By Jen Gerson Democracy is about making choices. RyeSAC president-elect Dave MacLean has made some hard ones. In his last year of high school, his father fell off a ladder at work, was taken to the hospital and put on life support. MacLean and his three siblings decided to pull the plug and end his […]

By Jordan Press Dave MacLean didn’t even see the numbers on the board. Huddled with his three running mates, MacLean buried his head until the roar of the crowd forced him to look up and see that Ryerson had voted him the next RyeSAC president. MacLean narrowly defeated current RyeSAC Vice President Education Carlos Flores […]

By Eyeopener Staff Losing presidential candidate Carlos Flores is investigating whether RyeSAC president-elect Dave MacLean should have been disqualified from the election. “I’m seeing whether [MacLean] should have gone all the way to the vote or whether he should have been disqualified,” said Flores. Flores alleged someone at a Ryerson volleyball game two weeks ago […]

By Patrick Evans Ryerson has no plans to copy Queen’s University’s controversial new strategy to increase its aboriginal student enrolment. Starting this fall, Queen’s will be admitting 10 Aboriginal students a year whose grades fall below the school’s 85-percent cut-off in an effort to boost their aboriginal student population. Less than one percent of the […]