Shakespeare Professor Plays Divisive Taylor Swift Song—Has Unexpected Take
Newsweek 10-16-2025
A Shakespeare professor’s breakdown of Taylor Swift’s new hit The Fate of Ophelia has gone viral, striking a chord with both Swifties and literature fans alike.
Mary Bly, 63, who writes under the pen name Eloisa James, is both a Shakespeare professor at Fordham University as well as a historical romance author. Her Instagram analysis of the first single off Swift’s new album, which had received 854,000 views on the Meta platform at the time of writing, delves into how Swift reimagines one of Shakespeare’s most tragic heroines.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver Has a Steve Ballmer Problem on His Hands
Bloomberg 10-17-2025
“Any attempt to circumvent that system is not going to sit well with the commissioner, because you’re talking about the integrity of the game,” says Mark Conrad, a law professor and director of the sports business program at Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business. “If the investigation does show implicit knowledge on the part of Ballmer, with that kind of money, then I suspect the hammer would be pretty severe, because you just don’t want others to do it.”
LIer Tom Primrose wins Suffolk Marathon in second try at 26.2-mile race
Newsday 10-19-2025
Just over 20 minutes later, 42-year-old Michelle Jones of the Upper East Side in Manhattan cruised to a finish in 3:10:15.61, becoming the female champion.
Jones, originally from New Rochelle, is the senior executive director of operations in advancement services in the development and university relations division at Fordham University.
Religious education in schools and universities is too important to be neglected, a conference is told
The Tablet 10-15-2025
Gerald Cattaro, executive director of the Centre for Faith-based Education and Catholic School Leadership at Fordham University discussed the role of artificial intelligence in schools. He insisted that “people must retain agency over technology” and that “the culture and community of Catholic schools cannot be automated.”
Dominique Morisseau Takes the Stage at Fordham: From Detroit Roots to Denzel Washington Chair
Encore Michigan 10-15-2025
Fordham University has announced that celebrated playwright and cultural force Dominique Morisseau will join its faculty this fall as the 2025 Denzel Washington Chair in Theatre — a role that will see her mentor students, lead workshops, and help shape new theatrical work. (Fordham Now).
Cardinals, actor, and over 2,000 faithful bring the Eucharist to Times Square
Catholic News Agency 10-16-2025
After Mass, the Eucharistic procession spilled out onto 5th Avenue, with the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal singing in English and Spanish. Tourists snapped pictures, while some New Yorkers stopped and stared. University students from Fordham University waved Vatican flags. Missionaries of Charity nuns mixed with families, and drones hovered above the crowds.
Trump casts long shadow over New York mayoral race
Reuters 10-17-2025
But Christina Greer, a political science professor at Fordham University in New York, said some voters might not trust Cuomo – who has known Trump for decades – to fight the president tooth and nail.
“There’s a difference between working with Trump and acquiescing to him,” she said.
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What’s the US planning for the Middle East? | Inside Story
Al Jazeera 10-14-2025
“It’s as if Trump is speaking to the Knesset, but from an American perspective, he’s speaking to this ultra—what’s now in America called the ‘Israel First’—sort of faction of his party, which is actually quickly losing steam domestically,” said Sarah Eltantawi, professor at Fordham University.
Trump Tests Long-Held Protections in Broad Quest to Fire Workers
Bloomberg Government 10-15-2025
But even Taft didn’t believe Article II allowed the president to dismiss inferior officers at will, said Jane Manners, a law professor and legal historian at Fordham University.
“His argument in Myers v. US, which is still the touchstone for proponents of an unfettered, inherent presidential removal power, explicitly carved out the civil service, which Taft liked,” she said.
President Trump to host Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House
Audacy, KCBS Radio 10-17-2025
One day after his lengthy call with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, President Trump will host Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House today. This comes as President Trump has changed his tone on the war, and for more, KCBS’s Steve Scott spoke with Beth Knobel, former CBS News Moscow Bureau Chief. She’s now a journalism professor at Fordham University.
So Long as Oligarchs Control the Public Square, There Will Be Corruption
The Nation 10-15-2025
“Breaking Trump’s corruption requires breaking the structures that enable it. The obsequiousness of national broadcasters and large tech corporations says less about Trump than it does about the structure of power. As long as oligarchs control our public square, censorship and corruption will go hand in hand. The cure is clear: break up Big Media, Big Tech, and the finance system that binds them together,” wrote Zephyr Teachout, law professor at Fordham University.
Gustavo Gutiérrez’s legacy of liberation theology and spiritual solidarity
The Presbyterian Outlook 10-15-2025
“We give thanks to the God of the poor for the gift of the life of Gutiérrez, our brother in Christ, who even in his bodily absence continues to be ‘¡presente!’ with the cloud of witnesses who accompany us from glory to glory in our own transformation,” wrote Dr. Leo Guardado, associate professor in the theology department of Fordham University.
Appraising the Federal Indictment of Letitia James
Factcheck.org 10-17-2025
Legal experts have questioned the merits of the indictment. “In my experience, federal prosecutors would not have seriously pursued something this minor,” James Kainen, a professor with expertise in real estate and white collar crime at Fordham University School of Law, told us in an email. “The indictment is disproportionate and inconsistent with established prosecutorial norms.”
Meet The Florida Sugar Barons Worth $4 Billion And Getting Sweet Deals From Donald Trump
Forbes 10-17-2025
“I was sitting in the family office when Fidel Castro’s people came in to discuss what was going to happen. We sat down with lawyers, and I had a yellow pad and pencil, and they put machine guns on the table,” Alfy [Fanjul] recalled in a 2013 speech at Fordham University, his alma mater that he graduated from just as the revolution ended in 1959.
Students destress with one-on-one cat time in New York
AP Archive 10-15-2025
“We wanted to bring those calming benefits to folks in the New York City area, especially college students. So we came up with these therapods as part of the Cats as Therapy project. These therapods are little spaces that we can move around. We were near the High Line yesterday, today we’re at NYU. Tomorrow we’ll be at Fordham University, and this gives the opportunity for people to go in and have a 10-minute interaction with a therapy cat,” said Dr. Annie Valuska, pet behavior scientist.
Kelli Giddish Returns to Law & Order: SVU Despite Mariska Hargitay’s Character Admitting It Might ‘Bite Me in the Ass’
People Magazine 10-17-2025
Giddish also appeared in the season 25 premiere in January 2024, as Rollins and Carisi celebrated the baptism of their newborn son, Nicky. She popped up again later in the season when having left her job as a professor at Fordham University, she was free to help Benson work an SVU case.
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Twins release the only player they got in the Carlos Correa trade
Sports Illustrated 10-15-2025
Mikulski had been released earlier this year by the Giants, who drafted him in 2021 after he dominated at Fordham University with 124 strikeouts in 68 1/3 innings while posting a 1.45 ERA.
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Driving cab, working in prison helped Savage’s legal career
Charleston City Paper 10-17-2025
Looking back, Savage says the best thing he learned that made him a much sought-after attorney came from two years of driving a taxi in New York City as a student at Fordham University. He said he learned to listen and communicate with a wide variety of people.
Later at Fordham, Savage remembers working at a New York deli. He still thinks about one customer who didn’t talk much but communicated with her eyes. Sometimes, when she reached for change, he could see the concentration camp tattoo on her arm. It helped him understand that everyone has a backstory.
