Fordham Students Outraged By Corrupt Dean
By SpiceBizzle (OTR Editor) Tags: Christopher Rodgers, Dean of Students, Student Life at Rose Hill

Blatant corruption, criminal misdoings or a simple pharmaceutical mistake? Students at Fordham University are crying foul after the Dean of Students expelled a potentially innocent student.
Fordham University’s daily humorist FUrez Hilton broke some interesting news last Friday. An official at Fordham's health center wrongly prescribed a controlled tranquilizer to a student. When it came to light that the student had “a problem with the dosage,” the school refused to accept responsibility for the error.After reporting falsities to the student's family and misappropriating the boy's concerns, Christopher Rodgers, the Dean of Students, forced him to leave school.
What’s more, when Dean Rodgers made the decisions to remove the boy from campus he neglected to tell the student, choosing instead to call the boy’s mom.
"I'm 21-years-old and I had to hear from my parents because the Dean doesn't have the balls to tell me himself,” the boy told FUrez.
Now, dozens of outraged Fordham students are crying foul, citing personal grievances against the health center, counselors, Dean Rodger and his “sickening” regime.
“Thank you for publicizing the absurdity of Fordham’s administrative bureaucracy, and the completely irrational behavior of the counseling center,” an anonymous poster wrote. “I am only a freshman, but I can guarantee that I will not be stepping foot into the counseling center ever again… Fordham has clearly used [this case] to weed out an ‘undesirable’ student to keep the radiant, pure image of the university untarnished.
“I bet my tuition that dean rogers (sic) is a conservative Republican constantly influenced by the jackasses running this country.” wrote another. “He's a perfect example of a product of the corrupt machine that is America - a consumer wasteland, stimulated by a religious cult of corporate sluts.”
Several students reported similar problems when seeking personal and medical attention at university resources:
"Almost the exact situation happened to a friend of mine recently. Is it me or does it seem like the Fordham administration loves pre-judging students and not give them a chance to represent themselves?"
While it is unclear whether Fordham has committed any crimes in this situation, many readers urged the expelled student to take legal action.
“This kid needs to sue the school,” an anonymous co-ed wrote. “This is no joke. If the counseling center released his information to anyone it is a violation of state law. What the school did is not legal and this needs to be investigated.”
Check out FUrez for more details on the story or voice your concerns to the Dean himself:
Christopher Rodgers, Dean of Students
Rose Hill
Keating Hall 100
718.817.4755
deanofsarh@fordham.edu
Comments 
Anonymous says,

I bet my tuition too....oh...i forgot....Fordham gave me a full need based scholarship....never mind.
Posted 05/08/2008 07:46 AM
Anonymous says,

rodgers michele burris jeff grey are jesuits nazis they are control freaks and would rather students all in a preppy dress code , praying the rosary and lighting candles at a pro life rally . oh wait it is a catholic university ....................
Posted 05/08/2008 08:02 AM
Anonymous says,

Wow this sucks, I was making Fordham one of my top choices for 2 years from now but my brother told me about this and theres not as much appeal anymore.
Posted 05/08/2008 09:03 AM
Anonymous says,

no its fun! You should come. Putting tranquilizers aside, it's a good school.
Posted 05/08/2008 2:33 PM
Anonymous says,

@ Anonymous: Fordham is a great school. The students are great (and very diverse so there are a lot of different ideologies running around). They work hard and play even harder (looks at Hughes Hall). The professors are always there to help you, even if it might get them in trouble. Its a great school. Right now its just being run by a bunch of incompetent people in Student Affairs (Academic Affairs is doing a great job). Dean Rodgers got his job by a big position shift and then filled his sub-positions with his cronies. There will be changes soon (I hope). The Ram just had an article about how OSL&CD is structured badly, and was surprisingly brave enough to run it. Here it is:
http://media.www.theramonline.com/media/storage/paper1075/news/2008/05/28/Opinions/Fordham.Falls.Short.Of.Maintaining.Catholic.Ideals-3361762.shtml
Fordham is a great school and you should come to it!
http://media.www.theramonline.com/media/storage/paper1075/news/2008/05/28/Opinions/Fordham.Falls.Short.Of.Maintaining.Catholic.Ideals-3361762.shtml
Fordham is a great school and you should come to it!
Posted 05/08/2008 5:48 PM
Anonymous says,

Nazis? Catholic haters, go hang out with the anti-Semites an a kkk chat room somewhere. That's where you belong. Everyone will agree with you there.
Posted 05/09/2008 06:33 AM
Anonymous says,

my roommate was told that he might have AIDS when he went to the health center for a check up. he went to a REAL doctor who laughed and told him he had the flu.
Posted 05/10/2008 3:53 PM
Anonymous says,

Dean Rodgers is fine, people just like to cry and get behind a kid who probably is really messed up in the head. If he did have problems which his dismissal from the school would indicate, do you think that he would deny it?? Yes he would. Of course he would mail FUREZ saying he got screwed over, but in reality he probably shouldnt be at Fordham. Dean Rodgers is fine stop crying everyone!!!
Posted 05/13/2008 10:04 AM
Anonymous says,

we will never know if fordham prevented another virginia tech tragedy by dealing with an issue before the entire country learned the hard way that this person had a problem
Posted 05/15/2008 5:24 PM
Anonymous says,

I know I'm two weeks late to this discussion, but to the person who posted above me, it was the University who made the medical mistake. So they kick out a student for their mistake instead of helping him through the issues THEY caused. If you do not go to the school and have never dealt with the incompetence of its health center, you have no idea what you are talking about. This is not a case of a dangerous student and trying to correlate this to a violent tragedy is absolutely wrong.
Posted 05/28/2008 8:07 PM
Anonymous says,

obviously the post above was written by someone who knows all the facts of the case (public and private) so obviously we defer to your expert knowledge. The rest of us will have to assume we don't have all the facts. I am happy to know through the expert post that the person has no serious issues other than the ones "THEY" caused.
Posted 05/30/2008 4:39 PM








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