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Students help plan anti-hate forum

November 1, 2000

By Lisa Whitaker For the first time, students are sitting on the committee organizing Ryerson’s community forum against racism, anti-semitism and hate. “It is a combination of students and professors this year,” said sociology professor Vappu Tyyska, a member of the planning committee. “This year the Jewish Students Association’s involvement is reflected, as they have […]

Social work student appeared ready to tackle life

November 1, 2000

Ryerson community among the 300 mourners at Kingston funeral for classmate

Behind the seams

By Allan Woods It happened in her history of design class. Chriss Fort was sitting at a desk, barely listening to her instructor as she absent-mindedly doodled on a sheet of paper. Her imagination was drawn back to fairy tales from her childhood as the lines and figures she was sketching began to take shape. […]

Business & Technology

Student planes ready for takeoff

The group of eight students are scheduled to leave Wednesday for Delane, Fla. to compete in the Society of Automotive Engineers aero design competition. The team whose remote-control airplane carries the heaviest payload wins.

Tuition freeze examined

Committee members say they’ve been advised by Ryerson’s number crunchers to increase tuition in deregulated programs, like computer science, engineering and other professional programs, by $300. Administrators emphasize that’s a small increase, compared to some universities.

Rams year in review

This was the year of almost for Ryerson sports teams, which is pretty impressive considering our teams usually don’t come close to being able to say almost.

Dropout pops up in hit film

As it is, the 23-year-old Ryerson near-grad is visible for about five seconds, and the film, set in an Ivy League college where a secret society’s moral wrong-doings are uncovered by young hero Joshua Jackson, sucks.

Film mod-els ‘60s culture

The documentary is about Toronto’s mod culture, a revival of the mid-1960s British youth movement made famous by sharply dressed kids in colourful clothes.

Business & Technology

Technology Wrangler

McCallum is an Internet cowboy blazing a path in this hyped-up, dot-com frontier, where businesses, armed with little more than a good idea, attract millions in capital with no real revenue to show for it. At iCraveTV, he’s helped shape a fuzzy notion to broadcast live television feeds over the Internet, wrestling with technology that will soon become the next big thing.

Filipino identity fills student with pride

Since I was born and raised in Canada, I can relate to the challenge of finding my roots. I was taught traditional Filipino values and practices, but like others born in Canada, I consider myself part of a different breed of Filipino values and practices, but like others born in Canada, I consider myself part of a different breed of Filipinos.

Rye to barely snag cash

The recently announced provincial performance fund, which splits $16.5-million among universities according to how each performs in three categories, rewards schools that produce successful graduates.

Rye left out of Garden bids

Ryerson president Claude Lajeunesse said there has been no progress since the E-mail, which outlined the university’s interest in the Gardens for “classroom and residence space and a permanent home for [Ryerson’s] hockey team.” But neither he nor Grayson ruled out the possibility that future plans could include Ryerson.

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