Bidding shutout alarms union rep
November 20, 2002
Unionized caretakers are not landing new contracts for custodial services in Ryerson’s new buildings, says a union executive from CUPE Local 233.
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Clear Cut Culture
November 20, 2002
At six a.m. every morning, truck horns went off. And at six a.m. every morning, Julie Nadeau opened her eyes to the damp tent walls around her.
Students board TTC savings train
November 20, 2002
Ryerson students will save at least $10 on monthly passes starting in 2003 after the TTC approved a new deal for students last Wednesday at City Hall.
Email prank creates chaos
November 20, 2002
Tempers are flaring at Ryerson’s Jewish student association, Hillel, with members accusing their former president of sending false emails using the group’s name.
Crime 101
November 20, 2002
A new program in organized crime teaches students the ins and outs of the mob
TA union drive halted
November 20, 2002
A disagreement about which academic assistants are eligible voters could delay the final result on whether or not to unionize until January of 2003.
Deans afraid of prof-raiding, says Ryerson exec
November 20, 2002
Ryerson deans are afraid that other universities will steal professors from their faculties, the university’s vice-president academic told the Finance Committee last week.
Those Remembrance Day forgot about
November 13, 2002
In the winter of 1933, between four and ten million Ukrainians starved to death in a famine so well concealed by the Soviet Union that much of the Western world did not acknowledge it happened until the last days of Communist rule in the 1980s.
Vball men let another one slip away
November 13, 2002
It’s a word no athlete will ever say, and something no team will ever admit to, but Saturday at Queen’s University the men’s volleyball team choked.
Where students just click
November 13, 2002
Flow is one of more than 1,000 young Toronto residents strutting their stuff online at Ryerson student Nader Mir’s free dating website, www.meetmeinto.com.
Board proposes solutions
November 13, 2002
After three hours of secret discussion on Monday, the RyeSAC Board of Directors produced a long list of ideas on how RyeSAC can deal with the crisis brought on by Sajjad Wasti’s letter that accused the group’s managers and executives of being corrupt.
An answer from the field
November 13, 2002
Noushin Farnoud can still see the pieces of brain splattered across the window of a building in the just-bombed wreckage of her Tehran neighbourhood. She rubs her temples delicately as she recounts the smell, the smoke and the raw fear of being in an Iranian war zone. The 23-year-old electrical engineering masters student still shudders at the memory of herself as a 10-year-old clinging to her parents’ hands, staring at buildings that had been cleaved into sections with the ease of “someone slicing a cake” by the incessant bombing Tehran endured during the Iran-Iraq war.
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