Fordham Ukranian Students Raise Awareness Over One Year of War

By ALEXANDER HOM CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The one-year anniversary of the Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine and start of Russia’s subsequent war was spotlit by a tabling event hosted by the Fordham Ukrainian Society

(FUS) and sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA). With their showcase held in the McShane Campus Center’s, FUS sought to teach the Fordham community not only about the ongoing war raging in their homeland, but also to promote Ukrainian culture and traditions.

The War in Ukraine began in 2022 when boiling Russian military aggressions spilled across the two nations’ shared border in a “special military operation” mirroring the 2014 Crimea peninsula

SEE UKRAINE, PAGE 5 list of information pertaining to what unionization will entail. The FRA claims that some of the items in the list are misleading and aimed at keeping student RAs from voting for unionization, which is in violation of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), a law passed by Congress in 1936 to guarantee “workers’ full freedom of

On March 1, members of the student press met with President Tania Tetlow to discuss her tenure as president. In the meeting, Tetlow touched on current unionization efforts, tuition increases, diversity initiatives, admissions and integration into the Fordham community.

Tetlow addressed Fordham and many other higher education institutions’ ongoing tuition increases. Tetlow said that the university will be raising tuition for the upcoming academic year.

However, the degree to which it will be raised is unknown. According to Tetlow, an increase addresses ongoing inflation and rising prices.

“We skipped a year in tuition increases at Fordham during COVID, for obvious reasons, but our costs still went up that year, so it created — we kind of got forever behind trying to sustain ourselves because we had a year without tuition increases. The inflation that is hitting all of you and your families as a kick in the shin is hitting the university as well. And so, there are costs that go up like utilities.”

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Tetlow said that she knows the strains the increased tuition places on many students and their families.

She said she is working on cutting down on “waste” and “inefficiencies” to help save money.

By ELEANOR SMITH CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Nikki Haley, former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador for the Trump administration, announced her candidacy for president on Tuesday, Feb. 14. In her half hour speech, Haley discussed ongoing foreign policy issues such as the war in Ukraine and recent national security issues like the Chinese spy balloon found earlier in February. While Haley never mentioned former President (and de facto leader of one wing of the Republican Party) Donald Trump by name, she did say that it was time for Republicans to leave “faded names” and “stale ideas” in the past.

Haley, the “proud daughter of Indian immigrants,”

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“I am working really hard with how we bend the cost curve, how we find ways to be more efficient and frugal. How we constantly remind ourselves that every penny we spend at this university represents the life savings of your families. And

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