Year: 1998

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Good news for the Ryerson women’s soccer team: the only way to go is up

September 16, 1998

New optimism comes with the arrival of a new season and a new coach. Unfortunately, for the Ryerson women’s soccer team, the result of their season opener was eerily familiar.

New rams for the slaughter?

September 16, 1998

After last season’s abysmal 0-12 league record, the Ryerson women’s soccer team was in need of a change. Head coach Lavernne Hudson left at the end of last season and has been replaced with a former Newmarket Rep soccer coach Jon Sanderson.

Sports tour at Rye high

September 16, 1998

Another season of interuniversity athletics upon us, and this year Ryerson coaches and players are hoping to give their fans something to cheer about.

Verbal diarrhea: unclogging the toilet of sports clichés

September 16, 1998

We see them every day on television. We read them in the newspapers and we listen to them on the radio. These useless non-soundbites are developing into a vocabulary all their own. They are, “the sports cliché.”

Big game celebrity hunting

September 16, 1998

Actor John Cusak was shooting a movie called Pushing Tin in Toronto last spring. Little did he suspect that Allison Heather was watching his every move.

Just a face in the crowd

Being a film extra has its rewards, even if you are just a face in the crowd

Reggae, rude boys and homophobia

Will dancehall reggae ever change its homophobic tune? The genre sends a powerful message in Jamaica

See ya, DeLuca

By Graeme Smith The wall to the right of Angelo DeLuca’s desk is decorated with a checklist of goals for his term as RyeSAC president. As he assesses the job he has done, he gazed upon this mostly-completed list. The top items of his 24 goals have checkmarks beside them. RyeSAC held a student referendum, […]

Rob In-the-Groundatstein

If our miserable lives have any impact on the scope of history, then today would surely be as banal and ultimately useless as every other day, even though and Eyeopener legend is dead. The putrefying corpse of Rob Granatstein, Editor-in-Chief of The Eyeopener for 1997-98, was found sitting upright on a park bench in the […]

An Eyeopener intern’s life blows mainly good

By Luis Mejicano Despite the low blow internships have taken this year thanks to Billy Clinton’s hormones I am proud to say that my placement experience at The Eyeopener was far different from Monica Lewinsky’s — and the rest of the interns at my school for that matter. First and foremost, I did not engage […]

Hot chocolate and sweet Marie win big

By Thien Huynh Two of Ryerson’s top athletes capped off great careers with hardware at the university’s 50th annual athletic banquet last Wednesday. There were no surprises when it came time to hand out the outstanding athlete awards. Marie Claire Ross took the H.H. Kerr trophy for outstanding female athlete for the second straight year. […]

A night out with TARA

By Stephanie Bomba After almost 20 years, the TARA Awards are moving into the 21st century with a redesigned award, a new venue and broadcasts on both television and the Internet. “We’ve taken it up to a new level,” said Jennifer Howe, a fourth-year RTA student and producer of this year’s TARAs. “We are trying […]

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