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Wednesday, March 4, 2015 NEWS 3

Ryerson students weigh in on a pro-life group on campus

Ayuub Enow, 1st year new mediaWhen it comes to subjects such as those its iffy. Its not black and white.

Delaney Novinka, 2nd year filmIm pro-choice ... I would say no, I dont care if the group is gone. There is no big loss.

Arachehige Fernando, 1st year engineerYeah its a good thing, anti-abortion. They shouldnt be doing abortions.

Jessica Wong, 1st year food and nutritionEverybody has a right to be able to express what they feel ... they should have a voice.

Levy: I personally find it disturbing CRO: school interfered in RSU election

A document from the Ryerson Students Unions (RSU) special board meeting on March 2, held to ratify election results among other things, accuses university administration of interfering with the 2015 election.

The university sent two letters to the Chief Returning Officer (CRO) and RSU executive board and beefed up security around polls and the room holding the ballot boxes without warning, according to a re-port written by CRO Fatima Sajan.

The letters were sent on Feb. 2. The first letter said the university had concerns about the elections and stated the University may have ground [to] terminate its fee agreement with RSU[,] effectively threatening to withhold RSUs membership fees. It did not specify the universitys concerns.

The second letter [demanded] court appointed inspectors be placed at all poll stations. The CRO rejected the demand, citing infringement on the elections.

On Feb. 10, the second day of voting, without notice, the University placed uniformed se-curity guards and unidentified plain-clothed inspectors at every RSU poll station. The CRO was concerned the presence of security near stations, up to four in one location, created an intimidating environment for voters.

On Feb. 11, the final day of vot-ing, the CRO directed RSU legal counsel to meet with the University during the day to review the inter-ference by them. RSU maintained that the actions taken by the Uni-versity was viewed as interference.

That day, Ryerson Commerce Society President Ashisha Persauds lawyer sent the RSU a letter de-manding the CRO suspend the elections and hold new elections due to unsubstantiated concerns. The Eyeopener previously reported that Persaud sent a petition to the university, RSU and CRO demand-ing an extended election or redone election.

The CRO is concerned that the University may have provided this letter to the RCS for the purposes of interfering with the RSU elections, the report said.

The document also said the uni-versity stationed a security guard at the front of SCC 202 and installed a security camera in the hallway. The Deputy Returning Officer previ-ously told The Eyeopener that who monitored the feed from the cam-era was not your concern.

The CRO and school did not respond to requests for comment.

By Jake Scott

Rajean Hoilett (left) and Sheldon Levy (right) have received letters condemning the rejection of club status to a pro-life group.

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The decision to deny club status to a pro-life sutdent group on campus by the Ryerson Students Union (RSU) goes against free-dom of speech, according to Ry-erson president Sheldon Levy and the chair of the Canadian Council for Religious Freedom (CCRF), Gregory Korz.

I personally find it disturb-ing anytime we limit someones freedom of speech even though I might not like to hear it, even if it upsets me, Levy said. The strength of freedom of speech is not that I give freedom of speech to those that I like to hear, but that the strength of it is that you give [it to] those you wish you did not have to listen to.

The group Students for Life at Ryerson (SFLR) was rejected for club status because their mandate goes against the RSUs womens issues policy, which was adopted in 2012.

Without club status, SFLR wont receive funding from the RSU or a dedicated space in the Student Campus Centre. RSU President Rajean Hoilett says this isnt infringing on anyones right to freedom of speech.

Just because they are not rec-ognized by the RSU as a student group does not mean that they cant continue to have the con-versations that they want to have or continue to do work on or off campus, Hoilett said. It just means that simply the Ryerson Students Union, as per our poli-cies, has chosen not to provide student group recognition to this specific group.

SFLR would be able to oper-ate in an unofficial capacity. They could put up posters and promote their campaigns, but out of their own pocket. Hoilett says this is

reasonable.Korz, a supporter of SFLR, dis-

agrees.They have to learn that they

cant just have people around who happen to agree with what theyre saying, Korz said. CCRF emailed Levy and the RSU, among others, condemning the decision and asking university administration to step in.

[The RSU] has done something that flies in the face of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and basic religious freedom, Korz said.

However, university administra-tion will not be stepping in, ac-cording to Levy.

First of all whatever the student union does, theyre independent, it has nothing to do with the univer-sity, Levy said. So were writing back [to CCRF] and saying that in a nutshell that RSU is RSU and we have a senate policy that supports

academic freedom, and as long as they follow the practice of anyone on campus with regard to follow-ing policy and being respectful, they could have their say.

While Levy and Korz appear to have overlapping opinions re-garding freedom of speech, Korz is adamant that the university is accountable and not just the RSU.

The RSU is a creature of the university, and the administra-tion runs that university, so ulti-mately they are going to be held responsible if the student union doesnt behave in a legal fash-ion, Korz said.

If Ryerson doesnt step in and allow SFLR club status, the CCRF will feature the university in its annual white rose and black thorn awards. These are given by the CCRF to the best and worst insti-tutions for religious freedom, ac-cording to Korz.

If they dont feel they can ac-commodate people of faith then theyll have to deal with the repu-tation of being a bigoted univer-sity, said Korz.

While the CCRF does not typi-cally pursue legal action in these kinds of issues, Korz says other groups may take aim at the RSU.

I understand just from read-ing that there is another group, the Justice Centre for Constitu-tional Freedoms (JCCF), who might be taking some legal action on that, Korz said.

This has yet to be confirmed by The Eyeopener, but Hoilett says he isnt concerned about litigation.

Weve already sought legal counsel and judges have ruled on very similar issues in court that say we are within our right to deny groups, he said.

To read previous stories on SFLR, go to theeyeopener.com

By Jackie Hong

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The RSU denying club status to a group that opposes abortion and euthanasia has caught the eye of a national organization. The group has promised to keep fighting against the RSUs decision

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A Q&A with Ryersons SLCThe Student Learning Centre provides students with more space to work. Also a beach.

Its been hyped as the heartbeat of campus and a window into our community. Christopher Hume, a Toronto Star columnist who writes about things like buildings and roads, crowned it as a brilliant essay in 21st century university architecture. But what does the Ryerson Student Learning Centre (SLC) think about itself, especially with all the pressure on its glass shoulders?

Eye: Its been a busy couple of days for you. How has the response to your opening been so far?

SLC: Its hard to say. I mean, the school started making videos and writing articles about me since 2009, which was fl attering. But when it came to my actual open-ing on Feb. 23, there was nothing.

Eye: Nothing?

SLC: Well, they had some free coffee and shit in the lobby and some people dressed in yellow

shirts offering tours. But besides that, it was dullsville. Students just found some space to work and got straight to it. Im appar-ently having an offi cial opening later in March, but everyones al-ready seen me. I feel like a spoiled cheesecake, you know?

Eye: Would you say that vexed you?

SLC: Goodness, I love your ver-nacular. Yes, I would say it was annoying, especially since Ive been sold as this behemoth of stu-dent space or a glass messiah des-tined to make campus life a mil-lion times better.

Eye: Do you feel like youre mak-ing campus life better?

SLC: Again, its hard to say. Im sup-posed to add 2,300 student spaces to the campus, but Ryerson has more than 38,000 students, not to mention a crazy application rate. I have a beach-themed area, though, so maybe the wait was worth it?

4 EDITORIAL Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Its been hyped as the heartbeat of campus and a window into our community. Christopher Hume, a Toronto Star columnist who writes about things like buildings and roads, crowned it as a brilliant essay in 21st century university architecture. But what does the Ryerson Student Learning Centre (SLC) think about itself, especially with all the pressure on its glass shoulders?

Eyefor you. How has the response to your opening been so far?

SLCschool started making videos and writing articles about me since 2009, which was fl attering. But when it came to my actual open-ing on Feb. 23, there was nothing.

Eye

SLCcoffee and shit in the lobby and some people dressed in yellow

Wednesday, March 4, 2015 NEWS 5

University of Toronto teaching assistants picket on the St. George campus.PHOTO: ALEX TSUI

Strikes at U of T, York leave students in limboBy Behdad Mahichi

Teaching assistants at the Univer-sity of Toronto and York Univer-sity are on strike after rejecting tentative deals from their separate schools, while Ryerson awaits a vote that will decide its future.

At York University, the Cana-dian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) local 3903, which rep-resents teaching assistants and contracted professors, voted on March 2 to reject a deal presented by the university. Students and their grades are held in limbo after the university senate declared all classes and exams cancelled until the strike is over, with a minimal number of exceptions.

At the University of Toronto, a bargained deal was reached be-tween the school and CUPE 3902, until it was taken to membership on Feb. 27, who then voted an overwhelming 90 per cent against the contract.

At Ryerson, teaching assistants who are represented by CUPE 3904 Unit 3 reached a tentative agreement on Feb. 26 at 11:30 p.m. But the membership still needs to hold a ratification vote to complete the deal.

There are specific things that we were negatively affected by

personally, due to ambiguity in the previous contract, said Aneesa Khan, chief steward of Unit 3 at Ryerson. Some committee mem-bers were able to successfully get the things that they wanted. Oth-ers, not so much.

Joseph Zboralski, president of CUPE 3904, said that TAs of the union will vote on the deal some time next week, and if they vote to reject the contract, Zboralski said they will have two options: to mandate the bargaining commit-tee to go back to management, or to go on strike.

It is unclear at the moment what decisions will be made at the vote, and whether or not a strike will follow. In the meantime, CUPE 3904 has shown support for TAs at U of T by joining in on a rally held on Feb. 26.

Our membership was there to support them, Khan said. We went out and have been in the cold with them.

The 6,000 union members at U of T set up picket lines around St. George, Mississauga and Scar-borough campuses on March 2, with many saying the deal failed to address the key concerns of the strike.

The members, after rigorous debate, decided that the offer that

was on the table was not enough in terms of them getting closer to the poverty line, said Abe Na-sirzadeh, the lead organizer of the strike.

The strike came unexpected to many students at U of T. Second-year computer science student Kevin Kim said the strike caused him a lot of confusion.

They sent everyone a mass email. At that point I thought we avoided disaster, he said. But then 12 hours later they sent an-other email and they just said strike is happening.

The strike affected all of Kims classes.

I have a midterm tomorrow, and its still going on. But now the professor has to re-write every single question so that its easier to mark, he said.

Some Ryerson students who are part of the Ryerson-York Ex-change have also been affected by the strike, after having their class-es at York cancelled.

TAs are usually graduate stu-dents who work either full-time or part-time. Their salary in Ontario is averaged at $15,000 a year, the CBC reported. According to Sta-tistics Canada, the cut-off for a low-income individual working in a big city is set at $23,000.

Bill C-51: Where will the line be drawn?

By Jon Solmundson

The Harper governments new bill to boost intelligence powers passed its second reading last week and if it makes it through review, protest-ing on Yonge and Dundas streets could land you in jail, no warrant needed.

Bill C-51 was proposed as a slate of anti-terror laws put on the fast-track to Parliament after the Ottawa shootings last October.

Ryerson University professor Arne Kislenko, who worked in in-telligence as a senior immigration official for 12 years, explained that these changes fundamentally alter the Canadian Security and Intelligence Services (CSIS) job.

The new laws increase powers to include direct interception of possi-ble terrorist threats and the ability to shut down any protest or media which might promote terrorism.

Kislenko said students should take particular notice of the fact that this legislation will let CSIS ar-rest protesters without a warrant.

If you give powers to prevent a social gathering to occur, who de-termines that and what constitutes a violation? he said. Is an Occu-py movement in Queens Park now

a terrorist act? The Sri Lankan pro-test a few years ago ... that could constitute a violation.

However, Kislenko warned stu-dents not to automatically reject any increase to security powers, stating that some change to CSIS was necessary and encouraging them to seriously consider their own safety.

Fourth-year business law student Melissa Golberg said there needs to be a clearer definition of what is be-ing criminalized.

On the one hand, if youre not a criminal you have nothing to hide, on the other though it affects civil liberties, Golberg said. If the government has this power where will the line be drawn?

Kislenko added the government was using its majority to force the bill through Parliament, sidestep-ping the necessary review process.

The government is very clearly using their majority and trying to capitalize on the publics broad-base support following the Ottawa attacks, Kislenko said.

Here we are throwing all these new powers at CSIS and to my knowledge we havent had a seri-ous discussion about recruiting new people, building new facilities,

getting money into that system, its endless that takes years to de-velop the capacity for, not weeks.

Second-year business student Bobby Aujila took issue with the bill being forced through Parlia-ment by the governments majority.

Theyre literally bypassing cru-cial people to do what they want, its not going to help represent the public opinion in any way, Aujila said.

C-51 extends CSIS the power to arrest people it suspects may commit terrorist acts, rather than will commit terrorist acts, and allows them to directly disrupt terrorist activities, though the defi-nition of disrupt is never limited in the bill itself leaving the gov-ernment free to decide what is and is not appropriate.

Kislenko added that even if Bill C-51 were to pass into law, in its current form, CSIS doesnt have the resources or oversight to effectively administer these increased powers.

Giving CSIS that authority means nothing if they dont have the resources, the training the un-derstanding of law, the interagency relationships its like taking a student and all of a sudden making them a professor.

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6 Wednesday, March 4, 2015FEATURES

Michelle Nguyen was midway through her second-to-last semester when she decided to seek help from the Ry-

erson Centre for Student Devel-opment and Counselling (CSDC). She had been dealing with depres-sion for some time.

I had kind of been thinking about it since maybe the begin-ning of the year but I didnt go through with it. I thought oh you know its just school stress. But then [at] the beginning of fourth year [there] was a lot of stress and a lot of pressure, says Nguyen, now 25.

After contacting the CSDC, Nguyen says she waited two weeks to be seen by a counsellor.

The initial waiting period is really hard because you think you are going through something re-ally bad and you just cant wait that long to talk to somebody, says Nguyen. When you finally

In 2012, amidst a string of criticism and a Macleans article detailing inadequacies in Ryersons ability to support students with mental health issues, the university hired two additional counsellors to bring the total to 14. With ever-increasing tuition and a student population soon to reach 40,000, Ryerson still only has 14.2* full-time equivalent (FTE) counsellors. So why dont the universitys mental health services get more funding to accommodate students?

get the urge to make a decision to see somebody, thats when you need it the most.

But that wait was typical even for someone like Nguyen, who was deemed to be more high-risk. A Macleans article pub-lished September 2012 cited a 200 per cent increase from the previous year in demand from Ryerson students in crisis situa-tions. The CSDC felt this surge, with counselling appointment

wait times lengthening ranging from six months to a year. As a result of the huge demand, Ry-erson added two more full-time equivalent (FTE) counsellors, for a total of 14.

THE RYERSON HELP BY LAURA HENSLEY ANDnCHARLES VANEGAS

Since then, Ryerson has incrementally increased funding for the CDSC every year ($960,235 in 2011-12; $1,131,650 in

2012-13; $1,265,884 in 2013-14; $1,320,120 in 2014-15), with nearly all of it coming from tu-ition and government grants.

But according to Vice-Provost Students, Heather Lane Vetere, Ryersons base budget has de-creased in each of the six years

Tuition has gone up every year, but not enough to cover the increases in salaries, in ben-efits and utilities, and govern-ment grants have either stayed the same or gone down. So every year we have had to cut from the base budget to make it balance. Our board has a policy that they cannot approve a deficit budget, says Lane Vetere.

While wait times differ based on the time of year (ie. its easi-er to get an appointment at the beginning of the semester than during midterm season,) Su-Ting Teo, director of the CSDC, says if students are in crisis, they are of-ten seen within 24 hours. But for those who have mild to moder-ate issues, queues can lengthen and some are recommended to look into group therapy.

The issue is about whats an acceptable wait time in some senses. So even at the worst, the four to six month wait time, it

is still shorter than anything you are going to find [outside Ryer-son] which are one to three-year wait times, says Teo. Un-less you pay of course. So thats the issue: do you have the mon-ey to pay for something, and if you dont, thats where the wait times come in.

But wait times arent the only aspect afflicting students. Luke Greida-nus, an interior design student who has been at

Ryerson for six years (originally studying fashion communica-tion), says his experience with the CSDC was so negative that he stopped trying to seek coun-selling altogether.

Greidanus, 24, had accessed the CSDC twice, seeking help for high frequency anxiety. Both times he was matched with a psy-chology intern completing their placement at the university. He refers to his sessions as a Band

If a student came to school and was diagnosed with cancer, no one would expect us to have an oncologist on staff

Full-Time Equivalent: FTE is a measure of whether a person is working full-time hours. An FTE of 1.00 means a person is working the full-time equiva-lent hours. An FTE of 0.5 would mean that an employee is on a 50% workload and is not working full time. This is how you end up with 14.2 FTE counsellors

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shes worked at the university. This explains the slow increase in funding to an amenity meant to serve a student popula-tion that has grown to almost 40,000.

Wednesday, March 4, 2015 7FEATURES

In 2012, amidst a string of criticism and a Macleans article detailing inadequacies in Ryersons ability to support students with mental health issues, the university hired two additional counsellors to bring the total to 14. With ever-increasing tuition and a student population soon to reach 40,000, Ryerson still only has 14.2* full-time equivalent (FTE) counsellors. So why dont the universitys mental health services get more funding to accommodate students?

THE RYERSON HELP LINEBY LAURA HENSLEY ANDnCHARLES VANEGAS

The initial waiting period is really hard ... when you finally get the urge to make a decision to see somebody, thats when you need it the most

-Aid that failed to get to the root of his anxiety. Even worse, after the interns placements ended, Greidanus was left without a re-placement counsellor.

I found it really frustrating and thats when I stopped going to the centre. It felt so pointless. I kept being ditched by the people I kept going to see, and would have to start my therapy all over again, says Greidanus. [They just said] by the way I am leav-ing and this was just a few sessions in youre welcome to come to my practice now.

Nguyen says that she was initially recommended group therapy, but after her circumstances were reviewed, she was given a

one-on-one counsellor whom she continued to see until the end of her undergrad.

Having someone to talk to was definitely helpful, she says. [My counsellor] was there and she was

supportive I would tell her whats on my mind and she would listen and she would kind of gently guide me through it. And sometimes she

(CAMH) as more long-term solu-tions.

If a student came to school and was diagnosed with cancer,

did lead me to some revelations.Nguyen has been seeing an

external counsellor since gradu-ating, but can only afford to see one that offers a sliding scale, as she lacks insurance that covers therapy.

The mental health department gets the most funding out of all of Ryerson student services, but ultimately Lane Vetere says its not the universitys job to solve all mental health problems pointing to places like the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

no one would expect us to have an oncologist on staff. But there is a high expectation that we will support and treat mental illness, says Lane Vetere. My position has always been that we provide support, and crisis management, and referral we are not a treat-ment centre. We cant support on-going treatment like a CAMH or a hospital would. We dont have the resources to do that. Nor is it our mandate. We are an educa-tional institution.

With files by Alex Downham

EnrolmentSimilar to faculty, Ryerson keeps track of full-time equivalent (FTE) students as well as total stu-dents (shown in italics)

Undergraduate

Masters

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2011-12 2012-13 2013-14

24,160.7 25,465.6 27,369.3

1,563.5 1,529.6 1,511.93

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1,955 1,911 1,900

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Wednesday, March 4, 2015SportS8

Kids learn how to be RamsRising Rams program sees athletes teach kids about leadership and teamwork

By Devin Jones

Liem Buis Grade 6 class with some Ryerson Rams.PHOTO: Devin JOnes

For the past five years, Ryerson Rams athletes have travelled to public elementary schools weekly to discuss the importance of stay-ing active and the friendships that can be made through sports.

The Rising Rams program, which started in the fall of 2010, began with five to 10 athletes participat-ing at two to three schools. Now there are 30 athletes visiting more than six different schools through-out the year, according to Jacob OConnor, a work-study student

who runs the program. The athletes are hoping to

build real relationships with the students [who] inspire them to rec-ognize the power they have within themselves to do whatever they are called to do, OConnor said. We really want all of the students to feel comfortable and confident in their own skin, no matter their skills or strengths.

On Feb. 26, soccer players Kyle Stewart, Katrina Gonyea and Jackson Tooke as well as womens volleyball players Julie Longman and Alex Whyte were at Church

Street Junior Public School to talk to Liem Buis Grade 6 class about the role sports has in dealing with conflict resolution. By sharing their stories, playing games and getting to know the students, Stewart be-lieves the experience can be relat-able to anyone involved.

Like the classroom, on a sports team youll be playing with diverse people all around you, [so] experiencing those different viewpoints is crucial for learn-ing, Stewart said. Sports allow for an open environment to bet-ter solve conflicts as long as you have the focus of how it betters the team.

In terms of staying active, Bui doesnt believe keeping students away from their many screens is the answer. Instead, incorporating technology with teaching physi-cal education is what he aims for. This can include using tablets to help students understand new games and excercises. Bui says it

is important for his students to have a period of physical activity every day, despite how much of a challenge it can be to prepare that class.

Most students need 20 minutes or more of activity a day. They do have recess, but when they have gym class this group in particular is very focused, Bui said. But it takes a lot of preparation on the teachers part. Its not an easy sub-ject to teach and so Im just happy

its an interest of mine.Many of the students in Buis

class have also realized the impor-tance of physical education and the relationship that sports has with conflict resolution.

You can build lots of muscle and build confidence in the sport youre playing, sixth-grader Mu-jtaea Osman said. Also you meet lots of new people and teammates [who] you can become friends with over time.

Meet mens basketballs only recruit

vujadinovic (10) cheering on his teammates.PHOTO: JeneLLe seeLaL

By Andrew Roberts

With the national basketball championships coming to Ryerson on March 12, the focus has been on the players graduating from the Rams. But for Filip Vujadinovic, 20, the journey is just beginning.

Since joining the Rams in Sep-tember as the only recruit (the other two rookies were walk-on additions) Vujadinovic has taken full advantage of the opportunity.

When I come off the bench Im just so ecstatic, so excited, he says. In that two to three min-utes, if I can get a couple points, couple rebounds, couple steals its really good for the team.

Though the six-foot-six for-ward embraces his role, theres no question that the initial tran-sition wasnt easy. I went from playing all but two minutes [in high school] to playing only five or six minutes here, so that was the biggest culture shock for me, he says. I wasnt expecting to be practicing every day, how hard the games were you cant make a mistake in university its magni-fied on the court.

Vujadinovic began his basket-ball career in Grade 1 by shoot-ing hoops out on the driveway with his dad. He really pushed me even when I didnt want to do it, he says. It really shows how much he cared about my future.

After playing in his first house league game at six years old, Vu-jadinovic says he was hooked and never looked back. It wasnt

until middle school, however, that he realized he could make a future out of the game he loves.

I remember scoring 20 to 30 points a game without a three-point line in Grade 7, thinking okay, maybe I can do something with this, he says.

Beyond family support, the in-tensity of a basketball game mo-tivates Vujadinovic in a way no other sport ever could. I feel like you cant take a single play off, he says. If you sit for one second youre going to be seen as the one person on the court who isnt try-ing and youll be taken off pretty quick.

Vujadinovics winning attitude

is seen on the court every game and his teammates are happy to have him around. The best thing about him is hes young and will-ing to learn, says Rams fifth-year point guard Jahmal Jones. On the court hes playing at top speed all the time. Defensively, of-fensively, Fil is just ready to go all the time.

Head coach Roy Rana says the future is bright for Vujadinovic

Were really excited, hes go-ing to be a very big part of our program for a number of years to come, he says. Hes a strong, powerful athlete and has a chance to be one of the best players in the league.

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RU alumnus plays for underserved youth By Devin Jones

Toronto musicians from The Wooden Sky played a fi rst-annual fundraising event Thursday for a non-profi t organization helping kids build creative and artistic confi dence.

Weve always been fans [of The Wooden Sky] and they were one of our fi rst choic-es, said Story Planet program director Joe Lasko. We reached out to them and they immediate-ly said yes. They were amazing about it.

Ryerson radio and television arts graduate and The Wooden Sky lead vocalist Gavin Gar-diner, along with violinist Edwin Huizinga, played an intimate acoustic set at Story Planets fi rst Under The Portal event near Bloor and Dufferin streets. The show sought to expose underserved youth to local arts and culture. Toronto based au-thors Pasha Malla and Marianne Apostolides were also present to give readings.

Were much less concerned with arts and writing instruction and more with getting kids ex-cited with creating and express-ing themselves, Lasko said.Weve found if you can express yourselves confi dently and cre-atively, everything else falls into

place. While the front of the cen-

tre functions as a coffee shop that pays for the space, Story Planet uses extra funds to turn the back room into an intergalactic themed area for kids to work in. The Wooden Sky musicians per-formed their set near the cen-tres portal lit with blue, blinking neon lights.

Ive been learning a lot more about [Story Planet] tonight, but they reached out and explained to us what they were about and we said of course wed come play, said Gardiner, who helped form the band in 2003 while at-tending Ryerson.

Inspired by author Dave Egg-ers 826, a creative writing foun-dation from San Francisco, Story Planet has provided free arts and writing programming for elemen-tary and high school students for fi ve years. The 826 founda-tion focuses mostly on writing. Story Planet and 826s New York branches have even collaborated to produce a childrens tourist guide of New York and Toronto and establish pen pal relation-ships amongst each other.

Its a beautiful concept and theres something exciting even to me being here, so I cant imagine how cool this space must be for a

12-year-old, Gardiner said.Under The Portal is a new

initiative by Story Planet to fi nd funds by hosting events on a regular basis.

As a charity, funding has be-come one of the chief concerns for Story Planet and its staff. While funding in 2014 was highly suc-cessful, Lasko says 2015 has been a struggle.

With Story Planets program-ming tied to their funding and with changing donation man-dates, the relationship with donors is a reactive one and Lasko said knowing where the next donation is coming from can be hard to plan future work-shops.

We have a few corporate sponsors, but its a longer-term

relationship, youre getting to know each other. It usually starts with smaller amounts which grow over time, he said.

Lasko is looking to contin-ue these types of events on a monthly or bi-monthly basis with artists like The Wooden Sky, hop-ing it will gather funds to plan even more workshops for the kids at Story Planet.

Sex ed horror stories

Alas, many of us remem-ber elementary and high school sex ed as a time full of nervous giggling and occassional moments of shock and disgust. Here at The Eyeopener, we asked students about their worst experi-ences as adolescents.

1.Some kid in my Grade 7 class asked if tigers have penises.

- Lauren Armstrong, fi rst-year fashion communication

2. As the fi rst order of business in sex ed class, the sex ed teacher

(also the school librarian) forced every male student (about 60 in the class) to stand up and yell, I have a penis!

- Brennan Doherty, second-year journalism

3.Any time anyone in my health class would talk about get-ting wet with water guns, pools, whatever, my teacher would audi-bly snort.

- Dasha Zolota, fourth-year journalism

4. We were to pour water from cups into three other students and vice versa. After doing this, our teacher put a solution into them and if our water turned red, we had HIV.

- Kristi Lemke, third-year social work

5.Someones family friend I know was a teacher in a class where a boy jacked off.

- Mikhal Faimski, fi rst-year chemistry

For more anecdotes from the RU student community, go visit theeyeopener.com for the full ar-ticle and video, plus even more scarring material.

PHOTO: SIERRA BEIN

PHOTO: DEVIN JONESGardiner (left), Lasko (centre) and Huizinga (right) hang out after the Story Planet show with some cute pooches.

Ryersons Netflix addiction breaks Canadian boundaries.

INFOGRAPHIC: STEPHEN ARMSTRONG

Netflix without borders By Laura Woodward

Some Netflix users at Ryerson are becoming world travellers or at least virtually.

In a recent poll of 166 Ryer-son students conducted by The Eyeopener, 49 per cent of Ryerson students said they use Netflix be-yond their Canadian jurisdiction. The survey has a margin of error of 7.15 per cent.

Of these Netflix border-cross-ers, 80 per cent turn to the U.S. to access movies and TV shows that are not available in the Canadian Netflix region.

Users trick the service by chang-ing their Domain Name Server (DNS) to appear as though their device accessing Netflix is located elsewhere geographically, when in reality theyre probably on a bean-bag chair at the Student Learning Centre.

In February 2015, 5.7 terabytes went to Netflix usage on the Ry-erson network, courtesy of your Friends addiction. This was fol-lowing encrypted and unencrypt-ed websites with a bandwidth of 44 terabytes and YouTube with eight terabytes of usage.

The countless DNS services that are available to access international Netflix make tracking specific us-ers traffic difficult, according to Brian Lesser, director of Ryersons

Computing and Communications Services (CCS). We dont do an analysis of usage that tracks whos using a proxy system or a VPN or whatever to access Netflix in the U.S., Lesser said.

Josh Loewen is the owner of one of these proxy servers, www.get-american-netflix.com a site that allows users to switch Netflix regions for access to mov-ies and TV shows not available in their Netflix home region.

Netflixs formal policy restricts users from bypassing their country detection and claims to even have technology for preventing this ac-tion, as stated in the terms of use document. You may view a movie or TV show through the Netflix service primarily within the coun-try in which you have established your account The content that may be available to watch will vary by geographic location. Netflix will use technologies to verify your geo-graphic location.

But Loewen thinks Netflixs re-cent crackdown is just a scare tactic and really just comes down to business.

I think Netflix is in a position where they need to look tough with their anti-region-switching technol-ogy to satisfy the production com-panies, but they cant afford to be too tough otherwise they will lose customers in countries they dont

get support or lose them to compet-ing video services, Loewen said.

From a business perspective, he added, Netflix has approxi-mately 30 million users in coun-tries without official access to the service, who connect by changing their DNS. At $8 a month for each user, adding up to $240 million a month, its a good reason to not crack down on this, Loewen said.

Last year Netflix was the pri-mary streaming video provider for Australians, even though Netflix wasnt even in the country. Similar-ily, the Netflix-less country of Chi-na, has over 20 million Netflix us-ers, according to GlobalWebIndex.

Avner Levin, the director of Ry-ersons privacy and cyber crime institute, said the reason why Net-flix isnt too fazed by users break-ing borders is because they are the middleman between the producers of TV shows and movies.

Netflix is the intermediary and it might be the people with the li-censing agreements who might be pressuring [them] to crack down on something like that, Levin said.

It doesnt really matter for Netflix so much as long as theyre getting the monthly fee. For them it would be more of a problem if someone was bypassing the fee and getting Netflix for free.

With files from Josie Mills

By Mansoor Tanweer

Ryerson students will team up with high school science students and compete to propose a science experiment that will go to the In-ternational Space Station.

The program is called the Ry-erson Student Spaceflight Experi-ments Program (SSEP) and is the first time the SSEP will be coming to Ryerson. SSEP is in partnership with Nanoracks, which works in partnership with NASA.

Teams of five three mentor-ing Ryerson students with two high school students will work together to design an experiment proposal that will potentially be sent out to space. The high school candidates will be chosen from the GTA where students have little engagement or opportunity in the sciences.

Nathan Battersby, who brought the SSEP to Ryerson, got the idea when he noticed American stu-dents dominated it.

This gives students in the sci-ences the opportunity to get re-search experience because, as we all know, we need to get some sort of experience before we get out, Battersby said.

The focus of the experiments this year will be to test the effects of spaces microgravity. Materi-als and systems behave in space differently because of the special physics of outer space.

Imagine now the vacuum of space. Would the chemistry and kinetics of movement of the par-ticles be different? That could be one experiment, said Bryan Koivisto, the programs faculty di-rector and a chemistry professor at Ryerson.

The SSEP was initiated in 2010 and this will be the eighth mission to be launched by the program.

But not all missions are smooth. The sixth mission of the program, which lifted off on Oct. 28, 2014, included a science experiment from students in Kamloops, B.C.

The test was designed to see the effects of microgravity on crystal formations.

The experiment was destroyed when the Antares rocket exploded shortly after takeoff due to an un-known anomaly.

Mission eight will be using a different rocket called the Kitty Hawk, which is set to launch, weather permitting on Oct. 14, 2015.

One small step for RyeWinning Ryerson experiments will be sent to space

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Wednesday, March 4, 2015 FUN 11

What if I told you that we will never look at game shows the same way? What if I told you that eternal life has been achieved? What if I told you that if you cook marshmallows in a pot for a while they turn into caramel? Pat Sajak has already changed millions of lives throughout his career. But part two of this interview delves into his extraordinary personal re-lationships with son Steve Harvey and friend Regis Philbin.Mackenzie: What is the true story of Regis Philbin?Sajak: Not many will believe what Im about to tell you. It requires a mellow and receptive mind. You see, Regis isnt like most humans.M: What, you mean like hes more

talented?S: No. Regis isnt like most hu-mans because he isnt human. Regis was manufactured by the Harvurlian race; a supreme alien species from the planet Yunfesco 81. The Harvurlians are the most powerful species in the galaxy, or universe, whichever one is bigger. M: What makes them so power-ful?S: The Harvurlians are an immor-tal race. They have the ability to create life that can live forever and continually adjust to the changing demands of whatever society they inhabit. The Harvurlian mind is able to adapt and advance any culture it lives in. They also have green blood. It doesnt do any-thing special, its just green, but its still pretty cool.

M: Whats your favourite Bradley Cooper movie?S: Hes Just Not That Into You.M: So Regis is able to advance our culture with his Harvurlian mind.S: Yes. You see Regis was put on earth without any instruction. As he grew up he predicted a boom-ing market in the TV industry for game shows that could make any average Joe rich. He has created every single successful game show in the history of our world, and of course he saved his best game show idea for himself. M: So what does your son, Steve Harvey, have to do with all of this?S: Regis knew that I needed to give up Steve for adoption. As a favour to me he created the perfect game show for Steve to host, and en-sured that one day he would grace

the stage of Family Feud.M: Whos your favourite Avenger?S: Hulk.M: So why did Regis tell you all of this, and how do you know that you can believe him?S: Regis saw my passion and love for game shows that is unmatched by any other human. It was years into our friendship before he re-vealed his secret to me. I believe him because he showed me his green blood. It was pretty cool.M: So Regis is going to live for-ever?S: Yes.M: And he will continue to create every popular game show?S: Yes, until our society no longer craves game shows. Then he will captivate audiences in a new way.M: So Regis created Wheel of For-

tune, Family Feud and The Price is Right?S: Yes.M: What about Lets Make a Deal?S: No, that one sucks. That was created by an imposter.M: Why are you revealing all of this to me? How do I know that youre not making all of this up?S: Because of this!*

*Pat Sajak then vanished from the room. On the chair he left me a lone Wheel of Fortune BANK-RUPT wedge. I think he meant it as a joke because I thought we got along pretty well, but he didnt leave a note or anything with it so maybe he was just being mean. As confused as I am, one thing is crys-tal clear: TV has been lying to us. After all this time.

Sajak interviews, pt. 2: deep dark secretsBy Robert Mackenzie

THE MYSTERY HAS BEEN SOLVED: THE YORK U HOLE IS A CHILL SPOT. JUST

GUYS BEIN DUDES IN A HOLE. WHAT BETTER PLACE TO SHOOT THE SHIT THAN SIX

FEET UNDER? THEY HAVE REINFORCED WALLS. THEY HAVE ROSARIES BECAUSE IT

ISNT JUST A HOLE, ITS A HOLY ASS HOLE. THEY HAVE DIRT, LOTS OF GLORIOUS

HOLE DIRT. THEY HAVE LAMPS AND THEY HAVE GARBAGE. THEY ARE THE ULTIMATE

PARTY DUDES. THEYRE SO FUCKING UNDERGROUND THEY WERE HANGING OUT IN

DAMP HOLES BEFORE IT WAS COOL. THEY SPENT MORE TIME DIGGING THIS HOLE

THAN FUCKING SHIA LABEOUF AT CAMP GREENWOOD. AND ITS HELLA WORTH

IT BECAUSE THEY GET TO SIT UNDERGROUND AND TALK TO WORMS. EXCEPT

NOT ANYMORE BECAUSE SOME ASSHOLE FILLED IT IN. GO DIG YOUR OWN DAMN

HOLE, CONTINUE THE REVOLUTION. *THE EYEOPENER DOES NOT ENDORSE HOLE-DIGGING *CALL BEFORE YOU DIG OR SOME SHIT

ILLUSTRATION: MIKE THEQUAN-PHUNG

Harper: black n blueBy Emma Cosgrove

Did you think you were done with scumbag-internet-dress-shit? Think again. Prime Min-ister Stephen Harper stirred the steaming pot of misery at a press conference on Tuesday. This dress is a national security threat and the most pressing issue I have faced in my term in office, Harper said at the conference. We will be in a state of total war if we dont act quickly. There is no question. The garment is black and blue.

Our unbiased dress analysts have spoken. The white and gold supporters must change their opinion immediately or turn them-selves in to CSIS. Anyone actively

opposing the true colour of the dress by way of protest, riot, con-versation, text, Tweet, twit, twat, telepathy, sign language or mere thought will be detained under jurisdiction of our anti-gold law Bill C-FITTY JUAN. We will have anti-gold surveillance teams work-ing to moderate the daily activity of all Canadians. That means pi-geon bots and granny cams. Any questions?

What are you doing about first nations someone yelled from the back of the room.

Whoa, hold on Harper in-terrupted. You were just think-ing about white and gold werent you? Take her away, he cack-led, motioning to his CSIS buds. YOUR OPINION IS WRONG!

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