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April 16, 2012 • Volume 34, No. 10M

Embracing Diversity:
Fordham Community Promotes Cross-Cultural Exchange

"We don’t ‘tolerate’ diversity, we actively respect and love people,” said Phil Florio, S.J., assistant vice president for campus ministry. “That’s the meaning of Christian community.”

This was no homily delivered at Sunday night Mass. Father Florio was speaking of the University’s response to several recent bias-related incidents on both the Rose Hill and Lincoln Center campuses in which racial and homophobic slurs were written in public spaces and, in one case, on the door of a student’s room in a residence hall.

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University Honors Fordham Founders
at Annual Gala

As New York City showed signs of an early spring, the Fordham community assembled on March 26 to celebrate its own transformations, and those who make them possible.

Students, alumni, faculty, administrators, and friends of the University gathered at the 11th annual Founder’s Award Dinner, in the Waldorf Astoria Grand Ballroom, to pay tribute to Fordham’s most devoted benefactors and their beneficiaries.

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Provost Issues Graduate Education Report
for 2010-2011

The 2010-2011 academic year saw many innovations and new partnerships
in graduate and professional education at Fordham. There were updates and changes in degree offerings across the University, ranging from the development of an online master’s in social work to the launch of four new master’s programs in business, all of them attuned to new market demands.

Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of articles on academics to be published in Inside Fordham. The first, a report on undergraduate edcution, appeared in the Jan. 17, 2012 issue.

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Iranian Expert Proposes New Model of Democracy
For Middle Eastern Nations in Transition

Taking in Trash
“A Little Vicks in the Mask Works Wonders”

Former Rhodes Scholars Return to Alma Mater
with Words of Advice

Griffin Named Assistant Vice President
for Alumni Relations

Graduate School of Education Unveils New Programs

Ryan Meara Starts Pro Career as Brienne Ryan
Makes Waves

Social Work, Law, and Business Climb in
U.S. News & World Report Rankings

Book Parses Roots of U.S./Cuban Antagonism

This Month In Fordham History:
Loyola Hall Jesuit Residence Gets a New Wing Named for Peter Faber

PHOTO ESSAY: In Fordham Theatre Production,
Design Complements Performance

Helping Others to Help Others:
Professor Researches Secondhand Trauma in
Social Work

Scholar Sees New Enlightenment in
Islamic Awakening

Relationships Big and Small Inform Law Professor’s Research

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Money, Media, and
the Battle for
Democracy’s Soul

Former Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold and chief NBC News White House correspondent Chuck Todd will headline a daylong conference on Money, Media, and the Battle for Democracy’s Soul on Tuesday, April 24 on the Lincoln Center campus.

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Turning Away
From Hate
The Office of Multicultural Affairs is co-sponsoring a much-anticipated Sustained Dialogue event, “Turning Away From Hate,” on April 18 and 19, an evening with T.J. Leyden, a former skinhead who now speaks on college campuses about turning away from hate.

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In Fordham Theatre
Production, Design
Complements Performance
Swoony Planet opened on Wed., April 11 and will run through Sat., April 21. For more information, call the box office at (212) 636-6340.

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Ryan Meara Starts Pro Career as Brienne Ryan Makes Waves

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