The Fordham Ram Serving The Fordham University Community Since 1918 Volume 105, Issue 6
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Fordham Displays Remnants of Jewish Life in the Bronx
March 8, 2023
President Tetlow Meets with Student Press
By TASNIMAH RAHMAN
By ISABEL DANZIS
Walsh Library preserves an exhibit called “The Remnants of Jewish Life in the Bronx.” The pieces establish Professor Magda Tetter, Ph.D’s vision of showcasing the geographic breadth of Jewish society consisting of high school yearbooks, memoirs, memory books, some efimeras restaurant receipts, business information and advertisements. This past Wednesday, March 1, Reyna Stovall, FCLC ’25, who curated the exhibit, and Sophia Maier, FCRH ’23, shared their research with students, faculty and staff in the “Jews in the Bronx: Oral and Archival Histories” event. As Fordham is based in the Bronx, Stovall and Teter came to the realization that there was a good period of time, through the ’40s and ’50s, where Jewish people made up most of the Bronx and thus began documenting this period by collecting efimeras/artifacts. Stovall began curating this exhibit with a limited number
On March 1, members of the student press met with President Tania Tetlow to discuss her tenure as president. In the meeting, Tetlow touched on current unionization efforts, tuition increases, diversity initiatives, admissions and integration into the Fordham community. Tetlow addressed Fordham and many other higher education institutions’ ongoing tuition increases. Tetlow said that the university will be raising tuition for the upcoming academic year. However, the degree to which it will be raised is unknown. According to Tetlow, an increase addresses ongoing inflation and rising prices. “We skipped a year in tuition increases at Fordham during COVID, for obvious reasons, but our costs still went up that year, so it created — we kind of got forever behind trying to sustain ourselves because we had a year without tuition increases. The inflation that is hitting all of you and your families as a kick in the shin is hitting the university as well. And so, there are costs that go up like utilities.” Tetlow said that she knows the strains the increased tuition places on many students and their families. She said she is working on cutting down on “waste” and “inefficiencies” to help save money. “I am working really hard with how we bend the cost curve, how we find ways to be more efficient and frugal. How we constantly remind ourselves that every penny we spend at this university represents the life savings of your families. And
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CONTRIBUTING WRITER
SEE JEWISH, PAGE 4
COURTESY OF OPEIU 153
The FRA and the OPEIU filed anti-labor charges against Fordham University on March 3, 2023.
Fordham Resident Assistants Union File Anti-Labor Charges Against University By SEBASTIAN DIAZ MANAGING EDITOR
The nascent Fordham Resident Assistants union (FRA), alongside the Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU), filed anti-labor charges against Fordham University with the National Labor Relations Board on March 3, accusing the university administration of violating national labor laws in an email last week.
The email, sent out to Resident Assistants on the evening of March 2 by Jeffrey L. Gray, senior vice president for Student Affairs, informed Resident Assistants (RAs) about the upcoming election to finalize the unionization process, which will take place on March 21. The full email can be read on the Ram's website. Alongside general information about the election, the email also provided a bulleted
list of information pertaining to what unionization will entail. The FRA claims that some of the items in the list are misleading and aimed at keeping student RAs from voting for unionization, which is in violation of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), a law passed by Congress in 1936 to guarantee “workers’ full freedom of SEE UNION, PAGE 5
Fordham Weighs in on Presidential Candidate By ELEANOR SMITH
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
and traditions. The War in Ukraine began in 2022 when boiling Russian military aggressions spilled across the two nations’ shared border in a “special military operation” mirroring the 2014 Crimea peninsula
Nikki Haley, former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador for the Trump administration, announced her candidacy for president on Tuesday, Feb. 14. In her half hour speech, Haley discussed ongoing foreign policy issues such as the war in Ukraine and recent national security issues like the Chinese spy balloon found earlier in February. While Haley never mentioned former President (and de facto leader of one wing of the Republican Party) Donald Trump by name, she did say that it was time for Republicans to leave “faded names” and “stale ideas” in the past. Haley, the “proud daughter of Indian immigrants,”
SEE UKRAINE, PAGE 5
SEE CANDIDATE, PAGE 3
COURTESY OF ALEXANDER HOM FOR THE FORDHAM RAM
Fordham Ukranian Society (FUS) held an event in the McShane Campus Center to raise awareness.
Fordham Ukranian Students Raise Awareness Over One Year of War By ALEXANDER HOM CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The one-year anniversary of the Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine and start of Russia’s subsequent war was spotlit by a tabling event hosted by the Fordham Ukrainian Society
(FUS) and sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA). With their showcase held in the McShane Campus Center’s, FUS sought to teach the Fordham community not only about the ongoing war raging in their homeland, but also to promote Ukrainian culture
SEE TETLOW, PAGE 4
in this issue
Opinion Page 10
Former History Teacher Ron DeSantis Bans AP African American History
Culture
Page 17
Two of the Fordham Acapella Groups Go to the ICCAs
Sports
Page 24
Men's Basketball Wins Three of Last Four, Finishes Third in A-10