A Bilingual Workshop at the Jerome Park Library in the Bronx is one D train stop after Fordham Road. This New York Public Library branch is hosting events to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month almost every day, with gatherings ranging from language workshops for exclusively Spanish-speaking adults, to arts-and-crafts for the community’s children.

Since the beginning of the decade, Major League Baseball (MLB) has implemented a myriad of changes to the game to, as MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said, “make sure we put the very best form of baseball on the field.” While some of these changes have benefited the sport, others have had quite the opposite effect. In its efforts to create “the very best form of baseball,” MLB made aspects of its product better while catering it to the television audience at the expense of the in-person ballgame experience.

Tears ran down cheeks and sniffles echoed in Regal Union Square’s outdoor lobby after the credits for “My Old Ass” rolled. However, my eyes were dry and all I could think of the film was that I had seen some version of it so many times before. “My Old Ass” claims to be a progressive and fresh take on the coming-of-age genre, but there are no surprising moments outside of quirky gags that make this film unique.

Damian Grove (he/him), FCLC '27, is an Assistant Fun & Games Editor. Outside of The Observer, Damian loves visiting the theatre and going on walks. He loves making puzzles for others to enjoy and is sorry for the excess of Taylor Swift clues.

As a student at Fordham University who is constantly exploring new healthy food options, I want to encourage my peers to do the same. The American Heart Association conducted a study around 2013, based on the results of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys’ teen health cases. The outcome revealed that more than 80% of American adolescents live unhealthy lifestyles. Less than 1% of the 4,673 people from the study had a proper diet and several individuals were at risk for future cardiovascular problems,. according to Diana Hassan, Michigan State University Extension representative and journalist who wrote about this experiment.

Before the entrance of the Mastercard batter’s eye deck, a stream of Fordham maroon flowed along the perimeter of the area. Alumni and their families decked in Ram gear chatted and laughed with the people in front and behind them as they waited to enter “Fordham Night” on the 200 level of Yankee Stadium.

On Sept. 11, Fordham’s Athletic Department announced that Ed Kull, Fordham’s Athletic Director (AD) accepted the AD position at St. John’s University, thus leaving Fordham. Kull’s last day with Fordham was Sept. 13, after which Charlie Elwood, the now former deputy athletic director, took his place as interim athletic director.

Each row and column of the KenKen puzzle should be filled in with a number from 1-5 exactly once. The bolded lines break the puzzle into multiple sections of 1-3 cells, with each section containing a target number and mathematical operation in the top left. The numbers in each section must be combined using the given operation to create the target number. For example, in the top right section made up of three cells and given the rule of x10, the three cells should be multiplied together to get the target number 10, but should not violate the first rule.

Younger demographics are gaining largely unrestricted access to the intense and oftentimes inescapable world of social media. The influx of these so-called “iPad kids” has become an epidemic throughout recent years. While I, Arshia, grew up with a TV and a shared family desktop, I was also surrounded...

“iPad kids”: we know the type. Nowadays, hordes of youngsters are sprawled on their living room couches, nestling their handheld devices with meticulous care and violent obsession. As they position themselves in a manner that makes you doubt the welfare of their spinal cord, they fix their attention to the critical component of their unexperienced lives. The object in question that could grasp their cognitive awareness for sheer hours at a time is obvious — their iPad, or their mom’s. Either way, the recent “iPad kid” craze has spiraled out of control, leaving parents bewildered as to how they could possibly handle effectively disciplining their heavily addicted kids in the presence of a technological device.

In place of all the buzz surrounding innovations made possible by artificial intelligence (AI), there should be massive concern for the effect of its water consumption on the environment. AI has managed to insert itself into our everyday lives in a myriad of ways: students find new and exciting ways...

Fordham students will have to adjust to a new storage limitation being implemented to their Fordham Google accounts this fall. Beginning on Oct. 30, 2024, students will be limited to 10GB of storage on their school Google accounts. This cap is a disappointing shift from the current system with unlimited storage, and will require students to clean up their drive to keep their accounts running smoothly.

A chill is in the air, the leaves are changing and everything is color graded like a Nora Ephron film. It is once again autumn in New York City, my favorite time of the year. Now I can layer with abandon; this means dressing like I’m both Harry and Sally in “When Harry Met Sally.” My daily walks around the Upper West Side look and feel more colorful and fantastical. I find it easier to romanticize life amidst the stress of academics and career woes when there are pops of color and piping hot cups of chai to look forward to in the quieter moments. Throughout my four years living on the Upper West Side, I have retraced my steps to crunch piles of leaves and have stared at halloween decorations like they are street exhibitions.

Dozens of alumni gathered in Fordham’s Ildiko Butler gallery on Sept. 20 for a reception to display their artistic creations. The exhibit titled “Amarcord” depicts the past, present and future of the Fordham Department of Visual Arts and is showcased between the Butler and Lipani galleries. The...

Liz Gannon-Graydon, Fordham College at Lincoln Center (FCLC) ’85, held her weekly Communi-Tea party in Bryant Park. This is Gannon-Graydon’s 11th year hosting, where she brings orange-cranberry muffins and bottomless vats of various teas to the park. She collaborates with her non-profit, What Better Looks Like, to run...

Fordham community members came away from the debate divided: The candidates’ onstage behavior aroused determination to cast their vote in November in some viewers, but discouraged others. Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump met at the ABC News Presidential Debate on Sept. 10. Tuesday’s debate marked...

Early in his administration as New York City’s mayor, Eric Adams liked to flash a smile and rhetorically ask, “When does the hard part start?”. This month, the mayor might have found the answer to his question. On Sept. 12, Edward Caban, the commissioner of the New York...

Fordham University changed after approximately 45 individuals organized an encampment-style protest on May 1 in the Leon Lowenstein Center lobby at the Lincoln Center campus. Fordham Public Safety’s request for the New York Police Department (NYPD) to arrest 11 undergraduate students and four alumni disturbed some students’ opinion of the university.

Fordham Lincoln Center’s Black Student Alliance (BSA) held their annual fall cookout on Sept. 21 on McMahon Lawn. The event gave undergraduate students the chance to celebrate their community through food, games, raffles and music. Jillian Bruno, vice president of BSA and Fordham College at Lincoln Center (FCLC) ’26,...

The Television Academy hosted the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sept. 15, a night dedicated to honoring the best of television this year. Hosted at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, the night was filled with first-time wins, surprising victories and a glimpse into the future of the television industry.