Category: Editorial

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There’s no place like home

October 11, 2000

Sometimes it’s the environment that makes the experience.

The price of independence

October 4, 2000

Is it time for the business school to leave the mother ship?

Construction nightmares on Gould Street

September 27, 2000

Santiago Calatrava is back at the drawing board, hatching plans for the most anticipated structure in Ryerson’s building spree. Too bad the school spent the whole summer looking at models of something they had no intention of building.

ICE surveys miss their mark

September 20, 2000

Since the administration doesn’t publish the findings of students' surveys, it’s no wonder students have a hard time taking Ryerson’s method of evaluating courses and professors seriously

Campus alcohol policies old and fuzzy

September 13, 2000

If the school fails to properly enforce or update its alcohol policies, how can it dictate to you how you should behave?

Welcome to an expensive time-waster

September 13, 2000

"During my four years studying journalism here, I quickly realized that I spent more money on classes as I actually attended less and less."

Only the fit survive on Rye’s island

August 23, 2000

What would happen if you stranded Ryerson and RyeSAC execs in some faraway oasis in the South Pacific with nothing but their bare hands and wit to live on?

Eye Column: Don’t trip on your way to class

August 23, 2000

Ryerson is expanding, but building a new image goes deeper than just bricks and mortar.

Stand up or get screwed

November 24, 1999

By Philippe Devos “Students of Ryerson: Bend over and assume the position, you’re about to get fucked.” Rob Granastein began his Eyeopener editorial with those words when the Tories announced deregulation in 1998, which led to massive tuition increases. Well get the KY jelly and drop your drawers because the Tories are in the mood […]

Polytechnic education dying by degrees

November 17, 1999

By Phillipe Devos When Ryerson became a university in 1993, about 30 per cent of the faculty had PhDs — the lowest of any university in the country. As a polytechnic university that emphasizes practical rather than academic approach to education, the low percentage was to be expected and even boasted about. Ryerson profs weren’t […]

Rebel with a cause, a bottle and a pen

November 10, 1999

By Philippe Devos “The public will pay more for laughing than for any other privilege.” Those words were written by one of the best and certainly the most quotable newspapermen in Canada. Robert Chambers Edwards didn’t work for The Globe, The Mail, The Toronto Star, The Toronto Telegram or any of the other powerful dailies […]

My favourite loudmouth

November 3, 1999

By Philippe Devos After 18 years of school, there are only two teachers I remember fondly. When I was 7 years old there was my grade 2 teacher Mrs. Edmonds, whose patience and caring made her the next best thing to a mother. And 14 years later, as a cynical and hardened 22-year-old journalism student, […]

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