By Martin Kuebler A man arrested in November after a series of campus sex assaults pled guilty last month and was sentenced to six months in jail. Nick Belcourt, 26, admitted he had sexually assaulted two female Ryerson students and trapped another female student in the journalism lounge in the Rogers Communication Centre. On Dec. […]

By Eyeopener Staff While the rest of the campus was on vacation over the holidays, Ryerson security were still hard at work keeping things on campus under control. On the night of Dec. 19 Ryerson security were alerted to a man who had become incoherent after drinking a good portion of a bottle of Listerine. […]

By Barry Hertz To combat a 225 per-cent failure rate among its first-year students, the faculty of engineering and applied science will introduce a remedial math course next year to teach students math they should have learned in high school. The voluntary course, called MTH128, is aimed at students with low high school math marks, […]

By Melissa Godsoe A man accused of spitting on a police officer is more concerned his name is permanently tarnished than he is with the criminal charges he faces. Kashif Shaikh a fourth-year ITM student was charged with assaulting a police officer at an Oct. 26 anti-poverty rally. Shaikh said he got into a disagreement […]

By Stephen Huebl The co-chair of the University of Toronto’s Metropass Task Force labelled RyeSAC as “shameless glory seekers”: for taking undue credit for their role in achieving a discounted student Metropass. Mike Foderick sent an e-mail to a number of Ryerson and University of Toronto community members, including The Eyeopener, in which he said […]

By Andrea Janus The chair of Ryerson’s English department believes that students could learn more by spending less time in class, so he’s proposing that a second reading week be added to the school year. John Cook told the Academic Council last month that students needed a reading week during the fall term. “I’ve grown […]