Is This Undefeated Team the Best Story in College Sports?
The Wall Street Journal 11-07-2024
Fordham [University] has been lights out all season long. They’ve had big wins over proven East Coast rivals like Princeton (a ranked program and an NCAA tournament semi-finalist last year) and Harvard (no idea; apparently a school near MIT and Tufts.). Fordham even tore through a recent swing of California teams (including Pacific, UC-Santa Barbara, and San Jose State) that got the sport buzzing.
County-by-county election results map for New York. How did my county vote in the 2024 presidential race?
CBS News New York 11-06-2024
“If you have Democrats in charge of the state, Democrats in charge of the city and Democrats in charge of the country, if you’re not happy, you kind of go to the Republican candidate,” said Boris Heersink, a political science professor at Fordham University.
Americans are feeling anxious — so they’re ‘doom spending’
CNN 11-10-2024
“Inflation is slowing down, but for many people, what they see on the shelf in the grocery store is their reality,” said Sertan Kabadayi, a marketing professor at Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business. “Since those prices are higher than last year, they still think that the economy is not in good shape and that the economy is getting worse.”
Trump will face fewer speed bumps in Washington during his second term
Reuters 11-07-2024
“There’s going to be very few restraints on Trump and I think he’s going to feel very empowered with that decision in his pocket,” said Fordham University law professor Cheryl Bader.
Fordham launches NIL initiative as Rams begin climb with million dollar dreams
The New York Post 11-05-2024
Supporters of the Fordham [University] men’s basketball program on Tuesday announced the launch of Rose Thrill Marketplace, which will aim to grow NIL opportunities for players “by connecting them with sponsorship deals, brand partnerships and community engagement activities,” according to a release.
Penn State Case Testing Sports Merch Industry Heads Before Jury
Bloomberg Law 11-08-2024
IP law professor Susan Scafidi of Fordham University said “it would be nice to have case law” from the appeal, as the questions raised carry profound implications. “Is Vintage using these trademarks as source indicators, and if not, does Penn State have a leg to stand on?” she said.
The 2025 Tax Brackets Are Here. See Where You Land.
The Wall Street Journal 10-22-2024
Your effective tax rate will be lower than your top rate. That is because the first slice of income is taxed at 10%, the next slice at 12%, and so on. A single person who makes $120,000 and takes the standard deduction in 2025 would have a sliver of income taxed at 24% but a 15% effective tax rate, according to Stan Veliotis, a CPA and tax lawyer at Fordham University’s business school.
What a Trump Presidency Might Mean for Mayor Adams’s Criminal Case
The New York Times 11-10-2024
“If I am Eric Adams, I am sleeping a little more peacefully tonight knowing Donald Trump will be in charge and not Kamala Harris,” said Christina Greer, an associate professor of political science at Fordham University. “Especially because Donald Trump has been very clear that he equates his prosecution as similar — with the Democrats being the villain.”
US judicial panel to develop rules to address AI-produced evidence
Reuters 11-08-2024
“It seems like a good idea to have something in the bullpen as it were rather than nothing,” said Daniel Capra, a professor at Fordham School of Law who serves as a reporter to the committee and will help draft the potential rule.
Bloomberg Surveillance: The Fed & Trump
Bloomberg 11-07-2024
“I always show my students the distribution curve right – that hump in the middle. In the past, we have had presidents who all clustered around the middle. We had George H.W. Bush, we had Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Obama. That is, in our modern presidency, where presidents hung out. Obama was not a radical president,” said Christina Greer, professor of political science at Fordham University.
How Kamala Harris and the Democrats lost the 2024 US election
Al Jazeera 11-08-2024
“In this particular phase for Kamala Harris—a short one, at that—she had to make the case, simultaneously running as both an incumbent and a newcomer, that the current state of the economy, even though it was getting better, still felt different from how it did under the Trump administration,” said Christina Greer, professor of political science at Fordham University.
‘Negativity is exhausting’: Trump turns to dark rhetoric in his closing argument
MSNBC 11-05-2024
“Well, I think, as we said, you know, the negativity of this particular campaign is exhausting, and Donald Trump has been exhausting to a lot of Americans and Republicans, and so keep in mind, he’s been on the top of the ticket three times now – He’s possibly going to lose the popular vote again tonight, and so he would have lost three times, and if he loses again, Republicans really have to reorganize themselves, because the messaging isn’t there,” said Christina Greer, professor of political science at Fordham University.
John Davenport and Jack Curtis: Donald Trump uses the law to stiff his neighbors
PIttsburgh Post-Gazette 11-04-2024
“In the long run, Congress needs to set stricter guidelines concerning how political leaders run their businesses. It may even be necessary to alter the constitution to require politicians to hold businesses in blind trusts during their terms in office, or longer,” said John J. Davenport, professor of philosophy and peace and justice studies at Fordham University and one of the story’s lead authors.
Trump Wins the Presidency; NY’s Congressional Swing Seat Results; The Day After Election Day
WNYC 11-06-2024
Christina Greer, associate professor of political science at Fordham University, co-host of the podcast FAQNYC and the author of Black Ethnics (Oxford University Press, 2013) offers political analysis of Donald Trump’s win and Kamala Harris’s loss.
Global viewers help Max add 7 million streaming subscribers
Marketplace 11-07-2024
Former HBO executive Charles Schreger, who teaches marketing at New York University and Fordham University, pointed out that in the third quarter, Max’s average revenue per domestic subscriber was about $12. For international subscribers, it was about $4. “If you’re selling a streaming service in a country that has less wealth,” he said, “you offer it at a much more modest price, because that’s what the economy will absorb.”
Bronx business owners hopeful Trump presidency will improve inflation
News 12 Bronx 11-07-2024
“The problem with the Trump tariffs and the problem with a lot of the Trump economic plans is they’re talking about how this is going to benefit U.S. corporations in 10, 15, 20 years from now. In that 10 to 15 to 20-year transitional period, the people that are going to pay the price for that are consumers and current small businesses.” said Giacomo Santangelo, an economics lecturer at Fordham University.
Report: Alabama’s criminal justice funding methods may affect crime victim compensation
Alabama Reflector 11-05-2024
“It is one of the most inefficient ways because, for many people who owe fines and fees, they simply do not have the ability to pay, so it is like trying to get blood from a stone,” said Lauren Jones, legal and policy director for the National Center for Access to Justice at Fordham Law School in New York.
The Catholic voting gap was the largest in decades, polls show. Whom did they choose?
The Kansas City Star 11-06-2024
Cristina Traina, professor of Christian theology and ethics at Fordham University, told McClatchy News in a phone interview that experts used to be able to assume how the majority of Catholics would vote. “You could pretty much assume that 80% to 90% of Catholics were going to vote a particular way because of their Catholic identity and the priorities that the Catholic church and they as Catholics had,” Traina said. “That’s no longer true. Catholics are across the spectrum.”
Young accountants: Choose your own adventure
Accounting Today 10-02-2024
“It’s always easier to go from big to small. It’s harder to go from smaller to big,” said Stan Veliotis, associate professor at Fordham University. “Both are possible, but it’s easier in one direction versus the other.” He said that students risk giving the impression to future employers that they couldn’t get an offer from the big firms – not that they didn’t want to work there.
Trump’s New York Case: What Happens Now?
Factcheck.org 11-07-2024
Trump could get prison time, but that’s not likely, Cheryl Bader, a clinical associate professor of law at Fordham University School of Law, told us in a June interview. For a first-time convicted felon, with a low-level, nonviolent felony and a person of advanced age, “under any circumstance like that, there’d be a relatively low chance of incarceration,” she said.
Is Test-Driven Educational Reform Sapping the Joy in Learning from the Nation’s Classrooms?
History News Network 11-05-2024
“Make no mistake about it, when we destroy the joy of learning in a large portion of our youth, most of whom are from racial minorities and immigrant backgrounds, we are doing our nation irreparable harm. Will people please wake up and stop this travesty against the young people of our nation? Let students learn, let teachers teach, let the joy return to our schools,” said Mark Naison, professor of African-American studies and history at Fordham University and Director of Fordham’s Urban Studies Program.
Bakers turn Rockefeller Center, Bronx Zoo, pizza and other NYC icons into gingerbread masterpieces
NBC 4 New York 11-08-2024
To represent her home borough, Lambrou-Kalognomas centered her gingerbread masterpiece around Southern Boulevard and surrounded it with Fordham University’s Keating Hall (where she met her husband), the Bronx Zoo and New York Botanical Garden’s conservatory and icing-decorated train from the NYBG’s beloved holiday train show.
How Strive Higher Is Opening Doors for Bronx Students Through Cultural Access and Mentorship
Playbill 11-07-2024
One of Strive Higher’s hallmark events has become an annual tradition: a Halloween celebration at Fordham University’s Rose Hill campus. This event serves as more than just a festive gathering; it’s an introduction to higher education for Bronx families, many of whom have never set foot on a college campus despite living nearby.
An Unexpected Story Is Unfolding in College Sports
Newser 11-09-2024
If you check the national rankings, you’ll see that New York City’s Fordham University is currently tied for No. 2. This isn’t supposed to happen: The sport has long been dominated by West Coast schools, but the Bronx team is 25-0 and ripping through its opponents, including a few California schools “that got the sport buzzing,” writes Gay.
Ecumenical Patriarchate hosts International Conference honoring Metropolitan of Pergamon (VIDEO)
Orthodox Times 11-05-2024
From November 5 to 7, 2024, the Ecumenical Patriarchate hosts an international conference in memory of the renowned theologian, Metropolitan John D. Zizioulas of Pergamon, at the Grand Hyatt Istanbul Hotel. This significant event is organized in collaboration with the Volos Academy for Theological Studies and the Center for Orthodox Christian Studies at Fordham University, USA.
Elections 2024: Ritchie Torres on Fighting for The Bronx, Challenges in D.C. & Gaza
Norwood News 11-04-2024
On climate change, with Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Torres secured a $50 million environmental justice grant to be administered by Fordham University to various community-based organizations, the largest such grant received by a Bronx-based institution, and also with Schumer, secured funding for a community-driven, envisioning process for the reimagining the Cross Bronx Expressway.
Veterans Day 2024: Famous Celebrities Who Served In The U.S. Military
Forbes 11-08-2024
According to Men’s Health, legendary M*A*S*H star Alan Alda attended Fordham University on a Reserve Officers’ Training Corps scholarship and joined the Army Reserve after graduation.
Hard Rock executive seeks licensing in Nevada as resort transition continues
The Las Vegas Review-Journal 11-06-2024
[Vincent] Zahn, a former Nevada resident who moved to Florida to join Hard Rock, told board members he aspired to be a Wall Street investment banker when he lived in northern New Jersey and attended New York’s Fordham University.
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Inside City Hall 11-05-2024
“Pennsylvania has had so many dedicated New Yorkers going there (democrats) to knock on doors for Kamala Harris, and surprisingly enough, so many of Donald Trump’s vitriolic statements about Latinos in general, about Mexican Americans being rapists, Venezuelans being gang members, the list goes on and on, and for whatever reason, that didn’t stick in a lot of communities,” said Christina Greer, professor of political science at Fordham University.
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Spectrum News 1 11-05-2024
“We know Americans go to the polls based on economic issues. They don’t necessarily go based on immigration for Latinos or civil rights for black Americans. Abortion is an economic issue, and it affects women and men. So, as we see so many people get galvanized, if Kamala Harris is successful this evening, it will be because successful this evening, it will be because so many families recognized that this issue impacts them in a financial, not just a moral way, but a financial way,” said Christina Greer, professor of political science at Fordham University.
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KGMI 11-05-2024
“The Ukrainian President, Vladimir Zelensky, was in New York in September and had meetings with former President Trump. He also met with President Biden and Vice President Harris, and people were watching those meetings very clearly, particularly to see where Trump would come down on continuing aid to Ukraine. The United States is the biggest donor to the Ukraine war effort. The US has given about $60 billion,” said Beth Knobel, professor of communication and media studies at Fordham University in New York.
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Mornings on 1 11-06-2024
“I think, you know, in the next few days or weeks, there will be some sort of scapegoating as to who was the problem in the democratic party and what was the messaging. But I think we also have to be very clear that historically, white women have always been Republicans when it comes to the presidency,” said Christina Greer, professor of political science at Fordham University.
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WWNO 11-06-2024
“I think a lot of Latino men were voting on an aspirational voting pattern and they don’t necessarily see themselves as the people Donald Trump is talking about, and so we’ve looked at data from, say, Arizona time and time again, where we’ve seen Latino men who were immigrants themselves wanting to pull up the ladder once they get the right to vote,” said Christina Greer, professor of political science at Fordham University.
