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Ashley Wolfson* found herself the perfect man.

He treated her to dinner at the CN Tower’s 360 Restaurant, took her rock climbing last weekend and bought her a puppy — a six-month-old pug, which she named Moose.

He may be the perfect man, but Wolfson, a third-year Ryerson Uni-versity student, isn’t in love; she counts on her Sugar Daddy to ease the financial burden of living as a student in Toronto, and she credits SeekingArrangment.com for bring-ing them together.

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someone younger and attractive, and you get compensated really well,” Wolfson, 21, said Monday. “It’s kind of a win-win.”

A Jan. 23 article published in the Toronto Star revealed 183 Ryerson University students like Wolfson signed up for a SeekingArrange-ment.com membership last year — more students than any other Cana-dian university.

The match-making website con-nects Sugar Babies (usually at-tractive and financially-strapped young women) with Sugar Daddies (wealthy and successful business-men with cash to burn).

“Of course I was nervous meet-ing just like random strangers... You just see like a photo of them and a description of them — and you know what they want, too,” Wolf-son said. “So... it’s scary at first, but

then it gets easier.”Wolfson enjoys what the web-

site calls a “mutually beneficial re-lationship” with her latest Sugar Daddy. She has been with him for six months. Her Daddy pays her $1,500 per month in exchange for friendship, fun and sex — financial aid which Wolfson said more than covers her rent.

Wolfson is one of the site’s two million members, 330,000 of whom are Canadians. Students make up almost one-third of its Canadian membership.

Although Ryerson President Shel-don Levy said the decisions students make in their off-time is none of his business, he admitted the idea of stu-dents turning to strangers for rent and tuition money concerns him.

“Normally, I answer these ques-tions [with] something like... ‘Well,

I trust all the students to make the best decisions,’ and all of that,” he said. “But then I thought, ‘Oh, I just don’t like this.’”

According to Jennifer Gwynn, SeekingArrangement.com’s public relations manager, the understand-ing of trading money for company does not mean the site endorses prostitution.

“Just like Match.com or eHar-mony, we are just a meeting place. We don’t allow any escorts or pros-titution on our site... there’s easier ways to get that than [signing] up on a dating website,” Gwynn said.

But not all of Wolfson’s prior ar-rangements have been with gentle-man, she admitted. Sugar Babies have to watch out for who Wolfson called “Fly Guys — [men who] want to get together one time and never contact you again.”

She insisted her relationship with her 30-year-old Sugar Daddy, how-ever, is fun and easy. “It’s like we’re dating,” Wolfson said.

She also feels safer and more fi-nancially secure with her Sugar Daddy; the arrangement helped her move out of her “shittier apart-ment” near Dundas and Jarvis Streets, where Wolfson was strug-gling to pay rent.

As long as they still get along, she’ll keep him around until after she graduates — but her Sugar Dad-dy isn’t her long-term solution.

“It’s really different [than having a boyfriend], Wolfson said. “[But] I wouldn’t say I’m happier, because it’s nicer to be in love with someone. ... You don’t expect anything from them and they don’t expect anything from you.”

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Ryerson students ‘seeking arrangement’Ryerson plays host to a number of so-called ‘Sugar Babies’ — young students strapped for cash and open to creative solutions

RSU unveils election candidatesThose running for the RSU’s top spots announced at all-candidates meeting

CRO Shelby Kennedy announces who is running in the upcoming RSU elections.PHOTO: MOHAMED OMAR

The Ryerson Students’ Union (RSU) elections won’t be hotly contested this year, as only two executive po-sitions have more than one running candidate.

Shelby Kennedy, Chief Returning Officer (CRO) for this year’s elec-tions, announced the verified candi-dates at a meeting Monday.

Melissa Palermo, who will finish up her second term as vice-president education at the RSU in April, is going for the presidency. Her chal-lenger is Roble Mohamed.

Rajean Hoilett and Ani Dergalsta-nian will duke it out for the VP eq-

By Eyeopener Staff uity spot, a position currently held by Marwa Hamad.

Ifaz Iqbal, VP student life and events, is running for the VP opera-tions position. He is uncontested.

Danielle Brogan, a Faculty of Communications and Design direc-tor at the RSU, has no opposition in her bid for the VP student life and events job. Brogan, a fashion com-munications student, is also the Ath-letics Commissioner at the RSU.

Kennedy gave candidates a run-down of campaign do’s and don’ts, outlined the duties and powers of the CRO during the election, and explained the work of the Election Appeals Committee (EAC).

Though candidates may not send

unsolicited emails to potential vot-ers, emailing is permitted if consent is obtained, according to candidate guidelines.

A candidate may create a website, subject to approval by the CRO, to promote his or her campaign and platform. Facebook groups are al-lowed, though candidates may not send messages to followers.

While a ruling made by the CRO can be appealed by a candidate, the EAC “cannot amend the penalty as made by the CRO, they can only ac-cept or overturn the decision,” can-didate guidelines state.

Campaigning will start on Jan. 30 at midnight, and voting days run from Feb. 11 to Feb. 13.

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Ben Rich is the organizer behind the new varsity baseball team. File PHOTO

Finally, there’s some sports news going on that doesn’t involve the-basketball or hockey teams. The university has recently got itself a varsity baseball team.

It’s surprising that it took this long to get one. In terms of under-grad student population, we’re one of the biggest universities in Ontar-io. With the team confirmed we’re now on par with smaller universi-ties — like Brock, Laurier and Wa-

terloo — that have baseball teams. Still, disregarding how long it

took, we have a varsity team that’s part of Ontario University Athlet-ics. All well and good.

Except one thing. The people who worked through the process of creating the team had to prove to the university that it would be financially self-sufficient. In other words, Ryerson let the organiz-ers know up front that it wouldn’t be interested in handing over any funding.

Not too hard to judge, as any new team is a financial risk. Though let’s remember that the teams now

drawing crowds, the hockey and basketball teams, were both finan-cial risks in their beginnings.

It’s pretty obvious that the uni-versity is putting a big chunk of its resources into the teams playing in what’s quickly turning into the PR epicentre of the campus — the MAC. Because of that building, sports has become more noticeable over the last semester. Now, there’s an opportunity to push the fact that varsity sports are getting noticed. But the new team could struggle. They need, and should have, a backing from the university.

Ryerson has been pushing sports in the MAC for months now, but not every sport can be played there. It’s time for the university to give a hand to the other, smaller teams that people would be interested in if they only knew they existed.

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In a decision reached at the Ontar-io Liberal leadership convention, at the Mattamy Athletic Centre at Ryerson Saturday, MPP Kathleen Wynne was declared the next pre-mier of Ontario. Wynne is the first openly gay premier in Canadian history. She ran on a platform of conflict resolution and forward momentum, among others. Wynne has promised to reopen the provin-cial legislature Feb. 19.

Thousands of protesters gathered outside Ryerson’s Mattamy Athletic Centre Saturday to send a message to the province’s next premier. The Ontario Liberal leadership convention, in which Kathleen Wynne became Canada’s first openly gay premier, drew a legion of demonstrators from across the GTA. The Ontario Federation of Labour shipped in protesters in buses from Ottawa and Hamilton, eventually meeting up with members from the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario, and the Ontario Public Service Employees Union. Check out theeyeopener.com for more on the protest.

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On Jan. 25, a three-judge division-al court panel ruled in favour of Ford’s appeal in the now infamous conflict of interest case which near-ly cost the controversial Toronto mayor his job.

Clayton Ruby, the lawyer repre-senting Toronto resident Paul Mag-der, has plans to pursue an appeal in the Supreme Court, the Toronto Star reported, though they may not hear the case.

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Ryerson Students’ Union VP Operations Andrew McAllister has spearheaded the movement against renewing Ryerson’s contract with food provider Aramark.

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Rye explores Aramark alternatives

Though many campus groups are unsatisfied with Aramark, Ryerson’s food services provider since 1993, acceptable alternatives have yet to be determined

By Ramisha Farooq

Despite student dissatisfaction with Ryerson’s current food services pro-vider, no alternative to the longtime contract has been firmly established.

Ryerson’s current contract with Aramark expires May 31, and the administration has only a few months to decide whether to renew the agreement.

Julia Hanigsberg, vice-president administration and finance at Ryer-son, said it may be time to change food services on campus.

“I see food at Ryerson as a way to enhance student success, as a way to build student engagement and simply a way to make students, faculty and staff happy,” Hanigs-berg said.

“I’m not satisfied with the status quo and want to work on the kinds of offerings and price point.”

But the Ryerson Students’ Union (RSU) says university administration is extremely reluctant to consider new student-friendly alternatives to Aramark.

Andrew McAllister, the RSU vice-president operations, said the school is not showing even the slightest in-terest in any of the models they have proposed.

“The school believes that ev-erything can be solved with a con-tract,” he said.

“After reviewing recent survey results, we see that there is clearly a problem with the food on campus and I’m very worried that [students] are not going to be involved in the decision-making process.”

McAllister recently proposed to Hanigsberg the creation of a Good Food Co-op, a not-for-profit corpo-ration that would provide students with the majority of their meals.

Another proposed model looks to mimic Guelph University’s system, which boasts several student-run venues such as Ryerson’s Oakham Café.

Both proposals were rejected.President Sheldon Levy stressed

that the administration is aware of problems with Aramark, and that the school is actively considering al-ternatives.

“We’re trying to construct the [Request for Proposal] to be as open and as engaging and providing [of] opportunities as we can,” he said.

“And a lot of consideration of the RSU’s concerns are being taken in. But if you ask me, do I see the pos-sibility of Aramark not continuing? Yes I do.”

Surveys by both the RSU and ad-

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The RSU survey found that 63 per cent of students believe food on campus is expensive.

Seventeen per cent said they didn’t know.

Kelsey Courvoisier, a first-year criminology student living in resi-dence, said that although meal-plans are convenient, the majority of her food comes from off campus due to lack of variety.

“Wouldn’t you expect school food to be cheaper in order to help students who are strapped for mon-ey?” she said.

Aramark has been serving Ry-erson since 1993 and currently provides for more than 400,000 students in private and secondary schools, colleges and universities across Canada.

“We have been flexible with [the school] but, they do not want to co-operate,” said McAllister.

According to the RSU survey, stu-dent-run Oakham was the favourite on-campus eatery, due to its variety of choices such as vegetarian, halal, vegan and gluten-free offerings.

Though McAllister would like to see a proliferation of student-run venues like Oakham, so far no such plans have been announced.

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(Left to right) Adam Kahan, Lawrence Bloomberg and Denise O’Neil Green hold three of Ryerson’s top jobs. FILE PHOTOS

Behind the deskSome of Ryerson’s top executives are also some of its least known.

Joseph Ho takes a look at how the hidden heads of the school keep busy

Lawrence Bloomberg did not choose the chancellor life, the chancellor life chose him.

Bloomberg’s decision to take the unpaid, honourific position of Ry-erson’s chancellor came after a long walk around campus with Ryerson President Sheldon Levy.

“I didn’t apply and I didn’t choose Ryerson,” he says. “I had this precon-ceived view that Ryerson was a great place on the move and [it] would be a place — a really interesting place to play the role of chancellor.”

Bloomberg says he will use his ex-tensive business contacts to help stu-dents as much as possible. But his role at Ryerson isn’t clearly defined, and many students are largely unaware of who some university executives are and what they do.

Ehsan Akbari, a third-year geo-graphic information sciences student, did not recognize the names of many of Ryerson’s higher-paid executives and administrators.

Akbari’s ignorance isn’t surpris-ing. He’s never met them nor made it a goal to find out who they are and what they do.

Yet the results of their work often trickle into everyday life.

Adam Kahan, who takes home an annual $336,900, is vice-president university advancement.

“The fundraising we do is [for] the enhancement budget. It’s about building new buildings, it’s about providing more scholarships, it’s about funding new chairs, it’s about providing equipment for our faculty members,” he says.

His department handles fundrais-ing, a crucial task when government funding has been decreasing and tu-ition hikes are capped.

Kahan nurtures and maintains key business relationships with stake-holders and donors. After meeting a donor, the average time it takes to seal the deal on a contribution is 18

months, he says.Kahan’s office handles alumni rela-

tions, marketing and building Ryer-son’s reputation. Even brochures pass through his department.

By the time he marks his tenth year on the job, Ryerson’s newest execu-tive, Denise O’Neil Green, will be in her seventh month.

O’Neil Green started working at Ryerson in September 2012. She earns an annual salary of $196,500, as assistant vice-president and vice-provost for equity, diversity and in-clusion. Her position was born out of recommendations from a report by the Task Force on Anti-Racism.

“We are now integrating Denise into almost all the policy and proce-dural issues of the university,” Levy says, adding that, like Bloomberg, she’s still developing her role.

Her office’s choices can affect the structure of courses, the appeals pro-cess, and the accessibility of campus events, she says.

She participates in committees, ex-amines policies and reviews proposals for new academic programs.

Currently, she is planning for Inter-national Women’s Day and creating a new Alan Shepard Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Award for staff, fac-ulty and students. She hopes it will be handed out in April.

O’Neil Green stays in touch with students by attending events and con-necting with representatives on com-mittees.

“A number of committees that I’m on have student representation and I make an effort to introduce myself to students, give them my card, invite them to come to my office, even invite them to have coffee with me so that I can learn about their experience at Ryerson.”

But like some of her co-workers, when O’Neil Green steps out of her office and onto Gould Street, few stu-dents take notice.

Akbari was able to identify only one of the three: Bloomberg. His un-derstanding of the chancellor ended there.

“I’ve seen it on the website, the name, on the front page,” he says. “But I don’t know who [he] is.”

Why are Rye executivesunknown to students?

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Students will consider a lot of things during their time at Ryerson. From apply-ing to a program, to gain-

ing acceptance, all the way through to graduation day, the amount of thought a person puts into their future in that time is astronomi-cal. But very few consider how the program itself came to be, or that the degree they’ve taken on is some-body’s brain child — their baby.

It was only 20 years ago that Ry-erson was granted full university status by the government of On-tario, and in that time, the school has established nearly 60 bachelor programs and the number is rising.

First, an idea must be conceived, and that program idea must serve Ryerson in an area in which the uni-versity is currently lacking. Typical-

ly, these ideas are thought up by fac-ulty groups, like professors, deans and chairs, who decide what they can create in a new program that will attract and educate students in a discipline within the faculty’s field.

(So, sorry to anyone reading with the intent of creating a four-year BA in beer pong. Ryerson administra-tion isn’t likely to find a use for that sort of education.)

But with the approval of a handful of new programs this fall, some edu-cational areas are certainly growing.

Take the creative industries pro-gram for example — a four-year degree program that allows students to explore creative fields such as fash-ion and photography while learning managerial skills. Graduates earn a bachelor of arts with a specializa-tion in business. The interdisciplin-ary program is geared towards those who desire an entrepreneurial career in media, entertainment, design or the visual and performing arts.

You could call Ira Levine the lov-ing parent of creative industries. It took the Ryerson theatre school professor about five years before it could give birth to the program, and it’s currently accepting applica-tions for its first semester next fall.

“I had been thinking about the

idea for a new program for quite a while. It was a lengthy process be-cause it was an idea for a kind of program that doesn’t exist certainly anywhere else in North America,” says Levine. “However, it could take advantage of the unique circum-stances we have at Ryerson, since no university embraces all of the creative industries like Ryerson does.”

Aside from creative industries, 2013 will also see the launch of biomedical science, financial math-ematics, real estate management, philosophy and professional com-munication.

In its first stages, those proposing a program must write a “letter of in-tent” to the provost’s office as well as to the dean of the respective faculty. The two provide feedback and revi-sions to the letter while the university

planning office looks at the financial aspects of the program. If all agree that the program has a solid academ-ic purpose and will produce gradu-ates with real career opportunities, the provost will post the revised letter on their website for 30 days. Ryerson community members are then invit-ed to comment on the program and those comments are passed along to the proposers.

“It’s a pretty thorough process,” Levine says, taking a moment to dig up his creative industries pro-posal documents. He heaves up two bounded books with clear plastic covers, both the size of encyclope-dias. He drops them on a table, a small grunt escaping his mouth as the books make a loud thud. “This alone took about a year,” he says, looking at his proposals with pride.

After a number of meetings and consultations between the propos-ers, the faculty dean, and the vice-provost academic, a formal letter is written, authorizing the school or department to generate a new “full” proposal that meets the require-ments of Ryerson’s Senate policies.

Policy 110: Institutional Quality Assurance Process, lists the specific responsibilities and powers of each party involved in the approval pro-

cess, including the Senate, the Aca-demic Standards Council, and the provost. Policy 112: New Program Development, outlines the specifics of the content within the proposal documentation and the expecta-tions of an undergraduate, master’s and doctoral program. Addition-ally, the set of skills that students should acquire upon completion of this program must also be specified.

“We were extremely confident putting the BA forward,” says Arne Kislenko, the director and proud parent of Ryerson’s history under-

graduate program which began last fall. “I don’t think anyone was too nervous, principally because we were very confident about our teaching reputation and the quality of our program proposal. We also understood that no university can really call itself a ‘full university’ without humanities programs.”

Back in 2004, the idea for an un-dergraduate history program had been around for some time, but it wasn’t until the new arts and con-temporary studies degree was un-veiled that year that the History

department decided to make their first concerted effort at putting something together. The next five years were spent “wrestling” with the contractions surrounding the content of the program until a pro-posal was created.

And like an endearing nurse or experienced OBGYN, Carl Benn ar-rived to assist in the delivery of the baby program.

“I think everyone in my depart-ment would agree that Dr. Benn was the real key in getting our BA from an idea to a reality,” says Kislenko.

No university can really call itself a ‘full university’ without humanities programs

Hey Ma, where do programs come from?

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As a former museum curator and University of Toronto professor, Benn was appointed the new chair of the history department in 2008. Former initiatives then became fo-cused enough to create an actual proposal, polished and ready for presentation in 2010.

“He has been a tireless and mas-terful architect of the whole pro-gram, and he steered us through some of the debates we had about what directions our program would take,” Kislenko says.

But like in any pregnancy, one

must be prepared to face a few com-plications.

“Every one of these stages can potentially be a problem,” says John Isbister, the interim provost and vice-president academic. “The faculty can disagree and the idea never gets off the ground… Or we may have 15 good proposals, but we’ll only move forward with six because we’re pretty sure that the government will not provide fund-ing for the others.”

All college and university pro-grams in Ontario receive approxi-

mately half of their funding from the provincial government and the other half through tuition. Though some programs need to be thor-oughly reviewed before receiving funding, there is a list of standard subjects, like natural and social sci-ences, which can potentially receive automatic funding.

“A lot of Ryerson art programs don’t get automatic funding, so most of the time, we need to ask [the provincial government] for funding,” Isbister says.

Then there may also be some cases where a pro-gram just doesn’t make it to approval.

“You also might run into trou-ble if you start a program and get approval and everything. You go ahead and advertise it, but later find out that Ontario students just aren’t interested in that particular pro-gram,” says Isbister. “I’ve seen cases come close to that before.”

But Ryerson has proven itself to father some pretty well-received programs. Last fall, the Faculty of Arts introduced a degree program in Environment and Urban Sus-tainability, which has thrived since, surpassing its enrolment targets in its first semester. The biology and sociology undergraduate programs have also followed similar paths af-ter being launched in 2005.

“In my two and a half years of working in this position, I am not aware of any programs that have been rejected,” claims Christopher Evans, Ryerson’s vice-provost aca-demic. “All of them have been suc-cessful and all of the programs that started met their enrolment targets, which is good.”

By the second phase of program proposal, the faculty and the dean have approved the full proposal.

A small group of external academ-ics unrelated to Ryerson are invited to visit the campus and critically evaluate the written proposal while analyzing the capacity of the school to deliver the program. The exter-nal consultants, acting as academic midwives, write a report based on their findings, and the proposers re-view it. It is then the dean’s job to write a response to the consultants’ report and take it to the provost.

“We had one professor come down from Drexel University in Philadelphia who was a long-time television executive at CBS, and another one came from Simon Fraser University. The two [profes-sors] made an assessment that was very supportive and also contained some ideas that we incorporated

into the proposal,” says Levine. With the academic response in

hand, the provost can then present it to the Academic Standards Coun-cil (a subcommittee of the school Senate), who can recommend that the Senate approve the proposal. If the Senate agrees with the ASC, a vote is held to approve the program.

Prior to a program’s birth, the On-tario Universities Council on Qual-ity Assurance reviews the program as well. According to their website, the Council of Ontario Universities created this group in 2010 to over-see the approval of new undergrad-uate and graduate programs, and to review current university programs for quality every eight years.

Lastly, Ryerson’s Board of Gov-ernors reviews the financial aspects of the proposed program. The 24-member board consists of alum-ni, faculty, administrative staff, stu-dents and members of the public. If the Board is convinced that the pro-gram will bring in substantial rev-enue, they approve it. Until Board approval is in place, the program cannot run. The BOG approved all five of the new programs for fall 2013 on June 25, 2012.

“Starting Creative Industries has been challenging, but very reward-ing. I’ve had the support of my

dean and the co-operation of the faculty… but I don’t think I’ll be developing any more programs at Ryerson,” Levine says, reminiscing and chuckling a little to himself.

So now, the years have passed and a brand new baby program has come into existence from noth-ing but an idea, ready to hire fac-ulty and accept student applications from across the world.

“All undergraduate and graduate programs should take a long time to build and implement to make sure that they are strong, academ-ically-sound, and worthwhile for students,” says Kislenko. “The checks and balances in the system… ensure that only top quality programs get implemented at Ryerson.”

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10 Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013COMMUNITIES

Sunlight illuminates large stained-glass windows beind a statue of a Christian saint praying inside of a church. PHOTO COurTeSy CreaTive COmmOnS

Giving faith a place with space

With the opening of the new multi-faith space last Thurday, faith-based groups on campus now have a new place to hold events and activities at 111 Gerrard St. E.

Apart from a stack of chairs, a few coat racks and a bookshelf with copies of the Bible, Quran and other religious texts, the new space

is relatively empty. But it’s a step up from the cramped stuffy rooms inside Oakham House that many of the groups used to occupy, said fourth-year business student Ja-pheth Kang.

Kang is the chair of the Chinese Christian Fellowship, which he said has 35 members on average attending weekly meetings inside Oakham.

“It gets tight and there’s not too

much breathing space,” he said. “At least with this (new) space we have more room and windows we can open.”

The launch comes after the Ryer-son Students’ Union (RSU) passed a motion at the November 2012 Semi-Annual General Meeting to help faith-based groups gain more campus space. But Julia Hanigs-berg, vice-president administration and finance, notes in her open-ing address that there were “many meetings and discussions” and that this is “not a fix but a temporary solution” to the space issue.

Amer Choudhury, vice-president of Ryerson’s Muslim Students’ As-sociation (MSA), said they cur-rently use classrooms and a meeting room on the third floor of the Stu-dent Campus Centre to hold their meetings and small events.

“It’s actually pretty packed, es-pecially more towards the evening where a lot of people go when classes end,” said Choudhury. “You have people waiting outside.”

Choudhury said he personally doesn’t think he’ll use the new

multi-faith space for prayer, but it is an alternative that the MSA may consider.

“It’s quite suitable for small events and anything we do weekly wise… we’re quite active,” he said.

Niranjalee Croos, a fourth-year chemistry student and member of the Catholic Student’s Association, said her group has never had issues with space because they use less of the designated multi-faith spaces on campus by attending mass at near-by churches.

Croos said that until now she didn’t know the building the multi-faith space is in “was a part of Ry-erson.”

Although her group may use the space for events in the future, she said they don’t mind travelling to nearby churches for prayers.

The opening of a new multi-faith space happened because of a col-laboration between the RSU and Hanigsberg’s office Starting this week groups are able to book the space, by visiting the RSU’s main office.

Hungry hungry students

A look at any of the posters stapled to the bulletin boards on campus and it’s clear Ryerson students are concerned with two things: food and money.

Ryerson’s Community Food Room tries to help those short on both. But despite regular campaigns and outreach, Food Room assistant Daya Senthilnathan said there are more people turning up than non-perishables coming in.

“Membership of the food room has increased significantly and we’re seeing that students are having to cut back on food expenses in order to afford to go to school,” said An-drew McAllister, Ryerson Students’ Union (RSU) vice-president opera-tions.

Last week’s faculty food drive was dissapointing compared to last month, when the Food Room re-ceived more donations than could fit in its corner space on the second floor of the Student Campus Centre.

Gesturing to the near-empty shelves, Senthilnathan said there isn’t enough food to meet the de-mands.

There are 370 students registered to use the food bank. Volunteers and coordinators don’t ask for proof of need from anyone who walks through the door.

The Community Food Room is an equity service centre promoted and funded by the RSU. McAllister, who is heading the Taskforce on Cam-pus Food, teamed up with the Food Room last week to hand out lunches in front of the Hub cafeteria.

“Everyone deserves to have good quality food that they can afford,” McAllister said.

Spring food drives are held in March, and donations can be dropped off anytime directly to the Community Food Room, the RSU front desk, or at collection boxes around campus.

By Beza Getachew

A crowd of people celebrating under the bodies of two black men is pro-jected against a wall. It is a famous 1930s lynching photograph, once used on postcards, said Mark Sealy, curator of the Human Rights Hu-man Wrongs photography exhibi-tion at Ryerson, last Thursday. The picture is part of his Kodak lecture series, which he used to speak about the origins of photography and de-pictions of the black subject.

Finding photography to be Euro-centric and self-congratulatory for Europeans while completely failing to represent minorities. Sealy said photographs often highlighting cul-tural attitudes towards black people and minorities by showing them as slaves or noble savages.

“I suppose I’m very pessimistic about the nature of photography,” Sealy said.

In his lecture, Sealy displayed sev-eral disturbing images from history. He explored pictures of victims of war, torture, lynching and other hor-rifying events.

“How could so much pleasure be taken from so much pain?” Sealy asked an audience of roughly 80 people.

Over 700 visitors went to the ex-hibition’s opening the night before the lecture. Human Rights Human Wrongs displays photographs of people struggling for human rights and tackles the role of the photog-rapher in raising awareness for inhu-mane acts and humanitarian move-ments.

It will be at the Ryerson Image Centre until April 14.

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Eight years ago, Khari Stewart left his house in search of a gun,

desperate to do anything to silence the relentless negative commentary of his two companions. Their con-stant criticism and forceful invasion of every crevice of his privacy al-most pushed him over the edge.

Fortunately, he didn’t find a weap-on that night. But his struggle began long before he tried to kill himself.

Stewart was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2000, four years after he first heard the voices that exist only in his head.

“When I heard them, I thought I was crazy,” the 35-year-old says. “I thought there was a computer chip in me, that somebody had bugged me or something.”

For the past 16 years, he has lived with two unwelcomed delusions. Anacron and Anacrona, as Stewart calls them, are demons from Mars, who he says know his location at all times via telekinesis. They commu-nicate with him through torturous commentary of his life and often physically hurt him.

“They torment me,” he says. “They are there when I’m sleep-ing. They are there when I’m in the washroom. I mean if they can even communicate with me, obviously they have enough power to kill me. I think they left me alive so they can victimize me more.”

In Canada, almost six million peo-ple — or 20 per cent of the popula-tion — live with some form of men-tal illness. Of those, one per cent will develop schizophrenia, often project-ing itself in delusions or hallucina-tions in a patient’s late teens or early twenties, according to the Canadian Mental Health Association.

When Stewart was 20, he moved out to Vancouver from Edmonton. One evening, a group of men invad-ed his home and beat him savagely, leaving him for dead. He had always been a little unusual, but since the at-tack, the voices became permanent.

Now, he has to live with not just the monsters inside his head, but

the skepticism and judgment of ev-eryone he meets who doesn’t take the time to understand.

Jonathan Balazs was one of those people. The 2010 Ryerson film graduate met Stewart in Edmonton, where they both grew up.

“He had a rep of being eccen-tric,” Balazs, 27, says. “A bit of a drug addict, maybe a little bit un-reliable — a good guy — but just a guy who’s messed up.”

They came back into contact in Toronto in 2009 through the rap scene, where Stewart is well known by his artistic name, “Conspiracy.”

“We did an interview for a mu-sic magazine and we got to talking about all the spiritual stuff he be-lieves,” Balazs says. “I wanted to know more about it, how this thing happened.”

So Stewart became the subject of Balazs’ one-hour documentary, Mars Project. The idea took root during Balazs’ second year at Ryer-son, as a five-minute video project for a class, A History of Madness. His professor loved it and encour-aged him to turn it into a feature-length film.

The documentary explores Stew-art’s illness, recreating several of the dark moments that have occurred as a result. Many scenes were shot at Ryerson.

It took five years to shoot the entire movie and ideas changed tre-mendously throughout the process.

Balazs says at first he saw Stewart as a “freak show.” But his perspec-tive shifted.

“I realized that people were kind of oversimplifying it,” he says.

Balazs decided it was negative perspectives like his own that he wanted to correct.

“People with these unconven-tional beliefs and unconventional behaviours don’t fit into the mold,” he says. “But there’s still value some-where for them. They also humble us. We don’t know everything.”

Stewart’s identical twin brother, Addi, agrees.

“Whether I think he’s crazy or not, whether I believe in Anacron or not, it doesn’t matter,” Addi says. “It’s a garment [Khari’s] been wearing for years. It’s his reality. Do I believe in psychic vampires that maybe live on Mars? No. But I be-lieve that they exist for him.”

He says madness is a relative term.“Mental illness is everywhere,”

Addi says. “I genuinely believe ev-eryone is crazy to a certain degree. People in North America would say ‘Oh it’s so crazy in China, or In-dia. It’s so crazy that girl got raped on a bus in India.’ Well, yeah, but in America, 20 kids got shot in a school. There is madness every-where. Pick your kind of crazy. The world has 10 billion.”

In 2000, after his diagnosis, doc-tors found Stewart was the clinical type of crazy. He was confined and medicated for five months, until he decided he wanted to go home. He says his pills weren’t doing anything to help.

“I could hear them in the hospital just the same,” Stewart says. “So I was like ‘Well, if they’re going to talk to me anyway, I’d rather be some-where I want to be.’ So I just told [the doctors] the voices were gone.”

Professor David Reville, Balazs’ technical director and instructor of A History of Madness, wasn’t sur-prised. He says mental health insti-tutions are often more of a problem than a solution.

“The thing that I find the most helpful is peer support,” Reville says, drawing from his own expe-rience 48 years ago, when he was diagnosed with bipolar affective disorder and hospitalized. “And I think the problem with our system is that it relies very heavily on bio-chemistry and, of course, biochem-istry can’t give you a hug.”

Ryerson announced at the end of last year that a partnership is in the works with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health to help combat mental health issues on campus.

“My hope is that Ryerson won’t

get totally caught up in the bio-chemical approach to mental ill-ness,” Reville says.

Stewart certainly won’t. He puts his faith in spiritual healing instead. But regardless, Anacron and Anac-rona have stolen much from him — particularly his boldness.

“He was the most fearless guy in my life before this happened,” Addi says. “When we were teens, he was the leader. Since this happened, it’s kind of taken a lot of his will to live. He’s not a follower, he’s way more of a wanderer now.”

How could he not be, when he says he lives tormented by delusions he can’t walk away from?

“I thought they would just go away,” Stewart says, monotone.

“I didn’t know that hearing voices could last so long. In 1996 I didn’t think I’d be hearing them in 2013.”

Dwelling in his anguish, he knows this is his reality and his heart goes out to the only people who can truly understand him.

“God bless anyone who has the same problem as me.”

Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013 11ARTS & LIFE

I think they left me alive so they can victimize me more

Mars Project, a Ryerson film grad’s documentary, records Khari Stewart’s battle with schizophrenia. PHOTO COURTESY JONATHAN BALAZS

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One-on-one with basketball forward Björn Michaelsen

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Now in the home stretch of the OUA regular season, the men’s basketball team currently sits in second place in the East division. Charles Vanegas spoke to the Rams’ star power forward to talk basket-ball, roommates, and interactions with strangers near Allan Gardens.

You were one of the top prospects coming out of high school; what made you choose Ryerson?

For me it was more than just basket-ball. I wanted to improve my English — it used to be a lot worse than it is now — so I needed a school that was Anglophone and had engineering.

You surprised a lot of people last year by making it to the CIS National Championships. How has that raised

your expectations for this year?

Last year our goal was to reach the [OUA] Final Four, and we surpassed that. I don’t want to say what our goal is this year and not achieve it, but our expectation is to do better than we did last year.

Is it realistic to expect to win a championship in the next few years?

Even this year, it’s realistic. For sure.

You’ve been prone to injury in the past (broken finger and wrist, need-ed surgery to fix teeth). What have you done to stay healthy this year?

It’s funny because the guys on my team make fun of me, but [my in-juries] are broken bones. If you’re

injury prone, they’re usually nag-ging injuries, ones that come back. I can’t feel any of my injuries from the past. I used to be a lot more out of control, and a lot of my injuries were due to that. I’d try to block ev-ery shot and jump all the time. Now I stay on the ground a lot more and try not to put myself in a position where I could get hurt.

In the past, the biggest criticism of the team has been — outside of you — its lack of size up front. With the addition of other 6”6, 6”7 guys, has the game gotten a little easier for you?

Yes and no. We still have a lack of size. Juwann (Grannum) is do-ing a great job, and Matthew (Beckford) is still developing as a player. I think the more he plays, the more he’s going to understand the game and produce more. I’d say we need a little bit of work.

What’s the angriest you’ve ever seen [Coach] Roy [Rana]?

I don’t think he wants me to answer this question! He’s really emotional so he’ll get mad on the spot. But he’ll usu-ally think about it and approach and talk to us about it like a professional. He doesn’t get mad if we do some-thing stupid like commit a turnover, but when it’s something like effort, that’s when he’ll get really mad at us.

What’s the best part of being on the Ryerson basketball team?

Being part of a family. Every guy’s pretty close, and you have the com-munity behind you.

What is worse: losing a basketball game, or losing to [your former roommate and Ryerson track run-ner] Stephen Hosier at NHL (on PS3)?

I would say losing to Stephen would be worse. It’s personal [because] he’s so obnoxious. But as I say, Steve is a dick (laughs), but is such a fun guy to be around.

Living close to Allan Gardens, you must have some strange stories.

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An award winning photo-sharing app developed at Ryerson’s Digital Media Zone (DMZ) has returned to Apple Inc.’s App Store after it was pulled last week over alleged easy access to nude images and custom-er complaints about possible child pornography.

With over one million mobile downloads, 500px has long been touted as one of the DMZ’s biggest success stories.

The Ryerson-based startup was prominently featured during a visit Prince Charles made to the DMZ last summer.

500px ranked among Tech Vibes’ best apps of 2012, and the com-pany’s blog was recognized in Time Magazine’s 25 best blogs of 2012.

Apple removed 500px from its store early last Tuesday, just 16 months after its initial launch.

An official statement from Apple read: “The app was removed from

the App Store for featuring por-nographic images and material, a clear violation of our guidelines. We also received customer complaints about possible child pornography. We’ve asked the developer to put safeguards in place to prevent por-nographic images and material in their app.”

The app is now back in Apple’s good graces after the addition of a “report” option and a higher appro-priate age rating.

500px co-founder and Chief Op-erating Officer Evgeny Tchebotarev told the tech blog Mashable that he was not happy about having to make the changes.

“[The rating] is not an accurate statement for our app and for new

users, it could turn them off if they think the app has content it doesn’t have.”

The old rating was 4+, or fit for all users. 500px suggested 12+, the same as Flickr, but Apple insisted the company bump up the rating to 17 and up.

Photo sharing applications, like 500px, are commonly used to share atistic nude pictures.

Tchebotarev insists that 500px has always used controls to limit ex-plicit material.

500px features safety terms that prohibit certain content, and op-tions for users to report inappropri-ate photos. Support employees reg-ularly review uploaded user content.

The app is defaulted to a safe search mode that prevents nude photos from popping up.

To bypass this, a user needs to ex-plicitly change the search options in the settings menu.

“We tag artistic nudity as ‘not safe for work,’ [so] our current

terms of use obviously allow that,” said Tchebotarev.

He reminds his critics that other apps currently available from the App Store feature much more ex-plicit content than 500px.

“When you compare our app

to Flickr or Tumblr, you’ll find much more offensive content,” Tchebotarev said.

Despite the disagreement, he ad-mits Apple is an essential partner for 500px and other mobile startups.

13Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013 BIZ & TECH

DMZ born photo-sharing application 500px is back in the app store after allegations of easy access to explicit images and child pornography

Apple reapproves Rye-made photo app

PHOTO: NaTalia Balcerzak

By Tara Deschamps

Stay out of my walletWhy Ryerson should educate students about credit cards before handing them out

Comment by Biz & Tech Editor Jeff Lagerquist

A university education has never been more expensive. Now more than ever students are looking to-wards credit to bankroll their books, boarding and booze.

A diploma comes with close to $28,000 in debt, and grads will spend the next 14 years paying it off, based on an average starting salary of $39,523, according to RateSuper-market.ca.

The total price tag, if you leave your parents’ basement, is $80,000 according to their numbers.

It begs the question, why would Ryerson invite major credit card is-suer MBNA to campus every year to market a card, emblazoned with a picture of the Kerr Hall quad, to their cash-strapped students?

A recent report from BMO says 59 per cent of Canadians make impulse purchases, with 52 per cent regret-ting it after the fact. Forty-three per cent spend beyond monthly income.

Ryerson’s students are among the most financially vulnerable in Canada. Many are away from home for the first time, tenuously learning responsible spending habits in Cana-da’s retail and entertainment capital.

“You guys want some free gear?”Ah, the sound of freebies be-ing offered with an impending catch.

This was how I met 21-year-old Jeremy Hindriksen, a “brand ambas-

sador” with SDI Marketing, a com-pany contracted by MBNA to set up shop at various locations on campus.

In front of a table piled high with Ryerson duffel bags, mugs, blankets, and shirts in the lower level of the library building, he talks students into a Ryerson University Affinity MasterCard.

His pitch focuses on earning “points” and the impressive table of swag, as he jots down names, ad-dresses, and incomes of students and their parents.

A one-page pamphlet called “Be Good With Money” sits next to the Ryerson goodies. Hindriksen doesn’t mention it until I asked.

“Some people are in a hurry to get to class and whatnot, so they don’t take the time to hear all the details,” said Hindriksen.

In just two minutes, a student can walk away with a university themed prize and the promise of a low-inter-est credit card in the mail.

“Some people don’t even realize that they can affect their credit rat-ing,” said Hindriksen.

As much as I don’t appreciate his cavalier approach to doling out cred-it cards, I can’t fault him for doing his job.

Slick credit card promotions and poor spending habits are a reality of capitalism, according to Bruce Sellery, founder of personal finance training company Moolala and co-host of the reality-TV show Million Dollar Neighbourhood.

He says learning how to use a credit card responsibly while off at school takes education and experi-ence, a lot like your first night at the bar.

“Credit, like liquor, needs to be consumed responsibly. Many 19-year-olds learn the harsh lesson of worshipping the porcelain god. I wouldn’t say it’s a great way to learn, but it’s going to happen,” said Sell-ery.

Realistically, it’s hard to criticize credit card companies for targeting new customers. That’s just business. The secretive three-way relationship between MBNA, Ryerson, and the Ryerson Students’ Union (RSU) is much more unsettling.

“When a new account is opened, Ryerson receives revenue. The vol-ume of card holder transactions also generates royalty payments,” said Tyler Forkes, executive director of alumni relations. He says the exact figures are confidential.

The RSU confirmed with The Eyeopener in 2010 that they receive $10,000 annually for bursaries from the alumni association.

While it may be lucrative for Ryer-son to market credit cards to students with free trinkets, doing so without putting forward a reasonable effort to make sure they understand what they’re getting into is irresponsible.

It’s time universities forget about partnering with credit card compa-nies and start to look out for their number one customers: students.

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