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‘So young and bright’

By Graeme Smith Chantal Hall-Skinner, an honours business student at Ryerson, died Feb. 28, after an operation to replace a heart valve. She was 28. Hall-Skinner had earned a grant for a project she was working on the same day she died at Toronto Hospital’s cardiac care centre. “It’s a very sad irony,” said Mary […]

Disability funding to be overhauled

By Stacey Stein Eli Shupak knows changes to a provincial government program for students with disabilities will affect him in some way — he’s just not sure how. That’s because the overhaul of the program is plagued by uncertainty and unanswered questions. One thing is sure — April 1, the government will eliminate Vocational Rehabilitation […]

Take this car and park it

By Suleman Din A storm of controversy is washing over a grey Mercedes with a temporary handicap permit parked outside the business building. The whale of a car, a 1990 560 SEL Mercedes Benz, with plush leather interior and walnut trim, is owned by Lee Maguire, interim associate dean of business. Some students see him […]

Copy cards to get complicated

By Kelvin Chan In the beginning, RyeSAC created the coin-operated photocopiers at Copyrite. But they were without copy card readers and RyeSAC said, “Let there be card readers.” And it was so. RyeSAC saw the card readers were good. The library also saw they were good, and cheaper than counting coins, and said, “Let us […]

No tuition hike for B.C. schools

By Cherion Drakes A tuition freeze in British Columbia shouldn’t get Ontario students’ hopes up, said RyeSAC VP education Gord Tanner. “If our own faculty won’t look at the possibility of freezing tuition, I think outsiders [the provincial government] will be less likely to,” said Tanner. British Columbia Premier Glen Clark announced a tuition freeze […]

Tuition freeze iced by council

By Vanessa Thomas RyeSAC’s motion to freeze tuition received a chilly reception at last week’s academic council meeting. The motion asked the council to endorse a tuition fee freeze for next year to the board of governors. Academic council instead passed an amended motion to keep tuition as low as possible, implement programs for students […]

Slaving for summer labour

By Shi Davidi Ryerson is going to turn $300,000 set aside for financial aid into a pilot project that will give at least 30 jobs to full-time students this summer. The Summer Academic Research Assistant Program will be open to students with a minimum GPA of 2.67 who are returning for the 1998-99 academic year […]

Women behaving like men

By Thien Huynh Things got hairy at the International Women’s Day fair held last Saturday at Ryerson. The women were ready to rumble as a series of disturbances kept security on their toes all afternoon during the 21st annual International Women’s Day celebration. “We never ever had anything like that happen before,” said security manager […]

Punks deface posters

Student groups are targets

Family sues police

By Robert Gillies The family of Ryerson student Manish Odhavji, who was shot to death by police last Sept. 26, have launched a $1 million lawsuit against Toronto Police Chief David Boothby and several officers, claiming they deliberately sabotaged a Special Investigations Unit (SIU) probe into the case. Odhavji, 22, was unarmed when he was […]

ICLRPs on the way

By Anthony Agostino If you think you’ve got the Ontario Student Assistance Program all figured out, think again. On Feb. 20, Ontario Education and Training Minister Dave Johnson announced an income-contingent loan repayment program (ICLRP), and asked Canada’s major banks for assistance in revising the student loan system. ICRLPs base the repayment of student loans […]

Waiting for Millennium fund

By Kathryn Dunmore The federal government introduced its vaunted Millennium Scholarship fund last week in its budget. The fund wowed some but others were not impressed with the government’s attempt to placate students. Finance Minister Paul Martin announced on Feb. 24 the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation will be set up in 2000, giving $2.5 billion […]

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