Category: News

By Jordan Heath-Rawlings The lights of downtown Toronto went dark just after 11:00 a.m. Tuesday morning, setting off a power outage that lasted for almost an hour and a half. The blackout, which came as the city’s core was struggling to cope with snarled traffic due to a heavy snowfall, was originally blamed on a […]

By Joel Wass and Jordan Press With a winter storm already hammering the city and more snow on the way, Ryerson students were hoping for a snow day on Tuesday. Instead, they got a blackout. Campus clocks froze at 10:54 a.m., as lights went out across Ryerson’s campus. Classrooms, offices, hallways and cafeterias were left […]

By Amy Brown-Bowers Lunch was cancelled, a cigarette savoured, and cell phones saved the day during Tuesday’s blackout. Two silver-haired students waited for a lunch that never arrived. Edith Mannes and Dorothy Rivet were hoping to grab a quick meal at Salad King before heading to their humanist class at Ryerson. They were the restaurant’s […]

By Allison Jones Students at Ryerson may have to worry about rising TTC prices, but at least they don’t have to worry about dying en route. “I thought I was going to die every day,” said Brianne Rutter, a fourth-year early childhood education student about her experience riding New Zealand public transit. “The bus drivers […]

By Jordan Press Last week, McGill University caved in and graded papers a second-year student even though he refused to submit it to Turnitin.com. McGill student Jesse Rosenfeld was successful in his appeal of a failing grade he received on an assignment he wouldn’t submit to the American-based anti-plagiarism Web site. After a lengthy appeal, […]

By Andrea Jezovit Though TTC officials meet today to discuss a possible fare hike, Ryerson students won’t be paying more for their discount Metropasses –yet. “If fares go up now, [discount Metropasses] may go up at the end of the year,” said TTC spokesperson Marilyn Bolton. Since September, RyeSAC has been selling Metropasses to students […]

By Amy Brown-Bowers CKLN is stuck in the 80s. At least that was the message taken away from the station’s annual general meeting last Wednesday. And with the state its finances are in, it seems the station’s pen and paper accounting methods should have expired along with mullets. Listeners, programmers, and volunteers were told the […]

By Jordan Press Poster vendor Imaginus won’t be back on campus this semester after the university informed the company it couldn’t use the space it has had for nearly 30 years. Imaginus, which had scheduled a poster sale this Thursday and Friday, was forced to cancel after learning last week they couldn’t occupy the Metro […]

By Pete Mitton1 Used textbooks have become a hot underground commodity at Ryerson –at least according to RyeSAC. “The used book store, like everywhere on campus, has been experiencing more theft lately,” says Mike Verticchio, RyeSAC’s vice president finance and student services. Last week, RyeSAC’s executives expressed a concern that people have been stealing textbooks […]

By Matthew Chung Do you know what time it is? If you don’t have a wrist watch or a cellphone, then you probably don’t when you’re at Ryerson. “There’s only one time,” says politics professor Arthur Ross with a bitter smile, pulling up his sleeve to display the time on his wrist watch –the only […]

By Erin Rankin The double-digit temperature drop has left Ryerson’s administration fuming as smokers huddle together and prop open doors to keep warm. Julia Lewis, director of Ryerson’s health and safety department, said she wants to increase the distance people have to stand from school doorways while smoking. “We try to accommodate smokers because we […]

By Amy Brown-Bowers Hiring is on hold for a new station manager at CKLN because it says its finances are a mess. The station has been without a manager for five months after the last station manager, Conrad Collaco, resigned in August. The station received 26 resumes and interviewed 11 candidates for the position — […]