Month: November 2002

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Those Remembrance Day forgot about

November 13, 2002

In the winter of 1933, between four and ten million Ukrainians starved to death in a famine so well concealed by the Soviet Union that much of the Western world did not acknowledge it happened until the last days of Communist rule in the 1980s.

Vball men let another one slip away

November 13, 2002

It’s a word no athlete will ever say, and something no team will ever admit to, but Saturday at Queen’s University the men’s volleyball team choked.

Where students just click

November 13, 2002

Flow is one of more than 1,000 young Toronto residents strutting their stuff online at Ryerson student Nader Mir’s free dating website, www.meetmeinto.com.

Board proposes solutions

November 13, 2002

After three hours of secret discussion on Monday, the RyeSAC Board of Directors produced a long list of ideas on how RyeSAC can deal with the crisis brought on by Sajjad Wasti’s letter that accused the group’s managers and executives of being corrupt.

An answer from the field

November 13, 2002

Noushin Farnoud can still see the pieces of brain splattered across the window of a building in the just-bombed wreckage of her Tehran neighbourhood. She rubs her temples delicately as she recounts the smell, the smoke and the raw fear of being in an Iranian war zone. The 23-year-old electrical engineering masters student still shudders at the memory of herself as a 10-year-old clinging to her parents’ hands, staring at buildings that had been cleaved into sections with the ease of “someone slicing a cake” by the incessant bombing Tehran endured during the Iran-Iraq war.

Bookstore romance a novel idea

November 13, 2002

Is the World’s Biggest Bookstore the world’s biggest place to pick-up?

Stylianou sings standards at Senator

November 13, 2002

What better way to discover a talent for improvisation and jazz-phrasing than to be locked out of a theatre in the middle of a performance? Melissa Stylianou, a Toronto jazz vocalist, had that experience while playing the part of Anita in her high school’s performance of West Side Story.

Classroom space cut back for double cohort

November 13, 2002

A recent decision to shut down four classrooms has left one professor fuming and hundreds of students inconvenienced and confused.

The sound of Plummer

November 13, 2002

Ryerson Theatre was alive with the sound of Christopher Plummer’s voice last Friday, as the famous actor offered advice and inspiration to Ryerson’s graduating students.

The quintessential question

November 13, 2002

Since 1980, Iraq has almost constantly been mired in war. First, with neighbouring Iran, then against a U.S.-led coalition of nations. And as tensions between the Middle Eastern nation and the United States once again take centre stage in the world forum, another conflict appears to be imminent.

The girl in the middle

November 13, 2002

Three young girls are huddles in a crumbling concrete structure. They hold their postures tight and stare straight ahead. It’s their eyes, more than their frowning mouths, that give them a maturity beyond their years. Their black worried eyes peer out of the picture, accusing every onlooker.

RyeSAC board exonerates rogue v.p.

November 13, 2002

An effort by the RyeSAC president to impeach a member of his executive met with a crushing defeat on Monday night at the RyeSAC Board of Directors meeting.