CLIPS OF THE WEEK
BENJAMIN M. COLE
On The Intrinsic Value of Bitcoin
Medium 01-15-18
[Benjamin M. Cole is the] William J. Loschert Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurship, Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University
News 12 The Bronx Interview with Joe Conlin
News 12 The Bronx 01-11-18
[Video] Meet Fordham’s new football coach.
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY
Tenement Museum’s online platform allows students to trace immigrant roots
EdScoop 01-05-18
Around 40 K-12 school have participated in the project, and nearly 20 colleges — including New York University, Fordham University, Columbia University, California State University, Hunter College and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, — have taken advantage of the interactive curriculum.
WFUV
About Slingshot, Public Radio’s Emerging Artist Spotlight
GPBNews 01-09-18
WFUV, New York’s source for music discovery, has been a noncommercial, member-supported public media service of Fordham University for more than 65 years.
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
Conversation and the Infinite Long Run
Project MUSE 01-0918
Conversations on Peirce: Reals and Ideals by Douglas R. Anderson and Carl R. Housman. New York: Fordham University Press, 2012. Pp. 270. $95.00 cloth, $40 paper.
The Judgment of the Drawing Room
Project MUSE 01-09-18
Enlightened Sentiments: Judgment and Autonomy in the Age of Sensibility by Hina Nazar. New York: Fordham University Press, 2012. Pp. 192. $45.00 cloth.
Sexagon: Muslims, France, and the Sexualization of National Culture by Mehammed Amadeus Mack (review)
Project MUSE 01-13-18
Sexagon: Muslims, France, and the Sexualization of National Culture. By Mehammed Amadeus Mack. New York: Fordham University Press, 2017. 329pp., ill.
ADMINISTRATORS
DAVID GIBSON
Theologian, New York Times columnist, to debate Pope Francis legacy
Religion News Service 01-08-18
Titled “Francis@Five: Assessing the Legacy of Pope Francis Five Years After His Election,” the discussion will be moderated by David Gibson, Director of the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University.
DAVID GIBSON
Commentators Douthat and Faggioli to debate Pope Francis
Catholic News Agency 01-10-18
David Gibson, Director of the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University and a past national reporter for RNS, will moderate the event.
DAVID GIBSON
WFTX-FTM (FOX)-News Update
WFTX-FTM (FOX) 01-13-18
[Video] David Gibson on the power of Catholic nonprofit organizations.
JANET FALLER SASSI
Censored Planet Works Toward ‘Internet Freedom’
Information Today, Inc. 01-16-18
In Fordham University’s News portal, Janet Sassi shares a new project from the University of Michigan called Censored Planet, which is “enlisting 400,000 servers around the world to monitor censorship and network interference.”
SCHOOL OF LAW
The case for legalizing foraging at all National Parks
The New Food Economy 01-09-18
A sampling of my findings from my forthcoming Fordham Urban Law Journal article shows that 13 National Parks ban all foraging for wild foods, while 46 allow at least some foraging.
SCHOOL OF LAW FACULTY
SEAN J. GRIFFITH
Petrobras to Pay $2.95 Billion to Settle U.S. Suit Over Corruption
The Wall Street Journal 01-03-18
“The plaintiffs must have been able to prove their damages case pretty convincingly in order to move the defendants to the negotiating table and to get them to settle around such a large number,” said Sean Griffith, an expert in corporate and securities law at Fordham University’s law school.
JENNIFER L. WHITE
Jennifer White, Counsel, Arent Fox LLP to Speak at TKG’s Event
PR.com 01-04-18
Jennifer [L. White] also has 12 years’ experience teaching law and mentoring young lawyers as a member of the Fordham University School of Law adjunct faculty.
JED SHUGERMAN
How Paul Manafort Is Trying to Get a Pardon From President Trump
Cheddar 01-04-18
“For lawyers this is frivolous and really silly,” Jed Shugerman, Fordham University Law Professor, told Cheddar.
JED SHUGERMAN
With his judicial appointments, Trump is courting his base were it counts
France24 (EN) 01-09-18
“That is exactly the game plan,” said Jed Shugerman, professor of law at Fordham University.
JED SHUGERMAN
Trump on the stand: The greatest political and legal peril he’s ever faced
The Washington Post 01-09-18
Fordham Law School professor Jed Shugerman reasons, “Thus, he still has the privilege against self-incrimination for that later criminal liability.”
HOWARD M. ERICHSON
Ridiculous class-action lawsuits are costing you tons of money
New York Post 01-06-18
When they finally end, the result can sometimes be “designed to benefit the class action lawyers instead of the consumers,” said Fordham Law school Professor Howard Erichson.
JOHN PFAFF
Crime Felony conviction rates have risen sharply, but unevenly
US-Pressform.com 01-06-18
John Pfaff, a law professor at Fordham University, called the study “incredibly important,” but noted that with many gaps in information provided by states, further study may be needed to ensure an accurate picture.
JOHN PFAFF
The US prison population fell in 2016 — for the 3rd year in a row
Vox 01-11-18
On Twitter, Fordham Law School criminal justice expert John Pfaff pulled out some interesting findings from the new Bureau of Justice Statistics report.
JOHN PFAFF
How Gang Policing Is Criminalizing Whole Communities
The Nation 01-12-18
And Fordham law professor John Pfaff, author of Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration—and How to Achieve Real Reform, warns that BRAVE’s focus on two ZIP Codes alone is “troubling.”
JOHN PFAFF
The Opioid Crisis Is Blurring the Legal Lines Between Victim and Perpetrator
Slate 01-15-18
Nationwide, the number of people in state prisons whose most serious conviction was for drugs has declined even as the opioid crisis took off, from 251,000 in 2000 to 206,000 by the end of 2014, the last year for which we have data, according to John Pfaff, a professor at Fordham Law School and an expert on mass incarceration.
JOHN PFAFF
Some States Are Still Locking Up Way Too Many People
Bloomberg 01-16-18
As Fordham University law professor John Pfaff described in his excellent book “Locked In,” which I wrote about last year, it is local district attorneys and state lawmakers who drove the incarceration boom, so it’s mainly up to them to end it.
DAVID J. GOLDBERG
My EMR Has Been Hacked. What Should I Do?
Medpage Today 01-07-18
David J. Goldberg, MD, J.D, is director of Skin Laser & Surgery Specialists of New York and New Jersey, Director of Mohs Surgery and laser research, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai,, and adjunct professor of law, Fordham Law School.
ZEPHYR TEACHOUT
Sexual-misconduct accusation against Jeff Klein adds to NY Senate turmoil
Ithaca Journal 01-11-18
“To me it is an embarrassment that Savino, Carlucci and Valesky, first of all, that they spoke out while being on the Senate Ethics Committee to make a quick, factual determination without any independent investigation,” Teachout, a Fordham Law School professor and government ethics expert, said.
ZEPHYR TEACHOUT
New York Live Arts presents LIVE IDEAS 2018: RADIAL VISION
BroadwayWorld.com 01-16-18
A special highlight is a hands-on workshop on how to participate in government, led by Fordham Law Professor, political activist, and former New York gubernatorial candidate, Zephyr Teachout.
DAVID. A. ANDELMAN
Scrapping the Iran deal will harm America’s international interests
CNN 01-11-18
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 a columnist for USA Today.
KAREN J. GREENBERG
Prisoners sue Donald Trump, allege anti-Muslim bias
Today.ng 01-11-18
Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School, called the habeas petition a novel new approach for the detainees, some in the prison since 2002.
KAREN J. GREENBERG
Team Trump Cooks Terror Stats for Bogus Immigration Argument
The Daily Beast 01-16-18
Karen Greenberg directs the respected Center on National Security at Fordham University Law School, where she assiduously tracks terrorism cases in federal court.
KAREN J. GREENBERG
US New report says most U.S. terrorists foreign born, but check the fine print
US-Pressform.com 01-16-18
Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at the Fordham University School of Law, said the long timeline of the report overshadows the evidence — and the effects — of a more recent tactic used by ISIS that has produced U.S.-born attackers.
KAREN J. GREENBERG
Experts say the DOJ’s big terrorism report is “misleading”
VICE News 01-16-18
Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham University School of Law, says that the report is misleading on many levels, but firstly because it only covers a timespan through 2016, and some key things have changed since then.
KAREN J. GREENBERG
Trump administration links terrorism and immigration, but an expert doubts the math
The Washington Post 01-16-18
Karen Greenberg, director of Fordham University’s Center on National Security, said the figures instead show there is a need for applying tougher statistical standards to government reports.
SUSAN SCAFIDI
My bag design was stolen by a big fast fashion brand — and it devastated me
Hello Giggles 01-15-18
According to Susan Scafidi, founder of the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham University, the three types of legal protection available to designers are copyright, trademarks and patents.
STEVE VLADECK
Why Manafort’s Attempt to Nix Mueller’s Prosecution Is Going Nowhere
Newsweek 01-04-18
[Steve Vladeck] is a professor of law at the University of Texas School of Law, a senior editor of the Journal of National Security Law & Policy, a contributing editor to the Lawfare blog, a Distinguished Scholar at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, a fellow of the Fordham University School of Law Center on National Security, the Supreme Court Fellow for the Constitution Project and an elected member of the American Law Institute.
GABELLI SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FACULTY
L. HUNTER LOVINS
Fordham University : Gabelli School Taps Sustainable Business Innovator for New Course
4 Traders 01-12-18
The new course is led by sustainable development pioneer L. Hunter Lovins, president and founder of Natural Capitalism Solutions.
BENJAMIN M. COLE
On The Intrinsic Value of Bitcoin
Medium 01-15-18
[Benjamin M. Cole is the] William J. Loschert Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurship, Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University
MARK CONRAD
Will next Panthers’ owners get a new stadium? Here are the trends in other NFL cities.
Herald Online 01-05-18
“The goal now is doing something with the real estate around the stadium,” said Mark Conrad, director of Fordham University’s sports business concentration.
ARTS AND SCIENCES FACULTY
CHRISTINA GREER
New York governor’s DC attacks prompt 2020 speculation
Associated Press 01-04-18
Fordham University political scientist Christina Greer said Cuomo may be betting his emphasis on pragmatism and his experience leading the nation’s fourth largest state distinguish him from Sanders, Warren and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, with whom Cuomo has often feuded.
CHRISTINA GREER
Happy New Year!
New York Amsterdam News 01-04-18
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.
CHRISTINA GREER
Oprah 2020: Calm down.
Newsday 01-09-18
Christina Greer is the 2018 NYU McSilver Institute Fellow and an associate professor at Fordham University.
CHRISTINA GREER
The Beat with Ari Melber
MSNBC 01-09-18
[Video] Christina Greer is a panelist addressing Steve Bannon’s exit from Brietbart.
CHRISTINA GREER
Word of the year
New York Amsterdam News 01-11-18
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.
MELISSA LABONTE
China’s Notions of UN Reform – Filling the Growing Vacuum Left by the US / MunPlanet
MunPlanet 01-04-18
“China has been going through a process that has been in the works for decades,” wrote Melissa Labonte, a professor of political science at Fordham University, in an email.
JOHN J. DAVENPORT
What you need to know about the protests in Iran
Aleteia.org 01-07-18
That’s the view of John J. Davenport, the director of the Peace and Justice Studies Program at Fordham University.
LEONARD CASSUTO
How to Go Public, and Why We Must
The Chronicle of Higher Education 01-07-18
Leonard Cassuto, a professor of English at Fordham University, writes regularly about graduate education in this space.
MARK D. NAISON
How Trump became ‘the white affirmative action president’
CNN 01-09-18
But it’s not just because he’s white; Trump is judged by a different standard because he embodies a certain type of whiteness, says Mark D. Naison, an activist and history professor who teaches a course on affirmative action at Fordham University in New York.
HECTOR LINDO-FUENTES
El Salvador Again Feels the Hand of Washington Shaping Its Fate
The New York Times 01-09-18
“With more than 60 murders per 100,000 inhabitants in 2017, El Salvador has one of the highest murder rates in the world,” said Héctor Lindo-Fuentes, a Salvadoran historian at Fordham University in New York.
STEVEN STOLL
Write Stuff: Gina Barreca, Jay Heinrechs At Twain House For ‘How To Take A Joke’
Hartford Courant 01-10-18
On Saturday, Jan. 20, at 5 p.m., Steven Stoll, a professor of history at Fordham University, will discuss his nonfiction book, “Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia,” an account of how residents of that area had depended on natural resources until, in the 19th century, mining and lumber companies bought up the land and left people to struggle ever since.
BRYAN MASSINGALE, S.T.D.
Catholic priest to deliver keynote speech for MLK Week activities
PublicNow 01-10-18
The Rev. Bryan Massingale, a professor of theological and social ethics at Fordham University and a Catholic priest, will deliver the keynote speech for the week at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 16, at Escher Auditorium, Benedicta Arts Center, CSB.
THOMAS DE LUCA
Why presidential language matters
The Christian Science Monitor 01-12-18
“During the cold war, it was important [for US presidents]to play the role of being the leader, or the potential leader, of countries in the world who wanted a freer existence,” says Thomas De Luca, director of international studies at Fordham University in New York.
DEAN MCKAY
This Is Why You Can’t Stop Watching Dr. Pimple Popper’s Videos
Women’s Health 01-15-18
“There’s some kind of relief by proxy,” says Dean McKay, Ph.D., a psychology professor at Fordham University in New York City who studies disgust.
PAUL LEVINSON
Woody Allen’s future uncertain as more actors speak out against the director
am New York 01-16-18
Paul Levinson, a professor of communications and media studies at Fordham University, said while Allen’s allegations are causing a lot of actors and producers to rethink their choices and earnings, there has been very little action so far from studios and producers.
STUDENTS
Jimmy Ma draws Twitter mentions for bold routine at U.S. Figure Skating Championships
The Daily Journal 01-05-18
[JImmy Ma] knows he’s not going to the Olympics and is 30 points off the pace set by Olympic gold medal favorite Nathan Chen after the opening skate, but he’s serious about his craft, having recently moved from the Big Apple to Dallas for training, while still undertaking online computer science classes from Fordham University.
Cutrone makes dean’s list at Fordham
The Township Journal 01-09-18
Byram native Frank Cutrone was named to the dean’s list at Fordham University for his scholastic achievement during the 2016-2017 academic year.
ATHLETICS
UMass women’s basketball loses to Fordham, 62-51 (photos)
MassLive.com 01-04-18
Maggie Mulligan scored a season-high 21 points, but the UMass women’s basketball team lost to Fordham, 62-51, at the Mullins Center on Thursday.
Fordham hoops in fine form
New York Amsterdam News 01-11-18
Frigid cold winter temperatures cannot dim the competitive fires of the women of Fordham University basketball.
News 12 The Bronx Sports
News 12 The Bronx 01-11-18
[Video] Women’s basketball coverage.
News 12 The Bronx Interview with Joe Conlin
News 12 The Bronx 01-11-18
[Video] Meet Fordham’s new football coach.
News 12 The Bronx Sports
News 12 The Bronx 01-14-18
[Video] Sports coverage on women’s basketball and Chase Edmonds.
Mancuso: The Defined Process of Joe Conlin
NY Sports Day 01-11-18
Joe Conlin had the credentials and Fordham University Athletic Director David Roach welcomed his new head football coach to Rose Hill Thursday afternoon in the Bronx.
ON THE WATER: Rose Bowl Regatta A Breeze
The Grunion Gazette Online 01-12-18
The air temperatures at home for the top three college teams competing were: New York’s Fordham University was 17 degrees, Washington DC’s Georgetown University was 22 and Boston College was a chilly 14.
New Fordham Football Coach: Defined Process
The Bronx Chronicle 01-12-18
Joe Conlin had the credentials and Fordham University Athletic Director David Roach welcomed his new head football coach to Rose Hill Thursday afternoon in the Bronx.
Former CD East, Fordham tailback Chase Edmonds gets NFL Combine invite
PennLive.com 01-13-18
Chase Edmonds might be coming out of a “little school” in Fordham, but he’s about to get a couple of big-time opportunities.
Argos ink RB Ben Malena, DB Caleb Ham
Canadian Football League 01-16-18
Ham, 22, played in 44 career games in four seasons at Fordham University (2014-17), tallying 186 total tackles, six tackles for a loss, one forced fumble, one sack, seven interceptions and 23 pass deflections.
ALUMNI
Martinez will hone pitching skills in Japan
MLB.com 01-09-18
[Nick] Martinez, who is from Miami and played collegiately at Fordham University, is undaunted by the challenge of pitching in a foreign country.
North Shore’s Olivia Macklin takes off as high-flying stripper on ‘LA to Vegas’
Chicago Sun-Times 01-16-18
[Olivia] Macklin landed the role of Nichole after starring in HBO’s “The Young Pope” and just a year after graduating from Fordham University.
OBITUARIES
T. Alan Brown, 79, Of Buffalo, NY, trial attorney
T. Alan Brown, 79, trial attorney for more than 50 years
The Buffalo News 01-04-18
[T. Alan Brown] completed his juris doctor degree in 1963 at Fordham University Law School, where he was a member of Gamma Eta Gamma legal fraternity, and was admitted to the bar later that year.
Gordon John Brown Jr., 71, Of Greenville/Port Jervis, NY, retired police detective
Gordon John Brown Jr.
The Warwick Advertiser 01-10-18
[Gordon John Brown Jr.] later graduated from Fordham University.
Richard Frank Gentile, 70, Of Kennett Square, PA, retired Command Sergeant Major
Obituaries for the week of Jan. 15
Chester County Press 01-15-18
[Richard Frank Gentile] was a graduate of Fordham University.
