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A crowd of more than 700 gathered at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on Dec. 1 to once again ring in the Christmas season at Fordham University.<br />
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With the Fordham choir singing and lights twinkling from every corner of the Koch Theater Promenade, the annual President’s Club Christmas Reception appeared to be joining the city in gearing up for a “megawatt” Christmas, said Fordham President Joseph M. McShane, S.J.<br />
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And yet, Father McShane said, a far smaller display captures the true sentiment of the season.<br />
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“Our eye more than anywhere else is drawn to the most unassuming, most understated of Christmas lights—the candle in the window,” he told alumni, parents, staff, and other members of the Fordham community.<br />
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However, there is more to the seemingly innocent Christmas candle than meets the eye, Father McShane said. During the time of British persecution against the Catholic Church in Ireland, Irish Catholics would place candles in their windows as a secret welcome to priests, to whom they would offer hospitality in exchange for a celebration of the Eucharist.<br />
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With this subversive-yet-sacred history in mind, the image of Christmas candle was chosen to adorn the 2014 Fordham Christmas ornament, Father McShane said, because “it is a symbol that speaks volumes about who we are, what we believe in, and what we do.”<br />
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“Fordham has been about the sacred work of being ‘subversive’ for nearly 175 years, providing a different kind of education,” he said. “At the heart of Fordham is a passionate conviction that the core of a transformative and liberating education must be the encounter between the human heart and God.”<br />
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Father McShane thanked those gathered for the generosity that has helped sustain this mission.<br />
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“Your generosity is making a Fordham education affordable and accessible,” he said. “You have made it possible for Fordham to keep the candle in the window.”<br />
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Like father like son. Right? Well, what if the son is autistic?<br />
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“When you have a son it’s like, ‘Finally, I get to make a better version of me,’” said Charles Jones, producer and director of a new documentary, <i>Autistic Like Me</i>, that takes a paternal perspective on parenting kids with autism.<br />
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The film will have its New York City premiere at the Lincoln Center campus' <b>Pope Auditorium </b>this <b>Thurs., Dec. 4</b> at <b>6:45 p.m. </b>The event is free for Fordham students and faculty and, for everyone else, tickets are available <a href="http://buytickets.at/autisticlikeme" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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“We’re supposed to be the torch carriers, the protectors, the providers, and there are a lot of women who are uncomfortable when men can’t be that,” he said. <br />
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While a child’s autism affects everyone in the family, the father’s struggle often gets overlooked, said Jones, whose son has autism. His film explores a group of fathers as they open up to one another about the fear, disappointment, and ultimately the acceptance of a very different parenting experience than they had envisioned.<br />
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Jones, who is a Navy veteran, knows about being tough. He said that when faced with the reality of raising a child with autism, most of the men he interviewed tried to hide their feelings.<br />
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“Men typically hold it in and that does nothing but hurt the family,” he said. “But it takes a lot of strength to show how you’re feeling.”<br />
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Jones noted that most of the caretakers for autistic children are women, whether in the home or in the health care system. He added that current research has shown that autistic children benefit by interacting equally with men, but gender imbalances remain. Some men even shirk the responsibility of taking their kids to therapy because the rewards are barely perceptible. <br />
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“I hate to say it, but sometimes you’re going from below zero to just below zero—and there’s no carrot at the end,” he said. “But you have to do it. This is your child and there’s love there.”<br />
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The screening is being sponsored by Fordham's Autism Speaks and Circle K, the college student arm of Kiwanis International.<br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/96078988">The Official Trailer 2014 for "Autistic Like Me: A Father's Perspective"</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/seajay5">Seajay5</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5755963245861968685.post-56759577470603397252014-12-02T10:34:00.000-05:002014-12-02T10:35:13.248-05:00Tackling the 21st-Century Proliferation of Disagreement<div class="p1">
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Where might the conversation go from here, if anywhere? </div>
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Bryan Frances tackles this type of conundrum in <a href="http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745672267" target="_blank"><i>Disagreement</i> (Polity, 2014)</a>, which he describes as an introductory book on a subject that’s drawing heightened interest from philosophers in the Internet age. When everyone has access to the wealth of arguments and counterarguments that can easily be found online, deciding whether, and how, to disagree can be daunting. </div>
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“It is one thing if you can say ‘they don’t have this key piece of evidence I have,’ but that doesn’t happen too often anymore,” said Frances, professor of <a href="http://www.fordham.edu/academics/programs_at_fordham_/philosophy/" target="_blank">philosophy</a>. “No matter what you think, yo</div>
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u can go onto the Internet and find a whole lot of really smart people who disagree with you and have some evidence that goes against yours.<br />
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“So how do you conduct your intellectual life? It’s more pressing now than ever.”</div>
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Among philosophy scholars there hasn’t been much written on disagreement, says Frances, who was approached by the publisher to write the introductory book. The interest in the topic has its roots in philosophers’ increased focus on religious disagreement—most notably in English-speaking countries where mass communication has made global religions, such as Islam, more visible to westerners.</div>
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And while the book offers no hard-and-fast advice, it does come to a conclusion on how to approach highly controversial issues such as capital punishment or the morality of abortion. </div>
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“In many of these instances, we probably would do well to suspend judgment and dig deeper,” said Frances, “even on those issues near and dear to our heart.” </div>
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Frances did not come gently into his philosophical scholarship. Before turning to the humanities, he earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physics with emphasis on quantum theory and relativity theory. </div>
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“Eventually I realized that the questions I wanted to ask about those topics were more philosophical than scientific,” he said.</div>
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Even though disagreement has been around since the beginning of time, Frances said, philosophers have only recently written about it in a “rigorous and thorough way.” In fact, the void of scholarship made writing <i>Disagreement</i> difficult.</div>
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“I’d write an article about this topic and, because there was so little to go on, I’d end up disagreeing with my former self a few years later.”</div>
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America’s failure to commit to Afghanistan and Iraq for the long haul has created an environment in which extremists are once again creating chaos in the countries we sought to liberate from despotic regimes, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told a Fordham University audience this week.</div>
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“When you go in and occupy a country, when you occupy Afghanistan, when you occupy Iraq, you take on a 40- or 50-year responsibility,” said retired Marine Corps Gen. Peter Pace on Nov. 19 following a leadership lecture at the <a href="http://fordham.edu/law" target="_blank">Fordham Law School</a>.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5755963245861968685.post-21778870119765681562014-11-24T09:57:00.003-05:002016-01-08T09:54:57.580-05:00English Faculty Member Finds Closure in Mother’s Last Days <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Angela Alaimo O’Donnell hadn’t planned to write a book about the last days of her mother’s life. </div>
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O’Donnell, associate director of the <a href="http://www.fordham.edu/academics/programs_at_fordham_/francis_and_ann_curr/index.asp" target="_blank">Curran Center for American Catholic Studies </a>and a member of the English & American Catholic Studies faculty, had already turned to poetry—her field of creative expertise—with <i>Waking My Mother</i> (Wordpress, 2013).</div>
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But after an essay that she wrote for <i>Commonweal</i> <i>Magazine</i> received positive feedback, she decided to revisit the topic. The result, <a href="https://www.avemariapress.com/product/1-59471-408-8/Mortal-Blessings/" target="_blank"><i>Mortal Blessings: A Sacramental Farewell</i> </a>(Ave Maria Press, 2014), is equal parts memoir and meditation about the short but intense time when her mother Marion suffered a fall and died 48 days later.</div>
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As she and her sisters tended to her mother in the hospital, O'Donnell began to see connections between the rituals that they practiced every day and the sacraments of her Catholic faith. Going through the motions of helping her mother get around the hospital in her wheelchair, or feeding her a piece of pie, helped ease the trauma, she said--even if the rituals were unspoken at the time.</div>
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“I thought I’d meditate on the nature of sacrament and the ways in which human beings, whether they’re Catholic or not, devise rituals to get through difficult situations,” she said. </div>
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“I’d read a lot about sacramentality, and thought I could incorporate all of these elements theoretically. But I realized as I was writing it that it [needed to be] tied to something concrete. Who cares about something abstract and theoretical when you’re talking about the experience of watching someone die?”</div>
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In addition to the Catholic Churches’ seven sacraments, O’Donnell created her own, such as the “sacrament of the cell phone.” She also sought and received permission from her sisters to reveal details that would not have otherwise been revealed through poetry. Details like the fact that, her mother was not a, shall we say, an easy-going sort. </div>
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“We didn’t see eye to eye with her on anything,” she said. </div>
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“I felt privileged to be back there in these circumstances, where really there was an unspoken forgiveness of all the years of neglect, and the years of being at odds with each other just sort of disappeared.” </div>
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The chapter that she would call “the sacrament of the beauty” was the breakthrough chapter for her. O’Donnell’s mother was devoted to beauty in her own way, and she said she and her sisters did all they could to help her by decorating her hospital room.</div>
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“Saint Augustine was always in my ear at that point—‘Late have I loved you, beauty so old and so new; late have I loved you,’” O’Donnell said.</div>
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Caring for someone who cared for her when she was a child also made O’Donnell realize that the tables could very well be turned later in life. And although her normal response would be to not make herself too much of a burden, she said her mother’s “spunk” made her rethink this attitude. </div>
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“One of her favorite expressions was, ‘I’m the important person here.’ That used to drive us crazy. But when she was sick and really needed help, I admired that she demanded to get attention. She wasn’t just going to lie there and be neglected,” she said.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5755963245861968685.post-45041074174634253502014-11-21T13:24:00.000-05:002014-11-24T09:45:48.813-05:00Lockheed Martin Exec Shares Secrets to Success <br />
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If you want to get a legal job at Lockheed Martin, be prepared to answer some very important interview questions. </div>
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On Nov. 18, Maryanne Lavan, general counsel/senior vice president at the Washington D.C.-based defense contract company and a member of the University's <a href="http://www.fordham.edu/alumni_relations/prescouncil/" target="_blank">President's Council</a>, shed some light on those questions for aspiring lawyers at Fordham Law School. </div>
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-What did you do in the first 90 days of your last job?</div>
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Lavan, who oversees 115 lawyers at a company with 113,000 employees in 70 countries, was there as part of the college’s Business Law Practitioner Series. She emphasized the importance of humility and remembering one’s roots, as one makes the way up the corporate ladder.</div>
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“I’m fortunate to have the career that I’ve have, and I couldn’t have had it without my family and the people who’ve helped me along the way,” she said. “I’d like you to think about this in five, 10, 15 years, and find a way to give back, because there will be people who will help you.”</div>
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She ascended to her current position in 2010 after serving as corporate secretary, and before that, president, internal audit. (She initially lost the position to James Comey, who went on to become head of the FBI. She applied again and got it.) Her job entails everything from mergers and acquisitions, compliance issues such as Sarbanes Oxley, securities filings, employment issues, and intellectual property law, which she said was a growing area. </div>
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She noted that the one major area that Lockheed/Martin does not handle in-house is litigation, because to do it effectively, you have to do it consistently.</div>
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“I feel sometimes like it’s an inch deep and a mile wide. I used to be much more in-depth . . . to know a ton about government contracts . . . a ton about litigation. Now I know a little about everything,” she said. </div>
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Besides humility, other top leadership values included empathy, authenticity, good humor, a can-do attitude, and resiliency. </div>
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In fact, she said she witnessed a perfect example of people who didn’t understand “empathy” when her train broke down en route to New York from Washington D.C that morning, delaying her Fordham talk by 20 minutes.</div>
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“There were people on the train today who were yelling not at the conductor, but at the person who had been serving us food. He had nothing to do with it,” she said.<br />
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“Sometimes as you progress in your career, you’ll see that kind of ethos in people. That’s not how I like to operate.”</div>
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She offered advice for where to seek out employment: Read the annual reports, listen to the earnings calls, and learn all you can about the board of directors at the company you want to work for. </div>
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And when you do get a job and you’re filing papers, check, recheck, and triple-check the filing deadline.</div>
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“I say this to my children. Proof, reproof, proof again, and edit strongly. It’s easy to write a long paper, it’s a lot harder to write a short, concise paper,” she said.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5755963245861968685.post-70661250479655138982014-11-19T12:13:00.000-05:002014-11-19T12:13:29.831-05:00Mary Jo White Honored at Law School Ceremony<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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Securities and Exchange Commission chair Mary Jo White was honored on Tuesday, Nov. 18 with one of Fordham Law School's highest honors, the <a href="http://law.fordham.edu/louis-stein-center-for-law-and-ethics/1953.htm" target="_blank">Fordham-Stein Prize</a>. <br />
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First awarded in 1976, the award is presented annually to a member of the legal profession whose work embodies the highest standards of the legal profession.<br />
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Recipients who are chosen exemplify outstanding professional conduct, promote the advancement of justice, and bring credit to the profession by emphasizing in the public mind the contributions of lawyers to our society and to our democratic system of government.<br />
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White, who was was sworn in as the 31st Chair of the SEC on April 10, 2013, arrived with decades of experience as a federal prosecutor and securities lawyer.<br />
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She served as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1993 to 2002, the First Assistant U.S. Attorney and later Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York from 1990 to 1993, and an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1978 to 1981 and became Chief Appellate Attorney of the Criminal Division.<br />
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Following her service as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Chair White became chair of the litigation department at Debevoise & Plimpton in New York.
Chair White has won numerous awards in recognition of her outstanding work both as a prosecutor and a securities lawyer.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mary Jo White and Fordham Law Dean Michael Martin<br /><b>Photo by Chris Taggart</b></td></tr>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5755963245861968685.post-50852177170018386362014-11-18T16:58:00.002-05:002014-11-18T16:59:14.235-05:00Fordham's Janssen on Educating Entrepreneurs<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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it seems everyone – particularly young people – are clamoring for a shot at
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article in the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Wall Street Journal</i></b></a> touched on the importance of networking
and support systems while downplaying the importance of choice of school and
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">This piqued the interest of <a href="http://business.fordham.edu/faculty/janssen/">Christine Janssen</a>, Ph.D.,
director of the <a href="http://entrepreneurship.gabelliconnect.com/faculty">Entrepreneurial
Program</a> at the <a href="http://www.fordham.edu/academics/colleges__graduate_s/undergraduate_colleg/college_of_business_/index.asp">Gabelli
School of Business</a> and co-director of both Fordham's <a href="http://www.fordham.edu/academics/colleges__graduate_s/undergraduate_colleg/college_of_business_/academics/business_areas_of_study/entrepreneurship.asp">Center
for Entrepreneurship</a> and the Fordham Foundry, a small-business incubator in
the Bronx launched in 2012 in partnership with New York City government
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">“Where you go to school <i>is </i>important. Aspiring
entrepreneurs should choose a school that possesses more than a longstanding
reputation and brand recognition. What can really differentiate one’s
experience and outcome are resources, mentors, and access to non-traditional
learning experiences that the school can offer,” Janssen wrote in her piece, “<b><a href="http://vc-list.com/college-play-role-educating-future-entrepreneurs/">How
Should College Play a Role in Educating Future Entrepreneurs?</a>”<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Janssen also doled out advice for how best to educate for budding and aspiring entrepreneurs:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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evolve from any given major, but I would also propose that students should
be able to customize their educational experience. While there are certain
subjects that all aspiring entrepreneurs should master (accounting,
finance, communications, management and just about anything related to technology),
college can no longer be a one-size-fits-all proposition.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #666666; line-height: 19.5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Do
not ignore grades. A student’s grades don’t necessarily reflect what they
have learned or if what was learned is relevant, but a healthy transcript
still is a reflection of a student’s effort and commitment. I would
certainly select someone with a 4.0 grade point average over a 2.8 GPA any
day to join my startup.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #666666; line-height: 19.5pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Network.
In every core class in my entrepreneurship program, students are REQUIRED
to attend professional networking events – and they may not be
university-sponsored events or events on campus. That’s too easy. My job
is to expose them to the real world and begin building a toolbox of skills
and resources so when they complete my program they will have dozens of
relationships (and potential mentors) established to help them build out
their careers – whether launching a new venture, working at a startup, or
being the innovation catalyst at a larger organization. Pushing students
out of their comfort zones is a one small step for students, one giant
leap for new business creation. <o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Read the <a href="http://vc-list.com/college-play-role-educating-future-entrepreneurs/">rest
of her piece at VC-List</a>, and watch <a href="http://youtu.be/sX4rOOOvaNY">this
video</a> about a couple of young students--two brothers--who created and ran a
boot camp for young teen entrepreneurs, with help from the Fordham Foundry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p><i>--Gina Vergel</i></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5755963245861968685.post-46552456443702592802014-11-18T11:39:00.000-05:002014-11-18T11:42:32.100-05:00A Room with a View (And a History)<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">This fall, three
first-year roommates won the residence hall lottery. Abigail Kedik, Sarah
Kimball, and Leya Maloney, all freshmen in the Class of 2018, were among the
first students to move into the newly renovated Loyola Hall on Fordham’s Rose
Hill campus.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;">Left to right: Abigail Kedik, Sarah Kimball, and Leya Maloney</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">Loyola, a former Jesuit
residence, was converted into a 121-bed freshman residence hall over the last
two years, affording all its incoming students comfortable accommodations, but
the three roommates got a little something extra: room 415, the old quarters of
Fordham’s president, Joseph M. McShane, S.J.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">“I feel really lucky,
when I first found out (on move-in day) that it was Father McShane's old room,”
Abigail Kedik said. “I was so excited, I almost took it as a sign that Despite
the nerves I chose the right school.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Kedik attended
Guilderland High School in her home town of Altamont, N.Y. She plans to major in
Political Science/International Studies with a minor in History or English. “I
absolutely love living in Loyola. Besides the fact that the building is
historic and gorgeous, the Manresa community is wonderful,” she said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Father McShane lived in
room 415 from 1992 to 1996, when he was dean of Fordham College at Rose Hill
(he lived in Spellman Hall for the last two years of his tenure as dean, after
the Jesuit community active in the University moved to Spellman). Father
McShane extolled the room’s virtues when he met its new occupants at <a href="http://www.fordham.edu/Campus_Resources/enewsroom/topstories_3268.asp" target="_blank">Move In</a>
this fall.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">“The commute could not be
beat!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just had to run down the stairs
right outside my room and could be in my office in about five minutes,” Father McShane said. “One oddity of the room: I was awakened every morning at around 5 when
the steam heat started up and the pipes banged to beat the band.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">“When I first saw how
gorgeous Loyola is and the spacious room I would be living in, I was so
grateful,” Leyla Maloney said. “I realized how lucky I was just to be in a
newly renovated building, living with a close knit community, with Father Phil
and the other RA’s and RD Alex, and most of all being a Manresa Scholar.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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from Westchester, N.Y., and attended Somers High School in Lincolndale. She
said Fordham exceeded her expectations. “My roommates are my two closest
friends, my entire residence hall is a close-knit community, and my Professors
are really devoted to their profession and their students.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Sarah Kimball is from Simsbury,
Conn., and attended Simsbury High School. She said she has already seen I’ve
already seen eight plays and musicals since coming to New York, and has been to
many different parts of the city so far. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">“I am so thankful to
everyone who has helped me get here,” Kimball said. “Being in room 415 is
particularly special to us because it was Father McShane’s room... Living in
Loyola Hall is absolutely wonderful and I will be so sad when I have to move
out at the end of the year!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Jesuits called Loyola
Hall home from 1928 to 2012, when the University purchased the building from
the Society of Jesus, as it was making a transition to smaller Jesuit
communities. In addition to students, the refurbished Loyola houses the
residential life office, social and study lounges, a chapel, two Integrated
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Fordham is doing its job wrong if we are the same people at graduation day that
we were on the first day of school,” Kimball said. “Thanks to Fordham, I have
already noticed myself changing into the person I want to become.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Just as the football team was taking the Patriot League Title and the women’s basketball is gearing up for what is sure to be yet another winning season, the <a href="http://www.fordham.edu/student_affairs/student_leadership__/club_sports/sailing/">Fordham Rams Sailing Team</a> was ranked among the top 10 in a coaches' poll taken by <i>Sailing World Magazine</i>.<br />
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With little of the fanfare rightfully accorded to the University’s varsity teams, Fordham Sailing is a club team that has quietly been improving since it was reintroduced to the University after a 27-year hiatus. <br />
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Breaking the Top 10 ranking of the Intercollegiate Sailing Association of North America (ICSA) is a first for the team. It's No. 7 position of the ICSA's 230 varsity and club coed teams is made all the sweeter in that it also makes Fordham the No. 1 ranking among the 194 club teams. In addition, the team bested several nautical colleges, including U.S. Naval Academy, SUNY Maritime, and the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.<br />
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Club director Joe Sullivan, FCRH ‘58, said that he and several other alumni had been scouring the country to recruit students with a sailing background. The results are a diverse group of men and women from around the country.<br />
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Sullivan said the team was founded in 1950, became varsity in 1955, and continued through 1971 before being dropped. In 1999 Sullivan and his fellow alumni went to then athletic director Frank McLaughlin with a proposal to start up the team again. With McLaughlin's blessing the team signed 102 players, 29 of whom had sailing experience, and seven of whom would go on to build the beginnings of today’s winning team. <br />
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Today the club is a member of the Middle Atlantic Intercollegiate Sailing Association (MAISA), one of seven regional conferences of ICSA. The team operates out of the Morris Yacht Club on City Island.<br />
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For several years Sullivan pitched in with coaching, together with former Head Coach Reed Johnson, but happily ceded his position this past June to current Head Coach Johnnny Norfleet after a three-person search committee helped snag Norfleet from the University of Pennsylvania. Johnson recruited most of the current roster that Norfleet took to the top ten.<br />
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"Johnny was the unanimous choice," said Sullivan.<br />
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Sullivan said that from the standpoint of “men and women for others” the team has raised funds for the Children's Tumor Foundation and pitched in with clean-up on City Island after Hurricane Sandy.<br />
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“The admissions office is happy because our kids come from all over the country, their geographical diversity is superb,” he said. “And they’re great students, I'll bet we've got the highest GPA of any team on campus."<br />
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Here’s how the rankings played out:<br />
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1. Yale<br />
2. Georgetown<br />
3. Boston College<br />
4. Charleston<br />
5. Tufts<br />
6. Dartmouth<br />
7. FORDHAM<br />
8. Roger Williams<br />
9. Harvard<br />
10. Stanford<br />
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Here's the <a href="http://www.sailingworld.com/sailing-world-college-rankings-november-5th-2014">article</a>:<br />
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On Nov. 5, Fordham students making their way to club
meetings, the cafeteria, or another destination at the McGinley Center stopped
to write quick notes of gratitude to those alumni who’ve given back to Fordham.</div>
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The annual Thank-a-Thon, which was begun by the Office of
Development and University Relations and is now in its third year, attracted
students like Lexi McCauley, a sophomore at the Gabelli School of Business, who along with other students shared her thoughts on a note card that will be mailed to a contributor to the
<a href="http://www.fordham.edu/give_to_fordham/fordham_fund" target="_blank">Fordham Fund</a>.
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The fund aims to raise $10 million of unrestricted support annually to provide
students with scholarships, career services and improved facilities and
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“It’s really important because there are a lot of people
that don’t have the opportunity financially to go to Fordham,” she said. “I’m
grateful to be able to come here, and there are many others who are also
grateful [and] need help financially.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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gratitude to those who helped make Fordham’s $540 million capital campaign <a href="http://www.fordham.edu/Campus_Resources/enewsroom/topstories_3157.asp" target="_blank">Excelsior | Ever Upward | The Campaign for Fordham</a>, a resounding success. This year’s event, which took place over four
days at the Rose Hill and Lincoln Center campuses, garnered 661 cards from
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Nick Monteleone, associate director of donor relations, who along
with <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Kristina
Dzwonczyk, director of donor relations, </span>helped solicit the students,
said the<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span>Thank-a-Thon
was launched to highlight the importance of unrestricted annual support, and to
give students a direct voice to the donors who have played such an important
role in their educations. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“The response we’ve had from the student body over the past
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“They’re eager to stop, to say ‘thank
you,’ to share their gratitude, and often, their personal stories through a
note for our Fordham Fund donors.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Martine De Matteo, a freshman at Fordham College at Rose
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“I really appreciate all the help we can get for the
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For the fifth consecutive year, Fordham has made <i>Military Times</i> magazine’s annual “Best for Vets” list of the top colleges and universities for service members, military veterans, and their families.</div>
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Fordham has been ranked regularly on the list, thanks to the diverse and comprehensive programs provided by the <a href="http://www.fordham.edu/academics/veterans_initiative/" target="_blank">FordhamVets Initiative</a> — which helps veterans transition from the military to college life — and to the financial support the school provides through <a href="http://www.fordham.edu/Campus_Resources/enewsroom/topstories_2464.asp" target="_blank">the Yellow Ribbon Program</a>.</div>
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One program that has been particular helpful to Fordham veterans is the <a href="http://www.veteranswritingworkshop.org/" target="_blank">Veterans Writing Workshop</a>, which has been held at Fordham’s Westchester campus since 2010 and recently expanded to the Lincoln Center campus. The workshops are held three times per year at both campuses.</div>
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Veterans meet weekly to learn about and practice the craft of writing and to receive feedback and support from their peers. The workshop is “intensive and creative,” said founder and instructor David Surface, and functions primarily as a writing class rather than as a support group or a therapy session. Even so, it’s difficult to separate the therapeutic value of such a group from its artistic value.</div>
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“Writing can be healing,” Surface said. “When you write about your experiences, particularly in a serious, intensive, craft-based way, there’s something that happens that doesn’t happen in a therapy session or support group. It has to do with taking mastery of your experience, or taking control of your experience in a way.”</div>
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The veterans are not required to write specifically about their experience at war because not all of them are ready to put their trauma into words, Surface said. Instead, they write about whatever inspires them in the moment, whether it’s a memory from the battlefield or a hike with family.</div>
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At the conclusion of the workshop, the veterans’ writings are published as an anthology, which the veterans share in public readings and events. In addition to preserving and celebrating their writing, Surface said, the book helps to raise awareness about veterans’ experiences by hearing it in the service members’ own words. This year’s book, <i><a href="http://www.veteranswritingworkshop.org/vwwpages/booksale.html" target="_blank">Afterwords: Looking Back</a></i>, marks the 15th edition of the publication.</div>
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The Veterans Writing Workshop was developed in 2010 through collaboration between Arts Westchester (formerly the County Arts Council), the Hudson Valley Writers Center, and <a href="http://www.fordham.edu/academics/westchester/" target="_blank">Fordham University Westchester</a> as part of the National Endowment for the Arts’ <i>The Big Read</i> Program. Free of charge, the workshop series is open to veterans from every conflict.</div>
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Often, Surface said, a workshop will find veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan sitting side by side with veterans from Korea, Vietnam, and even World War II.</div>
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“They talk about their stories, about their feelings,” he said. “There is a comradeship that forms.”</div>
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Over and over again he has seen the veterans draw on that natural bond to help each other not only with their writing, but also with the struggles they face in the aftermath of war. He recalled an instance when one veteran decided to write about an event that had triggered a severe post-traumatic stress disorder. When the writing process became distressing for him, another veteran in the workshop offered support.</div>
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“He just sat with him while he wrote the story,” Surface said. “They help each other through these experiences.”</div>
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In addition to continuing the workshops at Fordham’s Westchester and Lincoln Center campuses, Surface will be running a Women’s Veterans Writing Workshop starting this spring at Arts Westchester. And in February, a Families of Veterans Writing Workshop will begin at Fordham Westchester for friends, family members, and supporters of military personnel.</div>
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“What I hope they learn is that their own experiences — their own memories, feelings, and thoughts — are valid,” Surface said. “They don’t need to look outside of themselves for material to write about. I just try to give them skills and tools to do that.”</div>
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Those of us who work in the Bronx already know a well-kept secret: there are plenty of great eats to be found right here in the Rose Hill campus' borough. And over the next week, the fourth annual <a href="http://www.ilovethebronx.com/index.php/events/savor-the-bronx">Bronx Restaurant Week</a> offers good deals as well.<br />
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MARK NAISON, professor of history: <br />
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<a href="http://www.piopio.com/">Pio Pio</a> - Great peruvian restaurant on 139th St. and Cypress Ave.<br />
<a href="http://www.originalcrabshanty.com/">Crab Shanty</a> on City Island. Great lunch special!<br />
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/05/dining/reviews/neerob-in-the-bronx-nyc-restaurant-review.html">Neerob</a>, a South Asian Restaurant near Parkchester.<br />
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PATRICK RYAN, S.J., Avery Dulles Professor of Theology:<br />
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GEORGE EVANS, director of technical operations for WFUV Public Radio:<br />
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<a href="http://www.tinosdeli.com/">Tino's Delicatessen</a> on Arthur Avenue.<br />
<a href="http://www.roberto089.com/">Roberto's</a> or <a href="http://www.roberto089.com/">Zero Otto Nove</a> for fancier Italian/American dishes.<br />
Something I've grown up eating since I was a little boy is the round Italian bread from <a href="http://www.terranovabakery.com/">Terranova Bakery</a>.<br />
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Savor the Bronx is underway and lasts through November 14. For more information, go to <a href="http://www.savorthebronx.com/">www.savorthebronx.com</a>.<br />
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On Nov. 5, Fordham sponsored its first Common Good Internship Fair at the Rose Hill campus, bringing in recruiters not from for-profit corporations but from nonprofits, education, healthcare, government, post-grad service, and social enterprising industries.<br />
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“At most career fairs the nonprofits are shoved in the corner,” said Greg Mason, FCRH ’05.<br />
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Mason was back at his alma mater to recruit Fordham talent for Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He said that it was unique to see the nonprofits being separated out from the financial and marketing firms that usually dominate career fairs.<br />
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“It’s not surprising that Fordham would have a career fair like this, but it is surprising that it’s the first one,” said senior Rachel Nass, a sociology major looking for a job that would include doing work for for social justice.<br />
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Indeed, many of the students and recruiters found the event to be a tangible example of “<a href="http://www.fordham.edu/mission/mission_and_ministry/living_the_mission/" target="_blank">Living the Mission</a>” campaign adopted by University Mission and Ministry, which co-sponsored the event through the <a href="http://www.fordham.edu/mission/mission_and_ministry/dorothy_day_center_f/index.asp" target="_blank">Dorothy Day Center for Service and Justice</a>. Together with Fordham's <a href="http://www.fordham.edu/campus_resources/student_services/career_services/" target="_blank">Career Services</a>, the center was able to keep the costs of participating at minimum in order to encourage cash-strapped nonprofits to participate. Among those who were able to attend were East Harlem Tutorial Program, LAMP Ministries, Global Citizen, and the Fresh Air Fund.<br />
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Career services’ employee relations specialist Christie Welch said that while the career fair didn’t command the attendance numbers of a general fair, recruiters had great feedback about those who did attend, calling them “superb” students who “really knew what they were talking about.”<br />
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Fordham College at Rose Hill senior Frank Shaparro, an economics major with a theology minor, fit the profile of a Fordham professional with a concern for the common good.<br />
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“I’m interested in how our Christian ideals work their way in to the way we organize our economy,” said Shaparro. “So this is great because it provides both opportunities--you can apply to the nonprofits and some private-side initiatives.”<br />
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Donna Smith, senior recruiter at YAI, an agency that services intellectual and developmentally disabled adults, said that she found the fair heartening on a personal level.<br />
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“I was pleasantly surprised to come to a fair that targets human services, because it’s so needed,” she said. “It really speaks to people who do passion work and it reinforces for me why I do the work I do.”<br />
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If one or all facets of this thoughts-feelings-behavior triangle become dysfunctional, though, life can fairly quickly turn chaotic. Luckily, therapeutic techniques such as cognitive behavioral therapy help restore our inner life to harmony and break the cycle of disorder.</div>
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The book features writings from leading psychologists on the role of emotion in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), a psychotherapy that focuses on the relationships between thoughts, behaviors, and feelings. This short-term, goal-oriented, and empirically validated treatment aims to change a client’s problematic behaviors and thinking patterns, which thereby improve how the client feels. It has proven to be effective for a range of psychopathologies, including depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder.</div>
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“Clients often seek treatment due to a range of emotional struggles, ones that might linger after successful treatment for behavioral problems and [improving] patterns of thinking,” said McKay, who <a href="http://www.fordham.edu/academics/programs_at_fordham_/psychology_departmen/people/faculty/dean_mckay/coap_graduate_resear/" target="_blank">specializes in treating people with anxiety disorders</a>. “While emotion has never been neglected in CBT, the emphasis on emotional processes has not been as high as it is for the other two domains.”</div>
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“CBT has long emphasized behaviors and thoughts (or cognitions) as centrally important in psychopathology,” McKay said. “But [we] developed the book in an effort to fill an important gap in the available sources for clinicians.”</div>
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Few symbols of the Cold War are as potent as the Berlin Wall, which was brought down in a raucous and chaotic celebration 25 years ago, Nov. 9, 1989.</div>
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Like the Cold War, the wall, which severed Germany’s capital in half and was the site of an estimated 136 deaths, is in many ways a distant memory. But sections of it survive, including a 0.8-mile-long section known as the East Side Gallery. </div>
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It features 105 paintings on the east side by artists from all over the world that were painted in 1990 as a memorial for freedom.</div>
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In 2012, students in the Department of Modern Languages visited Berlin to do a study tour, “Berlin Tales—Observation.” Fordham College at Rose Hill senior Kingsley Lasbrey’s project for the class, “Representations of Post-war Identity Through Art and Graffiti,” included a series of photos of the wall’s remains—now a worldwide symbol of freedom over tyranny.</div>
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Lasbrey said that when he first saw the wall it was “Like seeing history before me that I’d seen only in books.”</div>
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“I could see the impact it must have had on the people behind it, and you can see the remnants of the ‘death strip’ where they [used to] monitor East Berliners trying to escape over the wall.”</div>
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Rosemary Wakeman, Ph.D., professor of history, head of Fordham’s Urban Studies program, visits the city often, as the program does partnerships with several universities there. She said the wall is one of several “sites for memory” for Berliners, who have wrestled for years with questions of how much to preserve. Portions of it are crumbling, and last year, a section was briefly removed to make way for construction of condominiums. </div>
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“There’s a deep interest in preserving that history of the Cold War and a divided Berlin, and a tremendous battle over the memory of that epic, and what deserves to be saved and what does not,” she said. </div>
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“It implicates the Berlin Wall, and it also implicates Communist institutions of one kind or the next that represent very different things for different people.</div>
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She noted that even though Berlin was reunified a quarter century ago, the process of reknitting the metropolis together is still continuing. Even without a physical barrier, for instance, many East Berliners still feel very much like second-class citizens. </div>
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“The whole episode of the city’s division is still very much a living memory, and a very emotional realization of life that people are trying to live with,” she said.</div>
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And while plenty of historical sites have been preserved in West Berlin, landmarks that were constructed by the former Communist regime have not fared so well. </div>
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“Memories of the Second World War, whether it’s the Nazi regime or the bombing by the allies, or the Holocaust, are there, tend to be in West Berlin, whereas the question of what to preserve about the Communist period in East Berlin is not so easy. A lot of things have just been cast aside as not worthy of preservation,” she said. </div>
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“It was something to be feared, not to go near. Now it is all about peace, freedom, love, and unity,” he said.</div>
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“I think those people who weren’t around 25 years ago can still get a sense for what the wall was back then, so it’s a reminder of where we came from. But it is about where we want to go. We don’t want to repeat the past. Its fall proves we had the hope and energy to reinvent ourselves and move forward.” </div>
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As a social worker at New Alternatives For Children in Manhattan, she helps kids who have severe physical, emotional, and behavioral challenges and developmental disabilities. They come from all five boroughs of New York City, and many of them live at the poverty level, Whitlock says. She connects them with a range of health and social services, helping them find the support they need to remain at home with their family or, in some cases, find an adoptive family.<br />
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“I really love [working in] child welfare,” she says. “I think the biggest impact a social worker can make is with a child, before other outside factors come in. Nothing will keep you more grounded.”<br />
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Whitlock’s path to social work was one lined with detours and transformative experiences. A native of Cheshire, Connecticut, she dreamed of becoming an artist. At Roger Williams University, she majored in visual arts, later adding minors in marine biology and sociology. “I was totally lost,” she says. “I wanted to do everything.” <br />
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After graduating in 2003, she moved to Washington, D.C., where she worked as a paralegal at a law firm, conducting research on low-income housing policy. Three years later, she left for New York City to take a job at the Nonprofit Finance Fund, analyzing social impact data and reviewing loans for nonprofit clients. She also would be close to her younger brother, Mark, who was living in the city while attending Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.<br />
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Whitlock shared an apartment with her brother and supported him while he was undergoing treatments. After 18 months battling the disease, Mark passed away on May 19, 2010, two weeks before his law school graduation day.<br />
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“I had an awesome journey with him,” says Whitlock, who is an active volunteer with the National Brain Tumor Society. “Something happened to me while he was sick. That experience, I couldn’t go back to my office job. I wanted to do something more meaningful.” <br />
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She enrolled in Fordham’s Graduate School of Social Service (GSS) and found an immediate camaraderie with her fellow students. Like her, she says, they all had a significant reason for wanting to be a social worker. In the MSW program, she studied leadership and macro policy, and completed internships at the Brooklyn Family Defense Project and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center.<br />
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“Sarah’s leadership skills were clearly evident” early on, says Susan Egan, Ph.D., associate dean for student services and administration. During the first half of the MSW program, Whitlock spoke with Egan about the need for a formal mentoring program. She and her fellow students recruited volunteers, implemented a training system, and began mentoring incoming students, Egan says. “In turn the mentees become mentors and the program continues to have success.” </div>
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With the support of Whitlock’s peers, Fordham faculty and administrators selected her to speak at the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cET1H48pgU" target="_blank">GSS diploma ceremony</a> at Avery Fisher Hall on May 20, 2013. </div>
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It was an especially poignant day for Whitlock, as three years prior, on the same stage, she had accepted Mark’s posthumously awarded J.D. diploma.<br />
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“Today I want to remind you of why it was that you decided to become a social worker and urge you to never forget that reason,” she told her fellow classmates. “Never lose site of your own personal mission. You are here to change the world in whatever way means the most to you, and I know you can do it. You already have.”<br />
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Whitlock says she “loved every second of being at GSS,” and she’s staying connected to the school and her peers through the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/FordhamSW13" target="_blank">Fordham Social Workers Group</a>, which she formed before graduating. The group, led by Whitlock with a committee of five other 2013 graduates, hosts picnics, support group meetings, training sessions, and happy hours for all GSS alumni. <br />
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“I didn’t connect so much to my [undergraduate] college experience because I wasn’t connected to what I was studying. But choosing my master’s program, I was committed to it,” Whitlock says. “It was so meaningful.”<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5755963245861968685.post-52148542178028378422014-11-05T10:26:00.000-05:002014-11-05T10:26:51.698-05:00“Science, Philosophy, and Religion” Lecture to Explore “What is Wisdom?”<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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What makes a person wise? Is wisdom different than intelligence? Is God the only one that can be called “wise”?</div>
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<a href="http://faculty.fordham.edu/sgrimm/Site/Home.html" target="_blank">Stephen Grimm</a>, Ph.D., as associate professor of <a href="http://www.fordham.edu/academics/programs_at_fordham_/philosophy/" target="_blank">philosophy</a>, will take up the topic of wisdom for the next installment of Fordham University’s <a href="http://www.fordham.edu/Campus_Resources/eNewsroom/topstories_2400.asp" target="_blank">John C. and Jeanette D. Walton Lecture in Science, Philosophy, and Religion</a>.</div>
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<b>“What is Wisdom?”</b></div>
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<b>Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014</b></div>
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<b>6:30 p.m.</b></div>
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<b>12th-floor Lounge / Corrigan Conference Center</b></div>
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Grimm, a philosopher who specializes in epistemology, is the recipient of a <a href="http://www.fordham.edu/campus_resources/enewsroom/archives/archive_3218.asp" target="_blank">$4.2 million John Templeton Foundation grant</a> — the largest award Fordham has ever received in the humanities. The grant funds Grimm’s interdisciplinary project, “Varieties of Understanding: New Perspectives from Psychology, Philosophy, and Theology,” a three-year initiative that sponsors research into the many ways in which human beings understand the world.</div>
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“As human beings, we have a natural desire to understand the world and our place within it… But what exactly is understanding?” said Grimm.</div>
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We know generally what understanding is, he said; namely, it is a higher-order cognitive capacity that falls within the broader category of knowledge. To put this in practical terms, the person who has knowledge of a thing might possess a collection of facts about that thing, but the person who understands it is able to also see how these facts relate to one another and to the larger picture.</div>
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Wisdom, though, is another category altogether. In <a href="http://www.alumni.fordham.edu/calendar/detail.aspx?ID=3798" target="_blank">the Walton lecture</a>, Grimm will explore questions surrounding this topic, which was favored by ancient and medieval philosophers, yet has been given relatively little attention by contemporary thinkers.</div>
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The Walton lectures and workshops features scholars of the highest caliber on topics at the intersection of science, philosophy, and theology. Upcoming events will cover current research on how consciousness and free will relate to the brain, the role of science in contemporary society, and more.</div>
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For more information, contact the Office of Special Events <a href="mailto:specialevnts@fordham.edu" target="_blank">by email</a> or at (212) 636-6575.</div>
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<i>— Joanna K. Mercuri</i></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5755963245861968685.post-91471228028664885532014-11-03T11:05:00.000-05:002014-11-03T11:20:59.199-05:00Dr. Kevin Cahill Honored with Ireland's Distinguished Service Award<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Kevin M. Cahill, M.D., University Professor and founder of Fordham's <a href="http://www.fordham.edu/academics/programs_at_fordham_/international_humani/index.asp" target="_blank">Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs</a>, was recognized on Oct. 30 by the government of Ireland for his tremendous work in peace, reconciliation, and development. </div>
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In a ceremony in Dublin, Dr. Cahill was presented with the 2014 Presidential Distinguished Service Award by Ireland's President, Michael D. Higgins. Actress Fionnula Flanagan, top EU civil servant Catherine Day, Australian author Thomas Keneally, and Irish-American activist and newspaper publisher Niall O’Dowd were amongst those who were also honored.</div>
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The award is given to individuals living outside of Ireland who have made great contributions to Ireland, Irish communities abroad, as well as Ireland's international reputation. Dr. Cahill also serves as the president of the Center for International Humanitarian Cooperation, a nongovernmental organization that promotes healing and peace in nations shattered by national disasters, armed conflicts, or other violence. </div>
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Congratulations, Dr. Cahill!</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5755963245861968685.post-6216249016892824152014-10-31T13:31:00.000-04:002014-10-31T14:51:26.900-04:00Halloween Parade Brings Little Ghosts, Goblins, to Rose HillEdwards' Parade played host on Saturday, Oct. 25 to a parade of children decked out in costumes as ninjas, knights, zombies, super heroes, and princesses.<br />
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The march around Edwards Parade and party that followed at O'Keefe Commons was sponsored by the <a href="http://www.fordham.edu/campus_resources/administrative_offic/fordham_university_a/" target="_blank">Fordham University Association,</a> which puts on events throughout the year for members of the faculty, staff and administration. There was a photo-op for all little goblins, fairy princesses, witches, and more in front of a haunted house backdrop.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5755963245861968685.post-67006268029015384102014-10-29T14:55:00.001-04:002014-10-29T15:07:47.882-04:00Beinecke Scholarship Winner Honored <div class="p1">
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The scholarship includes $30,000 for studies at a yet-to-be-determined graduate school and another $4,000 to cover the cost of applications.</div>
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“One of the nice things about doing this is you work with really quality people. I’m sure that wherever Nicholas is accepted, he will find that he’ll do well,” he said.</div>
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Oktaba said the scholarship commitment was of “existential importance” to the liberal arts. He thanked Parkinson for supporting his plan to study how ancient people’s social construction of painful questions of identity had an impact on life in late antiquity. </div>
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Today, Oct. 29, marks the two-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy’s widespread devastation in New York and New Jersey. For weeks on end during late 2012, the spring of 2013, and the 2013-14 academic year, students led by Fordham’s Campus Ministry office joined with Habitat for Humanity-Westchester for weekly <a href="http://www.fordham.edu/campus_resources/enewsroom/archives/archive_2657.asp" target="_blank">Sandy Saturdays</a>, to help clear and rebuild neighborhoods in the Far Rockaways and Breezy Point areas.</div>
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Next weekend on <b>Nov. 8</b>, a Fordham contingent will return to the Rockaways with Habitat to do another Sandy Saturday.</div>
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“We have a number of student leader groups co-sponsoring this,” said Gil Severiano, administrative assistant in Campus Ministry. “Including the Pedro Arrupe Faith and Justice Community, the retreat leaders, the Interfaith Council, Global Outreach, and the Dorothy Day Service and Justice leaders.”</div>
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Severiano said that Campus Ministry recently did a Sunday alms collection to go toward the Sandy Saturday and received $850, which will help pay for Habitat supervisors needed to oversee the day’s construction. The Ram Van office has donated three ram vans to drive volunteers to the site, and Campus Ministry will fund food and other supplies. </div>
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Unfortunately, she said, the <a href="http://www.fordham.edu/campus_resources/enewsroom/archives/archive_2615.asp" target="_blank">Sandy Relief Fund</a> that the University had collected is depleted.</div>
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So far, 45 students and chaperones are signed up to go.</div>
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“We will be working on four houses in Breezy Point that are in the finishing stages, painting and sheetrocking,” she said. “So hopefully we are getting some folks home for the holidays!”</div>
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When Jessica Berman, LAW ’02, takes her first step across the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge on this Sunday, Nov. 2, it will be the second time she’s embarked on the 26.2-mile <a href="http://www.tcsnycmarathon.org/" target="_blank">New York City marathon</a>.</div>
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But it will be the first time she’s running the race for two.</div>
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Berman, a Larchmont resident, is running as part of a 13-member <a href="http://www.run4brad.com/" target="_blank">“Run 4 Brad”</a> team that has so far raised $70,000 for the creation of a lower limb robotics program at Burke Rehabilitation Center in White Plains, NY. </div>
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The money is being raised in honor of her husband Brad, 37, who suffered a massive stroke last August that left him comatose for weeks and unable to walk for several months.</div>
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Berman is spearheading the drive both to help fund the robotics program and to spread the word about staying fit—a major factor in Brad’s recovery from AVM (arteriovenous malformation), a congenital malformation of blood vessels that led to his stroke. </div>
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The fact that her husband had previously run several marathons made a big difference toward his success in relearning how to breathe, walk, and talk, said Berman.</div>
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“If, God forbid, anything like this ever happens, you want your body to be in the best position to be able to recover, and the [doctors] felt Brad had done that,” said Berman, who is vice president and deputy general counsel for the National Hockey League (NHL).</div>
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“No matter what, it’s one foot after another. The running analogy has gotten us through this in a very real way, because that’s what you do as a runner.”</div>
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Running brought the couple together when they were first dating. It also provided an outlet for Berman when the stress of Brad’s hospitalization overwhelmed her. </div>
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While he lay in a coma for five weeks, she ducked out of the hospital and ran as long as she could before tiring, a coping practice that earned her the nickname “Forest Gump” from the hospital staff. </div>
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In a way, she began her marathon training then.</div>
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“I love the values that running can teach you. It’s a goal-oriented individual sport that truly tests your will and your strength,” she said. </div>
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Raising funds and training for the race, which she hopes to finish in less than four hours, has added to an already full plate for Berman, who also has two sons. She thrives on activity though: At <a href="http://law.fordham.edu/" target="_blank">Fordham Law </a>School she organized the annual sports law forum, and was hired upon graduation by the firm Proskauer Rose LLP, which represented the NHL. </div>
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The NHL hired her in 2006. It was a dream job for Berman—a longtime hockey fan who managed the men’s hockey team while a student at the University of Michigan. In January 2013, she helped the league broker a 10-year labor agreement with the NHL player’s association. </div>
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“We have the benefit of being leanly staffed, so in addition to being really busy I get to work on things that I wouldn’t have the chance to work on at other organizations —and certainly not other sports leagues, in terms of the responsibility,” she said. “Most of my friends who work in-house are in departments where workloads are assigned by subject matter. You’re in a litigation group or a labor group or a corporate group, and you just do that.”</div>
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She holds firm to the idea that the busier you are, the more efficient you are; she said she has no plans to slow down until Brad is back on his feet and the family has returned to a degree of normalcy. </div>
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Ironically, however, he ended up enjoying it more than she did. He continued to run full marathons, while she stepped-down to running half-marathons.</div>
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“When we did the marathon 10 years ago, Brad got me through the race. Brad has always been my rock, the person who keeps me on track,” she said.</div>
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Morgan Powell’s book collection arrived at the Fordham University Archives this morning, buttressing the late historian’s already substantial contribution to the <a href="http://www.fordham.edu/academics/programs_at_fordham_/bronx_african_americ/" target="_blank">Bronx African American History Project</a>.<br />
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Much to the surprise of University Archivist Patrice Kane, Powell donated a significant portion of <a href="http://fordham.libguides.com/content.php?hs=a&pid=610372" target="_blank">his archives</a> late last year. The archives were chock-full of research in his two primary interests: African American history and local ecology.<br />
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“We don’t usually get archives donated from someone so young,” said Kane, leafing through one of Powell’s meticulously annotated binders. “But he definitely understood archival standards.”<br />
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Much of the material donated is not necessarily from an original source, but the thousands of copies of receipts, photos, maps, articles, and even an undertaker’s notice with a Post-it marked “traces of slavery,” represent an amalgamation of disparate sources pulled together for the free tours he gave to Bronx residents. Powell never charged for the tours.<br />
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“He knew that the Bronx was the poorest borough in the city and people wouldn’t be able to come if he charged,” said Mark Naison, Ph.D., professor of African and African American Studies. “He understood the people very well and that’s why he’s revered.”<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Powell's archives include the undertaker's notice of the"faithful servant" whose grave sits beside Augustus Zerega.</td></tr>
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Some of the notes are pretty straightforward, but others include detailed stage directions for the tour guide, like this instruction for the Bronx Zoo: “discuss on lowest grade near waterfall so that the echo of the presenter’s voice bounces off the retaining wall immediately behind tour-goers.” Then there are investigative notes, like this one: “Connect the dots. The Bronx was part of Lower Westchester during every census conducted during the slavery epoch so there is a way to find out where our ancestors worked and in whose bondage. 8.29.2010 M.P.”<br />
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“Not everyone thought of linking African American history to the rivers, waterways, and parks,” said Naison. “The tours he led were totally original. I’ve never known an independent scholar that created as much excitement as Morgan Powell.”<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An unidentified photo.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Powell's archive includes recent history.</td></tr>
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<i>— Tom Stoelker</i></div>
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