Year: 2004

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THE PUBLIC HAS A RIGHT TO KNOW

By Don McHoull For years Hydro One was mired in waste and corruption.

SCAM THE PLAN

By Robyn Doolittle Any money left on meal cards after exams isn’t refunded to students. Instead, it goes back into the ancillary services fund.

UNHEALTHY COOKING

Ryerson’s cafeteria workers say the university’s administration doesn’t listen and doesn’t care about their concerns and their lives. The Eyeopener’s Jordan Heath-Rawling reports.

The thin line of tolerance

At 1 p.m. on Mar. 23, 2004, students from York University’s pro-Palestinian group, Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights, set up a mock West Bank checkpoint inside York’s Vari Hall. Some were dressed as Israeli soldiers emblazoned with the slogan “born to kill” on their backs, while others were garbed as Arab women. The students […]

Students marking students

Last semester, Orest Werbowy went to class, studied, and took tests like any third-year student. He did well; some of his classmates did too. He should know – he marked their assignments. Werbowy, a third-year ITM student, was hired by professor Debra Sels as a teaching assistant for her third-year ITM course. He says […]

The ones we won’t see

In the October of 1980, Ryerson President-designate Brian Segal called the campus unsafe. He labelled the Yonge and Gould block a dangerous eyesore, citing rapes, vandalism and constant thievery on and around campus. He said the Yonge Street environment is dangerous for students because of the people it attracts to the campus are. There […]

Rye kicks in cash for SAE team

By Matthew Tulloch Despite a funding crisis, Ryerson’s talented Formula SAE team will be able to compete this season following a last-minute donation from the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. Team captain Robert Szybalski, teammate Adam Ballard and RyeSAC President Ken Marciniec were able to convince Stalin Boctor, dean of Ryerson’s department of engineering […]

More profs earn $100,000

By Nicole Riva The number of Ryerson staff and faculty making six-figure salaries has more than tripled in the past year. According to a provincial government report released last week, 263 employees earned at least $100,000 last year. In 2002, that number was about 80. The Ontario Ministry of Finance released its public sector salary […]

Rye investing in business

By Jen Gerson When Ryerson bids to develop its proposed new business building, it will be trying for access to some of the most expensive real estate in Canada. It’s so expensive that in 1995 the current owner, Cadillac Fairview, paid almost $7 million dollars for a 1 per cent share of the city block […]

Wronged by Ryerson

By Owen Leitch A business student found guilty of violating Ryerson’s Student Code of Conduct claims he, too, has been violated. Sameh El-Falou, a fourth-year ITM student, and two of his classmates were found guilty of academic misconduct by the Faculty Appeals Committee, and given a failing grade in their course because they allegedly submitted […]

Gone: a mom, wife and prof

By Matt Kwong As the late afternoon sunlight fades, Iain Gardner sits alone in the kitchen smoking a cigar in the dark, He touches a photo of his wife. “You must understand, this woman meant the world to me,” he says, his eyes welling-up, evidence of the past few turbulent days. He ashes his cigar […]

The public has a right to know

By Don McHoull For years Hydro One was mired in waste and corruption. Well-connected Tories were handed fat contracts to do very little work. In one case, the publicly owned power company paid $105,000 to Queen’s Park insider, and received only an e-mail in return. Only when the newly elected Liberal government changed the law […]

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