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2 Wednesday Oct. 2, 2013

Twitter: @RyeGindinChair

REBUILDING THE WE:This is What Solidarity Looks Like!

REAL PEOPLE’S HISTORYMariam Zaidi with her film

Safar (Journey)

Speaker:• Dr. Lynn Lavallee

11 FRI

Thomas Lounge, Student Centre

12:00pm-2:00pm

ALL DAY, ALL WEEK

"TROUBLING

MASCULINITIES"curated by Heather Bains

& Dr. Ken Moffatt

Room G, Oakham House

"TORONTO-STREET LEVEL"Photography from a master class

with Vincenzo PietropaoloAbilities Arts Festival

Credit Union Lounge

DEFENDERSRecipient of the Social Justice in

Documentary Photography Award,

Ryerson Universityby Dan Epstein3rd floor Image Arts Building

“SPIRIT OF OUR

MOVEMENT”Celebrating Toronto Labour in the

21st Century, Photographyby John Maclennan7th floor TRSM

YOUTH VOICES OF

NESKANTAGAFoyer area, 6th Floor,SHE Building

ART EXHIBITS

10 THUR9:00am-10:00am

MORNING KEYNOTEBuilding Capacity, Building

Community for Social Change

• Angela Robertson,

Executive Director of the Central Toronto

Community Health Centres

Atrium, ENG, 245 Church Street

SCC115, Student Centre

8 TUE

5:00pm-6:30pm

12:00pm-2:00pm

Gould Street

STITCH A HOMESocial Safety Net and

Homelessness

Speakers, interactive workshop

and canvas art making

LUNCH & LEARN

RACE TO THE BOTTOM:Canada’s Low Wage Labour Strategy

Speakers:• Deena Ladd

Workers Action Centre

• Evelyn Encalada

Justicia for Migrants & PhD student, York U.

• Debbie Douglas

Ontario Council of Agencies Serving

Immigrants

• Trish Hennessy

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives,

Ontario

Film clips by Min Sook Lee:

Migrant Dreams

2:00pm-3:30pm

6:30pm-8:30pm

7 MON12:00pm-1:30pm

Gould Street

2:00pm-3:30pm

TRS1067,

55 Dundas St. West

SOCIAL JUSTICE

‘WALKING TOUR’Meet at Ryerson Statue

Ryerson Campus

SOCIAL JUSTICE

‘WALKING TOUR’Meet at Ryerson Statue

Ryerson Campus

RALLY:Decent Work for All

LUNCH AND LEARN

CRITICAL DIALOGUEWhere Social Justice And Social

Innovation Meet: Complicating

The Question

[Joint event with Marilyn Struthers, the

John C. Eaton Chair on Social innovation]

Speakers:• Dr. Ken Moffatt

Professor, School of Social Work. Ryerson U.

• Maya Roy

Executive Director, Newcomer Women

Centre of Toronto

• Paul Chamberlain

Program Director, CanadianCommunity Economic Development

Network

9 WEDS12:00pm-2:00pm

SCC115, Student Centre

7:00pm-9:00pm

RACE, LAW AND

SOCIAL JUSTICEA Public Lecture by

Dr. Kimberle Crenshaw, UCLAModerated By:• Dr. Denise O’Neil Green

Associate Vice Provost/Vice President,

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion,

Ryerson University

Respondents:• Dr. Akua Benjamin

Professor, School of Social Work, Founding

Member of Black Action Defense Committee

• Rodney Diverlus

President, United Black Students

at Ryerson

LIB072, 350 Victoria Street

12:00pm-2:00pm

LUNCH AND LEARNPanel: ReVision Disabilities

Speakers:• Dr. Kirsty Liddard

• Eliza Chandler, UofT Doctoral Student,

along with 4 disabled artists/activists

Atrium, ENG, 245 Church Street

6:00pm-8:00pm

VIDEO AWARD CEREMONY

+ FILM SCREENINGOccupy Love

with director Velcrow Ripper & Judy Rebick

This is a joint event with 50+ Program,

G. Raymond Chang School of

Continuing Education,

Ryerson University

LIB072, 350 Victoria Street

10:00am-12:00pm

& 2:00pm-4:00pm

SKILLS WORKSHOPS

• Ally Building (Jack Layton Room, SCC)• Forum Theater (Atrium, ENG)

• Popular Education & Social Justice

(Oakham Lounge, SCC)• Building Movements Through

Movement (Thomas Lounge, SCC)

A week of events, keynote speakers, art exhibits, actions, and

cultural events to transform Ryerson into a hub of social justice

and solidarity in Toronto.

Ryerson3rd Annual

Social October 7 to 11, 2013

Justice

Week

OPENING LECTUREIdle No More: Reframing the Nation

to Nation relationship

+ FILM SCREENINGThe People of Kattawapiskak River

Moderator:

• Dr. Cyndi BaskinChair, Aboriginal Education Council,

Ryerson University

Speakers:• Dr. Pam Palmater

Chair, Centre for Indigenous Governance,

Ryerson University

• Alanis Obomsawin

Documentary Filmmaker, The People of

Kattawapiskak River

• Josh Kendrick

Youth artist from Neskantaga First Nation

For more and schedule of events, check out ryerson.ca/socialjustice

Ryerson University is committed to accessibility and inclusion of persons with disabilities. If you require any

accessibility accommodations to ensure your full participation in this event, please contact: Heather Willis,

Accessibility Coordinator at [email protected] (416) 979-5000 x4144

All venues are fully wheelchair accessible

The Ryerson Community Presents The Ryerson Community Presents

For more info about the events:

Twitter: RyeGindinChair

Email: [email protected]

Website: ryerson.ca/socialjustice



3Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013 NEWS

The photo in question was allegedly taken during a frst-year Illustration class.PHOTO: JESS TSANG

Photo ap hits fashion schoolRye’s ashion school launched an investigation ater allegations o a picture beingtaken o a lie model during a frst-year illustration class allegedly hit social media

An investigation into an incidentnvolving fashion students has been

aunched after photos were alleg-dly taken of a life model during anllustration class.

Fashion school chair Robert Ottaid that the photo has also alleg-dly been redistributed, possibly on

ocial media.The model had been hired by the

ashion school for students to prac-ice life drawing. The class often

uses nude models but Ott could notomment if the model was naked

or clothed in the alleged photo.

“I became aware Thursday eve-ning that there might have been in-idents where students were taking

pictures of the model then that [thephoto] was allegedly put on socialmedia,” said Ott.

In an email sent from faculty,ashion students were notied thathere would be a ban on using re-

ording devices in illustration class-s, effective immediately.

“I’m actually appalled on behalf of all the students who are upset thishas happened,” said Ott.

Ott said they began looking for

the involved students on Sept. 20(the morning after he was rst in-formed about what happened by

faculty). Because no one has turnedthemselves in, the situation will behanded over to the Ryerson student

conduct ofce.

Student conduct ofcer MarkAtia said he will deal with any com-plaints that come through the ofce

that are listed in the student code of non-academic conduct, policy 61 of the Ryerson senate.

“I will take the complaint, reviewit and then interview the complain-ant and continue with my investi-

gation,” said Atia, who could notcomment on specic cases due to

condentiality agreements.Examples of “non-academic con-

duct” can include anything from-bringing rearms, explosives orweapons onto campus or theft.

Fashion instructors were madeaware of the situation after studentsbrought to their attention that al-

leged photos had been taken andredistributed.

The school is not sure what class

section the incident took place in.There are six sections of this courseand there are roughly 180 students

enrolled. Ott said there are betweenseven and eight models in total who

have worked with the school duringthis term.

Ott could not comment on whothe models were. “I reached out to

all of them on Friday and I apolo-gized and I promise this will nothappen again,” said Ott.

Laura Virdo, an agent at Suther-land models, (a modeling agency inToronto that does not work with

Ryerson), said that the fashionschool should be responsible for thespace that models work in.

“We would immediately take le-

gal action against the person or in-

stitution who had hired the model if a situation like this happened,” saidVirdo. “We would look at whetheror not the fashion school at Ryer-

son did due diligence in ensuring thesafety of their models.”

Ott said there is currently no

specic policy outlining that pho-tos are not to be taken in this set-ting, but that this incident was un-precedented.

“I don’t understand why anyonewould do this. I remember beingtold the rst week we were not al-

lowed to take pictures,” said An-

drea Markle, a second-year fashionstudent.

At this point, the school isn’t surehow the photo was taken and Ottacknowledged that “a camera is a

part of a lot of technology that stu-dents bring into the classroom.”

“[Students] need to come for-

ward to be held accountable fortheir actions,” said Ott. “I don’tbelieve their actions were malicious

or ill intended, but instead possiblyselsh or ignorant.”

With les from Sierra Bein

nion members handed out yers to students outside the student centre Monday

PHOTO: JULIANNA DAMER

CESAR locks out its full-time workersEarly Monday morning, CESAR employees woke up to fnd out they were locked out o their jobs

On the morning of Sept. 30, RyersonUniversity’s Continuing Educationtudents’ Union (CESAR) locked

out its two full-time staff positionsfter unsuccessful collective bargain-ng negotiations.

These were both senior staff mem-bers.

The lockout was triggered due tounsuccessful negotiations between

CESAR executives and their staff onthe topic of wage increases to a “costof living standard” through a newcollective bargaining agreement.

“We don’t understand why this isbeing pushed to a lockout. This is a

totally achievable agreement,” saidMary-Joe Nadeau, service coordina-tor for CUPE 1281, the trade unionrepresenting all full-time staff at CE-

SAR.

“Our members want to go back towork,” she said.

A collective bargaining agreement(CBA) is an agreement between anemployer and its employees which

regulates the terms and conditions of employees in their workplace, theirduties and the duties of the employer.

Nadeau has claimed that bothgroups were only $2000 apart frommaking an agreement but, CESAR

did not want to negotiate.“We want to be at the bargain-

ing table,” said Nadeau. “It’s really

disturbing and disgusting to see astudents’ union locking out the em-ployees.”

The previous CBA expired in2011.

During the initial negotiation peri-

od between the two parties, the tworemaining full-time unionized ofcestaff were presented with a choice,

either accept a “0% Agreement” orface the potential lockout.

The rally, hosted by CUPE 1281,

had already been planned prior tothe lockout by workers t to raise

awareness about the workers’ de-mands.

The rally included free pizza,music and speeches from differentmembers of CUPE 1281 and some

workers.But, only a few hours after it be-

gan, someone inside the building,

made a call to Toronto police ser-vices stating that there were picketersboth inside and outside the building

disrupting their general members’meeting.

CESAR’s website stated, in a mes-

sage from CESAR president ShinaeKim, that everyone entering and ex-

iting the building was supposed to“respect the picket line.”

Since the beginning of August, theunion had made two offers. Since

then, demands were reduced downto one main objective: increasedwages.

CUPE 1281 rally organizers hadbooked out the Gould Street spacewith building management and the

Ryerson Students’ Union (RSU),who manages the space, severalweeks in advance.

“The cops have said we’ve donenothing wrong,” said CUPE 1281president, Saira Chhibber.

The full-time staff at CESAR pro-

vides students with services such astheir health and dental plan, legal

services, career counselling, print-ing services and course unions alongwith a list of different social justice

campaigns.It is not yet clear how CESAR

plans to bring students their services

with the loss of most of its workersbut, CESAR’s website states that inthe event of a strike or lockout, the

Board of Directors will make all nec-essary plans to continue operatingCESAR’s services for its member-ship.

“I don’t expect there to be any de-

lays in student services,” said Kim.“We haven’t had any help in the past

six months and we’ve done ne.”CUPE 1281 members were told

that CESAR might hire cheaper la-

bour until a new agreement can bereached.

One of the two remaining mem-

bers still working at CESAR hasbeen on a wage freeze since 2010.She preferred not to be quoted.

“It’s like you wake up one morn-ing and your health benets aregone,” said Nadeau.

There is still no timeline for rene-gotiations between CESAR and itsworkers.

“We are not going to sign anagreement that doesn’t offer ex-ibility of our operations,” said Kim

about the proposed agreement. “It’svery one-sided.”

I’m actually appalledon behalf of all thestudents who are up-

set this has happened

ByRamishaFarooq

By

AngelaHennessy



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5Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013 NEWS

FCAD referendumapproved by Boardof GovernorsRCDS one step closer to creatingstudent-led society or FCAD

The Ryerson Communication

nd Design Society (RCDS) got

what it wished for Monday when

ts referendum request was suc-

essfully approved during the

013-2014 school year’s rst

Board of Governors meeting. The

board unanimously approved the

possible foundation of a student-

ed society for the Faculty of Com-

munication and Design (FCAD).“We want to take things to a

higher level by refusing to accept

hem as they are,” said Cormac

McGee during the RCDS propos-

l. McGee, a third-year journal-

sm student, was alongside new

media’s Karina Nicole, who both

poke on behalf of the RCDS dur-

ng the evening.

Ryan McKenna, a third-year

ournalism student and one of the

ead organizers for the RCDS, has

onrmed that the referendum

will be held in the next few weeks,

most likely in the rst week of

November.

“This is the big stretch now forus. We’re going to be doing a lot

of work in terms of marketing and

eally pushing our group online,”

aid McKenna.

The RCDS aims to bring

tudents from all FCAD programs

ogether, share ideas and collabo-

rate with one another. Funding

however, would come through

tuition, as it does with other stu-

dent-led societies at Ryerson Uni-

versity.

“We want to help FCAD stu-

dents get professional opportuni-

ties and link them with profession-

als in their eld,” said McKenna.

“[But] we really need to get

people aware rst,” he added.

In a survey of 1,000 FCAD

students done earlier this yearby the RCDS, 95 per cent of

students said they were in favor

of an FCAD society. As well, 75

per cent of students also said they

would support funding the society

through tuition.

Funds would be distributed

towards funding resources for

FCAD students such as awards

and bursaries, conferences and

competitions, orientation-week

events geared specically towards

FCAD students and professional

events. In turn, these resources

and opportunities build the repu-

tation of the faculty and its stu-

dents.In response to the challenge

of getting the rest of the FCAD

students on board, McGee said

the RCDS will be “talking one

on one with students, to make

them aware of how it can benet

them.”

Students crack engineering and architecutresystems; thousands of spam e-mails sent

Several students tampered with

Ryerson’s email server Monday

night, utilizing the online ad-

dress fabrication site Deadfake.

com to send over 80 emails from

engineering communications co-

ordinator Michelle Colasuonno

to all students in the engineering

and architecture programs.

The emails ranged from links

to pornographic images, insultsaimed at faculty members, Break-

ing Bad spoilers and dismissal

of Ryerson’s online security. The

students started recieveing mul-

tiple messages at roughly 8 p.m.

and through until Tuesday morn-

ing.

The Eyeopener was able to get

into contact with one participant

in the prank who wishes to re-

main anonymous.

The source explained how the

group, though not actually work-

ing together, managed to change

their IP addresses in order to hide

the source of their emails and re-

main untraceable.“The rst message I sent was to

tell people to use a proxy instead

of just using their internet be-

cause people could trace it back,”

our source said.

He went on to explain that

he was one of the few who saw

the initial spam mail and pos-sessed the “know-how” to join

in for fun. “I was reading and

it seemed like fun so I just want-

ed to test it and see if it actually

worked… there are some people

who are doing it and actually

trying to nd system aws,” the

source said.

One email hinted to the inten-

tions of other participants in the

prank: “As a student, I put a lot

of trust in Ryerson. Them letting

something as easily exploitable as

this stick around indicates to me

that there could be other security

holes, especially because it’s stillnot been resolved.”

Another such email hinted that

this stunt was the tip of the ice-

berg: “to all of my friends who

know at least a thing or two …

take a look at Ryerson’s wireless

network, you’ll nd some shit

there that is way more interest-

ing.”

Mugino Saeki, Ryerson’s infor-

mation security ofcer, has said

that after nding out about the

“stunt” her ofce shut down the

email list. “Any system has some

aw no one is immune to some

sort of attack,” said Saeki.

Saeki’s ofce has also restrictedaccess to Deadfake.com on Ry-

erson’s server and has called in

a forensic investigations team to

track down the sources of the

emails.

Visit theeyeopener.com for up-

dates on this developing story.

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“This is pathetic. I should notbe able to send this email. It’sbeen three hours already.”

“Sorry to say but your systemis so shit that even a no-brainercould nd a hack around your sys-tem...your system architect has abrain lower than a no-brainer .”

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6 Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013NEWS

RSU unks for freedom ofspeech on campus

ByYaraKashlan

The Ryerson Students’ Union

(RSU) received poor grades for its

performance of policies and prac-

tices on campus last year after re-

fusing to ratify a proposed men’s

issues group.

The Justice Centre for Constitu-

tional Freedoms (JCCF) rated Ry-

erson and other universities and

their student groups in its 2013Campus Freedom Index. While

Ryerson University received a top

grade, the RSU was rated among

the second worst student unions in

the country for failing to uphold

free expression rights on campus.

There were two categories for

the grading: policy and practices.

The RSU received a “D” in policy

and ‘F’ in practices.

Communications and develop-

ment coordinator and co-author

of the Campus Freedom Index Mi-

chael Kennedy said its decision to

give Ryerson failing grades was a

direct result of the RSU’s decision

to not allow a student men’s issues

group to be formed last March.

“Every member in the RSU

should have the same freedoms,

and funding space,” said Kennedy.

“Every student is entitled to that,

they [RSU] can’t deny what every

other student is entitled to.”

Kennedy also mentioned that

there is a concern that once the

student union rejects a club, that

leaves the students not wanting to

go ahead anymore.

“Most men on campus don’t

regard the Women’s Center as a

threat,” said Kennedy.

However, the RSU still stands by

its decision to not allow the men’s

issues group on campus.

Rajean Hoilett, RSU vice-presi-

dent for equity, said they had cam-

pus safety in mind when consid-

ering the ratication of the men’s

group. “We looked at how this

group operated at different lev-

els,” he said. “For example, at U

of T, [they were] targeting women,

we felt like this was not the route

to go.”

“We see this as a difference in

ideology. We are proud of the work

[that] we do,” said Hoilett. He said

that freedom of speech has a limit

when it puts others in danger.

Last year, Argir Argirov and

Sarah Santhosh presented their

potential campus group to a panel

of seven RSU members March 15,

hours later they were sent an email

stating that the group had been re-

jected.

Students across campus have

expressed their support for the

men’s group.

“Men experience a lot of hid-

den repression because they are

expected to be tough guys,” said

Amber Bin-Soehardji, a second-

year social work student.

Bin-Soehardji mentioned thatthere are no other groups that of-

fer men support on campus.

“There is a stigma against men

who express their feelings and ex-

press that they have issues,” she

said.

For students, the ratication of

the men’s group hinges on whether

their intentions are positive.

“If they’re not for education,

I don’t think that they should be

here but, other than that, they

have a right to be here,” said Je-

rome Lorenzo, a rst-year early

childhood studies student.

Hoilett stated that the RSU is

proud of the work that they have

accomplished.

Santhosh, the original founder

of the group, was contacted but

declined to comment.

Not allowing the formation of a men’s group on campus

last year was the main reason for the failing grade

Ryrson studnts Anjana Rao, ft, Argr Argrov and Sarah Santhosh trd to start a mn’s ssus group on campus ast yar.

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The intersection of Gould and Vic-oria streets has been fenced off for

urther renovation. Vice-president

of nance and administration, Julia

Hanigsberg, said the installation of

new surface paint treatment that

will cover up the current dirt-rid-

den paint will be done by the end

of October. This is stage two in

three part beautication process.

The changes will be completed

by Nov. 1.

Early Learningturns fty

Ryerson’s Early Learing Centrecelebrated its 50-year anniversary

this week. The centre runs the

early childhood education degree

program, which began in 1972.

Changes to the nursery school

soon followed. In addition, the

school of early childhood studies,

including the Early Learning Cen-

tre, is now an established leader

in the eld, spearheading early

learning labs across Canada.

Men experience a lotof hidden repressionbecause they are ex-pected to be tough

Think with UsHelp develop Ryerson’s

academic plan

Ryerson’s success is due to your passion

and commitment; its future depends on

your continued support. As the university

launches the consultation process todevelop its next academic plan, we want

to hear from you.

Do you have an idea or vision of where

Ryerson University will be in ve years?

What the university will be renowned for?

What will be new? What will be dierent?

We invite you to share your ideas with

the community.

• Visit academicplan.blog.ryerson.ca

to compete the sentence:

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• Participate in the following town hallswhich are open to members of the

Ryerson community

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any accessibility accommodations to ensure your

inclusion in this event.

*Students only; refreshments available

October 10 KHS - 239 2-3 PM

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Thanks for your support.



7Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013 BIZ & TECH

our prayers have been answered. Faster, more dependable internet is now at TRSM.

Wi-Fi revamped in Ted Rogers School of Management

PHOTO: JSS TSg

ByAlfeaDonato

While the rest of Ryerson might beagging behind, 227 small, whiteboxes installed on ceilings all over

Ted Rogers School of BusinessManagement (TRSM) will makehe building’s Wi-Fi faster and more

eliable. TRSM has entered the lastphase of wireless and network up-rades, which includes a complete

overhaul of networking deviceshat will be nished by Oct. 7.

These white boxes are calledccess points — they allow devices

o connect to the Internet. Six yearsgo, Ryerson’s Computing and

Communications Services (CCS)

only installed enough access pointsn TRSM for moderate laptop useapable of handling 30 simultane-

ous connections.TRSM is one of Ryerson’s most

requented areas and had 216 old-

r-generation access points beforehe upgrades. TRSM was experi-ncing Wi-Fi congestion prior to

he installations.“Suddenly every person not only

had a laptop, they had a smart

phone they wanted to connect,”aid CCS director Brian Lesser.

As the number of connections

hot up, so did the complaints.“I would search [Ryerson] on

Twitter and see ‘What the fuck,

our Wi-Fi sucks,’” said Lesser.TRSM information technology

director Paul Dunphy said the big-

est challenge of the upgrades wasnstalling the network switches, de-ices used to power access points.

The bulk of costs in TRSM wento replacing them. Since the old

witches couldn’t provide enoughpower for the new access points,594,244 was used to replace the

older models. These older models

will replace the even more archaic

switches in the Victoria and Po-dium buildings. CCS was given$772,476 to upgrade TRSM.

The new access points cost Ryer-son $151,369 and can handle 100simultaneous connections each.They’re also three times faster than

the old ones, capable of download-ing content at 950 megabytes perminute. The latest models can also

measure Wi-Fi signal strengthsand switch users to the closest andstrongest Wi-Fi connections.

The upgrades were meant to

be nished before September butCCS faced delays when a technol-

ogy company, (which couldn’t benamed) tried to force the school tobuy their devices. CCS has bought

access points from another com-pany, Aruba Networks, for nineyears. Lesser said the school’s law-

yers had to write to the company,explaining that Ryerson was notcompelled to buy access points

and network switches from othervendors.

Demand for Wi-Fi access on

campus has increased every year,with peak numbers growing by

the thousands. Last year, thepeak number of wireless devicesconnected at the same time was7,000. This year the number rose

to 9,200.In an informal survey, TRSM

students said they’ve seen no

differences in their usual Wi-Fiservice so far, with some report-ing great connections and others

noting lag.“At times it cuts out, in cer-

tain areas on campus [too],” said

second-year business technologymanagement student Jason Ra.

Since last March, 378 accesspoints have been added and 227

have been replaced across cam-pus. By the end of the year, anadditional 271 access points from

different Ryerson buildings will beswapped with newer models.



8 Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013FEATURES

Go take a walk on cam-

pus. Saunter down Gould

Street and take every-

hing in. From the quaint inter-

ock and picturesque trees to the

brownstone expanse of Kerr Hall,

ou’ll probably notice a common

heme –– new buildings. From the

till-sparkling Image Arts Build-

ng to the metallic sprawl of the

unnished Student Learning Cen-

re, it’s an open secret that Ryer-

on is not happy with its current

ot in life. It’s trying to shake off he rust of its years as a polytech-

nic with physical construction on

ampus. The size of the small,

downtown campus has exploded

ince its humble beginnings in the

mid-1900s and the current admin-

stration in particular has made

onstruction and purchasing new

buildings a major priority. And

here’s one thing that ties almost

ll the growth together –– the way

t was nanced.

Over the past several years of

budget cuts, public-private part-

nerships, or P3s, as they are often

referred to, have increasingly be-

come a part of business as usual

at universities, and Ryerson is no

exception. Though some critics

say that deals with private corpo-

rations risk the interests of post-

secondary education, much of

what Ryerson has done in recent

years has come attached to P3s.

Public-private partnerships at

Ryerson have allowed the uni-

versity to extend its reach in the

downtown core, and has been at

the centre of most of the buildingdeals allowing Ryerson to expand

its physical blueprint.

P3s are, in essence, any rela-

tionship in which a public sector

institution, such as Ryerson and

other schools, engages in a rela-

tionship with a private company.

When used correctly, P3s can offer

universities a chance to function

beyond the limits of dwindling

budgets. But other times, they can

be unhealthy and lead a university

down the wrong path.

“I am a big fan of private fund-

ing to an extent,” says Ryerson

economics professor Eric Kam.

“Which means I am a big fan of

privatization of anything until

that privatization takes over a uni-

versity’s direction.”

According to Kam, some univer-

sities in the United States, includ-

ing Ivey-league Yale and Harvard,

engage in public-private partner-

ships that are unhealthy.

“Some corporate companies

who sponsor the university are

trying to sit on the board of gover-

nors and the board of directors,”

Kam says. “And the corporate

agenda is starting to govern thedirection of the research of the

university and that’s a danger-

ous slope.” He adds that some

companies will try to earn prod-

uct support from research arms

of universities they sponsor when

those recommendations have not

really been earned.

This is exactly what worries the

Ryerson Students’ Union (RSU),

which last year approved by a

landslide vote an ofcial motion

to oppose the implementation of

P3s on an institutional level, and

have been outspoken critics of

their use.

Today, when it comes to fundingprojects that are not directly tied

to academics, universities receive

little to no government funding.

This could be one of the reasons

why universities engage in public-

private partnerships on an increas-

ingly large scale.

“There is a need for the govern-

ment to fund all aspects of univer-

sity since students access different

areas,” says Rochelle Lawrence,

vice-president of education at the

RSU. “These areas like counsel-

ling services, food services, resi-

dence, athletics and recreation andall other aspects of university that

students rely on that are outside

of just academics are integral to a

student’s experience.”

But Julia Hanigsberg, the vice

president of administration and -

nance at Ryerson, believes less fo-

cus should be placed on where the

funding comes from and more on

what it does for students. “The is-

sue with partnerships is less about

whether they are public or private,

which is a matter of where they get

their funding, and more a matter

of what are the shared objectives

of Ryerson and that partner,” she

says.Wherever you fall on the issue,

though, lack of government fund-

ing has pushed Ryerson to nance

one of its latest projects entirely

through a private organization.

MPI group is a private

development company

that is partnering with

Ryerson on a new student resi-

dence project announced Febru-

ary 2012. MPI owns the land that

Don’t worry son, I’m fWhether or not you’re an architecture student, it’s hard to ha

Monique Phillips takes a look at the sometimes controversial method



Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013 9FEATURES

he residence will be built on ands also covering the cost o the en-ire project, something that would

have been very difcult or Ryer-on to aord otherwise. MPI willetain rights to profts rom the

building, but Ryerson will oper-te the residence in the same way

om the private sector

that Pitman Hall and the Interna-tional Living and Learning Centre(ILLC) have been run in the past.

Prior to this partnership, Ryer-son had very ew options to ac-commodate its student housing

needs (around 850 residence spotsor an enrollment o 28,000).“For a number o years we have

been trying to determine how wecan build more student housing,”Hanigsberg says. “We get nogovernment money to build stu-

dent housing and it’s expensive tobuild.”

But Lawrence says that this

partnership might not take studentbudgets into consideration. “Oneconcern that we have is around

the cost o rent,” she says. “MPIis a private company, it is in theirinterest to make a proft rom the

rent paid by students, which couldmake it unaordable.”

That said, Hanigsberg said rent

pricing will be competitive withPitman and ILLC, both o whichcost around 1,000 to 1,200 per

month in rent.Kam notes that Ryerson’s space

problems expand beyond the num-ber o residence rooms to an in-creasing shortage o class space.This limits the university’s ability to

bring in more students, and in turnmore per-student unding rom theprovincial government. “The prob-

lem is you have space constraints,especially with a place like Ryer-son University,” he says. “We don’t

have a ton o room, so, in theory,you might want to bring in anotherten, or 20, or 30,000 students, but

where are you going to put them?”

Another recent addition tocampus is no exceptionto this trend o P3s. The

Ted Rogers School o Manage-ment (TRSM) building is part o what’s called a “strata contract”

between Ryerson and CadillacFairview. Ryerson retains controlover its academic space on the up-

per oors, while Cadillac Fairviewoperates a bank o retail space onlower oors, including CanadianTire and Best Buy.

The building ran the school ap-proximately $75 million and theprovincial government chipped in

$12.5 million. Even with supportrom Cadillac Fairview, though,the building would not have been

possible without a generous dona-tion rom Ted Rogers, which gavethe building and business school

its name.Beore the TRSM building

popped up, the business school did

not have a central hub on campus,and though the new structure is ashort walk rom campus, its prox-

imity to Bay Street is not lost onits occupants. Ken Jones, dean o

the school o business at the time,called the location one that “ev-ery other business school wouldenvy” in a press release beore the

issed the myriad o new buildings popping up on campus.to fnance almost all o them — partnerships with the private sector

opening o the building in Septem-ber 2008.

Perhaps the greatest accom-

plishment o Ryerson’smodern berth as a ull-

blown university was the redevel-

opment o the historic Maple Lea Gardens as the Mattamy AthleticCentre (MAC), which was unded

by, you guessed it, a public-privatepartnership.

The deal was initially a three-

way partnership between the gov-

ernment, Ryerson and LoblawCompanies Limited. The govern-ment and Ryerson pitched in $20

million each and Loblaw donated$5 million to the project. Ater alengthy construction process (the

project was announced December2009 and not completed until Sep-tember 2012), Global Spectrum,

another private company, steppedin to manage the building’s opera-tions.

But Lawrence says studentshave some issues with the man-ner in which the company runs the

centre. “The act the building ismanaged by Global Spectrum has

raised issues like students not be-ing able to access the space whenneeded,” she says. “And pro-

gramming is geared towards being

able to a proft.”It seems that, as is the case with

much o Ryerson’s expansion,

Maple Lea Gardens would neverhave sported an “RU” withoutthe help o Global Spectrum and

Loblaw. Loblaw, in particular,played a pivotal role, Hanigsbergsays. “We worked very closely to-

gether on the development itsel,”Hanigsberg says. “Loblaws wasresponsible or the base building

and we were responsible or theft-up o our area.”

Whether you believe it’s sae

or public institutions to irt withthe private sector or not, it seemsthat, at least here at Ryerson, they

are here to stay. Ryerson showsno signs o slowing its explosivegrowth in terms o physical space,and as Hanigsberg points out, it’s

unlikely to fnd deals on the scaleo Maple Lea Gardens withoutsome sort o P3.

“Without them,” Hanigsbergsays, “we never could have donethat project.”

ILLUSTRATIONS: SUSANA Gómez Báez AND JeSS TSANG



10 Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013ARTS & LIFE

ournalism grad and Eyeopener alumnus Graeme Smith spoke at Ryerson on Tues-ay about his book The Dogs Are Eating Them Now: Our War in Afghanistan,

which is shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonction. For theull story and a chance to win a signed copy of the book, isit theeyeopener.com.

F PHT

Architects light up Nuit BlancheRyerson students bring trio of light installations to BataShoe Museum for all-night contemporary art event

Revellers braving the all-night ex-

perience of Nuit Blanche this year

are in for not just one, but three,

Ryerson-bred creations.

Behind the interactive light in-

stallations is the [R]ed[U]x Lab

(Ryerson University Architectural

Science Design Lab), a group of

students led by architecture asso-

ciate chair Vincent Hui.

The rst of the works — all of

which will be on display at the

Bata Shoe Museum — is an instal-

lation called Ad Astra (latin for

“to the stars”). The piece is madefrom hanging illuminated balls,

some of which have sensors that

can trigger pulsating light patterns

and even change the audio that

lls the dark space. By touching

these special lights, users are able

to assert inuence over the space.

The second exhibit, Light_

Scape, allows users to move and

manipulate 999 boxes of light,

cycling through different hues of

diffused light. The boxes stick to

both a wooden substructure and

each other, allowing the viewers to

create their own lightscapes based

on patterns and forms they con-struct themselves.

ByMackenzieDavidson

“The user interaction with the

installation is the exciting part,”

says Jeff Mitchell, a masters of ar-

chitecture student and one of the

members of the Light_Scape team.RevitaLight , the third installa-

tion, similarly focuses on creating

a kinetic space that reacts to those

exploring it. Its undulating struc-

ture is outtted with a reactive ar-

ray of lights.

The installations share com-

mon themes; they all focus on

light and explore emotional con-

cepts through viewers’ interac-

tions with the spaces. Although

the similarities were unintentional

— the projects were selected from

a pool of proposals from the ar-

chitectural community at Ryerson

— the focus lends itself well to theBata Shoe Museum space, which is

Members of the [R]ed[U]x ab construct a series of 999 indiidual lights that willmake up Light_Scape, an interactie space that will react to iewers’ moement.

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The [R]ed[U]x ab’s RevitaLight installation is one of three Ryerson installations that will ll the Bata Shoe Museum (327 BloorSt. W.) during Nuit Blanche, which begins at 6:51 p.m. on Saturday, ct. 5, and runs until sunrise.

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hosting exclusively [R]ed[U]x Lab

exhibits this year.

The light-focused theme, which

recalls [R]ed[U]x’s pieces from

last year’s event, creates an inter-esting juxtaposition within the

overall thematic elements of Nuit

Blanche; the involving, kinetic

light installations are contrasted

by the darkness that blankets the

all-night event.

Having architects exhibit at

Nuit Blanche opens up an interest-

ing dialogue: Do architects think

of themselves as artists?

“I nd that there’s a lot more

than just purely aesthetics. There’s

creation of atmosphere and the

utility of things like the surfaces,

and how you perceive spaces,”

says Matthew Koniuszewski, oneof the designers of Light_Scape.

“I wouldn’t call it just purely art,

and I wouldn’t call it just purely

building.”

Nuit Blanche will also feature

works from both established art-

ists, like Ai Weiwei, and other

schools like OCAD University.

But Koniuszewski says the groups

aren’t worried about competition.

“We’re fairly supportive of each

other,” he says. “I think everyone

just wants to make the best work

they can.”

Kevin Pu, one of the designers

of Ad Astra, adds, “We want to

showcase what we’re capable of, so

we can make a name for not only

ourselves, but also for our depart-

ment and professors and all the

people who have supported us.”n early prototype of the Ad Astra installation reects in a series of mirrors.

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11Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013 ARTS & LIFE

PHOTO: ROb b

Kickin’ itRyerson’s Urban Hip-Hop Unionprepares for upcoming competitionseason with dance squad auditions

A studio in the basement o Kerr

Hall West is crowded with Ryerson

tudents sporting colourul kicks

nd track pants, sprawled across

he hardwood foors. They stretch,

warming up beore their audition

or the Urban Hip Hop Union, an

rt collective made up o Ryerson

tudents. “Can the music go loud-

r?” one member says to another.

Yeah!” comes the enthusiastic

eply as “Ride Wit Me” by Nellyblasts through the speakers. The

dancers jerk and spin, gyrating to

he rhythmic sounds booming o

he walls in the small studio.

Premila Shanmugabalan, one o

he 30 or so Ryerson students au-

ditioning on Friday, Sept. 27, leans

over her legging-clad limbs to grab

her ur-lined shoe. She’s hoping to

and one o a hal dozen spots on

team that will represent Ryer-

on’s hip-hop union in two annual

university competitions, OUCH

ByMackenziePatterson

(Ontario Universities Competitionor Hip-Hop) on Nov. 23 and next

year’s BYOB (Bring Your Own

Beats).

“I’ve tried every type o dance:

salsa, contemporary jazz, Bolly-

wood. Hip-hop is one o my a-

vourites,” says Shanmugabalan.

“I just love the music and the fow,

and the dancers always look like

they’re having so much un… I I

don’t make it, then at least I can

say I tried my best and learned

something, that’s all that matters.”

Dan Cruz, a member o the

union’s executive team, choreo-

graphs most o the routines or thecompetitions. As well as dancing

every day and competing in up to

our competitions a year, he teach-

es hip-hop classes proessionally.

“There is a lot o bee and ani-

mosity in the hip-hop world, but

our team is more about the love

aspect o it. We like to connect

through dance,” Cruz says.

He says hip-hop is one o the

most expressive emerging art

orms. “A lot o people judge hip-

hop or don’t take it seriously be-

cause it doesn’t have a strict crite-

ria or ollow an exact technique,”

Cruz says. “But it’s actually very

dicult because you have to put

so much o your emotions andpassion into the moves and really

make them your own.”

Whether or not the team does

well at their competitions this

year, Cruz says he’s happy the hip-

hop union is growing and getting

the chance to showcase its talent.

“We’re really looking or char-

acter today,” he says. “We want

to see someone who can be given

something as boring as a pencil

and do something unique and

creative.”

Roughly 30 hopeuls flled a Kerr Hall dance studio to audition or a spot on Ryer-son’s Uran Hip-Hop Union’s dance sqaud, which will compete later this year.

n the middle o a Markham eld,

70-oot wide and 12-oot tall

white snow ence stands alone.

The seemingly out-o-place rural

andmark is meant to raise a ew

yebrows.

The installation, created by art-sts Dave Colangelo and Patricio

Davila, both doctoral students in

he joint Ryerson-York Commu-

nication and Culture program, is

part o Land|Slide: Possible Fu-

ures, a ree large-scale contempo-

ary art exhibition that runs until

Oct. 14 at the Markham Museum.

For the exhibition, the mu-

eum’s historic buildings were

ransormed into galleries or

nteractive pieces that raise ques-

ions regarding sustainability,

and use, urban sprawl and multi-

ulturalism. The exhibition ques-

ions where society should draw

he line when it comes to the de-

elopment o suburban areas such

s Markham.

Colangelo and Davila ad-

dressed this issue through their

By Isabelle Docto snow ence piece, “The Line.”

The project is split into two parts:

the massive ence, as well as a vid-

eo recording o the ence — which

shows it in ront o places such as

cornelds, strip malls, and park-

ing lots — projected onto the side

o a barn.

“That’s the symbolic thing thatwe’re trying to pick up on — this

idea o a man-made structure that

we place in the environment in

some way and to then determine

how we interact with it,” says

Colangelo. “That has political,

environmental and cultural con-

sequences.”

Plans or the exhibition began

three years ago with curator Ja-

nine Marchessault, a ormer Ry-

erson Image Arts proessor and

current aculty member o the Ry-

erson-York communication and

culture program.

“Since 2009, I’ve been creat-

ing site-specic exhibitions that

engage with processes o urban-

ization in suburban spaces,” says

Marchessault. “For Land|Slide, I

really wanted to come out into an

edge city like Markham and stage

something that’s about the past.”

In addition to “The Line,” the

exhibition also includes roughly

30 other installations, including

photography posted on an oldtrain and an interactive exhibit

that uses iPads to tell the stories

o historical objects.

“We’ve really opened things up

to get artists to give dierent in-

terpretations o the past — aug-

ment some things that are already

here — but also to think about the

uture,” says Marchessault.

The design and marketing or

Land|Slide refected just that. Cre-

ated by the Madeleine Collective

— Cheryl Hsu and Alexandra

Hong o Ryerson’s Research and

Innovation Oce and Nicole Ba-

zuin, an alumna o the Image Arts

program — were pieces o art on

their own. The collective wanted

to make sure that Land|Slide

drew in an audience unamiliar

with contemporary art in order to

branch out to the community.

The collective said the exhibi-

tion has attracted both art en-

thusiasts and amilies who have

reacted with a “sense o wonder

and discovery.”

“We made a concerted eort to

reach out to the Markham pub-

lic,” says Hsu. “We want to ex-

pose them to contemporary art in

a new, resh way — not just in an

art museum.”

“The ine,” a two-part installation y Dave Colangelo, pictured, and Patricio Davila,projects ootage o a snow ence onto the side o a arn in dierent settings.

PHOTO: IAb DOCTO

PHOTO COURT OF CHR HU

Markham art exhibitrooted in RyersonStudent artists portray remnants ofthe past and prospects of the futuren Land|Slide: Possible Futures



12 Wednesday, Oc. 2, 2013SpOtS

By

Harlan

Nemerofsky

They don’t know if they’ll be com-

peting in it, but they do know that

t’s coming back to Ryerson.

The Ryerson Rams men’s bas-

ketball team will host the Ontario

University Athletics (OUA) Wilson

Cup Final Four in 2014 for a second

onsecutive year at the Mattamy

Athletic Centre (MAC), according

o athletic director Ivan Joseph.

“The feedback from the OUA

nd everybody involved in it [last

ear] was that this was one of the

best venues and one of the best

hosted events ever,” Joseph said. Joseph wanted to host the Wil-

on Cup again, but rather than

ubmitting a bid to host the event,

he OUA came to him in August.

“The venue looked really good

on television last year, no one will

dispute that,” said OUA President

ennifer Myers. “So we thought

o leave it where it was this year

because Ryerson did a great job.”

The Rams fell short of high ex-

pectations last season — losing in

he second round of the playoffs to

he Ottawa Gee-Gees which pre-

ented them from playing in the

OUA Final Four on home court.

“Hosting the event is great for the

university, it’s great for our students

and it’s great for Toronto, but it’s

not something that we’re thinkingabout right now,” said men’s bas-

ketball head coach, Roy Rana.

“Right now, I’m excited about

starting the season,” Rana said.

“We’ll get excited about [the Wil-

son Cup] as it gets closer.”

Joseph said that the plan for the

MAC was always to host a nation-

al-level calibre events but now he

thinks Ryerson is ready for it.

“We think our teams, coaches

and facilities are all in the position

where they should be recognized

for what they are, which is leaders

in their eld,” said Joseph.

“We’re now at a point where wehave all of those pieces in place

to put forth a bid that will see us

compete and contend for national

championships,” he added.

While Ryerson Athletics will be

hosting the Wilson Cup at the MAC

again, Joseph said they have also

placed bids for the 2015 Canadian

Interuniversity Sport tournament in

men’s basketball and the 2016 CIS

men’s hockey championship.

Ryerson teams would automati-

cally play in the CIS tournament if

they host either event.

The CIS will make its announce-

ment in early December.

yerson o hos OUA Wilson CuOntario’s most prestigious basketball tournament returns to the MAC

The Ryerson Rams and Hum-

ber Hawks were tied at two sets

piece with the Rams at match

point. Over two hours of play

ater, Alex Dawson sent the ball

deep into the Humber court. TheHawks set it up for a big smash,

but rookie sensation Jeff Ardron

umped up and made the block,

iving the Rams a 3-2 win.

This was Ardron’s rst game

with the Rams but head coach

Mirek Porosa saw potential in Ar-

dron more than a year ago.

“I wanted him badly because I

knew Luca [Milosevic] graduated

and] I saw him as a replacement,”

Porosa said.

But getting him to don the blue

nd gold was not easy. And for

while there was a chance he

wouldn’t go to Ryerson at all.

More than 10 universities from

cross Canada wanted him. At 18,

Ardron was the second youngest

member of the under-21 Team

Ontario program that placed

fourth at the recent Canada games

in Sherbrooke, Quebec. He also

holds two Achievement of Excel-

lence awards from his former club

team, the Durham Attack, the

same club team that Rams veter-

ans Dawson and Robert Wojcik

grew up with.

Porosa and Ardron rst met at

the High Performance camp held

annually at Humber College. The

camp lets students entering their

nal year of high school work

with university coaches on skills

and techniques. While it’s not sup-

posed to be used for recruiting,

Porosa couldn’t help but notice

Ardron’s skill level.

“For middle [blockers] you have

to have size, with good volley-

ball IQ and vision,” Porosa said.

“There aren’t many athletes his size

at 6’8 that are playing volleyball.”

Porosa was the rst coach to

bring Ardron in for a tour. In early

December — joined by Dawson,

team captain Robbie Earl and

then-setter Aleksa Miladinovic —

Ardron visited the MAC.

Porosa gave him two weeks to

decide, but Ardron continued toexplore other schools. While stay-

ing in touch with Ardron, Porosa

worked to ll out his roster with

other recruits such as Brett Whitley,

Will Otten and Anthony Cicchi. He

also secured setter Adam Anagnos-

topoulos, who had played with Ar-

dron at both the Humber camp and

with Team Ontario.

And then Porosa got the call he

had been dreading; Ardron had

chosen Western.

“You are ghting for a player, but

at some point, you have to take a

step back and if somebody makes

a decision to go somewhere else, I

have to respect it,” Porosa said.

Porosa was disappointed in los-

ing out on Ardron, but he still had

two middle blockers — Marc Rear-

don and Uchenna Ofoha.

Then in June, long after the ap-

plication window had closed, Po-

rosa got a call from Ardron.

“He talked to me and told me if

I could get him into his program,

he was fully committed to Ryer-

son,” Porosa said. “When I got

the call I was ecstatic, it was like

Christmas.”

With help from Porosa, Ardron

was able to get into the criminaljustice program and sign his letter

of intent, despite the delay.

So what was the biggest reason

for Ardron switching to Ryerson?

Having his friend Anagnostopou-

los there to set him the ball.

“Adam and I had played to-

gether before so I was familiar

with him,” Ardron said. “So when

I heard he was coming to Ryerson,

I knew I wanted to be there too.”

Getting players late is not ideal

for a coach, but when it is a player

of his calibre, Porosa was ready to

make an exception.

“There is no script for how

the recruiting process is going togo,” Porosa said. “You have to be

ready to adjust and come up with

a strategy that will get the athletes

in [the game].”

ByJoshBeneeau

Six-foot-eight middle blocker committed to Western but joined Ryerson to play with friend

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yerson snags rookie volleyball rodigy

Moving uRams men’s soccerteam climbs to topthree in Canada

The Ryerson Rams men’s soccer

team is now amongst the premierteams in the CIS after moving from

fth place to third place on Tues-

day afternoon.

This is the highest ranking ever

for the Rams in program history.

“It’s always an honour for our

athletes and our coaches to be

recognized for all the work that

they do, it’s nice to be externally

validated,” said head coach Ivan

Joseph. “However, we’re always

mindful that at the end of the day

[being nationally ranked] is not

one of our goals.”

The Rams defeated the Toronto

Varsity Blues 3-0 Sunday after-noon for their seventh straight

win, continuing its stranglehold

atop the OUA East with 22 points.

“It’s nice for the player that

have been here since when the

pogram was built up from what

is was, but it doesn’t give us an

extra playoff win,” said associate

coach Filip Prostran.

Fifth-year midelder Alex Bra-

letic leads the team in goals with

nine, tied with Guelph’s Robert

Murphy for the OUA lead.

“It’s just going to be a distrac-

tion for this team,” said Braletic.

“It doesn’t change anything.”

By Harlan Nemerofsky



13Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013 COMMUNITIES

Going globalFor everything you need to knowabout earning your degree overseas

Five days a week, you sit in the

ame desks in the same classrooms

istening to your proessor ramble

on about something you’re prob-

bly not interested in. As you look

out the window, you may fnd

oursel thinking, “I wish I could

be any where but here.”

The world is a big place. Toron-

o is great, but there are so many

other cities to see. For students at

Ryerson hoping to travel while

ompleting their degrees, there is

no shortage o opportunity.“We want our students to get

out there and be ambassadors or

Canada and or Ryerson and just

njoy an international experience,”

aid Erin Miley, student mobility

ssistant at Ryerson international.

There are two primary options

or students hoping to get out o

he classrooms in Kerr Hall – going

on exchange, or studying abroad.

There’s a lot to think about when

deciding between programs. Cost

s a major actor, along with desti-

nation choice and applications.

At Ryrso, studts hav th opportuty to study at uvrsts aroud th word

By Dylan Freeman-Grist andSidney O’Reilly

For most students, exchanges arethe more aordable option, since

tuition is paid directly to Ryerson.

Once you add up the cost o air-

are, insurance, ood and living, it

ends up being more expensive than

staying on campus. But i budgeted

correctly, it’s a reasonable option.

Suhair Deeb, coordinator o in-

ternational mobility, said it’s dif-

cult to put an exact number on how

much an exchange costs because it

varies rom student to student.

“It really depends where you’re

going,” said Deeb. “Business stu-

dents tend to go to big cities be-

cause they want to be in the thicko it all and that’s more expensive

than living in a small city.”

Abroad programs tend to be a

lot more expensive in comparison,

seeing as most students get nailed

with international ees. Deeb said

that tuition costs could be as much

as double (in some cases even high-

er) depending on the university.

On the plus side, students who

choose to go abroad can study at

other universities or over a our

month period – something that ex-

change students don’t have the op-

tion to do.

The application process is di-erent or each option. For abroad

programs, students must apply

directly to the host university

while exchanges are done directly

through Ryerson.

Exchanges are very competitive.

In order to apply, students must

have a GPA o at least 2.5 and

must also fll out an application. It

varies rom program to program,

but essays, portolios, and inter-

views may also be required.

“[This process is] just to make

sure that we’re sending over top

quality students,” said Miley. “We

want to make sure they are able tokeep up with the academic work.”

Even though going global re-

quires a lot o planning, hard

work, and preparation, students

who do take on this opportunity

say it’s worth it.

Sarah Kristensen, a ourth year

retail management student, spent

six months studying in Adelaide at

the University o South Australia.

She said that going on exchange

taught her how to embrace lie’s

twists and turns.

“I was completely pushed out

o my comort zone almost daily,”

said Kristensen. “I did so manythings I don’t think I would have

been able to do without exchange.”

While in Australia, Kristensen

tried everything rom zip lining to

surfng to black-water rating (tub-

ing through dark caves surrounded

by glowworms and eels).

With fles by Nicole Schmidt

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ComikazeBy Travis Dadro

The Pope loves ‘scopes

Aries

At this point I’m not even sure

buying textbooks will help you.

t’s waaaay too late for that shit.

Taurus

Planetary alignments suggest your

ocial media account will be bom-

barded by a friends baby pictures.

Gemini

Nobody wants to say it, but you’re

piss-poor DJ and people consid-

r you a no-talent hack.

Cancer

Your love interest will request an

open relationship. It’s a nice way

of saying you’re crap in the sack.

Leo

Never be self-concious of your

enitals. There’s nothing wrong

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Virgo

A cosmic anomaly will leave you

mpervious to the effects of alco-

hol. Start chugging.

Libra

Business men will coax you into

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Scorpio

Abandon all your dreams! The

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Sagittarius

Be wary of free merchandise and

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Capricorn

Corn is the only food you should

be eating. A cornucopia of corn

dogs, popcorn and corn cobs.

Aquarius

Soon you will discover yout par-

ents have painted your room 50

shades of sex dungeon.

Pisces

New evidence suggests that global

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Chancellor’s Award of Distinction*

President’s Award for Teaching Excellence*

Provost’s Experiential Teaching Award*

Provost’s Innovative Teaching Award*

Provost’s Interdisciplinary Teaching Award*

Deans’ Teaching Awards

YSGS Outstanding Contribution to Graduate Education Awards

Call for

and NominationsApplications

In time for 2013 fall nominations and applications, Ryerson is pleased to announce the new

Recognition & Awards website and Online Nomination Portal.

www.ryerson.ca/recognition

The new website brings together all awards, guidelines and eligibility details in one centralized

location. The new Online Nomination Portal streamlines the awards process by allowing users to

gather, review and submit the entire nomination and application package online.

Demonstrations on how to use the portal are being held on October 2 and October 7.

To register, visit the Learning Events Calendar at www.ryerson.ca/hr/learning.

Deans’ Scholarly, Research and Creative Activity Awards

Deans’ Service Awards

Errol Aspevig Award for Outstanding Academic Leadership

Librarian and Counsellor Awards

Recognize someone’s outstanding contribution in the areas of:

Deadline November 1, 2013

New Website and Online Nomination

Teaching and Education

Research

Service and Leadership

For opportunities to recognize the achievements of staff at

Ryerson, visit www.ryerson.ca/recognition to view the

Service & Leadership awards due February 1.

*Nomination briefs are required before full packages can be submitted.

Please submit all briefs by November 1, 2013.

Following approval the full nomination is due November 23, 2013.



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