Arts & Culture Primary Colours is a Primary Bore March 25, 1998 By Owen Ferguson, Kelvin Chan and Scoop Gerbil Primary Colours is a waste of time and money. The movie lacks all those things one would expect from it — humour, a plot, moral dilemmas and decent acting. Let’s start with humour — there’s not much of it, and the most memorable laughs come not from […]
Features Students being asked for support – and cash March 25, 1998 By Hamida Ghafour The sweet smell of democracy is wafting through Ryerson. RyeSAC is holding a referendum today and Thursday, asking students: “Do you agree to convert the Athletic Capital Assessment of $30 per term commencing in the fall term 1999, to a RyeSAC Student Centre fund dedicated to the development of a student centre?” […]
Features The student centre: A historical perspective March 25, 1998 By Caroline Alphonso The dream of a student centre is almost as old as Ryerson itself. Just after the Second World War, Ryerson had something resembling a student centre. A converted airplane hangar housed a gym, pub, tuck shop, barber shop and lounge. It was torn down when Kerr Hall was built in the ‘50s. […]
Communities Women’s Battalion of Death defied the rules March 25, 1998 By Sarbi Jagpal While struggling to simultaneously cope with a national revolution and the First World War, the Russian army was in a sad state, in 1917. With a lack of proper supplies and weapons technology, the army was crippled by mass desertion and heavy losses in battle. Thousands of men simply refused to fight. […]
Communities Bringing equity to Ryerson March 25, 1998 It took almost a year to get the ball rolling, but RyeSAC's Advisory Committee on Equity shows no signs of slowing down
RTA award bumped by Oscars March 25, 1998 Alliance exec's date in Hollywood shifts presentation of the fall
Editorial Women’s toilet is the worst … period March 25, 1998 By Stacey Stein Cleanliness is next to godliness. Ahh … no truer words have ever been uttered. If you ever read this space, you may remember a recent column in which a male Eyeopener staffer deplored the sorry state of men’s washrooms. It almost made me feel sorry for all the crap (no pun intended) […]
Editorial Student Centre? Yes! March 25, 1998 By Rob Granatstein Ryerson needs this student centre. The timing’s perfect. How can you say no? There is no more space at this school. Ask the Aerospace Engineering course union. For the past year they’ve been trying to get a measly little office. Ryerson can’t even find space in the steam room for these folks. […]
Gearing up for elections and a referendum March 25, 1998 By Deborah Gardner Get your pencils out — it’s election time again at Ryerson. RyeSAC is holding its board of directors elections on Thursday, with advance polls today. Three positions for faculty of business and two positions for faculty of arts and community services are up for grabs. The engineering and applied arts positions on […]