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“Her last words...were ‘I’m not going anywhere’”Students and faculty are mourning the death of Tanit Mendes, a prof at the Theatre School and a ‘true artist,’ who died last Wednesday

PHOTOS COURTESY OF RYERSON THEATRE SCHOOL

Tanit Mendes, co-chair of the the-atre production program who taught at Ryerson for 15 years, and who was known for her infectious laughter and positive energy at the school, passed away on Oct. 31, 2012 at Toronto Grace Hospital. She was 54.

Mendes began teaching at the Ry-erson Theatre School in 1998, ini-tially collaborating with the theatre school as an outside, professional designer. She joined the faculty when she replaced late RTS design professor Tony Abrams.

Mendes battled through bouts of cancer for more than five years, but students, staff and faculty members said they will remember her for her dedication.

“I think she cared for the students so much and gave 150 per cent of everything, including discipline — but she cared,” said Peter Fleming, productions and operations manag-er of the theatre school. “She cared about what she did, she cared about the effect of teaching, she cared about you as a student, as a faculty member, as a person. She was just very, very genuine.”

But it is the memory of Mendes’ trademark laugh that will stay with those who knew her.

Fleming remembers working with Mendes both before and after she officially joined the Ryerson faculty.

“She and I always got along so well. Her laugh was so infectious, you could just hear it down the hall,” he said.

One of her former students, Heather Meger, has fond memories of Mendes.

“Her laugh is something that you’ve never heard before,” said Meger. “She was such a lovely per-son. Had I just met her through another avenue, we would’ve been friends.”

By Arti Panday A graduate of York University’s theatre department with a masters of arts from the University of To-ronto, Mendes was an artistic jack-of-all-trades.

Remaining dedicated to her stu-dents and igniting passion for the-atre, art, and life as a whole is how she lived her life.

Aside from being a genuine, car-ing professor and friend, Mendes also had the role of a disciplinarian, a position she didn’t take lightly.

“She was fabulous, but she was tough,” said Fleming.

Her tough persona was seen es-pecially by her students, who may have initially thought she was a bit

too tough. Mendes served as the co-director of the program and academ-ic advisor, dealing with all the stu-dents. She put extensive effort into her position at the theatre school, helping students work through both academic and personal issues.

“In first year, I was like ‘she push-

If you didn’t know Tanit Mendes then you missed somebody filled with passion...humour and life

es us too hard’ and she wasn’t my favourite professor,” said Meger. “About halfway through first year I realized she was pushing us this hard because she wanted us to do well.”

Meger, who graduated from the-atre technical production in 2004, says it was Mendes who helped her discover her talent for scenic paint-ing.

“If you did something that was fantastic right off the bat, the smile that would come across her face and that overwhelming sense of be-ing proud of you came through her because she was so dedicated to her students,” Meger says. “You wanted to do well for her. It wasn’t just to

do it for yourself, you wanted to make her proud.”

“After I took the scenic painting course, she pushed me and made me realize that I had a talent in that. So, in my fourth year, I was head of paints for our production,” said Meger.

Breanne Lawrence, a third-year theatre production student, says Mendes made her “love being at the school.” She recalls Mendes as be-ing passionate about her job. “She was one of those profs that was re-ally into theatre,” she says. “You could tell that she loved what she did and she loved teaching about it.”

Mendes’ passion and humour is what Fleming thinks made her who she was.

“If you didn’t know Tanit Mendes then you missed somebody

filled with passion and filled with humour, and life,” said Fleming.

“She was a true artist. She taught set design, model making, scenic painting and jewelry making.”

Mendes’ artistic flair continued right into her final days. She want-ed to run a jewelry-making class as she sat in her hospital bed; she asked her husband to get all of her materials.

Up until the end, Mendes was a teacher and an artist to the core.

“She always wanted to come back to teach,” said Fleming. “Her last words [to me] were, ‘I’m not going anywhere.’”

Mendes will be honoured at a memorial set for Nov. 22, which will be run by the Theatre School.

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Glen Murray has resigned as Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities to run for Liberal leadership. His platform includes a ‘no money down’ tuition program. FILE PHOTO

There was some commotion in the refurbished Maple Leaf Gardens this weekend. For whatever rea-son, Glen Murray, former Minis-ter of Training, Colleges and Uni-versities, chose a building known for its vast selection of cupcakes to announce Sunday that he will be running for Ontario Premier. His only competitor so far is Kath-

leen Wynne, former education minis-ter for the Liberals.

While Wynne has not yet an-nounced her plans to reform the province’s post-secondary sector, Murray is pushing his plans regard-ing students to the front of his plat-form. His fi rst step is a ‘no money down’ tuition program, which in-volves not paying a penny for your education until you’re comfortably employed.

All well and good, except there’s a problem with when all that mon-ey could be paid back. For starters, students are having trouble fi nding work after graduation. A StatsCan study released in October shows June’s unemployment rate for Cana-dians aged 18-24 was 14.8 per cent — the highest in 21 months. That fi g-

ure is double the 5.8 per cent unem-ployment rate of people 25 and over.

Don’t get me wrong — opening the doors to university educations for those who can’t afford it straight out of school would be nice. Though in the long-term the benefi t-cost ratio may waver. More students heading into university means more gradu-ates eventually entering the job mar-ket with the same degrees, which wouldn’t help those 18-24 unem-ployment fi gures.

Murray deserves respect for high-lighting tuition as a provincial con-cern. However, it is too early to view his pitch as the saviour of the educa-tion sector. Right now it’s best to sit, watch what competition unfolds and eat a cupcake or two.

ByLee Richardson

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By Sean Wetselaar

On Jan. 25, 2011, a huge assembly of stu-dents invaded one of Ryerson University’s regularly held senate meetings. Representa-tives of the Ryerson Students’ Union (RSU), including board and executive members, along with regular students and media had assembled to watch the final motion of a policy change that would give students a fall reading week to complement the winter one.

This motion came after numerous failed attempts by students to create a fall reading week. After a chance for students to debate it, both in favour and against, Ryerson Presi-dent Sheldon Levy called a vote.

“I remember distinctly sitting at the side there and then the motion came up,” says RSU President Rodney Diverlus, then in his first term as vice president equity. “And the vote happened. It passed. We freaked out.”

Ryerson policy is a dense, complicated af-fair, and changing it can be more dense and even more complicated. But, when it comes down to it, lobbying the university for policy change is, in many regards, the best bet a student has at making a direct impact on the university and how it does business.

The first step in pushing a policy change forward, says Levy, is to identify whether the policy in question is academic or non-academic, meaning policy to do with the ad-ministration. All policy at Ryerson must be passed by a governing body; the senate for all academic policy, and the Board of Governors for all non-academic policy.

However, Levy cautions that the school does not take policy change lightly.

“Not only do you have the responsibility as a student to be able to take opportunity to change policy, you have to be able to do your homework as well,” Levy says. “I hope that a university wouldn’t change policy whimsical-ly and would require a good deal of thought and a lot of care, and a lot of research before changing university policy. I think that’s an absolute necessity.”

Due to the amount of research done in advance, the RSU, then under the reigns of former president Caitlin Smith, managed to once again push the issue of the fall reading week forward, despite the senate having pre-viously turned it down.

Preparation included a campus-wide survey, a motion at the semi-annual gen-eral meeting, election platforms, and lobby meetings with the registrar’s office and the school’s many faculties.

“It’s a big beast — keep figuring out where to poke it,” Diverlus says. “But you try dif-ferent tactics and you escalate them until you can get what you want. But if we’re told ‘no,’ we take the ‘no’ not as a barrier but as ‘chal-lenge accepted.’”

Another factor, Diverlus says, was involve-ment of the student senators in the process from the moment the students decided to push the proposal forward, to the moment it was “served,” or presented to the senate.

“As with any change to the university, you want to make sure you’re consulting all the stakeholders,” says Melissa Palermo, vice

president education with the RSU.Another important step in changing policy

is finding the right people in the administra-tion to back your cause. One frequently con-sulted candidate for this role is Heather Lane Vetere, vice provost students at Ryerson.

Vetere says that she often has students come forward with complaints that go to lo-cal policy in individual departments, but that she is also involved in bigger issues such as the implementation of the fall reading week.

“I’ve only been at Ryerson for four and a half years, but [my] entire career has been in this field,” Vetere says. “I’ve only ever worked with students … I couldn’t do this job if I didn’t enjoy working with students.”

Once a policy is opened to debate, by ad-ministration or a majority vote, a committee is struck, comprised of student representa-tives and any other groups that will be af-fected by the policy change, often including the office of the registrar and faculty repre-sentatives.

It is the job of this committee to create a recommendation that will then be passed on to either the Board of Governors or the sen-ate.

Despite initial concerns by the faculty of community services, Diverlus says, a com-promise that allowed students to still get their placement hours brought them on-side.

But, engineering students continued to be concerned with finalizing their degrees through accreditation, which would be void-ed by the reading week. Diverlus knew that the engineers would not support the proposal

So you think you can change Rye’s policy?Whether it’s small faculty policy or sweeping changes to the school, students have more say in Ryerson’s policy than you might think

as it was, and that without their support it would not pass in senate.

“The issue of engineering was something we couldn’t wrap our heads around,” Diver-lus says.

Eventually, engineers were persuaded to agree to the fall break on the condition that they would be allowed to opt out.

Only one barrier stood between the stu-dents and success — the final senate vote. When a committee has come to a universal agreement on the manner in which policy should be changed, it passes to a final major-ity vote after analysis by both the president’s office and Ryerson’s legal department.

For both Diverlus and Palermo, the final meeting was the moment to bring everything they had to the table. “You present all the ar-guments, and it was all of your ammunition out because it was like, ‘You can’t say no to this,’” Diverlus says.

Changing Ryerson’s policy is not easy. It sometimes takes years of research and lob-bying, and requires an in-depth knowledge of Ryerson’s bureaucracy and chain of com-mand. It can be an exercise in strategic influ-ence of the administration, or mass petition-ing of students.

But to give Ryerson students a legitimate chance to influence policy is, as Vetere put it, “an amazing, amazing opportunity for students, in building their own leadership skills.” And the simple truth is that no matter how much work can go into policy change, if you don’t like something, there’s no excuse not to change it.

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6 Wednesday Nov. 7 2012NEWS

A group of about 100 international graduate students at Ryerson gath-ered at an annual reception to ap-plaud their peers for their personal and academic achievements on Fri-day.

International Student Services organized the event to help its members settle in to university life.

“We wanted to create a moment for them where they are recognized as a unique student population,” said Diana Ning, the International Students Services coordinator.

The mix-and-mingle style of the reception, says Ning, was designed so that students were able to share their challenges with other mem-bers of their own community.

“They are mature students and they have families. As a father with a newborn back in Iran, you are lonely. We want to ease the loneli-

By Ramisha Farooq

International students settle in at Rye

Ryerson celebrated its international graduate students Friday. PHOTO: JACQUELINE TUCCO

Rye marks firstRetiree Celebration

Ryerson University employees who retired in the past two years had their dedication to the school recog-nized at last Thursday’s first Retiree Celebration.

The event took place in the Alumni Lounge of the Mattamy Athletic Centre. As pucks zipped along the ice in the arena below, re-tirees caught up with their former colleagues and listened to speeches from guests, including Ryerson pres-ident Sheldon Levy. They were later presented with letters of apprecia-tion from Levy and silver lapel pins.

“If you can’t celebrate your past, you’ll never have a future,” Levy said to the audience.

Larissa Allen, the assistant vice-president of human resources, shared his sentiments. She said peo-ple are the school’s most valuable as-set and the celebration was meant to reflect that.

“Transformation of Ryerson has

always been phenomenal…[but] people will always come first,” Al-len said. “We can talk about tech-nology, but at the end of the day it’s people who make Ryerson. We need to honour that, learn from that.”

Connie Wu-Tanenbaum said the event gave retirees the chance to congratulate each other. Wu-Tanen-baum retired last year, after working for more than 23 years as the tech-nology support administrator at the Ted Rogers School of Management.

“I really appreciate it,” said Wu-Tanenbaum. “[It’s] good to get to-gether and see who retired.”

Patricia Bourque has worked in financial services for 35 years.

“I think [the celebration] was a nice idea. It’s nice to be recognized and meet up with past friends and co-workers,” she said.

The Retiree Celebration is one of several programs run through the People First agenda, a recogni-tion initiative spearheaded by Julia Hanigsberg, vice-president finance and administration.

By Alfea Donato

ness by creating a community cir-cle,” she said.

International Student Services provides assistance to these grads through services for their Visa is-sues, financial stress, accommoda-tion problems, health and safety changes and adjustment to a new academic culture.

Vangjel Pano, a second-year mas-ter’s student from Greece, studying aerospace engineering, is pleased with the services he has been pro-vided as an international student but feels they can do more.

“Make International Student Services bigger, it’s a small depart-ment right now,” Pano said.

“Their ability to support us de-pends on the size of the depart-ment.”

This year Ryerson has students originating from more than 140 countries.

“Our mission is to support them in the Ryerson community,” says Ning.

Wednesday Nov. 7 2012 7NEWS

A day after resigning from his posi-tion as Ontario minister of training colleges and universities, Liberal Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) Glen Murray announced his candidacy for the Ontario Liberal Party Leadership on Sunday at the Mattamy Athletic Centre (MAC).

Entering the leadership race to succeed former premier Dalton Mc-Guinty, Murray announced that his campaign will be built on ideas of renewal to benefit Ontario families and the Canadian economy. A key campaign focus is the “no-money-down university or college tuition” policy, which will let students enter post-secondary school without hav-ing to pay their tuition fees upfront.

“Students cannot afford to pay anymore,” Murray said. “I am pro-posing an exciting plan that will fi-nance post-secondary education in a new way with student loans, sub-ject to income levels, and with tax

Glen Murray enters leadership raceBy Rachel Surman benefits that will bring down the

cost of education for students and bring more money into the system.”

Melissa Palermo, the vice presi-dent of education of the Ryerson Students’ Union, described Mur-ray’s plan for universities and col-leges as worrisome.

“There are plans for income-con-tingent loans, but there are none for the reconstruction of post-sec-ondary education in the country,” Palermo said.

“If Murray wins this race and the Liberals are successful, the post-secondary education system will not be better prioritized or better publicly funded.”

Murray, a former mayor of Win-nipeg, said these costly plans could still be achieved, despite Ontario’s $14.4 billion deficit. This will be done by turning current tax deduc-tions into grants and promoting more productivity in government.

The Liberal government has tak-en steps to reduce the cost of post-secondary education, including a

30 per cent tuition cut it introduced last year, as well as the introduction of OSAP Express.

“We have introduced the OSAP Express and put everything online,” Murray said. “We have reduced all of the line-ups and saved students about four hours of standing in line. Now students don’t have to walk around with stacks of paper every year.”

Murray was also excited to be at the MAC, formerly Maple Leaf Gardens, because of the heritage and history the building holds.

“It’s also incredibly extraordi-nary because we’re all going to prove together that you can be a winner at Maple Leaf Gardens.”

As of Tuesday, Murray’s only opposition in the race is Kathleen Wynne, as the Don Valley MPP and former minister of municipality and housing resigned on Friday to pur-sue the Liberal leadership.

The new leader which will be determined at the MAC from Jan. 25-27.

Brett Wilson, of Dragon’s Den fame, visited Ryerson’s Digital Media Zone (DMZ) on Tuesday. The Canadian millionaire will be back on campus to kick-off Global Entrepeneurship Week on Nov. 12.

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PHOTO: MARISSA DEDERERGlen Murray announced his candidacy for the Ontario Liberal leadership at the MAC on Sunday.

RSU creates campaign on campus food

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The Ryerson Students’ Union has launched a task force on campus food. The campaign asks for student input on food options and service in anticipation of Ryerson University’s expiring contract with its food ser-vice provider. Aramark has supplied Ryerson’s cafeteria food and cater-ing since 1993.

Free speech index slams universities

Ryerson was one of 35 universities slapped with poor grades in a report about students’ right to free speech on Canadian campuses.

The 2012 Campus Freedom In-dex evaluated universities and stu-dent unions on protecting students’ right to freedom of expression. The report doled out 28 failing grades to universities in four categories.

Ryerson earned a ‘D’ in policies and principles and a ‘C’ in actions and practices. The Ryerson Stu-dents’ Union received D’s in both categories.

The faculty of communication and design (FCAD) will welcome a bach-elor of arts program in professional communication in Fall 2013.

According to Ryerson Today, the four-year program will allow stu-dents to study written, oral, visual and sound media communication across a variety of fields. It joins the existing one-year master’s program run by the school of professional communication. The school accepts sixty students per year.

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HIDDEN IN Geocaching has become a popular form of adventuring in the last few years. It’s planned on the Internet, executed in secret, and the locations are limitless.

The sky is bright and the shadows long on Ryerson campus as I head out on my fi rst geocaching mission. I use mission here because I’m not

entirely sure that I’m suffi ciently prepared for this treacherous journey. A toque and mitts are defi nitely in order, as are some sturdy sneakers; as you never know where a cache may take you. I start the journey, taking long and careful strides and looking up every few steps from my obliterated and diffi cult to deci-pher iPhone screen to avoid walking into any stray light posts or garbage cans.

Thirty seconds later, I’ve made it to within 10 metres of my destination. A message pops up on the screen, “You’re close,” it says. I feel encouraged. I take a quick survey of the area, noticing the landscape like no regular student ever would. I see the quad, a wide-open space and unlikely hiding spot. There is the Kerr Hall wind tunnel I just walked through, but there are no hiding spots there, plus it is too close to me to be accurate with my coordi-nates.

And there, directly in front of me, stands the façade of the Ryerson Athletic Centre

(RAC), a teaser for our underground bunker of an athletic facility. To either side of the fa-çade is nothing but path; so the arch must be my destination.

This seems too easy, I think, as there are not many hiding spots on the silly entryway. Yet I soon fi nd out just how wrong I am. There are too many holes, fi ssures and corners to count — and don’t even get me started on the under-brush. But this is a treasure hunt and I’ll be damned if I’m not fi nding that prize.

What started as United States Department of Defence military technology has turned into a fun treasure hunting adventure for thousands around the world. Using GPS de-vices, geocachers can hide and locate caches in fi elds, forests, on mountains, in the heart of a city, even in outer space.

The caches themselves can be as small as a thumbnail or as big as a shoebox. Most will contain a log, basically a guestbook, where you write to let people know you were there and some will also have prizes in them. These are sometimes big, sometimes just small trinkets, but you must replace the item with something else so the cache can continue be-ing found. If you didn’t fi nd the cache empty,

then don’t leave it that way. Geocaching was once done most commonly

in rural areas, but has been making its way into city centres. Caches are cleverly hidden but some involve an act of trust — trust that when you stick your fi ngers into that dark hole in the cement that you will get all fi ve of them back, with a newly acquired cache in hand.

Twenty-year-old Ryerson student Justine Dever-Arseneault was an avid geocacher in her high school years. According to geocach-ing.com, Dever-Arseneault is known as survi-vorgirl — she’s a big fan of the classic reality TV series and the Survivorman himself. She’s discovered more than 140 caches and she’s even hidden a few of her own. Dever-Arse-neault likes that geocaching can take you out-side of your usual comfort zone (rez kids, I’m looking at you) and helps you discover a new area. It’s also a lot of fun. “There’s this saying that’s like ‘using billion dollar technology to fi nd Tupperware in the woods,” she says. “I like the whole idea of looking for something that’s hidden and like, oh, it’s a secret.”

There aren’t many caches on campus, and there’s only one currently active by my count, but there are many surround-

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ing campus. You get to walk with an un-known destination ahead of you, and un-like drunken stumbling, you’ll remember how to get back there the next morning.

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I’m in the doorway of the façade. It’s a lot taller than you would think just walking by it. Craning my neck to-wards the sky I wonder if the cache is

hidden high up; perhaps some climbing is in order. It’s a good thing I wore my sneakers. Alas, common sense takes hold, the cache will be in a simple and less dangerous spot. Some-where you have to look twice to notice.

The cache’s owner, Highfl yer55, is no geo-caching slouch; they’ve found more than 300 caches and hidden 13 around the city. They’ve had practice hiding and disguising. But High-fl yer55 is kind and they’ve provided a clue. It reads: “There is magic, but you have to be the magician. To make the magic happen you need to know that things are not always what they seem.”

I have no idea what this means so I start looking in the all the places I can see, mouldy garden waste bags, rain-fi lled pails, the gar-den. The cache is nowhere to be found. It’s starting to get embarrassing. It’s a good thing I’m supposed to be clandestine.

Cachers are a very close-knit community and they take pride in their secret hiding spot as they really can be quite clever. When one is caching, the “Muggles” are not supposed to be able to notice you. This term is borrowed from J.K Rowling’s memorable Harry Potter series to designate unmagical beings, and in this case designates the non-geocaching pub-lic. If a geocache has been “Muggled,” it was compromised by a non-cacher and is no lon-ger in play.

Currently, I am failing. Every person walk-ing into the gym looks sideways at me, giv-ing me quizzical looks. Even the squirrels are looking at me suspiciously. If only I had an invisibility cloak ... but enough with the Pot-ter prose.

Another quick look round of the building face proves to be futile. The cache is nowhere to be found. Geocachers are really good at hiding things, especially urbanites, who get even sneakier with their hiding spots and cam-oufl age.

Yet sometimes they get caught and an entire city’s attention is cast on the online commu-nity.

In May, a geocache in a west-end Toronto neighborhood was mistaken for a pipe bomb.

The cache was set up on an island in plumbing tubing, and just over a week before the inci-dent one user on geocaching.com remarked, “I found it a few days ago. Good cache for muggles to not realize that it is a geocache.” He turned out to be right, as Toronto Police were called in for a bomb scare and a robot was sent in to blow it up. The cache is now listed as archived on the website.

Tanya Fermin-Poppleton, manager of Ry-erson security and emergency services, says they’ve never actually been aware of geocach-ing happening on campus.

“We would defi nitely be investigating [if it did],” she says. “Because we don’t know what they’re hiding.”

She says there is the possibility that some-one calls them about a suspicious package, in this case a geocache, and that starts a whole process. From calling for backup to a bomb squad, things can quickly get messy.

“We would do the same thing we would do for any type of suspicious behaviour: [try] and get answers to what’s going on,” says Fermin-Poppleton.

She says she’s not sure if the university would be willing to participate in being a lo-

cation for geocaching, as it is here for educa-tional purposes and this could result in non-community member on campus, as well as suspicious package scares.

The area around campus is city property and therefore Ryerson wouldn’t have jurisdic-tion, she says, but they could let the university or the department know that people will be looking around in their area.

In reality, warning people would ruin the secrecy and game aspects of the hunt and geo-caching is currently happening on campus.

In fact, it’s happening right now, as Dever-Arsenault leads me back to the RAC. I’ve asked her to help me fi nd the unwinnable cache. This was the fi rst one she found on campus and it sticks out in her mind. She stands idly by while I continue to struggle. She fi nally takes pity on me and stands next to it looking pointedly in its direction.

Finally I see it! The cache is so obvious! How had I not noticed it before?

Well perhaps I was so used to not really looking at what was right beneath my eyes, as most Muggles are wont to do.

BYOP: Bring your own pen/ pencil. Be prepared, this means the cache is small. Seriously, it’s really small.

FTF: First to fi nd.Geocacher’s version of staking a fl ag.

Muggles: The non-geocachers that are around when theexperienced adventurers are trying to do their thing.

Muggled: How a cache is described when it has been compromised by a non-geocacher. Not cool, man.

Stash: No, not that kind of stash, the free trinkets that kind geocachers leave.

TFTC: Use your common sense, it means thanks for the cache. Cachers are a friendly bunch.

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On Wednesday, the Star Wars fran-chise got a new lease on life courtesy of Disney. After buying Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion, they announced Star Wars Episode VII, the first Star Wars movie to be released since 2005.

The creator George Lucas has announced he’ll be taking a hands-off approach to the new trilogy as only the “creative consultant.”

Thank goodness. The original movies were space

westerns: simple dramas of good vs. evil with a black-and-white morality. The world was cool, the action was

fun, and it was easy to root for the good guys.

But Lucas’ prequels tried to intro-duce so many ideas into the films that they couldn’t appease the old fans, and could barely rope in any new ones.

Instead of a space opera, he made a soap opera. Instead of simplic-ity, we got Darth Vader’s Degrassi years, full of teen drama. Action was replaced with political debates, and relatable characters were supplanted by aliens with racist stereotypes in-stead of personalities.

George Zotti, owner of the Sil-ver Snail comic book shop, says the movies were originally the result of group work.

“Lucas didn’t necessarily have the final say in things,” Zotti says. “But somewhere along the line, that just got muddled, probably with money.”

“I’m of two minds about [this],” he says. “Maybe they’ll get creative people who love old Star Wars to take it back to what it should be. On the other hand, Disney could put Jer-ry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay in charge of it. And I would rather have no Star Wars than bad Star Wars.”

Kate Perez, a member of the Associa-tion of Ryerson Roleplayers and Gam-ers, is also anticipating the new film.

“I’m shocked... but at least he’s leaving it in good hands,” she says.

Disney’s a great curator of proper-ties they buy. They bought Marvel, then produced The Avengers, one of the best superhero movies ever made. Thanks to director Joss Whedon, The Avengers went back to an older style with less melodrama and more wit, and replaced brooding with ac-tion. It didn’t want to be The Dark Knight, and it never needed to.

Disney can turn this spaceship around and make Star Wars a good franchise again — especially now that Lucas is staying away from it.

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Kate Perez is a Star Wars fan who also loves Disney. PHOTO: marissa DeDerer

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Graham Wagner spent a month watching television last spring. Camped out in his living room with Netflix on, he sat through all eight seasons of the American sitcom, The Office, because it’s part of his job.

The 33-year-old former Ryerson student is one of 15 staff writers for The Office.

That means that about once a month, after pitching and editing scripts, Wagner sits in on table read-ings with the actors who play Dwight Schrute and Jim Halpert.

“We work with the actors quite a bit,” says Wagner.

“The writer stays on set…and pitches jokes. You can tweak tone and how things are said.”

Generally, it takes about six weeks to produce each episode of The Of-fice and each writer gets at least one episode per season, according to Wagner. His episode is currently in editing and is expected to air the last week of November or the first week

of December.Although he couldn’t reveal details

about what his episode will be about, he spoke about the characters he has grown fond of.

“I got a real soft spot for Phyllis,” he says. “[She] is unique to The Of-fice. When the show ends, we won’t get to see a character like that…soft-spoken but still capable of making people laugh… for a very long time.”

Wagner was in Ryerson’s radio and television arts program from 1999 to 2003, when in his final year, he stopped showing up to class and never graduated.

During his last school year, he and his friend went to a festival in Banff where their pitches won awards.

“We figured that was basically enough to make us big shots,” he says. “We thought it would go places and sort of stopped going to school.”

The pitch never went anywhere, but Wagner never regretted his deci-sion to drop out.

“I’ve never once been asked about my degree,” he says. “No one’s even

asked if I went to school.”Since then, he worked on sev-

eral Canadian shows such as Men With Brooms and Hotbox. In 2010, pursuing a larger market, Wagner moved to Los Angeles and worked on the HBO cartoon Life & Times of Tim.

“There is a lot of Canadian tele-vision and there can be a lot of fun projects,” he says. “But there are just fewer projects.”

He finally got his big break last May, when Greg Daniels, one of The Office’s creators, hired him.

“This is the first job that’s on other people’s radars,” he says. “I’ve got a lot of friends saying ‘congrats on your new career,’ and I am sort of like ‘I have been doing this for a decade.’”

“I didn’t do anything special except for not stop trying,” Wagner says. “The trick about it is that people will come and say ‘it does not happen right away, it does not happen right away.’ But just keep writing.”

Graham Wagner, 33, has been writing comedy since he was 14. PHOTO COUrTesY OF GraHam WaGNer

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A former Ryerson student is a staff writer for the American sitcom, The Office

Wednesday Nov. 7 2012 11ARTS & LIFE

The fine art of moustacheryAs November begins, facial hair shows up on men’s upper lips. But has Movember become just a fad?

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Moustaches in modern society are a quaint — in some cases — humorous look that appear to be slightly out of place. That is, until November rolls around.

As the month drags on, facial hair slowly begins to take over once clean-shaven men.

This trend, known as Movember, aims to raise funds and awareness for men’s health.

This year marks the tenth annual campaign. Participants are encour-aged to begin the month with a clean-

shaven face and grow, trim and style their moustaches to suit their unique tastes, as well as register online and raise funds by seeking sponsors.

Some participate through the ac-tual act of growing a moustache, but don’t register online or fundraise for the cause, leading others to think the movement has just become an excuse to grow absurd facial hair.

“People participate because they just want to be part of it,” said Sep Seifi, a student at Ryerson who partook in Movember last year by growing a moustache, but said he didn’t really know much about the

cause at that time. “The message gets lost within the process of grow-ing the moustache.”

This has a lot to do with fact that Movember is a socially acceptable time for men to experiment with their facial hair. Since everyone is sporting moustaches, joining in on the fad seems like the normal thing to do.

“I’ve always wanted to see what having a moustache would be like,” said Mitchell Demars, a first-time participant. Now’s the time to try it out without getting judgments tossed my way.”

Demars has not registered online, he says that it’s not economically vi-able for him to donate.

But despite the fact that fundrais-ing isn’t always the first intention be-hind choosing to grow a moustache, Jesse Hayman, the Movember com-munity development manager, said that the biggest thing is awareness.

“The moustache is a conversation-starter,” said Hayman. “It gives you the opportunity to speak about men’s health.”

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Members of the Ryerson men’s vol-leyball team have been forgoing the razor for a cause long before it was popular. Back in 2009, head coach Mirek Porosa, who lost his grandfa-ther to prostate cancer, heard about the no-shave movement that was gaining ground across Canada. So he pitched the idea to assistant coach Roger Marszalek, who then got the whole team on board.

“[Roger and I] talked about it,

and he just took charge of it,” Porosa says. “He talked to the teammates and that’s how we started raising money.”

Since then, members of the team have shaved every Nov. 1 before growing their moustaches to raise money, while taking before and after photos to document their progress. To date, the team has raised more than $3,000 for prostate cancer research — with almost half of that coming last year, when the team posed for a nude calendar to raise funds.

By Josh Beneteau “We simply went around asking our friends and families for dona-tions,” Marszalek says. “To motivate our players, we have a competition to see who can raise the most money.”

This is team captain Robby Earl’s fourth year participating in Movember. The historically weak moustache-grower hopes to post an improvement over previous years — not only in terms of hair growth, but donations.

“Every year we try to double our totals,” Earl said. “But as a team, ev-eryone has their own goals to raise as much [money] as they can.”

The men’s hockey team has also gotten involved. Defenceman Mark Corbett, who lost an aunt to cancer, is hosting a charity event at Grace O’Malley’s Pub on Nov. 27. Last year, his event raised almost $1,000.

“We’ve all dealt with a friend or family member having cancer,” Cor-bett said. “So it’s important to every-body to help as much as they can.”

Those interested in donating to varsity athletes participating in Mo-vember can look for the Ryerson Rams Athletics team at ca.movember.com.The men’s volleyball team looks to double their fundraising total from last Movember.

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Social media ups sales for studentsStudents turn to social media as an outlet to promote their handmade products. colleen Marasigan reports

While social media has become a huge platform for budding writers, performers, and actors, it has also been a great source for launching a business.

Second-year Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCA-DU) illustration student, Katia En-gell, thanks Etsy and her blog for her business’ success.

Etsy is an online community that lets self-starting designers — who make jewelry, clothes, and even electronic accessories — reach out to a worldwide audience.

With Etsy, Engell has been given a huge opportunity to connect with buyers online, and what was origi-nally a line only worn by family and friends has expanded to strangers.

While she hopes to branch out to more offline means of advertising, she doesn’t deny the success social media has given her.

“The younger crowd, which my brand is trying to target, is more Internet-friendly these days,” she says.

Third-year Ryerson journalism student Christina Dun feels the same way.

An avid sewer throughout high school, Dun designs, buys fabric, sews, directs photo shoots, pro-motes, and meets-up with clients, all on her own.

In the summer of 2011, what was first a hobby quickly transformed into her own fashion line: all.dun.up.

And after more than a year, her hard work has paid off. She likes to thank friends and social networking for that.

“It’s a complete social media brand,” she says.

With the use of Facebook, her Twitter account, Tumblr, e-mail, and word-of-mouth, Dun has been able to branch out to people in both

Toronto and her hometown of Van-couver. With the use of the brand’s Facebook page, Dun posts photos of products online — with price de-tails — and within an average of 20 minutes she’s sold out.

Although Dun originally started out on Tumblr, she found that Face-book was much easier to connect with friends and other customers. The social network quickly turned into her selling platform, while her current Tumblr site remains a port-

folio for her previous work. Aside from the use of social net-

works, Dun has also been given op-portunities to showcase her work: once at a Markham Youth Council Festival and another on MuchMu-sic’s New Music Live — an oppor-tunity she got through a Twitter contest.

Engell will be showing her work at a craft show for the first time next week. Back in April 2011, En-gell was playing around with ideas and various prototypes. In June 2012, she finally had a solid design for her wooden-jewelry line, ready to be mass-produced.

Engell feels that Etsy is the perfect match to sell her line, Solé Designs.

Starting with her blog, kittys-nooks.blogspot.ca, she presented her prototypes of designs. By then it was easier to connect with other designers, especially those who uti-lized Etsy. For Engell, free space on her blog transformed into advertis-ing space for banners and buttons for other designers.

“When I broke into that Etsy community, I thought it was a good time for me to start up my own shop,” she says.

Her necklaces, made from un-treated wood, are designed with the use of wood-burning (a technique that uses a knife-like stick that burns away at the wood to create designs). The choice of wood was Engell’s way to carry a piece of nature wher-ever you are.

Her Etsy shop, SoléDesignsShop, opened on Sept. 8 of this year. Cur-rently, her online store only sells necklaces, though she hopes to soon put out some rings and brooches.

Although Engell does everything on her own, she’s not looking for a huge team to help with the process. The process of creating the necklac-es has become so personal that she only wants to sell something she’s put the time and effort into.

Each design is unique and Engell plans to keep it this way.

“I try not to repeat because it makes it more special,” she says.

Dun goes for the same approach by reworking unique vintage pieces. Although she is a lover for fashion — and the daughter of a retired de-signer, she jokes she’ll never be one herself — she knows how difficult the fashion industry is. That’s why for her, all.dun.up is a way to have fun, de-stress, and in the process save up for her future to move to New York City plans.

“It was a way to be more cre-ative,” she says. “But it let me ex-plore the fashion world on my own terms.”

Although she’s a bit more preoc-cupied these days to make a huge collection, Dun is anticipating the winter break when she goes back to the West coast and can invest more time in her line.

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