Category: News

By Pete Mitton1 Used textbooks have become a hot underground commodity at Ryerson –at least according to RyeSAC. “The used book store, like everywhere on campus, has been experiencing more theft lately,” says Mike Verticchio, RyeSAC’s vice president finance and student services. Last week, RyeSAC’s executives expressed a concern that people have been stealing textbooks […]

By Matthew Chung Do you know what time it is? If you don’t have a wrist watch or a cellphone, then you probably don’t when you’re at Ryerson. “There’s only one time,” says politics professor Arthur Ross with a bitter smile, pulling up his sleeve to display the time on his wrist watch –the only […]

By Erin Rankin The double-digit temperature drop has left Ryerson’s administration fuming as smokers huddle together and prop open doors to keep warm. Julia Lewis, director of Ryerson’s health and safety department, said she wants to increase the distance people have to stand from school doorways while smoking. “We try to accommodate smokers because we […]

By Amy Brown-Bowers Hiring is on hold for a new station manager at CKLN because it says its finances are a mess. The station has been without a manager for five months after the last station manager, Conrad Collaco, resigned in August. The station received 26 resumes and interviewed 11 candidates for the position — […]

By Jen Gerson The administration at York University has frozen the funding for its student government and Ryerson President Claude Lajeunesse said the same situation could potentially happen here. “Nothing prevents it except that I believe we have a lot of goodwill here,” said Lajeunesse of his administration’s relationship with RyeSAC. Administration started to withhold […]

By Ling Hui A pile of rocks is all that’s left of a Ryerson landmark. The demolition of the 12 granite slabs at the corner of Victoria and Dundas streets officially signaled the end of Ryerson Community Park, making way for the AMC Metropolis movie theatres. Since construction started six years ago, the retail and […]

By Glenn Klauth Ryerson will not add new elevators in the Library Building to make up for the loss of the escalators, says the head of campus planning and facilities. When classes started last week, some students were concerned that replacing escalators with stairs would lead to overcrowding in the nearby elevators. The main worry […]

By Jordan Press The new year just started, but the reign of Ryerson President Claude Lajeunesse is soon coming to an end and rumours are circulating about who will take his job. While no applications have come in, there are three people rumoured as potential candidates interested in the job. Former vice president academic Dennis […]

By Sonia Nasmith Winter vacation is over and there has still been no concrete movement on finding a site for a new business building. But Ryerson President Claude Lajeunesse has suggested he may be open to reexamining a move into a local hockey shrine. Ryerson researched the possibility of purchasing Maple Leaf Gardens two years […]

By Joel Wass The president of Ryerson’s Commerce Society will become the new RyeSAC president in 2004, says a Toronto psychic. After seeing a list of potential president candidates, Grand Psychic Ron of Bell and Candle Psychic Boutique on Bloor Street West prophesized that last year’s RyeSAC presidential runner-up, Dave MacLean, will succeed this year […]

By Michelle Thompson Exhausted Ryerson students didn’t need to worry about falling asleep during their winter exams as several fire alarms served as adequate wake-up calls. Keith Alnwick, Ryerson’s registrar, forward a mass e-mail to Ryerson students last month to inform them of three false fire alarms pulled during last month’s examination period. No one […]