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3Wednesday March 5 2014 NEWS
Students bundle up in cold classroomsFluctuating temperatures across campus are causing uncomfortable learning conditions
By
SierraBein
Ryerson staff and students havehad a hard time shaking off thehills from the cold weather out-
ide as a number of buildings onampus have reached frigid tem-
peratures due to a lack of heat-
ngA number of students have
one to class in full winter attire
fter heating has been malfunc-ioning in the Rogers Communi-ation Centre (RCC) and the Im-ges Arts (IMA) building two of
Ryersonrsquos newest schoolsThree weeks ago The
Eyeopener published a story
bout heating issues in the ag-ng Kerr Hall building which
was built in the 1960s Now the
problem has expanded to newerbuildings on campus
Students who have classes in
hese buildings have been feelinghe dip in temperature such ashird-year photography student
avannah OnnofrayldquoI have a winter sweater on
nd itrsquos still super coldrdquo she said
Onnofray has classes on thethird floor of the IMA building
She said that the offices are muchwarmer than the classroomswhere she constantly feels coldeven after bundling up
ldquoWhen you first get into theroom itrsquos OK As you continueto sit in it it feels as if therersquos a
huge draftrdquo she saidOther students in the IMA
building have similar feelings
ldquoI donrsquot think the heat is onrdquosaid Derrick Lee a third-year en-gineering student
ldquoThis is an ongoing issue andIrsquod like this to be fixed as soon aspossiblerdquo
Fourth-year photography stu-dent Terence Reeves said that hehas spoken to three of his profes-
sors and that they have gone onto contact Campus Facilities andSustainability (CFS)
ldquoStudents are wearing hats and
scarves while listening to the lec-turerdquo Reeves said ldquoClimate hasbeen an issue since the building
opened We didnrsquot have air con-ditioning when I was there in thesummer we had portable ACsrdquo
The IMA building opened inSeptember 2012
Students have had to bundle up outside and in classrooms to stay warm last week in two of the newest buildings on campus
PHOTO NATALIA BALCERZAK
Although it has been aroundlonger students in the RCCbuilding are also being left in the
coldldquoRight now I am on my way
to pick up a coffee because Irsquove
been shivering uncontrolla-bly my entire classrdquo said KatieOrsquoToole a first-year journalism
studentldquoPeople in this building have
to make conscious effort to dresswarm if they have class here
which is ridiculousrdquo
Julia Hanigsberg vice-pres-ident of administration and fi-nance said that CFS have com-
pleted an investigation but thatthere are no issues with the heat-ing She has talked to the chairs
of the schools and said that thereare no issues
ldquoThere was a complaint with
regards to RCC being too hotrdquoHanigsberg said via email CFSis addressing that issue by re-
placing a steam valve this week
ThursdayThis year Toronto has faced
harsh winter conditions due to a
polar vortex wind chill that hitduring the month of January andhas resulted in the city recieving
more than 30 extreme cold warn-ings from Environment Canada
Students are urged to contact
CFS if they experience any is-sues so that it can be addressedas soon as possible
RAC lockers gutted during reading weekThe menrsquos lockers in the Ryerson Athletic Centre have been emptied and replaced
A number of male students who
eft their workout clothing shoesnd equipment in the lockers athe Ryerson Recreation and Ath-
etic Centre (RAC) came back af-er their winter break surprised to
find their belongings gone
The lockers in the menrsquos changeoom have been gutted and re-
placed with brand new ones overthe reading week
ldquoThe first Monday back Ijust saw them and they were dif-
ferentrdquo said second-year busi-ness management student Osas
OgiesobaOgiesoba said he received no
notice about the changes and feltthat they should have sent out an
email to students to notify them
ldquoI know people who had clothes
and shoes [in there] and thatrsquos notrightrdquo he said
Ogiesoba also said that the
lockers are significantly smallerthan before and that there are
currently only three regular-sizedlockers
ldquoI canrsquot fit much in them butwersquore paying as much as beforerdquo
he said
Students can rent RAC lockers
for $675 per monthOgiesoba is not alone Other
students say they have not re-
ceived notice of the changes eitherShurraj Rao a third-year me-
chanical engineer student thinksthey should have given better no-tice
ldquoI can just fit a backpack and
I have to cram itrdquo he said ldquoLet
alone shoes and everything elserdquo
But some students say that theRAC made an effort to let stu-dents know of the changes
ldquoThey put up signs itrsquos their
own fault if they left their stuffbecause they were going to kickthem outrdquo said second-year me-
chanical engineer student BolisIbrahim
However Bolis agrees that thesize is not nearly big enoughldquoTherersquos no way you can even fita winter jacket in thererdquo he said
Associate director of athleticsStephanie White said that theyare trying to bring the menrsquos lock-
er room up to the same level as themore recently renovated womenrsquoslocker room
ldquoThe womenrsquos [lockers] are inmuch better shape than the menrsquoswererdquo she said
According to White notices areput on lockers every time lockercuts are planned
ldquoKnowing us we probably put
a note 150 times over and overagainrdquo White said
The RAC charges $10 to returnitems to the owners of lockers thathave been cut
By Sierra Bein
he Recreation and Athletics Centre (RAC) in the Quad has had its menrsquos lockers resized over the February break
PHOTO FARNIA FEKRI
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4 Wednesday March 5 2014EDITORIAL
Editor-in-Chief
Sean ldquoBRB basketballrdquo Tepper
News
Ramisha ldquoGenghis KhanrdquoFarooq
Dylan ldquoMongolian 1rdquoFreeman-Grist
Associate NewsSierra ldquoMongolian 2rdquo Bein
Features
Sean ldquodelusions of grandeurrdquoWetselaar
Biz and Tech
Badri ldquoEdmontonrdquo Murali
Arts and Life
Leah ldquoPlease sleep sometimesrdquoHansen
Sports
Shannon ldquoMobsterrdquo Baldwin
Communities
Nicole ldquoChocoholicrdquo Schmidt
Photo
Natalia ldquoTennis courtrdquoBalcerzak
Jess ldquoLiberteacute EacutegaliteacuteFraterniteacuterdquo Tsang
Associate PhotoFarnia ldquoAncien Reacutegimerdquo Fekri
Head Copy Editor
Allison ldquoBattle-net DCrdquoTierney Elkin
Fun
Jake ldquoIt gets betterrdquo Scott
Media
Behdad ldquoStill underproducingrdquoMahichi
Online
Lindsay ldquoVery coldrdquo Boeckl
John ldquoChancerdquo Shmuel
General Manager
Liane ldquordquo McLarty
Advertising Manager
Chris ldquordquo Roberts
Design Director JD ldquorather be in Riordquo Mowat
Intern Army
Luke ldquoWe didnrsquotrdquo Peters Jacob ldquosign uprdquo Dalfen-Brown
Vanessa ldquofor thisrdquo Ruperto
Contributors
Dasha ldquoI STILL LOVE PUGSrdquoZolota
Tristan ldquoProclivityrdquo SImpsonMelissa ldquoFinnimbrunrdquo Myre
Mikaila ldquoFlummoxrdquo KukurudzaRob ldquoPulveratriciousrdquo ForemanOlivia ldquoMesonoxianrdquo McLeod
Brennan ldquoGyradosrdquo DohertyDeni ldquoEkansrdquo VErklanDaniel ldquoCharizardrdquo Rocci
Latifa ldquoAbrardquo AbdinChayonika ldquoBulbasaurrdquo
ChandraLaura ldquoSquirtlerdquo Woodward
Charles ldquoDunkrdquo VanegasMarissa ldquoSwishrdquo Dederer
Wondering what the hell this is Check out our Fun page and your question may be answered
TheEyeopenerelection
extrava-paloozatrade
RUNSPEAK
VOTE
nominations andposters are due by
5 pm march 27
speeches begin at630 at the
wolf amp firkinvoting will
begin at 10 ammarch 28thpolls close at 5 pmppp
Charlie ldquoCacophonyrdquo BosayLana ldquoleguminousrdquo HallPamela ldquoPreposterousrdquo
JohnstonRebecca ldquoEgregiousrdquo Goss
Devin ldquoDipsomaniacrdquo JonesMichael ldquoMaculationrdquo
Grace-Dacosta Josh ldquoJewpacabrardquo BeneteauDaniel ldquoDebaucheryrdquo Morand
The Eyeopener is Ryersonrsquos larg-
est and only independent student
newspaper It is owned and oper-
ated by Rye Eye Publishing Inc a
non-profit corporation owned by thestudents of Ryerson Our offices are
on the second floor of the Student
Campus Centre You can reach us at
416-979-5262 at theeyeopenercom
or on Twitter at theeyeopener
Back by popular demand this
weekrsquosAnnoying Talking Cof-
fee Mug is PRETTY FUCKING
ANNOYED Staying annoyed
this ldquowinter of our discontentrdquo is
reallly the only way to stay sane
or at least not too stabby So
run around and mutter and curse
Scowl and offer sacrifices What
ever it takes I personally have
taken to studying Voodoo so if
you find sanctified mummifiedrelics in and around Ryerson
just remember not to touch them
because the curse is transfer-
able Arenrsquot you cursed enough
already With five weeks left in
the term the pressure is mount-
ing everything is stone-ass cold
and the sun only shines when the
temperature has dipped below
-20 Will spring ever come Irsquom
not sure Is this the nuclear win-
ter maybe Will the Cold War 20
be a ldquothingrdquo after Russiarsquos putsch
into the Crimean looks like So
what can you do About most
of it sweet fuck all So just lookaway from most shit Instead
concentrate on you friends and
family Buy unexpected treats
find cheap flowers do more than
your share of the chores Make
the space around you the sweet-
est place to be And then maybe
Irsquoll undo that curse on you
PHOTO JESS TSANG
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5Wednesday March 5 2014 NEWS
Ryerson OneCards have OneFlawStudents have been experiencing difficulties because OneCards do not have an expiry date
yerson students are issued OneCards in first year that allows students to get discounts at various local restaurants and retailers
PHOTO NATALIA BALCERZAK
By Allison Tierney Elkin
The Ryerson OneCard isnrsquot just
used for getting access to services
on campus mdash students should
lso be able to use them outside of
chool to get discounts at a number
of businesses
However without expiry dates
on the cards to identify them as
alid for the current year some
tudents have been rejected for dis-
counts that many feel are necessary
to ease financial burdens
James Milos a fourth-year
mathematics student ran into an
issue when he tried to purchase a
discounted Greyhound bus ticket
in Montreal in 2012
His OneCard was issued in fall
2010 mdash the only date present on
the ID
ldquoI couldnrsquot prove I was still in
school with the card because it
wasnrsquot that year anymorerdquo Milos
said
Some businesses have confused
this with the expiry date (itrsquos not
clearly marked) and rejected stu-
dents like Milos discounts
He later complained on Soap-
Box a Ryerson ideas page but
was unsatisfied with the reply the
school gave him They suggested
Milos get an international student
identification card (ISIC) which
has an expiry date for free through
the Ryerson Studentsrsquo Union
(RSU) Though Milos is a domes-tic student he and all Ryerson stu-
dents are eligible for the card
Other schools have different stu-
dent ID policies York University
provides cards for students at the
start of their first semester which is
valid for five years
ldquoThe problem with an expiry
date [is that] you could drop out
and it would still say yoursquore in
schoolrdquo Milos said
University of Ontario Institute
of Technology (UOIT) annually
places a coloured sticker on each
studentrsquos card with the school year
on it indicating that itrsquos currentlyvalid Ryerson used use the sticker
method but changed to its current
policy in 2010
ldquoI understand handing out On-
eCards every year could be expen-
sive but I donrsquot think slapping a
tiny sticker to show that you are
enrolled at a university is any bet-
terrdquo Jeyan Jeganathan a recent
Ryerson journalism grad said
Jeganathan encountered prob-
lems similar to Milos while setting
up a student banking account
ldquoWhen I wanted to renew my
banking [at CIBC] every year they
would always ask me to provide
somethingrdquo Jeganathan said ldquoIwould have to explain that this
is how Ryersonrsquos ID card system
worksrdquo
Ryerson president Sheldon Levy
said that hersquos never heard of prob-
lems with the OneCard before but
wants the expiry date or sticker to
be re-implemented
ldquoWe should make sure that
whatever we do optimizes the ben-
efits for our students so if an expiry
date is an important element of
that we sure would consider it and
implement itrdquo Levy said
ldquoIf it is for the banks or insur-
ance companies we recommendthey print their fee statement or
schedule off their RAMSS ac-
countrdquo Darcy Flynn OneCard
manager said via email Flynn
said there are currently no plans to
change the policy
RSU president Melissa Palermo
also recommended picking up an
ISIC but would prefer more op-
tions for students
ldquoI would encourage the uni-
versity to explore a better way to
identify that cards are valid for dis-
countsrdquo Palermo said
Vice-provost goes with unwritten rule to not share plagiarism data in light of recent CBC survey
By Daniel Rocci
Ryerson did not share its informa-
ion on academic misconduct in
recent CBC survey that studied
heating at Canadian universities
According to Christopher Evans
Ryersonrsquos vice-provost academic
he university withheld its academ-
c misconduct data from the CBC
based on unofficial protocolldquoRyerson actually does not have
policy to not release this kind of
data but it is a practice that was
nstituted by a former provost
everal years agordquo Evans told the
Eyeopener ldquoWe do collect the data
on academic misconduct activities
but we donrsquot make it publicrdquo
The CBC recently published
he results of its survey of 54 uni-
ersities across Canada in which
chools were asked to submit the
number of cases of academic mis-
onduct that went through a for-
mal discipline process during the
011ndash12 term
Some institutions revealed their
ount of formal cases as well as the
percentage of cases by type of mis-
onduct This includes plagiarism
nd having others write exams
and the form of discipline admin-
istered like grade reductions and
expulsions
Evans made the decision after
consulting various members of Ry-
ersonrsquos senate and academic admin-
istration including the provost the
secretary of senate and the director
of the academic integrity office But
he isnrsquot entirely sure why the proto-
col is in place to begin withldquoIt may seem a bit odd but our
former provost made the decision
to create this practice and it pre-
dates my being at this jobrdquo Ev-
ans said ldquoI donrsquot know what his
thoughts were in keeping discrete
about the data but thatrsquos the deci-
sion that was made prior to 2010
and wersquove just been continuing
with that practicerdquo
Evansrsquos predecessor is Alan
Shepard now president and vice-
chancellor of Concordia Univer-
sity
Shepard could not be reached for
comment
Concordia participated in the
CBC survey on 256 cases of aca-
demic misconduct
Lisa Taylor a journalism instruc-
tor at Ryerson who specializes
in law and ethics spoke to The
Eyeopener about Ryersonrsquos stance
on releasing the data
ldquoIt concerns me and it disap-
points merdquo Taylor said ldquoI donrsquot
think any issue that we face in any
public institution is improved by
failing to discuss itrdquo
The lack of official policy regard-
ing the publication of academic
misconduct data will be addressedin Ryersonrsquos current review of its
student code of academic conduct
also known as policy 60
ldquoThe [review] committee will
at some point come to a decision
and make a recommendation to
the senate about the desirability or
not of publicizing informationrdquo
Evans said That decision will de-
pend on opinions from across cam-
pus
ldquoIrsquod like to see the results re-leased so that we can see how we
measure up compared to every-
one elserdquo said Gabrielle Poirier a
first-year politics and governance
student ldquoIf there is an issue then
everyone should know about itrdquo
Policy 60 was originally ap-
proved in March 2003 and most
recently received minor amend-
ments in June 2013
According to Evans itrsquos overdue
for a review as extensive as the oneit is currently undergoing
Ryerson opts to not share data on plagiarism
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6 Wednesday March 5 2014NEWS
tarting in September 2014 third-
ear business management students
will have the option to major in real
state management
The program was specifically de-igned for students seeking to work
n all facets of the real estate indus-
ry as well as students who want to
xpand their education beyond the
basic bachelor of commerce degree
Steven Murphy dean of the Ted
Rogers School of Management
TRSM) said that Ryersonrsquos loca-
ion in downtown Toronto is a big
actor in the creation of the pro-
ram ldquoReal estate is a very vibrant
part of our economy Offering real
state management we think will
ive our students some edge of
racking into the industryrdquo Mur-
phy said ldquoBecause we are ultra-
urban we get how real estate issuesntertwine I think when you live
nd breathe it every day you have
o start offering things that match
he daily reality of studentsrdquo
Murphy says hersquos excited by the
majorrsquos potential and sees buzz
around the program from the stu-
dent body ldquoStudents are turned on
by the possibilities of how they can
contribute in a sustainable way to
city planningrdquo Murphy said
In comparison to other real es-
tate programs Ryersonrsquos is focusedon building a better future The
program was designed around a
philosophy of sustainability and de-
velopment which Murphy says fits
into the DNA of Ryerson
ldquoAnyone can put up a condo
building but not everyone can
create a communityrdquo he said ldquoSo
I think this program is far more
about what yoursquore doing in real
estate and how it connects to the
community We are trying to in-
still in students that profit is very
short-termrdquo
Currently students in business
management may choose to ma-
jor in economics amp managementscience entrepreneurship amp strat-
egy global management studies
human resources management
and organizational behaviour
law amp business and marketing
management
It only goes up from hereLack of elevators creating accessibility problem for students
By Latifa Abdin
There has been an increased number of calls reporting broken elevators this year
PHOTO FARNIA FEKRI
ume The many people using
these elevators every day means
that required service and repairscan occur more often than at oth-
er locationsrdquo she wrote
According to Bailey there has
been an increased number of calls
for the library and the school of
management than last year in the
same period
ldquoSo far this year we have had
24 service calls for the LIB and
[TRSM] several of which were
resolved overnight with little to
no impact to users in the area
This is consistent with previous
years with 18 calls during the
same timeframe in 2013rdquo she
said in the email
Bailey noted that while elevatorbreakdowns are more likely to
occur in this building because of
the large amount of people who
use them misuse can often be the
cause of break downs and slow-
ing down of the elevators
ldquoOne continuing challenge
is how often the elevators areused to go up or down a single
floor which increases wear and
tear increases wait times and
decreases accessibility for those
who require it We encourage the
community to use the stairs in li-
brary and escalators in [TRSM]
whenever possible and save the
elevators for those with mobil-
ity requirementsrdquo she wrote
According to Kelly Dermody a
librarian at Ryersonrsquos library al-
ternative arrangments are in place
to assist students who cannot
walk up stairs due to a disability
ldquoWe have a emergency contin-
gency plan We have 4 elevatorsand if 3 or 4 elevators are down
for more than a few hours we
will work with the University to
inform all students with disabili-
tiesrdquo Said Dermody
A tearful day in court
The mother of alleged murdererFarshad Badkhshan gave a tearful
testimony against her sonrsquos sanity
on March 4
The defence called Sedigheh
Moriadi to testify about her sonrsquos
decent into mental illness which
she said began in Iran in1989
She recounted her familyrsquos mi-
gration to Canada and consequen-
tial settling and resettling across
the country such as Halifax Pick-
ering Ont and Vancouver
Badahkshan is pleading that hersquos
not criminally responsible for the
death of Ryerson student Corina
Patrache in July of 2010
Defence attorney Victoria Riv-
ers spoke to the jury just after 10
am on March 4 advocating di-
rectly to the jury on Badakhshanrsquos
behalf for the first time in the trial
ldquoYoursquove heard about his strange
weird bizarre behaviourrdquo Rivers
said She argued that all the crown
had brought forth recounting theabsurd nature of Badahkshan at
the time of Petrachersquos death was
purely the result of a ldquopsychiatric
disorder resistant to anti-psychot-
ic medicationrdquo
She had left to live by herself in
Vancouver It wasnrsquot long before
Badakhshan had joined her across
the country that she noticed a
change in his behaviour
ldquoHe said the people from Hali-
fax are after himrdquo Moriadi told
the jury At one point while stay-
ing with Badakhshan in a Toronto
apartment he had approached her
with a knife and calm expression
ldquo[He said] lsquoMom I love you I
want to take you with mersquordquo said
Moriadi fighting back tears
She then told the court that she
moved to Calgary in July of 2007
leaving Badakhshan alone in To-
ronto ldquoYou have not heard at all
about what happened to Mr Ba-
dahkshanrdquo said Rivers to the juryShe then showed the jury a
photo of Badakhshan before se-
vere burning and the multiple skin
graphs in July 2010
ldquoYou will also see
MrBadakhshan [was in] a medi-
cally induced coma for several
months after the incidentrdquo said
Rivers ldquoThat he tried to kill him-
self when given the opportunity to
do sordquo
She noted the testimony of Peter
Tran in which he recounted some
of the last words of Petrache
Rivers argued Tranrsquos recol-
lection of Petrache saying ldquohe
wouldnrsquot stop hitting mersquordquo was
by the psychological and physical
trauma Petrache suffered before
her death
The trial continues
A new real estate program will be starting up in September 2014PHOTO JESS TSANG
Lack of elevator service in theuniversityrsquos library and at the Ted
Rogers School of Management
(TRSM) are raising tensions
around campus
Megan Saliwonczyk a third-
year nursing student said that
almost every time she has been
in the library at least one of the
elevators has been out of service
ldquoThere is usually only one [el-
evator] working A lot of the
rooms that we book for meetings
are on the seventh floor or the
sixth floor and you donrsquot always
want to walk up a flight of stairs
with a heavy backpack rdquo shesaid
She said that when one or more
of the elevators are out of ser-
vice huge crowds of students end
up waiting for elevators which
slows down the services
ldquoI study at York at lot instead
because their library you know
functionsrdquo said Celina Rosso a
third-year childhood and youth
care student
Kerri Bailey a manager for
Campus Facilities amp Sustainabil-
ity at Ryerson said in an email
that because elevators at the Ry-
erson library and TRSM are used
a lot they break down more oftenbut that the campus facilities are
quick to resolve any issues
ldquoThe banks of elevators in li-
brary and Ted Rogers School of
Management are very high vol-
Mother of accused details extent of sonrsquos illness
By Charlie Bossy
Real Estate at Rye
By Jake Scott andDylan Freeman-Grist
TRANSFER TO QUEENrsquoSLife SciencesLearn more queensucatransfer
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7Wednesday March 5 2014 NEWS
Blackboard benchedRyersonrsquos web portal might be replaced by end of 2014
By Badri Murali
After 11 years Ryerson students
nd staff may be working with anew online student portal
Ryersonrsquos Computing and Com-
munications Services (CCS) the de-
partment that handles technology
nd computer support is reviewing
pplications to replace Blackboard
They have received applications
rom various companies over the
past few months for a new online
earning portal
CCS is working with the Faculty
of Communication and Design the
earning and teaching office digital
ducation strategies at the Chang
chool and the library to decide
which ideas will work best for Ry-rson After looking at each pro-
posal they will be testing potential
programs
Brian Lesser director of CCS is
one of 13 members on the Advisory
Committee on Academic Comput-
ng (ACAC) that will decide which
applicants will make it to Ryersonrsquos
shortlist Lesser said that students
and staff have told him they want
more tools and a better layout forBlackboard
ldquoStudents want things like blogs
and file storage to interact with
their course materialrdquo Lesser said
ldquoSince we began with Google
some of this is now possiblerdquo
Ryerson adopted its agreement
with Google Apps for Education
in September 2012 This allows
students and staff to use apps
like Gmail Google Calendar and
Google Drive which stores files
online Lesser said he received
feedback from students saying that
Google Apps has helped with some
of their problems but they wouldlike to see more
In a 2013 survey conducted by
CCS many staff said that they
want to be able to immediately
contact students with marks and
other updates and were sometimes
facing difficulty on Blackboard to
do so Staff also said that they want
to be able to mark up documents
submitted by students but often
run into problems making com-ments on them
The applications from external
groups were due on Feb 28 Once
the CCS and ACAC create a short
list they will be presented to the
Ryerson community for feedback
The feedback will then be collected
through townhall sessions and in-
dividual meetings with CCS to let
staff and students test the applica-
tions in real time Once this has
been done and after ACAC pro-
cesses feedback only then will CCS
proceed to replace the system
ldquoWe should have the trial pro-
cess beginning in May to receivefeedback from usersrdquo Lesser said
ldquoIt would be great to get a new sys-
tem working for fall 2014rdquo
There is a consultation blog
available at lmsblogryersonca
detailing what ACAC and CCS are
doing throughout this process
DMZ touches down in IndiaBy Lana Hall
Canadarsquos Governor General David
ohnston threw the coconut on the
round and mdash luckily for him andRyerson University mdash it cracked
An Indian tradition to mark the
tart of a new project the coco-
nutrsquos cracking is supposed to bring
ood luck It was a welcome sign
or Johnston and his team of gov-
rnment and Ryerson leaders who
were in Mumbai India last week
o oversee the opening of a Digital
Media Zone (DMZ) program
The Bombay Stock Exchange
nstitute Ltd (BIL)-Ryerson DMZ
ndia modeled on Ryerson Uni-
versityrsquos DMZ It was built in col-
laboration with Ryerson Ryerson
Futures Inc Simon Fraser Univer-
sity and the BIL It was officially
opened on Feb 28The original DMZ at Ryerson is
a multi-program business incuba-
tor and workspace for entrepre-
neurs that was founded in 2010
The India-based version will op-
erate similarly with the goal of
helping technology-based startups
with their operations and expos-
ing them to mentors customers
and investors
Ryerson president Sheldon Levy
whom also accompanied John-
ston to India said that the zone
in Mumbai has huge potential for
Ryerson
ldquoThis will give our students an
opportunity to spend time in In-
dia as well as students in India tospend time in Canadardquo Levy said
ldquoI think itrsquos going to be a fabulous
opportunityrdquo
Kristin Heredia a spokesper-
son for the DMZ here at Ryerson
said the university plans to launch
other DMZ programs abroad but
is currently focusing on India be-
cause it will have the largest popu-
lation of young people worldwide
by the year 2020
As one of the youngest emerging
nations India will need to be able
to employ more young people
said Ambarish Datta the CEO of
BIL-Ryerson DMZ IndialdquoWe are confident that this incu-
bator will not only provide em-
ployment for our youth but also
build products and solutions that
put India on the global map of in-
novationrdquo Datta said in a news
release
ldquoThe Canada-India economic
relationship is strongrdquo said John-
ston in a government press release
ldquo[It] holds tremendous potential
for broader and expanded col-
laborationrdquo
The stop in Mumbai where
Johnston also had the opportu-
nity to open the Bombay Stock
Exchange was part of a larger
India-wide tour during which he
spoke with officials in Bangalore
and New Delhi regarding business
and educationDavid Johnston cuts the ribbon at the DMZrsquos brand new Indian sister project
PHOTO COURTESY CARBE ORELLANA
NewsBites
Theft duringexam
A studentrsquos iPhone was stolen Feb
26 after heshe was asked to leave
it at the front of the class during a
test according to Ryerson emer-
gency and security services
According to security no policy
was put in place by the instructor
to secure the electronic devices
while the students wrote the test
ldquo[Proctors] typically ask [stu-
dents] to bring their bags to the
frontrdquo said Tanya Poppleton
manager of security and emer-
gency services ldquoIrsquove never heard
of placing cellphones on the table
at the frontrdquo
Chequesgrowing stale
Students who have yet to collect
their health plan opt-out chequeswill need to do so before they lose
access to the money
The cheques as per Canadian
law will be void six months from
their issue date on Nov 10
The RSU will reissue cheques af-
ter the date of expiry for up to 15
months after the original date they
were issued
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8 Wednesday March 5 2014FEATURES
BR
ICEThough somein some partsTristan Simpmale figure s
PHOTO SHANNON BALDWIN
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Wednesday March 5 2014 9FEATURES
The cheers echo throughout
the arena as the announcer
introduces the next menrsquos
ree skate entrant Spencer Buchan-
n Decked in all black he casually
lides backwards with his hands in
his pockets as if it was a free skate
on Mattamy Athletic Centrersquos ice
He doesnrsquot look like a typical figure
kater He doesnrsquot wear elaborate
ostumes For him a plain tee and
pants will do He stands six feet two
inches mdash taller than most competi-
tors He brings his large frame to
a slow then raises his lengthy arms
to embrace the sound He stops at
centre ice He gathers himself and
starts his routine
There are 17 students on Ryer-
sonrsquos figure skating team Two of
them are male and only one is per-
mitted to compete Figure skaters
are judged on their technique and
finesse but it is a female-dominat-
ed sport The male minority that
does compete at the university
level struggles to gain the recog-
nition awarded to their female
counterparts Ontario University
Athletics (OUA) has one event for
men to compete in at the figure
skating championships and win-ter invitationals The women have
14 events for singles pairs fours
and teams Most university teams
have just one male player on their
squad
Buchanan says he didnrsquot
always want to be a fig-
ure skater ldquoWhen I was
younger all of my friends were
playing hockey and they would
poke fun at [me] for figure skat-
ingrdquo he says ldquoWhen that hap-
pens you want to fit in and just
play hockeyrdquo He changed his
mind after his childhood coachtold him he had the potential to
excel in figure skating
ldquoI think the fact [that the OUA]
only has one event for men is a
gender biasrdquo figure skating head
coach Lauren Wilson says She
says she doesnrsquot think the gender
bias is done on purpose but the
structure of the OUA figure skat-ing championships doesnrsquot help
ldquoOur roster is limited to 17 and
therersquos only one competition for
men We canrsquot make room for
more guyshellip Men can compete
in the synchro event but that still
leaves their options lowrdquo Buchan-
an chose not to partake in team
synchro ldquoI train on my own so
doing synchro wouldnrsquot work for
merdquo he says
Buchanan notes that the sport
faces a lack of recognition ldquoMost
people donrsquot take it serious They
donrsquot know the sport all they
know is Blades of Gloryrdquo
An hour before the competi-
tion Buchanan was writ-
ing an exam The 22-year-
old is a second-year accounting
student at Ryerson On top of his
studies hersquos been competing in
figure skating for six years ldquoMy
whole family has been skating for
a long timerdquo he says
Like any athlete he devoted a
lot of time to training until his
luck took a turn for the worst on
May 5 2012 He was walking
home alone from a bar in Mon-
treal when he was hit by a car
ldquoI really donrsquot have any memo-
ry of what happenedrdquo Buchanan
says He was found in the middle
of the street unconscious and
bleeding at 335 am He woke up
in a downtown Montreal hospi-
tal
Buchanan suffered a baseline
skull fracture that kept him off
the ice for a year ldquoI wasnrsquot sure if
I could [go] back to skatingrdquo he
says Buchanan was inspired by
Javier Fernandez mdash the 2014 Eu-
ropean menrsquos figure skating cham-
pion He says watching Fernandezskate at the Toronto Cricket Skat-
ing and Curling Club pushed him
back into competition
Buchananrsquos first dance back on
the ice was rough ldquoI hadnrsquot com-
peted in like two years and I for-
got how much it took to skate
[figure skating] is surprisingly tir-
ing and I was out of breath for like
half an hourrdquo Figure skating com-
petitions are tightly judged Skat-
ers are scored on the difficulty and
style of the routine but theyrsquore
sometimes also judged off the ice
by society
Buchanan says that some peoplemake sweeping assumption about
male figure skaters mdash sometimes
extending to their sexuality ldquoIrsquom
not gay but [that] notion people
have bugs me a little bitrdquo He says
these assumptions deter athletes
from pursuing the sport ldquoIf you
are gay it can be hard to deal with
the way people label yourdquoEmily Rose Galliani Pecchia a
third-year forward on the Ryerson
womenrsquos hockey team says ldquoPeo-
ple shouldnrsquot make these assump-
tions flat out Whether theyrsquore
a figure skater hockey player or
wrestler it doesnrsquot determine if
theyrsquore gay or straightrdquo
Galliani Pecchia whom is gay
says athletes should be able to
compete in any sport without be-
ing judged
ldquoIf an athlete is gay they
should feel comfortable enough
to compete Itrsquos not fair for an
athlete to feel uncomfortable intheir field of playrdquo she says She
adds that her teammates are open
about their sexuality ldquoThere is
always someone to talk to within
our dressing room which is an
anomaly in varsity sport since it
is a taboo subjectrdquo
Pierre Alain interim head coach
of the Ryerson womenrsquos hockey
team says there are false percep-
tions that female hockey play-
ers are physical and butch ldquoYes
many players like the physical part
of the [sport] but thatrsquos not all
you need to be a good playerrdquo He
says athletes shouldnrsquot be catego-
rized based on the sport they playldquoLook at Meghan Agosta mdash she
started as a figure skater before
doing hockeyrdquo
Figure skating isnrsquot a promi-
EAKERSare often seen as being male-dominatedworld of athleticism men are a minoritykes a look at the often-overlooked sport of
When I was younger all my friends were play-ing hockey and they would poke fun at [me]for figure skating When that happens youwant to fit in and just play hockey
nent sport at most universities
The crowd at the OUAs is meager
compared to the ones at a basket-
ball or hockey games and is made
up mostly of athletesrsquo teammates
But Buchanan says that figure
skating is growing
When Buchanan was a kid he
would take cover when people
made fun of him for figure skat-ing Today he is less shy ldquoSome
people give you a look but it
doesnrsquot bother me anymorerdquo His
response to those who question
the physical demand required to
compete ldquoWhy donrsquot you give it
a try and see how you dordquo
Buchanan knows what to
do to win He preps him-
self mentally while sitting
in the menrsquos changeroom at the
OUAs ldquoYou have to focus in You
have to relax Donrsquot over-analyze
things Let your body do what
you trained it to dordquo he saysAfter he is mentally prepared he
heads to the ice Buchanan walks
on the Rams mat before leaving
the changeroom then remem-
bers ldquoYoursquore not supposed to do
that mdash itrsquos bad luckrdquo During the
warm-up skate Daft Punkrsquos One
More Time radiates through the
arena Competitors are already
on the ice perfecting their routine
Each one exudes confidence ldquoIrsquom
not going to lie I really want to
winrdquo he says
One after another they take
the ice and perform their routine
Buchanan is the third competitor
to hit the ice and he emerges toElton Johnrsquos Your Song Some of
the female athletes in the audi-
ence begin to sing along and they
throw flowers at him when the
routine is finished Many of the
menrsquos routines were comedic and
they were often met with laugh-
ter Some audience members com-
mented on Buchananrsquos ldquosparklesrdquo
on his black tee
Every spin jump and turn is
completed with grace He ex-
plodes with a double axel He
nails jump after jump then sud-
denly staggers on his landing
He throws his hands to catchhimself and continues He elicits
more cheers from the audience by
breaking down with a few robot
dance moves He ends his routine
with a flurry of spin moves He
comes to a halt and then puts his
hands back in his pockets
Buchanan doesnrsquot win his event
mdash the menrsquos open singles mdash but
he does finish second His inspi-
ration mdash Fernandez mdash places
fourth at the Sochi Olympics the
same day he competes in Toronto
Buchanan doesnrsquot stick around
to watch the awards presenta-
tion because he has work mdash his
sister accepts his medal for him
ldquoYou never know what to ex-
pect I didnrsquot watch everyone else
skaterdquo He pauses ldquoSecond place
is alrightrdquo
PHOTOS FARNIA FEKRI
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10 Wednesday March 5 2014BIZ amp TECH
A studentrsquos guide to filing your taxesByPamelaJohnston
trsquos that time of year again Gatherour receipts employment and ed-
ucation records because itrsquos time to
file your tax returns Donrsquot worry
he Eyeopener has everything you
need to know about claiming your
xpenses If after reading this you
till find the whole concept of a
ax return too hard to grasp you
an go to the tax clinics organized
by the Ryerson Studentsrsquo Union
(RSU) They are held throughout
March up until April 3 Members
of the RSU and Continuing Educa-
tion Studentsrsquo Association of Ryer-
son (CESAR) can use Ufileca to filetheir taxes
Remember the deadline to file
individual returns to the Canada
Revenue Agency (CRA) is April
30 If you file late you will be fined
five per cent of what you owe from
2013 and one per cent of that bal-
ance for each late month So get off
your ass and git lsquoer done
ILLUSTRATION BY JESS TSANG
THIS WEEK AT THE MAC
MATTAMYAC
HOME OF THE
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APRIL 3 2014 1230PM amp 600PM
TICKET PRICES
FLOOR SEATS - $30 STANDS - $20
(Before applicable service charges)
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MARCH 28 2014 700PM
DOORS OPEN AT 630PM
bull Performances by Ryerson Students
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ON SALE NOW
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11Wednesday March 5 2014 COMMUNITIES
The gift that keeps on givingGifts for Strangers an initiative created by Ryerson business student Cole Banning goes global
By Mikaila Kukurudza
Banningrsquos organization Improv in Toronto hosts regular events within the Toronto communityPHOTO MIKAILA KUKURUDZA
econd-year Ryerson business stu-
dent Cole Banning has mastered
he art of making strangers smile If
oursquove ever been given a wrapped
box containing a handmade gift
by a stranger on the street in To-
onto therersquos a good chance the
2-year-old had something to do
with it
Banning founded Improv in
Toronto a group that organizes
vents across the city when he was
senior in high school He has since
xpanded on the organization and
reated different projects mdash Gifts
or Strangers is the most recogniz-ble The project is exactly what
t sounds like Around the holiday
eason Banning and his team hand
out gifts to people on the street
ldquoTo be approached by a ran-
dom stranger and given a gift
might brighten [someonersquos] dayrdquo
Banning said ldquoYou hope that
ou made that difference which
s strange to say because all wersquore
doing is fooling around and hav-
ng funrdquo
Gifts for Strangers began three
ears ago and has been growing in
popularity since This year 33 cit-
es in over 23 countries participat-
ed in the event Banningrsquos concept
was inspired by a group in New
York City called Improv Every-
where which conducts similar ur-
ban art projects and experiments
But Gifts for Strangers isnrsquot the
only project Improv in Toronto
has undertaken Banning and his
team of 20 plan sporadic commu-
nity projects on a regular basis In
the past these events have includ-
ed pantless subway trips umbrella
taxi services to escort pedestrians
through the rain and pillow fights
at Yonge-Dundas Square
The goal is to bring strangers to-
gether through unexpected inter-
active events and add spice to the
day-to-day lives of Torontonians
ldquoI think people going through
their lives put up a wall Itrsquos nice
to break the boundaryrdquo Banning
saidImprov in Toronto has held over
50 free family-friendly events
around Toronto over the past six
years The group also has a You-
Tube channel with over 25 000
subscribers (some videos have over
5 million views)
ldquoIt just blew up I wasnrsquot pre-
pared or readyrdquo Banning said
Things really took off after an
overwhelming turnout at Improv
in Torontorsquos second event mdash a
large-scale Wherersquos Waldo hunt
in the Eaton Centre The event re-
sulted in Banning being escorted
out of his hiding place by mall se-curity due to the overcrowding he
had created with his Waldo hunt
Banning credits the success of
his organization to social media
and his goal to fill a strangerrsquos day
with a little laughter He believes
that by creating an inclusive com-
munity and bringing strangers to-
gether the seriousness of everyday
routines can be mitigated
ldquoItrsquos nice to be taken away from
the stress of life even if itrsquos just for
a minuterdquo Banning said
For students hoping to get in-
volved Banning suggests ldquodonat-
ing your time not moneyrdquo
Constructing communities
ByOliviaMcLeod
Architecture students build a community shelter in Newfoundland
A group of six Ryerson architec-
ure students were chosen to par-
icipate in a unique and unifying
project over reading week The
roup travelled to Botwood NLo create a structure for the townrsquos
heritage park at a Second World
War airplane base
The build was initiated through
Culture of Outports mdash a project
ssociated with ERA Architects
n Toronto For the past four
ears they have annually trav-
lled around Newfoundland to
onserve cultural heritage through
rchitecture Three of these devel-
opments have been with Ryerson
ldquoI think our partnership [with
Ryerson] works really well be-
ause there is that opportunity to
work here together in Toronto and
do work and planning before we
o out together to the east coastrdquo
Alana Young project coordinator
aid
The structure itself sits on the
foundation of an old weather sta-
tion on a pathway to Killick Island
mdash Botwoodrsquos prime tourist spot
and nature trail
ldquoThe continued story heard
from people was they wanted to
see something on that roadway
going to the islandrdquo said Scott
Sceviour deputy mayor of Bot-
wood ldquoWe had some benchesthere for rest areas but people
wanted to see something there so
thatrsquos where [the idea] was bornrdquo
The structure is essentially
a wooden-planked box with a
sloped roof There are rectangu-
lar cutouts in the walls that align
with historic plane crash sights
in the surrounding area Because
of this Young calls it the ldquoview-
finderrdquo
Typically a project like this
would take two weeks to finish
but because of the studentsrsquo sched-
ules it became a ldquocompressed
eight-day adventurerdquo
ldquoEverybody was just great and
supportive Itrsquos almost like you ask
everyone to suspend their disbelief
for a few days and just kind of get
on this rollercoaster with you and
see where it goesrdquo Young said
Without the community Young
said the project wouldnrsquot exist Be-
cause of very cold weather condi-
tions the entire structure had to be
built inside of the townrsquos fire hall
and then transported by trucks to
the site They provided the tools
experienced labour and even the
teamrsquos meals along with endlesssupport hospitality and help
Students said the experience of
bringing a design to life is like no
other experience theyrsquove had so
far
ldquoActually getting to build it and
[getting] a community involved
and [having] real feedback from
people who are going to use the
space is really valuablerdquo Kate
Gonashvili a fourth-year architec-
ture student said
Young said because of this proj-
ectrsquos success they are going to
continue working with Botwood
in the future
ldquoWe have ideas as far as nextsteps and what they can do and
theyrsquore really engaged so thatrsquos ex-
actly the kind of community you
want to work withrdquoRyerson students spent eight days building this structure in Newfoundland
PHOTOS COURTESY ALANA YOUNG
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12 Wednesday March 5 2014ARTS amp LIFE
Need a job Stop surfing and start walking
When Parth Patel was in his firstew years of the engineering pro-
ram he found getting a summer
ob to be quite challenging
ldquoI applied to more than 60 or
70 jobsrdquo he said ldquoI [was] trying
o find work [in engineering] but
wasnrsquot able tordquo
The frustration of finding a
ummer job is something many
Looking for a summer job can be frustrating but relying on the Internet may be hurting you more than you know
students have experienced before
especially since the 2008 econom-
ic crisis when markets around theworld crashed Searching through
thousands of job listings online
perfecting your resumeacute and send-
ing it out can take hours
But if yoursquore hoping to score
that ideal job going back to the
basics is the way to go said Dan-
iel Kennedy a career consultant
at Ted Rogers School of Manage-
Since the 2008 economic crisis the job market has seen fierce competition mdash sepa-rating yourself from the rest is the first step in being noticed
PHOTOS FARNIA FEKRI
ment careers and employment
partnerships centre
ldquoIf you go into [the websites]Monster or Workopolis and you
type in lsquosummer jobsrsquo yoursquore going
to find job postingsrdquo he said ldquoThe
problem is there are about four mil-
lion other students across Canada
who are going to find those same
job postingsrdquo
It often comes down to doing
some old-fashioned scouting on the
ground Kennedy said adding that
proactively approaching employers
can make a bigger impression than
simply sending a resumeacute by email
ldquoWhat students should do if they
really want to make a go of it is to
look for companies that donrsquot havethe capacity to advertise for those
summer jobsrdquo he said ldquoIf you can
identify and find those companies
and approach them proactively
that will give you a much better
chancerdquo
Because finding a job can be so
difficult in Toronto many students
decide to go back to their home-
towns for the summer where the
competition is less fierce and jobs
are easier to come by
Laura Hamel a first-year perfor-
mance acting student said shersquoll be
moving back home for the summer
because of the cost of living in To-
rontoldquoIrsquom from Regina so Irsquoll be mov-
ing home to find a jobrdquo she said
ldquoItrsquos a lot cheaper to live at home
and I have a solid job at homerdquo
For Patel scoring a job came
with a visit to his sister in Calgary
one summer While he was there
he applied to only five or six jobs
and ended up getting a summer po-
sition that matched his field
The summer job market comes
down to basic supply and demand
Kennedy said
ldquoOn the supply side you have
basically a lot of students that are
looking for jobs during the sum-mer months and thatrsquos fine as long
as the demandrsquos thererdquo he said
ldquoThe demand really hasnrsquot been
there since 2008rdquo
Brennan Thompson undergrad-
uate program director in the school
of economics says that the reces-
sion of 2008 has brought everyone
down a notch when it comes to the
job market
ldquoThe guy who was working at
the auto assembly plant loses his
job and now hersquos taking the low-
paid job at Tim Hortonrsquosrdquo he said
ldquoNow the young person who used
to have that job at Tim Hortonrsquos
[doesnrsquot] have anythingrdquo
Kennedy says the market is start-
ing to bounce back But compared
to 10 years ago finding a summer
job is far more of a challenge Even
in a city as big as Toronto compe-
tition can be fierce because thereare so many students looking for
temporary employment
According to Kennedy even
if the job you end up with isnrsquot at
all related to your field itrsquos still a
good idea to include it on your
resumeacute Employers look at how
your skills have evolved even if
the job you had was just bussing
tables The hard skills you gain
might not be related to your future
career but the soft skills mdashlike leadership skills problem-
solving abilities and customer ser-
vice experience mdash will come in
handy
ldquoNo one is expecting you to
graduate here and have four years
of senior project management ex-
periencerdquo he said
ldquoWhat they want to see is that
therersquos a progressionrdquo
By Leah Hansen
Ryerson graduate Peter Hill is performing at the ninth annual Toronto SketchComedy Festival as part of a duo called Beggarrsquos Canyon See the full article by AlexHeck at theeyeopenercom
PHOTO COURTESY TARA NOELLE
Laughing it up
Discuss the upcoming budget
All members of the Ryerson community are invited to
attend a town hall to discuss the development of the
universityrsquos budget for the 2014-15 academic year
Hosted by
SHELDON LEVY
president
MOHAMED LACHEMI
provost and vice president academic
PAUL STENTON
deputy provost and vice-provost university planning
TOWN HALL MEETING
Wednesday March 12 9 ndash 10 am
Architecture Building Room ARC ndash 108
Thursday March 20 230 ndash 330 pm
Library Building Room LIB ndash 72
President Levy is confirmed to attend the March 20 meeting
To submit questions in advance email provostryersonca
Please contact us if we need to make any accommodations to
ensure your inclusion in this meeting
Come to aRyersonCommunityTown Hall
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13Wednesday March 5 2014 SPORTS
A puckinggood season
n the last 37 years Ryersonrsquos
menrsquos hockey team has never made
t past the semifinals
Even with a team that nearly
doubled last seasonrsquos 14-win per-
ormance the Rams fell prey to
his historical barrier on Feb 28
when a 5-1 semifinal loss to the
Lakehead University Thunder-
wolves ended their season
ldquoWe played an uphill battle all
nightrdquo Rams head coach Graham
Wise said ldquoThey unfortunatelygot on the board firstrdquo
In spite of the disappointing
oss this marked the Ramsrsquo best
performance in the last decade
But that success didnrsquot come
without a few major bumps along
he way Their high-powered start
o the season came to a screeching
halt due to a seven-day suspen-
ion they were handed for drink-
ng alcohol while on a team road
rip The Rams had to forfeit two
games during their suspension
but managed to come back strong
mdash ranking fourth in the Ontario
University Athletics (OUA) West
division by the seasonrsquos endldquoWersquove come a long way from
ighth place and I think we had a
eally good year for ourselvesrdquo sec-
ond-year forward Jamie Wise said
Coached by his father Graham
Wise Jamie achieved a career-
high 45 points mdash ranking him
hird in the Canadian Interuni-
versity Sports (CIS) His 21 goals
his season mdash compared to the
ight he scored last season mdash
made him the second-leading
corer in the country
By Devin Jones
amie Wise the Ramsrsquo leading scorer and second-ranked in the country on home ice
PHOTO FARNIA FEKRI
Fellow forward Dominic Alber-
ga also had a standout season
A third-line grinder from the
Ontario Hockey League (OHL)
Albergarsquos first-line rookie perfor-
mance for the Rams was anything
but expected
Alberga contributed 44 points
and 18 goals to the team He
achieved second place on the team
for goals scored and is nationally
ranked fourth in points mdash all in his
first year as a Ram
But as the menrsquos hockey team
celebrates new talent they alsosay goodbye to two of their key
players Both right-winger Dustin
Alcock and captain Andrew Buck
are graduating this year Buck
scored 90 goals in his 125-game
career with the Rams and wore
the captainrsquos patch for three of his
five years
ldquoItrsquos a surreal feeling and Irsquom
not really sure if itrsquos hit me yetrdquo
Buck said ldquoIrsquoll miss not going
to the rink every day and seeing
the guys but Irsquove had a great five
years so I canrsquot complainrdquo
The Rams are ranked fourth in
the OUA West division and made
their third-straight playoff appear-ance for the first time in history
The last time the Rams earned a
semifinal spot in the playoffs was
the 2009ndash10 season
The team will take some time off
before the coaching staff begins
the journey to next yearrsquos home
opener a process head coach Wise
said will begin with recruitment
ldquoRecruiting is ongoingrdquo he
said ldquoHopefully we can bring in
guys that will make the team bet-
ter and wersquoll go from thererdquo
History repeats itself for Rye hockey
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Now that our annual Love amp Sex issue is overand done with there has been a serious lackof cunning linguists in this paper Thatrsquos whereour new columnist comes in Her name is Lou-ise and shersquos ready to take your questionsabout what goes down (or doesnrsquot) beneaththe sheets Send us all the slippery sticky andsensual questions you have We promise topublish your questions anonymously and un-edited Nothing is too raunchy or embarrass-ing Send your inquiries to funtheeyeopenercom and Louise will answer in the next issue
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3Wednesday March 5 2014 NEWS
Students bundle up in cold classroomsFluctuating temperatures across campus are causing uncomfortable learning conditions
By
SierraBein
Ryerson staff and students havehad a hard time shaking off thehills from the cold weather out-
ide as a number of buildings onampus have reached frigid tem-
peratures due to a lack of heat-
ngA number of students have
one to class in full winter attire
fter heating has been malfunc-ioning in the Rogers Communi-ation Centre (RCC) and the Im-ges Arts (IMA) building two of
Ryersonrsquos newest schoolsThree weeks ago The
Eyeopener published a story
bout heating issues in the ag-ng Kerr Hall building which
was built in the 1960s Now the
problem has expanded to newerbuildings on campus
Students who have classes in
hese buildings have been feelinghe dip in temperature such ashird-year photography student
avannah OnnofrayldquoI have a winter sweater on
nd itrsquos still super coldrdquo she said
Onnofray has classes on thethird floor of the IMA building
She said that the offices are muchwarmer than the classroomswhere she constantly feels coldeven after bundling up
ldquoWhen you first get into theroom itrsquos OK As you continueto sit in it it feels as if therersquos a
huge draftrdquo she saidOther students in the IMA
building have similar feelings
ldquoI donrsquot think the heat is onrdquosaid Derrick Lee a third-year en-gineering student
ldquoThis is an ongoing issue andIrsquod like this to be fixed as soon aspossiblerdquo
Fourth-year photography stu-dent Terence Reeves said that hehas spoken to three of his profes-
sors and that they have gone onto contact Campus Facilities andSustainability (CFS)
ldquoStudents are wearing hats and
scarves while listening to the lec-turerdquo Reeves said ldquoClimate hasbeen an issue since the building
opened We didnrsquot have air con-ditioning when I was there in thesummer we had portable ACsrdquo
The IMA building opened inSeptember 2012
Students have had to bundle up outside and in classrooms to stay warm last week in two of the newest buildings on campus
PHOTO NATALIA BALCERZAK
Although it has been aroundlonger students in the RCCbuilding are also being left in the
coldldquoRight now I am on my way
to pick up a coffee because Irsquove
been shivering uncontrolla-bly my entire classrdquo said KatieOrsquoToole a first-year journalism
studentldquoPeople in this building have
to make conscious effort to dresswarm if they have class here
which is ridiculousrdquo
Julia Hanigsberg vice-pres-ident of administration and fi-nance said that CFS have com-
pleted an investigation but thatthere are no issues with the heat-ing She has talked to the chairs
of the schools and said that thereare no issues
ldquoThere was a complaint with
regards to RCC being too hotrdquoHanigsberg said via email CFSis addressing that issue by re-
placing a steam valve this week
ThursdayThis year Toronto has faced
harsh winter conditions due to a
polar vortex wind chill that hitduring the month of January andhas resulted in the city recieving
more than 30 extreme cold warn-ings from Environment Canada
Students are urged to contact
CFS if they experience any is-sues so that it can be addressedas soon as possible
RAC lockers gutted during reading weekThe menrsquos lockers in the Ryerson Athletic Centre have been emptied and replaced
A number of male students who
eft their workout clothing shoesnd equipment in the lockers athe Ryerson Recreation and Ath-
etic Centre (RAC) came back af-er their winter break surprised to
find their belongings gone
The lockers in the menrsquos changeoom have been gutted and re-
placed with brand new ones overthe reading week
ldquoThe first Monday back Ijust saw them and they were dif-
ferentrdquo said second-year busi-ness management student Osas
OgiesobaOgiesoba said he received no
notice about the changes and feltthat they should have sent out an
email to students to notify them
ldquoI know people who had clothes
and shoes [in there] and thatrsquos notrightrdquo he said
Ogiesoba also said that the
lockers are significantly smallerthan before and that there are
currently only three regular-sizedlockers
ldquoI canrsquot fit much in them butwersquore paying as much as beforerdquo
he said
Students can rent RAC lockers
for $675 per monthOgiesoba is not alone Other
students say they have not re-
ceived notice of the changes eitherShurraj Rao a third-year me-
chanical engineer student thinksthey should have given better no-tice
ldquoI can just fit a backpack and
I have to cram itrdquo he said ldquoLet
alone shoes and everything elserdquo
But some students say that theRAC made an effort to let stu-dents know of the changes
ldquoThey put up signs itrsquos their
own fault if they left their stuffbecause they were going to kickthem outrdquo said second-year me-
chanical engineer student BolisIbrahim
However Bolis agrees that thesize is not nearly big enoughldquoTherersquos no way you can even fita winter jacket in thererdquo he said
Associate director of athleticsStephanie White said that theyare trying to bring the menrsquos lock-
er room up to the same level as themore recently renovated womenrsquoslocker room
ldquoThe womenrsquos [lockers] are inmuch better shape than the menrsquoswererdquo she said
According to White notices areput on lockers every time lockercuts are planned
ldquoKnowing us we probably put
a note 150 times over and overagainrdquo White said
The RAC charges $10 to returnitems to the owners of lockers thathave been cut
By Sierra Bein
he Recreation and Athletics Centre (RAC) in the Quad has had its menrsquos lockers resized over the February break
PHOTO FARNIA FEKRI
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4 Wednesday March 5 2014EDITORIAL
Editor-in-Chief
Sean ldquoBRB basketballrdquo Tepper
News
Ramisha ldquoGenghis KhanrdquoFarooq
Dylan ldquoMongolian 1rdquoFreeman-Grist
Associate NewsSierra ldquoMongolian 2rdquo Bein
Features
Sean ldquodelusions of grandeurrdquoWetselaar
Biz and Tech
Badri ldquoEdmontonrdquo Murali
Arts and Life
Leah ldquoPlease sleep sometimesrdquoHansen
Sports
Shannon ldquoMobsterrdquo Baldwin
Communities
Nicole ldquoChocoholicrdquo Schmidt
Photo
Natalia ldquoTennis courtrdquoBalcerzak
Jess ldquoLiberteacute EacutegaliteacuteFraterniteacuterdquo Tsang
Associate PhotoFarnia ldquoAncien Reacutegimerdquo Fekri
Head Copy Editor
Allison ldquoBattle-net DCrdquoTierney Elkin
Fun
Jake ldquoIt gets betterrdquo Scott
Media
Behdad ldquoStill underproducingrdquoMahichi
Online
Lindsay ldquoVery coldrdquo Boeckl
John ldquoChancerdquo Shmuel
General Manager
Liane ldquordquo McLarty
Advertising Manager
Chris ldquordquo Roberts
Design Director JD ldquorather be in Riordquo Mowat
Intern Army
Luke ldquoWe didnrsquotrdquo Peters Jacob ldquosign uprdquo Dalfen-Brown
Vanessa ldquofor thisrdquo Ruperto
Contributors
Dasha ldquoI STILL LOVE PUGSrdquoZolota
Tristan ldquoProclivityrdquo SImpsonMelissa ldquoFinnimbrunrdquo Myre
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Brennan ldquoGyradosrdquo DohertyDeni ldquoEkansrdquo VErklanDaniel ldquoCharizardrdquo Rocci
Latifa ldquoAbrardquo AbdinChayonika ldquoBulbasaurrdquo
ChandraLaura ldquoSquirtlerdquo Woodward
Charles ldquoDunkrdquo VanegasMarissa ldquoSwishrdquo Dederer
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TheEyeopenerelection
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5 pm march 27
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begin at 10 ammarch 28thpolls close at 5 pmppp
Charlie ldquoCacophonyrdquo BosayLana ldquoleguminousrdquo HallPamela ldquoPreposterousrdquo
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The Eyeopener is Ryersonrsquos larg-
est and only independent student
newspaper It is owned and oper-
ated by Rye Eye Publishing Inc a
non-profit corporation owned by thestudents of Ryerson Our offices are
on the second floor of the Student
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Back by popular demand this
weekrsquosAnnoying Talking Cof-
fee Mug is PRETTY FUCKING
ANNOYED Staying annoyed
this ldquowinter of our discontentrdquo is
reallly the only way to stay sane
or at least not too stabby So
run around and mutter and curse
Scowl and offer sacrifices What
ever it takes I personally have
taken to studying Voodoo so if
you find sanctified mummifiedrelics in and around Ryerson
just remember not to touch them
because the curse is transfer-
able Arenrsquot you cursed enough
already With five weeks left in
the term the pressure is mount-
ing everything is stone-ass cold
and the sun only shines when the
temperature has dipped below
-20 Will spring ever come Irsquom
not sure Is this the nuclear win-
ter maybe Will the Cold War 20
be a ldquothingrdquo after Russiarsquos putsch
into the Crimean looks like So
what can you do About most
of it sweet fuck all So just lookaway from most shit Instead
concentrate on you friends and
family Buy unexpected treats
find cheap flowers do more than
your share of the chores Make
the space around you the sweet-
est place to be And then maybe
Irsquoll undo that curse on you
PHOTO JESS TSANG
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5Wednesday March 5 2014 NEWS
Ryerson OneCards have OneFlawStudents have been experiencing difficulties because OneCards do not have an expiry date
yerson students are issued OneCards in first year that allows students to get discounts at various local restaurants and retailers
PHOTO NATALIA BALCERZAK
By Allison Tierney Elkin
The Ryerson OneCard isnrsquot just
used for getting access to services
on campus mdash students should
lso be able to use them outside of
chool to get discounts at a number
of businesses
However without expiry dates
on the cards to identify them as
alid for the current year some
tudents have been rejected for dis-
counts that many feel are necessary
to ease financial burdens
James Milos a fourth-year
mathematics student ran into an
issue when he tried to purchase a
discounted Greyhound bus ticket
in Montreal in 2012
His OneCard was issued in fall
2010 mdash the only date present on
the ID
ldquoI couldnrsquot prove I was still in
school with the card because it
wasnrsquot that year anymorerdquo Milos
said
Some businesses have confused
this with the expiry date (itrsquos not
clearly marked) and rejected stu-
dents like Milos discounts
He later complained on Soap-
Box a Ryerson ideas page but
was unsatisfied with the reply the
school gave him They suggested
Milos get an international student
identification card (ISIC) which
has an expiry date for free through
the Ryerson Studentsrsquo Union
(RSU) Though Milos is a domes-tic student he and all Ryerson stu-
dents are eligible for the card
Other schools have different stu-
dent ID policies York University
provides cards for students at the
start of their first semester which is
valid for five years
ldquoThe problem with an expiry
date [is that] you could drop out
and it would still say yoursquore in
schoolrdquo Milos said
University of Ontario Institute
of Technology (UOIT) annually
places a coloured sticker on each
studentrsquos card with the school year
on it indicating that itrsquos currentlyvalid Ryerson used use the sticker
method but changed to its current
policy in 2010
ldquoI understand handing out On-
eCards every year could be expen-
sive but I donrsquot think slapping a
tiny sticker to show that you are
enrolled at a university is any bet-
terrdquo Jeyan Jeganathan a recent
Ryerson journalism grad said
Jeganathan encountered prob-
lems similar to Milos while setting
up a student banking account
ldquoWhen I wanted to renew my
banking [at CIBC] every year they
would always ask me to provide
somethingrdquo Jeganathan said ldquoIwould have to explain that this
is how Ryersonrsquos ID card system
worksrdquo
Ryerson president Sheldon Levy
said that hersquos never heard of prob-
lems with the OneCard before but
wants the expiry date or sticker to
be re-implemented
ldquoWe should make sure that
whatever we do optimizes the ben-
efits for our students so if an expiry
date is an important element of
that we sure would consider it and
implement itrdquo Levy said
ldquoIf it is for the banks or insur-
ance companies we recommendthey print their fee statement or
schedule off their RAMSS ac-
countrdquo Darcy Flynn OneCard
manager said via email Flynn
said there are currently no plans to
change the policy
RSU president Melissa Palermo
also recommended picking up an
ISIC but would prefer more op-
tions for students
ldquoI would encourage the uni-
versity to explore a better way to
identify that cards are valid for dis-
countsrdquo Palermo said
Vice-provost goes with unwritten rule to not share plagiarism data in light of recent CBC survey
By Daniel Rocci
Ryerson did not share its informa-
ion on academic misconduct in
recent CBC survey that studied
heating at Canadian universities
According to Christopher Evans
Ryersonrsquos vice-provost academic
he university withheld its academ-
c misconduct data from the CBC
based on unofficial protocolldquoRyerson actually does not have
policy to not release this kind of
data but it is a practice that was
nstituted by a former provost
everal years agordquo Evans told the
Eyeopener ldquoWe do collect the data
on academic misconduct activities
but we donrsquot make it publicrdquo
The CBC recently published
he results of its survey of 54 uni-
ersities across Canada in which
chools were asked to submit the
number of cases of academic mis-
onduct that went through a for-
mal discipline process during the
011ndash12 term
Some institutions revealed their
ount of formal cases as well as the
percentage of cases by type of mis-
onduct This includes plagiarism
nd having others write exams
and the form of discipline admin-
istered like grade reductions and
expulsions
Evans made the decision after
consulting various members of Ry-
ersonrsquos senate and academic admin-
istration including the provost the
secretary of senate and the director
of the academic integrity office But
he isnrsquot entirely sure why the proto-
col is in place to begin withldquoIt may seem a bit odd but our
former provost made the decision
to create this practice and it pre-
dates my being at this jobrdquo Ev-
ans said ldquoI donrsquot know what his
thoughts were in keeping discrete
about the data but thatrsquos the deci-
sion that was made prior to 2010
and wersquove just been continuing
with that practicerdquo
Evansrsquos predecessor is Alan
Shepard now president and vice-
chancellor of Concordia Univer-
sity
Shepard could not be reached for
comment
Concordia participated in the
CBC survey on 256 cases of aca-
demic misconduct
Lisa Taylor a journalism instruc-
tor at Ryerson who specializes
in law and ethics spoke to The
Eyeopener about Ryersonrsquos stance
on releasing the data
ldquoIt concerns me and it disap-
points merdquo Taylor said ldquoI donrsquot
think any issue that we face in any
public institution is improved by
failing to discuss itrdquo
The lack of official policy regard-
ing the publication of academic
misconduct data will be addressedin Ryersonrsquos current review of its
student code of academic conduct
also known as policy 60
ldquoThe [review] committee will
at some point come to a decision
and make a recommendation to
the senate about the desirability or
not of publicizing informationrdquo
Evans said That decision will de-
pend on opinions from across cam-
pus
ldquoIrsquod like to see the results re-leased so that we can see how we
measure up compared to every-
one elserdquo said Gabrielle Poirier a
first-year politics and governance
student ldquoIf there is an issue then
everyone should know about itrdquo
Policy 60 was originally ap-
proved in March 2003 and most
recently received minor amend-
ments in June 2013
According to Evans itrsquos overdue
for a review as extensive as the oneit is currently undergoing
Ryerson opts to not share data on plagiarism
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6 Wednesday March 5 2014NEWS
tarting in September 2014 third-
ear business management students
will have the option to major in real
state management
The program was specifically de-igned for students seeking to work
n all facets of the real estate indus-
ry as well as students who want to
xpand their education beyond the
basic bachelor of commerce degree
Steven Murphy dean of the Ted
Rogers School of Management
TRSM) said that Ryersonrsquos loca-
ion in downtown Toronto is a big
actor in the creation of the pro-
ram ldquoReal estate is a very vibrant
part of our economy Offering real
state management we think will
ive our students some edge of
racking into the industryrdquo Mur-
phy said ldquoBecause we are ultra-
urban we get how real estate issuesntertwine I think when you live
nd breathe it every day you have
o start offering things that match
he daily reality of studentsrdquo
Murphy says hersquos excited by the
majorrsquos potential and sees buzz
around the program from the stu-
dent body ldquoStudents are turned on
by the possibilities of how they can
contribute in a sustainable way to
city planningrdquo Murphy said
In comparison to other real es-
tate programs Ryersonrsquos is focusedon building a better future The
program was designed around a
philosophy of sustainability and de-
velopment which Murphy says fits
into the DNA of Ryerson
ldquoAnyone can put up a condo
building but not everyone can
create a communityrdquo he said ldquoSo
I think this program is far more
about what yoursquore doing in real
estate and how it connects to the
community We are trying to in-
still in students that profit is very
short-termrdquo
Currently students in business
management may choose to ma-
jor in economics amp managementscience entrepreneurship amp strat-
egy global management studies
human resources management
and organizational behaviour
law amp business and marketing
management
It only goes up from hereLack of elevators creating accessibility problem for students
By Latifa Abdin
There has been an increased number of calls reporting broken elevators this year
PHOTO FARNIA FEKRI
ume The many people using
these elevators every day means
that required service and repairscan occur more often than at oth-
er locationsrdquo she wrote
According to Bailey there has
been an increased number of calls
for the library and the school of
management than last year in the
same period
ldquoSo far this year we have had
24 service calls for the LIB and
[TRSM] several of which were
resolved overnight with little to
no impact to users in the area
This is consistent with previous
years with 18 calls during the
same timeframe in 2013rdquo she
said in the email
Bailey noted that while elevatorbreakdowns are more likely to
occur in this building because of
the large amount of people who
use them misuse can often be the
cause of break downs and slow-
ing down of the elevators
ldquoOne continuing challenge
is how often the elevators areused to go up or down a single
floor which increases wear and
tear increases wait times and
decreases accessibility for those
who require it We encourage the
community to use the stairs in li-
brary and escalators in [TRSM]
whenever possible and save the
elevators for those with mobil-
ity requirementsrdquo she wrote
According to Kelly Dermody a
librarian at Ryersonrsquos library al-
ternative arrangments are in place
to assist students who cannot
walk up stairs due to a disability
ldquoWe have a emergency contin-
gency plan We have 4 elevatorsand if 3 or 4 elevators are down
for more than a few hours we
will work with the University to
inform all students with disabili-
tiesrdquo Said Dermody
A tearful day in court
The mother of alleged murdererFarshad Badkhshan gave a tearful
testimony against her sonrsquos sanity
on March 4
The defence called Sedigheh
Moriadi to testify about her sonrsquos
decent into mental illness which
she said began in Iran in1989
She recounted her familyrsquos mi-
gration to Canada and consequen-
tial settling and resettling across
the country such as Halifax Pick-
ering Ont and Vancouver
Badahkshan is pleading that hersquos
not criminally responsible for the
death of Ryerson student Corina
Patrache in July of 2010
Defence attorney Victoria Riv-
ers spoke to the jury just after 10
am on March 4 advocating di-
rectly to the jury on Badakhshanrsquos
behalf for the first time in the trial
ldquoYoursquove heard about his strange
weird bizarre behaviourrdquo Rivers
said She argued that all the crown
had brought forth recounting theabsurd nature of Badahkshan at
the time of Petrachersquos death was
purely the result of a ldquopsychiatric
disorder resistant to anti-psychot-
ic medicationrdquo
She had left to live by herself in
Vancouver It wasnrsquot long before
Badakhshan had joined her across
the country that she noticed a
change in his behaviour
ldquoHe said the people from Hali-
fax are after himrdquo Moriadi told
the jury At one point while stay-
ing with Badakhshan in a Toronto
apartment he had approached her
with a knife and calm expression
ldquo[He said] lsquoMom I love you I
want to take you with mersquordquo said
Moriadi fighting back tears
She then told the court that she
moved to Calgary in July of 2007
leaving Badakhshan alone in To-
ronto ldquoYou have not heard at all
about what happened to Mr Ba-
dahkshanrdquo said Rivers to the juryShe then showed the jury a
photo of Badakhshan before se-
vere burning and the multiple skin
graphs in July 2010
ldquoYou will also see
MrBadakhshan [was in] a medi-
cally induced coma for several
months after the incidentrdquo said
Rivers ldquoThat he tried to kill him-
self when given the opportunity to
do sordquo
She noted the testimony of Peter
Tran in which he recounted some
of the last words of Petrache
Rivers argued Tranrsquos recol-
lection of Petrache saying ldquohe
wouldnrsquot stop hitting mersquordquo was
by the psychological and physical
trauma Petrache suffered before
her death
The trial continues
A new real estate program will be starting up in September 2014PHOTO JESS TSANG
Lack of elevator service in theuniversityrsquos library and at the Ted
Rogers School of Management
(TRSM) are raising tensions
around campus
Megan Saliwonczyk a third-
year nursing student said that
almost every time she has been
in the library at least one of the
elevators has been out of service
ldquoThere is usually only one [el-
evator] working A lot of the
rooms that we book for meetings
are on the seventh floor or the
sixth floor and you donrsquot always
want to walk up a flight of stairs
with a heavy backpack rdquo shesaid
She said that when one or more
of the elevators are out of ser-
vice huge crowds of students end
up waiting for elevators which
slows down the services
ldquoI study at York at lot instead
because their library you know
functionsrdquo said Celina Rosso a
third-year childhood and youth
care student
Kerri Bailey a manager for
Campus Facilities amp Sustainabil-
ity at Ryerson said in an email
that because elevators at the Ry-
erson library and TRSM are used
a lot they break down more oftenbut that the campus facilities are
quick to resolve any issues
ldquoThe banks of elevators in li-
brary and Ted Rogers School of
Management are very high vol-
Mother of accused details extent of sonrsquos illness
By Charlie Bossy
Real Estate at Rye
By Jake Scott andDylan Freeman-Grist
TRANSFER TO QUEENrsquoSLife SciencesLearn more queensucatransfer
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7Wednesday March 5 2014 NEWS
Blackboard benchedRyersonrsquos web portal might be replaced by end of 2014
By Badri Murali
After 11 years Ryerson students
nd staff may be working with anew online student portal
Ryersonrsquos Computing and Com-
munications Services (CCS) the de-
partment that handles technology
nd computer support is reviewing
pplications to replace Blackboard
They have received applications
rom various companies over the
past few months for a new online
earning portal
CCS is working with the Faculty
of Communication and Design the
earning and teaching office digital
ducation strategies at the Chang
chool and the library to decide
which ideas will work best for Ry-rson After looking at each pro-
posal they will be testing potential
programs
Brian Lesser director of CCS is
one of 13 members on the Advisory
Committee on Academic Comput-
ng (ACAC) that will decide which
applicants will make it to Ryersonrsquos
shortlist Lesser said that students
and staff have told him they want
more tools and a better layout forBlackboard
ldquoStudents want things like blogs
and file storage to interact with
their course materialrdquo Lesser said
ldquoSince we began with Google
some of this is now possiblerdquo
Ryerson adopted its agreement
with Google Apps for Education
in September 2012 This allows
students and staff to use apps
like Gmail Google Calendar and
Google Drive which stores files
online Lesser said he received
feedback from students saying that
Google Apps has helped with some
of their problems but they wouldlike to see more
In a 2013 survey conducted by
CCS many staff said that they
want to be able to immediately
contact students with marks and
other updates and were sometimes
facing difficulty on Blackboard to
do so Staff also said that they want
to be able to mark up documents
submitted by students but often
run into problems making com-ments on them
The applications from external
groups were due on Feb 28 Once
the CCS and ACAC create a short
list they will be presented to the
Ryerson community for feedback
The feedback will then be collected
through townhall sessions and in-
dividual meetings with CCS to let
staff and students test the applica-
tions in real time Once this has
been done and after ACAC pro-
cesses feedback only then will CCS
proceed to replace the system
ldquoWe should have the trial pro-
cess beginning in May to receivefeedback from usersrdquo Lesser said
ldquoIt would be great to get a new sys-
tem working for fall 2014rdquo
There is a consultation blog
available at lmsblogryersonca
detailing what ACAC and CCS are
doing throughout this process
DMZ touches down in IndiaBy Lana Hall
Canadarsquos Governor General David
ohnston threw the coconut on the
round and mdash luckily for him andRyerson University mdash it cracked
An Indian tradition to mark the
tart of a new project the coco-
nutrsquos cracking is supposed to bring
ood luck It was a welcome sign
or Johnston and his team of gov-
rnment and Ryerson leaders who
were in Mumbai India last week
o oversee the opening of a Digital
Media Zone (DMZ) program
The Bombay Stock Exchange
nstitute Ltd (BIL)-Ryerson DMZ
ndia modeled on Ryerson Uni-
versityrsquos DMZ It was built in col-
laboration with Ryerson Ryerson
Futures Inc Simon Fraser Univer-
sity and the BIL It was officially
opened on Feb 28The original DMZ at Ryerson is
a multi-program business incuba-
tor and workspace for entrepre-
neurs that was founded in 2010
The India-based version will op-
erate similarly with the goal of
helping technology-based startups
with their operations and expos-
ing them to mentors customers
and investors
Ryerson president Sheldon Levy
whom also accompanied John-
ston to India said that the zone
in Mumbai has huge potential for
Ryerson
ldquoThis will give our students an
opportunity to spend time in In-
dia as well as students in India tospend time in Canadardquo Levy said
ldquoI think itrsquos going to be a fabulous
opportunityrdquo
Kristin Heredia a spokesper-
son for the DMZ here at Ryerson
said the university plans to launch
other DMZ programs abroad but
is currently focusing on India be-
cause it will have the largest popu-
lation of young people worldwide
by the year 2020
As one of the youngest emerging
nations India will need to be able
to employ more young people
said Ambarish Datta the CEO of
BIL-Ryerson DMZ IndialdquoWe are confident that this incu-
bator will not only provide em-
ployment for our youth but also
build products and solutions that
put India on the global map of in-
novationrdquo Datta said in a news
release
ldquoThe Canada-India economic
relationship is strongrdquo said John-
ston in a government press release
ldquo[It] holds tremendous potential
for broader and expanded col-
laborationrdquo
The stop in Mumbai where
Johnston also had the opportu-
nity to open the Bombay Stock
Exchange was part of a larger
India-wide tour during which he
spoke with officials in Bangalore
and New Delhi regarding business
and educationDavid Johnston cuts the ribbon at the DMZrsquos brand new Indian sister project
PHOTO COURTESY CARBE ORELLANA
NewsBites
Theft duringexam
A studentrsquos iPhone was stolen Feb
26 after heshe was asked to leave
it at the front of the class during a
test according to Ryerson emer-
gency and security services
According to security no policy
was put in place by the instructor
to secure the electronic devices
while the students wrote the test
ldquo[Proctors] typically ask [stu-
dents] to bring their bags to the
frontrdquo said Tanya Poppleton
manager of security and emer-
gency services ldquoIrsquove never heard
of placing cellphones on the table
at the frontrdquo
Chequesgrowing stale
Students who have yet to collect
their health plan opt-out chequeswill need to do so before they lose
access to the money
The cheques as per Canadian
law will be void six months from
their issue date on Nov 10
The RSU will reissue cheques af-
ter the date of expiry for up to 15
months after the original date they
were issued
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8 Wednesday March 5 2014FEATURES
BR
ICEThough somein some partsTristan Simpmale figure s
PHOTO SHANNON BALDWIN
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Wednesday March 5 2014 9FEATURES
The cheers echo throughout
the arena as the announcer
introduces the next menrsquos
ree skate entrant Spencer Buchan-
n Decked in all black he casually
lides backwards with his hands in
his pockets as if it was a free skate
on Mattamy Athletic Centrersquos ice
He doesnrsquot look like a typical figure
kater He doesnrsquot wear elaborate
ostumes For him a plain tee and
pants will do He stands six feet two
inches mdash taller than most competi-
tors He brings his large frame to
a slow then raises his lengthy arms
to embrace the sound He stops at
centre ice He gathers himself and
starts his routine
There are 17 students on Ryer-
sonrsquos figure skating team Two of
them are male and only one is per-
mitted to compete Figure skaters
are judged on their technique and
finesse but it is a female-dominat-
ed sport The male minority that
does compete at the university
level struggles to gain the recog-
nition awarded to their female
counterparts Ontario University
Athletics (OUA) has one event for
men to compete in at the figure
skating championships and win-ter invitationals The women have
14 events for singles pairs fours
and teams Most university teams
have just one male player on their
squad
Buchanan says he didnrsquot
always want to be a fig-
ure skater ldquoWhen I was
younger all of my friends were
playing hockey and they would
poke fun at [me] for figure skat-
ingrdquo he says ldquoWhen that hap-
pens you want to fit in and just
play hockeyrdquo He changed his
mind after his childhood coachtold him he had the potential to
excel in figure skating
ldquoI think the fact [that the OUA]
only has one event for men is a
gender biasrdquo figure skating head
coach Lauren Wilson says She
says she doesnrsquot think the gender
bias is done on purpose but the
structure of the OUA figure skat-ing championships doesnrsquot help
ldquoOur roster is limited to 17 and
therersquos only one competition for
men We canrsquot make room for
more guyshellip Men can compete
in the synchro event but that still
leaves their options lowrdquo Buchan-
an chose not to partake in team
synchro ldquoI train on my own so
doing synchro wouldnrsquot work for
merdquo he says
Buchanan notes that the sport
faces a lack of recognition ldquoMost
people donrsquot take it serious They
donrsquot know the sport all they
know is Blades of Gloryrdquo
An hour before the competi-
tion Buchanan was writ-
ing an exam The 22-year-
old is a second-year accounting
student at Ryerson On top of his
studies hersquos been competing in
figure skating for six years ldquoMy
whole family has been skating for
a long timerdquo he says
Like any athlete he devoted a
lot of time to training until his
luck took a turn for the worst on
May 5 2012 He was walking
home alone from a bar in Mon-
treal when he was hit by a car
ldquoI really donrsquot have any memo-
ry of what happenedrdquo Buchanan
says He was found in the middle
of the street unconscious and
bleeding at 335 am He woke up
in a downtown Montreal hospi-
tal
Buchanan suffered a baseline
skull fracture that kept him off
the ice for a year ldquoI wasnrsquot sure if
I could [go] back to skatingrdquo he
says Buchanan was inspired by
Javier Fernandez mdash the 2014 Eu-
ropean menrsquos figure skating cham-
pion He says watching Fernandezskate at the Toronto Cricket Skat-
ing and Curling Club pushed him
back into competition
Buchananrsquos first dance back on
the ice was rough ldquoI hadnrsquot com-
peted in like two years and I for-
got how much it took to skate
[figure skating] is surprisingly tir-
ing and I was out of breath for like
half an hourrdquo Figure skating com-
petitions are tightly judged Skat-
ers are scored on the difficulty and
style of the routine but theyrsquore
sometimes also judged off the ice
by society
Buchanan says that some peoplemake sweeping assumption about
male figure skaters mdash sometimes
extending to their sexuality ldquoIrsquom
not gay but [that] notion people
have bugs me a little bitrdquo He says
these assumptions deter athletes
from pursuing the sport ldquoIf you
are gay it can be hard to deal with
the way people label yourdquoEmily Rose Galliani Pecchia a
third-year forward on the Ryerson
womenrsquos hockey team says ldquoPeo-
ple shouldnrsquot make these assump-
tions flat out Whether theyrsquore
a figure skater hockey player or
wrestler it doesnrsquot determine if
theyrsquore gay or straightrdquo
Galliani Pecchia whom is gay
says athletes should be able to
compete in any sport without be-
ing judged
ldquoIf an athlete is gay they
should feel comfortable enough
to compete Itrsquos not fair for an
athlete to feel uncomfortable intheir field of playrdquo she says She
adds that her teammates are open
about their sexuality ldquoThere is
always someone to talk to within
our dressing room which is an
anomaly in varsity sport since it
is a taboo subjectrdquo
Pierre Alain interim head coach
of the Ryerson womenrsquos hockey
team says there are false percep-
tions that female hockey play-
ers are physical and butch ldquoYes
many players like the physical part
of the [sport] but thatrsquos not all
you need to be a good playerrdquo He
says athletes shouldnrsquot be catego-
rized based on the sport they playldquoLook at Meghan Agosta mdash she
started as a figure skater before
doing hockeyrdquo
Figure skating isnrsquot a promi-
EAKERSare often seen as being male-dominatedworld of athleticism men are a minoritykes a look at the often-overlooked sport of
When I was younger all my friends were play-ing hockey and they would poke fun at [me]for figure skating When that happens youwant to fit in and just play hockey
nent sport at most universities
The crowd at the OUAs is meager
compared to the ones at a basket-
ball or hockey games and is made
up mostly of athletesrsquo teammates
But Buchanan says that figure
skating is growing
When Buchanan was a kid he
would take cover when people
made fun of him for figure skat-ing Today he is less shy ldquoSome
people give you a look but it
doesnrsquot bother me anymorerdquo His
response to those who question
the physical demand required to
compete ldquoWhy donrsquot you give it
a try and see how you dordquo
Buchanan knows what to
do to win He preps him-
self mentally while sitting
in the menrsquos changeroom at the
OUAs ldquoYou have to focus in You
have to relax Donrsquot over-analyze
things Let your body do what
you trained it to dordquo he saysAfter he is mentally prepared he
heads to the ice Buchanan walks
on the Rams mat before leaving
the changeroom then remem-
bers ldquoYoursquore not supposed to do
that mdash itrsquos bad luckrdquo During the
warm-up skate Daft Punkrsquos One
More Time radiates through the
arena Competitors are already
on the ice perfecting their routine
Each one exudes confidence ldquoIrsquom
not going to lie I really want to
winrdquo he says
One after another they take
the ice and perform their routine
Buchanan is the third competitor
to hit the ice and he emerges toElton Johnrsquos Your Song Some of
the female athletes in the audi-
ence begin to sing along and they
throw flowers at him when the
routine is finished Many of the
menrsquos routines were comedic and
they were often met with laugh-
ter Some audience members com-
mented on Buchananrsquos ldquosparklesrdquo
on his black tee
Every spin jump and turn is
completed with grace He ex-
plodes with a double axel He
nails jump after jump then sud-
denly staggers on his landing
He throws his hands to catchhimself and continues He elicits
more cheers from the audience by
breaking down with a few robot
dance moves He ends his routine
with a flurry of spin moves He
comes to a halt and then puts his
hands back in his pockets
Buchanan doesnrsquot win his event
mdash the menrsquos open singles mdash but
he does finish second His inspi-
ration mdash Fernandez mdash places
fourth at the Sochi Olympics the
same day he competes in Toronto
Buchanan doesnrsquot stick around
to watch the awards presenta-
tion because he has work mdash his
sister accepts his medal for him
ldquoYou never know what to ex-
pect I didnrsquot watch everyone else
skaterdquo He pauses ldquoSecond place
is alrightrdquo
PHOTOS FARNIA FEKRI
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10 Wednesday March 5 2014BIZ amp TECH
A studentrsquos guide to filing your taxesByPamelaJohnston
trsquos that time of year again Gatherour receipts employment and ed-
ucation records because itrsquos time to
file your tax returns Donrsquot worry
he Eyeopener has everything you
need to know about claiming your
xpenses If after reading this you
till find the whole concept of a
ax return too hard to grasp you
an go to the tax clinics organized
by the Ryerson Studentsrsquo Union
(RSU) They are held throughout
March up until April 3 Members
of the RSU and Continuing Educa-
tion Studentsrsquo Association of Ryer-
son (CESAR) can use Ufileca to filetheir taxes
Remember the deadline to file
individual returns to the Canada
Revenue Agency (CRA) is April
30 If you file late you will be fined
five per cent of what you owe from
2013 and one per cent of that bal-
ance for each late month So get off
your ass and git lsquoer done
ILLUSTRATION BY JESS TSANG
THIS WEEK AT THE MAC
MATTAMYAC
HOME OF THE
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APRIL 3 2014 1230PM amp 600PM
TICKET PRICES
FLOOR SEATS - $30 STANDS - $20
(Before applicable service charges)
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MARCH 28 2014 700PM
DOORS OPEN AT 630PM
bull Performances by Ryerson Students
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ON SALE NOW
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11Wednesday March 5 2014 COMMUNITIES
The gift that keeps on givingGifts for Strangers an initiative created by Ryerson business student Cole Banning goes global
By Mikaila Kukurudza
Banningrsquos organization Improv in Toronto hosts regular events within the Toronto communityPHOTO MIKAILA KUKURUDZA
econd-year Ryerson business stu-
dent Cole Banning has mastered
he art of making strangers smile If
oursquove ever been given a wrapped
box containing a handmade gift
by a stranger on the street in To-
onto therersquos a good chance the
2-year-old had something to do
with it
Banning founded Improv in
Toronto a group that organizes
vents across the city when he was
senior in high school He has since
xpanded on the organization and
reated different projects mdash Gifts
or Strangers is the most recogniz-ble The project is exactly what
t sounds like Around the holiday
eason Banning and his team hand
out gifts to people on the street
ldquoTo be approached by a ran-
dom stranger and given a gift
might brighten [someonersquos] dayrdquo
Banning said ldquoYou hope that
ou made that difference which
s strange to say because all wersquore
doing is fooling around and hav-
ng funrdquo
Gifts for Strangers began three
ears ago and has been growing in
popularity since This year 33 cit-
es in over 23 countries participat-
ed in the event Banningrsquos concept
was inspired by a group in New
York City called Improv Every-
where which conducts similar ur-
ban art projects and experiments
But Gifts for Strangers isnrsquot the
only project Improv in Toronto
has undertaken Banning and his
team of 20 plan sporadic commu-
nity projects on a regular basis In
the past these events have includ-
ed pantless subway trips umbrella
taxi services to escort pedestrians
through the rain and pillow fights
at Yonge-Dundas Square
The goal is to bring strangers to-
gether through unexpected inter-
active events and add spice to the
day-to-day lives of Torontonians
ldquoI think people going through
their lives put up a wall Itrsquos nice
to break the boundaryrdquo Banning
saidImprov in Toronto has held over
50 free family-friendly events
around Toronto over the past six
years The group also has a You-
Tube channel with over 25 000
subscribers (some videos have over
5 million views)
ldquoIt just blew up I wasnrsquot pre-
pared or readyrdquo Banning said
Things really took off after an
overwhelming turnout at Improv
in Torontorsquos second event mdash a
large-scale Wherersquos Waldo hunt
in the Eaton Centre The event re-
sulted in Banning being escorted
out of his hiding place by mall se-curity due to the overcrowding he
had created with his Waldo hunt
Banning credits the success of
his organization to social media
and his goal to fill a strangerrsquos day
with a little laughter He believes
that by creating an inclusive com-
munity and bringing strangers to-
gether the seriousness of everyday
routines can be mitigated
ldquoItrsquos nice to be taken away from
the stress of life even if itrsquos just for
a minuterdquo Banning said
For students hoping to get in-
volved Banning suggests ldquodonat-
ing your time not moneyrdquo
Constructing communities
ByOliviaMcLeod
Architecture students build a community shelter in Newfoundland
A group of six Ryerson architec-
ure students were chosen to par-
icipate in a unique and unifying
project over reading week The
roup travelled to Botwood NLo create a structure for the townrsquos
heritage park at a Second World
War airplane base
The build was initiated through
Culture of Outports mdash a project
ssociated with ERA Architects
n Toronto For the past four
ears they have annually trav-
lled around Newfoundland to
onserve cultural heritage through
rchitecture Three of these devel-
opments have been with Ryerson
ldquoI think our partnership [with
Ryerson] works really well be-
ause there is that opportunity to
work here together in Toronto and
do work and planning before we
o out together to the east coastrdquo
Alana Young project coordinator
aid
The structure itself sits on the
foundation of an old weather sta-
tion on a pathway to Killick Island
mdash Botwoodrsquos prime tourist spot
and nature trail
ldquoThe continued story heard
from people was they wanted to
see something on that roadway
going to the islandrdquo said Scott
Sceviour deputy mayor of Bot-
wood ldquoWe had some benchesthere for rest areas but people
wanted to see something there so
thatrsquos where [the idea] was bornrdquo
The structure is essentially
a wooden-planked box with a
sloped roof There are rectangu-
lar cutouts in the walls that align
with historic plane crash sights
in the surrounding area Because
of this Young calls it the ldquoview-
finderrdquo
Typically a project like this
would take two weeks to finish
but because of the studentsrsquo sched-
ules it became a ldquocompressed
eight-day adventurerdquo
ldquoEverybody was just great and
supportive Itrsquos almost like you ask
everyone to suspend their disbelief
for a few days and just kind of get
on this rollercoaster with you and
see where it goesrdquo Young said
Without the community Young
said the project wouldnrsquot exist Be-
cause of very cold weather condi-
tions the entire structure had to be
built inside of the townrsquos fire hall
and then transported by trucks to
the site They provided the tools
experienced labour and even the
teamrsquos meals along with endlesssupport hospitality and help
Students said the experience of
bringing a design to life is like no
other experience theyrsquove had so
far
ldquoActually getting to build it and
[getting] a community involved
and [having] real feedback from
people who are going to use the
space is really valuablerdquo Kate
Gonashvili a fourth-year architec-
ture student said
Young said because of this proj-
ectrsquos success they are going to
continue working with Botwood
in the future
ldquoWe have ideas as far as nextsteps and what they can do and
theyrsquore really engaged so thatrsquos ex-
actly the kind of community you
want to work withrdquoRyerson students spent eight days building this structure in Newfoundland
PHOTOS COURTESY ALANA YOUNG
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12 Wednesday March 5 2014ARTS amp LIFE
Need a job Stop surfing and start walking
When Parth Patel was in his firstew years of the engineering pro-
ram he found getting a summer
ob to be quite challenging
ldquoI applied to more than 60 or
70 jobsrdquo he said ldquoI [was] trying
o find work [in engineering] but
wasnrsquot able tordquo
The frustration of finding a
ummer job is something many
Looking for a summer job can be frustrating but relying on the Internet may be hurting you more than you know
students have experienced before
especially since the 2008 econom-
ic crisis when markets around theworld crashed Searching through
thousands of job listings online
perfecting your resumeacute and send-
ing it out can take hours
But if yoursquore hoping to score
that ideal job going back to the
basics is the way to go said Dan-
iel Kennedy a career consultant
at Ted Rogers School of Manage-
Since the 2008 economic crisis the job market has seen fierce competition mdash sepa-rating yourself from the rest is the first step in being noticed
PHOTOS FARNIA FEKRI
ment careers and employment
partnerships centre
ldquoIf you go into [the websites]Monster or Workopolis and you
type in lsquosummer jobsrsquo yoursquore going
to find job postingsrdquo he said ldquoThe
problem is there are about four mil-
lion other students across Canada
who are going to find those same
job postingsrdquo
It often comes down to doing
some old-fashioned scouting on the
ground Kennedy said adding that
proactively approaching employers
can make a bigger impression than
simply sending a resumeacute by email
ldquoWhat students should do if they
really want to make a go of it is to
look for companies that donrsquot havethe capacity to advertise for those
summer jobsrdquo he said ldquoIf you can
identify and find those companies
and approach them proactively
that will give you a much better
chancerdquo
Because finding a job can be so
difficult in Toronto many students
decide to go back to their home-
towns for the summer where the
competition is less fierce and jobs
are easier to come by
Laura Hamel a first-year perfor-
mance acting student said shersquoll be
moving back home for the summer
because of the cost of living in To-
rontoldquoIrsquom from Regina so Irsquoll be mov-
ing home to find a jobrdquo she said
ldquoItrsquos a lot cheaper to live at home
and I have a solid job at homerdquo
For Patel scoring a job came
with a visit to his sister in Calgary
one summer While he was there
he applied to only five or six jobs
and ended up getting a summer po-
sition that matched his field
The summer job market comes
down to basic supply and demand
Kennedy said
ldquoOn the supply side you have
basically a lot of students that are
looking for jobs during the sum-mer months and thatrsquos fine as long
as the demandrsquos thererdquo he said
ldquoThe demand really hasnrsquot been
there since 2008rdquo
Brennan Thompson undergrad-
uate program director in the school
of economics says that the reces-
sion of 2008 has brought everyone
down a notch when it comes to the
job market
ldquoThe guy who was working at
the auto assembly plant loses his
job and now hersquos taking the low-
paid job at Tim Hortonrsquosrdquo he said
ldquoNow the young person who used
to have that job at Tim Hortonrsquos
[doesnrsquot] have anythingrdquo
Kennedy says the market is start-
ing to bounce back But compared
to 10 years ago finding a summer
job is far more of a challenge Even
in a city as big as Toronto compe-
tition can be fierce because thereare so many students looking for
temporary employment
According to Kennedy even
if the job you end up with isnrsquot at
all related to your field itrsquos still a
good idea to include it on your
resumeacute Employers look at how
your skills have evolved even if
the job you had was just bussing
tables The hard skills you gain
might not be related to your future
career but the soft skills mdashlike leadership skills problem-
solving abilities and customer ser-
vice experience mdash will come in
handy
ldquoNo one is expecting you to
graduate here and have four years
of senior project management ex-
periencerdquo he said
ldquoWhat they want to see is that
therersquos a progressionrdquo
By Leah Hansen
Ryerson graduate Peter Hill is performing at the ninth annual Toronto SketchComedy Festival as part of a duo called Beggarrsquos Canyon See the full article by AlexHeck at theeyeopenercom
PHOTO COURTESY TARA NOELLE
Laughing it up
Discuss the upcoming budget
All members of the Ryerson community are invited to
attend a town hall to discuss the development of the
universityrsquos budget for the 2014-15 academic year
Hosted by
SHELDON LEVY
president
MOHAMED LACHEMI
provost and vice president academic
PAUL STENTON
deputy provost and vice-provost university planning
TOWN HALL MEETING
Wednesday March 12 9 ndash 10 am
Architecture Building Room ARC ndash 108
Thursday March 20 230 ndash 330 pm
Library Building Room LIB ndash 72
President Levy is confirmed to attend the March 20 meeting
To submit questions in advance email provostryersonca
Please contact us if we need to make any accommodations to
ensure your inclusion in this meeting
Come to aRyersonCommunityTown Hall
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13Wednesday March 5 2014 SPORTS
A puckinggood season
n the last 37 years Ryersonrsquos
menrsquos hockey team has never made
t past the semifinals
Even with a team that nearly
doubled last seasonrsquos 14-win per-
ormance the Rams fell prey to
his historical barrier on Feb 28
when a 5-1 semifinal loss to the
Lakehead University Thunder-
wolves ended their season
ldquoWe played an uphill battle all
nightrdquo Rams head coach Graham
Wise said ldquoThey unfortunatelygot on the board firstrdquo
In spite of the disappointing
oss this marked the Ramsrsquo best
performance in the last decade
But that success didnrsquot come
without a few major bumps along
he way Their high-powered start
o the season came to a screeching
halt due to a seven-day suspen-
ion they were handed for drink-
ng alcohol while on a team road
rip The Rams had to forfeit two
games during their suspension
but managed to come back strong
mdash ranking fourth in the Ontario
University Athletics (OUA) West
division by the seasonrsquos endldquoWersquove come a long way from
ighth place and I think we had a
eally good year for ourselvesrdquo sec-
ond-year forward Jamie Wise said
Coached by his father Graham
Wise Jamie achieved a career-
high 45 points mdash ranking him
hird in the Canadian Interuni-
versity Sports (CIS) His 21 goals
his season mdash compared to the
ight he scored last season mdash
made him the second-leading
corer in the country
By Devin Jones
amie Wise the Ramsrsquo leading scorer and second-ranked in the country on home ice
PHOTO FARNIA FEKRI
Fellow forward Dominic Alber-
ga also had a standout season
A third-line grinder from the
Ontario Hockey League (OHL)
Albergarsquos first-line rookie perfor-
mance for the Rams was anything
but expected
Alberga contributed 44 points
and 18 goals to the team He
achieved second place on the team
for goals scored and is nationally
ranked fourth in points mdash all in his
first year as a Ram
But as the menrsquos hockey team
celebrates new talent they alsosay goodbye to two of their key
players Both right-winger Dustin
Alcock and captain Andrew Buck
are graduating this year Buck
scored 90 goals in his 125-game
career with the Rams and wore
the captainrsquos patch for three of his
five years
ldquoItrsquos a surreal feeling and Irsquom
not really sure if itrsquos hit me yetrdquo
Buck said ldquoIrsquoll miss not going
to the rink every day and seeing
the guys but Irsquove had a great five
years so I canrsquot complainrdquo
The Rams are ranked fourth in
the OUA West division and made
their third-straight playoff appear-ance for the first time in history
The last time the Rams earned a
semifinal spot in the playoffs was
the 2009ndash10 season
The team will take some time off
before the coaching staff begins
the journey to next yearrsquos home
opener a process head coach Wise
said will begin with recruitment
ldquoRecruiting is ongoingrdquo he
said ldquoHopefully we can bring in
guys that will make the team bet-
ter and wersquoll go from thererdquo
History repeats itself for Rye hockey
The end of the menrsquos hockey season marks the end of all the Ramsrsquo seasons Go to theeyeopenercom fora cheat sheet on how they ended and which players were awarded OUA titles EyeSports theeyeopener
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4 Wednesday March 5 2014FUN
Dedicated to Dan W
This week wersquore giving away a car Actually just $20 toTim Hortonrsquos Fill it out drop it off in the contest boxoutside of SCC 207 This is a raffle contest not a first-to-finish oneName Student Email Phone
Pugilisim of the StatePHOTO JESS TSANG
ILLUSTRATION DASHA ZOLOTA
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Cumming Soon Sin amp Vice
Now that our annual Love amp Sex issue is overand done with there has been a serious lackof cunning linguists in this paper Thatrsquos whereour new columnist comes in Her name is Lou-ise and shersquos ready to take your questionsabout what goes down (or doesnrsquot) beneaththe sheets Send us all the slippery sticky andsensual questions you have We promise topublish your questions anonymously and un-edited Nothing is too raunchy or embarrass-ing Send your inquiries to funtheeyeopenercom and Louise will answer in the next issue
W I N T I C K E T S t o s e e3 0 0 R I S E O F A N E M P I R E
B e o n e o f t h e f i r s t 1 5 s t a r t i n g a tn o o n M a r c h 5 t h t o w i n J u s t c o m e t o
t h e E y e o p e n e r - S C C 2 0 7
bull
This is NOT Louise
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3Wednesday March 5 2014 NEWS
Students bundle up in cold classroomsFluctuating temperatures across campus are causing uncomfortable learning conditions
By
SierraBein
Ryerson staff and students havehad a hard time shaking off thehills from the cold weather out-
ide as a number of buildings onampus have reached frigid tem-
peratures due to a lack of heat-
ngA number of students have
one to class in full winter attire
fter heating has been malfunc-ioning in the Rogers Communi-ation Centre (RCC) and the Im-ges Arts (IMA) building two of
Ryersonrsquos newest schoolsThree weeks ago The
Eyeopener published a story
bout heating issues in the ag-ng Kerr Hall building which
was built in the 1960s Now the
problem has expanded to newerbuildings on campus
Students who have classes in
hese buildings have been feelinghe dip in temperature such ashird-year photography student
avannah OnnofrayldquoI have a winter sweater on
nd itrsquos still super coldrdquo she said
Onnofray has classes on thethird floor of the IMA building
She said that the offices are muchwarmer than the classroomswhere she constantly feels coldeven after bundling up
ldquoWhen you first get into theroom itrsquos OK As you continueto sit in it it feels as if therersquos a
huge draftrdquo she saidOther students in the IMA
building have similar feelings
ldquoI donrsquot think the heat is onrdquosaid Derrick Lee a third-year en-gineering student
ldquoThis is an ongoing issue andIrsquod like this to be fixed as soon aspossiblerdquo
Fourth-year photography stu-dent Terence Reeves said that hehas spoken to three of his profes-
sors and that they have gone onto contact Campus Facilities andSustainability (CFS)
ldquoStudents are wearing hats and
scarves while listening to the lec-turerdquo Reeves said ldquoClimate hasbeen an issue since the building
opened We didnrsquot have air con-ditioning when I was there in thesummer we had portable ACsrdquo
The IMA building opened inSeptember 2012
Students have had to bundle up outside and in classrooms to stay warm last week in two of the newest buildings on campus
PHOTO NATALIA BALCERZAK
Although it has been aroundlonger students in the RCCbuilding are also being left in the
coldldquoRight now I am on my way
to pick up a coffee because Irsquove
been shivering uncontrolla-bly my entire classrdquo said KatieOrsquoToole a first-year journalism
studentldquoPeople in this building have
to make conscious effort to dresswarm if they have class here
which is ridiculousrdquo
Julia Hanigsberg vice-pres-ident of administration and fi-nance said that CFS have com-
pleted an investigation but thatthere are no issues with the heat-ing She has talked to the chairs
of the schools and said that thereare no issues
ldquoThere was a complaint with
regards to RCC being too hotrdquoHanigsberg said via email CFSis addressing that issue by re-
placing a steam valve this week
ThursdayThis year Toronto has faced
harsh winter conditions due to a
polar vortex wind chill that hitduring the month of January andhas resulted in the city recieving
more than 30 extreme cold warn-ings from Environment Canada
Students are urged to contact
CFS if they experience any is-sues so that it can be addressedas soon as possible
RAC lockers gutted during reading weekThe menrsquos lockers in the Ryerson Athletic Centre have been emptied and replaced
A number of male students who
eft their workout clothing shoesnd equipment in the lockers athe Ryerson Recreation and Ath-
etic Centre (RAC) came back af-er their winter break surprised to
find their belongings gone
The lockers in the menrsquos changeoom have been gutted and re-
placed with brand new ones overthe reading week
ldquoThe first Monday back Ijust saw them and they were dif-
ferentrdquo said second-year busi-ness management student Osas
OgiesobaOgiesoba said he received no
notice about the changes and feltthat they should have sent out an
email to students to notify them
ldquoI know people who had clothes
and shoes [in there] and thatrsquos notrightrdquo he said
Ogiesoba also said that the
lockers are significantly smallerthan before and that there are
currently only three regular-sizedlockers
ldquoI canrsquot fit much in them butwersquore paying as much as beforerdquo
he said
Students can rent RAC lockers
for $675 per monthOgiesoba is not alone Other
students say they have not re-
ceived notice of the changes eitherShurraj Rao a third-year me-
chanical engineer student thinksthey should have given better no-tice
ldquoI can just fit a backpack and
I have to cram itrdquo he said ldquoLet
alone shoes and everything elserdquo
But some students say that theRAC made an effort to let stu-dents know of the changes
ldquoThey put up signs itrsquos their
own fault if they left their stuffbecause they were going to kickthem outrdquo said second-year me-
chanical engineer student BolisIbrahim
However Bolis agrees that thesize is not nearly big enoughldquoTherersquos no way you can even fita winter jacket in thererdquo he said
Associate director of athleticsStephanie White said that theyare trying to bring the menrsquos lock-
er room up to the same level as themore recently renovated womenrsquoslocker room
ldquoThe womenrsquos [lockers] are inmuch better shape than the menrsquoswererdquo she said
According to White notices areput on lockers every time lockercuts are planned
ldquoKnowing us we probably put
a note 150 times over and overagainrdquo White said
The RAC charges $10 to returnitems to the owners of lockers thathave been cut
By Sierra Bein
he Recreation and Athletics Centre (RAC) in the Quad has had its menrsquos lockers resized over the February break
PHOTO FARNIA FEKRI
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4 Wednesday March 5 2014EDITORIAL
Editor-in-Chief
Sean ldquoBRB basketballrdquo Tepper
News
Ramisha ldquoGenghis KhanrdquoFarooq
Dylan ldquoMongolian 1rdquoFreeman-Grist
Associate NewsSierra ldquoMongolian 2rdquo Bein
Features
Sean ldquodelusions of grandeurrdquoWetselaar
Biz and Tech
Badri ldquoEdmontonrdquo Murali
Arts and Life
Leah ldquoPlease sleep sometimesrdquoHansen
Sports
Shannon ldquoMobsterrdquo Baldwin
Communities
Nicole ldquoChocoholicrdquo Schmidt
Photo
Natalia ldquoTennis courtrdquoBalcerzak
Jess ldquoLiberteacute EacutegaliteacuteFraterniteacuterdquo Tsang
Associate PhotoFarnia ldquoAncien Reacutegimerdquo Fekri
Head Copy Editor
Allison ldquoBattle-net DCrdquoTierney Elkin
Fun
Jake ldquoIt gets betterrdquo Scott
Media
Behdad ldquoStill underproducingrdquoMahichi
Online
Lindsay ldquoVery coldrdquo Boeckl
John ldquoChancerdquo Shmuel
General Manager
Liane ldquordquo McLarty
Advertising Manager
Chris ldquordquo Roberts
Design Director JD ldquorather be in Riordquo Mowat
Intern Army
Luke ldquoWe didnrsquotrdquo Peters Jacob ldquosign uprdquo Dalfen-Brown
Vanessa ldquofor thisrdquo Ruperto
Contributors
Dasha ldquoI STILL LOVE PUGSrdquoZolota
Tristan ldquoProclivityrdquo SImpsonMelissa ldquoFinnimbrunrdquo Myre
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Brennan ldquoGyradosrdquo DohertyDeni ldquoEkansrdquo VErklanDaniel ldquoCharizardrdquo Rocci
Latifa ldquoAbrardquo AbdinChayonika ldquoBulbasaurrdquo
ChandraLaura ldquoSquirtlerdquo Woodward
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TheEyeopenerelection
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RUNSPEAK
VOTE
nominations andposters are due by
5 pm march 27
speeches begin at630 at the
wolf amp firkinvoting will
begin at 10 ammarch 28thpolls close at 5 pmppp
Charlie ldquoCacophonyrdquo BosayLana ldquoleguminousrdquo HallPamela ldquoPreposterousrdquo
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Devin ldquoDipsomaniacrdquo JonesMichael ldquoMaculationrdquo
Grace-Dacosta Josh ldquoJewpacabrardquo BeneteauDaniel ldquoDebaucheryrdquo Morand
The Eyeopener is Ryersonrsquos larg-
est and only independent student
newspaper It is owned and oper-
ated by Rye Eye Publishing Inc a
non-profit corporation owned by thestudents of Ryerson Our offices are
on the second floor of the Student
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416-979-5262 at theeyeopenercom
or on Twitter at theeyeopener
Back by popular demand this
weekrsquosAnnoying Talking Cof-
fee Mug is PRETTY FUCKING
ANNOYED Staying annoyed
this ldquowinter of our discontentrdquo is
reallly the only way to stay sane
or at least not too stabby So
run around and mutter and curse
Scowl and offer sacrifices What
ever it takes I personally have
taken to studying Voodoo so if
you find sanctified mummifiedrelics in and around Ryerson
just remember not to touch them
because the curse is transfer-
able Arenrsquot you cursed enough
already With five weeks left in
the term the pressure is mount-
ing everything is stone-ass cold
and the sun only shines when the
temperature has dipped below
-20 Will spring ever come Irsquom
not sure Is this the nuclear win-
ter maybe Will the Cold War 20
be a ldquothingrdquo after Russiarsquos putsch
into the Crimean looks like So
what can you do About most
of it sweet fuck all So just lookaway from most shit Instead
concentrate on you friends and
family Buy unexpected treats
find cheap flowers do more than
your share of the chores Make
the space around you the sweet-
est place to be And then maybe
Irsquoll undo that curse on you
PHOTO JESS TSANG
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5Wednesday March 5 2014 NEWS
Ryerson OneCards have OneFlawStudents have been experiencing difficulties because OneCards do not have an expiry date
yerson students are issued OneCards in first year that allows students to get discounts at various local restaurants and retailers
PHOTO NATALIA BALCERZAK
By Allison Tierney Elkin
The Ryerson OneCard isnrsquot just
used for getting access to services
on campus mdash students should
lso be able to use them outside of
chool to get discounts at a number
of businesses
However without expiry dates
on the cards to identify them as
alid for the current year some
tudents have been rejected for dis-
counts that many feel are necessary
to ease financial burdens
James Milos a fourth-year
mathematics student ran into an
issue when he tried to purchase a
discounted Greyhound bus ticket
in Montreal in 2012
His OneCard was issued in fall
2010 mdash the only date present on
the ID
ldquoI couldnrsquot prove I was still in
school with the card because it
wasnrsquot that year anymorerdquo Milos
said
Some businesses have confused
this with the expiry date (itrsquos not
clearly marked) and rejected stu-
dents like Milos discounts
He later complained on Soap-
Box a Ryerson ideas page but
was unsatisfied with the reply the
school gave him They suggested
Milos get an international student
identification card (ISIC) which
has an expiry date for free through
the Ryerson Studentsrsquo Union
(RSU) Though Milos is a domes-tic student he and all Ryerson stu-
dents are eligible for the card
Other schools have different stu-
dent ID policies York University
provides cards for students at the
start of their first semester which is
valid for five years
ldquoThe problem with an expiry
date [is that] you could drop out
and it would still say yoursquore in
schoolrdquo Milos said
University of Ontario Institute
of Technology (UOIT) annually
places a coloured sticker on each
studentrsquos card with the school year
on it indicating that itrsquos currentlyvalid Ryerson used use the sticker
method but changed to its current
policy in 2010
ldquoI understand handing out On-
eCards every year could be expen-
sive but I donrsquot think slapping a
tiny sticker to show that you are
enrolled at a university is any bet-
terrdquo Jeyan Jeganathan a recent
Ryerson journalism grad said
Jeganathan encountered prob-
lems similar to Milos while setting
up a student banking account
ldquoWhen I wanted to renew my
banking [at CIBC] every year they
would always ask me to provide
somethingrdquo Jeganathan said ldquoIwould have to explain that this
is how Ryersonrsquos ID card system
worksrdquo
Ryerson president Sheldon Levy
said that hersquos never heard of prob-
lems with the OneCard before but
wants the expiry date or sticker to
be re-implemented
ldquoWe should make sure that
whatever we do optimizes the ben-
efits for our students so if an expiry
date is an important element of
that we sure would consider it and
implement itrdquo Levy said
ldquoIf it is for the banks or insur-
ance companies we recommendthey print their fee statement or
schedule off their RAMSS ac-
countrdquo Darcy Flynn OneCard
manager said via email Flynn
said there are currently no plans to
change the policy
RSU president Melissa Palermo
also recommended picking up an
ISIC but would prefer more op-
tions for students
ldquoI would encourage the uni-
versity to explore a better way to
identify that cards are valid for dis-
countsrdquo Palermo said
Vice-provost goes with unwritten rule to not share plagiarism data in light of recent CBC survey
By Daniel Rocci
Ryerson did not share its informa-
ion on academic misconduct in
recent CBC survey that studied
heating at Canadian universities
According to Christopher Evans
Ryersonrsquos vice-provost academic
he university withheld its academ-
c misconduct data from the CBC
based on unofficial protocolldquoRyerson actually does not have
policy to not release this kind of
data but it is a practice that was
nstituted by a former provost
everal years agordquo Evans told the
Eyeopener ldquoWe do collect the data
on academic misconduct activities
but we donrsquot make it publicrdquo
The CBC recently published
he results of its survey of 54 uni-
ersities across Canada in which
chools were asked to submit the
number of cases of academic mis-
onduct that went through a for-
mal discipline process during the
011ndash12 term
Some institutions revealed their
ount of formal cases as well as the
percentage of cases by type of mis-
onduct This includes plagiarism
nd having others write exams
and the form of discipline admin-
istered like grade reductions and
expulsions
Evans made the decision after
consulting various members of Ry-
ersonrsquos senate and academic admin-
istration including the provost the
secretary of senate and the director
of the academic integrity office But
he isnrsquot entirely sure why the proto-
col is in place to begin withldquoIt may seem a bit odd but our
former provost made the decision
to create this practice and it pre-
dates my being at this jobrdquo Ev-
ans said ldquoI donrsquot know what his
thoughts were in keeping discrete
about the data but thatrsquos the deci-
sion that was made prior to 2010
and wersquove just been continuing
with that practicerdquo
Evansrsquos predecessor is Alan
Shepard now president and vice-
chancellor of Concordia Univer-
sity
Shepard could not be reached for
comment
Concordia participated in the
CBC survey on 256 cases of aca-
demic misconduct
Lisa Taylor a journalism instruc-
tor at Ryerson who specializes
in law and ethics spoke to The
Eyeopener about Ryersonrsquos stance
on releasing the data
ldquoIt concerns me and it disap-
points merdquo Taylor said ldquoI donrsquot
think any issue that we face in any
public institution is improved by
failing to discuss itrdquo
The lack of official policy regard-
ing the publication of academic
misconduct data will be addressedin Ryersonrsquos current review of its
student code of academic conduct
also known as policy 60
ldquoThe [review] committee will
at some point come to a decision
and make a recommendation to
the senate about the desirability or
not of publicizing informationrdquo
Evans said That decision will de-
pend on opinions from across cam-
pus
ldquoIrsquod like to see the results re-leased so that we can see how we
measure up compared to every-
one elserdquo said Gabrielle Poirier a
first-year politics and governance
student ldquoIf there is an issue then
everyone should know about itrdquo
Policy 60 was originally ap-
proved in March 2003 and most
recently received minor amend-
ments in June 2013
According to Evans itrsquos overdue
for a review as extensive as the oneit is currently undergoing
Ryerson opts to not share data on plagiarism
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6 Wednesday March 5 2014NEWS
tarting in September 2014 third-
ear business management students
will have the option to major in real
state management
The program was specifically de-igned for students seeking to work
n all facets of the real estate indus-
ry as well as students who want to
xpand their education beyond the
basic bachelor of commerce degree
Steven Murphy dean of the Ted
Rogers School of Management
TRSM) said that Ryersonrsquos loca-
ion in downtown Toronto is a big
actor in the creation of the pro-
ram ldquoReal estate is a very vibrant
part of our economy Offering real
state management we think will
ive our students some edge of
racking into the industryrdquo Mur-
phy said ldquoBecause we are ultra-
urban we get how real estate issuesntertwine I think when you live
nd breathe it every day you have
o start offering things that match
he daily reality of studentsrdquo
Murphy says hersquos excited by the
majorrsquos potential and sees buzz
around the program from the stu-
dent body ldquoStudents are turned on
by the possibilities of how they can
contribute in a sustainable way to
city planningrdquo Murphy said
In comparison to other real es-
tate programs Ryersonrsquos is focusedon building a better future The
program was designed around a
philosophy of sustainability and de-
velopment which Murphy says fits
into the DNA of Ryerson
ldquoAnyone can put up a condo
building but not everyone can
create a communityrdquo he said ldquoSo
I think this program is far more
about what yoursquore doing in real
estate and how it connects to the
community We are trying to in-
still in students that profit is very
short-termrdquo
Currently students in business
management may choose to ma-
jor in economics amp managementscience entrepreneurship amp strat-
egy global management studies
human resources management
and organizational behaviour
law amp business and marketing
management
It only goes up from hereLack of elevators creating accessibility problem for students
By Latifa Abdin
There has been an increased number of calls reporting broken elevators this year
PHOTO FARNIA FEKRI
ume The many people using
these elevators every day means
that required service and repairscan occur more often than at oth-
er locationsrdquo she wrote
According to Bailey there has
been an increased number of calls
for the library and the school of
management than last year in the
same period
ldquoSo far this year we have had
24 service calls for the LIB and
[TRSM] several of which were
resolved overnight with little to
no impact to users in the area
This is consistent with previous
years with 18 calls during the
same timeframe in 2013rdquo she
said in the email
Bailey noted that while elevatorbreakdowns are more likely to
occur in this building because of
the large amount of people who
use them misuse can often be the
cause of break downs and slow-
ing down of the elevators
ldquoOne continuing challenge
is how often the elevators areused to go up or down a single
floor which increases wear and
tear increases wait times and
decreases accessibility for those
who require it We encourage the
community to use the stairs in li-
brary and escalators in [TRSM]
whenever possible and save the
elevators for those with mobil-
ity requirementsrdquo she wrote
According to Kelly Dermody a
librarian at Ryersonrsquos library al-
ternative arrangments are in place
to assist students who cannot
walk up stairs due to a disability
ldquoWe have a emergency contin-
gency plan We have 4 elevatorsand if 3 or 4 elevators are down
for more than a few hours we
will work with the University to
inform all students with disabili-
tiesrdquo Said Dermody
A tearful day in court
The mother of alleged murdererFarshad Badkhshan gave a tearful
testimony against her sonrsquos sanity
on March 4
The defence called Sedigheh
Moriadi to testify about her sonrsquos
decent into mental illness which
she said began in Iran in1989
She recounted her familyrsquos mi-
gration to Canada and consequen-
tial settling and resettling across
the country such as Halifax Pick-
ering Ont and Vancouver
Badahkshan is pleading that hersquos
not criminally responsible for the
death of Ryerson student Corina
Patrache in July of 2010
Defence attorney Victoria Riv-
ers spoke to the jury just after 10
am on March 4 advocating di-
rectly to the jury on Badakhshanrsquos
behalf for the first time in the trial
ldquoYoursquove heard about his strange
weird bizarre behaviourrdquo Rivers
said She argued that all the crown
had brought forth recounting theabsurd nature of Badahkshan at
the time of Petrachersquos death was
purely the result of a ldquopsychiatric
disorder resistant to anti-psychot-
ic medicationrdquo
She had left to live by herself in
Vancouver It wasnrsquot long before
Badakhshan had joined her across
the country that she noticed a
change in his behaviour
ldquoHe said the people from Hali-
fax are after himrdquo Moriadi told
the jury At one point while stay-
ing with Badakhshan in a Toronto
apartment he had approached her
with a knife and calm expression
ldquo[He said] lsquoMom I love you I
want to take you with mersquordquo said
Moriadi fighting back tears
She then told the court that she
moved to Calgary in July of 2007
leaving Badakhshan alone in To-
ronto ldquoYou have not heard at all
about what happened to Mr Ba-
dahkshanrdquo said Rivers to the juryShe then showed the jury a
photo of Badakhshan before se-
vere burning and the multiple skin
graphs in July 2010
ldquoYou will also see
MrBadakhshan [was in] a medi-
cally induced coma for several
months after the incidentrdquo said
Rivers ldquoThat he tried to kill him-
self when given the opportunity to
do sordquo
She noted the testimony of Peter
Tran in which he recounted some
of the last words of Petrache
Rivers argued Tranrsquos recol-
lection of Petrache saying ldquohe
wouldnrsquot stop hitting mersquordquo was
by the psychological and physical
trauma Petrache suffered before
her death
The trial continues
A new real estate program will be starting up in September 2014PHOTO JESS TSANG
Lack of elevator service in theuniversityrsquos library and at the Ted
Rogers School of Management
(TRSM) are raising tensions
around campus
Megan Saliwonczyk a third-
year nursing student said that
almost every time she has been
in the library at least one of the
elevators has been out of service
ldquoThere is usually only one [el-
evator] working A lot of the
rooms that we book for meetings
are on the seventh floor or the
sixth floor and you donrsquot always
want to walk up a flight of stairs
with a heavy backpack rdquo shesaid
She said that when one or more
of the elevators are out of ser-
vice huge crowds of students end
up waiting for elevators which
slows down the services
ldquoI study at York at lot instead
because their library you know
functionsrdquo said Celina Rosso a
third-year childhood and youth
care student
Kerri Bailey a manager for
Campus Facilities amp Sustainabil-
ity at Ryerson said in an email
that because elevators at the Ry-
erson library and TRSM are used
a lot they break down more oftenbut that the campus facilities are
quick to resolve any issues
ldquoThe banks of elevators in li-
brary and Ted Rogers School of
Management are very high vol-
Mother of accused details extent of sonrsquos illness
By Charlie Bossy
Real Estate at Rye
By Jake Scott andDylan Freeman-Grist
TRANSFER TO QUEENrsquoSLife SciencesLearn more queensucatransfer
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7Wednesday March 5 2014 NEWS
Blackboard benchedRyersonrsquos web portal might be replaced by end of 2014
By Badri Murali
After 11 years Ryerson students
nd staff may be working with anew online student portal
Ryersonrsquos Computing and Com-
munications Services (CCS) the de-
partment that handles technology
nd computer support is reviewing
pplications to replace Blackboard
They have received applications
rom various companies over the
past few months for a new online
earning portal
CCS is working with the Faculty
of Communication and Design the
earning and teaching office digital
ducation strategies at the Chang
chool and the library to decide
which ideas will work best for Ry-rson After looking at each pro-
posal they will be testing potential
programs
Brian Lesser director of CCS is
one of 13 members on the Advisory
Committee on Academic Comput-
ng (ACAC) that will decide which
applicants will make it to Ryersonrsquos
shortlist Lesser said that students
and staff have told him they want
more tools and a better layout forBlackboard
ldquoStudents want things like blogs
and file storage to interact with
their course materialrdquo Lesser said
ldquoSince we began with Google
some of this is now possiblerdquo
Ryerson adopted its agreement
with Google Apps for Education
in September 2012 This allows
students and staff to use apps
like Gmail Google Calendar and
Google Drive which stores files
online Lesser said he received
feedback from students saying that
Google Apps has helped with some
of their problems but they wouldlike to see more
In a 2013 survey conducted by
CCS many staff said that they
want to be able to immediately
contact students with marks and
other updates and were sometimes
facing difficulty on Blackboard to
do so Staff also said that they want
to be able to mark up documents
submitted by students but often
run into problems making com-ments on them
The applications from external
groups were due on Feb 28 Once
the CCS and ACAC create a short
list they will be presented to the
Ryerson community for feedback
The feedback will then be collected
through townhall sessions and in-
dividual meetings with CCS to let
staff and students test the applica-
tions in real time Once this has
been done and after ACAC pro-
cesses feedback only then will CCS
proceed to replace the system
ldquoWe should have the trial pro-
cess beginning in May to receivefeedback from usersrdquo Lesser said
ldquoIt would be great to get a new sys-
tem working for fall 2014rdquo
There is a consultation blog
available at lmsblogryersonca
detailing what ACAC and CCS are
doing throughout this process
DMZ touches down in IndiaBy Lana Hall
Canadarsquos Governor General David
ohnston threw the coconut on the
round and mdash luckily for him andRyerson University mdash it cracked
An Indian tradition to mark the
tart of a new project the coco-
nutrsquos cracking is supposed to bring
ood luck It was a welcome sign
or Johnston and his team of gov-
rnment and Ryerson leaders who
were in Mumbai India last week
o oversee the opening of a Digital
Media Zone (DMZ) program
The Bombay Stock Exchange
nstitute Ltd (BIL)-Ryerson DMZ
ndia modeled on Ryerson Uni-
versityrsquos DMZ It was built in col-
laboration with Ryerson Ryerson
Futures Inc Simon Fraser Univer-
sity and the BIL It was officially
opened on Feb 28The original DMZ at Ryerson is
a multi-program business incuba-
tor and workspace for entrepre-
neurs that was founded in 2010
The India-based version will op-
erate similarly with the goal of
helping technology-based startups
with their operations and expos-
ing them to mentors customers
and investors
Ryerson president Sheldon Levy
whom also accompanied John-
ston to India said that the zone
in Mumbai has huge potential for
Ryerson
ldquoThis will give our students an
opportunity to spend time in In-
dia as well as students in India tospend time in Canadardquo Levy said
ldquoI think itrsquos going to be a fabulous
opportunityrdquo
Kristin Heredia a spokesper-
son for the DMZ here at Ryerson
said the university plans to launch
other DMZ programs abroad but
is currently focusing on India be-
cause it will have the largest popu-
lation of young people worldwide
by the year 2020
As one of the youngest emerging
nations India will need to be able
to employ more young people
said Ambarish Datta the CEO of
BIL-Ryerson DMZ IndialdquoWe are confident that this incu-
bator will not only provide em-
ployment for our youth but also
build products and solutions that
put India on the global map of in-
novationrdquo Datta said in a news
release
ldquoThe Canada-India economic
relationship is strongrdquo said John-
ston in a government press release
ldquo[It] holds tremendous potential
for broader and expanded col-
laborationrdquo
The stop in Mumbai where
Johnston also had the opportu-
nity to open the Bombay Stock
Exchange was part of a larger
India-wide tour during which he
spoke with officials in Bangalore
and New Delhi regarding business
and educationDavid Johnston cuts the ribbon at the DMZrsquos brand new Indian sister project
PHOTO COURTESY CARBE ORELLANA
NewsBites
Theft duringexam
A studentrsquos iPhone was stolen Feb
26 after heshe was asked to leave
it at the front of the class during a
test according to Ryerson emer-
gency and security services
According to security no policy
was put in place by the instructor
to secure the electronic devices
while the students wrote the test
ldquo[Proctors] typically ask [stu-
dents] to bring their bags to the
frontrdquo said Tanya Poppleton
manager of security and emer-
gency services ldquoIrsquove never heard
of placing cellphones on the table
at the frontrdquo
Chequesgrowing stale
Students who have yet to collect
their health plan opt-out chequeswill need to do so before they lose
access to the money
The cheques as per Canadian
law will be void six months from
their issue date on Nov 10
The RSU will reissue cheques af-
ter the date of expiry for up to 15
months after the original date they
were issued
WINNERS MAY RECEIVE UP TO
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8 Wednesday March 5 2014FEATURES
BR
ICEThough somein some partsTristan Simpmale figure s
PHOTO SHANNON BALDWIN
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Wednesday March 5 2014 9FEATURES
The cheers echo throughout
the arena as the announcer
introduces the next menrsquos
ree skate entrant Spencer Buchan-
n Decked in all black he casually
lides backwards with his hands in
his pockets as if it was a free skate
on Mattamy Athletic Centrersquos ice
He doesnrsquot look like a typical figure
kater He doesnrsquot wear elaborate
ostumes For him a plain tee and
pants will do He stands six feet two
inches mdash taller than most competi-
tors He brings his large frame to
a slow then raises his lengthy arms
to embrace the sound He stops at
centre ice He gathers himself and
starts his routine
There are 17 students on Ryer-
sonrsquos figure skating team Two of
them are male and only one is per-
mitted to compete Figure skaters
are judged on their technique and
finesse but it is a female-dominat-
ed sport The male minority that
does compete at the university
level struggles to gain the recog-
nition awarded to their female
counterparts Ontario University
Athletics (OUA) has one event for
men to compete in at the figure
skating championships and win-ter invitationals The women have
14 events for singles pairs fours
and teams Most university teams
have just one male player on their
squad
Buchanan says he didnrsquot
always want to be a fig-
ure skater ldquoWhen I was
younger all of my friends were
playing hockey and they would
poke fun at [me] for figure skat-
ingrdquo he says ldquoWhen that hap-
pens you want to fit in and just
play hockeyrdquo He changed his
mind after his childhood coachtold him he had the potential to
excel in figure skating
ldquoI think the fact [that the OUA]
only has one event for men is a
gender biasrdquo figure skating head
coach Lauren Wilson says She
says she doesnrsquot think the gender
bias is done on purpose but the
structure of the OUA figure skat-ing championships doesnrsquot help
ldquoOur roster is limited to 17 and
therersquos only one competition for
men We canrsquot make room for
more guyshellip Men can compete
in the synchro event but that still
leaves their options lowrdquo Buchan-
an chose not to partake in team
synchro ldquoI train on my own so
doing synchro wouldnrsquot work for
merdquo he says
Buchanan notes that the sport
faces a lack of recognition ldquoMost
people donrsquot take it serious They
donrsquot know the sport all they
know is Blades of Gloryrdquo
An hour before the competi-
tion Buchanan was writ-
ing an exam The 22-year-
old is a second-year accounting
student at Ryerson On top of his
studies hersquos been competing in
figure skating for six years ldquoMy
whole family has been skating for
a long timerdquo he says
Like any athlete he devoted a
lot of time to training until his
luck took a turn for the worst on
May 5 2012 He was walking
home alone from a bar in Mon-
treal when he was hit by a car
ldquoI really donrsquot have any memo-
ry of what happenedrdquo Buchanan
says He was found in the middle
of the street unconscious and
bleeding at 335 am He woke up
in a downtown Montreal hospi-
tal
Buchanan suffered a baseline
skull fracture that kept him off
the ice for a year ldquoI wasnrsquot sure if
I could [go] back to skatingrdquo he
says Buchanan was inspired by
Javier Fernandez mdash the 2014 Eu-
ropean menrsquos figure skating cham-
pion He says watching Fernandezskate at the Toronto Cricket Skat-
ing and Curling Club pushed him
back into competition
Buchananrsquos first dance back on
the ice was rough ldquoI hadnrsquot com-
peted in like two years and I for-
got how much it took to skate
[figure skating] is surprisingly tir-
ing and I was out of breath for like
half an hourrdquo Figure skating com-
petitions are tightly judged Skat-
ers are scored on the difficulty and
style of the routine but theyrsquore
sometimes also judged off the ice
by society
Buchanan says that some peoplemake sweeping assumption about
male figure skaters mdash sometimes
extending to their sexuality ldquoIrsquom
not gay but [that] notion people
have bugs me a little bitrdquo He says
these assumptions deter athletes
from pursuing the sport ldquoIf you
are gay it can be hard to deal with
the way people label yourdquoEmily Rose Galliani Pecchia a
third-year forward on the Ryerson
womenrsquos hockey team says ldquoPeo-
ple shouldnrsquot make these assump-
tions flat out Whether theyrsquore
a figure skater hockey player or
wrestler it doesnrsquot determine if
theyrsquore gay or straightrdquo
Galliani Pecchia whom is gay
says athletes should be able to
compete in any sport without be-
ing judged
ldquoIf an athlete is gay they
should feel comfortable enough
to compete Itrsquos not fair for an
athlete to feel uncomfortable intheir field of playrdquo she says She
adds that her teammates are open
about their sexuality ldquoThere is
always someone to talk to within
our dressing room which is an
anomaly in varsity sport since it
is a taboo subjectrdquo
Pierre Alain interim head coach
of the Ryerson womenrsquos hockey
team says there are false percep-
tions that female hockey play-
ers are physical and butch ldquoYes
many players like the physical part
of the [sport] but thatrsquos not all
you need to be a good playerrdquo He
says athletes shouldnrsquot be catego-
rized based on the sport they playldquoLook at Meghan Agosta mdash she
started as a figure skater before
doing hockeyrdquo
Figure skating isnrsquot a promi-
EAKERSare often seen as being male-dominatedworld of athleticism men are a minoritykes a look at the often-overlooked sport of
When I was younger all my friends were play-ing hockey and they would poke fun at [me]for figure skating When that happens youwant to fit in and just play hockey
nent sport at most universities
The crowd at the OUAs is meager
compared to the ones at a basket-
ball or hockey games and is made
up mostly of athletesrsquo teammates
But Buchanan says that figure
skating is growing
When Buchanan was a kid he
would take cover when people
made fun of him for figure skat-ing Today he is less shy ldquoSome
people give you a look but it
doesnrsquot bother me anymorerdquo His
response to those who question
the physical demand required to
compete ldquoWhy donrsquot you give it
a try and see how you dordquo
Buchanan knows what to
do to win He preps him-
self mentally while sitting
in the menrsquos changeroom at the
OUAs ldquoYou have to focus in You
have to relax Donrsquot over-analyze
things Let your body do what
you trained it to dordquo he saysAfter he is mentally prepared he
heads to the ice Buchanan walks
on the Rams mat before leaving
the changeroom then remem-
bers ldquoYoursquore not supposed to do
that mdash itrsquos bad luckrdquo During the
warm-up skate Daft Punkrsquos One
More Time radiates through the
arena Competitors are already
on the ice perfecting their routine
Each one exudes confidence ldquoIrsquom
not going to lie I really want to
winrdquo he says
One after another they take
the ice and perform their routine
Buchanan is the third competitor
to hit the ice and he emerges toElton Johnrsquos Your Song Some of
the female athletes in the audi-
ence begin to sing along and they
throw flowers at him when the
routine is finished Many of the
menrsquos routines were comedic and
they were often met with laugh-
ter Some audience members com-
mented on Buchananrsquos ldquosparklesrdquo
on his black tee
Every spin jump and turn is
completed with grace He ex-
plodes with a double axel He
nails jump after jump then sud-
denly staggers on his landing
He throws his hands to catchhimself and continues He elicits
more cheers from the audience by
breaking down with a few robot
dance moves He ends his routine
with a flurry of spin moves He
comes to a halt and then puts his
hands back in his pockets
Buchanan doesnrsquot win his event
mdash the menrsquos open singles mdash but
he does finish second His inspi-
ration mdash Fernandez mdash places
fourth at the Sochi Olympics the
same day he competes in Toronto
Buchanan doesnrsquot stick around
to watch the awards presenta-
tion because he has work mdash his
sister accepts his medal for him
ldquoYou never know what to ex-
pect I didnrsquot watch everyone else
skaterdquo He pauses ldquoSecond place
is alrightrdquo
PHOTOS FARNIA FEKRI
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10 Wednesday March 5 2014BIZ amp TECH
A studentrsquos guide to filing your taxesByPamelaJohnston
trsquos that time of year again Gatherour receipts employment and ed-
ucation records because itrsquos time to
file your tax returns Donrsquot worry
he Eyeopener has everything you
need to know about claiming your
xpenses If after reading this you
till find the whole concept of a
ax return too hard to grasp you
an go to the tax clinics organized
by the Ryerson Studentsrsquo Union
(RSU) They are held throughout
March up until April 3 Members
of the RSU and Continuing Educa-
tion Studentsrsquo Association of Ryer-
son (CESAR) can use Ufileca to filetheir taxes
Remember the deadline to file
individual returns to the Canada
Revenue Agency (CRA) is April
30 If you file late you will be fined
five per cent of what you owe from
2013 and one per cent of that bal-
ance for each late month So get off
your ass and git lsquoer done
ILLUSTRATION BY JESS TSANG
THIS WEEK AT THE MAC
MATTAMYAC
HOME OF THE
GO TO MATTAMYATHLETICCENTRECA FOR EVENT DETAILS
APRIL 3 2014 1230PM amp 600PM
TICKET PRICES
FLOOR SEATS - $30 STANDS - $20
(Before applicable service charges)
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MARCH 28 2014 700PM
DOORS OPEN AT 630PM
bull Performances by Ryerson Students
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ON SALE NOW
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11Wednesday March 5 2014 COMMUNITIES
The gift that keeps on givingGifts for Strangers an initiative created by Ryerson business student Cole Banning goes global
By Mikaila Kukurudza
Banningrsquos organization Improv in Toronto hosts regular events within the Toronto communityPHOTO MIKAILA KUKURUDZA
econd-year Ryerson business stu-
dent Cole Banning has mastered
he art of making strangers smile If
oursquove ever been given a wrapped
box containing a handmade gift
by a stranger on the street in To-
onto therersquos a good chance the
2-year-old had something to do
with it
Banning founded Improv in
Toronto a group that organizes
vents across the city when he was
senior in high school He has since
xpanded on the organization and
reated different projects mdash Gifts
or Strangers is the most recogniz-ble The project is exactly what
t sounds like Around the holiday
eason Banning and his team hand
out gifts to people on the street
ldquoTo be approached by a ran-
dom stranger and given a gift
might brighten [someonersquos] dayrdquo
Banning said ldquoYou hope that
ou made that difference which
s strange to say because all wersquore
doing is fooling around and hav-
ng funrdquo
Gifts for Strangers began three
ears ago and has been growing in
popularity since This year 33 cit-
es in over 23 countries participat-
ed in the event Banningrsquos concept
was inspired by a group in New
York City called Improv Every-
where which conducts similar ur-
ban art projects and experiments
But Gifts for Strangers isnrsquot the
only project Improv in Toronto
has undertaken Banning and his
team of 20 plan sporadic commu-
nity projects on a regular basis In
the past these events have includ-
ed pantless subway trips umbrella
taxi services to escort pedestrians
through the rain and pillow fights
at Yonge-Dundas Square
The goal is to bring strangers to-
gether through unexpected inter-
active events and add spice to the
day-to-day lives of Torontonians
ldquoI think people going through
their lives put up a wall Itrsquos nice
to break the boundaryrdquo Banning
saidImprov in Toronto has held over
50 free family-friendly events
around Toronto over the past six
years The group also has a You-
Tube channel with over 25 000
subscribers (some videos have over
5 million views)
ldquoIt just blew up I wasnrsquot pre-
pared or readyrdquo Banning said
Things really took off after an
overwhelming turnout at Improv
in Torontorsquos second event mdash a
large-scale Wherersquos Waldo hunt
in the Eaton Centre The event re-
sulted in Banning being escorted
out of his hiding place by mall se-curity due to the overcrowding he
had created with his Waldo hunt
Banning credits the success of
his organization to social media
and his goal to fill a strangerrsquos day
with a little laughter He believes
that by creating an inclusive com-
munity and bringing strangers to-
gether the seriousness of everyday
routines can be mitigated
ldquoItrsquos nice to be taken away from
the stress of life even if itrsquos just for
a minuterdquo Banning said
For students hoping to get in-
volved Banning suggests ldquodonat-
ing your time not moneyrdquo
Constructing communities
ByOliviaMcLeod
Architecture students build a community shelter in Newfoundland
A group of six Ryerson architec-
ure students were chosen to par-
icipate in a unique and unifying
project over reading week The
roup travelled to Botwood NLo create a structure for the townrsquos
heritage park at a Second World
War airplane base
The build was initiated through
Culture of Outports mdash a project
ssociated with ERA Architects
n Toronto For the past four
ears they have annually trav-
lled around Newfoundland to
onserve cultural heritage through
rchitecture Three of these devel-
opments have been with Ryerson
ldquoI think our partnership [with
Ryerson] works really well be-
ause there is that opportunity to
work here together in Toronto and
do work and planning before we
o out together to the east coastrdquo
Alana Young project coordinator
aid
The structure itself sits on the
foundation of an old weather sta-
tion on a pathway to Killick Island
mdash Botwoodrsquos prime tourist spot
and nature trail
ldquoThe continued story heard
from people was they wanted to
see something on that roadway
going to the islandrdquo said Scott
Sceviour deputy mayor of Bot-
wood ldquoWe had some benchesthere for rest areas but people
wanted to see something there so
thatrsquos where [the idea] was bornrdquo
The structure is essentially
a wooden-planked box with a
sloped roof There are rectangu-
lar cutouts in the walls that align
with historic plane crash sights
in the surrounding area Because
of this Young calls it the ldquoview-
finderrdquo
Typically a project like this
would take two weeks to finish
but because of the studentsrsquo sched-
ules it became a ldquocompressed
eight-day adventurerdquo
ldquoEverybody was just great and
supportive Itrsquos almost like you ask
everyone to suspend their disbelief
for a few days and just kind of get
on this rollercoaster with you and
see where it goesrdquo Young said
Without the community Young
said the project wouldnrsquot exist Be-
cause of very cold weather condi-
tions the entire structure had to be
built inside of the townrsquos fire hall
and then transported by trucks to
the site They provided the tools
experienced labour and even the
teamrsquos meals along with endlesssupport hospitality and help
Students said the experience of
bringing a design to life is like no
other experience theyrsquove had so
far
ldquoActually getting to build it and
[getting] a community involved
and [having] real feedback from
people who are going to use the
space is really valuablerdquo Kate
Gonashvili a fourth-year architec-
ture student said
Young said because of this proj-
ectrsquos success they are going to
continue working with Botwood
in the future
ldquoWe have ideas as far as nextsteps and what they can do and
theyrsquore really engaged so thatrsquos ex-
actly the kind of community you
want to work withrdquoRyerson students spent eight days building this structure in Newfoundland
PHOTOS COURTESY ALANA YOUNG
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12 Wednesday March 5 2014ARTS amp LIFE
Need a job Stop surfing and start walking
When Parth Patel was in his firstew years of the engineering pro-
ram he found getting a summer
ob to be quite challenging
ldquoI applied to more than 60 or
70 jobsrdquo he said ldquoI [was] trying
o find work [in engineering] but
wasnrsquot able tordquo
The frustration of finding a
ummer job is something many
Looking for a summer job can be frustrating but relying on the Internet may be hurting you more than you know
students have experienced before
especially since the 2008 econom-
ic crisis when markets around theworld crashed Searching through
thousands of job listings online
perfecting your resumeacute and send-
ing it out can take hours
But if yoursquore hoping to score
that ideal job going back to the
basics is the way to go said Dan-
iel Kennedy a career consultant
at Ted Rogers School of Manage-
Since the 2008 economic crisis the job market has seen fierce competition mdash sepa-rating yourself from the rest is the first step in being noticed
PHOTOS FARNIA FEKRI
ment careers and employment
partnerships centre
ldquoIf you go into [the websites]Monster or Workopolis and you
type in lsquosummer jobsrsquo yoursquore going
to find job postingsrdquo he said ldquoThe
problem is there are about four mil-
lion other students across Canada
who are going to find those same
job postingsrdquo
It often comes down to doing
some old-fashioned scouting on the
ground Kennedy said adding that
proactively approaching employers
can make a bigger impression than
simply sending a resumeacute by email
ldquoWhat students should do if they
really want to make a go of it is to
look for companies that donrsquot havethe capacity to advertise for those
summer jobsrdquo he said ldquoIf you can
identify and find those companies
and approach them proactively
that will give you a much better
chancerdquo
Because finding a job can be so
difficult in Toronto many students
decide to go back to their home-
towns for the summer where the
competition is less fierce and jobs
are easier to come by
Laura Hamel a first-year perfor-
mance acting student said shersquoll be
moving back home for the summer
because of the cost of living in To-
rontoldquoIrsquom from Regina so Irsquoll be mov-
ing home to find a jobrdquo she said
ldquoItrsquos a lot cheaper to live at home
and I have a solid job at homerdquo
For Patel scoring a job came
with a visit to his sister in Calgary
one summer While he was there
he applied to only five or six jobs
and ended up getting a summer po-
sition that matched his field
The summer job market comes
down to basic supply and demand
Kennedy said
ldquoOn the supply side you have
basically a lot of students that are
looking for jobs during the sum-mer months and thatrsquos fine as long
as the demandrsquos thererdquo he said
ldquoThe demand really hasnrsquot been
there since 2008rdquo
Brennan Thompson undergrad-
uate program director in the school
of economics says that the reces-
sion of 2008 has brought everyone
down a notch when it comes to the
job market
ldquoThe guy who was working at
the auto assembly plant loses his
job and now hersquos taking the low-
paid job at Tim Hortonrsquosrdquo he said
ldquoNow the young person who used
to have that job at Tim Hortonrsquos
[doesnrsquot] have anythingrdquo
Kennedy says the market is start-
ing to bounce back But compared
to 10 years ago finding a summer
job is far more of a challenge Even
in a city as big as Toronto compe-
tition can be fierce because thereare so many students looking for
temporary employment
According to Kennedy even
if the job you end up with isnrsquot at
all related to your field itrsquos still a
good idea to include it on your
resumeacute Employers look at how
your skills have evolved even if
the job you had was just bussing
tables The hard skills you gain
might not be related to your future
career but the soft skills mdashlike leadership skills problem-
solving abilities and customer ser-
vice experience mdash will come in
handy
ldquoNo one is expecting you to
graduate here and have four years
of senior project management ex-
periencerdquo he said
ldquoWhat they want to see is that
therersquos a progressionrdquo
By Leah Hansen
Ryerson graduate Peter Hill is performing at the ninth annual Toronto SketchComedy Festival as part of a duo called Beggarrsquos Canyon See the full article by AlexHeck at theeyeopenercom
PHOTO COURTESY TARA NOELLE
Laughing it up
Discuss the upcoming budget
All members of the Ryerson community are invited to
attend a town hall to discuss the development of the
universityrsquos budget for the 2014-15 academic year
Hosted by
SHELDON LEVY
president
MOHAMED LACHEMI
provost and vice president academic
PAUL STENTON
deputy provost and vice-provost university planning
TOWN HALL MEETING
Wednesday March 12 9 ndash 10 am
Architecture Building Room ARC ndash 108
Thursday March 20 230 ndash 330 pm
Library Building Room LIB ndash 72
President Levy is confirmed to attend the March 20 meeting
To submit questions in advance email provostryersonca
Please contact us if we need to make any accommodations to
ensure your inclusion in this meeting
Come to aRyersonCommunityTown Hall
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13Wednesday March 5 2014 SPORTS
A puckinggood season
n the last 37 years Ryersonrsquos
menrsquos hockey team has never made
t past the semifinals
Even with a team that nearly
doubled last seasonrsquos 14-win per-
ormance the Rams fell prey to
his historical barrier on Feb 28
when a 5-1 semifinal loss to the
Lakehead University Thunder-
wolves ended their season
ldquoWe played an uphill battle all
nightrdquo Rams head coach Graham
Wise said ldquoThey unfortunatelygot on the board firstrdquo
In spite of the disappointing
oss this marked the Ramsrsquo best
performance in the last decade
But that success didnrsquot come
without a few major bumps along
he way Their high-powered start
o the season came to a screeching
halt due to a seven-day suspen-
ion they were handed for drink-
ng alcohol while on a team road
rip The Rams had to forfeit two
games during their suspension
but managed to come back strong
mdash ranking fourth in the Ontario
University Athletics (OUA) West
division by the seasonrsquos endldquoWersquove come a long way from
ighth place and I think we had a
eally good year for ourselvesrdquo sec-
ond-year forward Jamie Wise said
Coached by his father Graham
Wise Jamie achieved a career-
high 45 points mdash ranking him
hird in the Canadian Interuni-
versity Sports (CIS) His 21 goals
his season mdash compared to the
ight he scored last season mdash
made him the second-leading
corer in the country
By Devin Jones
amie Wise the Ramsrsquo leading scorer and second-ranked in the country on home ice
PHOTO FARNIA FEKRI
Fellow forward Dominic Alber-
ga also had a standout season
A third-line grinder from the
Ontario Hockey League (OHL)
Albergarsquos first-line rookie perfor-
mance for the Rams was anything
but expected
Alberga contributed 44 points
and 18 goals to the team He
achieved second place on the team
for goals scored and is nationally
ranked fourth in points mdash all in his
first year as a Ram
But as the menrsquos hockey team
celebrates new talent they alsosay goodbye to two of their key
players Both right-winger Dustin
Alcock and captain Andrew Buck
are graduating this year Buck
scored 90 goals in his 125-game
career with the Rams and wore
the captainrsquos patch for three of his
five years
ldquoItrsquos a surreal feeling and Irsquom
not really sure if itrsquos hit me yetrdquo
Buck said ldquoIrsquoll miss not going
to the rink every day and seeing
the guys but Irsquove had a great five
years so I canrsquot complainrdquo
The Rams are ranked fourth in
the OUA West division and made
their third-straight playoff appear-ance for the first time in history
The last time the Rams earned a
semifinal spot in the playoffs was
the 2009ndash10 season
The team will take some time off
before the coaching staff begins
the journey to next yearrsquos home
opener a process head coach Wise
said will begin with recruitment
ldquoRecruiting is ongoingrdquo he
said ldquoHopefully we can bring in
guys that will make the team bet-
ter and wersquoll go from thererdquo
History repeats itself for Rye hockey
The end of the menrsquos hockey season marks the end of all the Ramsrsquo seasons Go to theeyeopenercom fora cheat sheet on how they ended and which players were awarded OUA titles EyeSports theeyeopener
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4 Wednesday March 5 2014FUN
Dedicated to Dan W
This week wersquore giving away a car Actually just $20 toTim Hortonrsquos Fill it out drop it off in the contest boxoutside of SCC 207 This is a raffle contest not a first-to-finish oneName Student Email Phone
Pugilisim of the StatePHOTO JESS TSANG
ILLUSTRATION DASHA ZOLOTA
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Cumming Soon Sin amp Vice
Now that our annual Love amp Sex issue is overand done with there has been a serious lackof cunning linguists in this paper Thatrsquos whereour new columnist comes in Her name is Lou-ise and shersquos ready to take your questionsabout what goes down (or doesnrsquot) beneaththe sheets Send us all the slippery sticky andsensual questions you have We promise topublish your questions anonymously and un-edited Nothing is too raunchy or embarrass-ing Send your inquiries to funtheeyeopenercom and Louise will answer in the next issue
W I N T I C K E T S t o s e e3 0 0 R I S E O F A N E M P I R E
B e o n e o f t h e f i r s t 1 5 s t a r t i n g a tn o o n M a r c h 5 t h t o w i n J u s t c o m e t o
t h e E y e o p e n e r - S C C 2 0 7
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This is NOT Louise
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4 Wednesday March 5 2014EDITORIAL
Editor-in-Chief
Sean ldquoBRB basketballrdquo Tepper
News
Ramisha ldquoGenghis KhanrdquoFarooq
Dylan ldquoMongolian 1rdquoFreeman-Grist
Associate NewsSierra ldquoMongolian 2rdquo Bein
Features
Sean ldquodelusions of grandeurrdquoWetselaar
Biz and Tech
Badri ldquoEdmontonrdquo Murali
Arts and Life
Leah ldquoPlease sleep sometimesrdquoHansen
Sports
Shannon ldquoMobsterrdquo Baldwin
Communities
Nicole ldquoChocoholicrdquo Schmidt
Photo
Natalia ldquoTennis courtrdquoBalcerzak
Jess ldquoLiberteacute EacutegaliteacuteFraterniteacuterdquo Tsang
Associate PhotoFarnia ldquoAncien Reacutegimerdquo Fekri
Head Copy Editor
Allison ldquoBattle-net DCrdquoTierney Elkin
Fun
Jake ldquoIt gets betterrdquo Scott
Media
Behdad ldquoStill underproducingrdquoMahichi
Online
Lindsay ldquoVery coldrdquo Boeckl
John ldquoChancerdquo Shmuel
General Manager
Liane ldquordquo McLarty
Advertising Manager
Chris ldquordquo Roberts
Design Director JD ldquorather be in Riordquo Mowat
Intern Army
Luke ldquoWe didnrsquotrdquo Peters Jacob ldquosign uprdquo Dalfen-Brown
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Contributors
Dasha ldquoI STILL LOVE PUGSrdquoZolota
Tristan ldquoProclivityrdquo SImpsonMelissa ldquoFinnimbrunrdquo Myre
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Brennan ldquoGyradosrdquo DohertyDeni ldquoEkansrdquo VErklanDaniel ldquoCharizardrdquo Rocci
Latifa ldquoAbrardquo AbdinChayonika ldquoBulbasaurrdquo
ChandraLaura ldquoSquirtlerdquo Woodward
Charles ldquoDunkrdquo VanegasMarissa ldquoSwishrdquo Dederer
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TheEyeopenerelection
extrava-paloozatrade
RUNSPEAK
VOTE
nominations andposters are due by
5 pm march 27
speeches begin at630 at the
wolf amp firkinvoting will
begin at 10 ammarch 28thpolls close at 5 pmppp
Charlie ldquoCacophonyrdquo BosayLana ldquoleguminousrdquo HallPamela ldquoPreposterousrdquo
JohnstonRebecca ldquoEgregiousrdquo Goss
Devin ldquoDipsomaniacrdquo JonesMichael ldquoMaculationrdquo
Grace-Dacosta Josh ldquoJewpacabrardquo BeneteauDaniel ldquoDebaucheryrdquo Morand
The Eyeopener is Ryersonrsquos larg-
est and only independent student
newspaper It is owned and oper-
ated by Rye Eye Publishing Inc a
non-profit corporation owned by thestudents of Ryerson Our offices are
on the second floor of the Student
Campus Centre You can reach us at
416-979-5262 at theeyeopenercom
or on Twitter at theeyeopener
Back by popular demand this
weekrsquosAnnoying Talking Cof-
fee Mug is PRETTY FUCKING
ANNOYED Staying annoyed
this ldquowinter of our discontentrdquo is
reallly the only way to stay sane
or at least not too stabby So
run around and mutter and curse
Scowl and offer sacrifices What
ever it takes I personally have
taken to studying Voodoo so if
you find sanctified mummifiedrelics in and around Ryerson
just remember not to touch them
because the curse is transfer-
able Arenrsquot you cursed enough
already With five weeks left in
the term the pressure is mount-
ing everything is stone-ass cold
and the sun only shines when the
temperature has dipped below
-20 Will spring ever come Irsquom
not sure Is this the nuclear win-
ter maybe Will the Cold War 20
be a ldquothingrdquo after Russiarsquos putsch
into the Crimean looks like So
what can you do About most
of it sweet fuck all So just lookaway from most shit Instead
concentrate on you friends and
family Buy unexpected treats
find cheap flowers do more than
your share of the chores Make
the space around you the sweet-
est place to be And then maybe
Irsquoll undo that curse on you
PHOTO JESS TSANG
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5Wednesday March 5 2014 NEWS
Ryerson OneCards have OneFlawStudents have been experiencing difficulties because OneCards do not have an expiry date
yerson students are issued OneCards in first year that allows students to get discounts at various local restaurants and retailers
PHOTO NATALIA BALCERZAK
By Allison Tierney Elkin
The Ryerson OneCard isnrsquot just
used for getting access to services
on campus mdash students should
lso be able to use them outside of
chool to get discounts at a number
of businesses
However without expiry dates
on the cards to identify them as
alid for the current year some
tudents have been rejected for dis-
counts that many feel are necessary
to ease financial burdens
James Milos a fourth-year
mathematics student ran into an
issue when he tried to purchase a
discounted Greyhound bus ticket
in Montreal in 2012
His OneCard was issued in fall
2010 mdash the only date present on
the ID
ldquoI couldnrsquot prove I was still in
school with the card because it
wasnrsquot that year anymorerdquo Milos
said
Some businesses have confused
this with the expiry date (itrsquos not
clearly marked) and rejected stu-
dents like Milos discounts
He later complained on Soap-
Box a Ryerson ideas page but
was unsatisfied with the reply the
school gave him They suggested
Milos get an international student
identification card (ISIC) which
has an expiry date for free through
the Ryerson Studentsrsquo Union
(RSU) Though Milos is a domes-tic student he and all Ryerson stu-
dents are eligible for the card
Other schools have different stu-
dent ID policies York University
provides cards for students at the
start of their first semester which is
valid for five years
ldquoThe problem with an expiry
date [is that] you could drop out
and it would still say yoursquore in
schoolrdquo Milos said
University of Ontario Institute
of Technology (UOIT) annually
places a coloured sticker on each
studentrsquos card with the school year
on it indicating that itrsquos currentlyvalid Ryerson used use the sticker
method but changed to its current
policy in 2010
ldquoI understand handing out On-
eCards every year could be expen-
sive but I donrsquot think slapping a
tiny sticker to show that you are
enrolled at a university is any bet-
terrdquo Jeyan Jeganathan a recent
Ryerson journalism grad said
Jeganathan encountered prob-
lems similar to Milos while setting
up a student banking account
ldquoWhen I wanted to renew my
banking [at CIBC] every year they
would always ask me to provide
somethingrdquo Jeganathan said ldquoIwould have to explain that this
is how Ryersonrsquos ID card system
worksrdquo
Ryerson president Sheldon Levy
said that hersquos never heard of prob-
lems with the OneCard before but
wants the expiry date or sticker to
be re-implemented
ldquoWe should make sure that
whatever we do optimizes the ben-
efits for our students so if an expiry
date is an important element of
that we sure would consider it and
implement itrdquo Levy said
ldquoIf it is for the banks or insur-
ance companies we recommendthey print their fee statement or
schedule off their RAMSS ac-
countrdquo Darcy Flynn OneCard
manager said via email Flynn
said there are currently no plans to
change the policy
RSU president Melissa Palermo
also recommended picking up an
ISIC but would prefer more op-
tions for students
ldquoI would encourage the uni-
versity to explore a better way to
identify that cards are valid for dis-
countsrdquo Palermo said
Vice-provost goes with unwritten rule to not share plagiarism data in light of recent CBC survey
By Daniel Rocci
Ryerson did not share its informa-
ion on academic misconduct in
recent CBC survey that studied
heating at Canadian universities
According to Christopher Evans
Ryersonrsquos vice-provost academic
he university withheld its academ-
c misconduct data from the CBC
based on unofficial protocolldquoRyerson actually does not have
policy to not release this kind of
data but it is a practice that was
nstituted by a former provost
everal years agordquo Evans told the
Eyeopener ldquoWe do collect the data
on academic misconduct activities
but we donrsquot make it publicrdquo
The CBC recently published
he results of its survey of 54 uni-
ersities across Canada in which
chools were asked to submit the
number of cases of academic mis-
onduct that went through a for-
mal discipline process during the
011ndash12 term
Some institutions revealed their
ount of formal cases as well as the
percentage of cases by type of mis-
onduct This includes plagiarism
nd having others write exams
and the form of discipline admin-
istered like grade reductions and
expulsions
Evans made the decision after
consulting various members of Ry-
ersonrsquos senate and academic admin-
istration including the provost the
secretary of senate and the director
of the academic integrity office But
he isnrsquot entirely sure why the proto-
col is in place to begin withldquoIt may seem a bit odd but our
former provost made the decision
to create this practice and it pre-
dates my being at this jobrdquo Ev-
ans said ldquoI donrsquot know what his
thoughts were in keeping discrete
about the data but thatrsquos the deci-
sion that was made prior to 2010
and wersquove just been continuing
with that practicerdquo
Evansrsquos predecessor is Alan
Shepard now president and vice-
chancellor of Concordia Univer-
sity
Shepard could not be reached for
comment
Concordia participated in the
CBC survey on 256 cases of aca-
demic misconduct
Lisa Taylor a journalism instruc-
tor at Ryerson who specializes
in law and ethics spoke to The
Eyeopener about Ryersonrsquos stance
on releasing the data
ldquoIt concerns me and it disap-
points merdquo Taylor said ldquoI donrsquot
think any issue that we face in any
public institution is improved by
failing to discuss itrdquo
The lack of official policy regard-
ing the publication of academic
misconduct data will be addressedin Ryersonrsquos current review of its
student code of academic conduct
also known as policy 60
ldquoThe [review] committee will
at some point come to a decision
and make a recommendation to
the senate about the desirability or
not of publicizing informationrdquo
Evans said That decision will de-
pend on opinions from across cam-
pus
ldquoIrsquod like to see the results re-leased so that we can see how we
measure up compared to every-
one elserdquo said Gabrielle Poirier a
first-year politics and governance
student ldquoIf there is an issue then
everyone should know about itrdquo
Policy 60 was originally ap-
proved in March 2003 and most
recently received minor amend-
ments in June 2013
According to Evans itrsquos overdue
for a review as extensive as the oneit is currently undergoing
Ryerson opts to not share data on plagiarism
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6 Wednesday March 5 2014NEWS
tarting in September 2014 third-
ear business management students
will have the option to major in real
state management
The program was specifically de-igned for students seeking to work
n all facets of the real estate indus-
ry as well as students who want to
xpand their education beyond the
basic bachelor of commerce degree
Steven Murphy dean of the Ted
Rogers School of Management
TRSM) said that Ryersonrsquos loca-
ion in downtown Toronto is a big
actor in the creation of the pro-
ram ldquoReal estate is a very vibrant
part of our economy Offering real
state management we think will
ive our students some edge of
racking into the industryrdquo Mur-
phy said ldquoBecause we are ultra-
urban we get how real estate issuesntertwine I think when you live
nd breathe it every day you have
o start offering things that match
he daily reality of studentsrdquo
Murphy says hersquos excited by the
majorrsquos potential and sees buzz
around the program from the stu-
dent body ldquoStudents are turned on
by the possibilities of how they can
contribute in a sustainable way to
city planningrdquo Murphy said
In comparison to other real es-
tate programs Ryersonrsquos is focusedon building a better future The
program was designed around a
philosophy of sustainability and de-
velopment which Murphy says fits
into the DNA of Ryerson
ldquoAnyone can put up a condo
building but not everyone can
create a communityrdquo he said ldquoSo
I think this program is far more
about what yoursquore doing in real
estate and how it connects to the
community We are trying to in-
still in students that profit is very
short-termrdquo
Currently students in business
management may choose to ma-
jor in economics amp managementscience entrepreneurship amp strat-
egy global management studies
human resources management
and organizational behaviour
law amp business and marketing
management
It only goes up from hereLack of elevators creating accessibility problem for students
By Latifa Abdin
There has been an increased number of calls reporting broken elevators this year
PHOTO FARNIA FEKRI
ume The many people using
these elevators every day means
that required service and repairscan occur more often than at oth-
er locationsrdquo she wrote
According to Bailey there has
been an increased number of calls
for the library and the school of
management than last year in the
same period
ldquoSo far this year we have had
24 service calls for the LIB and
[TRSM] several of which were
resolved overnight with little to
no impact to users in the area
This is consistent with previous
years with 18 calls during the
same timeframe in 2013rdquo she
said in the email
Bailey noted that while elevatorbreakdowns are more likely to
occur in this building because of
the large amount of people who
use them misuse can often be the
cause of break downs and slow-
ing down of the elevators
ldquoOne continuing challenge
is how often the elevators areused to go up or down a single
floor which increases wear and
tear increases wait times and
decreases accessibility for those
who require it We encourage the
community to use the stairs in li-
brary and escalators in [TRSM]
whenever possible and save the
elevators for those with mobil-
ity requirementsrdquo she wrote
According to Kelly Dermody a
librarian at Ryersonrsquos library al-
ternative arrangments are in place
to assist students who cannot
walk up stairs due to a disability
ldquoWe have a emergency contin-
gency plan We have 4 elevatorsand if 3 or 4 elevators are down
for more than a few hours we
will work with the University to
inform all students with disabili-
tiesrdquo Said Dermody
A tearful day in court
The mother of alleged murdererFarshad Badkhshan gave a tearful
testimony against her sonrsquos sanity
on March 4
The defence called Sedigheh
Moriadi to testify about her sonrsquos
decent into mental illness which
she said began in Iran in1989
She recounted her familyrsquos mi-
gration to Canada and consequen-
tial settling and resettling across
the country such as Halifax Pick-
ering Ont and Vancouver
Badahkshan is pleading that hersquos
not criminally responsible for the
death of Ryerson student Corina
Patrache in July of 2010
Defence attorney Victoria Riv-
ers spoke to the jury just after 10
am on March 4 advocating di-
rectly to the jury on Badakhshanrsquos
behalf for the first time in the trial
ldquoYoursquove heard about his strange
weird bizarre behaviourrdquo Rivers
said She argued that all the crown
had brought forth recounting theabsurd nature of Badahkshan at
the time of Petrachersquos death was
purely the result of a ldquopsychiatric
disorder resistant to anti-psychot-
ic medicationrdquo
She had left to live by herself in
Vancouver It wasnrsquot long before
Badakhshan had joined her across
the country that she noticed a
change in his behaviour
ldquoHe said the people from Hali-
fax are after himrdquo Moriadi told
the jury At one point while stay-
ing with Badakhshan in a Toronto
apartment he had approached her
with a knife and calm expression
ldquo[He said] lsquoMom I love you I
want to take you with mersquordquo said
Moriadi fighting back tears
She then told the court that she
moved to Calgary in July of 2007
leaving Badakhshan alone in To-
ronto ldquoYou have not heard at all
about what happened to Mr Ba-
dahkshanrdquo said Rivers to the juryShe then showed the jury a
photo of Badakhshan before se-
vere burning and the multiple skin
graphs in July 2010
ldquoYou will also see
MrBadakhshan [was in] a medi-
cally induced coma for several
months after the incidentrdquo said
Rivers ldquoThat he tried to kill him-
self when given the opportunity to
do sordquo
She noted the testimony of Peter
Tran in which he recounted some
of the last words of Petrache
Rivers argued Tranrsquos recol-
lection of Petrache saying ldquohe
wouldnrsquot stop hitting mersquordquo was
by the psychological and physical
trauma Petrache suffered before
her death
The trial continues
A new real estate program will be starting up in September 2014PHOTO JESS TSANG
Lack of elevator service in theuniversityrsquos library and at the Ted
Rogers School of Management
(TRSM) are raising tensions
around campus
Megan Saliwonczyk a third-
year nursing student said that
almost every time she has been
in the library at least one of the
elevators has been out of service
ldquoThere is usually only one [el-
evator] working A lot of the
rooms that we book for meetings
are on the seventh floor or the
sixth floor and you donrsquot always
want to walk up a flight of stairs
with a heavy backpack rdquo shesaid
She said that when one or more
of the elevators are out of ser-
vice huge crowds of students end
up waiting for elevators which
slows down the services
ldquoI study at York at lot instead
because their library you know
functionsrdquo said Celina Rosso a
third-year childhood and youth
care student
Kerri Bailey a manager for
Campus Facilities amp Sustainabil-
ity at Ryerson said in an email
that because elevators at the Ry-
erson library and TRSM are used
a lot they break down more oftenbut that the campus facilities are
quick to resolve any issues
ldquoThe banks of elevators in li-
brary and Ted Rogers School of
Management are very high vol-
Mother of accused details extent of sonrsquos illness
By Charlie Bossy
Real Estate at Rye
By Jake Scott andDylan Freeman-Grist
TRANSFER TO QUEENrsquoSLife SciencesLearn more queensucatransfer
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7Wednesday March 5 2014 NEWS
Blackboard benchedRyersonrsquos web portal might be replaced by end of 2014
By Badri Murali
After 11 years Ryerson students
nd staff may be working with anew online student portal
Ryersonrsquos Computing and Com-
munications Services (CCS) the de-
partment that handles technology
nd computer support is reviewing
pplications to replace Blackboard
They have received applications
rom various companies over the
past few months for a new online
earning portal
CCS is working with the Faculty
of Communication and Design the
earning and teaching office digital
ducation strategies at the Chang
chool and the library to decide
which ideas will work best for Ry-rson After looking at each pro-
posal they will be testing potential
programs
Brian Lesser director of CCS is
one of 13 members on the Advisory
Committee on Academic Comput-
ng (ACAC) that will decide which
applicants will make it to Ryersonrsquos
shortlist Lesser said that students
and staff have told him they want
more tools and a better layout forBlackboard
ldquoStudents want things like blogs
and file storage to interact with
their course materialrdquo Lesser said
ldquoSince we began with Google
some of this is now possiblerdquo
Ryerson adopted its agreement
with Google Apps for Education
in September 2012 This allows
students and staff to use apps
like Gmail Google Calendar and
Google Drive which stores files
online Lesser said he received
feedback from students saying that
Google Apps has helped with some
of their problems but they wouldlike to see more
In a 2013 survey conducted by
CCS many staff said that they
want to be able to immediately
contact students with marks and
other updates and were sometimes
facing difficulty on Blackboard to
do so Staff also said that they want
to be able to mark up documents
submitted by students but often
run into problems making com-ments on them
The applications from external
groups were due on Feb 28 Once
the CCS and ACAC create a short
list they will be presented to the
Ryerson community for feedback
The feedback will then be collected
through townhall sessions and in-
dividual meetings with CCS to let
staff and students test the applica-
tions in real time Once this has
been done and after ACAC pro-
cesses feedback only then will CCS
proceed to replace the system
ldquoWe should have the trial pro-
cess beginning in May to receivefeedback from usersrdquo Lesser said
ldquoIt would be great to get a new sys-
tem working for fall 2014rdquo
There is a consultation blog
available at lmsblogryersonca
detailing what ACAC and CCS are
doing throughout this process
DMZ touches down in IndiaBy Lana Hall
Canadarsquos Governor General David
ohnston threw the coconut on the
round and mdash luckily for him andRyerson University mdash it cracked
An Indian tradition to mark the
tart of a new project the coco-
nutrsquos cracking is supposed to bring
ood luck It was a welcome sign
or Johnston and his team of gov-
rnment and Ryerson leaders who
were in Mumbai India last week
o oversee the opening of a Digital
Media Zone (DMZ) program
The Bombay Stock Exchange
nstitute Ltd (BIL)-Ryerson DMZ
ndia modeled on Ryerson Uni-
versityrsquos DMZ It was built in col-
laboration with Ryerson Ryerson
Futures Inc Simon Fraser Univer-
sity and the BIL It was officially
opened on Feb 28The original DMZ at Ryerson is
a multi-program business incuba-
tor and workspace for entrepre-
neurs that was founded in 2010
The India-based version will op-
erate similarly with the goal of
helping technology-based startups
with their operations and expos-
ing them to mentors customers
and investors
Ryerson president Sheldon Levy
whom also accompanied John-
ston to India said that the zone
in Mumbai has huge potential for
Ryerson
ldquoThis will give our students an
opportunity to spend time in In-
dia as well as students in India tospend time in Canadardquo Levy said
ldquoI think itrsquos going to be a fabulous
opportunityrdquo
Kristin Heredia a spokesper-
son for the DMZ here at Ryerson
said the university plans to launch
other DMZ programs abroad but
is currently focusing on India be-
cause it will have the largest popu-
lation of young people worldwide
by the year 2020
As one of the youngest emerging
nations India will need to be able
to employ more young people
said Ambarish Datta the CEO of
BIL-Ryerson DMZ IndialdquoWe are confident that this incu-
bator will not only provide em-
ployment for our youth but also
build products and solutions that
put India on the global map of in-
novationrdquo Datta said in a news
release
ldquoThe Canada-India economic
relationship is strongrdquo said John-
ston in a government press release
ldquo[It] holds tremendous potential
for broader and expanded col-
laborationrdquo
The stop in Mumbai where
Johnston also had the opportu-
nity to open the Bombay Stock
Exchange was part of a larger
India-wide tour during which he
spoke with officials in Bangalore
and New Delhi regarding business
and educationDavid Johnston cuts the ribbon at the DMZrsquos brand new Indian sister project
PHOTO COURTESY CARBE ORELLANA
NewsBites
Theft duringexam
A studentrsquos iPhone was stolen Feb
26 after heshe was asked to leave
it at the front of the class during a
test according to Ryerson emer-
gency and security services
According to security no policy
was put in place by the instructor
to secure the electronic devices
while the students wrote the test
ldquo[Proctors] typically ask [stu-
dents] to bring their bags to the
frontrdquo said Tanya Poppleton
manager of security and emer-
gency services ldquoIrsquove never heard
of placing cellphones on the table
at the frontrdquo
Chequesgrowing stale
Students who have yet to collect
their health plan opt-out chequeswill need to do so before they lose
access to the money
The cheques as per Canadian
law will be void six months from
their issue date on Nov 10
The RSU will reissue cheques af-
ter the date of expiry for up to 15
months after the original date they
were issued
WINNERS MAY RECEIVE UP TO
$2500 AND HAVE THEIR WORK
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8 Wednesday March 5 2014FEATURES
BR
ICEThough somein some partsTristan Simpmale figure s
PHOTO SHANNON BALDWIN
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Wednesday March 5 2014 9FEATURES
The cheers echo throughout
the arena as the announcer
introduces the next menrsquos
ree skate entrant Spencer Buchan-
n Decked in all black he casually
lides backwards with his hands in
his pockets as if it was a free skate
on Mattamy Athletic Centrersquos ice
He doesnrsquot look like a typical figure
kater He doesnrsquot wear elaborate
ostumes For him a plain tee and
pants will do He stands six feet two
inches mdash taller than most competi-
tors He brings his large frame to
a slow then raises his lengthy arms
to embrace the sound He stops at
centre ice He gathers himself and
starts his routine
There are 17 students on Ryer-
sonrsquos figure skating team Two of
them are male and only one is per-
mitted to compete Figure skaters
are judged on their technique and
finesse but it is a female-dominat-
ed sport The male minority that
does compete at the university
level struggles to gain the recog-
nition awarded to their female
counterparts Ontario University
Athletics (OUA) has one event for
men to compete in at the figure
skating championships and win-ter invitationals The women have
14 events for singles pairs fours
and teams Most university teams
have just one male player on their
squad
Buchanan says he didnrsquot
always want to be a fig-
ure skater ldquoWhen I was
younger all of my friends were
playing hockey and they would
poke fun at [me] for figure skat-
ingrdquo he says ldquoWhen that hap-
pens you want to fit in and just
play hockeyrdquo He changed his
mind after his childhood coachtold him he had the potential to
excel in figure skating
ldquoI think the fact [that the OUA]
only has one event for men is a
gender biasrdquo figure skating head
coach Lauren Wilson says She
says she doesnrsquot think the gender
bias is done on purpose but the
structure of the OUA figure skat-ing championships doesnrsquot help
ldquoOur roster is limited to 17 and
therersquos only one competition for
men We canrsquot make room for
more guyshellip Men can compete
in the synchro event but that still
leaves their options lowrdquo Buchan-
an chose not to partake in team
synchro ldquoI train on my own so
doing synchro wouldnrsquot work for
merdquo he says
Buchanan notes that the sport
faces a lack of recognition ldquoMost
people donrsquot take it serious They
donrsquot know the sport all they
know is Blades of Gloryrdquo
An hour before the competi-
tion Buchanan was writ-
ing an exam The 22-year-
old is a second-year accounting
student at Ryerson On top of his
studies hersquos been competing in
figure skating for six years ldquoMy
whole family has been skating for
a long timerdquo he says
Like any athlete he devoted a
lot of time to training until his
luck took a turn for the worst on
May 5 2012 He was walking
home alone from a bar in Mon-
treal when he was hit by a car
ldquoI really donrsquot have any memo-
ry of what happenedrdquo Buchanan
says He was found in the middle
of the street unconscious and
bleeding at 335 am He woke up
in a downtown Montreal hospi-
tal
Buchanan suffered a baseline
skull fracture that kept him off
the ice for a year ldquoI wasnrsquot sure if
I could [go] back to skatingrdquo he
says Buchanan was inspired by
Javier Fernandez mdash the 2014 Eu-
ropean menrsquos figure skating cham-
pion He says watching Fernandezskate at the Toronto Cricket Skat-
ing and Curling Club pushed him
back into competition
Buchananrsquos first dance back on
the ice was rough ldquoI hadnrsquot com-
peted in like two years and I for-
got how much it took to skate
[figure skating] is surprisingly tir-
ing and I was out of breath for like
half an hourrdquo Figure skating com-
petitions are tightly judged Skat-
ers are scored on the difficulty and
style of the routine but theyrsquore
sometimes also judged off the ice
by society
Buchanan says that some peoplemake sweeping assumption about
male figure skaters mdash sometimes
extending to their sexuality ldquoIrsquom
not gay but [that] notion people
have bugs me a little bitrdquo He says
these assumptions deter athletes
from pursuing the sport ldquoIf you
are gay it can be hard to deal with
the way people label yourdquoEmily Rose Galliani Pecchia a
third-year forward on the Ryerson
womenrsquos hockey team says ldquoPeo-
ple shouldnrsquot make these assump-
tions flat out Whether theyrsquore
a figure skater hockey player or
wrestler it doesnrsquot determine if
theyrsquore gay or straightrdquo
Galliani Pecchia whom is gay
says athletes should be able to
compete in any sport without be-
ing judged
ldquoIf an athlete is gay they
should feel comfortable enough
to compete Itrsquos not fair for an
athlete to feel uncomfortable intheir field of playrdquo she says She
adds that her teammates are open
about their sexuality ldquoThere is
always someone to talk to within
our dressing room which is an
anomaly in varsity sport since it
is a taboo subjectrdquo
Pierre Alain interim head coach
of the Ryerson womenrsquos hockey
team says there are false percep-
tions that female hockey play-
ers are physical and butch ldquoYes
many players like the physical part
of the [sport] but thatrsquos not all
you need to be a good playerrdquo He
says athletes shouldnrsquot be catego-
rized based on the sport they playldquoLook at Meghan Agosta mdash she
started as a figure skater before
doing hockeyrdquo
Figure skating isnrsquot a promi-
EAKERSare often seen as being male-dominatedworld of athleticism men are a minoritykes a look at the often-overlooked sport of
When I was younger all my friends were play-ing hockey and they would poke fun at [me]for figure skating When that happens youwant to fit in and just play hockey
nent sport at most universities
The crowd at the OUAs is meager
compared to the ones at a basket-
ball or hockey games and is made
up mostly of athletesrsquo teammates
But Buchanan says that figure
skating is growing
When Buchanan was a kid he
would take cover when people
made fun of him for figure skat-ing Today he is less shy ldquoSome
people give you a look but it
doesnrsquot bother me anymorerdquo His
response to those who question
the physical demand required to
compete ldquoWhy donrsquot you give it
a try and see how you dordquo
Buchanan knows what to
do to win He preps him-
self mentally while sitting
in the menrsquos changeroom at the
OUAs ldquoYou have to focus in You
have to relax Donrsquot over-analyze
things Let your body do what
you trained it to dordquo he saysAfter he is mentally prepared he
heads to the ice Buchanan walks
on the Rams mat before leaving
the changeroom then remem-
bers ldquoYoursquore not supposed to do
that mdash itrsquos bad luckrdquo During the
warm-up skate Daft Punkrsquos One
More Time radiates through the
arena Competitors are already
on the ice perfecting their routine
Each one exudes confidence ldquoIrsquom
not going to lie I really want to
winrdquo he says
One after another they take
the ice and perform their routine
Buchanan is the third competitor
to hit the ice and he emerges toElton Johnrsquos Your Song Some of
the female athletes in the audi-
ence begin to sing along and they
throw flowers at him when the
routine is finished Many of the
menrsquos routines were comedic and
they were often met with laugh-
ter Some audience members com-
mented on Buchananrsquos ldquosparklesrdquo
on his black tee
Every spin jump and turn is
completed with grace He ex-
plodes with a double axel He
nails jump after jump then sud-
denly staggers on his landing
He throws his hands to catchhimself and continues He elicits
more cheers from the audience by
breaking down with a few robot
dance moves He ends his routine
with a flurry of spin moves He
comes to a halt and then puts his
hands back in his pockets
Buchanan doesnrsquot win his event
mdash the menrsquos open singles mdash but
he does finish second His inspi-
ration mdash Fernandez mdash places
fourth at the Sochi Olympics the
same day he competes in Toronto
Buchanan doesnrsquot stick around
to watch the awards presenta-
tion because he has work mdash his
sister accepts his medal for him
ldquoYou never know what to ex-
pect I didnrsquot watch everyone else
skaterdquo He pauses ldquoSecond place
is alrightrdquo
PHOTOS FARNIA FEKRI
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10 Wednesday March 5 2014BIZ amp TECH
A studentrsquos guide to filing your taxesByPamelaJohnston
trsquos that time of year again Gatherour receipts employment and ed-
ucation records because itrsquos time to
file your tax returns Donrsquot worry
he Eyeopener has everything you
need to know about claiming your
xpenses If after reading this you
till find the whole concept of a
ax return too hard to grasp you
an go to the tax clinics organized
by the Ryerson Studentsrsquo Union
(RSU) They are held throughout
March up until April 3 Members
of the RSU and Continuing Educa-
tion Studentsrsquo Association of Ryer-
son (CESAR) can use Ufileca to filetheir taxes
Remember the deadline to file
individual returns to the Canada
Revenue Agency (CRA) is April
30 If you file late you will be fined
five per cent of what you owe from
2013 and one per cent of that bal-
ance for each late month So get off
your ass and git lsquoer done
ILLUSTRATION BY JESS TSANG
THIS WEEK AT THE MAC
MATTAMYAC
HOME OF THE
GO TO MATTAMYATHLETICCENTRECA FOR EVENT DETAILS
APRIL 3 2014 1230PM amp 600PM
TICKET PRICES
FLOOR SEATS - $30 STANDS - $20
(Before applicable service charges)
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MARCH 28 2014 700PM
DOORS OPEN AT 630PM
bull Performances by Ryerson Students
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ON SALE NOW
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11Wednesday March 5 2014 COMMUNITIES
The gift that keeps on givingGifts for Strangers an initiative created by Ryerson business student Cole Banning goes global
By Mikaila Kukurudza
Banningrsquos organization Improv in Toronto hosts regular events within the Toronto communityPHOTO MIKAILA KUKURUDZA
econd-year Ryerson business stu-
dent Cole Banning has mastered
he art of making strangers smile If
oursquove ever been given a wrapped
box containing a handmade gift
by a stranger on the street in To-
onto therersquos a good chance the
2-year-old had something to do
with it
Banning founded Improv in
Toronto a group that organizes
vents across the city when he was
senior in high school He has since
xpanded on the organization and
reated different projects mdash Gifts
or Strangers is the most recogniz-ble The project is exactly what
t sounds like Around the holiday
eason Banning and his team hand
out gifts to people on the street
ldquoTo be approached by a ran-
dom stranger and given a gift
might brighten [someonersquos] dayrdquo
Banning said ldquoYou hope that
ou made that difference which
s strange to say because all wersquore
doing is fooling around and hav-
ng funrdquo
Gifts for Strangers began three
ears ago and has been growing in
popularity since This year 33 cit-
es in over 23 countries participat-
ed in the event Banningrsquos concept
was inspired by a group in New
York City called Improv Every-
where which conducts similar ur-
ban art projects and experiments
But Gifts for Strangers isnrsquot the
only project Improv in Toronto
has undertaken Banning and his
team of 20 plan sporadic commu-
nity projects on a regular basis In
the past these events have includ-
ed pantless subway trips umbrella
taxi services to escort pedestrians
through the rain and pillow fights
at Yonge-Dundas Square
The goal is to bring strangers to-
gether through unexpected inter-
active events and add spice to the
day-to-day lives of Torontonians
ldquoI think people going through
their lives put up a wall Itrsquos nice
to break the boundaryrdquo Banning
saidImprov in Toronto has held over
50 free family-friendly events
around Toronto over the past six
years The group also has a You-
Tube channel with over 25 000
subscribers (some videos have over
5 million views)
ldquoIt just blew up I wasnrsquot pre-
pared or readyrdquo Banning said
Things really took off after an
overwhelming turnout at Improv
in Torontorsquos second event mdash a
large-scale Wherersquos Waldo hunt
in the Eaton Centre The event re-
sulted in Banning being escorted
out of his hiding place by mall se-curity due to the overcrowding he
had created with his Waldo hunt
Banning credits the success of
his organization to social media
and his goal to fill a strangerrsquos day
with a little laughter He believes
that by creating an inclusive com-
munity and bringing strangers to-
gether the seriousness of everyday
routines can be mitigated
ldquoItrsquos nice to be taken away from
the stress of life even if itrsquos just for
a minuterdquo Banning said
For students hoping to get in-
volved Banning suggests ldquodonat-
ing your time not moneyrdquo
Constructing communities
ByOliviaMcLeod
Architecture students build a community shelter in Newfoundland
A group of six Ryerson architec-
ure students were chosen to par-
icipate in a unique and unifying
project over reading week The
roup travelled to Botwood NLo create a structure for the townrsquos
heritage park at a Second World
War airplane base
The build was initiated through
Culture of Outports mdash a project
ssociated with ERA Architects
n Toronto For the past four
ears they have annually trav-
lled around Newfoundland to
onserve cultural heritage through
rchitecture Three of these devel-
opments have been with Ryerson
ldquoI think our partnership [with
Ryerson] works really well be-
ause there is that opportunity to
work here together in Toronto and
do work and planning before we
o out together to the east coastrdquo
Alana Young project coordinator
aid
The structure itself sits on the
foundation of an old weather sta-
tion on a pathway to Killick Island
mdash Botwoodrsquos prime tourist spot
and nature trail
ldquoThe continued story heard
from people was they wanted to
see something on that roadway
going to the islandrdquo said Scott
Sceviour deputy mayor of Bot-
wood ldquoWe had some benchesthere for rest areas but people
wanted to see something there so
thatrsquos where [the idea] was bornrdquo
The structure is essentially
a wooden-planked box with a
sloped roof There are rectangu-
lar cutouts in the walls that align
with historic plane crash sights
in the surrounding area Because
of this Young calls it the ldquoview-
finderrdquo
Typically a project like this
would take two weeks to finish
but because of the studentsrsquo sched-
ules it became a ldquocompressed
eight-day adventurerdquo
ldquoEverybody was just great and
supportive Itrsquos almost like you ask
everyone to suspend their disbelief
for a few days and just kind of get
on this rollercoaster with you and
see where it goesrdquo Young said
Without the community Young
said the project wouldnrsquot exist Be-
cause of very cold weather condi-
tions the entire structure had to be
built inside of the townrsquos fire hall
and then transported by trucks to
the site They provided the tools
experienced labour and even the
teamrsquos meals along with endlesssupport hospitality and help
Students said the experience of
bringing a design to life is like no
other experience theyrsquove had so
far
ldquoActually getting to build it and
[getting] a community involved
and [having] real feedback from
people who are going to use the
space is really valuablerdquo Kate
Gonashvili a fourth-year architec-
ture student said
Young said because of this proj-
ectrsquos success they are going to
continue working with Botwood
in the future
ldquoWe have ideas as far as nextsteps and what they can do and
theyrsquore really engaged so thatrsquos ex-
actly the kind of community you
want to work withrdquoRyerson students spent eight days building this structure in Newfoundland
PHOTOS COURTESY ALANA YOUNG
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12 Wednesday March 5 2014ARTS amp LIFE
Need a job Stop surfing and start walking
When Parth Patel was in his firstew years of the engineering pro-
ram he found getting a summer
ob to be quite challenging
ldquoI applied to more than 60 or
70 jobsrdquo he said ldquoI [was] trying
o find work [in engineering] but
wasnrsquot able tordquo
The frustration of finding a
ummer job is something many
Looking for a summer job can be frustrating but relying on the Internet may be hurting you more than you know
students have experienced before
especially since the 2008 econom-
ic crisis when markets around theworld crashed Searching through
thousands of job listings online
perfecting your resumeacute and send-
ing it out can take hours
But if yoursquore hoping to score
that ideal job going back to the
basics is the way to go said Dan-
iel Kennedy a career consultant
at Ted Rogers School of Manage-
Since the 2008 economic crisis the job market has seen fierce competition mdash sepa-rating yourself from the rest is the first step in being noticed
PHOTOS FARNIA FEKRI
ment careers and employment
partnerships centre
ldquoIf you go into [the websites]Monster or Workopolis and you
type in lsquosummer jobsrsquo yoursquore going
to find job postingsrdquo he said ldquoThe
problem is there are about four mil-
lion other students across Canada
who are going to find those same
job postingsrdquo
It often comes down to doing
some old-fashioned scouting on the
ground Kennedy said adding that
proactively approaching employers
can make a bigger impression than
simply sending a resumeacute by email
ldquoWhat students should do if they
really want to make a go of it is to
look for companies that donrsquot havethe capacity to advertise for those
summer jobsrdquo he said ldquoIf you can
identify and find those companies
and approach them proactively
that will give you a much better
chancerdquo
Because finding a job can be so
difficult in Toronto many students
decide to go back to their home-
towns for the summer where the
competition is less fierce and jobs
are easier to come by
Laura Hamel a first-year perfor-
mance acting student said shersquoll be
moving back home for the summer
because of the cost of living in To-
rontoldquoIrsquom from Regina so Irsquoll be mov-
ing home to find a jobrdquo she said
ldquoItrsquos a lot cheaper to live at home
and I have a solid job at homerdquo
For Patel scoring a job came
with a visit to his sister in Calgary
one summer While he was there
he applied to only five or six jobs
and ended up getting a summer po-
sition that matched his field
The summer job market comes
down to basic supply and demand
Kennedy said
ldquoOn the supply side you have
basically a lot of students that are
looking for jobs during the sum-mer months and thatrsquos fine as long
as the demandrsquos thererdquo he said
ldquoThe demand really hasnrsquot been
there since 2008rdquo
Brennan Thompson undergrad-
uate program director in the school
of economics says that the reces-
sion of 2008 has brought everyone
down a notch when it comes to the
job market
ldquoThe guy who was working at
the auto assembly plant loses his
job and now hersquos taking the low-
paid job at Tim Hortonrsquosrdquo he said
ldquoNow the young person who used
to have that job at Tim Hortonrsquos
[doesnrsquot] have anythingrdquo
Kennedy says the market is start-
ing to bounce back But compared
to 10 years ago finding a summer
job is far more of a challenge Even
in a city as big as Toronto compe-
tition can be fierce because thereare so many students looking for
temporary employment
According to Kennedy even
if the job you end up with isnrsquot at
all related to your field itrsquos still a
good idea to include it on your
resumeacute Employers look at how
your skills have evolved even if
the job you had was just bussing
tables The hard skills you gain
might not be related to your future
career but the soft skills mdashlike leadership skills problem-
solving abilities and customer ser-
vice experience mdash will come in
handy
ldquoNo one is expecting you to
graduate here and have four years
of senior project management ex-
periencerdquo he said
ldquoWhat they want to see is that
therersquos a progressionrdquo
By Leah Hansen
Ryerson graduate Peter Hill is performing at the ninth annual Toronto SketchComedy Festival as part of a duo called Beggarrsquos Canyon See the full article by AlexHeck at theeyeopenercom
PHOTO COURTESY TARA NOELLE
Laughing it up
Discuss the upcoming budget
All members of the Ryerson community are invited to
attend a town hall to discuss the development of the
universityrsquos budget for the 2014-15 academic year
Hosted by
SHELDON LEVY
president
MOHAMED LACHEMI
provost and vice president academic
PAUL STENTON
deputy provost and vice-provost university planning
TOWN HALL MEETING
Wednesday March 12 9 ndash 10 am
Architecture Building Room ARC ndash 108
Thursday March 20 230 ndash 330 pm
Library Building Room LIB ndash 72
President Levy is confirmed to attend the March 20 meeting
To submit questions in advance email provostryersonca
Please contact us if we need to make any accommodations to
ensure your inclusion in this meeting
Come to aRyersonCommunityTown Hall
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13Wednesday March 5 2014 SPORTS
A puckinggood season
n the last 37 years Ryersonrsquos
menrsquos hockey team has never made
t past the semifinals
Even with a team that nearly
doubled last seasonrsquos 14-win per-
ormance the Rams fell prey to
his historical barrier on Feb 28
when a 5-1 semifinal loss to the
Lakehead University Thunder-
wolves ended their season
ldquoWe played an uphill battle all
nightrdquo Rams head coach Graham
Wise said ldquoThey unfortunatelygot on the board firstrdquo
In spite of the disappointing
oss this marked the Ramsrsquo best
performance in the last decade
But that success didnrsquot come
without a few major bumps along
he way Their high-powered start
o the season came to a screeching
halt due to a seven-day suspen-
ion they were handed for drink-
ng alcohol while on a team road
rip The Rams had to forfeit two
games during their suspension
but managed to come back strong
mdash ranking fourth in the Ontario
University Athletics (OUA) West
division by the seasonrsquos endldquoWersquove come a long way from
ighth place and I think we had a
eally good year for ourselvesrdquo sec-
ond-year forward Jamie Wise said
Coached by his father Graham
Wise Jamie achieved a career-
high 45 points mdash ranking him
hird in the Canadian Interuni-
versity Sports (CIS) His 21 goals
his season mdash compared to the
ight he scored last season mdash
made him the second-leading
corer in the country
By Devin Jones
amie Wise the Ramsrsquo leading scorer and second-ranked in the country on home ice
PHOTO FARNIA FEKRI
Fellow forward Dominic Alber-
ga also had a standout season
A third-line grinder from the
Ontario Hockey League (OHL)
Albergarsquos first-line rookie perfor-
mance for the Rams was anything
but expected
Alberga contributed 44 points
and 18 goals to the team He
achieved second place on the team
for goals scored and is nationally
ranked fourth in points mdash all in his
first year as a Ram
But as the menrsquos hockey team
celebrates new talent they alsosay goodbye to two of their key
players Both right-winger Dustin
Alcock and captain Andrew Buck
are graduating this year Buck
scored 90 goals in his 125-game
career with the Rams and wore
the captainrsquos patch for three of his
five years
ldquoItrsquos a surreal feeling and Irsquom
not really sure if itrsquos hit me yetrdquo
Buck said ldquoIrsquoll miss not going
to the rink every day and seeing
the guys but Irsquove had a great five
years so I canrsquot complainrdquo
The Rams are ranked fourth in
the OUA West division and made
their third-straight playoff appear-ance for the first time in history
The last time the Rams earned a
semifinal spot in the playoffs was
the 2009ndash10 season
The team will take some time off
before the coaching staff begins
the journey to next yearrsquos home
opener a process head coach Wise
said will begin with recruitment
ldquoRecruiting is ongoingrdquo he
said ldquoHopefully we can bring in
guys that will make the team bet-
ter and wersquoll go from thererdquo
History repeats itself for Rye hockey
The end of the menrsquos hockey season marks the end of all the Ramsrsquo seasons Go to theeyeopenercom fora cheat sheet on how they ended and which players were awarded OUA titles EyeSports theeyeopener
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Pugilisim of the StatePHOTO JESS TSANG
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Cumming Soon Sin amp Vice
Now that our annual Love amp Sex issue is overand done with there has been a serious lackof cunning linguists in this paper Thatrsquos whereour new columnist comes in Her name is Lou-ise and shersquos ready to take your questionsabout what goes down (or doesnrsquot) beneaththe sheets Send us all the slippery sticky andsensual questions you have We promise topublish your questions anonymously and un-edited Nothing is too raunchy or embarrass-ing Send your inquiries to funtheeyeopenercom and Louise will answer in the next issue
W I N T I C K E T S t o s e e3 0 0 R I S E O F A N E M P I R E
B e o n e o f t h e f i r s t 1 5 s t a r t i n g a tn o o n M a r c h 5 t h t o w i n J u s t c o m e t o
t h e E y e o p e n e r - S C C 2 0 7
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This is NOT Louise
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5Wednesday March 5 2014 NEWS
Ryerson OneCards have OneFlawStudents have been experiencing difficulties because OneCards do not have an expiry date
yerson students are issued OneCards in first year that allows students to get discounts at various local restaurants and retailers
PHOTO NATALIA BALCERZAK
By Allison Tierney Elkin
The Ryerson OneCard isnrsquot just
used for getting access to services
on campus mdash students should
lso be able to use them outside of
chool to get discounts at a number
of businesses
However without expiry dates
on the cards to identify them as
alid for the current year some
tudents have been rejected for dis-
counts that many feel are necessary
to ease financial burdens
James Milos a fourth-year
mathematics student ran into an
issue when he tried to purchase a
discounted Greyhound bus ticket
in Montreal in 2012
His OneCard was issued in fall
2010 mdash the only date present on
the ID
ldquoI couldnrsquot prove I was still in
school with the card because it
wasnrsquot that year anymorerdquo Milos
said
Some businesses have confused
this with the expiry date (itrsquos not
clearly marked) and rejected stu-
dents like Milos discounts
He later complained on Soap-
Box a Ryerson ideas page but
was unsatisfied with the reply the
school gave him They suggested
Milos get an international student
identification card (ISIC) which
has an expiry date for free through
the Ryerson Studentsrsquo Union
(RSU) Though Milos is a domes-tic student he and all Ryerson stu-
dents are eligible for the card
Other schools have different stu-
dent ID policies York University
provides cards for students at the
start of their first semester which is
valid for five years
ldquoThe problem with an expiry
date [is that] you could drop out
and it would still say yoursquore in
schoolrdquo Milos said
University of Ontario Institute
of Technology (UOIT) annually
places a coloured sticker on each
studentrsquos card with the school year
on it indicating that itrsquos currentlyvalid Ryerson used use the sticker
method but changed to its current
policy in 2010
ldquoI understand handing out On-
eCards every year could be expen-
sive but I donrsquot think slapping a
tiny sticker to show that you are
enrolled at a university is any bet-
terrdquo Jeyan Jeganathan a recent
Ryerson journalism grad said
Jeganathan encountered prob-
lems similar to Milos while setting
up a student banking account
ldquoWhen I wanted to renew my
banking [at CIBC] every year they
would always ask me to provide
somethingrdquo Jeganathan said ldquoIwould have to explain that this
is how Ryersonrsquos ID card system
worksrdquo
Ryerson president Sheldon Levy
said that hersquos never heard of prob-
lems with the OneCard before but
wants the expiry date or sticker to
be re-implemented
ldquoWe should make sure that
whatever we do optimizes the ben-
efits for our students so if an expiry
date is an important element of
that we sure would consider it and
implement itrdquo Levy said
ldquoIf it is for the banks or insur-
ance companies we recommendthey print their fee statement or
schedule off their RAMSS ac-
countrdquo Darcy Flynn OneCard
manager said via email Flynn
said there are currently no plans to
change the policy
RSU president Melissa Palermo
also recommended picking up an
ISIC but would prefer more op-
tions for students
ldquoI would encourage the uni-
versity to explore a better way to
identify that cards are valid for dis-
countsrdquo Palermo said
Vice-provost goes with unwritten rule to not share plagiarism data in light of recent CBC survey
By Daniel Rocci
Ryerson did not share its informa-
ion on academic misconduct in
recent CBC survey that studied
heating at Canadian universities
According to Christopher Evans
Ryersonrsquos vice-provost academic
he university withheld its academ-
c misconduct data from the CBC
based on unofficial protocolldquoRyerson actually does not have
policy to not release this kind of
data but it is a practice that was
nstituted by a former provost
everal years agordquo Evans told the
Eyeopener ldquoWe do collect the data
on academic misconduct activities
but we donrsquot make it publicrdquo
The CBC recently published
he results of its survey of 54 uni-
ersities across Canada in which
chools were asked to submit the
number of cases of academic mis-
onduct that went through a for-
mal discipline process during the
011ndash12 term
Some institutions revealed their
ount of formal cases as well as the
percentage of cases by type of mis-
onduct This includes plagiarism
nd having others write exams
and the form of discipline admin-
istered like grade reductions and
expulsions
Evans made the decision after
consulting various members of Ry-
ersonrsquos senate and academic admin-
istration including the provost the
secretary of senate and the director
of the academic integrity office But
he isnrsquot entirely sure why the proto-
col is in place to begin withldquoIt may seem a bit odd but our
former provost made the decision
to create this practice and it pre-
dates my being at this jobrdquo Ev-
ans said ldquoI donrsquot know what his
thoughts were in keeping discrete
about the data but thatrsquos the deci-
sion that was made prior to 2010
and wersquove just been continuing
with that practicerdquo
Evansrsquos predecessor is Alan
Shepard now president and vice-
chancellor of Concordia Univer-
sity
Shepard could not be reached for
comment
Concordia participated in the
CBC survey on 256 cases of aca-
demic misconduct
Lisa Taylor a journalism instruc-
tor at Ryerson who specializes
in law and ethics spoke to The
Eyeopener about Ryersonrsquos stance
on releasing the data
ldquoIt concerns me and it disap-
points merdquo Taylor said ldquoI donrsquot
think any issue that we face in any
public institution is improved by
failing to discuss itrdquo
The lack of official policy regard-
ing the publication of academic
misconduct data will be addressedin Ryersonrsquos current review of its
student code of academic conduct
also known as policy 60
ldquoThe [review] committee will
at some point come to a decision
and make a recommendation to
the senate about the desirability or
not of publicizing informationrdquo
Evans said That decision will de-
pend on opinions from across cam-
pus
ldquoIrsquod like to see the results re-leased so that we can see how we
measure up compared to every-
one elserdquo said Gabrielle Poirier a
first-year politics and governance
student ldquoIf there is an issue then
everyone should know about itrdquo
Policy 60 was originally ap-
proved in March 2003 and most
recently received minor amend-
ments in June 2013
According to Evans itrsquos overdue
for a review as extensive as the oneit is currently undergoing
Ryerson opts to not share data on plagiarism
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6 Wednesday March 5 2014NEWS
tarting in September 2014 third-
ear business management students
will have the option to major in real
state management
The program was specifically de-igned for students seeking to work
n all facets of the real estate indus-
ry as well as students who want to
xpand their education beyond the
basic bachelor of commerce degree
Steven Murphy dean of the Ted
Rogers School of Management
TRSM) said that Ryersonrsquos loca-
ion in downtown Toronto is a big
actor in the creation of the pro-
ram ldquoReal estate is a very vibrant
part of our economy Offering real
state management we think will
ive our students some edge of
racking into the industryrdquo Mur-
phy said ldquoBecause we are ultra-
urban we get how real estate issuesntertwine I think when you live
nd breathe it every day you have
o start offering things that match
he daily reality of studentsrdquo
Murphy says hersquos excited by the
majorrsquos potential and sees buzz
around the program from the stu-
dent body ldquoStudents are turned on
by the possibilities of how they can
contribute in a sustainable way to
city planningrdquo Murphy said
In comparison to other real es-
tate programs Ryersonrsquos is focusedon building a better future The
program was designed around a
philosophy of sustainability and de-
velopment which Murphy says fits
into the DNA of Ryerson
ldquoAnyone can put up a condo
building but not everyone can
create a communityrdquo he said ldquoSo
I think this program is far more
about what yoursquore doing in real
estate and how it connects to the
community We are trying to in-
still in students that profit is very
short-termrdquo
Currently students in business
management may choose to ma-
jor in economics amp managementscience entrepreneurship amp strat-
egy global management studies
human resources management
and organizational behaviour
law amp business and marketing
management
It only goes up from hereLack of elevators creating accessibility problem for students
By Latifa Abdin
There has been an increased number of calls reporting broken elevators this year
PHOTO FARNIA FEKRI
ume The many people using
these elevators every day means
that required service and repairscan occur more often than at oth-
er locationsrdquo she wrote
According to Bailey there has
been an increased number of calls
for the library and the school of
management than last year in the
same period
ldquoSo far this year we have had
24 service calls for the LIB and
[TRSM] several of which were
resolved overnight with little to
no impact to users in the area
This is consistent with previous
years with 18 calls during the
same timeframe in 2013rdquo she
said in the email
Bailey noted that while elevatorbreakdowns are more likely to
occur in this building because of
the large amount of people who
use them misuse can often be the
cause of break downs and slow-
ing down of the elevators
ldquoOne continuing challenge
is how often the elevators areused to go up or down a single
floor which increases wear and
tear increases wait times and
decreases accessibility for those
who require it We encourage the
community to use the stairs in li-
brary and escalators in [TRSM]
whenever possible and save the
elevators for those with mobil-
ity requirementsrdquo she wrote
According to Kelly Dermody a
librarian at Ryersonrsquos library al-
ternative arrangments are in place
to assist students who cannot
walk up stairs due to a disability
ldquoWe have a emergency contin-
gency plan We have 4 elevatorsand if 3 or 4 elevators are down
for more than a few hours we
will work with the University to
inform all students with disabili-
tiesrdquo Said Dermody
A tearful day in court
The mother of alleged murdererFarshad Badkhshan gave a tearful
testimony against her sonrsquos sanity
on March 4
The defence called Sedigheh
Moriadi to testify about her sonrsquos
decent into mental illness which
she said began in Iran in1989
She recounted her familyrsquos mi-
gration to Canada and consequen-
tial settling and resettling across
the country such as Halifax Pick-
ering Ont and Vancouver
Badahkshan is pleading that hersquos
not criminally responsible for the
death of Ryerson student Corina
Patrache in July of 2010
Defence attorney Victoria Riv-
ers spoke to the jury just after 10
am on March 4 advocating di-
rectly to the jury on Badakhshanrsquos
behalf for the first time in the trial
ldquoYoursquove heard about his strange
weird bizarre behaviourrdquo Rivers
said She argued that all the crown
had brought forth recounting theabsurd nature of Badahkshan at
the time of Petrachersquos death was
purely the result of a ldquopsychiatric
disorder resistant to anti-psychot-
ic medicationrdquo
She had left to live by herself in
Vancouver It wasnrsquot long before
Badakhshan had joined her across
the country that she noticed a
change in his behaviour
ldquoHe said the people from Hali-
fax are after himrdquo Moriadi told
the jury At one point while stay-
ing with Badakhshan in a Toronto
apartment he had approached her
with a knife and calm expression
ldquo[He said] lsquoMom I love you I
want to take you with mersquordquo said
Moriadi fighting back tears
She then told the court that she
moved to Calgary in July of 2007
leaving Badakhshan alone in To-
ronto ldquoYou have not heard at all
about what happened to Mr Ba-
dahkshanrdquo said Rivers to the juryShe then showed the jury a
photo of Badakhshan before se-
vere burning and the multiple skin
graphs in July 2010
ldquoYou will also see
MrBadakhshan [was in] a medi-
cally induced coma for several
months after the incidentrdquo said
Rivers ldquoThat he tried to kill him-
self when given the opportunity to
do sordquo
She noted the testimony of Peter
Tran in which he recounted some
of the last words of Petrache
Rivers argued Tranrsquos recol-
lection of Petrache saying ldquohe
wouldnrsquot stop hitting mersquordquo was
by the psychological and physical
trauma Petrache suffered before
her death
The trial continues
A new real estate program will be starting up in September 2014PHOTO JESS TSANG
Lack of elevator service in theuniversityrsquos library and at the Ted
Rogers School of Management
(TRSM) are raising tensions
around campus
Megan Saliwonczyk a third-
year nursing student said that
almost every time she has been
in the library at least one of the
elevators has been out of service
ldquoThere is usually only one [el-
evator] working A lot of the
rooms that we book for meetings
are on the seventh floor or the
sixth floor and you donrsquot always
want to walk up a flight of stairs
with a heavy backpack rdquo shesaid
She said that when one or more
of the elevators are out of ser-
vice huge crowds of students end
up waiting for elevators which
slows down the services
ldquoI study at York at lot instead
because their library you know
functionsrdquo said Celina Rosso a
third-year childhood and youth
care student
Kerri Bailey a manager for
Campus Facilities amp Sustainabil-
ity at Ryerson said in an email
that because elevators at the Ry-
erson library and TRSM are used
a lot they break down more oftenbut that the campus facilities are
quick to resolve any issues
ldquoThe banks of elevators in li-
brary and Ted Rogers School of
Management are very high vol-
Mother of accused details extent of sonrsquos illness
By Charlie Bossy
Real Estate at Rye
By Jake Scott andDylan Freeman-Grist
TRANSFER TO QUEENrsquoSLife SciencesLearn more queensucatransfer
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7Wednesday March 5 2014 NEWS
Blackboard benchedRyersonrsquos web portal might be replaced by end of 2014
By Badri Murali
After 11 years Ryerson students
nd staff may be working with anew online student portal
Ryersonrsquos Computing and Com-
munications Services (CCS) the de-
partment that handles technology
nd computer support is reviewing
pplications to replace Blackboard
They have received applications
rom various companies over the
past few months for a new online
earning portal
CCS is working with the Faculty
of Communication and Design the
earning and teaching office digital
ducation strategies at the Chang
chool and the library to decide
which ideas will work best for Ry-rson After looking at each pro-
posal they will be testing potential
programs
Brian Lesser director of CCS is
one of 13 members on the Advisory
Committee on Academic Comput-
ng (ACAC) that will decide which
applicants will make it to Ryersonrsquos
shortlist Lesser said that students
and staff have told him they want
more tools and a better layout forBlackboard
ldquoStudents want things like blogs
and file storage to interact with
their course materialrdquo Lesser said
ldquoSince we began with Google
some of this is now possiblerdquo
Ryerson adopted its agreement
with Google Apps for Education
in September 2012 This allows
students and staff to use apps
like Gmail Google Calendar and
Google Drive which stores files
online Lesser said he received
feedback from students saying that
Google Apps has helped with some
of their problems but they wouldlike to see more
In a 2013 survey conducted by
CCS many staff said that they
want to be able to immediately
contact students with marks and
other updates and were sometimes
facing difficulty on Blackboard to
do so Staff also said that they want
to be able to mark up documents
submitted by students but often
run into problems making com-ments on them
The applications from external
groups were due on Feb 28 Once
the CCS and ACAC create a short
list they will be presented to the
Ryerson community for feedback
The feedback will then be collected
through townhall sessions and in-
dividual meetings with CCS to let
staff and students test the applica-
tions in real time Once this has
been done and after ACAC pro-
cesses feedback only then will CCS
proceed to replace the system
ldquoWe should have the trial pro-
cess beginning in May to receivefeedback from usersrdquo Lesser said
ldquoIt would be great to get a new sys-
tem working for fall 2014rdquo
There is a consultation blog
available at lmsblogryersonca
detailing what ACAC and CCS are
doing throughout this process
DMZ touches down in IndiaBy Lana Hall
Canadarsquos Governor General David
ohnston threw the coconut on the
round and mdash luckily for him andRyerson University mdash it cracked
An Indian tradition to mark the
tart of a new project the coco-
nutrsquos cracking is supposed to bring
ood luck It was a welcome sign
or Johnston and his team of gov-
rnment and Ryerson leaders who
were in Mumbai India last week
o oversee the opening of a Digital
Media Zone (DMZ) program
The Bombay Stock Exchange
nstitute Ltd (BIL)-Ryerson DMZ
ndia modeled on Ryerson Uni-
versityrsquos DMZ It was built in col-
laboration with Ryerson Ryerson
Futures Inc Simon Fraser Univer-
sity and the BIL It was officially
opened on Feb 28The original DMZ at Ryerson is
a multi-program business incuba-
tor and workspace for entrepre-
neurs that was founded in 2010
The India-based version will op-
erate similarly with the goal of
helping technology-based startups
with their operations and expos-
ing them to mentors customers
and investors
Ryerson president Sheldon Levy
whom also accompanied John-
ston to India said that the zone
in Mumbai has huge potential for
Ryerson
ldquoThis will give our students an
opportunity to spend time in In-
dia as well as students in India tospend time in Canadardquo Levy said
ldquoI think itrsquos going to be a fabulous
opportunityrdquo
Kristin Heredia a spokesper-
son for the DMZ here at Ryerson
said the university plans to launch
other DMZ programs abroad but
is currently focusing on India be-
cause it will have the largest popu-
lation of young people worldwide
by the year 2020
As one of the youngest emerging
nations India will need to be able
to employ more young people
said Ambarish Datta the CEO of
BIL-Ryerson DMZ IndialdquoWe are confident that this incu-
bator will not only provide em-
ployment for our youth but also
build products and solutions that
put India on the global map of in-
novationrdquo Datta said in a news
release
ldquoThe Canada-India economic
relationship is strongrdquo said John-
ston in a government press release
ldquo[It] holds tremendous potential
for broader and expanded col-
laborationrdquo
The stop in Mumbai where
Johnston also had the opportu-
nity to open the Bombay Stock
Exchange was part of a larger
India-wide tour during which he
spoke with officials in Bangalore
and New Delhi regarding business
and educationDavid Johnston cuts the ribbon at the DMZrsquos brand new Indian sister project
PHOTO COURTESY CARBE ORELLANA
NewsBites
Theft duringexam
A studentrsquos iPhone was stolen Feb
26 after heshe was asked to leave
it at the front of the class during a
test according to Ryerson emer-
gency and security services
According to security no policy
was put in place by the instructor
to secure the electronic devices
while the students wrote the test
ldquo[Proctors] typically ask [stu-
dents] to bring their bags to the
frontrdquo said Tanya Poppleton
manager of security and emer-
gency services ldquoIrsquove never heard
of placing cellphones on the table
at the frontrdquo
Chequesgrowing stale
Students who have yet to collect
their health plan opt-out chequeswill need to do so before they lose
access to the money
The cheques as per Canadian
law will be void six months from
their issue date on Nov 10
The RSU will reissue cheques af-
ter the date of expiry for up to 15
months after the original date they
were issued
WINNERS MAY RECEIVE UP TO
$2500 AND HAVE THEIR WORK
INCLUDED IN AN EXHIBITION AT THE
DESIGN EXCHANGE IN TORONTO
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8 Wednesday March 5 2014FEATURES
BR
ICEThough somein some partsTristan Simpmale figure s
PHOTO SHANNON BALDWIN
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Wednesday March 5 2014 9FEATURES
The cheers echo throughout
the arena as the announcer
introduces the next menrsquos
ree skate entrant Spencer Buchan-
n Decked in all black he casually
lides backwards with his hands in
his pockets as if it was a free skate
on Mattamy Athletic Centrersquos ice
He doesnrsquot look like a typical figure
kater He doesnrsquot wear elaborate
ostumes For him a plain tee and
pants will do He stands six feet two
inches mdash taller than most competi-
tors He brings his large frame to
a slow then raises his lengthy arms
to embrace the sound He stops at
centre ice He gathers himself and
starts his routine
There are 17 students on Ryer-
sonrsquos figure skating team Two of
them are male and only one is per-
mitted to compete Figure skaters
are judged on their technique and
finesse but it is a female-dominat-
ed sport The male minority that
does compete at the university
level struggles to gain the recog-
nition awarded to their female
counterparts Ontario University
Athletics (OUA) has one event for
men to compete in at the figure
skating championships and win-ter invitationals The women have
14 events for singles pairs fours
and teams Most university teams
have just one male player on their
squad
Buchanan says he didnrsquot
always want to be a fig-
ure skater ldquoWhen I was
younger all of my friends were
playing hockey and they would
poke fun at [me] for figure skat-
ingrdquo he says ldquoWhen that hap-
pens you want to fit in and just
play hockeyrdquo He changed his
mind after his childhood coachtold him he had the potential to
excel in figure skating
ldquoI think the fact [that the OUA]
only has one event for men is a
gender biasrdquo figure skating head
coach Lauren Wilson says She
says she doesnrsquot think the gender
bias is done on purpose but the
structure of the OUA figure skat-ing championships doesnrsquot help
ldquoOur roster is limited to 17 and
therersquos only one competition for
men We canrsquot make room for
more guyshellip Men can compete
in the synchro event but that still
leaves their options lowrdquo Buchan-
an chose not to partake in team
synchro ldquoI train on my own so
doing synchro wouldnrsquot work for
merdquo he says
Buchanan notes that the sport
faces a lack of recognition ldquoMost
people donrsquot take it serious They
donrsquot know the sport all they
know is Blades of Gloryrdquo
An hour before the competi-
tion Buchanan was writ-
ing an exam The 22-year-
old is a second-year accounting
student at Ryerson On top of his
studies hersquos been competing in
figure skating for six years ldquoMy
whole family has been skating for
a long timerdquo he says
Like any athlete he devoted a
lot of time to training until his
luck took a turn for the worst on
May 5 2012 He was walking
home alone from a bar in Mon-
treal when he was hit by a car
ldquoI really donrsquot have any memo-
ry of what happenedrdquo Buchanan
says He was found in the middle
of the street unconscious and
bleeding at 335 am He woke up
in a downtown Montreal hospi-
tal
Buchanan suffered a baseline
skull fracture that kept him off
the ice for a year ldquoI wasnrsquot sure if
I could [go] back to skatingrdquo he
says Buchanan was inspired by
Javier Fernandez mdash the 2014 Eu-
ropean menrsquos figure skating cham-
pion He says watching Fernandezskate at the Toronto Cricket Skat-
ing and Curling Club pushed him
back into competition
Buchananrsquos first dance back on
the ice was rough ldquoI hadnrsquot com-
peted in like two years and I for-
got how much it took to skate
[figure skating] is surprisingly tir-
ing and I was out of breath for like
half an hourrdquo Figure skating com-
petitions are tightly judged Skat-
ers are scored on the difficulty and
style of the routine but theyrsquore
sometimes also judged off the ice
by society
Buchanan says that some peoplemake sweeping assumption about
male figure skaters mdash sometimes
extending to their sexuality ldquoIrsquom
not gay but [that] notion people
have bugs me a little bitrdquo He says
these assumptions deter athletes
from pursuing the sport ldquoIf you
are gay it can be hard to deal with
the way people label yourdquoEmily Rose Galliani Pecchia a
third-year forward on the Ryerson
womenrsquos hockey team says ldquoPeo-
ple shouldnrsquot make these assump-
tions flat out Whether theyrsquore
a figure skater hockey player or
wrestler it doesnrsquot determine if
theyrsquore gay or straightrdquo
Galliani Pecchia whom is gay
says athletes should be able to
compete in any sport without be-
ing judged
ldquoIf an athlete is gay they
should feel comfortable enough
to compete Itrsquos not fair for an
athlete to feel uncomfortable intheir field of playrdquo she says She
adds that her teammates are open
about their sexuality ldquoThere is
always someone to talk to within
our dressing room which is an
anomaly in varsity sport since it
is a taboo subjectrdquo
Pierre Alain interim head coach
of the Ryerson womenrsquos hockey
team says there are false percep-
tions that female hockey play-
ers are physical and butch ldquoYes
many players like the physical part
of the [sport] but thatrsquos not all
you need to be a good playerrdquo He
says athletes shouldnrsquot be catego-
rized based on the sport they playldquoLook at Meghan Agosta mdash she
started as a figure skater before
doing hockeyrdquo
Figure skating isnrsquot a promi-
EAKERSare often seen as being male-dominatedworld of athleticism men are a minoritykes a look at the often-overlooked sport of
When I was younger all my friends were play-ing hockey and they would poke fun at [me]for figure skating When that happens youwant to fit in and just play hockey
nent sport at most universities
The crowd at the OUAs is meager
compared to the ones at a basket-
ball or hockey games and is made
up mostly of athletesrsquo teammates
But Buchanan says that figure
skating is growing
When Buchanan was a kid he
would take cover when people
made fun of him for figure skat-ing Today he is less shy ldquoSome
people give you a look but it
doesnrsquot bother me anymorerdquo His
response to those who question
the physical demand required to
compete ldquoWhy donrsquot you give it
a try and see how you dordquo
Buchanan knows what to
do to win He preps him-
self mentally while sitting
in the menrsquos changeroom at the
OUAs ldquoYou have to focus in You
have to relax Donrsquot over-analyze
things Let your body do what
you trained it to dordquo he saysAfter he is mentally prepared he
heads to the ice Buchanan walks
on the Rams mat before leaving
the changeroom then remem-
bers ldquoYoursquore not supposed to do
that mdash itrsquos bad luckrdquo During the
warm-up skate Daft Punkrsquos One
More Time radiates through the
arena Competitors are already
on the ice perfecting their routine
Each one exudes confidence ldquoIrsquom
not going to lie I really want to
winrdquo he says
One after another they take
the ice and perform their routine
Buchanan is the third competitor
to hit the ice and he emerges toElton Johnrsquos Your Song Some of
the female athletes in the audi-
ence begin to sing along and they
throw flowers at him when the
routine is finished Many of the
menrsquos routines were comedic and
they were often met with laugh-
ter Some audience members com-
mented on Buchananrsquos ldquosparklesrdquo
on his black tee
Every spin jump and turn is
completed with grace He ex-
plodes with a double axel He
nails jump after jump then sud-
denly staggers on his landing
He throws his hands to catchhimself and continues He elicits
more cheers from the audience by
breaking down with a few robot
dance moves He ends his routine
with a flurry of spin moves He
comes to a halt and then puts his
hands back in his pockets
Buchanan doesnrsquot win his event
mdash the menrsquos open singles mdash but
he does finish second His inspi-
ration mdash Fernandez mdash places
fourth at the Sochi Olympics the
same day he competes in Toronto
Buchanan doesnrsquot stick around
to watch the awards presenta-
tion because he has work mdash his
sister accepts his medal for him
ldquoYou never know what to ex-
pect I didnrsquot watch everyone else
skaterdquo He pauses ldquoSecond place
is alrightrdquo
PHOTOS FARNIA FEKRI
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10 Wednesday March 5 2014BIZ amp TECH
A studentrsquos guide to filing your taxesByPamelaJohnston
trsquos that time of year again Gatherour receipts employment and ed-
ucation records because itrsquos time to
file your tax returns Donrsquot worry
he Eyeopener has everything you
need to know about claiming your
xpenses If after reading this you
till find the whole concept of a
ax return too hard to grasp you
an go to the tax clinics organized
by the Ryerson Studentsrsquo Union
(RSU) They are held throughout
March up until April 3 Members
of the RSU and Continuing Educa-
tion Studentsrsquo Association of Ryer-
son (CESAR) can use Ufileca to filetheir taxes
Remember the deadline to file
individual returns to the Canada
Revenue Agency (CRA) is April
30 If you file late you will be fined
five per cent of what you owe from
2013 and one per cent of that bal-
ance for each late month So get off
your ass and git lsquoer done
ILLUSTRATION BY JESS TSANG
THIS WEEK AT THE MAC
MATTAMYAC
HOME OF THE
GO TO MATTAMYATHLETICCENTRECA FOR EVENT DETAILS
APRIL 3 2014 1230PM amp 600PM
TICKET PRICES
FLOOR SEATS - $30 STANDS - $20
(Before applicable service charges)
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MARCH 28 2014 700PM
DOORS OPEN AT 630PM
bull Performances by Ryerson Students
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ON SALE NOW
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11Wednesday March 5 2014 COMMUNITIES
The gift that keeps on givingGifts for Strangers an initiative created by Ryerson business student Cole Banning goes global
By Mikaila Kukurudza
Banningrsquos organization Improv in Toronto hosts regular events within the Toronto communityPHOTO MIKAILA KUKURUDZA
econd-year Ryerson business stu-
dent Cole Banning has mastered
he art of making strangers smile If
oursquove ever been given a wrapped
box containing a handmade gift
by a stranger on the street in To-
onto therersquos a good chance the
2-year-old had something to do
with it
Banning founded Improv in
Toronto a group that organizes
vents across the city when he was
senior in high school He has since
xpanded on the organization and
reated different projects mdash Gifts
or Strangers is the most recogniz-ble The project is exactly what
t sounds like Around the holiday
eason Banning and his team hand
out gifts to people on the street
ldquoTo be approached by a ran-
dom stranger and given a gift
might brighten [someonersquos] dayrdquo
Banning said ldquoYou hope that
ou made that difference which
s strange to say because all wersquore
doing is fooling around and hav-
ng funrdquo
Gifts for Strangers began three
ears ago and has been growing in
popularity since This year 33 cit-
es in over 23 countries participat-
ed in the event Banningrsquos concept
was inspired by a group in New
York City called Improv Every-
where which conducts similar ur-
ban art projects and experiments
But Gifts for Strangers isnrsquot the
only project Improv in Toronto
has undertaken Banning and his
team of 20 plan sporadic commu-
nity projects on a regular basis In
the past these events have includ-
ed pantless subway trips umbrella
taxi services to escort pedestrians
through the rain and pillow fights
at Yonge-Dundas Square
The goal is to bring strangers to-
gether through unexpected inter-
active events and add spice to the
day-to-day lives of Torontonians
ldquoI think people going through
their lives put up a wall Itrsquos nice
to break the boundaryrdquo Banning
saidImprov in Toronto has held over
50 free family-friendly events
around Toronto over the past six
years The group also has a You-
Tube channel with over 25 000
subscribers (some videos have over
5 million views)
ldquoIt just blew up I wasnrsquot pre-
pared or readyrdquo Banning said
Things really took off after an
overwhelming turnout at Improv
in Torontorsquos second event mdash a
large-scale Wherersquos Waldo hunt
in the Eaton Centre The event re-
sulted in Banning being escorted
out of his hiding place by mall se-curity due to the overcrowding he
had created with his Waldo hunt
Banning credits the success of
his organization to social media
and his goal to fill a strangerrsquos day
with a little laughter He believes
that by creating an inclusive com-
munity and bringing strangers to-
gether the seriousness of everyday
routines can be mitigated
ldquoItrsquos nice to be taken away from
the stress of life even if itrsquos just for
a minuterdquo Banning said
For students hoping to get in-
volved Banning suggests ldquodonat-
ing your time not moneyrdquo
Constructing communities
ByOliviaMcLeod
Architecture students build a community shelter in Newfoundland
A group of six Ryerson architec-
ure students were chosen to par-
icipate in a unique and unifying
project over reading week The
roup travelled to Botwood NLo create a structure for the townrsquos
heritage park at a Second World
War airplane base
The build was initiated through
Culture of Outports mdash a project
ssociated with ERA Architects
n Toronto For the past four
ears they have annually trav-
lled around Newfoundland to
onserve cultural heritage through
rchitecture Three of these devel-
opments have been with Ryerson
ldquoI think our partnership [with
Ryerson] works really well be-
ause there is that opportunity to
work here together in Toronto and
do work and planning before we
o out together to the east coastrdquo
Alana Young project coordinator
aid
The structure itself sits on the
foundation of an old weather sta-
tion on a pathway to Killick Island
mdash Botwoodrsquos prime tourist spot
and nature trail
ldquoThe continued story heard
from people was they wanted to
see something on that roadway
going to the islandrdquo said Scott
Sceviour deputy mayor of Bot-
wood ldquoWe had some benchesthere for rest areas but people
wanted to see something there so
thatrsquos where [the idea] was bornrdquo
The structure is essentially
a wooden-planked box with a
sloped roof There are rectangu-
lar cutouts in the walls that align
with historic plane crash sights
in the surrounding area Because
of this Young calls it the ldquoview-
finderrdquo
Typically a project like this
would take two weeks to finish
but because of the studentsrsquo sched-
ules it became a ldquocompressed
eight-day adventurerdquo
ldquoEverybody was just great and
supportive Itrsquos almost like you ask
everyone to suspend their disbelief
for a few days and just kind of get
on this rollercoaster with you and
see where it goesrdquo Young said
Without the community Young
said the project wouldnrsquot exist Be-
cause of very cold weather condi-
tions the entire structure had to be
built inside of the townrsquos fire hall
and then transported by trucks to
the site They provided the tools
experienced labour and even the
teamrsquos meals along with endlesssupport hospitality and help
Students said the experience of
bringing a design to life is like no
other experience theyrsquove had so
far
ldquoActually getting to build it and
[getting] a community involved
and [having] real feedback from
people who are going to use the
space is really valuablerdquo Kate
Gonashvili a fourth-year architec-
ture student said
Young said because of this proj-
ectrsquos success they are going to
continue working with Botwood
in the future
ldquoWe have ideas as far as nextsteps and what they can do and
theyrsquore really engaged so thatrsquos ex-
actly the kind of community you
want to work withrdquoRyerson students spent eight days building this structure in Newfoundland
PHOTOS COURTESY ALANA YOUNG
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12 Wednesday March 5 2014ARTS amp LIFE
Need a job Stop surfing and start walking
When Parth Patel was in his firstew years of the engineering pro-
ram he found getting a summer
ob to be quite challenging
ldquoI applied to more than 60 or
70 jobsrdquo he said ldquoI [was] trying
o find work [in engineering] but
wasnrsquot able tordquo
The frustration of finding a
ummer job is something many
Looking for a summer job can be frustrating but relying on the Internet may be hurting you more than you know
students have experienced before
especially since the 2008 econom-
ic crisis when markets around theworld crashed Searching through
thousands of job listings online
perfecting your resumeacute and send-
ing it out can take hours
But if yoursquore hoping to score
that ideal job going back to the
basics is the way to go said Dan-
iel Kennedy a career consultant
at Ted Rogers School of Manage-
Since the 2008 economic crisis the job market has seen fierce competition mdash sepa-rating yourself from the rest is the first step in being noticed
PHOTOS FARNIA FEKRI
ment careers and employment
partnerships centre
ldquoIf you go into [the websites]Monster or Workopolis and you
type in lsquosummer jobsrsquo yoursquore going
to find job postingsrdquo he said ldquoThe
problem is there are about four mil-
lion other students across Canada
who are going to find those same
job postingsrdquo
It often comes down to doing
some old-fashioned scouting on the
ground Kennedy said adding that
proactively approaching employers
can make a bigger impression than
simply sending a resumeacute by email
ldquoWhat students should do if they
really want to make a go of it is to
look for companies that donrsquot havethe capacity to advertise for those
summer jobsrdquo he said ldquoIf you can
identify and find those companies
and approach them proactively
that will give you a much better
chancerdquo
Because finding a job can be so
difficult in Toronto many students
decide to go back to their home-
towns for the summer where the
competition is less fierce and jobs
are easier to come by
Laura Hamel a first-year perfor-
mance acting student said shersquoll be
moving back home for the summer
because of the cost of living in To-
rontoldquoIrsquom from Regina so Irsquoll be mov-
ing home to find a jobrdquo she said
ldquoItrsquos a lot cheaper to live at home
and I have a solid job at homerdquo
For Patel scoring a job came
with a visit to his sister in Calgary
one summer While he was there
he applied to only five or six jobs
and ended up getting a summer po-
sition that matched his field
The summer job market comes
down to basic supply and demand
Kennedy said
ldquoOn the supply side you have
basically a lot of students that are
looking for jobs during the sum-mer months and thatrsquos fine as long
as the demandrsquos thererdquo he said
ldquoThe demand really hasnrsquot been
there since 2008rdquo
Brennan Thompson undergrad-
uate program director in the school
of economics says that the reces-
sion of 2008 has brought everyone
down a notch when it comes to the
job market
ldquoThe guy who was working at
the auto assembly plant loses his
job and now hersquos taking the low-
paid job at Tim Hortonrsquosrdquo he said
ldquoNow the young person who used
to have that job at Tim Hortonrsquos
[doesnrsquot] have anythingrdquo
Kennedy says the market is start-
ing to bounce back But compared
to 10 years ago finding a summer
job is far more of a challenge Even
in a city as big as Toronto compe-
tition can be fierce because thereare so many students looking for
temporary employment
According to Kennedy even
if the job you end up with isnrsquot at
all related to your field itrsquos still a
good idea to include it on your
resumeacute Employers look at how
your skills have evolved even if
the job you had was just bussing
tables The hard skills you gain
might not be related to your future
career but the soft skills mdashlike leadership skills problem-
solving abilities and customer ser-
vice experience mdash will come in
handy
ldquoNo one is expecting you to
graduate here and have four years
of senior project management ex-
periencerdquo he said
ldquoWhat they want to see is that
therersquos a progressionrdquo
By Leah Hansen
Ryerson graduate Peter Hill is performing at the ninth annual Toronto SketchComedy Festival as part of a duo called Beggarrsquos Canyon See the full article by AlexHeck at theeyeopenercom
PHOTO COURTESY TARA NOELLE
Laughing it up
Discuss the upcoming budget
All members of the Ryerson community are invited to
attend a town hall to discuss the development of the
universityrsquos budget for the 2014-15 academic year
Hosted by
SHELDON LEVY
president
MOHAMED LACHEMI
provost and vice president academic
PAUL STENTON
deputy provost and vice-provost university planning
TOWN HALL MEETING
Wednesday March 12 9 ndash 10 am
Architecture Building Room ARC ndash 108
Thursday March 20 230 ndash 330 pm
Library Building Room LIB ndash 72
President Levy is confirmed to attend the March 20 meeting
To submit questions in advance email provostryersonca
Please contact us if we need to make any accommodations to
ensure your inclusion in this meeting
Come to aRyersonCommunityTown Hall
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13Wednesday March 5 2014 SPORTS
A puckinggood season
n the last 37 years Ryersonrsquos
menrsquos hockey team has never made
t past the semifinals
Even with a team that nearly
doubled last seasonrsquos 14-win per-
ormance the Rams fell prey to
his historical barrier on Feb 28
when a 5-1 semifinal loss to the
Lakehead University Thunder-
wolves ended their season
ldquoWe played an uphill battle all
nightrdquo Rams head coach Graham
Wise said ldquoThey unfortunatelygot on the board firstrdquo
In spite of the disappointing
oss this marked the Ramsrsquo best
performance in the last decade
But that success didnrsquot come
without a few major bumps along
he way Their high-powered start
o the season came to a screeching
halt due to a seven-day suspen-
ion they were handed for drink-
ng alcohol while on a team road
rip The Rams had to forfeit two
games during their suspension
but managed to come back strong
mdash ranking fourth in the Ontario
University Athletics (OUA) West
division by the seasonrsquos endldquoWersquove come a long way from
ighth place and I think we had a
eally good year for ourselvesrdquo sec-
ond-year forward Jamie Wise said
Coached by his father Graham
Wise Jamie achieved a career-
high 45 points mdash ranking him
hird in the Canadian Interuni-
versity Sports (CIS) His 21 goals
his season mdash compared to the
ight he scored last season mdash
made him the second-leading
corer in the country
By Devin Jones
amie Wise the Ramsrsquo leading scorer and second-ranked in the country on home ice
PHOTO FARNIA FEKRI
Fellow forward Dominic Alber-
ga also had a standout season
A third-line grinder from the
Ontario Hockey League (OHL)
Albergarsquos first-line rookie perfor-
mance for the Rams was anything
but expected
Alberga contributed 44 points
and 18 goals to the team He
achieved second place on the team
for goals scored and is nationally
ranked fourth in points mdash all in his
first year as a Ram
But as the menrsquos hockey team
celebrates new talent they alsosay goodbye to two of their key
players Both right-winger Dustin
Alcock and captain Andrew Buck
are graduating this year Buck
scored 90 goals in his 125-game
career with the Rams and wore
the captainrsquos patch for three of his
five years
ldquoItrsquos a surreal feeling and Irsquom
not really sure if itrsquos hit me yetrdquo
Buck said ldquoIrsquoll miss not going
to the rink every day and seeing
the guys but Irsquove had a great five
years so I canrsquot complainrdquo
The Rams are ranked fourth in
the OUA West division and made
their third-straight playoff appear-ance for the first time in history
The last time the Rams earned a
semifinal spot in the playoffs was
the 2009ndash10 season
The team will take some time off
before the coaching staff begins
the journey to next yearrsquos home
opener a process head coach Wise
said will begin with recruitment
ldquoRecruiting is ongoingrdquo he
said ldquoHopefully we can bring in
guys that will make the team bet-
ter and wersquoll go from thererdquo
History repeats itself for Rye hockey
The end of the menrsquos hockey season marks the end of all the Ramsrsquo seasons Go to theeyeopenercom fora cheat sheet on how they ended and which players were awarded OUA titles EyeSports theeyeopener
Celebrate the road to graduation as youbecome Ryerson alumni
March 5 POD upper Hub 1130 am ndash 130 pm
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Dedicated to Dan W
This week wersquore giving away a car Actually just $20 toTim Hortonrsquos Fill it out drop it off in the contest boxoutside of SCC 207 This is a raffle contest not a first-to-finish oneName Student Email Phone
Pugilisim of the StatePHOTO JESS TSANG
ILLUSTRATION DASHA ZOLOTA
Do you have a burning yearning to see something puggified by our residentdoge-drawer Dasha Zolota Send your suggestions to funtheeyeopenercom and your idea might end up on the illustrious Fun page
Cumming Soon Sin amp Vice
Now that our annual Love amp Sex issue is overand done with there has been a serious lackof cunning linguists in this paper Thatrsquos whereour new columnist comes in Her name is Lou-ise and shersquos ready to take your questionsabout what goes down (or doesnrsquot) beneaththe sheets Send us all the slippery sticky andsensual questions you have We promise topublish your questions anonymously and un-edited Nothing is too raunchy or embarrass-ing Send your inquiries to funtheeyeopenercom and Louise will answer in the next issue
W I N T I C K E T S t o s e e3 0 0 R I S E O F A N E M P I R E
B e o n e o f t h e f i r s t 1 5 s t a r t i n g a tn o o n M a r c h 5 t h t o w i n J u s t c o m e t o
t h e E y e o p e n e r - S C C 2 0 7
bull
This is NOT Louise
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6 Wednesday March 5 2014NEWS
tarting in September 2014 third-
ear business management students
will have the option to major in real
state management
The program was specifically de-igned for students seeking to work
n all facets of the real estate indus-
ry as well as students who want to
xpand their education beyond the
basic bachelor of commerce degree
Steven Murphy dean of the Ted
Rogers School of Management
TRSM) said that Ryersonrsquos loca-
ion in downtown Toronto is a big
actor in the creation of the pro-
ram ldquoReal estate is a very vibrant
part of our economy Offering real
state management we think will
ive our students some edge of
racking into the industryrdquo Mur-
phy said ldquoBecause we are ultra-
urban we get how real estate issuesntertwine I think when you live
nd breathe it every day you have
o start offering things that match
he daily reality of studentsrdquo
Murphy says hersquos excited by the
majorrsquos potential and sees buzz
around the program from the stu-
dent body ldquoStudents are turned on
by the possibilities of how they can
contribute in a sustainable way to
city planningrdquo Murphy said
In comparison to other real es-
tate programs Ryersonrsquos is focusedon building a better future The
program was designed around a
philosophy of sustainability and de-
velopment which Murphy says fits
into the DNA of Ryerson
ldquoAnyone can put up a condo
building but not everyone can
create a communityrdquo he said ldquoSo
I think this program is far more
about what yoursquore doing in real
estate and how it connects to the
community We are trying to in-
still in students that profit is very
short-termrdquo
Currently students in business
management may choose to ma-
jor in economics amp managementscience entrepreneurship amp strat-
egy global management studies
human resources management
and organizational behaviour
law amp business and marketing
management
It only goes up from hereLack of elevators creating accessibility problem for students
By Latifa Abdin
There has been an increased number of calls reporting broken elevators this year
PHOTO FARNIA FEKRI
ume The many people using
these elevators every day means
that required service and repairscan occur more often than at oth-
er locationsrdquo she wrote
According to Bailey there has
been an increased number of calls
for the library and the school of
management than last year in the
same period
ldquoSo far this year we have had
24 service calls for the LIB and
[TRSM] several of which were
resolved overnight with little to
no impact to users in the area
This is consistent with previous
years with 18 calls during the
same timeframe in 2013rdquo she
said in the email
Bailey noted that while elevatorbreakdowns are more likely to
occur in this building because of
the large amount of people who
use them misuse can often be the
cause of break downs and slow-
ing down of the elevators
ldquoOne continuing challenge
is how often the elevators areused to go up or down a single
floor which increases wear and
tear increases wait times and
decreases accessibility for those
who require it We encourage the
community to use the stairs in li-
brary and escalators in [TRSM]
whenever possible and save the
elevators for those with mobil-
ity requirementsrdquo she wrote
According to Kelly Dermody a
librarian at Ryersonrsquos library al-
ternative arrangments are in place
to assist students who cannot
walk up stairs due to a disability
ldquoWe have a emergency contin-
gency plan We have 4 elevatorsand if 3 or 4 elevators are down
for more than a few hours we
will work with the University to
inform all students with disabili-
tiesrdquo Said Dermody
A tearful day in court
The mother of alleged murdererFarshad Badkhshan gave a tearful
testimony against her sonrsquos sanity
on March 4
The defence called Sedigheh
Moriadi to testify about her sonrsquos
decent into mental illness which
she said began in Iran in1989
She recounted her familyrsquos mi-
gration to Canada and consequen-
tial settling and resettling across
the country such as Halifax Pick-
ering Ont and Vancouver
Badahkshan is pleading that hersquos
not criminally responsible for the
death of Ryerson student Corina
Patrache in July of 2010
Defence attorney Victoria Riv-
ers spoke to the jury just after 10
am on March 4 advocating di-
rectly to the jury on Badakhshanrsquos
behalf for the first time in the trial
ldquoYoursquove heard about his strange
weird bizarre behaviourrdquo Rivers
said She argued that all the crown
had brought forth recounting theabsurd nature of Badahkshan at
the time of Petrachersquos death was
purely the result of a ldquopsychiatric
disorder resistant to anti-psychot-
ic medicationrdquo
She had left to live by herself in
Vancouver It wasnrsquot long before
Badakhshan had joined her across
the country that she noticed a
change in his behaviour
ldquoHe said the people from Hali-
fax are after himrdquo Moriadi told
the jury At one point while stay-
ing with Badakhshan in a Toronto
apartment he had approached her
with a knife and calm expression
ldquo[He said] lsquoMom I love you I
want to take you with mersquordquo said
Moriadi fighting back tears
She then told the court that she
moved to Calgary in July of 2007
leaving Badakhshan alone in To-
ronto ldquoYou have not heard at all
about what happened to Mr Ba-
dahkshanrdquo said Rivers to the juryShe then showed the jury a
photo of Badakhshan before se-
vere burning and the multiple skin
graphs in July 2010
ldquoYou will also see
MrBadakhshan [was in] a medi-
cally induced coma for several
months after the incidentrdquo said
Rivers ldquoThat he tried to kill him-
self when given the opportunity to
do sordquo
She noted the testimony of Peter
Tran in which he recounted some
of the last words of Petrache
Rivers argued Tranrsquos recol-
lection of Petrache saying ldquohe
wouldnrsquot stop hitting mersquordquo was
by the psychological and physical
trauma Petrache suffered before
her death
The trial continues
A new real estate program will be starting up in September 2014PHOTO JESS TSANG
Lack of elevator service in theuniversityrsquos library and at the Ted
Rogers School of Management
(TRSM) are raising tensions
around campus
Megan Saliwonczyk a third-
year nursing student said that
almost every time she has been
in the library at least one of the
elevators has been out of service
ldquoThere is usually only one [el-
evator] working A lot of the
rooms that we book for meetings
are on the seventh floor or the
sixth floor and you donrsquot always
want to walk up a flight of stairs
with a heavy backpack rdquo shesaid
She said that when one or more
of the elevators are out of ser-
vice huge crowds of students end
up waiting for elevators which
slows down the services
ldquoI study at York at lot instead
because their library you know
functionsrdquo said Celina Rosso a
third-year childhood and youth
care student
Kerri Bailey a manager for
Campus Facilities amp Sustainabil-
ity at Ryerson said in an email
that because elevators at the Ry-
erson library and TRSM are used
a lot they break down more oftenbut that the campus facilities are
quick to resolve any issues
ldquoThe banks of elevators in li-
brary and Ted Rogers School of
Management are very high vol-
Mother of accused details extent of sonrsquos illness
By Charlie Bossy
Real Estate at Rye
By Jake Scott andDylan Freeman-Grist
TRANSFER TO QUEENrsquoSLife SciencesLearn more queensucatransfer
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7Wednesday March 5 2014 NEWS
Blackboard benchedRyersonrsquos web portal might be replaced by end of 2014
By Badri Murali
After 11 years Ryerson students
nd staff may be working with anew online student portal
Ryersonrsquos Computing and Com-
munications Services (CCS) the de-
partment that handles technology
nd computer support is reviewing
pplications to replace Blackboard
They have received applications
rom various companies over the
past few months for a new online
earning portal
CCS is working with the Faculty
of Communication and Design the
earning and teaching office digital
ducation strategies at the Chang
chool and the library to decide
which ideas will work best for Ry-rson After looking at each pro-
posal they will be testing potential
programs
Brian Lesser director of CCS is
one of 13 members on the Advisory
Committee on Academic Comput-
ng (ACAC) that will decide which
applicants will make it to Ryersonrsquos
shortlist Lesser said that students
and staff have told him they want
more tools and a better layout forBlackboard
ldquoStudents want things like blogs
and file storage to interact with
their course materialrdquo Lesser said
ldquoSince we began with Google
some of this is now possiblerdquo
Ryerson adopted its agreement
with Google Apps for Education
in September 2012 This allows
students and staff to use apps
like Gmail Google Calendar and
Google Drive which stores files
online Lesser said he received
feedback from students saying that
Google Apps has helped with some
of their problems but they wouldlike to see more
In a 2013 survey conducted by
CCS many staff said that they
want to be able to immediately
contact students with marks and
other updates and were sometimes
facing difficulty on Blackboard to
do so Staff also said that they want
to be able to mark up documents
submitted by students but often
run into problems making com-ments on them
The applications from external
groups were due on Feb 28 Once
the CCS and ACAC create a short
list they will be presented to the
Ryerson community for feedback
The feedback will then be collected
through townhall sessions and in-
dividual meetings with CCS to let
staff and students test the applica-
tions in real time Once this has
been done and after ACAC pro-
cesses feedback only then will CCS
proceed to replace the system
ldquoWe should have the trial pro-
cess beginning in May to receivefeedback from usersrdquo Lesser said
ldquoIt would be great to get a new sys-
tem working for fall 2014rdquo
There is a consultation blog
available at lmsblogryersonca
detailing what ACAC and CCS are
doing throughout this process
DMZ touches down in IndiaBy Lana Hall
Canadarsquos Governor General David
ohnston threw the coconut on the
round and mdash luckily for him andRyerson University mdash it cracked
An Indian tradition to mark the
tart of a new project the coco-
nutrsquos cracking is supposed to bring
ood luck It was a welcome sign
or Johnston and his team of gov-
rnment and Ryerson leaders who
were in Mumbai India last week
o oversee the opening of a Digital
Media Zone (DMZ) program
The Bombay Stock Exchange
nstitute Ltd (BIL)-Ryerson DMZ
ndia modeled on Ryerson Uni-
versityrsquos DMZ It was built in col-
laboration with Ryerson Ryerson
Futures Inc Simon Fraser Univer-
sity and the BIL It was officially
opened on Feb 28The original DMZ at Ryerson is
a multi-program business incuba-
tor and workspace for entrepre-
neurs that was founded in 2010
The India-based version will op-
erate similarly with the goal of
helping technology-based startups
with their operations and expos-
ing them to mentors customers
and investors
Ryerson president Sheldon Levy
whom also accompanied John-
ston to India said that the zone
in Mumbai has huge potential for
Ryerson
ldquoThis will give our students an
opportunity to spend time in In-
dia as well as students in India tospend time in Canadardquo Levy said
ldquoI think itrsquos going to be a fabulous
opportunityrdquo
Kristin Heredia a spokesper-
son for the DMZ here at Ryerson
said the university plans to launch
other DMZ programs abroad but
is currently focusing on India be-
cause it will have the largest popu-
lation of young people worldwide
by the year 2020
As one of the youngest emerging
nations India will need to be able
to employ more young people
said Ambarish Datta the CEO of
BIL-Ryerson DMZ IndialdquoWe are confident that this incu-
bator will not only provide em-
ployment for our youth but also
build products and solutions that
put India on the global map of in-
novationrdquo Datta said in a news
release
ldquoThe Canada-India economic
relationship is strongrdquo said John-
ston in a government press release
ldquo[It] holds tremendous potential
for broader and expanded col-
laborationrdquo
The stop in Mumbai where
Johnston also had the opportu-
nity to open the Bombay Stock
Exchange was part of a larger
India-wide tour during which he
spoke with officials in Bangalore
and New Delhi regarding business
and educationDavid Johnston cuts the ribbon at the DMZrsquos brand new Indian sister project
PHOTO COURTESY CARBE ORELLANA
NewsBites
Theft duringexam
A studentrsquos iPhone was stolen Feb
26 after heshe was asked to leave
it at the front of the class during a
test according to Ryerson emer-
gency and security services
According to security no policy
was put in place by the instructor
to secure the electronic devices
while the students wrote the test
ldquo[Proctors] typically ask [stu-
dents] to bring their bags to the
frontrdquo said Tanya Poppleton
manager of security and emer-
gency services ldquoIrsquove never heard
of placing cellphones on the table
at the frontrdquo
Chequesgrowing stale
Students who have yet to collect
their health plan opt-out chequeswill need to do so before they lose
access to the money
The cheques as per Canadian
law will be void six months from
their issue date on Nov 10
The RSU will reissue cheques af-
ter the date of expiry for up to 15
months after the original date they
were issued
WINNERS MAY RECEIVE UP TO
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8 Wednesday March 5 2014FEATURES
BR
ICEThough somein some partsTristan Simpmale figure s
PHOTO SHANNON BALDWIN
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Wednesday March 5 2014 9FEATURES
The cheers echo throughout
the arena as the announcer
introduces the next menrsquos
ree skate entrant Spencer Buchan-
n Decked in all black he casually
lides backwards with his hands in
his pockets as if it was a free skate
on Mattamy Athletic Centrersquos ice
He doesnrsquot look like a typical figure
kater He doesnrsquot wear elaborate
ostumes For him a plain tee and
pants will do He stands six feet two
inches mdash taller than most competi-
tors He brings his large frame to
a slow then raises his lengthy arms
to embrace the sound He stops at
centre ice He gathers himself and
starts his routine
There are 17 students on Ryer-
sonrsquos figure skating team Two of
them are male and only one is per-
mitted to compete Figure skaters
are judged on their technique and
finesse but it is a female-dominat-
ed sport The male minority that
does compete at the university
level struggles to gain the recog-
nition awarded to their female
counterparts Ontario University
Athletics (OUA) has one event for
men to compete in at the figure
skating championships and win-ter invitationals The women have
14 events for singles pairs fours
and teams Most university teams
have just one male player on their
squad
Buchanan says he didnrsquot
always want to be a fig-
ure skater ldquoWhen I was
younger all of my friends were
playing hockey and they would
poke fun at [me] for figure skat-
ingrdquo he says ldquoWhen that hap-
pens you want to fit in and just
play hockeyrdquo He changed his
mind after his childhood coachtold him he had the potential to
excel in figure skating
ldquoI think the fact [that the OUA]
only has one event for men is a
gender biasrdquo figure skating head
coach Lauren Wilson says She
says she doesnrsquot think the gender
bias is done on purpose but the
structure of the OUA figure skat-ing championships doesnrsquot help
ldquoOur roster is limited to 17 and
therersquos only one competition for
men We canrsquot make room for
more guyshellip Men can compete
in the synchro event but that still
leaves their options lowrdquo Buchan-
an chose not to partake in team
synchro ldquoI train on my own so
doing synchro wouldnrsquot work for
merdquo he says
Buchanan notes that the sport
faces a lack of recognition ldquoMost
people donrsquot take it serious They
donrsquot know the sport all they
know is Blades of Gloryrdquo
An hour before the competi-
tion Buchanan was writ-
ing an exam The 22-year-
old is a second-year accounting
student at Ryerson On top of his
studies hersquos been competing in
figure skating for six years ldquoMy
whole family has been skating for
a long timerdquo he says
Like any athlete he devoted a
lot of time to training until his
luck took a turn for the worst on
May 5 2012 He was walking
home alone from a bar in Mon-
treal when he was hit by a car
ldquoI really donrsquot have any memo-
ry of what happenedrdquo Buchanan
says He was found in the middle
of the street unconscious and
bleeding at 335 am He woke up
in a downtown Montreal hospi-
tal
Buchanan suffered a baseline
skull fracture that kept him off
the ice for a year ldquoI wasnrsquot sure if
I could [go] back to skatingrdquo he
says Buchanan was inspired by
Javier Fernandez mdash the 2014 Eu-
ropean menrsquos figure skating cham-
pion He says watching Fernandezskate at the Toronto Cricket Skat-
ing and Curling Club pushed him
back into competition
Buchananrsquos first dance back on
the ice was rough ldquoI hadnrsquot com-
peted in like two years and I for-
got how much it took to skate
[figure skating] is surprisingly tir-
ing and I was out of breath for like
half an hourrdquo Figure skating com-
petitions are tightly judged Skat-
ers are scored on the difficulty and
style of the routine but theyrsquore
sometimes also judged off the ice
by society
Buchanan says that some peoplemake sweeping assumption about
male figure skaters mdash sometimes
extending to their sexuality ldquoIrsquom
not gay but [that] notion people
have bugs me a little bitrdquo He says
these assumptions deter athletes
from pursuing the sport ldquoIf you
are gay it can be hard to deal with
the way people label yourdquoEmily Rose Galliani Pecchia a
third-year forward on the Ryerson
womenrsquos hockey team says ldquoPeo-
ple shouldnrsquot make these assump-
tions flat out Whether theyrsquore
a figure skater hockey player or
wrestler it doesnrsquot determine if
theyrsquore gay or straightrdquo
Galliani Pecchia whom is gay
says athletes should be able to
compete in any sport without be-
ing judged
ldquoIf an athlete is gay they
should feel comfortable enough
to compete Itrsquos not fair for an
athlete to feel uncomfortable intheir field of playrdquo she says She
adds that her teammates are open
about their sexuality ldquoThere is
always someone to talk to within
our dressing room which is an
anomaly in varsity sport since it
is a taboo subjectrdquo
Pierre Alain interim head coach
of the Ryerson womenrsquos hockey
team says there are false percep-
tions that female hockey play-
ers are physical and butch ldquoYes
many players like the physical part
of the [sport] but thatrsquos not all
you need to be a good playerrdquo He
says athletes shouldnrsquot be catego-
rized based on the sport they playldquoLook at Meghan Agosta mdash she
started as a figure skater before
doing hockeyrdquo
Figure skating isnrsquot a promi-
EAKERSare often seen as being male-dominatedworld of athleticism men are a minoritykes a look at the often-overlooked sport of
When I was younger all my friends were play-ing hockey and they would poke fun at [me]for figure skating When that happens youwant to fit in and just play hockey
nent sport at most universities
The crowd at the OUAs is meager
compared to the ones at a basket-
ball or hockey games and is made
up mostly of athletesrsquo teammates
But Buchanan says that figure
skating is growing
When Buchanan was a kid he
would take cover when people
made fun of him for figure skat-ing Today he is less shy ldquoSome
people give you a look but it
doesnrsquot bother me anymorerdquo His
response to those who question
the physical demand required to
compete ldquoWhy donrsquot you give it
a try and see how you dordquo
Buchanan knows what to
do to win He preps him-
self mentally while sitting
in the menrsquos changeroom at the
OUAs ldquoYou have to focus in You
have to relax Donrsquot over-analyze
things Let your body do what
you trained it to dordquo he saysAfter he is mentally prepared he
heads to the ice Buchanan walks
on the Rams mat before leaving
the changeroom then remem-
bers ldquoYoursquore not supposed to do
that mdash itrsquos bad luckrdquo During the
warm-up skate Daft Punkrsquos One
More Time radiates through the
arena Competitors are already
on the ice perfecting their routine
Each one exudes confidence ldquoIrsquom
not going to lie I really want to
winrdquo he says
One after another they take
the ice and perform their routine
Buchanan is the third competitor
to hit the ice and he emerges toElton Johnrsquos Your Song Some of
the female athletes in the audi-
ence begin to sing along and they
throw flowers at him when the
routine is finished Many of the
menrsquos routines were comedic and
they were often met with laugh-
ter Some audience members com-
mented on Buchananrsquos ldquosparklesrdquo
on his black tee
Every spin jump and turn is
completed with grace He ex-
plodes with a double axel He
nails jump after jump then sud-
denly staggers on his landing
He throws his hands to catchhimself and continues He elicits
more cheers from the audience by
breaking down with a few robot
dance moves He ends his routine
with a flurry of spin moves He
comes to a halt and then puts his
hands back in his pockets
Buchanan doesnrsquot win his event
mdash the menrsquos open singles mdash but
he does finish second His inspi-
ration mdash Fernandez mdash places
fourth at the Sochi Olympics the
same day he competes in Toronto
Buchanan doesnrsquot stick around
to watch the awards presenta-
tion because he has work mdash his
sister accepts his medal for him
ldquoYou never know what to ex-
pect I didnrsquot watch everyone else
skaterdquo He pauses ldquoSecond place
is alrightrdquo
PHOTOS FARNIA FEKRI
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10 Wednesday March 5 2014BIZ amp TECH
A studentrsquos guide to filing your taxesByPamelaJohnston
trsquos that time of year again Gatherour receipts employment and ed-
ucation records because itrsquos time to
file your tax returns Donrsquot worry
he Eyeopener has everything you
need to know about claiming your
xpenses If after reading this you
till find the whole concept of a
ax return too hard to grasp you
an go to the tax clinics organized
by the Ryerson Studentsrsquo Union
(RSU) They are held throughout
March up until April 3 Members
of the RSU and Continuing Educa-
tion Studentsrsquo Association of Ryer-
son (CESAR) can use Ufileca to filetheir taxes
Remember the deadline to file
individual returns to the Canada
Revenue Agency (CRA) is April
30 If you file late you will be fined
five per cent of what you owe from
2013 and one per cent of that bal-
ance for each late month So get off
your ass and git lsquoer done
ILLUSTRATION BY JESS TSANG
THIS WEEK AT THE MAC
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11Wednesday March 5 2014 COMMUNITIES
The gift that keeps on givingGifts for Strangers an initiative created by Ryerson business student Cole Banning goes global
By Mikaila Kukurudza
Banningrsquos organization Improv in Toronto hosts regular events within the Toronto communityPHOTO MIKAILA KUKURUDZA
econd-year Ryerson business stu-
dent Cole Banning has mastered
he art of making strangers smile If
oursquove ever been given a wrapped
box containing a handmade gift
by a stranger on the street in To-
onto therersquos a good chance the
2-year-old had something to do
with it
Banning founded Improv in
Toronto a group that organizes
vents across the city when he was
senior in high school He has since
xpanded on the organization and
reated different projects mdash Gifts
or Strangers is the most recogniz-ble The project is exactly what
t sounds like Around the holiday
eason Banning and his team hand
out gifts to people on the street
ldquoTo be approached by a ran-
dom stranger and given a gift
might brighten [someonersquos] dayrdquo
Banning said ldquoYou hope that
ou made that difference which
s strange to say because all wersquore
doing is fooling around and hav-
ng funrdquo
Gifts for Strangers began three
ears ago and has been growing in
popularity since This year 33 cit-
es in over 23 countries participat-
ed in the event Banningrsquos concept
was inspired by a group in New
York City called Improv Every-
where which conducts similar ur-
ban art projects and experiments
But Gifts for Strangers isnrsquot the
only project Improv in Toronto
has undertaken Banning and his
team of 20 plan sporadic commu-
nity projects on a regular basis In
the past these events have includ-
ed pantless subway trips umbrella
taxi services to escort pedestrians
through the rain and pillow fights
at Yonge-Dundas Square
The goal is to bring strangers to-
gether through unexpected inter-
active events and add spice to the
day-to-day lives of Torontonians
ldquoI think people going through
their lives put up a wall Itrsquos nice
to break the boundaryrdquo Banning
saidImprov in Toronto has held over
50 free family-friendly events
around Toronto over the past six
years The group also has a You-
Tube channel with over 25 000
subscribers (some videos have over
5 million views)
ldquoIt just blew up I wasnrsquot pre-
pared or readyrdquo Banning said
Things really took off after an
overwhelming turnout at Improv
in Torontorsquos second event mdash a
large-scale Wherersquos Waldo hunt
in the Eaton Centre The event re-
sulted in Banning being escorted
out of his hiding place by mall se-curity due to the overcrowding he
had created with his Waldo hunt
Banning credits the success of
his organization to social media
and his goal to fill a strangerrsquos day
with a little laughter He believes
that by creating an inclusive com-
munity and bringing strangers to-
gether the seriousness of everyday
routines can be mitigated
ldquoItrsquos nice to be taken away from
the stress of life even if itrsquos just for
a minuterdquo Banning said
For students hoping to get in-
volved Banning suggests ldquodonat-
ing your time not moneyrdquo
Constructing communities
ByOliviaMcLeod
Architecture students build a community shelter in Newfoundland
A group of six Ryerson architec-
ure students were chosen to par-
icipate in a unique and unifying
project over reading week The
roup travelled to Botwood NLo create a structure for the townrsquos
heritage park at a Second World
War airplane base
The build was initiated through
Culture of Outports mdash a project
ssociated with ERA Architects
n Toronto For the past four
ears they have annually trav-
lled around Newfoundland to
onserve cultural heritage through
rchitecture Three of these devel-
opments have been with Ryerson
ldquoI think our partnership [with
Ryerson] works really well be-
ause there is that opportunity to
work here together in Toronto and
do work and planning before we
o out together to the east coastrdquo
Alana Young project coordinator
aid
The structure itself sits on the
foundation of an old weather sta-
tion on a pathway to Killick Island
mdash Botwoodrsquos prime tourist spot
and nature trail
ldquoThe continued story heard
from people was they wanted to
see something on that roadway
going to the islandrdquo said Scott
Sceviour deputy mayor of Bot-
wood ldquoWe had some benchesthere for rest areas but people
wanted to see something there so
thatrsquos where [the idea] was bornrdquo
The structure is essentially
a wooden-planked box with a
sloped roof There are rectangu-
lar cutouts in the walls that align
with historic plane crash sights
in the surrounding area Because
of this Young calls it the ldquoview-
finderrdquo
Typically a project like this
would take two weeks to finish
but because of the studentsrsquo sched-
ules it became a ldquocompressed
eight-day adventurerdquo
ldquoEverybody was just great and
supportive Itrsquos almost like you ask
everyone to suspend their disbelief
for a few days and just kind of get
on this rollercoaster with you and
see where it goesrdquo Young said
Without the community Young
said the project wouldnrsquot exist Be-
cause of very cold weather condi-
tions the entire structure had to be
built inside of the townrsquos fire hall
and then transported by trucks to
the site They provided the tools
experienced labour and even the
teamrsquos meals along with endlesssupport hospitality and help
Students said the experience of
bringing a design to life is like no
other experience theyrsquove had so
far
ldquoActually getting to build it and
[getting] a community involved
and [having] real feedback from
people who are going to use the
space is really valuablerdquo Kate
Gonashvili a fourth-year architec-
ture student said
Young said because of this proj-
ectrsquos success they are going to
continue working with Botwood
in the future
ldquoWe have ideas as far as nextsteps and what they can do and
theyrsquore really engaged so thatrsquos ex-
actly the kind of community you
want to work withrdquoRyerson students spent eight days building this structure in Newfoundland
PHOTOS COURTESY ALANA YOUNG
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12 Wednesday March 5 2014ARTS amp LIFE
Need a job Stop surfing and start walking
When Parth Patel was in his firstew years of the engineering pro-
ram he found getting a summer
ob to be quite challenging
ldquoI applied to more than 60 or
70 jobsrdquo he said ldquoI [was] trying
o find work [in engineering] but
wasnrsquot able tordquo
The frustration of finding a
ummer job is something many
Looking for a summer job can be frustrating but relying on the Internet may be hurting you more than you know
students have experienced before
especially since the 2008 econom-
ic crisis when markets around theworld crashed Searching through
thousands of job listings online
perfecting your resumeacute and send-
ing it out can take hours
But if yoursquore hoping to score
that ideal job going back to the
basics is the way to go said Dan-
iel Kennedy a career consultant
at Ted Rogers School of Manage-
Since the 2008 economic crisis the job market has seen fierce competition mdash sepa-rating yourself from the rest is the first step in being noticed
PHOTOS FARNIA FEKRI
ment careers and employment
partnerships centre
ldquoIf you go into [the websites]Monster or Workopolis and you
type in lsquosummer jobsrsquo yoursquore going
to find job postingsrdquo he said ldquoThe
problem is there are about four mil-
lion other students across Canada
who are going to find those same
job postingsrdquo
It often comes down to doing
some old-fashioned scouting on the
ground Kennedy said adding that
proactively approaching employers
can make a bigger impression than
simply sending a resumeacute by email
ldquoWhat students should do if they
really want to make a go of it is to
look for companies that donrsquot havethe capacity to advertise for those
summer jobsrdquo he said ldquoIf you can
identify and find those companies
and approach them proactively
that will give you a much better
chancerdquo
Because finding a job can be so
difficult in Toronto many students
decide to go back to their home-
towns for the summer where the
competition is less fierce and jobs
are easier to come by
Laura Hamel a first-year perfor-
mance acting student said shersquoll be
moving back home for the summer
because of the cost of living in To-
rontoldquoIrsquom from Regina so Irsquoll be mov-
ing home to find a jobrdquo she said
ldquoItrsquos a lot cheaper to live at home
and I have a solid job at homerdquo
For Patel scoring a job came
with a visit to his sister in Calgary
one summer While he was there
he applied to only five or six jobs
and ended up getting a summer po-
sition that matched his field
The summer job market comes
down to basic supply and demand
Kennedy said
ldquoOn the supply side you have
basically a lot of students that are
looking for jobs during the sum-mer months and thatrsquos fine as long
as the demandrsquos thererdquo he said
ldquoThe demand really hasnrsquot been
there since 2008rdquo
Brennan Thompson undergrad-
uate program director in the school
of economics says that the reces-
sion of 2008 has brought everyone
down a notch when it comes to the
job market
ldquoThe guy who was working at
the auto assembly plant loses his
job and now hersquos taking the low-
paid job at Tim Hortonrsquosrdquo he said
ldquoNow the young person who used
to have that job at Tim Hortonrsquos
[doesnrsquot] have anythingrdquo
Kennedy says the market is start-
ing to bounce back But compared
to 10 years ago finding a summer
job is far more of a challenge Even
in a city as big as Toronto compe-
tition can be fierce because thereare so many students looking for
temporary employment
According to Kennedy even
if the job you end up with isnrsquot at
all related to your field itrsquos still a
good idea to include it on your
resumeacute Employers look at how
your skills have evolved even if
the job you had was just bussing
tables The hard skills you gain
might not be related to your future
career but the soft skills mdashlike leadership skills problem-
solving abilities and customer ser-
vice experience mdash will come in
handy
ldquoNo one is expecting you to
graduate here and have four years
of senior project management ex-
periencerdquo he said
ldquoWhat they want to see is that
therersquos a progressionrdquo
By Leah Hansen
Ryerson graduate Peter Hill is performing at the ninth annual Toronto SketchComedy Festival as part of a duo called Beggarrsquos Canyon See the full article by AlexHeck at theeyeopenercom
PHOTO COURTESY TARA NOELLE
Laughing it up
Discuss the upcoming budget
All members of the Ryerson community are invited to
attend a town hall to discuss the development of the
universityrsquos budget for the 2014-15 academic year
Hosted by
SHELDON LEVY
president
MOHAMED LACHEMI
provost and vice president academic
PAUL STENTON
deputy provost and vice-provost university planning
TOWN HALL MEETING
Wednesday March 12 9 ndash 10 am
Architecture Building Room ARC ndash 108
Thursday March 20 230 ndash 330 pm
Library Building Room LIB ndash 72
President Levy is confirmed to attend the March 20 meeting
To submit questions in advance email provostryersonca
Please contact us if we need to make any accommodations to
ensure your inclusion in this meeting
Come to aRyersonCommunityTown Hall
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13Wednesday March 5 2014 SPORTS
A puckinggood season
n the last 37 years Ryersonrsquos
menrsquos hockey team has never made
t past the semifinals
Even with a team that nearly
doubled last seasonrsquos 14-win per-
ormance the Rams fell prey to
his historical barrier on Feb 28
when a 5-1 semifinal loss to the
Lakehead University Thunder-
wolves ended their season
ldquoWe played an uphill battle all
nightrdquo Rams head coach Graham
Wise said ldquoThey unfortunatelygot on the board firstrdquo
In spite of the disappointing
oss this marked the Ramsrsquo best
performance in the last decade
But that success didnrsquot come
without a few major bumps along
he way Their high-powered start
o the season came to a screeching
halt due to a seven-day suspen-
ion they were handed for drink-
ng alcohol while on a team road
rip The Rams had to forfeit two
games during their suspension
but managed to come back strong
mdash ranking fourth in the Ontario
University Athletics (OUA) West
division by the seasonrsquos endldquoWersquove come a long way from
ighth place and I think we had a
eally good year for ourselvesrdquo sec-
ond-year forward Jamie Wise said
Coached by his father Graham
Wise Jamie achieved a career-
high 45 points mdash ranking him
hird in the Canadian Interuni-
versity Sports (CIS) His 21 goals
his season mdash compared to the
ight he scored last season mdash
made him the second-leading
corer in the country
By Devin Jones
amie Wise the Ramsrsquo leading scorer and second-ranked in the country on home ice
PHOTO FARNIA FEKRI
Fellow forward Dominic Alber-
ga also had a standout season
A third-line grinder from the
Ontario Hockey League (OHL)
Albergarsquos first-line rookie perfor-
mance for the Rams was anything
but expected
Alberga contributed 44 points
and 18 goals to the team He
achieved second place on the team
for goals scored and is nationally
ranked fourth in points mdash all in his
first year as a Ram
But as the menrsquos hockey team
celebrates new talent they alsosay goodbye to two of their key
players Both right-winger Dustin
Alcock and captain Andrew Buck
are graduating this year Buck
scored 90 goals in his 125-game
career with the Rams and wore
the captainrsquos patch for three of his
five years
ldquoItrsquos a surreal feeling and Irsquom
not really sure if itrsquos hit me yetrdquo
Buck said ldquoIrsquoll miss not going
to the rink every day and seeing
the guys but Irsquove had a great five
years so I canrsquot complainrdquo
The Rams are ranked fourth in
the OUA West division and made
their third-straight playoff appear-ance for the first time in history
The last time the Rams earned a
semifinal spot in the playoffs was
the 2009ndash10 season
The team will take some time off
before the coaching staff begins
the journey to next yearrsquos home
opener a process head coach Wise
said will begin with recruitment
ldquoRecruiting is ongoingrdquo he
said ldquoHopefully we can bring in
guys that will make the team bet-
ter and wersquoll go from thererdquo
History repeats itself for Rye hockey
The end of the menrsquos hockey season marks the end of all the Ramsrsquo seasons Go to theeyeopenercom fora cheat sheet on how they ended and which players were awarded OUA titles EyeSports theeyeopener
Celebrate the road to graduation as youbecome Ryerson alumni
March 5 POD upper Hub 1130 am ndash 130 pm
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Dedicated to Dan W
This week wersquore giving away a car Actually just $20 toTim Hortonrsquos Fill it out drop it off in the contest boxoutside of SCC 207 This is a raffle contest not a first-to-finish oneName Student Email Phone
Pugilisim of the StatePHOTO JESS TSANG
ILLUSTRATION DASHA ZOLOTA
Do you have a burning yearning to see something puggified by our residentdoge-drawer Dasha Zolota Send your suggestions to funtheeyeopenercom and your idea might end up on the illustrious Fun page
Cumming Soon Sin amp Vice
Now that our annual Love amp Sex issue is overand done with there has been a serious lackof cunning linguists in this paper Thatrsquos whereour new columnist comes in Her name is Lou-ise and shersquos ready to take your questionsabout what goes down (or doesnrsquot) beneaththe sheets Send us all the slippery sticky andsensual questions you have We promise topublish your questions anonymously and un-edited Nothing is too raunchy or embarrass-ing Send your inquiries to funtheeyeopenercom and Louise will answer in the next issue
W I N T I C K E T S t o s e e3 0 0 R I S E O F A N E M P I R E
B e o n e o f t h e f i r s t 1 5 s t a r t i n g a tn o o n M a r c h 5 t h t o w i n J u s t c o m e t o
t h e E y e o p e n e r - S C C 2 0 7
bull
This is NOT Louise
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7Wednesday March 5 2014 NEWS
Blackboard benchedRyersonrsquos web portal might be replaced by end of 2014
By Badri Murali
After 11 years Ryerson students
nd staff may be working with anew online student portal
Ryersonrsquos Computing and Com-
munications Services (CCS) the de-
partment that handles technology
nd computer support is reviewing
pplications to replace Blackboard
They have received applications
rom various companies over the
past few months for a new online
earning portal
CCS is working with the Faculty
of Communication and Design the
earning and teaching office digital
ducation strategies at the Chang
chool and the library to decide
which ideas will work best for Ry-rson After looking at each pro-
posal they will be testing potential
programs
Brian Lesser director of CCS is
one of 13 members on the Advisory
Committee on Academic Comput-
ng (ACAC) that will decide which
applicants will make it to Ryersonrsquos
shortlist Lesser said that students
and staff have told him they want
more tools and a better layout forBlackboard
ldquoStudents want things like blogs
and file storage to interact with
their course materialrdquo Lesser said
ldquoSince we began with Google
some of this is now possiblerdquo
Ryerson adopted its agreement
with Google Apps for Education
in September 2012 This allows
students and staff to use apps
like Gmail Google Calendar and
Google Drive which stores files
online Lesser said he received
feedback from students saying that
Google Apps has helped with some
of their problems but they wouldlike to see more
In a 2013 survey conducted by
CCS many staff said that they
want to be able to immediately
contact students with marks and
other updates and were sometimes
facing difficulty on Blackboard to
do so Staff also said that they want
to be able to mark up documents
submitted by students but often
run into problems making com-ments on them
The applications from external
groups were due on Feb 28 Once
the CCS and ACAC create a short
list they will be presented to the
Ryerson community for feedback
The feedback will then be collected
through townhall sessions and in-
dividual meetings with CCS to let
staff and students test the applica-
tions in real time Once this has
been done and after ACAC pro-
cesses feedback only then will CCS
proceed to replace the system
ldquoWe should have the trial pro-
cess beginning in May to receivefeedback from usersrdquo Lesser said
ldquoIt would be great to get a new sys-
tem working for fall 2014rdquo
There is a consultation blog
available at lmsblogryersonca
detailing what ACAC and CCS are
doing throughout this process
DMZ touches down in IndiaBy Lana Hall
Canadarsquos Governor General David
ohnston threw the coconut on the
round and mdash luckily for him andRyerson University mdash it cracked
An Indian tradition to mark the
tart of a new project the coco-
nutrsquos cracking is supposed to bring
ood luck It was a welcome sign
or Johnston and his team of gov-
rnment and Ryerson leaders who
were in Mumbai India last week
o oversee the opening of a Digital
Media Zone (DMZ) program
The Bombay Stock Exchange
nstitute Ltd (BIL)-Ryerson DMZ
ndia modeled on Ryerson Uni-
versityrsquos DMZ It was built in col-
laboration with Ryerson Ryerson
Futures Inc Simon Fraser Univer-
sity and the BIL It was officially
opened on Feb 28The original DMZ at Ryerson is
a multi-program business incuba-
tor and workspace for entrepre-
neurs that was founded in 2010
The India-based version will op-
erate similarly with the goal of
helping technology-based startups
with their operations and expos-
ing them to mentors customers
and investors
Ryerson president Sheldon Levy
whom also accompanied John-
ston to India said that the zone
in Mumbai has huge potential for
Ryerson
ldquoThis will give our students an
opportunity to spend time in In-
dia as well as students in India tospend time in Canadardquo Levy said
ldquoI think itrsquos going to be a fabulous
opportunityrdquo
Kristin Heredia a spokesper-
son for the DMZ here at Ryerson
said the university plans to launch
other DMZ programs abroad but
is currently focusing on India be-
cause it will have the largest popu-
lation of young people worldwide
by the year 2020
As one of the youngest emerging
nations India will need to be able
to employ more young people
said Ambarish Datta the CEO of
BIL-Ryerson DMZ IndialdquoWe are confident that this incu-
bator will not only provide em-
ployment for our youth but also
build products and solutions that
put India on the global map of in-
novationrdquo Datta said in a news
release
ldquoThe Canada-India economic
relationship is strongrdquo said John-
ston in a government press release
ldquo[It] holds tremendous potential
for broader and expanded col-
laborationrdquo
The stop in Mumbai where
Johnston also had the opportu-
nity to open the Bombay Stock
Exchange was part of a larger
India-wide tour during which he
spoke with officials in Bangalore
and New Delhi regarding business
and educationDavid Johnston cuts the ribbon at the DMZrsquos brand new Indian sister project
PHOTO COURTESY CARBE ORELLANA
NewsBites
Theft duringexam
A studentrsquos iPhone was stolen Feb
26 after heshe was asked to leave
it at the front of the class during a
test according to Ryerson emer-
gency and security services
According to security no policy
was put in place by the instructor
to secure the electronic devices
while the students wrote the test
ldquo[Proctors] typically ask [stu-
dents] to bring their bags to the
frontrdquo said Tanya Poppleton
manager of security and emer-
gency services ldquoIrsquove never heard
of placing cellphones on the table
at the frontrdquo
Chequesgrowing stale
Students who have yet to collect
their health plan opt-out chequeswill need to do so before they lose
access to the money
The cheques as per Canadian
law will be void six months from
their issue date on Nov 10
The RSU will reissue cheques af-
ter the date of expiry for up to 15
months after the original date they
were issued
WINNERS MAY RECEIVE UP TO
$2500 AND HAVE THEIR WORK
INCLUDED IN AN EXHIBITION AT THE
DESIGN EXCHANGE IN TORONTO
DEADLINE APRIL 15 2014
DXORGCONNECT
PRESENTED BY
CALLFOR
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CONNECTENABLING CHANGEPOST983085SECONDARY DESIG N
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8 Wednesday March 5 2014FEATURES
BR
ICEThough somein some partsTristan Simpmale figure s
PHOTO SHANNON BALDWIN
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Wednesday March 5 2014 9FEATURES
The cheers echo throughout
the arena as the announcer
introduces the next menrsquos
ree skate entrant Spencer Buchan-
n Decked in all black he casually
lides backwards with his hands in
his pockets as if it was a free skate
on Mattamy Athletic Centrersquos ice
He doesnrsquot look like a typical figure
kater He doesnrsquot wear elaborate
ostumes For him a plain tee and
pants will do He stands six feet two
inches mdash taller than most competi-
tors He brings his large frame to
a slow then raises his lengthy arms
to embrace the sound He stops at
centre ice He gathers himself and
starts his routine
There are 17 students on Ryer-
sonrsquos figure skating team Two of
them are male and only one is per-
mitted to compete Figure skaters
are judged on their technique and
finesse but it is a female-dominat-
ed sport The male minority that
does compete at the university
level struggles to gain the recog-
nition awarded to their female
counterparts Ontario University
Athletics (OUA) has one event for
men to compete in at the figure
skating championships and win-ter invitationals The women have
14 events for singles pairs fours
and teams Most university teams
have just one male player on their
squad
Buchanan says he didnrsquot
always want to be a fig-
ure skater ldquoWhen I was
younger all of my friends were
playing hockey and they would
poke fun at [me] for figure skat-
ingrdquo he says ldquoWhen that hap-
pens you want to fit in and just
play hockeyrdquo He changed his
mind after his childhood coachtold him he had the potential to
excel in figure skating
ldquoI think the fact [that the OUA]
only has one event for men is a
gender biasrdquo figure skating head
coach Lauren Wilson says She
says she doesnrsquot think the gender
bias is done on purpose but the
structure of the OUA figure skat-ing championships doesnrsquot help
ldquoOur roster is limited to 17 and
therersquos only one competition for
men We canrsquot make room for
more guyshellip Men can compete
in the synchro event but that still
leaves their options lowrdquo Buchan-
an chose not to partake in team
synchro ldquoI train on my own so
doing synchro wouldnrsquot work for
merdquo he says
Buchanan notes that the sport
faces a lack of recognition ldquoMost
people donrsquot take it serious They
donrsquot know the sport all they
know is Blades of Gloryrdquo
An hour before the competi-
tion Buchanan was writ-
ing an exam The 22-year-
old is a second-year accounting
student at Ryerson On top of his
studies hersquos been competing in
figure skating for six years ldquoMy
whole family has been skating for
a long timerdquo he says
Like any athlete he devoted a
lot of time to training until his
luck took a turn for the worst on
May 5 2012 He was walking
home alone from a bar in Mon-
treal when he was hit by a car
ldquoI really donrsquot have any memo-
ry of what happenedrdquo Buchanan
says He was found in the middle
of the street unconscious and
bleeding at 335 am He woke up
in a downtown Montreal hospi-
tal
Buchanan suffered a baseline
skull fracture that kept him off
the ice for a year ldquoI wasnrsquot sure if
I could [go] back to skatingrdquo he
says Buchanan was inspired by
Javier Fernandez mdash the 2014 Eu-
ropean menrsquos figure skating cham-
pion He says watching Fernandezskate at the Toronto Cricket Skat-
ing and Curling Club pushed him
back into competition
Buchananrsquos first dance back on
the ice was rough ldquoI hadnrsquot com-
peted in like two years and I for-
got how much it took to skate
[figure skating] is surprisingly tir-
ing and I was out of breath for like
half an hourrdquo Figure skating com-
petitions are tightly judged Skat-
ers are scored on the difficulty and
style of the routine but theyrsquore
sometimes also judged off the ice
by society
Buchanan says that some peoplemake sweeping assumption about
male figure skaters mdash sometimes
extending to their sexuality ldquoIrsquom
not gay but [that] notion people
have bugs me a little bitrdquo He says
these assumptions deter athletes
from pursuing the sport ldquoIf you
are gay it can be hard to deal with
the way people label yourdquoEmily Rose Galliani Pecchia a
third-year forward on the Ryerson
womenrsquos hockey team says ldquoPeo-
ple shouldnrsquot make these assump-
tions flat out Whether theyrsquore
a figure skater hockey player or
wrestler it doesnrsquot determine if
theyrsquore gay or straightrdquo
Galliani Pecchia whom is gay
says athletes should be able to
compete in any sport without be-
ing judged
ldquoIf an athlete is gay they
should feel comfortable enough
to compete Itrsquos not fair for an
athlete to feel uncomfortable intheir field of playrdquo she says She
adds that her teammates are open
about their sexuality ldquoThere is
always someone to talk to within
our dressing room which is an
anomaly in varsity sport since it
is a taboo subjectrdquo
Pierre Alain interim head coach
of the Ryerson womenrsquos hockey
team says there are false percep-
tions that female hockey play-
ers are physical and butch ldquoYes
many players like the physical part
of the [sport] but thatrsquos not all
you need to be a good playerrdquo He
says athletes shouldnrsquot be catego-
rized based on the sport they playldquoLook at Meghan Agosta mdash she
started as a figure skater before
doing hockeyrdquo
Figure skating isnrsquot a promi-
EAKERSare often seen as being male-dominatedworld of athleticism men are a minoritykes a look at the often-overlooked sport of
When I was younger all my friends were play-ing hockey and they would poke fun at [me]for figure skating When that happens youwant to fit in and just play hockey
nent sport at most universities
The crowd at the OUAs is meager
compared to the ones at a basket-
ball or hockey games and is made
up mostly of athletesrsquo teammates
But Buchanan says that figure
skating is growing
When Buchanan was a kid he
would take cover when people
made fun of him for figure skat-ing Today he is less shy ldquoSome
people give you a look but it
doesnrsquot bother me anymorerdquo His
response to those who question
the physical demand required to
compete ldquoWhy donrsquot you give it
a try and see how you dordquo
Buchanan knows what to
do to win He preps him-
self mentally while sitting
in the menrsquos changeroom at the
OUAs ldquoYou have to focus in You
have to relax Donrsquot over-analyze
things Let your body do what
you trained it to dordquo he saysAfter he is mentally prepared he
heads to the ice Buchanan walks
on the Rams mat before leaving
the changeroom then remem-
bers ldquoYoursquore not supposed to do
that mdash itrsquos bad luckrdquo During the
warm-up skate Daft Punkrsquos One
More Time radiates through the
arena Competitors are already
on the ice perfecting their routine
Each one exudes confidence ldquoIrsquom
not going to lie I really want to
winrdquo he says
One after another they take
the ice and perform their routine
Buchanan is the third competitor
to hit the ice and he emerges toElton Johnrsquos Your Song Some of
the female athletes in the audi-
ence begin to sing along and they
throw flowers at him when the
routine is finished Many of the
menrsquos routines were comedic and
they were often met with laugh-
ter Some audience members com-
mented on Buchananrsquos ldquosparklesrdquo
on his black tee
Every spin jump and turn is
completed with grace He ex-
plodes with a double axel He
nails jump after jump then sud-
denly staggers on his landing
He throws his hands to catchhimself and continues He elicits
more cheers from the audience by
breaking down with a few robot
dance moves He ends his routine
with a flurry of spin moves He
comes to a halt and then puts his
hands back in his pockets
Buchanan doesnrsquot win his event
mdash the menrsquos open singles mdash but
he does finish second His inspi-
ration mdash Fernandez mdash places
fourth at the Sochi Olympics the
same day he competes in Toronto
Buchanan doesnrsquot stick around
to watch the awards presenta-
tion because he has work mdash his
sister accepts his medal for him
ldquoYou never know what to ex-
pect I didnrsquot watch everyone else
skaterdquo He pauses ldquoSecond place
is alrightrdquo
PHOTOS FARNIA FEKRI
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10 Wednesday March 5 2014BIZ amp TECH
A studentrsquos guide to filing your taxesByPamelaJohnston
trsquos that time of year again Gatherour receipts employment and ed-
ucation records because itrsquos time to
file your tax returns Donrsquot worry
he Eyeopener has everything you
need to know about claiming your
xpenses If after reading this you
till find the whole concept of a
ax return too hard to grasp you
an go to the tax clinics organized
by the Ryerson Studentsrsquo Union
(RSU) They are held throughout
March up until April 3 Members
of the RSU and Continuing Educa-
tion Studentsrsquo Association of Ryer-
son (CESAR) can use Ufileca to filetheir taxes
Remember the deadline to file
individual returns to the Canada
Revenue Agency (CRA) is April
30 If you file late you will be fined
five per cent of what you owe from
2013 and one per cent of that bal-
ance for each late month So get off
your ass and git lsquoer done
ILLUSTRATION BY JESS TSANG
THIS WEEK AT THE MAC
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HOME OF THE
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APRIL 3 2014 1230PM amp 600PM
TICKET PRICES
FLOOR SEATS - $30 STANDS - $20
(Before applicable service charges)
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MARCH 28 2014 700PM
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bull Performances by Ryerson Students
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11Wednesday March 5 2014 COMMUNITIES
The gift that keeps on givingGifts for Strangers an initiative created by Ryerson business student Cole Banning goes global
By Mikaila Kukurudza
Banningrsquos organization Improv in Toronto hosts regular events within the Toronto communityPHOTO MIKAILA KUKURUDZA
econd-year Ryerson business stu-
dent Cole Banning has mastered
he art of making strangers smile If
oursquove ever been given a wrapped
box containing a handmade gift
by a stranger on the street in To-
onto therersquos a good chance the
2-year-old had something to do
with it
Banning founded Improv in
Toronto a group that organizes
vents across the city when he was
senior in high school He has since
xpanded on the organization and
reated different projects mdash Gifts
or Strangers is the most recogniz-ble The project is exactly what
t sounds like Around the holiday
eason Banning and his team hand
out gifts to people on the street
ldquoTo be approached by a ran-
dom stranger and given a gift
might brighten [someonersquos] dayrdquo
Banning said ldquoYou hope that
ou made that difference which
s strange to say because all wersquore
doing is fooling around and hav-
ng funrdquo
Gifts for Strangers began three
ears ago and has been growing in
popularity since This year 33 cit-
es in over 23 countries participat-
ed in the event Banningrsquos concept
was inspired by a group in New
York City called Improv Every-
where which conducts similar ur-
ban art projects and experiments
But Gifts for Strangers isnrsquot the
only project Improv in Toronto
has undertaken Banning and his
team of 20 plan sporadic commu-
nity projects on a regular basis In
the past these events have includ-
ed pantless subway trips umbrella
taxi services to escort pedestrians
through the rain and pillow fights
at Yonge-Dundas Square
The goal is to bring strangers to-
gether through unexpected inter-
active events and add spice to the
day-to-day lives of Torontonians
ldquoI think people going through
their lives put up a wall Itrsquos nice
to break the boundaryrdquo Banning
saidImprov in Toronto has held over
50 free family-friendly events
around Toronto over the past six
years The group also has a You-
Tube channel with over 25 000
subscribers (some videos have over
5 million views)
ldquoIt just blew up I wasnrsquot pre-
pared or readyrdquo Banning said
Things really took off after an
overwhelming turnout at Improv
in Torontorsquos second event mdash a
large-scale Wherersquos Waldo hunt
in the Eaton Centre The event re-
sulted in Banning being escorted
out of his hiding place by mall se-curity due to the overcrowding he
had created with his Waldo hunt
Banning credits the success of
his organization to social media
and his goal to fill a strangerrsquos day
with a little laughter He believes
that by creating an inclusive com-
munity and bringing strangers to-
gether the seriousness of everyday
routines can be mitigated
ldquoItrsquos nice to be taken away from
the stress of life even if itrsquos just for
a minuterdquo Banning said
For students hoping to get in-
volved Banning suggests ldquodonat-
ing your time not moneyrdquo
Constructing communities
ByOliviaMcLeod
Architecture students build a community shelter in Newfoundland
A group of six Ryerson architec-
ure students were chosen to par-
icipate in a unique and unifying
project over reading week The
roup travelled to Botwood NLo create a structure for the townrsquos
heritage park at a Second World
War airplane base
The build was initiated through
Culture of Outports mdash a project
ssociated with ERA Architects
n Toronto For the past four
ears they have annually trav-
lled around Newfoundland to
onserve cultural heritage through
rchitecture Three of these devel-
opments have been with Ryerson
ldquoI think our partnership [with
Ryerson] works really well be-
ause there is that opportunity to
work here together in Toronto and
do work and planning before we
o out together to the east coastrdquo
Alana Young project coordinator
aid
The structure itself sits on the
foundation of an old weather sta-
tion on a pathway to Killick Island
mdash Botwoodrsquos prime tourist spot
and nature trail
ldquoThe continued story heard
from people was they wanted to
see something on that roadway
going to the islandrdquo said Scott
Sceviour deputy mayor of Bot-
wood ldquoWe had some benchesthere for rest areas but people
wanted to see something there so
thatrsquos where [the idea] was bornrdquo
The structure is essentially
a wooden-planked box with a
sloped roof There are rectangu-
lar cutouts in the walls that align
with historic plane crash sights
in the surrounding area Because
of this Young calls it the ldquoview-
finderrdquo
Typically a project like this
would take two weeks to finish
but because of the studentsrsquo sched-
ules it became a ldquocompressed
eight-day adventurerdquo
ldquoEverybody was just great and
supportive Itrsquos almost like you ask
everyone to suspend their disbelief
for a few days and just kind of get
on this rollercoaster with you and
see where it goesrdquo Young said
Without the community Young
said the project wouldnrsquot exist Be-
cause of very cold weather condi-
tions the entire structure had to be
built inside of the townrsquos fire hall
and then transported by trucks to
the site They provided the tools
experienced labour and even the
teamrsquos meals along with endlesssupport hospitality and help
Students said the experience of
bringing a design to life is like no
other experience theyrsquove had so
far
ldquoActually getting to build it and
[getting] a community involved
and [having] real feedback from
people who are going to use the
space is really valuablerdquo Kate
Gonashvili a fourth-year architec-
ture student said
Young said because of this proj-
ectrsquos success they are going to
continue working with Botwood
in the future
ldquoWe have ideas as far as nextsteps and what they can do and
theyrsquore really engaged so thatrsquos ex-
actly the kind of community you
want to work withrdquoRyerson students spent eight days building this structure in Newfoundland
PHOTOS COURTESY ALANA YOUNG
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12 Wednesday March 5 2014ARTS amp LIFE
Need a job Stop surfing and start walking
When Parth Patel was in his firstew years of the engineering pro-
ram he found getting a summer
ob to be quite challenging
ldquoI applied to more than 60 or
70 jobsrdquo he said ldquoI [was] trying
o find work [in engineering] but
wasnrsquot able tordquo
The frustration of finding a
ummer job is something many
Looking for a summer job can be frustrating but relying on the Internet may be hurting you more than you know
students have experienced before
especially since the 2008 econom-
ic crisis when markets around theworld crashed Searching through
thousands of job listings online
perfecting your resumeacute and send-
ing it out can take hours
But if yoursquore hoping to score
that ideal job going back to the
basics is the way to go said Dan-
iel Kennedy a career consultant
at Ted Rogers School of Manage-
Since the 2008 economic crisis the job market has seen fierce competition mdash sepa-rating yourself from the rest is the first step in being noticed
PHOTOS FARNIA FEKRI
ment careers and employment
partnerships centre
ldquoIf you go into [the websites]Monster or Workopolis and you
type in lsquosummer jobsrsquo yoursquore going
to find job postingsrdquo he said ldquoThe
problem is there are about four mil-
lion other students across Canada
who are going to find those same
job postingsrdquo
It often comes down to doing
some old-fashioned scouting on the
ground Kennedy said adding that
proactively approaching employers
can make a bigger impression than
simply sending a resumeacute by email
ldquoWhat students should do if they
really want to make a go of it is to
look for companies that donrsquot havethe capacity to advertise for those
summer jobsrdquo he said ldquoIf you can
identify and find those companies
and approach them proactively
that will give you a much better
chancerdquo
Because finding a job can be so
difficult in Toronto many students
decide to go back to their home-
towns for the summer where the
competition is less fierce and jobs
are easier to come by
Laura Hamel a first-year perfor-
mance acting student said shersquoll be
moving back home for the summer
because of the cost of living in To-
rontoldquoIrsquom from Regina so Irsquoll be mov-
ing home to find a jobrdquo she said
ldquoItrsquos a lot cheaper to live at home
and I have a solid job at homerdquo
For Patel scoring a job came
with a visit to his sister in Calgary
one summer While he was there
he applied to only five or six jobs
and ended up getting a summer po-
sition that matched his field
The summer job market comes
down to basic supply and demand
Kennedy said
ldquoOn the supply side you have
basically a lot of students that are
looking for jobs during the sum-mer months and thatrsquos fine as long
as the demandrsquos thererdquo he said
ldquoThe demand really hasnrsquot been
there since 2008rdquo
Brennan Thompson undergrad-
uate program director in the school
of economics says that the reces-
sion of 2008 has brought everyone
down a notch when it comes to the
job market
ldquoThe guy who was working at
the auto assembly plant loses his
job and now hersquos taking the low-
paid job at Tim Hortonrsquosrdquo he said
ldquoNow the young person who used
to have that job at Tim Hortonrsquos
[doesnrsquot] have anythingrdquo
Kennedy says the market is start-
ing to bounce back But compared
to 10 years ago finding a summer
job is far more of a challenge Even
in a city as big as Toronto compe-
tition can be fierce because thereare so many students looking for
temporary employment
According to Kennedy even
if the job you end up with isnrsquot at
all related to your field itrsquos still a
good idea to include it on your
resumeacute Employers look at how
your skills have evolved even if
the job you had was just bussing
tables The hard skills you gain
might not be related to your future
career but the soft skills mdashlike leadership skills problem-
solving abilities and customer ser-
vice experience mdash will come in
handy
ldquoNo one is expecting you to
graduate here and have four years
of senior project management ex-
periencerdquo he said
ldquoWhat they want to see is that
therersquos a progressionrdquo
By Leah Hansen
Ryerson graduate Peter Hill is performing at the ninth annual Toronto SketchComedy Festival as part of a duo called Beggarrsquos Canyon See the full article by AlexHeck at theeyeopenercom
PHOTO COURTESY TARA NOELLE
Laughing it up
Discuss the upcoming budget
All members of the Ryerson community are invited to
attend a town hall to discuss the development of the
universityrsquos budget for the 2014-15 academic year
Hosted by
SHELDON LEVY
president
MOHAMED LACHEMI
provost and vice president academic
PAUL STENTON
deputy provost and vice-provost university planning
TOWN HALL MEETING
Wednesday March 12 9 ndash 10 am
Architecture Building Room ARC ndash 108
Thursday March 20 230 ndash 330 pm
Library Building Room LIB ndash 72
President Levy is confirmed to attend the March 20 meeting
To submit questions in advance email provostryersonca
Please contact us if we need to make any accommodations to
ensure your inclusion in this meeting
Come to aRyersonCommunityTown Hall
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13Wednesday March 5 2014 SPORTS
A puckinggood season
n the last 37 years Ryersonrsquos
menrsquos hockey team has never made
t past the semifinals
Even with a team that nearly
doubled last seasonrsquos 14-win per-
ormance the Rams fell prey to
his historical barrier on Feb 28
when a 5-1 semifinal loss to the
Lakehead University Thunder-
wolves ended their season
ldquoWe played an uphill battle all
nightrdquo Rams head coach Graham
Wise said ldquoThey unfortunatelygot on the board firstrdquo
In spite of the disappointing
oss this marked the Ramsrsquo best
performance in the last decade
But that success didnrsquot come
without a few major bumps along
he way Their high-powered start
o the season came to a screeching
halt due to a seven-day suspen-
ion they were handed for drink-
ng alcohol while on a team road
rip The Rams had to forfeit two
games during their suspension
but managed to come back strong
mdash ranking fourth in the Ontario
University Athletics (OUA) West
division by the seasonrsquos endldquoWersquove come a long way from
ighth place and I think we had a
eally good year for ourselvesrdquo sec-
ond-year forward Jamie Wise said
Coached by his father Graham
Wise Jamie achieved a career-
high 45 points mdash ranking him
hird in the Canadian Interuni-
versity Sports (CIS) His 21 goals
his season mdash compared to the
ight he scored last season mdash
made him the second-leading
corer in the country
By Devin Jones
amie Wise the Ramsrsquo leading scorer and second-ranked in the country on home ice
PHOTO FARNIA FEKRI
Fellow forward Dominic Alber-
ga also had a standout season
A third-line grinder from the
Ontario Hockey League (OHL)
Albergarsquos first-line rookie perfor-
mance for the Rams was anything
but expected
Alberga contributed 44 points
and 18 goals to the team He
achieved second place on the team
for goals scored and is nationally
ranked fourth in points mdash all in his
first year as a Ram
But as the menrsquos hockey team
celebrates new talent they alsosay goodbye to two of their key
players Both right-winger Dustin
Alcock and captain Andrew Buck
are graduating this year Buck
scored 90 goals in his 125-game
career with the Rams and wore
the captainrsquos patch for three of his
five years
ldquoItrsquos a surreal feeling and Irsquom
not really sure if itrsquos hit me yetrdquo
Buck said ldquoIrsquoll miss not going
to the rink every day and seeing
the guys but Irsquove had a great five
years so I canrsquot complainrdquo
The Rams are ranked fourth in
the OUA West division and made
their third-straight playoff appear-ance for the first time in history
The last time the Rams earned a
semifinal spot in the playoffs was
the 2009ndash10 season
The team will take some time off
before the coaching staff begins
the journey to next yearrsquos home
opener a process head coach Wise
said will begin with recruitment
ldquoRecruiting is ongoingrdquo he
said ldquoHopefully we can bring in
guys that will make the team bet-
ter and wersquoll go from thererdquo
History repeats itself for Rye hockey
The end of the menrsquos hockey season marks the end of all the Ramsrsquo seasons Go to theeyeopenercom fora cheat sheet on how they ended and which players were awarded OUA titles EyeSports theeyeopener
Celebrate the road to graduation as youbecome Ryerson alumni
March 5 POD upper Hub 1130 am ndash 130 pm
March 10 ENG 3rd floor 1130 am ndash 130 pm
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get involved bull get connected bull build your network
Alumni ExpoStudents Today Alumni Tomorrow
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Dedicated to Dan W
This week wersquore giving away a car Actually just $20 toTim Hortonrsquos Fill it out drop it off in the contest boxoutside of SCC 207 This is a raffle contest not a first-to-finish oneName Student Email Phone
Pugilisim of the StatePHOTO JESS TSANG
ILLUSTRATION DASHA ZOLOTA
Do you have a burning yearning to see something puggified by our residentdoge-drawer Dasha Zolota Send your suggestions to funtheeyeopenercom and your idea might end up on the illustrious Fun page
Cumming Soon Sin amp Vice
Now that our annual Love amp Sex issue is overand done with there has been a serious lackof cunning linguists in this paper Thatrsquos whereour new columnist comes in Her name is Lou-ise and shersquos ready to take your questionsabout what goes down (or doesnrsquot) beneaththe sheets Send us all the slippery sticky andsensual questions you have We promise topublish your questions anonymously and un-edited Nothing is too raunchy or embarrass-ing Send your inquiries to funtheeyeopenercom and Louise will answer in the next issue
W I N T I C K E T S t o s e e3 0 0 R I S E O F A N E M P I R E
B e o n e o f t h e f i r s t 1 5 s t a r t i n g a tn o o n M a r c h 5 t h t o w i n J u s t c o m e t o
t h e E y e o p e n e r - S C C 2 0 7
bull
This is NOT Louise
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8 Wednesday March 5 2014FEATURES
BR
ICEThough somein some partsTristan Simpmale figure s
PHOTO SHANNON BALDWIN
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Wednesday March 5 2014 9FEATURES
The cheers echo throughout
the arena as the announcer
introduces the next menrsquos
ree skate entrant Spencer Buchan-
n Decked in all black he casually
lides backwards with his hands in
his pockets as if it was a free skate
on Mattamy Athletic Centrersquos ice
He doesnrsquot look like a typical figure
kater He doesnrsquot wear elaborate
ostumes For him a plain tee and
pants will do He stands six feet two
inches mdash taller than most competi-
tors He brings his large frame to
a slow then raises his lengthy arms
to embrace the sound He stops at
centre ice He gathers himself and
starts his routine
There are 17 students on Ryer-
sonrsquos figure skating team Two of
them are male and only one is per-
mitted to compete Figure skaters
are judged on their technique and
finesse but it is a female-dominat-
ed sport The male minority that
does compete at the university
level struggles to gain the recog-
nition awarded to their female
counterparts Ontario University
Athletics (OUA) has one event for
men to compete in at the figure
skating championships and win-ter invitationals The women have
14 events for singles pairs fours
and teams Most university teams
have just one male player on their
squad
Buchanan says he didnrsquot
always want to be a fig-
ure skater ldquoWhen I was
younger all of my friends were
playing hockey and they would
poke fun at [me] for figure skat-
ingrdquo he says ldquoWhen that hap-
pens you want to fit in and just
play hockeyrdquo He changed his
mind after his childhood coachtold him he had the potential to
excel in figure skating
ldquoI think the fact [that the OUA]
only has one event for men is a
gender biasrdquo figure skating head
coach Lauren Wilson says She
says she doesnrsquot think the gender
bias is done on purpose but the
structure of the OUA figure skat-ing championships doesnrsquot help
ldquoOur roster is limited to 17 and
therersquos only one competition for
men We canrsquot make room for
more guyshellip Men can compete
in the synchro event but that still
leaves their options lowrdquo Buchan-
an chose not to partake in team
synchro ldquoI train on my own so
doing synchro wouldnrsquot work for
merdquo he says
Buchanan notes that the sport
faces a lack of recognition ldquoMost
people donrsquot take it serious They
donrsquot know the sport all they
know is Blades of Gloryrdquo
An hour before the competi-
tion Buchanan was writ-
ing an exam The 22-year-
old is a second-year accounting
student at Ryerson On top of his
studies hersquos been competing in
figure skating for six years ldquoMy
whole family has been skating for
a long timerdquo he says
Like any athlete he devoted a
lot of time to training until his
luck took a turn for the worst on
May 5 2012 He was walking
home alone from a bar in Mon-
treal when he was hit by a car
ldquoI really donrsquot have any memo-
ry of what happenedrdquo Buchanan
says He was found in the middle
of the street unconscious and
bleeding at 335 am He woke up
in a downtown Montreal hospi-
tal
Buchanan suffered a baseline
skull fracture that kept him off
the ice for a year ldquoI wasnrsquot sure if
I could [go] back to skatingrdquo he
says Buchanan was inspired by
Javier Fernandez mdash the 2014 Eu-
ropean menrsquos figure skating cham-
pion He says watching Fernandezskate at the Toronto Cricket Skat-
ing and Curling Club pushed him
back into competition
Buchananrsquos first dance back on
the ice was rough ldquoI hadnrsquot com-
peted in like two years and I for-
got how much it took to skate
[figure skating] is surprisingly tir-
ing and I was out of breath for like
half an hourrdquo Figure skating com-
petitions are tightly judged Skat-
ers are scored on the difficulty and
style of the routine but theyrsquore
sometimes also judged off the ice
by society
Buchanan says that some peoplemake sweeping assumption about
male figure skaters mdash sometimes
extending to their sexuality ldquoIrsquom
not gay but [that] notion people
have bugs me a little bitrdquo He says
these assumptions deter athletes
from pursuing the sport ldquoIf you
are gay it can be hard to deal with
the way people label yourdquoEmily Rose Galliani Pecchia a
third-year forward on the Ryerson
womenrsquos hockey team says ldquoPeo-
ple shouldnrsquot make these assump-
tions flat out Whether theyrsquore
a figure skater hockey player or
wrestler it doesnrsquot determine if
theyrsquore gay or straightrdquo
Galliani Pecchia whom is gay
says athletes should be able to
compete in any sport without be-
ing judged
ldquoIf an athlete is gay they
should feel comfortable enough
to compete Itrsquos not fair for an
athlete to feel uncomfortable intheir field of playrdquo she says She
adds that her teammates are open
about their sexuality ldquoThere is
always someone to talk to within
our dressing room which is an
anomaly in varsity sport since it
is a taboo subjectrdquo
Pierre Alain interim head coach
of the Ryerson womenrsquos hockey
team says there are false percep-
tions that female hockey play-
ers are physical and butch ldquoYes
many players like the physical part
of the [sport] but thatrsquos not all
you need to be a good playerrdquo He
says athletes shouldnrsquot be catego-
rized based on the sport they playldquoLook at Meghan Agosta mdash she
started as a figure skater before
doing hockeyrdquo
Figure skating isnrsquot a promi-
EAKERSare often seen as being male-dominatedworld of athleticism men are a minoritykes a look at the often-overlooked sport of
When I was younger all my friends were play-ing hockey and they would poke fun at [me]for figure skating When that happens youwant to fit in and just play hockey
nent sport at most universities
The crowd at the OUAs is meager
compared to the ones at a basket-
ball or hockey games and is made
up mostly of athletesrsquo teammates
But Buchanan says that figure
skating is growing
When Buchanan was a kid he
would take cover when people
made fun of him for figure skat-ing Today he is less shy ldquoSome
people give you a look but it
doesnrsquot bother me anymorerdquo His
response to those who question
the physical demand required to
compete ldquoWhy donrsquot you give it
a try and see how you dordquo
Buchanan knows what to
do to win He preps him-
self mentally while sitting
in the menrsquos changeroom at the
OUAs ldquoYou have to focus in You
have to relax Donrsquot over-analyze
things Let your body do what
you trained it to dordquo he saysAfter he is mentally prepared he
heads to the ice Buchanan walks
on the Rams mat before leaving
the changeroom then remem-
bers ldquoYoursquore not supposed to do
that mdash itrsquos bad luckrdquo During the
warm-up skate Daft Punkrsquos One
More Time radiates through the
arena Competitors are already
on the ice perfecting their routine
Each one exudes confidence ldquoIrsquom
not going to lie I really want to
winrdquo he says
One after another they take
the ice and perform their routine
Buchanan is the third competitor
to hit the ice and he emerges toElton Johnrsquos Your Song Some of
the female athletes in the audi-
ence begin to sing along and they
throw flowers at him when the
routine is finished Many of the
menrsquos routines were comedic and
they were often met with laugh-
ter Some audience members com-
mented on Buchananrsquos ldquosparklesrdquo
on his black tee
Every spin jump and turn is
completed with grace He ex-
plodes with a double axel He
nails jump after jump then sud-
denly staggers on his landing
He throws his hands to catchhimself and continues He elicits
more cheers from the audience by
breaking down with a few robot
dance moves He ends his routine
with a flurry of spin moves He
comes to a halt and then puts his
hands back in his pockets
Buchanan doesnrsquot win his event
mdash the menrsquos open singles mdash but
he does finish second His inspi-
ration mdash Fernandez mdash places
fourth at the Sochi Olympics the
same day he competes in Toronto
Buchanan doesnrsquot stick around
to watch the awards presenta-
tion because he has work mdash his
sister accepts his medal for him
ldquoYou never know what to ex-
pect I didnrsquot watch everyone else
skaterdquo He pauses ldquoSecond place
is alrightrdquo
PHOTOS FARNIA FEKRI
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10 Wednesday March 5 2014BIZ amp TECH
A studentrsquos guide to filing your taxesByPamelaJohnston
trsquos that time of year again Gatherour receipts employment and ed-
ucation records because itrsquos time to
file your tax returns Donrsquot worry
he Eyeopener has everything you
need to know about claiming your
xpenses If after reading this you
till find the whole concept of a
ax return too hard to grasp you
an go to the tax clinics organized
by the Ryerson Studentsrsquo Union
(RSU) They are held throughout
March up until April 3 Members
of the RSU and Continuing Educa-
tion Studentsrsquo Association of Ryer-
son (CESAR) can use Ufileca to filetheir taxes
Remember the deadline to file
individual returns to the Canada
Revenue Agency (CRA) is April
30 If you file late you will be fined
five per cent of what you owe from
2013 and one per cent of that bal-
ance for each late month So get off
your ass and git lsquoer done
ILLUSTRATION BY JESS TSANG
THIS WEEK AT THE MAC
MATTAMYAC
HOME OF THE
GO TO MATTAMYATHLETICCENTRECA FOR EVENT DETAILS
APRIL 3 2014 1230PM amp 600PM
TICKET PRICES
FLOOR SEATS - $30 STANDS - $20
(Before applicable service charges)
ON SALE NOW
MARCH 28 2014 700PM
DOORS OPEN AT 630PM
bull Performances by Ryerson Students
bull Semi Formal
ON SALE NOW
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11Wednesday March 5 2014 COMMUNITIES
The gift that keeps on givingGifts for Strangers an initiative created by Ryerson business student Cole Banning goes global
By Mikaila Kukurudza
Banningrsquos organization Improv in Toronto hosts regular events within the Toronto communityPHOTO MIKAILA KUKURUDZA
econd-year Ryerson business stu-
dent Cole Banning has mastered
he art of making strangers smile If
oursquove ever been given a wrapped
box containing a handmade gift
by a stranger on the street in To-
onto therersquos a good chance the
2-year-old had something to do
with it
Banning founded Improv in
Toronto a group that organizes
vents across the city when he was
senior in high school He has since
xpanded on the organization and
reated different projects mdash Gifts
or Strangers is the most recogniz-ble The project is exactly what
t sounds like Around the holiday
eason Banning and his team hand
out gifts to people on the street
ldquoTo be approached by a ran-
dom stranger and given a gift
might brighten [someonersquos] dayrdquo
Banning said ldquoYou hope that
ou made that difference which
s strange to say because all wersquore
doing is fooling around and hav-
ng funrdquo
Gifts for Strangers began three
ears ago and has been growing in
popularity since This year 33 cit-
es in over 23 countries participat-
ed in the event Banningrsquos concept
was inspired by a group in New
York City called Improv Every-
where which conducts similar ur-
ban art projects and experiments
But Gifts for Strangers isnrsquot the
only project Improv in Toronto
has undertaken Banning and his
team of 20 plan sporadic commu-
nity projects on a regular basis In
the past these events have includ-
ed pantless subway trips umbrella
taxi services to escort pedestrians
through the rain and pillow fights
at Yonge-Dundas Square
The goal is to bring strangers to-
gether through unexpected inter-
active events and add spice to the
day-to-day lives of Torontonians
ldquoI think people going through
their lives put up a wall Itrsquos nice
to break the boundaryrdquo Banning
saidImprov in Toronto has held over
50 free family-friendly events
around Toronto over the past six
years The group also has a You-
Tube channel with over 25 000
subscribers (some videos have over
5 million views)
ldquoIt just blew up I wasnrsquot pre-
pared or readyrdquo Banning said
Things really took off after an
overwhelming turnout at Improv
in Torontorsquos second event mdash a
large-scale Wherersquos Waldo hunt
in the Eaton Centre The event re-
sulted in Banning being escorted
out of his hiding place by mall se-curity due to the overcrowding he
had created with his Waldo hunt
Banning credits the success of
his organization to social media
and his goal to fill a strangerrsquos day
with a little laughter He believes
that by creating an inclusive com-
munity and bringing strangers to-
gether the seriousness of everyday
routines can be mitigated
ldquoItrsquos nice to be taken away from
the stress of life even if itrsquos just for
a minuterdquo Banning said
For students hoping to get in-
volved Banning suggests ldquodonat-
ing your time not moneyrdquo
Constructing communities
ByOliviaMcLeod
Architecture students build a community shelter in Newfoundland
A group of six Ryerson architec-
ure students were chosen to par-
icipate in a unique and unifying
project over reading week The
roup travelled to Botwood NLo create a structure for the townrsquos
heritage park at a Second World
War airplane base
The build was initiated through
Culture of Outports mdash a project
ssociated with ERA Architects
n Toronto For the past four
ears they have annually trav-
lled around Newfoundland to
onserve cultural heritage through
rchitecture Three of these devel-
opments have been with Ryerson
ldquoI think our partnership [with
Ryerson] works really well be-
ause there is that opportunity to
work here together in Toronto and
do work and planning before we
o out together to the east coastrdquo
Alana Young project coordinator
aid
The structure itself sits on the
foundation of an old weather sta-
tion on a pathway to Killick Island
mdash Botwoodrsquos prime tourist spot
and nature trail
ldquoThe continued story heard
from people was they wanted to
see something on that roadway
going to the islandrdquo said Scott
Sceviour deputy mayor of Bot-
wood ldquoWe had some benchesthere for rest areas but people
wanted to see something there so
thatrsquos where [the idea] was bornrdquo
The structure is essentially
a wooden-planked box with a
sloped roof There are rectangu-
lar cutouts in the walls that align
with historic plane crash sights
in the surrounding area Because
of this Young calls it the ldquoview-
finderrdquo
Typically a project like this
would take two weeks to finish
but because of the studentsrsquo sched-
ules it became a ldquocompressed
eight-day adventurerdquo
ldquoEverybody was just great and
supportive Itrsquos almost like you ask
everyone to suspend their disbelief
for a few days and just kind of get
on this rollercoaster with you and
see where it goesrdquo Young said
Without the community Young
said the project wouldnrsquot exist Be-
cause of very cold weather condi-
tions the entire structure had to be
built inside of the townrsquos fire hall
and then transported by trucks to
the site They provided the tools
experienced labour and even the
teamrsquos meals along with endlesssupport hospitality and help
Students said the experience of
bringing a design to life is like no
other experience theyrsquove had so
far
ldquoActually getting to build it and
[getting] a community involved
and [having] real feedback from
people who are going to use the
space is really valuablerdquo Kate
Gonashvili a fourth-year architec-
ture student said
Young said because of this proj-
ectrsquos success they are going to
continue working with Botwood
in the future
ldquoWe have ideas as far as nextsteps and what they can do and
theyrsquore really engaged so thatrsquos ex-
actly the kind of community you
want to work withrdquoRyerson students spent eight days building this structure in Newfoundland
PHOTOS COURTESY ALANA YOUNG
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12 Wednesday March 5 2014ARTS amp LIFE
Need a job Stop surfing and start walking
When Parth Patel was in his firstew years of the engineering pro-
ram he found getting a summer
ob to be quite challenging
ldquoI applied to more than 60 or
70 jobsrdquo he said ldquoI [was] trying
o find work [in engineering] but
wasnrsquot able tordquo
The frustration of finding a
ummer job is something many
Looking for a summer job can be frustrating but relying on the Internet may be hurting you more than you know
students have experienced before
especially since the 2008 econom-
ic crisis when markets around theworld crashed Searching through
thousands of job listings online
perfecting your resumeacute and send-
ing it out can take hours
But if yoursquore hoping to score
that ideal job going back to the
basics is the way to go said Dan-
iel Kennedy a career consultant
at Ted Rogers School of Manage-
Since the 2008 economic crisis the job market has seen fierce competition mdash sepa-rating yourself from the rest is the first step in being noticed
PHOTOS FARNIA FEKRI
ment careers and employment
partnerships centre
ldquoIf you go into [the websites]Monster or Workopolis and you
type in lsquosummer jobsrsquo yoursquore going
to find job postingsrdquo he said ldquoThe
problem is there are about four mil-
lion other students across Canada
who are going to find those same
job postingsrdquo
It often comes down to doing
some old-fashioned scouting on the
ground Kennedy said adding that
proactively approaching employers
can make a bigger impression than
simply sending a resumeacute by email
ldquoWhat students should do if they
really want to make a go of it is to
look for companies that donrsquot havethe capacity to advertise for those
summer jobsrdquo he said ldquoIf you can
identify and find those companies
and approach them proactively
that will give you a much better
chancerdquo
Because finding a job can be so
difficult in Toronto many students
decide to go back to their home-
towns for the summer where the
competition is less fierce and jobs
are easier to come by
Laura Hamel a first-year perfor-
mance acting student said shersquoll be
moving back home for the summer
because of the cost of living in To-
rontoldquoIrsquom from Regina so Irsquoll be mov-
ing home to find a jobrdquo she said
ldquoItrsquos a lot cheaper to live at home
and I have a solid job at homerdquo
For Patel scoring a job came
with a visit to his sister in Calgary
one summer While he was there
he applied to only five or six jobs
and ended up getting a summer po-
sition that matched his field
The summer job market comes
down to basic supply and demand
Kennedy said
ldquoOn the supply side you have
basically a lot of students that are
looking for jobs during the sum-mer months and thatrsquos fine as long
as the demandrsquos thererdquo he said
ldquoThe demand really hasnrsquot been
there since 2008rdquo
Brennan Thompson undergrad-
uate program director in the school
of economics says that the reces-
sion of 2008 has brought everyone
down a notch when it comes to the
job market
ldquoThe guy who was working at
the auto assembly plant loses his
job and now hersquos taking the low-
paid job at Tim Hortonrsquosrdquo he said
ldquoNow the young person who used
to have that job at Tim Hortonrsquos
[doesnrsquot] have anythingrdquo
Kennedy says the market is start-
ing to bounce back But compared
to 10 years ago finding a summer
job is far more of a challenge Even
in a city as big as Toronto compe-
tition can be fierce because thereare so many students looking for
temporary employment
According to Kennedy even
if the job you end up with isnrsquot at
all related to your field itrsquos still a
good idea to include it on your
resumeacute Employers look at how
your skills have evolved even if
the job you had was just bussing
tables The hard skills you gain
might not be related to your future
career but the soft skills mdashlike leadership skills problem-
solving abilities and customer ser-
vice experience mdash will come in
handy
ldquoNo one is expecting you to
graduate here and have four years
of senior project management ex-
periencerdquo he said
ldquoWhat they want to see is that
therersquos a progressionrdquo
By Leah Hansen
Ryerson graduate Peter Hill is performing at the ninth annual Toronto SketchComedy Festival as part of a duo called Beggarrsquos Canyon See the full article by AlexHeck at theeyeopenercom
PHOTO COURTESY TARA NOELLE
Laughing it up
Discuss the upcoming budget
All members of the Ryerson community are invited to
attend a town hall to discuss the development of the
universityrsquos budget for the 2014-15 academic year
Hosted by
SHELDON LEVY
president
MOHAMED LACHEMI
provost and vice president academic
PAUL STENTON
deputy provost and vice-provost university planning
TOWN HALL MEETING
Wednesday March 12 9 ndash 10 am
Architecture Building Room ARC ndash 108
Thursday March 20 230 ndash 330 pm
Library Building Room LIB ndash 72
President Levy is confirmed to attend the March 20 meeting
To submit questions in advance email provostryersonca
Please contact us if we need to make any accommodations to
ensure your inclusion in this meeting
Come to aRyersonCommunityTown Hall
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13Wednesday March 5 2014 SPORTS
A puckinggood season
n the last 37 years Ryersonrsquos
menrsquos hockey team has never made
t past the semifinals
Even with a team that nearly
doubled last seasonrsquos 14-win per-
ormance the Rams fell prey to
his historical barrier on Feb 28
when a 5-1 semifinal loss to the
Lakehead University Thunder-
wolves ended their season
ldquoWe played an uphill battle all
nightrdquo Rams head coach Graham
Wise said ldquoThey unfortunatelygot on the board firstrdquo
In spite of the disappointing
oss this marked the Ramsrsquo best
performance in the last decade
But that success didnrsquot come
without a few major bumps along
he way Their high-powered start
o the season came to a screeching
halt due to a seven-day suspen-
ion they were handed for drink-
ng alcohol while on a team road
rip The Rams had to forfeit two
games during their suspension
but managed to come back strong
mdash ranking fourth in the Ontario
University Athletics (OUA) West
division by the seasonrsquos endldquoWersquove come a long way from
ighth place and I think we had a
eally good year for ourselvesrdquo sec-
ond-year forward Jamie Wise said
Coached by his father Graham
Wise Jamie achieved a career-
high 45 points mdash ranking him
hird in the Canadian Interuni-
versity Sports (CIS) His 21 goals
his season mdash compared to the
ight he scored last season mdash
made him the second-leading
corer in the country
By Devin Jones
amie Wise the Ramsrsquo leading scorer and second-ranked in the country on home ice
PHOTO FARNIA FEKRI
Fellow forward Dominic Alber-
ga also had a standout season
A third-line grinder from the
Ontario Hockey League (OHL)
Albergarsquos first-line rookie perfor-
mance for the Rams was anything
but expected
Alberga contributed 44 points
and 18 goals to the team He
achieved second place on the team
for goals scored and is nationally
ranked fourth in points mdash all in his
first year as a Ram
But as the menrsquos hockey team
celebrates new talent they alsosay goodbye to two of their key
players Both right-winger Dustin
Alcock and captain Andrew Buck
are graduating this year Buck
scored 90 goals in his 125-game
career with the Rams and wore
the captainrsquos patch for three of his
five years
ldquoItrsquos a surreal feeling and Irsquom
not really sure if itrsquos hit me yetrdquo
Buck said ldquoIrsquoll miss not going
to the rink every day and seeing
the guys but Irsquove had a great five
years so I canrsquot complainrdquo
The Rams are ranked fourth in
the OUA West division and made
their third-straight playoff appear-ance for the first time in history
The last time the Rams earned a
semifinal spot in the playoffs was
the 2009ndash10 season
The team will take some time off
before the coaching staff begins
the journey to next yearrsquos home
opener a process head coach Wise
said will begin with recruitment
ldquoRecruiting is ongoingrdquo he
said ldquoHopefully we can bring in
guys that will make the team bet-
ter and wersquoll go from thererdquo
History repeats itself for Rye hockey
The end of the menrsquos hockey season marks the end of all the Ramsrsquo seasons Go to theeyeopenercom fora cheat sheet on how they ended and which players were awarded OUA titles EyeSports theeyeopener
Celebrate the road to graduation as youbecome Ryerson alumni
March 5 POD upper Hub 1130 am ndash 130 pm
March 10 ENG 3rd floor 1130 am ndash 130 pm
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Dedicated to Dan W
This week wersquore giving away a car Actually just $20 toTim Hortonrsquos Fill it out drop it off in the contest boxoutside of SCC 207 This is a raffle contest not a first-to-finish oneName Student Email Phone
Pugilisim of the StatePHOTO JESS TSANG
ILLUSTRATION DASHA ZOLOTA
Do you have a burning yearning to see something puggified by our residentdoge-drawer Dasha Zolota Send your suggestions to funtheeyeopenercom and your idea might end up on the illustrious Fun page
Cumming Soon Sin amp Vice
Now that our annual Love amp Sex issue is overand done with there has been a serious lackof cunning linguists in this paper Thatrsquos whereour new columnist comes in Her name is Lou-ise and shersquos ready to take your questionsabout what goes down (or doesnrsquot) beneaththe sheets Send us all the slippery sticky andsensual questions you have We promise topublish your questions anonymously and un-edited Nothing is too raunchy or embarrass-ing Send your inquiries to funtheeyeopenercom and Louise will answer in the next issue
W I N T I C K E T S t o s e e3 0 0 R I S E O F A N E M P I R E
B e o n e o f t h e f i r s t 1 5 s t a r t i n g a tn o o n M a r c h 5 t h t o w i n J u s t c o m e t o
t h e E y e o p e n e r - S C C 2 0 7
bull
This is NOT Louise
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Wednesday March 5 2014 9FEATURES
The cheers echo throughout
the arena as the announcer
introduces the next menrsquos
ree skate entrant Spencer Buchan-
n Decked in all black he casually
lides backwards with his hands in
his pockets as if it was a free skate
on Mattamy Athletic Centrersquos ice
He doesnrsquot look like a typical figure
kater He doesnrsquot wear elaborate
ostumes For him a plain tee and
pants will do He stands six feet two
inches mdash taller than most competi-
tors He brings his large frame to
a slow then raises his lengthy arms
to embrace the sound He stops at
centre ice He gathers himself and
starts his routine
There are 17 students on Ryer-
sonrsquos figure skating team Two of
them are male and only one is per-
mitted to compete Figure skaters
are judged on their technique and
finesse but it is a female-dominat-
ed sport The male minority that
does compete at the university
level struggles to gain the recog-
nition awarded to their female
counterparts Ontario University
Athletics (OUA) has one event for
men to compete in at the figure
skating championships and win-ter invitationals The women have
14 events for singles pairs fours
and teams Most university teams
have just one male player on their
squad
Buchanan says he didnrsquot
always want to be a fig-
ure skater ldquoWhen I was
younger all of my friends were
playing hockey and they would
poke fun at [me] for figure skat-
ingrdquo he says ldquoWhen that hap-
pens you want to fit in and just
play hockeyrdquo He changed his
mind after his childhood coachtold him he had the potential to
excel in figure skating
ldquoI think the fact [that the OUA]
only has one event for men is a
gender biasrdquo figure skating head
coach Lauren Wilson says She
says she doesnrsquot think the gender
bias is done on purpose but the
structure of the OUA figure skat-ing championships doesnrsquot help
ldquoOur roster is limited to 17 and
therersquos only one competition for
men We canrsquot make room for
more guyshellip Men can compete
in the synchro event but that still
leaves their options lowrdquo Buchan-
an chose not to partake in team
synchro ldquoI train on my own so
doing synchro wouldnrsquot work for
merdquo he says
Buchanan notes that the sport
faces a lack of recognition ldquoMost
people donrsquot take it serious They
donrsquot know the sport all they
know is Blades of Gloryrdquo
An hour before the competi-
tion Buchanan was writ-
ing an exam The 22-year-
old is a second-year accounting
student at Ryerson On top of his
studies hersquos been competing in
figure skating for six years ldquoMy
whole family has been skating for
a long timerdquo he says
Like any athlete he devoted a
lot of time to training until his
luck took a turn for the worst on
May 5 2012 He was walking
home alone from a bar in Mon-
treal when he was hit by a car
ldquoI really donrsquot have any memo-
ry of what happenedrdquo Buchanan
says He was found in the middle
of the street unconscious and
bleeding at 335 am He woke up
in a downtown Montreal hospi-
tal
Buchanan suffered a baseline
skull fracture that kept him off
the ice for a year ldquoI wasnrsquot sure if
I could [go] back to skatingrdquo he
says Buchanan was inspired by
Javier Fernandez mdash the 2014 Eu-
ropean menrsquos figure skating cham-
pion He says watching Fernandezskate at the Toronto Cricket Skat-
ing and Curling Club pushed him
back into competition
Buchananrsquos first dance back on
the ice was rough ldquoI hadnrsquot com-
peted in like two years and I for-
got how much it took to skate
[figure skating] is surprisingly tir-
ing and I was out of breath for like
half an hourrdquo Figure skating com-
petitions are tightly judged Skat-
ers are scored on the difficulty and
style of the routine but theyrsquore
sometimes also judged off the ice
by society
Buchanan says that some peoplemake sweeping assumption about
male figure skaters mdash sometimes
extending to their sexuality ldquoIrsquom
not gay but [that] notion people
have bugs me a little bitrdquo He says
these assumptions deter athletes
from pursuing the sport ldquoIf you
are gay it can be hard to deal with
the way people label yourdquoEmily Rose Galliani Pecchia a
third-year forward on the Ryerson
womenrsquos hockey team says ldquoPeo-
ple shouldnrsquot make these assump-
tions flat out Whether theyrsquore
a figure skater hockey player or
wrestler it doesnrsquot determine if
theyrsquore gay or straightrdquo
Galliani Pecchia whom is gay
says athletes should be able to
compete in any sport without be-
ing judged
ldquoIf an athlete is gay they
should feel comfortable enough
to compete Itrsquos not fair for an
athlete to feel uncomfortable intheir field of playrdquo she says She
adds that her teammates are open
about their sexuality ldquoThere is
always someone to talk to within
our dressing room which is an
anomaly in varsity sport since it
is a taboo subjectrdquo
Pierre Alain interim head coach
of the Ryerson womenrsquos hockey
team says there are false percep-
tions that female hockey play-
ers are physical and butch ldquoYes
many players like the physical part
of the [sport] but thatrsquos not all
you need to be a good playerrdquo He
says athletes shouldnrsquot be catego-
rized based on the sport they playldquoLook at Meghan Agosta mdash she
started as a figure skater before
doing hockeyrdquo
Figure skating isnrsquot a promi-
EAKERSare often seen as being male-dominatedworld of athleticism men are a minoritykes a look at the often-overlooked sport of
When I was younger all my friends were play-ing hockey and they would poke fun at [me]for figure skating When that happens youwant to fit in and just play hockey
nent sport at most universities
The crowd at the OUAs is meager
compared to the ones at a basket-
ball or hockey games and is made
up mostly of athletesrsquo teammates
But Buchanan says that figure
skating is growing
When Buchanan was a kid he
would take cover when people
made fun of him for figure skat-ing Today he is less shy ldquoSome
people give you a look but it
doesnrsquot bother me anymorerdquo His
response to those who question
the physical demand required to
compete ldquoWhy donrsquot you give it
a try and see how you dordquo
Buchanan knows what to
do to win He preps him-
self mentally while sitting
in the menrsquos changeroom at the
OUAs ldquoYou have to focus in You
have to relax Donrsquot over-analyze
things Let your body do what
you trained it to dordquo he saysAfter he is mentally prepared he
heads to the ice Buchanan walks
on the Rams mat before leaving
the changeroom then remem-
bers ldquoYoursquore not supposed to do
that mdash itrsquos bad luckrdquo During the
warm-up skate Daft Punkrsquos One
More Time radiates through the
arena Competitors are already
on the ice perfecting their routine
Each one exudes confidence ldquoIrsquom
not going to lie I really want to
winrdquo he says
One after another they take
the ice and perform their routine
Buchanan is the third competitor
to hit the ice and he emerges toElton Johnrsquos Your Song Some of
the female athletes in the audi-
ence begin to sing along and they
throw flowers at him when the
routine is finished Many of the
menrsquos routines were comedic and
they were often met with laugh-
ter Some audience members com-
mented on Buchananrsquos ldquosparklesrdquo
on his black tee
Every spin jump and turn is
completed with grace He ex-
plodes with a double axel He
nails jump after jump then sud-
denly staggers on his landing
He throws his hands to catchhimself and continues He elicits
more cheers from the audience by
breaking down with a few robot
dance moves He ends his routine
with a flurry of spin moves He
comes to a halt and then puts his
hands back in his pockets
Buchanan doesnrsquot win his event
mdash the menrsquos open singles mdash but
he does finish second His inspi-
ration mdash Fernandez mdash places
fourth at the Sochi Olympics the
same day he competes in Toronto
Buchanan doesnrsquot stick around
to watch the awards presenta-
tion because he has work mdash his
sister accepts his medal for him
ldquoYou never know what to ex-
pect I didnrsquot watch everyone else
skaterdquo He pauses ldquoSecond place
is alrightrdquo
PHOTOS FARNIA FEKRI
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10 Wednesday March 5 2014BIZ amp TECH
A studentrsquos guide to filing your taxesByPamelaJohnston
trsquos that time of year again Gatherour receipts employment and ed-
ucation records because itrsquos time to
file your tax returns Donrsquot worry
he Eyeopener has everything you
need to know about claiming your
xpenses If after reading this you
till find the whole concept of a
ax return too hard to grasp you
an go to the tax clinics organized
by the Ryerson Studentsrsquo Union
(RSU) They are held throughout
March up until April 3 Members
of the RSU and Continuing Educa-
tion Studentsrsquo Association of Ryer-
son (CESAR) can use Ufileca to filetheir taxes
Remember the deadline to file
individual returns to the Canada
Revenue Agency (CRA) is April
30 If you file late you will be fined
five per cent of what you owe from
2013 and one per cent of that bal-
ance for each late month So get off
your ass and git lsquoer done
ILLUSTRATION BY JESS TSANG
THIS WEEK AT THE MAC
MATTAMYAC
HOME OF THE
GO TO MATTAMYATHLETICCENTRECA FOR EVENT DETAILS
APRIL 3 2014 1230PM amp 600PM
TICKET PRICES
FLOOR SEATS - $30 STANDS - $20
(Before applicable service charges)
ON SALE NOW
MARCH 28 2014 700PM
DOORS OPEN AT 630PM
bull Performances by Ryerson Students
bull Semi Formal
ON SALE NOW
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11Wednesday March 5 2014 COMMUNITIES
The gift that keeps on givingGifts for Strangers an initiative created by Ryerson business student Cole Banning goes global
By Mikaila Kukurudza
Banningrsquos organization Improv in Toronto hosts regular events within the Toronto communityPHOTO MIKAILA KUKURUDZA
econd-year Ryerson business stu-
dent Cole Banning has mastered
he art of making strangers smile If
oursquove ever been given a wrapped
box containing a handmade gift
by a stranger on the street in To-
onto therersquos a good chance the
2-year-old had something to do
with it
Banning founded Improv in
Toronto a group that organizes
vents across the city when he was
senior in high school He has since
xpanded on the organization and
reated different projects mdash Gifts
or Strangers is the most recogniz-ble The project is exactly what
t sounds like Around the holiday
eason Banning and his team hand
out gifts to people on the street
ldquoTo be approached by a ran-
dom stranger and given a gift
might brighten [someonersquos] dayrdquo
Banning said ldquoYou hope that
ou made that difference which
s strange to say because all wersquore
doing is fooling around and hav-
ng funrdquo
Gifts for Strangers began three
ears ago and has been growing in
popularity since This year 33 cit-
es in over 23 countries participat-
ed in the event Banningrsquos concept
was inspired by a group in New
York City called Improv Every-
where which conducts similar ur-
ban art projects and experiments
But Gifts for Strangers isnrsquot the
only project Improv in Toronto
has undertaken Banning and his
team of 20 plan sporadic commu-
nity projects on a regular basis In
the past these events have includ-
ed pantless subway trips umbrella
taxi services to escort pedestrians
through the rain and pillow fights
at Yonge-Dundas Square
The goal is to bring strangers to-
gether through unexpected inter-
active events and add spice to the
day-to-day lives of Torontonians
ldquoI think people going through
their lives put up a wall Itrsquos nice
to break the boundaryrdquo Banning
saidImprov in Toronto has held over
50 free family-friendly events
around Toronto over the past six
years The group also has a You-
Tube channel with over 25 000
subscribers (some videos have over
5 million views)
ldquoIt just blew up I wasnrsquot pre-
pared or readyrdquo Banning said
Things really took off after an
overwhelming turnout at Improv
in Torontorsquos second event mdash a
large-scale Wherersquos Waldo hunt
in the Eaton Centre The event re-
sulted in Banning being escorted
out of his hiding place by mall se-curity due to the overcrowding he
had created with his Waldo hunt
Banning credits the success of
his organization to social media
and his goal to fill a strangerrsquos day
with a little laughter He believes
that by creating an inclusive com-
munity and bringing strangers to-
gether the seriousness of everyday
routines can be mitigated
ldquoItrsquos nice to be taken away from
the stress of life even if itrsquos just for
a minuterdquo Banning said
For students hoping to get in-
volved Banning suggests ldquodonat-
ing your time not moneyrdquo
Constructing communities
ByOliviaMcLeod
Architecture students build a community shelter in Newfoundland
A group of six Ryerson architec-
ure students were chosen to par-
icipate in a unique and unifying
project over reading week The
roup travelled to Botwood NLo create a structure for the townrsquos
heritage park at a Second World
War airplane base
The build was initiated through
Culture of Outports mdash a project
ssociated with ERA Architects
n Toronto For the past four
ears they have annually trav-
lled around Newfoundland to
onserve cultural heritage through
rchitecture Three of these devel-
opments have been with Ryerson
ldquoI think our partnership [with
Ryerson] works really well be-
ause there is that opportunity to
work here together in Toronto and
do work and planning before we
o out together to the east coastrdquo
Alana Young project coordinator
aid
The structure itself sits on the
foundation of an old weather sta-
tion on a pathway to Killick Island
mdash Botwoodrsquos prime tourist spot
and nature trail
ldquoThe continued story heard
from people was they wanted to
see something on that roadway
going to the islandrdquo said Scott
Sceviour deputy mayor of Bot-
wood ldquoWe had some benchesthere for rest areas but people
wanted to see something there so
thatrsquos where [the idea] was bornrdquo
The structure is essentially
a wooden-planked box with a
sloped roof There are rectangu-
lar cutouts in the walls that align
with historic plane crash sights
in the surrounding area Because
of this Young calls it the ldquoview-
finderrdquo
Typically a project like this
would take two weeks to finish
but because of the studentsrsquo sched-
ules it became a ldquocompressed
eight-day adventurerdquo
ldquoEverybody was just great and
supportive Itrsquos almost like you ask
everyone to suspend their disbelief
for a few days and just kind of get
on this rollercoaster with you and
see where it goesrdquo Young said
Without the community Young
said the project wouldnrsquot exist Be-
cause of very cold weather condi-
tions the entire structure had to be
built inside of the townrsquos fire hall
and then transported by trucks to
the site They provided the tools
experienced labour and even the
teamrsquos meals along with endlesssupport hospitality and help
Students said the experience of
bringing a design to life is like no
other experience theyrsquove had so
far
ldquoActually getting to build it and
[getting] a community involved
and [having] real feedback from
people who are going to use the
space is really valuablerdquo Kate
Gonashvili a fourth-year architec-
ture student said
Young said because of this proj-
ectrsquos success they are going to
continue working with Botwood
in the future
ldquoWe have ideas as far as nextsteps and what they can do and
theyrsquore really engaged so thatrsquos ex-
actly the kind of community you
want to work withrdquoRyerson students spent eight days building this structure in Newfoundland
PHOTOS COURTESY ALANA YOUNG
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12 Wednesday March 5 2014ARTS amp LIFE
Need a job Stop surfing and start walking
When Parth Patel was in his firstew years of the engineering pro-
ram he found getting a summer
ob to be quite challenging
ldquoI applied to more than 60 or
70 jobsrdquo he said ldquoI [was] trying
o find work [in engineering] but
wasnrsquot able tordquo
The frustration of finding a
ummer job is something many
Looking for a summer job can be frustrating but relying on the Internet may be hurting you more than you know
students have experienced before
especially since the 2008 econom-
ic crisis when markets around theworld crashed Searching through
thousands of job listings online
perfecting your resumeacute and send-
ing it out can take hours
But if yoursquore hoping to score
that ideal job going back to the
basics is the way to go said Dan-
iel Kennedy a career consultant
at Ted Rogers School of Manage-
Since the 2008 economic crisis the job market has seen fierce competition mdash sepa-rating yourself from the rest is the first step in being noticed
PHOTOS FARNIA FEKRI
ment careers and employment
partnerships centre
ldquoIf you go into [the websites]Monster or Workopolis and you
type in lsquosummer jobsrsquo yoursquore going
to find job postingsrdquo he said ldquoThe
problem is there are about four mil-
lion other students across Canada
who are going to find those same
job postingsrdquo
It often comes down to doing
some old-fashioned scouting on the
ground Kennedy said adding that
proactively approaching employers
can make a bigger impression than
simply sending a resumeacute by email
ldquoWhat students should do if they
really want to make a go of it is to
look for companies that donrsquot havethe capacity to advertise for those
summer jobsrdquo he said ldquoIf you can
identify and find those companies
and approach them proactively
that will give you a much better
chancerdquo
Because finding a job can be so
difficult in Toronto many students
decide to go back to their home-
towns for the summer where the
competition is less fierce and jobs
are easier to come by
Laura Hamel a first-year perfor-
mance acting student said shersquoll be
moving back home for the summer
because of the cost of living in To-
rontoldquoIrsquom from Regina so Irsquoll be mov-
ing home to find a jobrdquo she said
ldquoItrsquos a lot cheaper to live at home
and I have a solid job at homerdquo
For Patel scoring a job came
with a visit to his sister in Calgary
one summer While he was there
he applied to only five or six jobs
and ended up getting a summer po-
sition that matched his field
The summer job market comes
down to basic supply and demand
Kennedy said
ldquoOn the supply side you have
basically a lot of students that are
looking for jobs during the sum-mer months and thatrsquos fine as long
as the demandrsquos thererdquo he said
ldquoThe demand really hasnrsquot been
there since 2008rdquo
Brennan Thompson undergrad-
uate program director in the school
of economics says that the reces-
sion of 2008 has brought everyone
down a notch when it comes to the
job market
ldquoThe guy who was working at
the auto assembly plant loses his
job and now hersquos taking the low-
paid job at Tim Hortonrsquosrdquo he said
ldquoNow the young person who used
to have that job at Tim Hortonrsquos
[doesnrsquot] have anythingrdquo
Kennedy says the market is start-
ing to bounce back But compared
to 10 years ago finding a summer
job is far more of a challenge Even
in a city as big as Toronto compe-
tition can be fierce because thereare so many students looking for
temporary employment
According to Kennedy even
if the job you end up with isnrsquot at
all related to your field itrsquos still a
good idea to include it on your
resumeacute Employers look at how
your skills have evolved even if
the job you had was just bussing
tables The hard skills you gain
might not be related to your future
career but the soft skills mdashlike leadership skills problem-
solving abilities and customer ser-
vice experience mdash will come in
handy
ldquoNo one is expecting you to
graduate here and have four years
of senior project management ex-
periencerdquo he said
ldquoWhat they want to see is that
therersquos a progressionrdquo
By Leah Hansen
Ryerson graduate Peter Hill is performing at the ninth annual Toronto SketchComedy Festival as part of a duo called Beggarrsquos Canyon See the full article by AlexHeck at theeyeopenercom
PHOTO COURTESY TARA NOELLE
Laughing it up
Discuss the upcoming budget
All members of the Ryerson community are invited to
attend a town hall to discuss the development of the
universityrsquos budget for the 2014-15 academic year
Hosted by
SHELDON LEVY
president
MOHAMED LACHEMI
provost and vice president academic
PAUL STENTON
deputy provost and vice-provost university planning
TOWN HALL MEETING
Wednesday March 12 9 ndash 10 am
Architecture Building Room ARC ndash 108
Thursday March 20 230 ndash 330 pm
Library Building Room LIB ndash 72
President Levy is confirmed to attend the March 20 meeting
To submit questions in advance email provostryersonca
Please contact us if we need to make any accommodations to
ensure your inclusion in this meeting
Come to aRyersonCommunityTown Hall
8122019 The Eyeopener mdash March 5 2014
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13Wednesday March 5 2014 SPORTS
A puckinggood season
n the last 37 years Ryersonrsquos
menrsquos hockey team has never made
t past the semifinals
Even with a team that nearly
doubled last seasonrsquos 14-win per-
ormance the Rams fell prey to
his historical barrier on Feb 28
when a 5-1 semifinal loss to the
Lakehead University Thunder-
wolves ended their season
ldquoWe played an uphill battle all
nightrdquo Rams head coach Graham
Wise said ldquoThey unfortunatelygot on the board firstrdquo
In spite of the disappointing
oss this marked the Ramsrsquo best
performance in the last decade
But that success didnrsquot come
without a few major bumps along
he way Their high-powered start
o the season came to a screeching
halt due to a seven-day suspen-
ion they were handed for drink-
ng alcohol while on a team road
rip The Rams had to forfeit two
games during their suspension
but managed to come back strong
mdash ranking fourth in the Ontario
University Athletics (OUA) West
division by the seasonrsquos endldquoWersquove come a long way from
ighth place and I think we had a
eally good year for ourselvesrdquo sec-
ond-year forward Jamie Wise said
Coached by his father Graham
Wise Jamie achieved a career-
high 45 points mdash ranking him
hird in the Canadian Interuni-
versity Sports (CIS) His 21 goals
his season mdash compared to the
ight he scored last season mdash
made him the second-leading
corer in the country
By Devin Jones
amie Wise the Ramsrsquo leading scorer and second-ranked in the country on home ice
PHOTO FARNIA FEKRI
Fellow forward Dominic Alber-
ga also had a standout season
A third-line grinder from the
Ontario Hockey League (OHL)
Albergarsquos first-line rookie perfor-
mance for the Rams was anything
but expected
Alberga contributed 44 points
and 18 goals to the team He
achieved second place on the team
for goals scored and is nationally
ranked fourth in points mdash all in his
first year as a Ram
But as the menrsquos hockey team
celebrates new talent they alsosay goodbye to two of their key
players Both right-winger Dustin
Alcock and captain Andrew Buck
are graduating this year Buck
scored 90 goals in his 125-game
career with the Rams and wore
the captainrsquos patch for three of his
five years
ldquoItrsquos a surreal feeling and Irsquom
not really sure if itrsquos hit me yetrdquo
Buck said ldquoIrsquoll miss not going
to the rink every day and seeing
the guys but Irsquove had a great five
years so I canrsquot complainrdquo
The Rams are ranked fourth in
the OUA West division and made
their third-straight playoff appear-ance for the first time in history
The last time the Rams earned a
semifinal spot in the playoffs was
the 2009ndash10 season
The team will take some time off
before the coaching staff begins
the journey to next yearrsquos home
opener a process head coach Wise
said will begin with recruitment
ldquoRecruiting is ongoingrdquo he
said ldquoHopefully we can bring in
guys that will make the team bet-
ter and wersquoll go from thererdquo
History repeats itself for Rye hockey
The end of the menrsquos hockey season marks the end of all the Ramsrsquo seasons Go to theeyeopenercom fora cheat sheet on how they ended and which players were awarded OUA titles EyeSports theeyeopener
Celebrate the road to graduation as youbecome Ryerson alumni
March 5 POD upper Hub 1130 am ndash 130 pm
March 10 ENG 3rd floor 1130 am ndash 130 pm
March 12 TRSM 7th floor 1130 am ndash 130 pm
get involved bull get connected bull build your network
Alumni ExpoStudents Today Alumni Tomorrow
wwwryersoncaalumniexpoRyerson_Alumni | facebookcomrualumni | alumniexpo
Take the
Alumni Expo
Challenge
to win prizes
8122019 The Eyeopener mdash March 5 2014
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4 Wednesday March 5 2014FUN
Dedicated to Dan W
This week wersquore giving away a car Actually just $20 toTim Hortonrsquos Fill it out drop it off in the contest boxoutside of SCC 207 This is a raffle contest not a first-to-finish oneName Student Email Phone
Pugilisim of the StatePHOTO JESS TSANG
ILLUSTRATION DASHA ZOLOTA
Do you have a burning yearning to see something puggified by our residentdoge-drawer Dasha Zolota Send your suggestions to funtheeyeopenercom and your idea might end up on the illustrious Fun page
Cumming Soon Sin amp Vice
Now that our annual Love amp Sex issue is overand done with there has been a serious lackof cunning linguists in this paper Thatrsquos whereour new columnist comes in Her name is Lou-ise and shersquos ready to take your questionsabout what goes down (or doesnrsquot) beneaththe sheets Send us all the slippery sticky andsensual questions you have We promise topublish your questions anonymously and un-edited Nothing is too raunchy or embarrass-ing Send your inquiries to funtheeyeopenercom and Louise will answer in the next issue
W I N T I C K E T S t o s e e3 0 0 R I S E O F A N E M P I R E
B e o n e o f t h e f i r s t 1 5 s t a r t i n g a tn o o n M a r c h 5 t h t o w i n J u s t c o m e t o
t h e E y e o p e n e r - S C C 2 0 7
bull
This is NOT Louise
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16 Wednesday March 5 2014
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10 Wednesday March 5 2014BIZ amp TECH
A studentrsquos guide to filing your taxesByPamelaJohnston
trsquos that time of year again Gatherour receipts employment and ed-
ucation records because itrsquos time to
file your tax returns Donrsquot worry
he Eyeopener has everything you
need to know about claiming your
xpenses If after reading this you
till find the whole concept of a
ax return too hard to grasp you
an go to the tax clinics organized
by the Ryerson Studentsrsquo Union
(RSU) They are held throughout
March up until April 3 Members
of the RSU and Continuing Educa-
tion Studentsrsquo Association of Ryer-
son (CESAR) can use Ufileca to filetheir taxes
Remember the deadline to file
individual returns to the Canada
Revenue Agency (CRA) is April
30 If you file late you will be fined
five per cent of what you owe from
2013 and one per cent of that bal-
ance for each late month So get off
your ass and git lsquoer done
ILLUSTRATION BY JESS TSANG
THIS WEEK AT THE MAC
MATTAMYAC
HOME OF THE
GO TO MATTAMYATHLETICCENTRECA FOR EVENT DETAILS
APRIL 3 2014 1230PM amp 600PM
TICKET PRICES
FLOOR SEATS - $30 STANDS - $20
(Before applicable service charges)
ON SALE NOW
MARCH 28 2014 700PM
DOORS OPEN AT 630PM
bull Performances by Ryerson Students
bull Semi Formal
ON SALE NOW
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11Wednesday March 5 2014 COMMUNITIES
The gift that keeps on givingGifts for Strangers an initiative created by Ryerson business student Cole Banning goes global
By Mikaila Kukurudza
Banningrsquos organization Improv in Toronto hosts regular events within the Toronto communityPHOTO MIKAILA KUKURUDZA
econd-year Ryerson business stu-
dent Cole Banning has mastered
he art of making strangers smile If
oursquove ever been given a wrapped
box containing a handmade gift
by a stranger on the street in To-
onto therersquos a good chance the
2-year-old had something to do
with it
Banning founded Improv in
Toronto a group that organizes
vents across the city when he was
senior in high school He has since
xpanded on the organization and
reated different projects mdash Gifts
or Strangers is the most recogniz-ble The project is exactly what
t sounds like Around the holiday
eason Banning and his team hand
out gifts to people on the street
ldquoTo be approached by a ran-
dom stranger and given a gift
might brighten [someonersquos] dayrdquo
Banning said ldquoYou hope that
ou made that difference which
s strange to say because all wersquore
doing is fooling around and hav-
ng funrdquo
Gifts for Strangers began three
ears ago and has been growing in
popularity since This year 33 cit-
es in over 23 countries participat-
ed in the event Banningrsquos concept
was inspired by a group in New
York City called Improv Every-
where which conducts similar ur-
ban art projects and experiments
But Gifts for Strangers isnrsquot the
only project Improv in Toronto
has undertaken Banning and his
team of 20 plan sporadic commu-
nity projects on a regular basis In
the past these events have includ-
ed pantless subway trips umbrella
taxi services to escort pedestrians
through the rain and pillow fights
at Yonge-Dundas Square
The goal is to bring strangers to-
gether through unexpected inter-
active events and add spice to the
day-to-day lives of Torontonians
ldquoI think people going through
their lives put up a wall Itrsquos nice
to break the boundaryrdquo Banning
saidImprov in Toronto has held over
50 free family-friendly events
around Toronto over the past six
years The group also has a You-
Tube channel with over 25 000
subscribers (some videos have over
5 million views)
ldquoIt just blew up I wasnrsquot pre-
pared or readyrdquo Banning said
Things really took off after an
overwhelming turnout at Improv
in Torontorsquos second event mdash a
large-scale Wherersquos Waldo hunt
in the Eaton Centre The event re-
sulted in Banning being escorted
out of his hiding place by mall se-curity due to the overcrowding he
had created with his Waldo hunt
Banning credits the success of
his organization to social media
and his goal to fill a strangerrsquos day
with a little laughter He believes
that by creating an inclusive com-
munity and bringing strangers to-
gether the seriousness of everyday
routines can be mitigated
ldquoItrsquos nice to be taken away from
the stress of life even if itrsquos just for
a minuterdquo Banning said
For students hoping to get in-
volved Banning suggests ldquodonat-
ing your time not moneyrdquo
Constructing communities
ByOliviaMcLeod
Architecture students build a community shelter in Newfoundland
A group of six Ryerson architec-
ure students were chosen to par-
icipate in a unique and unifying
project over reading week The
roup travelled to Botwood NLo create a structure for the townrsquos
heritage park at a Second World
War airplane base
The build was initiated through
Culture of Outports mdash a project
ssociated with ERA Architects
n Toronto For the past four
ears they have annually trav-
lled around Newfoundland to
onserve cultural heritage through
rchitecture Three of these devel-
opments have been with Ryerson
ldquoI think our partnership [with
Ryerson] works really well be-
ause there is that opportunity to
work here together in Toronto and
do work and planning before we
o out together to the east coastrdquo
Alana Young project coordinator
aid
The structure itself sits on the
foundation of an old weather sta-
tion on a pathway to Killick Island
mdash Botwoodrsquos prime tourist spot
and nature trail
ldquoThe continued story heard
from people was they wanted to
see something on that roadway
going to the islandrdquo said Scott
Sceviour deputy mayor of Bot-
wood ldquoWe had some benchesthere for rest areas but people
wanted to see something there so
thatrsquos where [the idea] was bornrdquo
The structure is essentially
a wooden-planked box with a
sloped roof There are rectangu-
lar cutouts in the walls that align
with historic plane crash sights
in the surrounding area Because
of this Young calls it the ldquoview-
finderrdquo
Typically a project like this
would take two weeks to finish
but because of the studentsrsquo sched-
ules it became a ldquocompressed
eight-day adventurerdquo
ldquoEverybody was just great and
supportive Itrsquos almost like you ask
everyone to suspend their disbelief
for a few days and just kind of get
on this rollercoaster with you and
see where it goesrdquo Young said
Without the community Young
said the project wouldnrsquot exist Be-
cause of very cold weather condi-
tions the entire structure had to be
built inside of the townrsquos fire hall
and then transported by trucks to
the site They provided the tools
experienced labour and even the
teamrsquos meals along with endlesssupport hospitality and help
Students said the experience of
bringing a design to life is like no
other experience theyrsquove had so
far
ldquoActually getting to build it and
[getting] a community involved
and [having] real feedback from
people who are going to use the
space is really valuablerdquo Kate
Gonashvili a fourth-year architec-
ture student said
Young said because of this proj-
ectrsquos success they are going to
continue working with Botwood
in the future
ldquoWe have ideas as far as nextsteps and what they can do and
theyrsquore really engaged so thatrsquos ex-
actly the kind of community you
want to work withrdquoRyerson students spent eight days building this structure in Newfoundland
PHOTOS COURTESY ALANA YOUNG
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12 Wednesday March 5 2014ARTS amp LIFE
Need a job Stop surfing and start walking
When Parth Patel was in his firstew years of the engineering pro-
ram he found getting a summer
ob to be quite challenging
ldquoI applied to more than 60 or
70 jobsrdquo he said ldquoI [was] trying
o find work [in engineering] but
wasnrsquot able tordquo
The frustration of finding a
ummer job is something many
Looking for a summer job can be frustrating but relying on the Internet may be hurting you more than you know
students have experienced before
especially since the 2008 econom-
ic crisis when markets around theworld crashed Searching through
thousands of job listings online
perfecting your resumeacute and send-
ing it out can take hours
But if yoursquore hoping to score
that ideal job going back to the
basics is the way to go said Dan-
iel Kennedy a career consultant
at Ted Rogers School of Manage-
Since the 2008 economic crisis the job market has seen fierce competition mdash sepa-rating yourself from the rest is the first step in being noticed
PHOTOS FARNIA FEKRI
ment careers and employment
partnerships centre
ldquoIf you go into [the websites]Monster or Workopolis and you
type in lsquosummer jobsrsquo yoursquore going
to find job postingsrdquo he said ldquoThe
problem is there are about four mil-
lion other students across Canada
who are going to find those same
job postingsrdquo
It often comes down to doing
some old-fashioned scouting on the
ground Kennedy said adding that
proactively approaching employers
can make a bigger impression than
simply sending a resumeacute by email
ldquoWhat students should do if they
really want to make a go of it is to
look for companies that donrsquot havethe capacity to advertise for those
summer jobsrdquo he said ldquoIf you can
identify and find those companies
and approach them proactively
that will give you a much better
chancerdquo
Because finding a job can be so
difficult in Toronto many students
decide to go back to their home-
towns for the summer where the
competition is less fierce and jobs
are easier to come by
Laura Hamel a first-year perfor-
mance acting student said shersquoll be
moving back home for the summer
because of the cost of living in To-
rontoldquoIrsquom from Regina so Irsquoll be mov-
ing home to find a jobrdquo she said
ldquoItrsquos a lot cheaper to live at home
and I have a solid job at homerdquo
For Patel scoring a job came
with a visit to his sister in Calgary
one summer While he was there
he applied to only five or six jobs
and ended up getting a summer po-
sition that matched his field
The summer job market comes
down to basic supply and demand
Kennedy said
ldquoOn the supply side you have
basically a lot of students that are
looking for jobs during the sum-mer months and thatrsquos fine as long
as the demandrsquos thererdquo he said
ldquoThe demand really hasnrsquot been
there since 2008rdquo
Brennan Thompson undergrad-
uate program director in the school
of economics says that the reces-
sion of 2008 has brought everyone
down a notch when it comes to the
job market
ldquoThe guy who was working at
the auto assembly plant loses his
job and now hersquos taking the low-
paid job at Tim Hortonrsquosrdquo he said
ldquoNow the young person who used
to have that job at Tim Hortonrsquos
[doesnrsquot] have anythingrdquo
Kennedy says the market is start-
ing to bounce back But compared
to 10 years ago finding a summer
job is far more of a challenge Even
in a city as big as Toronto compe-
tition can be fierce because thereare so many students looking for
temporary employment
According to Kennedy even
if the job you end up with isnrsquot at
all related to your field itrsquos still a
good idea to include it on your
resumeacute Employers look at how
your skills have evolved even if
the job you had was just bussing
tables The hard skills you gain
might not be related to your future
career but the soft skills mdashlike leadership skills problem-
solving abilities and customer ser-
vice experience mdash will come in
handy
ldquoNo one is expecting you to
graduate here and have four years
of senior project management ex-
periencerdquo he said
ldquoWhat they want to see is that
therersquos a progressionrdquo
By Leah Hansen
Ryerson graduate Peter Hill is performing at the ninth annual Toronto SketchComedy Festival as part of a duo called Beggarrsquos Canyon See the full article by AlexHeck at theeyeopenercom
PHOTO COURTESY TARA NOELLE
Laughing it up
Discuss the upcoming budget
All members of the Ryerson community are invited to
attend a town hall to discuss the development of the
universityrsquos budget for the 2014-15 academic year
Hosted by
SHELDON LEVY
president
MOHAMED LACHEMI
provost and vice president academic
PAUL STENTON
deputy provost and vice-provost university planning
TOWN HALL MEETING
Wednesday March 12 9 ndash 10 am
Architecture Building Room ARC ndash 108
Thursday March 20 230 ndash 330 pm
Library Building Room LIB ndash 72
President Levy is confirmed to attend the March 20 meeting
To submit questions in advance email provostryersonca
Please contact us if we need to make any accommodations to
ensure your inclusion in this meeting
Come to aRyersonCommunityTown Hall
8122019 The Eyeopener mdash March 5 2014
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullthe-eyeopener-march-5-2014 1316
13Wednesday March 5 2014 SPORTS
A puckinggood season
n the last 37 years Ryersonrsquos
menrsquos hockey team has never made
t past the semifinals
Even with a team that nearly
doubled last seasonrsquos 14-win per-
ormance the Rams fell prey to
his historical barrier on Feb 28
when a 5-1 semifinal loss to the
Lakehead University Thunder-
wolves ended their season
ldquoWe played an uphill battle all
nightrdquo Rams head coach Graham
Wise said ldquoThey unfortunatelygot on the board firstrdquo
In spite of the disappointing
oss this marked the Ramsrsquo best
performance in the last decade
But that success didnrsquot come
without a few major bumps along
he way Their high-powered start
o the season came to a screeching
halt due to a seven-day suspen-
ion they were handed for drink-
ng alcohol while on a team road
rip The Rams had to forfeit two
games during their suspension
but managed to come back strong
mdash ranking fourth in the Ontario
University Athletics (OUA) West
division by the seasonrsquos endldquoWersquove come a long way from
ighth place and I think we had a
eally good year for ourselvesrdquo sec-
ond-year forward Jamie Wise said
Coached by his father Graham
Wise Jamie achieved a career-
high 45 points mdash ranking him
hird in the Canadian Interuni-
versity Sports (CIS) His 21 goals
his season mdash compared to the
ight he scored last season mdash
made him the second-leading
corer in the country
By Devin Jones
amie Wise the Ramsrsquo leading scorer and second-ranked in the country on home ice
PHOTO FARNIA FEKRI
Fellow forward Dominic Alber-
ga also had a standout season
A third-line grinder from the
Ontario Hockey League (OHL)
Albergarsquos first-line rookie perfor-
mance for the Rams was anything
but expected
Alberga contributed 44 points
and 18 goals to the team He
achieved second place on the team
for goals scored and is nationally
ranked fourth in points mdash all in his
first year as a Ram
But as the menrsquos hockey team
celebrates new talent they alsosay goodbye to two of their key
players Both right-winger Dustin
Alcock and captain Andrew Buck
are graduating this year Buck
scored 90 goals in his 125-game
career with the Rams and wore
the captainrsquos patch for three of his
five years
ldquoItrsquos a surreal feeling and Irsquom
not really sure if itrsquos hit me yetrdquo
Buck said ldquoIrsquoll miss not going
to the rink every day and seeing
the guys but Irsquove had a great five
years so I canrsquot complainrdquo
The Rams are ranked fourth in
the OUA West division and made
their third-straight playoff appear-ance for the first time in history
The last time the Rams earned a
semifinal spot in the playoffs was
the 2009ndash10 season
The team will take some time off
before the coaching staff begins
the journey to next yearrsquos home
opener a process head coach Wise
said will begin with recruitment
ldquoRecruiting is ongoingrdquo he
said ldquoHopefully we can bring in
guys that will make the team bet-
ter and wersquoll go from thererdquo
History repeats itself for Rye hockey
The end of the menrsquos hockey season marks the end of all the Ramsrsquo seasons Go to theeyeopenercom fora cheat sheet on how they ended and which players were awarded OUA titles EyeSports theeyeopener
Celebrate the road to graduation as youbecome Ryerson alumni
March 5 POD upper Hub 1130 am ndash 130 pm
March 10 ENG 3rd floor 1130 am ndash 130 pm
March 12 TRSM 7th floor 1130 am ndash 130 pm
get involved bull get connected bull build your network
Alumni ExpoStudents Today Alumni Tomorrow
wwwryersoncaalumniexpoRyerson_Alumni | facebookcomrualumni | alumniexpo
Take the
Alumni Expo
Challenge
to win prizes
8122019 The Eyeopener mdash March 5 2014
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullthe-eyeopener-march-5-2014 1416
4 Wednesday March 5 2014FUN
Dedicated to Dan W
This week wersquore giving away a car Actually just $20 toTim Hortonrsquos Fill it out drop it off in the contest boxoutside of SCC 207 This is a raffle contest not a first-to-finish oneName Student Email Phone
Pugilisim of the StatePHOTO JESS TSANG
ILLUSTRATION DASHA ZOLOTA
Do you have a burning yearning to see something puggified by our residentdoge-drawer Dasha Zolota Send your suggestions to funtheeyeopenercom and your idea might end up on the illustrious Fun page
Cumming Soon Sin amp Vice
Now that our annual Love amp Sex issue is overand done with there has been a serious lackof cunning linguists in this paper Thatrsquos whereour new columnist comes in Her name is Lou-ise and shersquos ready to take your questionsabout what goes down (or doesnrsquot) beneaththe sheets Send us all the slippery sticky andsensual questions you have We promise topublish your questions anonymously and un-edited Nothing is too raunchy or embarrass-ing Send your inquiries to funtheeyeopenercom and Louise will answer in the next issue
W I N T I C K E T S t o s e e3 0 0 R I S E O F A N E M P I R E
B e o n e o f t h e f i r s t 1 5 s t a r t i n g a tn o o n M a r c h 5 t h t o w i n J u s t c o m e t o
t h e E y e o p e n e r - S C C 2 0 7
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This is NOT Louise
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11Wednesday March 5 2014 COMMUNITIES
The gift that keeps on givingGifts for Strangers an initiative created by Ryerson business student Cole Banning goes global
By Mikaila Kukurudza
Banningrsquos organization Improv in Toronto hosts regular events within the Toronto communityPHOTO MIKAILA KUKURUDZA
econd-year Ryerson business stu-
dent Cole Banning has mastered
he art of making strangers smile If
oursquove ever been given a wrapped
box containing a handmade gift
by a stranger on the street in To-
onto therersquos a good chance the
2-year-old had something to do
with it
Banning founded Improv in
Toronto a group that organizes
vents across the city when he was
senior in high school He has since
xpanded on the organization and
reated different projects mdash Gifts
or Strangers is the most recogniz-ble The project is exactly what
t sounds like Around the holiday
eason Banning and his team hand
out gifts to people on the street
ldquoTo be approached by a ran-
dom stranger and given a gift
might brighten [someonersquos] dayrdquo
Banning said ldquoYou hope that
ou made that difference which
s strange to say because all wersquore
doing is fooling around and hav-
ng funrdquo
Gifts for Strangers began three
ears ago and has been growing in
popularity since This year 33 cit-
es in over 23 countries participat-
ed in the event Banningrsquos concept
was inspired by a group in New
York City called Improv Every-
where which conducts similar ur-
ban art projects and experiments
But Gifts for Strangers isnrsquot the
only project Improv in Toronto
has undertaken Banning and his
team of 20 plan sporadic commu-
nity projects on a regular basis In
the past these events have includ-
ed pantless subway trips umbrella
taxi services to escort pedestrians
through the rain and pillow fights
at Yonge-Dundas Square
The goal is to bring strangers to-
gether through unexpected inter-
active events and add spice to the
day-to-day lives of Torontonians
ldquoI think people going through
their lives put up a wall Itrsquos nice
to break the boundaryrdquo Banning
saidImprov in Toronto has held over
50 free family-friendly events
around Toronto over the past six
years The group also has a You-
Tube channel with over 25 000
subscribers (some videos have over
5 million views)
ldquoIt just blew up I wasnrsquot pre-
pared or readyrdquo Banning said
Things really took off after an
overwhelming turnout at Improv
in Torontorsquos second event mdash a
large-scale Wherersquos Waldo hunt
in the Eaton Centre The event re-
sulted in Banning being escorted
out of his hiding place by mall se-curity due to the overcrowding he
had created with his Waldo hunt
Banning credits the success of
his organization to social media
and his goal to fill a strangerrsquos day
with a little laughter He believes
that by creating an inclusive com-
munity and bringing strangers to-
gether the seriousness of everyday
routines can be mitigated
ldquoItrsquos nice to be taken away from
the stress of life even if itrsquos just for
a minuterdquo Banning said
For students hoping to get in-
volved Banning suggests ldquodonat-
ing your time not moneyrdquo
Constructing communities
ByOliviaMcLeod
Architecture students build a community shelter in Newfoundland
A group of six Ryerson architec-
ure students were chosen to par-
icipate in a unique and unifying
project over reading week The
roup travelled to Botwood NLo create a structure for the townrsquos
heritage park at a Second World
War airplane base
The build was initiated through
Culture of Outports mdash a project
ssociated with ERA Architects
n Toronto For the past four
ears they have annually trav-
lled around Newfoundland to
onserve cultural heritage through
rchitecture Three of these devel-
opments have been with Ryerson
ldquoI think our partnership [with
Ryerson] works really well be-
ause there is that opportunity to
work here together in Toronto and
do work and planning before we
o out together to the east coastrdquo
Alana Young project coordinator
aid
The structure itself sits on the
foundation of an old weather sta-
tion on a pathway to Killick Island
mdash Botwoodrsquos prime tourist spot
and nature trail
ldquoThe continued story heard
from people was they wanted to
see something on that roadway
going to the islandrdquo said Scott
Sceviour deputy mayor of Bot-
wood ldquoWe had some benchesthere for rest areas but people
wanted to see something there so
thatrsquos where [the idea] was bornrdquo
The structure is essentially
a wooden-planked box with a
sloped roof There are rectangu-
lar cutouts in the walls that align
with historic plane crash sights
in the surrounding area Because
of this Young calls it the ldquoview-
finderrdquo
Typically a project like this
would take two weeks to finish
but because of the studentsrsquo sched-
ules it became a ldquocompressed
eight-day adventurerdquo
ldquoEverybody was just great and
supportive Itrsquos almost like you ask
everyone to suspend their disbelief
for a few days and just kind of get
on this rollercoaster with you and
see where it goesrdquo Young said
Without the community Young
said the project wouldnrsquot exist Be-
cause of very cold weather condi-
tions the entire structure had to be
built inside of the townrsquos fire hall
and then transported by trucks to
the site They provided the tools
experienced labour and even the
teamrsquos meals along with endlesssupport hospitality and help
Students said the experience of
bringing a design to life is like no
other experience theyrsquove had so
far
ldquoActually getting to build it and
[getting] a community involved
and [having] real feedback from
people who are going to use the
space is really valuablerdquo Kate
Gonashvili a fourth-year architec-
ture student said
Young said because of this proj-
ectrsquos success they are going to
continue working with Botwood
in the future
ldquoWe have ideas as far as nextsteps and what they can do and
theyrsquore really engaged so thatrsquos ex-
actly the kind of community you
want to work withrdquoRyerson students spent eight days building this structure in Newfoundland
PHOTOS COURTESY ALANA YOUNG
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12 Wednesday March 5 2014ARTS amp LIFE
Need a job Stop surfing and start walking
When Parth Patel was in his firstew years of the engineering pro-
ram he found getting a summer
ob to be quite challenging
ldquoI applied to more than 60 or
70 jobsrdquo he said ldquoI [was] trying
o find work [in engineering] but
wasnrsquot able tordquo
The frustration of finding a
ummer job is something many
Looking for a summer job can be frustrating but relying on the Internet may be hurting you more than you know
students have experienced before
especially since the 2008 econom-
ic crisis when markets around theworld crashed Searching through
thousands of job listings online
perfecting your resumeacute and send-
ing it out can take hours
But if yoursquore hoping to score
that ideal job going back to the
basics is the way to go said Dan-
iel Kennedy a career consultant
at Ted Rogers School of Manage-
Since the 2008 economic crisis the job market has seen fierce competition mdash sepa-rating yourself from the rest is the first step in being noticed
PHOTOS FARNIA FEKRI
ment careers and employment
partnerships centre
ldquoIf you go into [the websites]Monster or Workopolis and you
type in lsquosummer jobsrsquo yoursquore going
to find job postingsrdquo he said ldquoThe
problem is there are about four mil-
lion other students across Canada
who are going to find those same
job postingsrdquo
It often comes down to doing
some old-fashioned scouting on the
ground Kennedy said adding that
proactively approaching employers
can make a bigger impression than
simply sending a resumeacute by email
ldquoWhat students should do if they
really want to make a go of it is to
look for companies that donrsquot havethe capacity to advertise for those
summer jobsrdquo he said ldquoIf you can
identify and find those companies
and approach them proactively
that will give you a much better
chancerdquo
Because finding a job can be so
difficult in Toronto many students
decide to go back to their home-
towns for the summer where the
competition is less fierce and jobs
are easier to come by
Laura Hamel a first-year perfor-
mance acting student said shersquoll be
moving back home for the summer
because of the cost of living in To-
rontoldquoIrsquom from Regina so Irsquoll be mov-
ing home to find a jobrdquo she said
ldquoItrsquos a lot cheaper to live at home
and I have a solid job at homerdquo
For Patel scoring a job came
with a visit to his sister in Calgary
one summer While he was there
he applied to only five or six jobs
and ended up getting a summer po-
sition that matched his field
The summer job market comes
down to basic supply and demand
Kennedy said
ldquoOn the supply side you have
basically a lot of students that are
looking for jobs during the sum-mer months and thatrsquos fine as long
as the demandrsquos thererdquo he said
ldquoThe demand really hasnrsquot been
there since 2008rdquo
Brennan Thompson undergrad-
uate program director in the school
of economics says that the reces-
sion of 2008 has brought everyone
down a notch when it comes to the
job market
ldquoThe guy who was working at
the auto assembly plant loses his
job and now hersquos taking the low-
paid job at Tim Hortonrsquosrdquo he said
ldquoNow the young person who used
to have that job at Tim Hortonrsquos
[doesnrsquot] have anythingrdquo
Kennedy says the market is start-
ing to bounce back But compared
to 10 years ago finding a summer
job is far more of a challenge Even
in a city as big as Toronto compe-
tition can be fierce because thereare so many students looking for
temporary employment
According to Kennedy even
if the job you end up with isnrsquot at
all related to your field itrsquos still a
good idea to include it on your
resumeacute Employers look at how
your skills have evolved even if
the job you had was just bussing
tables The hard skills you gain
might not be related to your future
career but the soft skills mdashlike leadership skills problem-
solving abilities and customer ser-
vice experience mdash will come in
handy
ldquoNo one is expecting you to
graduate here and have four years
of senior project management ex-
periencerdquo he said
ldquoWhat they want to see is that
therersquos a progressionrdquo
By Leah Hansen
Ryerson graduate Peter Hill is performing at the ninth annual Toronto SketchComedy Festival as part of a duo called Beggarrsquos Canyon See the full article by AlexHeck at theeyeopenercom
PHOTO COURTESY TARA NOELLE
Laughing it up
Discuss the upcoming budget
All members of the Ryerson community are invited to
attend a town hall to discuss the development of the
universityrsquos budget for the 2014-15 academic year
Hosted by
SHELDON LEVY
president
MOHAMED LACHEMI
provost and vice president academic
PAUL STENTON
deputy provost and vice-provost university planning
TOWN HALL MEETING
Wednesday March 12 9 ndash 10 am
Architecture Building Room ARC ndash 108
Thursday March 20 230 ndash 330 pm
Library Building Room LIB ndash 72
President Levy is confirmed to attend the March 20 meeting
To submit questions in advance email provostryersonca
Please contact us if we need to make any accommodations to
ensure your inclusion in this meeting
Come to aRyersonCommunityTown Hall
8122019 The Eyeopener mdash March 5 2014
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13Wednesday March 5 2014 SPORTS
A puckinggood season
n the last 37 years Ryersonrsquos
menrsquos hockey team has never made
t past the semifinals
Even with a team that nearly
doubled last seasonrsquos 14-win per-
ormance the Rams fell prey to
his historical barrier on Feb 28
when a 5-1 semifinal loss to the
Lakehead University Thunder-
wolves ended their season
ldquoWe played an uphill battle all
nightrdquo Rams head coach Graham
Wise said ldquoThey unfortunatelygot on the board firstrdquo
In spite of the disappointing
oss this marked the Ramsrsquo best
performance in the last decade
But that success didnrsquot come
without a few major bumps along
he way Their high-powered start
o the season came to a screeching
halt due to a seven-day suspen-
ion they were handed for drink-
ng alcohol while on a team road
rip The Rams had to forfeit two
games during their suspension
but managed to come back strong
mdash ranking fourth in the Ontario
University Athletics (OUA) West
division by the seasonrsquos endldquoWersquove come a long way from
ighth place and I think we had a
eally good year for ourselvesrdquo sec-
ond-year forward Jamie Wise said
Coached by his father Graham
Wise Jamie achieved a career-
high 45 points mdash ranking him
hird in the Canadian Interuni-
versity Sports (CIS) His 21 goals
his season mdash compared to the
ight he scored last season mdash
made him the second-leading
corer in the country
By Devin Jones
amie Wise the Ramsrsquo leading scorer and second-ranked in the country on home ice
PHOTO FARNIA FEKRI
Fellow forward Dominic Alber-
ga also had a standout season
A third-line grinder from the
Ontario Hockey League (OHL)
Albergarsquos first-line rookie perfor-
mance for the Rams was anything
but expected
Alberga contributed 44 points
and 18 goals to the team He
achieved second place on the team
for goals scored and is nationally
ranked fourth in points mdash all in his
first year as a Ram
But as the menrsquos hockey team
celebrates new talent they alsosay goodbye to two of their key
players Both right-winger Dustin
Alcock and captain Andrew Buck
are graduating this year Buck
scored 90 goals in his 125-game
career with the Rams and wore
the captainrsquos patch for three of his
five years
ldquoItrsquos a surreal feeling and Irsquom
not really sure if itrsquos hit me yetrdquo
Buck said ldquoIrsquoll miss not going
to the rink every day and seeing
the guys but Irsquove had a great five
years so I canrsquot complainrdquo
The Rams are ranked fourth in
the OUA West division and made
their third-straight playoff appear-ance for the first time in history
The last time the Rams earned a
semifinal spot in the playoffs was
the 2009ndash10 season
The team will take some time off
before the coaching staff begins
the journey to next yearrsquos home
opener a process head coach Wise
said will begin with recruitment
ldquoRecruiting is ongoingrdquo he
said ldquoHopefully we can bring in
guys that will make the team bet-
ter and wersquoll go from thererdquo
History repeats itself for Rye hockey
The end of the menrsquos hockey season marks the end of all the Ramsrsquo seasons Go to theeyeopenercom fora cheat sheet on how they ended and which players were awarded OUA titles EyeSports theeyeopener
Celebrate the road to graduation as youbecome Ryerson alumni
March 5 POD upper Hub 1130 am ndash 130 pm
March 10 ENG 3rd floor 1130 am ndash 130 pm
March 12 TRSM 7th floor 1130 am ndash 130 pm
get involved bull get connected bull build your network
Alumni ExpoStudents Today Alumni Tomorrow
wwwryersoncaalumniexpoRyerson_Alumni | facebookcomrualumni | alumniexpo
Take the
Alumni Expo
Challenge
to win prizes
8122019 The Eyeopener mdash March 5 2014
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4 Wednesday March 5 2014FUN
Dedicated to Dan W
This week wersquore giving away a car Actually just $20 toTim Hortonrsquos Fill it out drop it off in the contest boxoutside of SCC 207 This is a raffle contest not a first-to-finish oneName Student Email Phone
Pugilisim of the StatePHOTO JESS TSANG
ILLUSTRATION DASHA ZOLOTA
Do you have a burning yearning to see something puggified by our residentdoge-drawer Dasha Zolota Send your suggestions to funtheeyeopenercom and your idea might end up on the illustrious Fun page
Cumming Soon Sin amp Vice
Now that our annual Love amp Sex issue is overand done with there has been a serious lackof cunning linguists in this paper Thatrsquos whereour new columnist comes in Her name is Lou-ise and shersquos ready to take your questionsabout what goes down (or doesnrsquot) beneaththe sheets Send us all the slippery sticky andsensual questions you have We promise topublish your questions anonymously and un-edited Nothing is too raunchy or embarrass-ing Send your inquiries to funtheeyeopenercom and Louise will answer in the next issue
W I N T I C K E T S t o s e e3 0 0 R I S E O F A N E M P I R E
B e o n e o f t h e f i r s t 1 5 s t a r t i n g a tn o o n M a r c h 5 t h t o w i n J u s t c o m e t o
t h e E y e o p e n e r - S C C 2 0 7
bull
This is NOT Louise
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16 Wednesday March 5 2014
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12 Wednesday March 5 2014ARTS amp LIFE
Need a job Stop surfing and start walking
When Parth Patel was in his firstew years of the engineering pro-
ram he found getting a summer
ob to be quite challenging
ldquoI applied to more than 60 or
70 jobsrdquo he said ldquoI [was] trying
o find work [in engineering] but
wasnrsquot able tordquo
The frustration of finding a
ummer job is something many
Looking for a summer job can be frustrating but relying on the Internet may be hurting you more than you know
students have experienced before
especially since the 2008 econom-
ic crisis when markets around theworld crashed Searching through
thousands of job listings online
perfecting your resumeacute and send-
ing it out can take hours
But if yoursquore hoping to score
that ideal job going back to the
basics is the way to go said Dan-
iel Kennedy a career consultant
at Ted Rogers School of Manage-
Since the 2008 economic crisis the job market has seen fierce competition mdash sepa-rating yourself from the rest is the first step in being noticed
PHOTOS FARNIA FEKRI
ment careers and employment
partnerships centre
ldquoIf you go into [the websites]Monster or Workopolis and you
type in lsquosummer jobsrsquo yoursquore going
to find job postingsrdquo he said ldquoThe
problem is there are about four mil-
lion other students across Canada
who are going to find those same
job postingsrdquo
It often comes down to doing
some old-fashioned scouting on the
ground Kennedy said adding that
proactively approaching employers
can make a bigger impression than
simply sending a resumeacute by email
ldquoWhat students should do if they
really want to make a go of it is to
look for companies that donrsquot havethe capacity to advertise for those
summer jobsrdquo he said ldquoIf you can
identify and find those companies
and approach them proactively
that will give you a much better
chancerdquo
Because finding a job can be so
difficult in Toronto many students
decide to go back to their home-
towns for the summer where the
competition is less fierce and jobs
are easier to come by
Laura Hamel a first-year perfor-
mance acting student said shersquoll be
moving back home for the summer
because of the cost of living in To-
rontoldquoIrsquom from Regina so Irsquoll be mov-
ing home to find a jobrdquo she said
ldquoItrsquos a lot cheaper to live at home
and I have a solid job at homerdquo
For Patel scoring a job came
with a visit to his sister in Calgary
one summer While he was there
he applied to only five or six jobs
and ended up getting a summer po-
sition that matched his field
The summer job market comes
down to basic supply and demand
Kennedy said
ldquoOn the supply side you have
basically a lot of students that are
looking for jobs during the sum-mer months and thatrsquos fine as long
as the demandrsquos thererdquo he said
ldquoThe demand really hasnrsquot been
there since 2008rdquo
Brennan Thompson undergrad-
uate program director in the school
of economics says that the reces-
sion of 2008 has brought everyone
down a notch when it comes to the
job market
ldquoThe guy who was working at
the auto assembly plant loses his
job and now hersquos taking the low-
paid job at Tim Hortonrsquosrdquo he said
ldquoNow the young person who used
to have that job at Tim Hortonrsquos
[doesnrsquot] have anythingrdquo
Kennedy says the market is start-
ing to bounce back But compared
to 10 years ago finding a summer
job is far more of a challenge Even
in a city as big as Toronto compe-
tition can be fierce because thereare so many students looking for
temporary employment
According to Kennedy even
if the job you end up with isnrsquot at
all related to your field itrsquos still a
good idea to include it on your
resumeacute Employers look at how
your skills have evolved even if
the job you had was just bussing
tables The hard skills you gain
might not be related to your future
career but the soft skills mdashlike leadership skills problem-
solving abilities and customer ser-
vice experience mdash will come in
handy
ldquoNo one is expecting you to
graduate here and have four years
of senior project management ex-
periencerdquo he said
ldquoWhat they want to see is that
therersquos a progressionrdquo
By Leah Hansen
Ryerson graduate Peter Hill is performing at the ninth annual Toronto SketchComedy Festival as part of a duo called Beggarrsquos Canyon See the full article by AlexHeck at theeyeopenercom
PHOTO COURTESY TARA NOELLE
Laughing it up
Discuss the upcoming budget
All members of the Ryerson community are invited to
attend a town hall to discuss the development of the
universityrsquos budget for the 2014-15 academic year
Hosted by
SHELDON LEVY
president
MOHAMED LACHEMI
provost and vice president academic
PAUL STENTON
deputy provost and vice-provost university planning
TOWN HALL MEETING
Wednesday March 12 9 ndash 10 am
Architecture Building Room ARC ndash 108
Thursday March 20 230 ndash 330 pm
Library Building Room LIB ndash 72
President Levy is confirmed to attend the March 20 meeting
To submit questions in advance email provostryersonca
Please contact us if we need to make any accommodations to
ensure your inclusion in this meeting
Come to aRyersonCommunityTown Hall
8122019 The Eyeopener mdash March 5 2014
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullthe-eyeopener-march-5-2014 1316
13Wednesday March 5 2014 SPORTS
A puckinggood season
n the last 37 years Ryersonrsquos
menrsquos hockey team has never made
t past the semifinals
Even with a team that nearly
doubled last seasonrsquos 14-win per-
ormance the Rams fell prey to
his historical barrier on Feb 28
when a 5-1 semifinal loss to the
Lakehead University Thunder-
wolves ended their season
ldquoWe played an uphill battle all
nightrdquo Rams head coach Graham
Wise said ldquoThey unfortunatelygot on the board firstrdquo
In spite of the disappointing
oss this marked the Ramsrsquo best
performance in the last decade
But that success didnrsquot come
without a few major bumps along
he way Their high-powered start
o the season came to a screeching
halt due to a seven-day suspen-
ion they were handed for drink-
ng alcohol while on a team road
rip The Rams had to forfeit two
games during their suspension
but managed to come back strong
mdash ranking fourth in the Ontario
University Athletics (OUA) West
division by the seasonrsquos endldquoWersquove come a long way from
ighth place and I think we had a
eally good year for ourselvesrdquo sec-
ond-year forward Jamie Wise said
Coached by his father Graham
Wise Jamie achieved a career-
high 45 points mdash ranking him
hird in the Canadian Interuni-
versity Sports (CIS) His 21 goals
his season mdash compared to the
ight he scored last season mdash
made him the second-leading
corer in the country
By Devin Jones
amie Wise the Ramsrsquo leading scorer and second-ranked in the country on home ice
PHOTO FARNIA FEKRI
Fellow forward Dominic Alber-
ga also had a standout season
A third-line grinder from the
Ontario Hockey League (OHL)
Albergarsquos first-line rookie perfor-
mance for the Rams was anything
but expected
Alberga contributed 44 points
and 18 goals to the team He
achieved second place on the team
for goals scored and is nationally
ranked fourth in points mdash all in his
first year as a Ram
But as the menrsquos hockey team
celebrates new talent they alsosay goodbye to two of their key
players Both right-winger Dustin
Alcock and captain Andrew Buck
are graduating this year Buck
scored 90 goals in his 125-game
career with the Rams and wore
the captainrsquos patch for three of his
five years
ldquoItrsquos a surreal feeling and Irsquom
not really sure if itrsquos hit me yetrdquo
Buck said ldquoIrsquoll miss not going
to the rink every day and seeing
the guys but Irsquove had a great five
years so I canrsquot complainrdquo
The Rams are ranked fourth in
the OUA West division and made
their third-straight playoff appear-ance for the first time in history
The last time the Rams earned a
semifinal spot in the playoffs was
the 2009ndash10 season
The team will take some time off
before the coaching staff begins
the journey to next yearrsquos home
opener a process head coach Wise
said will begin with recruitment
ldquoRecruiting is ongoingrdquo he
said ldquoHopefully we can bring in
guys that will make the team bet-
ter and wersquoll go from thererdquo
History repeats itself for Rye hockey
The end of the menrsquos hockey season marks the end of all the Ramsrsquo seasons Go to theeyeopenercom fora cheat sheet on how they ended and which players were awarded OUA titles EyeSports theeyeopener
Celebrate the road to graduation as youbecome Ryerson alumni
March 5 POD upper Hub 1130 am ndash 130 pm
March 10 ENG 3rd floor 1130 am ndash 130 pm
March 12 TRSM 7th floor 1130 am ndash 130 pm
get involved bull get connected bull build your network
Alumni ExpoStudents Today Alumni Tomorrow
wwwryersoncaalumniexpoRyerson_Alumni | facebookcomrualumni | alumniexpo
Take the
Alumni Expo
Challenge
to win prizes
8122019 The Eyeopener mdash March 5 2014
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullthe-eyeopener-march-5-2014 1416
4 Wednesday March 5 2014FUN
Dedicated to Dan W
This week wersquore giving away a car Actually just $20 toTim Hortonrsquos Fill it out drop it off in the contest boxoutside of SCC 207 This is a raffle contest not a first-to-finish oneName Student Email Phone
Pugilisim of the StatePHOTO JESS TSANG
ILLUSTRATION DASHA ZOLOTA
Do you have a burning yearning to see something puggified by our residentdoge-drawer Dasha Zolota Send your suggestions to funtheeyeopenercom and your idea might end up on the illustrious Fun page
Cumming Soon Sin amp Vice
Now that our annual Love amp Sex issue is overand done with there has been a serious lackof cunning linguists in this paper Thatrsquos whereour new columnist comes in Her name is Lou-ise and shersquos ready to take your questionsabout what goes down (or doesnrsquot) beneaththe sheets Send us all the slippery sticky andsensual questions you have We promise topublish your questions anonymously and un-edited Nothing is too raunchy or embarrass-ing Send your inquiries to funtheeyeopenercom and Louise will answer in the next issue
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This is NOT Louise
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A puckinggood season
n the last 37 years Ryersonrsquos
menrsquos hockey team has never made
t past the semifinals
Even with a team that nearly
doubled last seasonrsquos 14-win per-
ormance the Rams fell prey to
his historical barrier on Feb 28
when a 5-1 semifinal loss to the
Lakehead University Thunder-
wolves ended their season
ldquoWe played an uphill battle all
nightrdquo Rams head coach Graham
Wise said ldquoThey unfortunatelygot on the board firstrdquo
In spite of the disappointing
oss this marked the Ramsrsquo best
performance in the last decade
But that success didnrsquot come
without a few major bumps along
he way Their high-powered start
o the season came to a screeching
halt due to a seven-day suspen-
ion they were handed for drink-
ng alcohol while on a team road
rip The Rams had to forfeit two
games during their suspension
but managed to come back strong
mdash ranking fourth in the Ontario
University Athletics (OUA) West
division by the seasonrsquos endldquoWersquove come a long way from
ighth place and I think we had a
eally good year for ourselvesrdquo sec-
ond-year forward Jamie Wise said
Coached by his father Graham
Wise Jamie achieved a career-
high 45 points mdash ranking him
hird in the Canadian Interuni-
versity Sports (CIS) His 21 goals
his season mdash compared to the
ight he scored last season mdash
made him the second-leading
corer in the country
By Devin Jones
amie Wise the Ramsrsquo leading scorer and second-ranked in the country on home ice
PHOTO FARNIA FEKRI
Fellow forward Dominic Alber-
ga also had a standout season
A third-line grinder from the
Ontario Hockey League (OHL)
Albergarsquos first-line rookie perfor-
mance for the Rams was anything
but expected
Alberga contributed 44 points
and 18 goals to the team He
achieved second place on the team
for goals scored and is nationally
ranked fourth in points mdash all in his
first year as a Ram
But as the menrsquos hockey team
celebrates new talent they alsosay goodbye to two of their key
players Both right-winger Dustin
Alcock and captain Andrew Buck
are graduating this year Buck
scored 90 goals in his 125-game
career with the Rams and wore
the captainrsquos patch for three of his
five years
ldquoItrsquos a surreal feeling and Irsquom
not really sure if itrsquos hit me yetrdquo
Buck said ldquoIrsquoll miss not going
to the rink every day and seeing
the guys but Irsquove had a great five
years so I canrsquot complainrdquo
The Rams are ranked fourth in
the OUA West division and made
their third-straight playoff appear-ance for the first time in history
The last time the Rams earned a
semifinal spot in the playoffs was
the 2009ndash10 season
The team will take some time off
before the coaching staff begins
the journey to next yearrsquos home
opener a process head coach Wise
said will begin with recruitment
ldquoRecruiting is ongoingrdquo he
said ldquoHopefully we can bring in
guys that will make the team bet-
ter and wersquoll go from thererdquo
History repeats itself for Rye hockey
The end of the menrsquos hockey season marks the end of all the Ramsrsquo seasons Go to theeyeopenercom fora cheat sheet on how they ended and which players were awarded OUA titles EyeSports theeyeopener
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Pugilisim of the StatePHOTO JESS TSANG
ILLUSTRATION DASHA ZOLOTA
Do you have a burning yearning to see something puggified by our residentdoge-drawer Dasha Zolota Send your suggestions to funtheeyeopenercom and your idea might end up on the illustrious Fun page
Cumming Soon Sin amp Vice
Now that our annual Love amp Sex issue is overand done with there has been a serious lackof cunning linguists in this paper Thatrsquos whereour new columnist comes in Her name is Lou-ise and shersquos ready to take your questionsabout what goes down (or doesnrsquot) beneaththe sheets Send us all the slippery sticky andsensual questions you have We promise topublish your questions anonymously and un-edited Nothing is too raunchy or embarrass-ing Send your inquiries to funtheeyeopenercom and Louise will answer in the next issue
W I N T I C K E T S t o s e e3 0 0 R I S E O F A N E M P I R E
B e o n e o f t h e f i r s t 1 5 s t a r t i n g a tn o o n M a r c h 5 t h t o w i n J u s t c o m e t o
t h e E y e o p e n e r - S C C 2 0 7
bull
This is NOT Louise
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4 Wednesday March 5 2014FUN
Dedicated to Dan W
This week wersquore giving away a car Actually just $20 toTim Hortonrsquos Fill it out drop it off in the contest boxoutside of SCC 207 This is a raffle contest not a first-to-finish oneName Student Email Phone
Pugilisim of the StatePHOTO JESS TSANG
ILLUSTRATION DASHA ZOLOTA
Do you have a burning yearning to see something puggified by our residentdoge-drawer Dasha Zolota Send your suggestions to funtheeyeopenercom and your idea might end up on the illustrious Fun page
Cumming Soon Sin amp Vice
Now that our annual Love amp Sex issue is overand done with there has been a serious lackof cunning linguists in this paper Thatrsquos whereour new columnist comes in Her name is Lou-ise and shersquos ready to take your questionsabout what goes down (or doesnrsquot) beneaththe sheets Send us all the slippery sticky andsensual questions you have We promise topublish your questions anonymously and un-edited Nothing is too raunchy or embarrass-ing Send your inquiries to funtheeyeopenercom and Louise will answer in the next issue
W I N T I C K E T S t o s e e3 0 0 R I S E O F A N E M P I R E
B e o n e o f t h e f i r s t 1 5 s t a r t i n g a tn o o n M a r c h 5 t h t o w i n J u s t c o m e t o
t h e E y e o p e n e r - S C C 2 0 7
bull
This is NOT Louise
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