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Lights, camera, get me a sandwich

February 19, 1997

By Diana Zlomislic If you’re hoping to make it big in the silver screen industry, you better be willing to start at the bottom. In three years at Sleeping Giant Productions, Andrew Brady’s salary doubled. He went from being a low-level production assistant to the production manager. Andrew, a business graduate from Dalhousie University, says […]

Porn magazines

February 19, 1997

Smut sells. But what are its different forms?

The Mike Harrisutra

February 19, 1997

By Douglas Cudmore Maybe it’s just the influx of spring air this week, but a strange thing happened to me while I was reading the paper. I was wading through the usual litany of bad news and, instead of reacting with my normal outrage, I found myself aroused. And it came to me — the […]

Student protests may lead to strike

February 19, 1997

By Renata D’Aliesio York University’s plans for an Ontario-wide general student strike got put on hold Monday after all-day meetings tempered emotions and restored common sense. Ten Metro police and 15 York security officers woke the 22 students camped out in the president’s office Sunday around 8:15 a.m. A letter from administration threatened to charge […]

This year’s Rhubarb! patch

February 12, 1997

Festival of short plays spotlights Canadian talent

All dressed up, nowhere to go

February 12, 1997

By Caroline Choi When achieving a degree is not enough, students opt got hands-on experience. For Ryerson fashion design students, it’s compulsory. They must finish a 600-hour work study program to graduate from their program. “As soon as they start their work study, they gain maturity,” said John Freeman, a Ryerson fashion professor. “They see […]

Canadian culture – out of print

February 12, 1997

By Douglas Cudmore Even for a country that complains about it’s loss of culture as much as Canada, the last two weeks have been a particularly rich time of bellyaching. Our leaders have themselves worked up because our nation could be losing its magazine industry. According to a recent ruling by the World Trade Organization […]

RyeSAC jailbird flies the coop

February 12, 1997

By Bob Vrbanac A member of the RyeSAC Board of Directors returned to school Monday after spending the last three weeks jailed in the Mimico Correctional Centre. Rocco Piccininno, 21, a faculty of business representative on the Board of Directors, was sentenced to six months in jail on Jan. 27, 1997 after pleading guilty to […]

Winter Carnival makes cash

February 12, 1997

By Jackie Burns Ryerson’s Winter Carnival made a profit this year for the first time, but many students still don’t know the event happened. Although Angelo DeLuca, RyeSAC’s VP administration, claimed the carnival was “a huge success,” it was hard to find evidence the annual event was in full-swing. Many students didn’t know events like […]

Nursing books spark controversy

February 12, 1997

Students say texts promote racial stereotypes, no action from profs

Student voting a no-go

February 12, 1997

By Jessica Cosentino You could lose your right to vote. Students who didn’t vote in the last municipal election, or have just moves to Metro Toronto, may not be eligible to vote in the Megacity referendum on March 3. In other words, anyone under 21 years of age or has moved to the city since […]

Tales of love and lust

February 12, 1997

By Patricia Grysiewicz A three-foot-long phallus, flashing lights and a stage full of actors who strip down to their underwear make Aristophanes’ Lysistrata hard to forget. Ryerson’s acting grads and director John Van Burek present Lysistrata and Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet this week in repertory. Two plays with similar themes, but obvious differences. In Lysistrata, […]

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