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Women behaving like men

By Thien Huynh Things got hairy at the International Women’s Day fair held last Saturday at Ryerson. The women were ready to rumble as a series of disturbances kept security on their toes all afternoon during the 21st annual International Women’s Day celebration. “We never ever had anything like that happen before,” said security manager […]

The drought is over

Women's basketball make first playoff trip in six years

Rams thank Ravens

Men's baskeball squad in semis

Blue Boy Brown goes Straight Up

Former Ryerson student, computer expert and DJ manager on the tube tonight

Inbreds born again

After years of being independent, the band has released their first album on Murderecords

My own private road movie

By Giselle Culver It was a 1972 Cadillac Sedan de Ville. Nineteen feet of emerald green metal, the colour of dragonfly wings. Rounded edges, creamy leather seats. A little bit of rust here and there. Who drive that? I had to know. It belonged to the exuberan Lars. He had rigged the behemoth to start […]

What happened to Amistad?

By Saada Branker When Steven Spielberg’s film Amistad graced movie theatres late last year, the reaction was bittersweet. Some movie moguls hyped it as being an important epic about African slavery. Cynics denounced it as another feel-good Hollywood flick for bleeding heart liberals. With only four Oscar nominations — none of which are for best […]

Why this budget’s a loser

By Rob Granatstein Jean Chretien wanted last month’s federal budget and the Millennium Scholarship Program to be his legacy. Sorry Jean, your legacy will be failure. While this budget is chalk full of wonderful initiative that will bring some relief to students — now known to all Canadians as the “$25,000-in-the-hole-club” — Chretien, Finance Minister […]

Punks deface posters

Student groups are targets

Family sues police

By Robert Gillies The family of Ryerson student Manish Odhavji, who was shot to death by police last Sept. 26, have launched a $1 million lawsuit against Toronto Police Chief David Boothby and several officers, claiming they deliberately sabotaged a Special Investigations Unit (SIU) probe into the case. Odhavji, 22, was unarmed when he was […]

ICLRPs on the way

By Anthony Agostino If you think you’ve got the Ontario Student Assistance Program all figured out, think again. On Feb. 20, Ontario Education and Training Minister Dave Johnson announced an income-contingent loan repayment program (ICLRP), and asked Canada’s major banks for assistance in revising the student loan system. ICRLPs base the repayment of student loans […]

Waiting for Millennium fund

By Kathryn Dunmore The federal government introduced its vaunted Millennium Scholarship fund last week in its budget. The fund wowed some but others were not impressed with the government’s attempt to placate students. Finance Minister Paul Martin announced on Feb. 24 the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation will be set up in 2000, giving $2.5 billion […]

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