Category: Features

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]