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Beverly Hills beckons 3Bone Audio

January 8, 2003

By Fatima Najm Two words took three Ryerson graduates all the way to the first ever Surround Music Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, nominated for the same award as Pete Townshend and The Who on Dec. 13, 2002. “’Two words’, my friend said to me dramatically: ‘DVD-Audio,’ when I asked […]

A tale of two vacations…

January 8, 2003

By Gabe Kastner Day one of my yoga vacation in the Bahamas. I sit cross-legged, eyes-closed on a deck, a green-painted platform overseeing a bay that separates the city from the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat. Anchored sailing ships dot the water, and a fresh wind blows across my face. The teacher, an old brown-skinned woman […]

Student e-mails out of control, profs say

January 8, 2003

By Lisa Urbach Ryerson professors are struggling to stay afloat amid a sea of e-mails they receive from their students on a regular basis. “We need to take a long, hard look at student access to faculty via e-mail,” Carla Cassidy, the dean of arts, told the Academic Council meeting last month, adding that “It […]

Campus sex attacker convicted

January 8, 2003

By Martin Kuebler A man arrested in November after a series of campus sex assaults pled guilty last month and was sentenced to six months in jail. Nick Belcourt, 26, admitted he had sexually assaulted two female Ryerson students and trapped another female student in the journalism lounge in the Rogers Communication Centre. On Dec. […]

No break for Ryerson Security

January 8, 2003

By Eyeopener Staff While the rest of the campus was on vacation over the holidays, Ryerson security were still hard at work keeping things on campus under control. On the night of Dec. 19 Ryerson security were alerted to a man who had become incoherent after drinking a good portion of a bottle of Listerine. […]

Engineers’ math marks don’t add up

January 8, 2003

By Barry Hertz To combat a 225 per-cent failure rate among its first-year students, the faculty of engineering and applied science will introduce a remedial math course next year to teach students math they should have learned in high school. The voluntary course, called MTH128, is aimed at students with low high school math marks, […]

I wanna holiday in the sun

January 8, 2003

By Michael Traikos Just how Daytona Beach is associated with spring break, it may not be surprising to hear Ryerson professor John Cook’s name heard during the debauchery that accompanies a second reading break – if and when university students get one. The popular English professor, who is continually considered by Maclean’s magazine as one […]

Assault charge has student spitting mad

January 8, 2003

By Melissa Godsoe A man accused of spitting on a police officer is more concerned his name is permanently tarnished than he is with the criminal charges he faces. Kashif Shaikh a fourth-year ITM student was charged with assaulting a police officer at an Oct. 26 anti-poverty rally. Shaikh said he got into a disagreement […]

Student leader calls RyeSAC shameless

January 8, 2003

By Stephen Huebl The co-chair of the University of Toronto’s Metropass Task Force labelled RyeSAC as “shameless glory seekers”: for taking undue credit for their role in achieving a discounted student Metropass. Mike Foderick sent an e-mail to a number of Ryerson and University of Toronto community members, including The Eyeopener, in which he said […]

Tired students need another reading week, says Rye prof

January 8, 2003

By Andrea Janus The chair of Ryerson’s English department believes that students could learn more by spending less time in class, so he’s proposing that a second reading week be added to the school year. John Cook told the Academic Council last month that students needed a reading week during the fall term. “I’ve grown […]

Communities Features

Has Roots lost its roots?

January 8, 2003

By J. Hanan Ibanez Waiting in line at the used bookroom, Veronica Pam is a walking dream come true for the founders of Roots clothing. Decked out in a Roots jacket, sweatshirt and red school bag, the second-year nutrition student could blend in flawlessly at a Canadian Olympic village. “I always wear their clothes — […]

Students urge a fast for the wallet

November 27, 2002

Culture jammers all over the world will leave their wallets at home to celebrate a day without spending, Buy Nothing Day this Friday. Organizers want to encourage other consumers to not only do the same, but to think about how they spend their money.

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