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Rams in playoffs at final buzzer

Men's b-ball team trounces York to earn birth in East-West Shootout

Ram swimmer comes up short at CIAU finals

By Sports Staff Ryerson’s first CIAU qualified swimmer in 12 years was in tough last weekend at Brock for the swimming finals. Marie-Claire Ross was unable to qualify for the finals in her events and her best swim was when she finished third in the consolation side of the 50m butterfly. With it she is […]

The height of fashion

By Renata D’Aliesio Ryerson’s catwalks are not for small women. “Females over the Height of 5’7” ONLY! All others will be denied an Audition!!!” reads a sign posted by first-year fashion students. The poster advertised auditions which took place over two weeks ago at Ryerson for the Women’s Wear Fashion Show. While stating height requirements […]

Circle of friends

By Natalie Armstrong I met a special circle of friends in university. I drifted in and joined the ring about a year and a half ago. We all may have drifted in around the same time. I can’t remember how it happened. This core group of friends was nothing I’d ever experienced. I was never […]

Figure skaters are number six in the province

By Sean Fitz-Gerald The Ryerson figure skating team started their reading week off on the right blade, finishing sixth out of 11 teams at the OWIAA championships in Waterloo. “Other universities are scared of Ryerson,” said coach Jennifer Chapman. “They know that we’re contenders now.” Ryerson ended the meet with 37.5 points, enough to finish […]

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

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