CLIPS OF THE WEEK
DAVID GIBSON
Pope Francis says he believes anti-gay laws are unjust
CBS2 01-25-2023
David Gibson runs Fordham University’s Center on Religion and Culture. “Finally, the pope, and the Church by way of the pope, is saying that anti-gay laws should be undone. They’re unjust. And the church has never spoken out against criminalizing homosexuality,” Gibson said.
GIACOMO SANTANGELO
You were just laid off. How much severance can you expect?
CBS News 01-25-2023
“Severance is a very formal version of ‘Don’t go away mad, just go away,'” said Fordham economics professor Giacomo Santangelo.
MONIKA MCDERMOTT
‘We don’t know his real name’: George Santos’s unravelling web of lies
The Guardian 01-22-2022
Monika McDermott, a political science professor at Fordham University in New York, said: “This goes beyond anything I believe I’ve ever seen. We see a fair share of dissembling or chest beating in various ways but to outright lie about your résumé and continue to do so even once caught in such lies really takes a certain amount of courage – let’s call it that.”
CHERYL BADER
How strong is the criminal case against Alec Baldwin?
CNN 01-20-2023
Fordham law school criminal law professor Cheryl Bader said the circumstances of the case “would point to negligence, but the question is, does it rise to the level of criminal negligence, and who is the negligent party?”
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY
7 ways NYC is marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Jewish Telegraphic Agency 01-24-2023
Fordham University will bring historians, authors and scholars together at their Lincoln Center campus for a panel discussion on how governments, media and educators can combat Holocaust denial and antisemitism. The panelists include former PBS NewsHour anchor Judy Woodruff, Fordham’s Shvidler Chair in Judaic Studies Magda Teter, Professor of Jewish History at University of Virginia James Loeffler, author Linda Kinstler and Holocaust survivor and educator Eva Paddock.
Podcast: Call for Justice
KABC Los Angeles 01-22-2023
“I went to Fordham University in New York, also a Jesuit School,” said podcast host Melissa Lewkowicz, a partner at the Law Offices of Chester and Lewkowicz. “They were very open and accepting of me—the Jesuit community—and it was an amazing, amazing environment filled with love.”
The Impact of National Merit Delays for Students Applying to Colleges
WJLA Washington, DC 01-20-2023
The most scholarship funding for the National Merit Program goes to students who are semi finalists and finalists. That can be a very, very big scholarship up to full tuition. For example, Fordham University has a full tuition scholarship for national merit semifinalists.
My Mother’s Fight For Abortion Access Can Teach Us About Reproductive Justice Today
Time Magazine 01-21-2023
Even the reaction to the N.Y. law helped spur the Supreme Court to act as it did in Roe v. Wade. Immediately after its passage, a Fordham Law School professor named Robert Byrn, an activist in the still-rising movement for the “right to life,” challenged the N.Y. law in court.
CENTER FOR RELIGION AND CULTURE
DAVID GIBSON
Pope Francis says he believes anti-gay laws are unjust
CBS2 01-25-2023
David Gibson runs Fordham University’s Center on Religion and Culture. “Finally, the pope, and the Church by way of the pope, is saying that anti-gay laws should be undone. They’re unjust. And the church has never spoken out against criminalizing homosexuality,” Gibson said.
DAVID GIBSON
The Politics of Being Pope Francis
Slate 01-20-2023
“It’s going to be difficult for people from all over the world to form a political bloc,” said David Gibson, the director of the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University.
SCHOOL OF LAW FACULTY
CHERYL BADER
How strong is the criminal case against Alec Baldwin?
CNN 01-20-2023
Fordham law school criminal law professor Cheryl Bader said the circumstances of the case “would point to negligence, but the question is, does it rise to the level of criminal negligence, and who is the negligent party?”
CHERYL BADER
Possible Next Steps in Criminal Case Against Alec Baldwin
NY1 01-20-2023
“I think the prosecutors want to show the jury that this is not just an actor who was handling a prop who was given instructions to rehearse; but he’s a producer, and so he owes a duty of care to the cast, to the crew, to make sure that all the safety protocols were followed,” said Fordham Law Professor Cheryl Bader.
SUSAN SCAFIDI
Doja Cat and Kylie Jenner Go Wild at Paris Fashion Week
The Daily Beast 01-23-2023
“I imagine that Elsa Schiaparelli herself, an intellectual designer who collaborated with the avant-garde surrealist artists of her day, would have loved this look,” Susan Scafidi, academic director of Fordham University’s Fashion Law Institute, told The Daily Beast. “There’s no more evocative color than red, whether in reference to Dante’s Inferno or good luck for the lunar new year, and the otherworldly nature of the look is perfect for our current cultural reckoning with regard to reality versus artifice.”
JED SHUGERMAN
Biden’s bailout vs the rule of law
Washington Examiner 01-19-2023
“As a progressive who was deeply disturbed by the Trump administration’s abuse of power and executive power and invoking emergency powers, like building a wall, it seems too convenient now for progressives to embrace emergency power references by a new president, when we were so troubled a few years ago,” Fordham University law professor Jed Shugerman said.
ARTS AND SCIENCES FACULTY
GIACOMO SANTANGELO
You were just laid off. How much severance can you expect?
CBS News 01-25-2023
“Severance is a very formal version of ‘Don’t go away mad, just go away,'” said Fordham economics professor Giacomo Santangelo.
MONIKA MCDERMOTT
‘We don’t know his real name’: George Santos’s unravelling web of lies
The Guardian 01-22-2023
Monika McDermott, a political science professor at Fordham University in New York, said: “This goes beyond anything I believe I’ve ever seen. We see a fair share of dissembling or chest beating in various ways but to outright lie about your résumé and continue to do so even once caught in such lies really takes a certain amount of courage – let’s call it that.”
WESTENLEY ALCENAT, MAGDA TETER
MLK’s relationship with the Jewish community during the Civil Rights Movement was beautiful, yet fraught
New York Amsterdam News 01-19-2023
Those more layered aspects of Black and Jewish civil rights are where history professors Westenley Alcenat and Magda Teter, both of Fordham University in the Bronx, have focused their recent research. The pair created a lecture series called “Black Studies and Jewish Studies in Conversation” in 2021 that they plan to teach again this year.
CHRISTINA GREER
Biden-Harris administration marks two years. How should Black America grade them?
TheGrio 01-20-2023
Poltical scientist and author Christina M. Greer told theGrio that she believes Black America should give the Biden-Harris administration a “solid B-minus.” Greer, a contributor at theGrio, said in many ways “we’re going in the right direction [and]we’re trending up.” However, the Fordham University professor offered caveats.
BRYAN MASSINGALE
Racial justice lecture at Fairfield U.
New Haven Register 01-20-2023
Rev. Bryan Massingale will present a “Spirituality for Racial Justice” lecture at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 31 at Fairfield University’s Dolan School of Business Event Hall. Massingale is a professor of theological and social ethics at Fordham University, where he holds the James and Nancy Buckman Chair in Applied Christian Ethics and is a senior fellow in the Center for Ethics Education.
TRAVIS MUSHETT
Watching the Films of Weimar Germany to Understand Our Increasingly Fascistic Present
Literary Hub 01-25-2023
“But my dive into Weimar Germany taught me that authoritarianism doesn’t always follow a linear path,” wrote Travis [Mushett], who teaches film and media history at Fordham University.
ALUMNI
KATHRYN LANG
Kathryn Lang, Nominee for Member of the Social Security Advisory Board
WhiteHouse.gov 01-23-2023
Kathryn Lang serves as Director of Federal Income Security in the Washington, D.C. Office of Justice in Aging, a national non-profit legal advocacy organization that uses the power of law to fight senior poverty. She received her B.A. from Oberlin College and her J.D. from Fordham University School of Law.
BILL KNOWLTON
Tell Me Something Good: Bill Knowlton
WSYR ABC 01-20-2023
The Fordham-educated Air Force veteran seems an unlikely member of that family. But he’s earned a reputation far beyond Central New York for his passion and love of Bluegrass and its followers.
OBITUARIES
Ludwig (Lou) Umscheid, Research Meteorologist at NOAA, NASA,85
The Star-Ledger 01-22-2023
He received an exceptional Jesuit education from Regis High School and Fordham University, where he was enrolled in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC). After college, he served in the U.S. Air Force as a weather forecaster in the Florida Panhandle.
Ann Rothstein, Psychiatric Social Worker, 92
The New York Times 01-22-2023
While raising her three children, she forged ahead to complete her Bachelor’s Degree at St. Thomas Aquinas, her Masters Degree in Psychiatric Social Work at Fordham University and received her advanced training in Family Therapy from the Ackerman Family Institute. She immersed herself in her career as a Psychiatric Social Worker.
