On Thursday, Feb. 9, the Fordham Rose Hill United Student Government (USG) met to discuss campus dining hours and the university’s upcoming Middle States re-accreditation process.
Keagan Ostop, Contributing Writer
• February 15, 2023
Fordham University has officially become the 24th law school in the country to boycott the U.S. News & World Report rankings. According to a statement made by Matthew Diller, dean of Fordham Law School, the university “will no longer provide data to the U.S. News for use in its ranking other than information that is already generally available to the public.”
On Jan. 21, the deadliest shooting of the month occurred in Monterey Park, Calif., where 11 people were killed and nine were wounded. Only three days after the Monterey Park shooting, another mass shooting occurred in Half Moon Bay, Calif. The recent events have brought gun violence to the forefront of the media again.
In celebration of Black History Month, the Office of Multicultural Affairs and the Division for Student Affairs is hosting a two-day “Racial Solidarity Network Interactive Workshop.” The interactive workshop is available for students, faculty and staff, and is offered at both campuses on Feb. 7 and 14 (Rose Hill) or Feb. 8 and 15 (Lincoln Center).
On Feb. 1, Fordham University hosted a lecture by Father Stephen Schloesser, a Jesuit professor of history at Loyola University Chicago. The lecture discussed French composer Oliver Messiaen and his infamous “Turangalila Symphony."
Jillian Rodgers, FCRH ’24, has been working in a lab that has been developing an app called MentorHub, which is designed to help underprivileged youth connect with mentors and facilitate discussions between mentors and their mentees. Rodgers has been working on this app alongside the psychology department’s Elizabeth Raposa, Ph.D., as well as many other graduate students.
On Jan. 26, 2023, Fordham University submitted a statement outlining an effort to better understand and prevent sexual misconduct from clergy members. The statement included a message from President Tania Tetlow.
Zoe Karoub, Contributing Writer
• February 8, 2023
On Jan. 19, a new merchandise organization, Fordham Swag, launched Fordham inspired parody merchandise. The new organization offers apparel, decor and various accessories.
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).
Sofia Donohue, Assistant News Editor
• February 8, 2023
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.
