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Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2015 NEWS 3
By Keith Capstick
This year the Ryerson StudentsUnion (RSU) collaborated with
he university to deposit studentshealth and dental opt-out directlynto their RAMMS account but
ome students say that this pro-ess is negatively impacting low-ncome students.
The opt-out money is depositednto the same account as tuition,herefore students who havent
paid all of their winter tuition have
o take an extra step and request aheque to get to their money.The RSU told The Eyeopener
on Monday that they have put aplan in motion to allow studentswith outstanding winter fees to
equest a one-time withdrawalrom RAMSS to get their money.
The window to apply will be Nov.
1-18.Obaid Ullah, the RSUs vice-
president operations, says that
he decision was made to coun-eract last years long wait timesor direct-deposit. This choice was
made so students would receiveheir money as efficiently as pos-ible, he said.
Last year they tried a direct de-posit system and it failed miser-bly, said Ullah. The intent was
for students to receive their moneyback and then you can request arefund [from RAMSS] and get it
back if you wanted to, but thenwinter fees were put on. A fewstudents are upset.
Last year students waited untilmid-November until they wereable to gain access to their opt-out
money. The incoming RSU execu-tive, in cooperation with their newinsurance broker, held a survey in
September to figure out the bestway to tackle this issue a sur-vey which they point to as their
reasoning for this new deposit sys-tem.
Continuing Education Students
Association of Ryerson (CESAR)
President Denise Hammond saidat Mondays CESAR annual gen-
eral meeting that Chang Schoolstudents should have their chequesavailable for pick up next week.
We chose to not do it through
the university, she said. We be-lieve that its important for you asa student who pays that fee, that
if that fee is returned it should bereturned to you and not to the uni-versity.
But Ullah urges that this wontaffect your OSAP in any way anddoesnt see this affecting low-in-
come students more so than others.A lot of low-income students
already cant opt out of the plan,
just because they dont have ad-ditional coverage, and without
additional coverage you cant optout, said Ullah. So its mostlyaffecting people who have addi-tional coverage.
Some of the negative feedbackthat the RSU has received centresaround students who count on
these funds every year and maynot have the financial stability towait for the cheque, despite hav-
ing pre-existing health and dentalcoverage.
Vajdaan Tanveer, a student
whos recently been critical ofthe RSUs stance on tuition fees
This year, your opt-out money will be deposited into your RAMSS account instead of direct deposit refunds
In past years, students waited in line to pick up health and dental opt-out cheques. PHOTO: JESS TSANG
Adam Kahan saying goodbyeto Rye after 12 years
News Bites
Adam Kahan, the vice-president university advancement, is leaving onDec. 10. Reporter Natalia Balcerzak sat down for a Q&A with the manwhos partially responsible for putting Ryerson on the map:
Q: How does it make you feel seeing posters of Ryerson around To-
onto?A:One of the first things I did in terms of planning was I went to the
oard, asked for money so that we could put our image everywhere weossibly could on the streets, on the buildings ... so that people couldot go anywhere without confronting Ryerson. It was a strategic plan to
reate our presence in the downtown core.
Read more on theeyeopener.com.
Ryerson Arts Society to getstudent money, RyersonScience Society will not
On Nov. 5, the Ryerson Arts Society (RAS) succeeded in approving a
30 per-semester, per-student levy while the Ryerson Science SocietyRSS) failed to pass a $22 levy in their own referendum.
RAS chair Marzia Riaz said she is relieved the referendum process
s over and her group will be able to start focusing on actual events,ctual goals.The levy will help the RAS give Faculty of Arts students academic
onferences, grants, awards and more events.Despite not getting their levy approved (245 NO, 199 YES), RSS
President Ana Sofia Vargas Garza said the group will continue to func-
ion, as they have for the past three years.Read more on theeyeopener.com.
in alignment with the RSU oppo-sitional group, Reignite Ryerson,
shares these concerns.I feel that the particular chang-
es that were made to the opt outplan for this year disproportion-ately harmed lower-income stu-dents, said Tanveer.
Tanveer also expressed that al-though last years system wasntperfect, he was uncomfortable
with the fact that the RSU workedin tandem with the university tomake this new process come to
fruition.The students union is an au-
tonomous organization, so the fact
that theyre getting so entrenchedinto the works of the university isalso something thats concerning,
said Tanveer.But Ullah maintains that this has
been a step forward from last year.
Generally, from the feedbackfrom the survey, students are hap-py with the process. There are a
few students that were upset, I canunderstand where theyre comingfrom, he said.
University registrar CharmaineHack said winter tuition was actu-ally charged two months later this
year, despite the RSU originallyspeculating it had been chargedearlier than usual.
Credit takes place of cash in new opt-out process
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Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2015 NEWS 5
The early morning haters: To the SenateBy Maddie Binning
Early morning exams are one step
loser to getting scrapped.
In March, a petition to eliminate
a.m. final exams was created
by Husain Mulla, a fourth-yearmarketing student. He started the
petition on Change.org while
unning for a student-at-large po-
ition in the Ryerson Senate. Now,
fter being elected, Mulla will pres-
nt his proposal in the first Senate
meeting in the winter semester.
Even though its in my last year
and] its not even going to affect
me, I want to make a change be-
ause if theres a better solution
out there that can help students
achieve higher grades then I really
want to pursue that, Mulla said.
The petition, which has more
than 1,400 supporters, is meant to
present the issue to the university.
Students spend countless hoursputting in hard work in order to
achieve a grade which can eventu-
ally help them bag a good job once
they graduate, the petition reads.
Having to write an exam at 8
a.m. can kill this dream.
Mulla plans to present his pro-
posal to the Senate with a variety
of solutions, so that even if one
doesnt work, you can look to-
wards the other ones.
Ryerson Students Union (RSU)
President Andrea Bartlett said
these changes can be implemented
by the senate.
Our senate rep, Victoria [Mor-
ton] ... has plans to bring it up at
the next senate meeting, Bartlettsaid.
The meeting will be on Jan. 26.
In their November 2014 general
meeting, the RSU voted in favour
of a motion to lobby to end 8 a.m.
classes.
But space limitations make the
elimination of 8 a.m. classes im-
possible, according to Ryerson
Registrar Charmaine Hack. Ex-
ternal facilities like the Metro To-
ronto Convention Centre are al-
ready being used in order to meet
the current need for examination
spaces. To make use of more ex-
ternal facilities would require an
in-depth look at the associated
costs Hack said.The reality is that the demand
for space still far outpaces the ac-
tual space available for classes and
examinations, said Hack. So
it continues to be impossible to
avoid 8 a.m. classes or exams.
Adrian Argudo, a second-year
chemistry student, said he recog-
nizes the struggles of scheduling
classes with limited space, but as a
commuter with four early classes,
he wishes there was a way to fix
the issue.
I myself face a two-hour com-
mute to and from Ryerson every
day, said Argudo. Eight a.m.
class would have me waking up at
around five. If I were to stay up,say, until 1 a.m., I would get ap-
proximately four hours of sleep,
so thats typically what I get.
Hack said the Office of the Reg-
istrar has been looking at other
universities different lengths of
exams scheduled, [and] the use of
tiered versus flat classrooms, the
use of one room for simultaneous
exams to improve the situation in
the future.
Tuition fee feud reignited
tudents protest high tuition fees as part of last years Freeze the Fees campaign. PHOTO: STEPHEN ARMSTRONG
By Keith Capstick
With their demands set for theuniversity and the Ryerson Stu-
dents Union (RSU), Reignite
Ryerson has released a new state-
ment regarding tuition fees and
heir stance on current RSU vice-
president education, Cormac Mc-
Gee.
In a document obtained by The
Eyeopener entitled, Why Freeze
he Fees Failed, the group at-
empts to distance itself from last
ears campaign and questions the
elationship the new RSU execu-
ive has with the administration
nd the anti-Freeze the Fees cam-
paign Rise for Ryerson.Among the Rise for Ryerson
roup were prominent student
eaders, including the current
VP-Education. We only hope he
hanged his perspective about tu-
tion fees since then, as his port-
olio deals specifically with tuition
ees and access to education. What
n irony, the press release reads.
Since the onset of Reignite Ry-
rson, McGee has reached out to
epresentatives from the group to
et up a one-on-one meeting and
has called for their attendance at
he first meeting of this years stu-
dent action committee on Nov 10.
McGee says that his stance on
dealing with the issue of tuition
ncreases is that its something
o be taken up with the provin-
ial government and not with the
schools administration.
This is not the institution, this
is a systemic issue that needs to besolved on the ministry level and
Im trying to do that in the way
I know how and the way I think
it would work by drawing out a
reasonable and rational proposal
and right now Im in the research
part, McGee said. You cant
just sleep in a tent and make this
happen.
Vajdaan Tanveer, a student who
was part of last years Freeze the
Fees campaign and was part of the
development of Reignite, emphat-
ically disagrees with this stance.
I completely disagree with
Cormac on this particular thing,said Tanveer. I agree with Cor-
mac on saying provincial govern-
ment is a long-term thing for this
and I agree that the federal gov-
ernment should be taking more
of a stance on making education
more accessible but to say that
the school doesnt have a part to
play in that conversation is very
untrue.
But McGee said to make any
real change, he needs to be per-
sonally contacted and not called
out on an anonymous Facebook
post. He also maintained that
hed like to see members from
Reignite out at RSU events in the
future.
Id love if Reignite showed up
and we could have a conversa-
tion that isnt taking up SAGM
and AGM times to make these
statements when that doesnt help
push forward any motions to helpwith our bylaws or initiatives,
McGee said.
Tanveer was explicit about Re-
ignites frustrations with McGees
involvement with the school and
described much of the RSUs work
this year as all image without any
substance. He also explained the
groups reasoning behind nam-
ing McGee in the their list of de-
mands, saying that it was an issue
of accountability.
The whole branding theyve
been doing theres a lot of image,
but no substance and one of their
responses to that was we want tocreate the image so people know
who we are so they can come to
us, said Tanveer.
He went on to explain that
much of the groups initial frus-
tration was centered around the
RSU addressing their group and
its members rather than their de-
mands. The group has maintained
that its focus is on the issue of tu-
ition fees, not political jockeying
or individualized motives and that
they look forward to meeting with
the RSU in the future.
McGee admits that his work to
this point on the issue of tuition
hasnt been public, which couldbe why students have started an
opposition campaign because
students dont know the work hes
been doing.
All RSU members (full time undergrads and full andpart-time grads) are eligible to vote on by-law changes,motions, & set direction!
For more info on your membership inthe Students Union visit www.rsuonline.ca
FREE DINNERASL interpretation provided. If you need other accommodations to ensureyour participation, please contact [email protected] as soon as possible.
CALLING ALL MEMBERS
Monday, Nov. 30
TRSM 1067
of theRyerson Students Union
55 Dundas St. W
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GENERAL
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6 Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2015FEATURES
Arlene Throness is standing
in a sea of kale. Eat what-
ever you want, she says.
We part the seas and dive into the
ood around our ankles, floatingo the rows of baby greens.
I recommend making a salad,
Throness says; she is energetic
nd sharp. She picks a little bou-
quet for each of us mustardy
at soi, fun jen and mizuna I
devour the spicy red and green
mixture. We finish off with edible
purple borage flowers, planted in
n empty patch to attract bees for
pollination. Twenty feet below us,
n engineering student bites into a
bland sandwich, probably.
Throness, a handful of volun-
eers and I are on a farm. On a
oof. Its as though a giant hand
plucked a small-scale farm from
ural Ontario and accidentally
dropped it on top of the George
Vari Engineering and Computing
Centre. Here in the epicentre of
the largest city in Canada is the
Ryes HomeGrown (RHG) 10,000
square-foot market farm. Thron-
ess is the urban agriculture coor-
dinator she is the brains andthe backbone of the operation, in
charge of both planning and pro-
gramming. And also everything,
she says.
The significance of a farm on a
roof is hard to comprehend until
youre up there, witnessing rows
of plants growing in real time
before a backdrop of skyscrap-
ers and bustling city streets. The
garden is meticulously planned
with tidy rows of vegetables and
human-size straw walkways to
sit or kneel in while harvesting.
Vegetable families like brassicas
(radish, broccoli), nightshade (to-
mato, potato) and legumes (beans,
peas) are grouped together in dif-
ferent sections of the roof, along-
side companion plants like basil
and cilantro that ward off pests.
Throness refuses to use pesticides
or synthetic sprays, opting for
organic methods like compost-
ing plant waste for fertilizer and
hand-picking weeds.
Its veryempowering to beable to grow your
own food
This quarter-acre patch of
land established just last year
yielded 8,000 pounds of food
in the 2015 growing season and
5,000 pounds in 2014. With ris-
ing food insecurity in cities, the
urban farm is a welcome addition
to campus.
The 2015 Daily Bread Food
Bank annual hunger report re-
vealed the increasing number of
Torontonians turning to food
banks. Since the recession hit in
2008, total client visits have in-
creased by 12 per cent, food bank
use increased 45 per cent in To-rontos inner suburbs (Etobicoke,
North York and Scarborough),
and the average length of time
visiting a food bank has doubled
from one year to two years.
Throness says having the knowl-
edge and infrastructure to grow
food in a city makes us a more re-
silient and healthy society. The ulti-
mate goal of RHG is to become an
all-encompassing resource for peo-
ple who want to learn about and
practice urban agriculture. I think
urban agriculture is really trendy
right now and thats exciting be-
cause if we make it part of our
mainstream culture again its only
going to have a positive impact on
our society, Throness says.
With the success of this agricul-
tural experiment, its clear that the
rooftop farm has already made an
impact, proving the possibilities of
farming in the big city.
Its very empowering to be able
to grow your own food.
RHG began as a student
group in 2011 with the
goal of growing food, start-
ing with a small garden on Gould
Street and expanding to spaces in
the Quad, planters at Pitman Hall
and a greenhouse in the architec-
ture building used to grow micro-
greens through the winter.
In 2013, Garth Poppleton of
custodial services pointed out that
the Andrew and Valerie Pringle
Environmental Green Roof on top
of the engineering building might
be a possible space for growing.
[Garth] was the one who invit-
ed us to come to the roof and gave
us the keys and put trust in the
project, Throness says. So thats
a huge part, is just to have the uni-
versity be willing to say yes.
FROM ROOFTO TABLEby Emma Cosgrove
Ryes HomeGrown harvested more than 8,000 pounds of food this season
on their rooftop farm, making strides for Toronto urban agriculture
and sharing the knowledge, too.
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The green roof was built in004 as part of the original infra-tructure of the building to catch
tormwater runoff and reduce
heat absorption in the summer.Over 10 years, seeds had blown
onto the roof. Daylilies and weedsprouted and thrived a sign ofertility.
Throness who has a degree inpermaculture, a bachelor of politi-al science and human geographyrom Concordia University, and
ears of farm experience all overhe country was hired by Ryer-on as the urban agricultural co-
ordinator of the project. She wasmmediately intrigued, knowinghat urban agriculture isnt nor-
mally recognized as a legitimateprofession.
Finding the roof I was like,OK, this is exciting, this is an op-portunity. And then of course thefirst year was exhausting, like try-
ng to convert the whole roof and
balance the books and make surethat it all happened, she says.
With the financial support ofthe university, they spent sev-eral months at the beginning of
the 2014 growing season trans-forming the roof to a farm: sheetmulching, adding two inches of
topsoil which they will do eachyear digging rows and planting
seeds.
This year was RHGs firstfull operational season.
A team of Throness, fourpaid interns, CSA members anddrop-in volunteers planted, cul-
tivated and harvested the 8,000pounds of food.
Their budget of $70,000 was
supplemented by the university aswell as revenue from the marketand food services. Around half ofthe harvest is sold at the Wednes-
day farmers market on GouldStreet. The rest is divided betweencampus services and weekly veggie
boxes for volunteers who sign upfor the community-supported ag-riculture (CSA) program. CSA is a
financial model traditionally usedby small-scale farmers to share therisk and reward of their harvest
with consumers. In RHGs case,each of the 20 working membersputs in three hours per week at the
farm and takes home a basket offood for $5.
Its fun to mimic a farm our
whole thing is that we want to bejust like a small-scale farm so thatswhy we have a five-year crop rota-
tion and a CSA and were goingto market and doing all this stuff
because I think its exciting forpeople to be able to engage withthat farm culture right in the city,Throness says.
Farming is risky business.Throness says because urban agri-culture is a new field born out of
the nonprofit sector, most peopleworking in it struggle to make aliving wage.
You have to love the lifestylebecause youre not going to makea lot of money and youre going to
work really hard. Its really hardwork, she says. Thats why CSAis essential to keeping the farm in
operation.It can be really stressful not
knowing if you have a job the nextyear, she says. Hopefully when
[volunteers] put Ryes Home-Grown on their resume it willhave weight or resonance in them
getting jobs and helping build sim-ilar projects in other places.
Throness says she has been in-
volved in far too many farmingprojects with people who hadno idea what they were doing
thats why she got her agriculturaldegree. But when youre aroundsomeone like Throness its not
hard to learn. Thats a really fun
thing about farming, that you canreally learn by doing and seeing
and observing and chatting whileyoure working ... you dont evenknow youre learning.
On the roof, Spencer Quinn
helps us turn huge compostpiles, throwing earth with
wriggling worms on the mound of
decaying plants as we shovel it withpitchforks. He is kind and quiet,offering the odd suggestion and an-
swering our questions. He sympa-thizes when dust blows in our eyesand mouths, kicked up by the high
winds on the roof, like its hap-pened to him hundreds of times.
Quinn was the gardening co-ordinator intern for RHG for the
2015 season after volunteeringconsistently last year. He helpedout with volunteer sessions in the
on-ground gardens and monthlyFirst Friday events like this one,worked the market stand on
Wednesdays and knows the innerworkings of the rooftop farm.
I like being outdoors and
theres just something aboutgrowing food that intrigues me,Quinn says. I also like how it
sort of connects people to the foodthat theyre eating whereas maybetheres some sort of disconnect if
youre just going to the grocerystore and buying your food.
Quinn, who received his cer-
tificate in food security at Ryersontwo years ago, has his own 250square-foot garden at his house
where he grows vegetables. His fa-vourite thing to grow is potatoesbecause its always a surprise dig-
ging them up.He says the key to helping peo-
ple grow food in cities is space
community gardens and insti-tutional programs like RHG help
with this. Quinn is one of the fourinterns, the other three with po-sitions in communications, out-reach and programming. Quinn
isnt sure if he will return to theroof next year. He hopes to havea market farm of his own in thefuture.
Among the thick stalks of
kale, the 20-foot beanfence and leaves glowing
emerald in the sunlight, we dive
into a mini feast of baba ganoush,kale pesto, celery sticks and sliceddaikon radish, all from the garden
and prepared by Throness. Its ear-
ly November now, the end of thegrowing season, and most of the
crops have been harvested. In theempty beds, the team has plantedcover crops winter rye and clo-ver which protect the soil and
pull in nitrogen over the winter.The team will finish harvestingwithin the next few weeks. In Feb-
ruary, they will begin work in thegreenhouse, planting seeds.
As the sun goes down over the
city the team munches silently, tiredafter several hours of work. ForThroness, eating is the best part.
I think whats kept me goingover the years is that the reward
of growing food is eating it, andsometimes thats all the rewardyou need in life, she says. Its sosatisfying immediate gratifica-
tion. Thats what food is.
PHOTO: CHRIS BLANCHETTE
PHOTO: CHRIS BLANCHETTE
PHOTO: CHRIS BLANCHETTE
PHOTO: EMMA COSGROVE
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Students to send mushrooms to spaceRye students, partnered with high schoolers, are sending fungi to the International Space Station to test their growth in microgravity
Mario may not be the only one eat-ng mushrooms in space.
Third-year Ryerson students
Komalpreet Kahlon, GemmaMancuso and Francis Buguisre part of a team that won the
hance to send an experiment tohe International Space StationISS). The experiment, which
hould be launched in late March,will test how oyster mushroomsrow in microgravity.[Oyster mushrooms] could
potentially be a food source thatstronauts could grow for them-
elves in space. Theyre easy torow, Mancuso, a biomedicalcience student, said.Because they are high in fibre,
ow in fat and can grow fromwaste such as used coffee groundsnd cardboard, oyster mushrooms
might be a good regenerating foodource on long-term space mis-ions, the team said.
Kahlon, Mancuso and Buguisdesigned their experiment for theRyerson Student Spaceflight Exper-
ments Program (SSEP), a competi-ion in which Ryerson undergradu-tes teamed up with high school
tudents to design an experimenthat could study the effect of mi-rogravity on a physical, chemical
or biological system. About 90 stu-dents competed.
Ryersons competition was one
of 14 SSEPs held across NorthAmerica this year and the first
SEP held in Canada.The SSEP initiative is run by
he National Center for Earthnd Space Science Education
NCESSE), an American educa-
tional organization.With Grade 11 students Ku-
genthini Tharmalulasekaram and
Modlin Orange, Kahlon, Man-cuso and Buguis made up TeamU, one of the 26 teams that com-
peted at Ryerson. The top threeexperiments from each communityhosting an SSEP were sent to theNCESSE in the spring. The orga-
nization picked a winner in eachcommunity. Team U was the win-ner at Ryerson.
Koivisto said he thinks theNCESSE picked Team Us proposalbecause it provided more insight
for humanity than the other two
sent by Ryerson.The biggest problem, in the
beginning, was finding somethingthat would survive and was stablewhen it was out of our hands, and
would be preserved by the time itgets back to us, biomedical-sci-ence student Buguis said. He said
the oyster mushrooms spores areresistant to drying and heat.
Kahlon, who studies medical
physics, said the spores Team Usends up will remain dormant andnot need nutrients until they reach
the ISS and are activated for theexperiment.
The team does not know whichdirection the fungus mycelia(similar to plant roots) will grow,Kahlon said.
They also dont know if the fun-gus will be able to extract the waterand nutrients it needs without stan-
dard Earth gravity.When it goes into space, Team
Us experiment will be contained
in an 8.4 ml tube separated intothree compartments by clamps.One compartment will hold mush-
room spores and rice straw forthem to eat and grow on. Anotherwill hold water gel crystals to hy-drate the spores. A third will hold
an agent to kill the fungus once ithas grown for about two weeks.This ensures all growth will oc-
cur in space. The dead fungus willremain preserved in the tube so
Team U can analyze it when it re-turns to Earth.
Team U was only allowed togive two minutes of instructionsto the astronauts on the ISS. The
first step is to open the clampseparating the water gel crystalsfrom the spores and rice straw and
then gently shake the tube for aminute, which should trigger thegrowth of the mushrooms. The
second step, which should takeplace about two weeks later, is toopen the second clamp and shake
the tube for a minute to kill andpreserve the fungus.
When the experiment tube re-turns to Team U, they will com-
pare its growth to a controlled ex-periment they conducted on Earth.
Even if there is less growth, but
there is growth, that still shows alot of promise, Kahlon said. Thatwould still mean oyster mushrooms
can grow in microgravity.
With the launch about fourmonths away, Team U is workingto grow the microscopic spores
they will send to the ISS and arestruggling to extract them. Theyare also planning how theyll
analyze the experiment once it iscompleted.
Kahlon said it was a great learn-
ing experience to design an ex-periment that faced real-worldchallenges such as transport and
storage.In the classroom, I feel like ev-
erything youre given is under such
ideal conditions, but here, all thisreality was thrown at us, she said.
Team U plans to publish paperson their experiment and mightuse it for a fourth-year thesis,Kahlon said.
Faculty of science dean Imogen
Coe said Ryersons involvement inthe SSEP helped young people ofdifferent backgrounds get access to
science and the opportunity to en-gage with it.
Koivisto said he is unsure if Ry-
erson will participate in the SSEPagain. To compete, the RyersonSSEP had to pay about $30,000
to the NCESSE. Six sponsors, in-cluding Ryerson and the RyersonFaculty of Science, donated the
money. The Natural Sciences andEngineering Research Council ofCanada donated about $21,000.
Coe said if it can be funded,she would like to support anotherspaceflight program.
By Justin Chandler
Oyster mushrooms could
potentially be a food source
hat astronauts could grow
or themselves in space
ILLUSTRATION: SIERRA BEIN
Team U is working to grow
the microscopic spores they
will send to the ISS
What grows up, must come down.
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Toronto-based videographer Jorge
Lozanos MOVING STILL_stilllife appearing at the Ryer-son Image Centre [RIC] is a
glimpse into the harsh lifestyle ofSilo, Colombia.
MOVING STILL_still life
remade into eight screens from itsoriginal seven for the RICs SalahJ. Bachir New Media Wall is an
installation depicting life in Silo,Colombia, where national war hasbeen active for over 50 years. Theinstallation includes images, inter-
views, re-enactments and more.Lozano grew up in a similar
neighbourhood to Silo, immersed
in gangs and war. As a student, hefought in the civil war against op-pressive militaristic forces.
Ive seen shootings, peopledying, bullets very close, makingsound, he said. This is a thing
that happens daily.MOVING STILL_still
life is a collage of im-
ages of his subjects, theirfriends and family, theculture-rich streets of
poverty-stricken Colom-bian neighbourhoods,the surrounding land-
scapes and interviewsconducted by Lozanos
workshop participantsEdward BlackFire, Ro-dolfo Tovar and RonaldVergara. They gathered
interviews with criminals,
innocent civilians and others. The
installation translates their wordsthrough English subtitles.
A lot of people have asked me Are they that eloquent or is ityour translation? he said. Theydont even imagine people in ghet-
toes could be intelligent.The artist said neighbour-
hoods ripe with violence are often
eclipsed by an overbearing stigmathat paint every character as thebad guy. Lozano integrates vio-
lent re-enactments, or portraitsof reality, of the characters lives,including shots of blood-coveredgunslingers holding up hospital
patients. However, he makes sureto show the bad guys sympa-
thetic qualities.Real life criminals are intervi-
wed, including 15-year-old assas-sin Mikael, who carries a black
gun, saying silver shines andthey run before you kill them.When asked where and how he
finds his weapons, he laughs, say-ing, What do you mean, how?
The normal way. Contacts.
Despite the childs calloused de-meanor, Lozano said these guns
are made available to him bywealthier countries like the U.S.
They dont make the weap-
ons, Lozano he said. The sys-tem makes the weapons.
Another interview delves into
the life of a female paramilitarysoldier in prison. Her group hasbeen known to control mas-
sive territories and ethnicallycleanse leftist, queer and othermarginalized communities.
Remedios is a mother in the in-stallation heavily involved with
one paramilitary group that raid-ed a neighbourhood.
I dont feel sorry, said Reme-dios. If I have to do it again I will,
to fight for peace and tranquility.But according to the videogra-
pher, many Colombian viewers
changed sentiment to-wards the paramilitariesupon watching his inter-view with Remedios. Lo-
zano shows her as intelli-gent and a loving mother.
Regardless of being in
this fascistic kind of group,shes human, he said.
In a conflict, not every-
one knows who is the badguy.
MOVING STILL_still
lifeis at the RIC unti Dec.13.
Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2015 ARTS & LIFE 9
RU artists open Ur Room
Looking for a welcoming envi-
onment in the art community, aroup of Ryerson students is open-ng Ur Room, a multimedia art
pace based on inclusivity.We feel like the [fine art] in-
dustry is a little difficult to break
nto and thought this would be aood way to motivate ourselves,nd others as well, to just do it,
ust get out there and create, saido-founder Fiona Kenney.The artspace started by Ken-
ney, Camila Rocha, Raven Lam,
Maggie Alpaugh and MadeleineEtmanski showcases up-and-oming Toronto designers, artists
nd troublemakers. And insteadof focusing on specific mediums,Ur Rooms founders look to in-
lude all photographers, videogra-phers, fashion designers and more.
We were tired of having ideas
of wanting to create, but feelinghat we couldnt do it because
were not actually in arts pro-
rams ourselves, Kenney, a cre-tive industries student, said.So, the founders created Ur
By Alexandria Lee Room, welcoming new artistslooking to join the community.
[Your bedroom] is the most
comfortable space you could everthink of and where youre your-self, Rocha said. Its your room,
[where] you can be the most trueform of yourself.
The five second-year students
are either in interior design (Et-manski), creative industires (Ken-ney, Alpaugh, Rocha) or mediaproduction (Lam).
The Ur Room founders draw in-spiration from their own academicbackgrounds, and undertake new
projects in different mediums.Our whole idea is being able
to explore our identities and be-
ing able to branch out its un-restricted, said Rocha. So muchof what weve seen in the past is
separation, like, Oh, you takepictures? This is your space, this isonly what you can do.
Lam whose piece focuses onlooking yourself in the mirrorand seeing objects from your past,
present, and future and Rochamade seperate three-dimensionalworks, while Kenneys graphic
design prints depict women try-
ing to be cute and naive whilstalso mature and independent.Alpaughs fashion focuses on com-
bining words of rebellion withinnocent looking clothing and
Etmanski is creating a resin sculp-ture, something she said is com-pletely out of her element.
In addition to the founders art,
local musicians Lithe & Free andKIDSHELPPHONE will be DJing.For future openings, the group en-
courages anyone to join.[Well accept] anything that
somebody wants to call their art,
and if we can accommodate wewill show it, said Lam.
The theme of the gallery willchange each month, but loose in-
terpretations are welcome.We want to be this blank slate
who are we to say whether ornot your arts good, we think thatart is subjective, said Rocha.
The founders of Ur Room are
looking to recruit anyone wishingto submit for next months gallery.
The opening reception is Friday
at 9 p.m. at 29 Huron St. There isa $2 entrance fee.
Life in Silo is Moving, Still
COURTESY: JORGE LOZANO: MOVING STILL_STILL LIFE (INSTALLATION VIEW),2015 RILEY SNELLING, RYERSON IMAGE CENTRE
PHOTO COURTESY: RAVEN LAM
PHOTO: AL DOWNHAM
Ur Room aims to create an inclusive artspace.
The artspace is located on 29 Huron St.
By Anika Syeda
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Two teams, one coach: a balancing act
Dustin Reid is coaching two successful volleyball teams this season. PHOTO COURTESY: ALEX DADDESE
By Gracie Brison
The rock comes to Rye
Reids volleyball career.
That was sort of the moment
where I started to look at the sport
with a little more desire, a little
more motivation, that it might be
something that could offer some
opportunities for me, Reid said.After his career as a player end-
ed, Reid coached in Switzerland
before returning to Canada to be-
come the Technical Director of the
Ontario Volleyball Association.
Shortly after, Ryerson received a
grant from the Coaches Associa-
tion of Ontario to make a full-time
position, the first one the womens
program ever had. Reid accepted
the offer in 2008 and has been
coaching at Ryerson ever since.
Over the years, Reid has helped
shape the womens volleyball team
into the powerhouse program its
become. As of last season, Reidhas collected 46 victories as the
head coach and this year, has add-
ed four more wins to his record. In
the 2012-13 season, Reid coached
the Rams to their best season ever,
posting a 14-4 record and reach-
ing the OUA Final Four for only
the second time in the programs
history.
After coaching the womens
team for eight years and the mens
for only a month-and-a-half, Reid
is trying to give both teams toppriority.
I had a lot of worries for the
players on the womens team be-
cause I think that they maybe felt
why did they have to have less of
either my time, or my attention?
Reid said. What did they do to
deserve that? But theyve been
fabulous.
Following in the footsteps of last
seasons mens head coach, Mirek
Porosa who is on leave for personal
reasons, requires melding old sys-tems with Reids own stratagies.
Off to a great start this season
with both teams above .500, Reid
seems to be balancing his time be-
tween the two quite well. But the
Rams arent his only priorities. He
is also a husband and a father of
two. Reid admits that time man-
agement isnt his strongest point,
but he seems to be managing a
hectic schedule very well.
I think if you talk to my family
they wouldnt say that Im balanc-ing it great, but I think they under-
stand how passionate I am about
what I do, Reid said.
His passion for the game is helping
Reid do it all. A father, a husband,
the mens coach and the womens
coach; it seems that Dustin Reid and
balance are just mutually suited.
Wings and beer, peanut butter and
elly, or Dustin Reid and balance.
ome things are just mutually suit-
d to each other. Despite contend-
ng with a busy schedule by coach-ng both the women and mens
olleyball teams this year, Reid is
more than ready for the challenge.
A former volleyball superstar,
Reid brought his volleyball exper-
ise to Ryerson eight years ago.
Having played professionally in
Europe, Reid has also represented
Canada in more than 120 inter-
national matches including two
world cups, and headed up On-
arios gold medal winning team at
he 1993 Canada Games.
Reid started volleying young.
His inspiration to pick up the sport
ame from close friend, Ken Da-ies, who was a great all-around
thlete, and particularly a volley-
ball fanatic.
In Reids first year, and Davies
enior year, of highschool, Davies
was tragically killed in a car acci-
dent by a drunk driver. Despite the
oss, Davies had a big impact on
For most competitive athletes,
tarting young is an integral pro-ess to developing their skills to
professional level. Often NHL
hockey stars tell stories about
earning to skate before they could
walk. But for Perry Marshall, his
passion for curling began later in
ife, finding out about the sport at
he University of Toronto.
The old football coach used to
be a curler, and he would start a
ocial gathering of curlers and non
urlers, Marshall said. Its where
first got exposed to it, going out
o it socially and then I got inter-
sted competitively after that.
Two years ago Stuart Leslie wastanding with fellow curlers Alex
Champ and Nicole Titkai on the
padded floor of a local Toronto
urling rink, deep in discussion,
when they made history.
All three were advanced junior
evel curlers on the competitive
ircuit, but had started to notice
n absence at the university level.
There was no Ryerson curling
eam, so they decided to create
heir own.
But with no plan, no proposal
nd no coach, they knew Ryerson
thletics would have a hard time
aking three teenagers seriously.
And they were right. Athletic di-
ector Ivan Joseph had told them
hat a curling club was possible
ometime in the future, but not
now. And left it at that.
They had thrown the first rock
down the ice, but without proper
guidance they just werent sure
where it would land.Cue Perry Marshall, who over-
heard the trio talking in the chilly
arena and decided to cut in.
If youre thinking of starting a
team please let me know. I want
to get involved with this, Mar-
shall said. I want to make this
happen for you guys so we can get
Ryerson on the map.
The group was stunned. They
knew about Marshalls profes-
sional work on the competitive
circuit, and quickly got into talks
with athletics to get him on board.
A towering figure in the Cana-
dian curling world, Marshall hascoached teams his entire adult
life, from curling to hockey to
baseball. Marshall also partici-
pates in competitive curling at lo-
cal, regional and provincial levels
in his free time.
For the past 10 years, Marshall
has been heading various mens
and womens teams across On-
tario. His teams have reached pro-
vincial finals on two occasions.
Now he has set his sights on
Ryerson.
Titkai originally met Marshall
a few years earlier at a competi-
tive tournament that she played in
with his daughter. She used to justknow him as the guy that came
and watched them every weekend.
Without Perry we wouldnt be
here today, said Titkai. He was
By Ramisha Farooq just so committed from the begin-ning. He wanted to have this hap-
pen, and it was important to have
him with us for that.Two years later and theyve
been approved for club status at
Ryerson. It is the first curling team
at Ryerson since the 1960s and
the first womens team in Ryer-
sons history. The team attributes
this success to Marshall.
He said, Congratulations, you
guys did it! even though it was
majority him. He said, You guys
made this happen too, said Tit-
kai. Marshall then took them out
for a congratulatory dinner.
It was then that we realized the
amount of work that Perry had
put into our proposal. [RyersonAthletics] said it was one of the
most impressive applications they
had ever received, said Leslie.
The group currently only has
club status. This means Marshall
is volunteering his time with-
out pay to coach the team. The
teams status and success depends
on this.
Nick Asquini, the varsity op-
erations coordinator for Ryerson
Athletics, echoed the statement
Marshalls players have been say-
ing all along.
It usually takes a year or two
for a coach to understand how
university sports work, but Perry
knew everything going in. He
came in and hit the ground run-
ning, Asquini said.
With files from Devin Jones.
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