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Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015 NEWS 3

O’Keefe House residents had tovacuate last Wednesday after an

verloaded power bar sparked awo-alarm fire in the second floorommon area, according to Direc-

or of Student Housing Ian Crook-hank.

“The power bar is no more,”

Crookshank said.Toronto Fire Services receivedcall about the fire at 5:57 p.m.

n Jan. 7 and responded with nine

re trucks and 35 firefighters.Student Housing evacuated 17

tudents who were in the residence

t the time and then contacted theemaining 15 residents who wereot on campus.

Just as firefighters arrived,O’Keefe’s sprinkler system wentff and helped to contain the

ames before any serious damagewas caused.

However, there is extensive

moke and water damage to three

rooms in the 140-year-old build-

ing. The majority of the damageis in the common area and an ad-jacent room, with a room below

suffering damage from water drip-ping through the floor.

The fire and smoke caused an es-

timated $15,000 worth of damageto the building, according to To-ronto Fire Services Capt. Adrian

Ratushniak. Any damage estimatewould not include additional costsneeded to coordinate O’Keeferesidents who were displaced the

night of the fire, said ResidenceLife and Education CoordinatorBrandon Smith, which includes

lost revenue and temporary mealplans for those affected.

All O’Keefe House residents

were relocated to spare emergencyrooms in Pitman Hall and the In-ternational Living and Learning

Centre (ILLC) until further notice,said Smith.

“[Campus facilities and sustain-

ability] is working with Ryerson

oronto firefighters responded to a two-alarm fire at O’Keefe House on Jan. 7. The fire caused an estimated $15,000 in damages.PHOTO: SIERRA BEIN

Res fire forces students out

Year’s first homicide near MAC

A 51-year-old man is dead andnother man is seriously injuredn Toronto’s first murder of 2015.

Toronto police responded to aall about a stabbing in an apart-

ment at 330 Jarvis St., near the

Mattamy Athletic Centre, at 6:34p.m. on Jan. 10.

Officers found the 51-year-old

male with serious slash and stabwounds. Paramedics rushed himo St. Michael’s Hospital where

he was pronounced dead.

Security, Toronto Fire, our insur-ance adjuster and a small group of

contractors to ensure the space iscleaned up and repaired as soonas possible,” campus facilities and

sustainability manager Kerri Bai-ley said in an email. Bailey saidit was too early to establish other

details.A first-year student who didn’t

want to be named was movedfrom O’Keefe House to ILLC afterthe fire. She wasn’t home when thefire started but heard about it af-

ter a friend texted her. The studentsaid she thinks Ryerson is “beingreally good about it.” O’Keefe

residents were given “awesomerooms” in ILLC as well as moneyfor food, she said.

Another person in ILLC de-clined to talk to The Eyeopener

and said that a residence advisor

had instructed everyone not totalk “until everything’s been sort-ed out.”

The majority of cleaning and re-

By Aidan Hamelin

By Jackie Hong Police later identified the victimas Brent Gartner, who lived in the

apartment.Toronto paramedics initially

said that Gartner’s wounds were

inflicted with a samurai swordbut police said later that theycould not confirm that.

Shortly after finding Gartner,police responded to a call aboutanother man suffering from an

injury nearby. He was taken tohospital.

Police identified the man as asuspect in the stabbing and have

pairs are estimated to be complet-ed by Jan. 15, according to Crook-

shank, but it is unclear whether ornot students will be able to moveback in at this time.

Crookshank added that stu-dents affected by the fire will beupdated regularly.

taken him into custody.On Tuesday afternoon, police

announced in a press release that

67-year-old Roderick MacIntoshwas charged with second-degreemurder.

Police said Gartner and the sus-pect knew each other and that thestabbing happened during a fight

between the two men.Correction: The Eyeopener had

previously reported online that

the suspect was 66 years old, cit-

ing the Toronto Star. This is in-

correct, he is 67.

Briefs&

groaners> Slap happy

On Dec. 28 a woman was walk-ing up from Yonge and Dundas

when she was grabbed by the hairand pulled to the ground. Her as-sailant slapped her repeatedly be-

fore disappearing. The psychoticbastard has not been found.

> Dudes being guys

Two fellas were seen walking

down the street together whenone of them decided to give theother a nice punch in the head.

After that, the assailant decided

to walk away by himself. Shithappens, ya know?

Seen some crazy stuff on campus?

Email [email protected]

> Almost a fight

Ryerson security was alerted toa group of three people who wereswearing at each other in public.

They became quickly aware thata fight was being discussed. Oneguy’s shoulder bumped another’s.

It wasn’t chill.



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Playing the part of the Annoying

Talking Coffee Mug this week is quit-

ting smoking. Sure, it’s nice to be able

to smell and taste things a bit bet-

ter, but do you know what I miss?Brooding. Brooding with one foot

up against the wall and a cigarette

dangling from my lips. Yeah, baby.

Brooding. Ain’t nothin’ like stand-

ing outside a Metro in Oakville on a

Tuesday afternoon with that smoke

stickin’ out your mouth, watchin’ all

those fine suburban moms buyin’ fine

suburban groceries. Oh yeah, baby.

Some like it hot.

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4 EDITORIAL Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015

By

MohamedOmar

Look who decided to crawl back

onto the naked, concrete arteries

of Gould Street. Welcome back

to Ryerson. There was a fire. You

missed it.

Other stuff happpened, too. For

starters, the campus radio station,

The Scope, got well-endowed with

an AM radio frequency. That’s

right baby, tune in to channel 1280

for all of Rye’s rockin’ news and

tunes. Well, not now. The channel

isn’t set up yet, but the plan is to

have it on air by January 2016.What am I saying? You proba-

bly don’t care about this old stuff!

You’re a forward thinker, not a

sad booger stuck in the nasal cavi-

ties of time, so here’s a primer on

the changes you can expect this

semester.

Administration shake-up: Ryer-

son president Sheldon Levy will

have a successor by the end of the

term. Most university presidents

aren’t mentioned much, but Levy’s

reputation as a — dear lord have

I grown sick of this term — city

builder will no doubt give the new

boss some big shoes to fill.

The ever-sexy world of studentpolitics could get sexier: When it

comes to student activism, some-

thing feels a bit different this se-

mester. The Ryerson Students’

Union election, which takes place

in Feburary, could — and could

is a tremendously strong word

here — see some official opposi-

tion. Back in the fall, a group of

students calling themselves Rise

For Ryerson organized against the

RSU’s campaign to get the school

to freeze tuition fees.

The group wasn’t for rising

tuition fees, but it was no doubt

against the student union’s TentCity — set up outside Jorgenson

Hall — and its way of dealing

with the university’s board of

governors.

This might translate into an ex-

citing election, for once.

Sports! Brought to you by sports!:

Ryerson will get slapped with some

March madness as it hosts the Ca-

nadian Interuniversity Sport bas-

ketball championship.

This is a national tournament,

and since we’re hosting all those

bastards here, we automatically get

a spot. Yippee ki-yay.

The championship runs March

12-15. Bring the ruckus, as well

as yourself, to the Mattamy Ath-

letic Centre to show this country

you give a poo about your school.

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Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015 NEWS 5

What you missed over the break

The Canadian Radio-televisionnd Telecommunications Com-

mission (CRTC) approved Ry-rson’s campus radio station

The Scope’s application for an

AM radio licence in December.The Scope will be broad-

asting under AM chan-

nel 1280 and is aiming to beon the air by January 2016.

“We are overjoyed with thedecision and want to give heart-

elt thanks to all of the station’solunteers and also the hundreds

of people who took the time towrite a letter of support,” saidElissa Matthews, The Scope’s pro-ram director, in a press release.

Ryerson University has received a$13-million donation from JackCockwell and the Brookfield Part-

ners Foundation. The money willgo toward creating the Brook-field Institute for Innovation and

Entrepreneurship at Ryerson,funding innovation projects oncampus and supporting the Stu-

dent Learning Centre. RyersonPresident Sheldon Levy will bethe institute’s first honorary chair.

To date, the Brookfield PartnersFoundation has donated more

than $20 million to the university,making it “among Ryerson’s mostgenerous private sector benefac-tors,” according to a press release.

A survey by Media Corp Inc. andthe Globe and Mail ranked Ryer-son University as one of the Great-

er Toronto Area’s best employers.Employers were evaluated by theeditors of Canada’s Top 100 Em-

ployers.Some of the reasons Ryerson

made it on to the list include the

three weeks of paid vacation al-lowance for new employees, ma-ternity and paternity leave, top-uppayments, on-site daycare and tu-

ition subsidies for courses taken at

other schools.“Ryerson is the place to be,”

Ryerson President Sheldon Levysaid in a press release.

The Scope getsCRTC AM radiobroadcast licence

RTS programs not goinganywhere soon

NewsBites

Ryerson President Sheldon Levy confirmed on Jan. 12 that the theatreschool’s programs will not be moving out of their building at the end ofthis academic year like previously planned, but the university is hoping

to have them out by fall 2016.The university and the theatre school are teaming up with RyersonBuilds and are looking to find an optimal permanent home for the the-

atre school. As previously reported by The Eyeopener, the team will be

exploring both new building opportunities and moving the school intoa pre-existing vacant space.

Rye gets new dietetics master’s

Ryerson has partnered with St. Michael’s Hospital for a new master’sdiploma in dietetics. The year-long program is the first of its kind inCanada and mixes classes with hospital placements. After graduation,

students can write registration exams to become registered dieticians.

Nominations now open forstudent union’s annual election

As of Jan. 12, the nominations for this year’s Ryerson Students’ Union(RSU) elections are open to full-time Ryerson students. Voting will takeplace on Feb. 10, 11 and 12. Nomination packages are available at the

RSU office (SCC 307).

Rye gets $13 mil-lion for innova-tion projects

Ryerson rankedone of Toronto’sbest employers

SLC construction in final stretchThe sign is up, the lights are on but the doors are still closed ... for now

By Brennan Doherty

The Student Learning CentreSLC) section at the Ryerson

Builds website reports that, as of

Dec. 1st, most of the building’s ex-erior work is finished. A few ad-

ditional components were sched-

uled to have been completed byhe end of December.

These include the blue ceiling

panels under the plaza soffit, glassdoors for the stores on the groundfloor, and furniture installationsnd insets along the bordering

Yonge St. sidewalk.The main lobby’s domed ceil-

ng is done and construction of a

round-floor café should be un-derway this month.

A picture of the interior, posted

ast Friday on the Ryerson StudentLearning Support’s Twitter ac-ount, shows significant progress

on the fourth floor of the building— reserved for academic servicesuch as the Writing Centre, Test

Centre, English Language Supportnd others.Furniture fixtures are already

in place, part of the back wall hasbeen painted a light green and car-

pets appear to have already beeninstalled.

While the SLC will be open

again for media tours at the endof January, Ryerson has not an-nounced any concrete information

regarding the leasing of the build-ing’s ground-level retail space.

Ryerson said in August 2013

that it would be leasing the groundand lower floors of the building.Rent money will help finance the

SLC’s construction.According to Ryerson President

Sheldon Levy, it’s been difficult tosell the retail space as two separateoffers. So, Ryerson is combining

both floors into a package deal.While there is currently no leasingdeal, Levy thinks it’s “very close.”

“We’ve had pharmacies, we’vehad telecommunications compa-nies, we’ve had a variety that havelooked at it and shown an inter-

est. I think we’ll get something,”he said.

SLC is set to open on schedule late next month.PHOTO: ROB FOREMAN

PHOTO: SIERRA BEIN PHOTO: JACKIE HONGPHOTO: FARNIA FEKRI



6 Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015FEATURES

In the summer of 2009, newly

appointed athletic director Ivan

Joseph dismissed men’s basket-

ball head coach Glenn Taylor,

preferring to bring in a new face to

ead Ryerson’s team into the next

ra of athletics — to be housed in

Maple Leafs Gardens. With just a

one trip to the Canadian Interuni-

ersity Sport (CIS) national cham-

pionships in 1999, the program had

developed a reputation of futility,

oing just 29-103 over the previ-

ous six seasons (which included anbysmal 0-22 record in 2003-04).

“Typically we’ve already got

raining camp started in August.

remember sitting around in July,

arly August, thinking to myself

what are we going to do next

ear?’ Because we had no coach,”

ays Luke Staniscia, a Ram from

006 to 2012.

Joseph selected Roy Rana, head

oach at Scarborough’s Eastern

Commerce C.I., who had led the

aints to four provincial titles and

384-78 record in his tenure. In

ddition to the high school level,

Rana had spent years workingwith Ontario Basketball’s devel-

opment and high performance

program and was also serving as

head coach for the Canadian Ca-

det (U17) National Team.

Arriving on campus in Septem-

ber, Rana implemented daily vid-

o analysis, team meals and even

oga sessions. While the previous

egime’s practices would some-

imes only last half of the allotted

wo-hour timeslot in the gym, Ra-

na’s were described as “long and

rueling” and became the place

where players earned their keep.

“None of us were his recruits so

he didn’t really feel like he owed

us anything,” says Staniscia. “Ev-

ryone on the team was in a situ-

tion where we had to prove our-

IN THE

HEART OFTHE CITY n a span of just five years, Roy Rana has transformed

he Ryerson men’s basketball team from perennial losers

nto national title contenders

By Charles Vanegas

less he’s going to be a solid rota-

tion player, if not a starter. And if

it’s equal, then I might as well take

the kid in our backyard.”

Rana maintains a close eye on

the local scene, as many of his

close friends are still high school

coaches. A decade after Vince

Carter dazzled Raptors fans with

jaw-dropping jams, the city has

become one of the most concen-

trated sources of basketball talent

in the world, with nine players

selected in the NBA draft since

2011 — including back-to-back

#1 overall picks Anthony Bennett

and Andrew Wiggins. Accord-

ing to North Pole Hoops (NPH),

a Canadian basketball scouting

service, eight of the top 10 ranked

high school teams in the country

are located in the GTA.

Universities in the United States

have taken notice, with many of

the area’s top talents heading south

of the border (53 GTA players are

in the NCAA this season). While

Rana doesn’t bother recruiting

NBA-ready players like Wiggins

or Bennett — both of whom he

has mentored in his coaching ca-

pacities at the national level — he

isn’t afraid to go after ones being

courted state-side, estimating that

at least half of his current roster

could play in the NCAA.

“I think for a lot of the kids who

selves to the new coach. We knew

the next season he was bringing in

his new recruits and we could all

be replaced.”

Only six players would return

the next year, with Rana’s

first class of high school

commits lauded as one of

the nation’s best. Bjorn

Michaelsen, a 6-foot-8

forward from Quebec,

Jordon Gauthier, an elite

scorer from Windsor, and Jahmal

Jones, a point guard from Mis-sissauga, would form the base of

Rana’s team.

Rana also brought in Ola

Adegboruwa, a transfer

student who had grown up

in North York’s Jane and

Finch neighbourhood — where

Rana once ran an alternative to

expulsion program for students

with violence-related issues.

“He represented a lot of what I

liked about guys in the game, that

toughness, that edge,” says Rana.

While knee injuries forced Adeg-

boruwa to retire before his eligibil-

ity expired, he and Jones were thestart of Ryerson’s new approach to

team recruiting: building around

Toronto kids. Since Rana’s second

season, the team’s number of vic-

tories has increased adja-

cent to its number of GTA

players (up from 11-11

with four players in 2010-

11, to 16-6 with 10 in

2013-14).

“It’s not accidental. Certainly

we want to have a GTA feel to us,

we’re a Toronto school — we want

to have Toronto kids. We want to

be able to be successful that way,”

says Rana, who’s coached the

Rams to a 73-45 record in his five-

plus years at the helm. “It doesn’t

necessarily make sense for me to

recruit an out of province kid un-

PHOTOS BY CHARLES VANEGAS

UNLESS INDICATED; GRAPHIC

BY CHARLES VANEGAS AND

STEPHEN ARMSTRONG.



Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015 7FEATURES

Gauthier. “[Anthony] Bennett and

Tristan [Thompson] were working

in the gym at Kerr Hall last year

and we were on the other side of

the gym. You just get to see whatthey go through and what they put

into their craft.”

Recently the team has welcomed

Raptors rookie Bruno Caboclo,

who was left home by the team

during a five-game road trip. Since

the average age of his Raptors

teammates is 26.4, the pairing al-

lows the 19-year-old Brazilian to

hang out with players his own age,

and gives the Rams a first-hand

view of a future star.

“He lives in downtown Toronto

and sometimes he gets bored, so he

comes here,” says second-year guard

Jean-Victor Mukama. “I’m a couple

months older than him, so eventhough he doesn’t [fully] understand

English, it’s easy to communicate be-

cause we both love basketball.”

This season, Ryerson will host the

CIS National Championships — the

first time that the tournament will

ever be held in Toronto — automat-

ically earning a spot in the field of

eight. With 20-point victories over

#4 McMaster and #5 Windsor, Ry-

erson appears worthy of its #3 na-

tional ranking. But lopsided losses

against the top-ranked Ottawa

Gee-Gees and #2 Carleton Ravens

— winners of 10 of the last 12 na-

tional titles — tell them there’s stillwork to do if they want to raise the

trophy in front of home fans.

“We’re the third best team in

the country for a reason. They’re

number one and number two, and

it’s not even close right now,” says

Jones. “[But] we’re not going to rely

on someone else to beat them, we’re

not relying on upsets. We know we

have to go through both of them.”

The Rams have carried on an in-

tense rivalry with the Gee-Gees for

the past three seasons, eliminating

Ottawa in the 2012 OUA playoffs

(74-71), before los-

ing to them in 2013

(70-74) and 2014

(78-79). Each game

was decided in thefinal seconds, with

the victor going on

to qualify for nation-

als. And while Car-

leton has traditionally

dominated Ryerson,

winning every single

game since 1999, the

Rams seemed to have

turned a corner last

season, losing a close

68-71 game at home

— the narrowest mar-

gin during that span.

Rana is quick to

admit the Rams “got

[their] asses kicked”on the November

road trip to Ottawa,

but is confident that

his team — loaded with the CIS’s

third-ranked defense and fifth-

ranked offense — will be its more-

competitive self come playoff time.

“My belief hasn’t changed that

we’re good enough to win a na-

tional championship,” says Rana.

“I think we’re in that conversation

with those two (Carleton and Otta-

wa) and there’s three or four other

teams around the country that are

going to be big challenges.”

Now playing in his fifth andfinal year of eligibility, Jones

says it’s only fitting to fin-

ish his career at the national

championships in front of a Toronto

crowd, where home-court advantage

may be key — the Rams are 24-3 at

home since moving to the Mattamy

Athletic Centre in 2012.

“This is what [we] have been

talking about since we got to Ry-

erson,” says Jones. “If we win in

our fifth year, no one can take it

from us. There’s no coming back.

No, we won. We go out on top.”

decide [not] to stay in Canada,

here’s two things: one, just the

tigma of staying in Canada. This

whole kind of ‘oh he didn’t succeed

because he didn’t get a scholarship,’

nd two, there are some financial

hallenges for some kids to stay,

whereas if they go south they can

et a full ride. So we have to try to

overcome that,” says Rana. “But

once they kind of mature and losehe stigma side of it, they usually

understand that it’s a pretty good

evel [of basketball] up here.”

While players can get

some financial assis-

tance for academic

success, Ryerson ath-

etes don’t receive athletic schol-

rships. On top of daily practice

nd video sessions and two games

per week, players work part-time

obs to pay their tuition — ranging

rom moving for 1-800-Got-Junk

o cleaning up after classes at the

Cineplex movie theatre.

Fourth-year shooting guard Aar-on Best was the eleventh-ranked

NPH) Canadian high school pros-

pect in 2011, and was heavily re-

ruited by the University of Pennsyl-

ania. While the Ivy League school

was a tough option to pass up, Best

ays his familiarity with Rana (Best

played for former-Rana assistant

Kevin Jeffers at Eastern Commerce)

nd Jones, whom he had played

with for various provincial teams

nd camps, and the ability to play

n front of his family weighed heav-

y in his decision to stay in Toronto.

“My mom always told me, ‘if

ou’re good enough and you do

what you’re supposed to do, they’llfind you,’” says Best on whether

kipping out on the NCAA would

have an impact on a potential pro

areer. “I made the decision to stay,

nd I stand by it.”

While Best and other players

orfeit TV exposure by staying in

Canada (with Sportsnet broad-

asting just this year’s CIS cham-

pionships on national TV), there

are benefits

to playing

for Ryerson.

The team

r e g u l a r l y

plays exhibitionsagainst top U.S.

teams like Syra-

cuse and Wake

Forest, and start-

d last season with a 10-day tour

of China. Through Rana’s nation-

l team and NBA connections —

he estimates he’s coached at least

0 current NBA players in some

apacity — the Rams often work

ide by side with pros.

“Because we’re in Toronto, we

et to be around a lot of people

who have actually made it,” says

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: J.V.

MUKAMA HAS RECENTLY BEEN PLAY-

ING 1-ON-1 WITH RAPTORS ROOK-

IE BRUNO CABOCLO; JAHMAL JONES

GUARDS BRAMPTON’S TYLER ENNIS

DURING THE RAMS’ NOV. 5, 2013

EXHIBITION AGAINST THE SYRACUSE

ORANGEMEN. PHOTO: FARNIA FEKRI;

CARLETON’S PHILIP SCRUBB BATTLES

OTTAWA’S JOHNNY BERHANEMESKEL,

PHOTO: BRIAN BATISTA BETTEN-

COURT; TWO STINTS IN THE NCAA,

6-FOOT-9 VAUGHAN NATIVE KADEEM

GREEN JOINED THE RAMS IN 2013-14.

My mom always told me, ‘if you’re good enough and you do what you’re sup-

osed to do, they’ll find you’ ... I made the decision to stay, and I stand by it

— Aaron Best on his decision to stay in Canada to play basketball

KINGS of the DOTSince 2012, the Rams have posted a 13-1 record against crosstownrivals York and U of T, with an average score of 81-69. “You alwayswant to dominate your city,” says fifth-year guard Jordon Gauthier.





Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015 ARTS & LIFE 9

Winter break recap> Full Frame at the Artspace

The Ryerson Artspace held its Full

Frame 2014 fundraiser duringwinter break, including more than0 Ryerson affiliated artists.

Full Frame 2014 sold photo-raphic prints and other creative

work by Ryerson students, alumni

nd faculty. Artists included MaxDean, Blake Fitzpatrick and AnnieMacDonnell.

The fundraiser made more than4,000 from Nov. 27 to Dec. 14,

with funds going toward improv-ng the space.

Ousted from their home

> Alumnus at UK Fashion Awards

Ryerson alumnus Erdem

Moralioglu was named bestwomenswear designer at the 2014British Fashion Awards in early

December.Moralioglu — a 2001 Ryerson-

fashion grad — received the award

for his “versatile yet powerful”clothing label Erdem.

Moralioglu has sold his

label’s clothing at morethan 170 retailers, includingBarney’s in New York and HarveyNichols in London.

By Jake Kivanc

ocal artist and film supporter Rage Williams paints a mural.COURTESY: DYLAN MORGAN

A new documentary by Ryerson

tudents focuses on gentrification

n one of Toronto’s most diverseneighbourhoods.

This House Is Not A Home is afilm aiming to shine light on realstate agencies in the low-income

rea of Parkdale. It’s an issue di-ector and radio and televisionrts student Katrina Singleton said

he feels strongly about.“I’ve always been really invested

n social justice,” Singleton said.I remember coming downtown

s a kid and seeing the inequal-ty between there and my home incarborough.”

Gentrification occurs whenwealthier residents and business-

s pop up in a drastically poorerrea, sometimes raising the cost ofiving for long-time residents andoften times forcing them out.

The documentary reveals Park-dale residents’ struggle againstentrification partly caused by

Akelius, a European real estategency that has purchased fourocal properties for development.

They did not respond to the filmeam for an interview.

“We wanted to tell [the is-

ue] through human stories —hrough the community—so peo-

ple who aren’t aware of the issue

can see how truly connect-

ed and unified Parkdale is,”Singleton said.

Last year, Singleton and her team

built connections within the com-munity through word-of-mouth.

“One person would hear about

the film and they would refer us tothree others. It was like a dominoeffect,” she said.

Local artists like Rage Williamshelped fund the film’s productionby selling their pieces.

“[Art] is a way for our team toget our name out there,” producerAdam Hopwood said.

Hopwood said the film crew

is also writing a “sparse” mu-sic score to make sure “people’swords speak for themselves.”

Writer Jamie Hurcomb said one

of her greatest challenges makingthe film was extracting the person-

al stories of these residents .“We’ve heard stories about rac-

ism and people with economic is-

sues. The key is to make them feelcomfortable,” Hurcomb said.

“We’re trying to tell the

story from both sides so peoplecan make the verdict forthemselves on who is right and

wrong,” Singleton said. “[The is-sue] isn’t black or white.”

This House Is Not A Home is

now in the post-production stagewith a release date in March.

F o r m o r e c o o l c o n t e n t , g o t o t h e e y e o p e n e r . c o m



Do you even bod pod, bro?A high-tech analysis of personal fitness levels and body composition opens at Ryerson

Creating a fitness schedule and nu-trition plan to achieve those “New

Year, New You” resolutions isnow made easier.

Ryerson nutrition professor

Nick Bellissimo and his team ofeight undergraduate techniciansopened a series of fitness tests at

the Nutrition and Exercise Testing(NExT) Lab that determine bodycomposition, resting metabolicrate and aerobic fitness level.

The tests cost $300 for the gen-eral public, but students can get a

discounted rate of $150.“We take information [from the

tests], we analyze it and then wegive you [numeric results of body

composition],” Bellissimo said. “Ifyou are concerned, then you go to

a dietician, go to a physician, goto your certified exercise physiolo-gist and have them design a plan

for you.”The Bod Pod is the first of three

tests. After enclosing yourself in

this dome-shaped compartment,the machine uses air pressure todetermine the percentage of fat

and lean muscle tissue in yourbody. The results place you in oneof the following categories: low

body fat, ultra lean, lean, mod-erately lean, excess fat and high

body fat.“If you are slightly out of range,

that could be a trigger to get youto start thinking,” Bellissimo said.

“It’s not meant to alarm, it’s meantto motivate.”

The second test is the indirectcalorimeter. A plastic dome isplaced over your head for 20 min-

utes, calculating calories burnedat rest. This test determines yourresting metabolic rate (RMR),

indicating how many calories areneeded to consume or burn toreach the client’s ideal weight.

Aerobic fitness is the third testbeing phased into the program, re-

quiring exercise on the lab’s tread-mill. Using a metabolic analyzer,

the test determines your body’sabilities during exercise. Thisevaluates what type and quantity

of fuel it’s burning, like fat or car-bohydrates — to decipher whichtype of exercise suits you best to

achieve your fitness goals.“Ryerson is well positioned

to get something like this off the

ground,” Bellissimo said. “We area very business savvy institution.People are very optimistic about

it and that’s part of Ryerson’s ap-plied approach.”

By Julia Knope

No, this is not a giant egg or a space shuttle. It’s the bod pod.PHOTO: JULIA KNOPE

A virtual reality program being de-eloped by a team of fourth-year

adio and television arts (RTA)tudents is set to launch next

month after reaching its funding

oal through Kickstarter.Vessels Virtual Reality (VR),

reated by Josh Maldonado, is

n educational program designedo simulate being immersed in the

human circulatory system; shut-ling the user through veins and

rteries.The experience requires the use

of the Oculus Rift, a powerful VR

headset. To develop a programompatible with it, Maldonado

RTA students’ thesis project gets kickstartedBy Lana Hall and his team require specialized

software and must pay a monthlylicensing fee that enables them towork within a specific 3D devel-

opment environment.Since Vessels VR is being devel-

oped as a research project through

Ryerson’s Transmedia Zone, theteam has access to a workspaceand mentorship, but the Zone

does not provide financial assis-tance.

To cover some of their costs,Maldonado and his team launched

a crowdsourcing campaign onKickstarter. In 30 days, the teamreached their funding goal of

$2,300.“We got a lot of response from

other fourth-year students,” saidBrenda Grajales, director of mar-

keting and communications forVessels VR. “Which was surpris-ing, because of course, they are all

busy with their own final projectsas well.”

Their fellow students are not theonly ones interested to see the out-come of the project.

“We are really excited about

this for several reasons,” said Ra-mona Pringle, acting director atthe Transmedia Zone. “It’s a fasci-

nating use of technology.”In fact, she says, it is the first

project incubated at the zone that

is dedicated to the Oculus Rift.“The project has substance behindit, in addition to exploring state-

of-the-art technology,” she says.

“They are interested in not justnovelty, but narrative.”

The team plans to have the proj-ect completed by mid-February

and is planning a screening partylater in the month, where students

will be able to try the experienceout for themselves.

Josh Maldonado, creator of Vessels VR.PHOTO: SIERRA BEIN

Julia’s insider of being inside

When I first saw the bod pod,

it looked like a giant egg. Afterchecking for an angry mothergoose, I hopped in.

When Bellissimo shut the doors,sounds of ticking and whirringhad me feeling as though I was in

a spaceship preparing for takeoff.The bod pod testing took threeminutes — like I was in a contain-

er that was getting microwaved.When I stepped out, Bellissimo

handed me an organized piece of

paper with my percentage of fatand lean mass, as well as a chartoutlining the different categoriesfor men and women.

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ILLUSTRATION: EMMA COSGROVE

Your New Year’s resolution ain’t shitFor the love of Big Macs, it’s time to light your dusty-ass treadmill on fire

t’s the third week of January and

our hopes and dreams for 2015:

The Year of the Hot Bod are plum-

meting like a torpedo into thedepths of a shark-ridden ocean.

There are no possible means of re-

aining control of the New Year’s

esolutions you foolishly conjured

up on the night of Dec. 31, 2014

n a drunken, puke-covered, tear-

ul haze.

Give in to the call of the carb

nd swim for your life to the near-

est multi-billion dollar fast food

establishment to subdue your han-

kering for still-clucking chickens

ground to a pulp and deep-fried

in the greasy tears of Ronald Mc-

Donald (luckily for lazy dorksthere’s at least one restaurant con-

veniently located on each and ev-

ery landmass on the entire planet

of Earth).

Once you wash up on shore,

station your hungry self in the

newly-updated interior of said fast

food joint, where contemporary

decor, sensual mood lighting and

terribly cringeworthy soft rock of-

fer delightful concealment of the

evils of a corporation profiting

off calorie inhalation via Happy

Meal-chomping children and dol-

lar menu-devouring drunkards.In today’s economy, food is

no longer just fast; it travels at

the speed of light through your

pores to your eager thighs and

bum. So it’s a relief that body

positivity and all that good shit

is on the rise. Cut yourself some

goddamn slack and feast on, you

beautiful, bootylicious dweeb.

Mark Twain alive, shirtless

Ladies, gentlemen and all, it is re-

ealed to you now, without further

mbiguity, that I, Mark Twain,

m in fact alive and well among

ou. It was a hoax, my death

was staged, and I have

ived in recluse from

my beloved American

outh as a practical

oke until this day.

The simple plea-

ure that anonym-

ty affords has fad-

d and with it the

reasured memories

of watching myuneral. The cha-

ade’s tender wit has

one to boredom in

ime and I no longer

eel the same sense of

pride in maintaining my

death hoax. I effectively

nvented death-trolling in

910, but the humour lasts

only as long as people are sad,

nd the world has stopped mourn-

ng the death of Samuel Clemens.

I’ve seen bobbleheads of myself

in gas stations, I’ve heard peo-

ple refer to my likeness as ‘The

Colonel,’ and now I feel like the

world is once again ready for

some Twain. I faked a heart at-

tack and travelled the world,

watching history write itself

and commenting dryly.

I’ve seen Dali in his home,

Churchill naked and

the Beatles before they

were truly dad-cool.

But I’ve grown tired

of observing, so I’ve

resolved to stretch,

drink and get towork again. I am re-

claiming my throne

as the greatest satirist

to ever hold a pen and

I will begin my reign

here at The Eyeopener.

Many thanks to Emma

Cosgrove, for holding my

place as fun editor while I

was “dead.” Good luck in your

future endeavours. It’s going to

be all Twain, all 2015. Peace.

-Mark Twain

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