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Ryerson to propose new business building for 2005

January 22, 2003

By Matt Kwong Ryerson will propose a new business building as part of the next wave of the Ontario government’s Super Build Growth Fund. Ryerson President Claude Lajeunesse said he wants to see a new building operational by the year 2005. He said the goal for the new building would be to bring all of […]

Communities Features

Finding the fountain of youth

January 15, 2003

By Patrick James Asselin Mack Miya expects to live at least another 50 years. So do most Ryerson students in their late teens and early 20s. But Miya isn’t a Ryerson student – he never received a formal university education. What makes Miya different is that he’s already exceeded the life expectancy of the average […]

Momma said knock Brock U out

January 15, 2003

By Joel Wass It took a woman to inspire Errol Fraser to become the Man for Ryerson’s men’s basketball team during last Saturday’s game against Brock University. “My mom said that if I lose again, [not to] come home or to stop playing basketball,” said Fraser, who netted a career high 38 points, while leading […]

Windsor ruins weekend

January 15, 2003

By Adam Button Even Tony Hauser’s infamous post-game brownies couldn’t get the bitter taste out of the mouths of Ryerson’s men’s volleyball team after losing in three straight games to the Windsor Lancers on Sunday (25-22, 25-23, 2523). Hauser, the father of Ryerson’s top hitter, Anton, bakes the Rams a box of brownies for every […]

Ryerson needs more full-time coaches

January 15, 2003

By Adam Button Last year, Ryerson women’s volleyball head coach Arif Nathoo did what a lot of people said was impossible. At Christmas his team didn’t look like it was going to make the playoffs, but his Rams went on a run, winning six of their final eight games to make the playoffs. He had […]

Ryerson athlete sports Gaelic pride

January 15, 2003

By Joel Wass Volleyball has its share of hitting and bumping, but it is far from the roughest sport in Erin Gallagher’s life. “Gaelic football gets pretty physical,” says Gallagher, the left side hitter on Ryerson’s women’s volleyball team and a mid-fielder on Canada’s national women’s Gaelic football team “I’ve seen one girl roll her […]

Communities Features

My great-grandfather, the prime minister

January 15, 2003

By Kathy Tam Some people have grandparents who read books to them before bedtime. Others have grandparents whom they write books about. Margaret MacMillan, chair of Ryerson’s history department from 1987-1992, was at first reluctant to tell people that the book she had written featured her great-grandfather in a starring role. But word slipped out […]

Queens anything but a drag

January 15, 2003

By Amy Brown-Bowers Ginger’s rounded bottom bulged like a Victorian bustle from the bottom of his corset. His hair fell below his navel in rusty waves. I complimented him on his curls as he swooshed by. “It’s so fucking tired here” he says. “There are no fags to hold the roof up.” He walks back […]

Electric Circus: Back that ass up

January 15, 2003

By Jessica Whitby I am a pretty horrible dancer, so when my editor asked me to try out for Much Music’s Electric Circus, I was nervous. Yet, when I arrived for my audition I soon found out that not being able to dance was not as important as having the right look. A friend, who […]

Fashion Express to the Orient

January 15, 2003

By Fatima Najm Kimono-style shirts are cropping up on campus courtesy of Canadian retailers Le Chateau and Dynamite. Halter crops, fashioned from Chinese embroidered fabric, are not an unusual sight on the club circuit. Toronto-based clothing company Yellow Fellow has taken the familiar yellow smiley face and given it an Asian spin by adding slanted […]

Students dash for little cash

January 15, 2003

By Wendy Glauser Applications for RyeSAC bursaries last semester doubled to about 700, while the number of $500 awards available remained at 15. Dave MacLean, who sits on RyeSAC’s Board of Directors, said RyeSAC would be able to give out at least double the number of bursaries if they weren’t “spending so much time protesting […]

Activist wave hits Ryerson

January 15, 2003

By Claudia De Simone Jorgenson Hall was the scene for the city’s first Toronto Social Forum on Saturday, as activists poured onto campus to discuss the grassroots political issues. The event was organized by Judy Rebick, Ryerson’s chair of social justice and democracy, and a committee. Speakers included controversial anti-poverty activist John Clarke, who is […]

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