designers from the broader Queens and Queens College community.

Student skits heat up ‘17thBattle of the Barrios
Inquirer.net 04-19-18
Battle first-timers FUPAC (Fordham University Philippine American Club) tied with PARE for Best Skit with its innovative Dora-themed puppet show incorporating Philippine tourism destinations.

From the parking lot outside your house to the showerhead inside your washroom, the undiscovered is everywhere
National Post 04-19-18
“Pigeons were domesticated around 5,000 years ago as a food source,” explains Elizabeth Carlen, a pigeon researcher and PhD candidate in the biology department at Fordham University.

JUNTOS Collective Presents An Evening Performance Celebrating Cultural Exchange Through Dance
BroadwayWorld.com 04-19-18
The evening will feature dance performance in the round with classical Mexican Folklorico Dance by Calpulli Mexican Dance students and contemporary dance by JUNTOS Collective dancers (students at Alvin Ailey/Fordham University, Marymount Manhattan, SUNY Purchase).

What does the future of blockchain look like? We asked future innovators.
LinkedIn 04-18-18
Last month, the EY Foundry partnered with Fordham University business students to dream up a few more ways blockchain will reshape our future.

ATHLETICS

Former Patriot Paige Rauch named finalist for Division-I Freshman of the Year
WBNG 04-19-18
[Paige] Rauch has dazzled for Fordham this spring with a 11-1 record and 1.36 ERA on the mound.

DRAFT PODCAST: Fordham’s Chase Edmonds
HERO Sports 04-23-18
Chase [Edmonds] talked about how far things have come since he finished school at Fordham [University] in December, what it has been like to meet with teams, and what’s going to happen in the next few days.

The small-school RB secret is out: Meet NFL draft’s biggest underdog
The New York Post 04-17-18
[Chase Edmonds] is a 5-foot-9, 205-pound running back from Harrisburg, Pa., who rushed for 5,862 yards at Fordham [University], caught 86 passes and scored 74 touchdowns — even after a heartbreaking ankle injury that curtailed his senior season and left him wondering if his NFL dream might have been shattered.

News 12 The Bronx Sports
News 12 The Bronx 04-24-18
Special feature on Chase Edmonds who is on the road to the NFL.

News 12 The Bronx Sports
News 12 The Bronx 04-19-18
Fordham softball wins game 8-0.

News 12 The Bronx Sports
News 12 The Bronx 04-20-18
G’mrice Davis will be the first Ram to sign a WNBA contract.

ALUMNI

Music Attorney Doug Davis Combines Career Success With a Passion for Causes
Variety 04-18-18
After high school, [Doug] Davis earned a bachelor’s degree from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse U. and next enrolled at Fordham U. School of Law, graduating with his J.D.

Rob Winston, President and CEO of Fordham Capital LLC Accepted into Forbes Finance Council
Daily Herald 04-18-18
Throughout the years, Rob [Winston] has acquired a diverse set of skills from his Doctor of Law Degree from Fordham University School of Law to his roles as Senior Manager and Managing Partner at some of the largest merchant cash advance companies.

Here’s What Exploitation Of Domestic Workers Looks Like
BuzzFeed 04-19-18
[Bernice Yeung] has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University and a master’s degree from Fordham University, where she studied sociology with a focus on crime and justice.

Passing the Torch: Denzel Washington and Michael B. Jordan
The New York Times 04-19-18
You know, my first role on stage, when I was a student at Fordham, was in “The Emperor Jones[,” said Denzel Washington.]

From the Conference Room to the Locker Room: Lawyers in Sports Operations
ACCDocket.com 04-20-18
After graduating from Fordham Law School, [Howie Roseman] landed an unpaid internship with the Eagles and eventually became the youngest general manager in the league.

Desai honored with Melba J.T. Vasquez Early Career Award for Distinguished Contributions in Research
Yale School of Medicine 04-06-18
Miraj U. Desai, PhD, Associate Research Scientist in Psychiatry [and Fordham alumnus], has been awarded the 2018 Melba J. T. Vasquez Early Career Award for Distinguished Contributions in Research from the American Psychological Association Minority Fellowship Program.

OBITUARIES

George G. Siburn, 75, Of Ridgefield, CT, veteran pilot and businessman
Obituary: George G. Siburn, 75
The Ridgefield Press 04-18-18
George [G. Siburn] grew up in New York City and Bedford, New York, graduating from Fordham University in 1963 and received a commission as 2nd Lieutenant in the United States Air Force.

Tony Smith, S.J.,70, Of Perth, Australia, priest
OBITUARY: Father Tony Smith SJ
The Record 04-19-18
[Tony Smith’s] Tertianship took place at Canisius College, Pymble in 1983 – followed by an Internship at St Xavier High School, Cincinatti, Ohio and a Diploma of Educational Administration at Fordham University, New York.

John J. Howley, 87, Of Rockaway, NY, lawyer
John J. Howley, March 25, 1931 – April 13, 2018
The Wave 04-19-18
After the war, [John J. Howley] attended Fordham University’s School of Law and was admitted to the bar in New York in 1957.

Philip D’Antoni, 89, Of The Bronx, NY, producer
Philip D’Antoni, Oscar-Winning Producer on ‘The French Connection,’ Dies at 89
The Hollywood Reporter 04-23-18
Born on Feb. 19, 1929, in the Bronx, [Philip] D’Antoni attended Fordham University and served in the U.S. Army during the occupation of Japan in World War II.

Philip Paul Parisi, 71, Of New York, NY
Philip Paul Parisi
The Chronicle 04-24-18
[Philip Paul Parisi] has touched so many through his educational years at Warwick Valley High School and Fordham University;…

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