Email will ruin your life
November 21, 2001
My undergraduate degree has been revoked.
Category: Features
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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.
Dashed dreams of new Canadian life
October 10, 2001
By Sheila Nykwist Numeriano Flores had high hopes for his life in Canada. The promise of job opportunities, free education for his children and health care were what finally convinced Flores last November to give into his wife’s long-held dream of moving to Canada.
Fashion Forward
October 3, 2001
By Rachelle Younglai Less than a week after planes smashes into the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, runway models had American symbols all over their bodies, faces were painted red white and blue and out on the streets people draped themselves in flags. Fashion was used everywhere to demonstrate solidarity against terrorism.
Political Spray
October 3, 2001
By Corrine Aeschelmann “Billboards for the rich, spray cans for the poor.” – Graffiti sprayed on a Toronto building. Across Toronto, the writing’s on the wall: Graffiti is no longer just art or vandalism but dynamic and organized expressions of counterculture.
Technical Difficulties
October 3, 2001
By Sue Carr Ryerson students fall behind the tech revolution. The musty smell of Ryerson’s archives enstills memories of grandma’s basement, a tomb for hidden treasures and historical wonders.
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