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CONTINUING EDUCATION BRINGS IN PROFITS FOR RYE

By Carys Mills With skyrocketing enrolment numbers, the Chang School proves that continuing education (CE) is where the money’s at. The Chang School of Continuing Education is the largest of its kind in Canada. Annually there are over 65,000 enrolments, compared to the 25,000 undergraduate and graduate students at Ryerson. “We all fantasize that we’re […]

TWENTY PER CENT OF GRADS STRUGGLE WITH LITERACY: STUDY

By Aleysha Haniff Associate News Editor It’s not that Kyle Friedman can’t read and write. The first-year new media student did a Hooked-on-Phonics-type program growing up. He had a tutor until he was in high school. But there’s no getting around the fact that Friedman’s literacy skills remain at what he dubs “below average” for […]

CAN YOU READ THIS?

Carla Wintersgill Editor-in-Chief As someone who makes a living reading and writing, I pay close attention to how many people can actually read what I’m writing. In Canada, we’re proud of the accessibility we provide to education but our literacy rates tell another story. According to a 2005 StatsCan report, four in 10 Canadian adults […]

FUTURE UNCERTAIN FOR HEALTH AND DENTAL plan

By Aleysha Haniff Associate News Editor Student groups director Osman Hamid plans to encourage the Ryerson Students’ Union to accept Gallivan and Associates as the student union’s health and dental plan broker at the next executive meeting. The motion to sign on with Gallivan was passed at a contentious board of directors meeting on March […]

STUDENT LEFT SCREWED BY AWARD MIX-UP

By Vanessa Greco A student might not be able to graduate on time after a $1,350 award blunder at Ryerson’s financial assistance office. Chi Nguyen, a third-year journalism student who has volunteered for The Eyeopener in the past, was mistakenly awarded $1,350 in December 2007. After discovering the mix-up a month later, the school charged […]

COPYRITE SAFE LOOTED FOR $12K

By Amit Shilton News Editor Toronto police are investigating the theft of a safe holding between $8- 12,000 in cash that was stolen from the CopyRITE office at the end of March. The safe, which was said to have both a padlock and key, was completely lifted from the office sometime over the weekend of […]

ON THE RUNWAY: RYERSON FASHION WEEK

By Aleysha Haniff Associate News Editor Ryerson Fashion Week ends with the apocalypse. But don’t worry, Revelation, named after the last book of the Bible, is just one of the many student collections that will be showcased at Ryerson Fashion Week, running April 3-8. The week features designs from the fashion industry’s next wave of […]

PACKED STANDS SECRET TO ATHLETIC SUCCESS

By Anthony Lopopolo Ali McComb knows how it feels to have a surge of energy in the middle of a game. As a third-year interior design student playing for the women’s volleyball team at Ryerson, she often found extra encouragement from her parents on the sidelines. Despite living in Ottawa, the Mc- Combs appeared at […]

CESAR STUDY SPACE CLEARED FOR COMPUTERS

By Agata Zieba A study space for continuing education students has been eliminated after renovations in the Continuing Education Students’ Association of Ryerson offices over the winter break. “Mostly full-time students were using them,” said Mohammad Ali Aumeer, CESAR’s VP programming and outreach. “Continuing education students weren’t making use of it.” The eliminated study space […]

ARE WE GROWING BEYOND OUR MEANS?

By Julianna Cummins News Editor While Ryerson may be getting a boost from the provincial budget, expanding the university and maintaining a high quality of education may not go hand-in-hand. Last Thursday’s budget will give Ontario universities $150 million of one-time money to help ease funding shortfalls that have led to hiring freezes and smaller […]

NICKELLING AND DIMING US TO DEBT

Carla Wintersgill Editor-in-Chief Whenever journalists start messing around with numbers, things start to get scary. After all, we were those kids in high school who flunked out of math class with the, “When will I ever need to use this again?” attitude. I would like to state for the record that I didn’t fail math. […]

AUDIT OUTLINES STEPS TO END CIRCUS

By Shannon Higgins Arts & Life Editor If the Ryerson Students’ Union ever wants to clean up its act, they now have the blueprint to do it with. The Eyeopener obtained Deloitte’s RSU audit, which outlines the accounting firm’s recommendations. The audit, paid by the university for $85,000, focused on governance and election policy and […]

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