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Agitate (and have fun too)

By Douglas Cudmore It’s been one of those weeks when everybody is pissing me off. OSAP is continuing to bleed me dry. The stream of rejection letters from potential employers is starting to seep into my mailbox. And, even with the results of Tuesday’s megacity referendum showing an anti-Conservative landslide, it’s obvious that Toronto will […]

Smokers find refuge at Rye

By Sean Fitz-Gerald The Cavern may benefit from Toronto’s new anti-smoking legislation, as nicotine addicts search for safe places to light up. “I do come here often, and I will come here more often now, because I can smoke,” said geography student Glenn Coulter from behind a heavy cloud of smoke at the campus pub. […]

Beavers and Buttheads

Polite Canadians and obnoxious Americans - stereotypes, assumptions and stupid questions create an invisible barrier between the two countries

High schoolers give RPU the cold shoulder

By Shane Dingman Ryerson is the only Metro university to have a decrease in applications from Ontario high school kids, but no one’s losing any sleep over the decrease. Ryerson had 393 fewer Ontario high schoolers apply for first-year undergraduate positions. Only 74 applicants had Ryerson as a first choice and 77 listed Ryerson as […]

Women’s playoff hopes drowned by Yeomen

By Renata D’Aliesio All sorts of barnyard animals came out to watch York University destroy the Rams women’s basketball team, setting their playoff hopes out to pasture. The women lost by 28 points in their final home game Feb. 25 to a crowd half-filled with vocal York supporters. Ryerson couldn’t come up with a successful […]

48 minutes with Woodshed

Toronto band plays pop with no apologies

The life of Gryner

Memories make the music for local singer/songwriter

Students plea: “No more tuition hikes”

By Renata D’Aliesio “No more tuition hikes” was the plea of Ryerson students to Ryerson President Claude Lajeunesse at Monday and Tuesday’s townhall meetings. “I don’t have that much more to give,” said Peggy Ferguson, a continuing education student. “My budget can’t support the cuts made to the university, but the government can. Why are […]

Hey, wait, Xena’s not so bad

By Jarrod Hoogendam I am a very judgemental person. This is not to say that I hate everything, just that I like or dislike someone or something at first glance without being hindered by a silly thing like a reason. I’ll give you an example. The television program Get a Life will forever be one […]

Me and Julio down by the schoolyard

Music classes teach rhythms of the global village

Musicians under cover

Playing popular tunes garner these artists some respect

Dial “F” for fuck-up

By Renata D’Aliesio A printing mistake by RyeSAC has a University of Toronto student’s phone ringing off the hook. For the past five years Paul Barker’s telephone number has appeared under Travel Cuts in RyeSAC’s student handbook. “It’s been a bloody inconvenience,” says Barker. “It is especially annoying when I am trying to write a […]

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