CLIPS OF THE WEEK
TROY TASSIER
New York struggles with coronavirus, US deaths top 1,000
Associated Press 03-25-20
Troy Tassier, a Fordham University professor who studies economic epidemiology, suggested the increase shows New York would have fared better had it acted sooner to order social distancing.
PAUL LEVINSON
Our TVs are full of characters spreading germs and now we can never unsee it
Washington Post 03-24-20
TV and streaming services “provide an important health benefit by allowing people to get away from the crisis they’re experiencing … and go into this fantasy, fictitious world for a couple of hours,” said Paul Levinson, a communications and media professor at Fordham University.
ANITA VAZQUEZ-BATISTI
How higher ed is helping K-12 cope with coronavirus
University Business 03-26-20
The Center has long had embedded, bilingual staff in both buildings, Associate Dean [of Fordham University’s Graduate School of Education]Anita Vazquez-Batisti says.
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY
Cuomo Becomes Trump’s Target After Demanding Ventilators Now
Bloomberg 03-24-20
The state is also exploring sites at three other SUNY campuses, four campuses of the City University of New York, St. John’s University in Queens and Fordham University in the Bronx.
SCHOOL OF LAW FACULTY
American Express 0% APR Credit Cards
Wallet Hub 03-20-20
Steve Thel
Wormser Professor of Law, Fordham University, School of Law
ZEPHYR TEACHOUT
The Senate Corporate Bailout Package Is a ‘Robbery in Progress,’ Warn Critics
Common Dreams 03-25-20
Zephyr Teachout, a professor at the Fordham University School of Law and an anti-corruption expert, tweeted Wednesday that “it is super hard to speak up against this because of the big great things in the bill.”
ZEPHYR TEACHOUT
Critics Warn Democrats That Mere ‘Oversight’ of $500 Billion Corporate Bailout ‘Much Too Weak’ to Stop Trump Abuses
Common Dreams 03-24-20
Zephyr Teachout, a professor at the Fordham University School of Law and anti-corruption expert, cautioned Democrats against accepting toothless oversight requirements that do nothing to prevent corporate or government malfeasance.
ZEPHYR TEACHOUT
Why Don’t We Just Ban Targeted Advertising?
Wired 03-22-20
Perhaps the Overton window on behavioral ads will see a similar shift. Fordham law professor Zephyr Teachout helped put anti-monopoly issues on the map in her upstart 2014 primary challenge to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
RICHARD SQUIRE
U.S. airlines don’t need a bailout to stay in business
Washington Post 03-22-20
Richard Squire, a professor at the Fordham University School of Law, teaches corporate bankruptcy law.
JOHN PFAFF
Arbitrary & excessive: Marijuana trafficking sentences in Alabama
Southern Poverty Law Center 03-26-20
“In many ways, the wide variety across states about where these cutoffs are between possession and trafficking make it pretty clear that they’re not actually grounded in any actual sense of harm or safety or anything like that,” said John Pfaff, professor of law at Fordham University School of Law.
JOHN PFAFF
How Coronavirus May Change Criminal Justice
Law 360 03-22-20
John Pfaff, a law professor at Fordham University and the author of “Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration,” said the real impetus of any increased criminal activity during the pandemic will be hard to distinguish.
JOHN PFAFF
Beyond the Death Penalty, Activists Are Fighting to End Death by Incarceration
Truthout 03-21-20
Yet after decades of holding this dubious honor, many Americans have begun to question what Fordham law professor John [Pfaff] calls “this massive experiment in punitive social control.” Decarceration is being discussed in states across the country.
SUSAN SCAFIDI
Experts Unpack the Massive Cross-Industry Impact of the Coronavirus, From Retail to Hospitality
CO— 03-20-20
“Global consumer demand has been adversely affected by both anxiety and the absence of in-person engagement,” Susan Scafidi, founder and director of the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham University, told CO—.
GABELLI SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FACULTY
MATTHEW WILSON
Bisexual Medical Clown Turned Minister Becomes Internet Sensation
Advocate 03-25-20
He teaches career communication and personal branding at the Fordham Gabelli School of Business in New York City.
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION FACULTY
ANITA VAZQUEZ-BATISTI
How higher ed is helping K-12 cope with coronavirus
University Business 03-26-20
The Center has long had embedded, bilingual staff in both buildings, Associate Dean [of Fordham University’s Graduate School of Education]Anita Vazquez-Batisti says.
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SERVICE FACULTY
KIMBERLY GROCHER
In a coronavirus crisis, who deserves a ventilator?
USA Today 03-24-20
Kimberly Grocher, Weill Cornell Medicine/Fordham University, New York.
ARTS AND SCIENCES FACULTY
ASHAR FOLEY
CORONAVIRUS PROVES IT: WE NEED MEDICARE FOR ALL
Other Words 03-25-20
Ashar Foley is currently a (remote) lecturer of Cinema and Media at Fordham University in New York City.
ANGELA ALAIMO O’DONNELL
On Flannery O’Connor’s birthday, two books to celebrate her life, work
National Catholic Reporter 03-25-20
In this volume, Angela Alaimo O’Donnell, author of four previous books on O’Connor and a professor at Fordham University, offers 101 sonnets in which she captures O’Connor’s interior life.
PAUL LEVINSON
Can the Internet Break From Overuse?
How Stuff Works 03-25-20
“Nothing, including the internet, is invulnerable to overload. But the internet has an enormous amount of redundancy and backup in its systems,” says Paul Levinson, professor of communications and media studies at Fordham University.
PAUL LEVINSON
Our TVs are full of characters spreading germs and now we can never unsee it
Washington Post 03-24-20
TV and streaming services “provide an important health benefit by allowing people to get away from the crisis they’re experiencing … and go into this fantasy, fictitious world for a couple of hours,” said Paul Levinson, a communications and media professor at Fordham University.
TROY TASSIER
Experts ponder causes of New York’s ‘breathtaking’ outbreak
Associated Press 03-25-20
It’s a bit like in astronomy, “when the light you are seeing from a star is in the past,” said Troy Tassier, an economist at Fordham University.
TROY TASSIER
New York struggles with coronavirus, US deaths top 1,000
Associated Press 03-25-20
Troy Tassier, a Fordham University professor who studies economic epidemiology, suggested the increase shows New York would have fared better had it acted sooner to order social distancing.
ASATO IKEDA
Tokyo 1940: the Games that became the ‘Missing Olympics’
Yahoo! News 03-24-20
The Olympic bid was therefore also an attempt to shore up international support, according to Asato Ikeda, assistant professor at Fordham University, New York, who has written about the 1940 Games.
CHRISTINA GREER
Happy Women’s History Month
New York Amsterdam News 03-26-20
Christina Greer, Ph.D., is an associate professor at Fordham University, political editor at The Grio, 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
The final stretch of budget negotiations begins
City & State New York 03-26-20
While some of the political dynamics in Albany remain the same, the coronavirus has reoriented others, according to Christina Greer, an associate professor of political science at Fordham University.
CHRISTINA GREER
MacAdam: Cuomo must-see TV, who’d a thunk it?
Daily Gazette 03-24-20
As Fordham University associate professor of political science Christina Greer told NPR’s James Doubek, “He’s been accused of being a bully. He’s been accused of being controlling. He’s been accused of being self-serving. But it seems as though all of those personality and character traits are on the back burner right now. Because it seems his No. 1 priority is to make sure that New Yorkers are safe.”
CHRISTINA GREER
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Takes The Spotlight In Coronavirus Response
NPR 03-24-20
“I’ve been pretty impressed with how he’s dealt with trying to convey accurate information to not just the people of New York state but specifically the people in New York City,” says Christina Greer, an associate professor of political science at Fordham University.
QUAMRUL HAIDER
Why should you care about the air you breathe?
Daily Star 03-23-20
Quamrul Haider is a Professor of Physics at Fordham University, New York.
RACHEL ANNUNZIATO
Psychosocial assessment of families caring for a child with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, epilepsy or asthma: Psychosocial risk as network of interacting symptoms
PLOS One 03-23-20
Editor: Rachel A. Annunziato, Fordham University, UNITED STATES
CHARLES CAMOSY
Ethicists, lawyers see dangers in rationing of scarce health resources
Catholic News Service 03-25-20
One of the strongest and most persistent voices has been that of Charles Camosy, an associate professor of theological and social ethics at Fordham University in New York, one of the hardest-hit U.S. cities.
CHARLES CAMOSY
Hospitals, States Consider How to Distribute Healthcare if Coronavirus Surges
National Catholic Register 03-24-20
Dr. Charlie Camosy, an associate professor of theology at Fordham University, last week discussed with CNA the principles that should be used as doctors might face choices over healthcare distribution.
CHARLES CAMOSY
Lives Worth Living? Why Healthcare Rationing Must Be Ethical
National Catholic Register 03-24-20
George and two other scholars—Fordham theology professor Charles Camosy and Harvard sociology professor Jacqueline Rivers—requested a legal memorandum on federal civil rights protections against age and disability discrimination.
CHARLES CAMOSY
Groups Warn Against Basing Life And Death Decisions In COVID-19 Pandemic On Age Or Disability
Forbes 03-24-20
The Society states the memorandum was prepared at the request of Princeton University’s Dr. Robert P. George, Harvard University sociologist Dr. Jacqueline Cooke-Rivers, and bioethicist Dr. Charles C. Camosy of Fordham University.
CHARLES CAMOSY
Rationing healthcare based on age or disability violates federal law, legal scholars warn
The Christian Post 03-24-20
Robert P. George, who serves as McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University, along with Harvard University sociologist Jacqueline Cooke-Rivers, and bioethicist Charles C. Camosy of Fordham University, asked the Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund and the Thomas More Society to prepare the five-page memorandum.
CHARLES CAMOSY
Memorandum: Coronavirus discrimination would violate federal law
Hendersonville Standard 03-23-20
The news release said that the memorandum was requested by Princeton University’s Dr. Robert P. George, Harvard University sociologist Dr. Jacqueline Cooke-Rivers, and bioethicist Dr. Charles C. Camosy of Fordham University.
ELISA CLARK
How dancers cope when they can’t dance: They improvise
Washington Post 03-24-20
She has been performing with Monica Bill Barnes & Company and teaching at the University of the Arts and Fordham University.
HAROLD TAKOOSHIAN
Was Freud right about anything?
Live Science 03-21-20
“You can think of him as an idea factory,” explained Harold Takooshian, a professor of psychology at Fordham University in New York City.
JESSICA BALDWIN-PHILIPPI
Amid coronavirus fears, the presidential campaigns of three septuagenarian candidates go digital
Boston Globe 03-21-20
“Because he was late to launch his presidential bid, a lot of the people who had been top brass in prior campaigns were already taken up,” said Jessica Baldwin-Philippi, an associate professor at Fordham University who studies digital campaigns.
THOMAS MASSARO, S.J.
Should colleges pay their athletes? What Catholic social teaching has to say.
America Magazine 03-20-20
The answer to that question begins with a simple yet profound distinction, pointed out by Tom Massaro, S.J., a professor at Fordham University and an expert in Catholic social teaching.
STUDENTS
To be effective, the covid-19 relief bill must spark consumer spending
Washington Post 03-26-20
Stephen Leccese is a PhD candidate in history at Fordham University, where he’s writing a dissertation on economic policy during the Progressive Era.
Coronavirus: Chinese students in US face wrenching choice amid global upheaval – stay or return home
South China Morning Post 03-20-20
When the first dozen cases were confirmed in New York, Kai Zheng, a graduate student at Fordham University, was planning to go back to China.
ATHLETICS
Guirantes Tabbed WBCA All-Region 4
Scarlet Knights 03-25-20
Bre Cavanaugh
Fordham University
ALUMNI
Demarest Strengthens its Banking and Finance Practice with Helen Naves
Leaders League 03-25-20
Additionally, [Helen Naves] holds an LL.M. in Corporate, Banking and Finance Law from Fordham University School of Law and boasts 20 years of experience in the legal market.
Stacey Ross Cohen: “Here Are 5 Things You Should Do To Become a Thought Leader In Your Industry”
Authority Magazine 03-25-20
[Stacey Ross Cohen] holds a B.S. from Syracuse University, MBA from Fordham University and recently completed a certificate program in Media, Technology and Entertainment at NYU Leonard Stern School of Business.
Sister Patty Cook: A Sister of God’s Mercy
Zip 06 03-25-20
[Patty Cook] obtained her PhD in systematic contemporary theology from Fordham University and her post doctoral certificate in supervision of ministry from Yale University.
All About New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Brother, CNN Host Chris Cuomo
Oprah Magazine 03-24-20
Andrew followed in their dad’s political footsteps while Chris [Cuomo] went to law school at Fordham and eventually worked on Wall Street.
How Chris Cuomo Achieved A Net Worth Of $12 Million
Money Inc 03-24-20
[Chris Cuomo] also attended Fordham University, where he got his Juris Doctor in 1995.
Enfield joins in ringing bells to show a united front in the coronavirus pandemic
Journal Inquirer 03-24-20
Windsor Locks First Selectman J. Christopher Kervick told the Journal Inquirer at that time that the bell-ringing idea was inspired by his days at Fordham University in New York in the 1980s when he and his classmates used to do a “nightly primal scream.”
Whisler Law Firm Employees Luis Ramos and Maria Rodriguez Certified In Water Damage Restoration By The IICRC
South Florida citybizlist 03-23-20
[Maria P.] Rodriguez, a Litigation Paralegal at the received her B.A., summa cum laude, from Fordham University and is obtaining her paralegal certificate at Florida Atlantic University in hopes of becoming a Nationally Certified Paralegal.
West Hartford Native Shares Her Diagnosis and Recovery from COVID-19
West Hartford 03-22-20
[Shea Williams] grew up in West Hartford, where her family still lives, and she is a former standout cross country and track athlete at Conard High School who also ran at Division I Fordham University, from which she graduated in 2018.
NASA Made InSight Lander To Strike Itself With A Shovel To Get Unstuck
Great Lakes Ledger 03-21-20
Anna [C. Mackinno] received a BA and and MA from Fordham University.
Sommelier recounts assault, being ‘roofied’ in NYC restaurants
New York Post 03-21-20
After a couple years at Fordham University, in 2009 [Victoria James] began bartending at Lattanzi.
Kevin G. Carter, CFP® Joins Fiduciary Trust International as New York-Based Senior Portfolio Manager
WICZ 03-20-20
Mr. [Kevin G.] Carter, who holds the Certified Financial Planner™ designation, received his MBA in finance and taxation from Fordham University.
Simotas Featured Speaker at Fordham Law School Women’s History Month Event
The National Herald 03-20-20
Assembly Member [Aravella] Simotas, the first woman elected to the Assembly from Queens’ 36th District, is an alumna of Fordham Law, Class of ’04.
Election 2020: Iran-Contra spy wins Florida beach town mayor’s race
News Chief 03-20-20
[Myra] Koutzen has a master’s degree in business administration from Fordham University and more than 20 years of management experience with Fortune 500 companies like MasterCard International and Citibank.
