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Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015 NEWS 3
O’Keefe House residents had tovacuate last Wednesday after an
verloaded power bar sparked awo-alarm fire in the second floorommon area, according to Direc-
or of Student Housing Ian Crook-hank.
“The power bar is no more,”
Crookshank said.Toronto Fire Services receivedcall about the fire at 5:57 p.m.
n Jan. 7 and responded with nine
re trucks and 35 firefighters.Student Housing evacuated 17
tudents who were in the residence
t the time and then contacted theemaining 15 residents who wereot on campus.
Just as firefighters arrived,O’Keefe’s sprinkler system wentff and helped to contain the
ames before any serious damagewas caused.
However, there is extensive
moke and water damage to three
rooms in the 140-year-old build-
ing. The majority of the damageis in the common area and an ad-jacent room, with a room below
suffering damage from water drip-ping through the floor.
The fire and smoke caused an es-
timated $15,000 worth of damageto the building, according to To-ronto Fire Services Capt. Adrian
Ratushniak. Any damage estimatewould not include additional costsneeded to coordinate O’Keeferesidents who were displaced the
night of the fire, said ResidenceLife and Education CoordinatorBrandon Smith, which includes
lost revenue and temporary mealplans for those affected.
All O’Keefe House residents
were relocated to spare emergencyrooms in Pitman Hall and the In-ternational Living and Learning
Centre (ILLC) until further notice,said Smith.
“[Campus facilities and sustain-
ability] is working with Ryerson
oronto firefighters responded to a two-alarm fire at O’Keefe House on Jan. 7. The fire caused an estimated $15,000 in damages.PHOTO: SIERRA BEIN
Res fire forces students out
Year’s first homicide near MAC
A 51-year-old man is dead andnother man is seriously injuredn Toronto’s first murder of 2015.
Toronto police responded to aall about a stabbing in an apart-
ment at 330 Jarvis St., near the
Mattamy Athletic Centre, at 6:34p.m. on Jan. 10.
Officers found the 51-year-old
male with serious slash and stabwounds. Paramedics rushed himo St. Michael’s Hospital where
he was pronounced dead.
Security, Toronto Fire, our insur-ance adjuster and a small group of
contractors to ensure the space iscleaned up and repaired as soonas possible,” campus facilities and
sustainability manager Kerri Bai-ley said in an email. Bailey saidit was too early to establish other
details.A first-year student who didn’t
want to be named was movedfrom O’Keefe House to ILLC afterthe fire. She wasn’t home when thefire started but heard about it af-
ter a friend texted her. The studentsaid she thinks Ryerson is “beingreally good about it.” O’Keefe
residents were given “awesomerooms” in ILLC as well as moneyfor food, she said.
Another person in ILLC de-clined to talk to The Eyeopener
and said that a residence advisor
had instructed everyone not totalk “until everything’s been sort-ed out.”
The majority of cleaning and re-
By Aidan Hamelin
By Jackie Hong Police later identified the victimas Brent Gartner, who lived in the
apartment.Toronto paramedics initially
said that Gartner’s wounds were
inflicted with a samurai swordbut police said later that theycould not confirm that.
Shortly after finding Gartner,police responded to a call aboutanother man suffering from an
injury nearby. He was taken tohospital.
Police identified the man as asuspect in the stabbing and have
pairs are estimated to be complet-ed by Jan. 15, according to Crook-
shank, but it is unclear whether ornot students will be able to moveback in at this time.
Crookshank added that stu-dents affected by the fire will beupdated regularly.
taken him into custody.On Tuesday afternoon, police
announced in a press release that
67-year-old Roderick MacIntoshwas charged with second-degreemurder.
Police said Gartner and the sus-pect knew each other and that thestabbing happened during a fight
between the two men.Correction: The Eyeopener had
previously reported online that
the suspect was 66 years old, cit-
ing the Toronto Star. This is in-
correct, he is 67.
Briefs&
groaners> Slap happy
On Dec. 28 a woman was walk-ing up from Yonge and Dundas
when she was grabbed by the hairand pulled to the ground. Her as-sailant slapped her repeatedly be-
fore disappearing. The psychoticbastard has not been found.
> Dudes being guys
Two fellas were seen walking
down the street together whenone of them decided to give theother a nice punch in the head.
After that, the assailant decided
to walk away by himself. Shithappens, ya know?
Seen some crazy stuff on campus?
Email [email protected]
> Almost a fight
Ryerson security was alerted toa group of three people who wereswearing at each other in public.
They became quickly aware thata fight was being discussed. Oneguy’s shoulder bumped another’s.
It wasn’t chill.
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Playing the part of the Annoying
Talking Coffee Mug this week is quit-
ting smoking. Sure, it’s nice to be able
to smell and taste things a bit bet-
ter, but do you know what I miss?Brooding. Brooding with one foot
up against the wall and a cigarette
dangling from my lips. Yeah, baby.
Brooding. Ain’t nothin’ like stand-
ing outside a Metro in Oakville on a
Tuesday afternoon with that smoke
stickin’ out your mouth, watchin’ all
those fine suburban moms buyin’ fine
suburban groceries. Oh yeah, baby.
Some like it hot.
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Mom, Dad, I have something to tell you. I’m ... in love with the coco. Welcomeback, yeolde chaps
4 EDITORIAL Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015
By
MohamedOmar
Look who decided to crawl back
onto the naked, concrete arteries
of Gould Street. Welcome back
to Ryerson. There was a fire. You
missed it.
Other stuff happpened, too. For
starters, the campus radio station,
The Scope, got well-endowed with
an AM radio frequency. That’s
right baby, tune in to channel 1280
for all of Rye’s rockin’ news and
tunes. Well, not now. The channel
isn’t set up yet, but the plan is to
have it on air by January 2016.What am I saying? You proba-
bly don’t care about this old stuff!
You’re a forward thinker, not a
sad booger stuck in the nasal cavi-
ties of time, so here’s a primer on
the changes you can expect this
semester.
Administration shake-up: Ryer-
son president Sheldon Levy will
have a successor by the end of the
term. Most university presidents
aren’t mentioned much, but Levy’s
reputation as a — dear lord have
I grown sick of this term — city
builder will no doubt give the new
boss some big shoes to fill.
The ever-sexy world of studentpolitics could get sexier: When it
comes to student activism, some-
thing feels a bit different this se-
mester. The Ryerson Students’
Union election, which takes place
in Feburary, could — and could
is a tremendously strong word
here — see some official opposi-
tion. Back in the fall, a group of
students calling themselves Rise
For Ryerson organized against the
RSU’s campaign to get the school
to freeze tuition fees.
The group wasn’t for rising
tuition fees, but it was no doubt
against the student union’s TentCity — set up outside Jorgenson
Hall — and its way of dealing
with the university’s board of
governors.
This might translate into an ex-
citing election, for once.
Sports! Brought to you by sports!:
Ryerson will get slapped with some
March madness as it hosts the Ca-
nadian Interuniversity Sport bas-
ketball championship.
This is a national tournament,
and since we’re hosting all those
bastards here, we automatically get
a spot. Yippee ki-yay.
The championship runs March
12-15. Bring the ruckus, as well
as yourself, to the Mattamy Ath-
letic Centre to show this country
you give a poo about your school.
_ . - - :
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Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015 NEWS 5
What you missed over the break
The Canadian Radio-televisionnd Telecommunications Com-
mission (CRTC) approved Ry-rson’s campus radio station
The Scope’s application for an
AM radio licence in December.The Scope will be broad-
asting under AM chan-
nel 1280 and is aiming to beon the air by January 2016.
“We are overjoyed with thedecision and want to give heart-
elt thanks to all of the station’solunteers and also the hundreds
of people who took the time towrite a letter of support,” saidElissa Matthews, The Scope’s pro-ram director, in a press release.
Ryerson University has received a$13-million donation from JackCockwell and the Brookfield Part-
ners Foundation. The money willgo toward creating the Brook-field Institute for Innovation and
Entrepreneurship at Ryerson,funding innovation projects oncampus and supporting the Stu-
dent Learning Centre. RyersonPresident Sheldon Levy will bethe institute’s first honorary chair.
To date, the Brookfield PartnersFoundation has donated more
than $20 million to the university,making it “among Ryerson’s mostgenerous private sector benefac-tors,” according to a press release.
A survey by Media Corp Inc. andthe Globe and Mail ranked Ryer-son University as one of the Great-
er Toronto Area’s best employers.Employers were evaluated by theeditors of Canada’s Top 100 Em-
ployers.Some of the reasons Ryerson
made it on to the list include the
three weeks of paid vacation al-lowance for new employees, ma-ternity and paternity leave, top-uppayments, on-site daycare and tu-
ition subsidies for courses taken at
other schools.“Ryerson is the place to be,”
Ryerson President Sheldon Levysaid in a press release.
The Scope getsCRTC AM radiobroadcast licence
RTS programs not goinganywhere soon
NewsBites
Ryerson President Sheldon Levy confirmed on Jan. 12 that the theatreschool’s programs will not be moving out of their building at the end ofthis academic year like previously planned, but the university is hoping
to have them out by fall 2016.The university and the theatre school are teaming up with RyersonBuilds and are looking to find an optimal permanent home for the the-
atre school. As previously reported by The Eyeopener, the team will be
exploring both new building opportunities and moving the school intoa pre-existing vacant space.
Rye gets new dietetics master’s
Ryerson has partnered with St. Michael’s Hospital for a new master’sdiploma in dietetics. The year-long program is the first of its kind inCanada and mixes classes with hospital placements. After graduation,
students can write registration exams to become registered dieticians.
Nominations now open forstudent union’s annual election
As of Jan. 12, the nominations for this year’s Ryerson Students’ Union(RSU) elections are open to full-time Ryerson students. Voting will takeplace on Feb. 10, 11 and 12. Nomination packages are available at the
RSU office (SCC 307).
Rye gets $13 mil-lion for innova-tion projects
Ryerson rankedone of Toronto’sbest employers
SLC construction in final stretchThe sign is up, the lights are on but the doors are still closed ... for now
By Brennan Doherty
The Student Learning CentreSLC) section at the Ryerson
Builds website reports that, as of
Dec. 1st, most of the building’s ex-erior work is finished. A few ad-
ditional components were sched-
uled to have been completed byhe end of December.
These include the blue ceiling
panels under the plaza soffit, glassdoors for the stores on the groundfloor, and furniture installationsnd insets along the bordering
Yonge St. sidewalk.The main lobby’s domed ceil-
ng is done and construction of a
round-floor café should be un-derway this month.
A picture of the interior, posted
ast Friday on the Ryerson StudentLearning Support’s Twitter ac-ount, shows significant progress
on the fourth floor of the building— reserved for academic servicesuch as the Writing Centre, Test
Centre, English Language Supportnd others.Furniture fixtures are already
in place, part of the back wall hasbeen painted a light green and car-
pets appear to have already beeninstalled.
While the SLC will be open
again for media tours at the endof January, Ryerson has not an-nounced any concrete information
regarding the leasing of the build-ing’s ground-level retail space.
Ryerson said in August 2013
that it would be leasing the groundand lower floors of the building.Rent money will help finance the
SLC’s construction.According to Ryerson President
Sheldon Levy, it’s been difficult tosell the retail space as two separateoffers. So, Ryerson is combining
both floors into a package deal.While there is currently no leasingdeal, Levy thinks it’s “very close.”
“We’ve had pharmacies, we’vehad telecommunications compa-nies, we’ve had a variety that havelooked at it and shown an inter-
est. I think we’ll get something,”he said.
SLC is set to open on schedule late next month.PHOTO: ROB FOREMAN
PHOTO: SIERRA BEIN PHOTO: JACKIE HONGPHOTO: FARNIA FEKRI
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In the summer of 2009, newly
appointed athletic director Ivan
Joseph dismissed men’s basket-
ball head coach Glenn Taylor,
preferring to bring in a new face to
ead Ryerson’s team into the next
ra of athletics — to be housed in
Maple Leafs Gardens. With just a
one trip to the Canadian Interuni-
ersity Sport (CIS) national cham-
pionships in 1999, the program had
developed a reputation of futility,
oing just 29-103 over the previ-
ous six seasons (which included anbysmal 0-22 record in 2003-04).
“Typically we’ve already got
raining camp started in August.
remember sitting around in July,
arly August, thinking to myself
what are we going to do next
ear?’ Because we had no coach,”
ays Luke Staniscia, a Ram from
006 to 2012.
Joseph selected Roy Rana, head
oach at Scarborough’s Eastern
Commerce C.I., who had led the
aints to four provincial titles and
384-78 record in his tenure. In
ddition to the high school level,
Rana had spent years workingwith Ontario Basketball’s devel-
opment and high performance
program and was also serving as
head coach for the Canadian Ca-
det (U17) National Team.
Arriving on campus in Septem-
ber, Rana implemented daily vid-
o analysis, team meals and even
oga sessions. While the previous
egime’s practices would some-
imes only last half of the allotted
wo-hour timeslot in the gym, Ra-
na’s were described as “long and
rueling” and became the place
where players earned their keep.
“None of us were his recruits so
he didn’t really feel like he owed
us anything,” says Staniscia. “Ev-
ryone on the team was in a situ-
tion where we had to prove our-
IN THE
HEART OFTHE CITY n a span of just five years, Roy Rana has transformed
he Ryerson men’s basketball team from perennial losers
nto national title contenders
By Charles Vanegas
less he’s going to be a solid rota-
tion player, if not a starter. And if
it’s equal, then I might as well take
the kid in our backyard.”
Rana maintains a close eye on
the local scene, as many of his
close friends are still high school
coaches. A decade after Vince
Carter dazzled Raptors fans with
jaw-dropping jams, the city has
become one of the most concen-
trated sources of basketball talent
in the world, with nine players
selected in the NBA draft since
2011 — including back-to-back
#1 overall picks Anthony Bennett
and Andrew Wiggins. Accord-
ing to North Pole Hoops (NPH),
a Canadian basketball scouting
service, eight of the top 10 ranked
high school teams in the country
are located in the GTA.
Universities in the United States
have taken notice, with many of
the area’s top talents heading south
of the border (53 GTA players are
in the NCAA this season). While
Rana doesn’t bother recruiting
NBA-ready players like Wiggins
or Bennett — both of whom he
has mentored in his coaching ca-
pacities at the national level — he
isn’t afraid to go after ones being
courted state-side, estimating that
at least half of his current roster
could play in the NCAA.
“I think for a lot of the kids who
selves to the new coach. We knew
the next season he was bringing in
his new recruits and we could all
be replaced.”
Only six players would return
the next year, with Rana’s
first class of high school
commits lauded as one of
the nation’s best. Bjorn
Michaelsen, a 6-foot-8
forward from Quebec,
Jordon Gauthier, an elite
scorer from Windsor, and Jahmal
Jones, a point guard from Mis-sissauga, would form the base of
Rana’s team.
Rana also brought in Ola
Adegboruwa, a transfer
student who had grown up
in North York’s Jane and
Finch neighbourhood — where
Rana once ran an alternative to
expulsion program for students
with violence-related issues.
“He represented a lot of what I
liked about guys in the game, that
toughness, that edge,” says Rana.
While knee injuries forced Adeg-
boruwa to retire before his eligibil-
ity expired, he and Jones were thestart of Ryerson’s new approach to
team recruiting: building around
Toronto kids. Since Rana’s second
season, the team’s number of vic-
tories has increased adja-
cent to its number of GTA
players (up from 11-11
with four players in 2010-
11, to 16-6 with 10 in
2013-14).
“It’s not accidental. Certainly
we want to have a GTA feel to us,
we’re a Toronto school — we want
to have Toronto kids. We want to
be able to be successful that way,”
says Rana, who’s coached the
Rams to a 73-45 record in his five-
plus years at the helm. “It doesn’t
necessarily make sense for me to
recruit an out of province kid un-
PHOTOS BY CHARLES VANEGAS
UNLESS INDICATED; GRAPHIC
BY CHARLES VANEGAS AND
STEPHEN ARMSTRONG.
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Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015 7FEATURES
Gauthier. “[Anthony] Bennett and
Tristan [Thompson] were working
in the gym at Kerr Hall last year
and we were on the other side of
the gym. You just get to see whatthey go through and what they put
into their craft.”
Recently the team has welcomed
Raptors rookie Bruno Caboclo,
who was left home by the team
during a five-game road trip. Since
the average age of his Raptors
teammates is 26.4, the pairing al-
lows the 19-year-old Brazilian to
hang out with players his own age,
and gives the Rams a first-hand
view of a future star.
“He lives in downtown Toronto
and sometimes he gets bored, so he
comes here,” says second-year guard
Jean-Victor Mukama. “I’m a couple
months older than him, so eventhough he doesn’t [fully] understand
English, it’s easy to communicate be-
cause we both love basketball.”
This season, Ryerson will host the
CIS National Championships — the
first time that the tournament will
ever be held in Toronto — automat-
ically earning a spot in the field of
eight. With 20-point victories over
#4 McMaster and #5 Windsor, Ry-
erson appears worthy of its #3 na-
tional ranking. But lopsided losses
against the top-ranked Ottawa
Gee-Gees and #2 Carleton Ravens
— winners of 10 of the last 12 na-
tional titles — tell them there’s stillwork to do if they want to raise the
trophy in front of home fans.
“We’re the third best team in
the country for a reason. They’re
number one and number two, and
it’s not even close right now,” says
Jones. “[But] we’re not going to rely
on someone else to beat them, we’re
not relying on upsets. We know we
have to go through both of them.”
The Rams have carried on an in-
tense rivalry with the Gee-Gees for
the past three seasons, eliminating
Ottawa in the 2012 OUA playoffs
(74-71), before los-
ing to them in 2013
(70-74) and 2014
(78-79). Each game
was decided in thefinal seconds, with
the victor going on
to qualify for nation-
als. And while Car-
leton has traditionally
dominated Ryerson,
winning every single
game since 1999, the
Rams seemed to have
turned a corner last
season, losing a close
68-71 game at home
— the narrowest mar-
gin during that span.
Rana is quick to
admit the Rams “got
[their] asses kicked”on the November
road trip to Ottawa,
but is confident that
his team — loaded with the CIS’s
third-ranked defense and fifth-
ranked offense — will be its more-
competitive self come playoff time.
“My belief hasn’t changed that
we’re good enough to win a na-
tional championship,” says Rana.
“I think we’re in that conversation
with those two (Carleton and Otta-
wa) and there’s three or four other
teams around the country that are
going to be big challenges.”
Now playing in his fifth andfinal year of eligibility, Jones
says it’s only fitting to fin-
ish his career at the national
championships in front of a Toronto
crowd, where home-court advantage
may be key — the Rams are 24-3 at
home since moving to the Mattamy
Athletic Centre in 2012.
“This is what [we] have been
talking about since we got to Ry-
erson,” says Jones. “If we win in
our fifth year, no one can take it
from us. There’s no coming back.
No, we won. We go out on top.”
decide [not] to stay in Canada,
here’s two things: one, just the
tigma of staying in Canada. This
whole kind of ‘oh he didn’t succeed
because he didn’t get a scholarship,’
nd two, there are some financial
hallenges for some kids to stay,
whereas if they go south they can
et a full ride. So we have to try to
overcome that,” says Rana. “But
once they kind of mature and losehe stigma side of it, they usually
understand that it’s a pretty good
evel [of basketball] up here.”
While players can get
some financial assis-
tance for academic
success, Ryerson ath-
etes don’t receive athletic schol-
rships. On top of daily practice
nd video sessions and two games
per week, players work part-time
obs to pay their tuition — ranging
rom moving for 1-800-Got-Junk
o cleaning up after classes at the
Cineplex movie theatre.
Fourth-year shooting guard Aar-on Best was the eleventh-ranked
NPH) Canadian high school pros-
pect in 2011, and was heavily re-
ruited by the University of Pennsyl-
ania. While the Ivy League school
was a tough option to pass up, Best
ays his familiarity with Rana (Best
played for former-Rana assistant
Kevin Jeffers at Eastern Commerce)
nd Jones, whom he had played
with for various provincial teams
nd camps, and the ability to play
n front of his family weighed heav-
y in his decision to stay in Toronto.
“My mom always told me, ‘if
ou’re good enough and you do
what you’re supposed to do, they’llfind you,’” says Best on whether
kipping out on the NCAA would
have an impact on a potential pro
areer. “I made the decision to stay,
nd I stand by it.”
While Best and other players
orfeit TV exposure by staying in
Canada (with Sportsnet broad-
asting just this year’s CIS cham-
pionships on national TV), there
are benefits
to playing
for Ryerson.
The team
r e g u l a r l y
plays exhibitionsagainst top U.S.
teams like Syra-
cuse and Wake
Forest, and start-
d last season with a 10-day tour
of China. Through Rana’s nation-
l team and NBA connections —
he estimates he’s coached at least
0 current NBA players in some
apacity — the Rams often work
ide by side with pros.
“Because we’re in Toronto, we
et to be around a lot of people
who have actually made it,” says
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: J.V.
MUKAMA HAS RECENTLY BEEN PLAY-
ING 1-ON-1 WITH RAPTORS ROOK-
IE BRUNO CABOCLO; JAHMAL JONES
GUARDS BRAMPTON’S TYLER ENNIS
DURING THE RAMS’ NOV. 5, 2013
EXHIBITION AGAINST THE SYRACUSE
ORANGEMEN. PHOTO: FARNIA FEKRI;
CARLETON’S PHILIP SCRUBB BATTLES
OTTAWA’S JOHNNY BERHANEMESKEL,
PHOTO: BRIAN BATISTA BETTEN-
COURT; TWO STINTS IN THE NCAA,
6-FOOT-9 VAUGHAN NATIVE KADEEM
GREEN JOINED THE RAMS IN 2013-14.
My mom always told me, ‘if you’re good enough and you do what you’re sup-
osed to do, they’ll find you’ ... I made the decision to stay, and I stand by it
— Aaron Best on his decision to stay in Canada to play basketball
KINGS of the DOTSince 2012, the Rams have posted a 13-1 record against crosstownrivals York and U of T, with an average score of 81-69. “You alwayswant to dominate your city,” says fifth-year guard Jordon Gauthier.
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Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015 ARTS & LIFE 9
Winter break recap> Full Frame at the Artspace
The Ryerson Artspace held its Full
Frame 2014 fundraiser duringwinter break, including more than0 Ryerson affiliated artists.
Full Frame 2014 sold photo-raphic prints and other creative
work by Ryerson students, alumni
nd faculty. Artists included MaxDean, Blake Fitzpatrick and AnnieMacDonnell.
The fundraiser made more than4,000 from Nov. 27 to Dec. 14,
with funds going toward improv-ng the space.
Ousted from their home
> Alumnus at UK Fashion Awards
Ryerson alumnus Erdem
Moralioglu was named bestwomenswear designer at the 2014British Fashion Awards in early
December.Moralioglu — a 2001 Ryerson-
fashion grad — received the award
for his “versatile yet powerful”clothing label Erdem.
Moralioglu has sold his
label’s clothing at morethan 170 retailers, includingBarney’s in New York and HarveyNichols in London.
By Jake Kivanc
ocal artist and film supporter Rage Williams paints a mural.COURTESY: DYLAN MORGAN
A new documentary by Ryerson
tudents focuses on gentrification
n one of Toronto’s most diverseneighbourhoods.
This House Is Not A Home is afilm aiming to shine light on realstate agencies in the low-income
rea of Parkdale. It’s an issue di-ector and radio and televisionrts student Katrina Singleton said
he feels strongly about.“I’ve always been really invested
n social justice,” Singleton said.I remember coming downtown
s a kid and seeing the inequal-ty between there and my home incarborough.”
Gentrification occurs whenwealthier residents and business-
s pop up in a drastically poorerrea, sometimes raising the cost ofiving for long-time residents andoften times forcing them out.
The documentary reveals Park-dale residents’ struggle againstentrification partly caused by
Akelius, a European real estategency that has purchased fourocal properties for development.
They did not respond to the filmeam for an interview.
“We wanted to tell [the is-
ue] through human stories —hrough the community—so peo-
ple who aren’t aware of the issue
can see how truly connect-
ed and unified Parkdale is,”Singleton said.
Last year, Singleton and her team
built connections within the com-munity through word-of-mouth.
“One person would hear about
the film and they would refer us tothree others. It was like a dominoeffect,” she said.
Local artists like Rage Williamshelped fund the film’s productionby selling their pieces.
“[Art] is a way for our team toget our name out there,” producerAdam Hopwood said.
Hopwood said the film crew
is also writing a “sparse” mu-sic score to make sure “people’swords speak for themselves.”
Writer Jamie Hurcomb said one
of her greatest challenges makingthe film was extracting the person-
al stories of these residents .“We’ve heard stories about rac-
ism and people with economic is-
sues. The key is to make them feelcomfortable,” Hurcomb said.
“We’re trying to tell the
story from both sides so peoplecan make the verdict forthemselves on who is right and
wrong,” Singleton said. “[The is-sue] isn’t black or white.”
This House Is Not A Home is
now in the post-production stagewith a release date in March.
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Do you even bod pod, bro?A high-tech analysis of personal fitness levels and body composition opens at Ryerson
Creating a fitness schedule and nu-trition plan to achieve those “New
Year, New You” resolutions isnow made easier.
Ryerson nutrition professor
Nick Bellissimo and his team ofeight undergraduate techniciansopened a series of fitness tests at
the Nutrition and Exercise Testing(NExT) Lab that determine bodycomposition, resting metabolicrate and aerobic fitness level.
The tests cost $300 for the gen-eral public, but students can get a
discounted rate of $150.“We take information [from the
tests], we analyze it and then wegive you [numeric results of body
composition],” Bellissimo said. “Ifyou are concerned, then you go to
a dietician, go to a physician, goto your certified exercise physiolo-gist and have them design a plan
for you.”The Bod Pod is the first of three
tests. After enclosing yourself in
this dome-shaped compartment,the machine uses air pressure todetermine the percentage of fat
and lean muscle tissue in yourbody. The results place you in oneof the following categories: low
body fat, ultra lean, lean, mod-erately lean, excess fat and high
body fat.“If you are slightly out of range,
that could be a trigger to get youto start thinking,” Bellissimo said.
“It’s not meant to alarm, it’s meantto motivate.”
The second test is the indirectcalorimeter. A plastic dome isplaced over your head for 20 min-
utes, calculating calories burnedat rest. This test determines yourresting metabolic rate (RMR),
indicating how many calories areneeded to consume or burn toreach the client’s ideal weight.
Aerobic fitness is the third testbeing phased into the program, re-
quiring exercise on the lab’s tread-mill. Using a metabolic analyzer,
the test determines your body’sabilities during exercise. Thisevaluates what type and quantity
of fuel it’s burning, like fat or car-bohydrates — to decipher whichtype of exercise suits you best to
achieve your fitness goals.“Ryerson is well positioned
to get something like this off the
ground,” Bellissimo said. “We area very business savvy institution.People are very optimistic about
it and that’s part of Ryerson’s ap-plied approach.”
By Julia Knope
No, this is not a giant egg or a space shuttle. It’s the bod pod.PHOTO: JULIA KNOPE
A virtual reality program being de-eloped by a team of fourth-year
adio and television arts (RTA)tudents is set to launch next
month after reaching its funding
oal through Kickstarter.Vessels Virtual Reality (VR),
reated by Josh Maldonado, is
n educational program designedo simulate being immersed in the
human circulatory system; shut-ling the user through veins and
rteries.The experience requires the use
of the Oculus Rift, a powerful VR
headset. To develop a programompatible with it, Maldonado
RTA students’ thesis project gets kickstartedBy Lana Hall and his team require specialized
software and must pay a monthlylicensing fee that enables them towork within a specific 3D devel-
opment environment.Since Vessels VR is being devel-
oped as a research project through
Ryerson’s Transmedia Zone, theteam has access to a workspaceand mentorship, but the Zone
does not provide financial assis-tance.
To cover some of their costs,Maldonado and his team launched
a crowdsourcing campaign onKickstarter. In 30 days, the teamreached their funding goal of
$2,300.“We got a lot of response from
other fourth-year students,” saidBrenda Grajales, director of mar-
keting and communications forVessels VR. “Which was surpris-ing, because of course, they are all
busy with their own final projectsas well.”
Their fellow students are not theonly ones interested to see the out-come of the project.
“We are really excited about
this for several reasons,” said Ra-mona Pringle, acting director atthe Transmedia Zone. “It’s a fasci-
nating use of technology.”In fact, she says, it is the first
project incubated at the zone that
is dedicated to the Oculus Rift.“The project has substance behindit, in addition to exploring state-
of-the-art technology,” she says.
“They are interested in not justnovelty, but narrative.”
The team plans to have the proj-ect completed by mid-February
and is planning a screening partylater in the month, where students
will be able to try the experienceout for themselves.
Josh Maldonado, creator of Vessels VR.PHOTO: SIERRA BEIN
Julia’s insider of being inside
When I first saw the bod pod,
it looked like a giant egg. Afterchecking for an angry mothergoose, I hopped in.
When Bellissimo shut the doors,sounds of ticking and whirringhad me feeling as though I was in
a spaceship preparing for takeoff.The bod pod testing took threeminutes — like I was in a contain-
er that was getting microwaved.When I stepped out, Bellissimo
handed me an organized piece of
paper with my percentage of fatand lean mass, as well as a chartoutlining the different categoriesfor men and women.
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ILLUSTRATION: EMMA COSGROVE
Your New Year’s resolution ain’t shitFor the love of Big Macs, it’s time to light your dusty-ass treadmill on fire
t’s the third week of January and
our hopes and dreams for 2015:
The Year of the Hot Bod are plum-
meting like a torpedo into thedepths of a shark-ridden ocean.
There are no possible means of re-
aining control of the New Year’s
esolutions you foolishly conjured
up on the night of Dec. 31, 2014
n a drunken, puke-covered, tear-
ul haze.
Give in to the call of the carb
nd swim for your life to the near-
est multi-billion dollar fast food
establishment to subdue your han-
kering for still-clucking chickens
ground to a pulp and deep-fried
in the greasy tears of Ronald Mc-
Donald (luckily for lazy dorksthere’s at least one restaurant con-
veniently located on each and ev-
ery landmass on the entire planet
of Earth).
Once you wash up on shore,
station your hungry self in the
newly-updated interior of said fast
food joint, where contemporary
decor, sensual mood lighting and
terribly cringeworthy soft rock of-
fer delightful concealment of the
evils of a corporation profiting
off calorie inhalation via Happy
Meal-chomping children and dol-
lar menu-devouring drunkards.In today’s economy, food is
no longer just fast; it travels at
the speed of light through your
pores to your eager thighs and
bum. So it’s a relief that body
positivity and all that good shit
is on the rise. Cut yourself some
goddamn slack and feast on, you
beautiful, bootylicious dweeb.
Mark Twain alive, shirtless
Ladies, gentlemen and all, it is re-
ealed to you now, without further
mbiguity, that I, Mark Twain,
m in fact alive and well among
ou. It was a hoax, my death
was staged, and I have
ived in recluse from
my beloved American
outh as a practical
oke until this day.
The simple plea-
ure that anonym-
ty affords has fad-
d and with it the
reasured memories
of watching myuneral. The cha-
ade’s tender wit has
one to boredom in
ime and I no longer
eel the same sense of
pride in maintaining my
death hoax. I effectively
nvented death-trolling in
910, but the humour lasts
only as long as people are sad,
nd the world has stopped mourn-
ng the death of Samuel Clemens.
I’ve seen bobbleheads of myself
in gas stations, I’ve heard peo-
ple refer to my likeness as ‘The
Colonel,’ and now I feel like the
world is once again ready for
some Twain. I faked a heart at-
tack and travelled the world,
watching history write itself
and commenting dryly.
I’ve seen Dali in his home,
Churchill naked and
the Beatles before they
were truly dad-cool.
But I’ve grown tired
of observing, so I’ve
resolved to stretch,
drink and get towork again. I am re-
claiming my throne
as the greatest satirist
to ever hold a pen and
I will begin my reign
here at The Eyeopener.
Many thanks to Emma
Cosgrove, for holding my
place as fun editor while I
was “dead.” Good luck in your
future endeavours. It’s going to
be all Twain, all 2015. Peace.
-Mark Twain
79-year-old writer vows to take over fun sectio—whoa whoa whoa there BUDDY
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