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Small guy gets big laughs

By Matthew Tulloch At Yuk Yuk’s, a hush falls on the audience the moment Andre Arruda clambers on the stage but the comedian immediately turns the awkward silence into giggles. He grimaces and sighs, fusses with his microphone and takes several long swigs from his bottle of Evian. Then the jokes begin. When his time […]

Brains over beauty

By Alison Northcott It was an evening of Shameless promotion. At the El Mocambo last Thursday, Nicole Cohen and Melinda Mattos hosted Springtime Fresh, an all ages fundraiser for their soon-to-be-launched magazine, Shameless. Shameless is an alternative magazine for teenage girls. It aims to defy the stereotypes put forth by many mainstream teen magazines. “One […]

Students run RIOT

By André Voshart It’s Friday at midnight and the cast of RIOT 2004 is alert enough to run through the whole show one more time. They are gassed up on gummy bears and stale muffins. One of them juggles a pink vibrating dildo before going through a skit title “Gyno Pussy.” “Nothing is off limits […]

Building in a gap year

By Miranda Beninger In less than two months, I’m dropping my school books, grabbing a backpack, and flying across the world to the UK. Some people look at me in disbelief but the reality is this pick-up-and-go mentality is growing among Canadian students. Natalie Baines, manager at the Gerrard Street Travel Cuts location, says she […]

Communities Features

Kung Fu Royal-ty

By Matt Kwong FedEx carriers working at Boston’s Logan International Airport in 1996 may have handled an oversized cardboard box and wondered, perhaps out of shippers’ tedium, what was inside. Upon sliding into the cargo compartment, the double-walled box rattled like any other load, but its contents were tucked away safely in Styrofoam peanuts. […]

Board hopefuls sure not boring

By Larissa Liepins The most powerful positions at Ryerson are now up for grabs – and already the race has nearly killed one campaign. Days before the vote for Ryerson’s next Board of Governors, Glen Kerr, a part-time marketing student, announced his resignation. Kerr was running on one issue: A scheme to burrow a tunnel […]

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 […]

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