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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 […]

Coping with cold circumstances

January 21, 2004

By Alison Northcott We walk the same streets in the same neighbourhood. Our paths cross, but circumstances lead us different ways. This year, Leanne Iceruk has walked both those paths. Iceruk, a third-year social work student at Ryerson, is doing her job placement at the Evergreen Centre for Street Youth, located behind Ryerson on Yonge […]

International awards hit home

January 21, 2004

By Allison Jones Students at Ryerson may have to worry about rising TTC prices, but at least they don’t have to worry about dying en route. “I thought I was going to die every day,” said Brianne Rutter, a fourth-year early childhood education student about her experience riding New Zealand public transit. “The bus drivers […]

Rye won’t turn away from Turnitin

January 21, 2004

By Jordan Press Last week, McGill University caved in and graded papers a second-year student even though he refused to submit it to Turnitin.com. McGill student Jesse Rosenfeld was successful in his appeal of a failing grade he received on an assignment he wouldn’t submit to the American-based anti-plagiarism Web site. After a lengthy appeal, […]

Commuters may pay more

January 21, 2004

By Andrea Jezovit Though TTC officials meet today to discuss a possible fare hike, Ryerson students won’t be paying more for their discount Metropasses –yet. “If fares go up now, [discount Metropasses] may go up at the end of the year,” said TTC spokesperson Marilyn Bolton. Since September, RyeSAC has been selling Metropasses to students […]

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