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Sweet home equals four hoop wins

February 4, 1998

By Eli Shupack It was payback time at Kerr Hall Gym for Ryerson’s men’s basketball team. Any boy did they do some whuppin’ as the Rams avenged season-opening losses at Concordia and McGill with a pair of lopsided home-court victories last weekend. Ryerson has extended their winning streak to a season-high four games and moved […]

Bon voyage to playoffs

February 4, 1998

By Shi Davidi The men’s volleyball team have been eliminated from the playoffs, dropping a sudden death match 3-0 to the Laurentian Voyageurs. The Rams looked lifeless for most of the match, playing sloppy and disorganized volleyball last Saturday at Ryerson. Their problems were compounded by the loss of their best middle player, Ryan Carpenter, […]

Coach kicks out hungry hockey players

February 4, 1998

“He didn’t want to hear anything we said. He wouldn’t even look at us on the bus ride home.”

Students won’t back down

February 4, 1998

By Graeme Smith For 20 hours last Wednesday and Thursday, the only place Jason Diceman could oee was in a heating vent behind potted plants. “I wanted to go home to sleep,” said Diceman, a first-year RTA student at Ryerson. “It was almost savage,” said Nick Osicka, a first-year philosophy student from Guelph. “At times […]

Lee’s last gasps not enough

February 4, 1998

Sixth-seeded Don Lee fails to fulfill national championship dreams

Braking the Sound barrier

February 4, 1998

By Monica Alcalde Independent documentary maker Andrew Fiore’s dreams have just come true with the distribution of his first film Becoming Sound. Fiore, a Ryerson RTA graduate, feels he’s on a totally different level now after completing his first 60-minute video piece. “It’s just a different world from doing pieces of 30 minutes and under,” […]

An eve with Adam

February 4, 1998

By Joanna Orland Long-time musical dynamo Derek Lathrop may be Toronto’s best-kept secret. But not for very long if the public gets hold of Scenes From a Corner Store, his band Adam’s Rib’s latest offering. After being in the music industry for 12 years, Lathrop has brought together musicians Dave Devaux, Laird McLeod and Carlos […]

Gettin’ high on Trainspotting

February 4, 1998

By Leah Rumack Gotta go. Must get outta here. Fuckin’ hell. God. Gotta go. Can’t they stop bloody pounding? Doesn’t anyone ever hear it? Oh, clever, what a clever fucking theatrical device. Make the audience bloody sick. Gotta go. You can’t bloody go! You’re the reviewer. Stare at your pad. Draw little circles. There you […]

Thick and Thin: Tripe on the tube

February 4, 1998

By Shane Dingman Every 10 weeks television barfs up another bad comedy show in an attempt to gain a chuckle from the cynical masses. Join me in giving thanks to the CBC’s new sketch-comedy program Thick & Thin for continuing this grotesque tradition. Thick & Thin is supposed to be named after the camaraderie of […]

Battling for change

February 4, 1998

By Caroline Alphonso Two thousand students and education activists gathered at King and Bay Sts. and stopped traffic last Wednesday. Students marched and chanted, “People. United. We’ll never be defeated.” As the speeched died down, a few students walked into the CIBC lobby. About 200 students followed their lead for a sit-in that dwindled to […]

The power of protest

February 4, 1998

In 1996, Serbian opposition parties managed to overthrow the communists in municipal elections in most Serbian cities. However, the joy of Serbian citizens was short-lived as the communist regime annulled the election results. University students in Serbia rose up in defense of democracy. This is the story of their struggle recounted by Budimir Markovic, one of the initiators of the protest

“Don’t call me George”

February 4, 1998

“I used to come into work every morning to a man who would greet me by saying, ‘Good morning, you black bastard,’” recalls Grizzle

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