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STUDENT’S DOC TO SCREEN AT FEMINIST PORN AWARDS

By Adriana Rolston Joanne Loton would love to make her own porn. But for now, the Ryerson graduate student is filming the feminist directors behind the camera. “These women are sex-rock revolutionaries. They’re sick and tired of the status quo and instead of complaining about it they picked up a camera and did something about […]

A NEWS YEAR IN REVIEW

Eyeopener Staff Powdered death threat(s) at Rye On Sept. 17, 2008, a threatening letter covered in pink powder was sent to a Ryerson administrator. The powder ended up being harmless, but the Hazardous Materials unit (Haz Mat) was called to decontaminate the area. Six weeks later, on Oct. 27, 2008, an envelope containing a death […]

RYERSON COOL ON SALARY FREEZE

By Vanessa Greco Top-earners at Ryerson might see their wages frozen in an attempt to cope with budget shortfalls. Ryerson’s operating budget is facing a total cut of about eight per cent to fi ve per cent this year, and three per cent the year after. Discussion is underway on a salary freeze that might […]

RSU AGM: CHAOS CONTINUED

By Julianna Cummins News Editor For the second time in less than a week, a meeting of the Ryerson Students’ Union (RSU) is marred in controversy. On April 2, the RSU held its annual general meeting (AGM), where all Ryerson students can vote on motions and bylaw amendments. The meeting started in room 115 of […]

CONTINUING EDUCATION BRINGS IN PROFITS FOR RYE

By Carys Mills With skyrocketing enrolment numbers, the Chang School proves that continuing education (CE) is where the money’s at. The Chang School of Continuing Education is the largest of its kind in Canada. Annually there are over 65,000 enrolments, compared to the 25,000 undergraduate and graduate students at Ryerson. “We all fantasize that we’re […]

TWENTY PER CENT OF GRADS STRUGGLE WITH LITERACY: STUDY

By Aleysha Haniff Associate News Editor It’s not that Kyle Friedman can’t read and write. The first-year new media student did a Hooked-on-Phonics-type program growing up. He had a tutor until he was in high school. But there’s no getting around the fact that Friedman’s literacy skills remain at what he dubs “below average” for […]

CAN YOU READ THIS?

Carla Wintersgill Editor-in-Chief As someone who makes a living reading and writing, I pay close attention to how many people can actually read what I’m writing. In Canada, we’re proud of the accessibility we provide to education but our literacy rates tell another story. According to a 2005 StatsCan report, four in 10 Canadian adults […]

FUTURE UNCERTAIN FOR HEALTH AND DENTAL plan

By Aleysha Haniff Associate News Editor Student groups director Osman Hamid plans to encourage the Ryerson Students’ Union to accept Gallivan and Associates as the student union’s health and dental plan broker at the next executive meeting. The motion to sign on with Gallivan was passed at a contentious board of directors meeting on March […]

STUDENT LEFT SCREWED BY AWARD MIX-UP

By Vanessa Greco A student might not be able to graduate on time after a $1,350 award blunder at Ryerson’s financial assistance office. Chi Nguyen, a third-year journalism student who has volunteered for The Eyeopener in the past, was mistakenly awarded $1,350 in December 2007. After discovering the mix-up a month later, the school charged […]

COPYRITE SAFE LOOTED FOR $12K

By Amit Shilton News Editor Toronto police are investigating the theft of a safe holding between $8- 12,000 in cash that was stolen from the CopyRITE office at the end of March. The safe, which was said to have both a padlock and key, was completely lifted from the office sometime over the weekend of […]

ON THE RUNWAY: RYERSON FASHION WEEK

By Aleysha Haniff Associate News Editor Ryerson Fashion Week ends with the apocalypse. But don’t worry, Revelation, named after the last book of the Bible, is just one of the many student collections that will be showcased at Ryerson Fashion Week, running April 3-8. The week features designs from the fashion industry’s next wave of […]

PACKED STANDS SECRET TO ATHLETIC SUCCESS

By Anthony Lopopolo Ali McComb knows how it feels to have a surge of energy in the middle of a game. As a third-year interior design student playing for the women’s volleyball team at Ryerson, she often found extra encouragement from her parents on the sidelines. Despite living in Ottawa, the Mc- Combs appeared at […]

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