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Volume 43, Issue 5 • theeyeopener.com — Ryerson’s Independent Student Newspaper since 1967 • Wednesday, October 7, 2009
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news Th eyopr•3wdday, Octobr 7, 2009
Mpl L G pj $60M
The transormation o Maple Lea Gardens into
Ryerson’s new athletic centre will cost $60 million
i approved, the Eyeopener has learned.
Ryerson President Sheldon Levy announced at
a Senate meeting on Oct. 6 that the Weston am-
ily and Loblaws are pledging $20 million to build
the acility. That matches the amount the school
committed ater a student reerendum passed last
year.
“We still don’t know the answer to the third leg
o the story,” Levy said.
Ryerson is still waiting to hear how much mon-
ey they can score rom the ederal government.
“We’re not really negotiati ng. It’s like we’re prod-
ding,” Levy said. “We’re sitting on the edge.”
Under the current renovation plans, the school would take residence in the top two levels o the
three-storey building. A Loblaw supermarket will
take up the entire main oor o the Gardens.
Ryerson’s hockey team will play their games on
the building’s third oor under the historic raters.
The rink will be accompanied by championship-
sized volleyball and basketball courts.
The Gardens’ second oor will house student
acilities like a women’s only gym, high peror-
mance centre and studios.
Former Toronto mayor and Maple Lea Gardens
advocate John Sewell doesn’t think the building
will lose its integrity i the ice isn’t at its original
level.
“I think the rink would be put right under the
dome where it’s traditionally been. The act that
it’s up a oor or two, I don’t think it matters at all,”
he said.
by amit shilton
editor-in-chief
Maple Leaf Gardens, Ryerson’s coveted athletic centre site, will cost the school $60 million if purchased.
by shirley lin
associate news editor
Ryerson’s eastern boundaries seemed orgotten
until last month. At the southeast corner o Ger-
rard and Mutual streets, near a notorious ast ood
restaurant and an aging private residence, are o-
fces belonging to Ryerson. Some o the space, in-
cluding the Gerrard Copy Centre, is closed down
this year.
On Sept. 21 an international design competition
began, asking students to design a housing acility
or that site, which would be built in partnership
between the university and a private developer.
The REZ Ryerson University Student Housing
Competition says the buildings could hypotheti-
cally be demolished to make way or redevelop-
ment.
“They will be taking the ideas as a springboard,”
said Katie Weber, director o youth programs at
the Design Exchange, one o the partners in the
contest.
Weber said there are already registrants rom
the local community, Poland and Kenya.
Designs are due at the end o December and an
exhibition will be held later in the winter. The frst
place prize is $5,000.
The buildings currently at the site don’t ollow
the university’s Master Plan, which strategizes de-
velopment. The plan calls or a vertical campus
to maximize space, but the current buildings all
short.
Ryerson’s president, Sheldon Levy, described
the buildings as “run-down.”
“That’s a redevelopment site, we’d eventually
knock it down,” he said.
The Master Plan also calls or increased hous-
ing; something the university is unable to do by
itsel.
According to Levy, Ryerson needs to look to the
private sector to develop housing space.
Horizon Legacy developed Campus Common,
a private residence near Ryerson, and contributed
fnancially to be part o the competition. Contest
details outline that Campus Common will have
the frst opportunity to work with the creator on
their design.
“We’ve broken new ground,” said Horizon Leg-
acy president Tony Zwig about Campus Common.
“We’ve learned a lot over the last ew years about
residence development.”
According to Zwig, Horizon Legacy is interest-
ed in building more residences near Ryerson and
partnering with the university in the uture.
Contest designs must include spaces or under-
graduate, graduate, post-graduate and married
students as well as or aculty, sta and visiting
scholars. The building would house 560 in total.
Ryerson launched a similar competition in 2007
calling or designs or the closure o Gould Street.
by carys mills
news editor
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Ryerson students could see the Sears parking
lot converted into space or health science pro-
grams at Ryerson.
A building could be constructed at the empty lot on 222 Jarvis St., said Maurice Yeates, dean o
the graduate school o studies.
Ryerson listed the building as a priority when
the Ontario government asked universities to list
their inrastructure development priorities last
year, said Yeates.
It’s part o the university’s fve-year plan to
create new aculties and modiy existing ones.
The Provost’s Academic Structures Commission
(PASC) was ormed earlier this year to deal with
this, holding public town hall meetings through-
out the year.
“We have had inormal discussions with Ryer-
son,” said Julia Sakas, a representative o the site’s
current owners, the Ontario Realty Corporation.
Darrick Heyd, department chair o chemistry
and biology, said the commission has been a long-
time coming.
“The eeling among science departments is that
we should be growing and expanding. And that’s
going to require a new building,” he said.
At the meeting on Oct. 2, aculty also said Ryer-
son’s curriculum is too structured and restrictive.
It doesn’t allow students exibility in transerring
credits when switching programs. The lack o va-
riety in elective classes was also mentioned.
“Say you’re in [a program] and you decide this
isn’t or me, where do you take your credits? Do
you just walk away rom that degree and start
over?” said Colin Mooers, graduate director o
communication and culture.
The last town hall will be in December. A fnal
report will be sent to the provost next January.
Ryerson’s southeast property at Gerrard and Mutual Streets is the hypothetical site for a housing design contest. Photo: chris daLe
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EDITORIAL4•The Eyeopener Wednesday, October 7, 2009
•Masthead
edItOR-IN-ChIeF
Amit “150 CC” Shilton
NeWs
Vanessa “DINNER” GrecoCarys “DATES” Mills
assOCIate NeWs
Shirley “SMASH” Lin
FeatURes
Rodney “BAD WEEK” Barnes
BIZ & teCh
Lauren “LABELLED” Strapagiel
aRts & LIFe
Aleysha “RUBY RED” Hani Amanda “BOTTLED” Cupido
sPORts
Anthony “0-2” Lopopolo
PhOtO
Andrew “HIPSTA” WilliamsonMatt “OBSESSED” Llewellyn
assOCIate PhOtO
Chris “EARLY BIRD” Dale
FUN
Lei “MORALS” Parker
ONLINe GURUs
Kerry “BEST” WallJohn “FRIEND” Shmuel
GeNeRaL MaNaGeR
Liane “DUBYA” McLarty
adVeRtIsING MaNaGeR
Chris “TEMPTED” Roberts
desIGN dIReCtOR
Ryan “IRAQ” Price
INteRN aRMY
Michael “MEENY” StucklessRyan “MINY” HansonBrian “MOE” Capitao
VOLUNteeRs
Chris “THE WALKER” BattagliaMichael “MONEY SERIOUS” Duncan
Daniela “FASHION” GyslerCory “BORAX”Wright
Adrian “RETRO” Cheung Anastasia “HIPSTER 1” Lesage
Will “HIPSTER 2” SloanEmerald “HIPSTER 3” LacailleJasmin “HIPSTER 4” Bender
Josh “HIPSTER 5” MacDonaldRema “OH MY” Gouyez
Jordan “SET UP” RobertsEvan Wynn “-ER” Kosiner
Vincent “VINY RIDGE” McDermottHilary “MOLESKINNAY” Hagerman
Ross “HOOK IT UP” ArbourTanya “GUITAR HERO” Bahnesli
Agata “HERITAGE” Zieba Alexandra “UPDATES” Yeboah Alexandra “TXT” MacAulay
AbdelwahabMichael “SHARE BEAR” Wrinkler
Travis “HUNGRY?” Dandro Andrew “3 BEER” Chilton
Playing the role of the Annoying Talking Coffee Mug this week... Hipsters. Enough said.
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OOPS...In last week’s issue weproved the old joke that journalists can’t do math wasindeed true. In the page 3story ‘Academic misconductcharges skyrocket’, there was a 40 per cent increase incharges, not 70 as appearedin the newspaper. We regretthe error.
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Wednesday, October 7, 20096•The Eyeopener NEWS
Nursing studentsstripped of access
by Tanya bahnEsLi
When it’s time to study, most stu-
dents can crack open their books, ip
up their laptops and get cozy in the li-
brary. First-year nursing students have
to unbutton their shirts, whip out their
stethoscopes and practise their exami-
nation skills.
But nursing students get kicked out
when they practise in the library.
Discussions a ew years ago lead to
a policy banning the practical study-
ing rom the library. Since the depart-
ment’s cramped lounge leaves students
with a lack o options, nursing studentskeep trying the library.
Lack of on-campus study space leaves nursing students with nowhereto practise for exams PhOTO: andrEw wiLLiamsOn
me cete et to opeby aLEXandra maCaULay abdELwahab
Next week, construction will begin on Ryerson’s new digital media centre, an innovative project space to be runentirely by students.
By Nov. 20 the leased space in the ormer Toronto LieSquare will be an open-concept workspace or student en-trepreneurs. Ryerson has scouted interior design studentsto create the digital media centre.
Melanie Liaw will be designing the 6,400 square eet spacealongside interior design graduate Andrea Pierre.
Liaw said they wanted the project to have a more playuldesign like the ofces o Google or Facebook.
The space will include a carpeted “chill area” flled withgrey beanbag chairs, 72 workstations with white moveabledesks and orange, red and blue moveable chairs, monitors,LCD screens and a whiteboard that runs along one entire wall.
According to Monica Polo, interior design program coor-dinator, urnishing the space cost just under $50,000. Mosto the urniture was reurbished rom corporations that haddownsized.
A team o students rom Students in Free Expression(SIFE) have also been helping with the development o thespace and will be managing the centre once it’s opened.They are in charge o things like marketing, accounting and
getting sponsorship or the space.
Security sees our studying asinappropriate behaviour- Kateryna Aksenchuk, presidentof the Nursing Course Union
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Theatre school woes
The school needs to bemoved or renovated. A renovation could meana temporary move to theparking lot.
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A $200 U of T libraryfee for Ryerson studentshas led to the universi-ties to discuss a deal forRyerson students.
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“The labs are limited, the lounge
isn’t good enough, and they get kicked
out o the library. They have nowhere
else to go,” said Kateryna Aksenchuk,
president o the Nursing Course Union
Students have access to an o-campus
lab, but there are only 11 in-patient ar-
eas and students must sign up 48 hours
beore they want to study.
“I really eel or those nursing stu-
dents because I know that nursing
space is at a premium,” says Madeline
Leebvre, chie librarian.
Extensive examinations are manda-
tory or frst-year nursing students at
Ryerson. In order to practise or the
fnal exam, the nursing students need
to dress like real patients, which means
removing clothes.
“Security sees our studying as in-
appropriate behaviour, because the
emale students are required to wear
bikini tops and short shorts,” said Ak-
senchuk.Ryerson is concerned with students
covering library study room windows
or their privacy because it compromis-
es their saety, said security supervisor
Imre Juurlink.
“I was checking blood pressure, and
we just got kicked out. We didn’t even
get a chance to explain what we were
doing,” said David Villar, a second-year
nursing student.
While Meaghen Glover, third-year
nursing student understands their
practising might look odd, she wishes
Ryerson was more understanding.
“We have to study,” she said. “We
have to do this somewhere.”
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Wednesday, Octobe 7, 2009 The Eyeoene • 7SpOrTS
Perfection shines 50 years later
As a back as 50 yeas ago, the rye-
son men’s hockey team has been oced
to ventue o camus to lay.
Today, that act is cited as a cold de-
teent to success. But in one victoi-
ous season om 1958-59, ate tieless
commutes to Scaboough o actice
and games, it seved meely as an ob-
stacle hudled and conqueed.
“We used to thow ou equiment
and ouselves in the back o a tuck
and they would dive us back ate the
games,” said Byan Webbe, assistant
catain and most valuable laye in ‘59.
“That was dieent, I’ll tell you that.”
Webbe ecounts this with the est o
the ‘59 rams as they eunited o thei
induction into ryeson’s Sots and
receation Hall o Fame last Fiday.
Not only did that histoic team win
thei fst Ontaio Inteunivesity Ath-
letic Association (OIAA) chamionshi
o the school, but they did it all without
losing a single game, caing o with a
6-3 chamionshi win ove the Guelh
Univesity Aggies.
“The team laid the conestone o
what we’e tying to build at ryeson,”
said athletic diecto Ivan Joseh.
“They ae the tadition, they ae the
stoytelles and they ae the mantle
weaes. So I think it’s a geat thing o
them to be honoued tonight.”
Being on a successul team o any
caacity equies comlete commit-
ment and unity among the layes and
the coaching sta. Being on a eect
one equies something that’s not quite
quantifable.
Led by coach Nom McClelland,
though, the layes didn’t ecall acing
any essue as they boe though thei
undeeated season.
“Coach told us what the lines wee
at the beginning and we just went out
thee and layed. We ween’t thinking
o going undeeated because we wee
just having un,” said Gay Benedet, a
ome ight winge. “We just clicked
out thee on the ice.”
In between catching u on each oth-
e’s lives in the time they’ve been aat,
wam handshakes and heaty laughs
summoned old locke oom jokes and
tales o gloious goals.
But some stoies went untold, with
nevous laughte mounting, heads
wagging in timidity and othes halting
at the embaassing.
“That stu is unintable!” said
Benedet.
And Webbe, who was inducted into
the Hall o Fame as an individual in
2005, said this induction was that much
sweete.
“It’s always bette to go [into the Hall
o Fame] as a whole team. Each laye
had thei oles but you need eveybody
else thee to lay at thei best,” he said.
ryeson has atneed with a local DJ
to lay live music at rams home games
in Ke Hall.
DJ Maken has been commissioned
by the school to sin tacks at basket-
ball and volleyball games stating Oct.
24 at the men’s basketball home oene
against Westen.
Chis Nadavallil, events coodinato
at ryeson, says that the goal o bing-
ing in a DJ is to sice u athletics and
ewad the ans who attend egulaly.
“This is a sevice we ovide o the
eole who come,” said Nadavallil, “not
to bing in too many [outside] eole.”
Athletic diecto Ivan Joseh, howev-
e, believes this could boost attendancenumbes.
“Having moe ans gives the team
moe enegy,” said Joseh. “You always
look at it as home feld should be the
advantage.
“We’e tying to sustain the kind o
enegy om last yea’s [men’s layo]
basketball g ame.”
But Joseh doesn’t see the hiing as a
long-tem solution to the school’s oo
cowd numbes.
“The ultimate solution is to ceate
a bette oduct, o bing in moe stu-
dent housing. A moe taditional cam-
us would hel,” he said.
The use o DJs is not commonlace
at the college and univesity level, said
Nadavallil, although jockeys do lay
duing oessional soting events
such as ratos games.
“No one is eally doing it in Ontaio
o Canada. It’s etty cutting edge and
unique,” said Nadavallil.
It’s that kind o siit that Joseh
hoes the school’s athletics will ta into,as vasity teams ae always cometing
against the vast amount o nightlie in
Toonto.
Maken has ageed to take equests
om ans duing games. Funds o the
oject haven’t been disclosed.
Athletes of the Week
by cory wright
DJ d n k
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Sheldon Levy and Ivan Joseh congatulate the 1958-59 men’s hockey team. photo: chris Dale
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In the Drake Hotel an indie band
sings about the day their trash gets
taken out. A tall blonde man in the
crowd bawls out in a drunken slur, “A
HIPSTER IS SOMEONE WHO HAS NO
SEX. NO SEX AT AAAALLL.” Two girls
cling to him, their eyes darting around
the room. They’re looking to see i any-
one’s noticed them yet without making
eye contact.
The Drake’s “Elvis Mondays” are ap-
parently a hotspot or hipsters, though
even a crowd o them wouldn’t ever ad-
mit to being one. Once used to describe
the youth ignored by soci-
ety and in turn wielding irony in smirking revenge
— taking the styles o ash-
ions past, or instance, and
calling them ‘vintage’ — the label has
recently come under re, the derision
o any sel-respecting trendster.
The hipsters are dead, i you believe
the headlines, and are taking western
civilization down with them. The critics
say the irony driving the subculture or
so long has nally devoured itsel.
But all this points to is another round
in the cruel cycle o discrimination
that has ollowed the youth subculture
since its inception. Theirs is a history o
extreme prejudice rarely seen in other
groups today, a discrimination o ap-
pearance that intensies the eects o
alienation and cripples our ability to
orm our own identity. They are a tes-
tament to the consequences o when
our judgement o others goes too ar,
o when we orget our similarities and
ocus purely on the sel.
The hipster scene exploded in the
early 2000s with the intent to
avoid the mainstream. Deriving
rom the youth that rebelled against the
politics and media o the time, the cul-
ture was an extension o the idea o the
‘individual’ developed by their parents,
many o whom came rom the hippies
o the 60s and 70s and who were now
living middle-class, afuent lives. This
sense o individuality was uelled by the
cynicism they put orward in response
to being ignored.
“No matter how many protests, pro-
test songs, demonstrations and docu-
mentaries, youth opinion no longer
mattered,” wrote Joshua Erret in his
piece about the end o the hipster in
NOW magazine. This alienation served
only to urther corrupt an already de-
structive habit o putting the sel beore
all else.
But it also helped unite what would
have otherwise been a generation o
misguided and ignored youth under a
common mentality. Suddenly they were
a group o youngsters who were ar too
cool to give a shit. They no longer cared
about tting in — in act, they went
as ar as they could to stand out. They
donned the shroud o irony, that leering
shield. And the only price they paid was
complete separation. In the end, they
got what they wanted.
The almost pitch-black Wrongbar
reverberates with slowly shit-
ing eet, the bodies above them
clothed in skinny pants, plaid shirts,
hoodies and thick-rimmed glasses. The
main act is two hours late to the stage
and in their place is a band who look
as though it’s the rst time they’ve ever
handled instruments. Maybe it’s all a
big experiment. The drummer’s appar-
ently never had any ormal training—he
just eels it.
Eyes assess the crowd without ever
meeting one another. Two girls with
pixie-cut blonde hair stare at another
girl across the room. They’ve spotted
her as the outcast. Their eyes pick her
apart, trying to gure out what some-
one in heeled ankle boots, jeans and a
pastel pink top is doing in this bar.
Around them are conversations
about the latest political scandal in
Europe, another about an upcom-
ing photography show. They all have
this tortured artist theme in common.
There’s no enthusiasm; it is all noncha-
lance. None o them would admit to be-
ing too involved with something. That
would be giving up some part o their
autonomy, corroding the individuality
they work so hard to maintain.
Striving to look individual works
only in small numbers. With
the rise o American Apparel
commodiying the hipster style and
making it accessible to the masses,
hipsters went mainstream; they were
sold out. The group, who were used to
living on the ringe, ound themselves
joined by the rest o their generation.
And because their identity rested on
their outcast status, they did what any
other group would do to remain exclu-
sive: they moved on. It was no longer
cool to be a hipster. The real hipsters,
though they looked and acted no dier-
ently than beore, denied the label and
looked down upon it.
This is perhaps the ultimate irony. At
rst it seems like they missed the joke:
ringe culture birthed and centred on
the edge goes mainstream. Their men-
tality, so rooted in alienation, was in
danger o being void at the accepting
hands o millions — yet they went with
it. By taking oense at the label they
were trying to once again marginalize
their group. They continued hanging
onto the edge, albeit by the tips o theirbitten ngernails.
A group o boys are staying in or a
night o sexy actresses in horror
movies — a somewhat rare oc-
currence, as they usually like going out
to socialize at the bars around town.
Art posters showing the work o
Munch and Dali cover the walls o their
unit. Skateboards clutter the hallways.
Speakers and various instruments litter
the living room. In a wardrobe is a col-
lection o plaid shirts o every possible
colour and pattern — a collection the
owner is proud o.
Others would call them hipsters.
They would see their Macbooks and
music libraries listing names o ob-
scure artists and they would think these
boys are the same as everyone else who
wears tight jeans and over-sized bean-
ies. They would say they are arrogant
without caring to wonder i they are
anything more than the stereotype be-
ing applied to them.
Look At This Fucking Hipster, a blog
at www.lath.com, displays photos o
hipsters with snarky captions beneath
them. “Look at this ucking love con-
nection,” sneers the cutline below twophotos o hipsters eating peanut butter
out o the jar. No act, however inno-
cent, escapes judgement. Playing their
nal trump card, hipsters have turned
the callous eye o prejudice upon them-
selves.
W hat they didn’t count on in
their ironic bent were the
psychological repercus-
sions. Extreme individuality came at
the cost o their eeling o belonging,
an important aspect
o having healthy re-
lationships with those
around us. It makes
us more accepting o
others, and in keep-
ing them in sight we
develop an ability to
empathize, to eel
compassion.
But there were
other eects. When
individuality became
a style the hipsters
lost a deeper sense o
who they were. The
act o separating our-
selves rom others
is the act o putting
up walls. These walls
became what dened
them: seeing only the supercial in
others meant they were shaped not
rom within, but rom external orces.
And since they were so disconnected
to those external orces, who they are
remains broken, and in pieces. They’ve
orgotten the proundity o our experi-
ence as human beings; they no longer
assume the depth within themselves.
There is an older crowd at the
Drake tonight. They aren’t shy,
like many o the younger hip-
sters. They seem comortable, and in
act this is the reason why it’s hard to
call them anything at all. Erret says that
the hipster subculture is transorming
itsel into something new. Maybe they are maturing, growing out o their inse-
curities. Maybe they are growing up.
By RoDney BaRnes
When individuality became a style the hipsters lost a deeper sense ofwho they were.
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And they said thesex talk was hardby daniela gysler
Sending the kids o to university
sends parents scrambling to prepare
their little ones or lie outside the nest.
The list is simple enough to remem-
ber: don’t do drugs, don’t drink too
much, don’t skip class, and don’t have
sex...er...be sae.
But according to a recent article in
the Globe and Mail, one crucial topic
gets missed entirely because parents
fnd the fnancial talk more uncomort-
able than that talk about the birds and
the bees.
It’s not that parents don’t want to
have the fnancial talk, said Elaine Se-
queira o the Royal Bank o Canada.“I think it’s just because parents don’t
know how to have the talk.”
A specialist in private banking and
wealth management, Sequeira has
tricks that will not only teach you f-
nances, but keep your wallet at.
According to Sequeira, students
should know about:
Budgeting basics: write down in-
come sources and expenses. I there is a
surplus then there are savings.
The spend-save-share concept:
when you receive money, put about
10 per cent in your savings account
ASAP. Put a similar amount aside or a
charitable donations and the rest o the
money is let to spend.
Online budgeting: Sequeira recom-
mends online budgeting to help you
record all your expenses and income.
While RBC does have resources on their
site, you can also try the government o
Canada Canlearn calculator at:
http://tinyurl.com/yb9w5mw
Deceptive credit card companies:
They usually oer deals and give stu-dents easy access to credit cards. Easy
access to a card does not translate to
money in your pocket.
“The key to managing credit is to
keep it simple,” Sequeira said.
“Spend only what you can aord to
repay and make all o your payments
on time.”
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My mom was pretty comort-able with the sex talk, butwhen I started talking to herabout my RRSP contributionI think I reaked her out. Shewas proud, yeah, but reakedout.
–— Stephanie Maris, frst-year journalism
I’m fnancially independentrom my amily, and have beenor fve years. However, I doget the random lecture aterbuying a $200 pair o shoes.
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The Eyeopener•11Wednesday, October 7, 2009 ARTS & LIFE
Rye theatre is rolling in some Serious Money
The cast of Serious Money take a moment together at their rehearsal Oct. 2. The show is due to hit Theatre Passe Muraille as part of the 4x4 Festival. PHOTO: CHRIS DALE
BY MICHAEL DUNCAN
James Macdonald, ourth-year the-
atre student, paces back and orth,
spouting a everish monologue through
the eyes o his character Zac Zacker-
man. As one o the main characters in
Ryerson’s newest production, Macdon-
ald’s acting skills adds intensity to the
play, Serious Money.
The show is strikingly relevant in the
midst o a global economic recession.
The script by Caryl Churchill comes to
lie with Ryerson’s theatre school and
runs rom Oct. 15 to Nov. 7 at Ryerson’s
Abrams Studio Theatre.
The play will also make a rst in Ry-
erson Theatre School history as it moves
to Theatre Passe Muraille, as a part o
Nightwood Theatre’s 4x4 Festival rom
Nov. 20-22.
Serious Money got o the ground be-
ore most students were even thinking
about the end o summer.
“We had auditions beore school
started and got our lines the rst day o
school and have been rehearsing since
then,” said Macdonald.
The cast is made up o students in the
nal year o Ryerson’s theatre program.
Serious Money is inspired by the de-
regulation o the British nancial es-
tablishment in 1986, known as the “Big
Bang,” which opened British markets to
the world.
The poignant satire delves into a
world o international nance, laying
bare the human need or excess with
humorous results.
“I would hope the audience can
laugh at the satire and be disgusted at
the truth,” said Macdonald.
Characters fy on and o stage living
out their lives’ dramatic highs and lows
as the plot ollows two main stories.
Not just a political satire, Serious
Money also involves murder mystery
as the high-stakes o big money and lie
in the upper class lead the characters to
extremes that reveal ugly truths in hu-
man allibility.
“In terms o major obstacles in the
play’s process, the main thing has been
getting the lines right,” said Macdon-
ald.
Serious Money’s language style ea-
tures rhyming couplets and obscene
humor designed to emulate the chaos
o stock market trading foors.
“The way the show is done is pretty
chaotic, it’s like a roller coaster,” said
Macdonald.
Macdonald’s character possesses a
revelatory perspective and his brilliant
monologue in the play includes the in-
dicative line, “money buys reedom.”
“My character acts as almost a narra-
tor but not telling the story in order as
he weaves in his own moral structure,”
said Macdonald.
Based on their rehearsals, Serious
Money is both spot on with its critical
eye and hilarious with its take on the
nancial world.
Tickets are on sale now at the Ryerson
Theatre box oce and can be picked up
in person or reserved over the phone by
calling 416-979-5118.
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You spin me right around baby, right aroundBy Chris Battaglia
I haven’t owned a bike in years. I’ve
always preerred walking to biking — I
don’t have to keep an eye out or Mi-
chael Bryant when I’m walking and I
can arrive at destinations without the
sweat.
See, stamina’s not my thing. I can lit
heavy things, but don’t ask me to run
anywhere. I’m a walker or a reason.
So when choosing a tness class to
attend, a cardio class involving bikes
would seem like the worst one I could
pick. But the Eyeopener editors loved
the idea and so I went.
It’s called spinning, which is an odd
choice because the weighted fywheel
on the bike is the only thing spinning.
You’re pedaling. Why name it ater what
the machine is doing? You don’t pick up your car keys and say, “I’m going or an
internal combustion.”
Spinning is essentially a stationary
group bike ride through an imaginary
countryside, set to ambient pop music.
Leading us on this antasy was Cher-
ilee Garoano, who was quite under-
standing o the act that this wasn’t ex-
actly my thing.
The class elt like a tight-knit com-
munity o supportive people, the type
you want beside you while you ride
over pretend hills and race to the pre-
tend nish.
But the workout is ar rom pretend.
I was worn out by the end o the warm-
up. My legs were hurting ater ve min-
utes. And to top it o, I had buckets o
sweat seeping into my shirt.
Somehow I made it to the end o the
class, but that’s not to say I kept up with
everyone. Good thing the bikes were
stationary. Once I could walk again, I
noticed what hurt the most was not
my legs but the severe wedgie caused
by the bike seat — yet another reasonI don’t bike.
Spinning class is great or a high-in-
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Ryerson team to rep Canada in Hong Kong
There is still debate over how bad
the recession currently is, but a recent
survey ound students are still worried
about the economy.
Taken by PricewaterhouseCoopers
LLP, the survey ound that 56 per cent
o Canadian students said they were
only slightly worried about the reces-
sion, while 33 per cent said they were
very concerned.
“I am worried about the recession
now and later,” said Basia Piekarski, a
third-year psychology student. “I work
part-time in retail and I see tons o peo-
ple handing in resumes all the time and
not getting an interview.”
Piekarski is also worried that theeconomy will aect her chances at get-
ting a job ater graduation, something
42 per cent o students also said in the
survey. “There are a lot o people who
graduate with a BA in psychology every
year,” she said. “Unless you are able to
get your masters, it’s very hard to com-
pete.”
The survey also ound that 41 per
cent o students were spending less
money and saving more. Students who
said they had no extra money to save
came in at 26 per cent.
Although the survey indicates con-
cern among students, many o those
surveyed are still optimistic. Accord-
ing to the survey, 28 per cent elt the
economy will improve in the next nine
to 12 months and another 28 per cent
eel that a rebound will happen in the
next six to nine months.
Students who did not believe the
economy would inuence their pros-
pects or jobs related to their major
were at 48 per cent. Michelle Craig, a
third-year nursing student, pointed out
that the province is in desperate need o
nurses.
“I’m not as concerned as other stu-
dents might be,” she said. “It’s Septem-
ber and I still have two years let. Hope-
ully the economy will be doing better
at graduation.”
For the Ryerson Global Management Group
(RGMG), a last minute change is a good thing.
The group was putting the fnal touches on a
competition project late the night beore it was
due when they decided to make a big change to
the structure. They scrambled to reassemble, and
fnished at 4 a.m. – two hours beore the deadline.
Now, they’re on their way to Hong Kong.
RGMG, made up o ourth-year business man-
agement students Parham Rashidi, Perry Kekropi-
dis, Tyson Herwynen and Aysha Ahmad, competed
against over 40 other schools in a case competition
based on corporate social responsibility. In May,
they received a case on a Taiwanese company,
which they completed in nine days. In November,
they’ll head to Hong Kong to compete against our
other fnalists rom around the world.
The group was set up last year by Carlyle Farrell,
chair o the global management program.“What we’re looking to do is make RGMG an as-
sociation slash society that students rom the Ted
Rogers school come to in order to get inormed in
terms o what’s happening in multinational cor-
porations and international aairs worldwide,”
said Kekropidis, vice president strategic manage-
ment.
On Nov. 13, they’ll compete as the only Cana-
dian fnalist in the Hong Kong case competition.
They’ll be given a case in the morning, and then
have six hours to analyze and prepare. They will
then give a 20-minute presentation to a panel o
fve judges, and then have a question and answer
period.
I victorious, they’ll come out with up to HK
$15,000 and a trophy.
“This isn’t only an accomplishment or us as a
group, but or Ryerson,” Kekropidis said. “With
Ryerson being somewhat o a newcomer to the
university scene, especially the business program,
us beating out schools like York and Simon Fra-
ser, who actually placed second last year, I think
speaks or itsel. We’re hoping to raise Ryerson to
an international standard and make it a house-
hold name.”
And ater only one year, they’re excited about
the accomplishment. “This was our the frst case
competition we did – ever,” said Herwynen, direc-tor o operations.
“I don’t think any o us thought we would make
it this ar, or I don’t think we thought that we would
actually get chosen out o all the schools,” said Ah-
mad, vice president operations.
“We’re all pretty proud o each other,” Kekropi-
dis said.
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