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Fordham Defeats Temple, 30-29, in Surprise Win Business School Will Expand Rams Ranked No. 21 in FCS Polls After Beating Major Opponent for First Time Since 1954 to Manhattan Campus in 2014 By CONNOR RYAN EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
COURTESY OF FORDHAM ATHLETICS
Brian Wetzel and Carlton Koonce congratulate teammate Sam Ajala after he scored the game-winning touchdown.
By DAN GARTLAND EXECUTIVE SPORTS EDITOR
In the long history of Fordham football, there may not be a win more unlikely than the one the Rams came away with in Philadelphia on Saturday afternoon, as Fordham outlasted Temple, 30-29. Temple, an FBS program that plays in the American Athletic Conference (a conference with
an automatic BCS bowl berth), actually paid Fordham to come play the game. The exact figure is not clear, but FCS teams are usually paid around $300,000 to play such games. Of course, FBS teams are usually paying for the right to embarrass a lesser opponent. However, that was not the case on Saturday. Michael Nebrich threw a desperate 29-yard touchdown pass to Sam Ajala with four seconds
University Advocates for Immigration Reform By KELLY KULTYS NEWS EDITOR
Fordham University has partnered with the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU) to continue its ongoing efforts to support just immigration reform. Recently, the AJCU has decided to place advocating for immigration reform at the heart of its agenda. “Fordham is a member of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities,” Thomas Dunne, vice president for administration, said. “As a member institution, we have embraced immigration reform and welcome partnering with them on this important issue. There can be no dispute that the issue must be addressed, and in this issue
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universities have their role to play.” In June, the U.S. Senate passed its Immigration Reform Bill, also known as the DREAM Act, which outlined a path to citizenship for approximately 11 million undocumented citizens. “Many of whom are students, who through no fault of their own, find themselves living in this country undocumented,” Dunne said. The DREAM Act, an acronym for Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors, is a bill first proposed by Senators Dick Durbin and Orrin Hatch on Aug. 1, 2001. The bill would allow immigrant students to apply for permanent residency. A student must meet certain requirements, including graduating from a U.S. high school, arriving in the U.S. as a minor and living in the U.S. continuously for at least five years prior to the bill’s enactment. “DREAMers” who go to college or serve in the U.S. military can also become eligible for U.S. citizenship. Additionally, the DREAM Act would eliminate a federal provision that penalizes states that provide in-state tuition without regard to immigration status. The bill passed the Senate with a vote of 68 to 32. All Democrats in the Senate voted in favor of the bill along with 14 Republicans. Right now, the bill awaits a vote SEE IMMIGRATION, PAGE 3
left to tie the game at 29 and Michael Marando converted the extra point to put Fordham ahead. It was the first time Fordham had beaten a major college football team since 1954. “It’s a tremendous accomplishment for our kids and our coaches and our school,” Fordham head coach Joe Moorhead said. “We told them to expect success this week. They came out and fought.” SEE FOOTBALL, PAGE 19
The Gabelli School of Business (GSB) will expand next fall to include a small undergraduate program at Fordham’s Lincoln Center Campus in Manhattan, marking the end of a planning process that has spanned nearly two decades, a University statement confirmed last week. Students enrolled in the program will pursue a Bachelor of Science in global business, and will focus on one of four subject concentrations: digital media and technology; global finance and business economics; management, with a focus on health care; and marketing with a focus on consumer insight. GSB at Lincoln Center will begin with an inaugural class of 50 freshmen next year, according to the statement. There will be no sophomore, junior or senior programs until that freshman class advances. By the 2017-18 academic year, administrators expect to have a
full-range of student levels enrolled in the business program. Donna Rapaccioli, dean of GSB, says she looks forward to offering students a wide variety of course options in the city. “This program will provide a values-based business education that has a liberal arts focus,” Rapaccioli said in an email. “Having a site in midtown Manhattan will attract attention to our undergraduate business program in general, which carries benefits that will accrue to Rose Hill and Lincoln Center students, alike.” Nevin Kulangara, GSB ’15 and the vice president of GSB for Rose Hill’s United Student Government, says the new program will make Fordham’s business school more competitive among others in the area. “Manhattan is really the business hub of the world, so it makes sense for the Gabelli School to take this step,” Kulangara said. “I think having this other option for students will help us compete with NYU’s Stern School of BusiSEE GABELLI, PAGE 2
Enterprising Student Plots Security Alerts Online
COURTESY OF TENT20
Creator Randy Clinton transformed crimes into points based on location and victims’ gender — females: red, males: blue.
By KELLY KULTYS NEWS EDITOR
Today many students ask themselves “what is the point of this class?” But one student, Randy Clinton, FCRH ’14, was determined to take what he used in the classroom and apply it to his life. That is how tent20.com was born back in January 2013. “I started to get nervous that I wasn’t learning enough or that I didn’t know how to do the things I was learning,” Clinton said. “I wanted to prove to myself that I could take the things I was learning and demonstrate it.” One of Clinton’s main goals with the website is to take complicated or frightening data and to
simplify it into a chart or graph. His most recent project involved creating a map of reported crimes in the Fordham area since January 2013. “I’m actually getting ready to sign a lease for an apartment up here and I hadn’t lived up here before,” Clinton said, “so as I was going through [the process], people were saying ‘oh that’s a bad part, that’s a bad area to live’ and I thought that was absurd.” Clinton decided to do some investigation of his own to see if the area surrounding Fordham was really as bad as some believe it is. “I noticed all those emails [students] get, those security blasts that come in like clumps which make it seem like there’s some
rapid crime spree going on,” Clinton said. “And again, I thought that was absurd. I was getting emotionally attached to seeing a bunch of them come in at once. You don’t think about them on the days you don’t get them.” Clinton believed that receiving all of the security alert emails, which seemed to flood students’ inboxes, especially after the weekend, gave students feelings of apprehension at all times. He was curious about how often incidents, such as iPhone robbery, occurred in the surrounding area. “I figured that if those were all the security reports just out there, I could gather the data and SEE CRIME, PAGE 3