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Taking taxes into your own hands

By Jill Koskitalo Don’t panic. If Revenue Canada had any heart at all, those two words would be printed in large, friendly letters on the cover of every tax form. Unfortunately, they aren’t, and as April 30 looms near, the confusion surrounding how to file your taxes increases. Most students never bother to file a […]

Prof evaluations need work

By Frank Pingue Ryerson’s course evaluation forms may have a new format for the 1998-99 academic school year. This summer, David Steele, RyeSAC president-elect and current VP administration, plans to investigate how to create a better course evaluation. “There will be a lot of static from the faculty but the students deserve to have their […]

Showdown over deficit looms

By Graeme Smith Paul Martin won praise for balancing his budget, but Ryerson president Claude Lajeunesse might not be showered with applause when he tries to balance the university’s books this spring. The school is losing money. Ryerson’s interim budget statement showed the school is over its projected 1997-98 budget by $1 million. The bulk […]

‘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 […]

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