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Butt out, please

By Jen Gerson March may be the last month that Ryerson smokers can linger with their butts at the entrances to campus buildings. Smoking in front of the doors of all Ryerson buildings will likely be acknowledged as a health and safety hazard by the Joint Health and Safety Committee at their meeting Wednesday night. […]

Last step’s a killer

By Chris Richardson When a group of third-year nursing students contacted the TTC to make the stairs at Dundas Station safer for the public, the mass-transit system did them one better — they said they’d demolish them. The stairs leading to the station at the northeast corner of Yonge and Dundas streets, where a number […]

Don will be gone

By Elisabeth Johns Residents at O’Keefe House are protesting the departure of a staff member who some students say is being targeted because he spoke up about the building’s poor maintenance. “I feel that Kevin is being penalized for speaking out [and] being honest,” said Marcie Clowry, a first-year resident, regarding the housing department decision […]

Rye bids for new business building

By Sheri Shefa Ryerson has bid on a site for a new business building, a university source said. With the university’s self-imposed deadline of opening a new business building by September 2005, time is running out to find a home for the almost 6,000 business students at Ryerson. Adam Kahan, vice president of university advancement, […]

Nightmare on Bond St.

By Rafael Brusilow Ryerson’s oldest residence has walls and ceilings that could collapse at any minute and is a health hazard to the students who call it home, a Toornto contractor said. After assessing O’Keefe House, general contractor John Worton said the deep cracks crawling across the residence’s walls are a telltale sign that structural […]

RAC difficult for the disabled

By Cybele Sack For disabled students who need a scooter to get around campus, the doors to the Ryerson Athletic Centre, represent not an entrance but a barrier. Whenever 18-year-old Aaron Broverman wants to use the RAC, he has to take his scooter to his residence at the International Learning Centre and wheel two blocks […]

Communities Features

Painted faces, renewed hope

By Rachel Hahn A short and burly black woman wearing a bright orange head scarf and a matching dress applies calamine lotion to my face. I don’t have a rash. She’s using the lotion to create circles and dots, similar to the ones on her own face, so that everyone will know I am celebrating […]

Fighting the dragon within

By Suzanne Ma Twenty-two women in hot pink surge forward in a long narrow boat across the murky green water at Toronto’s Centre Island. “Hit! Hit! Hit!” screams Eleanor Nielsen, a paddler sitting in the first row. She raises her paddle and plunges it into the water, keeping the team in pace. Heavy rhythmic thumps […]

Communities Features

No dreams of justice

By Robyn Doolittle It’s 4 a.m. and Richmond Bugyet-Twum is wide-awake. For the past year, he hasn’t been able to sleep past this hour — the time the police called to say his son Jerry had been shot and killed. In a desperate quest for a full night’s sleep, Richmond returned to his native Ghana […]

Dancing in the street

By Julia Che at first no one notices as 15 black-clad dancers gather at the pedestrian bridge between Union Station and the CN Tower. The drab concourse becomes a stage and then the music starts. Jeremy Nasmith and Toan Truc are the first to begin. If you were to come across this dance in the […]

Virginity minority report

By Joan Chang Virgins. They are people who will eventually be struggling to maneuver through flailing limbs and hoping it all comes through in the end. Inevitably, it is an awkward transition from virgin to sexual being. Jeanette Cabral a third-year radio and television arts student, recalls her first time. “It happened in the summer. […]

Between a prof and a hard place

By Matt Kwong Fighting between architecture faculty members is so bad that it’s affecting academic performance, students in the program claim. “[The arguing] does get in the way of learning,” said Jeff Sarko, a third-year architecture student. Another student — one of many who felt the fighting was a problem, but was afraid to provide […]

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