Category: News

By Aleysha Haniff Associate News Editor Jesse Trautmann is overworked and underpaid.e This year marks his third, and last stint as RyePRIDE’s co-ordinator. Paid for only 15 hours a week at $10 an hour, he has put in overtime managing volunteers, planning events, organizing educational campaigns, and collaborating with Ryerson and the greater community. “For […]

By Julianna Cummins News Editor A death threat was mailed to a Ryerson student last week because of her involvement in a campaign to investigate racism on the university campuses of Ontario. On Feb. 23, an envelope of newspaper clippings with racist phrases written on them was delivered to the Ontario office of the Canadian […]

By Scott Nowoselski Ryerson’s pension plan dropped by 15 per cent in 2008 when its pension firm, the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS), lost $8 billion in the stock market. “The university is a…fraction of the OMERS client list, so did we lose a proportional amount? Absolutely,” said Ryerson president Sheldon Levy. Ryerson is […]

By Carys Mills Nearly 600 Ryerson students will soon be notified that their personal information was made available online for over a month. A glitch on the Student Administration System (SAS) caused the name, gender, date of birth, student number, mailing address, email address, and social insurance number of students to be available from Nov. […]

By Aleysha Haniff Associate News Editor A recommendation from the Educational Policy Institute (EPI) could raise tuition fees by up to 25 per cent to cover Ryerson’s expenses. EPI’s report, published in February, suggests a nationwide tuition increase as an option to cover the falling value of universities’ endowment funds. According to the think tank, […]

By Amit Shilton News Editor Ryerson is making room for nearly 300 new graduate students after a financial injection from the provincial government last week. The province is set to commit to $51.6 million to its universities, creating about 3,300 graduate spaces province-wide. The money comes from the $6.2-billion Reaching Higher program. Ryerson received the […]

Campus radio staff members fired, barricade themselves in station's office.

By Joelle Tomlinson A member of Ryerson men’s basketball team was among seven people involved in a fight on Feb. 20 on the seventh floor of Pitman Hall. Aleworki Gebrekerestos, a rookie guard on the team, spat twice on a female student and attempted to hit her. He was then involved in a fight with […]