Youth gambling. Circus town.

Concordia faculty and researchers are regularly asked to offer expert, informed opinions on many of today's most pressing problems. Read some of the latest news items about Concordians:

• A CNW release announces the National Conference on Alcohol, Drug and Gambling Addiction, being hosted in Montreal by the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse, November 16 to 18. Sylvia Kairouz, associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, is listed among the conference participants. Kairouz will give a talk on gambling behaviours among undergraduate student gamblers, next Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. The release is picked up by ShawConnect, Longwoods and Spoke.
• The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reprises an article from the Washington Post in which Patrick Leroux, associate professor in the Department of English and the Département d'Études Françaises and founding director of the Montreal Working Group on Cirque/Circus, reflects on Montreal's identity as a circus town.

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