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Volume 44, Issue 20 | Wednesday, March 2, 2011
PHOTO: MARTA IW
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MASTHEAD
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Shannon Higgins
NEWS
Sarah Del Giallo
Emma Prestwich
ASSOCIATE NEWS
Rebecca Burton
FEATURES
Mariana Ionova
BIZ & TECH
Ian Vandaelle
ARTS & LIFE
Gianluca Inglesi
SPORTS
Sean Tepper
The EyeopenerVolume 44 / Issue 20Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Ryerson’s Independent PaperSince 1967
theeyeopener.com
PHOTO
Marta Iwanek
Lindsay Boeckl
ASSOCIATE PHOTO
Chelsea Pottage
FUN
Kats Quinto
COMMUNITY
Allyssia Alleyne
ONLINE MEDIA
Lee Richardson
ONLINE
Aleysha Haniff John Shmuel
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION
Lauren Strapagiel
GENERAL MANAGER
Liane McLarty
ADVERTISING MANAGER
Chris Roberts
DESIGN DIRECTOR
J.D. Mowat
CIRCULATION MANAGER
Megan Higgins
ZOMBIE MAKE-UP
Nicole Steeves
MODELS
Sydney Benedet
Brad MacInnisNicholas Silveri
Aleysha Haniff
SPORTS
Sean Tepper
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
THE UNDEAD CAMPUS p.9Emma Prestwich reports on how empty
lots and construction projects are
turning Ryerson into a ghost town.
DEAD ON ARRIVAL p.16School spirit is dead at Ryerson.
Aleysha Haniff investigates the
time of death.
THE PRICE OF TALENT p.19Sean Tepper discovers why recruitment
could be the key to rebuilding the
Rams’ reputation.
RYERSON’S UNCHARTED
EDUCATION p.29How is quality of education measured
at Ryerson? Rebecca Burton reports.
18 YEARS LATER ZOMBIESCHOOL GET OUT WHILE YOU STILL CAN p.3
ANATOMY OF AN UNDEAD STUDENT p.4
ZOMBIES RULE CAMPUS p.6
STAY TOGETHER AND LIVE p.8
HOW LONG WILL YOU SURVIVE p.14
GARDEN FEVER WON’T FIX ALL p.21
LET RYE-GONES BE BYGONES p.26
DEAD MEN ON CAMPUS p.27
RYERSON’S HALLOWED GROUND p.28
STAYING ALIVE AT RYERSON p.32
PHOTO: MARTA IWANEK
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EDITORIAL
cramps Ryerson’s style and stops the university from reach-
ing its full potential.
So forget the The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks,
Ryerson zombies move faster than Left 4 Dead’s highly con-
tagious Green Flu virus. Here’s what you need to do:
First, ip to page 14 where community editor Allyssia
Alleyne helps you determine your odds of surviving with a
handy owchart. Next, examine the anatomy of an undead
student on page 4 to help keep your brains in your headand out of a zombie’s tummy. Dying to know how Ryer-
son measures the quality of teaching? Read news editor
Rebecca Burton’s story on page 29.
Also, check out page 32 for tips on how to ght the out-
break and make the most of your time at Ryerson.
If my braaains are eaten before you read this message,
please remember one thing. You are alive. Zombie virus or
not, enjoy the time you have here it doesn’t last forever.
Shannon Higgins, Editor-in-Chief
The Student Campus Centre is eerilysilent as I leave the Eyeopener ofce
in the wee hours o Tuesday morning.I head outside and my heels echo as
I race down a deserted Gould Street.It’s bitter cold and missing my modeo escape is not an option. Suddenly,two fgures appear on the sidewalk,hobbling towards me. Fog rom a sewervent obscures my view and I squint tocheck out the approaching threat. Asthey slowly pass under a street light theirsickly aces and dead eyes disturb me.I’ve only ever seen aces like these duringscary movies. Scary movies that endbadly or young women walking alone in
the dead o night.
Ryerson University has been infected.
It’s too late to amputate the affected area, so put down
the machete and listen here.
We are facing a zombie apocalypse. Seriously.
Don’t believe me? Just look around campus. Hordes of
exhausted bodies trudge up and down Gould Street every-
day.
Their bodies are contorted from lugging heavy text-
books on the commute. They are unresponsive to friendlygestures, angry about everything and mesmerized by the
latest text message on their smartphone.
This special magazine issue of the Eyeopener will give
you all the tools necessary to survive the plague and es-
cape a horric fate.
This year we decided to use satire and undead fun to
show how Ryerson University is on the brink of becom-
ing a zombieland campus. Stalled construction projects,
poor quality education and a lack of student engagement
PHOTO: MARTA IWANEK
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Of the many pointless
and pseudo-intellectual
conversations I have had
with my friends in Pit-
man Hall, not one comes
close to the useless hy-
pothetical value of thezombie question: What
would you do if there
was a zombie outbreak
in Toronto?
More importantly,
where would you go?
For me, a resident in
Pitman Hall, the “rez bub-
ble” is the rst thing that
comes to mind. Yonge-
Dundas Square, the
AMC building, the Eaton
Centre, Yonge Street,all of which are just a
few steps away from my
dorm room.
They have started to
feel like the only places I
know in Toronto.
Three blocks west and
I’m at Yonge-Dundas
Square. Three blocks east
and I’m asking for direc-
tions.
That’s why I’d probably
be eaten rst.
Living in residence
has its benets. The aver-
age Pitman resident can
wake up 20 minutes be-fore a class, sans sobriety,
and still make it before
most commuters.
Unfortunately, this
makes for exceptional la-
ziness which would lead
to the demise and utter
zombication of most
rez students.
Residence also limits
your geographical ex-
pansions and your urban
excursions in one of the
most diverse cities in
the world. Also, the most
populated city in Canada
not a good thing in a
zombie apocalypse.
The rez bubble exists
for one main reason: stu-
dents are strangers in the
big city upon arrival.
I recall moving herefrom Calgary in August
and settling into Pitman
Hall.
There were two des-
tinations that we visited
every day for the rst
two weeks: the LCBO on
Yonge and Dundas and
Pita Land on Gerrard and
Mutual.
The LCBO was for
obvious reasons, and
Pita Land has good and
greasy food (albeit not
nearly as nutritious as
healthy human esh).
Why did we choose
these two locations ini-
tially? Familiarity. We
heard people mention-
ing Pita Land being
“bomb” and “right there”
or the LCBO being “twosteps away from rez” . We
registered them in our
minds as familiar, places
we recognized and knew.
The rez bubble is the
ultimate result of this
familiarity. Locations
within close proximity
to Pitman Hall start as
landmarks and indica-
tors to guide guests vis-
iting Toronto. Then they
slowly become part of
residence life.
Sooner or later, they
are the only thing you
Get out while you still canMohamed Omar explains why the residence bubble won’t be a stable bunkerwhen the T-Virus hits Toronto
know in Toronto. That
said, not every student is
forever locked in the rez
bubble.
Some students, you
might call them ‘the sur-
vivors’, make a habit of trying a new restaurant
every Sunday.
This way they avoid
eating from the ILLC for
breakfast (starts to taste
like brains to the unin-
fected human).
This however, costs
money a rare com-
modity in student life.
So to return to the
whole zombie theory,
my experience with therez bubble would help
me survive temporarily
in the general campus
area.
But what if the zom-
bies take over the resi-
dence bubble?
When hell comes to
earth, where the hell do
we go?
Three blocks west and I’m at Yonge-Dundas Square. Three blocks
east and I’m asking for directions.
Mohamed Omar
Mohamed Omar barricades himself in Pitman Hall where the vital signs of student life are in danger of extinction. PHOTO: CHELSEA POTTAGE
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PHOTOS: MARTA IWANEK
ZOMBIE A
ZOMBIE B
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AUTOPSY OF AN
UNDEAD STUDENTArts & Life Editor Gianluca Inglesi takes a stab at CSI and examines two typicalRyerson zombies on the cold table of a morgue
ZOMBIE A
ZOMBIE B
♦ Zombie A was discovered ly-
ing across a Gould Street picnic
table and was suited up even
dead he was still ready to “hit the
ground running.” Surrounding
him were many shopping bags
as well as a messenger bag full of
heavy textbooks. This could have
made it more challenging for his
already wounded body to weavethrough the planters.
♦ Upon examination of Zombie
A’s ears it can be concluded that
damage is a result of high volume
levels from iPod headphones.
This student must have listened
to music between classes and
on his commute. Broken ribs and
skid marks on Bond Street sug-
gest that Zombie A may have
been hit by a construction vehi-cle before reaching Gould Street.
♦ Testing Zombie A’s eyesight
led to a discovery of nearly per-
fect vision that had not been
damaged by UV rays. One can
only assume that this student
protected them with Ray Ban
sunglasses. Also, note that Zom-
bie A ingested brains before dy-
ing but his stomach was already
full of Thai food from resurrectedstudent favourite Salad King.
♦ Zombie B was found in the
Yonge-Dundas subway stationclenching her iPhone, which
displayed a recent tweet read-
ing, ‘Must eat brains #sohungry’.
Zombie B was leaving campus
very late and her body showed
signs of exhaustion, which could
signify that she was a student in
the faculty of engineering, archi-
tecture and science.
♦ Multiple calluses and blisters
on the Zombie B’s feet indicatethe regular wearing of tight, con-
stricting shoes such as oxfords
or combat boots which may have
made it more difcult for the
zombie to run from danger. RSU
forms found in Zombie B’s bag
indicate that she was attempting
to organize a Zombie campus
group called ‘Undead R People 2’.
♦ Markings around Zombie B’s
neck signify strangling as a pos-sible cause of death. The shape
of the markings point to a circle
scarf as the weapon of choice,
another trend among students.
On Zombie B’s person, a debit
receipt was found revealing that
the student made a late night
purchase of brains at the 24-hour
Metro and asked for cash back.
Time of death: 12:10 a.m.
Cause of death: hit by moving vehicle
Evidence:
Time of death: 2:45 a.m.
Cause of death: Asphyxiation
Evidence:
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Stay together and liveStudent life at Ryerson is in danger of extinction. News editor Sarah Del Giallo looks at how program cliques are battling the trend
There may be hope in surviving Ryerson’s undead student life. PHOTO: MARTA IWANEK
No one survives alone in a zombie
apocalypse. Think of the movies. There’salways a group of people who bond with
each other for moral support, and use that
community to survive – or at least survive
longer than most of the human race.
In regards to student life, Ryerson
campus could be compared to a zombie
wasteland. At other universities, like the
University of Western Ontario or Queens
University, the student community is alive
and apparent to all those around. Ryer-
son’s campus, however, is full of students
who come to campus for one thing and
one thing only – brains. Or the student
equivalent to eating brains, which is sit-
ting alone in class, grabbing a coffee and
drinking it in quiet isolation before going
home.
Most university campuses are a place to
hang out, party and make friends. But the
qualities that make Ryerson different from
other universities also alter student life.
We’re in the heart of downtown To-
ronto. There’s a constant sense of rush
when you enter the core of this city, and it
doesn’t stop when you step onto campus.
Despite wanting to make a life-long friend
or two at Ryerson, nobody seems to havethe time to stop and chill while they scurry
down Gould Street.
Ryerson is also a commuter school, so
most of the students here already live in
the GTA. They live in the cities they grew
up in, with their friends from high school.
It isn’t necessary to make friends on cam-
pus, because their life isn’t on campus. It
isn’t that Ryerson students aren’t sociable,
but their social lives exist elsewhere.
So here we are, on Ryerson’s metaphori-
cal wasteland. Is there anyone else out
there who wants more than a degree?
There is hope, my friends. There are sur-
vivors. Groups of students who use Ryer-
son as a place of sociability and network-
ing.
But unless you’re already in one of these
groups, you probably don’t know what I’m
talking about.
These groups tend to be program spe-
cic. Think of theatre, engineering, nurs-
ing or people from fashion and interior
design.
The programs where students tend to
form stronger and faster bonds are the
programs with small class numbers, an in-tense workload, practical learning experi-
ences and group work.
“I like having a group of ve to six guys
that I talk to, and the way this program
works out, I end up having that group of
ve to six guys,” said Alex Loree, a second-
year aerospace engineering student.
Jessica Raffa, a second-year fashion
communication student said, “I think it’s
because our program is so intense that
we spend so much time together. It just
almost makes it more natural to make
friends.”
But there’s still hope for those who’ve
been infected with the antisocial zom-
bie virus. When you’re getting coffee and
waiting an eternity in line, say hello to
your zombie neighbour. Or talk to the
person sitting next to you in class. They’ll
probably appreciate the social interaction.
Step out of the wasteland Ryerson.
Let yourself have a university experience
that’s more than just a degree more
than just brains. Come back to life. It’s
pretty great out here.
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The dead campus
V isitors entering Ryerson
campus at Yonge and
Gould Sts. are greeted
by a pit that is the future
home of the Student Learning Cen-
tre and a fenced-off patch of gravel
where the old Empress Hotel once
stood.
Further down Gould is the partial-
ly nished Image Arts building, and
just beside it are a cluster of build-
ings on Bond St., most of which are
either not open to the public or in-
visible to passerby.
2011 marks the fth year since
the implementation of the Master
Plan, a 133-page document out-
lining a plan to enliven Ryerson’s
campus and increase academic and
research space. “Urban intensica-
tion” is the rst of the three Master
Plan goals, and in order to reach this
goal, Ryerson has to make the most
efcient use of its land and the
properties around campus.
But Ryerson’s three most recent
projects have faced a number of
delays, and the university currently
owns several incomplete or invis-
ible buildings. This combination
of stagnant construction projects
and underused or inaccessible fa-
cilities isn’t helping foster President
Sheldon Levy’s vision of Ryerson as
a New York University (NYU)-type
campus; instead it’s making the
university a ghost town. George
Baird, former dean of the faculty of
architecture, landscape and design
at the University of Toronto, said he
thinks the nature of the area around
campus means Ryerson can only
expand through re-development,
and the university’s current situa-
tion is odd and presents challenges
for building community.
“I don’t disagree that the interim
period has problems,” he said.
He said the effective use of build-
ings on street level is a big factor in
creating animated street life. “The
fact that people don’t go there
means [the areas] are out of the
public mind.”
Despite being in the heart of downtown, many Ryerson University buildings lacks life. Between construc-
tion and abandoned campus sites, the school has a long way to go before becoming a thriving campus.News editor Emma Prestwich reports
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The derelict
Gerrard Copy
Centre at
Gerrard and
Mutual Sts.
closed last year
and remains
empty though
the university
says it has plans
to re-develop
the space.
PHOTOS:
MARTA IWANEK
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In 2007, Ryerson acquired the oldSam the Record Man property. Fouryears later, the university is set to bebe-gin construction of the Student Learn-ing Centre (SLC) will start in the nextsix months, if Ryerson gets approval
from the city to begin construction.The learning centre is set to be n-ished by the winter of 2013-14, and
Levy said its success as an active hubfor students will be a denitive step toachieving the Master Plan.
“If we can achieve that, then there’sno stopping us,” he said.
The most illustrious project, MapleLeaf Gardens, was slated for comple-tion this March, but the date waspushed back to November after reno-vation setbacks.
When the rink was excavated forparking, workers encountered under-ground water and that added time,Levy said.
The university received $20 millionin government stimulus funding forthe project. One requirement of thefunding was that the Gardens be com-
pleted this March.Levy admitted the March comple-
tion date was ambitious, but luckily,the provincial government extendedthe deadlines for all funded projects.
“If not, we would have movedheaven and earth to complete it [byMarch],” he said.
Director of athletics Ivan Joseph
didn’t see the construction delays asan issue, and shrugged off the sug-gestion that it might be hard to keepboth the Gardens and the recreationand athletics centre popular if bothfacilities are open.
“We want to be as ambitious as pos-sible,” he said.
Another stagnant project is the$112 million Image Arts building ren-ovation. The building was slated toopen last October, but now has beenpushed to this September.
“I understand this is a particularly
trying year,” said Alexandra Ander-son, interim Image Arts chair, in anemail to students, staff and faculty inthe department.
She said the staff are currentlyworking on making sure all teachingand production spaces are set up bySeptember.
Levy said there were a lot of chal-lenges in converting the building,which had previously been a brewery,into a gallery.
Along with these half-nished
projects, there are a string of facili-ties around campus with bright blueRyerson signs but no campus activity.While many of these seemingly dead
buildings aren’t necessarily empty,they’re still not accessible to most Ry-erson students. Even staff questionhow the various facilities are used.
We want to be as
ambitious as possible.
Ivan Joseph,
director of Athletics
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Half of the building at 111 Gerrard St. is unlabeled and the other half is completely empty. PHOTO: MARTA IWANEK
It has been designated
to be used in a better
way as a larger,
better building.
Sheldon Levy,
Ryerson President
Ryerson security services supervisor
Imre Juurlink said security often is not
informed about the status of a build-
ing and how heavily it’s being used.
Another property in transition is
the Gerrard Copy Centre. It was listed
as a place for printing and copying for
essential campus services and depart-
ments until July 2010, but is no longeroperational.
Director of ancillary services John
Corallo said the copy centre closed
down because of a lack of customer
trafc, and the university is consider-
ing using it as a food services kiosk or
a satellite OneCard centre.
Levy said the site has been desig-
nated for redevelopment under the
Master Plan as an academic building
or a potential residence.
The university held a contest last
year to search for potential new resi-
dence designs for the copy centre
through the RFP (request for propos-
als) process, but has only received two
responses.“It’s been designated to be used
in a better way as a larger, better
building,” Levy said.
The other half of the copy centre
is the locked Research and Graduate
Studies. Half the musty facility, which
contains ofces on the second and
third oors, requires OneCard access
and an appointment to get in. The
other half houses study cubicles and
ofces for graduate students.
Across campus, the enigmatic Mon-
etary Times building houses ofces,boardrooms and labs for the civil en-
gineering department. But the three-
storey heritage building shows no
signs of use from the outside.
Administrative assistant Kim
Kritzer, who works in the building,
said part of the building’s invisibility
might have to do with the fact that
civil engineering students take their
classes in the George Vari Engineering
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She said while the space isn’t ideal,
the department is stuck there until the
university decides to purchase more
real estate to house the new aculty
o science, ater a provost’s committee
recommended that science split rom
the aculty o engineering, architec-ture and science in October.
Baird who works with an architec-
ture and urban design frm, compared
Ryerson’s stagnant campus to the
Cloud Gardens park at Bay and Ade-
laide Streets that he helped design. He
said the park sat unbuilt or a decade
and a hal, and that it was killed the
community lie around the site.
“It meant that it was even more out
o the way [or people],” he said.
He suggested that Ryerson make
use o its empty buildings by fnding
temporary uses, such as gallery displayspaces.
Vice-president administration and
fnance Julia Hanigsberg said the uni-
versity wants to be wise about build-
ings like Monetary Times and the Ger-
rard Copy Centre. “We don’t want to
leave them vacant, but we don’t want
to put that many resources in them i
they’re going to be re-developed,”she
said.
According to Levy, the school has
plans to replace a number o buildings,
including the copy centre. “What
we’re doing is in line with urban inten-sifcation,” he said.
“It’s a very long-term, ambitious
goal o the university.” Kritzer said she
thinks the university is making good
use o its limited real estate. “I mean,
the campus is like a amily, and any
amily has kids o dierent ages.”
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How long will you survive?
ARTS
When the campus falls to chaos during the inevitable zombie apocalypse, how long will you and
your peers survive before joining the ranks of the undead? Remember: all faculties are equal, butsome faculties are more zombie-proof than others
Is essay writing your greatest skill?
Yes
12 hours
No
Like getting your hands dirty?
Yes
Wilderness survivalexperience?
Yes
Taken a psych
course?
Yes
2 years
No
1 year
Yes
3 months
No
1 month
No Know how to use a
gun?
No
Read The Prince? No
1 week
Yes Take it to heart?
Yes
4 years/until the
revolution
No
1 week
COMMUNITY SERVICES
Do you see the goodin everyone?
Yes
5 seconds
NoKnow about foodor health?
No 3 daysYes
Would youleave a friend
behind?
Yes Work wellin groups?
NoAlways trying to
save people?
No
6 monthsYes
Indefinitely
No
3 months
Yes
1 month
By Community Editor Allyssia AlleyneIllustration by Lauren Strapagiel
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COMMUNICATIONAND DESIGN
Want to be on TV?
Yes No
Fact-checking
before acting?
TED ROGERS SCHOOLOF MANAGEMENT
Do you have another degree?
Yes No
5 minutes(see appropriate
faculty)
ENGINEERING,ARCHITECTURE AND
SCIENCE
Able to constructshelter, weapons or
transportation?
Yes
Basic socialskills?
Awesome chemicalknowledge?
Yes
2 years
No
Yes
Indefinitely
No
Creativeproblemsolving?
Yes
2 years
No
Consider changingmajors
Competitive?
No
5 days
Yes
Massive ego?
Yes
1 week
No
Leadership experience?
Yes
4 months
No
1 week
Yes No
Goneundercover?
Yes No
Get caught?Yes
1 monthNo
3 months
Good atcreating
characters?
Yes
Do peopletrust you?
No
2 weeks
Yes
1 month
Valueaesthetics?
No
NoYes
2 days
Yourereally inFCAD?
Honestly?
2 weeks
No
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DEAD ON ARRIVAL
School spirit has been ailing for years. Online editor Aleysha Haniff digs for the realreason we’re doomed to wander a lifeless campus
Ryersonian image courtesy of Ryerson University Archives and Special Collections, RG95-1, Parades
Kristina Kulikova’s routine hasn’t
changed a bit since she started at Ryerson.
The economics and nance student starts
her day with a much-needed cup of coffee
after trekking to campus from Richmond
Hill. She goes to class. She meets with
friends for lunch. Next, she might swing by
the economics department and do some
work. After that, it’s time to go home.
Kulikova, who also trains as a competitive
ballroom dancer, has followed this
schedule for four years. She loves Ryerson,
she says. But she hasn’t opted in to what
she calls “the big picture” -- the idea that
Ryerson can be more than a place to go
learn.
“If you’re concentrating on studies all
the time, you don’t see that,” she says.
When Ryerson opened in 1948, it was
viewed as an experiment. The students
who roamed the halls had to prove
themselves by lling niche jobs after
the end of World War II. This founding
principle didn’t disappear in the following
decades. If anything, it’s the foremost
factor that lures students to campus and a
key part of Ryerson’s marketing campaign.
Yet what’s forgotten are the effects
an industry-driven focus can have on
campus life. School spirit is dead and has
been for years. It’s part of the university’s
legacy, entwined with the career-focused
programs that have dened Ryerson.
To a university administration, however,
“the big picture” isn’t about campus spirit
but campus expansion at a breathtaking
pace. Ryerson was a work in progress long
before the quest for Maple Leaf Gardens
captivated Toronto media. But something
has to be pushed out to make room for
all this growth, and that something is
students, condemned to wander a campus
full of buildings but little else.
Ryerson’s rst graduating class entered
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the workorce in 1950.
The institute’s frst yearbook,
Ryersonia, also debuted that
year. Pages were spotted with
pink-tinted photos o idealistic
grads, mostly men with asprinkling o women, many
describing his or her respective
career path in the tiny blurb
under each headshot.
“Alors!” reads the fnal
paragraph o the editors’
oreword. “Turn these pages
and recall our instructors, turn
these pages and recall the sages
and scamps among our student
colleagues, turn these pages and
re-live and re-create the campuslie as shown in Ryersonia 1950.”
The frst two years o student
activity were summarized in
three pages about athletics,
student dances and enrolment
increases, with an entire
subsection dubbed “lively social
lie.” RIOT, now a radio and
television comedy production,
involved every aculty. The
Ryersonian, which frst went to
press in 1948, published a list
o new students that included
where he or she went to high
school. Faculties each consisted
o a handul o proessors.
Ryerson, indeed, was a smaller
place.
In the early 1950s, two
things were important
according to Ryerson’s
ofcial history: fnding
jobs and achievingconormity. Principal Howard
Kerr, Ryerson’s frst top
administrator, made a point
o establishing traditions to
make parents and students
alike eel more comortable
about the concept o a
polytechnical school. He
wanted all the trappings o a
traditional institution the
songs, the clubs, the cheers
and the teams.But then came the
1960s, and Ryerson wasn’t
immune to the eects o the
transormation o the outside
world. Mark Bonokoski,
a ormer Eyeopener and
Ryersonian editor, graduated
rom Ryerson’s journalismprogram in 1972. He helped lead
sit-ins at the president’s ofce and
held symposiums on the English
department, which he thought
was a joke.
“The sit-ins at the president’s
ofce we had maybe 50, 60
students help take it over with us.
We negotiated with the president
right in his ofce to get our
demands through,” Bonokoski
says. “Because it [Ryerson] wasso small then, it was a more o a
collective rather than just a great
big huge stew,” he said.
Even then, school pride came
rom the act that graduates in
programs such as RTA, ashion and
business administration ound
jobs, Bonokoski says.
At the same time, as editor o
the Eyeopener, he helped organize
marches o what he said were
thousands o students, protesting
both the length o the Vietnam
War and nuclear testing. “It seems
much more complacent today.
But these are dierent times too,”
Bonokoski says. “O course, this
was all pre-technology. There were
no cellphones, no Internet.”
Because it [Ryerson] was so small then,
it was a more o a collective rather than
just a great big huge stew.
It seems much more complacent today.
But these are dierent times too.
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Complacency and technology seem to describe the 2011Ryerson Students’ Union elections perfectly. Two groups of
journalists from the Ryersonian and the Eyeopener huddle
around laptops, recording each fresh news tidbit with live-
blogging software. Other than one group of student politi-
cians, no one else is there to watch the predictable results
trickle in.
Sean Carson was elected RSU vice-president operations
that night, moving from his role as vice-president student
life and events. On paper, the RSU offers a plethora of student
groups, course unions, pub nights, guest speakers, parades
and coffeehouses.
But despite the range of events, there’s still an issue tobe tackled. “There are 24,000 students at Ryerson. And then
there’s me,” Carson says.
Carson maintains that many events are well-attended, and
the student union is the key player in getting people togeth-
er on campus.
But he says there’s only so much he can do with a lack of
student space on campus.
“Students are certainly pushing us to the edges of ourcapacity for we could offer here on campus for events,” he
says.
School population has exploded in recent years, making
the need for more buildings even more urgent. Just more
than 25,000 full-time undergraduates enrolled at Ryerson
for the 2009-10 school year. Ten years earlier, about 14,000
walked the halls.
Carson says students need more space to study, go to
class and hang out. More importantly, he says, they need
the time to t all that in their schedules, which can be dif-
cult when many students work part- or full-time.
Wayne Petrozzi, who teaches in the politics and publicadministration department, can address both sides of the
expansion conundrum.
A twenty-something Petrozzi answered a newspaper ad
in 1976 and started to instruct at Ryerson while he worked
on his Ph.D. Petrozzi saw rst-hand the camaraderie and
in some cases, the competitiveness that existed in vari-
ous programs.
Continued on page 24
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The Price of TalentFor years Ryerson has been the laughing stock in the
world of interuniversity athletics. Some of Ryerson’stop coaches and administrators are trying to change
that by recruiting the most promising athletes in
the country. But how far is Ryerson willing to go to
acquire the best student players?
By Sean Tepper
Photography by marta iwanek
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Every year, thousands of highschool athletes receive DVDs,pamphlets, phone calls and
e-mails from coaches hoping to lureyoung talent to their university.
While it only takes a few momentsfor a prospective recruit to sign auniversity’s formal letter of intent,
the process that it takes to get thatplayer`s signature on the dotted line isslow and time consuming at the bestof times.
“In the coaching business you neverget any time off,” says Roy Rana, who isin his sophomore season as the headcoach of Ryerson’s basketball team.“People think that when your season
is done... coaches go golng in theoff-season. But recruiting never everever stops.”
Despite budget cuts, self-imposedacademic regulations and Ontario ath-letic scholarship restrictions, RyersonUniversity is serious about developing
an ultra-competitive athletics reputa-tion and is focusing on player recruits
to revive the once dead program.Like most of Ryerson’s Canadian
Interuniversity Sports (CIS) coaches,Rana is quickly learning that recruitingis a full time job.
“Recruiting starts with talentidentication,” he says. “Before youstart to recruit [someone] you have towatch a lot of players and decide if he
ts in your program. There is a lot of research involved.”
When he is not running practices orcoaching his team through a game,Rana can be found in his ofce, wherehe will either be sitting at his desk staring at his brightly lit MacBook, onthe telephone getting inside infor-mation from high school coaches, or
texting prospective players on hisBlackberry. However most of the timehe does all three simultaneously.
“I’m [already] looking at kids that
will graduate in 2015-2016,” he says.“We need to project [now] what wewill need at that time.”
According to CIS rules, universitiesare allowed to give students a fullathletics scholarship that covers thecost of their education for as longas they play varsity sports and meet
the school’s academic requirements.However, under Ontario UniversityAthletics (OUA) rules student athletesare only allowed to be given $3,500.
That means Ryerson has to work even harder to sell themselves to per-spective student athletes who are ableto leave Ontario for full scholarships.
Beyond the scholarship restriction,
Ryerson’s biggest recruiting roadblock is self-imposed. The university doesn’taccept any student athletes with anaverage below 80 per cent.
Budgetary restrictions at Ryersonalso challenge coaches like Rana.Every CIS team at Ryerson is given a
recruiting budget, which varies fromteam to team. After coaches present a
proposal for their budget to Ivan Jo-seph, the school’s director of athletics,it’s up to the coaches to allocate theirfunds as they see t.
Repeated attempts by the Eyeopen-er to retrieve the recruiting budgetwere unsuccessful. Both Joseph andall of the coaches interviewed for thisarticle declined to comment on how
much or how little they receive fortheir team.
“I would never give it up [but] I cantell you that it’s more than a dollar andless than $5000,” Joseph says.
Joseph also refused to provide theEyeopener with individual teams’recruiting budgets.
“We would never give it out; it
would give a signicant advantage of our competitors over us.”
While Joseph is adamant that thebudget is enough to “get the job
done”, Canadian universities have asignicantly lower budget to recruitplayers than their U.S. counterparts.
“Your budget will dictate how faryou can go,” Rana said.
“I’ll go into the heart of Africa if Ihave to. I’m willing to go wherever Ineed to go. But unfortunately that’s
not the reality, I don’t have thatcharter plane that I can jump onto torecruit a kid. “
Coaches say technology has helped
them make better use of their bud-gets.
“Just e-mail alone has changed thestyle of recruiting,” says StephanieWhite, the head coach of the women’s
hockey team, who uses phone calls,text messages, e-mails and YouTubevideos to help with recruitment.
“We can do a fair amount of work without having to leave [Ontario].It helps you lower your recruitingbudget.”
Dustin Reid, the head coach of thewomen’s volleyball team, has already
traveled across the country in hopesof recruiting some of the top femalevolleyball players in Canada. Althoughhis budget doesn’t cover all of histravel costs, Reid says he will do what-ever it takes to build a strong team.
“I was hired to build a volleyballprogram that will [help] the school’sreputation,” he says. “If I’ve got to nd
a way outside of [our recruiting bud-get] I’ll do it.”
Graham Wise, the head coach of the men’s hockey team, never has amoment to himself, even when hegoes to watch his son play hockey.Jamie Wise is a left winger for OntarioHockey League’s (OHL) Mississauga St.Michael’s Majors and even when his
father shows up to watch him play, heis scouting out the rest of the talenton the ice.
Continued on page 25
“I’ll go into the heart of Africa if I have
to. I’m willing to go whereever i have to.”
Roy Rana, men’s basketball coach
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Gardens fever won’t fix all
The Ryerson men’s soccer team
earned its best nish in the school’shistory this year, nishing in fourth
place in Ontario University Athletics
and narrowly missing out on qualify-
ing for a chance to win the Canadian
Interuniversity Sport national champi-
onship.
Too bad no one was in the stands to
witness history in the making.
“It’s like an empty graveyard,” said
Ivan Joseph, head coach of the Ryer-
son Rams and director of athletics.
Although soccer is recognized as
the world’s most popular sport, Ryer-
son’s men’s team has one of the worst
attendance records of any of Ryerson’s
CIS teams.
“Ryerson has a soccer team? I didn’t
even know,” said Rachel Szereszewski,
a second-year fashion student.
The Rams play all of their home soc-
cer games at Lamport Stadium, which
holds 9,600 fans, nearly half of the
22,000 capacity at Toronto F.C.’s BMO
eld. However, the stadium is located
on 1151 King St. W, approximately 30to 45 minutes away from Ryerson’s
downtown campus depending on
trafc.
“Most games are on Saturday and
Sunday. Driving through the weekend
trafc isn’t the most fun thing,” Joseph
said. “If we were closer we’d see a
signicant turn-about.” Fans gather
in semi-impressive numbers to watch
the men and women’s basketball and
volleyball teams play at Kerr Hall Gym,
but the only signs of life in the stands
of Lamport Stadium are family mem-
bers and close friends of some of the
athletes playing.
One of the main objectives when
the Gardens opens is to revive Ryer-
son’s dormant fan base and create
excitement around their sports teams.
Ryerson has even gone so far as hiring
Global Spectrum, a Connecticut-based
company, to manage Maple Leaf
Gardens and get students to show up
by turning every home game into an
exciting event.Only time will tell if the facility will
create a bigger fan base, but even if it
does, the soccer team won’t benet
from it. They will not be making the
move into the historic Toronto build-
ing.
In a country where hockey holds
a high importance in the hearts of
sports fan, Ryerson’s hockey teams
should, in theory, have the largest fol-
lowing.
But they have as little support as the
soccer teams and Ryerson is banking
on the Gardens to bring new fans to
the stands.
Currently, the men’s hockey team
plays at George Bell Arena which is
located near St. Clair Avenue West and
Keele Street, and the women’s team
play all the way up in North York. Like
the trip to Lamport, travelling from
campus to either of these arenas takesanywhere from 30 to 45 minutes.
Sports editor Sean Tepper looks at the impact Maple Lea Gardens couldhave on flling empty stands
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“Distance is the main problem,” said GrahamWise, head coach of the men’s hockey team.“We’re quite far from campus.”
Szereszewski said she could not see herself travelling that far to watch a game, especiallywhen more convenient alternatives are offered.
“If you want to watch volleyball or basketball,you just have to walk across campus,” she said.
With the $60 million acquisition and renova-tion of Maple Leaf Gardens, both the men’s andwomen’s hockey teams are scheduled to playtheir home games a lot closer to campus in thenear future.
To Wise, this is the solution to poor attendance.“Once we move to Maple Leaf Gardens and
everything is closer, the opportunity to connect
[fans to the team] will be better,” Wise said.The men’s basketball and volleyball teams
draw impressive numbers nearly every time theyplay at Kerr Hall Gym in front of their home fans.The men’s basketball team in particular averagesmore than 150 fans per game.
However, the same cannot be said about thewomen’s teams.
Dustin Reid, head coach of the women’s vol-
leyball team, said he has no doubt that mostattendance issues stem from scheduling and notbecause people are disinterested in the women’steams.
“We usually average 50 to 100 fans but therehave been a lot of times when we’ve gottenunder 50,” Reid said.
“If you’re always playing on weekends, then it’sa challenge. We also usually play the rst game
of a double-header [with the men’s team]. Whenwe’re by ourselves, we draw more fans.”
Joseph has planned events surrounding thegames in order to draw some sort of attentionto the team. This year, Joseph rented a bus andoffered a free meal to lure students to a soccergame.
The men’s hockey team has also attempted toincrease its connection to the student body.
“We had our athletes meet the rst-years asthey were moving into residence,” Wise said.
“It was a great way to connect.”Spreading the word about the men’s soccer
team is also something that assistant coach KevinSouter is looking forward to tackling.
“We have to do more PR [public relations], haveour guys reach out to the community and makelasting connections, and recruit more fans,” Sout-
er said. “It’s going to take time, but ultimately it’sgoing to be a success. I would love to ll Lamportone day.”
“It’s going to take time, but ultimately it’s going tobe a success. I would love to ll Lamport one day.
Kevin Souter, men’s soccer
assistant coach
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“Dead on Arrival “ continued from page 18.
Over the past 35 years, his faculty alone has
expanded from taking up about three oors of
Jorgenson Hall to lling nearly every level of the
old building. Ryerson changed from a school
that offered some degree programs to a full-edged university in 1993. Enrolment went up.
Buildings went up. Petrozzi suspects the cam-
pus’s growth made it harder to develop inter-
personal relationships with faculty and fellows
alike. The core basis of student life, however,
stubbornly remained the same.
“I think the student life piece was always
something that was always more rooted in the
program basis of the place than anything else,
which in many ways I think was an advantage,”
Petrozzi says. “Kind of insulated students a bit
from the scale of what was going on around
them and still provided a possibility to in the
way neighbourhoods provided a possibility to
know those around you while still living in
this bigger thing called the city.”
He says there are pros to expansion and
growth, namely the increasing diversity of the
school’s student body and faculty. Yet some-
thing changed in the 80s and more notably the
90s, though he can’t say if Ryerson has indeed
lost its sense of community.
Instead, Ryerson might have lost the carefree
youthfulness immortalized in Ryersonia 1950.
Petrozzi says students are forced to juggle ex-tra work just to stay in school. And unlike earlier
decades, he explains, students aren’t guaran-
teed a good job if they work hard in school.
“At some point you reach a sizable enough
percentage of students who are busily leading
two lives instead of one, and it has an impact,”
Petrozzi says. At the same time, Ryerson has
grown substantially making it even harder to
socialize on campus.
“What that optimism meant you know, the
fact that you weren’t fearing all the time about
your future meant that you could kind of enjoy the day instead of incessantly worrying
about the next one and the one six down from
then.”
Kristina Kulikova, will be graduating this April.
Looking back, she thinks things would have
been different if she had lived in residence. She
acknowledges all the effort put into student life
at Ryerson, even if she never got involved.
“Even if you’re not part of the events, you still
feel like that it’s not about going to class, gradu-
ating and having a job.”
At some point you reach a sizable
enough percentage of students who
are busily leading two lives instead of one, and it has an impact.
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“The Price of Talent” continued from page
20.
“I can kill two birds with one stone,”
Wise says. “There are a lot of players in
OHL that we are interested in. The thing is
that it’s such a competitive environmentthat there are several other teams talking
to these kids as well. You just gotta touch
base with them, watch them play and
keep in constant contact with them until
they say that they are not interested or
they want to pursue applying [to Ryer-
son].”
Under the watch of former athletics
director David Dubois, who was red
unexpectedly in 2008, Ryerson’s men and
women’s volleyball, basketball and soccer
teams along with the men’s hockey teamhad a dismal 151-397 win-loss record
between 2004 and 2007.
Ryerson’s athletic history has forced
the university to use its new facilities and
academic programs to sell potential play-
ers on the idea of becoming a Ram. White
says this strategy is working.
“As an athlete, why wouldn’t you want
to come to a school that is building new
facilities for not only athletes, but stu-
dents?” White says.
“Our number one goal is
our academic performance
and our number two
goal is our athletic
performance.”
Ivan Joseph,
director of athletics
Wise agrees. “Right now it ’s the fact that
we are moving into Maple Leaf Gardens
[which] will be a huge bonus to our pro-
gram,” he says.
While the impending renovation of
Maple Leaf Gardens is Ryerson’s biggest
sell at the moment, Ryerson’s up and
coming athletics program is garnering
a lot of attention from recruits around
the country. But, like all of the schools inOntario, Ryerson is put at a disadvantage
when it comes to recruiting.
While Joseph’s master plan is to trans-
form Ryerson’s athletics program into
a CIS power house, he says he refuses
to attain that by sacricing the school’s
academic integrity.
“Our number one goal is our academic
performance and our number two goal is
our athletic performance,” Joseph says.
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Ryerson once enjoyed an intense school spirit.
The Blue and Gold Ball was all the rage, Chariot
races were an exciting annual event and despitehaving nowhere to practise on campus, sports
were heavily supported
especially football.
The area was kinda
shady, but it
provided low-cost
housing. The
redevelopment in
the 60s began the
commuter school
era.
Major Howard Kerr seemed like an asshole
on the outside, but he attended school
dances and visited sick faculties in the hospital.
He even invited students
without Christmas
plans to his home.
Just don’t let
him catch you
violating the dress
code (neck tie and
shirt) because hewill seriously tell
you to go home.
LET RYE- GONESBE BYGONESFun editor Kats Quinto brings back ve funfacts from the dusty undead archives
IN THE 50s, THE MISS RYERSON CONTEST
FEATURED MALE STUDENTS IN DRAG
BECAUSE VERY FEW WOMEN ATTENDED THE
SCHOOL.Walter Pitman taught
a history course
during his
appointment as
the fourth Ryerson
president. Maybehe did it to qualify
for the Arts
Division ball hockey
tournament, which
he was a part of.
SMOKE BREAKS DID NOT EXIST IN THE LATE 60s
AND THE 70s BECAUSE SMOKING IN CLASS WAS
ALLOWED FOR BOTH STUDENTS AND PROFS.
PHOTOS FROM “SERVING SOCIETY’S NEEDS” BY RONALD STAGG
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Dead men on campus
1 George Vari (Aug. 14, 1923- Dec. 9,
2010) Vari was a real estate developer,philanthropist and a civil engineer to boot.He and his wife, Helen, donated $5 millionto the engineering and computing build-ing project that was completed in 2004and was subsequently named for him.He was also a big donor to U of T and York,
but we won’t hold that against him.
2 Ted Rogers Jr. (May 27, 1933- Dec. 2,
2008) It seems like half of Ryerson isnamed for Rogers, but for good reason.He and his wife Loretta donated$15 million to Ryerson in 2007, and Ryesubsequently obliged his gift by nam-ing the school of management after thecommunications magnate. Upon his death,Rogers was listed as the fthrichest Canadian.
3 Howard Kerr (Dec. 25, 1900- Jun. 16,
1984) Kerr was Ryerson’s rst principal andwas a huge part of Ryerson even comingto be. Kerr helped convince the Ontariogovernment that Ryerson was worthestablishing, turning the old Training andRe-establishment Institute into the Ryer-son Polytechnic Institute back in 1948.
Kerr served as Ryerson’s principal until1966, and later established a templatefor Ontario’s community colleges.
4 Eric Palin (?- Jan. 11, 1971) Palin wasa electrical whiz, and helped train radartechnicians for WWII. He helped launcha school of electronics near Ryerson’spredecessor, the Normal School, in 1944and was an original Ryerson staff member.Palin was the director of Electric technol-ogy and RTA from 1948-58.
5 Eugene O’Keefe (Dec. 10, 1827- Oct. 1,
1913) O’Keefe is Rye’s patron saint of booze. His brewery sat at the corner of Victoria and Gould, now encompassedby the Heaslip Centre, and his formermansion is now the O’Keefe residence.O’Keefe was also noted for his donationsto the Toronto Catholic community. Hedonated millions of dollars in his life, andhelped build ve Catholic churches inToronto.
6 William Heaslip Heaslip was the Chairand CEO of the Grafton Group, a largemen’s clothing retailer. Heaslip and hiswife, Nona, were a frequent donors toRyerson, the Toronto Symphony Orchestraand the Canadian Opera Company.
Ian Vandaelle reports on Ryerson’s habit of naming buildings after dead folks
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Ryerson University
has history to be
proud of. After all, its land
carries a rich tradition of
the two staples of uni-
versity lifeeducation
and drinking. Sure, there
were churches, houses
and stores here, but the
most important parts
were all boozing ’n’ book learning.
In 1846 Egerton Ry-
erson convinced the
government to fund
the Upper Canada Nor-
mal School, a teacher’s
college that became
known as “the cradle of
Ontario’s education sys-
tem.” The campus, called
Saint James Square, was
essentially where Kerr
Hall quad is now. Ryer-son bought the patch of
swampy land before it
was within Toronto city
limits and made it into
an educational landmark.
The Normal School
became a military train-
ing center during World
War II, and was later a
re-establishment centre
for veterans. In 1948 this
became the Ryerson In-
stitute of Technology,
and in the 50s, Kerr Hallwas built around the
three original buildings
at Saint James Square.
Destroying those inte-
rior buildings took until
1963. Now only the fa-
çade remains, forming
the gateway arch to the
Recreation and Athletics
Centre.
In the late 1800s, Eu-
gene O’Keefeyes, the
O’Keefe House guy
bought and renovated
a brewery at Gould and
Victoria Streets, where
we now have a book-
store, a Tim Horton’s and
a parking garage. What
the hell, modern world?
After buying and
renovating the brewery,
O’Keefe moved into ahouse on Bond Street
and added a third oor.
O’Keefe House still is Ry-
erson’s oldest residence
but it has notably fewer
badass brewers living in
it.
The brewery was de-
molished in the 80s after
well over a century of
keeping Canadians hap-
py and well-lubricated.
Across from the brew-ery, at the site of today’s
Victoria Building, was a
public school, labeled
only as “public school”
on one map (apparently
that qualied as a com-
plete name for a school
in the 19th century).
Of course, many other
historic sites grace the
land in and around our
campus. The Imperial
Pub, formerly the Impe-
rial Hotel, was aroundbefore the Great Depres-
sion. There was also The
Empress Hotel, which
until last April was the
Salad King venue. It was a
music hotspot in the 50s
and 60s. Unfortunately, it
burned down in January.
Ryerson was considering
buying the property
maybe they’ll build us a
new brewery.
Ryerson’s hallowed groundOK, so it turns out Ryerson wasn’t built on a graveyard. But the land we spend most ofour time has a pretty freakin’ cool history. Kai Benson unearths Ryerson’s undead past
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RYERSON’S
UNCHARTEDEDUCATION
By Rebecca Burton
Photography by Marta Iwanek
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aryn Elliot and her
riends crowded around
their made-up bingo
cards.
They weren’t waiting
or a B5. Instead she was waiting to hear one
o the fve topics her proessor constantly
ranted about in class, she says.
The pro begins to talk about how hu-
mans are evil. “Bingo!”
Elliot, a second-year radio and television
arts student, sat through this communica-
tion class or 13 weeks last semester. During
the semester, the class watched a three-
hour movie the proessor made his ex-girl-
riend watch the night beore, and learntabout the enslavement o horses.
“He just expressed his own opinion.
It’s understandable because most proes-
sors do but usually it connects back to the
course,” she said.
“I learned nothing in that class.”
Elliot submitted a mandatory response
paragraph ater every class saying the class
was pointless. She created an anonymous
hotmail account and sent two e-mails about
his teaching to her department head. She
even flled out the aculty course survey. El-
liot never heard back about her complaints.
According to Elliot, the proessor dis-missed the complaints by students saying it
didn’t matter what they thought, it’s what
he taught.
Elliot is part o only one quarter o stu-
dents who give eedback to aculty proes-
sors through surveys.
And even when there is an extremely
negative response rom students, it is near-
ly impossible to dismiss tenured proessors,
according to John Isbister, Vice Provost Fac-
ulty Aairs.
Ryerson University prides itsel on being
a unique real-world oriented university, but
the once polytechnic institute is still haunt-ed by the persistent ‘Rye High’ nickname.
And when students question the quality o
their education they have no clear avenue
to judge how it ranks.
Is it possible to measure the level o edu-
cation at Ryerson?
“The true answer is no. It’s so individual-
ized,” said Isbister. Instead, Ryerson mea-
sures the quality o education
I learned nothing in thatclass.
Karyn Elliot, RTA student
K
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We’re the best of whatwe are. We’re adifferent institution
Adam Kahan,VP University Advancement
through surveys like the faculty course sur-vey produced on a yearly basis.
According to the Association of Universi-
ties and Colleges of Canada, most schools
rely solely on these annual student surveys
to judge the satisfaction of their students.
Now in its 18th year as an accredited uni-
versity, Ryerson has developed from a small
institute born to provide an alternative to
apprenticeship technical training into a
booming hub of 28,000 students in more
than 40 programs. The province ofcially
accredited Ryerson in 1993 when a bill was
passed to grant them ofcial status.
As a university, Ryerson moderates itsown academic success. The provincial Min-
istry of Universities and Colleges acts as an
overseer looking at the accountability of
Ryerson to assist them in development and
to aid prospective students.
In their assessment, they look at employ-
ment rates at six months and two years after
graduation, degree completion rates and
Ontario Student Loan default rates.
And Ryerson on paper ranks high. In the
past few years, Ryerson experienced some
of the highest application numbers, ap-
proximately 65 000 applicants for the 5 000available spots.
Within six months an architecture gradu-
ate is 92.3 per cent likely to already be work-
ing. Compare this to neighbouring Uni-
versity of Toronto that holds the historical
esteem and a greater selection of programs,
and Ryerson is almost on par with their 100
per cent average of obtaining a job after
completing the architecture program.
“We’re the best of what we are. We don’t
try to compete because of what we are,”
said Adam Kahan, Vice President of Univer-
sity Advancement. “We’re a different institu-tion,” he said.
But problems arise when Ryerson relies
solely on the faculty course survey as one of
the key indicators of success.
Of the small population of students that
completed the faculty course survey in fall
of 2010, most marks remained in the high
average of 1 to 2.4 out of 5, indicating most
students agreed with the statements pre-
sented.
The survey included 14 questions such
as, ‘is the instructor knowledgeable about
the course material?’
Anver Saloojee, head of the Ryerson Fac-ulty Association, who holds a tenure profes-
sor position in the department of politics,
received an average score of 1.1 to 1.2. A
reasonably high average, he said.
But this data remains very department
oriented. If bad results come in, it is dealt
with internally between the faculty mem-
ber and the department. If that professor is
tenure it becomes nearly impossible to dis-
miss them, according to John Isbister.
Along with their secured position they
are granted academic freedom, a problem
Elliot says she faced during her many mis-
guided lectures.
“Individual data is not released and that’s
the problem. The benets are very individu-
al. For instance, students can’t use this [data]
in picking courses,” said Isbister.
Instead he said students would have to
rely on alternatives such as ratemyprofes-
sor.com, which offer the same student driv-
en perspective.
The surveys also aid in the departmen-
tal decisions over choosing to promote a
teacher. Close attention is paid to a teach-
er’s rst ve years when they are on pro-bation in which they must submit reports
every year.
“Ryerson doesn’t want to make a lifetime
commitment to someone who’s not a good
teacher,” said Isbister.
The idea of tenure is controversial in it-
self, according to Isbister.
But if Ryerson chooses, after ve years
probation and a number of peer to peer
evaluations, to grant a teacher tenure the
professor will be given academic freedom.
The main purpose of tenure, indicating a
professors full time status, is to ensure pro-
fessors will not be red for expressing his orher own opinions. But this also grants a lot
of leeway from the outlined course materi-
als.
In another survey Ryerson participates
called the National Survey of Student En-
gagement, more disturbing scores, accord-
ing to Isbister, indicated that as a student
went further along in their education the
scores for student engagement on campus
and fulllment of their programs dropped.
As a result, Isbister said Ryerson will be
undergoing a whole curriculum redesign to
offer more choice for students.
“We tell you what courses to take. We’re
beginning to think we’re too directive,” he
said.
According to Isbister, students will still
leave Ryerson as a professional but their
four years will grant them more avenues to
explore what they personally want to study.
“There will still be less choice than strictly
liberal arts universities but we may have
gone overboard,” said Isbister.
“We’re not in agreements yet but we’re
working on it.”
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Staying alive at RyersonBetween part-time jobs and full-time classes, it’s easy to become a shell of
a person, groggily stumbling from one task to the next.Community Editor
Allyssia Alleyne shares the secret to having a life
Explore the terrain
The world extends beyond the confines of Ryer-
son’s inspiring campus. Take to the streets to
discover what this exciting city has to offer, from
the lands of our rival c lans at the University of
Toronto to the rich cultures of Queen Street
West, and the mysterious northern regions
past Bloor Street.
Sharpen
your
weapons
The pen is mightier
than the sword.
Knowledge is pow-
er. In short, those
skills you learn
in lecture might
actually come in
handy some day,so pay attention.
Besides: nothing
looks better to
generous aunts
than a transcript
full of As.
Forge
alliances
Though it’s easy and convenient
to restrict your allies to the peo-
ple you see in your daily labs,
people from other programs
do have much to offer in
terms of resources, skills and
fun times. Don’t be afraid to
extend the olive branch to
create allies out of enemies.
Maintain your health
The undead and the uninteresting prey on the
sluggish and lazy. A little exercise a few times
a week laps at the RAC or Quidditch in
the quad and a somewhat balanced diet
can do a world of good when it comes to
escaping zombies (who are infamously
slow) or just catching the last GO Bus
home.
Join a team
Nothing will endanger your life like the
inability to work with others. (Just ask
Caesar!) To the socially-inclined stu-
dent, Ryerson offers plenty of clubs
and organization students can join.
Find one that interests you and
learn how to play nice with others.
If you’re already a social butterfly,
this is a great way to
meet new peo-
ple and dosomething
you enjoy.
Create
safe
havens
Help protect
yourself and
your fellows
from ignorant
revenants bystanding up
against op-
pression and
discrimination
based on sex,
gender or other
factors (except
zombie status.)
PHOTO: MARTA IWANEK
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T O DO:Course Intention
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