Bewitching Relations
October 28, 1998
One woman’s intimate connection to the most infamous witch hunt in North America, the Salem witch trials.
Category: Features
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Freaks of Beauty
October 21, 1998
Full moist lips, big, right, bright eyes, pearly white teeth and flawless skin. She’s gazing at you. You begin to feel warm and look away. Emotions of awe begin to surface. Her luscious figure stretches over two glossy pages, as she tells you with her smoky eyes: “Oh, yes, you can look as marvelous as me, and everyone will adore you. All you need is this product.”
Her Majesty’s slacker service
October 14, 1998
Travel to the seventh level of efficiency hell, a public relations job with the Ontario government.
Making a play for U.S. bucks
October 7, 1998
The land of plenty grabs Canadian university students fleeing underfunded scholarship programs at home.
New democracy, new lessons
September 23, 1998
The wounds of Chile’s former dictatorship still hamper the struggle for equal access to education.
Just a face in the crowd
April 8, 1998
Being a film extra has its rewards, even if you are just a face in the crowd
Students being asked for support – and cash
March 25, 1998
By Hamida Ghafour The sweet smell of democracy is wafting through Ryerson. RyeSAC is holding a referendum today and Thursday, asking students: “Do you agree to convert the Athletic Capital Assessment of $30 per term commencing in the fall term 1999, to a RyeSAC Student Centre fund dedicated to the development of a student centre?” […]
The student centre: A historical perspective
March 25, 1998
By Caroline Alphonso The dream of a student centre is almost as old as Ryerson itself. Just after the Second World War, Ryerson had something resembling a student centre. A converted airplane hangar housed a gym, pub, tuck shop, barber shop and lounge. It was torn down when Kerr Hall was built in the ‘50s. […]
The pirate and the bootlegger
March 18, 1998
By Owen Ferguson To the casual observer, CD replay, located next door to the Uptown movie theatre, looks like an ordinary CD store. It has large racks full of Spice Girls and Backstreet Boys CDs and perky staff behind the counter. But a quick browse through the CDs on display might leave you thinking, “Hmm… […]
Household highs
March 18, 1998
By Jim Vassallo Your income’s become somewhat abbreviated. The excess of the last six months have caught up with you and you need a little something to take the edge off. That pack-a-day you’ve been sucking down just isn’t doing it. You need a cheap way to commune with the voices in your head. I […]
Brew your own booze
March 18, 1998
By Stephanie Bomba So you’re into the sauce but you always end up with a killer hangover the next morning. Well, Randy Gratton may have just the cure for you. No, it’s not come top-secret potion concocted by the government for alcoholic fighter pilots. It is, quite simply, home-brewed beer and wine. Gratton, owner of […]
Don’t quit your day job
March 18, 1998
By Dawn Calleja and Susan Nerberg Pete Nowak had just finished third year of Ryerson’s journalism program. He knew his final year was going to be a killer, what with being roots and culture editor at The Eyeopener and writing regularly for The Ryersonian. Still, he wanted to create something he could call his own. […]
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