Editorial Dear Abby in a Peanuts World February 11, 1998 Life as an amateur love psychiatrist like a live soap opera
Editorial Mikey’s head up his ass February 11, 1998 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 […]
Editorial Wasting time on empty promises February 11, 1998 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 […]
Editorial Spinning the protests February 4, 1998 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. […]
Editorial Bye bye, texts, hello cheques November 26, 1997 An off the wall solution for Ryerson's shitty library
Editorial Professor evaluations a farce November 26, 1997 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 […]
Editorial Student Centre a dream November 26, 1997 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 […]
Editorial Can Catholic schools be crushed? November 19, 1997 David Dias says Ontario's funding of Catholic schools is one of the most blatant forms of religious discrimination anywhere in the world
Editorial Crossing the invisible line November 12, 1997 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 […]
EditorialSports Jock Itch October 8, 1997 Ahhhh…another autumn, another collection of bums on Church and Carlton streets
Editorial Eye Love it! October 8, 1997 Gary Fletcher supervises the Games Room in Jorgensen Hall. Since August he has been fixing the place up and trying to boost the room’s popularity by installing a sound system
Editorial Eye Speak: Yet another reason to hate the media October 8, 1997 I get a lump in my throat when I think about how I was unjustly portrayed as a villain. I had the same hollow feeling in my heart when my grandmother passed away when I was 10