Category: News

By Sarah Cannavan Ryerson students cruising the halls for a reading week vacation deal will notice that posters advertising getaways have a new name on them. RyeSAC banned Breakaway Tours from advertising reading week trips on campus, ending a long relationship with the travel company. Instead, RyeSAC decided to go with Temple and Temple Tours. […]

By Erin Rankin Poor academic performance is emptying residences, according to Ryerson’s housing manager. “If you want to compare to last year, it’s not normal,” said Philip Lim, referring to the amount of vacant rooms in residence. Currently, Pitman Hall has 12 rooms for rent, while the ILLC has four spots open to anyone who […]

By Jen Gerson Democracy is about making choices. RyeSAC president-elect Dave MacLean has made some hard ones. In his last year of high school, his father fell off a ladder at work, was taken to the hospital and put on life support. MacLean and his three siblings decided to pull the plug and end his […]

By Jordan Press Dave MacLean didn’t even see the numbers on the board. Huddled with his three running mates, MacLean buried his head until the roar of the crowd forced him to look up and see that Ryerson had voted him the next RyeSAC president. MacLean narrowly defeated current RyeSAC Vice President Education Carlos Flores […]

By Eyeopener Staff Losing presidential candidate Carlos Flores is investigating whether RyeSAC president-elect Dave MacLean should have been disqualified from the election. “I’m seeing whether [MacLean] should have gone all the way to the vote or whether he should have been disqualified,” said Flores. Flores alleged someone at a Ryerson volleyball game two weeks ago […]

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 […]