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Year One

August 25, 2015

Nicole Di Donato writes about the jitters that come when moving to school for the first time.

Star basketball guards ponder leaving Rye

By Steve Petrick The men’s basketball team is at risk of losing its two best freshmen. Guards Karlo Villanueva and Sandy Brar wouldn’t comment on how likely it is they’ll return to Ryerson next year and said they’ll have to improve their grades to be eligible to play. “I don’t know if I’m coming back,” […]

Cricket in the quad

By Steve Petrick To Torontonians who have spent too much time watching baseball, it would have appeared there was one ball and two strikes on Atif Asghar when a lunging shortstop snagged his line drive, robbing him of a base hit. But since Asghar was playing cricket, it was the fourth of no more than […]

Volleyball star, Simic, named top male athlete

By Steve Petrick Sasha Simic hasn’t told his mother yet that he was named the men’s volleyball team’s most valuable player and Ryerson’s male athlete of the year. He plans to surprise her by sending a picture of him holding the trophies to a friend who will soon be visiting her in the small Yugoslavian […]

No home, plenty of history

Born to Métis parents and adopted into an Irish-Catholic household, McGuire spent his childhood on the move. He was never at any school for more than a year because his family—his mother Lorette, his dad Larry and his brother Doug, two years older—kept moving to accommodate his dad’s job as a tanker driver with Shell Canada.

Function starts to work

This May, the third-volume of function will spread the words and images of emerging Ryerson artists farther than ever.

Backstage to the Future

All fourth-year RTA students must complete a 300-hour practicum project, but the TARA awards are designed as an additional reward for their efforts. Whichever group of students takes control of producing the TARAs cannot win any awards, a disincentive that this year’s group has decided to work around by going all out on the preparations. This year’s show is a two-hour extravaganza that will transform the Rogers Communications Centre into a huge sound stage on April 12, and will be broadcast on Rogers Cable on May 5 and on CFMT on Aug. 14.

Foreign students teach while they learn

In Botswana, Sekwaka and Segola’s work takes them to cities and villages to teach people essential things such as boiling water to kill bacteria, proper food hygiene and AIDS awareness.

Resignations spark fear

Last week, Ilonka Van Steenwyk resigned from the centre after her contract wasn’t renewed, bringing the number of people who have resigned to three since last August. The other two, Stacey Whyne Berman and Linda Lyns, said they left because of deteriorating leadership and services.

Students given blessing to protest in Quebec

About 25 Ryerson social work students will close their textbooks and face the tear gas after the program approved motion allowing its students to defer exams so they can protest at the Free Trade Area of the Americas conference in Quebec City later this month.

Janitors won’t take entire blame for dirty washrooms

Custodians say they have been getting flak for Ryerson’s dirty bathrooms ever since a group of students created a stir over the cleanliness of campus stalls.

Incomplete voters list skews election

An information technology management student who lost his bid for reelection to RyeSAC’s board of directors last week says sloppy work by election officials may have cost him a victory.

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