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Catholic University's Birth Control Policies Raise Questions About Public Funding

Elizabeth Gavin | Posted 04.10.2013 | Religion
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Elizabeth Gavin

Fordham student health insurance covers contraceptives. However, because Fordham follows rules promulgated by Catholic bishops, the university prohibits the actual distribution of birth control prescriptions at campus health centers. This policy has inspired discontent among reproductive rights advocates.

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Ann Coulter Uninvited From Speaking At A NYC University

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 11.13.2012 | College
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Controversial conservative pundit Ann Coulter was invited -- and then disinvited -- to speak at Fordham University in New York last week. Fordham P...

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Jane Austen Weekly: The Brain and Mind

Susan Celia Greenfield | Posted 12.05.2012 | Books
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Susan Celia Greenfield

Among her countless accomplishments, Jane Austen is making news in the field of neuroscience.

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John Brennan Should Tell the Whole Truth About the Drone Strikes

Robert Naiman | Posted 07.04.2012 | World
Read More: Civilian Deaths, John Brennan, Yemen, Fordham University, National Defense Authorization Act, Drones, Pakistan, CIA Predator Drones Yemen, Drone Strikes, Obama Drones, World News
Robert Naiman

Not only do "signature strikes" increase the risk of killing civilians and people who have no dispute with the U.S.; their existence is crucial to the question of whether the drone strikes are legal.

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Lucas Kavner

Asian-American Actors Struggle To Be Considered 'American' On Stage

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 02.18.2012 | Home
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In September of last year, an Asian-American actor posted an offhand status message on Facebook. He wrote that he'd finally been seen by one of the to...

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Ariel Edwards-Levy

Catholic Students Split From Church In Key Debate

HuffingtonPost.com | Ariel Edwards-Levy | Posted 02.09.2012 | Politics
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WASHINGTON -- Single, 18-year-old female, likes having control over her own body, looking for affordable birth control. That's Keely Monroe's summ...

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Fordham Student Paralyzed After Fall From Dorm Bed

Posted 11.14.2011 | College
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A fall from a loft bed at a Fordham University dorm left Kei Usami paralyzed from the neck down. Usami fell about four feet from the elevated bed p...

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Why We Are Having a REAL Affirmative Action Bake Sale At Fordham

Mark Naison | Posted 12.06.2011 | Latino Voices
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Mark Naison

As I know from both my own research and from personal experience, preferences given recruited athletes and children of alumni are far more powerful than those given underrepresented minorities and affect a far larger number of students.

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Prof to Freshmen: Advice for Starting College

Beth Knobel | Posted 11.01.2011 | College
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Beth Knobel

It all boils down to one, simple idea: take responsibility.

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Sexual Diversity And The Catholic Church: Time For A Serious Conversation?

Paul Lakeland | Posted 07.10.2011 | Religion
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Paul Lakeland

When the Church requires life-long celibacy of all people who are not heterosexual, it imposes a life of less love. A call to be less loving, body and soul, is a call to be less in the image of God.

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Catholic Bishops’ Attack On Book Concerns Scholars

nytimes.com | PAUL VITELLO | Posted 06.12.2011 | Books
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Is God male? The Old Testament uses the masculine pronoun to describe him. Jesus refers to the divinity as Father. So does that make the creator a mas...

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Bishops Urge Catholic Schools To Ban A Nun's Book

nytimes.com | LAURIE GOODSTEIN | Posted 06.04.2011 | Books
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A committee of American Roman Catholic bishops announced Wednesday that a popular book about God by Sister Elizabeth A. Johnson, a theologian at Fordh...

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Academics Focus In On Dylan

AP | KILEY ARMSTRONG | Posted 06.02.2011 | College
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NEW YORK — More than three decades have passed since Bob Dylan brought the plight of boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter into the public consciousnes...

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Astoria Characters: The Nun of God

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 06.05.2011 | New York
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Nancy Ruhling

Being a Rikers chaplain is much more than a job to Sister Margaret. What she offers inmates is simple -- love with no toughness or any other strings attached.

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Mighty Movie Podcast Special: Jeffrey Tambor and Thane Rosenbaum on ...And Justice for All

Dan Persons | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
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Dan Persons

When you're offered the opportunity to talk with Jeffrey Tambor -- a.k.a Hank Kingsley, a.k.a. George Bluth Sr, a.k.a. Sid Garner for those who really...

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Harwell's Legacy Joins a Bright Past and Exciting Future for Fordham's Radio Station

Joe Favorito | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
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Joe Favorito

This past week, another New York institution advanced another step in its evolution, as WFUV, Fordham University's 50,000 watt Bronx-based public radi...

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Dr. Judy on the Trauma of Disasters - like Haitian Earthquake

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Earthquake, Petites Desdunes, Clinical Psychology, Children, United Nations, Sri Lanka, Peking University Health Science Center, Mathato Mosisili, Leogane, 9/11, U.N. Committee on Mental Health, Summit for the First Ladies of Africa, Fordham University, Father Wismick Jean-Charles, AIDS Orphans, Disaster Relief, Beyond Bullets and Bombs: Grassroots Peacebuilding Between Israelis and Palestinians, Pakalitha Mosisili, U.S. Doctors for Africa, South Africa, Webster Hall, Dr. Judy Kuriansky, Port-Au-Prince, Hurricane Katrina, American Psychiatric Association, Long Island, Lesotho, Bill Clinton, Red Cross, Roman Catholic Church, Quarterly Arts Soiree, Global Citizenship Award for Leadership in Helping Humanity, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Nicolas Neidhardt, New York City, Haiti, Columbia University Teachers College, Doctors Without Borders, Tsunami, Haitian Boy Scouts, Orphans International Worldwide, Jacmel, L'Hopital De La Communaute Haïtienne, International Association of Applied Psychology Israel, New York News
Jim Luce

New York clinical psychologist and well-known TV and radio personality Judy Kuriansky, Ph.D. just returned from Haiti where she trained "comforters" -...

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