Seniors build a class of their own
January 16, 2002
For Ryerson’s most senior students, retirement is a time of learning about the world and giving back to future generations.
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End in sight after three-year housing horror
January 9, 2002
After five moves and five disappointments, third-year social work student Judith Craig hopes she’s finally found a place to call home.
Ryerson junkyard wars
November 28, 2001
Forty engineers hammer, saw, and fling their way to victory in the first annual design competition
Cracking the bell jar
November 28, 2001
Nearly one in five Canadian university students will suffer from mental illness, including severe depression and schizophrenia, so why isn't anyone talking about it?
Email will ruin your life
November 21, 2001
My undergraduate degree has been revoked.
Nursing his conscience
November 14, 2001
Paul Kaups, a Ryerson nursing student, is working a summer placement with Contact at St. Michael's Hospital's mental health outreach service.
Not always
November 7, 2001
There are over 8,000 full-time female students at Ryerson and only 40 tampon machines. Why is it so hard to find the product every woman needs?
Dealing in the dark
October 24, 2001
By Rachelle Younglai It’s late October and the skies are brooding. The clouds are ominous shades of grey and leaves blow restlessly through city streets. On the congested sidewalks around Jorgenson Hall and on park benches and stoops around Toronto, people huddle together, pulling their jackets around them for warmth.
The all-day, all-night weapons of war
October 24, 2001
Natalie Alcoba looks at how the media acts as a never-ending barrage of information bombs to bolster the homefront.
Branded by terror: Toronto’s Tamils stand together
October 17, 2001
By Rachelle Younglai Between the fighting in Toronto and the never-ending civil war in Sri Lanka, the city’s Tamil community has been caught in the middle of a battle, the consequences of which aren’t just the number people killed.
Fifty dollars to leave your landlord
October 17, 2001
By Blake Eligh Mike Ryan had lived in his apart moment at Carlton and Sherbourne Streets for a year when new owners took over his building in July. First, they ripped down the green Boston ivy that blanketed the yellow brick house. Then they issued notices that effective immediately rent was going up, way up.
What the children don’t know
October 10, 2001
By Sutton Eaves PEBBLES, a Ryerson project that takes class to kids is snubbed in the country that made it. Six-year old Thomas Palmisano has high hopes of going to university and becoming an actor, but before he can get to Hollywood, he has to get through grade one.
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