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Melodies Manipulated: Intellectual Property & The Music Industry
No full textMarilyn Mosby, Founder and Managing Partner of Mahogany Elite Consulting, opened the IPLJ Symposium with her Keynote Address which focused on the cultural, political, and social context surrounding the use of rap lyrics as evidence in criminal prosecutions.
The opening panel, “Do You Get Déjà Vu?,” comprised of Gary Adelman, Partner, Adelman Matz PC; Linna Chen, Senior Legal Counsel, Litigation & Copyright, Spotify; and Ilene Farkas, Partner, Pryor Cashman, and was moderated by Sarah Matz, Partner, Adelman Matz PC, and Adjunct Professor at Fordham University School of Law. The panel discussed recent copyright cases, specifically Williams v. Gaye (the “Blurred Lines Case”) and Griffin v. Sheeran and deliberated about what these decisions mean for artists involved in copyright infringement suits.
The second panel, Robotic Rhapsody, explored the effects of AI-generated music on the music industry and its implications for music copyright law. The panel included Paul Fakler, Partner, Mayer Brown; Alex Mitchell, Co-Founder and CEO of Boomy Music (a Generative AI Music platform); and Marc Ostrow, Senior Counsel, Romano Law. The panel was moderated by Fordham Law Visiting Professor Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid.
The last panel of the day, Rhyme & Punishment, circled back to the use of rap lyrics as evidence in criminal trials and the blatantly racist nature of this practice. Panelists included Erik Nielson, University of Richmond Liberal Arts Professor and Department Chair and Co-Author of the award-winning book Rap on Trial: Race, Lyrics, and Guilt in America; Amber Baylor, Columbia Law School Professor and Criminal Defense Clinic Director; Emerson Sykes, Senior Staff Attorney, American Civil Liberties Union (“ACLU”); and Kenan Kurt, Chief of Staff and Counsel for New York State Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal. The panel was moderated by Fordham Law Professor Bennett Capers
The Aged and Chronically Ill in a Modern Jewish Home: A Study of the Services of Beth Abraham Home, Bronx, New York, January 1961-December 1961
No full textOver forty years ago a small group of dedicated women, unhappy with available conditions within New York City for the Jewish Aged and chronically ill, founded Beth Abraham Home to meet the needs of these poor people. Beth Abraham began in a small frame building. It provided custodial care only, for fifty-four patients labeled incurables . Today, with 531 beds, Beth Abraham is the largest voluntary nursing home for the chronically ill and aged in the United States. It serves adults ranging in age from eighteen to seventy-five years of age
Braunstein, Beth
No full textBeth Anshen Braunstein was born in the Bronx 1954. Both sets of her grandparents immigrated from Russia, with one grandmother stopping in Alexandria, Egypt along the journey and learning Italian, which she used to communicate with Italian families in the Bronx. Her mother’s family lived and had a children’s clothing store on Bathgate Avenue. His father had a store next door and, after they were married, her parents had a health food store off of Pelham Parkway. Braunstein first lived on Bathgate before the family moved to Thieriot Avenue, near Parkchester. In her teenage years she became more religious, attending Temple Emmanuel, the Conservative synagogue in Parkchester, with her sister, before then switching to the Young Israel of Parkchester, which was Modern Orthodox. They attended Hebrew school and junior congregation, including socializing over tea and cake after Shabbat services.
Braunstein remembers the area as primarily Jewish, with most attending public school. She attended PS 102 and Junior High School 127, where her SP classes had a few African American and Hispanic students and the rest were white. She wonders what role, if any, racism had to play in this arrangement. In elementary school she made the music class, learning to play the flute and having the opportunity to gain culture like seeing Leonard Bernstein at Lincoln Center. At James Monroe High School she was in the honors classes, so most of her exposure to different ethnicities was through gym class. By high school she remembers some racial tensions, particularly being asked for money because she was white and assumed to be wealthier. Braunstein also went through a religious shift in high school, attending Jewish summer camp, Hebrew High School, and deciding to become shomer Shabbos.
After attending Queens College, Braunstein was a librarian at various yeshivas in Manhattan and the Bronx. Her time at the Abraham Joshua Heschel School opened her up to the philosophy of social justice, and she took that with her to SAR Academy in Riverdale. Today, after living in a house on Pelham Parkway and raising her family, she still lives in the Bronx in Riverdale, deeply involved in her children and grandchildren’s lives. Her strong Jewish identity has been imparted on the subsequent generations, with all of them being shomer Shabbos, traditional yet modern and open Jews.
Keywords: Thieriot Avenue, Riverdale, Pelham Parkway, Modern Orthodox, Conservative, Parkchester, Co-op City, family, James Monroe High School, Queens College, race, education, yeshiva, social justice, Bathgate Avenue, summer camp, 1967/1968 Teachers Strikes, 67 War, Israel, Holocaus
Marlene Taylor-Ponterotto Interview
No full textSummary by Eliza Anderson.
Marlene Taylor-Ponterotto is a vital member of both the Fordham and the Bronx communities who has worked diligently to promote racial justice and equity in New York City healthcare and in educational opportunities for marginalized students. Taylor graduated from Fordham College at Rose Hill in 1979 and was the only female student from her class to graduate with a Bachelors of Science in Biology. Taylor now resides in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx and is an active member of the MOSAIC alumni association and a trailblazing advocate for her patients at Heritage Clinic in Central Harlem.
Taylor arrived at Fordham in 1975 with the support of the Higher Educational Opportunity Program (HEOP) as a pre-medical student studying Biology. She found her Fordham community through time spent in the African American Studies Department on the second floor of Dealy Hall and with the Society of African American Leadership, connecting with minority students and professors in a “nurturing and supportive” environment. She persisted within a university pre-med culture that was competitive and predominantly white, becoming president of the Association for Minority Pre-Health and Biology Students and building confidence in herself through her passion for addressing racial disparities in healthcare. Music was also a central, uplifting element of her Fordham experience, and she recalls Disco Hour as being a joyful and uplifting experience alongside other minority students.
Throughout her career as a PA, Taylor has worked hospitals all throughout NYC, specializing in HIV and STD work in addition to primary medical care, cardiology, and chronic illnesses. She was working in a detox unit at Beth Israel Medical Center at the start of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, and quickly began to see the ways that HIV positive patients were being left behind and stigmatized in similar ways to Black and minority patients. Her sister Jackie was HIV positive and developed complications in the early 90s, and Taylor still participates in ACT UP and GMHC events as a way to both support her patients and honor her sister. She has worked with the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS, Harlem United, the Christian Parish for Spiritual Renewal, and many other groundbreaking community organizations that work to address health disparities in access, testing, and care.
Fordham continues to play a major role in the life of Taylor and her family. She and her husband were married at Fordham Chapel, and she often brings her family to events put on by Dr. Naison and the Bronx African American History Project. Taylor is an active member of MOSAIC, Fordham’s alumni association for Black and Hispanic students which re-emerged in 2015 after a series of racist incidents plagued the Rose Hill campus. Working alongside the administration, MOSAIC has been essential in organizing Fordham alumni as vocal advocates for the protection and advancement of minority students
Dedication
No full textIn the spring of 2011, Fordham University and the Schools of Business sustained a deep loss with the passing of Patricia P. Ramsey, Ph.D. Pat joined Fordham in 1981. During her distinguished career, she received myriad accolades, including an outstanding teacher of the year award and a United Student Government faculty award. She was co-author of two major books: Business Statistics for Quality and Productivity (Prentice Hall, 1995) and Applied Statistics for Engineers and Scientists (Prentice Hall, 2001).
Pat served in a number of important administrative roles at both the Gabelli School of Business and the Graduate School of Business Administration (GBA). She was the faculty coordinator of the GBA program in China (BiMBA). Yet Pat was best known for her long service as co-director of the Gabelli Honors Thesis Program, where she mentored dozens of Gabelli students.
This issue of The Fordham Business Student Research Journal is dedicated to Pat Ramsey. Her keen wit and devotion to scholarship will be missed
A Study of Forty-Five Children Discharged From the Catholic Home Bureau to Regular Child Caring Institutions From January 1, 1940 to December 31, 1949
No full textPrior to the entry of the writer into the Fordham School of Social Service, he was employed by the Catholic Home Bureau for Dependent Children. Although the period was for a brief time, the writer had the opportunity to learn of the discharge of children to other child carirg institutions because of their maladjustment in foster homes. Upon further investigation, the author learned that during the years 1940-1949 inclusive, there were 225 children transferred from the Catholic Home Bureau to various types of institutions. These institutions may be designated as: 1) Protective (Catholic and Public), 2) Mental (Public), 3) Regular Catholic Child Caring Institutions and 4) Institutions for Handicapped Children. This investigation stimulated the writer to wonder why these children were not able to adjust in foster homes, thus necessitating another type of placement. He realized that a study concerned with children transferred to all four types of institutions would entail intensive research and study. He believed that it would be best to limit himself to the study of children discharged to only one type of institution. The reviewer, therefore, selected as a possible research topic, the study of a group of children who were transferred from the Catholic Home Bureau to regular Catholic child caring institutions. The author then conferred with the Catholic Home Bureau and with the Fordham School of Social Service in order to determine if such a study had ever been made. He found that none existed. The writer obtained approval to proceed with this study from both the Catholic Home Bureau and the Fordham School of Social Service
Beth G. Schwartz
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THE IMPACT OF ADMINISTRATIVE TRAINING ON THE LEADERSHIP OF CATHOLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
No full textThe purpose of this study was to determine whether there was a significant difference between the performance of Catholic elementary school principals of the Archdiocese of New York who were and who were not certified as administrators through participation in the course of study of the Nonpublic School Administrators Program (NSAP) of Fordham University with regard to the implementation of their religious leadership role and supervisory leadership role. The dimensions of religious leadership examined were: involving staff in promoting the religious goals of the school, equally emphasizing the three components of the religious education program (doctrine, worship and service) and providing ongoing planning for religious goal achievement, while the dimensions of supervisory leadership examined were: formal supervision and staff development programming. In addition, the study sought to determine whether significant relationships existed between the implementation of the religious leadership role and the supervisory leadership role of the principals who were and who were not certified as administrators through participation in the NSAP Program at Fordham University with regard to the following variables: status (lay or religious) and years of administrative experience. The subjects of this study were divided into two groups: Those who participated in the Fordham University Program (114) and those who did not participate in the Program (58). The instruments used were: The Religious Supervisory Leadership Questionnaire For Principals and the Preliminary Subject Profile For Principals: both instruments having been developed by the investigator. The major findings and conclusions of this study were: (1) that the participants in the NSAP Program were more involved with their religious leadership role dimension than the non-participants; (2) in the area of formal supervision it was found that participants and non-participants were equally involved in role fulfillment; (3) in the area of informal supervision the participants were found to be more involved than the non-participants; (4) in the area of staff development overall it was found that the non-participants were in greatest need of Central Office guidance and training; (5) regarding the personal variables of status and years of administration it was found that the NSAP Program was especially meeting the needs of the growing number of lay Catholic elementary school principals, especially in the religious leadership dimension. . . . (Author\u27s abstract exceeds stipulated maximum length. Discontinued here with permission of author.) UM
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