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Wycik residents to vote on rent hike

Residents who attend the co-op’s annual general meeting Wednesday will be able to vote on the motion to raise monthly fees for each member. The raise would generate $300,000 for repairs to the 30-year-old east wall of the building.

Student loan shake-up

The government’s offer of more cash wasn’t enough for the Bank of Nova Scotia. After Scotia refused the deal, the two other major banks involved with student loans—the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and Royal Bank—also withdrew.

Tories allow tuition fees

The tuition increase come with a provincial government promise to inject $68-million into postsecondary education next year. But for the first time, part of the grant will be distributed based on universities’ graduation rates and the number of grads who are employed after six months and two years.

RyeSAC drops CFS referendum

A scheduled referendum about raising the fees Ryerson students pay to the Canadian Federation of Students will be cancelled if RyeSAC president Erin George and the rest of the executive have their way at Thursday’s board of directors meeting.

Police form rave force

Police plan to create a force made up of city officials and emergency services to crack down on illegal raves, after-hours clubs and gun-related violence. Toronto’s chief of police announced Tuesday at police headquarters.

Profs zoom in on cancer cells

The Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) and a group of private donors have awarded $180,000 to Michael Kolio and Gregory Czarnota to continue developing software that will make an ultrasound image eight times as powerful as the ones being used by doctors today.

SuperBuild to tighten housing market

Recent plans to construct three new buildings at Ryerson will make room for thousands of new students, but those who need a place to find one near school.

Students will cash in on job boom: experts say

With the federal unemployment rate for February 2000 at 6.8 per cent—the lowest on record since 1976 according to a recent Industry Canada report—and with youth unemployment dropping a few percentage points to a 12.5 per cent, Canada is experiencing one of its best job markets in 25 years.

Student nominations extended

Student positions on Ryerson’s academic council are up for grabs, but students may not know it.

Students get tax help

Most of the 80 volunteer tax advisors—who were all trained by Revenue Canada—are accounting students, with 30 to 40 working in the clinics at any given time. The volunteers expect to fill out a couple hundred student tax forms, but the clinics are also open to students’ families and community members. A charactered accountant and three senior business students are also on hand to answer any questions.

Appeal process to change

A new academic policy set to take effect Sept. 1 will remove a potential conflict of interest between professors and students appealing their marks.

RyeSAC bickering continues

After weeks of accusations, tension and squabbling, members of RyeSAC’s board of directors sat down to discuss their differences at an emergency board meeting Thursday—but two controversial issues were deferred to later meetings.

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