Fordham University released a 138-page document detailing the results of a survey regarding the climate of sexual assault on campus. 2,008 graduates and undergraduates of the 15,549 students to whom it...
UPDATED: March 9, 3:45 p.m. Earlier today, a Fordham Lincoln Center resident reported a backwards swastika drawn in the garbage room of 10th floor in McMahon Residential Hall. The University has...
Jalen Glenn, Fordham College at Lincoln Center (FCLC) ’16 and communication media studies major with a concentration in film, has been devoting his free time to answering this question. After many...
What should Fordham Lincoln Center expect out of Garrett Borns, better known by his stage name BØRNS, on Jan. 29?
“You never really know how a BØRNS show is going to go. Sometimes there’s piñatas,...
The Observer spoke with Title IX Coordinator Anastasia Coleman for the University and Dean of Students at Lincoln Center Keith Eldredge about the new processes being put into place and how they...
UPDATED: November 16, 2015 1:51 p.m.
On November 15, Rose Hill student Marissa Marcinelli, FCRH '17, published an article on the Slant News website, recounting the alleged sexual assault of her friend...
Around noon today, President of the University Rev. Joseph McShane, S.J. sent a letter to the Fordham community stating that a "swastika and white supremacist reference were found on a bathroom dispenser...
Fordham Lincoln Center has implemented new signage for the third floor single stall bathrooms in the Leon Lowenstein building. After many meetings between The Positive, a student activist group on campus,...
UPDATED: November 3, 2015 1:10 p.m.
At about 10:45 a.m., The Church of St. Paul the Apostle was evacuated and closed due a suspicious package left between 59th and 60th street. Police have now...
Fordham University is among three schools as of this publication to rescind actor and comedian Bill Cosby’s honorary degree. Marquette, a fellow Jesuit university, announced the decision the same day...
At approximately 2:20p.m. on Sept. 24, the University released a statement officially rescinding actor Bill Cosby's honorary degree awarded in 2001. Fordham President Joseph M. McShane S.J. put forth...
UPDATED: Sept. 22, 2015
The United Student Government (USG) at Lincoln Center and USG at Rose Hill released a joint statement today on the Sept. 13 bias incident where a black student at the Fordham...
Three Fordham College at Rose Hill (FCRH) roommates went to football practice on Sunday morning, Sept. 13. Two of the players (both white) returned to their room around noon without seeing anything on...
The Daily Beast reported today that Fordham University is among the 22 schools that have not yet rescinded the honorary doctorates they awarded to Bill Cosby. After the recent case involving Director...
UPDATED: 09:30 a.m., May 14, 2015
Fordham Faculty Against Torture (FFAT) announced via email on May 12, that the Board of Trustees rejected the petition to revoke Director of the U.S. Central Intelligence...
Fordham at Lincoln Center’s College Council unanimously approved all four proposed communication majors during their last meeting of the 2014-2015 academic year on April 16. Other discussions included...
After six months of collaboration between The Positive, a task-force of students advocating for gender rights on campus, and Fordham Lincoln Center’s (FCLC) United Student Government (USG) and administration,...
At least 50 members of the Fordham Lincoln Center community gathered for the annual 10 Points of Light candle vigil to honor survivors of sexual violence. Fordham was one of 10 colleges chosen by Take...
Just one week after President of Fordham University Rev. Joseph M. McShane, S.J. condemned sexual assault on campus, the University released an anonymous survey to students via email to learn more about...
Just one week after President of Fordham University Rev. Joseph McShane, S.J. admonished sexual assault, the University released an anonymous survey to students via email to learn more about the climate...
In an email letter addressed to the Fordham Family, President of the University Rev. Joseph McShane, S.J., spoke not about the preparations for Holy Week or the upcoming Easter holiday, but of campus sexual...
On March 11, just three days after the United Nations’ (UN) International Women’s Day, Dean of Students at Fordham College at Lincoln Center (FCLC), Keith Eldredge, and Director of Residential Life,...
In response to Public Safety Alert 05-15 on Feb. 26, both Fordham College at Lincoln Center (FCLC) and Fordham College at Rose Hill's (FCRH) Black Student Alliances (BSA) expressed their disapproval to...
More Fordham students are seeking out help from the Office of Counseling and Psychological Services (CPS)-a pattern consistent with a nationwide study that shows an increase in depression among college...
Fordham College at Lincoln Center’s (FCLC) Winter Ball Committee changed the school gala’s theme from “Arabian Nights” to “Winter Garden” after a conversation started by Zann Ballsun-Simms...
I swore to myself I would not be the typical college student. I would not lose my pretentious, paleo eating habits. I would not lose my religious running regime. And I would surely not succumb to the...
Monday, Jan. 26 brought worry that there would be one of the worst blizzards New York City has ever seen. Winter Storm Juno had winds predicted up to 30 miles per hour and snowfall predicted up to 18 inches,...
On Tuesday, Jan. 20th, President Barack Obama addressed the nation in the annual State of the Union address. He briefly reflected on his past years in office from economic reform to healthcare reform...
The last College Council meeting, on Thursday, Nov. 13, raised concerns about the lack of female security supervisors at Fordham College at Lincoln Center’s (FCLC) campus. Currently, there are eight...
On Tuesday, Dec. 9, over 100 students participated in a “Die-In” to commemorate victims of police brutality, held in Pope Auditorium at Fordham College at Lincoln Center (FCLC). At 11:21 a.m., the...
On Thursday, Nov. 20, about 50 people attended the S.A.G.E.S. protest outside Fordham College at Lincoln Center (FCLC). Countless people stopped to listen to students chanting on their evening commutes...
According to Jenifer Campbell, director of Residential Life at Fordham College at Lincoln Center (FCLC), McKeon Hall will be officially shut down for winter break and freshmen will be able to stay in...
On Thursday, Nov. 13, Fordham College at Lincoln Center’s (FCLC) College Council voted in favor of simultaneous registration for all campuses. The motion will be directed to the Committee of Liberal...
Students for Sex and Gender Equality and Safety (S.A.G.E.S.), a student coalition advocating for sexual health access and other student rights at Fordham, and the administration so far can agree on one...
On Tuesday, October 28, about 75 students attended a candlelight prayer vigil in remembrance of the victims of police brutality on McGinley Lawn at Fordham College at Rose Hill (FCRH).
Brandon Mogrovejo,...
On Oct. 22, several hundred protestors gathered in Union Square at about 1 p.m. for the 19th Annual National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation...
On Monday, Sept. 28, Governor Jerry Brown of California approved SB-967, also known as the Yes Means Yes Legislation. The bill centralizes affirmative consent in the sexual assault policies of institutions’...
With campus sexual assault’s prevalence in the media, most people have been hearing of the Jeanne Clery Act, also known as Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Reporting. So what is it?
The...
Fordham University’s contraceptive policy is clear, but it has not always been that way, according to Mairead Maguire, co-president of Law Students for Reproductive Justice, at Fordham Law School (LAW).
The...
Floors two through five are currently vacant in McMahon Hall, the upperclassmen residence hall at Fordham College at Lincoln Center (FCLC). Despite speculation of poor residence hall occupancy planning...
Faculty across all three campuses of Fordham University came together on Wednesday, Sept. 10 to be briefed on the current negotiations between the faculty representatives and administration in regards...
McKeon Hall, the new residence hall at Fordham College at Lincoln Center (FCLC) with amenities such as a game lounge, movie theater, a dance studio, and a full kitchen, is finally open and to the dismay...
On Tuesday, July 22, Fordham officially purchased the old College Entrance Examination Board building at 45 Columbus Avenue, across the street from Fordham College at Lincoln Center (FCLC), for a total...
On Monday, Aug. 11, Fordham lost longtime community member, Eva Maria Stadler, associate professor emerita of English and comparative literature.
“She was a very important part of our school for most...
According to the Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE) in the United States Department of Education, Fordham’s sexual assault incidence rate, that is incidents per student population, is approximately...
Vice President for Finance Frank Simio does not foresee the New York State’s minimum wage increase affecting Fordham in the future.
“All our minimum wage workers are student workers,” Simio said.
According...
On Thursday, April 3, Fordham College at Lincoln Center's (FCLC) freshmen class, residents and commuters alike, woke up at 7 a.m. to register for fall 2014 classes but were unable to do so, due to a system...
Between the 40-times rent rule and gentrification, New York City living expenses are always a topic of discussion. But how does McMahon Hall fare against the cost of living off campus?
McMahon’s...
Recently, the Millennial Generation, people born from approximately 1980 onward, has been labeled the Intern Nation because college graduates seem unable to escape the cycle of internships. So, how can...
At approximately 2:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 14th, damage caused by a snow induced roof leak was found in the 12th Floor Lounge of the Lowenstein building,
“There’s not much [damage], just a...
“We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South West Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915,” Fordham College at Lincoln Center’s...
According to Rev. Robert R. Grimes, S.J., dean of Fordham College at Lincoln Center (FCLC), and Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies in Theology Karina Hogan, the firing of gay married employees...
Drug deals, sex trafficking, daily gang shootings and hungry children are some of the daily realities in Camden, N.J. One of America’s most impoverished and crime-ridden cities, Camden is a short...
Fordham College at Lincoln Center's (FCLC) Ildiko Butler Gallery will host “Quaking Aspen: A Lyric Complaint.” Featuring the work of photographer Gary Metz, the exhibit will remain on...
