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Back-up school no more

For years, Ryerson has struggled to gain respect, attract students and ditch the “Rye High” label. Now, as the university sends out acceptance letters, Samantha Sim investigates whether students are jumping for joy or if they’re just glad they got into their back-up school

Dead on arrival

School spirit has been ailing for years. Online editor Aleysha Haniff digs for the real reason we’re doomed to wander a lifeless campus

Ryerson’s uncharted education

Karyn Elliot and her friends crowded around their made-up bingo cards. They weren’t waiting for a B5. Instead she was waiting to hear one of the five topics her professor constantly ranted about in class, she says.

The dead campus

Despite being in the heart of downtown, many Ryerson University buildings lack life. Between construction and abandoned campus sites, the school has a long way to go before becoming a thriving campus. News editor Emma Prestwich reports

Staying alive at Ryerson

Between part-time jobs and full-time classes, it’s easy to become a shell of a person, groggily stumbling from one task to the next. Community Editor Allyssia Alleyne shares the secret to having a life

Get out while you still can

Mohamed Omar explains why the residence bubble won’t be a stable bunker when the T-Virus hits Toronto

Ryerson’s hallowed ground

OK, so it turns out Ryerson wasn’t built on a graveyard. But the land we spend most of our time has a pretty freakin’ cool history. Kai Benson unearths Ryerson’s undead past

Autopsy of an undead student

Arts & Life Editor Gianluca Inglesi takes a stab at CSI and examines two typical Ryerson zombies on the cold table of a morgue

Stay together and live

Student life at Ryerson is in danger of extinction. News editor Sarah Del Giallo looks at how program cliques are battling the trend

Let Rye-gones be bygones

Fun editor Kats Quinto brings back five fun facts from the dusty undead archives

Dead men on campus

Ian Vandaelle reports on Ryerson’s habit of naming buildings after dead folks

A new Ryerson group started a petition to determine if the RSU should remain a CFS member. FILE PHOTO

In bed with the CFS

February 15, 2011

As Ryerson Students’ Union president Toby Whitfield prepares to head to his new job for the Canadian Federation of Students, his successor is another darling of the advocacy giant. For the past five years, RSU executive seats have been filled by CFS-friendly candidates. Vidya Kauri and Features editor Mariana Ionova investigate the intimate relationship between the RSU and CFS

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