A timeline of The Observer’s history at Fordham Lincoln Center
April 18, 2021
The first issue of The CLC Observer is published.
The Observer reports that the university is restructuring its campus system to create university-wide departments with a standardized undergraduate core curriculum. The undergraduate school at Lincoln Center is officially designated Fordham College at Lincoln Center (FCLC).
The Observer nameplate first displays its “student voice” slogan (“The Student Voice of Fordham College at Lincoln Center,” at that time).
The Observer launches its website, originally fclcobserver.com. The Feb. 9, 2000, issue of the paper was “the first ever to be publicly available on the web.”
The Observer acquires the website domain it still has today, fordhamobserver.com.
The Observer publishes its 25th anniversary issue.
The Casey Feldman Memorial Foundation is established in honor of Casey Feldman, former news editor for The Observer, by her parents after she was killed by a distracted driver. The scholarship provides funds for communications students working at unpaid internships.
The inaugural issue of The Comma is published by The Observer’s literary section.
The Observer announces a website redesign and the launch of a weekly newsletter. You can subscribe to our current newsletter here.
After making the announcement in the fall 2015 semester, Professor Elizabeth Stone steps down as The Observer’s faculty adviser after serving as a consultant since the newspaper’s founding.
The communication and media studies department at Fordham cuts ties with The Observer, as reported by then-News Editors Sophie Kozub, FCLC ’19, and Cecile Neidig, FCLC ’17.
The Comma literary publication becomes independent from The Observer. You can visit the club’s website here.
The Observer publishes its first digital-only issue. Print operations ceased due to the coronavirus pandemic, and The Observer continued to publish “print” issues solely on Issuu until March 17, 2021.
The Observer celebrates its 40th anniversary.
Esmé Bleecker-Adams, FCLC ’21, is a visual arts major and (oh-so-jaded) New Yorker who is incredibly grateful for her time at The Observer and for all the lovely people she has met there! Favorite hobbies include sewing, playing table tennis and ignoring her alarm clock.