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VOLUME 94, ISSUE 8 MARCH 28, 2012

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This week, Fordham is our school, and Broadway is our cam-pus, as the Commuting Students’ Association (CSA) hosts the an-nual Commuter Week themed “CSA the Musical: A Broadway State of Mind.”

This Broadway and New York City theme will be prevalent across campus in the form of posters, Broadway ticket give-aways and various activities. CSA has been working arduously since January to plan the events.

The week spans from Monday to Friday, and two events will be hosted every day at commuter-friendly times. With one held in the afternoon and the other held in the evening, more commuters will able to participate in the var-ious events being sponsored.

Although it is called “Com-muter Week,” all students includ-ing residents and Resimuters (off-campus residents) are more than welcome to participate in the events.

One of the events inspired by the musical In the Heights in-cludes salsa lessons, which took place Monday, March 26. CSA provided free food and free Broadway ticket vouchers were raffled, as they will be at every event.

Other event titles include “Phantom of Fordham,” and “Road to Oz.”

“Road to Oz” is inspired by Wicked and will consist of a Wiz-ard of Oz carnival with a dunk

By EMILY ARATAEXECUTIVE EDITOR

Controversy boils under the surface of Fordham University following the announcement of John Brennan, chief counterter-rorism advisor to President Barack Obama, as the 2012 commence-ment speaker. Students Mike Pap-pas and Scott McDonald, both FCRH ’12, have penned a petition protesting Brennan’s presence on campus to supplement the petition already circulating through the Lin-coln Center campus.

“[It] outlines everything that this man has done and explicitly why he stands against the principles that we’re supposed to stand for here at Fordham,” Pappas said. “I feel like, if Fordham students don’t see that and see, actually, what he’s done, they’re just going to see, ‘Hey, CIA, government . . . great guy.’”

Th e petition, entitled “John Bren-nan’s Selection as Fordham’s 167th Commencement Speaker: Stand Against Th is Outrage” is posted on the website Change.org.

It outlines accusations against

Broadway-Th emed Commuter Week Takes FordhamSEE PETITION ON PAGE 4

SEE UNITY ON PAGE 4

Student Petition Protests Commencement Speaker Call to Unity Encourages Community to Rebuild

By CONNOR RYANNEWS EDITOR

Many students, diverse in class year and background, and a solid number of campus administrators quietly shuffl ed into the Univer-sity Church on Rose Hill’s campus last Th ursday evening for A Call to Unity.

Rev. Joseph M. McShane, S.J., president of the University, led the “interfaith ecumenical service” on Fordham’s Lincoln Center campus last Wednesday before “[raising] awareness and [rejoining] the con-versation” at Rose Hill, McShane said in an interview.

Th e prayer service was in direct response to three cases of hateful vandalism, found on both campus-es. Th e latest incident was reported to students via email on March 2.

“My sisters and brothers, it is a great grace to be with you this aft ernoon,” McShane said as he welcomed the community to the service. “It is an especially great grace to see so many of you here, gathered together as a family of faith and a family of mutual love and respect.”

McShane quickly grasped the att ention of those gathered, as he set a serious tone for the rest of the service and outlined the purpose of the gathering.

“We gather this aft ernoon to say to those who have those inten-tions [to hurt Fordham through ignorance] that we simply will not abide by it,” McShane said during the service. “[We] will not allow [ignorance] to damage or destroy or in any way undermine the com-munity of mutual love and respect that we, together, have worked so hard to build and to nurture [at Rose Hill] and at Lincoln Center.”

Rev. Erika Crawford, M.Div., coordinator of Ecumenical and In-terfaith Ministries, off ered a brief invocation prayer before Rachel Dougherty, FCRH ’15, Muham-mad Sarwar, GSB ’14 and Ashley Davis, FCRH ’13, each delivered a reading. Following the “all are welcome” message of the opening hymn, the readings were diversely selected from Hebrew Scripture, the Holy Qur’an and Christian Scripture, respectively.

Dr. Mark Chapman, associate professor of African and African American studies, was at the helm of what was perhaps the most mov-ing part of the service, as he con-nected current events — namely the controversy that surrounds Rush Limbaugh’s encounter with

tank to melt the Wicked Witch of the West, and a Munchkin Land where tickets are redeemable for real prizes.

The Broadway themes extend to “Off-Broadway events” as well. There will be a screening of Rent, followed by a discussion of the topics present in the film.

Also planned is a large game of Sharks vs. Jets capture the flag, and even a murder mystery din-ner, which will be a first for Com-muter week. All of the events and locations can be found on the Commuter Week Facebook page.

The goal of Commuter Week is to spread commuter awareness and appreciation.

CSA works to integrate com-muters into the campus life and with the residents. Becoming a part of the Rose Hill campus at Fordham can be a challenge for commuters.

“It’s hard taking Metro North to get here, and it’s weird because I do not get to stay overnight that often, or even stay on campus that much,” Ella Baginski, GSB ’12, said.

Even with programs such as Commuter Week, commuters are busy students traveling back and forth, who find it difficult to make time for such events.

“Life as a commuter is what you put into it,” Artie De Los Santos, GSB ’12 and CSA execu-tive president, said. “There is a lot of positive and negative [of being a commuter] and I think for the most part we really build a really strong community.”

Events such as Commuter Week are very important to some commuters, as they make them feel included on campus.

“Commuters also usually get a lot of stigmas placed on them so our [CSA’s] goal is really to try and destroy those preconcep-tions and make sure people see a strong commuter presence on campus,” sophomore CSA presi-dent Sara Caro said.

Bonds are not only formed among commuters, but also be-tween all residents and commut-ers.

“One thing I would like to em-phasize is that a lot of students who live on campus are discour-aged and assume ‘Oh that is for

commuters and not for us,’ but that is not the case. We encour-age everyone to come,” Chris Cepeda, FCRH ’13, said.

Caro described the commu-nity to be formed as “a Fordham family rather than a resident fam-ily or a commuter family.”

Ultimately, CSA has high ex-pectations for this year’s Com-muter Week.

“Although past Commuter Weeks have been phenomenal, I think this one is going to be the best because some of the ideas for the events are so out of the box and creative,” Caro said. “And a lot of the decor for the events we made ourselves, so a lot of love was put into each event.”

Brennan.“By choosing John Brennan

as the speaker for its 2012 com-mencement ceremonies,” it reads, “Fordham University is implicitly endorsing the ‘War on Terror,’ the use of rendition, the CIA’s heinous

drone campaign and the subver-sion of the rule of law in America, including the assassination of its own citizens.”

One of the petition’s sponsors is Chris Brandt, adjunct professor in the communications and media

studies, and English departments.“Mike had already had the idea

of a petition to the administration, which I encouraged as a fi rst step,” Brandt said via email. “He and his roommate, Scott , wrote it, and Mike showed it to me. I think it is an excellent petition — calm, well reasoned, clear. Fordham should be proud of it.”

Th e petition originated at Lin-coln Center. Pappas, however, did not fi nd the wording strong enough.

“Th e [petition] from Lincoln Center — when I read it, I thought it was in no way, shape or form in-criminating enough,” Pappas said.

He and McDonald draft ed their own version, including more pre-cise details. Th ey hope to start a grassroots campaign involving handing out fl yers, using social me-dia usage, and chalking blackboards in classrooms. Th e two hope to make Fordham students aware of Brennan’s ethical choices and his political history.

“Th is choice by our administra-tion — they’re hoping that nobody

COURTESY OF CSA

COURTESY OF WIKIMEDIA

“CSA The Musical: A Broadway State of Mind” is this year’s Commuter Week theme.

Students petition against selection of John Brennan as this year’s graduation speaker.

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Tim Lynch and Paul Cammarata“We spoke to the students and the first

thing they ask is ‘What is USG?’ and the second more sarcastic answer is ‘What has USG done for me?’” Paul Cammarata, FCRH ’13 and candidate for executive vice president, said at the executive debate held on March 27.

This is the center for the platform for two of the candidates, Cammarata and Tim Lynch, GSB ’13. They are looking to be a voice for the students since, according to them, that is the main point of the United Student Government.

Lynch and Cammarata have both been a part of USG, with four years of experience between the two of them. Lynch has served as the president of GSB for the class of 2013 twice and is currently serving as the execu-tive vice president of GSB on the executive board, as well as the chairman of the Gabelli Dean’s Council. Cammarata served briefly on USG as FCRH 2013 president and as a member of the Operations Committee dur-ing his freshman year. Cammarata left USG

after freshman year and co-founded the men’s and women’s club soccer teams.

“We have a lot of support behind us with clubs, athletic teams, organizations and students,” Cammarata said. “We’re just trying to put it across, that we have people who believe in our message and if we get elected, hopefully, when we get elected, we will have everyone involved going forward, so then we can actually get things changed. You can’t get things done with just USG. You need everyone involved.”

Lynch and Cammarata have a goal to put the students back in charge. They look to do this through a variety of initiatives to improve student life. These include sup-porting a free speech intiative, the Maroon Square, which would be a zone for students to have respectful discussion of different ideas.

They also are strong supporters of creat-ing a bias-reporting system, similar to the one in place at Georgetown University.

“The rationale behind it is that if we

draw racism or other issues to the public consciousness, we can openly reject them together,” Lynch said.

Another important part of the team’s platform is to increase communication be-tween the schools. They propose to create meetings between the Dean’s Councils of both schools and more town halls where students could sit down and propose their academic concerns to their respective deans.

Lynch and Cammarata strongly empha-sized that the clubs and students have given them a lot to do, and have pushed them to make a lot of changes.

“There needs to be a change,” Cammara-ta said at the March 27 debate. “I hear oth-ers saying ‘continue’, but the students don’t want things to continue the way they are. We need to change the status quo and give the students a voice again.”

Lynch and Cammarata’s campaign web-site is http://www.lynchcammarata2012.com.

Dear Friends, We want you to join with us in a vision of a

bett er Fordham. We are not content with the status quo and see many areas for change and improvement. Our goal is to make sure that stu-dents have the power on campus and that every initiative that USG pursues works to bett er your life in some fashion. We want USG to facilitate clubs processes and make sure that there are as few barriers to realizing your goals as possible. We seek to refocus USG on its policy-making core and work on the most pressing issues, such as free speech, cafeteria quality and options and library hours, that directly aff ect your well-being and satisfaction on a day-to-day basis.

Ultimately, our goal is to create more collabo-rations and relationships, both internally within the Fordham community and externally with

other important stakeholders. For instance, cre-ating stronger relationships between FCRH and GSB, as well as between Rose Hill and Lincoln Center, will be vital to creating a more unifi ed Fordham community. We think it is also impor-tant to work on improving relationships with other Student Governments, such as through the New York Student Government Alliance (NYSGA), to provide a forum where we can all collectively address common problems.

Please join us on this journey in actively re-jecting the status quo and working to build a community that will bett er help both current and future students realize their goals and ex-pectations. Th is is our student government. To-gether we’ll take it back.

Best regards, Tim Lynch & Paul Cammarata

A Message from the Candidates

Tim Lynch

USG

- Executive Vice President of GSB

- Past President of GSB 2013

- Past Chairman of the Gabelli

Deans’ Council

OTHER

- Member of the Global Business

Honors Program

- Finance Scholars, Business Editor

of the Fordham Political Review

Qualifi cations and Experience

Paul Cammarata

USG

-Past President of FCRH 2013

-Past Operations Committee

Member

OTHER

- Co-Founder of Men’s and Wom-

en’s Club Soccer Teams

- Peer Educator, Ambassador for

Ben & Jerry’s at Fordham

-Involved with the Progressive

Students for Justice

Executive Board CandidatesMichael DiTanna

- Executive Vice President of

Finance

- FCRH 2013, Computer Science

Brendan Francolini


Operations

- GSB 2014

Sama Habib

- Vice President of Communica-

tions

- GSB 2014

Abbey Santanello

- Vice President of Student Life

- FCRH 2015

-Organize on-and-off campus

events to promote spirit and

unity among Fordham mem-

bers and the Bronx community.

- Encourage students to do

simple acts of kindness and

promote good deeds by con-

tinuing the community build-

ing intiative that was started

this semester

Bridget Fox


Fordham College

- FCRH 2014

Stephen Ross

-Executive Vice President of

Fordham College

- FCRH 2014

- Strengthen the communica-

tion between students and

academic deans by creating an

online forum to address stu-

dents’ academic concerns

- Improve accessibility to un-

dergraduate research through

the freshman advising program

John Mantia


Gabelli

- GSB 2013

Joseph Lauberth


Gabelli

- GSB 2014

Brandon Vasquez

-Vice President of Health and

Security

-GSB 2013

-Work on a bias-reporting sys-

tem to allow students to report

instances of hatred, disgrace or

bullying

-Create a system for online

health center scheduling,

similar to the one used in the

Writing Center

Joe Campagna

- Vice President of Health and

Security

- GSB 2015

- Improve the resident hall

sign-in policy through direct

work with security

- Work to install an ID swipe

system in the residence halls

Senate CandidatesDonald Borenstein

-President, FCRH 2013

John D’Olimpio

-Vice President, FCRH 2013

-Continue to work on the

“adopt a local school” proposal

to make it a reality at Fordham

- Work to make the campus

more handicap accessible for

disabled students

Matthew Lindblat

-Secretary/Treasurer, FCRH

2013

William Marcley

- President of GSB 2013

- Rewrite the election law to

encourage more candidates to

run by reducing regulations

- Hold USG meetings in resi-

dence halls to increase aware-

ness of USG’s presence on

campus

Luke Pontier

- Vice President, GSB 2013

- Ensure that the new inte-

grated business core comes to

fruition, since it will prepare

students for the job world.

- Improve Alumni relations by

putting students and alumni in

touch, especially with those in

the students’ planned field of

work

Derek Beaupre


-Intiate a swipe system at the

Grille, which would allow stu-

dents to use their meal swipes

after 9 p.m.

- Reform the budget to move

the club sports to the athletic

department to allow for proper

funding for club sports teams

and make sure all clubs are

held to an equal standard

Sara Yoon


-Revitalize the bond between

the students of Fordham and

PHOTO BY KATE DOHENY/THE RAM

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Stephen Erdman and Aileen Reynolds“We’ve both seen USG go through successes

and failures,” Aileen Reynolds, FCRH ’14 and executive vice president candidate, said at a March 27 debate. “We can take these and utilize them to be as successful as possible.”

With four-and-a-half years of United Student Government experience between them, execu-tive president and vice president candidates, Ste-phen Erdman, FCRH ’13, and Reynolds hope to build and continue to improve USG.

Erdman, currently studying abroad in the Do-minican Republic, has served as the vice presi-dent of FCRH 2013 for the past three years, not including this semester abroad. He has also been a member of both the Operations and Budget Committ ees. Reynolds has served as the presi-dent of FCRH 2014 for the past two years.

Th e Erdman and Reynolds platform plans to remain committ ed to eliminating discrimination by continuing to work and improve Fordham Activating Consciousness Together (ACT) and by creating a bias-reporting system. It also plans to reach out and expand into the Bronx commu-nity.

“Aileen’s being modest,” Erdman said, via Skype, at the March 27 debate. “She recommit-ted the Fordham Friendly program contracts when they expired from when Sara Kugel started them.”

Erdman and Reynolds also are working to cre-ate a more open communication between USG and the students.

“Everyone should know what USG does,” Reynolds said. “USG meetings should be full of people bringing things to meetings because they are comfortable talking with us.”

Another important part of their platform is to continue to increase transparency in the alloca-tion of funds, especially in regards to the Budget Committ ee.

“We need to eliminate Budget Committ ee members advocating their clubs at budget meet-ings and the same thing goes for budget day,” Erdman said at the March 27 debate. “We need a fair system in which funds are allocated evenly.”

Th ey also hope to restructure the student ac-tivities funds to change how funds are calculated and have the Student Life Council (SLC) to its

full potential. Erdman and Reynolds addressed the gap be-

tween FCRH and GSB saying that it shouldn’t exist. Th ey hope to create an overlap between the two by promoting minoring across the col-leges and creating more programs which would allow students to do so.

Th e Erdman-Reynolds group has had to deal with some controversy during this campaign. Th ey have been accused of sticking too much to the “status quo” of the bureaucracy surrounding USG.

“We need to hold USG members accountable for their actions and how they conduct them-selves in public,” Reynolds said at the debate. “If elected, we’ll set a tone of accountability to not tolerate students working just on their own ini-tiatives instead of ones for the students.”

“We need to do things to reduce cronyism by having the most qualifi ed candidates, not just bringing in friends,” Erdman said. “Th is is one of the fi rst times we’ve had competition for the executive ticket. We need to have more types of things like this.”

Dear Friends,We are honored to be running to be the

next executive president and vice president of the United Student Government. We have fi ve years of combined USG experience, and we intend to use it to change the organization for the bett er by building upon its successes and drastically improving its unsuccessful aspects.

USG serves as a balance beam between the administration and students; recent student perception has been that it leans too far to-wards the administration. We will rebalance this bridge so that USG is at the forefront of serving students while addressing the con-cerns of the administration. If elected, we will begin our term by reestablishing this relation-ship, and will take steps to ensure that the USG is seen to be a true government of, by and for

Fordham students. Th e true strength of our platform is prac-

ticality. Drawing upon our observations and fi rst-hand experiences of working on USG, we will ensure new initiatives can be pursued ef-fectively. Likewise, we will encourage account-ability of USG to the student body by making sure that we are actively seeking your opinions while pursuing initiatives we believe will make Fordham bett er.

We are two qualifi ed, determined, ambi-tious, passionate yet practical candidates. If elected, we will prove our love for Fordham and all of its assets by challenging its fl aws, in-stigating conversations, and constantly striv-ing for excellence.

Th ank you very much,Stephen & Aileen

A Message from the Candidates

Stephen Erdman

USG

- President Pro Tempore, USG Sen-

ate

- President, FCRH Class of 2013

- Member of the Budget and Op-

erations Committee

OTHER

- Coordinator for the Parks Action

for the City of New York

-Urban Plunge Assistant

-Tour Guide for Rose Hill Society

Qualifi cations and Experience

Aileen Reynolds

USG

- President, FCRH Class of 2014

- Original Member of Fordham’s

ACT

- USG legislation included the cre-

ation of pamphlets for majors

OTHER

- FUEMS Member

- Tour Guide for the Rose HIll

Society

the Bronx community

-Improve the relationship be-

tween students and career ser-

vices to better address student

concerns

Anthony Bradley


-Start active distribution of

open-source software to en-

courage student technology

usage

-Make USG meetings more

accessible by posting meeting

times and locations as well as

keeping minutes, voting tallies

and records online.

Tara Cuzzi


-Create a delivery service that

would bring newspapers to

the floor of every dormitory to

encourage students to keep up

with current news

-Develop a system where pro-

fessor evaluations are complet-

ed by students from the past

two semesters

Ted Conrad


Matthew Freeze

-Secretary-Treasurer, FCRH

2014

- Introduce legislation calling

for the establishment of meal

equivalency swipes to be used

at the Grille and the Deli

-Increase the bandwidth so the

internet slowdowns will be less

debilitating to the Fordham

community

Muhammad Hassa Sarwar

-President, GSB 2014

-Establish clear lines of commu-

nication between the faculty

especially the IP Coordinator

and students

-Promote greater understand-

ing and respect on campus

through continued work as co-

chair of Fordham’s ACT (Acti-

vating Consciousness Together)

Anthony Kevin Conroy

-Vice President, GSB 2014

Jennifer Lim


-Create a more connected com-

munity through communica-

tion and publicity around cam-

pus for sports teams, events

run by clubs and student-led

intiatives

-Expose underclassmen to the

benefits of career networking

with more access to infoma-

tion about internships and jobs

as well as making the alumni

network more available.

Gregory Gaafar


-Change the guest pass policy

to make it more accessible by

reducing the number of hours

of notice required

-Improve cafeteria hours by

working with Sodexo to ex-

tend the hours until 9 p.m. and

opening the cafeteria at 10 a.m.

on weekends

Sarah Skrobala


-Keep Fordham College stu-

dents more informed about

networking, researching and

club opportunites available to

them.

-Promote and encourage the

study abroad program while

instituting more study abroad

programs

Daniel Beecher


-Build networks among mem-

bers of the business school,

which will assist in job place-

ment

-Establish a separate job/in-

ternship fair for underclassmen

Nevin Kulangara

-Vice President, GSB 2015

- Establish greater marketing

resources for innovative stu-

dent entrepreneurs to allow

their businesses to flourish

-Create an evaluation system to

critique the new core

Stanley Stillwell


-Ensure student needs are pri-

oritized in the budget process

-Promote social justice and

equality for all students

Stephen Frost


Ishann Sadhwani


-Work with Fordham IT to im-

prove technology in the class-

rooms and access to techno-

logical resources for students

-Engage a team of vendors to

supplement Sodexo

This spread was compiled by Kelly Kultys, assistant news editor

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SECURITY

BRIEFS

March 23, Terra Nova House,9:15 p.m.

A smoke detector was activated as a result of burning food. FDNY responded to the incident. Th e building was evacuated and the alarm was reset. No injury resulted from the incident.

March 24, Hoff man Ave,1:15 a.m.

Th ere was a noise complaint fi led at 2551 Hoff man Ave. Th e supervisor responded to the location and police were notifi ed. Students were advised to lower the music because they were disturbing the neighbors.

March 24, 189th and Hoff man Ave

5 a.m.

Security was alerted that a student was robbed on the way back from Hoff man. A man in a hoodie struck him in the face without warning and told the student to ‘give me money’. He took a black wallet with $30, his identifi cation and a credit card. Th e suspect fl ed in an unknown direction, and the student was not injured.

March. 24, East Fordham and Creston Ave,

3 a.m.

A Fordham student, along with two non-Fordham friends, exited the 4 train at Jerome and Fordham Road. Th ey were walking east-bound by Creston Ave. Six females grabbed the girls and pulled them down to the ground by their hair. One stole the student’s kindle and iPhone from her handbag. Th e six perpetrators went east-bound on Fordham Road. Th e students and friends reported the incident to security. NYPD was notifi ed and conducted a search with negative results.

— Compiled by Karen Hill, Assistant News Editor

THIS

week atFORDHAM

Th ursday., March 29Cinevents!: Sherlock Holmes 2Campus Activities Board,Keating First,9-11 p.m.Th ursday, March 29Commuting Students’ AssociationRoad to OzMcGinley Ballroom6-9 p.m.Friday, March 30Contemporary Science Fiction ClubKeating 2154 p.m.Saturday, March 31Get to Know ALPFADealy 201 6-8 p.m.Saturday, March 31Vagina MonologuesFordham Prep Auditorium 6 p.m.Wednesday., Apr 4Discussion with Noam ChomskyMacNally Amphitheater, LC7-9 p.m.

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Hundreds Sign Community Pledge

By KELLY KULTYSASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR

Residence Halls Association (RHA) has announced that this year’s theme for the Under the Tent Dance will be “Jungle.”

RHA decided to go with “Jungle” as a theme in contrast to last year’s “Ice Palace” theme.

“We wanted a colorful theme that we could work with as far as decora-tions,” Elisa DiMauro, FCRH ’12, RHA president, said via email.

“I think ‘Jungle’ sounds like a great idea for Under the Tent, be-cause it’s a fun, unexpected theme,” Gabriella Vella, GSB ’15, said.

Other students are not so sure about this year’s theme.

“I really liked the ‘Ice Palace’ theme from last year, so I have my reservations about the ‘Jungle’ theme, but this year’s theme has po-tential to be prett y ‘wild’,” an anoy-mous sophomore said.

Th e event will be held from 9 p.m. until 1 a.m. on the Saturday, April 28, of Spring Weekend. Food and refreshments that will be served at the event are included in the ticket price. Beer and wine, on the other hand, will be available for purchase

RHA Announces Spring’s‘Under the Tent’ Th eme

a Georgetown Law student and the Trayvon Martin shooting in San-ford, Fla. — to Fordham’s culture of awareness.

“Unlike the [Georgetown student] case, in the actual murder of Trayvon Martin there was no swift or imme-diate national att ention,” Chapman said. “In fact, it wasn’t until this past week that the national media turned its eye to Sanford, Florida.”

Chapman transitioned his discus-sion to Fordham, as he said the re-cent acts of vandalism have “urged us to examine, more closely, some of the policies that prevent our com-munity from being a more inclusive and more diverse and more tolerant community.”

Chapman apologized the “pas-sion for justice and care for [Ford-ham] students” he expressed at last week’s faculty symposium, entitled Cura Personalis. During the meeting, Chapman reportedly challenged the administration to increase the di-versity among resident assistants on campus.

McShane later said that he ad-mired Chapman for his “tremen-dous, tremendous devotion to the justice of the Gospel.”

As the service came to a close, Mc-Shane touched upon the importance of remaing a strong community, ded-icated to repelling those who wish to harm the principles Fordham was founded upon.

“We all come together to say we will protect one another, we will stand up for one another, we will say no to those who wish to hurt anyone,” McShane said. “And that behavior, that mindset, is simply un-acceptable, it’s not Fordham.”

Dr. Michael Latham, dean of Rose Hill, was among the administrators present at the service.

“As an intellectual community, a university must be a place in which all members are able to grow and learn without fear of discrimination or harassment,” Latham said in an email.

A pledge stating that the Fordham community will “not commit, con-done, or be silenced by acts of hatred or bias” was displayed on a banner for students to sign aft er the service.

According to administrators, the banner has hundreds of signatures and will be publicly displayed begin-ning Wednesday in front of the Cam-pus Ministry offi ce in the McGinley Center.

UNITY, FROM PAGE 1

PHOTO BY MICHAEL REZIN/THE RAM

Rev. Joseph M. McShane, S.J., president of the University, signs pledge banner.

Students Criticize Pick for Graduation Speaker

is actually appalled enough to do something about it,” Pappas said. “If we can just get some type of dia-logue going, then [the petition] will serve its purpose. People are going to have some kind of emotional re-action to this. You need to get peo-ple at least thinking about having some type of dialogue about it.”

Brandt agrees with Pappas’ point about the manner in which the uni-versity relies on students to take statements at face value.

“Fordham is a bit schizophrenic, being both a Jesuit university and a corporation, but its greatest tradi-tions have always been in the areas of ethical action,” Brandt said via email. “So I have some hopes that the administration, having been made aware of its mistake by its own students, will honor their moral stance by rescinding the invitation.”

Th e petition itself does not spe-cifi cally mention any type of action, which Pappas says his group is still debating amongst themselves.

“Ultimately, they’re probably not going to disinvite the guy,” he said. “Another idea — get someone from the other side. If you have some-body who has supported rendition, who has basically defended torture, got retroactive immunity for the telecom companies — if you have somebody who did all that type of stuff , at least have somebody on the other side, like Ray McGovern, to balance it out a litt le bit.”

McGovern (Lett er to the Editor, V. 94 I. 7) is a Fordham alum who has been quick to condemn the choice of Brennan as commence-ment speaker.

Th is issue coincides with a larger alleged problem that Pappas cites: trading in the professed ethical and religious values of the University for the interests of the Board of Direc-tors.

“When I fi rst came to Fordham, Father McShane stood up in front of the freshman class and said, basi-cally, ‘My goal here is to make every single student in this room not okay with the world’,” Pappas said. “I still remember him saying that, word for word. He said, ‘to make students who are men and women for oth-ers and to go out and set the world on fi re.’ Th ose were his words. And it seems to me that the University [does not have] very many things that challenge students.”

Brandt also believes that the deci-sion to invite Brennan is a refl ection of Fordham’s economic interests.

“Fordham University may be ‘New York’s Jesuit University’ and thus hold itself, at least in theory, to a higher moral standard than other colleges, but it is also a corporation, in many respects just like GM or HP or Goldman Sachs,” he wrote. “And corporations over a certain size are among the least effi cient organizational bodies ever invented, and follow an internal ‘logic’ which oft en supersedes their stated moral or ethical [or even economic] prin-ciples.”

Pappas hopes to motivate the stu-dent body and possibly take some yet-undecided action at graduation if Brennan speaks. In light of the re-cent protests on campus, Pappas be-lieves there to be a signifi cant num-ber of students who will be willing to take action about a subject in which they believe.

“Based on my own moral com-pass, it’s something that I’m not going to stand for,” Pappas said. “I would at least hope that some other students would stand with me. Even if there’s a small handful of students, just to bring some sort of att ention to this would be worth it.”

Shortly aft er being published on-line, the petition reached 55 signa-tures.

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at the event for those who are of age.

“I’m really excited to att end the Under the Tent Dance for my fi rst time this year,” Elizabeth Hughes, GSB ’15, said. “I had amazing time at the President’s Ball with my friends, and I’ve heard so many great things about Under the Tent.”

Pink Noise, the cover band and DJ, will also be returning to provide the entertainment and excitement for this year’s dance.

“Every year students have told us how much they love the band, so we asked them to come back,” DiMauro said. “[Pink Noise] said no to a few events because they love playing at Under the Tent so much.”

Th e RHA executive board will be displaying posters with more details around campus for the event aft er Easter Break. Tickets to att end the Under the Dance will cost $20 again, and they will go on sale soon aft er the students return from the break.

Students should keep their eyes and ears open as more details about the entire Spring Weekend, April 27-29, such as who is performing at the concert, will be released very soon over the next few weeks.


Pink Noise, the cover band, will return to Fordham this year to provide music.

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A Letter to Candidates and Voters from USGDear Candidates and Voters:

As USG elections near, we want to wish everyone the best of luck in their candidacies and in making their voting decisions. It is exciting to see so many students eager to serve Fordham.

We also want to provide you with some accurate information about what USG has accomplished this year, to assist you in assessing the candidates’ platforms and mes-sages and deciding where you’d like to see USG go next year.

In the spirit of service, your cur-rent USG has worked all year with one goal in mind: to listen and re-spond to you. USG members serve without compensation, and most of us devote more time each week to USG initiatives—initiatives dictated by you and pursued for you—than to our school work. We try to hold ourselves accountable to students by regularly seeking feedback and even criticism from

USG members and constituents, and then tailoring our priorities accordingly. Although we fall short at times, we do our best to be your staunchest advocates. Th is year, for example:

• We successfully lobbied for on-campus dining location hour extensions

• We are currently lobbying for library hour extensions and late-night-zone expansion

• We are working with OSL&CD to increase the amount of money that goes directly to student orga-nizations from the Student Activi-ties fee

• We are lobbying to make per-manent, systemic changes that would increase funding for club sports

• We successfully lobbied for the installation of a wheelchair lift near the McGinley Music Room stair-case (coming Summer 2012)

• We developed and successfully advocated for the implementation

of the Gabelli “Value Investing” program, making Fordham the only undergraduate college in the nation to off er courses of this nature

• We created the Fordham Col-lege Academic Deans Council

• We launched and managed “Fordham Achieving Conscious-ness Together (ACT),” the fi rst working group of its kind—com-prised of students, faculty, staff and administrators—devoted to build-ing a stronger, more unifi ed and understanding community

• We instituted budget reforms designed to create a more equitable budget allocation process

• We collaborated with and helped develop a nation wide Jesuit Student Government Alliance

• We hosted a free-speech meet-ing with former USG President and Maroon Square proponent, John Gordon, to evaluate the current situation of free-speech on campus and its future possibilities

• We maintained entirely open

Budget Committ ee and Operations Committ ee meetings

• We allocated nearly $5,000 to student clubs and initiatives from our own USG budget

• We hosted Festivus Fordha-mensis, a week-long celebration of our proud Fordham traditions

• We raised thousands of dollars for organizations that are impor-tant to students, including: NYC Food Bank, POTS and Operation Christmas Child

• We added magazine racks and subscriptions to the Fitness Center

• We organized a lobbying trip to Washington, DC for students to meet with their elected representa-tives

• We hosted focus groups for stu-dents and analyzed student surveys to address areas of dissatisfaction with Residential Life policies

• We raised awareness of alcohol consumption and distributed free food, water and substance abuse- prevention literature to students

on Halloween weekend• We expanded “Fordham

Friendly,” creating more retail loca-tions off -campus at which Fordham students receive discounts

• We are working with Sodexo to increase swipe options at various dining locations on campus

Please see our website, www.us-grh.com to view information about other initiatives, and to access our complete “First Semester Progress Report.”

We don’t always publicize our work. We strive to serve humbly, and when we have accomplished an initiative, we move immediately on to the next; but everything we do, we do for you, not for anyone else.

We hope that this information will help you in your campaigns and in your voting. We wish you the best of luck!

Peace & Rams,Caitlin & Bryan

RHA Shares Election ’12 Results

By CONNOR RYANNEWS EDITOR

Rose Hill’s Residence Halls Association (RHA) recently an-nounced the seven students who have been elected to take over the executive board next fall.

Mike Meehan, FCRH ’14, is set to replace Elisa DiMauro, FCRH ’12, as executive president of RHA next fall.

“I love RHA and being able to lead it next year is an amazing op-portunity, and I’m really grateful to the RHA members who have given me the opportunity,” Mee-han said in a digital message.

Meehan said that his campaign was centered on a “solid vision,” in finding a balance between poli-cy and programming.

Meehan hopes to “pursue pol-icy initiatives by restarting the Resident Life Committee.”

The committee will consist of eight students: four from RHA (one student from each class year) and four who are not asso-ciated with RHA.

Meehan referred to the com-mittee as next year’s “policy brain trust.” The goal of the group will be to work on programs and policy for residents, according to Meehan.

“We have a lot of great ideas planned out for next year,” Con-stantine Demopoulos, GSB ’15 and the newly-elected program coordinator, recently wrote in a message. “I specifically am very eager about improving the sports environment here.”

John Treseler, GSB ’14, will take over as executive vice presi-dent; Will Thibeau, GSB ‘14, was named chief of staff, Sarah Hill, GSB ’14, will take over as chief financial officer; Julie Foglietta, GSB ’15, will be the communi-cations director; Tim Leucke, FCRH ‘13, will be the publicity director.

Symposium Rekindles Racial & Gender Discussion

By EDDIE MIKUSSTAFF WRITER

Several incidents of racial abuse have shocked Fordham University over the last few weeks. However, the community is hardly taking such insults lying down.

On March 21, Fordham profes-sors Jeanne Flavin, Father David Marcott e S.J., Maureen O’Connell, Carina Ray, Mark Chapman, Jay Wade and Celia Fisher spoke at the Cura Personalis symposium against hate speech on campus.

Father Patrick Ryan opened with some introductory remarks, during which he invoked the Greek concepts of “love of broth-ers” and “love of strangers.” He also spoke about his experiences as a missionary priest in Africa.

“I lived as a stranger for 26 years in Africa, and ‘you are wel-come’ was the most common sen-tence I heard during those years,” Ryan said during his introductory remarks.

Ryan, however, was not the only professor to invoke personal experience.

Ray, a professor of history, spoke of spending the fi rst eight years of her life in an experimen-tal community which emphasized racial integration. (Ray specifi ed

the time period during which she was in this community as being the “late ’50s and largely the ’60s, 70s).

“I was born and raised in a place where multi-racial families were normal, multi-racial identities were normal and the people of all diff erent races came together to form a community,” Ray said.

Although such personal an-ecdotes carry tremendous emo-tional weight, one of the most impassioned speeches came from Chapman, who likened the re-sponse of Fordham offi cials to the racial incidents to the response in the Trayvon Martin murder case. (He believed that the responses to both incidents were too slow.)

“Th e killing of Trayvon Martin was horrifi c; what was even more horrifi c was the reaction and re-sponse to it. Th e writing of a racial slur on someone’s door is horrifi c, what was even more horrifi c was the reaction to it,” Chapman said in an impassioned speech during which he lambasted Fordham offi -cials for not doing enough to help the victims of racial abuse.

Chapman also called on the University to increase the num-ber of black resident assistants in campus dormitories. He said that he had learned an hour and a half

before the symposium that only six of Fordham’s 90 resident assis-tants are black.

Other major themes discussed at the symposium included the motivations behind such inci-dents of racial abuse.

“You have to be in the in-crowd in order to hear these things,” Wade, a professor of psychology, said. His comments were intend-ed to convey the sense that abuse is oft en directed towards those that are diff erent and, thus, more vulnerable.

O’Connell furthered on this theme a litt le bit, with an empha-sis on the interaction between racist acts and popular culture.

“A failure to engage racism as a cultural reality has contributed to white complicity perpetuating racism,” said O’Connell, who also claimed that racism derives from the natural tendency for groups of people to band together and that racism was not about isolated acts.

Flavin, a professor of sociology, spoke of the need for popular cul-ture as a whole to denounce rac-ism.

“When someone scrawls a slur on your door or they dress in blackface for Halloween, or some-one calls a woman a slut because

she uses contraception, we’re understandably upset, and we’re outraged,” Flavin said. “We send emails, we circulate petitions, we announce this on Facebook. We discuss it in hallways, we raise it with our colleagues. We’re out-raged, we’re indignant, we’re deeply troubled as we should be.”

She continued, “But I’m also concerned about the quieter, more insidious aspects of our culture that not only give rise too blatantly to the racist, elitist, mi-sogynistic and homophobic ac-tions, but also those aspects that are going to marginalize minori-ties and blacks, and some cases silence people within our com-munity, some more than others,” she added.

Some speakers also invoked Fordham’s tradition as a Jesuit University in condemning the in-cidents.

“Th e goal of a Jesuit education is to overcome this primitive fear, that is to study the pursuit of rea-son and to bett er understand our-selves so we can understand oth-ers,” Father Marcott e said.

“Slurs and hate speech carry tremendous symbolic meaning,” Falvin said. “And they have no usable place in an institution of higher learning.”

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Soft ball Opens Conference Play With Four Straight Wins Fordham Stands Atop Atlantic 10 Following First Weekend of Conference Matchups

an even bigger blowout for the Rams.

Ortiz hit her fifth home run in as many games, a team-leading seventh of the season, to give the Rams a 2-0 lead in the first. A bas-es loaded single by junior Chelsea Palumbo plated two, putting the Rams’ lead up to four before the Explorers could even bat.

The second inning got even better for Fordham, as the Rams scored five more to make it 9-0. An Ortiz RBI single made it 5-0, and a few batters later, freshman Michele Daubman hit a grand slam that gave the Rams the nine-run lead.

Two more runs were added in the fifth to give Fordham the 11-0

lead that would carry the Rams through the remainder of the game. Freshman Taylor Pirone picked up the win in a complete game, two-hit effort.

“We’ve been waiting for this offensive outburst,” said Coach Bridget Orchard of her team’s 20-run day. “We’ve been hitting like that at practice, we knew the girls had it in them to hit like that and put runs on the board.”

Freshman Ortiz of Katy, Texas has proven to be a big bat in the middle of the lineups for the Rams, who are now hitting their offensive stride.

“Paige has been our one hitter that has been pretty consistent throughout the year,” Orchard

said. “Even early on against Arizo-na she put one off the wall. She’s been playing at a high level for a long time. She has really stepped in and taken advantage of all of her at bats.”

Fordham continued conference play on Sunday in Washington D.C, where they faced off against George Washington in another doubleheader.

The opener was a pitching duel between the staff ’s two aces. Fordham’s Mineau and George Washington’s sophomore Court-ney Martin both had tremendous outings.

The first hit did not come until the third inning, when sophomore Gabby Luety connected on a solo

By MATT ROSENFELDASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

The Fordham softball team opened up its 2012 conference schedule last Friday in the midst of a five game winning streak. The initial Atlantic 10 battle took place in a doubleheader against the La Salle Explorers.

The first game of the day had Fordham continuing its winning ways as the Rams defeated the Explorers 9-1.

The game started with a blast as senior Jamie LaBovick led off with a home run to put the Rams up early 1-0. Fordham did not stop there. Freshman Paige Ortiz homered following a walk by se-nior Nicole Callahan to put Ford-ham up 3-0 in the first.

After a perfect inning with se-nior Jen Mineau on the mound, Fordham continued to pile on the runs in the second. An RBI double by LaBovick that drove in the pinch-running sophomore Brianna Ciuffi, which made it 4-0 in favor of the Rams. Ortiz would add on another run with an RBI single. This was followed by a sacrifice fly from freshman cleanup hitter Brianna Turgeon. The Rams exited their half of the second with a 6-0 lead.

La Salle managed its only run in the bottom of the second when freshman Kristin Tavers hit a solo home run off of Mineau.

After scoring one in the fourth, Fordham ended the scoring in the fifth when sophomore Elise For-tier cracked a two run home run that made it 9-1 after four and a half innings. The scoring ended after that, giving the Rams the eight run win.

The second game proved to be

Men’s Tennis Drops Pair of Matches; Bounces Back Against Wagner with WinBy KARA SCAGLIOLA

STAFF WRITER

Th e Fordham men’s tennis team dropped two of its last three matches, while still looking for-ward to the Atlantic 10 cham-pionships which are just on the horizon.

Th is past Wednesday, the Rams faced the Temple Owls who nar-rowly defeated them by an over-all score of 4-3. Temple was ex-pected to be a tough opponent, as they had just beaten the reigning champs, George Washington, a few weeks prior. While doubles play opened on a hopeful note, with freshmen of Srikar Alla and J.J. Tauli taking their match (8-4), the Rams other duos fell short, eventually awarding Temple the doubles point. Losing this point proved crucial to the end of the match.

In singles play, Sophomores Kuba Kowlolski (6-2, 6-0, 6-4), and Mischa Koran (6-4, 6-2) gave the Rams some early victories, as Fordham grabbed a 3-2 lead. Af-ter dropping the fourth singles to

Temple, the fi ft h singles match ul-timately decided the match. Ford-ham dropped the fi ft h

Th e Fordham men extended this losing streak on Saturday at their second home game of the season against St. Josephs. Oddly, this match started with singles play, which began with Tauil’s defeat (6-2, 6-2). But, the Rams batt led back with Kowalski (6-2, 6-3), Alla (6-2, 6-3) and Koran (6-1, 7-5) all picking up victories pushing the Rams ahead to a 3-1 lead.

Th is was not enough for Ford-ham, as these were the only points the Rams managed to get, eventu-ally surrendering to St. Joseph’s with a score of 4-3.

Coach Cory Hubbard com-mented on these losses and how they might aff ect the Rams shot at a title.

“Of course we’re hurt and dis-appointed to come so close and that would have put us atop the A-10 for fi rst time in school his-tory” Hubbard said. “But I will take a lot of confi dence from this match, because we showed we are The men’s tennis team has enjoyed a great regular season, boasting a 14-5 record, led by freshmen.

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defi nitely in the mix with the top three teams. I hope this makes our team hungrier than before and motivates us to work harder.”

Th e Rams had a chance to re-deem themselves yet again on Sunday, however, which they did in fl ying colors by shutt ing out the Wagner Seahawks, 7-0.

In singles play, all Fordham play-ers took their matches in straight

sets which was an impressive feat coming off of their fi rst two-game losing streak of the year. Th e Rams also took the doubles point with an overall scores of 8-3, showing much improvement from the pre-vious two matches. Th is brought the Rams’ season record to 13-4.

Perhaps the Fordham men can turn this into another winning streak on Wednesday, March 28

against Farleigh Dickinson Uni-versity at a home match on the Hawthorn/Rooney courts.

Th e freshmen laden team will have to face off against another premier rookie when they face FDU.

Th e Knight’s freshman Arvis Berzins was recently named a Rookie of the Week of the North-east Conference.

home run to give Fordham a 1-0 lead. Senior Lindsay Kay Bright then singled and later scored on an error that would stretch the Rams’ lead to 2-0.

That proved to be enough for Mineau, who only allowed one hit, a solo home run in the fifth, en route to a 2-1 win for the Rams.

“We were hoping for a few more runs,” Coach Orchard said. “I’d like to see us score five or six against the pitching that we are facing, but with Jen on the mound, we are able to get away with scoring two.”

The Rams did not have to sweat as much in the second game of the day, as Mineau pitched another gem in a 5-1 Rams victory.

Fortier came up with the bases loaded in the first and scored all of them on a three RBI double.

The Rams would extend the lead for Mineau in the third, when again, Fortier had a bases-clearing double.

This time only two would score, but it was enough to give Fordham a 5-0 lead.

George Washington junior Tara Fogarty would provide the Colonials with their only run of the day with a solo home run in the fifth. Mineau would hold the Colonials right there, taking home her 13th win of the year and extending the Rams’ winning win streak to nine.

Now with a 16-14 overall record (a perfect 4-0 in-conference) the Rams will look to continue their winning ways on Wednesday with a doubleheader against Lehigh in Easton, PA.

Fordham returns home next on March 30 to face Charlotte in a conference duel.

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Freshman Michele Daubman cleared the bases with a grand slam in a blowout victory over the La Salle Explorers.

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Charest 8.0 5 3 2 3 2Adel 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 UMass IP H R ER BB SO

Popielarczyk 9.0 7 1 1 4 10

E - DeSilva(3). DP - Minutemen 1. LOB - Minutemen 5; Rams 8. 3B - Adie,K(2). SH - Serino, A(2); Graef, R(3). SB - McLam, R(4); Kownacki(7);Swatek(2). CS - Graef, R(1).

Softball

Fordham 2-1 George

Washington


LaBovick 1b 4 0 1 0 0Callahan 2b 4 0 0 0 1Ortiz dp 2 0 0 0 0Turgeon cf 2 0 0 0 0Fortier 3b 3 0 0 0 0Daubman rf 3 0 1 0 0Palumbo ss 3 0 0 0 0Luety c 3 1 1 1 1Bright lf 3 1 2 0 0

Totals 27 2 5 1 2

GW AB R H HR RBI

Wilson dh 3 0 0 0 0Dos Santos c 3 0 0 0 0Taylor cf 3 0 0 0 0Lenhart lf 3 0 0 0 0Valos ss 3 1 1 1 1Orlandi 2b 2 0 0 0 0Fogarty 3b 2 0 0 0 0Del Prete rf 2 0 0 0 0Garlinger 1b 1 0 0 0 0 Saporito ph 1 0 0 0 0

Totals 23 1 1 1 1


Mineau 7.0 1 1 1 0 13

GW IP H R ER BB SO

Martin 7.0 5 2 1 2 4

E - TAYLOR, A; MARTIN, C. LOB - Fordham 6; GW 1. HR - Luety; VALOS, V. SB - Turgeon.

Fordham 5-1 George

Washington


LaBovick 1b 4 0 0 0 0Callahan 2b 4 0 0 0 0Ortiz dp 4 0 2 0 0 Ciuffi pr 0 1 0 0 0Turgeon cf 3 2 3 0 0Daubman rf 4 2 0 0 0Fortier 3b 3 0 2 0 5Luety c 3 0 0 0 0Palumbo ss 3 0 0 0 0Bright lf 3 0 2 0 0

Totals 31 5 9 0 5

GW AB R H HR RBI

Wilson dh 3 0 1 0 0Dos Santos c 2 0 0 0 0Taylor cf 3 0 1 0 0Lenhart lf 3 0 1 0 0Valos ss 2 0 0 0 0Orlandi 2b 3 0 0 0 0Fogarty 3b 3 1 1 1 1Del Prete rf 1 0 0 0 0 Saporito ph 2 0 0 0 0Garlinger 1b 1 0 0 0 0 O’Donnell ph 1 0 0 0 0 Moynihan ph 1 0 0 0 0Totals 25 1 5 1 1


Mineau 7.0 5 1 1 1 6

GW IP H R ER BB SO

Clauss 7.0 9 5 2 1 2

E - VALOS, V. LOB - Fordham 6; GW 5. 2B - Fortier 2. HR - FOGARTY, T. SH - DOS SANTOS,S. SB - Bright; TAYLOR, A.

Men’s Tennis

Fordham 3-4 St. Joe’s

Singles

1. Kowalski (Fordham) def. Veronis (SJU) 6-2, 6-2

2. Alla (Fordham) def. Kessler (SJU) 6-2, 6-3

3. Koran (Fordham) def. Gates (SJU) 6-1, 7-5

4.Barrus (SJU) def. Peara (Ford-ham) 5-7, 6-1, 6-1

5. Montague (SJU) def. Tauil (Fordham) 6-2, 6-2

6. Brondeau (SJU) def. Puntillo (Fordham) 7-6 (7-3), 7-5

Doubles

1. Kowalski/Koran (Fordham) def. Kessler/Montague (SJU) 8-6

2. Gates/Barrus (SJU) def. Alla/Tauil (Fordham) 9-8 (7-3)

3. Veronis/Cognetti (SJU) def. Peara.Gram (Fordham) 8-6

Fordham 7-0 Wagner

Singles

1. Kowalski (Fordham) def.Ovechkin (Wagner) 6-2, 6-1

2. Srikar (Fordham) def. Garzon (Wagner) 6-0, 6-2

3. Koran (Fordham) def. Santoro (Wagner) 6-0, 6-0

4. Peara (Fordham) def. Richards (Wagner) 6-0, 6-1

5. Tauil (Fordham) def. Rautenstra (Wagner) 6-5, 6-1

6. Gram (Fordham) def. Yuzon (Wag-ner) 6-0, 6-0

Doubles

1. Kowalski/Koran (Fordham) def. Ovechkin/Garzon (Wagner) 8-3

2. Plangger/Peara (Fordham) def. Santoro/Rautenstra (Wagner) 8-3

3. Kulak/Maloney (Fordham) def. Richards/Yuzon (Wagner) 8-3

Women’s Tennis

Fordham 3-4 Farleigh Dickinson

Singles

1. Rapoport (FDU) def. Ali (Ford-ham) 6-1, 6-0

2. Botes (FDU) def. Genkina (Ford-ham) 6-2, 6-0

3. Dabu (Fordham) def. Prantl (FDU) 6-3, 2-6, 1-0 (10-6)

4. Leong (Fordham) def. Dementyeva (FDU) 6-7 (5-7), 6-2, 1-0 (10-6)

5. Fritzinger (Fordham) def. Morina (FDU) 3-6, 6-2, 1-0 (11-9)

6. Lane (FDU) def. Tremaine (Ford-ham) 6-2, 6-2

Doubles

1. Rapoport/Dementyeva (FDU) def. Ali/Genkina (Fordham) 8-3

2. Morina/Prantl (FDU) def. Fritz-inger/Tremaine (Fordham) 8-6

3. Dabu/Leong (Fordham) def. Botes/Lane (FDU) 8-3

Fordham 5-1 St. Joe’s

Singles

1. Robinson (SJU) def. Sim-idian (Fordham) 7-6 (7-5), 6-0

2. Ali (Fordham) def. Jadeja (SJU) 6-0, 6-2

3. Dabu (Fordham) def. Davis (SJU) 6-0, 6-4

4. Genkina (Fordham) def. Matz (SJU) 6-1, 6-3

5. Fritzinger (Fordham) def. Roy (SJU) 6-2, 6-0

6. Leong (Fordham) def. Mul-quin (SJU) 6-3, 6-4

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By ADRIAN BURKESTAFF WRITER

Kentucky, Kansas, Louisville and Ohio State are each two wins away from a National Championship. Each team earned a spot in the Final Four in New Orleans by winning its respective region. Kentucky will play Louisville on Saturday, March 31 at 6:09 p.m., followed by Ohio State against Kansas at approxi-mately 8:49 p.m.

Th e University of Kentucky Wildcats stormed into the Final Four with a 102-90 win over Indi-ana, followed by an 82-70 victory over the Baylor Bears in the Elite Eight. Against Indiana, the ’Cats were led by Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, who put up 24 points, 10 rebounds and an assist. Th e Elite Eight victory was sparked by an impressive per-formance from freshman forward Anthony Davis, whose score sheet included 18 points, 11 rebounds, two steals and an assist. Kentucky has scored at least 81 points in each game of this year’s tournament, and could be labeled as a favorite at this point, with a young but highly tal-ented group of underclassmen.

Th e fourth-seeded Louisville Cardinals pulled off a command-ing upset of Tom Izzo’s Michigan State Spartans in a 57-44 aff air. In one of the sloppiest games of the tournament, the Cardinals shot just 38 percent from the fi eld, while the Spartans shot an abysmal 29 per-cent. In the Elite Eight, the Cardi-nals beat a hot Florida Gators squad known for its shooting. Louisville

ended the game on a 23-8 run en route to a narrow 72-68 win. Th e Cardinals now add another chapter to the “Batt le of Kentucky” as they take on their in-state rival for the second time this season, the fi rst ending with a Kentucky victory on New Year’s Eve.

Th e Ohio State Buckeyes beat an athletic Cincinnati team 81-66 in the Sweet Sixteen. Defending Player of the Year, Jared Sullinger, scored 23 points and had 11 rebounds, maintaining his elite status. Follow-ing that win, the Buckeyes knocked off the No. 1 seed, Syracuse Orange. Th e game was tight throughout, but Ohio State stood tall on defense to win by seven. To beat the Kansas Jayhawks, Jared Sullinger will need to stay out of foul trouble and main-tain his presence as an unstoppable forward.

Th e Kansas Jayhawks had a scare against the 11th-seeded North Car-olina State Wolfpack, but earned a slim three-point victory. In the next round, Kansas beat a bett er team in the University of North Carolina Tar Heels by thirteen. Tyshawn Tay-lor had 22 points, six rebounds, fi ve assists and fi ve steals to lead Kansas over its old coach, Roy Williams. Th ey now face a tough team in Ohio State in what might be the best game of the tournament thus far.

With the Final Four in place, we are in store for another great end-ing to the college basketball season. Both Final Four games will take place on Saturday, March 31, and the National Championship game will be on Monday, April 2.

MARCH 28, 2012

Baseball Drops Series Versus UMass-Amherst


By CHESTER BAKERSPORTS EDITOR

Th e Fordham baseball team opened conference play over the weekend with a three-game series against UMass-Amherst on March 23 at Houlihan Park. Th e Rams are looking to improve on their 12-11-1 Atlantic 10 record from last season, in which they missed postseason play. Th e Minutemen got the best of Fordham in two of the three games, taking the series Also on tap for the homestand were out of conference games against Stony Brook and Marist, both of which ended in losses for the Rams. Entering the matchup against Long Island on March 28, the team’s record stands at 8-16.

Th e fi ve-game homestand was plagued by errors and runners left on base for the Rams, who committ ed 13 fi elding mistakes and left 32 men on base over the week.

Head Coach Kevin Leighton knows that errors will come back to hurt the team, and they must be reduced in order to be successful.

“We don’t have an explosive of-fense that can have the big innings to come back from our mistakes,” Leighton said. “It puts more pres-sure on our pitcher and our de-fense by making all those errors. And then that pressure can lead to more errors, which will lead to runs.”

Fordham committ ed a season-high fi ve errors in an 11-2 loss to Stony Brook while tallying four in the lone win of the homestand, the second game against UMass.

Leighton also acknowledged that squandering so many off en-sive chances played a critical role in the 1-4 week for the Rams.

“Hopefully we keep gett ing these opportunities,” Leighton said. “We have to be able to capi-talize when we have runners on. I think a lot of it is anxiousness and just swinging at the wrong pitch-es, so that is defi nitely something that we will need to work on.”

Despite the four losses, there were some bright spots for the team, especially for junior second baseman Matt DeSilva. Th e junior registered his fi rst two career hits

in the game against Marist, a 3-2 loss for the Rams. DeSilva was put in the lineup due to a concus-sion suff ered by senior third base-man Brian Kownacki, who missed

two games this week. Kownacki returned to action in the opening game of the UMass series.

DeSilva was unable to continue his hot start in the conference se-ries, collecting just one hit in nine at bats. DeSilva was the fi ft h start-ing second baseman for the Rams this season, making that position the least stable in the lineup.

“We just don’t have an answer yet. [Senior Mike] Mauri brings more power, but he is a litt le bit of a step down defensively,” Leigh-ton said. “[Freshman Joseph] Calabrese is a step up defensively but a step down off ensively, and DeSilva is the same deal. Right now DeSilva is holding on, but we may look to try some new people there.”

Junior outfi elder Ryan Lee led the charge for the Rams, knock-ing fi ve hits against UMass, good enough for .586 batt ing average within the conference.

“We have been working on his swing,” Leighton said. “So I don’t know if it is something physical or if it was just something men-tal, but he has really been coming

around for us.”Senior shortstop Ryan Maghini

came up with the biggest hit of the homestand, bringing home the winning run in the UMass game on a walk-off single in the 10th inning, giving Fordham a 5-4 victory. Junior infi elder Mike Mauri was another highlight in the week, blasting his fi rst career home run, and the team’s third four-bagger of the season for the Rams.

Fordham has now tripled its home run tally at Houlihan Park from 2011.

Th e team was also treated to several solid pitching perfor-mances, especially from junior Joseph Charest, who carried a perfect game into the fi ft h inning in the third game of the UMass series. Th e righthander had taken a perfect game into the seventh in his last start, a win over Seton Hall. Th e outing was not enough for the Rams though, as they dropped the rubber match of the series, 3-1.

“He has been a hard-luck loser a couple of times now,” Leighton said. “He goes out there, and he does exactly what we want him to do. He’s pitched prett y well for the most part, and he’s been the guy that we just haven’t gott en much run support for.”

Senior Dan Munday turned in a strong start in the opener against the Minutemen, going 7.1 in-nings while giving up four earned runs. Sophomore Chris Pike fol-lowed up Munday by going seven innings and also giving up four earned runs.

Fordham will take on Long Is-land in a home game (originally scheduled to be played as an away game) before its next conference series starts on March 30. Later, the Rams will travel to upstate New York to batt le St. Bonaven-ture, a team that also missed the playoff s last season. In its three contests last season, Fordham picked up one win over the Bon-nies.

By KARA SCAGLIOLASTAFF WRITER

Fordham women’s tennis returned to local action this week at Fairleigh Dickinson’s Tennis Center in a match against the Knights. Th e Rams were unable to top the Knights, though, as they were without their top player, junior Amy Simidian.

Th e two sides split the fi rst two doubles matches. Freshmen Sarah Ali and Bella Genkina were ousted at fi rst doubles, 8-3, by the Knights’ best duo. Freshman Julie Leong and sophomore Angelika Dabu were vic-torious at second doubles by a count of 8-3.

Th ird doubles went to Dickinson,

as sophomore Hanna Fritzinger and senior Sarah Tremaine were defeat-ed 8-6.

Dickinson earned wins in the fi rst three singles matches, and in the overall match. Th at did not stop the Rams from competing, though, as they did capture three singles vic-tories, all of which came in third set super tie-breakers.

Tremaine, Ali and Genkina all dropped their matches, none of which were very close. Fritzinger, Leong and Dabu then won the next three.

Fritzinger dropped the opening set of her match at fi ft h singles, 3-6, but came back to win 6-2 and 11-9 in the following sets.

Leong experienced a similar out-come. She dropped the fi rst set, but rebounded to win 6-2 in the second and 10-7 in the tie-breaker.

At third singles, Dabu won the fi rst set, 6-3. She dropped the sec-ond set, 2-6, and won 10-6 in the tie-breaker.

Th e loss against FDU put Ford-ham’s overall record at 12-4 for the season.

Th e Rams next took on Saint Joseph’s University on March 24 at home. Aft er having their three-match winning streak snapped against FDU, the Rams rebounded and won 5-1 against SJU.

Th e teams made an interesting decision before the match, decid-

ing that they would not play doubles unless needed to determine the out-come of the match. Th e Fordham singles players made sure that the doubles matches were not neces-sary.

Genkina won at fi rst singles for the Rams, winning in straight sets, 6-1 and 6-3. Fritzinger was then victorious following Genkina’s win, winning in straight sets, 6-2 and 6-0.

Ali, Dabu and Leong all won in straight sets as well, sealing the victo-ry for the Rams. Th e win improved their overall record to 13-4.

Th e Rams travel to Stony Brook, NY for a match against Stony Brook University on Saturday, March 31 at 11 a.m.

Th e teams continued their domi-nance off the court as well, as three players were named to the Atlantic 10 Conference Commissioner’s Honor Roll for the Fall 2011 semes-ter on Monday.

Seniors Bethany Boyle and Sarah Tremaine and freshman Amy Simid-ian were all honored by the Com-missioner.

In order to qualify, student-ath-letes needed to earn a 3.50 GPA or bett er.

Out of the 1,359 students hon-ored by the committ ee, 122 were Fordham students. Fordham was third amongst Atlantic 10 schools, fi nishing behind Massachusett s (128) and La Salle (125).

Women’s Tennis Splits Pair of MatchesStephen McSherry was used in an emergency relief eff ort in the loss against Stony Brook. Although he had never

pitched in college before, the outfi elder threw two scoresless innings while striking out three.

Rams Open Conference Play with 1-2 Record, Lose Four Out of Five During Homestand

Fordham Dropped By Fairleigh Dickinson; Rallies to Defeat St. John’s


Matthew Cianci has broken out of his early season slump, scoring a career-

high three runs in the win over UMass-Amherst.

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