Year: 2000

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Filipino identity fills student with pride

Since I was born and raised in Canada, I can relate to the challenge of finding my roots. I was taught traditional Filipino values and practices, but like others born in Canada, I consider myself part of a different breed of Filipino values and practices, but like others born in Canada, I consider myself part of a different breed of Filipinos.

Rye to barely snag cash

The recently announced provincial performance fund, which splits $16.5-million among universities according to how each performs in three categories, rewards schools that produce successful graduates.

Rye left out of Garden bids

Ryerson president Claude Lajeunesse said there has been no progress since the E-mail, which outlined the university’s interest in the Gardens for “classroom and residence space and a permanent home for [Ryerson’s] hockey team.” But neither he nor Grayson ruled out the possibility that future plans could include Ryerson.

Ryerson experts who successfully pushed for safer air bags assist probe into death

Karol Steinhouse, 47 died after suffering six broken ribs and a punctured aorta in a four-car fender-bender last Wednesday.

Prof dies in crash; air bag suspected

In a tearful eulogy, Karol Steinhouse’s long-time friend Larry Hershfield described her house in Deerhurst, Ont. as stewn with sweaty, dirty and wet clothes from days spent sailing, swimming, playing racquetball and hiking. The mess showed her boundless energy, he told the 750 people who attended her funeral last Friday. “Karol did everything.”

Student Politics

RyeSAC blasts admin over fee mystery

Months of disagreement between RyeSAC and administration over $700,000 in student centre fees have left the student president so frustrated she’s threatening a legal battle.

Marsh lures NCAA players

The Rams’ assistant-coach and tireless recruiter Bob Marsh says he has already courted three players he expects to be starters on next year’s team, two of whom come from the NCAA’s division one in the U.S., the highest level of collegiate basketball in the world.

RTA grad Scores producing job

It’s a fitting job for Spear, a sports fanatic himself. He sits on the edge of his seat as he notices the Bonnies take the lead. But the Wildcats come back to tie and take the game into overtime. St. Bonaventure has five more minutes to pull off the upset.

New show is an emotional roller coaster

Jeff Henderson looks around a room on the third floor of the Ryerson theatre school. The second-year theatre student’s eyes show signs of fatigue—he’s spent the past three weeks in rehearsal for his role of Azdak the judge in The Caucasian Chalk Circle. Henderson fixes his gaze on director John Van Burek, who is explaining the meaning of the play the second-year theatre students will perform.

Architecture—Latin style

If third-year architecture students had their way, the latest hot spot for so hip-they-hurt Ryerson students wouldn’t be another boring engineering building. It would be a Cuban-Latino Jazz club called Mazucamba in Toronto’s haughty Yorkville district.

RIOT celebrates 50 years of laughs

To mark RIOT’s 50th anniversary, the cast and crew of RIOT 2000 held a preview show Monday night that gave alumni a trip down memory lane. The free show featured a nine-member cast in skits ranging from the adventures of two cats and catnip to a discussion about tube meat and vaginal secretion. Laced with video footage, lights and music, the show was eye candy for the audience.

Cultural Appropriation Issue

Bands sing Southeast Asian tunes

The result is a listenable album that nobody likes. The Eastern influences don’t stretch far beyond some of the lyrics and the occasional warble of INdian wind instruments in the background.

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