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Escalators exterminated

January 4, 2004

By Alison Northcott Students came to register and pay for classes this week, but were faced with a shortage of space to line up due to construction in Jorgenson Hall’s main lobby. A walled-in barricade now stands where the escalators used to be and has forced students to navigate narrow pathways in order to get […]

Lounge trick a stupid mistake

November 26, 2003

By Don McHoull The botched attempt to shut down the Palestinian human rights event last week is a good example of everything that’s wrong with the way campus administrators operate. Instead of coming out and admitting they were afraid of violence breaking out at the event, the student services department made up a phony rule […]

Sports vote put on ice

November 26, 2003

By Joe Friesen Plans for a referendum on athletics funding have been shelved and may not be revived in time to secure more money for the coming academic year. The proposed vote could have doubled the mandatory athletics fee and ensured the future of a number of varsity teams. As it stands, with no new […]

The bitter taste of fear and hate

November 26, 2003

By Fatima Nafm Shereen Al Tamimi dreads the end-of-day bell at the North York Islamic school where her mother teaches Arabic. Outside the school, she knows the car will be parked, its passengers waiting patiently to harass the school teachers. Sometimes they stare silently, sometimes they call out ‘terrorist,’ and once one of the cars […]

RyeSAC: We were misled

November 26, 2003

By Dalson Chen Ryerson’s student union publicly distanced itself from the views of controversial author Irshad Manji when she spoke on campus last Wednesday. Around 100 people turned out to hear the outspoken 35-year-old gay Muslim activist and television host deliver a lecture entitled “Defending Israel is Defending Diversity.” Controversy surrounds Manji for her criticism […]

Crackdown ignites fury

November 26, 2003

By Suzanne Ma Members of the Ryerson Arab Students Association are outraged after student services asked the group to leave the Metro Credit Union Lounge because of a new policy banning speaker forums from the area. But the administration could not produce the policy or even prove that it exists. Angered by the attempts to […]

Fifty-five years in the making

November 26, 2003

By Yohannes Edemariam Fifty-five years ago next week, The Ryersonian published its first issue and became the official student voice of the then brand-new Ryerson Institute of Technology. The paper was originally to be named RIOT but the idea was dubbed “too inflammatory,” and it was dropped. The year was 1948. The Second World War […]

Rye wins gold

November 26, 2003

By Robyn Doolittle Ryerson fans and teammates exploded when Lauren Gosnell landed her final double sow, making two revolutions in the air and landing on her right foot. For the first time in recent history a Ryerson figure skater brought home the gold. Gosnell, 18, skated against a talented group of girls. But besides one […]

Bench Blues

November 26, 2003

By Taeeba Sadaar Every varsity team has one, or more. But although players who spend most of their time on the bench — sometimes known as “benchwarmers” — are an integral part of any team, they often don’t feel that way. Rebecca Sinnesael, 19, likes being on the Ryerson women’s basketball team. As a designated […]

Pro-Israel posters attack Palestinians

November 26, 2003

By Eyeopener Staff Ryerson campus, already on edge over the Middle East conflict, was hit with a controversial pro-Israel poster campaign last Thursday. Many of the posters spread around the lower floors of Jorgenson Hall depicted a Palestinian protestor clad in the checkered scarf associated with Palestinian solidarity and featured the caption “Do you want […]

In the minister’s chambers

November 26, 2003

By Jaclyn Mika The Liberal government has committed to a two-year tuition freeze, but the newly appointed minister of training, colleges and universities, Mary Anne Chambers, could not say what will happen after that. “I’d like to just stick to that commitment which will be for two years,” Chambers said. “That two-year freeze that we’ve […]

Cafeteria wasting food

November 26, 2003

By Vanessa Farquharson Ryerson’s cafeterias are throwing away bags of leftover food each day while the homeless and less fortunate surrounding the campus go hungry. An employee from the Jorgenson Hall cafeteria, who asked not to be named for fear of losing his job, said he was shocked at how much food went to waste […]

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