Issue 5 Spring 2020

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The New Normal: The Observer Adapts see page 10

OBSERVER THE

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April 1, 2020 VOLUME XL, ISSUE 5

Online-Only Edition

Fordham Forced to ‘PAUSE’: NYC Shuts Down By SOPHIE PARTRIDGE-HICKS and GABE SAMANDI News Editor and New Editor Emeritus

New York City is currently the most -

“PAUSE,” March

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“This is not life as usual,” Cuomo said at a conE ference in US

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same day the PAUSE order was sched-

GABE SAMANDI/THE OBSERVER

A man wearing a mask and carrying a trash can walks along the middle of Columbus Avenue in front of a shuttered Lincoln Center. New Yorkers are advised to stay home and avoid large gatherings.

From Dust We Came, To Dust We Returned

McShane Delays Commencement

Fordham Issues Partial Refunds to Students

GABRIEL GARCIA

By SOPHIE PARTRIDGE-HICKS News Editor

Contributing Writer

By GUS DUPREE News Editor

ment and diploma ceremonies because we cannot assume it

has announced that in most locations, Easter celebrations faith, odds are that at least one -

and the campus community in -

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Fordham has announced a partial refund to students due

Ash Wednesday is an annual commitment for many, this year

sity to suspend face-to-face class-

see LENT page 12

board and selected fees by ap-

The news was announced

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Fine Arts Classes Adapt to Online Learning

suspension of all face-to-face

By VICKY CARMENATE, WES GREEN, JACQUELINE PIERCE and GILLIAN RUSSO Staff Writers, Asst. Features Editor and Arts & Culture Editor

McShane wrote a separate dents to share the news and offer his sympathy and support

in your childhood bedroom and hold a butterknife while your

announced that Fordham will for commencement, as well as the Baccalaureate Mass on

be found in the White Box Studio

expressed their disappointment at the news, many said that they understood the deci-

refunds in the form of direct defunds are expected to be refund-

it balance in the near future as a

The email explained that additional costs of “new technolo-

one of many hands-on art class-

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COURTESY OF BETTE DANGANAN

Dance, theater and visual arts students are presented with a learning curve

“The transition hasn’t been

see COMMENCEMENT page 6

Many students are apprecia-

see ARTS page 18

see REFUNDS page 3

News

News

Sports & Health

Opinions

Arts & Culture

Medical Supply Donation

Study Abroad Canceled

Fordham Sports Shutdown

Stuck at Home

Digital Guide to NYC

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Fordham contributes 30,000

Students forced to return home

THE STUDENT VOICE OF FORDHAM LINCOLN CENTER

How to experience the city’s art, literature and music from home


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