Men’s skating may join women’s ice team
March 21, 2001
At the OUA’s annual coaches meeting on Feb. 24 Ryerson voted in favour of adding two men’s events—singles dance and freestyle—to the women’s team.
Year: 2001
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X-Men clinch second CIAU title
March 21, 2001
By Emily Bowers St. Francis Xavier University’s X-Men captured their second straight CIAU men’s basketball title with an 83-76 overtime victory over the Brandon University Bobcats on Sunday. The game concluded the final eight tournament. The X-Men, who lost only one game this season, sent Halifax native Dennie Oliver to the foul like with two […]
Armenians mark anniversary
March 21, 2001
By News Team The newly found Armenian Students’ Association plans to mount a display celebrating 1,700 years since the proclamation of a Christianity in Armenia. Pictures of Armenian churches (such as the one shown), architecture, paintings, miniatures, and icons will be shown on several tables outside RyeSAC in the basement of Jorgenson Hall on Wednesday […]
Hong Kong hosts unique alumni society
March 21, 2001
By Jessica Stones When Simon Tsang graduated from Ryerson’s civil engineering program in 1990, he thought he was done with school forever. He moved back to his native Hong Kong in 1991 and settled into adulthood, working at the Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway Corporation’s design management department. But when Ryerson Alumni Association administrator Jane […]
Young Chinese flock to homeland
March 21, 2001
There is a quiet migration occurring of young educated people from the developed countries of the world to a small former British colony in East Asia.
Student activists attend protest school
March 21, 2001
Among 350 people registered for the workshop is Alex Lisman, chair of RyeACTION, RyeSAC’s activist wing and seven other Ryerson students. He is sitting in the Church of the Holy Trinity behind the Eaton Centre to find out what to wear, how to protect himself and how to make his presence felt.
Two sides of Canada’s student voices
March 21, 2001
By Allan Woods and Tim Cook OTTAWA—Inside Parliament Hill in Ottawa, in the lobby of Joe Clark’s office, Sean Fraser and Mark Sollis anxiously sit on the edge of a white couch waiting for the leader of the federal Conservative party to arrive for a meeting. Dressed in suits and ties, Fraser and Sollis could […]
Architects working on new business building
March 21, 2001
An architect has been working for a year-and-a-half on a vision for a new business building.
Business pondering a mandatory laptop plan
March 21, 2001
Students in the school of business management may have mandatory laptops in their program as soon as fall 2002, said associate dean of business Lee Maguire.
Rye spanker back in court
March 21, 2001
By Ling Hui A former Ryerson journalism student and games room manager has been charged with sexually assaulting two teenage boys. Aaron Benditt, 27, was arrested on March 13 and charged with assaulting two boys ages 15 and 17 between the hours of 3 p.m. on March 11 and 5 p.m. on March 12. In […]
Students rally to keep their lounge
March 21, 2001
By Natalie Alcoba Business students are angry about losing a large portion of their lounge space in the basement of the business building. In May, renovations will begin on the basement—currently a student lounge—to provide a temporary home for the Ryerson Access Centre while the new student centre is being built. On Tuesday, the president […]
Former professor pleads guilty to air rage
March 21, 2001
By Siri Agrell Former Ryerson theatre professor Donald MacQuarrie pleaded guilty last Thursday to charges he lost control on an American Airlines flight on December, forcing the crew to make an emergency landing in Detroit. MacQuarrie, 53, was arrested Dec. 28 at Detroit Metropolitan Airport while on his way from Toronto to Hawaii with his […]
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