Why can’t there be a few more slow days on Eddie’s, lazily basking in the afternoon sun to the distant sound of balls thwacking off of spikeball nets? Where is the extra time to sit hungover in the cafeteria at noon on a Sunday, complaining about the dining hall food and going over the sordid details of the previous night? 

The ceremony will honor Butts’ return to Fordham, as he has previously taught Black church history as an adjunct professor and returned in the spring 2022 semester as a distinguished visiting professor teaching in the Educational Leadership, Administration and Policy Division in the Graduate School of Education.

The Fordham Ram has covered events both big and small at Fordham over the past four years. Reflect on the good and the bad with this selection of notable headlines.

Throughout the week of May 2-6, the Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) and Office of the Chief Diversity Officer partnered to host five Diversity Graduation Celebrations. Each graduation celebration focused on a specific identity in order to celebrate the accomplishments of certain groups of Fordham students.

In following tradition, we wanted to address our peers in the Class of 2022 one last time as the outgoing Executive President and Vice President of United Student Government (USG) and offer a few brief reflections in this commencement edition of the Ram.

What could have been an opportunity for me to complain about how an economics major didn’t need any “fine arts” or “ethics” to slow me down, turned into an opportunity to learn more about what’s important to me, and what kind of person I wanted to be moving forward.

On April 28, a ceremony was held in front of the new campus center to officially dedicate the building to Rev. Joseph M. McShane, S.J., president of the university. The new McShane Campus Center was officially opened in fall 2021 and represents the first completed part of the McGinley Student Center renovation. 

On April 23, Fordham Club hosted their annual Bronx Celebration Day — an event filled with local vendors and performers with the goal of showcasing the best of the Bronx.

A recent study of mental health among Fordham’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) student population categorized 71% of the student population as depressed and only 27% as satisfied with their life. The number was even higher in Ph.D. candidates with 85% scoring as depressed, 53% scored as having some sort of anxiety disorder and only 18% scoring as satisfied with their lives. It was also found that students who identify with the LGBTQ+ community or as having a disability had a higher than average rate of scoring as depressed at 84% and 85%, respectively.

Lauren Staiger, FCRH ’22, is currently working on a pilot study for conservation efforts to learn how sea turtles react to global warming. “An interesting thing about...