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Rams in the News: December 15, 2017

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CLIPS OF THE WEEK

2018 Best Colleges and Universities in New York
The Edvocate 12-11-17
With campuses located throughout New York City, Fordham provides students with an authentic Big Apple experience.

Numbers Declining in the Priesthood
Fox News 12-07-17
[Video] Campus Jesuits interviewed about declining numbers in priesthood.

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY

Commuter students launch group to build community, push for new resources
The GW Hatchet 12-07-17
The organization has also been using Fordham University, an urban school with a large commuter population in New York City, as a model for some of their requests.

2018 Best Colleges and Universities in New York – The Edvocate
The Edvocate 12-11-17
With campuses located throughout New York City, Fordham provides students with an authentic Big Apple experience.

Numbers Declining in the Priesthood
Fox News 12-07-17
[Video] On campus Jesuits interviewed about declining numbers in priesthood.

WFUV

What Will Be the Number One Song of 2017? WFUV Top 90 Countdown Airs 12/19
BroadwayWorld.com 12-12-17
WFUV (90.7 FM, wfuv.org), New York’s source for music discovery, is a noncommercial, member-supported public media service of Fordham University for almost 70 years.

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS

Shakespeare as a Way of Life: Skeptical Practice and the Politics of Weakness by James Kuzner (review)
Project MUSE 12-13-17
Shakespeare as a Way of Life: Skeptical Practice and the Politics of Weakness. By James Kuzner. New York: Fordham University Press, 2016. Pp. viii + 224.

ADMINISTRATORS

JASON BENEDICT
6 tips to protect against thieving IT admins
PC-Welt 12-10-17
Jason Benedict, Security Officer at Fordham University, said, “We have more of a threat to the inner threat than hackers, as we are the most vulnerable in this area.”
[translated from German]

DAVID GIBSON
Americans Are Skeptical of Muslim, Atheist Candidates, but That Could Change
Morning Consult 12-07-17
“I think it’s a real indicator of how Muslims have been denigrated in the American mind,” said David Gibson, the director of Fordham University’s Center on Religion and Culture, in a Dec. 1 interview.

SCHOOL OF LAW

NYC Event – Challenging Authoritarianism through Feminist Activism: Insights From China
China Law & Policy 12-07-17
On Monday, December 11, 2017, 6 pm- 8pm, Fordham Law School’s Leitner Center for International Law & Justice will be hosting panel discussion with two of China’s preeminent feminist activists, Guan Er and Xiaowen Liang.

SCHOOL OF LAW FACULTY

JOHN BRENNAN
Former CIA director speaks at Yale
Yale Daily News 12-07-17
The son of an Irish immigrant, [John] Brennan grew up in New Jersey and earned his undergraduate degree at Fordham University.

JOHN PFAFF
Why We Can’t Be Sure If Violent Crime Is On The Rise
FiveThirtyEight 12-07-17
To John Pfaff, a professor at Fordham University who specializes in criminal and sentencing law, the main takeaway is that “the increase is likely entirely the product of changes in how the [Bureau of Justice Statistics] gathered the data.”

JOHN PFAFF
Real prison reform starts at community level
The Times-Tribune 12-10-17
Fordham Law School professor John F. Pfaff, however, warns in his new book, “Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform,” that continued decline in prison populations will not come easily.

SUSAN SCAFIDI
Luxury Brands Win Power to Choose Sales Outlets (Audio)
Bloomberg 12-07-17
Susan Scafidi, director of the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham University, discusses a EU Court of Justice verdict, which allows luxury brand owners to choose how and where their products are sold online.

SUSAN SCAFIDI
Allbirds Sues Steve Madden
The Business of Fashion 12-13-17
“Some companies, rather than relying on their own design teams, make copying others’ most commercially successful work part of their business structures — and treat the payment of settlements when intellectual property rights are infringed as a cost of doing business,” says Susan Scafidi, professor of fashion law at Fordham Law School and founder of the Fashion Law Institute, not in reference to this specific case.

JOHN ROGAN
How Much Will We Find Out About Trump’s Health?
The Atlantic 12-08-17
It was only in the 1970s, after Watergate, that there was a sense the presidency should be more transparent, including when it comes to health matters, said John Rogan, a law professor at Fordham University.

JED SHUGERMAN
Mueller’s Russia investigation: an unexpected revolution on foreign lobbying
Publicnow 12-08-17
“By investigating emoluments, we may get some transparency around corruption that sheds light on Russia,” says Fordham Law School professor Jed Shugerman, who is writing a brief in support of CREW.

JED SHUGERMAN
Legal experts warn President Trump: Let Robert Mueller be
Boston Herald 12-13-17
Mueller could lay out facts that support a charge of obstruction against Trump, and “it can be used for articles for impeachment,” said Fordham Law School professor Jed Shugerman.

DEBORAH W. DENNO
States to try new ways of executing prisoners. Their latest idea? Opioids.
The Washington Post 12-09-17
“We’re in a new era,” said Deborah Denno, a law professor at Fordham University.

LAWRENCE B. BRENNAN
NTSB to issue probable cause of El Faro’s sinking
Star Herald 12-12-17
[Lawrence B.] Brennan, a professor of maritime law at Fordham Law School and a retired U.S. Navy captain, said the NTSB’s recommendations are taken seriously, and could create a safer working environment for mariners in the future.

ZEPHYR TEACHOUT
I’m not convinced Franken should quit
The New York Times 12-11-17
Zephyr Teachout, an associate professor of law at Fordham, is the author of “Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin’s Snuff Box to Citizens United.”

GABELLI SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FACULTY

STANLEY VELIOTIS
This Little-Known Tax Proposal Takes Aim at Your Trading Account
Bloomberg 12-06-17
Investors with the prospect of hefty capital gains are being advised to consider selling that stock now when they can better control the cost-basis, said Stanley Veliotis, a professor of accounting and taxation at Fordham University.

MARK CONRAD
Ohio plan to sue MLS owner over team move likely to fail: experts
Reuters 12-08-17
It is difficult, if not impossible, to use legal means to force a sports team to remain in a city once its lease with a host city has expired, according to Mark Conrad, director of the sports business program at Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business.

ARTS AND SCIENCES FACULTY

MATTHEW N. WEINSHENKER
The new dad
Mashable 12-06-17
Fathers may be doing more at home, but that doesn’t mean women have achieved equality, and dads as primary caregivers is still the exception, said Matthew Weinshenker, a Fordham University associate professor of sociology who studies family, work, and gender.

CHRISTINA GREER
Your vote counts, start planning for 2018
New York Amsterdam News 12-07-17
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
National Public Radio-News
NPR 12-11-17
[Audio] Christina Greer weighs in on recent attempted bombing in New York City.

CHRISTINA GREER
Decline in Black Mayors Signals Political, Demographic Shift
The Wall Street Journal 12-07-17
“It’s not just about one black mayor but hundreds of other jobs,” said Christina Greer, a political scientist at Fordham University in New York.

CHRISTINA GREER
Trump’s Accusers Call for a Congressional Investigation
WNYC 12-11-17
Then, Christina Greer, associate professor of political science at Fordham University and the author of Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream (Oxford University Press 2013) weighs in on how Congress could potentially respond to the allegations.

MARK NAISON
Black power exhibition takes visitors back to turbulent times
The Riverdale Press 12-08-17
“The black power movement spread like wildfire when Stokely Carmichael coined the slogan in 1966,” said Mark Naison, a history and African-American studies professor at Fordham University.

LAWRENCE KRAMER
Lawrence Kramer on words and music
ABC Radio National 12-08-17
[Lawrence Kramer is] Distinguished Professor at Fordham University and his latest book is Song Acts: Writings on Words and Music (Brill).

JASON MUNSHI-SOUTH
Coywolf or coyote: What do we call this canine?
LoHud.com 12-08-17
Whatever these canines are called, they “are still primarily coyotes in a genetic sense,” said Jason Munshi-South, an associate professor at Fordham University’s Louis Calder Center in Armonk.

NICHOLAS TAMPIO
Spring 2018 Announcements: Politics & Current Events
Publishers Weekly 12-08-17
Fordham political science professor [Nicholas] Tampio argues that, though national standards can raise the education bar for some students, the democratic costs outweigh the benefits.

BRYAN MASSINGALE, S.T.D.
Black Catholic pastoral plan is ‘alive’ because it ‘comes from the people’
Crux 12-09-17
Father Bryan Massingale, professor of theological and social ethics at Fordham University, told Crux, “I have been very critical of the Catholic default to “dialogue” about race as a response to racial injustice. …”

GARRETT BROAD
Is the public ready for Meat 2.0?
Public Radio International 12-10-17
“Vegetarians are not their primary market,” says Garrett Broad, a professor of communications and media studies at Fordham University.

CHARLES C. CAMOSY
The resignation
The Washington Post 12-11-17
“It’s a classic example of our throwaway culture,” said Charles Camosy, a professor in the theology department at Fordham University.

MEENASARANI MURUGAN
“The Problem with Apu” and the FCC
The Los Angeles Review of Books 12-12-17
Meenasarani Linde Murugan is an assistant professor at Fordham University.

ATHLETICS

Con Edison Athlete of the Week: Maria Regina girls basketball’s Kaitlyn Downey
LoHud.com 12-09-17
[Kaitlyn Downey] signed to continue her basketball career at Fordham University.

Sports News 12 The Bronx
News 12 The Bronx 12-09-17
[Video] Coverage of men’s and women’s basketball.

ALUMNI

Aspen dance school alum returns for ‘The Nutcracker’ as a professional
Aspen Times 12-07-17
A standout in the local company’s dance school, [Cassie] Lewis went to New York after high school to study at the prestigious Ailey Fordham BFA program — a partnership between Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Fordham University.

New Children’s Authority head: Mental health still a secret
Trinidad and Tobago’s Newsday 12-10-17
[Hanif Benjamin] moved on to Fordham University, where he received a clinical masters in social work specialising in children, family, and trauma.

OBITUARIES

Matthew Klein, 62, Of Stamford, CT, real estate attorney
Services Set For Matthew Klein, 62, Stamford Real Estate Attorney
The Stamford Daily Voice 12-07-17
Klein graduated from Columbia University in 1977 and Fordham Law School in 1981. He was a practicing real estate attorney in New York City and in Stamford.

Michael Patrick King, Of NJ, judge
Remembering Judge Michael Patrick King
New Jersey Law Journal 12-08-17
A graduate of Fordham University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where [Michael Patrick King] was a member of the Law Review, King practiced law in South Jersey during the 1960s and early ‘70s.

Edward T. Matthews, 89, Of Southbury, CT, retired U.S. Coast Guard Commander
Obituary: ​Edward T. Matthews USCGR (Ret), of Southbury
Connecticut Patch.com 12-11-17
[Edward T. Matthews] Graduated from All Hallows High School, Bronx, NY and Fordham University.

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