Student housing PUSH. Trading challenge. Fine art. 7-up rugby. FIFEQ. 5 days for the homeless. NDG eats. NDP beat.

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:  

• Several media reports and news releases circulate regarding the establishment by the Unité de travail pour l’implantation de logement étudiant (UTILE) of the PUSH Fund, supporting the construction of student housing. The story concerns the investment by the Concordia Student Union of $1.85-million for the fund's first major student housing project. The board of directors of the PUSH Fund will be co-chaired by Marguerite Mendell, vice-principal of and professor in the School of Community and Public Affairs (SCPA), and Concordia Student Union (CSU) general coordinator Terry Wilkings: Le Devoir, Radio-Canada.ca, Journal Métro, MSN Finances. The Radio Canada story includes a link to a report on Gravel le matin, where Terry Wilkings is interviewed (heard at the 01:21:55 mark). The fund and the initial housing project are described also in a series of CNW/Telbec releases: the first, announcing the PUSH fund (reprised by Le Lézard); the second, noting the CSU's  $1.85-million investment in the fund (reprised by Le Lézard, Shaw Connect, AMEQ en ligne (behind a paywall) and Money News); the third, describing the initial student housing project being supported by the CSU through the CLÉ fund (reprised by Le Lézard).
• PEI Canada , The Shoals News, Sentinel Source, Gillette News Record and Wautoga Democrat pick up earlier news reports and releases announcing that a team from the John Molson School of Business finished third at the 13th annual CME Group Trading Challenge, where participants traded a variety of products in a simulated trading environment. 
• Artist Sonny Assu, a master's student in the Faculty of Fine Arts, is profiled in a piece in the Queen's University Journal.
• The Université Laval publication Le fil notes that Concordia has a team in a seven-player rugby tournament opening this weekend in Quebec City.
• A brief in Le fil lists Concordia among the universities where student participated in the organization of the 'Festival international du film ethnographique du Québec' (FIFEQ), in Montreal, March 18 to 20.
• TVAnouvelles.ca, Le Journal de Montréal, Le Journal de Québec and Canoe pick up an Agence QMI story reporting that former Canadiens hockey player Georges Laraque participated again this year in the '5 Days for the Homeless' campaign, created and organized by students at Concordia. The participants sleep outside for one to five nights to raise money for local shelters and services. 
• History student Miranda Cipolla, posting to Mtl Blog, lists her favourite restaurants in NDG. 
• An article in the Timmins Press about post-electoral discontent with NDP leader Thomas Mulcair references a release from student-members of the NDP at Concordia and McGill calling for Mulcair's removal.

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