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Making bucks off books

By Chris Richardson When sociology professor Joanne Naiman hands out her required reading list, How Societies work is always on it. She thinks it’s the best textbook on the market for her first-year students. She should know — she wrote it. Since 1996, Naiman has made approximately $30,000 from having her sociology textbook assigned in […]

Unwinding on winding path

By Andrea Jezovit It was the busy Christmas season, and teacher Larry Tayler wanted to give a gift to his school. So he took some hockey tape and created a pattern on the floor of the Havergal College assembly hall. The hockey tape was new, but the pattern was old. It graces the floors of […]

Communities Features

Bringing the message home

By Ayah Mckhail A Palestinian woman is crouched down, pressed against the wall of her cinderblock home in the Balata refugee camp on the outskits of Nablus. Outside, the azure sky billows with smoke from heavy machine gun fire. Its unmistakable stench wafts through her home. The woman doesn’t dare look outside. She’s done it […]

“A light in their lives”

February 18, 2004

By Farzana Bhatty “I was sick with malaria. I had lice too,” says Basima Roshan as she twists strands of her short hair between her fingers and describes how she spent her summer as an aid worker in Afghanistan. “My head was really itchy and I knew I had lice. I could actually see them […]

Different school of thought

February 18, 2004

By Alison Northcott Just before 7 p.m. on a Thursday evening, a small group of students begins to gather in the tiny front room of Uprising Books on Kensington Avenue. They shuffle quietly out of their winter coats and into the small space that seems to shrink as each body claims a seat. These are […]

Communities Features

Hush baby, mommy’s studying

February 4, 2004

By Samantha Israel Pep Philpott, 43, is in his first year of Ryerson’s post-graduate journalism program and if he wants to keep up with the rest of the class, he must rise before the sun. Philpott starts his day at 4:30 a.m. every weekday morning, and by 5:00 he’s ready to begin his school work. […]

Cooking up a new challenge

February 4, 2004

By Marco Ursi Having just finished his undergraduate degree in literature at Sir George Williams University in Montreal, John Cook was ready for a little adventure. So he walked out the front door with only the clothes on his back, and $100 in his pocket. He told his mother he was hitchhiking to Toronto. But […]

Everyone loves a Failure

January 28, 2004

By Jordan Heath-Rawlings I didn’t even notice the last wheel falling off the wagon. Once id downed a full-sized blunt wrapped in Cuban cigar papers, cracked open a $185 bottle of Courvoisier XO and thrown down a stiff gulp or two, the cigarette just appeared in my left hand, half smoked. The party chatter continued, […]

Gambling With Your Future

January 21, 2004

By Erin Rankin While Ryerson may have a no cigarettes, no booze policy when it comes to advertising, it doesn’t seem to have a problem with Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation hocking gambling products like Pro-Line to students on campus. With slick messaging like, “Because anything can happen,” the men’s washroom now sports eye-level ads […]

Coping with cold circumstances

January 21, 2004

By Alison Northcott We walk the same streets in the same neighbourhood. Our paths cross, but circumstances lead us different ways. This year, Leanne Iceruk has walked both those paths. Iceruk, a third-year social work student at Ryerson, is doing her job placement at the Evergreen Centre for Street Youth, located behind Ryerson on Yonge […]

Going from the bench to the box

January 7, 2004

By Jaclyn Mika In politics he is known as a pit bull, but it’s on a hockey rink where provincial health minister George Smitherman is most ferocious. “He’s not afraid to take a penalty for the team,” says Tom Lovengak, the team captain of Pharma Crews of the Toronto Gay Hockey Association. The TGHA is […]

Fifty-five years in the making

November 26, 2003

By Yohannes Edemariam Fifty-five years ago next week, The Ryersonian published its first issue and became the official student voice of the then brand-new Ryerson Institute of Technology. The paper was originally to be named RIOT but the idea was dubbed “too inflammatory,” and it was dropped. The year was 1948. The Second World War […]

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