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V-ball stars work for the future

By Shalini Ruparell The women’s volleyball team may have missed the playoffs this year, but two of their young stars give the team hope it will improve next season. In her second season at Ryerson, Anjela Wilson has become one of the top volleyballers in the country, recording more digs per set than any other […]

Basketball finds new stars

The Ryerson Rams basketball teams have seen better days. The women went 9 and 15 this season, while the men went winless in 22 games. The organizers, coaches, players and fans all agree on one thing – Ryerson basketball is in dire need of recruitment. The first stage of any recruitment plan is identification. Ryerson […]

RISE up to the challenge

By Laura Fraser Imagine a place on campus where students could enjoy fresh, vegetarian, and possibly free, meals. Thanks to a new group at Ryerson, this could be a reality. After attending a conference held by the Sierra Youth Coalition – an educational group dedicated to improving the environment – last October, Jedidiah Gordon-Moran, a […]

Laying the podium down

By Jordan Heath-Rawlings It took a movie with no plot, no action and a lack of giant robots to finally convince Kevin Smith that he could be a filmmaker. In 1991, Smith was working in a convenience store in New Jersey, wondering what to do with himself while trying not to impregnate his girlfriend and […]

Ryerson students dance choreographed works

By Katie Schneider “Welcome to my brain…” A computer-like male voice dominates the theatre as the dancers step onto the stage. “Run upstage…” “Spread out…” “Reverse!” the strange voice calls out as the dancers comically follow the instructions. Dance students became the choreographers for Choreographic Works, the Ryerson dance program’s annual spring performance, which […]

Designing is more than stitches

By Jennifer Fong Ever watch Fashion Television and wonder what those designers were thinking when they decided to put that on a runway? Making a functional piece of clothing – a few stitches here, a little cutting there – sounds simple enough doesn’t it? As it turns out, there’s a lot more than a little […]

Racers getting cash

By Matt Kwong Funding discussions between RyeSAC and Ryerson’s Formula SAE team are back on track. After a brief pit stop, Derek Isber, vice president of student life and events, said the racing team will be on the agenda at this week’s meeting with the board of directors. “I’ve always been a supporter of the […]

Travel costs GO-ing up

By Jordan Press Students taking GO Transit could be hit with a fare increase starting this summer, unless Queen’s Park decides otherwise. All but one member of GO’s board of directors voted to increase fares on student tickets by about 5 per cent at a board meeting last Friday. While general fares are going up […]

Smith makes big hit at huge event

By Jordan Heath-Rawlings When Kevin Smith walked into Roy Thompson Hall at 7:30 p.m. Friday night, just 30 minutes before he was supposed to walk onstage, all of RyeSAC let out a deep breath. “Jeff [Zoeller, RyeSAC events coordinator] got on the walkie talkie and said ‘Kevin Smith is in the building,’” recalled Pauline Spencer, […]

Butt out, please

By Jen Gerson March may be the last month that Ryerson smokers can linger with their butts at the entrances to campus buildings. Smoking in front of the doors of all Ryerson buildings will likely be acknowledged as a health and safety hazard by the Joint Health and Safety Committee at their meeting Wednesday night. […]

Last step’s a killer

By Chris Richardson When a group of third-year nursing students contacted the TTC to make the stairs at Dundas Station safer for the public, the mass-transit system did them one better — they said they’d demolish them. The stairs leading to the station at the northeast corner of Yonge and Dundas streets, where a number […]

Don will be gone

By Elisabeth Johns Residents at O’Keefe House are protesting the departure of a staff member who some students say is being targeted because he spoke up about the building’s poor maintenance. “I feel that Kevin is being penalized for speaking out [and] being honest,” said Marcie Clowry, a first-year resident, regarding the housing department decision […]

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