Why did Good Morning America and U2 choose Fordham University?
Here’s a bit about the concert as posted at the nydailynews.com: They came, they saw, they rocked. Legendary rock band U2 took the Fordham University campus by storm Friday, playing a heart-stomping private concert before a sea of delirious fans. Bono and the boys even pulled off a near impossible feat: they got nearly 4,000 college students awake before noon. “This concert was a thrill and it was a wonderful thing for Fordham,” said senior Kelsey Baran, 21, among the throngs of bleary-eyed students who waited in the pre-dawn darkness for the start of the 8 a.m. show. Even the faculty was amped up for the concert. Several professors joined the students on line outside the Rose Hill Campus’ quad hours before the sun rose. “A lot of the faculty thought it would be the students who would be more excited for U2, but I woke up at 3 a.m. this morning to drive over from New Jersey for this,” said Janice Barry, an economics professor. The sho