5 days for the homeless. New feminism. Jack.org. Drawn to journalism. Ice Girls.

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:  

• CBC.ca reports on the launch of the '5 Days for the Homeless' campaign at Concordia and McGill, where participants sleep outside for five nights to raise money for local shelters and services. Numerous participants, including dean of students Andrew Woodall, are quoted or pictured. The article, which mentions that the national campaign was introduced to Montreal in 2008 by then-Concordia student Josh Redler, is reprised byYahoo! News. GlobalNews.ca posts raw video of participants sleeping on the sidewalk.
• Education Studies Master's student Myriam Zaidi co-authored an opinion piece published last week in theMontreal Gazette and La Presse +. She and Saman Ahsan, both with the Girls Action Foundation, wrote about contemporary feminism and young women's engagement in a wide range of intersecting social movements.
• The Montreal Gazette, writing about jack.org, a student-led charitable organization working to sensitize communities to mental health issues, mentions that there is a jack.org chapter at Concordia.
• LaPresse.ca publishes excerpts from an interview with journalist and author Martin Forgues, who talks about what prompted him to study journalism at Concordia. Forgues is completing a bachelor's degree and hopes to continue with a master's.
• Concordia student Taylor Hunsley, a competitive figure skater who was featured recently in the Family Channel movie Ice Girls, is profiled in an article appearing in the Guelph Mercury, Inside Halton and Kitchener Post.

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