By Rosemarie Ruccella The School of Business Management is aiming to improve its prestige by renaming itself. The Business Student Association (BSA) is asking students if they want to change their degree’s name from a Bachelor of Business Management (BBM) to Bachelor of Commerce (B. Comm.).. The name question was raised when the School of […]

By Graeme Smith So there’s a stack of hot shots running for positions on Ryerson’s student government. For the average student, these RyeSAC wannabes are just a bunch of schmos littering the hallways with tacky posters. That said, how qualified are these wannabes to take over RyeSAC? The Eyeopener took on the daunting task of […]

By Deborah Gardner RyeSAC VP education candidates Owen Ferguson and Erin George are both campaigning for tuition freezes, but can’t agree on how to go about it. Ferguson, a first-year journalism student, wants to start a tuition strike if fees go up again. “I think the only way to get administration to listen to us […]

By Deborah Gardner Jason Power, president of the Business Student’s Association, is setting his sight on RyeSAC’s executive. The fourth-year marketing student is one of two people running for the position of VP administration. Vladimir Spivak, in third-year industrial engineering, is also running. Both candidates are campaigning for a student centre. Power said the student […]

By Suleman Din Freezing university tuition is possible, opposition leader Dalton McGuinty said last weekend. “It can be done, but it involves making some choices about where money should be spent,” Ontario Liberal leader McGuinty said Saturday. McGuinty was among provincial Liberals visiting a Pakistani function at the Royal York Hotel. Health critic Gerrard Kennedy […]

By Steven D’Souza The Toronto Board of Trade took its turn playing government Monday. The board, representing 10,000 business members, released a report outlining 11 proposals for overhauling Ontario’s postsecondary education system. Establishing private universities, allowing market forces to determine tuition fees and making students repay loans through income-contingent schemes are three of the proposals […]