Category: Editorial

By Rob Granatstein It is time for the cowards to show their faces. Since early October, one or more lame-assed pansies have been throwing out Eyeopener newspapers on a weekly basis. A lot of papers — close to 1,000 every Thursday. It’s always from the same spot, north-east Kerr Hall, but Church and Gerrard Sts., […]

By Rob Granatstein Jean Chretien wanted last month’s federal budget and the Millennium Scholarship Program to be his legacy. Sorry Jean, your legacy will be failure. While this budget is chalk full of wonderful initiative that will bring some relief to students — now known to all Canadians as the “$25,000-in-the-hole-club” — Chretien, Finance Minister […]

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By Shane Dingman Party leaders at every level of government must go on “asshole training weekends” before making a media appearance. Listening to Ontario Premier Mike Harris last week, I wish I was crazy enough to believe there is an asshole gene that forces people to participate in corporatist political movements. You see, if I […]

By Rob Granatstein RyeSAC candidates, you don’t mean shit. This election has seen every candidate make a promise they have absolutely no chance of keeping — the freezing or lowering of tuition. Erin George’s poster say she will “freeze tuition fees.” Get real. Only two people can keep tuition from rising and their offices aren’t […]

By Rob Granatstein Oh no, a protest! Send in the doc! It seems like the first call made at the start of any protester these days is to a spin doctor. How are we going to turn this negative outcry into a positive? Well, let’s take a look at last week’s Day of Action protest. […]

An off the wall solution for Ryerson's shitty library

By Shi Davidi Ryerson’s course evaluations are a farce. This twice-a-year exercise is meaningless and provides no useful feedback. The questions on the evaluation are relevant, however, their major fault is they do not require students to qualify their answers. Students are to strongly agree, somewhat agree, have no opinion, somewhat disagree or strongly disagree […]

By Rob Granatstein As the fight between Ryerson’s student centre groups and the Women’s Centre over one small room becomes a battle royale, one thing is becoming painfully obvious — we need more space. Ryerson administration will not take their grubby hands off anything they have right now. In fact, they’re doing the opposite. They […]

David Dias says Ontario's funding of Catholic schools is one of the most blatant forms of religious discrimination anywhere in the world

By Rob Granatstein How far is too far? It’s a question we ask ourselves here every week at The Eyeopener. Last week we didn’t answer it correctly. In fact, we’ve caused a bit of a storm. A traffic light should have been installed in the editor’s office to deal with the number of upset fols […]