Campus News Foreign students teach while they learn April 4, 2001 In Botswana, Sekwaka and Segola’s work takes them to cities and villages to teach people essential things such as boiling water to kill bacteria, proper food hygiene and AIDS awareness.
Campus News Resignations spark fear April 4, 2001 Last week, Ilonka Van Steenwyk resigned from the centre after her contract wasn’t renewed, bringing the number of people who have resigned to three since last August. The other two, Stacey Whyne Berman and Linda Lyns, said they left because of deteriorating leadership and services.
Campus News Students given blessing to protest in Quebec April 4, 2001 About 25 Ryerson social work students will close their textbooks and face the tear gas after the program approved motion allowing its students to defer exams so they can protest at the Free Trade Area of the Americas conference in Quebec City later this month.
Campus News Janitors won’t take entire blame for dirty washrooms April 4, 2001 Custodians say they have been getting flak for Ryerson’s dirty bathrooms ever since a group of students created a stir over the cleanliness of campus stalls.
Campus News Incomplete voters list skews election April 4, 2001 An information technology management student who lost his bid for reelection to RyeSAC’s board of directors last week says sloppy work by election officials may have cost him a victory.
$2,500 Mass Exodus theatre fee put off for further consideration April 4, 2001 By Eyeopener Staff After weeks of bickering and backpedalling, it looks like the month-long saga that was this year’s Mass Exodus fashion show is set to end with the university covering the rental cost of the Ryerson Theatre. Fashion chair Mary McCrae says Ryerson v.p. Academic Erroll Aspevig told her over the phone that this […]
Campus News Hard Rock jumps on Y&D bandwagon April 4, 2001 As many as six Ryerson students working at the oldest Hard Rock Cafe in North America could lose their jobs when the restaurant chain undergoes a $5-million expansion as part of the Yonge and Dundas redevelopment.
Campus News Armenians mark anniversary March 21, 2001 By News Team The newly found Armenian Students’ Association plans to mount a display celebrating 1,700 years since the proclamation of a Christianity in Armenia. Pictures of Armenian churches (such as the one shown), architecture, paintings, miniatures, and icons will be shown on several tables outside RyeSAC in the basement of Jorgenson Hall on Wednesday […]
Campus News Hong Kong hosts unique alumni society March 21, 2001 By Jessica Stones When Simon Tsang graduated from Ryerson’s civil engineering program in 1990, he thought he was done with school forever. He moved back to his native Hong Kong in 1991 and settled into adulthood, working at the Hong Kong Mass Transit Railway Corporation’s design management department. But when Ryerson Alumni Association administrator Jane […]
Campus News Young Chinese flock to homeland March 21, 2001 There is a quiet migration occurring of young educated people from the developed countries of the world to a small former British colony in East Asia.