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What you’ve missed in sportsWhile you were sipping Piña Coladas and hearing stories from relatives you don’t care about, Ryerson athletes were putting in work

Ryerson hosted the Chinese Junior National Team in the Rams’ annual invitational tournament. Despite being without 7’1” star Zhou Qi, China put up a good fight, but lost 79-65. Ryerson went on to win the tournament for the second straight year.


Aaron Best and the men’s basketball team had their 10-game winning streak snapped — losing 66-91 to the top-ranked Carleton Ravens.

In the midst of the (most recent) NHL lockout, the Players’ Association held a charity game at the Mattamy Athletic Centre on Dec. 19. Stars included the Toronto Maple Leafs’ Phil Kessel (above) and the Montreal Cana-diens’ P.K. Subban (below). The event raised $100,000 towards youth hockey initiatives.



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The registrar’s office at Ryerson University could have violated On-tario’s privacy legislation when it released the name and program of student Alaa Hejazi last November.

Hejazi, whose lawyer had not yet confirmed his enrolment status, had turned himself in to Toronto Police on Nov. 14 in connection with two sexual assaults in the city.

In an email to The Eyeopener, the Globe and Mail confirmed that a reporter called the Ryerson regis-trar’s office later that day to inves-tigate Hejazi’s student status. The Globe also learned that Hejazi was enrolled as a second-year in the university’s business technology management program.

But according to Tony Conte, director of the office of the vice provost, students, the registrar’s release of such information would violate the university’s privacy policy.

“That’s a problem. That actu-ally does not happen, should not happen and I don’t believe it hap-pened,” Conte said in a Nov. 15 conversation with The Eyeopener. “We cannot disclose any informa-tion about whether or not a person attends Ryerson at all […] Privacy

legislation forbids that and I sup-port that one hundred per cent.”

According to privacy officials at Ryerson and the provincial pri-vacy commissioner’s office, a stu-dent’s name and enrolment status at a post-secondary institution should be categorized as personal information, which the Freedom of Information and Protection of Pri-vacy Act is bound to protect.

Ryerson became subject to the Act on June 10, 2006.

Under section 21. (3), FIPPA outlines a presumed invasion of privacy where the disclosed per-

sonal information “relates to em-ployment or educational history.”

Brian Beamish, assistant com-missioner of access at Ontario’s office of information and privacy, said universities have a responsibil-ity to determine whether releasing personal information without the individual’s consent is in accor-dance with exceptions outlined in FIPPA.

“In a case like this where it’s a general member of the public call-ing up and saying, ‘is so-and-so a

student there?’ the school would then have to ask itself — if it were going to disclose that informa-tion — is that justified or not?” Beamish said.

According to section 11 of the Act, circumstances that obligate institutions to release these records can include police investigations and other “reasonable and prob-able grounds to believe that it is in the public interest to do so, and that the record reveals a grave envi-ronmental, health or safety hazard

to the public.” “I would say generally speaking

as a general rule, an inquiry from a member of the public would not be sufficient grounds [to release a stu-dent’s information],” Beamish said.

The policy at Ryerson “is to err on the side of privacy,” said Heath-er Driscoll, the school’s informa-tion and privacy officer.

Driscoll admitted that confirm-ing whether a student attends Ry-erson is a “grey area” of policy.

“Though to be quite frank, [the

release of a student’s name] is pret-ty low-risk in almost every case,” she said.

Although Beamish warned such disclosures can also be high risk, Driscoll said Ryerson is more con-cerned with breaches involving stu-dent email addresses, phone num-bers and social insurance numbers.

The university has not con-firmed whether the release of He-jazi’s name was deemed to be a pri-vacy breach, or if an investigation will be taking place.

That does not happen, should not happen and I don’t believe it happened

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Registrar gave student info to national paper The Globe and Mail confirmed Alaa Hejazi was a Ryerson student with a phone call to the registrar, The Eyeopener has learned

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After being denied an FM license, Radio Ryerson is now looking to find a new home on the AM air-waves.

In October 2011, 85 per cent of students who voted said yes to a re-distribution of $10.35 from their tu-ition to help fund and support a new radio station. Despite an attempt to reclaim the 88.1 FM frequency, which included what Ryerson Presi-dent Sheldon Levy called “a huge amount of work,” Radio Ryerson lost the bid.

Meanwhile, on the second floor of the Student Campus Centre (SCC), the office of the former CKLN, which was stripped of its license in Aug. 2011 by the CRTC, is now un-dergoing a complete renovation.

The space is now also being repur-posed for student campus groups. Much of the space is being converted into a common area, and a smaller, separate chunk will be used as office space for Radio Ryerson.

This space will help with the group’s next application and host media workshops, according to Jacky Tuinstra Harrison, who man-aged Radio Ryerson’s application.

“Right now there’s no working space,” Harrison said. “We usually just meet in a common area that we can find at [the SCC] or elsewhere on campus.”

Harrison added that though the group has access to approximately $240,000 obtained through the referendum (of which almost 25 per cent was spent on the FM ap-plication), the cost of the renova-tions would be paid for by the Palin Foundation.

Rodney Diverlus, president of the Ryeron Students’ Union (RSU), said that although the Palin Foundation would cover the costs of the com-mon space, Radio Ryerson was ex-pected to cover the costs associated with its office.

“Radio Ryerson is covering the cost of their [space] and the stu-dent centre is covering the cost of the bookable room,” Diverlus said.

Jacky Tuinstra Harrison, manager of Radio Ryerson’s cRTc application, at work during a 2011 referendum. File PHOTO

“They have access to funds.”Harrison said adding an office

space with equipment to produce content is important to the CRTC application process, which requires a preemptive inspection of site loca-tion by Industry Canada.

Currently the group’s volunteers are at work producing content — such as documentaries, artist in-

terviews and event listings — but Harrison said it will not be made available until the launch of an on-line portal. The group will feature the content on its website.

Though the group was unsuccess-ful in its first attempt to nab a fre-quency, Levy says the students have his full support.

“I think the university deserves it

but more importantly the students deserve it,” Levy said. “And if they needed help, needed some money, needed support, I would be 100 per cent behind them.”

Though there is not a hard and fast deadline, Radio Ryerson hopes to apply to Industry Canada for ap-proval sometime this winter.

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Radio Ryerson finds foothold in SCCBy Colleen Marasigan

4 Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013editorial

Former Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities Glen Murray worked on a proposal that could have drastically reformed Ontario’s post-secondary system. But now that proposal, after Murray’s resignation, is in limbo while universities like Ryerson are setting their own reforms for new ways of teaching.

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don’t forget ‘3 Cubed’ plan

Former minister’s plan for education is needed to

boost and support universities’ plans for reforms

Our university wants to expand — that is clear. Proof enough is easy to find; head over to the patch of grass in front of Pitman to find a chunk of glass. Eventually, that same standard of glass will be used in the Student Learning Cen-tre, which at the minute is Ryer-son’s biggest construction project.

Construction is becoming per-petual around campus, with build-ing plans mapped out for years to come — all with the goal to house newly introduced programs and (hopefully) fit the growing number of incoming students.

Though physical growth is not the only forecast for the university. The administration is taking mat-ters into its own hands in terms of bringing its teaching methods be-yond the standard model of ‘profes-sors talk, students listen.’ As The Eyeopener reported last semester (in ‘Going Beyond the Classroom’), the administration is aiming to boost online course options, to the point that entire degrees could potentially be completed from the comfort/squalor of your bedroom.

Plans for digital learning stemmed from a government proposal that came to attention last year. Earning much hype and discussion, it was released under the watch of Glen Murray, Minister of Training, Col-leges and Universities at the time.

The future of the proposal, though, is not clear. After resign-ing from his post in the education

department and running for Liberal leader, Murray has further stepped out of the public sphere for the time being, having recently removed himself from the Liberal race.

This means his education reform proposal — dubbed ‘3 Cubed: vw-wvv institutions as centres of cre-ativity, competency and citizenship equipped for the 21st century’ that set goals of introducing three-year degrees, online courses and year-round semesters, is in limbo.

That’s a shame. It deserves a future. The education system is reaching a straining point. Classes are full, spaces are limited and tuition fees are growing beyond reach. Ryerson is responding to this, and rightly so, by consider-ing online courses, though even-tually a more drastic change, ei-ther provincially or nationwide, has to be looked at seriously.

Murray’s proposal was criticized — both by pundits and those work-ing in the academic field — though he mentioned in talks with the press last year that it was being considered more seriously than most would expect. Let’s hope so. Universities like Ryerson, that are putting steps forward by realizing that teaching can be more than lectures and tu-torials, can’t do it by themselves.

Whichever party comes into power next needs to consider the ‘3 Cubed’ plan for what it is — a radical, though valuable, guide to bringing Canada’s education in line with others globally. Ryerson’s administration may be taking mat-ters into its own hands, but an ex-tra (governmental) finger pointing the way to go wouldn’t go amiss.

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Mark Alverne, 2nd yearbusiness management They need to plan what’s in the best interest of the stu-dents as a goal. You need to find some sort of consensus.

Jenny Le, 2nd year business managementThey should make sure they spend $600 on something that benefits the students, not just something political.

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The Ryerson Students’ Union (RSU) voted to rejoin a national lobbying group Thursday, despite not having a clear-cut stance on some of its objectives.

The RSU’s Board of Directors passed a motion to renew mem-bership — at a $600 cost — to the Canadian Peace Alliance (CPA), a coalition of social groups founded in 1985 currently boasting more than 150 members.

The CPA has lobbied the gov-ernment continuously with major campaigns to oppose Canada’s in-volvement in Afghanistan and to call for smaller military budgets.

Its groups have passed vari-ous anti-war and anti-military resolutions at its biannual meet-ings, including a 2002 motion to “implement a ban on space-based weapons.”

But in 2011, when the RSU hosted the CPA’s convention — al-though it was not a member at the

time — the umbrella group passed a few resolutions that would re-quire a general consultation with students, according to RSU Presi-dent Rodney Diverlus.

One resolution calls for the CPA and its members to “urge the Gov-ernment of Canada to make it a priority to eliminate the military and to divert the funding of mili-tary recruitment, facilities, [and]

equipment to human needs and so-cial programs,” 2011 CPA conven-tion minutes state.

“The RSU does not have a stance on the military,” Diverlus said. “That kind of mandate, it would require a policy, an issue-based policy or a motion from the general meeting, to agree and say that we now have a stance.”

Other CPA resolutions include a campaign to delist Hamas, the organization governing the Gaza

Strip, from Canada’s list of terror-ist organizations. A similar motion calls for the removal of Lebanese group Hezbollah from the list as well. The RSU has no official stance on these resolutions.

Although Diverlus said the RSU did not consult its student members before joining the CPA, he said that board members from differ-ent faculties ensure campus-wide representation. But the CPA’s reso-lutions on eliminating the military and delisting Hamas and Hezbol-lah from Canada’s list of terrorist organizations were not presented at the board meeting.

“We pass six to eight motions ev-ery board meeting, to say that we do broad-based consultations on every single one would be a lie,” he said.

“Students have made it clear that they want us to do anti-war and peace work, and the CPA is the body to do that.”

Melissa Palermo, the RSU’s vice-president education, supports the motion and said she wants Ryerson students to be informed about the CPA.

“That’s a conversation that I

would love to have,” Palermo said at the meeting. “[To] let students know that this alliance exists, that we’re part of it and that they can get involved in our work on cam-pus, and provincially and nation-ally.”

Palermo added that the relation-ship between the RSU and the CPA would be mutual.

“All of our causes are linked to each other, and so when we help and support anti-war movements, they support the work we do for

education because we all have the same goals in mind,” she said.

The motion to formally re-new membership in the CPA was brought forward by Marwa Ha-mad, the RSU’s vice-president equi-ty. Palermo supported the motion, saying that with it “we’re able to join a lot of groups across Cana-da.”

The RSU cancelled its member-ship with the CPA in 2008 due to budget cuts to the equity commit-tee.

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Diverlus says students have access to many resources by joining Canada’s largest peace organization. FILE PHOTO

RSU rejoins national anti-war coalitionRodney Diverlus supports rejoining lobbying group, but said the students’ union has no definite stance on some of its mandates

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Lisa Taylor, professor of law and ethics in Ryerson University’s journalism program, says Spence’s acts of plagiarism aren’t ethical dilemmas.

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Spence doesn’t make sense, prof saysDespite former school board director’s claim to enrol in a Ryerson University ethics course, the journalism school says it can’t take him

By Ashley Cochrane

The former director of the Toron-to District School Board (TDSB) vowed to enrol in an ethics course at Ryerson University after details of his plagiarism scandal came to light. But his plan to compensate for his academic dishonesty is not possible.

Chris Spence submitted a plagia-rized opinion piece to the Toronto Star on Jan. 5 that led to his resigna-tion and a follow-up investigation of his past work.

The National Post uncovered numerous pieces written by Spence that failed to properly cite sources and credited parts of other’s work as his own.

In an official statement, Spence wrote, “I intend to enrol myself in the ethics and law in journalism course offered by Ryerson Univer-sity. A component of that course is

identification, and avoidance, of pla-giarism. I will enrol in that course at the earliest opportunity.”

Chair of the journalism program, Ivor Shapiro, questions the details of Spence’s plan to join the course.

“In order for Spence to enrol in the ethics and law in journalism course he must be registered as a Ryerson journalism student,” says Shapiro.

Shapiro says Spence would have to enrol through the Chang School, instead, which doesn’t offer an eth-ics course to the public.

Lisa Taylor, instructor of ethics and law in journalism at Ryerson, says even if the course was available to Spence, it would not be fitting for him to enrol.

“I’m completely blown away that this is being presented as a journal-ism issue,” says Taylor. “Chris Spen-ce is not a journalist and this is not an ethical dilemma.”

Taylor differentiated between eth-ical issues and Spence’s predicament.

“An ethical issue is when you have two competing rights. Do you help save a kid’s life?

Or do you continue to film to tell the world about this problem? Pla-giarism is not a question of being right, it is just wrong.”

According to Shapiro, if Spence were to be enrolled in the course it would not help his plagiarism di-lemma.

“The course does not focus too much on plagiarism because it is not a complicated issue,” says Shapiro. “I think journalism students know that when they come out of high school. I think my high school-at-tending son knows that.”

The University of Toronto is now reviewing Spence’s doctoral disser-tation for academic dishonesty, the Toronto Star reported. It could lead to the suspension of his doctorate.

Explorations in ethical leadershipBy Vivian Fairbank

Ryerson University is adding a new Jim Pattison ethical leadership edu-cation and research program to its roster for next fall, an experimental branch which will attempt to de-velop and teach the role of ethics in business leadership.

Funds for the program come from a $250,000 donation from the Jim Pattison Group — one of Canada’s largest privately held companies. The program’s first tier will offer leadership workshops to undergrad-uate and graduate students, as well as seminars to current business man-agers. The second tier will involve funding research initiatives into this new area of business management.

Chris MacDonald, director of the ethical leadership program at the Ted Rogers Leadership Centre,

explains that the program is envi-sioned as “a sort of umbrella proj-ect that is going to encompass some educational activities not courses, but weekend, evening, or half-day events for undergraduate and fuller MBA students.”

Matt Fullbrook, manager of the Clarkson Centre for Business Eth-ics and Board Effectiveness at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, agrees that there is a new trend when it comes to management education.

“What gets taught in manage-ment schools gets boiled down into discreet categories — finance, ac-counting, consulting… the nuts and bolts. But leadership is a little less tangible. With the fact that manage-ment education is now much more focused on leadership, ethics is an even newer piece of that new piece,” he explained.

But MacDonald pointed out ev-eryone has an individual definition of what ethical leadership means.

“One of the things we can say is that ethical leadership is not just about having someone at the top who is ethical, but also about how that ethical vision or commitment is translated… what it is you do to put your money where your mouth is,” MacDonald said.

Fullbrook said there is a growing job market for expertise in ethical business leadership.

“There’s a desire for leaders who are not just conscious about social ethics of business but are able to integrate those values in the way they’re leading their teams or or-ganizations. I think that there’s certainly an emerging need for that type of skill.”

The program will have its official inauguration on Jan. 30.

The Ted Rogers School of Management will play host to a new ethical leadership program at Ryerson next fall. FILE PHOTO


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Plans by the Ryerson Students’ Union (RSU) to formally oppose partnerships with the private sector sparked fierce debate at the most re-cent Board of Directors meeting.

Held Thursday, the meeting saw an attempt to pass a motion pro-claiming the RSU’s opposition to public-private partnerships (P3s), which RSU executives say are a fi-nancial risk and less cost-efficient.

“One of the major problems when you have outsourced an entire depart-ment or entire organization like food services is that you lose the ability for students to have representation,” said Andrew McAllister, vice-president operations, at the meeting.

McAllister headed a task force on campus food established last fall, which looked into student satisfac-

tion with Aramark, Ryerson’s food services provider since 1993. How-ever, while Aramark is a relationship with the private sector, it is a con-tract, not a partnership.

“I don’t think you can find a group of students who are saying they are satisfied with the work that Aramark does,” said Rodney Diver-lus, president of the RSU. “I don’t think you can find a group of staff that has been satisfied with the work Aramark does.”

Gerald Mak, a director for the faculty of business and a fourth-year business technology manage-ment student agreed that Aramark is not perfect, but he stressed that a replacement of the food provider is not a quick process.

“It takes time,” Mak said. “You can’t simply just take out all the jobs of all the union workers that are currently employed by Aramark because they’re going to be jobless.”

But the RSU said it is acting in the best interests of Ryerson students by

exploring different models and pro-viding alternatives to companies like Aramark.

“I ultimately think one of the founding principles of the student union is to seek for high quality, affordable and completely publicly-funded post-secondary,” Diverlus said.

“As tuition fees aren’t enough to make up for the lack of public funding, institutions like ourselves are now relying [on] and constant-ly spending a majority of our time seeking private sponsorships or pri-vate partnerships for funding.”

Mak believes P3s present advan-tages to the school, and spoke out against the motion.

“Public-private partnerships are what has helped the university grow and develop to what it is today, in the last five or six years, and will continue [to do so],” Mak said. “I mean if it weren’t for these partner-ships that we have, the university wouldn’t be as known as [it is].”

The motion was originally pro-posed on Nov. 15, but was delayed until the most recent board meeting. It includes a plan to “create infor-mation materials… that can be used to educate our members,” and “file Freedom of Information and Protec-tion of Privacy Act (FIPPA) requests regarding details of Ryerson Univer-sity’s public-private partnerships.”

Though the intention to oppose P3s was hotly debated, the motion also sparked debate over the vague-ness of its propositions, which Mak said “allows them to spend as much as they want.”

“I’ve always seen public/private partnerships as a good thing if they’re truly a win-win,” said Ryerson Presi-dent Sheldon Levy. “Just because you go into a partnership with the private sector, it doesn’t mean it’s good, it doesn’t mean it’s bad. [But] do you get a good deal out of it?”

The RSU feels differently. The motion cites a case at the Université de Québec (University of Quebec),

in Montreal where, it says, a P3 cost the public $200 million in unneces-sary costs.

This issue is not a new one for the RSU. It has long campaigned for free, publicly-funded education, and Diverlus said an opposition of priva-tization of the school went hand-in-hand with this stance.

“The argument we’re trying to make is that the government can provide it,” Diverlus said. “It’s just all about priorities.”

Mak disagreed, pointing out that the government has priorities be-sides student tuition, such as health care and research and development.

“It’s a strong economy and we have to be fiscally responsible to make sure the economy is in good hands,” he said. “If we focus on providing free everything to every-one in this province, we would take a huge hit on our economy.”

The motion was postponed to a future meeting after Mak left, caus-ing the board to lose quorum.

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Anti-private sector motion sparks internal RSU debateA motion by the RSU to take an official stance against public-private partnerships remains in limbo after a meeting Thursday

A Board of Directors meeting on Nov. 15 saw the first iteration of a motion to oppose partnerships with the private sector, which returned to the table Thursday. FILE PHOTO

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Student thwarts school violence

Ryerson’s very own Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler kickstarted Rob Ford’s conflict of interest lawsuit, the Toronto Star reported in No-vember.

Although it was Toronto local Paul Madger who brought up the is-sue to lawyer Clayton Ruby, it was Chaleff-Freudenthaler who caught Ford’s breach of the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act and notified Madger.

Chaleff-Freudenthaler, 28, is a la-bour relations officer at the Associa-tion of Management, Administrative and Professional Crown Employees of Ontario. He studies part-time at Ryerson, working his way towards a bachelor of public administration.

A Ryerson student’s YouTube chan-nel led to the arrest of a 16-year-old high school student in Arizona.

Alex Haney, a photography stu-dent who operates a YouTube chan-nel chronicling his experiences as a trans youth, was first alerted to the issue when he noticed a disturbing post on his channel.

The post, made by the 16-year-old in Mesa, Arizona, detailed her plan of “seriously hurting” students at her school, the CBC reported.

Haney alerted the Toronto Police Department, who tracked the mes-sage to Mesa. Local police have detained the girl who, they say, was afraid she may actually carry out her threat.

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RSU releases food survey results

After almost a month of surveys, the RSU has released its findings on campus food services.

Students were asked to rate their satisfaction with Ryerson’s current food provider Aramark, a Ryerson partner since 1993.

Over 2,200 students were sur-veyed. Twenty-seven per cent said they never ate on campus, while 17 per cent said they did one to two times a week.

In terms of affordability, 59 per cent of students surveyed said the price of food items on campus, com-pared to their quality, was unfair.

The survey’s findings can be accessed on the RSU’s website, rsuonline.ca

What you missed while you were out

A scale-model of the glass skin that will cover the Student Learning Centre, currently under construction, has been built just outside Pitman Hall and the Architecture building. The project is designed to test the glass’ resilience to the elements.

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The parking lot near Church and Dundas streets which will be developed into Ryerson’s latest building. PHOTO: NATALIA BALCERZAK

Rye unveils home for health sciencesBy Alfea Donato

Ryerson is set to replace a parking lot on Church Street with a new, multipurpose building addressing the dearth of study spaces, class-room space and food options on campus.

The Church Street Develop-ment’s lower level will host a com-bination of study and retail spaces with a focus on food facilities, ac-cording to a December press re-lease. The upper levels will accom-modate the School of Nutrition, the School of Occupational and Public Health (SOPHe), the Daph-ne Cockwell School of Nursing and the Midwifery Education program. Plans for the 250 student residence spaces will be determined by the architect in charge.

Julia Hanigsberg, a member of the project’s steering committee, said in an email that the large de-velopment site — 6,230 square me-tres —` will help Ryerson cater to students’ needs.

“We will be able to design a building that has effective and ef-ficient floor plate for all our uses,”

said Hanigsberg, vice-president ad-ministration and finance. “We are excited to be able to include state-of-the-art simulation suites for the sophisticated hands-on learning that future healthcare profession-als need.”

The new building also presents an opportunity for the to expand student residence space, which Ry-erson President Sheldon Levy said is “far short” of meeting student demand.

“The Master Plan talks about in-tensification of land use and what that really means is that land is so expensive; you’re downtown, you can’t afford to do what you see out the window anymore, which is three-storey buildings,” said Levy. “You’ve got to go high, and you’ve got to use your land.”

Additional storeys will feature a combination of academic spac-es like lecture halls, classrooms, shared teaching labs and research labs. It is designed to optimize Ry-erson’s limited space — which Levy says directly affects program de-velopment and the number of stu-dents the university can physically support.

Although the Ontario govern-ment is providing $56.4 million in project funding, the predicted cost of construction for the health sci-ences spaces is $84 million.

The total budget, an estimated date of completion as well as a project architect have yet to be de-termined.

According to the Ryerson Builds website, students and faculty will be able to provide feedback on the building’s design when an adviso-ry committee is established in the spring of 2013.

The timeline is frustrating for third-year occupational health stu-dent Mark Tadena, who is eager to take advantage of the extra ameni-ties.

“We [SOPHe students] just have one study area, and it’s a room,” Tadena said.

Fellow third-year occupational health student Mohiuddim Ahmed said he hopes the new space will bring more awareness to the health sciences at Ryerson.

“It matters… mainstreaming it gets [people] to know more about our program and makes a differ-ence,” says Ahmed.

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Paul Lukas* remembers his first cigarette. Many smokers do. In 2011, Lukas was walking home from a friend’s when he came across a serious car accident. The aspiring photographer had his cam-

era equipment with him and started shooting, thinking the photos could be sold to a news source.

Lukas recalls viewing dismembered bodies through his lens, when another photojournalist approached him.

“He offered me a cigarette, just to reduce my stress because it was very obvious that I hadn’t seen a dead person before,” says Lukas, a Ryerson student. “From there, something just happened where I was just associating my stress with cigarettes to kind of relieve it.”

By definition, a vice is an immoral or evil practice, however the term is more com-monly used to simply describe a bad habit that is accepted due to the joy or benefit drawn from it, while acknowledging its harm. But experts say vices aren’t as innocent as they’re often played off, especially for university students, who can use the habits to mask underlying substance abuse and mental health issues.

While Lukas says he doesn’t like the fact that he smokes because he knows it’s un-healthy, it’s something that he continues because it helps with his anxiety.

“It’s anxiety, but it’s [also] because I smoke pot and I like to get a head rush when I’m stoned,” says Lukas. “I’d say 85 per cent of my cigarette consumption is when I’m high or drunk. I’ll rarely smoke just to smoke.”

When he was 17, Lukas was diagnosed with Bipolar II, a disorder that causes him to have sudden mood changes and anxiety issues.

“I didn’t really know bipolar was really a thing at the time, and I just thought ‘I’m just a teenager going through what teenagers go through.’”

Lukas says that living with his parents wasn’t that bad, but leaving to come to Ryerson made it easier to deal with his mental health.

While he has medication to help with his issues, Lukas says he isn’t free from symp-toms, and has to make a conscious effort to ensure his disorder doesn’t affect his relationships with others.

“You just want to live in that moment and get away from what’s going on. I guess that’s why people party,” says Lukas. “They just want to have a good time

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and want to de-stress from a long week at work or school.”University life is hectic, so any chance to de-stress is a welcome one. But some medi-

cal experts say that a vodka shot, bong hit or cigarette may not be as simple as routine unwinding.

According to Dr. Clairélaine Ouellet-Plamondon, a psychiatrist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) who specializes in the neurological connections behind substance abuse and mental health disorders, university students may have a greater chance to develop substance abuse-related mental health issues due to their age.

“This is an at-risk period, and we know that alcohol and drugs can trigger mental illness in some cases, so we need to be careful,” says Ouellet-Plamondon. “Around 75 per cent of

mental health illnesses develop between the ages of 15 and 25, so really there are a lot of people who have their first episode while they are at university.”

This is due to synaptic pruning, a process in which the brain elimi-nates unnecessary connections (called synapses) between neurons, al-lowing the remaining synapses to develop and become capable of more complex functioning. As a toddler, the brain has its maximum number of neuro-connectors, but synaptic pruning is largely completed through-

out the aforementioned ages of 15 to 25, which makes young adults more likely to develop mental health issues. This risk is enhanced if the person is a frequent user of alcohol or drugs, since the brain itself is still developing.

The Cannabis-Psychosis Link, a journal published in the Psychiatric Times in June 2012, analyzed the findings of numerous studies conducted since 1987 that connected marijuana use with the development of psychosis, a mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost.

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Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013 11FEATURES

Experts have found a connection between your favourite bad habits and your worst feelings — from depression to reality disconnect. That vice may be nice, but it turns out university students are at the perfect age to snap.

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The compiled evidence suggests there is an “increased risk of psychosis in cannabis users com-pared with non users,” sometimes up to 40 per cent. But while cannabis use in adolescents may result in a mental disorder for those with a family history, there is non-conclusive data that suggests cannabis will trigger a disorder that wouldn’t have occurred without it.

Dietary habits, which are notoriously unbalanced for students, may also have a direct correlation to mental health. The U.S. National Insti-tutes of Health found that the freshman 15 could weigh on your mood as well. Their study found that those who drank more than four cans of soda per day had a 30 per cent greater risk of developing depression than those who drank none.

According to Dr. Su-Ting Teo, Director of Student Health and Wellness, 11 per cent of visits to the Ryerson Medical Centre are related to mental health issues. Teo says a number of these visitors report using vices, predominantly marijuana and alcohol, to cope with stress-related issues.

“If they’re using them that much (daily or excessively), there’s often a mental health issue,” says Teo. “I would have the conversation and say, ‘this is helping you feel better, it makes total sense, but in the long run, it’s worsening the anxiety and depression. Do you want to do something about it?’”

The centre employs three full-time physicians and a weekly psychiatrist. While the uni-versity is reviewing its next steps in improving its services for students with mental health issues – adding two additional counselors (making 14 in total) to the Centre for Student Development and Counselling – it still lacks the resources needed if students

are having extensive issues, and often students are referred to nearby facilities, such as CAMH.“Because we have to support so many students at Ryerson, we can’t see one individual for

years and years every week. So we’ll refer them to people in the community who can see them for longer,” says Teo.

Betzalel Wolff, a psychotherapist at Toronto Addiction Counselling, says that students rarely seek treatment for addictions or addictive behaviour, because it’s difficult to differentiate what is a problem, and what is normal and healthy for young adults. It is especially difficult for students to know if they have any issues related to sexual addiction because they either don’t know the consequences of their behaviour, or simply “think they’re having fun.”

“We do have the compulsive masturbator or the guy who spends ten hours a day online, but [usually it’s more difficult to recognize],”says

Wolff. “The guy who is doing things that may appear to be sexual addiction but he’s having no consequences – nothing’s going wrong. He’s watching porn for two hours a day but it’s not affecting his family or his job – then it’s going to be hard to call it an addiction. He may be an addict or he may become an addict, but it’ll be hard at

this point to call it an addiction.”The simplest way to know whether someone needs treatment,

according to Wolff, is to determine whether the behaviour is causing significant consequences in the person’s life and they are still unable to quit their habit.

While the information is inconclusive on whether vices are contributing to or simply triggering mental health issues, Ouel-

let-Plamondon says students need to monitor whether their use of vices is reaching the level of addiction. Those who “wake-and-bake,” for instance – where a user smokes marijuana in the morning, similar to having a coffee first-thing – should be concerned if they actually need the drug to start their day, according to Ouellet-Plamondon.

“There are people who will say ‘I [smoke] a joint three times a week and there are no [negative] consequences – that’s where we’re less concerned,” she says. “There’s a big difference between [occasional use], and when your body and mind are used to it.”

Ouellet-Plamondon said there are always people who will try to keep their occasional bad habits from transforming into an addiction, but there’s no guarantee their will can overpower their possible dependence to a given vice.

“There’s always a risk, but it depends on the frequency, the quantity, when you use it, and what you’re using,” she says.

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A film still from Andrew Moir’s documentary Just As I Remember, showing Moir’s fondest childhood memories. PHOTO COURTESY OF ANDREW MOIR

Andrew Moir used to spend his childhood days at his father’s farm near Lucan, a short drive from Lon-don, Ont.

“I have these memories of me spending time with [my father] in his fields,” he said.

Moir’s father was diagnosed with ALS — an incurable, fatal illness

that affects mobility, speech, and in later stages, the ability to swal-low and breathe — when Moir was three years old.

His dad is now paralyzed and cannot breathe without the help of a ventilator.

So when the Ryerson film gradu-ate first began creating his docu-mentary, Just As I Remember, he did not know exactly how it would unfold. The film closely follows the

lives of two men living with ALS. Brad, a father of three, still in the early stages of the disease, and Moir’s own dad.

The final product has received a lot of positive attention, earning Moir the 2012 Manulife Financial Best Student Film Award and a $5,000 cash prize.

As the narrator of the film, Moir relates Brad’s story back to his childhood, reflecting on what it was like growing up with a father who has ALS.

“I made this film because I want-ed to re-experience my childhood and learn more about my dad,” said Moir.

“As much as the film is about Brad, the spine of it is about me re-experiencing my childhood through him.”

Since his father was paralyzed, there were things that his family couldn’t do, but regardless, he still lead a normal life, saying he didn’t feel like the illness affected him in a negative way.

But the documentary doesn’t only focus on the topic of the dis-

ease and the patients. It deals with how it changes and shapes a family.

“It’s a very human story. I think that it appeals to a lot of people because it’s about basic things like being a child, having parents, being a parent, and family,” said Rachel McParland, the editor of the film.

Moir started developing his idea for the documentary during the summer of 2011. He began the pro-cess by meeting with different fami-lies living with ALS.

Brad’s family was the first one that Moir met with, and right away he knew that he wanted them to be a part of his documentary.

Although he had a general idea about the direction he wanted to take in his work, he didn’t know what was going to happen because

at first, Brad and his family were unsure about whether or not they wanted to participate.

The film was shot over a nine-month period. During that time, Moir interviewed Brad and his fam-ily with his cinematographer, shoot-ing footage of their every day lives.

At the end of the nine months, Moir worked with the collected material, editing and shaping a sto-ry from what he had gathered, and creating what became an award-winning documentary.

“I can’t say that it was a shock because I knew it was great,” said McParland.

For Moir, the film is about help-ing viewers extract a better under-standing of the resilience a parent can face, as well as what they are willing to do to protect their chil-dren.

“It’s a chance for people to see personal bravery in the face of dif-ferent realities,” said Moir.

Because his dad is now bed-rid-den, Moir says what he misses the most are those childhood days he spent with his father on the fields.

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RIC named top gallery in the city

The Ryerson Image Centre (RIC) was deemed the number one gallery in Toronto by BlogTO last week, calling it “Canada’s photography mecca.”

What began as a simple remodel-ling of the Image Arts building soon turned into a world-class gallery, worthy of housing the single largest gift of cultural property ever gift-ed to a Canadian University—the Black Star Collection.

With about 292,000 images cap-turing many of the most historical and political events of the late 20th century, the collection is valued by some at more than $100 million.

Four new exhibitions will open at the end of this month. One of them, Unamerican Unfamous by Clive Holden, draws from some of the Black Star Collection photographs.

Although only the first-place of the annual Danier Design Challenge gets to sell their garment in a Danier store, the judges had so much dif-ficulty choosing just one third-place winner this year that they settled for a three-way tie.

“Even if I didn’t win, I think it was great just to be here and to be recognized as one of the top 11,” says Diana Li, one of the third-place winners. “And just going through the process and having the judges input was great because they’re all industry professionals. That’s really valuable.”

The Danier Design Challenge is a partnership between Toronto-based Danier stores and Ryerson’s School of Fashion. It has become very popular amongst third-year fashion students enrolled in the advanced fashion design I class. Every year, they submit design illustrations of a leather jacket and after a rigorous judging process, 11 are selected to actually produce their designs. The student with the best final product gets to sell their jacket at a Danier store.

“Danier is trying to market to-wards a younger audience,” says Som Kong, this year’s second-place winner.

“We’re the younger audience who know what we like and what other people want to dress like.”

The company provides contes-tants with all the materials, meaning there are no out-of-pocket expenses for designers, and the top three jackets get cash prizes of $5,000, $3,000, and $2,000 respectively.

But Olga Koel, Danier’s chief merchandising officer, says the contest is about more than just the money.

“[Students] have to feel that they’re getting something out of [the competition],” Koel says.

She reminds students that even if they do not win, there’s always Mass Exodus, the fourth-year fash-ion show where participants unveil five outfits of their own creation.

According to Koel, last year, Sisi Jiang, Alyssa Alikpala and Yvonne Lin caught Koel’s eye so she ap-proached them about Danier manu-facturing some of their garments for

its stores. The students were paid for the designs and their own label was put on the pieces.

Because of this experience, Koel likes to remind students that par-ticipation is all that counts.

“Just because you didn’t make the top 10 or the top three doesn’t mean you don’t have a chance for next year.”

Kong said he thinks what Danier is doing for the contestants is amaz-ing. He will soon be on his way to Hong Kong for an exchange trip, where he will meet up with this year’s first place winner Ostwald Au-Yeung, who was already there at the time of the announcement and was unavailable for comment.

“You can get all the education, but if the drive is not there then it’s [worthless],” Kong says.

Robert Ott, Chair of the School of Fashion, agrees. He says he wants students to question the practices of the industry and to change it for the better.

“We are in a position to not only train students but to actually edu-cate them through leadership.”

By Vanessa Francone

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Early Tuesday morning, the fourth floor of the Mattamy Athletic Centre (MAC) was bustling with camera crews for the filming of an episode of the CW Television Network action show, Nikita. One of the stars was spotted wearing all black and holding a gun with a silencer, apparently picking out targets in the crowd of hockey fans below. Lead actress Maggie Q was also on set.

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Ryerson will host the OUA Final Four in men’s basketball, one year after the Rams upset the #2-ranked Lakehead Thunderwolves in last year’s Wilson Cup semifinals. Similar to the Ryerson Hoops Festival, the games will be played on Mattamy Home Ice.


Ryerson to host 2013 OUA Final FourBy Charles Vanegas

After months of speculation, Ryer-son Athletics and the Ontario Uni-versity Athletics (OUA) conference announced last week that the 2013 Wilson Cup will be held at the Mat-tamy Athletic Centre on March 1-2. The event, which will be televised on the Score network, will feature the semifinal, bronze-medal and cham-pionship games of the OUA men’s basketball playoffs. It’s the first time Ryerson has hosted an OUA basket-ball championship.

“It’s great that we have the facili-ties to hold an event like this,” said Rams guard Aaron Best. “It’s great for our program.”

Similar to when Ryerson hosted the Wake Forest Demon Deacons during the first Hoops Festival, the athletic department plans to hold the contests on Mattamy Home Ice. While the Hoops Festival attracted more supporters than the 1,000-seat Coca-Cola Court would’ve been able to accommodate, it only filled two-thirds of the upstairs bowl. Ryerson Director of Athletics Ivan Joseph said that, after Ryerson qualifying,

the easiest way to ensure attendance numbers for the Final Four is to reach out to students at other universities.

“We have a pretty good commu-nity following of basketball [but] I think what we need to do is to get the students out of the institutions,” said Joseph. “To me, what makes a great basketball championship game is the energy and the enthusiasm and how loud it is, and the key to that is how we get out to the students.”

Last season’s Final Four was origi-nally planned to have been held at the MAC, but the building’s delayed construction forced the OUA to award the event to the University of Waterloo. With the completion of the state-of-the-art facility, it was as-sumed by many that Ryerson would be selected as the host, and was even listed as host on a tentative schedule by Lakehead — the team Ryerson upset in last season’s Final Four.

Joseph says that while the athletic department knew its bid was selected as early as November, it wasn’t until December before an agreement was signed, due to uncertainty regarding the Score, the OUA’s TV partner, be-ing acquired by Rogers Media.

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Nearly a year after celebrating the fi-nal game on their former home court, the Ryerson Rams are returning to Kerr Hall Gymnasium.

With the Ontario Liberal Leader-ship convention being held at the Mattamy Athletic Centre (MAC) from Jan. 25–27, Ryerson Athletics will be forced to move several home games out of Coca-Cola Court.

“The Liberal Leadership conven-tion is going to bring national atten-tion to the venue just with the nature of what (it’s) all about,” said Kelly Austin, director of sales and market-ing for the MAC, of the decision to relocate the Rams in favour of the event that will select the next Premier of Ontario.

The former Maple Leaf Gardens was also the site where outgoing Premier Dalton McGuinty, who an-

nounced his resignation on Oct. 15, was first elected as the leader of the Ontario Liberals in 1996.

“The building has historically been the site of a number of different po-litical events [and] it is a pretty signifi-cant [one] to have here,” said Austin.

This year’s convention has affected six Rams home games. The men’s and women’s basketball teams are scheduled to host the Queen’s Gaels on Friday, Jan. 25, while both vol-leyball squads are slated to play the Guelph Gryphons the following day. The men’s volleyball team will play the Waterloo Warrriors on Jan. 27. “I’m kind of frustrated that Ryerson would plan something in the gym that they just built for [us],”said Kel-cey Wright, a fourth-year guard on the women’s basketball team. “It’s obviously a distraction in our sea-son, and we definitely lose our home court advantage.” The games mark

the first varsity action in Kerr Hall since a historic win on Feb. 25 of last year, when the men’s basketball team defeated the Ottawa Gee-Gees in the second round of the playoffs, advanc-ing them to the Ontario University Athletic (OUA) Final Four.

The men’s hockey team also moved the date of its home game against the University of Toronto to accommo-date the convention. The downtown rivals, who were scheduled to face off at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 24, will now play a day earlier to allow for the conver-sion of Mattamy Home Ice.

This isn’t the first time the Rams have been displaced by a high-profile event this season. On Oct. 20, the men’s hockey team was forced to move a game to GM Centre in Os-hawa, in order to accommodate the Ryerson Hoops Festival and men’s basketball game that featured Wake Forest of the NCAA.

By Alan Hudes

Liberals force Rams out of MACThe women’s basketball team is one of many being forced out of the MAC for the Ontario Liberal Leadership convention.


Lacrosse returns to former Maple Leaf Gardens

The Shooting Stars lost a close match to their main rivals, the Durham Turfdogs, 11-10. Last season, both teams shared an arena in Oshawa, when the Shooting Stars were known as the Oshawa Machine.

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Last weekend, the Toronto Shooting Stars made their Canadian Lacrosse League (CLax) debut in front of 500 cheering fans at the MAC — the first time lacrosse had been played in the building formerly known as Maple Leaf Gardens in 13 years.

“Last time I was here, I was eight years old,” said Shooting Star Aaron Grayson. “It’s pretty exciting to play here.”

CLax, entering its second season of league play, is a semi-professional indoor lacrosse league designed for players that don’t quite make the top league in North America, the Nation-al Lacrosse League (NLL).

CLax is comprised of seven teams — with clubs located in Toronto, Bar-rie, Brampton, Oshawa, St. Catha-rines and Hagersville (two teams, the Iroquois Ironmen and the Ohsweken Demons, play here) — playing a 14-game season.

Indoor lacrosse (also known as box lacrosse) uses a similar format as hockey, with a goalie and five play-

ers (called “runners,” as opposed to skaters).

“But the strategy is closer to bas-ketball, with pick-and-rolls and a more offensive mindset,” said CLax Deputy Commissioner Jim Veltman, who was the captain for Toronto’s NLL team, the Rock, for 10 seasons, and is regarded by many to be the Wayne Gretzky of lacrosse.

Despite being Canada’s national game, lacrosse isn’t as well-known, played or watched as other sports. But the Toronto Shooting Stars are hoping to change that for Ryerson students.

“What you see [the crowd turn-out] is by word of mouth,” said Velt-man. “Once we have a chance to get our feet off the ground, we hope to get into the Ryerson community to [show them] a product we hope they will love.”

CLax Commissioner Paul St. John said he was in contact with the RSU and is hoping a partnership will draw in more students to games.

The Shooting Stars next home game is Feb. 3 vs. the Barrie Blizzard.

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Nodding her head, Carolyn Pioro sends a text message on her Sam-sung Galaxy Note, a much needed upgrade from her outdated cell phone and earpiece.

Using the same controls that pilot her wheelchair, she selects the next letter as the cursor automatically scrolls each character on the key-board.

An accomplished trampolinist and circus performer, Pioro suffered a se-vere spinal cord injury while rehears-ing for a performance in 2005. She landed on her head and neck when her trapeze mate couldn’t catch her. The fall left her without feeling or mobility below her shoulders.

While the world embraced the wave of smartphone and tablet technology, Pioro was left behind.

“A lot of times you’re cut off from aspects of society because you can’t get into a particular building, but there was a whole smartphone culture that everyone is in sync with that. I was an outsider to that until now,” said the 33-year-old graduate of the Chang School’s magazine and web publishing program.

Komodo OpenLab, born from Ry-erson’s Digital Media Zone (DMZ),

has developed a product that allows those who lack conventional dexter-ity to take control of the latest smart-phones and tablets using input from wheelchair driving controls and oth-er sensors they already own and use.

“Think about how many things we do on our smartphones. We have an endless amount of information and entertainment at out fingertips. For people with no access to printed material or a universal remote, it’s a big deal,” said Mauricio Meza, one of the company’s co-founders.

The Tecla Shield’s hardware, con-tained in a small case, attaches to a user’s mobility device and uses a Bluetooth interface to connect to any iOS or Android device. Four hundred have been sold in the year since the Tecal Shield hit the market.

Silicon Valley insiders touring the DMZ noticed the start-up in the ear-ly stages and helped foster partner-ships with both Apple and Google. Komodo is also looking to partner with Canadian wireless carriers to increase the company’s exposure.

Komodo’s “not-just-for-profit” model means that while they antici-pate significant profits, the company will keep costs to consumers as low as possible. Price tags on assistive products are usually double or triple their consumer equivalent at Future Shop or Best Buy.

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“Anything labeled medical or for use by someone with a disability means the prices are going to be crazy jacked up,” said Pioro. “I was using a speaker phone that cost around $400, and the device that I use for control-ling the lights in my apartment, that seems like it was made in the 1970s, cost over $700.”

By comparison, Apple’s $399 iPad looks like a bargain. The problem is that in order to qualify for govern-ment assistance, a product has to be designed for rehab purposes from the ground up.

“Companies have to go out of their way to redesign something that already exists in the market place to make it more rehab oriented to be able to fulfill the requirements of various government assistance pro-grams,” said Meza.

Komodo’s partnerships with no-torious rivals Google and Apple help ensure the user experience re-mains as seamless as possible and keeps up with the rapid release of apps. The next generation iOS Tecla Shield will likely wear the coveted “made for Apple” badge.


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This year’s collaborative assignments on display in the lobby of the architecture building. PHOTO: STINE DANIELLE

Designing civility in downtown TorontoBy Shannon Baldwin

Imagine being able to walk out of a subway station and rather than passing some unused green space, you can walk up to a cellphone charging station, use an interactive digital wall or find out where you’re going on a map that’s also made in brail.

Ryerson’s architecture students designed places just like that for this year’s annual collaborative assign-ment: An Architecture of Civility.

The goal for this year was to take an existing, unused space in Toron-to and redesign it into something the community can use and interact with, while keeping in mind Toron-

to’s diverse demographic. And they have to do all of this in four days.

Architecture student Radomir Smiljanic said that the biggest strug-gle with the time constraint is that “it’s one of those projects where you can keep battling yourself back to the beginning.”

The theme of civility also put an additional emphasis on inclusion by having a group of volunteer gradu-ate students assess designs from the viewpoint of concerned community voices. They represent dog walk-ers, the homeless, the disabled and other minority groups that need to be voiced.

Third-year student Aubrey Delv-ca and her group worked on the Harbour Square Park Station. To

create inclusivity, they designed ag-ricultural gardens for community use, level walkways for those in wheelchairs and clean lake water for drinking and irrigation. For the blind, they created pathways that change textures, from concrete to limestone pavers to woodchips, to help differentiate paths. But Delvca said it took a lot of focus and long hours to create that design with her group.

“You’re given four days to do a project that you’d usually have months to design” she said.

The project divides 400 architec-ture students into 16 groups to fully design and digitally create a work-ing space in Toronto that all types of people can use. Architectural sci-

ence professor, George Kapelos, said the theme of civility became actual-ized through this exercise because students had to quickly learn how to work with each other and dif-ferent skill levels, since each group was made up of students from first through fourth year.

“I’ve been impressed by the num-ber of people that have thrown themselves into the assignment,” Kapelos said. “Everybody finds that they have a voice.”

First-year Shirathmikha Suresh Kumar said she found it difficult to find her voice in the beginning, since she’d never done anything like this in her classes before.

“There were definitely times where I was lost, but we learned so

much from the upper years that I ended up really enjoying this whole experience,” she said.

Kapelos said that the collabora-tive is an initiation for first years, but he doesn’t think that puts them at a disadvantage since, “first and second year students are sometimes more technologically advanced than the upper years.”

While it’s important to come up with a good design, Kapelos said the process of working with others and learning together is just as im-portant.

The designs will remain on dis-play in the lobby of the architecture building until Jan. 31 and the whole process can be viewed at http://das-ryersonu.tumblr.com/

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