Category: News

By Matt Kwong As the late afternoon sunlight fades, Iain Gardner sits alone in the kitchen smoking a cigar in the dark, He touches a photo of his wife. “You must understand, this woman meant the world to me,” he says, his eyes welling-up, evidence of the past few turbulent days. He ashes his cigar […]

By Robyn Doolittle Any money left on meal cards after exams isn’t refunded to students. Instead, it goes back into the ancillary services fund. Some schools give back what they call ‘flex dollars’ – the taxable portion of remaining cash – but not Ryerson. “Usually students only have less than $100 left on their card […]

  Until the deep fryers, grills and woks start humming, Ryerson’s main kitchens, in the basement and first floor of Jorgenson Hall, are cramped but livable. The coughing fits don’t begin until the cooking does. The rooms fill with steam and smoke, rich in food particulates, that needs to be vented from the building. But […]

By Larissa Liepins The most powerful positions at Ryerson are now up for grabs – and already the race has nearly killed one campaign. Days before the vote for Ryerson’s next Board of Governors, Glen Kerr, a part-time marketing student, announced his resignation. Kerr was running on one issue: A scheme to burrow a tunnel […]

By Jordan Press Prime Minister Paul Martin’s first budget was revealed yesterday and post-secondary education was high on the spending list, but student groups are saying money won’t solve any problems. Yesterday’s budget increased limits on student loans, from $165 to $210 a week, to let more applicants get the full allotment provided through the […]

By Jordan Press A rash of anti-Semitic hate crimes hit Toronto last week, and Ryerson wasn’t immune. Last Thursday, a Jewish student was standing outside the Podium building with a friend, having a smoke around 4 p.m. He said three male Ryerson students walked by and then allegedly committed a hate crime. The first assailant […]

It’s 9:15 a.m. on Saturday morning. Robin Poon takes off his glasses and rubs his bloodshot eyes – they haven’t rested for 71 hours. His best friend Jamieson Child sits across from him slouched in his chair in their Pitman Hall room, idly doodling in a lined-paper booklet. Both are struggling to stay awake for […]

By Matt Kwong Faced with a $23 million shortfall in private funding for the new Centre for Computing and Engineering, Ryerson has slashed its asking price for the building’s naming rights by $5 million. The university has been courting private sponsors for the $71 million building – slated for a September 2004 opening – but […]