Year: 2009

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A stone-age scandal

By Josh Bailie When the seven-foot stone hockey goalie was put up over an archway on Kerr Hall South, students revolted with 60s-era zeal. They hung a life-sized effigy of a pregnant woman outside a nearby window. They picketed with placards reading, “Ryerson, the Hockey Hall of Fame.” They attacked it with blue and red […]

Business & Technology

iPhone apps spark classroom iNgenuity

By Lauren Strapagiel A mole named Flip is updating the face of new media at Ryerson and will soon be available on an iPhone near you. Fourth year new media students John Coutts, Cole Docherty and Eyeopener fun editor Leif Parker are making an iPhone application for a class assignment. App development is something new […]

choreography that works

By Josh Bailie and Shannon Higgins Arts & Life Editors Choreographic Works 2009, a Ryerson Theatre School dance production, opens tonight, March 4. The Eyeopener snuck into the show to see if it’s worth spending the $14. The show mostly features third- and fourth-year students, who both choreograph and dance in the show. The works are […]

Coach’s absence creates uncertainty

By Erin Valois Sports Editor The men’s basketball team not only lost their playoff game this week – they are temporarily losing their head coach too. Ryerson’s director of Athletics, Ivan Joseph, announced on March 2 that Glenn Taylor is on a paid leave of absence for undisclosed reasons. Joseph was unable to comment on […]

A crying shame

By Anthony Lopopolo It’s mere moments after the men’s basketball team was ousted from the playoffs – and forward Boris Bakovic is kneeling on the court, overwhelmed with emotion. Bakovic’s father makes his way from the stands to comfort his son. The star basketball player buries his face in his father’s shoulder. As they pull […]

Access complaints Double

By Joshua Dvorkin I have a physical disability. I do not let it define me, but it often makes me stand out from others. On Feb. 24, my broadcast journalism class went to television studio C. We all took turns on camera and read from the teleprompter. I was the first one to volunteer to […]

Ryerson’s pension plan suffers a 15% hit

By Scott Nowoselski Ryerson’s pension plan dropped by 15 per cent in 2008 when its pension firm, the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS), lost $8 billion in the stock market. “The university is a…fraction of the OMERS client list, so did we lose a proportional amount? Absolutely,” said Ryerson president Sheldon Levy. Ryerson is […]

Exposed students have no case

By Carys Mills Nearly 600 Ryerson students will soon be notified that their personal information was made available online for over a month. A glitch on the Student Administration System (SAS) caused the name, gender, date of birth, student number, mailing address, email address, and social insurance number of students to be available from Nov. […]

Report: raise fees by 25%

By Aleysha Haniff Associate News Editor A recommendation from the Educational Policy Institute (EPI) could raise tuition fees by up to 25 per cent to cover Ryerson’s expenses. EPI’s report, published in February, suggests a nationwide tuition increase as an option to cover the falling value of universities’ endowment funds. According to the think tank, […]

I’m no shrill prude, but…

Carla Wintersgill Editor-in-Chief Our Love and Sex edition is by far our most popular issue of the year, with a 90 per cent pick-up rate. But the reaction to a picture that we published in our Feb. 11 Love and Sex issue deserves to be acknowledged in this space. For those who missed it, the […]

Province funds grad spaces

By Amit Shilton News Editor Ryerson is making room for nearly 300 new graduate students after a financial injection from the provincial government last week. The province is set to commit to $51.6 million to its universities, creating about 3,300 graduate spaces province-wide. The money comes from the $6.2-billion Reaching Higher program. Ryerson received the […]

Levy: ‘They’ve overstayed their welcome’

Campus radio staff members fired, barricade themselves in station's office.

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