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TWENTY PER CENT OF GRADS STRUGGLE WITH LITERACY: STUDY

By Aleysha Haniff Associate News Editor It’s not that Kyle Friedman can’t read and write. The first-year new media student did a Hooked-on-Phonics-type program growing up. He had a tutor until he was in high school. But there’s no getting around the fact that Friedman’s literacy skills remain at what he dubs “below average” for […]

FUTURE UNCERTAIN FOR HEALTH AND DENTAL plan

By Aleysha Haniff Associate News Editor Student groups director Osman Hamid plans to encourage the Ryerson Students’ Union to accept Gallivan and Associates as the student union’s health and dental plan broker at the next executive meeting. The motion to sign on with Gallivan was passed at a contentious board of directors meeting on March […]

ON THE RUNWAY: RYERSON FASHION WEEK

By Aleysha Haniff Associate News Editor Ryerson Fashion Week ends with the apocalypse. But don’t worry, Revelation, named after the last book of the Bible, is just one of the many student collections that will be showcased at Ryerson Fashion Week, running April 3-8. The week features designs from the fashion industry’s next wave of […]

AWARD NAMESAKE GUILTY OF FRAUD; PRIZE COULD BE TURFED

By Aleysha Haniff Associate News Editor Garth Drabinsky can officially be called a crook, but Ryerson may keep the award named after him. On March 25, Drabinsky and his business partner, Myron Gottlieb, were convicted of three counts of fraud and forgery to the sum of $500 million. The two ran Toronto live-theatre company Livent […]

Ryerson student finds tuition in her Tim’s cup

By Aleysha Haniff Associate News Editor At best, Khalin Elliott was hoping for a free snack when she rolled up the rim last Wednesday. “I started rolling it up and I see ‘win’ and the first thing that pops in my head is ‘Oh sweet, I’ve won a muffin or a coffee. I can get […]

GETTING WHAT YOU PAY FOR

February 25, 2009

By Aleysha Haniff While customer satisfaction is important when you buy a new car, it doesn’t matter when you go to Ryerson. It’s true enough that the faculty course surveys handed out each semester can tell a lot about a course from a student’s perspective. Yegor Momot, a third-year mechanical engineering student, said he knows […]

Rye program heads look to trim the fat

February 4, 2009

Ryerson's programs will face an eight per cent budget cut over the next two years.

NOT YOUR TYPICAL PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE

January 28, 2009

By Aleysha Haniff Associate News Editor Mark Single knows he won’t find many allies at Ryerson. If elected as Ryerson Students’ Union president on Feb. 11, Single would hold a referendum that could scrap mandatory membership to the students’ union. In fact, he admits that he doesn’t even like unions. “I’m running for president to […]

RYERSON FOOTS THE BILL FOR RSU AUDIT

January 21, 2009

By Aleysha Haniff Associate News Editor Abdullah Snobar and the Ryevolution slate will now get their answers. After alleging missing funds and a corrupt election process, the board of directors, led by Snobar’s group, voted to have a third party audit the RSU. The proposed audit will look at the entire corporation over the last […]