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Taking on a fifth year of high school may no longer be an op-tion, according to the proposed 2012 Ontario provincial budget.

The provincial budget, tabled on Mar. 27, included a cap on the number of credits students can ac-quire during high school.

Although students only need 30 credits to graduate, the govern-ment is recommending a limit at 34, meaning students would be al-lowed one extra semester.

“Ontario continues to accom-modate up to 20,000 students re-turning for a fifth year, many of whom have already received their secondary school diploma,” the budget reads.

The move to quell the victory lap – which is regarded as a con-tinuation of the eliminated On-tario Academic Credit (OAC) – is expected to save the Ontario gov-ernment $22 million a year, and

focus on propelling more students to graduate on time.

Dan MacDonald, guidance counsellor at Sinclair Secondary School in Whitby, cited stacking up missed or failed prerequisites, balancing a multitude of interests, and different levels of adolescent maturity as reasons why 13 per cent of high school students stay back for an extra year.

MacDonald also pointed out that “it’s not that (students) didn’t get into college or university, it’s the fact that they changed their di-

rection.”Although the cap would only be

implemented in 2013 to give stu-dents, parents and teachers time to plan accordingly for the transi-tion to university, students who have completed the full fifth year of high school say that it helped them mature and prepare for post-secondary endeavours.

“Being given a second chance was really good for me,” admit-ted Samantha Bogdanovich, a sec-ond-year radio and television arts (RTA) student at Ryerson.

Bogdanovich admitted that her struggle with maths and sciences at Jarvis Collegiate Institute in To-ronto landed her with a low aver-age that would have stopped her from getting into a university pro-gram. She credits the victory lap for giving her confidence and the opportunity to apply to RTA.

“I learned that I could im-prove,” Bogdanovich said. “I re-ally wasn’t doing well in grade 12,

so it made me happy to know that I could do better and was doing better, and had a chance of getting into the programs that I applied to get into at universities. I actually had a chance.”

Lesley Wagner, Durham Col-lege professor at the school of jus-tice and emergency services, said that while she believes the extra four-credit cap is reasonable, high schools could be doing more to help prepare students who strug-

gle with course work and life-de-cisions.

“A career cruising website at half a credit does not make some-body know what they want to do for a career,” Wagner argued.

She also stated that in order to increase the number of graduating students and encourage ambition, high schools need to implement more “general life prep” for stu-dents.

“Where do we go from here?” Wagner said. “Do we have high schools pay for students to ma-ture, (or) do we have parents pay for them to mature at summer school or night school?”

Heather Krepski, academic suc-cess facilitator at the Learning Success Centre at Ryerson, does think that the university could offer a non-credit orientation and learning strategies course.

“I think we can do a much better job at transition programming,” Krepski said.

3April 4, 2012 The EyeopenerNEWS

Provincial budget proposes a cap on the victory lap

CESAR members fight backMatthew Cwihun (top) is running for director of campaigns and equity. (bottom) Current executives Sergio Ortiz (left) and Ugo Asagwara. Photos by mohamed

omar.

Political members are outraged over the lack of transparency and democracy as the Continuing Edu-cation Students’ Association at Ry-erson (CESAR) enters its April 4 election.

“The culture at CESAR is very closed,” said Matthew Cwihun, part-time student running uncon-tested for director of campaigns and equity. “There is a division within the current executive. They seem scared of something and want to keep a lot of things hidden.”

The new by-laws implemented last fall made it so only 22 students were eligible to run in the election — eight of which are board mem-bers and executives. Of the three political membership meetings held so far, a political member must have attended two of the three to be eligible. Other members that have attended only one will be able to vote if they go on April 4, but this is only a handful more.

These by-laws were created by members that are not even mem-bers of the executive or the organi-zation anymore, said Shinae Kim,

current director of finance and ser-vices. For the first time CESAR will also not be taking nominations off the floor.

“The election process should have been more open. Before the by-law changes there were 200 to 300 class representatives with [vot-ing cards],” said Kim.

Kirikaran Nirmalanantham, a past board member, was interested in getting re-involved. He was only able to make it out to one member-ship meeting and was therefore ineligible. “It has eliminated the amount of participation and the number of people that can [get in-volved],” he said.

Kim said it is a major problem for the nature of students at CESAR, including parents, students with part-time jobs and distance educa-tion students with disabilities that comprise the organization.

The internal organization itself is rife with infighting. Problems that outside members want to under-stand.

Cwihun hit a roadblock when he tried to attend a board meeting on

March 28, 2012. Members of the ex-ecutive asked it to be a closed meet-ing when it was made clear other members were in house. A motion passed and Cwihun was told to leave the meeting regardless of his political membership status. He was even denied access to agenda minutes.

The meeting in question shut its doors directly before a motion to impeach Kim, the fourth impeach-ment against the executive.

Kim said the impeachment has been cleared since she confronted the individual, citing he had no cause for the motion. Kim called the environment in the office “male-dominated.”

“I sur-vived,” she said.

Fellow politi-cal member Annie Hyder, running for di-rector of membership and com-munications against current exec Sergio Ortiz, attempted to clarify the issue of withholding agendas and minutes at the last meeting.

Hyder presented a motion to release all board meeting minutes from May 2011 to present to all po-litical members via email.

The motion was denied and Or-tiz replied to her email by calling it “out of order.” In an email to her, he wrote, “the problem I found is that all of a sudden you want to make these available at the end of the fiscal year when there will like-ly be new execs coming in and elec-tions are also on the eve.”

Ortiz declined to comment be-fore press time.

Hyder was granted her personal request for minutes but was told the November and December 2011 ones were missing.

“There is a lack of procedural fairness

in a part-time organization whose mandate is to provide for marginal-ized students,” she said.

Hyder will team up with Kim and Cwihun along with William Morrow Oxley, running for director of events and workshops and Har-monie Wong, running for director of academics and policy as “CESAR United.” Once the nominations had been submitted, the group started talking, realizing they want to take the organization in a more trans-parent and accountable direction.

Familiar faces such as Ortiz, Vernal Banton, current director of events and workshops and Ugo Asagwara, current director of aca-demics and policy will be re-run-ning this Wednesday.

“You should only be hiding if you have something to hide,” said Cwihun.

There is a division within the current

executive.— Matthew Cwihun,

political member

Political members are speaking out against the new by-laws that are inhibiting them from getting involved and the lack of transparency from executives. News editor rebecca burton reports

It’s not that [students] didn’t get into college or university. It’s the fact that they changed their direction.

— Dan MacDonaldguidance counsellor

Being given a second chance was really good

for me.— Samantha Bogdanovich,

Second -year RTA

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So long, CESAR

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Victoria “hirEd” StuntCarly “rOOmiEEE” Thomas

Derek “Edit kiNg” KirkSusana “dErP” Gómez Báez

Catherine “hErP” PolczErica “NErP” huculak

There seems to be some sort of misunderstanding amongst Ryer-son’s student unions about what we do here at the Eyeopener.

In the March 28 meeting of the Continuing Education Students’ Association of Ryerson, in an item nonchalantly titled “media com-munication,” it was affirmed that CESAR had a pressing matter to deal with: us.

“Be it resolved that media is-sues be discussed and appropriate measures are taken to counteract the bashing by which the organi-zation is currently going through local newspapers,” reads the agenda item. “Local newspaper” in this case is a euphemism for the Eyeopener seeing as we’re the only ones reporting on the current tur-moil.

Evidently some of the CESAR board’s way of counteracting our

“bashing” is by refusing our phone calls, refusing to address the messy situation they’ve created for them-selves and by even going so far as to telling their student membership not to talk to us.

So here’s a message for those CE-SAR directors, since we have such trouble talking to them directly: we’re not bashing you. In fact we’d be perfectly happy to not deal with your brand of bullshit, but we don’t have that luxury.

It is our job here to report on stu-dent politics, especially when they fuck up, and CESAR has indeed fucked up.

Let’s review: multiple resigna-tions, accusations of harassment, impeachment attempts, denying members the right to vote, conflicts of interest among staff, withhold-ing meeting minutes to members.

Not to mention the backlash. The attempts to suppress contact with us haven’t been so successful. Members have been coming to us (anonymously, so I suppose you’ve scared them a little) with their grievances. It seems some CESAR members trust the Eyeopener more

to express their frustration than their own union. There’s even an online petition demanding change.

“How does it feel to have your voting rights taken away without proper notice and consultation with members through a bylaw change? How does it feel when you, a fee-paying student taking three courses are told you cannot vote at your first or second meeting, but a non-student who obtained ‘po-litical member status’ can vote and govern an organization that is run by students, for the students?” asks the petition.

I imagine it feels shitty. And that’s why we’ve dedicated our-selves to covering it.

This is our last issue of the year, but rest assured we’ll be keeping an eye on the CESAR elections as they unfold.

Clean yourselves up, address your membership’s concerns and stop the infighting, and perhaps next year there won’t be any need for our “bashing.”

That, or maintain the status quo and continue filling our news sec-tion. It’s your call, we’ll be follow-

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Salaries to be frozen by budget

by sean tepper associate news editor

Premier Dalton McGuinty’s Liberal government announced that they will freeze the wages of approximately 1.2 million public servants in last week’s provincial budget.

Finance Minister Dwight Dun-can has said that he will attempt to seek a two-year wage freeze in the public sector that would affect teachers, hospital workers, doctors and nurses.

If an agreement cannot be reached, the government is pre-pared to bring in legislation that would force workers to accept a zero per cent increase.

The Liberal government planned budget cuts aim at reduc-ing spending to save $17.7 billion over the next three years without raising taxes.

“I think there’s a lot of clarifi-cation that people are seeking on what exactly has been proposed,” said Ryerson President Sheldon Levy. “I think the way unionized

and non-unionized people should be handled should be fair to both groups equally and so I think there may well be people caught in the freeze that should not be treated any differently than unionized col-leagues.”

Dr. John Shields, a politics pro-fessor at Ryerson, believes that there is more to take into account than just salaries being frozen.

“A freeze is not really a freeze, [it’s] a cutback,” he said. “So a two year freeze, even if the inflations are as low as it is now at 2 or 2 and a half per cent, a lot of the work-ers in that sector ... are going to see a rollback of between 4 and 5 per cent.”

McGuinty’s government argues that this is necessary in tough eco-nomic times and that by freezing civil wages, public workers won’t be in jeopardy of losing their jobs. However, as Shields points out, the government needs to differentiate between the individual equity of public servants.

“I think there are a lot of people in the public sector that are willing

to take the freeze and they’re will-ing to accept it because they know the alternative is even worse in terms of what the government is proposing,” he said. “It’s also a bit of a blunt instrument in the sense that it’s not distinguishing between those who have higher salaries within the public sector and those who have lower salaries. Everyone is treated more or less equal in this and yet those who earn more obvi-ously have a lot more discretion.”

While he believes that these freezes look more appealing to some public workers than the thought of losing their jobs, every-one needs to be wary of them as well.

“I think there are a lot of people in the public sector that are willing to take the freeze and they’re will-ing to accept it because they know the alternative is even worse,” he said. “Simply imposing a two year wage freeze may sound appealing from a popular vantage point, the beneficial effects of it may not be realized the way that the govern-ment is suggesting.”

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re: post-secondaryThe 2012 Provincial Budget

What the government says:

How it affects you:

the province will contin-ue to fund the 30 per cent tuition grant and project that it will reduce tuition costs for students. there remain numerous stipula-tions to qualify and mean-ing if you don’t qualify it will not help your tuition costs. they will continue with the plan to fund the grant by cutting the ontario textbook and technology

Grant and ontario trust for student support, while the Queen elizabeth ii aiming for the top scholarship will be phased out gradually over three years so that no students currently re-ceiving the award will lose funding. Queen elizabeth ii scholarships will be award-ed, starting in 2012–13.

What the government says: How it affects you:

president sheldon Levy says that ryerson’s work-study initiatives aren’t in danger. while there will be some consequences, the work-study program isn’t supported by funds that are set to be cut. “we will likely make up that impact with our own funds,” says Levy.

the ontario budget pro-posed funding cuts to the ontario work study program (owsp). the program funds on-campus jobs that are cre-ated for students. it’s funded by the province of ontario and the university where the student attends. you earn your aid through employ-ment in owsp designated jobs and you can earn up to $1,000 per term.

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April 4, 2012NEWS

Sheldon goes shopping

To celebrate the opening of Loblaws in the historical Maple Leaf Gardens, the Eyeopener went shopping with President Sheldon Levy. The shopping complex and soon to be Mattamy Athletic Centre at the Gardens opened up shop early at 7:30 a.m. on March 30 where Levy treated the gang to some snacks and even a turkey. To get the full consumer experience visit theEyeopener.com to watch the video.

RSU to fight for tuition at AGMBY MARILEE DEVRIES

Tuition fee increases and funding for graduate student associations will be among the issues discussed at the Ryerson Student’s Union (RSU) Annual General Meeting (AGM) Wednesday.

The AGM allows RSU executives to present a report of the goings-on in the union over the last six months and to make motions, which stu-dents attending will vote on. Stu-dents also have the opportunity to bring new ideas forward.

Melissa Palermo, RSU vice-pres-ident education, said that putting forth an “emergency” motion to oppose funding cuts to the Ontario Work Study Program will be at the top of the agenda. Cuts to the pro-gram were outlined in the Ontario budget, tabled March 27.

Tuition fees will also be a hot top-ic for many students, particularly after the recent announcement by the Liberal government in March that, for the seventh year in a row, tuition fees may increase by five per

cent for all students.“Students in Ontario are paying

the highest tuition fees in the coun-try, and at the same time have the largest class sizes and are seeing courses cut from year to year,” said Palermo.

“The cuts that have been pro-posed in the provincial budget, if the budget is passed as is, are going to have impacts exponentially more detrimental to students than the cuts that we faced earlier this year.”

Second-year graphic communi-cation management student Rachel Davies believes that fee increases are necessary for maintaining qula-ity post-secondary education.

“I don’t think we can decrease [fees] and maintain quality,” she said. “In the States it’s way more intense.”

Stefan Hoogerbrugge, a radio and television arts student, said that tuition fee increases are unac-ceptable.

“The RSU is the voice of Ryer-son students, and without them lobbying against tuition fees, who

would?” he said. “As individuals we don’t have a say against the gov-ernment, but the RSU, acting as the voice of the students, is a group that the government will listen to.”

But Hoogerbrugge, who has been at Ryerson for two years, admits that he’s never attended an RSU meeting.

According to the RSU bylaws, the AGM cannot take place unless a minimum of 100 members are pres-ent. Last year, the AGM was forced to take place in November as op-posed to April because they were unable to meet quorum.

RSU president Caitlin Smith said they will promote the meeting through various methods of com-munications, including an email that will go out to every RSU mem-ber.

“We will [also use] posters, Face-book, Twitter, and our e-newslet-ter,” Smith says.

The RSU’s Annual General Meet-ing will be held in SCC115 at the Student Centre Wednesday, start-ing at 5 p.m.

Briefs & PantaloonsOn March 27, an indi-

vidual found a spent shot-gun shell outside of ILLC on the Mutual Street side, in between 123 and 133 Mutual. Toronto police was called in and retrieved the shell. The individual also noticed windows were bro-ken on the Metro building. Police concluded that it

wasn’t related and the store owner was informed of the incident. Pro tip: if a shotgun had been fired right outside ILLC, security would have no-ticed already. (We hope.)

On March 28, two individu-als had ignited a paper bag in the quad and when they were approached by security they both became very apologet-ic. Remember when burning one in the quad was actually badass?

On March 27, security received a report from a female in Eric Palin Hall that a male was coming out of the women’s wash-room. The individual was very agitated, proceeded east bound down the hall way and was kicking doors as they were going along. When security did a check of the area, he was al-ready gone. Farewell, mys-tery hobo. You will not be missed.

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7April 4, 2012 The EyeopenerNEWS

1

Giving Rye a gradeIn a look back at this year’s news stories, here is our round up of the best to the worst players at this university and our rating on their performance

President Sheldon LevyGold 9/10

Besides agreeing to sport a gang-ster hat for our parody issue, our school president is a man with a vi-sion for an innovative and growing university. Ask him about Maple Leaf Gardens, his golden acquisi-tion, and he lights up at the idea of seeing the Ryerson Rams win games on the historical playing fi eld. And while his master plan may be hit-ting construction roadblocks, with all the new buildings announced he’s doing a prett y good job at gob-bling up downtown real estate.

2Ryersonbuilds (sort of)Silver 6.5/10

Ryerson announced their $112- million Student Learning Centre last year, plus a sparkly new resi-dence building last month as just a few new construction projects they are working on. But with a leak-ing Victoria building and an aging Kerr Hall — nevermind the barely opened Image Arts building that Levy dubbed Ryerson’s worst mis-take — it just doesn’t even out. Ry-erson has to learn that pizza parties can’t fi x everything no matt er how much free beer they give away.

3Student UnionsBronze 2/10

Graduate students are aiming for a separation from the Ryerson Students’ Union (RSU). The part-time students union is abound with internal confl ict. Then there is the RSU that continues to experience voter apathy and a cycle of the same faces occupying the executive. For unions that gather hundreds of thousands of dollars of student money each year, we have to ques-tion if it really is student needs that they have in their best interests.

>> Honourable Mentions:

The men’s basketball team: For the first time in a while Ryerson had a reason to cheer for a sports team after advancing to the CIS National Championships.

Julia Hanigsberg, vice-president administration and finance: A nod to Hanigsberg’s constant so-cial media updates and active blogging, show-ing that some Ryerson administration members do go outside the office walls.

Digital Media Zone: All year, amazing apps and gadgets have been coming out of the creation lab that Ryerson is proud to call its own.

Renaming Gould Street

The now permanent closure of Gould Street was cause for celebration on March 28 when the offi cial renaming to ‘Ryerson Square’ was unveiled. For more event photos visit the gallery at TheEyeopener.com.

PHOTO: LINDSAY BOECKL

8April 4, 2012 The EyeopenerNEWS

The top 10 news stories of the year And here you go, folks! As the News Team wraps up another year of caffeine and insensitivity, we’d like for you to join us to recap the most hard-hitting stories, the ones that got the most attention and the ones we never want to write about again

IMAGE ARTS BARELY OPENS

GOULD CLOSES FOR GOOD

DRUG BUST IN THE DUNGEON

CESAR’S ONGOING CONFLICT

MLSE VS. RYERSON BATTLE

RYE SWITCHES TO GMAIL

OCCUPY HITS CAMPUS

SAM SIGN UNWANTED

9/11 SKEPTICS COME TO RYE

NEW RESIDENCE ANNOUNCED

Image arts students finally gained access to their semi-completed building last fall in a rush to open the doors after months of delays. Administration apologized to students for the ongoing construction but with a gallery still yet to open and lost studio space, students have yet to experience a fully com-plete building.

At a Toronto City Council meeting on Feb. 6, coun-cillors voted to keep Gould — from O’Keefe Lane to Bond Street and a portion of Victoria St. — closed for the next five years. The closure was the end of a decade long struggle to claim some pedestrian space on campus for students. The street will be upkept by Ryerson with major landscaping in the works.

The history of drug dealing in the engineering hangout, commonly known as the Dungeon, came to a standstill this semester after undercover police in-vaded campus. They handcuffed and interrogated a group of individuals before escorting some of them from campus. The engineers were quick to express their happiness in seeing the dealers go.

The convoluted mess began late last year after the implementation of a new set of by-laws that would change political membership. As a result, a limited number students could run in the upcoming election creating a low involvement in the already conflict-plagued office. Harassment claims were thrown around as executives tried to impeach each other.

An ongoing battle began last summer when Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment (MLSE) filed an injunction against both Ryerson and Loblaws, demanding that they stop referring to the athletic complex by the name Maple Leaf Gardens. Ryerson has since changed the name to the Mattamy Athletic Centre at the Gardens but the issue is unresolved.

After being fed up with RMail but caught in the American Patriot Act privacy issues for a few years, Ryerson finally announced their intent to switch to

the Google Apps for Education Online Suite. Julia Hanigsberg made the announcement, send-

ing current students into flurries of excitement and alumni into fits of jealousy.

As the Occupy movement spread, Toronto protes-tors established their headquarters at St. James Park, passionately representing the cause with a small but still controversial version of the original movement.

As the story developed, rallies spread and poured onto Ryerson campus, getting students involved in

one of the biggest events of the year.

Toronto’s iconic record store, Sam the Record Man, was demolished after its closure to make

way for Ryerson’s great glass project. The Student Learning Centre (SLC) plans were obtained by The

Eyeopener led to the discovery that the university no longer had the intent to use the Sam sign in their

design, which sparked outrage from many citizens.

Skeptics hit campus for a four-day long event in Sept. 2011 to discuss the improbabilities of 9/11.

Ryerson was criticized for letting a group occupy university space that has been called insensitive to

mourners and families. The event, which took place on the 9/11 anniversary, didn’t spark any major pro-

test but some students called it “disgusting.”

Even though Ryerson is a commuter school, there is no where near enough residence for those who want it. But in a surprising announcement in

late February, Ryerson announced plans to build a commercially-owned but Ryerson operated resi-

dence. The building will be housed at 186-188 Jarvis St. and includes approximately 500 beds.

9 NEWS

Stories to keep an Eye on As the school year comes to an end, the News Team gives you the heads up on a few developing stories as we approach the dog days of summer

MLG open date set for fall

After a number of delays and a few different name changes, Ryerson’s new ath-letics facility is finally nearing completion.

Students will finally be able to step foot in the Mattamy Athletic Centre at the Gar-dens this fall.

With the construction now set to be completed in June, Ryerson is expected to hold two grand openings: one for the media in July and one for the student body in Sep-tember. As of yet, no specific plans have been made.

Heralded as a key compo-nent to creating a true cam-pus community, it will be in-teresting to see how students react to their new $60-million gym and whether or not it will be able to get fans to games.

Radio Ryerson awaiting hearings

Jacky Tuinstra-Harrison, president of Radio Ryerson and the manager of the appli-cation process, has filed hun-dreds of letters of support for their quest to obtain the 88.1 FM frequency.

Public hearings will begin in May and there are currently 20 commercial applicants, in-cluding a francophone radio station, hoping to swap fre-quencies.

The decision of the Canadi-an Radio-television and Tele-communications Commission (CRTC) to grant the license will hopefully be made by summer, but they aren’t really under any pressure.

Once they begin hearings they wont stop until they feel that they have enough infor-mation to make their final call.

New programs coming to Rye

With government funding in jeopardy after 2015, Ryerson is pushing a full slate of new programs through the Board of Governors (BOG) and the Senate.

As of now, students’ tuition fees pay for approximately 45 per cent of their program’s funding.

The other 55 per cent is pro-vided by government funds and the uncertainty is when those funds will expire.

New programs such as en-vironmental and urban sus-tainability and history will be offered in the fall of 2012, while accounting and finance, philosophy and creative in-dustries are all expected to be offered in 2013.

Most recently, the BOG has approved the creation of an undergraduate profes-sional communication pro-gram pending the Senate’s approval, which should be de-teremined during the summer months.

Other programs that have been proposed include bach-elor degrees in real estate management, biomedical sciences and financial math-ematics and the recently an-nounced Digital Specialization Program which will be offered in collaboration with the Digital Media Zone (DMZ) and will be first offered in May 2012.

With a number of new build-ings on the way, it will be in-teresting to watch and see whether or not the university will commision the creation of other programs over the sum-mer.

Editor-in-chief dies slowly and painfully

A woman of many words, her life was taken suddenly and tragically in a series of unfortu-

nate events. Sarah Del Giallo reports

The Eyeopener is sad to inform Ryerson campus of the untimely death of their dear Editor-in- Chief, Lauren Strapagiel.

Strapagiel was enjoying a ciga-rette around 2 a.m. on Tuesday, April 3, while waiting for her incompetent masthead to finish their pages so she could go home for a few hours of sleep.

While outside the Student Campus Centre, she was at-tacked by a pack of laserkittens (latin name: Lagerquistivus).

Laserkittens, while rare and rather unknown in the Greater Toronto Area, are a rabid breed of feline known for shooting hot lasers from their beady little eyes. The species has recently been seen moving into urban areas to feast on the massive rats occupy-ing cities.

Forensic evidence seems to indicate that Strapagiel attempt-ed to escape the vicious cats by jumping onto a common breed of the North American House Hip-po (tineusfeatureseditous).

Unfortunately, the animal had difficulty carrying her, being only around the size of an over-weight guinea pig.

The loyal pet did try however, carrying Strapagiel onto Gould Street and away from the hissing laserkittens.

As bad timing and tragic coin-cidence would have it, Strapagiel and her small hippo were hit by a car, driven by ‘80s pop star Gary

Numan. The car kept Numan safe from any injury, police say.

Strapagiel would have seen the incoming car, if she had not been wearing a Straponagal, a device patented by Rye Eye Publishing.

While the Straponagal has no practical use, the rubber eye patch with protruding genitalia looks wicked cool, and Strapa-giel was known to wear one four out of seven weekdays.

Witnesses in Kerr Hall South reported violent screams coming from Gould Street around the time of Strapagiel’s death.

Police questioned the Eyeopener staff on the matter, and found that the editors had been playing obnoxiously loud foosball and could not hear the cries of their valiant leader.

Friends of Strapagiel were un-available for comment, as they were too drunk to be coherently quoted. While initially thought to be part of the grieving process, it turns out to be no less than usual for the group.

After learning this, police are now looking into the possibility of a suicide.

Strapagiel is survived by the Eyeopener masthead of 2011-12 and her beloved ginger concu-bine Christopher Dale.

Sources have indicated that George Michael will be arriving in Toronto on Thursday to play the funeral of his dear and loyal friend.

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1 Mohamed Omar photographed Ryerson’s own Jordan Heywood performing at Canadian Music Week in March.

2 Incoming associate news editor Diana Hall cap-tured this moment at the memorial for Ryerson Theatre School student Sarmad Iskandar.

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News editor Sean Tepper stumbled upon a brawl outside of the Ram in the Rye last February and managed to get this shot.

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Mohamed Omar got an early look at The Crucible, a theater school production that ran this past September.

5 Chelsea Pottage photographed model Myles Sexton for the cover of the Gender Issue this past November.

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6 For a profile of the new Ryerson Athletic’s trainer, Lindsay Boeckl somehow got Mark Harris to pose shirtless for his profile.

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Chelsea Pottage photographed Sports Top 10 athlete Kasandra Bracken, sporting clothes from Toronto fashion house B.E. Shields.

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Sports Top 10 athlete Jahmal Jones was photo-graphed by Mohamed Omar this past November. Styling was painfully done by Sean Tepper.

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Marissa Dederer photographed Tiffany Deobald for this year’s science-themed Love & Sex issue. We never saw Marissa again.

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Lindsay Boeckl photographed the stunning Alex-ander Skarsgard at the Toronto International Film Festival, and then lost all ability to speak.

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Marissa Dederer photographed documentarian and protester Derek Soberal for a feature on stu-dent activism this past February.

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Incoming photo editor Dasha Zolota truly pulled her weight, with only a days notice she hopped on the fan bus to Halifax to photograph the Men’s basketball team at the national championships.

Every year, the Eyeopener photo team strives to bring the most interesting photos to all of you readers. Here is the best from this past year:

April 4, 2012 NEWS The Eyeopener 11

A few months ago, I made a stupid mistake. Such a stupid mistake, in fact, that it will af-fect my financial well-being for years to come.

Sound serious? You bet it is. I cringe just thinking about it.

I put out my personal infor-mation over the Internet, giv-ing scammers access to my bank account and permission to steal my identity.

Here’s how it happened: In the midst of midterms

and assignment deadlines, I received an email from my

bank. It said that the security of my bank account had been compromised, and to prove my identity, to click to link be-low. I did.

It took me to a website that looked exactly like my bank’s. It asked me to fill in my name, my address, security ques-tions I use for online banking, my social insurance number and my driver’s license num-ber. My bank doesn’t even have my driver’s license num-ber in the first place. But in the moment, it hardly fazed me. I just wanted to get my bank situation figured out as soon as possible.

I did call the bank to ask what the email meant, but the voice on the other end of the phone told me I had fallen for a scam. He was so calm — I wasn’t. If my bank account had been wiped clean, I’d go into a deep depression. Seri-ously.

I immediately signed into my online banking and all my money was still intact, thank God. But I knew that at any moment, the scammers could sign into my account and take me for all I’m worth.

While I was on the phone with the bank, I received an email that said the password on my bank account had been

changed. They were in my account.

Three clicks, and my life-sav-ings would be gone.

The fraud department at the bank was contacted. They froze my account. No one could see any information within the account, or move any of my money.

“Now you can sleep to-night,” said the man.

But I didn’t. I stayed up all night.

In the morning (after I called my mom at 6 a.m. crying) I skipped my classes and went

to the bank to unfreeze my account. I got passed around from banker to banker, having to explain my embarrassing story. I felt humiliated. I end-ed up spending three hours there, and got a completely new account opened up for me.

I now knew my money was safe, but not my identity.

Since I had given out my SIN and drivers license num-ber, scammers could take out loans and open up accounts in my name. They could ruin my perfect credit.

To try to prevent this, I called the credit bureaus to put a flag on my account. This means that if someone attempts to open up an account or take out a loan in my name, the credit bureaus will call me and ask if this is okay. I also have to order credit reports every three to four months to check that no one is using my name.

I’ll have to do this for the next 10 years of my life, but I’m thankful my money is still intact.

I’m now aware of the world around me. I think I’m pretty street-smart. I know you should never give out person-al information over the inter-net. I’m not a stupid person, but what I did was stupid.

PHOTO: MOHaMed OMar

Hide your cards, hide your numbers

Would you trust an email from your bank? One student landed in a pit of panic after doing just that — a mistake that will have them keeping a close eye on their credit scores for years to come

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I put out my personal information over the Internet, giving scammers access to my bank account and permission to steal my identity.

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The problem

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13April 4, 2012 The Eyeopener FEATURES

Every student has one; a nine-digit identifier as-signed at random the mo-

ment they apply for post-second-ary education.

It’s your username to sign into Blackboard, the string of num-bers on your OneCard and a sequence you’ll probably write out a thousand times before you graduate.

The frightening part is that the number, and the information it links to, could potentially be used to rob you of your money and identity.

The Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre (CAFC) website reported nearly 8,000 identity theft com-plaints by the general public in 2006, with the estimated mon-etary loss being at $16,283,000.

Although there are no statis-tics focusing on student identity theft, there are plenty of initia-tives out there warning young people to protect themselves from fraud.

The CAFC is one of them, pro-viding different ways to notice and prevent identity theft.

“Keep items with personal in-formation in a safe place,” lists one of the points on the web-site. “An identity thief will pick through your garbage or recy-cling bins.”

It continues to say you should rip or shred any forms, state-ments, offers and applications before throwing them out, in case they contain personal infor-mation that can identify you in any way.

Your student number would count as one of those pieces of personal

information. Given the right ac-cess, it can be used to find all of the information the university holds on you: personal, finan-cial and academic. Gaining that access is made easier still when your number is accompanied by further information such as your name, address, phone number and other information most stu-dents wouldn’t want just anyone seeing.

But even alone, anyone who

has seen your student num-ber could pick up a Short-Term Withdrawal Form and hand it into admissions in your name. With only your name and stu-dent number, some jerk has just dropped you out of school for a semester, and now you have to scramble to fix it.

Ryerson policy asks any-one handling your infor-mation to dispose of it se-

curely. In fact, it says so right on a document the Eyeopener ob-tained that contained a student’s name, their student number, program, course information, instructor’s name and signature, student signature of consent for nomination, their mailing ad-dress, and the date.

The document was a Faculty of Arts’ nomination form for essay prizes in Liberal Studies Courses signed by history professor Arne Kislenko. Printed on the bottom was a reminder from Ryerson’s Information Protection and Ac-cess Policy [IPAP] for Restricted Information to handle it with care. IPAP requires documents that include personal informa-tion, such as a student number, to be “used, stored, and de-stroyed securely.” Typically that means shredding, not tossing it in the recycling bin as Kislenko may have done.

Kislenko, a former intel-ligence officer, said he wouldn’t normally make

a mistake, even a minor one like this.

“I shred everything,” he said. “I used to work in the business of keeping secrets secret, it is fairly standard operating procedure.”

He admitted that he wouldn’t remember off the top of his head what happened with the forms and why they wouldn’t have been shredded, but that he had no intention to reveal any stu-dent information.

Normally, documents put out for shredding are kept in se-cured, locked bins and then put through to the master shredder.

“If it was me, then it’s my bad,” he said. “That’s fairly minor, to be honest.”

He pointed out how easy it is to access someone’s student num-ber, by looking at their test paper or peeking over their shoulder at a form.

“I probably wouldn’t have shredded it though, as it’s pretty innocuous [information],” said Kislenko. “I think everything has to be viewed within reason.“

He said there’s only so much you can do in terms of security.

“It really depends,” he said, referencing the university’s gen-

eral policies on information, but not referencing any protocol for information viewed as low risk as a student number.

David Goodis, director of legal services at the Commissioner’s office,

said he wouldn’t refer to a stu-dent number as low risk.

“A student number, though it might on its face appear in-nocuous, is something we con-sider particularly sensitive,” said Goodis.

It can be linked to the name, address, phone number, test scores and other quite sensitive personal information if given the correct access.

Ryerson, like other universi-ties, has been covered by the Freedom of Information and Pro-tection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) since 2006.

“If a student number was care-lessly disposed of, that would be a breach of the act,” said Goodis. “The more information that’s re-vealed, the more seriously it can be considered.”

FIPPA is merely administra-tive law, not criminal, so any investigations would be inter-nal. In a case such as this, the Commissioner’s office would investigate to see if the act has been breached and make recom-mendations of what to do in the future.

“I wouldn’t put it on par with medical and financial informa-tion, but it’s hard to call it in-nocuous because of its ability to link [to all other information],” said Goodis.

He remembered one precedent in which a student’s informa-tion had been submitted to the Golden Key Honour Society at Ryerson.

The student was upset that information had been shared without his consent, but in the end the IPC investigation had concluded that Ryerson was not guilty of any mishandling of personal information according to FIPPA.

The Eyeopener has found breaches of personal in-formation security before.

In 1990, The Eyeopener found confidential documents and the administration vowed to never leave sensitive information lying around agian.

However, in 1997, The Eyeopen-er found numerous receipts from the Hub in an open garbage in the subbasement of Jorgensen Hall. These slips contained stu-dent numbers and residence in-formation.

In 2007, boxes labelled “shred”

and “confidential” were found lying around an empty, unlocked office. The boxes contained pay stubs, grades and tenure reports.

In 2009, a computer error ex-posed the name, gender, date of birth, student number, address and social insurance number of 600 students for nearly a month.

After the 2007 incident, Heather Driscoll, Ryer-son’s information and

privacy coordinator, said that anything that would offer poten-tial access to another person’s in-formation would be considered a privacy breach.

However, Driscoll says it’s dif-ficult to determine the risk of someone else gaining access to your student number and mail-ing address, the most private parts of the document found near Kislenko’s office.

“In general though, if the form contains personal information, we’d encourage people to look at that information and destroy it in a secure method,” she said.

As far as the consequences of this information breach, Driscoll was more concerned about the reaction of students involved.

“Even if there is no significant risk of harm it still might be a reputation and trust issue,” she said. “We might encourage the faculty member to notify the [student whose information was involved].”

Through each breach The Eyeopener has uncovered, the response from the ad-

ministration has been much the same: to look at IPAP.

Driscoll refers to IPAP as an outline for all employees as to what their responsibilities are when it comes to information.

The document, found on the privacy page of the Ryerson website, references the uni-versity’s commitment to pro-tecting personal information, teaching and research records, law enforcement, solicitor-client labour relations and other un-specified types that the policy puts under the term “restricted

information.” The rest of the page mainly

references the university under FIPPA and their IPAP proce-dures.

The procedures in question can be found on the Ryerson website, however they’re vague when it comes to dealing with specific personal information handling, such as a form with a student’s number.

The policy and procedure are heavy with legal jargon, refer-ences and impressive wording, but you cannot look to them for what to do in a specific situation or where the line is drawn to sep-arate risk levels and what should be done for each instance.

Driscoll’s office does not police the university for privacy and in-formation violations, but investi-gates when potential problems are reported and provide advice on how to contain the situation.

“If we determine that there’s a significant risk of harm, we pro-vide outreach to the individuals affected,” she said.

In that case, which Driscoll describes as rare, they notify the Information and Privacy Com-missioner of Ontario’s office.

Keith Alnwick, Ryer-son registrar, says even though a student number

in itself does not necessarily give access to any other information, he still agrees that the student number is regarded as private just like any other personal in-formation the university houses.

“All the staff have signed con-fidentiality agreements and un-derstand quite clearly what the FIPPA requires,” said Alnwick.

All this personal information is housed on the university’s electronic network, to which ac-cess is granted by the registrar’s office on a need-to-know basis.

Those need-to-know work-ers don’t just include high-level administration staff. Students in the work-study program can be granted access if their job re-quires finding contact informa-tion for alumni or donors.

The access is then passed along to the Computing and Commu-nication Services (CCS), run by director Brian Lesser.

Even though this relationship between departments controls the access of information, and CCS’ firewalls alert any breach on Blackboard or RAMMS, Al-nwick is not opposed to taking every precaution.

“I’d love to shred everything because I think the more that’s disposed of the better,” said Al-nwick.

“When in doubt, shred.”

Ryerson has guidelines for how they keep your personal information safe and out of reach, but proper precautions are not always taken. News Editor Carolyn Turgeon looks at how safe your information really is

I used to work in the busi-ness of keeping secrets secret. [Shredding] is fairly standard operating procedure.

— Arne Kislenko,history professor

A student number, though it might on its face appear innocuous, is something we consider particularly sensitive.

— David Goodis,Information and

Privacy Commissioner of Ontario’s office

Antic sees an employer looking up an applicants profile as a huge invasion of privacy.

“It’s a little bit discriminating. They can see what you look like, your interests,” she says. “It’s a little bit violating.”

First-year hospitality and tourism student Brian Nam doesn’t agree entirely. He understands an em-ployer’s right to view a public pro-file, but not their intention to access the account.

“I know Facebook is open sourced, but there are privacy set-tings,” he says. “Looking up their Facebook to see what’s public is fine I guess. But [asking for login infor-mation] is too much of an invasion of privacy.”

Jaime Almond, an internet mar-keting and social media specialist, says that the idea of a right to pri-vacy is disappearing as social media becomes more prevalent. This trend is creating a major issue for young people entering the job market.

Almond says the practice should be resisted completely, and per-sonal privacy has become more dif-ficult to hold on to in the last few years with the open-book mentality of Google and social media profiles.

“It’s such a gross overstep of per-

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Some employers are asking interviewees for Facebook passwords. Although it isn’t technically illegal, the practice has many young professionals feeling a bit nervous.

Online editor Jeff Lagerquist and Biz and Tech editor Sarah Del Giallo report

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You’re on the edge of your seat with perfect posture as you sweat your way through a job interview. Things seem to be going well as you answer your prospective employer with poise and confidence. It’s a great job, and you really need it.

“This all looks great. But one last thing.”

“Anything,” you respond.“We just need your Facebook

username and password. It’s a new policy. Everyone has to do it.”

Your heart sinks into the pit of your stomach as you realize that your business attire and glowing references can’t hide that cell phone pic of your doing a keg-stand with your buddies last summer.

Companies have started asking for social network access in job in-terviews, causing a wave of panic among young adults trying to make it in the professional world. The trend is also raising issues over pri-vacy and employer discrimination when making new hires.

Andrew Langille, a labour and employment lawyer in Toronto, says that employers are taking ad-vantage of a poor job market and the high youth unemployment rate.

“With the weight of the financial crisis and the recession, we’re in a period where jobs are hard to come by, especially for young people,” he says. “Employers appear to have taken this as a carte blanche to vio-late people’s rights and plunge into their personal information, which they have no right to look at.”

With unrestricted access to a Facebook profile, a potential em-ployer could look into a user’s race, marital status, sexual orientation

and intention to have children — answers to questions that are illegal to ask in job interviews.

“You can’t decide to hire someone on the basis of what their sexual ori-entation is, what their family status is, what their race is — those types of questions and practices that un-cover that information are generally illegal,” says Langille.

The issue is drawing the most at-tention in the U.S. where the high unemployment rate is driving a

desperate job market. The House of Representatives voted against a bill that would prevent employers from demanding job applicants reveal social media passwords as part of their application on Mar. 28.

Last month, The Toronto Star re-ported that Peel Region Police are asking for Facebook passwords from new applicants. While the practice of asking job applicants for access to their private profiles is not illegal in itself, using the personal information that most profiles con-tain violates two aspects of the On-tario Human Rights Code, accord-ing to Langille.

Section 5.1 states that every per-son has a right to equal treatment with respect to employment with-out discrimination. Section 23.2,

prohibits an employer from asking the applicant to disclose the infor-mation mentioned in section five.

“There is absolutely no obliga-tion to hand over social media pass-words, email passwords and per-sonal information of that nature,” says Langille.

On March 23, Erin Egan, the chief privacy officer at Facebook, posted about the issue, calling the increase in reports of employers seeking ac-cess to profiles “distressing.”

“The most alarming of these practices is the reported incidents of employers asking prospective or ac-tual employees to reveal their pass-words. If you are a Facebook user, you should never have to share your password, let anyone access your account, or do anything that might jeopardize the security of your account or violate the privacy of your friends,” said the post.

Fourth-year sociology student Aleksandra Antic had a distressing experience in a recent job interview.

She sat down, and the man in-terviewing her mentioned that she played the violin. When she asked how he knew that, she realized he had her publicly viewable Facebook profile open on his computer.

“He had creeped me,” she said.

sonal privacy,” she says. “Asking for your Facebook account pass-word is about finding out what a person does in their private time. I think the practice is overly paranoid and I don’t see how it’s relevant to an employer.”

She says an employer asking for login information shows that giving out private information has become less of a choice, and more of an ex-pectation, and this is a problem.

“The more we give into this, the less our privacy becomes a right and a choice, and it becomes expect-ed that we expose all of our most personal information.”

This creates a dilemma for new graduates who are desperate to break into their profession. When put on the spot, how could an ap-plicant avoid disclosing uncomfort-able information without risking the job?

“I would recommend not hav-ing anything go online that you wouldn’t feel comfortable having a prospective employer see,” says Al-mond. “Make your profile as secure and private as possible.”

For those that want to be extra careful while on the job hunt, Al-mond says other options include creating a fake profile while deacti-vating your original, or even shut-ting down your Facebook profile while looking for a job.

“What they’re asking for is in-formation that is not necessarily relevant to your working life,” says Almond. “I’m hoping there will be some laws passed that will protect people from these types of ques-tions. Technology always moves quicker than the controls of it.”

It’s such a gross overstep of personal privacy. Asking for your Facebook ac-count password is about finding out what a person does in their private time. I think the practice is overly paranoid and I don’t see how it’s relevant to an employer.

— Jaime Almond, social media specialist

@minnnty@theeyeopener ask for theirs in return and change their status to something reflecting their snoopy douchebag move

@victoriamarn@theeyeopener They are welcome to look at my #socialmediaaccounts but I would not hand over pass-words, nor should they ask for them

@Ahhlekz@theeyeopener Never. ..Well actually, if I had 24 hours to sift through my profile I’d be good with it.

@AeroEchelon@theeyeopener At the very most I would let them see my profile but never give them my password. There would be no reasoning behind that.

@peacelovez@globeandmail @theeyeopener Yes. I’d also let them install a 24-hour CCTV in my house. Also they can fluff through my unmentionables drawer.

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TWEETSOF THE WEEK

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@stande2I wonder if the bums in #To-ronto know they can stash their #beer cans @Ryerson in one of these free lockers... Don’t worry, I’ll tell them.

April 4, 2012SPORTS

2011-12 YEAR END AWARDS

The Ryerson Rams’ varsity teams ended their seasons a couple weeks ago to various degrees of success.

The men’s basketball team made history by winning the first game in the school’s history at the national championships. The men’s soccer team and the men’s hockey team also had impres-sive regular seasons before being eliminated in the playoffs. While the women’s hockey team played their inaugural season at the Canadian Interuniversity Sport level(CIS).

With the impeding move to Mattamy Athletic Centre signalling the beginning of a new era of Ryerson athletics, Erica Huculak surveyed 14 athletes from different teams on campus to find out what their thoughts are on different aspects of the past season.

WHicH tEam Had tHE most sUccEssFUL sEasoN?

Men’S bASkeTbAll (86 % of voTeS)

WHicH tEam WiLL HavE tHE bEst sEasoN NExt YEar?

Men’s basketball (50 %)Men’s soccer (28.5 %)

WHo is tHE bEst FEmaLE atHLEtE?

anDrea raso, woMen’s soccer (28.5 %) ashley MacDonalD, woMen’s basketball (21.4 %)

WHo is tHE bEst maLE atHLEtE?

JahMal Jones, Men’s basketball (28.5 %) alex braletic, Men’s soccer (21.4 %)

WHo is tHE bEst cross-sport atHLEtE?

alex braletic, Men’s soccer (21.4 %)robert earl, Men’s volleyball (14 %)

WHicH tEam WiLL bE most improvEd NExt YEar?

Men’s soccer anD woMen’s volleyball (28.5 %)

WHo is tHE bEst HEad coacH? roy rana, Men’s basketball (64.2 %)

Ryerson’s Equestrian team competed in the Ontario University Equestrian Association (OUAE) finals this past weekend.

It was the first time the club competed competitively with schools from the OUAE West division. Andrea Robinson, co-founder of the club, placed second in the over fences event while Samantha Bite finished second in the under saddle event. Six other Ryerson riders qualified for the event but they failed to reach the podium.

Laura Giffen jumps a hurdle. PHOTO COURTESY OF EMILY WEINGARTNER

Left to right: Roy Rana, Andrea Raso and Jahmal Jones. PHOTOS: TIM ALAMENCIAK, jORDAN CAMPBELL, LINDSAY BOECKL

Equestrian team competes in the OUAE finals

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The metamorphosis of the RamSince Ryerson was established as a university in 2001, its athletic programs have long been overlooked. With the teams set to play their home games at the Mattamy Athletic Centre in the fall, things are about to change. Harlan Nemers reports

Incoming rookie Uchenna Ofoha. PHOTO: MARISSA DEDEDER

In one of his first games in a blue and gold Ryerson Rams jersey, the 6’5 Uchenna Ofoha showed a glimpse of potential at the under 21 Ontario University Athletics (OUA) tournament held at Kerr Hall Gym-nasium this past February. Ofoha gazed across the net at McMaster setter Christopher Spack. As Spack set up his teammate for a spike, Ofoha timed his jump perfectly to block the incoming spike with his fingertips.

Ofoha is just one of many re-cruits that will be suiting up for the Rams when Ryerson’s athletic calendar refreshes. Coaches whose teams re-sume their respective sea-sons in September have been scouting avidly since March; most coaches laid the foundation of recruit-ing well before the season ends.

Mirek Porosa, head coach of the men’s volley-ball team, claims Ofoha is the most athletic player he’s seen in his 17 years of coaching. Adding such an elite player is a testament to how much Ryerson’s athletic program has grown in the last couple years.

Ofoha’s decision to become a Ram over the three other schools interested in him, signals a shift in the culture of Ryerson sports. Many athletes value the opportunity to come to Ryerson and become the center piece of a rebuilding pro-cess more than becoming just an-other piece of the puzzle at another school.

Ofoha will look to have a simi-

Men’s BasketballRecord: 13 wins and 9 losses

Men’s HockeyRecord: 13 wins and 12 losses

Men’s SoccerRecord: 8 wins, 4 losses and 2 ties

Men’s VolleyballRecord: 3 wins and 15 losses

Women’s BasketballRecord: 11 wins and 11 losses

Women’s HockeyRecord: 1 win and 23 losses

Women’s SoccerRecord: 6 wins, 9 losses and 1 tie

Women’s VolleyballRecord: 6 wins and 12 losses

lar impact in his rookie season on the volleyball team as young stars Jahmal Jones and Chelsea Briscoe have had before him.

“This university is the place to be,” said Ivan Joseph, the athletic director.

“There is a huge surge of inter-est in coming to Ryerson. They are coming because of the new coaches, the new facilities and the academics.

“Our reputation is going from worst to first.”

Ryerson is gradually becoming

a more attractive location for star high school athletes and students alike looking for a post-secondary destination.

In the last three years alone, Ryerson has had more first-year applicants than any university in Canada.

Last year, Ryerson became one of the top Ontario universities stu-dents chose. Ryerson issued 25,453 offers and 32 per cent of those ap-plicants registered in the 2010-2011 school year. In mid-August, there were still over 8,900 students on waiting lists for admission, accord-ing to the office of admissions and

recruitment.And it appears more and more

athletes share their interest in the school, as there are 82 incoming recruits this upcoming year com-pared to the 43 last year.

The recruiting class of 2012 is the largest in Ryerson athletic history according to Joseph.

Other reasons student-athletes are choosing Ryerson are the same ones that full-time students are in-terested in the university: they feel like it’s a small enough university where they can feel like a student and not just another number, they like the smaller class sizes are and you don’t have to go on a scaven-ger hunt to get from class to class.

It doesn’t hurt that the campus is located in the heart of down-town Toronto.

While Ofoha ultimately decided on Ryerson because he lives close to campus and he is drawn to the civil-engineering program.

However, other athletes are finding the potential of playing at the Mattamy Athletic Centre at the Gardens this coming fall, the for-mer home of the storied Toronto Maple Leafs, too much to pass up.

“The biggest incentive was the opportunity to play in the Maple Leaf Gardens,” said Brian Birk-hoff, a first-year men’s hockey player. “That definitely sweetened the deal.”

“For any recruit coming in, whether Ryerson was on their ra-dar before or not, now that Ryer-son is going to be playing in the Gardens, any athlete would be tak-ing a second look.”

Our reputation is going fromworst to first.

— Ivan Joseph, Athletic Director

Conversation with a Ram:

Jordon Gauthier played an instrumental part to the men’s basketball team’s march to the national championships in Halifax; however he was forced to sit out all three of the games at nationals due to a season ending injury he sustained in the Ontario University Athletics (OUA)semi-final. The OUA second team all-star spoke to Sports Editor Gabriel Lee about the disappointing end to his season. Log on to the theeyeopener.com to read the interview. PHOTO: MOHAMED OMAR

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18 April 4, 2012 The Eyeopener ARTS & LIFE

Graduates make art workDespite stigmas surrounding arts-related degrees, many graduates face bright futures. Susana Gómez Báez reports

It is 5:57 p.m. on Sunday after-noon as fourth-year theatre produc-tion student Jeny Nikolova pauses to catch her breath during the only five minutes she can spare between shoots.

“I always knew I want-ed to go into the fashion world,” she says. “I plan on opening my own store for clothes and I want to move into the [medium] of televi-sion.”

Amongst her peers, Nikolova is the exception, not the rule. Many uni-versity students in arts-related programs, such as photography, new media, or dance, are afraid to graduate because they say it is tough to find work in the arts industry.

Amanda Pye, a Ryerson fourth-year dance student, says she is

afraid to go out into the real world. “In Toronto, the dance com-

munity isn’t like it is in New York and L.A. so the work is pretty spo-radic,” Pye says. “It is pretty scary sometimes.”

After graduation, Pye has lined up a three-day intensive workshop with Springboard Danse Montreal, a company that casts dancers who excel in the workshop, to perform

nationally or internationally. “The opportunity itself is great

even if I don’t get [the job],” she says.

Nikolova, 22, juggles her time between school, modeling, and de-

signing her fourth-year piece: a gown for the up-coming Emmy Awards, made for her cousin, Nina Dobrev, better known as the star of the popular TV series The Vampire Dia-ries.

“It’s a hundred per cent silk, a deep navy blue, corset front, and com-pletely backless,” Niko-lova says. “I designed it

and I’m sewing it myself too.”Nikolova got the opportunity last

year to be on the set of The Vampire Diaries as a part of the costume de-sign team. She plans to travel to the United States next year, where she has been invited to work once again on the set of the TV series.

“I can’t wait to graduate,” she says, with enthusiasm. “I want to move into the theme of television.”

Some arts students seem content with interviews alone, following their graduation.

Maegan McWade, a fourth-year fashion design student, says she is not scared to go out into the in-dustry. The prospect of applying her skills to real life work is what is most important to her.

“If you love what you do, it will work out,” McWade said.

But for some graduates, it may not.

“There are a couple of reasons as to why students from many pro-grams are struggling to find work,” says Robert Burley, a photography professor at Ryerson. “First of all, the economy is not doing well.”

On top of that, in the last year, tuition has increased 5.1 per cent, according to Statistics Canada. As tuition rises, students are thinking harder about where and in what they should invest their money.

“The other reason is that most fields are being turned on their heads with new technology,” says Burley.

“The key is to keep up with the changes that are going on. What I’m seeing is that our most success-ful graduates are able to do more than one thing.”

Burley says that students need to be willing to start at the bottom and work their way up, as well as net-work extensively.

“We try to build them a network while they’re still in school and make them aware of opportunities available upon coming out of the program,” Burley says.

In fact, Nikolova says that it was networking that helped her to achieve so much so early. Although she knows of the overwhelming belief that arts majors bear no jobs, she says this has never scared her.

“If you love what you’re doing, fear should never stop you,” Niko-lova said.

“Don’t let anything stop you be-cause anything you work for, you will get.”

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Students take arts industries by stormApril, in Ryerson’s arts programs, is dominated by year-end art shows in almost every discipline. But what sort of impact do they actually have on their respective industries? Arts & Life Editor Sean Wetselaar reports

The frenzied click of cameras and faint murmur of the audience as a model struts down the runway. The soft footfalls, and the quiet conversation as artists and admir-ers take in a photo gallery.

And behind it all, the silent spec-ulation of industry professionals as they get their first look at some of Canada’s freshest talent.

This is the world of Ryerson’s end-of-year art shows.

Ryerson is known widely for its ability to land graduates with jobs in their chosen professions, and its approach to arts-related programs is no different.

But, how much impact do the university’s much-touted shows actually have on their respective industries?

When it comes to fashion and im-age arts — a lot.

Two of Ryerson’s biggest year-end spectacles are Mass Exodus, the largest student-run fashion show in North America, and Maxi-mum Exposure, the annual show-case for image arts students, spread throughout galleries in the down-town core.

“[Mass Exodus] is one of the few events from Ryerson, or the school in general, which actually has the attention of the industry here in To-ronto,” said Daniel Drak, the pro-ducer of Mass Exodus.

“The industry does look to Ryer-son and Mass Exodus to see what ideas are being portrayed by [stu-dents].”

Mass Exodus has been running for over 60 years and, through alumni scattered throughout the industry, has generated a lot of at-tention, Drak said.

“I think that Canada has a lot of talent,” said Amanda Lew Kee, a Toronto-based Ryerson fashion alumni and owner of the Aman-dalewkee fashion line. “Mass Exo-dus is a good platform for students to showcase their development.”

Also making waves in the local arts scene is the work of photogra-phy, film and new media students at Maximum Exposure.

“Maximum Exposure has re-ally garnered an excellent position in the industry,” said fourth-year photography student Lindsay Voegelin. “We have a broad repu-tation and people are very excited to have us back.”

Both shows will feature indus-try-specific events geared towards giving students an opportunity to make contacts with industry pro-fessionals. One of the five Mass Exodus shows being held this year will be exclusively reserved for members of the Toronto fashion community.

“Those people are industry people who have a vested interest in the Ryerson school of fashion,” Drak said.

“If they see something awesome, they will contact [the designer]. Every year, there are stories of people being picked up because of their talent.”

For the first time ever, Maximum Exposure will also feature an in-

dustry night which will allow stu-dents to mix with image arts pro-fessionals from the Toronto area on April 26.

“In the past there has been an industry preview, but generally it takes place prior to the opening, which isn’t the best environment,” said Voegelin.

“So we really wanted to isolate that, [and] give the industry profes-sionals a full preview of the show, as well as a time for the artists to focus on specific networking.”

Maximum Exposure will also in-clude a showcase of the work of six highlighted photographers at the Outliers gallery — which will oc-cupy the third and fourth floors of the Gladstone Hotel, near Dufferin Street and Queen Street West.

The show, curated by Alice Dix-on and Persilia Caton, will include some of the best work produced by the graduating class.

It is the hope of a number of the show’s coordinators that much of the work will sell, given the unique clientele of the Gladstone and the high quality of the work.

“Really, part of our aspiration is to have some of the work sell,” Voegelin said.

“We think that those [pieces] have a very high likelihood of sell-ing.”

Both Voegelin and Drak said, despite the stress, the shows have been very much a labour of love.

“[Maximum Exposure] has been fantastic,” Voegelin said.

“I have the privilege of working with three fantastic students who are also my good friends — they’re all driven, creative, intelligent peo-ple.”

“So, just spending all the time I have to spend with them to make this happen has just been a plea-sure.” Photo: mohAmEd omArMass Exodus producer Daniel Drak.

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When Filipe Leite was a young boy, he would lie in bed and imagine the epic tale his father would recite to him. It was of a Swiss school teacher named Aime Tschiff ely who in 1925, rode two horses from Buenos Aires to New York.

“Let fools laugh; wise men dare and win,” Tschiff ely said.

Now 25, Leite is sett ing out on his own equestrian jour-ney this July. The Ryerson journalism graduate will ride two horses from Calgary to his hometown near Sao Paulo, Brazil. It’s a 16,000 km expedition that was a dream of his father’s.

Leite who is a cinematographer and journalist, will doc-ument stories from the communities he visits.

He says the goal of the project, “Journey America,” is to connect and inspire people through storytelling.

Leite — whose fi rst name means lover of horses — grew up in Brazil, where he says there’s a harsh diff erence be-tween classes. Some people own private jets and condos in Miami, while others can’t even aff ord food.

As a journalist, this is something he always has in the back of his mind.

“I want to try to show the diff erence between people who have, and people who have not, and at the same time how similar they all are,” says Leite.

“Whether you have 30 billion dollars in your bank, or you have nothing, we all strive for the same thing. We want to love, and be loved.”

He thinks riding two horses through 12 coun-tries will get people to pay att ention to the stories he’ll share in his 120 minute documentary, mostly about how the drug war aff ects the entire continent. Leite says he doesn’t have a set plan on sleeping any-where, While he’s on his journey.

He says that he doesn’t want to make plans because he doesn’t know what towns he’ll be visiting for sure yet. He’s expecting to camp out and have people invite him into their homes.

He’s also putt ing his own money into the project. “I’m not gett ing paid to do this, I’m paying to do this.”

Leite says that riding a horse long distance is thought of as crazy even though it wasn’t too long ago we used horses as main means of transportation.

“It’s like I’m telling them I’m going to build a fucking state of the art rocketship and fl y to Mars,” he says.

Leite will spend about three weeks in June at a ranch in Calgary, taking a clinic on wilderness riding. There, he will meet his horses. The whole journey he says will be done with their health in mind.

“I’m doing this for human rights, and my horses are trekking for the rights they deserve.”

He’ll ride them for only 30 km a day, four-to-fi ve days a week.

“When you live with a horse for this long, it’s a friend-ship like no other,” he says. “The horses are going to be the true heroes. I’m just a guy with a fucking camera telling a

Crossing

story.” He wants people

to be able to go visit the horses in Brazil when the journey is done —he says they’ll be retired afterwards. Leite will have some con-nections in diff erent countries during his trip.

He’s trying to contact a veternarian in each country be-fore he leaves so the horses can be checked to cross borders. But other than that, he’s trying to plan as litt le as possible.

Leite says the majority of the connections, “the most beautiful ones,” will be made along the way.

“That’s why I’m going on this trip, to talk to people. The beauty of it is discovering humanity again,” says Leite.

He’ll need to ask people which roads to take, where to fi nd feed for his horses and where to fi nd a place to stay.

He’ll also get information about community projects going on, so he can include them in the documentary.

Leite has some sponsors for the trip, one of which is help-ing him pick the horses, while another is supplying gear for the journey. But once he starts riding, he believes more spon-sors will be interested in helping.

Leite says he’s going to keep tweeting throughout the journey, documenting and asking for support from big sponsors.

“I’m doing this because I believe in the size and the scope of the project,” Leite says. His goal is to win an Oscar nomi-nation for the documentary.

“We go against ourselves, and before we even leave we’ve already failed,” says Leite. “I don’t fail. If I say I’m going to do something, I’ll do it.”

The hardest part of the trip won’t be reaching the half way point or feeding the horses, it will be gett ing off the saddle and returning to a world of internet and cars. The documentary pilot, which gives a glimpse into what’s to come in Leite’s journey, along with more informa-tion is available at journeyamerica.net.

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Ryerson graduate Filipe Leite will be travelling 16,000 km on horseback, documenting his way

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Leite says that riding a horse long distance is thought of as crazy even though it wasn’t too long ago we used horses as main means of transportation.

“It’s like I’m telling them I’m going to build a fucking state of the art rocketship and fl y to Mars,” he says.

Leite will spend about three weeks in June at a ranch in Calgary, taking a clinic on wilderness riding. There, he will meet his horses. The whole journey he says will be

“I’m doing this for human rights, and my horses are trekking for the rights they deserve.”

He’ll ride them for only 30 km a day, four-to-fi ve days

“When you live with a horse for this long, it’s a friend-ship like no other,” he says. “The horses are going to be the true heroes. I’m just a guy with a fucking camera telling a

already failed,” says Leite. “I don’t fail. If I say I’m going to do something, I’ll do it.”

The hardest part of the trip won’t be reaching the half way point or feeding the horses, it will be gett ing off the saddle and returning to a world of internet and cars. to a world of internet and cars. The documentary pilot, which gives a glimpse into what’s to come in Leite’s journey, along with more informa-tion is available at journeyamerica.net.

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Ryerson student rides for a dreamBiking from Toronto to Vancouver to raise awareness for the White Ribbon Campaign. Carly Thomas reports

Three dudes on bikes, 35 days, 4,500 km of open Canadian road and a mission to help stop violence against women. Ride For a Dream bike-athon is raising money and awareness for the White Ribbon Campaign.

Second-year Ryerson psychology student Alexander Waddling and his two friends — Steve Barry and Danny Surjanac will bike from To-ronto to Vancouver. The guys plan to leave May 1.

They plan to stop in major cities along the way to spread the message of the White Ribbon Campaign, the largest effort to engage men in help-

ing stop violence against women worldwide.

Waddling has always been an avid cyclist. He has biked to Ot-tawa twice. Once from Toronto and another time from Victoria Harbour Ont., where he and Barry are from, but has never attempted crossing the country.

The idea of biking west first took shape last December when Surjanac, a co-worker at the time, mentioned that he would love to attempt a long ride.

Waddling decided he wanted to use the trip to marry his passion for cycling with the volunteer work he

had been doing at the White Ribbon Campaign at Ryerson.

“I wanted to do something for the White Ribbon Campaign. Some-thing I could put my heart and soul into and make matter,” he said.

Jeff Perera, project manager at the White Ribbon Campaign, opened the Ryerson chapter three years ago and runs workshops and the annual “What Makes a Man” conference, where Waddling first got involved with the group back in 2011.

Perera said that overall, Ryerson is better than most spaces in terms of sexual equality. But he mentioned there are still issues of sexual ha-

rassment on campus, and indicated there is room for improvement.

He said a cultural shift must hap-pen where “we need to recognize that being a man doesn’t mean be-ing assertive, purely aggressive, having all the answers and being a stud... it’s really about just being hu-man and saying you can be vulner-able, you can be who you are. It’s not a negative.”

Waddling said he is riding for his five-year-old sister Cheyenn, who he described as the “sweetest thing on earth.”

He said it sickens him to think of her having to deal with any form of abuse.

According to statistics on the White Ribbon website, “half of Ca-nadian women (51 per cent) have experienced at least one incident of physical or sexual violence since the age of 16.”

“You take any sized room and in it you put my mother, my sister, my two cousins, my grandmother and one of my best friends; six very important women in my life, and to think that half of them are going to have to deal with that. That eats me up inside,” said Waddling.

After a fundraising concert at Lee’s Palace last March, the three men raised $2,500 towards their trip. Waddling said it was “not nearly enough,” to fund the trip.

He said he hasn’t received too much financial support from Ryer-son students yet but hopes that “as we get closer to the kick off date, more and more people from Ryer-son will be willing to contribute.”

The men will be traveling an aver-age of 150 km per day with an allot-ted seven rest days.

They will be spending most nights in a tent, but a few people have offered to house them during their trip.

Waddling said if it weren’t for the immediate support and participa-tion of Barry and Surjanac, the trip would have never taken shape.

“I wouldn’t ride with anybody else. You know, I wouldn’t ride with these guys if I didn’t love them to pieces, and trust them and think that I could get along with them completely for 24 hours a day for 35 days. We all have a very good bond that way,” he said.

“Is this going to change the world? No, no that would be ridicu-lous. But it’s a step in the right direc-tion and will have residual effects for me and hopefully my family, my friends and others,” he said.

“I want to at the very least plant the seed. To make people aware that there is someone out there who thinks [the White Ribbon Cam-paign] is important enough to do something about.”

Alex Waddling (right) is a Ryerson student biking to Vancouver. PhoTo CourTesy of Maggie MaCPherson

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GeminiYou will be shocked to dis-cover how few

people give a shit that you have restless leg syndrome.

SagittariusSaturn will do some weird, de-viant shit in your

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AriesLet the one you love know how you re-

ally feel. It will give them time to file a restraining order before you enter that crazy, stab-ey phase of stalking.

LeoYou will be shocked to dis-cover how many

people are horrified that you have restless penis syn-drome.

LibraYou’ll make head-lines by becoming the first Wiccan

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TaurusConsider de-veloping a new look, or

maybe a hobby. Perhaps a new job? Seriously, this really isn’t working for you.

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VirgoYou will con-sider becoming a Guido just so

that you will have an excuse for why people keep punch-ing you.

ScorpioLooking forward to the end of your university career, you will feel a

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Without even noticing you at all, that jerk.

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In sports, the home opener is a powerful symbol of a fresh beginning. Everyone waits for this pivotal moment in time. And at Ryerson, that wait is almost over.

This September, when you return to campus, there will be a premium new facility at Ryerson – the Mattamy Athletic Centre. The grand opening in September will be a celebration for the entire Ryerson community.

So as another great academic year comes to a close, I thank you for your incredible achievements, and wish you the best with your exams and assignments. And as we look forward to next year, I ask that you give careful thought to this question: how will you show your blue-and-gold on opening day? Go Rams Go!

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