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$2,500 Mass Exodus theatre fee put off for further consideration

By Eyeopener Staff After weeks of bickering and backpedalling, it looks like the month-long saga that was this year’s Mass Exodus fashion show is set to end with the university covering the rental cost of the Ryerson Theatre. Fashion chair Mary McCrae says Ryerson v.p. Academic Erroll Aspevig told her over the phone that this […]

Hard Rock jumps on Y&D bandwagon

As many as six Ryerson students working at the oldest Hard Rock Cafe in North America could lose their jobs when the restaurant chain undergoes a $5-million expansion as part of the Yonge and Dundas redevelopment.

Theatre students spread Funtasia

An overused term, according to some, but the only way to describe the method behind the madness of Funtasia. The Ryerson Theatre hosts this production, beginning tonight, which showcases the stage debut of our second-year theatre students.

In Brief: The show goes on

The music blasts from the stereo in the corner. The five dancers begin to move, slowly at first. As the tempo gets faster, so do they. Suddenly, four of them surround the dancer with the briefcase, and the tug-of-war begins. The crescendo builds and builds—until one of them almost stops grimacing in pain. You almost expect to hear someone yell, “Feel the burn!”

Former Rams star keeps eye on the ball

Six year ago, only one man could light up Ryerson’s basketball court. In just one game, he scored 52 points—an OUA record that stands to this day. The school hasn’t seen a player as good as Alex Beason ever since.

Men’s skating may join women’s ice team

At the OUA’s annual coaches meeting on Feb. 24 Ryerson voted in favour of adding two men’s events—singles dance and freestyle—to the women’s team.

X-Men clinch second CIAU title

By Emily Bowers St. Francis Xavier University’s X-Men captured their second straight CIAU men’s basketball title with an 83-76 overtime victory over the Brandon University Bobcats on Sunday. The game concluded the final eight tournament. The X-Men, who lost only one game this season, sent Halifax native Dennie Oliver to the foul like with two […]

Armenians mark anniversary

By News Team The newly found Armenian Students’ Association plans to mount a display celebrating 1,700 years since the proclamation of a Christianity in Armenia. Pictures of Armenian churches (such as the one shown), architecture, paintings, miniatures, and icons will be shown on several tables outside RyeSAC in the basement of Jorgenson Hall on Wednesday […]

Hong Kong hosts unique alumni society

By Jessica Stones When Simon Tsang graduated from Ryerson’s civil engineering program in 1990, he thought he was done with school forever. He moved back to his native Hong Kong in 1991 and settled into adulthood, working at the Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway Corporation’s design management department. But when Ryerson Alumni Association administrator Jane […]

Young Chinese flock to homeland

There is a quiet migration occurring of young educated people from the developed countries of the world to a small former British colony in East Asia.

Student activists attend protest school

Among 350 people registered for the workshop is Alex Lisman, chair of RyeACTION, RyeSAC’s activist wing and seven other Ryerson students. He is sitting in the Church of the Holy Trinity behind the Eaton Centre to find out what to wear, how to protect himself and how to make his presence felt.

Two sides of Canada’s student voices

By Allan Woods and Tim Cook OTTAWA—Inside Parliament Hill in Ottawa, in the lobby of Joe Clark’s office, Sean Fraser and Mark Sollis anxiously sit on the edge of a white couch waiting for the leader of the federal Conservative party to arrive for a meeting. Dressed in suits and ties, Fraser and Sollis could […]

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