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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 […]

Cashing in on continuing education

November 26, 2003

By Taeeba Sadar A surge in the number of continuing education students is generating large profits for Ryerson, but resources are being stretched as the university struggles to accommodate two distinct sets of students. Tensions are rising for undergraduate and CE students studying photography who are constantly vying to book work space. The School of […]

To reconcile or to react, this is the question…

November 19, 2003

By Amy Brown-Bowers Farheen Kamal couldn’t take it anymore. The chilling stares at family dinners were getting to her. Her father’s silence was worse than any shouting match she had had to defend herself in. her family couldn’t deal not being the model Muslim Pakistani girl. Because they could not understand where she was coming […]

When your house is not a home

November 19, 2003

By Zohar Gurevich She spent most of her nights walking the streets. Her university workload was challenging before, but now finishing homework was impossible. She couldn’t go home — the abuse was unbearable. “Shelters wouldn’t help her because she hadn’t been physically or sexually assaulted,” says Joanna Holt, the administrative counselor at the Ryerson Centre […]

Buying an essay way out

November 12, 2003

The Eyeopener went undercover to buy an essay and get it marked by professors. Meanwhile, our essay editing advertisement attracted students looking to buy academic success

That seventies radio station

November 12, 2003

By Steve Gold Last Saturday CKLN celebrated its twentieth anniversary. Twenty years is an impressive landmark — too bad the festivities were five years too late. The fact is, CKLN first went to air, albeit with only four watts of power, on Jan. 9, 1978. For those of you doing the math at home, that’s […]

Mission: Accomplished

November 5, 2003

He leaps from tall buildings in a single bounce. He back flips off towering boulders. And one day he might kick Jackie Chan’s ass.

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