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The many faces of Max Dean

January 28, 2004

By Pascale Marchand Picture a scene from Wizard of Oz. In a dark room you stand in front of the projected face of artist Max Dean. You sit on a chair facing the projected face, and it asks, “So, you want to be me?” There is a pause. “Say something,” it continues. You speak into […]

Everyone loves a Failure

January 28, 2004

By Jordan Heath-Rawlings I didn’t even notice the last wheel falling off the wagon. Once id downed a full-sized blunt wrapped in Cuban cigar papers, cracked open a $185 bottle of Courvoisier XO and thrown down a stiff gulp or two, the cigarette just appeared in my left hand, half smoked. The party chatter continued, […]

Back to their old ways

January 28, 2004

By James Mirtle How quickly the Rams forget their winning ways. A week after their impressive 5-3 victory over the Royal Military College Paladins (2-15-0-1), the Ryerson men’s hockey team (2-15-0-0) lost two important games on the road, including an 8-0 pounding in a rematch with RMC. The Rams scored two goals early in the […]

Rye ballers fading away?

January 28, 2004

By Matt Flemming Fifth-year guard Vlad Matevski walked off the court Sunday, his team having lost by 29 points, and summed up his team’s performance in one word, “horrible”. “We play with no heart. We have a lack of focus, lack of hard work and lack of energy,” Matevski said. The Ryerson men’s basketball team […]

Rye figure skaters have victory on ice

January 28, 2004

By Lane Wade Three top-level performances this weekend gave the Ryerson women’s figure skating team something to talk about. The two-day invitational held at the University of Toronto’s Varsity Arena on Bloor Street saw first-place finishes by Ryerson’s Jessie Oliver-Laird in the Junior Silver Freeskate and by assistant captain Emily Bosomworth in the Senior Silver […]

Hey, don’t break that leg

January 28, 2004

By Robyn Doolittle Banged and bruised Ryerson dancers are tired of travelling across Toronto for physiotherapy –especially since there is a facility on campus. “All I wanted was for someone to look at it,” said first-year dance student Caitlin Adams, referring to the time she hurt her ankle after landing wrong out of a jump […]

Power failure hits city core

January 28, 2004

By Jordan Heath-Rawlings The lights of downtown Toronto went dark just after 11:00 a.m. Tuesday morning, setting off a power outage that lasted for almost an hour and a half. The blackout, which came as the city’s core was struggling to cope with snarled traffic due to a heavy snowfall, was originally blamed on a […]

Lights Out

January 28, 2004

By Joel Wass and Jordan Press With a winter storm already hammering the city and more snow on the way, Ryerson students were hoping for a snow day on Tuesday. Instead, they got a blackout. Campus clocks froze at 10:54 a.m., as lights went out across Ryerson’s campus. Classrooms, offices, hallways and cafeterias were left […]

‘People were screaming’

January 28, 2004

By Amy Brown-Bowers Lunch was cancelled, a cigarette savoured, and cell phones saved the day during Tuesday’s blackout. Two silver-haired students waited for a lunch that never arrived. Edith Mannes and Dorothy Rivet were hoping to grab a quick meal at Salad King before heading to their humanist class at Ryerson. They were the restaurant’s […]

Gambling With Your Future

January 21, 2004

By Erin Rankin While Ryerson may have a no cigarettes, no booze policy when it comes to advertising, it doesn’t seem to have a problem with Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation hocking gambling products like Pro-Line to students on campus. With slick messaging like, “Because anything can happen,” the men’s washroom now sports eye-level ads […]

Lava life illustrator visits Rye

January 21, 2004

By Lane Wade Marcos Chin has been commissioned for feature illustrations by Lavalife, The New York Times, Esquire, Rolling Stone and other multi-media outlets. The freelance illustrator visited Ryerson Monday night, explaining to students that cold-calls and pounding the pavement are the bedrock of any beginning designer’s career. Chin is the illustrator behind Lavalife’s most […]

It’s a sex party, you’re invited

January 21, 2004

By Adam Yerkie “I walked in and they were showing this ass-bead thing that you, uh, put in your ass,” says first-year film student Bill Allinson. Allinson and a few other timid guys were crowded at the back of a Pitman Hall lounge Thursday night while the front seats were occupied with girls –and one […]

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