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Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014 NEWS 3

Enrolment drops for first time in 15 years

Far from the danger zone

Education is a fickle mistress, and it would appear that shes been playing favourites. Ryersons one of them

The Ontario government gave Ryerson a cool $2 million for entrepreneurial initiatives

Ryerson will be coming into some cash provided by the Ontario government to expand entrepre-neurial interests at the university. The ministry of research and

innovation announced that GTA universities and colleges will re-ceive more than $6.8 million from the Campus-Linked Accel-erators (CLA) program as part of the provincial governments youth jobs strategy. $2 million of that will go to Ryerson.Each university will use the

money to focus on a different aspect of entrepreneurship. Ryer-son is looking to provide train-ing for as many as 3,000 budding entrepreneurs, including youth in the local community and under-represented groups, according to a press release.The university has roughly

120,000 square feet of combined innovative space with the six zones, according to Ryerson Pres-ident Sheldon Levy.At Ryerson we set a goal that

10 per cent of our students would graduate with a degree in one hand and a business in the other.

Thats a big goal, thats 2,500 students, Levy said. Todays announcement just

adds additional support. It gets us that much closer to the 10 per cent.This is a goal that was set out

in the 2014 Strategic Mandate Agreement that Ontario univer-sities submitted to the provincial government. The 10 per cent is aimed at the student body as a whole, and not just business-ori-ented majors. Currently 50 per cent of groups at the Digital Me-dia Zone are Ryerson affiliated, but that doesnt mean everyone gets in.I applied to the DMZ once

and I never heard back from them, so I just gave up on a busi-ness, said Michael Staltari, a fourth-year real estate manage-ment student. It should have a bigger pres-

ence.Ryerson will be using money

to increase student interest in entrepreneurial activities and cre-ate three new zones. These will include the Design and Fabrica-tion Zone, the Biomedical Zone in partnership with St. Michaels

Hospital and one mysterious un-specified zone located in the new Student Learning Centre.The announcement was made

at the Ontario College of Arts and Design University by Rich-

mond Hill MPP Reza Moridi.We are transforming our uni-versities, Moridi said. When they graduate Instead of look-ing for a job [students] can create the jobs.

The number of high school stu-dents enrolling in Ontario uni-versities has dropped for the first time in 15 years but Ryerson is kicking the trend, according to statistics posted on the Ontario Universities Application Centre (OUAC) website last week. Enrolment for first-year, full-

time programs at 28 universi-ties across the province dropped an average of 2.8 per cent from September 2013 to September 2014. On the other hand, fresh-out-of-high-school students en-rolling at Ryerson actually in-creased to 6,259 students in 2014 from 5,918 students in 2013 a change of 5.8 per cent.Ontario secondary school stu-

dents are choosing Ryerson in re-cord numbers whether its due to our program mix, our highly desirable experiential learning opportunities our downtown location and our growing repu-tation for outstanding service to students, University Regis-trar and Director of Admissions Charmaine Hack said in an email. Hack is also OUACs Ryerson

representative.Seven other Ontario universi-

ties also saw an increase in enrol-ment; the University of Guelph-Humber had the highest with a 19.3 per cent increase and West-ern University came in second at 11.1 percent. Ryerson came in third. Besides the University of

Guelph-Humber, Ryerson fared better than other GTA schools. The University of Torontos en-rolment went up by 0.7 per cent, while York Universitys went down by 9.8 per cent. OCAD University was hit the hardest with a 15.4 per cent drop.Bonnie Patterson, president

and CEO of the Council of On-tario Universities (COU), said that the drop in high school stu-dents enrolling in university can be attributed to demographic changes that began in 2011. A population boom that came from the children of the baby boomer generation is now moving out of the school system.If you look at elementary

school classes now, what you see is a slow decline of the number of students, and thats the cause

behind the decline, Patterson said. She added that percentage of students not coming straight from high school has actually increased by 4.6 per cent, in part due to adults returning to school to be more competitive in the job mar-ket and the popularity of taking gap years after high school to work or travel. The COU expects demographics to change again in 2021, when another large num-

ber of children are expected to enter the school system.Applications from high school

students to Ontario universities have also declined slightly for the first time in four years, another OUAC document showed. Ryer-son got 0.2 per cent fewer appli-cations from secondary students between 2013 and 2014, with total applications to Ontario uni-versities dropping 0.8 per cent.

Political climate changes

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Academics, speakers and commu-nity members gathered at Ryerson to discuss climate change and en-vironmental issues on Sept. 21.The event, dubbed the Peoples

Climate Forum, was part of a national effort by Sustainable Canada Dialogues to help create solutions to climate change. The forum was followed by a march to Nathan Philips Square. It was a part of a global movement called the Peoples Climate March that saw similar marches happen in cities around the world to coin-cide with a United Nations cli-mate summit taking place in New York on Sept. 22. Get the full story on theeyeopener.com

We need to clarify some stuff, sorry

The Eyeopener news team would like to clear up the timeline on the Gould Street renovation. Last week, the City of Toronto told us that Ryerson was not on its list for renovations until at least 2015. However, this week, Ryerson Pres-ident Sheldon Levy told us the road may began its overhaul as early as this month, depending on how busy the city is with other projects.We are on the [City of To-

rontos] project list, Levy said. We werent initially and we are now ... Dont even know if [the repaving] will be in the month. Its their priorities, not ours.

The glass curtain closes

Ryerson is installing the final cur-tain wall panels on the south face of the Student Learning Centre from Sept. 22 to Sept. 28. The con-struction will close Gould Street to vehicles between Yonge Street and OKeefe Lane.

By Jake Scott

President Sheldon Levy giving his speech at the OCADU announcement.PHOTO: JAKE SCOTT

Get your justice on

Ryersons annual Social Justice Week takes place from Oct. 6 to Oct. 10, featuring speakers and workshops on topics like indig-enous solidarity, race and politics and workers rights.

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One of these people is probably going to be your next mayor. Isnt that a hoot?PHOTO: Jess Tsang

Are we doomed to old farts?By MohamedOmar

All right, lets take a big bite out of a tasty reality sandwich: John Tory will most likely become mayor. Hes been leading the polls

for a while, and if Doug Ford whos been a candidate for less than two weeks can still somehow maintain a lead over Olivia Chow but still trail Tory, then we have a pretty clear idea of whos in.And even if by some miracle Chow

wins the race, it doesnt change the fact that students and young adults are stuck with old farts.Goodness, no, I dont mean an-

cient flatulence. Im talking about our candidates sad attempts at catering to students with transit ideas and policies without ap-pearing as genuine human be-ings. Election platforms show you have a plan for the city, au-thenticity shows you have a per-sonality and a goddamn soul.We dont have anyone in this

race as remotely exciting as Cal-gary Mayor Naheed Nenshi or Edmontons 35-year-old mayor, Don Iveson. Its not to say that

being a young candidate directly scores young votes, but its clear that those two have figured out how to seem genuine to voters, whether by being legitimately funny on social media or reading childrens stories on YouTube. Morgan Baskin, a 19-year-old

candidate who unfortunately has an ice caps chance in hell of win-ning, put it best at her Q&A at Ryerson last week. Its not magic but I believe in

the power of authenticity its how Rob Ford got elected, she said. Young people are super aware

when someone is authentic.

The City of Toronto is seeking a human being to be its mayor. The successful candidate will

oversee city council and must also be friends with everyone there.The candidate will have to dem-

onstrate a willingness to please all sides of every debate, all affected groups in all conflicts and know ex-actly how to fix transit, poverty and disability issues all at the same time with one swift move.Other requirements for the job

include but are not limited to:

Job Posting: perfect mayor Taking a midnight train going

anywhere. This can also be an LRT or a bus, but preferably all three at once.

Liking all types of sports ex-cept Starcraft, which is un-mayoral.

Proficiency in HTML and Tumblr.

Being able to not get caught while using illicit drugs and stopping any best friends from filming the event mul-tiple times.

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Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014 NEWS 5

Briefs & groanersJeepers CreepersSome creep in a dark green

Jeep with a Quebec licence plate stopped at Mutual and Gould Streets on Sept. 12 and asked a male community member for di-rections. After the man pointed the way,

creepshow started to chat him up, telling him he was a fashion designer who just had a show in Toronto and offered him some free clothes. Our unsuspecting lad said yes,

at which point the creepazoid parked his Jeep, opened the back door on the drivers side and re-vealed two black bags inside. He told the man to get into the Jeep to check them out. The man said no. The creeper

was insistent on him getting into the Jeep, at which point our male told him that he didnt need free clothes and went into the Interna-tional Living Learning Centre be-fore calling security.

Battle RoyaleA 15-person fight broke out be-

hind the Victoria Building at 285 Victoria St. on Sept. 13 around 10:30 p.m. At some point, one guy got knocked out. A bunch of the other brawl-

ers stopped in the spirit of fair fighting to attend to their fallen comrade/competitor. Just kidding they went through the KOd dudes pockets, stole his ID and phone and then ran away. They were last seen fleeing to-

ward Lake Devo. Toronto police are investigating.

Seen some crazy stuff on campus? Email news@theeyeopener.com

I Know You Have DartsA group of people were chilling

at a table on Gould Street around 11:10 p.m. on Sept. 17 when a man walked up and asked for a cigarette. Everyone turned him down,

but he was persistent and refused to leave. He ended up in a yelling match with a woman at the table because she wouldnt give him a free smoke, proceeded to hit her in the head multiple times with a closed fist and then threw a patio chair at her. The victim was not hurt. The

man was arrested by campus secu-rity and handed over to Toronto police. Hes since been banned from campus.

Olivia Chow duked it out with John Tory Monday in a debate at Ryerson on disability issues the second meeting of the two candi-dates on campus. Chow and Tory spoke at Te-

cumseh Auditorium in the Student Campus Centre. Doug Ford, the newest candidate in the race, did not attend. Throughout the debate, the two candidates discussed un-employment, poverty and obstacles disabled citizens face.The best way to lift people out

of poverty is steady employment, Tory said. Chow agreed and said Toronto

needs to employ more workers with disabilities. A report card should be written on Toronto help-ing, training and hiring disabled citizens, Chow said. Some attendees said they

couldnt work long hours due to their disabilities.People with different physi-

cal and mental capacities may not be able to work eight hours, but theres more part-time employment opportunities available, Tory said. Heather Willis, co-chair of Ryer-

sons Accessibility Advisory Com-mittee, said solving disability issues is a complex process, but added that transit accessibility is crucial. Without reliable, accessible tran-

sit, people with disabilities cannot work, Willis said. She said winter is a particularly difficult time for phys-ically disabled people to travel in.

Wheel-Trans buses are the pri-mary mode of public transporta-tion for Torontonians with dis-abilities. The program, which Tory called unreliable, had 31,225 active registrants in 2013. Its unacceptable when Wheel-

Trans doesnt answer phone calls of citizens waiting for late buses, Tory said. Chow proposed to invest $225

million toward transit accessibility on buses and light rail transit and cited the new 510 Spadina street-cars as proof of an increase in ac-cessible transit.The [street]car works because

it was designed by people in wheel-chairs, Chow said. The vehicle has low floors and an extendable ramp.

Chow may be in the shadow of Tory in terms of polls but ... Oh, wait. PHOTO: JESS TSANG

Mayoral candidate John Tory said at a debate on campus Friday that if elected he will not publicly fund Torontos Pride Week, due to the participation of one specific group.Toronto is home to one of Can-

adas largest LGBTQ communi-ties, and candidates made it clear they are accepting of all sexual

orientations. But Tory wants to eliminate

funding on account of the partici-pation of Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA) in the parade. Any publicly-funded parade

that uses those words [anti-Israeli apartheid] should not receive that funding, he said.

Chow argued that public fund-ing should not be pulled from the entire parade because of just one organization. We live in a country that cel-

ebrates democracy, Chow said. Whether we agree with them or not, they have every right to exer-cise their point of view.Chow doesnt understand why

this decision is being revisited. She said that participation of QuAIA in the parade was a very big discussion in the community in 2011 and now there is finally some resolution.I cant imagine what message

would be sent with World Pride this year that if they lost their funding, what message are we sending out to other Pride [organi-zations]? she said.Tory said that he was not target-

ing the gay community and that if there was a parade going on in the Jewish community that included a group of people with a homopho-bic message, he would be against funding them as well.In a city that says it prides itself

on embracing diversity and that we dont believe we should be go-

ing around spewing hateful kind of language and expressions and so on, then we should be saying in our policies that kind of view is not going to be supported by pub-lic funding, Tory said.Chow said that she trusts the

city manager and the city solicitors judgement that this group does not violate Torontos human rights policies. She said that if anti-Israeli movements became viewed as hate-ful under the eyes of the law, she would not support the parade.Although Tory doesnt support

QuAIA, he said that he is not try-ing to stop their freedom of speech.Im simply talking about pub-

licly funded events that they should not be a place where this kind of hateful language is allowed or encouraged, he said.After the debate, Chow was

asked if she thinks that she will lose the Jewish vote while Tory could lose the LGBTQ vote based on their stances on the topic. I think it is important that we

do what is right, rather than be worried about whose votes I can get or not get, she said.

Chow jabbed at Torys support for a three-stop extension of the Scarborough subway. Chow said $1 billion invested into the project was money from Easier Access, a TTC initiative aimed to make all transit accessible by 2025. However, Brad Ross, TTC exec-

utive director of corporate commu-nications, told The Eyeopener that the funding for Easier Access is un-related to the subway extensions.The Scarborough subway is not

part of the TTC budget, he added.Tory responded saying it was

ridiculous to say that funding for Easier Access was put into the Scarborough subway.Chow continued her criticism,

calling Torys subway plans un-

necessary and postponed.My investment doesnt leave

anyone behind, Chow said, stat-ing only half of Torontos subway stations are accessible.Torys alternative, which he de-

fended as a good, long-term in-vestment, is to build 22 accessible surface subway stations along previous GO Train lines. That sys-tem wouldnt open for seven years.No matter the transit, Willis said

more accessible spaces means more independence for disabled citizens. No matter how accessible pub-

lic transit is, there will always be a need for individual accommoda-tion, Willis said. Without it, get-ting to work or anywhere will be difficult.

Heavyweights on heavy issues Reporter Alex Downham breaks down what happened at the disability issues debate at Ryerson

Pride Parade funding takes centre stage in LGBTQ debate and Rob Foreman has the details

Olivia Chow, moderator Jamie Watt and John Tory talk about Pride Parade funding.PHOTO: ROb fOREmAN

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now i lay me down to tweet

A group of Ryerson students is behind an unlikely campaign for social media recognition one by the Catholic Church.

By Jonah Brunet

Randy Boyagoda cant re-member what he said to the Pope. Hes pretty sure he mentioned Ryerson but beyond that pure

gibberish. He stepped off the bus in Vati-

can City last September onto the cobblestones of a sunny court-yard. His group, a team of media experts and scholars fresh from the churchs bi-annual conference on social communications, passed through a series of hallways. Ev-erything was beautiful, flecked with gold. The building itself was a work of art, a constant re-minder of the venues historic and spiritual grandeur. They waited in a meeting room where serene Renaissance-era frescoes tugged

their eyes to the ceiling. After 15 minutes, Pope Francis arrived. He gave a speech in Italian, of

which Boyagoda understood little. Francis seemed jovial, cracked a few jokes, smiled and strayed from his script. Then each guest was given 15 seconds to say something to the face of Catholicism in the modern world. Honestly, I mean Im an Eng-

lish professor, Im a novelist, I think to myself I can speak quite well, says Boyagoda, director of zone learning at Ryersons Digital Media Zone. But in the intensity of the moment, you kind of lose your ability.One year later, a group of Ryer-

son students are coaching the Vati-can on improving their use of so-

cial media. In June, they met with Monsignor Paul Tighe, secretary of the Pontifical Council for So-cial Communications (PCSC), to present ways in which the church could better harness tools like Twitter and mobile apps. This fall, the council continues reaching out to Ryerson with Skype meetings and plans for continued student input. Whatever Boyagoda said, it seems to have worked.

In an age when youre three times more likely to get a computer virus from a reli-gious website than a porn site, a study by Symantec in 2011

found, its clear that being digitally savvy isnt in the skill set of the av-erage church leader. The Vatican is no exception. Though the willing-ness to connect is strong, a mea-gre understanding of social media platforms within the walls of Vati-can City weakens their ability to maintain a strong online presence. The problem that the Vatican

has isnt that it doesnt know what to do with social media, Boya-goda says. Its that it does too much. Theres just tons of things out there, and so its overwhelm-ing if you try and engage with it.What the church needs is a more

finessed approach, aware of the subtleties and inner-workings of the most popular platforms among to-days youth. The Catholic Church

represents the oldest branch of Christianity and sees social media as a chance to reconnect with a young population that has become disenchanted with the religion. And, in Ryerson students, they see a way to make that happen.It may not be the most likely

of partnerships. Ryerson isnt the largest university in Toronto, let alone the entire world which is, after all, the pool an organiza-tion as vast and influential as the Catholic Church can fish when it needs a favour. What we do have, however, are two things the 2,000-year-old church needs expertise in social media and the aparatus to put it to use.What they wanted were ideas

and suggestions from end-users, Boyagoda says. Young people who are digitally savvy and seri-ous about their faith.The partnership started over

coffee between Ryerson President Sheldon Levy and Thomas Collins, archbishop of Toronto. When the two met in last August, Levy, too ambitious and business-minded for a simple meet-and-greet, was eager for something on which the two institutional leaders could col-laborate. Collins mentioned the councils September conference, prompting Levy to send Boyagoda as a formal observer, tasked with finding a role for Ryerson in the

churchs ongoing push for more connectivity.The office at the Vatican respon-

sible for their online presence is the PCSC. Established in 1948, it origi-nally focused on cinema, seeking to spread the message of the gospel through new filmmaking technol-ogy. The PCSC has also dabbled in radio and television. Now however, the focus is squarely on digital and social media new tools that offer the same, if not more, communica-tive power as the old ones, along with new opportunities for global two-way communication between the church and its followers.The church isnt meant just to be

a megaphone that shouts down at the world from above, says Bran-don Vogt, author of The Church and New Media. Its meant to be in conversation with the world, much like Jesus was Thats what these tools allow us to do.For Boyagoda, the old mega-

phone church had disappeared. The PCSC conference, held in Rome last September, took place outside the Swiss-guarded walls of Vatican City in a modest two-storey meeting hall on the Villa di Conciliazione the road lead-ing up to St. Peters Basilica. The cardinals and bishops had traded their formal gowns for jack-ets, with only roman collars and simple pectoral crosses to denote

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their religious authority. Each speaker echoed in simultaneous translation to audience headsets, accommodating the six different language groups represented from around the world. Even though the church is

very hierarchical, this was a com-pletely open meeting, Boyagoda says. All the cardinals and bish-ops there were saying, We dont know, and we know we dont know, so tell us what you think.Then came Collins speech. In

what Boyagoda calls the key mo-ment of the conference, the arch-bishop took the stage and said the church should be looking to a place like Ryerson University, where they have students on the cutting edge of digital media in the 21st century a glorious name-drop from a well-respected church official to a powerful au-dience, and one that caused Tighe to seek out Boyagoda afterwards and ultimately strike up the uni-versitys ongoing partnership with the Catholic Church.

The Ryerson team, as-sembled by Boyagoda with the help of Oriana Bertucci, Ryersons di-rector of chaplaincy, was

culled from the Catholic Students Association. It comprised two stu-dents and one alumnus: Melissa Siu-Chong, Sandra Mucyo and

RTA graduate Augustine Dimagi-ba. Siu-Chong, 20, a hospitality student and former vice president of communications for the Catho-lic Students Association, was an obvious choice. As was Dimagi-ba, graduate of a program with a strong focus on digital media. Less obvious was Mucyo, 21, a chemi-cal engineering student who says she didnt have any specific prior experience with social media going into the project. But simply being a young student in Toronto was qualification enough, she says.In North America the cultures

very open to new social media, and we easily embrace and adapt to it, Mucyo says. You have that ev-eryday experience that somebody from the Vatican or a different gen-eration doesnt necessarily have Theyre people who are sheltered from this kind of stuff.Beginning in the fall of last year,

the team met monthly to delegate topics, share their findings and re-fine their ideas. A main focus was the Pope App, a mobile app that curates the PCSCs many different online endeavours and provides live updates on the popes sched-ule, who hes meeting and what hes said. Once perfected, the idea is for The Pope App to form a missing link, solving Boyagodas main problem with Vatican media by tying together each scattered online resource for an ultimately more engaging, user-friendly expe-rience. The app was already avail-able when Ryersons team started work, but theyve been working on improving it.By June, after a dozen meetings

and nearly a year of preparation, Tighe had arrived. Both Mucyo and Siu-Chong confess feeling nervous going into the meet-ing, but their anxiety was soon erased. While he could have easily seemed out of place in the Digi-tal Media Zone, an ultra-mod-ern media enclave with its name boldly spray-painted in blue on an orange ceiling, Tighe seemed at home, energetic, ecstatic to be meeting Torontos young students where they thrived: at the epicen-tre of Ryersons digital world. He listened intently, gestured em-phatically and spoke encourag-ingly in his lively Irish accent. At one point, he found himself over-whelmed by the students many suggestions.He had a really interesting re-

action, Boyagoda says of Tighe. His first response was, This is impossible, theres no way any of this could be done. And then his second response was, But thats not the right reaction. How do we make this possible? How do we try to get this done?After the presentation, he joined

the students for brunch and later strolled with them through Ryer-sons campus. He laughed often and, according to Siu-Chong, was

always smiling. Tighe represented a different Catholic Church than history had known one aware of its shortcomings and open to suggestion.

Even for young North American students, con-stantly immersed in a tech-nological culture where social media is ubiquitous

and unavoidable, some questions had no easy answer. The possibili-ties offered by a digital capacity for two-way communication also come with a host of problems from an online world that is not entirely friendly toward the church.If you look at any of Pope Fran-

cis tweets, says Vogt, youll see that theyre filled with vulgar re-sponses, negative reactions, people many of them atheists post-ing very negative things. Its a general rule on the internet

that nothing is sacred, no com-ment or post safe from vicious attack. The churchs challenge is operating in an online environ-ment that so pointedly refuses to recognize religious authority.The interesting question is

what does it mean for a hierarchi-cal institution like the Catholic Church to be involved in a very horizontal plane? Boyagoda says.This problem is most obvious

in the case of Facebook. The main reason Pope Francis doesnt have a Facebook profile is due to the seemingly unavoidable spew of of-fensive posts it would invite from an online community that loves a chance to stick it to the man. Siu-Chong, Mucyo and Dimagi-

ba were undecided on whether the pope should be on Facebook, the largest social media network in the world, but the project is far from over.For Vogt, however, the Vaticans

fears are misguided. Youre able to thrust your voice into a much larger conversation, he says. One in which before, maybe 10

or 20 years ago, you wouldnt have been invited. I think the opportu-nity far outweighs the challenges.Pope Francis isnt the type to

prefer sheltered security over the chance to connect with his follow-ers either. Siu-Chong recalls hear-ing many stories of him simply go-ing out and walking around Rome, despite being warned against it by concerned officials. He was the most mentioned name on Face-book last year, according to Vogt, and his tweets are retweeted more on average than any other world leaders.Shortly after being appointed,

he appeared on the cover of Roll-ing Stone magazine. His out-spoken concern for the poor has earned him plenty of respect, even from secular individuals. More than any before him, Pope Fran-cis is a celebrity and the ideal per-son to further the churchs social media presence. But Siu-Chong approaches the popes popularity with caution.I think its good and bad at the

same time, she says. Its good because its subliminally passing on the evangelization message that yeah, our pope is cool. But he has a purpose. Hes not just a celebrity.After the June meeting, Tighe

said he was eager to extend the media partnership into the com-ing years. Upon Tighes return to Rome, the Pope announced a new commission to re-examine the Vaticans media presence. On Sept. 18, a Skype meeting was held with a PCSC representative working under Tighe, who sought student feedback on recent upgrades to the Pope App. On the Ryerson end, the group

plans to become a more formal student entity. Ryerson is starting up a third media zone, along with the Digital Media and Transmedia zones, according to Bertucci. This new development, called the Social

Communications Zone, would be a perfect fit for the group, she says.The student group is also look-

ing to expand its membership by opening the doors to non-Catholic students as well, Bertucci says.The desire is to bring other stu-

dents who might just have an inter-est in faith in general or religion in the social world, she says. I think those voices need to be heard.

When Boyagoda re-turned to Ryerson from Rome, he brought a gift for Levy a book of

tweets. The ornate, bound, Vati-can library edition tome juxta-posed gorgeous Roman artwork alongside printed screenshots of the popes Twitter activity. It joins the Vatican librarys collection of the most sacred and important religious texts from the past two millennia. For Boyagoda, the book was

a symbol of the help the Church needs when it comes to digital media.Theres a very genuine sense

that when the pope speaks, this is something that should be captured for all eternity, he says. It really did suggest how much in need the Vatican was of a young-persons view of how social media works and how Ryerson students could help it reimagine its social media future.This is the challenge facing the

group of Ryerson students a church that confuses the perma-nence of religious doctrine with the fleeting existence of tweets. Theres a sense that the Church is digitally backwards, stuck in the past. However, drawing from the

fresh ideas of Ryersons technolog-ically immersed youth, Tighe and the Vatican aim to break down that stereotype. The notion of the clumsy, bumbling Catholic media decorating a book of tweets may have nearly run its course.

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INFOGRAPHIC: SEAN WETSELAAR

Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014arts & life8

Unless youve been living under a rock, youve probably heard about the Ray Rice scandal, in which the former Baltimore Ravens running-back is caught on tape punching his then-fiancee Janay Rice now wife in the face, knocking her out and then dragging her limp body out of a casino elevator. He would have gotten away with it too, if it werent for those med-dling kids at TMZ.The assault has received plenty

of reactions from people accus-ing the National Football League (NFL) of trying to cover up the incident, to domestic abuse apolo-gists victim-shaming Rices wife. A new YouTube video popped

up this week bafflingly (and al-most unbelievably) titled, Ray Rice inspired makeup tutorial. But its not what you think.Enter writer, comedian and

Ryerson radio and television

By Tiffany Crawford

Grad makes Ray Rice-inspired makeup tutorial

MacKay takes a satirical look at domestic abuse issues in her video.PHOTO COURTESY MEGAN MACKAY

arts (RTA) grad Megan MacKay, whose YouTube videos form a satirical commentary on some of the biggest and most controversial stories in the news. MacKay said the inspiration for

the video came from the medias coverage of the incident. In her view, she said, the coverage was inappropriate.The more I thought about it,

the more I realized that we con-sistently belittle and condescend victims of abuse in high-profile cases, she said. I think that by doing that, were normalizing abuse for not just famous people, but for everybody.Calling out the NFL, Ray Rice

and apologists all at once, MacK-ay tells us what products to put on and where to put them in or-der to look our best possible. She starts off by describing her foun-dation, a creamy shade called, The NFL.I really like this colour because

itll cover up anything just to save face, the 22-year-old says in the video, instructing us to get it into every nook and cranny so noth-ing unsavoury leaks out. MacKay blends comedy with

the harsh facts of the case in an eye-opening look at what isnt happening the disciplinary ac-tions that are not being enforced, the blame that is not being laid and the responsibility that is not being taken. She likens each of these to vari-

ous forms of makeup. Founda-tion is the NFL, eyeshadow rep-resents the maximum number of years served for felony assault in Maryland and eyeliner represents the victim-blaming that made its rounds in the days after the as-sault and continues to prevail in some circles. The YouTuber said shes re-

ceived a bit of backlash for her video but tries to not listen to the commenters. She said she hopes

Megan MacKay uses satire to highlight issues surrounding domestic abuse

Rye exhibit goes to new human rights museum

that viewers start paying more at-tention to the way they treat peo-ple going through difficult situa-tions like domestic abuse. The tone of the video changes

drastically with MacKays final makeup step: lips. Her message

pops as much as her lipgloss does when she declares that we can do better. Remember, theres always an al-

ternative to covering up violence, MacKay says on camera. You dont have to be like the NFL.

On the first day of a disability his-tory course at Ryerson, students were told that the price of entry was an object that they thought had significance to the history of disability in Canada. Thirteen disability studies stu-

dents brought 13 objects that formed the Out from Under ex-hibit. Seven years later, the in-stallation has won a permanent spot at the newly-opened Cana-dian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) in Winnipeg.Kathryn Church, director of

the school of disability studies and a curator of the exhibit, said that this is just a starting point to informing the public on the his-tory of disability.Its not as if we knew the his-

tory ahead of time and were representing it, she said. What were doing is actually building it from the ground up, starting from

By Isabelle Docto these objects.The objects included in the ex-

hibit are not only symbols of how disabled individuals were op-pressed in history, but also of how their rights are moving forward.Clint Curle, head of stakehold-

er relations at the CMHR, said that the installation of Out from Under was not complete at the time of the museums grand open-ing on Sept. 20, but is planned to be ready when the museum opens to the public on Sept. 27.When you look at the objects

there, they really speak power-fully, said Curle. You really get a sense of the experiences of the person and you kind of see things through their eyes.Some of the items are intensely

personal. Cindy Mitchell, one of the students who contributed to the exhibit, chose to add the death certificate of her daughter, who died due to an alleged de-liberate overdose of the drug di-

goxin administered at Torontos Hospital for Sick Children in the early 80s.Mitchell was at the grand open-

ing of the CMHR on Sept. 20 and said that even though the exhibit wasnt complete, the opening was still uplifting.[It] did not dampen how in-

spired I was by what I saw and what is yet to come, Mitchell said in an email. Out from Under was originally

installed at the Abilities Art Fes-tival in Toronto. From there, the group was asked to exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum in 2008 and were picked up to exhibit at the Cultural Olympiad at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.Church, along with Catherine

Frazee and Melanie Panitch, fel-low school of disability studies professors, has been working with the museum for the last two years to integrate Out from Under.But there were some bumps in

Exhibit on disability rights will open at the new Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg

the road. The CMHR gave them a small eight-by-eight foot space for their exhibit and initially told them to choose only five items to showcase.They were also asked to change

some of the language used, like trade in the word asylum for mental health facility. Despite the opposition, the group was

adamant on staying true to the sometimes-dark history of dis-ability rights.We wanted that word to be

there because its the word that expresses the politics we want to bring to that story, Church said.The Canadian Museum for Hu-

man Rights will begin regular vis-iting hours on Sept. 27.

PHOTO COURTESY CANADIAN MUSEUM FOR HUMAN RIGHTS/AARON COHEN

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights, located in Winnipeg, seen in a panoramic shot. The museums grand opening was Sept. 20 and regular visiting hours will begin Sept. 27.

PHOTO COURTESY SUELAN TOYE

Out from Under exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum, 2008. L to R: Melanie Panitch, Catherine Frazee and Kathryn Church.

Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014 SportS 9

The next generation of mens soccer

Rookie Ram leads the way

Its been a long road of recovery for Marko Miketic, but now he is finding success on the team his best friend used to lead

By Charles Vanegas

When Marko Miketic was trying to decide what to do after one year at the University of Toronto, his friend and three-time Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) All-Ca-nadian, Alex Braletic, pushed hard for him to join the Rams. Come to Ryerson, come to Ry-

erson, come to Ryerson, Braletic says he told him. The school is amazing. The team is unbeliev-able, the boys are unbelievable. You wont regret coming here.Miketic, seven years younger,

grew up watching Braletics games and would practice with him in the backyard. Miketics parents, Ranko and Svetlana, had grown up with Braletics in Montenegro, before moving next door to them in Thornhill, Ont. Miketic enrolled at Ryerson, but

was required to sit out the 2013 season due to OUA transfer rules. He agreed to serve as the teams equipment manager, but that year would prove to be the most trying time of his career. Prior to the sea-son Miketic suffered a torn groin, an injury he had suffered before as a 17-year-old.His familiarity with Braletic,

associate coach Filip Prostran also a family friend and former Thornhill Secondary School team-mate Josh Kohn made it easier for him to develop chemistry with the

group off the field. But the injury continued to make him feel iso-lated from the team. Sitting out was hard and being hurt made it worse. I thought I had been play-

ing my best soccer before it hap-pened, says Miketic. It was a difficult time, wanting to be a part of something and not be able to contribute.With Miketic on the sideline,

the Rams went undefeated in the regular season and finished sev-enth at the CIS National Champi-onships the best finish in team history with Braletic being named CIS MVP. While unhappy to be kept watching, the teams success improved Miketics com-mitment to the program. With the team losing five starters, there was playing time to be had on a team with championship aspirations.

It was a tough first year for Marko ... as much as he loves soc-cer, it was hard for him to love be-ing a Ram his first season, says head coach Ivan Joseph. [But] I think what happened was that he

had such a long time off that he realized that with this team and what were trying to do, he could be an important part of it.After seeing a specialist, Miketic

learned the cause of his groin woes one of his legs was a bit longer than the other. Now with custom insoles, he was able to focus on his physiotherapy and his psyche. In addition to working with head athletic therapist Jerome Camacho and womens assistant coach Tina Cook, Miketic credits sessions with Ryerson Athletics sports psychologist, Dr. Leith Drury, as the secret to his recovery.Bouncing back from an injury

is always tough but [Drury] has been there anytime I needed her and I can just talk to her about things, says Miketic. Its a long process coming back but those people have made it extremely worthwhile and I definitely respect them on a whole other level. I still go to see them every day.Fully healed, Miketic is now

showing Ryerson fans that the wait was worth it. After a strong performance at

tryouts and a positional switch, he started the first eight games all wins and leads the team in scor-ing with four goals. The Rams, with their 8-0-0 record, are first in the OUA east and are ranked third in the country.I think [being equipment man-

ager] really did help ... he has so much team chemistry with the guys that it looks like theyve been playing together for five years. That was key Im really happy he chose to be [equipment] man-ager last year, says Braletic, now an assistant coach with the team. Now hes playing in the middle and doing a hell of a job.Miketic is notably bald, hav-

ing developed alopecia areata a condition that causes hair loss, often spreading to the entire body in the fifth grade. He says that while many go through a rough time with alopecia, he has rarely been affected negatively due to his condition.I grew up with such a good

supporting cast. No one cared.

I started getting patches [of hair loss] and my mom said, why dont you get a buzz cut, and I said, yeah, that looks pretty cool, why not? You kind of go day-by-day, less hair, less hair, and then eventually it just becomes second nature. I dont have hair, you have hair, so what?Instead, his focus is on the teams

ultimate goal: a championship.Making that national berth

was huge for the program. Those guys [who were on last years team] come into practice really intense and other guys look at them like this is the level we need to be at, says Miketic. At Ry-erson youre always competing ... every practice were just compet-ing for a spot.

Marko Miketic (18) is already making his mark on the mens soccer team.

PHOTO: CHarles Vanegas

Womens soccer player Rodkin has already emerged as a goal-scoring machine

By Ramisha Farooq

When Alex Rodkin was 10 years old, she saved up all her birthday money and bought a David Beck-ham instructional DVD. She stood in front of her TV and practiced her left kick for hours. That kick now has her making

waves with the Ryerson womens soccer team and establishing her-self as one of the biggest offensive threats in the program. This past weekend, she scored four goals in two games. The leading scorer on last years

team had three goals during the whole season.Shes done really well for us es-

pecially as a first-year player com-ing in and threatening the defensive line of the other team the way she does, said assistant coach Tina Cook. She does well off her own instincts and I think we can build off that.Rodkin has started in six of

the first seven games played and

has a team leading six goals to start the season. That includes the game winning goals against Queens and Royal Military Col-lege of Canada this past weekend, the first two wins of the season for the team. Before those wins, the team

had been outscored 20-5 in five losses. Rodkin said the team is better than their record shows.I think that teams might think

that were not as strong of a team as we are. They just see the results, they just havent seen us play. We are actually a very strong team, said Rodkin. Everyone knows how we can play but when we get on the field sometimes it just falls apart and we forget about what we need to do on the field to win games.The speedy striker said she owes

a lot of her success to her parents who are always honest about what she needs to do better.Ever since I was little my par-

ents always wanted me to do the

best I could do and push me to do that, said Rodkin. She says theyve always given her

everything she needed to succeed. Her father Bob, however, attributes her success to playing with a com-petitive team.I think shes been playing re-

ally well. Being on this team has really pulled her out of her shell, Bob said.Rodkin, joins the team just

two years after suffering a knee injury that benched her for an entire season. It was an awful year. She wasnt

a happy camper that year, Bob said. She always played through injuries until they really needed some attention.Rodkin said the teams ultimate

goal is to win a championship by the end of her time at Ryerson. I can see us making it really far,

into the final four. Maybe even be-fore [my last year], said Rodkin. We definitely have the potential to make it there one day.

It was a difficult time, want-ing to be part of something and not being able to contribute

10 biz & tech Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014

Ryersons plan to erase BlackboardThe schools ditching the system and youre on the panel of judges to choose its replacement

Ryersons current Learning Man-agement System (LMS), Blackboard, is set for retirement.After 20 months of reviewing pro-

posals from possible LMS vendors, Ryerson narrowed down a Black-board replacement to two options: Canvas by Instructure and Bright-space by Desire2Learn. The Learning and Teaching Sys-

tems and Services Consultation Com-mittee will select a winner sometime in October. The new system will be fully implemented by fall 2015. Blackboard has always had chal-

lenges with it. Weve had it for over 11 years and weve seen a gradual increase in its usage, said Brian Lesser, director of Computing and Communication Services. But the pressure has been mounting to have a better tool.A reliable privacy and security fea-

ture and mobile access is a priority requirement for the new LMS, ac-cording to Nancy Walton, Ryersons director of E-Learning,We are very concerned with hav-

ing a system that people arent wor-ried to share their information on. There is a lot of personal information and intellectual property to protect, Walton said.The new system must also of-

fer fast responsive support, ease of use, compatibility with different browsers, plug-in adaptability and scalability so large classes can download a file without slowing down the system. Surveys were conducted by the

Learning and Teaching Systems and Services Consultation Committee to find student and instructors opinion on the most important features of the future LMS.Whatever LMS we choose has

to be adaptable in a mobile context.

With Blackboard, that just didnt work, Walton said. Both Canvas and Brightspace

offer mobile apps for courses and grading. But the key difference between the two systems is that Canvas provides course and grading apps compatible with both iOS and Android, whereas Brightspace only runs a grading app for iOS. Currently, the two systems are go-

ing through a series of student, fac-ulty and staff test drives and focus groups. Any Blackboard user can test out both systems by logging into the my.ryerson portal and click on the LMS Test Drive tab.The last phase of consultation

is to allow the Ryerson commu-nity to engage with the two short- listed vendors in order to tell us what they find to be the most salient dif-ferences in terms of what fea-tures are most meaningful to them, Walton said.

By Richa Syal

words, pictures and visuals my ideas and experience with the creative pro-cess, Rosen said. There are loads of visuals in it because I think you learn more if it comes at you in dif-ferent modes so youre never caught in a single Im watching mode or Im reading mode, Rosen said.Rosen used his experience from

teaching at Ryerson for over 14 years and his eight years as the director of the playwright program at the Na-tional Theatre School of Canada to create the digital textbook. Miri Ma-kin and Lee Chapman, graduates of Ryersons professional communica-tions program, and Yasin Dahi from the Learning and Teaching office

Sheldon Rosen, a professor at Ry-ersons Theatre School, combined teaching, technology and creativity to invent a first-of-its-kind digital, interactive textbook.Roadmap of the Creative Process

is an online resource that will be available for Rosens creative perfor-mance studies students in October. Its filled with digital images, articles, Ted Talk videos and footage from his classes to delve further into what it means to be creative and think criti-cally. Its a digital, interactive textbook

that articulates and demonstrates in

By Sarah Jackson

The tech-savvy textbookYou wont find this one at the campus store

The survey results of whats important for instructors in an LMS, according to the Learning and Teaching Systems and Services Consultation Committee.

InfographIC: JeSS TSang

Ryersons Computing and Com-munication Services (CCS) wants to have Google Chat as a feature for Ry-erson Gmail users if Google Chats privacy agreements change. Google Chat is an instant messag-

ing feature on the email service that allows users to see when contacts are online and message them. Google Chat is important for get-

ting work done while collaborating on projects and documents. Its a use-ful communications channel to com-plete the picture, said Brian Lesser, director of CCS.Ryerson began using Google Apps

for Education as their online collabo-ration platform in 2012. Google and Ryerson are under a written agree-ment that gives Ryerson users more privacy protection than the average Google user. Google Chat, however, does not meet Ryersons privacy stan-dards.Google Chat reveals information

about users like work habits

and retains it within Google without permission. Whenever we look at programs at

Ryerson, we always think of how can we make privacy the default, Lesser said. But this is one place where we couldnt do that. We put the request to Google but they havent said if they would or wouldnt do it, and thats where we are at this point. Hongbo He, assistant director

of application services at Ryerson, requested that the domain must be privacy by default instead of users having to manually change privacy settings to allow the Google Chat feature for Ryerson Gmail users.It is possible for individual users

who realize what the system is doing to change the setting to only allow people that Ive explicitly approved to see when Im online, He wrote to Google.But, its not possible to make

that the default across [the Ryerson] domain. Its not privacy by default hence we had to disable chat in our domain.

By Jacob Dube

To chat or not to chatThat is Ryersons question

helped Rosen bring his project to life.Rosens ambition for the on-

line platform is to train stu-dents to create new jobs for a new economy and world by combining critical and creative thinking.To expand the creative process

instead of letting technology over-come and numb the creative process is really innovative, said third-year acting student Allister MacDonald, one of Rosens students.Unlike your standard textbook,

this one doesnt have a last page.[Roadmap of the Creative

Process] may never be complete, it is designed to be endless, Rosen said.

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Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014 FUN & MiNks 11

Chow down on the minds of the youthThe Eyeopener has discovered what mayoral candidate Olivia Chow was really doing on Ryersons campus

By Keith Capstick

After an undercover investigation into her 1365 Yonge St. campaign office, The Eyeopener has learned that Olivia Chow is a supervillain bent on brainwashing Torontos youth into the love and adoration of buses.Discovered underneath her of-

fice was a massive underground lair complete with little minions working on top-secret technol-ogy, confiscated John Tory lawn signs and plans for her imminent conquest of young minds.When asked about the discovery,

one of Chows campaign represen-

tatives said, Olivia has no com-ment on any evil villainy she may be accused of. She wants nothing more than to inform young minds, but quite frankly sometimes they need a little push.In addition to the discovery of

Chows high-tech dungeon, there is evidence that points to Chow us-ing one of these minion-designed top-secret weapons on Ryersons campus this past week. It has been learned that Chow

used a very trendy-looking high-powered pink jacket to assist in hypnotizing both her student targets and her opponents in the mayoral race.

Chow manipulated her oppo-nents and they all mysteriously dropped out of the debate at Ry-erson so that she could have free reign of the students minds. Proof of this was acquired from

a document discovered in Chows lair that designated the optimal shade of pink for her jacket to brainwash each of her competi-tors. Sitting cross-armed in order to optimize the effectiveness of her jacket, Chow had uncontested control of the room as students and faculty were left at her mercy. At first John Tory refused to

comment on his opponents po-tential Lex Luther-style accusa-

tions, but after careful questioning he ended up uttering the phrase buses, buses, buses. Eyeopener staff attempted to

contact former candidates Karen Stintz and David Socknacki for comment but were only able to get voicemail recordings of, Buses, buses, buses. Students are advised to stay

away from anywhere Olivia Chow could be potentially using the word buses. Its beginning to become clear

that Chow may have a bigger in-fluence the buses buses buses bus-es buses buses buses buses buses.

Yet another sudoku brought to you by The Eyeopener so you can look intellectual in coffee shops by pretending to do math. Since its getting a tidbit nip-

ply outside weve decided to give away a $25 giftcard to Big Slice. That way you can coat your stom-ach with hot grease to prepare for the inevitable hibernation of read-ing week. We know youre not reading, by the way. Fill out the stuff below, you

should know how, and then bring it to room 207 of the Student Campus Centre. Toss it in the con-test box for a chance to win. And make sure you actually FINISH the goddamn puzzle. I actually check these things, you know.

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A Big Slice of Doku

Once upon a time in the land of Far, Far Away, there was a mink named Rosencrantz. Now, this was not your normal,

everyday mink. Rosencrantz de-cided, when he was very young, that he wanted to explore the world in ways that no mink has ever before. You could call Rosen-crantz the T.J. Detwhiler of minks. Drawn to Ryersons campus by

Eyeopener features editor Sean Wetselaars stylish lion costume on the cover of this years frosh issue, Rosencrantz and his fellow minstrel minks felt they could be beneficial to Ryersons campus newspaper. Rosencrantz broke down in tears on Sunday when he was first able to meet Wetselaar in person and shake his hand. Throughout the rest of the se-

mester this fun section will feature Rosencrantz and his adventures as the most trailblazing mink this campus, has ever seen.

Rosencrantz the Mink

PHOTO: BEHDAD MAHICHI

Busus, buses,buses,buses,buses,buses.

ILLUSTRATION: JESS TSANG

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MENS HOCKEY SEASON HOME OPENER

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