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PHOTOS SIERRA BEIN ANNIE ARNONE TAGWA MOYO

ILLUSTRATION JAKE SCOTT

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Wednesday April 13 2016 NEWS 3

By Keith Capstick

Clause five of a lawsuit filed by

the Menrsquos Issues Awareness Soci-ety (MIAS) against the RyersonStudentsrsquo Union (RSU) Board of

Directors (BoD) could affect theunionrsquos ability to reject studentgroups based on who they associ-

ate withThe lawsuit filed by MIAS

president Kevin Arriola and so-

cial media executive AlexandraGodlewski on April 8 comes af-ter the group was rejected for clubstatus by the RSU

ldquo[The lawsuit] will warn RSUsin the future they canrsquot get awaywith this and arbitrarily reject

groups based on how they person-ally feel about itrdquo Arriola said

In appeal meetings the RSUrsquos

BoD criticized MIAS for associatingwith the Canadian Association forEquality (CAFE) mdash a controversial

off-campus menrsquos issues groupMIAS held events at their head-

quarters but CAFE isnrsquot providing

financial aid Instead the JusticeCentre for Constitutional Freedoms(JCCF) a Calgary-based legal clinic

fighting free-speech and freedomof association cases pro bono isworking closely with MIAS

After MIASrsquo January appeal de-nial CAFE called for donations to

support a ldquoground-breaking dis-crimination against menrdquo lawsuitMIAS wants student group statusand another appeal The lawsuit de-

mands a public apology admittingthe grouprsquos rejection was ldquotaintedby a closed mind and biasrdquo and vio-

lated the unionrsquos free-speech policyldquoWe feel excluded from the Ry-

erson communityrdquo wrote Kevin

Arriola in a signed affidavitThe grouprsquos fifth demand calls

for the RSU to refrain from ldquolimit-

ing access to its services and oth-er resources on account of thethoughts beliefs opinions ex-

pressions or associations of stu-dents or student groupsrdquo If MIASwins it could aid other controver-sial groups seeking status

According to the JCCFrsquos websitethe Justice Centre mainly spars withstudentsrsquo unions on behalf of pro-

life groups But in 2014 they alsowrote about the resistance of stu-dent unions to menrsquos issues groups

ldquoAs long as [MIAS] is promot-ing peaceful discussion and intel-lectual inquiry that has a place

on campus and the RSU needs torespect thatrdquo said Michael Ken-nedy communications and devel-

opment coordinator at JCCF

RSU president Andrea Bartlett saidthe BoD stands by its decision The

first court date is April 25ldquoTo the RSU Irsquoll see you in

courtrdquo Arriola said

Ryersonrsquos 10-minute plan Menrsquos IssuesGroup suesRSUBy Brennan Doherty

Ryerson is one of the fastest growing schools in the country but the university faces a unique set of strug-gles when it comes to acquiring space in the downtown core The solution Think on the fly

RSM is Ryersonrsquos namesake near Bay and Dundas PHOTO JESS TSANG

ldquoIf someone just dropped $70 million thatlanded on this desk a new building wouldbe ready in about seven-to-10 yearsrdquo

With rising population density in

he downtown core and the KerrHall quad structurally unsound tobuild on Ryerson faces some of

he biggest growth challenges in theountry But unique building strat-gies like a potential two-floor ad-

dition to the Ted Rogers School ofManagement (TRSM) could allowRyerson to cement its place in the

heart of the cityOther schools like Humber Col-

ege George Brown College and theUniversity of Toronto have dealt

with these issues by creating satel-te campuses in different locations

But Ryerson is committed to a

10-minute walk between classesrdquocademic motto that places limits

on expansion and forces the school

o build upward and expand intonearby commercial buildings

ldquoIf you give me an option to be invery tiny space in downtown To-

onto or go in a very rural area in

he countryside and have a univer-ity with plenty of space I wouldather be in downtown Torontordquo

aid Ryerson president MohamedLachemi ldquoWhatrsquos the point of be-ng in a very isolated area where

tudents have no choice to interactwith the extended worldrdquo

As a newer university Ryerson

hasnrsquot had the luxury of growingwith the city Instead of expand-ng from its historical centre out-

ward as many other schools dohe un-buildable Kerr Hall area

has forced the campus to grow

nto neighbouring streets Ryer-

sonrsquos most prized landmarks are

entrenched in the bustling Bay andDundas area and on the cusp ofcampus along Yonge Street

According to Lachemi whoseeducational background is in civilengineering building onto Kerr

Hall would either be too costly mdashlikely a complete renovation of theRyerson Recreation and AthleticsCentre mdash or just not structurally

feasibleAccording to Ryerson Builds

mdash the administrative department

responsible for contracting newprojects and planning the campusrsquofuture in conjunction with admin-

istration mdash the schoolrsquos precinct

boundaries end around Collegeand Carlton streets Bay Street

Shuter Street and Jarvis StreetRyerson was last yearrsquos provin-

cial runner-up in undergraduate

applications with 69382 but theuniversity was only able to ac-cept 12 per cent of those who ap-

plied (8483 students) With thesenumbers rising every year and theschoolrsquos selection of programs

growing ldquospacerdquo is often the issuein the mouths of Ryersonrsquos admin-istrative elite

ldquoYou canrsquot keep on taking inmore and more students if you

canrsquot handle themrdquo said formerpresident Sheldon Levy in responseto the undergraduate applicationstatistics in October 2015 ldquoThe

university today has never saw

itself building a satellite campuswersquove seen our identity as a down-town university And the challengeof building downtown mdash it is now

really seriousrdquoRight now Ryerson has three

major projects underway the mas-

sive Church Street Development tohouse health sciences including astudent residence the extension ofthe science faculty into the MaRS

building and the Jarvis Street Resi-dence

One of Ryersonrsquos most difficult

planning challenges is the Kerr Halland quad area which acts as thefocal point of campus Although

adding to Kerr Hall isnrsquot feasibleLachemi said the university hascommitted to maintaining the

building to keep pace with the restof the school In recent years KerrHallrsquos electrical systems and many

of its large lab spaces have been up-

dated mdash renovations that added up

to millions according to LachemiThese limitations are where ac-

quisitions and partnerships likethe Mattamy Athletic Centre andTRSM have come up in the past

When the student bodyrsquos growthputs administration under pressurethey have to make the necessary ar-

rangements A skill that Lachemisays Ryerson is quite good at

ldquoOf course when you are under

pressure you think outside of thebox and thatrsquos how we operaterdquoLachemi said ldquoAthletics is in the

best possible arena in the countrymdash the Maple Leaf Gardens Letrsquosfind those opportunities and give

them to our studentsrdquoRyersonrsquos deal with Cineplex to

accommodate additional lectures is

another example of this initiativeIn its more recent additions Ry-

erson has made efforts to ensure its

buildings are primed for long-termupdates TRSM has the capacityto hold at least two more floors

and although plans have not beenmade yet Lachemi mentioned thisas a definite long-term option This

same procedure was utilized withEric Palin Hall which started asa two-storey building The Sally

Horsfall Eaton Centre has sincebeen built ontop of it to add space

All of these successes in mind

Ryerson is still growing at unprec-edented rates and Lachemirsquos pre-decessor was a little more skepti-

cal of the schoolrsquos ability to keepup mdash particularly when it comes

to the length of time it takes thecity to approve building permits

ldquoIf someone just dropped $70million that landed on this desk

a new building would be readyin about seven to 10 yearsrdquo Levysaid in October ldquoThatrsquos how hard

it is to build I feel really guilty

about that and we should havedone a better jobrdquo

Levy said due to the challenges

facing Ryerson in terms of expa-sion a satellite campus may benecessary in the future

Janet Hercz director of pro-gramming and operational readi-ness capital projects and real es-

tate at Ryerson Builds maintainsthat for the immediate future Ry-erson will be able to keep up

ldquoRyerson has accumulated a

large development site on thenorth-west corner of Dundas and Jarvis and this will accommodate

a lot of future academic growthrdquo

Hercz said ldquoWhile land is alwaysscarce in a downtown urban cam-

pus Ryerson does have opportu-nities for additional space for theforeseeable futurerdquo

Kerr Hall is fiscally and structurally irresponsible to build on which poses building challenges for Ryerson PHOTO SIERRA BEIN

ldquoWhatrsquos the point ofbeing in a very isolat-

ed area where stu-dents have no choiceto interact with the

extended worldrdquo



4 EDITORIAL Wednesday April 13 2016

Endings and beginnings

Victoria ldquoWillrdquo SykesHannah ldquoMissrdquo Kirijianv

Lidia ldquoYourdquo Foote

ContributorsBrennan ldquoHatrdquo Doherty

Sarah ldquosilly_sarahrdquo Krichel Jacob ldquoCamerardquo Thielen

Ian ldquoThe onionrdquo YamamotoMahogani ldquoWhite namesrdquo Harri

Annaliese ldquoGandalfrdquo MeyerRuty ldquoTinderrdquo Korotaev

Badri ldquoPopped a mollyrdquo MuraliZeinab ldquoVotes for artsrdquo Saidoun

Serena ldquoLardquo Lalani Jessica ldquoVardquo Valeny

Olivia ldquoSleeps inrdquo BednarZoe ldquo202rdquo Melnyk

Lauryn ldquoHillrdquo PierroAdriana ldquoAl denterdquo ParenteVictoria ldquoSecretrdquo Shariati

Miriam ldquoWebsterrdquo Valdes-CarlettiCelina ldquoLamborghinirdquo Gallardo Janine ldquoJatenrdquo Maral Tascioglo

Julia ldquoCurriculumrdquo VitZahraa ldquoAlumheavyrdquo Alumairy

Kiki ldquoPost-breakyrdquo CekotaZena ldquoNo thank yourdquo SalemMitchell ldquoWhat shootrdquo Thompson Justin ldquoBiztin Techlerrdquo ChandlerMichelle ldquoDeal with Justinrdquo Song

Jaclyn ldquoSuffer Justinrsquos wrathrdquo TansilHanna ldquoRun while you canrdquo Lee

Playing the part of the AnnoyingTalking Coffee Mug this week is theend of Sean Wetselaarrsquos reign Wersquollmiss that inflatable tube man

The Eyeopener is Ryersonrsquos largestand only independent student newspaper It is owned and operated byRye Eye Publishing Inc a non- profit corporation owned by the stu-dents of Ryerson

Our offices are on the second floorof the Student Campus Centre Youcan reach us at 416-979-5262 attheeyeopenercom or on Twitter attheeyeopener

Editor-in-Chief Sean ldquoInflatable Tube Manrdquo

Wetselaar

NewsKeith ldquoBurritordquo Capstick

Nicole ldquoSchmidty builderrdquo SchmidtAl ldquoUncle Leonrdquo Downham

FeaturesFarnia ldquoItrsquos a tart peasantrdquo Fekri

Biz and Tech Jacob ldquoInnovationrdquo Dubeacute

Arts and LifeKaroun ldquoKaroutonrdquo Chahinian

SportsDevin ldquoYou can all fuck offrdquo Jones

CommunitiesAlanna ldquoMet Lachemirdquo Rizza

PhotoAnnie ldquoGoodbye Adieurdquo Arnone

Jake ldquoHip bumprdquo ScottChris ldquoEets a Chreesrdquo Blanchette

FunSkyler ldquoToppled Mackenzierdquo Ash

MediaRob ldquoSCOTLANDrdquo Foreman

OnlineIgor ldquoMustardrdquo Magun

Tagwa ldquoMoyonnaiserdquo MoyoLee ldquoRelishrdquo Richardson

General ManagerLiane ldquoJewish Matriarchrdquo McLarty

Advertising ManagerChris ldquoEmmardquo Roberts

Design Director JD ldquoMowait for itrdquo Mowat

Intern ArmyBen ldquoWerdquo Hoppe

BySeanWetselaar

Itrsquos late in the fall of 2011 and

Irsquom standing in front of a crowd

of editors and writers in the VIP

room at the back of the Ram in

the Rye The crowd is excited

holding drinks chatting amongst

themselves But the upbeat vibe is

lost on the four people standing at

the front of the audience mdash this isThe Eyeopenerrsquos elections where

the paper chooses its next edi-

tors And I want badly to be one

of them

Tension runs through the small

things in the room mdash drops of

sweat trickle from the side of my

neck candidates stand with un-

usually rigid posture nervous feet

shuffle against hardwood Then

silence and stillness erupt from the

clamour and all eyes are on me

piercing me judging me I take a

single lingering breath Then I be-

gin to speak

That was the elections that sawme take over as the Arts and Life

editor in early 2012 and in a lot

of ways the fear the stress and

the anxiety that accompanied my

first run for masthead seem silly

to my 2016 self But itrsquos hard to

explain how desperately I wanted

to be a part of the weird special

and indescribable thing that is The

Eyeopener After an adolescence

marred by a total lack of under-

standing of my place in the world

I fell into the grimy busy cluttered

office on the second floor of the

SCC and I was home

If you havenrsquot realized already

this isnrsquot going to be like my other

editorials Itrsquos my last week at the

paper and nostalgia has gotten the

better of me

Irsquove spent almost five years at

the Eye first as a writer then as an

editor and this year as Editor-in-

Chief Irsquove seen mastheads come

and go and Irsquove seen Ryerson

trundle along on its craggy path

toward some kind of recognition

as a university These past five

years have been a critical time for

the school as it sheds its old labels

and embraces a new era of city

building creativity and education

Itrsquos early in the summer of 2012

and Irsquom standing in the empty lot

where Sam the Record Man oncestood its vinyl metropolis long-

since bulldozed to pave the way

for Ryersonrsquos foray onto Yonge

Street

Irsquove just been elected news

editor and Irsquom here to cover the

ground breaking on the new Stu-

dent Learning Centre The spar-

kling megalith is still just a pipe

dream as a line of Ryerson ex-

ecutives and a smattering of press

crowd around a pile of hilariously

ceremonial topsoil dumped on top

of gravel Shovels crunch through

the soil to the tiny stones beneath

shutters click quietly and the cityleaders beam Everyone is wearing

a hardhat but Irsquom not sure what

theyrsquore protecting us from

The thing about The Eyeopener

is that itrsquos a weird sort of constant

on a campus that prides itself on

its ever-changing diverse tapestry

Next year is our 50th and as far as

I can gather from the many alum-

ni Irsquove spoken to about this place

(though we have moved offices

since the early days) yoursquod be sur-

prised by how little has changed

Wersquove moved from setting type

to swearing at InDesign while it

crashes and we donrsquot really need

the photo negatives we keep in afiling cabinet anymore But every

week during the school year a little

group of over-caffeinated and out-

rageously motivated students have

gotten together to produce hun-

dreds of newspapers

There have been a lot of conver-

sations over the past years about

the value of print and about the

future of media But I think even

if students at a place as modern as

a university campus in 2016 donrsquot

realize it tiny newspapers like

ours can still have a huge value If

nothing else that is illustrated by

the tremendous stories my talent-

ed team has managed to bring to

you this year If yoursquore reading thiseditorial if itrsquos making you feel

anything then print then news

still has a lot more value than its

detractors might like to think

This issue marks the end of a

great year of journalism from an

organization that has been doing

this longer than anyone on cam-

pus today can remember For me

it marks the end of a chapter that

has spanned nearly a quarter of

my life But herersquos the thing about

endings mdash they are also sometimes

beginnings

As I walk through the glass

doors to our offices to produce onelast newspaper one last time I do

it surrounded by the next genera-

tion that will be filling these pages

long after Irsquom gone As someone

whorsquos gotten pretty good at judg-

ing these things I can assure you

theyrsquoll be excellent

And next fall with new people

who have new ideas wersquoll hold

elections again Maybe another

first-year student will fall into the

clutter into the chaos Maybe they

too will be home

It will be different but it will

be the same The crowd at once

laughing and pondering will be-

come suddenly quiet That first-year student will stare into their

eyes and take a single lingering

breath Then they will begin to

speak

Thanks to our incredible talented and ATTRACTIVE VOLUNTEERS YOU ROCK

THE EYEOPENER IS DONE FOR THE YEAR WErsquoLL BE BACK IN THE FALL WAIT FOR IT

The team PHOTO ANNIE ARNONE

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Wetselaardead lsquotherewas potatoeverywherersquo

A 22-year-old was killed on Gould

Street this week in what was agrotesque display of gluttony andhyper-extended limbs

Sean Wetselaar local boy andeditor-in-chief of The Eyeopenerwas killed running into the middle

of Gould Street after he was toldby news editor Al Downham therewas ldquoa french fry convention out

thererdquoWetselaar who is widely known

for his obsessive love of fried po-tatoes got his long-ass arm stuck

in the door as he was sprintingthrough the doors of the StudentCampus Centre (SCC) all whilst

coiffing his hair frantically withhis other hand

Wetselaarrsquos arm stretched to an

unprecedented length of 10 feetbefore he was finally stopped inhis tracks mdash just inches before the

french friesBystanders started fainting at

the site of his overstretched limbs

ldquoIrsquove seen Braveheart so Ithought I knew what a rackinglooked likerdquo said a really manly

student leader ldquoThe real worlddidnrsquot prepare me for thisrdquo

Wetselaar then pried his armloose and began waving it aroundthe street like some sort of urbanantelope bent on potato-y massa-

cre He had still not unglued hisother hand from the the top of hishair mdash which he was still coiffing

ldquoI like fries just as much as any-body else not a weird amount oranythingrdquo Wetselaar said as he

voraciously gorged his unhingedanaconda-like mouth with fries

When asked what prompted

beating dozens of students with a10-foot arm to get to their frenchfries all Wetselaar had to say was

ldquomore em-dashes peoplerdquo Just as the fry fiasco was begin-

ning to calm down incoming Ry-erson president Mohamed Lachemi

walked past Wetselaar speakingabout ldquomaking Ryerson the inno-vation hub of the countryrdquo

This caused Wetselaar to beginprojectile vomiting fries in disgustHis guts hopes and dreams were

expelled from his body in a sym-phony of fried root vegetable

ldquoThere was potato every-

whererdquo said news editor KeithCapstick in the quirkiest andmost random way possible ldquoIt

was litrdquo

Wetselaarrsquos hollowed-out bodycan be found in front of The

Scorersquos 500 King St W locationused as a wacky-waving-inflat-able-arm-flailing-tube man

The year in the news

n February the Ontario government an-nounced students from families who make

ess than $50000 will recieve free collegend university tuitionThe change was the result of this yearrsquos

provincial budget and will start in the0172018 school year

The RSUrsquos December restructuring createda new general manager position

As a result two employees mdash includingGilary Massa on mat leave mdash were laid offinspiring anti-RSU protests Protesters calledto reinstate Massarsquos Executive Director of

Communication and Outreach position

After a long search Mohamed Lachemi wasappointed as Ryersonrsquos president in March

He spent four months as interim-presi-

dent after the university struggled to find areplacement for Sheldon Levy

Lachemi has worked at the university for

over 18 years

The 6ix god headlined the Ryerson Studentsrsquo Unionrsquos (RSU)

parade and concert during Septemberrsquos orientation weekOther celebrities appeared including Future mdash who collabo-

rated with Drake on a mixtape soon after mdash and Toronto citycouncillor Norm Kelly

The RSU spent around $515000 on the show from their

annual budget local business sponsorship and a partnershipwith George Brown Around 6500 attended

Upon Drakersquos appearance Ryerson trended worldwide on

social media

In October The Eyeopener uncovered a tissue issue on campus

While most Ryerson on-campus bathrooms were supplied withone-ply toilet paper the 13th and 14th floors of Jorgenson Hall

had two-ply These two floors contain mostly notable figures inRyerson administration

One roll of one-ply toilet paper costs $183 whereas a two-plyroll costs $367

The rest of the world apparently thought a two-tiered Ryer-son was hilarious as the controversy was covered internationallyFrankly wersquore tired of hearing about it

Drake Visits campus ryersquos 2-ply scandal

tuition model changes RSU restructuring Lachemi named president

Ryerson in construction projects to watch

By The News Team

Jarvis Street Residence186-188 Jarvis Street

MaRS Lab Space101 College Street

Church Street Development300 Church Street

xpected to be completed in fall 2018 theDaphne Cockwell Health Sciences Complexwill house several programs and depart-ments The upper floors of the building will

lso double as a 330-unit student residence

The 30-story residence will provide thefirst 500 of 2000 new beds to be added tocampus as part of Ryersonrsquos goal to improvestudent housing options downtown Thebuilding is set to open in September 2018

In January Ryerson announced that the fac-ulty of science will be getting 20000 squarefeet of new lab space The space leased fromthe MaRS building is being rennovated andis expected to be completed in January 2017

PHOTOS ABOVE TAGWA MOYO ANNIE ARNONE

PHOTOS BELOW ANNIE ARNONE JAKE SCOTT SIERRA BEIN



6 Wednesday April 13 2016FEATURES

am the Record Man will spin on Bolted to Vic-toria Streetrsquos Toronto public health building

a sleek 10-storey glass tower tucked into the

northeast corner of Yonge-Dundas Square the

ign will get a second taste of the downtown corersquos frantic

nergy Tourists walking past the Imperial Pub can watch

he signrsquos kitschy pair of neon vinyl records standing

uard on Victoria Street But why is a relic of Torontorsquos

ormer weight in the Canadian music scene languishing in

corner of the countryrsquos most famous square Why isnrsquot

t crowning its original spot at 347 Yonge St just above

he doors of Torontorsquos most famous record store

The contrast will be jarring during the day The public

health building (PHB) on Victoria is a monotonous slab

of tinted glass the colour of charcoal constantly reflecting

he square back at itself Huddled around the signrsquos future

home are some of Ryersonrsquos first buildings all Brutalist

ll seemingly poured out of cement trucks in the 1950s

Architects have moved on In recent years Ryersonrsquos

dministration has embraced glittering megastructures

mdash the Student Learning Centre (SLC) the George Vari

Engineering and Computing Centre and the (soon-to-be)

Daphne Cockwell Health Sciences Complex The univer-sity under former president Sheldon Levy started rushing

Ryerson away from its past as a scrappy polytechnic insti-

tute In the process the school bought the Sam the Record

Man store The SLC rests on the buildingrsquos bones mdash and

the sign ended up losing its place of pride on Yonge Street

The administration assured vinyl fans it would save the

relic but itrsquos taken a scandal several years and some To-

ronto City Council intervention for the sign to actually

near the end of its journey to restoration

Neon is eternal in Yonge-Dundas Square The sign will

have a commanding view but itrsquoll also have competition

mdash from 10 Dundas Eastrsquos plasma screen wall of Cineplex

ads the Eaton Centrersquos billboards (cherry-red summer

dresses by HampM) the bubbly pastel-coloured Koodo

signs opposite the PHB Only the hyperactive rooftop

ticker of City TV (MONDAY 8 THE MUPPETS hellip City

News AT SIX hellip Mornings are a little different) was re-

motely designed in the same spirit as Samrsquos logo The sum

total of the squarersquos blinding advertisements will erase the

sign in an insomniac lightshow For the first time in its

storied history the Sam sign can be easily ignored

am Snidermanrsquos veins were forged from vinylHe grew up in Kensington Market then a Jew-

ish neighbourhood and began putting in hours

as an associate for his brotherrsquos radio store

in the 1930s But in 1959 he quit selling Zeniths and

started selling vinyl out of a small store at Shuter and

Yonge called Sam the Record Man Eventually his older

brother Sid joined Samrsquos company to do the books Samrsquos

second store would become the famous flagship location

on 347 Yonge St just north of the Eaton Centre Sam

(always Sam never Mr Sniderman) was always roaming

the floors tracking down obscure records with an eidetic

memory that seemed to rival any inventory program

ldquoSam was the figurehead He was the facerdquo says Craig

Renwick who ran the storersquos video department in the

1980s ldquoWhen hersquod come in the morning and say lsquoHey

Craiggie how we doinrsquorsquo Irsquod say lsquoWhere you been Sam

where you been Wersquove already sold a millionrsquo And hersquod

laugh because it would only be 930 am at that pointrdquo

As precise as Samrsquos memory was the store was far from

tidy ldquoOrganized Nordquo exclaims Renwick ldquoIt wasnrsquot

like if you walked into one of the newer storesrdquo such as

the story of the

$The Sam the Record Man sign is mere weeks away from 1047297nally 1047297nding a new home Why has it

taken Ryerson so long to ful1047297ll its promise By Brennan Doherty

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION ANNIE ARNONE



Wednesday April 13 2016 7FEATURES

HMV or Best Buy While wildly popular it was crampednd eclectic Nooks of numerous shelves filled with re-ord bins stretched across every square inch of the storersquos

back corners mdash more of a glorified independent book-tore than the flagship outlet of Canadarsquos premier recordompany Sam stocked everything from Cajun Zydeco to

ZZ Top to arthouse films Popular hits filled display ta-bles near the storersquos entrance but adventurous souls whoollowed the music upstairs could stumble upon sections

anging from classical to British punkldquoYou could find anything thererdquo says Amber Scuye a

music blogger who used to make the trek from Mississau-a with her high school friends in the 1990s Theyrsquod get

off at Bloor-Yonge station and walk south dropping intoTower Records HMV and Sunrise Records But Samrsquoswas her go-to for any records she couldnrsquot find elsewhere

ldquoAnytime I needed something weird or I wanted a rare

UK import that people were telling me you had to ordern and charge me $28 for Irsquod go to Samrsquos and itrsquod be there

or $699 Samrsquos was the best place to gordquo she recallsMusicians passing through Toronto were also known

or ducking into the store to press the flesh with their

ans mdash Rush and The Guess Who were known for walk-ng into the store catching a Sharpie thrown by a fan

nd autographing posters that would hang near the doorike medals Gordon Lightfoot regularly dropped by The

Barenaked Ladies paid homage to Samrsquos ldquothe late nightecord shoprdquo in their song Brian Wilson Sam launched

he careers of many Canadian musicians by stocking the

debut records of even the then unestablished Kd langCowboy Junkies and Ron Sexsmith all had their first re-

cords sold at SamrsquosBut anyone who remembers walking by the chainrsquos

flagship store recalls the massive neon sign originally just

a spinning light-up vinyl record with ldquoSAMrdquo in massivewhite letters burning its way into the retinas of anyonewho stared for too long

Evidently Sam thought this wasnrsquot enough and decidedto double his chances of catching errant eyeballs on Yonge

Street in the 1980s by adding a second spinning record andred lettering that bragged ldquoThatrsquos entertainmentrdquo

nfortunately declining sales and the rise ofthe digital music business caught up withSam The company filed for bankruptcy in

2001 after being underwritten for five straightyears of losses although Samrsquos sons Jason and Bobby didre-open the Yonge Street store and 11 franchise outlets

across the GTA a year later It didnrsquot last On June 30

2007 the Yonge Street store closed its doors for the lasttime While the company held on by a sliver (therersquos still

an independent franchise store in a Belleville mall) thesign was doomed to be removed

A public outcry on Facebook was enough to convinceCity Hall to put a heritage protection order on the en-

tire building which it revoked once Ryerson Universitybought the land in 2008 mdash on the one condition that theschool protect and restore the sign So Ryerson removed

the sign and demolished the building to make room forwhat is now the SLC The signrsquos fate was uncertain mdasheven then-mayor Rob Ford piled in to try and save it In

an impassioned speech to City Hall in September 2013he reminisced about visiting the store with his brothersback when he was a kid

Originally Ryerson promised to make ldquoall reasonableeffortsrdquo to accommodate the sign on the SLC somewhere

as a condition of purchasing 347 Yonge St This neverhappened When the SLC went up none of the blue-prints viewed by city officials or the public had any sortof space for the sign to be mounted Toronto councillor

Josh Matlow who fought tooth and nail to preserve thesign wasnrsquot convinced that the university really tried

ldquoThere is no evidence that I saw that they made any

effort to re-install the sign anywhere as the initial remitset outrdquo he says He was infuriated when Ryerson didnrsquotoriginally restore the sign as promised mdash and challenged

several representatives from the university to show himblueprints to accommodate the sign when they arrived ata consultation meeting with City Hall ldquoThey had noth-

ingrdquo he exclaims ldquoIt certainly came across to me hellip thatRyerson never really intended to fulfill the agreement inthe first place That it was an afterthought that it wasnrsquot

important to themrdquo

But since Ryerson put out a work order in February forthe signrsquos installation Matlow has changed his tune ldquoIrsquom

certainly more confident today due to the fact that thereare substantive actions being taken right nowrdquo he saysldquoI have no reason to believe that Ryerson wonrsquot be true

to their wordrdquoAt the time of print the school had drafted a list of

companies who could install the sign and was trudgingthrough the process of assigning the contract to one ofthese companies According to Ryerson spokespersonMichael Forbes an estimated date for installation will be

set once the supplier is selected

ny time you asked former president Sheldon

Levy about Ryersonrsquos infrastructure his re-sponse would include words like ldquourban cen-trerdquo ldquocomplicationsrdquo and ldquowaiting for city ap-

provalrdquo When it came to the numerous plans and stepsfor restoring the sign the dialogue was very similar mdashand similarly frustrating

ldquoThe university has a responsibility for the restora-tion and the installment of that sign [on the public healthbuilding] The challenge is that this is a big sign Just

putting up something of that weight and ensuring that itrsquosstable in wind conditions is no small matterrdquo Levy said

in late 2015 estimating that the sign would go up in this

academic year mdash a goal that seems unlikely at this pointldquoThere have been lots of discussion with the city about

the engineering challenges of putting a sign that heavy on

the buildingrdquo he explained at the time ldquoThey are takingthe leadership and we are supporting it but we are notthe ones who are putting it on our building Theyrsquore put-

ting it on their buildingWhat happens when therersquos biggusts of wind They had to figure out a way to open upthe sign a bit so that the wind can blow through it People

donrsquot realize the size of this thing Itrsquos hugerdquo

ince it was dismantled in the fall of 2008 the Sam

sign has lain in hundreds of pieces disassembledin the back of a specially-modified tractor trailerat an external storage company somewhere in

Markham The public only knows this because Matlowdemanded that Ryerson show him the sign to prove thatthey hadnrsquot damaged it in transport Several photo-ops

were done in 2012 mdash but aside from the still-vibrantldquoSave Our Sam Signrdquo Facebook group the public hasalmost forgotten it Interest has been somewhat revived

in the past few weeks in anticipation of the signrsquos even-tual installment overlooking Yonge-Dundas Square Butthe PHB wasnrsquot the only place suggested for the sign

A quiet silver-haired architecture professor named JuneKomisar fired off a suggestion to Sheldon Levy last yearShe had other ideas about the sign Her background is inarchitectural history and theory but she had a very com-

mon-sense proposal stick the sign on 10 Dundas East oreven the Eaton Centre Ryersonrsquos architects never camethrough on their promise to incorporate the sign into the

SLC mdash something that could have been done accordingto Komisar ldquoNot all architects want to embrace historicalartifacts which is a shamerdquo she says The blame how-

ever doesnrsquot stop with the blueprints ldquoRyerson itself hasa lot of responsibility to control what the architect wouldor would not provide for themrdquo she says

Unlike the SLC the signrsquos new perch on the PHB ispretty secure for the immediate future Councillor KristynWong-Tam another ardent defender of the sign says the

building isnrsquot being sold in the immediate future mdash con-trary to a report by the Toronto Star that PHBrsquos futureas a city-owned building is in jeopardy PHB would have

to be declared a surplus property by the City of Torontoin order for a sale to occur ldquoAs far as I know therersquosabsolutely no interest for the City of Toronto to sell that

buildingrdquo she says Itrsquos safe

am aficionados packed the west side of Yonge

Street during Nuit Blanche of 2007 The storehad already been slated for demolition by Ryer-son and while theyrsquod promised to save the sign

the deal had yet to follow through There was hope thatthe Sam sign wouldnrsquot be moving too far from its homeon 347 Yonge Streetrsquos second floor As revellers chanted

a countdown the left half of the sign lit up in a dazzlingdisplay of neon Cheers rang out from across Yonge Streetthen redoubled as both sides of the sign ignited and be-

gan twirling the night away one last time Unbeknownstto everyone it would be at least another eight years beforethe sign lit up again Toronto is waiting for Sam to returnand lend its beating vibrant heart to the downtown core

Maybe with Ryersonrsquos help it wonrsquot get lost in the noise

THE UNIVERSITY HAS A RESPONSIBILIY FOR THE RESTORATION AND

INSTALMENT OF THAT SIGN [ON THE PUBLIC HEALTH BUILDING]

THE CHALLENGE IS THAT THIS IS A BIG SIGN$

THE ADMINISTRATION ASSURED VINYL FANS IT WOULD SAVE THE RELIC

BUT ITrsquoS TAKEN A SCANDAL SEVERAL YEARS AND SOME TORONTO COUNCIL

INTERVENTION FOR THE SIGN TO ACTUALLY NEAR THE END OF

ITS JOURNEY TO RESTORATION

$



8 ARTS amp LIFE Wednesday April 13 2016

orella Di Cintio helping first-year student Lori Fernandez with final utensil projectPHOTO KAROUN CHAHINIAN

When interior design meets social activism

By Karoun Chahinian

Ryersonrsquos interior design program

s teaching students more than de-

ign Through specialized courses

nd competitions the skills taught

n class are put towards creating

more sustainable and accessibleworld

ldquoDesign activismrdquo a concept

ntroduced into the program by

ssociate professor Lorella Di

Cintio is the act of using interior

design to create positive social

hange Di Cintio started working

t Ryerson in 2001 and began in-

ormally implementing it into her

eachings through lesson themes

nd assignments but it officially

became part of the curriculum in

007

Currently students from first to

ourth year are working on final

projects which reflect the themes

of activism for example the crite-ia of using sustainable materials

ldquoItrsquos co-mingling aesthetics with

ethicsrdquo said Di Cintio ldquoYou take

the beauty of [design] and look at

it ethically to figure out how you

can talk about equity diversity

and inclusion through that work

Itrsquos very much what Ryerson is

aboutrdquoThrough design activism stu-

dents are given the opportunity

to contribute to society through

different projects centred around

various social issues For example

in the first year Design Dynam-

ics Studio II course students are

taught about sustainability food

security and design solutions This

is most illustrated in their final

utensil project which asks for stu-

dents to design wooden utensils

with the goal of them being acces-

sible for everyone Some pieces are

also auctioned off and the proceeds

go towards The Stop Community

Food CentreKelly Warlcroft designed a tea

cup and said she is enjoying the

projectrsquos element of activism

ldquoThe whole intention of the

project is to create a utensil that is

universal and can be used by any-

one and everyonerdquo said Warlcroft

ldquoSome people are focusing more

on people with disabilities or peo-ple that struggle with hand motor

skills so they make utensils dedi-

cated to helping those individualsrdquo

The first-year students are cur-

rently working on their utensils

and will be presenting them at

their annual showcase on April 21

to 28 Past projects have also been

showcased at the annual Interior

Design Show which takes place in

January

Along with the utensil project

Di Cintio also organizes field trips

both local and international cen-

tred around design activism As

part of the fourth-year interior de-

sign course IRN 700 12 students

went on a self-funded field research

trip to Guatemala in fall 2015 for

10 days The students conducted a

design workshop with school chil-

dren there and designed products

that would help them like class-

room furniture McKayla Durantsaid the trip shifted her view of in-

terior design and opened her eyes

to the possibilities she had in the

field

ldquoThat was an amazing trip Irsquove

never been exposed to a developing

country and as a designer it was

amazing to see how many ways I

could use my skills to make theirway of life betterrdquo said Durant

Over 10 days the students were

asked to create design solutions

for their classroom or landscaping

While a few of Durantrsquos classmates

created designs for chairs or desks

she created a vertical garden

ldquoThey talked a lot about want-

ing a garden but they werenrsquot al-

lowed to plant anything or change

anything because they didnrsquot ac-

tually own the land so I came up

with the idea of a vertical gardenrdquo

she said ldquoItrsquos basically planters

that are above ground They have

this really great connection withtheir food and they have such an

integral cultural idea of food so I

really wanted to run with that and

create a design to help themrdquo

Students have also gone on trips

to Mexico and New York mdash where

they built furniture out of sustain-

able cardboard for people with

disabilities mdash and Ottawa Valley

to visit the Algonquins of the Pik-

wagravekanagagraven First Nation

The 2008 trip to the reserve came

in the midst of Stephen Harperrsquos

formal apology to residential school

survivors

ldquoWe went there because there

was funding available for First Na-tions reserves to start telling their

story and their version of historyrdquo

she said

Di Cintio was approached to de-

sign them a transportable stage for

those story-telling opportunities

On a local level many students

and faculty members also partake

in The Stoprsquos Night Market whichis a cultural fundraiser with all-

you-can-eat food music and art

All the proceeds go towards The

Stop Community Food Centre This

year it is taking place on June 16

and 17 on Sterling road and design

students and professors will design

and construct food carts for the

participating chefs Some first-year

students will also submit their uten-

sils to be sold at the market but the

focus is on the carts which need to

be made with sustainable materi-

als Durant has participated in this

fundraiser and design competition

all four years of her Ryerson careerldquoBasically we are taking any type

of materials we can scavenge and

create a cart out of itrdquo she said

ldquoWe have these boards with holes

in them and wersquore basically creat-

ing this cart thatrsquos see-through but

with walls But the whole concept

really is to try and be sustainablerdquo

Along with Durant professor

Ruth Spitzer is also designing a cart

for this yearrsquos fundraiser and this

partnership between the school of

interior design and the night market

began in 2013

ldquoI think Ryersonrsquos really leading

in these discussions about activism

and social change which is reallyamazingrdquo said Di Cintio

RTA grad documents his run to wellness

PHOTO COURTESY JACOB MORR ISJacob Morris uses running as a coping tool for his depression

One year ago Jacob Morris was

unable to get out of bed because

of his struggle with depression

Now in partnership with Ryerson

nd CAMH the 25-year-old will

be completing and documenting

en half marathons across Canada

n 30 days as a part of his Run toWellness campaign

ldquoMy mental health has always

been something that Irsquove needed to

ake care of mdash Irsquove struggled with

nxiety basically my whole life but

t was around this time last year

hat I fell into a deep depressionrdquo

aid Morris

The RTA School of Media gradu-

te left his job as a video producer

n May last year at the height of his

depression and began to occupy his

ime with running

ldquoI wrote a short blog post docu-

menting the struggles I had been go-

ng through over the course of that

ear and how I used running spe-

ifically as kind of a medication for

my mental healthrdquo he said

Friends family and strangers

eached out to Morris after the post

was made thanking him for telling

his story It was that moment that

he realized he wanted to produce a

project involving mental health

ldquoIrsquom someone who has a lot of

experience producing large scale

events and video productions but

Irsquom also someone who deals with

depression and anxiety So why not

marry the two and make this cam-paign which over the course of the

last six or so months has become

Run to Wellnessrdquo he said

The campaign will focus on run-

ning as a therapy for mental health

Morris will begin the run in Toron-

to and will complete his challenge

in Vancouver Edmonton Calgary

Winnipeg Montreal Ottawa Que-

bec City Halifax and his hometown

of Waterloo The footage will con-

sist of training running and down-

time footage between runs

ldquoThe goal right now will be finish-

ing the campaign mid July In terms

of content we plan on releasing all

kinds of social media throughout

the campaign mdash covering training

and then the month long journeyrdquo

said Morris

Morrisrsquo partner and director of

the project Paige Foskett has been

by his side throughout his struggle

with mental health

ldquoWhen he was in the very lowest

parts of his depression he started

running a little bit here a little bit

there and it kind of became a thing

he did every dayrdquo said Foskett a

fourth-year media production stu-

dent ldquoWhen he came up with the

idea it related to me on a lot of dif-

ferent levelsrdquo

Growing up with severe depres-

sion herself Foskett explains that

she struggles with using the right

language when speaking about

mental health

ldquoI still talk as though itrsquos such a

burden and Irsquom a victimrdquo said Fo-

skett ldquoAll these words that havenegative connotations to them

donrsquot help the cause Jacob would

say lsquoNo stop Thatrsquos a negative

wordrsquordquo

One of Morrisrsquo goals with Run to

Wellness is to change the narrative

surrounding mental health and do

it in a way that is not victimizing

ldquoA lot of the content video wise

and a lot of the literature you might

find in a doctorrsquos office or some-

thing on mental health paints peo-ple who are suffering as victimsrdquo

he said

The project will begin in mid-

June

By Annie Arnone

ldquoI think Ryersonrsquos really leading in

these discussions about activism

and social change which is reallyamazingrdquo



Wednesday April 13 2016 BIZ amp TECH 9

this year in

biz amp techgt MUSHROOMS IN SPACE

A group of Ryerson students are

planning on sending their experi-

ment to the International Space

Station With the help of the Ry-

erson Student Spaceflight Experi-

ments Program theyrsquore sending

mushrooms to research their pos-

sibility as space-grown food

gt HitchBOT sent on its last trip

After successful Canada and

Europe-wide trips and a not-so-successful American trip which

left HitchBOT decapitated in

Philadelphia the team is retiring

the robot at Ottawarsquos Canada

Science and Technology Museum

in 2017

To read these stories and more

featured this year in the section

check out theeyeopenercom

gt Hyperloops hyper lit

The Ryerson International Hy-

perloop Team are working on

a subsystem for the Hyperloop

mdash a transportation design that

could potentially travel at near-

supersonic speeds They plan to

show off their award-winning

design on a mile-long test track

in the summer

These robots will make you feel BB-GreatRyerson researchers are studying robots to design their own model that can help people manage anxiety through companionship

he project is working to make your own robot companion PHOTO CHRIS BLANCHETTE

By Justin Chandler

C-3PO may be fluent in over six

million forms of communication

but helping people with mental

llnesses is something he cannotdo Fortunately for those who

need it researchers at Ryerson

re developing a model for a ro-

bot that could help people man-

ge anxiety

Along with Ryerson communi-

ations professor Frauke Zeller

ommunication masterrsquos student

Lauren Dwyer is researching ex-

sting robots to develop a model

or one that could monitor human

behaviour and respond to it Dw-

er plans to present the model in

her major research project (MRP)

which is due in September

The model will likely detail

what the robot could look like

how it could communicate and

what problems she could come

across in creating it Dwyer saidTesting and the technical creation

of the robot should come later

To develop the model for the ro-

bot Dwyer is studying three differ-

ent robots including Spherorsquos BB-8

toy which is based off a robot in

the new Star Wars film Dwyer

plans to pick aspects of the three

she studies to include in her model

A lot of people in Dwyerrsquos life

have some form of mental illness

she said Dwyer said her project

presents an opportunity to do

therapy better

ldquoGetting help is hard Looking

for a therapist and trying to find

coverage is a long roadrdquo Dwyer

said adding that therapy can be

too expensive for studentsDwyer works for SickNot-

Weak a non-profit organization

that raises money for mental-

health education and community

support She said she isnrsquot looking

to replace therapy dogs or mental-

health professionals but thinks

companion robots could be more

useful than standard mental health

resources in some situations

Dwyer said shersquos been in situa-

tions where shersquos needed help but

wanted to be alone She thinks a

robot that could have comforted

her would have been ideal then

Zeller co-manages HitchBOTthe hitchhiking robot whose

travels have been reported on by

The Eyeopener and international

media

In an email Zeller wrote there

is precedent to this project in the

form of ldquovery interestingrdquo research

into robotics and health such as

studies into robotic companions

for children with autism and robots

for helping people with dementia

Dwyer studied BB-8 and plans

to look at French robotics-compa-

ny Aldebaranrsquos NAO robot The

NAO is a humanoid robot used to

communicate with children with

autism One exists at Ryerson

Dwyer has not decided what third

robot shersquoll studyDwyer a Star Wars fan enjoyed

studying BB-8

The toy which Dwyer calls ldquothe

best companion next to a dogrdquo

makes sounds and movements in

reaction to its surroundings when

in ldquopatrol moderdquo Dwyer has

found it necessary for a robot to

communicate through movement

and sound in order for it to con-

nect with a person

She said she hopes to develop a

model for a robot that is not just

reactive but proactive One that

could for example monitor the

symptoms leading up to an anxi-ety attack and act before the at-

tack occurs

Zeller said her work on projects

such as HitchBOT and art critic

robot KulturBot provides insights

into how people may interact

with a robot companion She said

people have become very creative

in interacting with those robots

ldquoso integrating participatory de-

sign into the development of robot

companions can provide new in-

sights and enhance acceptance of

robots in our daily livesrdquo

Oculus Rift privacy issues are virtually a reality

Using an Oculus Rift could allow the company to steal your information And your wallet Not reallyPHOTO CHRIS BLANCHETTE

By Igor Magun

Virtual reality products like the

Oculus Rift may open new worlds

o explore but they could also re-

eal intimate details about us to

heir manufacturers according to

Ryerson professor Avner Levin

In addition to typical data like

financial and device information

he Oculus privacy policy allows

he company to collect data about

our physical movements and di-

mensions while using the headset

ldquoThe language is that theywould be able to collect basically

ny kind of physical movements

hat yoursquore usingrdquo said Levin

who is also the director of Ryer-

onrsquos Privacy and Cyber Crime In-

titute ldquoThat opens up the door

o a whole new category of in-

ormation about individuals that

might be used for other purposes

down the linerdquo

As the uses for virtual reality

xpand over time manufacturers

will have access to data that is in-

reasingly intimate For instance

he adult entertainment industry is

nterested in taking advantage of

irtual reality according to Levin

Theyrsquore going as far as exploring

he use of haptic technology that

would allow users to feel physical

ensations in line with the content

they view

ldquoI think for most people there

is still associated a high level of

privacy and intimacy with any-

thing that they have to do around

the adult entertainment industryrdquo

said Levin ldquoIf yoursquore signing onto

a device that hellip allows them to

capture all of that information

you could be quite concernedrsquordquo

In an emailed statement to The

Eyeopener Oculus said they do

not currently share collected data

with their parent company Face-

book nor use it for advertising

Both are possibilities they may

consider in the future however

Levin gives the company credit

for being honest about the way

they can use customer data

ldquoTheir privacy policy is actually

hellip not necessarily a bad policyrdquo

said Levin ldquoThere are some fea-

tures of it that are good because it

so clearly explains to people whatrsquos

going to happen to their informa-

tion and a lot of the older policies

donrsquot do a good job explainingrdquo

However Levin suggests that

companies should be asking users

for explicit permission to expand

the way they gather and use data

from these devices

But privacy policies are com-

monplace beyond virtual reality

as well and they are a flawed con-

cept according to Levin The poli-

cies typically donrsquot give customers

the option to negotiate the terms

of the agreement

ldquoWe have to change what

wersquore doing as a societyrdquo Levin

said ldquoTo move away from this

idea that people just sign on to

things and really regulate what

are the uses that a company is

allowed to have with respect to

informationrdquo



Wednesday April 13 2016 SPORTS 10

Opinion Look past the slogans and smiles

Therersquos this theme that Irsquove no-

iced throughout my year as sports

ditor Itrsquos very subtle and often in

he midst of covering a basketball

ame the enthusiasm of the Rams

Pack will push it aside completelyWersquove all seen the slogans ldquoWe

re all Ramsrdquo or more simply put

Ramilyrdquo This idea of an equal

ommunity across all sports And

es for those successful teams that

bring in the Toronto Star articles

nd the limited television time Ca-

nadian university sports are allocat-

d mdash we are all Rams that fit into a

neat marketable package with ban-

ners and all the trimmings

But every time I leave the Mat-

amy Athletic Centre (MAC) the

question comes up again ldquoWhat

bout everyone elserdquo

I get it the athletics department

at any university is logically cen-

tered around promoting its best tal-

ent because of course as basic eco-

nomics go these departments need

to turn a profit in order to justify

their existence to pay those the de-

partment employsBut what confuses me and what

Irsquove been hearing all season from

athletes is this idea that after having

a great season mdash the womenrsquos vol-

leyball team is only now getting the

recognition that should have been

there all along despite the ldquoWe are

all Ramsrdquo mentality

And again even from an incen-

tive standpoint it makes sense to

reward those teams that have seen

sucess stemming from their hard

work

But this incentivized way that

the Ryerson athletics department

has decided to run things is often

confusing summed up by the di-

vided chart attached to the back of

the student-athlete handbook This

chart divides up teams based on

past performance which is theoret-

ically tied to media coverage This

coupled with a better record leadsto a jump in division and therefore

more recognition and services from

athletics

On paper this idea makes sense

but when I hear administration say

things like theyrsquore allowing their

lowest division in terms of athletics

funding recognition and services

mdash competitive clubs mdash to wear the

Ryerson logos and jerseys mdash as if

this is the better option to an alter-

native that doesnrsquot exist mdash rides

against the Ramily mentality wersquove

all seen

Or the baseball team and their

competitive club status for example

After two years of probation and

three seasons of growth and con-

tinuous success mdash capping this sea-

son off with a playoff appearance

the team still needs two seasons of

success to become eligible for OUA

sport status Put this against otherteams within athletics who until a

few years ago werenrsquot posting win-

ning records but were given im-

mediate OUA sport or CIS status

due to entrenched ideas about the

importance of certain sports

The other thing Irsquove struggled

to understand that has come up

recently is the switch from Adidas

to Nike Itrsquos not the switch in ven-

dor that bugs me but the fact that

the new jerseys that athletics are

ordering only apply to the seven

CIS teams And while administra-

tion notes that teams within other

divisions have the option of using

the new jerseys funding this op-

tion comes down to the individual

teams and their ability to fundraise

Itrsquos this weird situation of op-

posites a collective community

as long as you win that Irsquove been

thinking about all seasonAnd after a long year of game re-

caps and player profiles I still leave

the MAC late on a Friday night

wondering ldquoWhat about everyone

elserdquo And while I donrsquot have an-

swers on how to integrate the curl-

ing or cross country teams let alone

how run the athletics department

the theme seems to be at odds with

the sentiment mdash we are all Rams

when it suits the administration Itrsquos

important to understand we arenrsquot

all equal which is fine But itrsquos not

okay is to pretend like wersquore all

playing on the same field

By Devin Jones

Sports a year in review

Ryerson basketball Menrsquos soccer Ryerson volleyball

This year was crazy for both the

women and menrsquos basketball

team With both teams coming

off of great seasons mdash the menrsquos

team placing third at the Cana-

dian national championship at

home the womenrsquos making their

CIS debut expectations were

high for this season

As the menrsquos team started offwith a down to the wire home

opener win against the University

of Toronto the womenrsquos team

kicked off a confident three game

winning streak picking off U of

T at the Ryerson home opener

78-36

With the menrsquos team led by vet-

erans Aaron Best and Adika Peter-

McNeilly the team won 10 games

in a row The womenrsquos team was

helmed by CIS 2015-2016 player

of the year Keneca Pingue-Giles

The 2016 OUA playoffs cul-

minated in two gold medals and

banners for Ryerson athletics

while the womenrsquos team walked

away with their first ever silver

medal in the CIS championships

and the menrsquos team earned their

second bronze

The start of the Ryerson vol-

leyball season saw a leadership

change for both teams culminat-

ing in Dustin Reid stepping in for

Mirek Porosa for the menrsquos team

as well as continuing as head

coach for the womenrsquos team

Despite the change in coach-

ing staff both teams got out to a

strong start with the menrsquos teamwinning their first five games

while the womenrsquos squad won

their first eight of nine

The womenrsquos team was led by

veteran libero Julie Longman and

Theanna Vernon as well as fifth-

year outside hitter Emily Nichol-

ishen Handily defeating Queenrsquos

University in the Ontario Univer-

sity Athletic final-four they even-

tually won their second silver

medal in their loss to U of T

The menrsquos team was helmed by

third year outside hitter Lucas

Coleman and fifth-year veteran

Robert Wojick helped the team

to their first ever Canadian Inter-

university Sport championships

where they placed seventh losing

to the Rouge et Or de lrsquoUniversiteacute

Laval

Promise and heartbreak sums up

the Ryerson menrsquos soccer teamrsquos

2015-2016 season Coming off

a strong 2014 season where they

made their first Ontario Univer-

sity Athletic final-four playoff

appearance the Rams also ended

their season ranked fourth in the

country

This year expectations werehigh with the team being led by

OUA east MVP of the year Ra-

heem Rose and OUA east coach

of the year Filip Prostran

Getting off to a rough start the

team dropped their first two regu-

lar season games to the University

of Guelph and the University of

Toronto before going on an eight

game winning streak

They also reached the second

ranking in the country before set-

tling in at fourth for the rest of

the season while winning the last

six of their seven regular season

games

In the quarter-final game theRams defeated Carleton Univer-

sity to face off against their divi-

sion rivals McMaster University

where they lost 3-0

A look back at the most memorable sports stories of the year By Devin Jones

PHOTOS TAGWA MOYO JENELLE SEELAL TRUMAN KWAN



Wednesday April 13 2016 THE LAST LAUGH 11

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and favourite Greyrsquos character to the

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n February Peter Grafi Thomas Sander and James Blaylike fought in a rap battle after Sander told Grafihe would ldquonever make it on Bay Street with a haircut like thatrdquo Now we catch up with the three men to see

what their lives are like post-rap battle By Skyler Ash

PHOTO JAKE SCOTT PHOTO JAKE SCOTTPHOTO JAKE SCOTT

Peter Grafi went from selling his

fire mixtapesrdquo on the busy cornerof Yonge-Dundas Square to touringhe world after his musical career

ook off in February After selling42 copies of his first album Bay

treet Haircut in one hour Grafirsquos

areer took offldquoI started getting calls from

Drake and Future and suddenly

was signing a record dealrdquo says

Grafi over the phone Hersquos in Mel-bourne where he says his biggestan base is centered ldquoWhat can I

ay Aussies love merdquoGrafi left Ryersonrsquos accounting

nd finance program in Febru-

ry to pursue his musical careernd has since toured in London

Dublin Japan and New Zealand

Despite traveling the world on hiswhirlwind tour Grafi says he feelske he never quite left Ryerson

ldquoI still feel like Irsquom that kid sellinghis tapes on the streetrdquo says GrafiThe other day someone was shout-

ng lsquobelieversquo on a street corner in Mi-an and that made me miss homerdquo

Grafi said that his latest trackGould Wandererrdquo is a ldquototalhrowbackrdquo to his time at Ry-rson ldquoItrsquos all about my time at

ood olrsquo RyerdquoldquoEven if you donrsquot have the hair to

make it on Bay Street you can still

chieve your dreamsrdquo says Grafi

ldquoItrsquos just so surrealrdquo says ThomasSander He speaks to us by phone

Hersquos sitting poolside in AdelaideAustralia where hersquos on tour withhis best friend Peter Grafi

After dropping out of Ryersonin February Sander graduatedwith an advanced degree in hair

styling from the Canadian BeautyCollege (CBC) in Toronto in justthree months ldquoThe [CBC] said

theyrsquove never seen a student withmy talents beforerdquo says Sander

When Grafi was organizing histour he reached out to Sander

to be his tour hair stylist ldquoHowcould I say no That guy practical-ly saved my life in that rap battlerdquo

says Sander ldquoHersquos always beenthere for merdquo

Sander says that Grafi is help-

ing him open his own barber shopldquoOpening night of his [Grafirsquos] tourhe sits me down and slides a cheque

across the deskrdquo says Sander ldquoItwas all the money I needed to startmy business I burst into tears we

embraced it was beautifulrdquo

As he sips a margarita Sandersays that he canrsquot imagine his life

without his good buddy GrafildquoThat guy is my hero I tell ya hersquosone of the good onesrdquo Through

the phone quiet sobs can be heardas Sander softly whispers ldquoBestguy I knowrdquo

The moderator of the battle thoughthersquod be doing what he always didbefore the battle accounting and fi-

nance But James Blaylike couldnrsquothave been more wrong

ldquoI lost contact with Peter and

Thomas a few weeks after the bat-tlerdquo says Blaylike Blaylike says hebought Grafirsquos album and listened

to it while crying on the subwayThat tearful ride home showed

him the lightldquoI saw how successful they got

and I realized I wanted more inliferdquo says Blaylike Now hersquos sell-ing orthopedic shoes in a small

shop in Kensington MarketEver since a car accident in 2011

left Blaylike with severe foot pain

hersquos been wearing orthopedic shoesldquoIt was hard at first but I learned toembrace itrdquo says Blaylike

He markets his shoes to kidsand young adults who are look-ing for more hip and fashionable

corrective footwear Blaylike saysldquoItrsquos important for these kids withfoot problems that they can wear

their orthotics in stylerdquoDespite losing contact with

Sander and Grafi after the battle

Blaylike will be seeing Grafi inconcert in Toronto in June for thefinal leg of Grafirsquos tour ldquoIrsquom ex-

cited I even got special orthoticsfor the night of the concertrdquo

DO YOU LOVECRAFT BEER

Toronto Craft Beer Festivallaunches summer 2016

Join us June 17-19 tocelebrate independent craftbrewers in the heart of

Toronto at Exhibition Place

Buy early bird tickets atwwwtcbfca

J U N E 1

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1 9

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Soup and SubstanceGlobal events local impact

Ryersons campus climate

Check out our website for more details futuretopics and past webcasts ryersoncasoupandsubstance

RyersonEDI RyersonEDI

Faculty staff and students are invited to participate

in this discussion about Ryersonrsquos culture

Wednesday April 27 2016

Noon to 1 pm | Podium (POD) Room 250

Building an inclusive classroom

climate and community




Forward together

Please join me to celebrate a great year

with some breakfast snacks on April 15 in

the Student Learning Centre Amphitheatre

from 830 ndash 1000 am

What a whirlwind year it has been ranging from

attending the fabulous Aboriginal drumming ceremonyat orientation to celebrating so many of your successes

in academic and entrepreneurial pursuits to cheering on

our varsity teams in their historic playoff runs

I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to serve as

president and I look forward to working with you in

taking Ryerson to even greater heights

If you are graduating this year I look forward to seeing

you at convocation and to having your continued

involvement with Ryerson To those returning in the fall

I wish you all the best in your assignments and exams

Have a safe and enjoyable summer

Mohamed LachemiPresident and Vice-Chancellor




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