Sam Bracy (she/her), FCLC ’25, is a news editor at the Observer. She is a journalism major interested in tracing the impact of public policy on local communities. In her free time, she likes to cook and write emails.
Pope Leo XIV, formerly cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, was elected as pope on May 8.
A Chicago native, Leo is the first U.S. citizen to become pope — although he also holds Peruvian citizenship,...
The Environmental Protection Agency has terminated the program that gave Fordham a $60 million grant for environmental justice programs, according to an email sent by Tania Tetlow on May 6.
Through...
Fordham University joined 85 other educational institutions on an amicus brief in support of the American Association of University Professors’ lawsuit against the President Trump administration’s...
Bryan Massingale doesn’t love it when people write about him. In fact, he said he hates the way profiles preserve a particular account of who he is, like a fossil of an extinct specimen trapped between...
University President Tania Tetlow reasserted Fordham’s commitment to a diverse academic community in a speech before Fordham faculty, administrators and staff at McNally Amphitheater on Feb. 26.
The...
Fordham student workers who receive federal work-study saw their schedules capped to a maximum of 10 hours per week on Feb. 21, costing some students hundreds of dollars every pay period.
Some students...
An executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Wednesday, Jan. 29, to combat antisemitism threatens to deport international students and faculty who express pro-Palestinian views.
Critics...
(From left to right) Mayor Eric Adams, former Comptroller Scott Stringer, Comptroller Brad Lander, Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani and former Governor Andrew Cuomo.
A committee of students, faculty, administrators and alumni are to align the university’s investment strategy with its Jesuit values.
Once convened, representatives of the Advisory Committee on...
New York City Mayor Eric Adams declared a drought warning on Nov. 18 amid the driest conditions in exactly a century, urging New Yorkers to voluntarily conserve water.
New York City’s reservoirs...
The first time Tony Berry voted he was just four years old. As he cranked the lever to cast his mother’s ballot in the 1998 election, his lifelong passion for civic engagement was seeded — a passion...
Early in his administration as New York City’s mayor, Eric Adams liked to flash a smile and rhetorically ask, “When does the hard part start?”
This month, the mayor might have found the answer...
Fordham University changed after approximately 45 individuals organized an encampment-style protest on May 1 in the Leon Lowenstein Center lobby at the Lincoln Center campus.
Fordham Public Safety’s...
While some fear an upward trend in overall GPAs will cheapen student success, others have welcomed the chance to reduce pressure on students to achieve higher grades.
While some fear an upward trend in overall GPAs will cheapen student success, others have welcomed the chance to reduce pressure on students to achieve higher grades.
College campuses across the U.S. have grappled with students’ responses to the war which ensued after the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas militants and the subsequent siege and bombardment of the densely...
