Ully Hirsch/Robert F. Nettleton Poetry Prize Award Co-Winner No one screamed when it coiled around the radiator pipe, skinny and white like a protruding vein. No one stood on a chair.   It...

Margaret Lamb /Writing to the right-hand Margin Prize (Creative Non Fiction) Award Runner-Up Joana was not the first drunk prostitute I met in Cacau, but she was certainly the most regal. When...

Published: December 9, 2010 CHINATOWN Liz Bowen Editor-in-Chief I’m usually freezing when I go to Chinatown. Sometimes I’m downtown to catch up with a friend over phở and salty plum soda;...

Published: October 7, 2010 When you’re a vegetarian, dining out can be draining. You have to get used to the questions: “Why don’t you eat meat, again? Fish isn’t really meat though, right?...

Published: October 7, 2010 Every year there are approximately 1,100 college suicides, including last week’s death of Jacob Miller, Fordham College at Rose Hill ’14.  In light of the number of...

Published: August 25, 2010 In the last, good hours of the summer, when the days began to droop like slumping shoulder blades, you and I were latecomers. We kept fading fireflies from jumping too...

Published: August 25, 2010 At 87 years old, Lowenstein Café cashier Luz Garay had amassed a devoted following of hungry college students. Some stood in the grueling long line at her register just...

Published: April 13, 2011 “WARNING: Not supported by Student Affairs”—this was the disclaimer emblazoned in bold at the bottom of each poster advertising this year’s production of “The...

Published: March 30, 2011 Margaret Lamb, author, playwright and English faculty member of 35 years, died on March 22. She was 75. The cause was complications of leukemia, according to Eva Badowska,...

Published: March 2, 2011 “Hayden was a shooting star,” Tanner Hartnett said about her younger sister, Hayden Hartnett, Fordham College at Lincoln Center (FCLC) ’12, who died in her dorm room on...

Published: March 2, 2011 As the Fordham community now knows via a recent university mass e-mail, Hayden Hartnett, FCLC ’12,  died of an apparent overdose on the morning of Sunday, Feb. 20 in her...

Published: February 16, 2011 Ground has been broken and land has been sold; Fordham College at Lincoln Center (FCLC)’s “Master Plan” has been set in motion. After the Feb. 3 groundbreaking...

Published: February 16, 2011 Egyptian protesters danced, prayed and set off fireworks in the streets of Tahrir Square. New Yorkers embraced, shouted and waved Egyptian flags outside of the U.N. ...

Published: April 22, 2010 For decades now, the news media have been under fire from soft-hearted viewers who would rather not have their dinnertime television programming operate by the motto, “If...

Co-winner Ully Hirsch/ Robert F. Nettleton Poetry Prize Published: April 22, 2010 Before you eat a crab, you have to tear his lungs out, one-by-one like rotten teeth or in a heaping clump,...

Published: April 1, 2010 March 21 was no ordinary Sunday. Most of us breathed a sigh of relief to learn that we’ll be able to stay on our parents’ health care plans until we’re 26. I found out...

Published: March 4, 2010 Rhetorically, 2009 was Main Street’s year. Despite the beatings the American middle class took as a result of the recession, “Main Street” was the talk of the town—especially...

Published February 4, 2010 During one of my first classes of this semester—over a week after a violent earthquake racked the already impoverished nation of Haiti—the professor asked students...

POINT: Physician-Assisted Suicide is a Slippery Slope Toward a “Right to Die” for People Who Are Not Terminally Ill Helen Lee, Staff Writer Published: November 19, 2009 To say I was alarmed after...

Published: October 22, 2009 Every Fordham student knows that, amidst midterms, club meetings, internships and the omnipresent allure of The Flame, sometimes staying healthy falls to the bottom of our...

Published: October 22, 2009 Since the end of September, a seemingly minor news story has penetrated the college world’s consciousness, prompting a range of responses—from outrage to approval to...

Published: November 5, 2009 Growing up Anglican was tough. Though my hometown in rural Maryland is noticeably full of evangelical, Protestant holy rollers, there is also a considerable Catholic...

Published: October 8, 2009 Fordham has a lot to say about H1N1, and while it’s cute that they’re trying, it’s hard not to poke some fun at the university’s attempts to get a handle on something...

Published: October 8, 2009 When you live on campus at Fordham Lincoln Center, it’s easy to take things for granted. You don’t have to walk in the rain to get to class. Nobody ever has...

Published: September 24, 2009 “Infestation” is not a word anyone likes to hear, especially when used in reference to a person’s living space. However, when my suitemate and I saw a tiny, crawly...

Published: August 27, 2009 When Google Earth was first launched in 2004, most people tried it out, deemed it a super cool way to see their houses from space, showed it off to their friends and moved...

Published: August 27, 2009 It’s not often that I point fingers at my own party. If the Bush administration’s wreckage taught me anything, it was that if any hope was left for this country,...

Published: August 27, 2009 Remember the days of hating on OASIS? They are long gone, now that Fordham has finally implemented a new, up-to-date registration tool through the new my.fordham.edu...

Published: April 30, 2009 The world is coming to an end.  Not because of global warming, the Pope’s mishandling of the AIDS crisis, or North Korea’s new “satellite” blowing us all to smithereens—no,...

Published: April 9, 2009 We New Yorkers pride ourselves on not being afraid of anything. The nonchalance with which we can gaze down from a balcony on the 37th floor of a high-rise, the assumptions...

Published: December 29, 2009 “The Kashmir conflict is one of the most neglected conflicts in the world, and also one of the most urgent,” Fordham alumnus Mohsin Mohi-Ud Din said to an intimate crowd...

Published: October 30, 2008 All she needed was a red carpet.  As Maya Angelou stepped out from behind the curtains of Pace University’s Schimmel Theater on Oct. 10, a deluge of light seemed to flood...