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To reconcile or to react, this is the question…

November 19, 2003

By Amy Brown-Bowers Farheen Kamal couldn’t take it anymore. The chilling stares at family dinners were getting to her. Her father’s silence was worse than any shouting match she had had to defend herself in. her family couldn’t deal not being the model Muslim Pakistani girl. Because they could not understand where she was coming […]

Council spending jumps

November 19, 2003

By Scott Roberts After running an operating surplus of nearly $200,000 last year, RyeSAC is going on a social events spending spree. The student administrative council is planning to spend $215,735 on social events this year. that figure is nearly eight times what the organization spent on events last year. “We decided to make a […]

When your house is not a home

November 19, 2003

By Zohar Gurevich She spent most of her nights walking the streets. Her university workload was challenging before, but now finishing homework was impossible. She couldn’t go home — the abuse was unbearable. “Shelters wouldn’t help her because she hadn’t been physically or sexually assaulted,” says Joanna Holt, the administrative counselor at the Ryerson Centre […]

Baller a real scholar

November 19, 2003

By Jackie Mcgale Basketball and soccer player Ashley Keohan was presented with a bouquet of flowers prior to the women’s season-opening basketball game against Waterloo, on Friday. The flowers were to honour Keohan’s reception of Ryerson’s new Female Athlete and Scholar Award. For the past two years Keohan has successfully juggled basketball, soccer, a job, […]

A life between pipes

November 19, 2003

By Robyn Doolittle When Braden Deane was in kindergarten, his two older brothers needed some to block the posts in their backyard rink. The 20-year-old has been in net ever since. In the Rams’ second game this season, Deane got a shutout, something no one has done at Ryerson in six years. Back in Huntsville, […]

Freaky white stripes disappear

November 19, 2003

By Michelle Thompson The two ghastly figures floated onto the stage — bringing with them a strange possession over the audience. Detroit rock duo the White Stripes delivered a five-star performance at a sold out show last Thursday. It felt intrusive. It felt like a flashback, 30 years into the past. The audience didn’t come […]

Ryerson dropout makes it big

November 19, 2003

By Jason Ho Former Ryerson film student Vadim Perelman sits confidently back in his chair. He sets his feet up on the stone table on the 23rd floor of the Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto. In his first feature film, House of Sand and Fog, Perelman can relate to both the main characters and the […]

Girl wins for fake orgasms

November 19, 2003

By Melissa Whetstone It’s not every day a girl gets pleasure out of a fake orgasm. Some consider fake orgasms a nasty trick, but for second-year Ryerson student Kate Klein they’re a talent. Klein won the ‘Fake Orgasm Contest,’ at the Everything to do with Sex Show in the SkyDome last week. The contest, presented […]

Make room for campus prayer

November 19, 2003

By Don McHoull Ryerson’s Muslim students are being left out in the cold. After years of lobbying, they still don’t have an adequate place to pray on campus. Last Friday, in the middle of the holy month of Ramadan, students were turned away from Oakham House because there wasn’t enough room to pray. Other students […]

Comic attacked on stage

November 19, 2003

By Alison Northcott RyeSAC’s comedy night ended in threats of violence and accusations of racism last week. Wade McElwain, a professional comedian hired by RyeSAC for the event, had his performance cut short when an angry audience member, who was mocked during the performance, jumped up on stage. He confronted McElwain, called him a “racist […]

Cheat site challenged

November 19, 2003

By Matthew Kwong Turnitin.com, an electronic service used at Ryerson to combat academic dishonesty, could be challenged in court because of issues related to copyright ownership. At RyeSAC’s request, legal counsel Bill Reid reviewed the Web site, which keeps an electronic data bank of essays submitted by students across North America in order to deter […]

Muslim students shut out of prayer

November 19, 2003

By Taeeba Sadar Muslim students still don’t have enough prayer space at Ryerson and after three years of battling the administration they see no hope for a solution. “Currently we aren’t pursuing any strategy in terms of getting more prayer space,” said Nauman Abbasi, vice-president of the Ryerson Muslim Students Association. “The administration claims that […]

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