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4 EDITORIAL Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2016

Editor-in-ChiefSean Office-less diaspora of

Wetselaar

NewsKeith BroodMaster5000

CapstickNicole Dead inside SchmidtAl No stranger to love Downham

FeaturesFarnia Pulled through Fekri

Biz and TechJacob Down for aliens Dub

Arts and LifeKaroun Booze Chahinian

SportsDevin Full of rage Jones

CommunitiesAlanna Columns Rizza

PhotoAnnie As strong as you Arnone

Jake Mario Kart ScottChris Something about tuna

Blanchette

FunSkyler Cuthroat fooseball Ash

MediaRob Babyface with beard

Foreman

OnlineIgor Unwavering MagunTagwa Red velvet MoyoLee Not Sean Richardson

General ManagerLiane The benefactor McLarty

Advertising ManagerChris Randy Savage Roberts

Design DirectorJ.D. The unfucker Mowat

Intern ArmyBen On it Hoppe

Victoria Pagemaster Sykes

ContributorsBrennan Dont hate me

DohertyJustin Likes us more than

Jacob Chandler

Sarah Come over KrichelEvan Call me back Manning

Allan Bow down PerkinsRobert Scallywag Mackenzie

Lindsay Rapscallion ChristopheAnnaliese Ruffian Meyer

Zeinab Homie SaidounJon Jingle BellJustin Ring the Bellmore

Katie Tom SwyersNoella Didnt forget Ovid

Noushin Your names Ziafati

Playing the part of the AnnoyinTalking Coffee Mug this week imispronounced words. Were all iuniversity here, come on guys.

The Eyeopener is Ryersons largesand only independent student news

paper. It is owned and operated bRye Eye Publishing Inc., a non

profit corporation owned by the students of Ryerson.

Our offices are on the second floorof the Student Campus Centre. Youcan reach us at 416-979-5262, attheeyeopener.com or on Twitter at@theeyeopener.

Theft and the RCCBySeanWetselaar

Totally not an Eyeopener editor with an easily obtained monitor. PHOTO: AL DOWNHAM

Ryerson is known, among otherthings, for its hands-on programs.As a journalism student here, Iwas always thankful for the ex-cellent equipment the school pro-vided, and the opportunities it af-forded me.

Lately, though, some peoplehave taken advantage of that tech-nology at one of the buildings oncampus with the most of equip-ment. The Rogers CommunicationCentre (RCC), home to the schoolof journalism, the RTA school of

media and creative industries, hasseen a rash of thefts, notably a 70-inch television.

Youll read this week about themeasures being taken as a resultof these thefts, but perhaps notenough have been taken so far.

This week, several editors fromThe Eyeopener walked throughthe RCC in search of just howaccessible some of the equipmentwas. Without using any keycards,after most of the classes were outbut the building was still open tothe public, we walked into un-locked rooms full of equipment.

Monitors, desktops, 3D print-ers and a television, among otherthings valued at around $3,200

total were easily retrievable byany member of the public with thewherewithal to look.

Easy access for students to theequipment that lets them do theirwork is important. But so is mak-ing sure it stays in the hands of thestudents doing that work.

We hope to see more security inthe RCC moving forward butfor now if youre a TA or instruc-tor and youre the last one out,please make sure that you lock thedoor behind you.

Any questions, please contact Dawn Murray,RSU's Health & Dental Plan Administratorat 416-979-5255 x2311or email at: [email protected]

All full-time students just starting classes in the Winterterm are charged a fee of $197.00 for the Members'Health and Dental Plan. The charge is reflected onyour tuition fee statement and is a pro-rated amountfor health and dental benefits provided by the Plan.Benefit coverage is from January 1st, 2016 until

August 31, 2016.

New students starting in the Winter term only canopt-out. If you did NOT opt out on line in fall term you

cannot apply now for winter term deadline.

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Damn, that course pack is expensiveBy Justin Chandler

PHOTO: ANNIE ARNONECourse readers for about 60 classes have seen an increase in price this semester.

Course readers for approximately60 classes have increased in priceas a result of Ryerson letting itsAccess Copyright licence expire atthe end of last year.

Under the universitys five yearagreement with Access Copyright,a Canadian copyright licensingagency, each Ryerson studentwas charged $13 per semester aspart of their tuition fees. AccessCopyright distributes money tocopyright-holders when content iscopied, remixed and shared. Thenon-profit organization representsabout 10,000 copyright holders,including several colleges and uni-versities.

Before 2012, education was nota permitted exception under Can-adas Copyright Act. Because ofthis, Ryerson was required to rely

on the Access Copyright agreementto print required materials. The Actwas modified at the end of 2012 toinclude education, which meant theuniversity could copy certain workswith permission from the copyrightholder or publisher and didnt needto continue the existing agreement.

Interim president MohamedLachemi said there are obviousconsequences that accompany stu-dents not having to pay the fee toAccess Copyright.

During the first lecture of the

semester, Ryerson political sci-ence professor Abbas Gnamo toldhis students that the reader wouldcost them $25 the same priceas last semester. When he found

out the reader was being sold for$104.95 (a 320 per cent price in-crease) he sent a memo to his class,writing that he didnt imagine theprice could rise so drastically.

Gnamo said he checked with thebookstores manager and was toldbecause Ryersons agreement withAccess Copyright ended, the priceof all readers had risen to coverthe cost of production. The book-store has since reduced the priceon Gnamos reader by 10 per cent.

Ann Ludbrook, copyright and

scholarly engagement librarian atRyerson, said in a statement thatany course pack containing ex-cerpts of copyrighted textual workhas a per page increase to account

for the royalty fee to be paid to thepublisher. The cost is dependenton how many pages of the originalwork are reproduced.

Similarly, Ryerson English pro-fessor Dale Smith was surprisedby the increase in price. His read-er, priced around $35 last semes-ter, now costs $43.95.

In another class Smith teaches,he only uses texts available forfree through the Ryerson libraryonline. But he said he prefers pa-per copies because theyre more

mobile and easier to use. Smithadded that he tries to keep inmind prices, but also realities.

Ludbrook said the CampusStore is supposed to inform in-

structors about the costs of coursepacks, but due to short timelinesthat doesnt always happen.

For Julia Alexandra, a second-year English student, most ofher books cost under $25. The$37.95-course reader for her Amer-ican Literature course was the mostexpensive book she had to buy.

Obviously [course readers]are useful and organized nicely but paying $37.95 for things youcould have online is a little ridicu-lous, Alexandra said.

By Brennan Doherty

The Ontario Undergraduate Stu-dent Alliance (OUSA) has added topost-secondary initiatives againstrising tuition fees with their TimeOut Tuition campaign.

The campaign seeks to eradicatethe three per cent increase cap theprovincial government is currentlyallowed to impose.

What were asking for is thegovernment to keep the rate of tu-

ition at what it is right now, saidLindsee Perkins, Western Univer-sitys OUSA representative.

OUSA started brainstormingwith its members Jan. 13. Buttheyve pushed their campaign onOntario MPPs at LobbyCon, wherelobbyists mingle with Queens Parkstaffers, since Dec. 2014. Theyreslated to speak at the Ontario gov-ernments public consultation fornext years operating budget.

On their site, they claim tuitionfees were 19 per cent of universityrevenue in 1992 those figuresgrew to 51 per cent in 2012.

The government isnt paying as

much as they used to for our edu-

cation. We dont feel that thatsfair anymore, Perkins said.

Cormac McGee, the RSUs vicepresident education, hasnt run anactive tuition fee campaign similarto OUSA the RSU is a memberlocal of the Canadian Federationof Students (CFS), which has itsown platform. Still, hes intrigued.

An Imprint story quoted anOUSA official saying that they planfor a third of the extra money tocome from a discontinuation of

$365 million in university tax re-bates mailed out to Ontario stu-dents quarterly.

I think this would be a very do-able reallocation if youre only tak-ing a third of [the $365 million] tofreeze tuition, McGee said.

CFS 2015 education plan calledfor tuition reductions to 2005 lev-els. The estimate for their one-yearplan reduction costs $1.2 billion.

Were excited to see other stu-dents in the province are getting onboard with the call for more acces-sible post-secondary education,said Rajean Hoilett, a CFS chair-person and former RSU president.

The CFS has a campaign tack-

ling tuition fees called Fight theFees, calling for the province toadopt a four-year plan to droptuition fees in Ontario by 50 percent, forgive outstanding studentloans and allocate additionalfunds to public education.

Hoilett said hed like to seeOUSA look at causes behind stu-dent debt. Hoilett said the CFShasnt networked with OUSAabout Time Out Tuition, butkeeps tabs on these kinds of initia-tives and believes there will be op-portunities to work together.

OUSA also wants the Ontariogovernment to reimburse univer-

sities for lost funds, set at about

$106 million yearly. McGee saidhes supportive of the effort.

Obviously, freezing tuitionwith more government subsidies issomething Im very, very pro on,he said. As long as its done right.

Reignite Ryerson representativeVajdaan Tanveer said hes moreconcerned with working with theCFS than OUSA. He said hes notsurprised about OUSAs campaign.

Weve seen these numbers be-fore, weve worked with these

numbers before, and we under-stand where theyre coming from,he said.

Tanveer said Time Out Tuitionfails to include marginalized com-munities racialized and LGBTQpeople, and women strugglingto attain post-secondary education.

They go hand-in-hand and youcant talk about one without talk-ing about the other, Tanveer said.

If the Ontario government adoptsOUSAs plan this year, changeswont be seen until at least 2017.

I would love for this to be im-plemented tomorrow. But the real-ity of it is that theyd have to put

it in their budget, Perkins said.

Briefs&groaners

> Student falls down RTS stairs

Some clumsy student took atumble down a set of stairs in thRyerson Theatre School, but fortunately didnt have to go to thehospital. Thank god they didnbreak a leg.

> Graffiti artist gets tagged

Some guy whose tag probablsucks spray-painted CRU washrooms. Witnesses reported th

man after he wouldnt stop mumbling about how meta Banksis. He later was arrested for trpassing and just bein a plaisnob.

Seen some crazy shenanigans on

campus? Email us about the en-

tire fiasco at news@theeyeopener

com

SNOBAR CONT. FROM PAGE 3

Bartlett said the creation of thnew position and the old ones temination had nothing to do witthe people that held the role.

Vajdaan Tanveer a member oReignite Ryerson and vocal advesary of the RSU said Snobarpast affiliations pose a conflict ointerest and has experienced difficulties interacting with Snobar amultiple meetings this year.

The chairs obviously biase he himself was an executive othe RSU years ago and had vercontroversial incidents, Tanveesaid. We felt as though we werhard done by the chair.

Reignites motion for the students union to take an officiastance on tuition fees was throwout of the SAGM by Snobar, whicTanveer says shows Snobars allegiance to the RSU executive.

He ruled [our motion] out oorder immediately without givinit the oppourtunity, like he did tother groups, to slightly amen

the motion, Tanveer said. Itabout the history and the otheconnections he has to the RCS.

Bartlett said that if she waasked to be chair in seven yearshed be comfortable interpretinrules and acting objectively.

I would be distant enough fromthe immediate issues but still knowabout the organization, wroBartlett in a statement. Once yooperate under Roberts Rules, itsomething that you remember anbecome accustomed to.

> Bigot threatens SLC staff with fork

As if this guy wasnt already shitfor threatening SLC staff with fork, he also called them homphobic slurs. He was escorted ofcampus and everyone resumed thaving a gay old time.

OUSA tackles rising tuition feesThe student lobby interest group has created Time Out Tuition to protest rising tuition and student debt


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to increase in price by more than one per cent, the institute reports. The U.S. climaalso plays a significant role in food prices: poor growing conditions, spurred by climachange and the higher temperatures caused by the El Nio weather pattern have madit more difficult to grow food in the American southwest, driving prices up.

Overall, food prices in December increased at more than twice the rate of inflatioStatistics Canada reports.

The dollars fluctuations are affecting Ryerson students differently for stdent Shadan Shay Ahmadi, who is here on exchange from the Nethelands, the exchange rate with the Euro (!1 is about $1.53) has been a bonu

Since her money is worth more, Ahmadi who is studying environmeand urban sustainability at Ryerson has not found living in Canada to be too expensive. Though she does pay more for her groceries a pack of peppers would cost h!1 at home instead of the $6 she has to pay here luxury items are easier to justifA new pair of Timberlands cost her about $120, or about!80. Back home, she woulhave paid nearly !200 (roughly C$305).

For Ryerson student Gabriella Romm, things couldnt be more different.The third-year business management student is on exchange in Lille, France. She a

rived in Europe on Jan. 5, and plans to leave in May. Originally, she wanted to go Paris but was warned by exchange organizers that the exchange rate would make extremely expensive. Before going on her trip, Romm handed over her Canadian monefor euros and U.S. dollars when she exchanged about $5,000, she got around!3,00back. The dollars value has sunk even further since.

Romm says some of her friends will have to end their trips early because theypaying more than theyd anticipated. With the current exchange rate, she estimatthat rent would cost her C$600 per month, which is $100 more than shed originalbudgeted for.

Romm is staying in a Lille hostel its relatively cheap, but more crowded and leclean than she would have liked. When she comes home in the evenings, she sits in froof her computer for hours trying to search for ways to save on accommodations anflights to visit the cities that shed planned on seeing. Usually, Romm travels betwe

cities by bus, paying about !10 (around C$15) for the least expensive afternoon bu

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rides, which bore her to death. Taking a train would be faster, giving her more time forsightseeing, but could cost closer to!40 (about C$61).

The persistent penny-pinching takes its toll on Romm. Im not enjoying my timehere because Im spending so much time trying to look for the best deal, she admits.

Romms friends are going to Dublin for St. Patricks Day. Trying to book aflight online, she tells her computer to translate websites from French toEnglish. She ends up picking a 6 a.m. flight its the cheapest one she canfind, and though she would like to take a later flight to spend more time in

Dublin, she knows she has no other option. Romm buys the ticket before realizing thatsomethings gone wrong with the translation; shes just bought a ticket for a flight out of

Dublin on April 3. Not wanting to stay in Dublin for that long, she changes her book-ing, helplessly watching as the fees stack up. Romm has already paid a three-minimum(about C$4.58) exchange-rate fee, plus an extra two per cent on the ticket. Now she hasto pay a !30 (about C$45) flight-change fee. A simple translating error has hiked up thecost of her flight to about $300 or three dozen $8 cauliflowers.

Alineup of students snakes out of a freshly-stocked Good Food Centre. On anygiven Tuesday, after the centres shelves have been filled with deliveries byDaily Bread Food Bank, dozens of Ryerson students and faculty line up out-side of the second-floor-student-centre room for free food. These arent stu-

dents waiting an hour to grab a quick snack theyre people struggling to eat on top ofpaying rent and tuition. As of Jan. 28 and for this academic year, there are 359 of them.

About 20 to 30 of these members wait for an hour after the Tuesday delivery. Theseare mostly the people trying to get the essentials milk and eggs. We dont haveenough of that to go around, says Nicola Nemy, whos a third-year creative industriesstudent and has been one of the centres coordinators for two years. We sometimes get

cereal and chocolate and things, but people come for the eggs and the milk.The hot commodities aside, it only takes until Thursday for most of the rest of th

food to be gone, Nemy estimates. As the centre submits usage statistics to the foobank, she says, deliveries are often just enough.

The deliveries rarely contain fresh produce as it is the only way to get fruits anveggies is by signing up for a program the centre holds in partnership with FoodSharEven then, students pay $13 for a small green box with a few items (as she sits in heoffice, one of these students comes to claim his box. Enjoy it, she tells him, anthen come back!). The plight of these students and faculty extends far past the boomand busts of the Canadian dollar, Nemy says.

I think were often in this sort of like, economically unstable situation ourselves with student loans and the high cost of tuition. Students are the fastest growing grouof food bank users, she notes, adding that the centre has seen a consistent and considerable growth in members over the past year. And this is all before the [harshesdownturn of the dollar. These are all effects that are being compounded, in my opinioby our weak dollar.

With files from Farnia Fekri

Persistent droughts

have reduced produce

exports from California

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Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2016BIZ & TECH8

Appof theWeek

Ryerson researchers moved into St. Michaels Hospital and are working on loads of science. PHOTO: ZHOUXUAN12345678/FLICKR

The class teaches businesses to fight cyber threats like these. PHOTO: JAKE SCOTT

By Noella Ovid

Taking a look at Rye profs in iBESTs labs

Ditch the hackable passwords with the LastPass app

By Igor Magun

By Noushin Ziafati

Spending money on advancedfirewalls or intrusion protectionsystems is not enough to wardbusinesses from cyber threats, ac-cording to Ted Rogers School ofInformation Technology Manage-ment professor Farid Shirazi.

For that reason, the Ted RogersSchool of Management (TRSM)launched the new Enterprise In-formation Security, Privacy and

Data Protection program thisJanuary.

Security is not just [installing] expensive devices to monitordigital traffic. Security is also totrain people and that training isvery important to give, Shirazisaid.

The professional masters diplo-ma program will have four cours-es, which will provide the techni-cal and management knowledgeneeded to monitor and managecyber threats, and information onlaw, compliance, audit and com-puter crime.

The final course provides stu-

dents with a chance to tackle an

individual capstone project thatwill address a specific issue orproblem in security, privacy anddata protection.

The programs content originatesfrom the Department of ComputerScience, but the professors involvedin the project have worked onbringing a management perspec-tive to cyber security and privacythreats that businesses face.

The traditional, classic securitymanagement or privacy manage-

ment is not enough, Shirazi said.Thats why in this course we notonly focus on the technical aspectsof security and privacy which is asmall part of this, but rather focuson how to manage security.

Shirazi was involved with thedevelopment of the course fromthe beginning. He has a back-ground in computer security andteaches networking and securitycourses at TRSM. He is now oneof the faculty members of thisnew program.

Professionals and experts in thefield, from the Ted Rogers Schoolof Law and Business, Ted Rogers

School of Information Technology

Management and the Departmenof Computer Science have worketogether in the development othe program, which Shirazi calls pilot project.

Its not a fixed program becausthe area of security and privac[is] evolving the whole time an

we are ready for that. Thats thkey point; that we have to be uto date in order to bring the latetechnology and the latest solutionto various issues, Shirazi said.

The program developers alsworked in collaboration with Ryerson Universitys Privacy and BiData Institute to bring this program together.

The program is offered to people who have at least two years oworking experience in the field anhave completed a bachelors degre

Students that are currently enrolled in the program range frompeople in the bank industry, tmembers of the Royal Canadia

Mounted Police that are targetincybercrime and cyber securityto people interested in businesmanagement.

Shirazi believes that a new generation of managers must emergwhich understands the positivaspects of being connected to global market, and at the samtime understand the risks associaed with big data and social mediamong others.

We need more of these types oprograms to be successful; to fithe gap between technology tharuns at the speed of light and thsociety, people, to protect the cit

zens of Canada, he said.

With more and more of our per-sonal information being storedonline, strong passwords havebecome very important. Thatswhere password managers likeLastPass come in.

LastPass allows you to store thepasswords to all your online ac-counts in one secure location. Theapp can generate long, unique andrandomized passwords for eachwebsite you use. All you need toremember is a single master pass-word, which is used to encrypt thedatabase. LastPass can also be usedto store other sensitive informa-tion through secure notes, which

receive the same protection.That encrypted database is then

sent over a secure connection toLastPass servers, so that you canaccess it from any device. The en-tire system is designed to be fail-safe even if a hacker were tobreach LastPass servers and ob-tain your database, a computerwould still need to spend monthsbreaking in, depending on thestrength of your master password.That gives you plenty of timeto change your passwords in aworst-case scenario. LastPass caneven change passwords automati-cally on some popular websites.

Further protection can be added

through a two-factor authentica-

tion. This requires that you entera second code to login to LastPass.The code can be generated by anapp on your phone, a special USBkey or a printout grid with lettersand numbers on it. This ensuresthat even if a hacker knows yourmaster password, they still needaccess to a physical item to loginto your LastPass account.

But why use a password man-ager? Well, most of us are terribleat passwords. Chances are you usethe same password for multiple ser-vices and its probably not a goodone. The most popular passwordof 2015 was 123456, accordingto software developer SplashData.

This makes it easy for a com-puter to guess your password.And if your login is leaked, reus-ing it on other websites puts thoseaccounts at risk. A hacker can tryout your email and password onother popular websites. And theseleaks are commonplace over100 million leaked accounts wererecorded in 2015 by PwnedList, aservice which monitors sites host-ing stolen credentials.

LastPass is available for free onthe iOS App Store and AndroidsGoogle Play. However, if you wantto sync between multiple devicetypes, youll have to pay $12/year

for the premium subscription.

New cyber security class launches

Ryerson University and St. Mi-chaels Hospital launched a

20-year-partnership through theInstitute for Biomedical Engineer-ing, Science and Technology, anew laboratory known as iBEST,on Jan. 26.

We have a whole lot of facultyhere in physics, engineering, biol-ogy etc. that do a lot of basic re-search. One of the things that the

government has seen is that a lotof that research gets done but itnever really goes away from thelab into the clinics, said MichaelKolios, associate dean of science.

The collaboration brings togeth-er Ryersons engineering and sci-ence strengths with St. Michaels re-search and clinical expertise. They

research and develop new health-care solutions and support start-upbiomedical companies seeking toimprove patient care.

Its a very exciting initiative;

its the first time I think [that] Ry-erson is doing something in termsof research at [that] scale, saidKolios. It has that sexy thingwith the Biomedical Zone also,which allows you to take things tothe next level.

Through individual researchersand graduate students, all the ma-chines that have been accumulat-ing at Kerr Hall for over 20 yearswere moved to the hospital. Theyalso have access to other corefacilities in the building whichwould otherwise be very expen-sive, Kolios said.

If Im here and theyre thereand we never meet, that makesthat process of getting things fromthe lab to the clinic much moredifficult. The big idea with thisiBEST is that theyre going to betogether, he said.

The 22,000-sq.-ft. laboratory

will test practical ideas that canbe brought to the patients bed-side quickly. Theyre focusing theresearch in four areas: advancedsystems of delivering medications,

creating new biomaterials ancell-based therapies, biomedicimaging at the cellular and tisue level and using creating toothat improve our understandinof massive amounts of health-cardata.

One of the major projects aiBEST is Stephen Waldmans research on growing cartilage thelp victims of severe burns or acidents.

Instead of using synthetic onatural materials, Waldman usethe test animals own cells for rconstruction of the nose, outer eaand trachea.

We plan to create biologicconstructs like biological graft material that we can generate fromthe patients own cells to be usein structure surgery, said Waldman, a professor in the deparment of chemical engineering.

To read more about iBEST, thBiomedical Zone and the wor

that Ryerson researchers are do

ing at St. Michaels Hospital, vis

www.theeyeopener.com.


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Historic production team kicks Rye assFirst ever all-female Canadian production team broadcasts Ryerson mens hockey game Friday night

By Matt Ouellet

Twenty-three students from across

FCAD made history Friday night

with the first ever Canadian livesports broadcast to feature a crew

staffed only by women.Dubbed The Takeover, the

crew broadcasted the Ryerson

womens hockey teams game

against Windsor live on Rogers TVand the OUA TV portal from the

Mattamy Athletic Centre.

The idea was developed by

fourth-year media production

student Leandra Vermeulen, who

acted as the lead for the broad-cast. Vermeulen got the idea after

working on a CBC production

crew during the summer Pan Am

Games and noticing a lack of fe-

male presence producing the tele-

vised events.

If you dont see yourself repre-sented [on TV] it makes you a bit

nervous, said Vermeulen. And

the few women who are repre-

sented in sports broadcasting are

often criticized for their body and

how they look. I feel its intimidat-

ing when I walk onto a truck andI know Im in a zone of a lot of

judgement.

While there are more womenthan men across Ryersons three

undergraduate Radio and Tele-

vision Arts programs, Vermeu-len didnt see that reflected in the

workforce when she worked on

CBCs coverage of past summers

Pan Am Games. Of the 45 camera

operators she worked with, just

one was a woman. Vermeulen de-veloped the idea of an all-female

crew to feature positive represen-

tations of women in sports broad-

casting.

The commentating team of Sarah

Jenkins and Savanna Prokopetz ac-knowledged the importance of the

event during the opening momentsof the broadcast as every member

of the crew was showcased.

We are the changing face of the

industry. And its absolutely unreal

to know that we are going to helpbring gender equality to the sport

industry, Prokopetz said.

For rink-level reporter Nikki Jef-

frey, the event was especially im-

portant.When I first came to Ryerson,

I didnt know any other girls wholiked sports. I think its a fantastic

idea to have all these girls come out

and work. I feel happy.

While the event certainly was

historic and important, there was

nothing that happened during thebroadcast to suggest an all-female

crew would be different from any

other crew. It seemed as if there

were no standout moments for a

crew of people performing their

usual jobs, which it seems, is exact-ly what Vermeulen was hoping for.

It would be nice for people to

see this as a normal thing; obvious-ly its not so far, so thats why were

doing it, she said. I hope theyll

do it again, but Ill be graduated.

Chatting with Charvis

Charvis averaged 20.3points last season.

PHOTO COURTESY:

MYLES CHARVIS

On Jan. 24, The Eyeopenerlearned

that Waterloo basketball star Myl-

es Charvis would be transferring

to Ryerson, with his debut com-

ing next season. We sat down with

Charvis and discussed his decision

to leave Waterloo, being recruited

by various NCAA schools and his

love of Drake.

When you were in high school and

started getting recruited did Ryer-

son ever approach you?A: Yes they did, in my fifth year

they were one of the first schools

that every really got in contact withme. The past assistant coach, coach

Smart I think, he saw me play in atournament in high school at York.

Ultimately the ability to further de-

velop your game was why you chose

Waterloo?

A: Exactly, right away instead of

learning in practice I was learning on

the floor, game time minutes, game

time production, everything was in

game so I got a lot of experience.

In 2014-2015 you were the star

of Loo, how hard was it not only

making the decision, but announc-

ing that you were transferring to

Ryerson?

A: It was very tough because I was

starting to develop a pretty good re-

lationship with the coach thats there

now in his first year there, Coach

Gunter.

Every day Im going to be pushed

by guys that are better than me and

every day will be a competition.

Besides playing for a strong team,

what excited you about coming to

Ryerson?

A: It just seems that everyones got

something to do, theyre busy and

its lively. The whole campus vibe

and everyone seems productive and

it makes me want to do the same

thing as well.

Plus we had Drake.

A: Exactly! Drake was there too for

the concert. Thats a huge draw in

itself.

You can find the full interview at

www.theeyeopener.com

By Tagwa Moyo

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10 ARTS & LIFE Wednesday Feb. 3, 2016

Madelaine Sawyers McKechnieie and Laura Heidenheim, Creators of ProjectUnited.PHOTO COURTESY: MADELAINE SAWYERS McKECHNIE

RTA students document poverty in TorontoBy Zeinab Saidoun during a United Way event and it

ultimate goal is to start a conversa

tion about local poverty, hopefull

resulting in social change.

Heidenheim and Sawyers McKechnie visited Honduras in Februar

2015, where they worked on a vid

eo project that shared the stories o

some of the locals living in poverty

One of the most moving [sto

ries we heard] came from Marlona young man in Honduras, sai

Heidenheim. He said, How ca

I hate poverty if I come from it, o

richness if I am going there?

After returning to Toronto

Sawyers McKechnie and Heidenheim decided to continue th

conversation, this time locally

and partnered with United Wa

to start up their project.

ProjectUniteds goal is en

abling those affected by povert

to speak for themselves and shartheir stories with the hope tha

viewers will become inspired an

help their community. Sharinthe videos also promotes thei

mission of humanizing homeless

ness by having them talk aboutheir experiences on the streets

as well as more personal subject

like their childhood or profes

sional aspirations.

One person who they recentl

interviewed was Kelly, 35, whinspired the RTA students wit

her cheerful outlook on life even

though she has been homeles

since the age of 18.

Growing up, she struggled with

many family issues which result

ed in her living on the streets

but she managed to maintain hesense of humour by making th

students laugh throughout the in

terview.

Alongside the videos, the web

site is also designed to help peopljoin the fight against poverty. Sit

visitors can interact with the Ge

Involved page, which lists thre

ways to make a difference. Thi

can be anything from attending th

Homeless Memorial or volunteering in an organization. One excus

that students often use, accordin

to Sawyers McKechnie, is thei

lack of financial means to help th

homeless, which is why they ar

trying to show that there are othe

ways they can contribute.Our generation doesnt hav

much money to give, said Saw

yers McKechnie. We want [stu

dents] to understand that educat

ing themselves and donating tim

is just as good as giving money.The stories they want to shar

are the ones that will make th

public stop and view the homeles

citizens of Toronto as people, rath

er than a statistic.

They are well versed in the conversations of poverty and they ar

aware of what needs to be fixed,

said Heidenheim. Its just the res

of us who need to join in on tha

conversation.

Two Ryerson media production

students created a multimedia

storytelling platform which aims

to raise awareness of poverty in

Toronto and York Region calledProjectUnited.

By recording interviews with

people that are dealing with

homelessness and posting the

videos on their website, Mad-

elaine Sawyers McKechnie and

Laura Heidenheim are hopingto shine a light on poverty in the

GTA.

Conversations about poverty

and alleviation need to happen,

said Heidenheim.

The website launched on Jan. 27

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Three grown-ass men in a rap battle. How cute. PHOTO: CHRIS BLANCHETTE

Shots fired, tears shed

By Skyler Ash

A rap battle left three RyersonUniversity students in tears onSunday.

The lyrical duel took place inthe Kerr Hall Quad on Sundaynight between three third-year ac-counting and finance majors.

The battle was planned afterfrenemies Tom Sander and PeterGrafi got into verbal fisticuffs afterSander told Grafi that he wouldnever make it on Bay Street witha haircut like that.

Sander and Grafi involved theirmutual friend, James Blaylike, as

the moderator of the battle. Itwouldnt be fair without someonethere to keep it clean, said Grafi.

The three headed to the Quadaround 11 a.m. clad in battle at-tire. What started off as a politemusical skirmish soon turned intoa good old-fashioned snotfestwhen Grafi cut off Sander mid-bar.

Sander said that Grafi bustedout a verse so eloquent it liter-ally made a grown man cry. Thethree men had to take a few mo-ments to recover from the beautyof Grafis rap.

Im glad I had the forethoughtto bring my handkerchiefs, said

Blaylike, or this could have beena whole different game.

Sander said that once everyonehad wiped away the tears the menwent into the nearest Kerr Hallbathroom to recover their decen-cy in front of the mirrors.

I saw Peter trying to fix hishair, so I offered to help him, saidSander. I gave him a look thatwill make everyone on Bay Streetfall to their knees!

Grafi and Sander both said thatthe rap battle really helped themto realize what is important in life,and what their true callings are.

I just had to take the chance,said Grafi. Sometimes opportuni-ty knocks and youve gotta answerthe door.

Grafi has dropped out of Ryer-son to pursue his rap career andSander will be transferring to theCanadian Beauty College in To-

ronto to pursue a career in hair-styling.

Blaylike will be staying in ac-counting and finance becausethats a real job.

Grafi reports that he will bedropping a fire mixtape later inFebruary.

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By Skyler Ash

Responsibilities! Mortgage! Fi-nances! Life insurance! Electricbills! Being an adult is scary and

exhilarating. Theres nobody thereto tell you not to eat cereal for ev-ery meal, not to jump on the couchand to put on some real clothesyou useless slob!

So here are five ways to trans-form yourself into a real adult andnot just an overly large child in acrumpled dress shirt.

1. Stop watching so many car-

toons. Turn off the cartoons andturn on something of substance.Try the news, Law and Orderorthat weird channel that streamsthe House of Commons debates.On the other hand, cartoons arepretty sweet. And The Weekend-

ersis about to start. Screw Hawaii

Five-0, change the channel!2. Buy a blazer. I can say with

great authority that all adults wearblazers. Its just a thing they do todistinguish themselves from the

riffraff youth of today and theircrop tops and ripped jeggings.Try going to The Hudsons BayCompany or H&M; they seem tohave nice stuff. But they also havesweatpants and you probablyshould pick up a new pair. Al-though, being a money-consciousadult, you should really only buyone thing. Get the sweatpants.

3. Get a credit card. Money youdont have and probably cant payback: brought to you by creditcards! Adults have these in theirwallets and they are very useful.You need one. You sign up forone. It arrives in the mail. Youre

pretty jazzed at this point and you

go spend a lot of money. The billcomes in. You cant pay it back.You cry. You buy some ice cream.You cry some more. Dont get acredit card.

4. Read more books. Real

books. Your addiction to comic

books and young adult fiction hasgotten, quite frankly, embarrass-ing. Nows the time to go to Chap-ters and head to the sections thathold actual literature. Try lookingin the Thrillers or the Biog-raphies section; adults like thatkind of crap. Buy one but geta gift receipt. Take it home, let itsit on your coffee table and thentake it back in a week and use therefund money to buy one of thosecool desktop bowling alley thingsthey sell. Hours of fun!

5. Discuss current events. A lotis happening in the world today and its

important that you, as a fully-grown

person with interests other than Netix

and napping, know whats up. Read the

paper (online, you tech-savvy youth),

ip on the news (on your tablet, you

mobile rapscallion) and listen to the

radio (you content-hungry spring

chicken). Learn as much as you can

about what is going on. But whats go-

ing on is usually pretty sad. Dont do

those things. Just wrap yourself up in

a blanket and go back to bed, because

being an adult is hard and you deserve

a break.

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