Wrestler, ECO, Jon Jost, Accessibility
Concordia in the news
Posted on November 7, 2014
Students
Current students at Concordia do outstanding academic work and get involved in community projects that improve our quality of life. See what they've been up to:
- Up and coming Canadian female Olympic wrestler Linda Morais, is profiled in The Suburban after receiving a $4,000 academic and athletic support bursary from Hydro-Québec and the Quebec Foundation for Athletic Excellence. The article mentions that Morais, a gold medal winner at the Canadian Interuniversity Sport National Championships in 2013 and 2014, came to Concordia to work with noted wrestling coach Victor Zilberman.
- CNW carries a news release about ECO, a newly-formed coalition of student associations that promises to block any future oil pipelines at the Quebec boundary. The release quotes Concordia Student Union VP External Anthony Garoufalis-Auger, acting as ECO spokesperson. The story is picked up by Métro Montréal, with a further quote of Garoufalis-Auger.
- Journalstar.com writes about an upcoming celebration by Nebraska University of the fifty-year career of American antiwar filmmaker Jon Jost. The article mentions that Jost will be interviewed on stage by Concordia doctoral student Bill Fech.
- Concordia PhD candidate and accessibility activist Laurence Parent writes an op-ed in The Montreal Gazette in which he takes Montreal mayor Denis Coderre to task over recent media claims thay the city is a leader in accessibility for people with reduced mobility.