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Every day, garbage trucks in-vade campus to get rid of 12,700 kg of trash that students throw into unlabelled bins throughout campus. The trucks pile up with mainly black garbage bags and disappear to the plant.

Unless you followed the gar-bage trucks, you wouldn’t know that those solid black bags can’t be sorted. Unless Ryerson recycles in clear bags, all that waste is headed for a landfill.

“We typically don’t sort through black bags because of health and safety reasons on the line,” said Amina Lang, Environmental Spe-cialist at Turtle Island Recycling.

Ryerson University contracts their waste management to Turtle Island Recycling for $160,000 a year. If bagged properly, the com-pany will sort through the recy-cling and garbage at their facilities. From 2008 to 2011, statistics for the waste diversion have risen from 72 per cent to 77.1 per cent.

But while the statistics remain positive, there is no clear answer as to whether the university will make the switch to clear bags throughout campus.

“I think most of the buildings have switched or are trying to use up their black bags,” said Adrian Williams, manager of custodial services. Williams confirmed the Ted Rogers School of Management is one building still currently using black bags in an effort to get rid of them.

Lang said they will sort through clear bags because it is easier to identify what they will be putting on the line. But any recycling in black bags is too easily contami-nated from the other garbage in the bag and will be put in a landfill.

The location of where the gar-bage is picked up from is also an issue.

“If we pick up garbage [and] we don’t know where it came from, we won’t open it,” said Lang.

Lang was unable to confirm what the ratio of black bags to clear bags coming from Ryerson was be-cause it goes straight into the plant.

Most of student complaints stem from the inconsistency of bins on campus, said Rodney Diverlus, vice president equity of the Ryer-son Student’s Union (RSU).

“Walking on Gould Street, you will encounter one of the city’s three-holed bins, generic waste bins, and campus planning ones. This makes it confusing for stu-dents who are unsure what goes where,” he said.

In 2007, Williams spent $1,500 putting up signage across campus to promote recycling. “Most peo-ple didn’t read them,” he said.

The campus planning and sus-tainability office is now working on a new campaign to get the word out to students. Williams was un-able to comment on the details of the project, saying it was still in the early stages of development. The

new division within campus plan-ning has included a new position for a sustainability office to make green initiatives more visible to students.

Ryerson also has only one green bin program currently set up in the Hub Cafeteria. The program collects organics from the food production area and puts it into a cold storage room. But the com-posting program doesn’t extend to students’ own organic food scraps.

Williams said they are consider-ing extending the green bin pro-gram throughout campus but it is still in the early stages of discus-sion, although talks of implement-ing a green bin program started as early as 2008.

In a 2008 issue of the Eyeopener, President Sheldon Levy said an organic waste program would be a costly program to start and while Ryerson undergoes expansion it wasn’t a priority in the budget.

According to Lang, extending

Sorting through Ryerson’s trashy secret Ryerson says it is dedicated to reducing waste on campus but the university is still coming up short. Mike Derman discovers how the university is creating more trash on our campus

BY SEAN WESTELAAR

The walls of the third floor men’s washroom in the library building were recently vandalized with rac-ist graffiti containing vulgar and offensive language towards Arabs.

Fourth-year sociology student Lali Mohamed, who found the graffiti, was particularly appalled.

“My initial thought was ‘this needs to come to an end,’” Mo-hamed said. “It was, in many ways, another reminder that rac-ism is very much pervasive in the university.”

The other graffiti found on the walls read “fuck Arabs, they smell like camel shit,” and accused Ar-abs of violence against women.

He says that this isn’t the first time it has happened.

“It’s just the first time that I’ve

taken a picture,” said Mohamed. “What is the most concerning thing for me is that I wasn’t the first person in the washroom that day.”

Rodney Diverlus, vice-president of equity at the Ryerson Students’ Union, has been in contact with their five student equity groups to plan how to work to reclaim spac-es like washrooms.

“We’ve been in contact with some community members and students who’ve done campaigns about some actions we can do,” Diverlus said.

“I think we need to reclaim those spaces, through either a sticker or a poster.”

He plans to physically put something over these spaces, and stresses the importance of the fight against racism.

“This graffiti validates the fact that racism isn’t unheard of, even on such a diverse campus as Ryer-son,” he said.

“We need to say that this is not okay on campus.”

The RSU plans to re-launch their Unlearn Racism campaign within the next month.

Although Mohamed said he feels Ryerson’s policies on racism are excellent, he also said, “I don’t think they’re practiced. [Policies] are meaningless if not put into practice.”

Mohamed said the place to start targeting racism is in the class-room, where many professors do not check racist remarks.

“I think that if racism was checked in classrooms, people wouldn’t be writing this shit,” he said.

Diverlus stressed that anyone can become an agent of racism, but that understanding differ-ent backgrounds can prevent it.

“I think we need to ac-knowledge the dif-ferences that ex-ist on c a m -pus,” he said.

“ W e need to become al-lies.”

D i v e r l u s added that in-volvement is crucial.

“You don’t have to be

at the forefront of the movement,” he said, “but the move-

ment needs sup-port.”

Racial slurs found on walls of library bathroom

Unmarked waste bins on campus can be found with a mixture of black and clear bags. PHOTO: LINDSAY BOECKL

such a plan to the rest of the cam-pus would wind up being almost cost neutral for the university in the future because Ryerson pays for the weight of garbage that is sent to landfills.

The cost of picking up organic waste is about “$2-3 more per yard [of waste] than regular garbage,” said Lang, but that cost is largely offset by money saved from lower landfill charges.

One of the difficulties of starting such a program comes from edu-cating people on how to dispose of organics properly. The university also struggles from lack of space to store organic waste.

“Ryerson does an okay job with waste management, but as with many things, there is a lot of room for improvement, “ said Diverlus.

“Ryerson should have a goal of being a zero-waste institution, but that can only be done with campus-wide composting.”

With files from Rebecca Burton

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LAUREN STRAPAGIELEDITOR-IN-CHIEF

When you know they’ll find you

Sometimes I envy all the Lisa Smiths and Mark Williams of the world. Your dull and generic names protect you from the all-seeing eye of Google.

To an employer, a search of your name may just prove an exercise in tedium as millions of your ge-nerically-named brethren are dis-played. Your cookie cutter names shelter your awkward drunk Twit-ter updates and DeviantArt page of “artistic” macro photography.

I’m not that lucky.I am the only Lauren Strapagiel

in the world. There aren’t many Strapagiels out there and most of them have Polish first names with more consonants than I’m capable of pronouncing. Having a unique name and associated history is great and all, but it also leaves me with the burden of keeping my on-line presence squeaky clean.

Google my name and you only get me. And speaking as someone

DRAWN OUTBY CATHERINE POLCZ

who learned to build websites at an early age and possibly once had a thing for fan fiction (don’t judge me), that’s a damn dangerous thing.

In our biz section, we look at why monitoring your online footprint is so important and how to keep it clean, but here are some tips for my fellow uniquely-named users.

First, if you are going to engage in unprofessional internet activi-ties, do not attach your name to anything. Ever. As a tween I once built a website that included a col-lection of pixel dolls (remember those?) and a special section pro-fessing my love for my favourite band, AFI. That mess of angst and sparkling .gifs still exists, but you’ll never find it. My real name isn’t on it anywhere.

This applies to your email too. Don’t use your fancy “profesional” Gmail account to sign up for those Harry Potter/Twilight crossover fo-rums. You will be found.

Second, make Google work for you by giving the search monster what it craves. Buy your name as a domain. Aside from just being a great self-promotion tactic, URLs are high up on Google’s search al-gorithm, meaning your personal website is going to show up at the top of the results. Load that domain up with professional information, the more pages the better.

Google also loves links, so help it out. Fill your website with links to your LinkedIn, your Twitter, your program’s homepage, your proj-ects and clippings, your sanitized, work-version Facebook profile. Anything.

Then link those back to your website. Google will pick up your linkcest and push those pages high-er up on your results, putting you back in control.

All that being said, my search re-sults still aren’t perfect. A little dig-ging finds the high school newspa-per that I ran. Not exactly my finest journalistic work.

Which brings me to my final tip: keep your passwords. My eleventh-grade musings will live forever be-cause I’ve forgotten my login info.

Although I suppose it could be worse. No one’s found my teenage MySpace pictures... right?

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Does Ryerson Radio have a chance?

Ilia Kovznetsov, —first-year civil engineering

“I really can’t say because I don’t know who the other applicants are and I don’t know what their qualifi-cations are. Maybe, if we have more money, that’s how we’ll get it but, to be honest, I can’t tell you for sure.”

Andrew House, —second-year accounting

“I mean, most universities have a radio station. So I would expect we have a chance. [But] that corporate interest in money obviously talks, so we might lose out to someone with deeper pockets.”

BY MICHAEL CHEN

The Oct. 24-26 referendum re-sulted in an overwhelming 86 per cent voting in favour of putting the $10.35 student levy fee towards the application to operate a new Ryer-son student-run radio station.

With a total of 3,239 votes cast during the referendum, 2,773 of those votes were in favour for the fee to be used for a new radio sta-tion. In order for the referendum to be official, a minimum cut-off of 3,000 votes had to be cast.

“[Oct. 26], was ‘Radio D-Day.’ It was the day that we came out and we got the people to vote. And the Ryerson people said ‘yes, we want radio,’” said Chris Shank, a third-year radio and television arts student and spokesperson for the New Ryerson Radio campaign.

“We got more than 10 per cent of the population at Ryerson vot-ing. It was through perseverance and, really, it was a group effort,” he said.

But the process doesn’t end here.

The vote also allowed the Ryerson Radio committee to use $50,000 from the fees collected last year to put forward a bid for the available 88.1FM frequency.

The application will be sub-mitted for consideration to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) by Dec. 19. The submit-ted applications can take as long as 12 months before a decision is reached by the CRTC.

Radio promoters canvassed stu-dents on Gould Street to get stu-dents to vote at the various polling

locations around campus. By 4:27 p.m. on Oct. 26, the group needed only 100 more votes to reach quo-rum by the 5 p.m. deadline. But Shank attributed most of their suc-cess to their promotion of the cam-paign.

But fourth-year nursing student Marinell Monteroso said she didn’t hear enough about it.

“If it was advertised more, I would vote but people needed to be aware of it first,” she said.

Other students saw this as a chance to be on par with other uni-versities.

“I think it’s important to vote and to support student ideas. Any university I’ve heard about has a radio station for training stu-dents,” says Pat Tanzola, a mas-ter’s of business administration student who voted at the Ted Rog-ers School of Management.

“There were volunteers on the floor asking, ‘hey, did you vote?’”

Other commercial radio sta-tions have expressed an interest in applying for the new frequency,

including Dufferin Communica-tion’s Z103.5 FM station and Proud FM 103.9. This is the first frequency that has been available for 30 years and other stations have expressed interest based on the frequency’s clearer signal.

“We are going to put as much effort as we put into the Ryerson Vote Yes campaign for the referen-dum as we are for the CRTC,” said Shank.

President Sheldon Levy agreed that students should have their own radio station.

“Never again will it be taken from the university by another group, and make the university students pay for it while they don’t have control of it,” he said.

Whether or not the potential stu-dent station has a chance against commercial stations is still unclear.

“I’ve had discussions with one of the lawyers that is very familiar with the application process and I think we’re positive and feel good about it but we don’t feel it’s a slam dunk at all,” said Levy.

Rye votes to support new radioThe new Ryerson Radio will now have access to $50,000 to apply for the 88.1 FM frequency that has been available since former community station CKLN went off-air earlier this year

Ryerson students have voted to support a new, student-run, student-operated radio station on campus. PHOTO: LINDSAY BOECKL

Master’s students too swamped to workBY MARIANA IONOVANEWS EDITOR

Master’s students in need of extra cash have to scramble to balance work and school because their programs are not designed to accommodate more than 10 hours of paid employment per week.

“There is a policy at the School of Graduate Studies,” said Colin Ripley, director of the master’s of architecture program, “that stu-dents should not have more than 10 hours per week of paid employ-ment, on or off campus.”

Although students don’t face consequences for working beyond those hours, most graduate pro-grams are simply not structured to support students working addi-tional hours. Dr. Claus Rinner, di-rector of the spatial analysis grad-uate program, said each student is required to take four core courses and allocate one full day per week to each course.

Rinner said this means the

workload in the spacial analysis program — and most other gradu-ate studies — is too heavy to allow students to work on the side.

“That leaves the one day — or 10 hours or so — to do any work for pay,” he said.

To help out students, faculty typ-ically try to place them in Teaching Assistant (TA) or Research Assis-tant (RA) positions that pay $39 and $28 per hour, respectively.

The contracts for these place-ments also state that students can-not work more than 10 hours per week, or a total of 130 hours each semester.

“I have certainly discouraged students from seeking employ-ment in addition to any such [TA] position on campus,” said Rinner.

But the earnings from these placements are often not sufficient for students supporting them-selves. Jason Solnick, a master’s student in the environmental ap-plied science and management graduate program, said supervi-

sors generally “frown upon” stu-dents working outside of the pro-gram but he works part-time at the Ram in the Rye because the income he earns as a TA is not enough.

“I don’t live at home, I support myself. I needed a part-time job as an undergrad and I need it now,” said Solnick. “They just don’t give us enough money.”

Ripley said that graduate stud-ies are a full-time commitment and taking on another job is often over-whelming for students.

“I have to say, being a graduate student is a full-time job already. And if you want to work some-where else, you’re doing yourself a disservice,” said Ripley.

“It’s not a flaw. It’s a flaw of people who think they can do two full-time things at once.”

Instead, graduate programs try to partially fund students’ studies through other means. Although not all students are guaranteed a TA or RA job, faculty try hard to provide as many students as pos-

sible with these positions. If their program area isn’t hiring, students are often placed as TA’s in other faculties to ensure they have a placement.

“It’s guaranteed in a way,” said Solnick.

The university also supports graduate students through the Ry-erson Graduate Awards and the Ryerson Graduate Scholarships, which provide large amounts of funding, according to Rinner.

But he added that students are often unclear on how much sup-port they will receive from the uni-versity when they sign up for the program because faculty doesn’t know how much funding will be available until August or Septem-ber.

“We can’t say in March or May, ‘yes, you are admitted and you will receive that much money’ and provide that clarity,” Rinner said.

Lauren Egar, a master’s student in the public policy and adminis-tration program, said it would be

“daunting” to balance the heavy workload of her studies with a part-time job. But, between the scholarship she received and her earnings as a TA, Ryerson has pro-vided her enough support to cover all her expenses.

“I’m certainly satisfied with it. I find that I’m making a reasonable amount of money and I’m com-fortable managing my workload as well as working as a TA. But I know that some people might feel differently,” she said.

Although financing graduate school can prove difficult for some, Rinner said most students need to be prepared that the heavier work-load of graduate school may not allow for paid work.

“I see it as an individual deci-sion, where the student would have to plan ahead and know whether they can invest the year financially in this degree and then, hopefully develop an enhanced ca-reer and make up for the financial loss,” he said.

The Ryerson people said ‘yes, we want radio.’

— Chris Shank, Ryerson Radio

eight applicants are accepted).“Ryerson students aren’t going

and getting jobs after leaving Ry-erson, and a career services centre will provide them with better skills to succeed in the workplace,” Piro-sz said.

An RCS survey indicated that an overwhelming number of students believe they would benefit from a new business career services centre.

“I am going to vote yes because from what I heard about it, it will benefit me in the long run,” said Brook Pickering, a first-year busi-ness management student.

This new fee will be used to par-tially fund a Career Development and Employment Partnership pro-gram at TRSM.

“The students had a very strong presentation to the board,” said Ryerson president Sheldon Levy. “They demonstrated that the cost for their career centre is far less than most and I don’t think there was one university that had a lower fee than what they were propos-ing.”

“I think it’s a very good invest-ment for the students on behalf of their careers,” said Levy.

The fee would be $50 for all stu-dents registered in three or more units, with a reduced fee for those registered in less than three units, administered per term.

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TRSM to vote on new feeTed Rogers School of Management students will vote in a referendum starting Nov. 7 to introduce a new $50 fee for a business career centre

BY COLLEEN MARASIGAN

The new Image Arts building has been open less than a month but it has already been invaded by a feline stranger.

When Mindy Wiltshire-Gib-son, a processing and facilities technician, came in to help clean out the building, she was excited to see the new layout. But she never expected the floor plans would include a cat.

Wiltshire-Gibson had spotted a set of grey and white hind legs behind a studio wall when she walked into the sound stage.

Despite her efforts to lure him out, the cat continued to hide.

“Because some walls are not completely closed, [the cat] was able to get inside one of them,” said Ryerson President Shel-don Levy. “ H o we ve r , he was not t r a p p e d , he just wouldn’ t come out when peo-ple were around.”

The Toronto Cat Rescue was con-tacted and the local organi-zation promised a cheap deal for the cat’s veterinary visit if caught.

Wiltshire-Gibson’s manager, operations manager Janice Car-bert, provided a humane rac-coon trap that was used to cap-ture the cat.

“We were all a bit surprised,” Wiltshire-Gibson said. “It was lovely to see how warm and supportive many of the faculty and staff where toward this little stowaway.”

The program chair, Alex An-derson, along with other mem-bers of the staff and faculty, do-nated money, toys and supplies.

The two-year old gray tabby has since been neutered, which cost $120.

Wiltshire-Gibson has named him Mr. Ima Flug, after the Scheimpflug principle that is taught in the Image Arts pro-

gram. While he recu-perates from his

injuries, Mr. Flug will be staying in her powder room until a permanent

home can be found.“I think we’ll

be able to find a home for him. I got a

couple people who might be interested.” PHOTO COURTESY OF MINDY WILT-

SHIRE-GIBSON

BY HAARUUN DHUBAT

The Ted Rogers School of Man-agement (TRSM) will vote from Nov. 7 to 10 on whether they should collect an extra $50 student fee to start a business-specific ca-reer service centre.

The student presented propos-al was initially approved by the Board of Governors on Sept. 6.

Angelo Pirosz is the president of the Ryerson Commerce Society (RCS) and a fourth-year accounting student. Pirosz estimates $750,000

will come from the proposed fees and $250,000 will come from the school’s budget.

“The university centre is under-resourced and understaffed,” said Pirosz. “Business students cannot get the one on one consultation that they need to be successful.”

He explained that, according to research by RCS and the dean’s of-fice, Ryerson ranks last in career services in comparison to 14 busi-ness schools in Canada and other schools in the U.S., while ranking first in enrollment (one in every

IMA cat finds a home

PHOTO: MOHAMED OMAR

BY REBECCA BURTONNEWS EDITOR

Midterm season can escalate drop out rates but with the help of a new program at Ryerson, the school could be keeping more stu-dents in class.

“There is no question that this time of year a lot of students are under pressure, especially first years,” said Christopher Evans, vice-provost academic.

Fourth-year public health stu-dent Rima Roswell has dropped a total of six different courses dur-ing the mid-term season over the course of her undergraduate de-gree.

“If I find I’m not doing well I will drop it and hold it off,” said Roswell. In her fourth year she will add a physics course to her schedule because of something she dropped in first year.

“I’ve never been able to drop be-fore the deadline [to get my money back]. At most I may get a 50 per cent refund but it’s usually past the deadline,” she said.

According to Evans, about four years ago the university switched their policy from immediately sus-pending students that had a GPA less than 2.0 to putting them on probation for the next semester.

But while most students think it’s easier to just drop out than-wave a bad grade, the university is introducing a program, named “Fresh Start” to give students a sec-

ond chance at reentering their pro-gram. The project started as a pilot for first year students in 2010, with a total of 154 first years enrolled.

The program helps students who have been put on probation second semester but continue to do poorly in their studies resulting in the required to withdraw (RTW) status. Once a student is RTW, they can apply to be eligible for fresh start. The student is then allowed to come back after one semester off and take two courses plus a learn-ing strategy course. If they suc-ceed they can take four additional courses the following semester. Following that they can reenter their program.

Evans was unable to give a total cost for the program but the only additional costs he named were the introduction of the learning strat-egy course and a new coordinator position.

The program has since been opened to all levels of students and as of October, 430 students have applied from the 1,026 student RTW cohort last winter.

President Sheldon Levy said keeping students from dropping courses is a priority for the univer-sity.

“This is a very vulnerable time for students particularly year one students so its great whatever we can to do to provide for what they need and the type of mentoring they need to not give up too early,” said Levy.

Drop rates curbedAn individual was yelling

at staff and pounding his fists on the desk in the Po-dium 61 office Thursday, Oct. 27. When officers arrived he was out on the balcony. He told them he had been arrested the day before by Toronto Police and they told him to return and get his things. He was cautioned and escorted off campus.

A group of individuals were caught setting off firecrackers Friday, Oct. 28 between the Pitman Hall courtyard and the Rogers Communication Centre. When security approached them, one in-dividual assaulted an of-ficer by shoving him sev-eral times, while another grabbed a different officer. Both were arrested and handed over to the Toron-to Police.

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Our maintenance series continues with a closer look at the problems and repairs behind the Student Campus Centre, one of the youngest buildings on campus. Tamara Jones reports

SCC fails to maintain student space

The water fountain on the sec-ond floor of the Student Campus Centre (SCC) leaks, causing the floor to heave and wrinkle from water damage. Another fountain in the basement doesn’t work at all. A staircase leaks when it rains, forming a puddle.

Although the six-year-old build-ing is one of Ryerson’s newest spaces, it is riddled with mainte-nance issues.

Students who frequent the SCC have been adapting to the minor problems, but some say mainte-nance are ignoring them. Elijah Mark, a third-year hospitality and tourism student, said a light in the basement lounge area has mal-functioned and can’t be turned off.

“They haven’t done a thing,” Mark said, adding that the light has been on for two years.

Another issue in the basement is that a number of the outlets are broken and have required repair for more than a year. Mark said he notified SCC maintenance staff but

nothing has been done. “It’s annoying because they’re

unresponsive,” said Mark.Eric Newstadt, the building’s

general manager, said the fact that some problems have not been ad-dressed doesn’t mean staff isn’t listening.

“When we are notified of a prob-lem in the SCC, it’s ticketed and prioritized,” he said.

Newstadt explained that the SCC has a complete catalogue of all the equipment in the building and when a report of a problem is received, its importance is evaluat-ed using the catalogue’s hierarchy. If an issue is listed as vital to the upkeep of the building, it is fixed more rapidly than if it is classified as unimportant.

He added that all of the items are regularly maintained on a set schedule and the SCC conducts “regular building audits on an on-going basis.”

Even with audits, the building still faces pressing issues that have

not been addressed. An emergency button at the rear of the building, which has remained broken for more than a year. Newstadt said the button is out of the jurisdiction of SCC maintenance workers. The button is a Campus Facilities and Sustainability (CFS) responsibility.

Adrian Williams, manager of custodial services, asked if anyone had reported it. He said it’s hard for them to keep track of all re-pairs on an estimated four million square feet of campus.

Repairs can sometimes be de-layed because each maintenance crew must go through CFS in order to correct problems in the building.

Newstadt said it’s helpful to have the aid of CFS. “Their exper-tise helps us get things done prop-erly and quickly.”

A few years ago, the SCC had a moderate amount of backlog but, since then, they have become “current” in their maintenance, ac-cording to Newstadt. Now, most

repairs get done within days, he said. “We’re pretty rapid about fix-ing things.”

When issues are not fixed, it is partially due to the fact that some major maintenance projects re-quire the building to be vacant, which means that they must be tackled during the summer break.

“It’s very difficult during the school year. There’s very little downtime to do major work,” said Newstadt, adding that Ryerson’s summer programs make “down-time” even more constrained.

Lagging repairs are also partly due to shortages in funding, ac-cording to Newstadt. He said the leak in the staircase of SCC is a re-sult of an “overflow from a drain outside,” which would be incredi-bly expensive and time-consuming to repair.

Newstadt said insufficient funds are also behind the general backlog of deferred maintenance that has been plaguing all Ontario univer-sities.

Broken vents, chairs and printers are left unattended in the SCC. PHOTOS: CHELSEA POTTAGE

A year with Rob Ford

Rob Ford’s first year in office has been a controversial one in the news: his Pride Parade snub, the 911 call in which Ford alleg-edly swore at dispatchers and his brother’s face off with Margaret Atwood.

“I can’t say I’ve seen Rob Ford do anything for students or any-thing for Toronto,” said Eric Scura, a third year business management student.

Ford has been very vocal in his intent to shut down library branch-es, his determination to eliminate the Yonge-Dundas scramble and his planned privatization of child-care and housing, all of which will negatively affect the student popu-lation.

“The mayor does not always have a clear understanding of what it means to be a young per-son living downtown,” said Ward 27 councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam.

Scura said that “two of Toron-to’s universities are downtown and we just kind of get [ignored], Maybe York would have a differ-ent opinion.”

Wong-Tam explained that Ford doesn’t take into account the stu-dent struggle to balance school with work.

“With a full time job often [they] are living below poverty level,” she said. “The mayor has never once spoken to students.”

Many students simply haven’t seen any difference since he came into office.

“He could help out a bit with everything. Nothing has really

changed,” said Moe Mourad, a third year mechanical engineering student.

Santina Macri, a master’s stu-dent in public policy and admin-istration, doesn’t know if anything has been done for the student population on a municipal level, but thinks Ford has changed per-spectives.

“He’s shown people how much they enjoy having services fund-ed,” she said. “[Toronto is] a huge city and it costs a lot of money to pay for it.”

She concedes that there can be obvious improvements.

“They could make transporta-tion a bit more affordable because a metro pass is still really expen-sive,” said Macri.

“Many students rely on public transit,” said Wong-Tam, pointing

out the mayor’s move to remove bike lanes as well.

She encourages students to let Ford know what they need.

“They can write to him and ex-plain in their own words why it’s important to them to have cycling infrastructure, affordable housing and libraries.”

She also believes the mayor should speak with students, and that it’s not too late to turn things around.

“There are councillors willing to work with the mayor,” said Wong-Tam. “Only if he’s willing to listen.”

Her overall thought is that Ford needs to be more aware of the stu-dents.

“He has children and some day they’re going to require these things [as well].”

BY CAROLYN TURGEON ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

ILLUSTRATION: CATHERINE POLCZ

Got a news tip? Email us at news@theeyeopener.com

“The guaranteed amount of money has been cut back progres-sively to support the operations of the university,” he said. This means that universities put more funding towards things like new building projects but less on maintaining older buildings.

While some students, like Mark, believe problems in the SCC are a result of maintenance “just not keeping up,” others argue students must take on some of the responsi-bility for the deteriorating state of the building. Kevin Heung, a third-year business management stu-dent, said things like broken chairs and dirty, marked-up walls can be attributed to students being disre-spectful to the property.

Newstadt said students need to understand “[the SCC is] a very high capacity building and it’s used by students heavily.” As a result, it is susceptible to some wear and tear.

He also maintained that Ryer-son has one of the most aggressive maintenance program among uni-versities.

“It’s [the students’] building,” said Newstadt, “and the people who want to manage the building are working very hard to keep the building maintained.”

Maintenance staff is also work-ing on fixing and renewing the building’s aesthetic appeal and general layout. Some of the reno-vation plans include “re-facing the southeast walls preventatively be-cause there’s rotting wood, reno-vating the washrooms on the third floor of Oakham House and getting solar energy panels within the next six weeks,” said Newstadt.

“We’re trying to make the SCC the best one in the country. If there’s a problem, the students need to tell us — our ears are wide open.”

8 November 2, 2011 The Eyeopener FEATURES

The dimly lit basement of Kerr Hall East isn’t exactly a hot spot on campus. It doesn’t offer much — a few engineering laboratories and offices, and some janitorial space — but down a set of stairs only wide enough for one person is the Ryerson Society of Automotive En-gineers (SAE) workshop. You won’t find them on any club list, but this group is working almost full-time building cars to race against other teams from around the world. Room 23 in Kerr Hall is home to the team’s workshop, where the Baja go-kart is stored.

“This one is more for off-road racing,” explains Alan Machin. As an engineering support staff, he oversees the team’s work. “These guys work on it themselves all year and race in the summer.” Standing at about four feet tall, with thick tires, the black Baja is ready for the mud. It is raced on dirt bike courses alongside 100 other cars.

At the end of the big shop, there is a door leading to the lounge, which doubles as an office for the team captains, because the old ones down the hall have mould grow-ing in them. Asleep on the couch is SAE captain Jacob Olszyna. Machin nudges him awake and explains schools in the U.S. curriculum have a budget to support their racing

teams, “These guys have to fight for space, funding, everything.” Look-ing around the lounge, it feels like they’re fighting a losing battle. The cramped room is filled with office chairs, a couch, desks, cabinets and pieces of equipment. Tucked in the back behind some debris is anoth-er car — the RF 11. This one is for track racing. Olszyna drives this smaller, sleeker car. It’s used most-ly for time trials, whirling around a track against four or five other cars, all trying to beat the best time. He rolls off the couch and grabs a text-book. “I probably spend a bit too much time here; I was supposed to have class a half hour ago.” Adds Machin: “When working on the cars, classes sometimes become a bit of a nuisance.”

It’s a place where many engi-neering students come and go and a project they dedicate a lot of time to. The Formula SAE team travels to California, Michigan and Eng-land each summer to race, and the competition is fierce.

“Out of about 125 teams, we usu-ally finish top 30,” says Olszyna. With over 400 teams registered around the world, Ryerson is one of the top Canadian schools, along-side L’École Polytechnique, Uni-versity of Toronto and University of Waterloo.

Race AwayBY CORMAC MCGEE

There’s a giant laboratory on campus. It’s filled with parts of air-crafts and components and pieces of airplanes.

The “airplane room” in the Engi-neering building is better known as FACES, or, the Facility of Research on Aerospace Materials and Engi-neered Structures. Each one has its own fancy set of gadgets, gauges and sensors. This is the place on Ryerson campus where parts of airplanes, such as wings, are put to the test by Ryerson students and faculty.

They experiment on large aero-space parts and test for failure says engineering professor Hamid Ghaemi. For example, airplane components can be bent or ex-posed to temperatures up to 1,000 degrees and parts of planes are tested to withstand elements, pres-

sure and crashes. Aircraft companies manufacture

parts and components while Ryer-son students and faculty from the Aerospace Engineering depart-ment, use the FACES room to test out these materials.

“It is all done by students, they are the bread and butter of the facil-ity,” said Ghaemi.

The High-Speed Gasdynamics Laboratory subjects aircraft com-ponents to high-speed winds and forces. A large blue tank in the room forces air through a tunnel at subsonic levels. “The flow of air is more than the speed of sound,” said Ghaemi.

Their department also houses another room called the Space Avionics Instrumentation Labora-tory, where navigation sensors for spacecrafts are studied.

Fly Away

The humming noise of machines and an aroma in the air of burning wood emanate from the basement of the Architecture building. The smell is caused by the laser-cutting machine.

There you can often find architec-ture science students like 21-year-old Scott Townsend hard at work in the “laser cutting room” better known as the fabrication lab.

As Townsend uses the machine, other students are hunched over desks piecing together their proj-ects. They are building tiny scaled- down models out of puzzle-like pieces made by the machine rough-ly four feet in height. One student shows off a mini-model of a bridge that was recently built.

With one glance around the room it appears to look like a high school shop class with saws, sanders

BY DANNI GRESKO

and hand tools for woodworking. Townsend demonstrated the step-by-step process it takes when us-ing the laser cutter to create a small model or prototype.

“You build your model on a com-puter and it prints out everything at once,” explains the fourth-year ar-chitecture science student.

First, he uses a computer design program that also controls the la-ser cutter. Next, a long, flat piece of wood is inserted into the machine. The computer transfers the design information to the laser cutter and it cuts out all the pieces needed for his prototype. The tiny puzzle-like pieces are punched out of the wood and put together to build a model.

“It makes it easier than doing this by hand. It would be impos-sible to build these without this,” said Townsend.

Laser AwayBY DANNI GRESKO

Laser cutters, airplanes, wind tunnels and race cars. The things you never knew Ryerson had

Did you know...

9November 2, 2011 The Eyeopener FEATURES

Twists and turns down dreary halls, doorways becoming unrecog-nizable, lay the steel, double doors of the theatre workshop.

Not many are working in the shop on a Friday afternoon. It is a massive, industrial room, contain-ing every machine and tool imagin-able. All sit silently, as if anticipat-ing an opportunity to dance.

Dust lightly layers the colourful ducts and air vents cross at about 5 meters, and set projects by students lay about the edges on temporarily unused benches.

The centre of the room is empty enough to allow for larger set de-signs. There is plywood two-by-fours, salvaged, older props on the far walls and steel tables nearby with space to create. The tables are covered in cuts and splotches of

paint from years of productions. The L-shaped, second floor has

a small, fluorescent-lit office, and a fellow with glasses and a ball cap peers through the dusty windows.

Will Sutton, the scenery shop su-pervisor is exactly the kind of per-son a student wants to be around. Beneath his initial gruff demeanor lies the warmth of an engaging in-structor.

The department juggles high aspirations with a limited budget. Phillip Dodham-Cormier, 22, is a performance production student and the technical director for Ryer-son’s next play, “Richard III.”

He unrolls the set plans on out in front of Sutton, and they dis-cuss the more complicated aspects of carpentry. Sutton scratches his head. “And what’s your budget,

like forty bucks?” Dodham-Cormier laughs. Sutton

knows this will get them nothing close to what the production needs. “Time to go to the well again,” he says, chuckling.

One side of the room is called “The Wall of Shame.” It boasts tools that have died before fulfilling their promise.

Cupboards and closets of wood and metal line the walls and each bin is carefully labeled. Paintbrush-es of various sizes are carefully hung. It’s kindergarten for adults, where one can find anything and create something beautiful for the world to see.

Sutton tracks everything students have made over the years with photo albums. He pushes for cre-ativity more than technical aspects.

Build AwayBY TARA LINDEMANN

It’s easy to walk past Kerr Hall South room 37. A small sign des-ignates it the Aerodynamics Labo-ratory No. 2, informing passersby that only those with permission are allowed in.

Inside is one of the most pow-erful machines on Ryerson’s cam-pus — the Ryerson Engineering closed-circuit subsonic wind tun-nel. The tunnel itself is five by 13 metres with a test section of one metre square. Surrounded by a blue barrier, the tunnel itself al-most fills the room. There is only room for some desks with materi-als scattered around them. On the other side, there are some cup-boards and workbenches, where a roll of toilet paper sits beside a bag of styrofoam and a small rocket — possibly test subjects.

The wind tunnel tests the effects of air moving past solid, small-scale objects, produced by a large fan. Winds can reach about 160 km/h, which is around the speed of a mild hurricane. It is mainly used for aerodynamic research projects, according to Paul Walsh, an associ-ate professor and Interim Chair for the Department of Aerospace Engi-neering.

Many objects have been tested in the tunnel, including propellers, wings, model buildings and cars, as well as sounding rockets that were subsequently used for atmospheric research.

Undergrads use it, but it is main-ly for graduate work on professors’ research projects. “The professors are responsible for the project, but the students do the work,” says

Walsh. There are two main tests done in

the tunnel — force and pressure. Force measurements determine whether objects can withhold the high-speed winds. Pressures across a model can be measured by using small perpendicular holes called pressure taps. Computers collect data for accuracy. “Numer-ics are fine, but you need a good grounding in the real world, i.e. the wind tunnel, or you could go off on a tangent that you are not aware of,” explains Walsh.

Students who wish to use it need to book it and have engineering staff present to oversee their work. It’s a place that many students will never see, partly because of the “sensitive projects” that go on there.

Blown Away BY CORMAC MCGEE

Laser cutters, airplanes, wind tunnels and race cars. The things you never knew Ryerson had

Did you know... ?This can be seen by the miniature sets dotting the edges of the main level. They start at about one meter tall and range from two to four feet in diameter. They are made with wood, styrofoam, stone, grass and metal, and all are painted.

Sutton says they can be as large as one of the worktables. The min-iature sets are the stage for various musicals and plays. There are rock star designs, with steel railings and rafters and there are jungle sets. Suddenly this space doesn’t seem large enough.

Sometimes students just don’t want to leave. “We’ve always got one “Phantom of the Workshop,” says Sutton, “Someone who’s al-ways here, day and night working away. I should set up a cot in the back room.”

PHOTOS: MOHAMED OMAR AND LINDSAY

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BIZ & TECH10 November 2, 2011The Eyeopener

A future of muddy footprintsYou may not pay much attention to what you post on your Facebook wall, But your online footprint can come back to haunt you with a simple Google search. Grace Benac reports

ILLUSTRATION: LINDSAY BOECKL

When Dafina Karadjova decided to Google search her own name, she found an unpleasant surprise.

Sitting on the page as the sev-enteenth link was a slang-heavy, unpunctuated comment that she posted to Facebook when she was still in high school.

The third-year biology student was more than a little shocked to see that a comment she posted in the ninth grade was so easy for any-one to find.

“I don’t even remember when or why I wrote those posts,” says Kar-adjova. “The way I used Facebook in high school was way different from how I use it now.”

Along with several other 2006-era Facebook posts, a few of her profile pictures from Twitter popped up in Google images after her name was keyed in.

She deleted the posts, but that still didn’t solve the problem.

How could her high school posts still pop up on a Google Search af-ter she had removed them?

Facebook’s help section says the posts were visible because they had been shared on a public group and cached by search engines like Google.

Caching is the temporary storage of web pages and images to help the search engine pull up results faster and ease up on bandwidth usage. The posts will show up until Google’s bot re-crawls, or browses, the updated version of the page.

Facebook’s help centre recom-mended that Karadjova remove the post and contact the search engine’s support team. She was directed to a

webmaster’s page which informed her that Google has limited control over search results, and refuses to remove content except in cases

where confidential data is exposed. While these comments and pic-

tures don’t implicate her in any criminal activity, the LOL-speak and jokes don’t quite match up with the professional, achievement-oriented profile Karadjova presents of herself in her LinkedIn page, also visible in her Google search.

Karadjova is wise to be con-cerned. She’s planning on apply-ing to medical school or a graduate program next year.

Many grad school admissions committees are now doing online searches of applicants.

“Anything posted online can have an effect,” says Dan Vassi-lou, manager of recruitment and administration for Ryerson’s MBA program. While he wouldn’t di-vulge any specific details about the school’s screening process, Vassilou didn’t rule out the possibility that information posted online could be a deciding factor.

“The internet is an amazing tool. Why not use it?” he said.

An unchecked online footprint may be the kiss of death for stu-dents hoping to work in busi-ness. A recent survey done by Career Builder, a Canadian based job hunting site, showed that 10 per cent of Canadian employers check up on applicants online, and roughly 20 per cent intend to start doing so in the future.

“[An] outsider’s impression is so important,” says Kathryn Be-wley, who teaches auditing and accounting at Ted Rogers School of Business Management. “Any indiscretions, even during under-grad years, that put the person’s trustworthiness in question can damage their reputation.”

Piotr Makuch, a fourth-year so-ciology student, is all too aware of this fact, and curates his Google+, Facebook and Twitter accounts ac-cordingly. But Makuch says that a positive online presence is just one of many qualities employers are looking for in new hires. “If you went into a job interview with a bad haircut, that would be a factor working against you. Same with a bad tweet. It’s a factor, but not nec-essarily the deciding one.”

Fear of online oversharing drives some students, like second-year

[An] outsider’s impres-sion is so important.

— Kathryn Bewley,teaches accounting and

auditing at TRSBM

graphic communications major Heidi Shaheen, to leave out key information in social networking profiles. Shaheen has chosen to go a step further and make her Facebook profile more employer-friendly.

“I deleted all of my religious and political affiliations. It keeps my profile more neutral in the eyes of the public. I also removed all of my old photo albums from high school.”

Shaheen says an experience with Google inspired her to tighten up her online identity.

“Some of my friends’ [Facebook] profile pictures were visible on Google images — bathroom mirror pictures, things that you wouldn’t want out there for the world to see. That really made me think.”

Karadjova says that Googling herself has been a jarring, yet valu-able learning experience.

“If stuff I’ve written in 2006 comes up in a search, it really makes me think twice about what I say on Twitter and Facebook, not knowing who could be reading it years from now, how it could be in-terpreted and how that might affect my future.”

The internet is an amazing tool. Why not use it?

— Dan Vassilou,Manager of recruitment

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Improving your online presence

Google yourselfSee what you’ve got to work

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11November 2, 2011 The EyeopenerARTS & LIFE

This Sustainable Life: The zine paradox

Between campus newspapers and school newsletters, it would seem as though Ryerson has the campus beat covered.

But across Ryerson’s faculties, students have taken up the pen — and the keyboard — to draw atten-tion to the issues and priorities they feel are being ignored.

Taking talent from the classes to the massesFunction Magazine, which showcas-es some of the strongest pieces Ry-erson’s Image Arts students have to offer along with interviews with industry professionals, launched its eleventh volume last week. The magazine is independently run by students.

Tal-Or Ben-Choreen, a fourth-year photography student and one of the students in charge of putting the magazine together, says the magazine provides a good platform for Image Arts students to get their work out there for Ryerson and the rest of the world to see.

“I think the magazine portrays the kind of people that come to Ry-erson and what they can do,” Ben-Choreen said.

“Hopefully, the more interest the outside community has in it, the more interest the Ryerson commu-nity will as well.”

The team received about 70 sub-

missions for the new volume, each of which included three or four im-ages to choose from.

However, only a few of those pic-tures made it to the final edit, said Erika Neilly, a fourth-year photog-raphy student and one of Function’s core members.

“We selected the images by whether or not we thought they were strong and contributed to the visual theme,”Neilly said.

Tackling tough issuesProbably one of the biggest and

most well-known student-run pub-lications on campus is McClung’s Magazine.

A recipient of a Canadian As-sociation of Journalists award, Mc-Clung’s is published twice a year and focuses on feminist issues and successful women in Canada.

Co-editor-in-chief and fourth-year journalism student Sam An-derson says the publication stands out because writers get to spend much more time with their pieces, writing up to three drafts before publishing.

And without McClung’s, she says, there wouldn’t be a strong feminist voice on campus.

“We get to talk about issues that other publications sometimes don’t get to, or people shy away from,” Anderson said.

Spotlight on studentsTrung Ho, a fourth-year market-

ing student, had a similar goal in mind when he started contributing to the campus publishing scene.

Last summer, Ho founded Ry-erson Folio, an online magazine, to encourage a more tightly-knit cam-pus. He believes that because Ry-erson is a commuter school, there is little to no interaction between faculties.

“We feel that there are a lot of great events and really interesting students and alumni that nobody knows about,” he says.

“I didn’t know anything about other faculties before, but now we want people to know what’s going on.”

While Ho is hoping that Ryerson Folio will someday be considered Ryerson’s arts and culture hub, the site recently started expanding to other areas. It now has a news photo section, which tells stories about events on campus through high-resolution photos.

Ho says the site will continue evolving as more writers, photog-raphers and contributors join the team.

Ryerson Folio stemmed from @RyersonTweets, a Twitter account Ho created to share news about the Ryerson community. The account reached 1,000 followers before Ho decided to create Ryerson Folio.

Setting up the site took most of the summer, not including the time required to schedule interviews and promote the site, two tasks that Ho found challenging.

“We’re not as established, so sometimes it’s hard to get a hold of people,” he said.

That hasn’t discouraged Ho and his team. They still have high hopes for the project, and are confident that it will thrive.

While all three publications have different intents and purposes, they do have one thing in common: they’re part of a blooming culture of student-run publications at Ry-erson. It just takes a bit of looking around to find them.

The word on the street

I’ve got a confession to make: even though I’m usually on the calm and collected side, I can get pretty scatter-brained. The jum-ble of thoughts, images, bolded words and little jokes that flit through my brain, if put to paper, would look more like a zine than a structured newspaper. Maybe that’s why I like them so much.

According to Merriam-Webster, a zine is a “magazine, especially a noncommercial, often homemade or online publication, usually de-voted to specialized and often un-conventional subject matter (punk zine, feminist zine).” To me, zines are part of the underground press, and typically have low circ numbers. They’re independent, creative and they break the rules. And I like them this way.

But like all hardcopy publica-tions, zines have the potential to leave a huge environmental foot-print, since paper makes up 40 per cent of waste.

So why would an environmen-tally-minded person advocate so strongly for these bundles of pa-per? For me, it’s actually a ques-

tion of life and death.Not my life and death, but the

life and death of a zine. Because a truly good zine, like a truly good book, or article of cloth-ing, or piece of furniture or art, never dies. With so few copies available, and so much work and soul-bearing behind each one, zines and recycling bins are like two matching magnetic poles.

The zine-making process is rooted in repurposing and using the simplest construction mate-rials at hand. This is what green living is all about. The entire cul-ture of zines is rooted in sharing and spreading ideas, in being thoughtful and creative, and in slower, more local ways of life and expression. These are exactly the values that will get us out of our many global crises, the envi-ronmental one included.

In a way, zines teach us to treat all our printed materials with re-spect. Leave your newspaper at a coffee shop, your finished maga-zines at the doctor’s office. Swap books with friends, use enve-lopes as scrap paper. Re-imagine your materials and life becomes not only more artistic, but less wasteful.

Do you want Anne-Marie to an-swer your questions about sustain-able student life? Send a quick email to arts@theeyeopener.com

On campus, students are turning to niche publishing to share their voices and views with the Ryerson community. Brian Boudreau reports

BY ANNE-MARIE VETTOREL

PHOTO: CHELSEA POTTAGETal-Or Ben-Choreen is one of the students behind Function Magazine.

The 11th issue of Function Magazine. PHOTO: CHELSEA POTTAGE

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It has been a historic year for both of Ryerson’s soccer pro-grams, as 2011 marks the first sea-son that both the men’s and wom-en’s teams have made the playoffs at the same time. The men’s team finished the regular season in sec-ond place for the first time in team history, while the women made their first playoff appearance in five years.

This is also the first year that Kevin Souter, 27, has assumed the full time coaching duties for both the men’s and women’s teams as the coordinator for soccer pro-grams. Souter, a former All-Amer-ican midfielder with Graceland University, spent two seasons with Major League Soccer’s Kan-sas City Wizards before coming to

Ryerson last summer.When he initially joined the

men’s soccer team, Souter served as a hybrid player-coach, a role that was created to groom him for his eventual succession of reign-ing Ontario University Athletics (OUA) coach of the year Ivan Jo-seph. Souter, who played under Joseph at Graceland University, admits that his understanding

of Joseph’s coaching philosophy allowed him to have an open soundboard for input and feed-back about the program with his mentor.

Souter brings a unique dynamic as a coach because of his past in-volvement as a player and relative youth, but he believes that every-one on last year’s team knew what his role was.

“I think I came into the program mostly as a coach,” said Souter. “I used my last year of eligibility to benefit the team but I maintained a coaching persona. I didn’t social-ize [with the team], it was strictly business.”

Although Souter took over the full-time coaching duties at the end of last season, Joseph is still heavily involved in engineering the strategic and practical direc-tion of the soccer programs.

“I am not far removed,” said Jo-seph. “[Souter] is in a role where I see him being mentored for an-other year at least. The first year you don’t really see the difference a coach makes but he can only grow from here.”

After losing two first-team OUA all-stars in the midfield, Jo-seph and Souter utilized a game plan that bypassed the midfield, which is made up of mostly first year players, when moving the ball. This strategy has lead to more scoring, but has also con-ceded more goals.

The women’s team lost 3-0 to the University of Toronto Blues last Wednesday in the first round of the playoffs. Their early exit

also brought an end to the five-year career of Andrea Raso, the only female CIS all-Canadian that a Ryerson team has ever pro-duced.

Meanwhile, the men dominated their first game against Trent in a 5-0 win, but eventually lost in the conference semis to the University of Toronto Blues in a shoot out. This loss ended their playoff bid just short of an OUA final four ap-pearance.

Souter believes the future is bright for Ryerson soccer but feels that the program is hindered by the lack of a proper practice facil-ity on campus.

“We have no soccer field on campus, so we don’t have the luxury of flexibility. I don’t think there was one practice this year where every player was able to make it,” said Souter.

“But we work with what we have. Both teams set targets and goals and we’re becoming a pro-gram that elevates every season. We’re consistently competing and [winning] against of some of the very best teams.”

[Souter] is in a role where I see him being mentored for another year at least.

— Ivan Joseph, Athletics Director

I used my last year of eligibility to benefit the team, but I main-tained a coaching per-sona.

— Kevin Souter,soccer co-ordinator

Soccer’s main manIn his first season as the head coach of both the men’s and women’s soccer teams, Kevin Souter has brought them both to their best finishes in school history. Jeremy Lin reports

Kevin Souter posing after Ryerson’s 5-0 win over Trent. PHOTO: CHELSEA POTTAGE

Men’s soccer team beats Trent, loses to U of T in semis

Rookie Jeremy Baker (14) scored four of the men’s soccer team’s five goals against Trent last Thursday in the conference quar-terfinals. The team then faced off against the University of To-ronto Varsity Blues this Sunday, where they lost in heartbreak-ing fashion, 3-2 in shootouts for the second straight season. The women’s soccer team also had a playoff game against the Var-sity Blues last Wednesday night, but lost 3-0 in their first playoff game in five years.

PHOTO: CHELSEA POTTAGE

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Last season, head coach Charles Kissi set a goal for Ryerson’s wom-en’s basketball team: finish first in the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) eastern division. Marred by inconsistent play, and an early-season six- game losing streak, they inevitably fell short of achieving Kissi’s lofty goals. Although they finished last season with a sub-par 10-12 record, the Rams still man-aged to qualify for the playoffs and made it to the OUA East semi-final game, where they eventual lost to the University of Toronto Varsity Blues.

With the addition of six new players, the Rams hope to compete for first place and make another deep playoff run.

“There is a lot of talent [on this team],” said shooting guard Kelsey Wright. “This rookie class is the best rookie class I have yet to play with.”

While Kissi is taking on a number of rookies in his third season as the team’s head coach, Chloe Mago is the undisputed prize of his recruit-ing class. Throughout her final year of high school, Mago averaged 19.4 points, 5.7 assists and 2.9 steals per game. However, Rams fans will have to wait to see Mago in action due to a recent calf muscle injury. How long she will be out it is still to be determined.

“She’s a great impact player and a great point guard. We are looking forward to her return,” said Kissi. “If she wasn’t injured she would have definitely been a contender for the OUA rookie team.”

While the team is carrying a number of rookies, the Rams` roster boasts a number of veteran players. In addition to Wright, who led the team in three-point shooting per-centage last season, is point guard Ashley MacDonald.

Last season, Macdonald averaged a team-high 16.9 points per game, which helped make Ryerson the second highest scoring team in the OUA. MacDonald was also ranked second in points scored with a total of 373 points for the 2010-11 season. Entering her fifth year, Ryerson`s reigning female athlete of the year is looking to take on more of a lead-ership role.

“Being one of the older girls I want to be more of a leader and let my experience help out the team as

much as I can,” she said.Throughout the pre-season, the

Rams have participated in ten exhi-bition games, including the Darcel Memorial Tournament where they made the finals for the first time in school history.

“From the exhibition games we were able to see what we need to work on as a team,” said third-year guard Dayana Gechkova. “We have been working on our defence con-tinuously in practice and that is al-ways something that can be worked on. Offense comes from defence and our main goal is to get defen-sive stops.”

Wright agrees with Gechkova’s assessment, and feels they have an-alyzed their weaknesses and have taken the necessary measures to fix it.

“From the losses we learned [that] we should go from zone to man to man,” she said.

This pre-season, the women’s basketball team has gotten off to a strong start, as they have defeated Wilfred Laurier (currently ranked as the ninth team in Canada) and the Western Mustangs, a team that they lost to by 30 points last season.

“Both of those were really big wins for us,” said Kissi. “It definite-ly shows that we are moving ahead [and] are well on our way to achiev-ing our goals. But keeping in mind that it’s pre-season, it’s a different game when it’s the regular season.”

Women’s volleyball team wins first of

the season

Last Sunday, Ryerson’s women’s volleyball team beat the Lakehead Thunderwolves for their first win of the season 3-1. Chelsea Bris-coe led the team with 17 points and 12 kills, and Kassandra Bracken added nine points and four blocks in the Rams’ winning effort.

Women’s basketball team have high hopes for 2011

PHOTOS: LINDSAY BOECKL

PHOTO: MARTA IWANEKAshley MacDonald sprints on a breakaway last year against Queen’s.

BY MONIQUE PHILLIPS

SPORTS

Offense comes from defense and our main goal is to get defensive stops.

— Dayana Gechkovathird-year guard

SEMI-ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGAll RSU members (full time undergrads and full and part-time grads) are eligible to vote on by-laws, motions, & set direction!

For more info on your membership in the Students’ Union visit www.rsuonline.ca

CALLING ALL MEMBERSRyerson Students’ Union

WEDNESDAY, Nov 9SCC115, Student Centre

Food Provided.ASL interpretation provided. If you need other accommodations to ensure your participation, please contact internal@rsuonline.ca as soon as possible.

4:30pm Registration • 5:00pm Start

Have your say on:• Multifaith space on campus• Food security• Supporting the new Ryerson Radio• …and more!

14 November 2, 2011The Eyeopener COMMUNITIES

The month to be mo’ of a gentlemanRyerson students are preparing their faces for a month-long feat to grow the best ‘stache they can, all in an effort to raise awareness of prostate cancer. Imran Khan reports

The Copstash. The Handle-bar. The Chaplin. The Fu Manchu. It’s that time of

year again Ryerson: the month of Movember.

For those who don’t know, every year November becomes “Movem-ber,” an entire month where men around the world grow moustach-es in hopes of raising funds and awareness for prostate cancer.

The movement started in 1999 by a group of men from Adelaide, Australia.

It quickly snowballed af-ter the birth of the Movember Foundation Charity in 2004 which sought global participa-tion from men.

Since 2004, Movember has raised more than $176 million globally that has gone towards education initiatives, awareness programs and research of prostate cancer. Last year Canadians raised over $22 million.

Prostate cancer is the most com-mon cancer to afflict Canadian men.

The rates of prostate cancer in men are comparable to rates of breast cancer in women.

Statistics show that this year 25,500 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in Canada and 4,100 men will die of the disease.

Ryerson students who have taken the plunge in previous years said the atmosphere surrounding the month is well worth being a part of.

“It’s for a great cause and plus my girlfriend can’t complain about how hairy I get,” said Jodh Anand-jit, a second-year civil engineering student.

Anandjit describes the month as being part of a brotherhood, giv-ing subtle acknowledgment to his fellow mo’s as he passes them on campus.

“There’s camaraderie amongst students, especially in the engi-neering department; it’s kind of like an arms’ race, but it’s a healthy competition.”

Even those students that have a hard time growing a respectable amount of hair still take up the challenge.

“I started with a bare chin and ended the month with 10 hairs,” said Jordan Heywood, a third-year social work student.

Despite Heywood not reaching legendary status of moustache dei-ties likes Tom Selleck or German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche,

he still continues to set goals for every Movember.

“This year I hope to grow some-thing that people can see two feet away from my face,” he said.

The Ryerson Athletics Depart-ment is also making a stronger commitment this year according to Robby Earl, the mens’ volleyball team captain.

“Last year we raised a few hundred dollars as a team. This year the entire athletic depart-ment is coming together, so we are hoping to raise a lot more.”

Earl, despite describing his moustache as “slightly terri-ble,” encourages newcomers to get involved.

“Students should definitely pool together and form teams to raise as much as they can.”

Beyond the facial hair, many students are taking this Movember seriously while also trying to have some fun at the same time.

“I have had a friend within my circle that was affected by cancer,”said Heywood.

“My stake in this month is to be an ally and a friend to the cause.”

So to all my fellow MObros, no matter how itching your face gets, no matter how goofy your mo looks, try to raise as much aware-ness and money as you can.

Remember, beards are for bar-barians.

True gentlemen always rock a ‘stache.

Six CommandmentsRule 1: The moustache region and handlebar zone must be completely shaven and clean on “Shadowe’en”

(Oct. 31) in preparation for the start of Movember.

Rule 2: For the entire month, each “MObro” (moustache brethren) must grow and groom a

moustache. Absolutely no hair should be grown in the goatee zone.

Rule 3: There is to be no joining of the moustache to the sideburns.

Rule 4: Handlebars cannot be joined at the chin.

Rule 5: Each “MObro” must conduct himself in the fine art of manliness throughout the duration of the month

and promote true gentleman prowess.

Rule 6: No matter how ridiculous or poor the attempt made by your boyfriend, brother, father, uncle, profes-sor or friend is, try to remember ladies, it’s for a good cause. Women that stand in solidarity with MObros are

designated the title “MOsistas”.

EMERGENCY MOUSTACHE

For those of us who can’t grow adequate facial hair.

Are you growing a sexy ‘stache for Movember? We want to see it.

Come by SCC 207 or send us your pics!

ILLUSTRATION BY NICOLE SIENA

Students told us where they think their prostate

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PHOTOS COURTSEY WIKIMEDIA COMMONS AND FOX

“It’s for a great cause and plus my girlfriend can’t complain about how hairy I get.

— Jodh Anandjit second-year civil engineering

student

GeminiAfter seeing a doctor about your bleary eyes, body odour and vague hatred of money, you’ll be tragically diagnosed as a Dirty Fucking Hippie.

CancerYou don’t know what’s worse: that the voices in your head won’t stop or that they only talk about the damn weather.

AriesWhen skydiving for the first time, it seems like a whole new world will open up for you. Unfortunately, the parachute will not.

TaurusYou think you feel so awful because of all that Hallow-een candy you ate, but really that’s just the leukemia.

LeoYour week will be filled with love, laughter and blood-thirsty mobs.

VirgoYou’ll raise a ton of money for prostate cancer this Movember by having the most majestic ‘stache of any girl on campus.

LibraYou’ll get to be a part of medi-cal history when you become the world’s first involuntary organ donor.

ScorpioNow that you’re pregnant, it looks like you’ll have to give up drinking and go back to huff-ing gas.

SagittariusYou will discover a lucrative busi-ness opportunity selling Occupy movement “wage slaves” into actual slavery.

CapricornAfter investing thousands of dollars in instruments and recording equipment, the world can finally clearly hear how awful your band is.

AquariusYou will disprove the adage that money is the root of all evil by continuing to act like a complete asshole even after you go broke.

PicsesJupiter skirts the edge of your sign this week, meaning an army of tarantulas will soon carry you off into the night.

15November 2, 2011 The EyeopenerFUNSTACHE

Mystikai’s Prophesy

Mo’ do kuWIN FREE

SHIT!!!Bring your completed Movember themed Sudoku to the Eyeopener office (SCC 207) by Monday November 7th for a chance to win $50 gift card for the Eaton Centre! (It’s not like you’re listening to your prof right now anyways)

Movember Corgis of the week

The Eyeopener elections are upon us. We’re looking for people to fill a few positions. You’ll be eating, drinking, breaking news and generally enjoying the hell out of life. Of course you’ll be tired, stressed and have to juggle a schedule, but that’s just our way of keeping things interesting...

Any student can run for these positions: Features editor, Ass. News editor, Ass. Photo editor, Arts & Life editor, Sports editor, Online editor.

Who can vote? These people can - they’ve contributed at least 4 times to the Eyeopener: the current Eyeopener masthead, Van Vandaelle, Matt Kennedy, Charles Vanegas, Diana Hall, Dasha Zolota, Marissa Dederer, Kai Benson, Jeff Lagerquist, Gabe Lee, Victor Ferreira, Shannon Higgins, Megan Higgins, David Brooks, Jaskrit Dua, Josh O’Kane, Emma McGregor, Chris Roberts, Nick Tsergas, J.D. Mowat and Liane McLarty.

Speeches will be held on Nov. 16th at 7PM at the RamElections will be held on Nov. 17th at the Eyeopener offices,

from 10AM to 5PM.

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