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STUDENTS MARKING STUDENTS

Ryerson professors are hiring undergraduate students to mark their assignments. The Eyeopener’s Rafael Brusilow investigates.

VOLUNTEERING A WAY OF LIFE

By Bob Kaups Rye employee has volunteered for countless organizations for over 30 years.

THE THIN LINE OF TOLERANCE

Conflict and strife have run rampant at York University as pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian groups clash on campus and in the student government. But Ryerson’s campus has remained quiet. Erin Rankin investigates why things are quieter at Yonge and Dundas than they are at Steeles and Keele.

Building in a gap year

By Miranda Beninger In less than two months, I’m dropping my school books, grabbing a backpack, and flying across the world to the UK. Some people look at me in disbelief but the reality is this pick-up-and-go mentality is growing among Canadian students. Natalie Baines, manager at the Gerrard Street Travel Cuts location, says she […]

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Kung Fu Royal-ty

By Matt Kwong FedEx carriers working at Boston’s Logan International Airport in 1996 may have handled an oversized cardboard box and wondered, perhaps out of shippers’ tedium, what was inside. Upon sliding into the cargo compartment, the double-walled box rattled like any other load, but its contents were tucked away safely in Styrofoam peanuts. […]

Carcinogen lies within campus

An old problem came back to haunt Ryerson this month when a broken water pipe knocked asbestos onto the ceiling of the saunda in the women’s change room at the RAC. “A pipe burst in the sauna that caused the roof to cave in and spill some asbestos,” said Ian Hamilton, director of campus […]

Being President and CEO

By Don McHoull Leaning against his wooden podium, Claude Lajeunesse tried to ignore the throng of student protestors who surrounding him. Ryerson’s president was midway through his 2001 state of the university address and things weren’t going well. Angry students were constantly interrupting him, blowing on kazoors and trying to shout him down. As Lajeunesse […]

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Remembering a home she barely knew

By Gina Puzzuoli With a gentle tinkling of chimes, the door to the Tibet Shoppe on Queen Street West swings open. The smell of sweet incense fills the air as soft tendrils of smoke snake and arc their way to the ceiling. Vibrant reds, blues, greens and yellows of raw silk shirts are hung amongst […]

RISE up to the challenge

By Laura Fraser Imagine a place on campus where students could enjoy fresh, vegetarian, and possibly free, meals. Thanks to a new group at Ryerson, this could be a reality. After attending a conference held by the Sierra Youth Coalition – an educational group dedicated to improving the environment – last October, Jedidiah Gordon-Moran, a […]

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Painted faces, renewed hope

By Rachel Hahn A short and burly black woman wearing a bright orange head scarf and a matching dress applies calamine lotion to my face. I don’t have a rash. She’s using the lotion to create circles and dots, similar to the ones on her own face, so that everyone will know I am celebrating […]

Fighting the dragon within

By Suzanne Ma Twenty-two women in hot pink surge forward in a long narrow boat across the murky green water at Toronto’s Centre Island. “Hit! Hit! Hit!” screams Eleanor Nielsen, a paddler sitting in the first row. She raises her paddle and plunges it into the water, keeping the team in pace. Heavy rhythmic thumps […]

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No dreams of justice

By Robyn Doolittle It’s 4 a.m. and Richmond Bugyet-Twum is wide-awake. For the past year, he hasn’t been able to sleep past this hour — the time the police called to say his son Jerry had been shot and killed. In a desperate quest for a full night’s sleep, Richmond returned to his native Ghana […]

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