Rape is Real. Revenez-nous. Feminist t-shirt. Malicious code. Balsac database.

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:

• Emer O'Toole, assistant professor in the School of Irish Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science, writes in The Conversation Canada about bringing the stand-up comedy show, Rape is Real and Everywhere, to Concordia. The show features survivors of sexual assault. O'Toole considers how sensitive a topic sexual assault is for humorists and ponders the healing power of art and comedy. Rape is Real will be presented this evening at seven, at the D.B. Clarke Theatre. 
• Lorraine O'Donnell, affiliate assistant professor in the School of Community and Public Affairs (SCPA) and coordinator-researcher at the Quebec English-Speaking Communities Research Network (QUESCREN), appears in the second of a two-part report on Global News Montreal about Premier Couillard's invitation to exiled anglophone Quebecers to come back to Quebec and the extent to which anglophones may be returning. O'Donnell appears at the two-minute mark of the report and again at the 2:37 mark.
• Chantal Maillé, professor in the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, talks to La Presse about the growing popularity of t-shirts bearing feminist slogans. 
• Mourad Debbabi, Professor and Tier I Concordia University Research Chair in the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering and NSERC/Hydro-Québec Thales Senior Industrial Research Chair in Smart Grid Security, is interviewed in Liberté Algérie. Debbabi talks about the inherent dangers of communicating personal information online through applications which he warns may contain malicious code.
• Danielle Gauvreau, chair of and professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Science, is quoted extensively in an article in Le Quotidien about Quebec's Balsac population database.

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