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Liberals boost student loans

By Jordan Press Prime Minister Paul Martin’s first budget was revealed yesterday and post-secondary education was high on the spending list, but student groups are saying money won’t solve any problems. Yesterday’s budget increased limits on student loans, from $165 to $210 a week, to let more applicants get the full allotment provided through the […]

Carcinogen lies within campus

An old problem came back to haunt Ryerson this month when a broken water pipe knocked asbestos onto the ceiling of the saunda in the women’s change room at the RAC. “A pipe burst in the sauna that caused the roof to cave in and spill some asbestos,” said Ian Hamilton, director of campus […]

Cash rules everything…

By Don McHoull It turns out President Claude Lajeunesse was right after all. Last fall, the other campus newspaper lambasted the president for claiming that tuition is no higher today than it was in the 1960s. But a study released last week by the Education Policy Institute backs him up. Based on Statistics Canada figures, […]

Hate crime hits campus

By Jordan Press A rash of anti-Semitic hate crimes hit Toronto last week, and Ryerson wasn’t immune. Last Thursday, a Jewish student was standing outside the Podium building with a friend, having a smoke around 4 p.m. He said three male Ryerson students walked by and then allegedly committed a hate crime. The first assailant […]

No sleep and no insanity

It’s 9:15 a.m. on Saturday morning. Robin Poon takes off his glasses and rubs his bloodshot eyes – they haven’t rested for 71 hours. His best friend Jamieson Child sits across from him slouched in his chair in their Pitman Hall room, idly doodling in a lined-paper booklet. Both are struggling to stay awake for […]

Ryerson cheapens name

By Matt Kwong Faced with a $23 million shortfall in private funding for the new Centre for Computing and Engineering, Ryerson has slashed its asking price for the building’s naming rights by $5 million. The university has been courting private sponsors for the $71 million building – slated for a September 2004 opening – but […]

NO SLEEP AND NO INSANITY

Two first-year students stayed awake for 72 hours to see if they would have crazy hallucinations and hear voices. Suzanne Ma recounts their final hour.

Being President and CEO

By Don McHoull Leaning against his wooden podium, Claude Lajeunesse tried to ignore the throng of student protestors who surrounding him. Ryerson’s president was midway through his 2001 state of the university address and things weren’t going well. Angry students were constantly interrupting him, blowing on kazoors and trying to shout him down. As Lajeunesse […]

We should hire Honderich

By Don McHoull The National Post reported this week that Ryerson is considering soon-to-be ex-Toronto Star publisher John Honderich as a possible replacement for President Claude Lajeunesse (a story first reported in this paper two weeks ago). I think Ryerson should hire Honderich, no matter the cost. Honderich reportedly makes more than $600,000 at the […]

A fraternity by any other name

By Sheri Shefa The international fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi made its Ryerson affiliate an official chapter this week despite Ryerson’s disapproval of any fraternities on campus. When Jack Gryn created a new chapter of AEPi at Ryerson in 2000, Marion Creery, director of student services, said that in Ryerson’s history, fraternities had never been recognized […]

U of T nearly screws Rye TTC deal

By Erin Rankin A University of Toronto cash grab nearly jeopardized Ryerson’s Metropass deal with the TTC. U of T’s student council was violating the agreement that allows it, Ryerson and York University to sell discounted passes because the council was adding a $1 service charge to the $87 pass. The surcharge was meant to […]

Communities Features

Remembering a home she barely knew

By Gina Puzzuoli With a gentle tinkling of chimes, the door to the Tibet Shoppe on Queen Street West swings open. The smell of sweet incense fills the air as soft tendrils of smoke snake and arc their way to the ceiling. Vibrant reds, blues, greens and yellows of raw silk shirts are hung amongst […]

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