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Foreign students teach while they learn

In Botswana, Sekwaka and Segola’s work takes them to cities and villages to teach people essential things such as boiling water to kill bacteria, proper food hygiene and AIDS awareness.

Resignations spark fear

Last week, Ilonka Van Steenwyk resigned from the centre after her contract wasn’t renewed, bringing the number of people who have resigned to three since last August. The other two, Stacey Whyne Berman and Linda Lyns, said they left because of deteriorating leadership and services.

Students given blessing to protest in Quebec

About 25 Ryerson social work students will close their textbooks and face the tear gas after the program approved motion allowing its students to defer exams so they can protest at the Free Trade Area of the Americas conference in Quebec City later this month.

Janitors won’t take entire blame for dirty washrooms

Custodians say they have been getting flak for Ryerson’s dirty bathrooms ever since a group of students created a stir over the cleanliness of campus stalls.

Incomplete voters list skews election

An information technology management student who lost his bid for reelection to RyeSAC’s board of directors last week says sloppy work by election officials may have cost him a victory.

Hard Rock jumps on Y&D bandwagon

As many as six Ryerson students working at the oldest Hard Rock Cafe in North America could lose their jobs when the restaurant chain undergoes a $5-million expansion as part of the Yonge and Dundas redevelopment.

Armenians mark anniversary

By News Team The newly found Armenian Students’ Association plans to mount a display celebrating 1,700 years since the proclamation of a Christianity in Armenia. Pictures of Armenian churches (such as the one shown), architecture, paintings, miniatures, and icons will be shown on several tables outside RyeSAC in the basement of Jorgenson Hall on Wednesday […]

Hong Kong hosts unique alumni society

By Jessica Stones When Simon Tsang graduated from Ryerson’s civil engineering program in 1990, he thought he was done with school forever. He moved back to his native Hong Kong in 1991 and settled into adulthood, working at the Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway Corporation’s design management department. But when Ryerson Alumni Association administrator Jane […]

Young Chinese flock to homeland

There is a quiet migration occurring of young educated people from the developed countries of the world to a small former British colony in East Asia.

Student activists attend protest school

Among 350 people registered for the workshop is Alex Lisman, chair of RyeACTION, RyeSAC’s activist wing and seven other Ryerson students. He is sitting in the Church of the Holy Trinity behind the Eaton Centre to find out what to wear, how to protect himself and how to make his presence felt.

Two sides of Canada’s student voices

By Allan Woods and Tim Cook OTTAWA—Inside Parliament Hill in Ottawa, in the lobby of Joe Clark’s office, Sean Fraser and Mark Sollis anxiously sit on the edge of a white couch waiting for the leader of the federal Conservative party to arrive for a meeting. Dressed in suits and ties, Fraser and Sollis could […]

Architects working on new business building

An architect has been working for a year-and-a-half on a vision for a new business building.

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