Fordham University
Fordham University is a
private,
coeducational research university located in
New York City.
Founded in
1841, Fordham is officially an independent institution, but strongly embraces its
Jesuit heritage. "For most students, the
Roman Catholic influence is positive," one reads in
The Fiske Guide to Colleges 1998, "and many students say that the Jesuit tradition is the school's best attribute." That tradition and attitude towards the student is summarized by the University in its own literature: "The approach begins with a deep respect for you as an individual and your potential, a principle the Jesuits call
cura personalis. Because they respect you, our faculty will challenge you to strive for ever greater personal excellence in all aspects of life â€" intellectual, emotional, moral, and physical. That principle, called
magis, accounts for the rigor of intellectual exchange and the varied challenges you will experience in New York City and the world beyond."
Fordham is listed as one of the top seventy national universities in the
United States by
U.S. News & World Report. In
2006,
BusinessWeek magazine ranked Fordham's College of Business Administration 48th nationally in what it called "the most comprehensive ranking ever of U.S. undergraduate business programs."
Fordham University School of Law, the 15th most selective law school in the United States, was ranked 32 in the nation in the 2006
U.S. News & World Report law school rankings. In
2004, the Graduate School of Social Service was ranked 14th nationally, also by
U.S. News & World Report.
In 2004, Fordham's enrollment included more than 8,000
undergraduate students and 7,000
graduate students spread over three residential campuses in and around New York City: Rose Hill in the
Bronx, Lincoln Center in
Manhattan, and Tarrytown in
Westchester County, New York. Fordham awards
bachelor's,
master's, and
doctoral degrees.[
1]
The University is affiliated with the now-independent
Fordham Preparatory School, with which it shares its founding. "The Prep", as it is known colloquially, also shares a geographic boundary with the University, in effect occupying a corner of the Rose Hill campus.
Early history (1841-1900)
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The Administration Building at the Rose Hill campus. |
Fordham University was founded as St. John's College in 1841 by the
Irish-born
Coadjutor Bishop (later
Archbishop) of New York, the Most Reverend
John Joseph Hughes (nicknamed "Dagger John" because of his personality and the fact that he always drew a
dagger-like cross under his signature). The College was the first
Catholic institution of
higher education in the northeastern United States.
Bishop Hughes purchased Rose Hill Manor in the Bronx, then part of Westchester County, at $30,000 for the purpose of establishing the school. Rose Hill is the name given to the site in
1787 by Robert Watts, a wealthy New York merchant, in honor of his family's ancestral home of the same name in
Scotland. St. John's College opened with a student body of six on June 24, 1841. The Reverend
John McCloskey (later Archbishop of New York, eventually to become the first American
Cardinal) was its president, and the
faculty were
secular priests and
lay instructors. The College was paired with a
seminary, St. Joseph's, which had been founded in
1839 and was in the charge of
Italian Lazarists (also known as Vincentians), with the Reverend Dr. Felix Villanis at its head.
The school received its
charter to grant degrees in
theology,
arts,
law, and
medicine, April 10,
1846, by the
New York state legislature. Also in 1846, Bishop Hughes had convinced a group of
Jesuits working in
Kentucky to move to New York and staff his new school. Part of the agreement between Hughes and the Jesuits was that they would also open a school in what was then the city proper, and they lost little time in doing so. In September of
1847, the first school of Fordham in
Manhattan opened its doors on the
Lower East Side of the city, on Elizabeth and Walker Streets, across the street from the border of the notorious "
Five Points" neighborhood. A devastating fire five months later forced the new school to move to the basement of St. James Catholic Church to finish its first year of operation. From
1848 to
1850 the school operated out of rented space on Third Avenue in the
East Village, until its first permanent home was constructed on West 15th Street, just off of Sixth Avenue. In
1861, this school, the name changed to the College of St. Francis Xavier, was granted its own charter and became an independent institution, although many ties remained between the Jesuits of Fordham and those of Xavier.
A new century (1901-1950)
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Keating Hall at the Rose Hill campus circa February 1937. |
With the addition of a (now defunct) medical school and, in
1905, a law school, the name was changed to Fordham University in
1907 (despite the original name of the school, Fordham has never had any connection with
St. John's University). The name
Fordham ("village by the ford") refers to the neighborhood of the
Bronx in which what is known as the Rose Hill campus of Fordham sits. This neighborhood was named either as a reference to the original settlement that was located near a shallow crossing of the
Bronx River, or as a reference to Rev. John Fordham, an
Anglican priest.
Fordham University Press, a member the
Association of American University Presses (AAUP) since
1938, was established in 1907 not only to represent and uphold the values and traditions of the University itself, but also to further those values and traditions through the dissemination of scholarly research and ideas. The press publishes primarily in the
humanities and the
social sciences, with an emphasis on the fields of philosophy, theology, history, classics, communications, economics, sociology, business, political science, and law, as well as literature and the fine arts. Additionally, the press publishes books focusing on the metropolitan New York region and books of interest to the general public.
In
1913, the decision was made to close the College of St. Francis Xavier and Fordham began opening schools in Manhattan once again, then at the
Woolworth Building in the
Financial District (the tallest building in the world at the time). Due to the ornate lobby of this skyscraper, the students soon began referring to it as the "
marble campus" of Fordham in contrast to the rural nature of the Rose Hill campus. Various colleges flourished at the Woolworth Building over the years, including Fordham Collegeâ€"Manhattan Division, the College of Business Administration, and the Undergraduate School of Education. In the midst of
World War II, Fordham moved its Manhattan schools to a new location a few blocks north of
City Hall at 302
Broadway. The Fordham College of Liberal Studies traces its founding to this period, evolving from Ignatius College which held classes on both campuses. In the years following World War II, Fordham in Manhattan continued to flourish, and the University was soon looking for a larger space to house its "downtown" schools.
WFUV, 90.7 FM in New York City, is Fordham University's 50,000-watt radio station. First broadcast in
1947, it is now a
National Public Radio affilliate, and still has a strong student-run news and sports department, though much of the other programming is staffed by professionals. The sudios are located in Keating Hall on the Rose Hill campus, and the transmitter is located atop
Montefiore Hospital, the tallest buildinig in the Bronx.
A new campus at Lincoln Center (1951-1999)
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The front of the Leon Lowenstein Building at the Lincoln Center campus. |
Fordham's great opportunity came in the mid-1950s when it was invited to be part of the
Lincoln Square Renewal Project which sought to replace substandard housing on the city's west side with a new performing arts complex that would become known as
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Fordham was the first of the city's institutions involved in the project to fully sign on, purchasing most of the property from West 60th Street to West 62nd Street between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues. Part of the opening sequence of the movie
West Side Story (the story was set in the neighborhood) was filmed on Fordham's property before construction began, and in
1961 Fordham's Law School was the first building to open in the Lincoln Square Renewal Project. Later the
Metropolitan Opera, the
New York Philharmonic, the
New York City Ballet, and the
Juilliard School would join Fordham in the neighborhood as part of this project. As work on Fordham's
Leon Lowenstein Building progressed, the University decided to phase out the various undergraduate colleges it conducted at 302 Broadway and replace them with a new school, "The Liberal Arts College." In January of
1969, its second semester of operation, the new college moved into its permanent home in the Lowenstein Building at the Lincoln Center campus.
Since its opening in
1968, the school's name has changed from "The Liberal Arts College" to "The College at Lincoln Center" and in
1996 to Fordham College at Lincoln Center. In
1993, a twenty-story, 850-bed residence hall was added to the campus, along with other campus improvements. Over the last thirty-five years the college has had a remarkable record of achievement, including alumni who have gone on to outstanding careers as stars of stage and screen, as writers and producers, as financial and business leaders, as practitioners of law and medicine, and as political and civic leaders.
In
1972,
Fordham Preparatory School became a seperate entity from the University. It still maintains many ties, however, and physcially shares a border with the Rose Hill campus.
Marymount College is assumed (2000-present)
Marymount College, an independent women's college founded in
1907 by the
Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary (R.S.H.M.), steeped in financial hardship for over two decades, was consolidated into Fordham University in December of
2000.
In October of
2005, the University's Board of Trustees declared that Marymount College would be phased out of the Institution by June of
2007. The campus in
Tarrytown, New York, instead, will become home to Fordham's Graduate School of Religion & Religious Education and no longer an undergraduate college. Officials cited financial infeasibility as the cause of the school's elimination.
Fordham University is comprised of five undergraduate colleges and six graduate schools.
Undergraduate colleges
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Keating Hall with Edwards Parade in the foreground (Rose Hill campus). |
*Fordham College at Rose Hill (1841)
*
Marymount College of Fordham University (1907)
*College of Business Administration (1920)
*Fordham College of Liberal Studies (1944)
*Fordham College at Lincoln Center (1968)
Graduate schools
*
School of Law (1905)
*Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (1916)
*Graduate School of Education (1916)
*Graduate School of Social Service (1916)
*Graduate School of Business Administration (1969)
*Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education (1969)
Fordham University has three residential campuses: Rose Hill in the Bronx, Lincoln Center in Manhattan, and Tarrytown in Westchester County, New York. The University also has a biological field station in
Armonk, New York and a Graduate School of Business in
Beijing, China.[
2]
The undergraduate Fordham College of Liberal Studies holds classes on all three residential campuses utilizing the same faculty and course requirements as the other colleges in the University, but providing unconventional scheduling and the flexibility of multiple campuses in order to accommodate students who are employed full-time, or otherwise unable to take advantage of the offerings at the other undergraduate schools.
Rose Hill
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The main entrance to the Rose Hill campus. |
The Rose Hill campus, established in 1841, is home to the undergraduate Fordham College at Rose Hill and the College of Business Administration, as well as the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School of Religion & Religious Education. Located on 85 acres in the north Bronx, it is among the largest "green campuses" in New York City. The campus is bordered by the
New York Botanical Garden, the
Bronx Zoo, and "Little Italy of the Bronx" on
Arthur Avenue. Rose Hill's traditional collegiate Gothic architecture, cobble-stone streets, and green expanses of lawn have been used as settings in a number of feature films over the years. Rose Hill is also home to Fordham's three
residential colleges: O'Hare Hall, Tierney Hall, and Queen's Court with its notable Bishop's Lounge. About 6,284 undergraduates and graduates attend, with 3,143 in residence.
Lincoln Center
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Peter, Fisher of Men statue at the Lincoln Center campus. |
The Lincoln Center campus, established in 1961, is home to the undergraduate Fordham College at Lincoln Center as well as the
School of Law, the Graduate School of Business Administration, the Graduate School of Education, and the Graduate School of Social Service. Located on eight landscaped acres, the campus occupies the area from West 60th Street to West 62nd Street between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues, in the cultural heart of Manhattan. Across the street is one of the world's great cultural centers,
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; nearby are
Central Park,
Broadway, and
Columbus Circle. About 8,000 professional and undergraduate students attend, with approximately 853 in residence in apartment-style housing.[
3] The Lincoln Center campus currently consists of the Leon Lowenstein Building, McMahon Hall dormitory, Quinn Library, and the Law School Building. In August of 2005, the University announced a multi-year, $1 billion proposed master plan to add 1.5 million square feet of academic, student activities, and dormitory space to the campus. The development of the Lincoln Center campus will begin with the expansion of Quinn Library and the construction of a new Law School building, a new student center, a dormitory, and additional parking. Future phases of the development plan include the construction of new space for Fordham College of Liberal Studies, Fordham College at Lincoln Center, the Graduate School of Business, the Graduate School of Social Service, and the Graduate School of Education.[
4]
Tarrytown
The 25-acre Tarrytown campus was officially established in
2002 when
Marymount College, Tarrytown, consolidated with Fordham. Located 25 miles north of New York City in Tarrytown, New York, the campus is home to the all-female undergraduate Marymount College of Fordham University as well as branches of the graduate schools of education, social service, and business administration. Marymount College will be phased out in 2007; however, the campus will remain active and be renamed the Marymount campus, supporting numerous programs and graduate schools.
Louis Calder Center
The
Louis Calder Center is Fordham's biological field station for ecological research and environmental education. Located 30 miles north of New York City in Armonk, New York, it is the only full-time ecological research field station in the
New York metropolitan area. The station consists of 113 forested acres with a 10-acre lake and 19 buildings, which are used for laboratory and office space, educational programs, equipment storage, and residences. The station's state-of-the-art equipment, research library, greenhouses, and housing are available for research and educational programs for students, faculty, and visiting scientists.[
5]
Beijing, China
Fordham's Beijing campus, founded in
1998, is the site of the Beijing International
MBA Program (BiMBA), which enrolls over 400 students a year in traditional part-time and full-time MBA programs and in Executive MBA (EMBA) programs.
The Fordham University libraries own more than 2 million volumes, subscribe to over 15,500 periodicals and 19,000 electronic journals, and serve as a depository for United States Government documents. The libraries own many special collections of rare books and manuscripts covering a variety of subjects including
Americana, Jesuitica, the
French Revolution, and
Criminology. The libraries also provide access to more than 200 electronic databases and over 60,000 electronic books.[
6]
*The
William D. Walsh Family Library, which opened in
1997 at the Rose Hill campus, contains over 1 million volumes and 380,000 government documents. In its 2004 edition of
The Best 351 Colleges, the
Princeton Review ranked Fordham's Walsh Library fifth in the country.
*The Gerald M. Quinn Library at the Lincoln Center campus (in the Lowenstein building) contains some 500,000 volumes. In addition to a general collection serving Fordham College at Lincoln Center, the Quinn Library also has strong collections in business, education, and social service serving the three graduate schools on that campus.
*The
Gloria Gaines Library at the Tarrytown campus houses over 130,000 volumes and serves the students at Marymount College as well as the Fordham graduate students in business, education, and social service.
*The Leo T. Kissam Memorial Law Library at the Lincoln Center campus (in the Law School building) contains over 326,000 volumes, 1 million microforms, and 5,270 periodicals. Subject strengths include American and
international law, with many foreign legal sources including
European Community law and international
antitrust law.
The Great Seal
The Great Seal of Fordham University bears the coat of arms of the
Society of Jesus at the center. The shield bears the Greek letters of the name
Jesus,
IHS, with the cross resting in the horizontal line of the letter "H", three nails beneath (evoking those used in the crucifixtion of Jesus), all in gold in a field framed in maroon, the color of the University, with silver
fleurs-de-lis (reminicent of the
French origin of the first Jesuit instructors) on the edge of the maroon frame. Around the shield, a
scroll with the University's motto in
latin,
Sapienta et Doctrina (Wisdom and Learning), is etched. The scroll rests on a field in which tongues of fire are displayed, recalling the outpouring of the
Holy Spirit of Wisdom that marked the first
Pentecost. A
laurel above the shield has engraved the names of the disciplines that were taught when the school was granted university status in 1907: arts, science, philosophy, medicine, and law. Surrounding the entire seal is a
heraldic belt, which has engraved the name of the school in latin,
Universitas Fordhamensis, and year of foundation.[
7]
Fordham ''Maroon
There is as much myth as there is truth surrounding the history of Fordham's college color:
Maroon was not the original color,
magenta was. Magenta was used on the uniforms of Fordham's "base-ball nines." The color was also used by Fordham's archrival,
Harvard.[
8]
Both institutions claimed prior right to use of magenta, and neither institution was willing to make concessions. Since it was "improper" for two schools to be wearing the same colors, the matter was to be settled by a series of
baseball games. The winning team could lay claim to magenta. The losing team would have to find another color. Fordham won, but Harvard reneged on its promise.[
9]
That was the situation in
1874 when the student body gathered at the college to meet Rev. William Gockeln, S. J., the newly installed College president. One of the matters discussed at this historic meeting was that of choosing an official college color that would belong to Fordham and Fordham alone. With matters at a standstill, Stephen Wall '75, suggested maroon, a color not widely used at the time.[
10]
In a letter that Wall subsequently wrote to the editors of the Fordham Monthly in
1907, he stated, "I was asked what maroon was and the only way I could explain it was that it looked something like
claret wine with the sun shining through it, but I said that, if I was given time, I would produce a piece of maroon ribbon. So I was accorded the privilege, and I wrote to my sister to send me a piece of maroon ribbon and velvet. These samples came in due course and were submitted to the committee. It received the unanimous approval of the committee, was adopted and has been the color that has carried Fordham through many a victory."[
11]
An ironic footnote: Harvard also stopped using magenta, in favor of
crimson, however.[
12]
The Ram
The
ram evolved into Fordham's mascot and symbol from a slightly vulgar cheer that Fordham fans sang during a 1893 football game against the Military Academy at
West Point. The students began cheering "One-damn, two-damn, three-damn...Fordham!" The song was an instant hit but "damn" was sanitized to "Ram" to conform to the university's image (Schroth 2002:107).
The Victory Bell
The "Victory Bell", which is mounted outside the Rose Hill Gym, is from the
Japanese aircraft carrier Junyo. According to the plaque below the bell, it was recovered near
Saipan where it was "silenced by an aerial Bomb." It was given to Fordham as a gift by Admiral
Chester W. Nimitz "as a Memorial to Our Dear Young Dead of World War II." It was blessed by
Cardinal Spellman, and "was first rung at Fordham by the President of the United States, the Honorable
Harry S. Truman on
May 11,
1946, the Charter Centenary of the University." It is rung by each Fordham senior player after victorious home football games and its ringing also marks the start of the commencement ceremonies each May. A small group of students rang the bell on the 50th anniversary of
Pearl Harbor in honor of the war dead.
The Rose Hill Gym
The men's and women's basketball teams, as well as the volleyball squad, play in the
Rose Hill Gym. The 3,200 seat gym opened on January 16,
1925 and was one of the largest on-campus facilities at the time it was built, earning the nickname "The Prairie" because of its large floor space. The arena has been in continuous use by Fordham's basketball teams since its opening with the exception of the World War II years, when it was used for a barracks. The Rose Hill Gym has been the site of many legendary college and high school basketball games including
Kareem Abdul Jabbar's final high school game and the 1988 Tolentine-Archbishop Molloy
Catholic High School Athletic Association (CHSAA) Championship game, billed by
New York Newsday as the "Best High School Game of the '80s." The Rose Hill Gym continues to host the CHSAA Championships annually.
School song
Fordham's school song is "Alma Mater Fordham":
O Alma Mater Fordham, How mighty is thy powerto link our hearts to thee in love that grows with every hour.Thy winding elms, Thy hallowed halls.O Fordham alma Mater, what mem'ries each recalls.O Alma Mater Fordham while yet thy life blood startsShined by thy sacred image within thy hearts of hearts.And in the years That ought to be.In the years that are to be may life and live be true to me.O Fordham alma Mater, as I am true to thee.[
13]
University songs
Ram" as sung by the College at Rose Hill Glee ClubRam", instrumental, as played by the University BandAlma Mater"Marching Song", The Fordham MarchThe Fordham varsity
sports teams all use the nickname "
Rams." Their colors are
maroon and
white. The Fordham Rams are members of
NCAA Division I and compete in the
Atlantic 10 Conference in all sports except
football. In football, the Rams play in the
Patriot League of
NCAA Division I-AA.
Football
History
In the mid-1930s, Fordham in the heart of the Bronx boasted what might have been the greatest offensive and defensive line in college history -- the "Seven Blocks of Granite." Tackle
Ed Franco was a consensus All-American. So was center
Alex Wojciechowicz who later became an All-Pro with Detroit and Philadelphia. Guard
Vince Lombardi later became one of the greatest of pro coaches. In 1937, the team went undefeated and was ranked number three nationally. So popular was Fordham, that the Cleveland NFL franchise formed in the '30s took its nickname from the Rams of the Bronx.[
14] The Cleveland Rams later moved to
Los Angeles and then to
St. Louis, Missouri, and are now known as the
St. Louis Rams.
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"Seven Blocks of Granite", Vince Lombardi is #40. |
On December 15 1954, Fordham scratched its football program for various reasons, mainly financial. A club football team was established in
1964 (on shaky authority) and football was re-established as a varsity sport in
1970, but in
Division III. Fordham joined the NCAA's
Division I-AA in
1989.
With 722 all-time wins at the close of the 2005 season [
15], Fordham's football program ranks 15th among Division I programs on the all-time NCAA wins list, and fifth among programs currently playing at the Division I-AA level, trailing only
Yale University, the
University of Pennsylvania,
Harvard University, and
Princeton University.
Fordham was invited to play in the
1942 Rose Bowl, but declined the invitation because it had previously accepted a berth in the
1942 Sugar Bowl. The Rams, who defeated the
University of Missouri by a 2-0 score, were the
1942 Sugar Bowl champions. The Rams also played in the
1941 Cotton Bowl but lost, 13-12, to
Texas A&M.
Football Milestones
*
Patriot League Champions: 2002
*
Division I-AA Playoffs: 2002 (Quartefinal Loss)
*
Division III Playoffs: 1987 (Quarterfinal Loss)
*
Bowl games: 1941
Cotton Bowl, 1942
Sugar Bowl*Wins: 722 at the end of 2005 season, 15th most wins in
NCAA, 5th most wins in
Division I-AACurrent Players in Professional Football
*Javarus Dudley, WR,
Orlando Predators*Kevin Eakin, QB,
Hamilton Tiger-Cats*Matt Fordyce, K,
Chicago Bears*Aki Jones, DL,
Washington Redskins*Tad Kornegay, DB,
Hamilton Tiger-CatsBaseball
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Houlihan Park at Jack Coffey Field. |
Founded in the late 1850's, the Fordham Rose Hill Baseball Club played the first ever nine-man team college baseball game on
November 3,
1859 against St. Francis Xavier College.[
16]
Steve Bellán, first
Latin American to play
Major League Baseball, started his career as a player at Fordham.[
17]
There have been 56 major leaguers who have played at Fordham, including
All-Star pitcher
Pete Harnisch and
Baseball Hall of Famer
Frankie Frisch. Frisch, a star athlete in four different sports at Fordham, was known as the "Fordham Flash".[
18]
Jack Coffey Field, a multisport field, is named after
John "Jack" Coffey, former
athletic director and baseball coach at the University. He amassed 817 wins as a baseball coach and became a popular answer to a baseball trivia question, since he is the only player to play with both
Ty Cobb and
Babe Ruth in the same season (
1918 Detroit Tigers and
Boston Red Sox). A renovation completed in
2005 resulted in an official renaming of the baseball portion of the field to "Houlihan Park at Jack Coffey Field".
Hockey
The University supports hockey as a club sport. In 2006, Rams hockey took their first Conference championship since becoming a club in the late 1960's. The team is recognized as a Division III team by the
American Collegiate Hockey Association, and it is a member of the
Metropolitan Collegiate Hockey Conference.
For a sampling of notable alumni, see the List of Notable Fordham University Alumni.Among the notable people who have graduated from Fordham are
Mary Higgins Clark, best-selling suspense novelist;
Alan Alda, five-time Emmy Award and six-time Golden Globe Award-winning actor;
Denzel Washington, two-time Academy Award and two-time Golden Globe Award-winning actor;
Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman Vice Presidential candidate of a major political party;
Charles Osgood, three-time Emmy Award and two-time Peabody Award-winning journalist for CBS and Radio Hall of Famer;
Vin Scully, Emmy Award-winning sportscaster for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Baseball Hall of Famer, and Radio Hall of Famer; and
Vince Lombardi, football coaching legend.
*
Chris Matthews, Host of MSNBC'S Hardball, 2006
*
John Sexton, New York University President, 2005
*
Tim Russert, NBC's Meet the Press, 2004
*
Ted Koppel, ABC Nightline, 2003
*
Gerald Levin, Former CEO AOL Time Warner, 2002
*
Bill Cosby, Actor, Comedian, best-selling author, educator 2001
*
Vin Scully, Hall of Fame Broadcaster, Los Angeles Dodgers, 2000
*
George Mitchell, Former US Senator, 1999
*
Chuck Schumer, US Senator from New York. He has appeared at Commencement regularly since becoming a Senator in 1999
*
Mary Higgins Clark, Best-Selling Author,1988
*
Joseph Abboud, fashion designer
*
Daniel Berrigan, S.J., poet-in-residence
*
W. Norris Clarke, S.J., philosopher and noted authority on
St. Thomas Aquinas*
Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., academic theologian,
Cardinal of the
Catholic Church*
William T. Hogan, S.J., economist and noted authority on the
steel industry*
J. Quentin Lauer, S.J., philosopher and noted authority on
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel*
Paul Levinson, author of
The Plot To Save Socrates and winner of the 1999
Locus Award for Best First Novel
*
William O'Malley, S.J., actor in the film
The Exorcist, for which he was also a technical advisor; author of numerous books
*
The Observer, Fordham University's award-winning student newspaper, published from the Lincoln Center campus since
1981.
*
The Fordham Ram (commonly known as
The Ram), Fordham University's student newspaper, published from the Rose Hill campus since
1918.
The Ram is the University's official journal of record.
*
The Paper, Fordham University's journal of news, analysis, comment, and review.
*
Law Review, Fordham University School of Law's scholarly journal serving the legal profession and the public by discussing current legal issues.
Fordham is a member of the American Council on Education, the Association of Governing Boards, the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities, the
Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities, the International Federation of Catholic Universities, the
Fulbright Association, the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities, the Center for Academic Integrity, the
National Collegiate Athletic Association, the National Association of Graduate Schools, the Council of Graduate Schools of the United States, the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools and the Graduate Schools in Catholic Colleges and Universities.[
19]
*
WFUV, 90.7
FM in New York City, is Fordham University's 50,000-watt radio station. First broadcast in
1947, the station serves approximately 280,000 listeners weekly in the New York area and thousands more worldwide on the
Web (wfuv.org). The station mainly has an
adult album alternative format, although it does carry programs which play music from other genres, such as
folk music,
jazz, and
Celtic music.[
20] Its
One on One program, which airs every Saturday from 1pm to 4pm
Eastern, is New York City's longest-running sports call-in show. The student-produced and -hosted program covers the pros and the college teams, with a focus on Fordham University.[
21]
*
Edgar Allan Poe, who lived near Fordham's Rose Hill campus and would frequently visit the Jesuits who he had befriended, was inspired by the ringing of the bell of the University Church to pen his
1849 poem
The Bells. The bell is known since as Old Edgar Allan.[
22]
*
James Fenimore Cooper, who lived nearby, used Rose Hill Manor as the setting for his
1821 novel,
The Spy.[
23]
*Rev.
William O'Malley, a
Jesuit and professor at Fordham, played Father Dyer in the 1973 film
The Exorcist. In addition, scenes from the film were shot on Fordham's campus, including the language lab scene, which was filmed in Keating Hall, and the bedroom scene, which was filmed in Hughes Hall.
*One of Fordham's dormitory buildings, Walsh Hall, was built facing the street as a condition of the loan Fordham received from New York City. If Fordham had defaulted on the loan, the city would have converted it into a
housing project, however this did not occur and the building's entrance still confusingly faces the street on the edge of the Rose Hill campus instead of the interior of the campus.
* The
Rose Hill Gym is the nation's oldest gym still in use at the NCAA Division I level.
* On
September 30,
1939, Fordham participated in the world's first televised
football game. In front of the sport's first live TV audience, the Rams defeated
Waynesburg College, 34-7. The following week they lost the second ever televised game to the
University of Alabama, 7-6. It was not for another month that a professional
NFL game was televised.
* On
February 28,
1940, Fordham hosted the
University of Pittsburgh at
Madison Square Garden in the first ever televised basketball game. Pittsburgh won, 57-37.
* Ashanti and Fat Joe's music video for "What's Love" was filmed in the Rose Hill gym. The Fordham Ram symbol can be seen on the base of the basketball hoop in the video.
*
Awake*
A Beautiful Mind*
A Bronx Tale*
The Exorcist*
The Gambler*
The Iron Major*
Kinsey*
Love Story*
Quiz Show*
The Verdict
*Fred C. Feddeck. Hale Men of Fordham: Hail!. Trafford Publishing, 2001. ISBN 1552125777
*Raymond A. Schroth, S.J. Fordham: A History and Memoir. Jesuit Way, Chicago 2002. ISBN 0829416765
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Fordham University web site*
Fordham Athletics*
Unofficial Fordham Athletics Message Board*
Fordham Law*
Fordham University Press*
Fordham University's Library web site*
The Ram, Rose Hill campus based student newspaper
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The Observer, Award-Winning, Lincoln Center campus based student newspaper
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the paper, Rose Hill campus's journal of news analysis, comment, and review
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Fordhamensis, Fordham-centered online community.
