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New room furnished with tension

November 12, 1997

By Lori Fazari After a two-year struggle, Ryerson’s Women’s Centre has been granted a larger space. But some members of RyeSAC say the way they got it was “underhanded.” “The case was valid — it’s the process,” said council president Angelo DeLuca. The Women’s Centre has been trying to move out of its cramped space […]

Mega-Mel won’t have mega-power

November 12, 1997

By Graeme Smith Toronto has a new mayor. So what? “Welcome to the new City of Toronto,” proclaimed Mel Lastman in his acceptance speech Monday night. Nelson Wiseman, a political scientist at the University of Toronto, agrees with the new mayor that the city is looking very different. “The power arrangement within Metro Toronto has […]

The two mega-losers

November 12, 1997

By Lori Fazari Angelo DeLuca’s political aspirations outside Ryerson have been shot down for the time being. The RyeSAC president ran for the position of separate school board trustee in Ward 11, encompassing downtown Toronto, the Don Valley and East York. He came in fourth out of six candidates in Monday’s elections. DeLuca was still […]

No souvlaki for debating team

November 12, 1997

Students denied money to send students to World Championships in Greece

Vending avengers

November 12, 1997

Students stock up on junk food as vending machine breaks

Surviving after Scott

November 5, 1997

Men's basketball gets ready for the regular season without a leader

We’re not just freakin’ cute

November 5, 1997

Plumtree tries to garner respect for their music, not their looks

Mega-trailing Babs and Mel

November 5, 1997

By Sean Fitz-Gerald I’m not sure what kind of coffee Barbara Hall drinks in the morning, but I know it’s a hell of a lot stronger than mine. Hall started her Saturday at 9 a.m. While many of use were still sleeping off out Halloween hangovers, she was shaking hands at Knob Hill Farms at […]

To serve and protect

November 5, 1997

Jane Doe is suing the police for failing to warn her about a rapist, but the consequences of the verdict are contested

Canada’s native tongues disappearing

November 5, 1997

By Vanessa Thomas In order to make room for their expansion in Canada, Europeans killed natives, like the Micmac and Beothuks, who they saw as impediments to their expansion in places like Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. But in this century, aboriginals do not live in fear of being hunted, killed and scalped for 10 pounds […]

Aboriginal students come full circle

November 5, 1997

By Vanessa Thomas A musky scent is released into the halls of Jorgenson Hall as Mark Bell burns traditional sweet grass in room 345A, the office of the Aboriginal Student Circle (ASC). Weekly meetings are home to a purification ritual called smudging, meant to cleanse the mind, body and spirit. Besides being a place to […]

Red Cross rejects gay men’s blood

November 5, 1997

RyeSAC's VP angry after his blood was rejected during shortage

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