Homa Hoodfar. Consent campaign. Orientation, Concordia-style.

Various issues concerning Concordia University are often reported on by news outlets. Here is the most recent coverage pertaining to the institution: 

• Media coverage continues of the latest news concerning Homa Hoodfar and Hoodfar's declining health: The Times(UK), La Presse +,  CTV National News (video and text, including an on-camera appearance, at the 1:50-mark, of Marguerite Mendell, professor in the School of Community and Public Affairs), Amnesty International's French Canadian website, The Tower, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (reprising an earlier article from The Globe and Mail). 
• In related coverage and developments: the American Anthropological Association joins the call for Hoodfar's release; the Downtown Austin Patch, writing about the recent release from jail in Iran of Iranian American physicist Omid Kokabee, mentions Hoodfar's continuing detention and failing health; Hoodfar's recent hospitalization in Iran is mentioned in a piece on Amnesty International's UK website about the detention in Iran of British-Iranian dual nationals Kamal Foroughi and Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe; World News Network and The Weekly Asian Connections publish a release in which opposition MP's David Anderson and Peter Kent demand that the Liberal government more aggressively assert Canadians’ concerns and demand that the Iranian regime respect Hoodfar’s human rights; the Ceylon Daily News reprises a piece that appeared earlier this week in the Chicago Tribune about Hoodfar's detention by the Revolutionary Guard and what it means for Iranian women.
• There is continuing coverage of Concordia's consent campaign, focusing on three short videos designed to encourage discussion of sexual consent. The video series, featuring various fruit in situations involving romance and consent, was produced by recent Concordia film studies graduates Daniel Sterlin-Altman (BFA, 16) and Lori Malépart-Traversy (BFA, 16): Huffington Post Québec, Canoe. In related coverage, Radio-Canada, reprised by Sympatico.ca, posts a video featuring the three Concordia consent campaign clips;  University Affairs links to an earlier Montreal Gazette story, which includes quotes from Jennifer Drummond, coordinator in the Sexual Assault Resource Centre at Concordia. The story is also reprised by Academica Top 10 with links to the story in The Montreal Gazette and CTV News coverage.
• An opinion piece in the Carleton University student paper The Charlatan holds up Concordia as an example of what Orientation Week should be.

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