Category: News

By Patrick Evans Ryerson has no plans to copy Queen’s University’s controversial new strategy to increase its aboriginal student enrolment. Starting this fall, Queen’s will be admitting 10 Aboriginal students a year whose grades fall below the school’s 85-percent cut-off in an effort to boost their aboriginal student population. Less than one percent of the […]

By Matthew Kwong It’s not only fashionable to be a fashion student in the fashion lounge –it’s mandatory. “They probably don’t want vagrants getting in,” says Linda Lewis, chair of the School of Fashion, explaining why the fashion lounge is restricted to fashion students and faculty only. The majority of program lounges, including those for […]

By Gina Puzzuoli It’s a story of pains, trains and automobiles. Cash-strapped students are surprised by the steep transportation and parking costs needed to attend school on a daily basis; especially since they already pay more than $5,000 in tuition fees. “As far as I’m concerned, parking is a perk for students. Those who can […]

By Erin Rankin With their probation period over, the Life Issues Awareness group is posed to launch a lecture series on campus. According to campus groups administrator Leatrice Spevack, the end of LIA’s probationary period means the group is now under less scrutiny and is free to hold off-campus events. The RyeSAC board of directors […]

By Katia Lifshiz Ryerson’s Board of Governors will start monitoring employment equity goals to ensure adequate hiring of minorities and women in response to the university’s low hiring targets. But some faculties feel there isn’t a problem. The board set employment targets that it will monitor over the next three years to hire more women, […]

By Jen Gerson One wears a t-shirt, one wears a tie, but this year’s RyeSAC presidential candidates seem to be saying the same thing. Last year presidential candidate Dave MacLean ran on a slate ideologically opposed to current President Ken Marciniec, but this year both sides are focusing on Ryerson issues and fighting for the […]

By Robyn Doolittle Banged and bruised Ryerson dancers are tired of travelling across Toronto for physiotherapy –especially since there is a facility on campus. “All I wanted was for someone to look at it,” said first-year dance student Caitlin Adams, referring to the time she hurt her ankle after landing wrong out of a jump […]

By Jordan Heath-Rawlings The lights of downtown Toronto went dark just after 11:00 a.m. Tuesday morning, setting off a power outage that lasted for almost an hour and a half. The blackout, which came as the city’s core was struggling to cope with snarled traffic due to a heavy snowfall, was originally blamed on a […]

By Joel Wass and Jordan Press With a winter storm already hammering the city and more snow on the way, Ryerson students were hoping for a snow day on Tuesday. Instead, they got a blackout. Campus clocks froze at 10:54 a.m., as lights went out across Ryerson’s campus. Classrooms, offices, hallways and cafeterias were left […]

By Amy Brown-Bowers Lunch was cancelled, a cigarette savoured, and cell phones saved the day during Tuesday’s blackout. Two silver-haired students waited for a lunch that never arrived. Edith Mannes and Dorothy Rivet were hoping to grab a quick meal at Salad King before heading to their humanist class at Ryerson. They were the restaurant’s […]

By Allison Jones Students at Ryerson may have to worry about rising TTC prices, but at least they don’t have to worry about dying en route. “I thought I was going to die every day,” said Brianne Rutter, a fourth-year early childhood education student about her experience riding New Zealand public transit. “The bus drivers […]

By Jordan Press Last week, McGill University caved in and graded papers a second-year student even though he refused to submit it to Turnitin.com. McGill student Jesse Rosenfeld was successful in his appeal of a failing grade he received on an assignment he wouldn’t submit to the American-based anti-plagiarism Web site. After a lengthy appeal, […]