CLIPS OF THE WEEK
DAVID GIBSON
In closing Catholic News Service, US bishops undermine their pastoral work
National Catholic Reporter 05-12-2022
David Gibson is the director of Fordham University’s Center on Religion and Culture. He was formerly a national reporter for Religion News Service and an award-winning journalist, author and filmmaker.
SAUL CORNELL
The Horror in New York Shows the Madness of the Supreme Court’s Looming Gun Decision
Slate 05-19-2022
Saul Cornell is the Paul and Diane Guenther Chair in American History at Fordham University.
SAUL CORNELL
Appeals courts have rejected bans of gun sales to those under 21
The New York Times 05-25-2022
Saul Cornell, a historian at Fordham University, said both majority opinions had overlooked important historical evidence. “Anyone who knows anything about founding-era law and looked at the standard treatises would understand that there was no category of young adult under Anglo-American law,” he said, summarizing an essay he published last year in The Yale Law & Policy Review. “Anyone under 21 was an ‘infant.’ Minors were legally disabled in the eyes of the law.”
Man graduates Fordham 66 years after freshman year
Eyewitness News ABC-7 05-20-2022
One of the great lessons of life is that you’re never too old to learn, words that ring especially true for one graduate of Fordham University. John Lenehan, now 88, is no stranger to Fordham. He started college there in 1956.
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY
Photos: Former Saints coach Sean Payton delivers keynote at Loyola graduation
Nola.com 05-15-2022
Payton and four others received honorary degrees during the event, the last for Loyola President Tania Tetlow, who is leaving at the end of the school year to become president of Fordham University in New York.
Marquette University and Roosevelt University win 12th Annual Harold E. Eisenberg Foundation Chicago Real Estate Challenge
RE Journals 05-14-2022
The colleges and universities that participated in the 2022 Challenge included four teams from Midwest schools: Ball State University, Marquette University, University of Notre Dame and Roosevelt University. The other national participants were Cornell University, University of Arkansas at Little Rock and Fordham University.
John Brown Lives! Honors Artists/Activists with Annual Award
Yahoo News 05-12-2022
One [Lake Placid School of Dance] student was accepted into the Ailey School and Fordham University program, an innovative Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree in dance. “This hasn’t happened in forever,” Rea-Fisher said.
Abortion is also about racial justice, experts and advocates say
NPR 05-15-2022
A report from National Advocates for Pregnant Women and Fordham University dug into 413 arrests of pregnant women, from 1973, when abortion was legalized, up until 2005.
The Russian Orthodox Leader at the Core of Putin’s Ambitions
The New York Times 05-22-2022
“He managed to sell the concept of traditional values, the concept of Russkiy Mir, to Putin, who was looking for conservative ideology,” said Sergei Chapnin, a senior fellow in Orthodox Christian studies at Fordham University who worked with Kirill in the Moscow Patriarchate.
Fordham conference on abuse highlights ways the church can foster healthier culture of sexuality
National Catholic Reporter 05-23-2022
Last month, scholars from all over the world met to discuss projects related to the clergy sexual abuse as part of Fordham University’s “Taking Responsibility” initiative. Some attendees disclosed their abuse by Jesuit priests, adding a palpable solemnity to the larger, systemic issues that make up the Catholic sexual abuse crisis. These stories also laid the backdrop for how important it was to research and answer exactly how Jesuit institutions can “take responsibility.”
SCHOOL OF LAW
‘You Can Be Inspiring’: US Chief Judge Laura Taylor Swain Emphasizes Mentorship to Fordham Law Graduates
New York Law Journal 05-23-2022
During her address at Fordham Law School’s graduation ceremony Monday, Chief U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain of the Southern District of New York spoke about the importance of mentorship, including the influence Constance Baker Motley, the first Black woman to serve as a federal judge, played in her own life. “I have the opportunity to serve as I do today because of the care, vision, generosity, and grace of God and of those who have mentored me,” Swain said.
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Community Policing Uncovered: Surveillance, Displacement & Counterinsurgency in Our Cities
East Bay 05-15-2022
Dylan [Rodriguez] is the author of three books, most recently White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logic of Racial Genocide (Fordham University Press, 2021), which won the 2022 Frantz Fanon Book Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association.
ADMINISTRATORS
DAVID GIBSON
Some Catholic abortion foes are uneasy about overturning Roe
The Associated Press via MOR-TV 05-15-2022
David Gibson, director of the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University, questioned the significance of recent promises by Catholic bishops and other anti-abortion leaders to boost support for unwed mothers. “Can this movement that is so tied to the Republican Party and the conservative movement suddenly pivot to mobilizing its people for socially liberal policies?” Gibson asked, referring to programs such as subsidized child care and paid maternity leaves.
DAVID GIBSON
In closing Catholic News Service, US bishops undermine their pastoral work
National Catholic Reporter 05-12-2022
David Gibson is the director of Fordham University’s Center on Religion and Culture. He was formerly a national reporter for Religion News Service and an award-winning journalist, author and filmmaker.
DAVID GIBSON
No Jesus for Nancy Pelosi? House speaker could appeal bishop’s communion ban to Rome
The Sacramento Bee 05-23-2022
No Jesus for Nancy, Cordileone announced last week, on account of her support for abortion rights. Only if this is, as the archbishop and others insist, a purely pastoral act of love and compassion — a charity, really, intended to save her soul and others — then, as Fordham University’s David Gibson asks, “My question is why these bishops don’t love Republicans as much as they love Democrats.”
SCHOOL OF LAW FACULTY
DEBORAH DENNO
Experts: Arizona executioners took too long to insert IV
The Associated Press via KJZZ 05-15-2022
Deborah Denno is a law professor at Fordham University. She says the Arizona Department of Corrections should have provided more details about the process. “They have great detail about what he ate, you know, his last meal,” Denno said. “This is the irony of the lethal injection procedures. But very little information about how the execution occurred, except that it lasted too long, they couldn’t find a vein, and they had to do a cutdown procedure.”
JULIE SUK
Lindsey Graham – Fact-checking Lindsey Graham on the US allowing abortions at 20 weeks
The Paradise 05-14-2022
Graham cast the U.S. as an outlier, but Fordham University law professor Julie Suk said international comparisons are challenging. “Many Americans use the term ‘abortion on demand’ in a way that would encompass ‘medically indicated abortion’ in Europe,” Suk said. “So the comparison of abortion here and abortion in Europe gets very sloppy and confused.”
JOEL COHEN
SCOTUS Leak Shows Why Litigators Need to Know Their Judges
Bloomberg Law 05-23-2022
Joel Cohen practices white-collar criminal defense at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP. Previously, he served as a federal and state prosecutor. He is the author of “Blindfolds Off: Judges on How They Decide,” and is an adjunct professor at Fordham University School of Law and Cardozo School of Law.
GABELLI SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FACULTY
BENJAMIN COLE
The 2022 Disruptor 50: How we chose the list of companies
CNBC 05-17-2022
Special thanks to the 2022 CNBC Disruptor 50 Advisory Council, who again offered us their time and insights. As always, we appreciate their contributions:
Benjamin M. Cole, Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurship, Fordham University Gabelli School of Business
MICHAEL PIRSON
Podcast: Michael Pirson and the Effort to Humanize Business Education
BarryWehmiller.com 05-11-2022
Leading this focused effort are BW’s Director of Strategy, Improvement and Culture, Brian Wellinghoff, and Michael Pirson, an Associate Professor of Management, Global Sustainability, and Social Entrepreneurship at Fordham University and Research Fellow at Harvard University.
ARTS AND SCIENCES FACULTY
SAUL CORNELL
America: Changed Forever 5/13
CBS Radio 05-13-2022
“The norms that govern our debate over guns in America are just so radically different, that it’s almost hard to explain it to anyone who lives outside of the United States. They just don’t understand. For instance, like, if you were to explain to anyone that after the Sandy Hook horrific shooting that , gun sales shot u, not gun regulations across the board, they would scratch their heads.” – Dr. Saul Cornell, the Paul and Diane Guenther Chair in American History at Fordham University is the author of A Well-Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America. Dr. Cornell discusses America’s historic, unique, and deadly relationship with guns.
CHRISTINA GREER
Eric Adams is playing hard to get
Politico 05-15-2022
“The interesting thing is you don’t want to wait too long until an endorsement becomes obsolete,” said Christina Greer, a Fordham University political science professor who hosts a podcast about New York. “We’ve seen people endorse two or three days before elections, but if its in that final push, it’s no longer a favor, they’re no longer beholden politically.”
SAUL CORNELL
The Horror in New York Shows the Madness of the Supreme Court’s Looming Gun Decision
Slate 05-19-2022
Saul Cornell is the Paul and Diane Guenther Chair in American History at Fordham University.
MONIKA MCDERMOTT
The role party affiliation played in getting US to grim new milestone of 1 million COVID deaths
Yahoo News via The Conversation US 05-18-2022
This article is republished from The Conversation, a nonprofit news site dedicated to sharing ideas from academic experts. It was written by: Monika L. McDermott, Fordham University and David R. Jones, Baruch College, CUNY.
CHRISTINA GREER
Where do the District 10 congressional candidates stand? We asked some experts
City & State New York 05-25-2022
Christina Greer, associate professor of political science at Fordham University and co-host of “FAQ NYC” podcast “Anytime someone’s a sitting elected, they’ve got a bit of an advantage, largely because they have this built-in base. So Mondaire and Yuh-Line are already in the game, because their fundraising and organizational campaign efforts are still fresh.”
CHRISTINA GREER
We need better accessibility in NYC
New York Amsterdam News 05-19-2022
Christina Greer, Ph.D., is an associate professor at Fordham University, the author of “Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream,” and the co-host of the podcast FAQ-NYC.
CHRISTINA GREER
Adams welcomes comparison to Fetterman
Politico 05-19-2022
The host had asked Adams about a recent New York Times article that said Fetterman, who won the state’s Democratic Senate primary earlier this week, shared some of his same traits, namely that they seem to be “simultaneously progressive, moderate and conservative,” in the words of Fordham University political science professor Christina Greer.
ANGELA ALAIMO O’DONNELL
Literary Standards: Are They Real?
The Epoch Times 05-25-2022 [subscription required]
My co-judge was poet and professor at Fordham University, Angela Alaimo O’Donnell.
SAUL CORNELL
The Right Found a New Way to Not Talk About a School Shooting
Slate 05-25-2022
The grim logic of modern gun rights culture and the relentless assault on gun regulation has made America an outlier among industrial democracies when it comes to gun violence.
Saul Cornell is the Paul and Diane Guenther Chair in American History at Fordham University.
SAUL CORNELL
Appeals courts have rejected bans of gun sales to those under 21
The New York Times 05-25-2022
Saul Cornell, a historian at Fordham University, said both majority opinions had overlooked important historical evidence. “Anyone who knows anything about founding-era law and looked at the standard treatises would understand that there was no category of young adult under Anglo-American law,” he said, summarizing an essay he published last year in The Yale Law & Policy Review. “Anyone under 21 was an ‘infant.’ Minors were legally disabled in the eyes of the law.”
ALUMNI
Photos: Meet SI Swimsuit Rookie Kamie Crawford
The Spun by Sports Illustrated 05-14-2022
Former Miss Teen USA Kamie Crawford is well prepared to make her SI Swimsuit debut this year. The 29-year-old Fordham University graduate and TV presenter is a body positivity advocate who was on her own fitness and wellness journey long before her Swimsuit shoot in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
LevelField Financial Names V. Gerard “Jerry” Comizio to its Board of Directors; Retained to Act as a Special Advisor on Regulation to LevelField’s CEO
WICZ 05-12-2022
Mr. Comizio received his master’s degree in global policy from Johns Hopkins University, LLM from the Georgetown University Law Center, JD from the Pace University School of Law, and BA from Fordham University.
Laundry Tech Company Juliette Acquires New Manhattan Facility & Discovers New Traditions
WICZ 05-122-2022
A thrice time entrepreneur, founder and CEO Rechelle Balanzat immigrated from the Philippines with her parents as a teenager. She graduated from Fordham and has a background in tech. She successfully completed the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program; she is a 2019 Tory Burch Fellow, as well as a graduate of the International Drycleaning & Laundry Institute. She has also been honored by the Philippine Embassy as a Distinguished Filipino Woman.
Securities meet cybersecurity: how companies can face mounting threats
Reuters 05-16-2022
Kenneth N. Rashbaum is a partner with Barton LLP in New York City, where he leads the privacy and cybersecurity group, advising companies in the areas of data privacy, cybersecurity, information management, information safeguards in service and license agreements, and in litigation and regulatory proceedings. He is an adjunct professor of law at Fordham Law School and the author of articles on topics such as cyber litigation, cross-border transfer of personal information, and HIPAA compliance regarding electronic health information.
Dick Barnett whispers loudly
The Denver Post 05-22-2022
Dick Barnett – Dr. Dick Barnett – an owner of two championship rings with the Knicks and a Doctor of Education from Fordham University, is nothing but relentless when he wants to accomplish something worthwhile.
Beach-Nesting Bird Monitoring Underway at Forsythe Refuge in Holgate
The Sandpaper 05-19-2022
This year’s Forsythe team includes field crew leader Emmy Casper, who has a master’s degree in biology from Fordham University and is returning for her third year on the project. Amy Kopec, too, has prior “beach-nester” experience from her two years at Crane Beach, one of the major piping plover nesting sites on the north shore of Massachusetts. Erin Foley, meanwhile, is joining the Forsythe project after serving as beach monitor at the National Guard Training Center last summer.
Thomas J. Baskind Establishes Endowed Scholarship At Fordham University
MenaFN 05-18-2022
The Baskind family is pleased to announce that the Thomas J. Baskind Endowed Scholarship has been established to provide opportunities to deserving students at Fordham University.
STUDENTS
Abortion debate is a reminder that those with disabilities are worthy of life
The Philadelphia Inquirer 05-15-2022
Aja Beech, photographed in 2018, writes about the complex conversation about abortion and disability. She is currently working toward a Masters of Legal Studies degree at Fordham University.
They Treated Their Sports Like a Job. They Wish the N.C.A.A. Had, Too.
The New York Times 05-15-2022
One month after Johnson, represented by Paul L. McDonald, a Philadelphia lawyer, filed his lawsuit in November 2019, five former athletes joined the case, including tennis players from Sacred Heart University and Lafayette College; a Fordham University swimmer and baseball player; and a Cornell University soccer player.
Man graduates Fordham 66 years after freshman year
Eyewitness News ABC-7 05-20-2022
One of the great lessons of life is that you’re never too old to learn, words that ring especially true for one graduate of Fordham University. John Lenehan, now 88, is no stranger to Fordham. He started college there in 1956.
Pueblo West students get ROTC scholarships for 7th year running
The Pueblo Chieftain 05-22-2022
The Pratt Institute, where Perez will go to college, doesn’t offer ROTC classes and training. Perez will take classes at Pratt and fulfill his ROTC commitments at Fordham University.
11 Horseheads student-athletes sign to compete at Division-I and Division-II levels
WNEY 05-17-2022
Eva Koratsis signed to play softball for Fordham University. Koratsis was an All-State selection as a junior and has played a major role in the Blue Raider success over the last few seasons. “It just felt like home,” said Koratsis. “The team was like family and I knew it was right for me the minute I was there.”
Mount St. Michael basketball star signs to Fordham University
News 12 the Bronx 05-17-2022
Mount St. Michael Academy basketball star Noah Best announced his college intentions on Tuesday. News 12’s Pat O’Keefe has more on the Bronx athlete’s decision to join Fordham University.
OBITUARIES
Gerard O’Connor, 92, Physical Education Teacher
Long Island Herald 05-19-2022
O’Connor was born and raised in Brooklyn, attended St. Augustine Diocesan High School and was the original member of the Brooklyn Cadets baseball team. He served in the U.S. Air Force from 1951 to 1952 during the Korean War, and spent a year in the New York Air National Guard in 1953. He graduated from Fordham University in 1954, earning a bachelor’s degree in accounting. While working as an accountant in NBC Rockefeller Center, he met his future wife, Carol. They wed in 1962 and moved to Lynbrook to raise their family.
Donald K. Ross, Leading Public Interest Lawyer, Dies at 78
The New York Times 05-19-2022
Honing the strategies he devised as student body president to revive Fordham University’s famed football legacy, Mr. Ross was for five decades at the forefront of movements on behalf of consumer protection, government ethics, environmentalism, health care, voting rights, tax reform and access to mass transit, as well as the movement to close nuclear power plants after the partial
