Ceramic caricature. Jeux de la com. Rough handling. Blacklisted journalist. Public health insurance.

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:  

• Art education student Marion Miller is featured in Journal Métro for her work on a three-dimensional ceramic sculpture representing Montreal mayor Denis Coderre. Miller plans to put the sculpture on display outside the Place d'Armes metro station, near Montreal City Hall, Friday afternoon.
• Grenier aux nouvelles announces the winners at this year's Jeux de la communication, listing Concordia students who won numerous prizes including 1st place in the cultural program category. 
• Le Journal de Montréal e-edition and Marco reprise an earlier news report that Concordia film student Daniel Slapcoff (pictured) plans to bring a formal complaint against a riot-clad Montreal police officer he says struck him in the face with his shield during Saturday's protest in Montreal over the M-103 anti-Islamophobia motion. Slapcoff suffered damage to two teeth.
• Shadow Proof writes about a statement signed by journalists, academics and others opposed to the apparent blacklisting of independent journalist Rania Khalek because of her views on the Syrian civil war. The article states that the Concordia student group, Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR), has withdrawn an invitation to Khalek to appear on a panel about Palestinian rights, set for March 9 at Concordia. The Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter at the University of North Carolina has also canceled an event with Khaled, reportedly for the same reason.
• L'actualité and Journal Métro report on a push by the student federation, Association pour la voix étudiante au Québec (AVEQ) to obtain Quebec public health coverage for international students. They write that health insurance premiums for international students, offered by one unidentified insurer, have risen 55 percent over a five-year period. In a related story, Radio Canada's Téléjournal (video and text) reports that two Concordia students who were suffering from cancer had to leave Canada because of exorbitant health and private health insurance costs and that a third Concordia student died of the illness.
• Actualités UQAM reports that the Stingers men's basketball team was shut out of the RSEQ finals by the UQAM Citadins.

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