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Rams in the News: March 2, 2018

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CLIPS OF THE WEEK

PVH CEO Manny Chirico to be Honored as 2018 “Father of the Year”
MR Magazine 02-27-18
[Emanuel] Chirico, an alumnus of Fordham University, serves on the school’s Board of Trustees that, during his tenure, has helped establish 14 endowed chairs, along with 35 endowed or current use scholarships.

JOHN D. FEERICK
John Feerick: The 25th Amendment With the Man Who Lived Through It All
New York Law Journal 02-26-18
Fordham School of Law’s former dean John D. Feerick represents not only one of the principal players in the historical drama of the 25th Amendment but also the visionary who is shaping it for the 21st century.

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY

Blockchain is creating prosperity, experts say
Medill Reports Chicago 02-22-18
The digital ledger platform blockchain is enabling a shift towards a safer, easier and more prosperous ecosystem by decentralizing assets and making peer-to-peer networks to govern all transactions, said blockchain experts, all Chinese, in a recent forum at Fordham University.

Going on in our Community
The National Herald 02-24-18
The Orthodox Christian Studies Center of Fordham University invites you to the Bouquets to Icons Exhibit and Reception on Saturday, Feb. 24, 7 PM at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, 10 Mill Road in New Rochelle.

Catholic colleges say peaceful gun control protests won’t impact admission
America Magazine 02-26-18
Some schools, like Fordham University and Loyola University New Orleans, have stated more specifically that they stand with students against gun violence.

The Ultimate Guide to the 2018 NYC Baby Expos
Mommy Nearest 02-27-18
Founded in 2003 as a joint professional development project of Fordham University’s Graduate School of Education and Los Niños Services, the conference’s goal is to “provide useful information to professionals and parents in order to help all young children learn, grow and reach their full potential.”

Black History Month at Fordham University
News 12 The Bronx 02-24-18
Fordham University hosts African festival in celebration of Black History Month.

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS

African poetry immortalised in beautiful box set
CityPress 02-22-18
Fordham University Press will publish Xamissa later this year.

SCHOOL OF LAW FACULTY

JOHN PFAFF
Criminal justice reformers aim big by targeting local DA races
NBC News 02-14-18
In his 2017 book, “Locked In,” Fordham University law professor John Pfaff blamed prosecutors, “the most powerful actors in the criminal justice system,” for driving drastic increases in felony cases, all but a tiny fraction of which result in plea bargains.

JOHN PFAFF
The Perverse Power of the Prosecutor
Democracy Journal 02-22-18
John Pfaff is a Professor of Law at Fordham Law School in New York City.

MATTHEW A. GOLD
Why tech secrets, not steel, could cause the real clash between the U.S. and China
CNN Money 02-21-18
“A [U.S.] retaliation sufficient to change China’s conduct would be so large as to significantly injure both the United States’ and China’s economies,” said Matt Gold, an international trade law expert at Fordham University.

DAVID A. ANDELMAN
Listen to your heart: I didn’t right away and it almost cost me my life
CNN 02-22-18
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 columnist for USA Today.

DAVID A. ANDELMAN
How France cut its per capita gun ownership in half
CNN 02-26-18
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 columnist for USA Today.

NICHOLAS JOHNSON
More black women are learning to use guns: ‘this is a movement, and it starts now’
Otras Voces en Educacion 02-23-18
Nicholas Johnson, law professor at Fordham University and author of Negroes and the Gun: The Black Tradition of Arms, pointed to a 2014 survey showing that 54% of black people felt that owning guns did “more to protect people than endanger personal safety”, nearly doubling the 29% who said the same two years earlier.

CARL MINZNER
China Moves to Let Xi Stay in Power by Abolishing Term Limit
The New York Times 02-25-18
“This is the next step in the continuing breakdown of political norms that had held sway in China’s reform era,” said Carl Minzner, a professor of law at Fordham University in New York and author of a new book on Mr. Xi’s increasing authoritarianism.

CARL MINZNER
“Xi Jinping May Be President for Life. What Will Happen to China?”
The New Yorker 02-26-18
“China emerged from the chaos of the Maoist era precisely because it moved away from one-man rule and toward collective leadership,” Carl Minzner, a China specialist at Fordham Law School, and the author of “End of an Era,” a new book on China’s authoritarian revival, told me.

CARL MINZNER
Here’s why China’s just not that into you
Yahoo! News 02-27-18
Fordham University Law School professor Carl [Minzner’s] new book “End of an Era,” spells out this turn of events.

CARL MINZNER
China looking to do away with presidential term limits
WBUR 02-28-18
Carl Minzner on how China has already been moving to consolidate power in the hands of President Xi.

MATTHEW DILLER
John Feerick: The 25th Amendment With the Man Who Lived Through It All
Law.com 02-26-18
Matthew Diller is the dean of the Fordham School of Law.

JOHN FEERICK
John Feerick: The 25th Amendment With the Man Who Lived Through It All
Law.com 02-26-18
Fordham School of Law’s former dean John D. Feerick represents not only one of the principal players in the historical drama of the 25th Amendment but also the visionary who is shaping it for the 21st century.

GABELLI SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FACULTY

DONNA RAPACCIOLI
Italy and the United States compared to New York
YAHOO! Finanza 02-22-18
Matteo Tamburini, partner of the study Gnudi, Donna Rapaccioli, rector of the Gabelli School of Business of Fordham University, Francois Maisonrouge, senior managing director of Evercore, Alessandro Decio, administrator SACE delegate, Bob Stack, managing director of the Deloitte tax department of Washington discussed the global impact of the American tax reform.
[Translated from Italian]

STEVE RAYMAR
B-Schools Scramble To Keep Up With The Evolution Of FinTech
Poets & Quants for Undergrads  02-22-18
Steven Raymar, the area chair for the finance and business economics department at Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business tells Poets&Quants for Undergrads that, in short, fintech has to do with the application of new digital technologies to old financial needs.

AHIR GOPALDAS
Is Coachella worth it to Cal Poly students, despite ethical concerns?
Mustang News 02-23-18
Ahir Gopaldas of Fordham University dug into the idea of ethical consumerism in “Marketplace Sentiments” in The Journal of Consumer Research.

MARK CONRAD
Shea Patterson has ‘great case,’ legal experts say, to play for Michigan in 2018
My Palm Beach Post 02-25-18
“It’s hard to say,” countered Mark Conrad, a professor of sports law and director of the sports business program at Fordham University.

ARTS AND SCIENCES FACULTY

MARK NAISON
Letters to the Editor: 02.22.18
East Hampton Star 02-21-18
MARK NAISON [,] Professor of African-American studies and history, Fordham University

MARK NAISON
No More “BS”: America’s Students Demand Gun Control
Daily Kos 02-22-18
On his blog, Fordham University history professor and Brooklyn, New York activist Mark Naison wrote: “Though the NRA has ruled the debate thus far, they haven’t faced young people this eloquent and determined, given strength by intolerable pain, fighting for their dead and wounded friends as well as their future.”

MARK NAISON
Art program seeks to define, engage culture in Morrisania
Bronx Times 02-26-18
One of the arts aspects WHEDco said they are looking at is bringing back lost music spaces to the Morrisania area, as defined by research done by Dr. Mark Naison of Fordham University, folklorist Elena Martinez, and others over ten years ago, according to McLean.

MARK NAISON
History Detectives
KQET (PBS) 02-27-18
Mark Naison explains how the historically middle-class Bronx was transformed in the early 1970s.

CHRISTINA GREER
When will enough be enough
New York Amsterdam News 02-22-18
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.

CELIA B. FISHER
New curriculum prioritizes tribal sovereignty, cultural respect in scientific research of American Indian, Alaska Native communities
Press Release Point 02-22-18
Other authors on the paper were Chuan Zhou of the UW School of Public Health; Caitlin Donald of Oregon Health & Science University; and Celia Fisher of Fordham University.

HAROLD TAKOOSHIAN
Has the NRA Met Its Match?
Psychology Today 02-22-18
Harold Takooshian, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology at Fordham University.

BRYAN MASSINGALE, S.T.D.
The scandal of dismissing Catholic LGBTs
Instituto Humanitas Unisinos 02-23-18
Even so, LGBT Catholics are caught up in what Fordham University theologian , Rev. Bryan Massingale , calls “the open closet.”
[Translated from Portuguese]

SAUL CORNELL
Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, if passed, would complicate active shooter situations in NYC, expert says
am New York 02-22-18
The Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act was passed by the House of Representatives in December and is currently awaiting a vote in the Senate, but Congress would be “foolish” to approve it, said Saul Cornell, Fordham University’s Paul and Diane Guenther Chair in American History.

SAUL CORNELL
Have guns at home? You should have to tell your child’s school
NY Daily News 02-23-18
[Saul] Cornell is the Paul and Diane Guenther Chair in American History at Fordham University and the author of “A Well-Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America.”

SAUL CORNELL
Fareed Zakaria GPS
CNN 02-25-18
Saul Cornell is a professor of American history at Fordham University and the former director of the Second Amendment Research Center at the John Glenn Institute, and Adam Lankford is a professor of criminology at the University of Alabama.

DANIEL A. JONES
Black Light
Talkin Broadway 02-25-18
For those who don’t know, Jomama Jones is the alter ego of the highly talented writer, singer, and performance artist Daniel Alexander Jones, who also is on the faculty of Fordham University’s theater program.

DANIEL A. JONES
Reviews: Jomama Jones’ Brilliant Journey Into the ‘Black Light,’ and a Futile Search for ‘Relevance’
The Daily Beast 02-25-18
Taking to the stage for every performance, Daniel, head of the playwriting program at Fordham University, isn’t sure what Jomama will do on any given night, or what questions she will ask “at the crossroads” the shows present.

MARIA N. BUSTOS
2018.02.55
Bryn Mawr Classical Review 02-26-18
Reviewed by María Natalia Bustos from Lezica, Fordham University

THOMAS DE LUCA
Yicai Global Examines Changing Global Landscape With “World Movers” Documentary Series
Yicai Global 02-27-18
The company held the New York Forum at the Bank of America Tower in New York on Feb. 22, inviting SCP Investment LP CEO Isaac Souede and Thomas De Luc[a], a political science professor at Fordham University, to explore the future direction of globalization ahead of a showing of the first episode of World Promoter.

ALINA VON DAVIER
EdTech in the classroom: Friend or foe?
Brookings Institutions Blog 02-27-18
Alina von Davier, adjunct professor-Fordham University

GREGORY T. DONOVAN
United Nations Youth Assembly Features Pratt Urban Placemaking Faculty, Students, and Alumna
Pratt Institute 02-27-18
Also on the panel were Dr. Gregory Donovan, Professor at Fordham University, and Sahar Moazami, UN Program Officer at OutRight Action International.

RACHEL ANNUNZIATO
Students experience ‘heightened anxiety’ after Parkland shooting
America Magazine 02-27-18
“What these students have gone through is unfathomable. I think it will be incredibly difficult to cope and move on,” said Rachel Annunziato, an associate professor of psychology at Jesuit-run Fordham University in New York.

THOMAS J. BASILE
WDBO News
WDBO-FM (Radio) 02-24-18
Thomas J. Basile describes his experience working alongside men and women in uniform and his book “Tough Sell”.

ANJALI K. DAYAL
In the UN Security Council, Agreement, Not Discord, is the Norm. But has it Worked for Peacekeeping?
Political Violence at a Glance 02-23-18
[Written by:] Lise Morjé Howard and Anjali Kaushlesh Dayal

AMIR IDRIS
South Sudan Needs Its Nelson Mandela to Rescue the Country from the Sinkhole
Newsweek 02-27-18
Amir Idris is a South Sudanese academic and professor and chair of Department of African and African American Studies at Fordham University, New York City.

LEONARD CASSUTO
The Grief of the Ex-Academic
The Chronicle of Higher Education 02-25-18
Leonard Cassuto, a professor of English at Fordham University, writes regularly about graduate education in this space.

WILLIAM N. BALLANTYNE
The Grief of the Ex-Academic
The Chronicle of Higher Education 02-25-18
“I sent Bartram’s blogpost to a number of different types of friends and colleagues,” wrote [William] Nathan Ballantyne, an associate professor of philosophy and a colleague of mine at Fordham University, in an email, “and the reactions I got are radically different.

STUDENTS

Where are they now? Tracking down the illustrious girls basketball class of 2013
LoHud.com 02-22-18
[Allie] Coppola graduated with a bachelor’s degree in political science and is currently pursuing her Juris Doctorate degree at the Fordham University School of Law.

Student unveils ‘Little Neck LiNk’ proposal
Queens Chronicle 02-22-18
Deepdale Gardens resident Stephan Popa, a freshman at Fordham University, made a Change.org petition for MTA New York City Transit about his “Q36/Q46 Little Neck LiNk Bus Proposal.”

Choi Dabin moves to first, Karen Chen and Bradie Tennell struggle as Alina Zagitova, Evgenia Medvedeva seek gold
The Washington Post 02-23-18
Similarly, Nicole Rajicova is a native of New York City — one attending business school at Fordham — but she was skating on behalf of Slovakia, whence her parents immigrated.

Stony Brook Hackathon Inspires Cutting-Edge Student-Built Technologies
The University Network 02-23-18
While 77 percent of competitors came from Stony Brook, the event also featured students from Hunter College, Farmingdale State College, Fordham University,…

ATHLETICS

News 12 The Bronx Sports
News 12 The Bronx 02-22-18
Women’s basketball pushes their way in to second in the Atlantic 10.

CB South grad scores six goals for York in lacrosse season opener
The Intell 02-26-18
Fordham sophomore Joseph Vizza (La Salle College High/North Wales) played a role in several school records at the Atlantic 10 Swimming & Diving Championship.

ALUMNI

Music Theatre International Names Drew Cohen First Global CEO
BroadwayWorld.com 02-21-18
[Drew Cohen] is a graduate of Tufts University and Fordham Law School.

PVH CEO MANNY CHIRICO TO BE HONORED AS 2018 “FATHER OF THE YEAR”
MR Magazine 02-27-18
[Emanuel (Manny)] Chirico, an alumnus of Fordham University, serves on the school’s Board of Trustees that, during his tenure, has helped establish 14 endowed chairs, along with 35 endowed or current use scholarships.

Renowned Psychologist, Dominick John Riccio, PhD will be Spotlighted in the Worldwide Leaders in Healthcare
University Chronicle 02-21-18
Dr. [Dominick John] Riccio’s acclaimed career in psychology began after he graduated with his PhD in Psychology from Fordham University.

Wagner Softball To Start 2018 Campaign At NC State’s Homewood Suites Invitational
SILive.com 02-22-18
[Lindsay] Mayer a graduate of Fordham University, was the Atlantic 10 Player of the Year in 2016 and a two-time NFCA All-Region Third -Team selection as an infielder, finishing her career with a .335 batting average, 137 RBI, 119 runs, 67 walks, and a .402 on-base percentage, all of which rank in the top-10 all-time in Fordham history.

Taylor Schilling Takes on Sci-Fi in Her Latest Role in The Titan
Gotham Magazine 02-23-18
While she started being creative at a young age and performing in school plays, [Taylor] Schilling didn’t work professionally as an actress until her early 20s, after she moved to New York City to attend Fordham University and while she attended NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts graduate acting program.

Michael J. Lennon and James E. Rosini Named 2018 Leading Lawyers by WIPR
Public Now 02-23-18
Michael [J. Lennon] earned his J.D. in 1974, from Fordham University School of Law.

El Clasico was just the start. Steve Ross’ right-hand man has big plans for Miami
Miami Herald 02-24-18
([Matt Higgins] also somehow found time to graduate from Fordham Law.)

Cuttington University Celebrates 129th Anniversary
The Liberian Observer 02-27-18
A graduate of Fordham University, where he took his PhD in Political Science, Dr. [Joseph Saye] Guannu has served in many government positions, including Liberian Ambassador to Washington, D.C.

20 Strange, Random and Fun Facts About Your Favorite Sports Movies
Sports Illustrated 02-27-18
[Denzel Washington] played two seasons for the junior varsity squad at Fordham University under former NBA head coach P.J. Carlesimo.

Singing At The Top Of Her Lungs
PillPack Magazine 02-21-18
[Julia Rae] graduated with a degree in media and communications from Fordham University, won the title of Miss Philadelphia, and was then first runner-up to Miss Pennsylvania.

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