Fordham University has started relief efforts for the devastated community of Haiti. After an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale rocked Haiti on Jan. 12, several aftershocks further destroyed and devastated the country. It is estimated that over a 100,000 people are dead and 3 million others are affected, according to Felix Augustin, Haiti’s consul general to the United Nations (U.
Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard Law professor and a staunch defender of Israel, spoke in Fordham’s McNally Amphitheater on Nov. 19 in reaction to The Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, headed by Richard Goldstone, a visiting professor at the Fordham Law School.
On Sept. 23, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of Iran, spoke before the U.N. General Assembly. In response, many protesters—among them students from Fordham College at Lincoln Center (FCLC)—came to reinvigorate disputes of Ahmadinejad’s legitimacy as president.
Due to the struggling economy and the violence in Mexico, many Fordham students forwent a typical spring break of partying and traveling in exchange for extra hours at work or scaled-back plans. Some students said that they opted to stay home instead of spending money that they just did not have, a decision that had both an impact on vacationers as well as destinations.
The Vatican has been making headlines recently because of Pope Benedict XVI’s decision to revoke the excommunication of the Society of St. Pius X, a radical Catholic sect that counts among its members a known Holocaust denier. The Fordham community has reacted strongly to the news, with students and faculty alike calling for an explanation from the Vatican and statements from American bishops.
Fordham as an institution appears to be holding steady in this rough economy, despite the fact that the University’s endowment is down. However, it seem as though the economy is having detrimental effects on individual students. “I was denied [a student loan] by the same company that gave me a loan last semester, along with a few others,” said Yasmine Kamel, Fordham College at Lincoln Center (FCLC) ’10.
“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 in the Student Lounge on Jan. 15, launching the Students for Solidarity event entitled Dispatch from Kashmir.
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