Volume 94 Issue 19

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Opinions PAGE 9

Culture PAGE 15

Sports PAGE 28

Celebrity endorsements don’t sway voters, just help to motivate them.

Prescribe Fordham! A birth control fair hosted by Fordham students.

Football wins a tough one over Holy Cross, before falling to Bucknell.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2012

VOLUME 94, ISSUE 19

President Barack Obama Wins Re-election

Obama Captures Key Swing States to Secure His Stay in the White House By KELLY KULTYS ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR

Shortly after 11 p.m., President Barack Obama was officially reelected as President of the United States. Ohio and Oregon came in back-to-back to push Obama over the necessary 270 electoral votes to win the presidency. It was a slightly closer battle this time around for Obama than four years ago when he defeated Senator John McCain with 365 electoral votes to McCain’s 173. This time around Obama captured 303 electoral votes while the Republican challenger, former governor Mitt Romney, earned 206. Obama also held the popular vote 56,224,328 votes to 54,786,753 votes. (At press time, the official election results from Florida were still pending.) Obama won the key battle ground states of Ohio (18 electoral votes), Virginia (13) Wisconsin (10) — the home state of Paul Ryan — Nevada (6), Colorado

(9) and New Hampshire (4). He also secured the usual Democratic strongholds in the Northeast including New York (29), Romney’s former state of Massachusetts (11) and on the West Coast, most importantly California with its 55 electoral votes. The decisive factors in Obama’s victory were the swing states, especially the ones that were assumed to be leaning right (such as Virginia). Romney, on the other hand, took the usual Republican strongholds including the South, particularly Texas (38), and parts of the Midwest. However, Romney was unable to capture any of the main battleground states. Romney officially conceded in 12:55 a.m. in Boston, MA. He began by thanking his running-mate, Paul Ryan, his wife, Ann, and his family for all of their support. He then continued to thank all of his supporters throughout the country. Romney followed with SEE ELECTION, PAGE 5

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President Obama and his family greeted supporters in Chicago after winning the re-election on Tuesday night.

Campuses Sustain Minimal Damage Amid Hurricane As Administration Cancels Week of Classes, Final Exam Schedule is Adjusted to Allow for More Class Meetings By CONNOR RYAN NEWS EDITOR

Compared to the mass power outages in Connecticut, the transportation problems in New York City, the flooded homes in New Jersey and the loss of life (which has amounted to at least 48 people in New York), Fordham’s campuses escaped Hurricane Sandy with minimal damage. “I am happy to be able to report that, through the grace of God and the hard work of our staff, we came through the ordeal relatively unscathed. We sustained no injuries and no building damage on any of our campuses,” Rev. Joseph M. McShane, S.J., president of the University, said in an email to the Fordham community this week. About 12 trees came down at Rose Hill, but no building on campus ever lost electricity, according to John Carroll, associate vice president of Safety and Security. Contrary to popular belief, no residence hall at Rose Hill has a backup generator. There is a generator in the McGinley Center, Rose Hill’s evacuation meeting point. (It is not an emergency shelter open to Bronx residents; Lehman College is, however.) At Lincoln Center, about 50 graduate students had to be evacuated from a residence hall on 58th Street and some administrative and academic offices had to be closed on Monday afternoon because of a collapsed construction crane on West 57th Street. Those students

University Church Reopens With New Organs By EDDIE MIKUS STAFF WRITER

PHOTO BY ELIZABETH ZANGHI/THE RAM

One large tree was uprooted near Rose Hill’s administration building Monday night as Hurricane Sandy made landfall.

were relocated to McMahon Hall, an undergraduate residence at Lincoln Center. The 58th Street residence hall has since been reopened as the City works to stabilize the crane. Fordham’s Calder Center campus in Armonk, NY lost power and bore “slight damage,” according to McShane’s email. Power has since been restored. The Westchester campus suffered some downed trees. Early on Tuesday, Oct. 30, students at the Rose Hill campus lost Internet connection. The problem reportedly stemmed from flooded

facilities and power outages near Fordham’s off-campus servers. Fordham IT resolved the problem on Wednesday, Oct. 31. Fordham’s Emergency Management Team, made up of administrators from every department and campus of the University, held meetings and initiated conference calls about the effects of Hurricane Sandy over the course of last week. The group was ultimately responsible for canceling classes Monday, Oct. 29 through Sunday, Nov. 4. “Our number one priority was the safety of our students, closely

followed by the safety of the staff who rode out the storm on campus, many of them staying here instead of at home to assist even during the most dangerous parts of the storm,” Christopher Rodgers, Rose Hill’s dean of students and a member of the Emergency Management Team, said in an email. Before the storm made landfall on Monday evening, students were urged to stay in their residence halls SEE HURRICANE, PAGE 5

For more information see the Hurricane Photo Spread, Page 14

Fordham’s masses have returned to the University Church after a two-month stint in Keating Hall’s First Floor Auditorium due to the installation of two new organs. Rev. Patrick Ryan S.J., Rev. Philip Florio, S.J. and Monsignor Joseph Quinn said the first Mass this year in the Church, which was held at 11 a.m. on Nov. 4. Father Florio also presided over the 9 p.m. student Mass, held in the same location. A third Mass was held at 5 p.m. in Our Lady’s Chapel. Not surprisingly, people connected with the installation of the new organs took tremendous pride in the completion of the project. “Obviously, it’s the culmination of really years of planning, and then the years of installing and making the organ,” Robert Minotti, Fordham’s director of music and University organist, said. “It’s just a great sense of satisfaction that the project’s finally complete.” Other University Church officials were happy that Mass had returned to the Church. “It was very gracious for the people of Keating First to allow us to use that space,” John Gownley, SEE CHURCH, PAGE 2


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