On Feb. 7, President Tania Tetlow officially refused to recognize the Fordham Resident Assistants union (FRA) after a petition for voluntary recognition from the university was delivered to the president’s office on Feb. 1. Alongside the petition’s delivery, the union also published a press release announcing its formation as a union under the Office and Professional Employees International Union, Local 153 (OPEIU-153).

ChatGPT is an AI-powered chatbot that generates responses in seconds based on prompts. Although it is relatively new, users have begun using the chatbot for a variety of purposes such generating poems, emails and writing essays. ChatGPT has raised concerns among academics who fear that students will try to pass off ChatGPT’s work as their own.

With February marking the start of Black History Month, Fordham’s Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) is hosting a series of events to celebrate the often overlooked accomplishments of Black Americans. The events are set to take place throughout the month of February at both the Lincoln Center and Rose Hill campuses.

On Feb. 2, Fordham Faculty Union (FFU) officially voted 200-6 to ratify their tentative agreement (TA) with the university, effectively avoiding a labor strike. 

On Jan. 25, a panel was held at Fordham University’s campus at Lincoln Center about religious life in an authoritarian China and if citizens can freely practice their faiths under an authoritarian regime. The panel was held by Ian Johnson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author who focuses on the topics of civil religion and civil society.

The Serving the City Internship program connects Fordham students with New York organizations and provides students with a network of professional contacts and paid internships. The program promotes paid student involvement with nonprofit organizations and focuses on inspiring Fordham students to embrace professions in culture and the arts.

On Jan. 26, 2023, McNally Amphitheatre was packed with an audience filling almost every seat to witness a panel being held in regards to the Holocaust. The panel was moderated by Fred de Sam Lazaro and Peter Osnos.

Fordham recently launched the Fordham Hub, a website that “connects students with a variety of campus resources, including Academic Advising, Class Deans, Career Advising and more.” Currently, multiple Fordham groups are using the site for their academic advising, including Fordham College at Rose Hill, Lincoln Center, the Gabelli School of Business and the School of Professional and Continuing Studies.

On Thursday, Jan. 26, the Fordham Rose Hill Student Government (USG) met to discuss club proposals and special elections on campus.

Lunar New Year’s Day (LNY) is celebrated by over 1.5 billion people primarily in Asian countries across the world — China, Vietnam, Singapore and South Korea to name a few. Resplendent in lucky colors of red and gold, the students of Fordham University’s Asian Cultural Exchange (ACE) and Ascend Business Club (Ascend) rang in the Lunar New Year at a festively-adorned Bepler Commons on Jan. 27.

As of Jan. 1, 2023, Lerzan Aksoy, Ph.D., was appointed as the dean of the Gabelli School of Business. The decision was announced via an email to the Fordham Community on Dec. 19. Serving as the interim dean since July 1, 2022, Aksoy is looking forward to continuously elevating the Gabelli School of Business.

Alexei Gannon, FCRH ’25, is a biology and history double major honors student. He has a passion and a penchant for melding the two disciplines together in his research. In the summer of 2022, he worked with his advisor, Mattie Armstrong-Price, Ph.D., to study the transgender history of the French revolt of May 1968.