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The ultimate warrior wrestles win from Yeoman

February 11, 1998

By Eli Shupak It was a comeback of epic proportions. With their season on the line, Ryerson’s men’s basketball team rallied from a 22-point second-half deficit to edge the York Yeoman 65-63 in a thriller last Saturday night at Kerr Hall Gym. The comeback is believe to be the biggest in school history. Leading the […]

Prez pretenders and contenders

February 11, 1998

By Graeme Smith Lionel Poizner worked 14 years before coming back to Ryerson. Poizner was in second year before leaving in 1980 to work as a manager of information systems. He uses business ideas when talking about Ryerson. “The university often forgets we’re customers,” said Poizner, a fourth-year industrial engineering student. “The problem is, if […]

Ready to rumble

February 11, 1998

By Deborah Gardner RyeSAC VP education candidates Owen Ferguson and Erin George are both campaigning for tuition freezes, but can’t agree on how to go about it. Ferguson, a first-year journalism student, wants to start a tuition strike if fees go up again. “I think the only way to get administration to listen to us […]

Administration this, baby

February 11, 1998

By Deborah Gardner Jason Power, president of the Business Student’s Association, is setting his sight on RyeSAC’s executive. The fourth-year marketing student is one of two people running for the position of VP administration. Vladimir Spivak, in third-year industrial engineering, is also running. Both candidates are campaigning for a student centre. Power said the student […]

Show them the money

February 11, 1998

By Deborah Gardner The three RyeSAC VP finance and development candidates disagree on one key issue — a student centre. Michael Coburn, a third-year business management student, thinks a new student centre is a waste of money. “I don’t think it’s justified to go out and spend all that money,” said Coburn. “If you can’t […]

Screw Gatorade, give me sex baby

February 11, 1998

Who's doing it before games and who's staying celibate

Wasting time on empty promises

February 11, 1998

By Rob Granatstein RyeSAC candidates, you don’t mean shit. This election has seen every candidate make a promise they have absolutely no chance of keeping — the freezing or lowering of tuition. Erin George’s poster say she will “freeze tuition fees.” Get real. Only two people can keep tuition from rising and their offices aren’t […]

Liberals gettin’ it on with students

February 11, 1998

By Suleman Din Freezing university tuition is possible, opposition leader Dalton McGuinty said last weekend. “It can be done, but it involves making some choices about where money should be spent,” Ontario Liberal leader McGuinty said Saturday. McGuinty was among provincial Liberals visiting a Pakistani function at the Royal York Hotel. Health critic Gerrard Kennedy […]

Privatize universities: Biz leaders

February 11, 1998

By Steven D’Souza The Toronto Board of Trade took its turn playing government Monday. The board, representing 10,000 business members, released a report outlining 11 proposals for overhauling Ontario’s postsecondary education system. Establishing private universities, allowing market forces to determine tuition fees and making students repay loans through income-contingent schemes are three of the proposals […]

Course is hot, hot, hot

February 11, 1998

Caribbean studies class popular

Carleton’s cock shot causes shock

February 11, 1998

By Jackie Burns Carleton’s campus newspaper decided to give its student body a hard on last week. A photo of a man swinging a bell from his schlong dressed the cover of the Charlatan, leading to some anger and a surge in the number of papers picked p. “I actually saw people fighting over our […]

Techno for the soul

February 11, 1998

You probably associate techno music with electronica bands like the Prodigy or Underworld. Rob Gillies takes us to Detroit and introduces us to techno's black roots

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