Month: March 2009

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Hate crimes spike at Rye

By Amit Shilton News Editor A series of hate-crime vandalism sprung up on the Ryerson campus over the past two weeks. Four instances of hate-related graffiti were found by Ryerson security across the school. Two of the instances were anti-Semitic while the third was labelled as anti-Iranian. Another was termed homophobic. Last Monday, security found […]

Business & Technology

Ryerson MBA students win $20,000 RBC award

By Lauren Strapagiel Four Ryerson MBA students have won $20,000 and recognition for the university in the 2009 RBC Next Great Innovator Challenge. “I’m so proud that we’re from Ryerson and we won this,” said Omega4 team member Jonathan Chiriboga, 26. “There are some schools that see us as a second-rate school.” Chiriboga, together with […]

Rose says no in athletic referendum

By Vanessa Greco According to some Ryerson Students’ Union members, Rebecca Rose may not be properly representing the RSU in the upcoming athletic referendum. Dana Houssein, RSU community services faculty director, alleges Rose is betraying her VP education role by supporting the referendum’s “No” vote. The board of directors voted to endorse the “Yes” side […]

Ryerson student finds tuition in her Tim’s cup

By Aleysha Haniff Associate News Editor At best, Khalin Elliott was hoping for a free snack when she rolled up the rim last Wednesday. “I started rolling it up and I see ‘win’ and the first thing that pops in my head is ‘Oh sweet, I’ve won a muffin or a coffee. I can get […]

Rye profs brace for full effect of research funding cuts

By Scott Nowoselski After the federal government announced plans to cut research funding in their January budget, Ryerson chemistry professor Daniel Foucher worried that graduate students might get the wrong impression of scientific research in Canada and seek work outside the country. “To cut back on funding now when more students are going to be […]

Meatless in the metropolis

By Josh Bailie Let’s set the record straight: vegetarianism isn’t hard. Its supposed difficulty is what turns off potential suitors, and provides grounds for self-congratulations from my herbivore brethren. “I could never give meat up, it tastes too good,” is what I often hear from meat-eaters. Meanwhile, vegetarians never hesitate to tell you how they’ve […]

Business & Technology

Giving back to the grid

By Julianna Cummins News Editor It’s a glamorous affair for a Wednesday evening in February. The hardwood-floored Bulthaup Showroom on Toronto’s King Street East is dimly lit, the glass walls showing the rest of the world the event underway inside. Dr. Alan Fung, 44, a mechanical engineering professor at Ryerson University is dressed in formal […]

Welcome to the brotherhood

By Shannon Higgins Arts & Life Editor Takes Two Men to Make a Brother welcomes the audience to the show and into the brotherhood with five rowdy frat boys, a keg and the promise of an evening thick with experiential theatre. Out of almost 50 companies who applied to be a part of HATCH, a Harbourfront […]

Team stung by league change

By Hilary Hagerman Last year, the Ryerson Stingers were the only team at the university to win a championship. They were undefeated, hired world-renowned Stephanie White as their new head coach and moved up two tiers in the Golden Blades Women’s Hockey League because of their success. The probationary team is finishing their last year […]

Feds may dictate plans for Rye’s $35 million

By Joshua Dvorkin Ottawa may be planning to allocate the federal buget’s $2-billion infrastructure fund for post-secondary institutions to science and technology projects rather than leave spending to each school’s discretion. Dr. Paul Stenton, Vice Provost of Ryerson University Planning, feels that universities should be responsible for allotting finances as they see fit but it […]

Former CAW president new Rye visiting professor

By Tashika Gomes Buzz Hargrove, the former president of the Canadian Auto Workers union, will be joining the Ted Rogers School of Management (TRSM) as a visiting professor for at least a year. Hargrove will not be teaching a specific class, but will be giving lectures at both the undergraduate and graduate level in the […]

Part-timers feel they get fleeced

By Tyler Harper Part-time Ryerson students will get the financial shaft if fees increase to support the construction of a new athletics centre. That’s the main concern of Gail Alivio, president of the Continuing Education Students Assocation at Ryerson (CESAR). She says the upcoming referendum asking part-time students to pay for facilities they won’t use […]