CLIPS OF THE WEEK
Keith Urgo getting ‘indescribable’ chance as Fordham’s new basketball coach
New York Post 04-27-2022
It was then that Urgo realized how much his life was going to change. He just didn’t know what direction it was headed in at the time, that a week later he would be a head coach for the first time, at The Bronx school his father attended, after working for 16 years as a Division I assistant at Villanova, Penn State and Fordham.
“It’s indescribable,” the 42-year-old Urgo told The Post ahead of his Friday press conference that formally announced the hire. “My father’s been crying for several days since we heard the good news. My father’s from Brooklyn. My mother’s from Brooklyn. We grew up hearing about Fordham, the Fordham Rams and Fordham alumni, and pride they all have in this place.”
ANJALI DAYAL
As UNSC chair, U.S. plans to focus on Russia’s war in Ukraine and rising food prices
NPR All Things Considered 05-03-2022
“Anjali Dayal, a U.N. watcher who teaches international politics at Fordham University says this focus makes sense…”
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY
The Latin American synodal conversion process: lessons learned, challenges and hopes
National Catholic Reporter 05-03-2022
Editor’s note: The following keynote address was delivered at a conference for and with a group of U.S. bishops March 25-26 in Chicago. “Pope Francis, Vatican II, and the Way Forward” was co-organized by Loyola University Chicago’s Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage, Boston College’s Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life, and Fordham University’s Center on Religion and Culture. Also helping with the organization was NCR political columnist Michael Sean Winters.
Taylor Swift, Dr. Anthony Fauci and Mayor Eric Adams set to speak at NYC commencements
New York Post 04-20-2022
The Class of 2022 at Fordham University will hear from the Rev. Calvin Butts, pastor of Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church, at its May 21 ceremony. Butts is a visiting professor at the school.
“Patriarch Kirill? Just think about money and power. He stole his hidden money from the church.”
Persia Digest 05-05-2022
Scholar Serge Chapinin is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Orthodox Christian Studies at Fordham University. But above all, Patriarch Kirill has known since the early 1990s, although he was expelled from the head of the newspaper of the Moscow Patriarchate. “I knew ‘Metropolitan Kirill’, and he’s a friendly person,” he says today in an interview with Republic and signed by Rosalba Castelletti.
CEPA’S FIRST IMMERSION EXPERIENCES
Ignatian Solidarity Network 05-04-2022
John Carroll University (OH) and Fordham University (NY) participated in the first CEPA immersion experiences in early March to visit The Industrial Commons of North Carolina. Students visited textile manufacturers and even a cotton farm to learn about ethical and sustainable production that centers around people, the planet, and profit.
FORMER ADMINISTRATORS
UNIVERSITY OF FINDLAY COMMENCEMENT CEREMONIES TO BE HELD MAY 7
WKTN 05-02-2022
Prior to her appointment at Dominican, [Donna] Carroll served as Secretary of the University at Fordham University in New York, and Sr. Vice President, Dean of the College, and Dean of Students at Mount Vernon College in Washington, D.C.
SCHOOL OF LAW FACULTY
JOHN PFAFF
I’ve Been Incarcerated for 21 Years. I Wish the Judge Could See Who I Am Today.
New York Times 05-05-2022
In “Locked In,” John Pfaff, a Fordham University law professor, argued that high rates of admissions into prison on the front end, not “truth in sentencing” policies that kept people in for longer sentences on the back end, drove mass incarceration. What Mr. Pfaff can’t speak to, but I can, is the overall toxic sentiment in the cell blocks when there are no incentives for those of us who committed violent crimes to do better or want better for ourselves. It brings to mind the James Baldwin quote taped to my cell wall: “The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.”
GABELLI SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FACULTY
MARK CONRAD
Salt Lake, Sapporo head race to 2030 Olympics, and maybe ’34
USA Today via AP 05-02-2022
Mark Conrad, who teaches sports law and ethics at Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business, told the AP that a joint award seemed possible. He is not involved in the process and watches an an outsider. “Salt Lake City facilities remain from 2002 and are used, and in good shape,” Conrad said, also noting strong public support for the bid. “But the IOC owes Japan big-time and I believe that many facilities may be there or shared via Nagano.”
BARBARA PORCO
ISSB to give jurisdictions input into global sustainability standards
Accounting Today 04-27-2022 (subscription required)
“I am reassured that the ISSB will move forward with the same ideology as SASB standards and the IIRC, which is looking at how industry by industry is impacted, and that value creation process, which is part of [integrated reporting],” said Barbara Porco, Associate Dean of Graduate Students at Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business in New York. “I also feel that the ISSB will continue to look at the dimensions that are articulated through SASB sustainability metrics. It’s not just environmental, but you look at the governance piece and the innovation piece. You’re looking at both social capital and human capital. I really like the way that they break out the social and human capital piece, the internal employee lens.”
JACK BREWER
Fatherhood and second chances
Washington Times 04-28-2022
Jack Brewer serves as the chair of the Center for Opportunity Now, and vice chair of the Center for 1776 at the America First Policy Institute. He was appointed by former President Donald Trump to the Congressional Commission for the Social Status of Black Men and Boys and is currently a professor at Fordham Gabelli School of Business. Brewer previously played in the NFL for the Minnesota Vikings, New York Giants and Philadelphia Eagles.
ARTS AND SCIENCES FACULTY
GIACOMO SANTANGELO
Russia’s Move To Gold May Jolt Your Company
Forbes via Zenger News 05-02-2022
“If you like fishing, if you like being on boats, you need that lighthouse, you need that safe harbor,” said Giacomo Santangelo, a senior lecturer of economics at Fordham University. Not just in case of danger, but for an overall orientation and orderly operation. “The reserve currency is that safe harbor [providing]stabilization of trade and currency markets.”
GARRETT BROAD
Garrett Broad: A New Vision of Food Tech Justice
Eat for the Planet 05-02-2022
Garrett Broad is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University. His research and teaching focus on contemporary social movements, digital media technologies, and the food system.
PAUL LEVINSON
Why Twitter Users Are Flocking to Mastodon
Lifewire 05-03-2022
“Mastodon with maybe a few million users is minuscule compared to Twitter’s 330 million users, so comparing it to Twitter is an academic exercise, not a real-world strategy,” Paul Levinson, a professor of communications and media studies at Fordham University, who studies new media, told Lifewire in an email interview.
ANJALI DAYAL
As UNSC chair, U.S. plans to focus on Russia’s war in Ukraine and rising food prices
NPR All Things Considered 05-03-2022
“Anjali Dayal, a U.N. watcher who teaches international politics at Fordham University says this focus makes sense…”
CHRISTINA GREER
Democrats divided over return to office amid New York’s recovery
Politico via Yahoo News 05-04-2022
Christina Greer, a Fordham University political science professor who hosts a podcast about New York, said the divide reflects both ideology and the pressure Adams and Hochul are under as chief executives. “It’s not surprising that the two executives, the mayor and the governor who have more financial constraints on them, are the ones pushing for folks to go back to offices,” she said.
CHRISTINA GREER
Draft Opinion on Roe Proves Elections Have Consequences
Mehdi Hasan show on MSNBC 05-03-2022
The tragic reality, if the majority indicated by the existence of the draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade is that access to abortion will be decided state by state by state — that is, by elections. Mehdi is joined by Christina Greer and Liz Plank to discuss: Will that be enough motivation for voters to turn out and elect lawmakers who will defend those rights?
CHRISTINA GREER
Black Conservatives Are Praising ‘African American’ Elon Musk
Newsweek 04-27-2022
Amid debates over whether the term “African American” applies exclusively to the American descendants of enslaved people forcibly removed from sub-Saharan Africa, Christina Greer, associate professor of political science at Fordham University, said it ultimately boils down to Black Americans’ personal preferences. “There’s some people who are 10th generation Black American, but they like the term African American because it connects them to an ancestry that they were stolen from,” Greer told Newsweek.
KIRSTEN SWINTH
Universal daycare: Is it something that could happen now?
Repro Rights NOW/Substack 04-29-2022
But when examining feminist history, the desire to advance welfare and daycare rights came earlier. In Dr. Kirsten Swinth’s book, Feminism’s Forgotten Fight: The Unfinished Struggle for Work and Family, she explained the devastating loss that came with their effort to make that a basic service of the federal government.
“This is one of those core heartbreaking moments in feminist history,” Swinth said over the phone. “It did receive popular attention. There was legislation that was passed by Congress in 1971 for comprehensive childcare at the national level. And President Nixon unexpectedly vetoed it.”
ATHLETICS
Keith Urgo getting ‘indescribable’ chance as Fordham’s new basketball coach
New York Post 04-27-2022
It was then that Urgo realized how much his life was going to change. He just didn’t know what direction it was headed in at the time, that a week later he would be a head coach for the first time, at The Bronx school his father attended, after working for 16 years as a Division I assistant at Villanova, Penn State and Fordham.
“It’s indescribable,” the 42-year-old Urgo told The Post ahead of his Friday press conference that formally announced the hire. “My father’s been crying for several days since we heard the good news. My father’s from Brooklyn. My mother’s from Brooklyn. We grew up hearing about Fordham, the Fordham Rams and Fordham alumni, and pride they all have in this place.”
BANG! Here’s Mike Breen’s iconic NBA catchphrase origin story
For the Win! USA Today 05-03-2022
So I dug around and found this, from a [Mike] Breen conversation with Zach Gelb on CBS Sports Radio, and it started at Fordham University … in the stands:
ALUMNI
Tommy Dorfman Makes Her Met Gala Debut – Check Out Her Dress!
Just Jared 05-03-2022
“I used to come to the Met all the time in college. I studied at Fordham University on the Upper West Side, so this was my between-class lunch spot,” [Dorfman] added about the steps.
Practicing Met Gala Red Carpet Poses With Tommy Dorfman
Vogue 05-02-2022
Turns out, though, the actor is no stranger to hanging out on the Met steps. “I used to come to the Met all the time in college. I studied at Fordham University on the Upper West Side, so this was my between-class lunch spot,” Dorfman tells Vogue.
The Legendary Lydia Nicole, Spanish Harlem Actress, Comedian, Writer And Producer
Harlem World 05-03-2022
Nicole studied theater at Fordham University in New York City before moving to Hollywood.
The Rev. Herbert Keller to be University of Scranton commencement speaker
Times Leader 05-02-2022
Keller entered the Jesuit novitiate in 1969, received a bachelor’s degree in English and philosophy from Fordham University in 1975, earned a master’s from Weston School of Theology in Boston and a professional diploma in secondary school administration from Fordham. He was ordained a priest in 1981, spending 35 years in secondary education.
LIN-MANUEL’S WIFE Who is Lin-Manuel Miranda’s wife Vanessa Nadal?
The Sun 05-01-2022
Vanessa was previously a research and development specialist at Johnson & Johnson after graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2004. In 2007, she left Johnson & Johnson to study law at Fordham University. In 2019, Vanessa became an adjunct professor at Fordham Law School.
STUDENTS
Student achievements of those from the Capital Region
Times Union 05-02-2022
Phi Kappa Phi: Emily Lewis, Ballston Spa, Fordham University, New York City; Alexandria Wyckoff, Gilboa, State University of New York at Oswego; Kirsten Spero, Mechanicville, Fordham University; Taylor Coiner, Saratoga Springs, State University of New York at Oswego; Marie Woldring, Saratoga Springs, Fordham University…
I Am an Asian American, but Invisible
The New Social Worker magazine May 2022
Ada Lin is an MSW student at Fordham University, where she will graduate in May 2022.
OBITUARIES
In Memoriam: IACS Trustee Ellen Hancock
USC Dornslife 05-02-2022
Born in the Bronx, on April 15, 1943, to the late Peter and Helen (Houlihan) Mooney, Hancock grew up in New Rochelle, New York. She graduated from The Ursaline School, The College of New Rochelle and Fordham University, where she earned a master’s degree in mathematics.
Joseph Vincent Munna, 90, strategic communicator
Atlanta Journal Constitution 05-01-2022
Joseph had a brilliant mind, a quick wit and an unquenchable curiosity. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science from Fordham University and he attended St. John’s University School of Law until his entry on active duty with the U.S. Air Force in June of 1955.
