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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.

Ryerson’s Spitting Image

By Joelle Tomlinson A member of Ryerson men’s basketball team was among seven people involved in a fight on Feb. 20 on the seventh floor of Pitman Hall. Aleworki Gebrekerestos, a rookie guard on the team, spat twice on a female student and attempted to hit her. He was then involved in a fight with […]

WHO MONEY CAN BRING

February 25, 2009

By Vanessa Greco Joel Vautour moved from Moncton to Toronto three years ago. A pricey move, coupled with residence costs and tuition fees, came close to breaking the bank. Most other Ontario universities would have given him an entrance scholarship of at least $1000 for his 82 per cent high school average, but not Ryerson. […]

NO MORE PAPERCUTS

February 25, 2009

We all know to reduce, reuse and recycle. But some universities are skipping the forms and memos altogether.

GETTING WHAT YOU PAY FOR

February 25, 2009

By Aleysha Haniff While customer satisfaction is important when you buy a new car, it doesn’t matter when you go to Ryerson. It’s true enough that the faculty course surveys handed out each semester can tell a lot about a course from a student’s perspective. Yegor Momot, a third-year mechanical engineering student, said he knows […]

PRESIDENTIAL SURVEY 2009

February 25, 2009

Eyeopener Staff 1) What is one thing you want to accomplish in your next five-year term? You are asking me to look ahead to the years from 2010 to 2015. I wish I had that kind of crystal ball. Since I arrived in 2005, the Ryerson community has shown its enthusiasm for moving ahead at […]

RYERSON’S FATHER OF GREAT IDEAS

February 25, 2009

By Eyeopener Staff The original “big idea” in public education came from Egerton Ryerson, the university’s namesake. In 1844, he became the Chief Superintendent of Education for Upper Canada. He was dubbed founder of Ontario’s public school system in 1846. He researched various school structures in the Western world to form a plan for the […]

FROM CHAOS COMES GREATNESS

February 25, 2009

Carla Wintersgill Editor-in-Chief In case you haven’t been following the news, let me break it down for you: the global economy is in the shitter. If you graduate this year, have fun trying to find a job. And it’s not going to get better anytime soon. Despite the gloomy forecast, there is a feeling of […]

‘HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN A ROCK STAR’

February 25, 2009

By Carla Wintersgill Graydon Foster was born in Toronto on Sept. 25, 1990 to Eric Foster and his wife, Debora, a Ryerson chemistry prof. Graydon was the baby of the family, with an eight-year age difference between himself and his older brother, Ryan. He also had two older half-brothers, Colin and Chris. A goofy-looking red-headed […]

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