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3January 18, 2012 The EyeopenerNEWS

After years of having to deal with Rmail’s shortcomings, Ryerson students can rejoice over the univer-sity’s intent to switch to Gmail. Leslie Walker reports

Gmail finally coming to Rye

The price of public transporta-tion in Toronto has been hiked up for the New Year due to pressures from Mayor Rob Ford’s 2012 op-erating budget cuts — something Ryerson student commuters are not happy with.

“It’s a battle against the work-ing class. [The Ford government] doesn’t want to raise taxes for the rich people so they prey on the stu-dents and working people to pay for transit,” says recently gradu-ated Ryerson civil engineering stu-dent, Peter Mikhailenko.

Since Jan. 1 2012 the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) has im-plemented a 10 cent fare increase. While cash fare remains priced at $3 for 2012, the price of a token has risen to $2.60, up from $2.50, and a student metropass has risen to $104, up from $99. In addition to

Julia Hanigsberg made the announcement in her office on Friday. PHOTO: MARISSA DEDERER

Transit prices to increase until 2015

PHOTO: MOHAMED OMAR

BY ELAYNE TEIXEIRA MILLAR

After years of consideration, Ry-erson is taking its final steps in or-der to switch to Gmail.

In November, Ryerson’s Com-puting and Communication Ser-vices (CCS) and the Advisory Committee on Academic Comput-ing proposed that the administra-tion implement the Google Apps for Education Online Suite.

Julia Hanigsberg, vice president administration and finance, an-nounced Friday morning that she and Alan Shepard, provost and vice president academic, have ap-proved the decision.

These next steps include assess-ing all privacy implications, secu-rity elements, system integration and negotiating contracts with Google.

The full suite will be available, but Ryerson will focus on Gmail and Google Calendar to start.

“This is a new platform from which we’ll be able to look at dif-ferent options,” Hanigsberg says.

Gmail will be a bigger and bet-ter alternative to Rmail and Google Calendar will offer cross-platform calendaring between students,

staff and faculty.Hanigsberg said the new system

will be faster and smoother than Rmail, which is now 10 years old.

“It will be all the things we’ve come to expect – we all have very low tolerance for technology to be anything but perfect,” she said.

Hanigsberg said that if all goes well the new system will be in place by fall 2012.

If the process continues on schedule, students will receive a notice at the end of August asking them if they would like to switch to Gmail or remain on Rmail.

Hanigsberg expects that the stu-dents keeping the old system will be a very small group.

“I have a Gmail account myself

and I like the way it operates,” said Diana Olszewski, a first-year busi-ness student who plans to switch.

“Google also has a good reputa-tion of being able to hold a lot of information.”

Bianca Manco, a second-year criminal justice student, says that she has never been a fan of Gmail, but she finds the current system too unreliable.

“I’ll probably make the switch if Google can make it more efficient for students,” she said.

Adopting Google Apps is not the first choice for Dave Mason, a professor at Ryerson’s School of Computer Science.

“I would prefer if the university could afford and provide a better internal system,” he said.

Mason doesn’t think Ryerson is prepared to commit the money that would require.

However, he said that Google is probably the school’s best bet.

Ryerson has been hesitant to implement Gmail because the American Patriot Act makes pri-vate information held in servers like Google available to the Ameri-

can government without notice or warrant.

Canada’s Freedom of Informa-tion and Protection of Privacy Act states that personally identifiable information like academic stand-ing, marks, and contact informa-tion must be kept confidential.

It was discovered that Canada’s terrorism laws are similar to the American Patriot Act and allows for the same information to be accessed and shared with the United States if need be.

From a security perspective, Hanigsberg said Gmail would in fact be much less vulnerable.

“The security of their informa-tion is so beyond anything we [or any other university] could possi-bly achieve,” she said.

Lakehead University made the switch in 2007 and the University of Alberta announced their intent in September 2011, despite initial pri-vacy concerns.

Google Apps for Education is free for universities but some costs will be implemented to integrate the system and continue maintain-ing Rmail.

We all have very low tol-erance for technology to be anything but perfect

— Julia Hanisberg, VP admin and finance

this year’s increase, the Commis-sion plans to raise fares by 10 cents each year over the next three years, making the cost of a token 30 cents more than today’s fare by 2015.

GO transit has also announced an increase of an average of 35 cents in its fare starting Feb. 18. A GO transit monthly pass for stu-dents will now only save riders 30 per cent on fares rather than the previous 32 per cent.

Muhammad Farooq, a fourth-year business student who works at the Member Services Office in the Student Centre Lobby, sells TTC student passes and tokens on a regular basis and notes that stu-dents are complaining about the increase in price.

“They don’t really have any oth-er choice,” he said. “Compared to how much we pay for Ryerson tu-ition, $5 more [for the metropass] is not that much, but it does suck”.

Like many student commuters, second-year journalism student Christina Ciddio is living on a tight budget.

“[The TTC is] dipping into our pockets again,” she said. “It’s bad enough we have to pay high tuition fees and wait in line to take a picture for a post-secondary ID which costs around $10, now on top of all that we have to pay $5 more a month. It is ridiculous.”

In order to fix the transit sys-tem, Ciddio and Mikhailenko both agree that Toronto should look to other big cities for inspiration.

“Other cities have lower fare prices and better transit systems because they’re taking higher per-

centages from taxes,” Ci-ddio said.

“Toronto needs to get it to-

gether if they want to be in

the ranks of places such as Chicago,

Paris and London.”

“We need a sustainable tran-

sit system like they do in Europe, where it’s

cheap because their government supports the working people and students,” Mikhailenko said. “But there just isn’t that kind of think-ing here.”

ILLC feelsno heat

Not only did intense flooding shut down the International Living and Learning Centre (ILLC)’s cafeteria in November, but residents are now stuck without hot water as well as fluctuating water pres-sure.

Tori Lang, ILLC resident and first-year fashion de-sign student said she was uncomfortable with the amount of time since her last shower.

According to Yong Seto, conference and food ser-vices manager, no exten-sive problems were report-ed before the break.

Upon students return to residence in the new year Seto said he did hear of is-sues of hot water supply to the upper floors of ILLC.

According to students, they have not had hot wa-ter for the past week and occassionally there has been no water at all.

Student Housing Ser-vices (SHS) first commu-nicated through email on Jan. 12, recognizing there were problems with the water pressure and tem-perature in the ILLC build-ing. Promises were made to resolve the problem as quickly as possible.

A secondary email was sent to students saying SHS would be shutting off all water in ILLC from 8 a.m. — 5 p.m. on Jan. 14 and 15. SHS offered ILLC residents access to Pit-man Hall common wash-rooms and showers, to which they were assigned specific floors.

Kyle Butella, vice-pres-ident finance and admin-istration of the Ryerson Residence Council, said the water only remained off for approximately one to two hours both days.

Residents were told on Jan. 16 that water pres-sure issues were not able to be repaired as new pumps had to be ordered. It would still be a few more days before problems could be rectified.

“Obviously it’s not their fault, it’s just really annoy-ing that no one was in the building for a full month and they wait ‘til we come back to fix it,” said Butella.

ILLC is the most expen-sive residence at Ryerson at approximately $11,627 yearly. Some students feel financial compensation is in order but Seto said nothing of this nature has been discussed.

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5January 18, 2012 The EyeopenerNEWS

The RSU executives’ pattern of power

Greetings students,

I am writing this letter to you, the concerned and caring Ryerson community, because I have an im-portant announcement to make.

I, Scoop W. Gerbil, will not be running for an executive position in the Ryerson Students’ Union (RSU) this year.

Believe me when I say that I was seriously considering it, I’ve even run for the position once before.

But after much thought and re-flection, I realized that there was no point for me to run because I didn’t stand a chance.

Scratch that, anyone that is not in some way affiliated with the current executives does not stand a chance.

Some of you may be rolling your eyes, while others may be calling this cute and cuddly gerbil a con-spiracy theorist, but since 2007 the same party (under different names) has won the RSU election.

Heck, for the past four years there has even been a minimum of two returning executives in each of the winning parties.

To put it bluntly, the RSU elec-

Low turnout plagues elections

The nomination period for Ry-erson’s Student Union elections is underway, but until the campaign begins, students can’t be sure about whether it will spark real change on campus.

“If I learn enough about it, I’ll go vote,” said Josi Smit, a first-year film student. Smit admitted she hadn’t heard about the RSU accepting nominations, and had no idea an election would soon be taking place.

As nominations for RSU candi-dacy roll in for Thursday’s deadline, students are speculating as to how voter behaviour at Ryerson will ef-fect the final results.

“I think that maybe some people might not be super interested to vote if they don’t live around cam-pus or if they’re not really on cam-pus too much,” she said.

Lack of participation is a big issue for a downtown campus with ap-proximately 24,000 eligible voters.

Rocco Barriuso, a fourth-year film studies student, thinks that while he has seen “pretty low” voter turn-outs in previous elections, that more students should feel an obligation to go to the polls for their campus community.

“You know, this is the one chance students actually get to put their voice out there and decide whether they want something at the univer-sity,” Barriuso said. “It might not work out the way you want, but this

SCOOP W. GERBIL

tions are a democratic one horse race because they have a foothold on the votes coming from students that are living in residence.

How is this possible? Well, look no further than the current crop of executives. Four of the five current vice presidents were in a position of authority in the wide world of Ryerson’s residences.

Equally concerning is the fact that any nominee who would like to oppose the party in power immediately falls behind in the popularity race because no one on campus knows who they are, and voters only have a few short weeks to become familiar with whom they are.

With that being said, the key to winning a student election and be-coming a student representative begins and ends with residence.

Here is my easy guide to becom-ing an RSU executive.

Step 1: Join Residence CouncilSean Carson, Rodney Diverlus,

Melissa Palermo and Alyssa Wil-liams all started their political ca-reers as higher-ups in Ryerson’s residence council and they all got voted in without breaking a sweat.

Although they are not large number, students living on cam-pus make up a large portion of the people who bother to vote because whether they are taking part in ori-entation week or attending a pub

night, they are constantly exposed to the current executives. First years are young, impressionable, and are willing to do anything for someone who organizes a party.

Plus unlike commuters, they’re actually present on campus to cast a ballot.

So aspiring politicians, do your-self a favour: sign up for Rez coun-cil, attend some meetings, plan a few parties and you’ll be on the fast track to the RSU executive in no time.

Step 2: Get endorsed by a VPNow that you’re in Rez council,

it’s time to get you noticed by one of the executives and there’s only one way to do that.

Whenever someone on the in-side asks you to do outreach for the RSU, say yes.

Whenever one of the executives asks you if you’re free on the week-end, cancel all of your plans.

Whenever you are given an RSU form to sign, don’t read it and just put your signature in the accompa-nying box.

No one likes to be told no, and if you want to become one of the cool kids on campus you will do as you’re told.

Make sure that you are closest with someone who has their sights set on being president one day, and remind him or her that you were the reason that everyone in

Pitman voted for them.

Step 3: Election TimeBy now, you have not only be-

come best friends with all of the executives, but you have become one.

At this point you have to play the waiting game, because there’s nothing that you can do for at least another year.

Just because you aren’t moving up the ranks as fast as you would like to is no cause for panic.

If history has shown us any-thing, it’s that you can’t become an RSU president if you haven’t been the VP of Finance.

In 2008, Toby Whitfield was elected as VP Finance and in 2009, he became the president.

Coincidentally, the same can be said for Caitlin Smith, who after spending a full year as VP Finance became the RSU president this past year.

Now given the pattern, I would be willing to bet all of my delicious pellets that current VP Finance Sean Carson will be announce his candidacy for RSU president in the coming days.

Over the past four years, this has been the pattern and there is no indication that this will change. If only we had a candidate willing to step up and change the status quo....

is an effort we can make, and I think that we’re obligated, almost. Voting is both a right and a duty.”

However Barriuso pointed out there are many people who think that their votes won’t change a thing. “Many people, especially now with our generation, say, ‘Oh well, I’m not going to make a dif-ference. Why am I going to bother voting?’”

RSU President Caitlin Smith said she understands that students lead busy lives and can’t always make time to vote.

“There can always be more ef-fort done to encourage students to vote,” Smith said, saying she is proud of the “higher-than-average” student turnout that saw her get elected last year.

“At the end of the day, if a student is interested and involved, they’re going to seek out that information,” she said.

Last year’s election saw 2, 600 ver-

TheTrend

Toby WhitfieldCurrent: CFS TreasurerFormer: RSU President (2010-11) VP Finance (2008-2010)2010 Pitman Award forResidence Partner of the year

Caitlin SmithCurrent RSU President Former: VP Finance (2010-2011)

Sean CarsonCurrent VP Finance Former: VP Student Life (2010-

2011)President of Residence (2009-

2010)

ified ballots cast by students, which was an 11 per cent turnout of full-time undergraduate and graduate student voters.

Daniel Lo is the Chief Returning Officer of the RSU and along with his Deputy Returning officer, he is in charge of raising awareness of the election around campus. They focus most of their awareness ef-forts on posters, and reaching out to social and campus media out-lets. This year, they will also be try-ing to schedule talks with first-and second-year classes during the cam-paign period to remind and inform students about the election.

“Voters are encouraged to look at the official candidates and vote for them [based on] who is the best, not by the slate,” Lo said, pushing for students to actively inform them-selves once campaigning begins.

Nominations will be verified and announced following an all candi-dates meeting this Friday.

BY DIANA HALL

Caitlin Smith campaining last year FILE PHOTO

ACE REPORTER

6 January 18, 2012The Eyeopener NEWS

NEWS

BITESBriefs &

GroanersTwo students who share

a locker reported that it had been broken into after they noticed that two chocolate bars and a few cans of Coke had gone missing. Security was called to the scene and noticed that the students’ eyes were blood-shot and that they couldn’t stop laughing when asked where the food might have gone.

Security received a com-

plaint about two RUTV re-porters taking photos and interviewing people com-ing and going from the Victoria Street parking ga-

Rez gets a nod from ACUHO-INorbert W. Dunkel, direc-tor of housing and residence education at the University of Florida and board member for Association of College and University Housing Officers- International came to Ryerson to do an external review of residence. He tweeted posi-tively about it, causing Rye related tweeters to celebrate.

Rye recognized for green initiative The Ontario Universities: Go-ing Greener Report for 2012 mentioned Ryerson multiple times thanks to the univer-sity’s various green initiatives. The main acknowledgement was Ryerson’s development of a new green purchasing policy to assess vendors before buy-ing from them. Also attributed was use of solar power, light-ing system upgrades, the bat-tery recycling program, the food-composting program, the campaign to eliminate bottled water on campus, sourcing lo-cally and the Ryerson Centre for Urban Energy (CUE).

New partnerships with China Ryerson has signed agree-ments with Communication University of China (CUC) and Harbin Institute of Tech-nology (HIT) in order to in-crease research collaboration, student exchanges and aca-demic program development. The five-day mission to tour the universities was led by Alan Shepard, provost and VP academic, in late November. CUC is considered a leading institution with a focus on broadcasting and media while HIT is ranked among one of the top 100 universities world-wide in engineering, technol-ogy and computer science.

Applications on the rise for Rye Ontario’s University Applica-tion Centre (OUAC) revealed that Ryerson has the highest absolute increase in applica-tions for the Fall 2012 semes-ter. A grand total of 40,553 high school students applied to Ryerson, 7.4 per cent higher than last year. Applications to Ontario universities increased by 2.4 per cent overall.

Word on the Booze

On March 1, approximately 10 per cent of spirits sold at the LCBO will undergo price hikes. A 750 mL bottle of

a mainstream spirit will also go up by 50 cents.

Also, about three to four per cent of beers will go up. Twenty-four bottles of the cheapest beer will cost 50

cents more, from $23.40 to $23.90.

How will this affect you as a student?

Danielle Manza, 1st Yr. Sci-ence

“It’s already expensive to begin with [...but] people will still buy beer, it’s so ge-neric.”

Larry Song, 1st Yr. Me-chanical Engineering

“I guess if prices are going up it’s going to af-fect students that party on weekends.”

Jessica Fabian, 2nd Yr. ACS

“Students that go out and party a lot, it’s going to have an effect on what you can drink and buy. ”

Aksharan Mahendra, 2nd Yr. Criminal Justice

“Depending on how much I buy I may be forced to buy less. It’s not like I’m balling, I’m on a student budget.”

rage about the Gould street closure. God damn journal-ism students... get a real job.

An individual twisted their ankle off property and re-quested that security give her an assesment on it. She then refused EMS multiple times, and walked to the hospital on her own like a god damn champ.

A student reported to se-curity that they were ap-proached by two females in the lower ground of the en-gineering building. They ap-peared to be non-community members who stated they had just gotten out of jail and wanted to go drinking. If you’re an engineering stu-dent and two girls ask you to buy them drinks, just say yes.

Secuity found a non-community member sleeping in Sally Hors-fall last Wednesday. When they appraoched the man, he pulled out a pair of large black scissors from a shopping bag that were quickly confiscated. Secu-rity never let the man finish asking them if they wanted to help him with his art project.

A student reported that his MacBook Pro was stolen after he left in unat-tended in a residence caf-eteria. It’s hard to feel bad for this person especially when we have a shortage of computer here at the Eyeopener. Take better care of your shit or we’ll steal your next one too.

7January 18, 2012 The EyeopenerNEWS

Liberals cut scholarship

Rye creates bionic eyeRyerson is keeping an eye on you.

A bionic eye, that is. Over the past two years, Ryer-

son’s Digital Media Zone (DMZ), Appear Networks and Motorola Solutions have collaborated to pro-duce a screen-equipped headset named the “Golden-i.” Motorola awarded Ryerson second place in its Golden Ideas competition out of hundreds of other prototype ideas.

“[The Golden-i] is basically a computer — you have Windows, Bluetooth, GPS, voice recognition and a screen with you all the time,” said Hossein Rahnama, research di-rector of the DMZ.

Although the device is built upon pre-existing platforms such as Win-dows, Rahnama believes that it is a new way of looking at the technol-ogy we have and connecting it to our surroundings.

“First mobile phones were the buzz and then tablets,” said Rahna-ma. “Now it’s wearable computing we’re thinking that’s the next step, that you don’t have to carry some-thing with you because it’s embed-ded and pervasive in the environ-ment.”

The project, entitled CAMPUS (Context-aware Mobile Platform for Uniform Security) is intended for situations that require vigilance and hands-free accessibility, namely for law enforcement and security. Some of the features of the device include voice-recognition, head-controlled movement, wireless Internet and access to security camera feeds.

“Ryerson security has already indicated interest, however there is no particular project hap-pening now,” she said. “But we would like to work with them as our first adopter or pi-lot partner in the project,” said Rahnama.

The team re-sponsible for the project, which was headed by Rahna-ma, consisted of both undergradu-ate and graduate Ryerson students.

Fourth-year computer science student Damyan Petkov was one of those contributors. “It’s cool to look at something that tomorrow might become mainstream, and to work with it is pretty exciting,” said Pet-

kov. “It is the future.”Third-year computer science

student, Jaspaul Bola, believes that wearable computing may become a household trend in the near future.

“I’d say it’s something you see in Hollywood now, but there was a time when the cell phone was in Star Trek,” he said. “I hope that maybe one day it could be some-thing that everybody could use.”

The exact future of this technol-ogy is uncertain, however

what researchers do agree on is the great

potential that it holds.

“You can just put it on your head and go anywhere that you want and

get information,” says Sina Jamshidi,

research associate and Ryerson graduate. “It has a lot of potential for many different ver-ticals such as security, medical, and even for disabled people who can’t use their hands.”PHOTO COURTESY OF: RYERSON DIGITAL

MEDIA ZONE

BY JESSICA MURRAY

In order to fund the new tuition grant, the Liberals have decided to eliminate some other forms of fi-nancial aid and scholarship.

The Ministry of Training, Colleg-es and Universities will be cutting the Ontario Textbook and Technol-ogy grant and the Ontario Trust for Student Support in the 2012-13 aca-demic year.

They will also be phasing out the Queen Elizabeth II Aiming for the Top Scholarship so that current recipients will continue to receive it, but no new scholarships will be awarded in 2012-13.

“[The grant will take] a targeted and streamlined approach to pro-viding additional financial aid for students,” said Tanya Blazina, spokesperson for the ministry, in a press release. “Current scholar-ships and bursaries that did not strongly contribute to improved access will be phased out to better serve a greater number of lower and middle income families.”

Emily Wong, a second-year graphic communications manage-ment student, has been receiving

the Queen Elizabeth II scholarship since she started at Ryerson.

“It’s an entrance scholarship, so I applied in grade 12,” said Wong. “It’s renewable as long as you main-tain a 3.5 grade point average.”

Winners can receive anywhere from $100 to $3,500 per year. Wong receives a little over $3,000 based on her financial need and academic performance.

“I worked really hard and I was really fortunate to receive such a high amount,” she said. “It helped compensate for a lot of my tuition. I basically didn’t have to pay for anything for the last two years.”

Wong is pleased that her schol-arship will continue as long as she keeps her grades up, but feels fu-ture students are losing out.

“They should still reward those that tried the extra mile and quali-

fied from a lesser position,” she said. “I know the requirement [for the grant] is a combined income of less than $160,000, but what about the families that make a lot less than that?”

Wong understands the grant will help many students but points out it can only give them $1,600, ap-proximately half of what the schol-arship can offer.

Ryerson president Sheldon Levy said he has always believed strong-ly in financial aid being a priority.

“When there’s a limited amount of resources and more has to go to aid then I’m generally supportive of it,” said Levy. “[But] I don’t nec-essarily believe that every student that is receiving funds needs the aid.”

He also points out that some students may need more aid than made available, like single parents.

“My priority has always been fi-nancial aid and I’ve put that over freezing tuition fees and scholar-ship programs,” said Levy.

Blazina said the government will also redirect savings from OSAP, post-secondary programs and em-ployment and training programs to help fund the grant.

BY CAROLYN TURGEONNEWS EDITOR

I don’t necessarily believe that every student needs the aid.

— President Sheldon Levy

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Leathering the stormDespite opportunities to work with big name brands, some of Ryerson’s fashion students feel it does little for their careers. Dasha Zolota reports

It’s January, and I know I’m not the only one nursing a shop-ping hangover. Personally, I lose myself more at the mall than I do at any bar.

The shiny window displays and sale stickers slowly get that buzz going, and by the fi-nal swipe of my debit card, I’m sloshed — I have no idea who I am, how I got there, or why I just did what I did.

So I’m doing a detox, and cleansing from cards rather than carbs this New Year. And while shopping less is great, I know I’ll have to buy stuff eventually, and that’s okay.

Because guess what? The choices we make that have the most impact on the planet are one-time decisions, or habits that can be easily formed.

Yes, forgoing every single plas-tic bag and paper cup is adorably neurotic. But in the long run it really doesn’t compare to wheth-er or not your bank of choice is making ethical investments with your money.

The Better World Shopping Guide, by Ellis Jones, lists sev-eral changes you can make to be a more ethical consumer. Here’s my take on the top five.

1. Banks: All five of Cana-da’s major banks have invest-

ments in the Alberta tar sands. If this doesn’t sit well with you, switch to a local credit union like Desjardins (there’s one at Univer-sity and Dundas). It’s the second lowest-carbon bank in Canada after Vancity.

2. Gasoline: Stay away from Esso (i.e. Exxon-Mobil). Petro-Canada, Shell, and Sunoco are the least harmful alternatives, but really, buy a bike or a Me-tropass (the earth says thank you and don’t storm the doors).

3. Supermarkets: If you can afford it, Whole Foods, baby! Or the St. Lawrence Market on Saturdays (that’s a money saver too).

If you’re taking the conven-tional route, nix Wal-Mart, read country-of-origin labels, and be mindful of packaging waste.

4. Retail Stores: The smaller the better. Read country of origin labels — even if they don’t pre-vent your purchase, they’ll make you think twice about where the item came from.

Patagonia, IKEA, and Ameri-can Apparel all have good social responsibility records.

5. Cars: I know you’re not shopping for a new one just yet, but remember to check the MPG (30 miles per gallon or less is ideal). As a general rule, overseas imports are more eco-friendly than American-made cars.

And for real keeners, the next five things to change are your sources of seafood, chocolate, coffee, your credit card, and your cleaning products.

Competitions in Ryerson’s fash-ion school give students unparal-leled opportunities in their indus-try, but students are hungry for more lasting rewards.

Despite getting to work with big names in the industry, students say the experience doesn’t do much to boost their careers.

Meagan Johnston, a third-year fashion design student and winner of the 2011 Danier Design Chal-lenge, will see her product in se-lect stores across Canada this fall, receive a $5,000 check and a paid internship with the label.

However, competitors often have to sign contracts waiving the rights to their work, resulting in a lack of recognition, one student said.

“It’s the only downside to these competitions,” said Elisabeth Huynh, a fourth-year fashion com-munication student. Huynh partici-pated in challenges for McGregor Industries and Shisheido Cosmetics during her third year.

“The winner will usually get around $5,000, meanwhile, these companies are making so much more from our ideas,” she said.

Brianne Burnell, a fourth-year student in fashion communica-tion, said the experience itself was what counts, but the ante needs to be upped on prizes for those in her program.

“The competitions for the de-sign students seem advantageous because if they plan on becoming independent designers it is great self-promotion,” Burnell said. She added the contests may have noth-ing to do with a fashion-communi-cation student’s future career, due to the versatile nature of the pro-gram.

Both students noted problems with the Shiseido competition.

“The professor helped us each step along the way,” Huynh said. “But I felt like she imposed her own ideals and views onto our vi-sion too much. In the end, I wasn’t happy with my final project.”

Burnell seemed unsure what to make of her experience.

“We all busted our asses off on it, and no one won,” she explained. “No one even told us no one won, we just never heard anything, and that’s still a huge mystery.”

“I wish the competitions would end in something more than a spread in a magazine or money,” Burnell said. Both Huynh and Burnell said more variety in com-petitions and potential internships would help start careers.

“It hasn’t been a life changing experience. I think that experience will be presenting the creative por-tion of my capstone project to the judges at the end of this semester,” Burnell said. “I hope.”

Lucia Dell’Agnese, associate chair of Ryerson’s school of fashion said the benefit of these competi-tions is they teach students how to work for a specific market, how to research and how retailers func-tion.

“I think often it’s hard for students to design for some-one else other than themselves,” Dell’Agnese said.

“I wish — really wish — with all my heart, more retailers would fol-low suit,” Dell’Agnese said. “For young designers, it’s really hard to get started. It’s expensive.”

She explained that it’s a win-win situation regardless, for both retail-er and student. The student gains exposure, however minimal it may be, as well as experience, and the retailer gets fresh, young perspec-tives.

“To future students: Take every opportunity that is provided to you as a student, in terms of competi-tions and broadening your scope of knowledge,” Dell’Agnese said. “The more you push yourself out-side the box, the more you experi-ence.”

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9January 18, 2012 The EyeopenerARTS & LIFE

One on one with Walter Pitman

Ryerson has had a number of different presidents and has un-dergone many different changes since you’ve left. And I’m sure some students would be interest-ed in knowing what Ryerson was like while you were there.

What was the climate at Ryerson when you came? What the school’s main focus was and whether you had any sort of mandate to change it at all.

It was in a huge process of transi-tion when I was there. It had gone through a very difficult period, a great deal of tension, a great deal of confrontation. When I came, I came down from Trent University,

PHOTO: EMMA PRESTWICHWalter Pitman, Ryerson’s President from 1975-1980.

to Ryerson, and there were real challenges. It was referred to as Rye High in those days, it wasn’t a uni-versity. Nobody knew what a poly-technique was. It was the only one in Ontario. The government didn’t know how to fund one, they had no idea what a polytechnique was about.

While you were there you had a reputation for being very open with faculty and students and holding open meetings.

That’s right. When I first got there [there was a lot of] tension [between faculty, staff and stu-dents]. Hell, there had even been

an occupation, the year before I was there. The 13th floor had been occu-pied by students. In fact, we had a difficult time because we were still under an enormous amount of fi-nancial pressure, but I said I would sit in the student lounge from nine to nine-thirty or something.

I taught classes at eight in the morning. That did not make me popular with the students. I taught history. But I sat [in the student lounge] between nine and 10, and I would talk to any punk who turned up, and that was how I tried to bridge that gap that developed between the various sectors within Ryerson.

I think that’s what my best thought was, you have to heal this place, it can’t continue in a state of warfare between the various sec-tors.

You speak about it very posi-tively, your whole experience working there. Do you have any really memorable experiences that stand out?

One of the difficult things I found, because of the financial situ-ation, was that part-time faculty were being exploited.

And I knew that, they knew that, the regular faculty knew that, and I walked the picket line with them, simply because I wanted them to know that I knew there was injus-tice here and our budget wouldn’t allow us to negotiate more gener-ously because the money wasn’t there.

How do you feel that there’s a residence named after you?

Well, the funny story behind that is that part of the deal for the sepa-ration of previous presidents was

that they would name buildings after them.

I had been invited to come to the Ontario Arts Council and I had felt I had done my best work for Ryer-son, and I was leaving, I was not be-ing fired, and I wanted to make that distinction.

So I said, I don’t want any build-ings named after me, so it wasn’t until about 10 or 15 years later that they came and asked, and I said I don’t really want a parking lot named after me. I said we would be very pleased. They made it for my wife and I, knowing how much [of a role] she had played [in my work].

Do you think that Ryerson has shed its Rye High label?

Oh, I think so, yes. I’m sure it has. I can remember going to fac-ulty retreats and singing [an old song about Rye High] at the table. I think probably nobody even knows it anymore.

It has sort of stuck around. There are a few students who say Rye High, but I think it’s just a term that’s persisted, whether or not it has any basis.

I’m sure that’s what it is. It’s be-cause of outstanding people, aca-demically. Rye High was a kind of an indication that this might not have the quality of a university but by god, it’s a damn good high school, but that’s all gone now.

You have to heal this place, it can’t continue

in a state of warfare.— Walter Pitman

Finding Ryerson’s best coffeeCoffee is an essential part of every student’s diet, but where at Ryerson can the best cup be found? The Eyeopener masthead conducted a completely scientific taste test to find out

Who doesn’t like coffee? It’s re-freshing, delicious, and coursing with caffeine — an essential part of any university student’s diet.

With this in mind, we set out to scientifically establish the best cup of coffee on campus.

We filled four blank, white cups with four of the biggest caffeine providers on campus. Then we had our panel of seven expert judges blindly evaluate them based on overall taste, bitterness, aroma and aftertaste, awarding up to give points for each category.

But, without the usual pomp and circumstance accompanying a cof-fee purchase, we got some surpris-ing results.

Apparently, coffee sucks.Our caffeine-addicted masthead

gave only one coffee a passing grade, and a measly 11/20 at that. The rest of the coffees fell notice-ably short of the mark.

What does it mean? Probably nothing. But for a group that drinks these same coffee choices as much as we do, the scores are surprising.

It would appear that if you take away the brand and the fancy cup, coffee isn’t actually that great.

Don’t get us wrong, we love our coffee, but scores like these make you wonder — why exactly do you drink that stuff?

Walter Pitman, Ryerson’s President from 1975-1980, is known today for the residence building that shares his name. But what did Ryerson look like during his time at the school? Emma Prestwich sat down with the former President

Ryerson’s own Oakham cafe placed second overall, but still received a failing grade accord-ing to our judges.

“This was really watery,” said associate photo editor Marissa Dederer.

“I think of a dirty gas station

Oakham’s Medium Roast:8/20

Pitman’s 100% Columbian:11/20

Perhaps an unexpected souce of coffee, Pitman Hall cafeteria’s cup actually scored highest, barely breaking the 50 per cent score.

“I didn’t feel the need to spit it out,” said online editor Jeff Lagerquist.

Starbuck’sPike PlaceBlend7/20

Starbucks, long heralded as the holy land for coffee drink-ers, surprisingly scored lowest overall.

“This one is dark,” said De-derer. “It actually has taste. This is typical coffee breath drink. All you need now is some

TimHorton’sCoffee8/20

The final blend we tried was the solid Timmy’s cup. Continu-ing the trend of bizzare scores, it also failed, tying Oakham’s for second place overall.

“Pretty okay,” said Lagerquist. “Kind of bland.”

“Smells sweet,” noted De-PHOTOS: LINDSAY BOECKL

when I drink this.”“Terrible and watery,” said ed-

itor-in-chief Lauren Strapagiel. “Very watery.”

“It’s okay,” said biz and tech editor Sarah Del Giallo. “But not incredibly flavourful. I prefer a stronger brew.”

cigarettes. And a breath mint.”“Foul garbage water,” said La-

gerquist. “Is this even coffee?”“My standards have never

been so low,” said Turgeon. “It was acceptable.”

Several editors refused to fin-ish their cup.

derer. “Tastes bad. How dare they

make this deception!”“Smelled nice,” agreed Stra-

pagiel. “But tasted awful.”“This experiment makes me

dislike coffee,” said Siena. “Tea for me please.”

“Better than [the first],” said communities editor Nicole Siena. “I likey.”

“Not as bad as [the first],” said news editor Carolyn Tur-geon.

“Still not spectacular. Odd aftertaste.”

10 January 18, 2012 The Eyeopener FEATURES

It’s hard being a student. It’s harder if you have a job. It can be nearly impossible if

you’re trying to run a non-profit organization at the same time.

But that’s exactly what Ryer-son New Media graduate Agata Pogorelsky did.

After travelling to Kenya in May 2010 with Ryerson’s Alter-native Spring Break (ASB) pro-gram, Pogorelsky started Beads For Beds (BFB), a registered non-profit organization that makes and sells jewelry to raise money for aid in Africa.

However, the life of a student philanthropist is full of compli-cations, from balancing charity work with schoolwork to find-ing the funds and volunteers to make the difference they dream of.

“Visions don’t come with in-structions,” Pogorelsky says, undeterred by the difficulties of running Beads for Beds. “I always had it in me, this thing about helping others. I always cared.”

While still at Ryerson, she started the non-profit alongside Miranda Scotland, who is now in her fourth year of journal-ism. But not all Ryerson students share Scotland and Pogorelsky’s enthusiasm.

“I feel [students] are constant-ly bombarded about stories of struggles in Africa, be it war or poverty,” says Pogorelsky. “It’s hard to generate interest and motivate students, especially as they have so much else going on.”

Currently, their main proj-ect is to raise $50,000 for a boys’ dormitory for the

Dago Dala Hera Orphanage in Kenya, which they hope to start constructing in May 2013. Pog-orelsky first visited the currently

all-girls orphanage with ASB, but developed an attachment to the children and decided to stay longer to help out when the trip was over.

She says she strongly recom-mends students travelling to underprivileged areas to expand their horizons.

“I think there should be some-thing where students are sent to travel after high school to see the world,” says Pogorelsky. “That’s the only way in which they can break out and see what’s hap-pening with their own eyes. I think that would really help to motivate them.”

In addition to the unmotivated students, some students who would be willing to volunteer their time simply don’t know where to turn.

“There isn’t a lot of advertis-ing. I don’t even know what’s going on or what clubs exist at Ryerson,” says Sarah Ermias, first-year food and nutrition

student. “Many clubs tend to only ad-

vertise to members who are already in the group, and other people don’t even hear about the events or ways to contrib-ute.”

Other organizations at Ryerson have had more problems getting finan-

cial support for their endeavors. International non-profit World Fit for Children (WFC) started a Ryerson chapter in Septem-ber, and the students have had trouble getting support from the university. Ryerson is not di-rectly providing resources to the students, forcing the group to fi-nance events in other ways.

“We approached businesses, such as Starbucks and Metro, for a bake sale held in December.” says Hikmat Rafiqzad, President of WFC at Ryerson. “Some of the money we pitched in, but mostly it was through donations [from businesses].”

Pogorelsky has tried to find support from outside the student population as well. She tried to go to Yukon and promote bead-ing — making and selling jewelry to raise funds — for charitable causes among the natives who

live there. She found it frustrat-ing, however, in part due to a lack of financial support from the uni-versity.

Ryerson’s Projects-Funds Allocation Committee for Students (P-FACS) is in

charge of designating funds for student groups like Pogorelsky’s, but she says there isn’t much in-formation about them available to students and she found them to be less than encouraging.

“I remember I couldn’t even get enough money for a laptop from P-FACS,” says Pogorelsky. “Most of the money comes out of my own pocket, and I don’t get paid to do this to begin with. It’s tough.”

P-FACS does do their share of good—they recently provided re-sources for a new student space initiative and allocate approxi-mately $180,000 a year to student projects.

“We absolutely sponsor stu-dents wishing to help people in other countries,” says Lesley McRae, campus activities and events facilitator.

“For an organization to be eligi-ble [for P-FACS funds], they have to demonstrate that they will en-hance the quality of student life, promote the image of students and university as well as create a sense of community and well-being at Ryerson.”

Visions don’t come with instructions. I always had it in me, this thing about helping others. I always cared.

— Agata Pogorelsky, co-founder of Beads for Beds

Sleep. Study. Socialize.

Despite their already hectic schedules, many students choose to pursue philanthropic efforts along-side schoolwork. Kabeer Sethi looks at the difficulties facing Ryerson’s non-profit workers

Save the World.

Interested in volunteering for one of Ryerson’s non-profit groups? Here are a few to consider.Beads For Beds — Hold events, such as the upcoming Rojo Passion Party on Jan. 26, and sell jewelry to raise funds for the Dago Dala Hera Or-phanage in Kenya.

Childreach International — Work to improve healthcare, education and children’s rights in Tanzania, Ghana and India with various projects and programs.

Engineers Without Borders — Promote development in impoverished areas through innovation and technology.

Global Health Education and Economic Development — Seek to educate and empower people in Latin America to drive self-propelled social change.

H2O 4 All — Started by a Ryerson Engineering graduate, H2O 4 All works to implement water treatment systems in communities without clean drinking water

Habitat For Humanity — Like other chapters of Habitat, Ryerson Students can help to build affordable homes for low-income families.

World Fit for Children — Work to improve the lives of children through education, relief efforts and development projects.

Since he only recently found out about the existence of P-FACS, Rafiqzad attempted

to get reimbursed for money that was invested towards the bake sale by students. This request was denied, but he says the experience was helpful.

“There’s a lengthy process that you have to follow to get fund-ing—but to be fair, I missed the two-weeks prior notice policy they have,” he says. “I found the staff very help-ful, though, and I think they were supportive of my cause.”

The bake sale raised $250 for a school being built in India, which Rafiqzad consid-ers a successful fundraiser. Looking forward, he is hoping to organize a concert that would really put WFC on the Ry-erson radar.

“Growing up in Afghanistan, you see orphan children and beg-gars who immediately spot you as someone with money simply based on wearing clothes that are washed,” says Rafiqzad. “I think these students deserve the same education and opportunities we have and I think WFC is a great way for me to contribute in my own way.”

Mcrae says that some projects don’t get as much money as

they hope because there are so many requests from student groups and a limited amount of

money.“In order to receive funding,

students have to apply to us and show that they’ve exhausted ev-ery other resource possible,” she says. “This is because we get a lot of offers and have to allocate ac-cordingly. The maximum amount we give is $5,000, raised to a max-imum of $9,000 in extreme cases where there have been no other forthcoming donations.”

She continued, “There’s defi-

nitely more projects than money.”Still, student awareness about

programs available on campus is limited, and adequate promotion is required in order to bring them to the forefront of campus life.

WFC’s bake sale also served as a chance to recruit more members,

a resource almost every non-prof-it needs more of.

“We had people sign up and I think we recruited around 10 to 15 people at the sale,” says Rafiqzad. “The students are interested for sure. All it takes is getting to them and giving them an opportunity to make a difference.”

Pogorelsky agrees that students would like to help out, but they don’t always feel the need to join

any particular group. “I think stu-dents want to do this stuff, but we have to give them some kind of incentive to join as well.” Pogore-lsky says. “Balancing a social life along with studying is hard but necessary, and needs a lot of focus and time management.”

First-year commerce student Nithin Madadi volunteers with WFC, but understands why stu-dents would shy away from using their time for volunteer work.

“If students p a r t i c i p a t e in student groups and stuff like that, their grades tend to suffer. That’s why they choose not to at times,” he says.

“It takes fo-cus and some people are able to juggle volunteering with school and sometimes even a job. But the group would really have to ap-peal to members.”

Beads for Beds and Ryer-son’s chapter of World Fit for Children are relatively

new groups, but they’re optimis-tic about the future of philanthro-py at Ryerson.

“I think that we’ll make it,” Pog-orelsky says of her quest to build the dorm at Dago Dala Hera.

“We faced many hardships, but things are looking up right now and I think with time more people will show interest and commit-ment. It only takes some effort and persistence, but if it’s what you love to do then it’s worth it.”

11January 18, 2012 The Eyeopener FEATURES

We get a lot of offers and have to allocate accordingly. There’s definitely more projects than money.

—Lesley McRae, campus activities and events facilitator

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The distance between the business school student body and the rest of Ryerson campus is vast, despite the geographical distance being only a couple of blocks. Mike Derman looks into why students in the Ted Rogers School of Management don’t feel like they belong on the East side of Yonge Street

The business bubble

The Ted Rogers School of Man-agement (TRSM) is considered a part of Ryerson’s main campus, be-ing just on the other side of Yonge and Dundas. But in that small dis-tance, a divide exists between busi-ness students and the rest of their peers.

Over 8,000 students — approxi-mately 32 per cent of Ryerson’s stu-dent body — attend TRSM.

“We’re the size of many small universities in Canada,” said Ben Samms, a decision support analyst at TRSM.

The business school has its own career centre (the original is in the POD building), distance from the rest of campus and its own web-site; prospective students don’t need to access the university’s site.

While the distance is a short one, Samms suggests that it is probably the main culprit to the disconnect with TRSM students and their cam-pus community on the East side.

Soran Nouri, a second-year TRSM masters student who also did four years of business technol-

ogy management at Ryerson, said he feels he’s not getting the full Ry-erson experience.

“Seventy-five per cent of my time at Ryerson has been spent [in the TRSM building],” said Nouri.

“It’s good because I don’t have to be going back and forth be-tween buildings for each class, but it makes me feel a bit disconnected from the rest of Ryerson.”

He said it isn’t necessarily the university’s fault. Being a commut-er, he usually comes to his classes and leaves.

But the main issue surround-ing the business school bubble is

one that plagues the campus as a whole: a lack of school spirit. It keeps business students from car-ing what is happening on Gould Street.

Jayme McCabe, a fourth-year nursing student, said she’s never really felt a connection with her peers.

“I mean, nobody really cares about the sports, and the student groups aren’t promoted very well,” said McCabe. “Plus, there isn’t a lot of inter-program mingling.”

She said that even though she’s in her last semester, she doesn’t feel any real connection with other faculties.

“I don’t think it’s just TRSM; I think all programs are disconnect-ed,” she said.

But Samms feels it’s the student body’s responsibility to get more involved, rather than relying on administrative integration.

“You get out of it what you put into it,” he said. “If you’re just here to get in and get out, then of course you won’t feel a connection.”

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13January 18, 2012 The EyeopenerBIZ & TECH

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Lectures in the palm of your handUsing smartphones to view lectures is a fast growing trend in North American universities, but will Ryerson take the plunge for portable classes? Venus Mosadeq reports

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Imagine waking up, grabbing your phone and notebook, and tun-ing into a lecture without leaving your bed.

Sonic Foundry recently devel-oped the Mediasite 6 Lecture Cap-ture, an alternative for students to watch their lectures through their cellular phones and without hav-ing to worry about missing classes.

Sean Brown, VP of education at Sonic Foundry, considers it a fast growing trend amongst universi-ties in North America and interna-tionally.

The equipment is costly at around $15,000 per classroom, but Brown said, “it opens up even more

opportunities for students to view classes wherever there is Wifi.”

Farbod Afshar, a first-year elec-trical engineering student at Ry-erson, has a three hour daily com-mute.

“This is definitely something that I would be interested in seeing as I spend so much time commuting.” he said. “It’s frustrating.”

The new technology could boost Ryerson’s number of applicants be-cause it could put the university at an advantage with an alternative learning strategy.

Ryerson is ahead of the game with Ryecast; online real-time and on-demand lecture broadcasts.

It’s similar to Lecture Capture and uses portable equipment that can be set up in different class-rooms to capture lectures, seminars and presentations.

But it’s a service that must be booked ahead of time for use, as it’s not installed in every classroom.

Jim Buchanan, the assistant di-rector of client services at Ryerson said, “We are always working at improving Ryecast and adding more capabilities to the platform.”

A survey from the University of Wisconsin indicated that students preferred Lecture Capture. It re-ported that the service was “the most valuable instruction technol-

ogy that the school has provided.”“It accommodates busy lives…

[students juggle] economic de-mands, family demands and aca-demic demands more the any other generation before them,” said Brown. “It’s a guarantee they will have the time for the instruction they have paid for.”

Mamun Jeddi, a third-year engi-neering student, who doesn’t own a smart phone, doesn’t feel like he’d benefit.

“I might get a little lazy, I wouldn’t even show up to school and it would probably take away from my whole university experi-ence,” he said.

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shopping online is the shipping. Be sure to order the book before you actu-ally need it because the site has been known to take a little while to get the material to your front door.

2. Facebook groupsYou’re on Facebook all the time anyways so why not be moderately pro-

ductive while you’re creeping your friend list? Check out the Ryerson Text-books Facebook page to buy and sell books. You can also go to your pro-gram’s various pages. This will help you narrow down the search to books you really need.

3. 215 Victoria St. Suite #101Sure, the people who work at the store conveniently called

“Discount Books” get in our way when we’re walking around campus, but have you ever picked up their flyer?

They claim to sell the most required textbooks for each semester. Their fly-ers contain a list of the books they sell and they’ll also buy your textbooks as long as they’re still required.

4. The World Wide WebThere are many websites and internet forums that allow students to buy and sell

textbooks. Some top searches are Ryebooks.com, Tusbe.com and Close2school.com. Double check all issue numbers and volumes are the ones you need. But, also re-member that modifications between issues are minimal.

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with intellectual disabilities, but it also impacts the lives of students,” she said. “It really makes you grow up, become aware of the world around you, and teaches you how to be there for another person.”

Aksenchuk has been paired up with three individuals over nine years. Her buddy, 45 year-old Constantino Corigliano, has been a part of Best Buddies for five years.

”I get to meet other people when we go out, and make friends,” he said.

“Kateryna is my Best Buddy. She rocks them all. She’s the Best Buddy of them all.”

Aksenchuk said that going out with her buddy makes her realize the importance of friendship,

“Going out with him makes me slow down,” she said. “For me, it’s just another outing with my friend. But for him, it’s the best thing in the world.”

Best Buddies, an associate club at Ryerson, is a not-for-profit charita-ble organization creates one-to-one friendships by pairing up students with adults who have intellectual disabilities.

Students meet with their bud-dies — individuals with Down’s Syndrome, Asperger’s or autism, — two to three times a month, and talk to them at least once per week.

Kateryna Aksenchuk, co-pres-ident at Ryerson’s Best Buddies chapter, said that the club does not put emphasis on the adult’s disabil-ity. Instead, they focus on building friendships.

There are 21 pairs this year at Ryerson, and each are paired based on their interests and geographical location.

“You’re doing anything you’d be doing with your own friends,” said Aksenchuk.

Last semester they held a meet

15January 18, 2012 The EyeopenerCOMMUNITIES

Bringing spicy back

Best Buddies on campus Student outreach creates life-long friendships with community members who have disabilities. Victoria Stunt reports

PHOTO COURTESY KATERYNA AKSENCHUK2011-12 Best Buddy pairs.

and greet, in which students met with their buddies for the first time, and attended the “Evening of Friendship,” at the YMCA for din-ner and dancing. At the end of the year, they will go to Toronto Island to have a picnic.

Aksenchuk said that the group, which has been active on campus for eight years, is special because it gives students awareness about giving back.

Students are not only involved in a club on campus, but to also con-tribute to the community.

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For me, it’s just another outing with my friend. But for him, it’s the best thing in the world.

- Kateryna Aksenchuk, Ryerson Best Buddies co-president

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The room is dark and the stage is empty except for a glittering backdrop and some arranged in-struments. The Backstreet Boys’ 90’s hit “Get Down” is blaring from two sets of speakers.

The crowd is impatient and some late arrivers are shoving to get to the front. A smog machine puffs and the room immediately quiets.

Five glamorous girls enter the stage and strike a pose. And then, they sing.

“I’ll tell you what I want, what I really really want!”

Last Saturday night, five Ry-erson Theatre and Humber Mu-sic grads launched their Spice Girl tribute band “Wannabe” at El Mocambo.

The girls sang a variety of pop songs from the Spice Girls’ three studio albums and the Spice World movie.

Anika Johnson, who imper-sonates Sporty Spice, said the idea for the tribute band devel-oped from a local band that Gin-ger impersonator Barb Johnston and Posh impersonator Suzy Wilde were part of.

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members (who cross-dressed for the event) and a third posing as the real life Posh’s husband Da-vid Beckham. She said the con-cept just took off from there.

Later, Catharine Merriam and Janee Olivia joined the band as Baby and Scary Spice.

When it came to picking their personalities, Johnson said ev-erything simply fell into place.

“It was kind of a natural fit; each of us suited a Spice Girl.”

The 24-year-old graduated from Ryerson’s Theatre School in 2009.

“Being a graduate of the the-atre program, we were instilled with the idea that you have to create your own projects,” she said.

“It’s definitely a part of the attitude that we are given in school: making your own op-portunities and creating some-thing out of nothing.”

For Johnson, it is not the Spice Girls’ talent that stands out for her.

“The Spice Girls were spe-cial because they’re really just five normal girls. They’re not that good at singing or dancing. They’re pretty, but not knock-outs,” said Johnson.

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16 January 18, 2012The Eyeopener SPORTS

Student athletes receive priority on RAMSS BY TANYA MOK

The Ryerson men’s basketball team lost to the Carleton Ravens87-56 at home friday night. Visit the TheEyeopener.com for Sports Editor Gabriel Lee’s column PHOTO: LINDSAY BOECKL

TheScoreWednesday Women’s Basketball @ U of T (6 p.m.) Men’s Basketball @U of T (8 p.m.)

Thursday Men’s Hockey vs. U of T (7:30 p.m.)

Friday Women’s Basketball @York (6 p.m.) Men’s Basketball @York (8 p.m.) Men’s Hockey vs. RMC(7 p.m.)

Saturday Game of the Week:Women’s Volleyball vs. Waterloo (12 p.m.) Men’s Volleyball vs. Waterloo(2 p.m.)

Women’s Basketball @Laurentian (6 p.m.)

Men’s Basketball @ Laurentian (8 p.m.) Women’s Hockey vs. York (7 p.m.) Sunday Women’s Volleyball vs. Guelph (12 p.m.)

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There are three things guar-anteed in life: death, taxes and encountering problems while en-rolling for courses online. Wheth-er it may be bad timing or not being able to get into that course you need, registering for classes on RAMSS usually turns out un-desirably for most students.

But for Ryerson varsity athletes, getting into the right classes is a little bit easier.

Unlike other full-time students, whose dates of enrollment are decided by what year they’re in, athletes are always able to apply on the first possible day, regard-less of what year they’re in. It’s a system that’s been practiced since 2009, and is meant to help athletes schedule their classes around their team practices.

Sebastian Novais, a midfielder on the men’s soccer team, believes that because athletes represent the school they’re entitled to cer-tain perks.

“In order to excel in both our sports and academically, schedul-ing ahead allows us to manage our time better.”

As far as academic support goes, early enrollment isn’t the only thing athletes get. Full-time aca-demic advisors, senior mentors, workshops and mandatory study halls are all provided by the ath-letic department to help Ryerson’s student athletes maintain the 2.0 GPA they’re required to meet in order to stay on their respective teams.

Some students believe that their own personal commitments, such as a job to pay for their tuition, make their lives equally as busy as a student athlete’s.

“[It’s] hard enough to get into the courses that you want to,” said Andrew Liu, a second year psy-chology student said. “So to think that there is also preferential treat-ment for certain students makes it even more unfair as it already is.”

Ivan Joseph, the director of Ry-erson’s athletics, said the system

is common practice at other post-secondary schools. Athletes at Ry-erson aren’t getting ahead of regu-lar students who have placed their course intentions on RAMSS; they just have the privilege to shuffle their schedules before everyone else.

“I wish it was an unfair advan-tage, don’t get me wrong,” he said. “It would make being able to field a full practice much better.”

Ryerson only has two gyms and limited time slots at off-campus practice locations, which makes it even harder to manage conflicting schedules. During the season, both the soccer team and the hockey team have to commute an hour to get to their practice facilities. These conflicts often result in prac-tices being conducted with several missing players, Joseph said.

Joseph believes that the accu-mulation of practices, schoolwork, and part-time jobs add up to dou-ble the amount of time Ryerson student athletes commit compared to the average student.

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17January 18, 2012 The EyeopenerSPORTS

Jordan Hill: Ryerson’s girl genius

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David Chan returns a serve at the second Ryerson Invitaional hosted at Kerr Hall this past Saturday.

Most students enrolled in engineering barely have any spare time. Jordan Hill finished with a 4.17 GPA last year. Harlan Nemerofsky reports on how she’s able to balance her hectic lifestyle

Rams forward Jordan Hill.

Last year on St. Patrick’s Day while the rest of the Ryerson Rams women’s basketball team was out celebrating with drinks, Jordan Hill elected to stay in to study for her upcoming midterm examina-tion.

“I got a text from Ashley [Mac-Donald] saying everyone was go-ing out,” Hill said. “I had really wanted to join them but I couldn’t because of my midterm.”

That was just one of many in-stances when Hill, who is current-ly in her second season with Rams basketball, had to turn down a team get together in order to focus on her schoolwork.

Recently, Hill was awarded the John Ross MacLeod Scholar-ship for the achieving the highest grade point average amongst first year students in Aerospace Engi-neering, widely considered one of the hardest programs at Ryerson. The second year forward achieved a 4.17 GPA in her first year of studies.

“I prioritize really well,” Hill said. “It was [hard] at first balanc-ing basketball with school,” says Hill. “At the beginning of first year it all got a little overwhelming but I got used to it.”

“Now I hardly think of it. You just always have a plan of the day in your head.”

Her system is an order of hier-archy, that goes like this: exams trump games, games trump class, class trump practice and practice trump homework.

Hill will graduate a year later than most of her peers as she takes

four courses a semester instead of a suggested six, to accommodate practice and games. Either way, the scholarship is impressive, con-sidering she devotes 20 hours a week towards basketball on top of her four classes.

During the exam period, the 5’11 forward wakes up at 9 a.m. and studies alone at her apartment near campus before practice. She goes through every math problem, working through them meticulously until she un-derstands exactly how she arrived at the answer.

The hours she spends on the hardwood compensates for the two courses she’s not taking.

“She’s really committed aca-demically to her program,” said Charles Kissi, the head coach of the women’s team. “Jordan em-bodies everything we want in a student athlete.”

Just like most parents, Hill’s mother and father wanted her to do well academically. However, it was Cory Russell, her former high her school basketball coach at St. Mary’s high school, who inspired her to continue to play basketball at the university level.

“I had no intention of playing post secondary basketball at the begin ning of grade 12 as I thought I wasn’t good enough,”said Hill.

“But he told me that I was, and helped me make a scouting video to send to coaches. It was a real

confidence booster.”

C o m i n g out of high school, Hill wasn’t re-cruited by any univer-sities to play b a s k e t b a l l

by any schools despite being one of the top players at St. Mary’s. Her high school didn’t keep sta-tistics, but she estimates that she scored about 10 points a game.

Coach Kissi was impressed by Hill’s highlight reel, and encour-

aged her to try out; needless to say, she made the team.

It was no surprise to her team-mates she was awarded with the scholarship worth $225.

“Jordan is the definition of [a] student-athlete,” said captain Ash-ley MacDonald. “The award just shows how dedicated she is when striving to achieve the things she really cares about.”

Hill is averaging six minutes of action a game. She plans to pursue a career with NASA or the Cana-dian Space Agency after graduat-ing from Aerospace Engineering.

“I’ve always known I wanted to make my way in the world with my brain and not my basketball skills,” she said.

“I think that I could go much further in the field of engineering than I could if I tried to go pro in basketball.”

Jordan is the defintion of a student-athlete.The award just shows how dedicated she is when strriving to achieve the things she really cares about.

— Ashley MacDonald

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GeminiBalls of flaming hydrogen hun-dreds of light

years away will decide that today is the day your part-ner has finally had enough of your shit.

SagittariusYour tolerance for superstitious bullshit will lead

you to look at your horo-scope, which is currently calling you an ignorant ass-hole.

AriesYou’ll find that your New Year’s resolu-

tion to quit drinking is helped immeasurably by exercise, meditation and cocaine.

LeoTake risks this week. If you don’t take risks,

you’ll never get that pro-motion, win over the love of your life or be eaten by wolves on the arctic tundra.

LibraJupiter passes through your sign this week,

meaning you will adopt a pet beaver, lose a basketball game to a cross-dressing chimp and be accused of stealing an ottoman.

TaurusYou’ll find yourself on top of the

world, or maybe just a very tall building, with no memory or pants from the night before.

CancerYou will win the favour of some very important

people this week, making you a great kidnapping tar-get for their enemies.

VirgoBe willing to let people in on your innermost

feelings this week. That way, they’ll probably leave you alone forever.

ScorpioIf you order a lifelike sex doll today, it will

probably get here in time for Valentine’s Day. Just sayin.’

AquariusA hunting trip will lead to the realization that

if deer are delicious, your friend Tom probably is too.

PiscesVenus rises through your sign, meaning

Newton’s prophecy was correct! Man the battlesta-tions!

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CapricornBe creative with your fashion choices this

week. It’s called “Peacock-ing,” and it helps the rest of us see where the date-rapists are.

MystiKai’s Prophecy

Authorities were called to Dun-das Square on Monday when a man was reportedly seen with a package of abnormal shape and size.

“We got a call about some dude’s huge fucking package,” Const. John Suxbawlz told media. “We had to respond, there is a lot a man can do when he has a package that large.”

Second-year interior design student Anthony Wieners almost missed his lecture in the AMC building as the sight had him

“scared stiff.” He just barely man-aged to tweet a picture of the ex-traordinary sight along with the text, “Would you just look at that package?” before heading to class.

When asked if Monday’s incident had any influence from past cases, Suxbawlz was unsure. “Those were some pretty big packages, but who knows? Maybe all the dudes with big packages have a union or some-thing? Who gives a shit really?”

The man with the disturbingly large package was later identified as Tommy Gun by co-worker Lisa

Kaulk who saw Gun on the news.

“Oh yeah, I’ve seen that package before,” Kaulk said. “He carries it around at work sometimes. We just try not to ask questions.”

When Gun was asked why he had such a large package in the middle of Dundas Square he alleg-edly mumbled something about Vi-agra and sardines. Police could not explain this.

Suxbawlz walked to his car after the whole affair was over. He told the last reporters hanging around that had nothing better to do that Gun could not just swing such a huge package around in public like that.

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Sheldon Levy, President and Vice-Chancellor and Alan Shepard, Provost and Vice President Academic

are pleased to announce the recipients of the

Counsellor Award, Librarian Award, Faculty Service AwardsErrol Aspevig Award for Outstanding Academic Leadership

Counsellor AwArd recognizes a Ryerson counsellor who has demonstrated excellence in professional service to a unit, the university and/or the community.

Rosemarie Volpe, Centre for Student Development and Counselling

librAriAn AwArd recognizes a Ryerson librarian who has demonstrated excellence in professional service to a unit, the university and/or the community.

Lei Jin, Acting head of Collection Services

Naomi Eichenlaub, Collection Services, Cataloguer

Dana Thomas, Collection Services, Digital Support

Ophelia Cheung, Borrowing and Lending Services: Electronic, Reserves and Audio Visual

Celebrating ExcellenceRyeRson AwARds

FACulty serviCe AwArd recognizes Ryerson faculty members for their exceptional or distinguished service to a department, school, faculty and/or the university.

Martin Antony, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts

Naomi Koerner, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts

Robert Burley, School of Image Arts, Faculty of Communication & Design

Linda Cooper, Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing, Faculty of Community Services

Xavier Fernando, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Science

Andrew McWilliams, Department of Chemistry and Biology, Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Science

David Naylor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Science

Youcef Derbal, Ted Rogers School of Information Technology Management, Ted Rogers School of Management

errol Aspevig AwArd For outstAnding ACAdemiC leAdership recognizes a senior academic administrator whose outstanding leadership has contributed significantly to the achievement of Ryerson University’s academic mission.

Ken Jones, Dean, Ted Rogers School of Management

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