Category: Editorial

By Don McHoull A year ago today, Jerry Bugwei-Twum was alive and in the prime of his life. Today he lies in an unmarked grave, his life cut short by a burst of gunfire. The graveyard is one of the saddest places I have ever seen. It’s vast and empty, and strangely solemn despite the […]

By Don McHoull Congratulations to Gene Allen, Thomas Barcsay, Cyndy Baskin, George Bielmeier, Mark Bulgutch, Mike Burke, Ben Carniol, Julia Chen, John Cook, Linda Cooper, Peter Duck, Bruce Elder, Alex Ferworn, Don Gibb, Mike Inglis, Hugh Innis, Hersch Jacobs, Sandra Kalb, Suanne Kelman, Diane Kennedy, Arne Kislenko, Cecilia Kong, Nina-Marie Lister, Jacques Lorioz, Anastase Mastoras, […]

By Don McHoull Sometimes I wonder if this university has a fear of winning. What else could explain the administration’s decision to provide such inadequate funding to our Formula SAE team? Formula SAE, for those who haven’t read the article on page three yet, is a contest that pits teams of engineering students against one […]

By Astrid Poei Ryerson has caused me to master the power squat. And that’s being generous. After approval in late October, Ryerson contracted out its cleaning duties to Miracle Maintenance, sweeping CUPE workers to the gutter. Miracle Maintenance, who was originally responsible for the tidiness of Kerr Hall, now oversees cleaning for the entire campus […]

By Don McHoull This year’s student union election campaign season doesn’t even officially begin until the end of the week, but it’s already off to an ugly start. An anonymous group identifying itself as Take Back RyeSAC sent a crude manifesto to the campus press outlining its plans to “take back” RyeSAC. “We’re tired of […]

By Don McHoull The chaotic situation that has befallen the student union at York University should give us all reasons to appreciate our own student union, RyeSAC. For all its numerous flaws, RyeSAC has managed to avoid being caught up in the rip tide of Middle Eastern politics that has engulfed the student union at […]

By Don McHoull After years of abuse and chronic breakdowns, four of Ryerson’s notoriously crappy escalators were put out of their misery last week, and hauled away on the back of a flatbed truck to be used for spare parts. The four escalators on the upper floors of Jorgenson Hall will remain in place, but […]

By Don McHoull The botched attempt to shut down the Palestinian human rights event last week is a good example of everything that’s wrong with the way campus administrators operate. Instead of coming out and admitting they were afraid of violence breaking out at the event, the student services department made up a phony rule […]

By Don McHoull Ryerson’s Muslim students are being left out in the cold. After years of lobbying, they still don’t have an adequate place to pray on campus. Last Friday, in the middle of the holy month of Ramadan, students were turned away from Oakham House because there wasn’t enough room to pray. Other students […]

The editor's column

By Michael Traikos As Editor-In-Chief of a student newspaper, I continually find myself tracing the career paths of those before me in an attempt to convince myself that I made the right career move when I accepted the position. Everyone does it. It doesn’t matter whether you’re taking film at Ryerson or working at an […]