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Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014 NEWS 3
Tents, boards, motions and unrestA disconnect between RSU executives and BoG student representatives has led to a shanty town outside of Jorgenson Hall
he RSU is demonstrating with a tent cit y outside Jorgenson Hall.PHOTO: ROB FOREMAN
By Sierra Bein, Jake Scott andackie Hong
t was halfway through the Ryer-on Students’ Union’s (RSU) fall
eneral meeting on Nov. 11 whenhe issues between the RSU and
student representative on the
Board of Governors (BoG) be-ame apparent.During a discussion about a
motion to launch the RSU’s newampaign, Freeze the Fees, Tyler
Webb, a student representative of
the BoG spoke out against a reso-lution that called for the numberof student members on the BoG
to be increased from three to six.Webb did not disclose his positionon the BoG. The Freeze the Fees
campaign aims to stop tuition in-creases, and calls for the school toaccept an alternative budget to the
BoG.The motion was put forward
by RSU Vice-President Education
Jesse Root.“I think it’s time for some sham-
ing. If you’re going to come andvote against our campaign thattries to call you to account, you
are going to risk losing … ac-countability,” Root said after
the meeting. He said two studentmembers of the BoG, Webb and Joseph Vukovic, were present atthe meeting. However, Webb said
he believes he was the only BoGstudent representative there.
The three current BoG student
members are Webb, Vukovic andNoah Geist.
“There were three votes against
[the motion], two of them are ourstudent [representatives on the]BoG, in fact, who the motion spe-
cifically targets. So you can un-derstand why they were againstit and we’ll be following up with
them about that,” Root said afterthe meeting.
The motion, which also said
the RSU will “develop an ag-gressive campaign,” ultimatelypassed, allowing the RSU to begin
their campaign with an inaugu-ral Freeze the Fees rally on Nov.17. The RSU has set up a “tentcity” in front of Jorgenson Hall
to protest what it said is Ryer-son University’s “refusal to workwith students and Ryerson com-
munity members on a budget that
does not include budget cuts and
tuition fee increases for the tenthyear in a row.”
In a press release, the RSU said
students will camp out “until the
university co-operates to presentan alternative budget to be con-
sidered at the Board of GovernorsMeeting in April.”
Webb said he disagrees with the
RSU’s tactics.“It’s representative of … the
kind of drastic actions I don’t think
are necessary to make change hap-pen,” he said. “I’m a big believerin conversation and moving for-
ward on, you know, equal footing,and that large public statementsdon’t get anywhere near as much
done as … sitting down and work-ing through things.”
Tension has been growing be-tween the RSU and student repre-sentatives on the BoG since Octo-ber. As The Eyeopener previously
reported, the RSU said it was de-nied the opportunity to speak di-rectly at the upcoming BoG meet-
ing about creating an “alternatebudget” that would not includetuition fee increases or service
cuts. The union was told to speakto the student BoG members whowould present the proposal on the
RSU’s behalf. However, the RSU
said the student representatives
were reluctant to work with them,stating they were unable to reachthem. The RSU launched a brief
Twitter campaign to get the atten-
tion of the representatives.“I’m not convinced that their
minds are on our side,” Root said.
“That’s why we’re feeling we needto rally … because there’s no otheraccountability mechanisms.”
Webb said that he had beensending emails to Root since Oct.20 and didn’t receive a response
until Oct. 31, three days beforethe deadline to submit motionsto the BoG. He said this wasn’t
enough time to make a decisionon the motion.
“I’m not going to take anything
on faith, I think it’s part of my re-
sponsibility and kind of my dutyas a board member to kind of sit
down with people and understandwhere motions and ideas are com-ing [from] before I put them to the
board,” Webb said.According to Root, “tent city”
isn’t going anywhere until their
demands are met. The BoG meet-ing will take place on Nov. 27.
“Ultimately, we still recognize
that the place of action is the BoGso we’re going to continue to pres-sure there,” Root said.
FCAD union breaks down budgetThe newest student society on campus presented its budget to students
By Zoe Melnyk
The Ryerson Communication andDesign Society (RCDS), the uni-ersity’s youngest student society,
eld its first semi-annual generalmeeting on Nov. 13.
Tyler Webb, president of RCDS,
poke about the efforts being madeo help students through fundingnd offering opportunities to net-
work with companies that could
ead to possible internships.Webb explained that the five
ore functions of RCDS are to
ffer support to student groups,tudent projects, attendance atonferences and competitions, cre-
ting and hosting year-end showsnd offering bursaries.“That is our mandate, to serve
hose students,” Webb said, refer-ing to the 4,000 Faculty of Com-
munication and Design (FCAD)
tudents.Casey Yuen, vice president of
nance, explained how the budget
s broken up and the goals RCDSopes to reach in order to benefit
tudents. Operating expenses cameo a total of $145,080, taking theargest portion of RCDS’ $400,080udget. Student group funding
came second with a total budget of$100,000. Year-end show fundingcame to a total of $40,000, fol-
lowed by student project fundingat $30,000 and conferences andcompetitions at $20,000. $5,000
was set for bursaries.Yuen said that the board mem-
bers are made of students paying
the same fees as any other FCADstudent so budget spending deci-sions are made to benefit the stu-
dents as much as possible.“We understand and we know
exactly where that money is go-
ing,” Yuen said.A major priority of the meeting
was transparency of the budget.
Students at the meeting wantedproof of the budget spendings.Miri Makin, manager of studentrelations and development, of-
fered the students reassurance.“There is a yearly auditing pro-
cess to keep the budget even more
transparent,” Makin said.Questions were then raised
about the annual auditing process
being performed by a Ryerson
staff member.Makin, who performs the an-
nual informal internal audits, as-sured the students that it is done
purely in the interest to save mon-
ey. Makin also explained that anofficial audit by a non-Ryersonemployee will be done every three
to five years.After the budget was discussed,
each executive member of the
board had the opportunity to ex-plain the purpose and benefits of-fered from their department. Ex-
ecutive members said they wouldwork to give students access to the
funds they need to further theirown projects.
Because student groups playsuch a large roll in the budget
decision process, a bylaw amend-ment was passed in order to allowone student group representative
sit in on Student Group and Proj-ect Funding Committee meetings.A second motion was immediately
passed that allowed voting for thestudent group representatives totake place during the academic
year. Previously, voting was heldover the summer during an RCDSretreat.
The meeting wrapped up with
a reminder that nominations fornew board members will begin January 2015 and voting will fol-
low in February.
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4 EDITORIAL Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014
Editor-in-Chief Mohamed “Loves Sean” Omar
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Union’s dedication is in tentsThe Ryerson Students’ Union is camping in f ront of Jorgenson Hall, the school’s main administrative building. PHOTO: ROB FOREMAN
ByMohamedOmar
Believe it or not, university stu-
dent politics is not sexy.
Occasionally, on television and
in the movies, post-secondary
student activism is portrayed as
explosive, unrelenting, passionate.
Think Channing Tatum running
around shouting “Benghazi, man,Benghazi!”
But Hollywood-ified depictions
of protests that show legions of
angry and dedicated students com-
ing out in droves couldn’t be far-
ther from reality.
Here at Ryerson, we have the
granny’s panties of student activ-
ism. Our student body unknow-
ingly waves it like a massive
white flag.
If any student on campus came
up to me and said, “The major-
ity of this campus does not give a
twirling shit about its student gov-
ernment,” I would not have much
ammo to argue.
If another ran up to me and
said, “The voter turnout rate for
our student elections has been on
a steady incline for the past five
years!” then I would call animal
services and tell them a drunk
badger is spewing lies.
It would be horrendously
wrong, however, to accuse the
Ryerson Students’ Union (RSU)
— the official, elected student
government — of not being
dogged in its student activism.
But around its zeal for student-
led initiatives, I notice a terrible,
demotivating situation.Here is the current state of the
RSU, from where I see it:
It’s executive was elected by less
than 7 per cent of students on a
campus of 30,000.
It must, in all its actions, strive
to serve those 30,000 students,
with barely any of them giving a
parrot’s ass about what’s going on.
In order to get things done at
the level of Ryerson’s Board of
Governors (which controls financ-
es, property, major projects, etc.),
it must have a student representa-
tive take its concerns to the board.
There are three student repre-
sentatives on the board who aren’t
helping the union, leaving it virtual-
ly impotent in its quest to penetrate
Ryerson’s decision-making process.
Finally, the RSU has chosen one
of the most monumental challeng-
es a student government can take
on: lowering — and eventually
abolishing — tuition fees.
The RSU’s explosive dedication
to that cause is evident in its cur-
rent campaign, Freeze the Fees,
which kicked off Monday.
The union and its supporters are
now camping in front of Jorgen-
son Hall, where the offices of the
president and other higher-ups arelocated. They’re hunkering down
until the school accepts, among
other things, to see an alternate
budget — created by a coalition of
students, faculty, staff and others
— at its board meeting. This bud-
get would include frozen tuition
fees and no budget cuts.
Camping out is not the craziest
of protest methods, and despite
getting some coverage on CP24
and CityNews, it likely won’t get
students rushing to join.
But when you consider the
RSU’s declining influence and sup-
port on campus, its apathetic-as-
a-doorknob student populace, itsto refusal say “Fuck it, I’m done”
when everyone else has — it de-
serves to be commended.
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Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014 NEWS 5
Students to help hack the libraryBy Michael Chen
First-year radio and television arts
tudent Liz Corbo knows how the
0-year-old Ryerson library com-pares to other buildings on campus.
“I find myself walking the pathrom the Rogers Communications
Centre, a beautiful building that
eels new and fresh, to the librarybuilding, a place where some-imes, I dread.”
Corbo will be attending anIdea Hack” event next Wednes-
day to find out how she can im-prove the building’s interior look.
According to Strategic ProjectsLiaison Carrie-Ann Bissonnette,he office of the provost has allo-
ated $75,000 as a one-time pilotproject to help revitalize and in-
use the current library with stu-dent pride and spirit. The money ismanaged by the Project Funds Al-ocations Committee for Students.
“As students, we spend a ton of
time in the library. Sometimes, apaint job can make a huge differ-ence,” Corbo said.
The student-led creative firm be-hind the event, Bodhi Collective, islooking for more ideas on how to
revitalize the library.One example from the collec-
tive is “Stairways to Stimulation.”
The project plans to encouragemore people to use the stairs inthe library. The physical changes
include installing kinetic energyfloor tiles leading to the stairs, andadding air pollution-absorbing
moss walls and charging stationsin the stairwells.
Students can submit their ideas
to fix any existing space or issuein the library as part of the unof-
ficially named “LIB Invigorate”initiative, said Linh Nguyen, afourth-year economics student be-hind the collective.
“We know that there will be
some students who have a well-developed idea or design proposal.And there might be other students
who might have a very basic andbare concept,” Nguyen said. “Soin this process, we want to makethe connections they need to form
a more solid idea.”After the students submit their
ideas, the collective and Ryerson
academic stakeholders, includingthe offices of the president andlibrary management, will review
and approve them.Then, students will present their
ideas to the funds committee,
which will determine how much itwill cost.
If the idea receives funding, the
campus facilities and sustainabil-
ity department will carry out theproject.
For the full story on library
hacking, visit theeyeopener.com
Students vote to nix 8 a.m. classThe RSU will be lobbying against early lectures as well as pop quizzes
By Jake Scott, Sierra Bein andackie Hong
Ryerson students may no longerhave to struggle to wake up for 8
.m. classes or deal with the un-pleasant surprise of a pop quiz ifhe Ryerson Students’ Union gets
ts way.Two motions passed at the RSU
all general meeting on Nov. 11
alling for the RSU to lobby Ry-rson’s administration to put annd to unannounced quizzes, as
well as classes that start before 10
.m. However, the motions mustnow pass through a series of stepsbefore becoming reality.
“The first [move] is to startalking to administration about
what the feasibility looks like
nd develop a coherent [request]round the things that came out
of our [fall general meeting] to
enate,” RSU President RajeanHoilett said. Hoilett has been aommuter himself and said he had
o travel almost two hours fromAjax to make it to his classes.
“I know for myself it wasn’t the
most conducive thing to learningnd 8 a.m. classes were somethinghat you avoided like the plague,”
he said.The motions said that pop quiz-
es are “unfair and unreasonable
o students” and described 8 a.m.lasses as “extremely inconve-
nient for students, especially thosewho commute from hours away.”
Third-year mechanical engi-neering student Gorgis Gorgis
ommutes to school from Etobi-oke and has four 8 a.m. classeshis semester — three lectures and
one lab. He said he would wel-come the motion for later class
start times.“I don’t go to lectures,” Gorgis
said, adding that he would prefer
to attend classes but his commute,which can take up to an hour anda half, makes it difficult for him
to show up on time. “I’m not get-ting all the materials, so I have tostudy by myself.”
But while ditching early classesin favour of a 10 a.m. start timemight seem like an easy fix to drea-ry-eyed commuters, it may prove
difficult to actually implement.“The challenge is that we have
to be able to accommodate the
schedule and with the number ofhours and the number of classeswe have. That’s already diffi-
cult,” Ryerson President Sheldon
Levy said.“So I think it would be an enor-
mous, enormous logistic chal-lenge and I would think [it wouldbe] impossible. We start early be-
cause there’s no other choice.”Ryerson Registrar Charmaine
Hack agrees.“In the absence of a substantial
increase in classroom facilities,
the reality is that 8 a.m. classescannot be avoided,” Hack said in
an email. She added that studentshave unsuccessfully requested forthe end of 8 a.m. classes in thepast.
Ryerson English professor Lau-ra Fisher teaches classes that startat 8 a.m. She said she knows the
early start puts extra stress on herstudents, especially commuters,but thinks it’s a necessary part of
being at a growing university.“We’ve been expanding dra-
matically and broadening our
reach as a university in recentyears and all of this is good forRyerson students. 8 a.m. classes
are just a part of that growth—
it means we can accommodatemore students in classes,” Fisher
said in an email.“I don’t think I would trade
Ryerson’s growth as a universityfor an extra hour or two of sleep,
however much I would enjoy it.”
Some students spend over two hours in t ransit getting to schoolPHOTO: JAKE SCOTT
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“it’s really
hard to leave”After being at the centre of Ryerson’s decision making for nearlya decade, Julia Hanigsberg is moving on to a new job in a newfield. Sean Wetselaar and Jonah Brunet take a look at hercareer so far
In a glassed-in room tucked into the
back of the Mattamy Athletic Centre,
surrounded by a small crowd of for-
mally-dressed retirees, Julia Hanigs-
berg is giving a speech. The crowd is made
up almost entirely by Ryerson employees
that have retired in the last year and theirfamilies. The higher-ups like to give them a
formal send-off as part of a big managerial
idea that the administration is a family —
but for Hanigsberg this is not just another
event on her exceedingly packed schedule.
It’s one of her last appointments in her
time as vice-president administration and
finance at the school.
As the retirees — from dozens of de-
partments — progress across the stage to
the sound of a short biography detailing
their careers and “years of service,” two
other people are, in a way, being given
their own send off. The first is the presi-
dent — Sheldon Levy — who will retire at
the end of this academic year. The other isHanigsberg, who will be moving on to a
new job as president and CEO of Holland
Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital.
Her last day at the school she has helped
to remake is Nov. 28.
She doesn’t like to use the phrase “the
end of an era” — Hanigsberg says the
foundation she has helped to build is too
strong for it to be accurate. But there’s
no question that the departure of two of
the change-makers that have reshaped the
school is a big shift for the once-belea-
guered polytechnic. And if her departure
is not the end of an era, Julia Hanigsberg’s
shift out of the school is certainly the end
of a crucial chapter.
Hanigsberg came to the school
in January 2006 as general
counsel and secretary of the
board of governors. She’d
come from a decade in government, the
capstone of which was her time as chief of
staff for the Attorney General’s office. There
are more bullet points on her resume than
there’s room to print, but after leaving gov-
ernment she spent a semester teaching at Os-
goode Hall Law School at York University.It was during her time at Osgoode that she
met Sheldon Levy, then the newly-appointed
president of Ryerson. In those days, Levy
was still working to rebrand the admin-
istration after the reign of his predecessor,
Claude Lajeunesse, which was plagued by
a lack of transparency and infighting. Levy
needed strong people to back him, and he
convinced Hanigsberg quickly.
In those years, the relatively new Liberal
government was “putting lots of money into
Canadian universities,” Hanigsberg says.
And Ryerson, the University of Toronto and
York were all in the process of changing
presidents, leading to a real sense of renewal
in the sector. “It was an interesting time inpost-secondary,” she says.
She was introduced to Levy through a
mutual friend and, “within five minutes, but
it was probably more like 30 seconds, I was
like, ‘I want to work for this guy,’” she says.
“It was that ... kind of excitement and
change and opportunity that transition
brings.”
She spent a year as interim Dean of the
Chang School beginning in 2008. In 2010
she moved to her current portfolio, where
she has worked on projects reaching from
buildings like the Student Learning Centre
to new managerial policies in the nine de-
partments she wrangles.
Twice a year, Hanigsberg brings to-
gether the leaders of her nine di-
visions. She’s a strong believer in
conflating the personal and pro-
fessional, and was disheartened when, in thePHOTO: JESS TSANG
PHOTO: ROB FOREMA
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first of these gatherings three years ago, ev-
ryone remained in their division clique andhere were few new friends to speak of. Thisear however, the room is buzzing before
he even arrives.It’s a snowy, overcast November day, and
white light filters in through thin blinds on
he Oakham lounge windows. The place isdone up elegantly in black-and-white table-loths, which compliment a glossy black
piano in one corner and twin black-brickfireplaces. Combined with the sandy brickwalls, exposed wooden rafters and tinynowflakes swirling outside, the décor gives
he vibe of a high-end ski resort.Hanigsberg arrives and wanders around
he room, stopping at each table, chatting
nd laughing as she goes. A lunch buffetheats up in one corner, filling the air with thecent of roast chicken and tomato sauce. In
he opposite corner, there’s a table stackedwith hardcover books titled “The Orga-nized Mind.”
“Think of them as an early holiday gift,”ays Hanigsberg as she makes her rounds.It didn’t make sense for me to be giving
ifts from beyond the grave.”The topic of her departure is a popular
one, broached by long-time employees with
ad smiles.“It’s dwindling down,” she says. “I’m be-
oming less relevant in all the conversations
… You can’t really be prepared for it until ithappens.”
But there is far more laughter than tears
s Hanigsberg steps up to the microphonet the front of the room, tossing friendlyabs at colleagues — Dan who won’t stop
alking, or Jim who’s texting under the ta-ble. Rather than departure, happiness is theheme of her speech. She refers to the group
lternately as a “merry band” and a “mot-ey crew.”
“November has really hit me hard,” sheays. “We underestimate the impact we can
have in an organization as big as this.”
Her job is a complicated one. In
simplest terms, Hanigsberg’s
office is responsible for every-thing that falls under her nine
departments. These range from IT to capitalprojects and cover a huge range and numberof disciplines.
The result of having such a broad manage-ial role is that a lot of Hanigsberg’s time ispent coordinating and communicating with
her nearly 650 employees. And according toPinoo Bindhani, Hanigsberg’s executive di-ector (or as Bindhani phrases it, “chief oftaff”), it’s crucial that a V.P. is able to come
nto projects and understand them quickly.“She is a leader who can understand is-
ues and can arrive at what the core issue is
with a laser-like focus,” Bindhani says. “Thelarity that she brings to any issue is com-
mendable.”It was in an effort to bring her depart-
ments together that Hanigsberg and thedministration introduced a buzzy phrase
that is now synonymous with the school’sadmin — “people first.” The term itself
first appeared in Levy’s administrativemanifesto, “the master plan,” and had todo with pedestrianization of campus. But
Hanigsberg broadened it extensively in ablog post, and today it is a far-reachingterm. At the mantra’s core, what Hanigs-
berg and others have tried to do is shiftthe focus of the organization to people —
students, staff and faculty — before otherobjectives.
“The proudest thing for me is now Ihear people saying it all the time — it’s just
a normal thing to say,” she says.“It’s part of the vernacular.”
That connectivity between depart-ments and people has been cen-tral to Hanigsberg’s time at the
school. As Bindhani put it, “Wedon’t want people working in silos.” En-suring that there are open lines and a will-
ingness to speak truth to power is one ofthe hardest parts of Hanigsberg’s job, andthat is perhaps no more evident than in the
recent Gould Street debacle. The project,
which included a two-stage repainting ofGould, would eventually cost the school$111,000 in essentially lost funds and lead
to a public apology from Hanigsberg her-self.
The apology was classic Hanigsberg —
in a sector that has often been defined bysecrecy and a lack of transparency in theadministration, it would not have been
a surprise to find a different executivesweeping the problems under the rug. ButHanigsberg took ownership for the mis-
take — which she says arose at least inpart from a failure on her part to listen tothose under her. Many of her people said
that the paint-job was rushed and predict-ed some of the problems that arose.
“Understandably I have heard frommany of you how deeply disappointed youwere,” she wrote in her public apology in January. “You are right to be disappoint-
ed.”It was partly a desire to be transpar-
ent — Hanigsberg writes a blog, tweets
obsessively and pushes accessibility to thestudents wherever possible. But there wasanother factor at play. “I was genuinely
sorry,” she says.
As Hanigsberg says, it’s difficult
to quantify the impact that oneperson can have, especially onan organization as big as Ryer-
son. She might be one of the most senior
executives at the school, responsible forinnumerable high-level decisions, but Ry-
erson employs around 6,500 people acrossits divisions.
Hanigsberg likes to talk about the im-
pact that Levy has had on her — profes-sionally and personally. She calls him a“dream boss” and credits him with muchof Ryerson’s “extremely intentional”
growth. But for all the ways in which Levyhas affected Ryerson, Hanigsberg has af-fected many of her own people — as the
deluge of well-wishers seems to prove.November has, like so many things that
once seemed so very far away, come all
at once for Hanigsberg — and now she isstaring into the face of her last weeks at
the institution she has helped to reshape.On Nov. 25, Ryerson will be hosting afarewell party for the departing vice-presi-dent. “It’s my party & I’ll cry if I want to,”
she tweeted on Monday.It has been an emotional month for
Hanigsberg and the rest of the senior staffon the 13th floor of Jorgenson Hall.
“Can I say that it’s really hard to leave?”
she says, as tears begin to form in the cor-ners of her eyes. “It’s really hard to leave.It’s really emotional.”
The thing that really gets Hanigsbergthough, is not just the leaving — it’s the
people that keep telling her about her im-pact. The same ones she has pushed for
from the beginning.“She was the one that pulled us all to-
gether to say that the most important thing
that we have going at the university arepeople,” Levy says.
And odds are, that — more than any of
her many achievements in the past nineyears — will be her legacy.
It’s dwindling down. I’m becoming
less relevant in all the conversa-
tions. You can’t really be prepared
for it until it happensPHOTOS ABOVE: JESS TSANG. BELOW: ROB FOREMAN
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8 SPORTS Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014
Science of the RamsSchool of nutrition wants to help Rams get better on the court, ice and field
By Josh Beneteau
The jocks and geeks of Ryerson
have found something to work to-
ether on.The school of nutrition and the
arsity athletics department have
partnered on a program to increase
he efficiency of athlete exercise.
The Nutrition and Exercise
Testing Lab (NExT) has state-of-
he-art equipment to find data that
hey can then use to provide more
ccurate recommendations to ath-
etes’ training schedules.
“At the end of the day, you have
o train on a regular basis, but if
ou can train smart, then you’re
oing to end up with athletes who
re better athletes,” says Nick Bel-
issimo, assistant professor at thechool of nutrition.
Bellissimo has been working
with Sam Walls, the strength and
onditioning coordinator for the
thletic department, on the pilot
program. They run the athletes
hrough a few tests including the
most important one, called the
VO2 max test. VO2 is the rate at
which your body uses oxygen.
Athletes are hooked up to a
machine with a mask, which has
two tubes running to a computer.The athletes then run on a tread-
mill. Every minute, the speed and
incline of the treadmill increase.
With the increased workload, the
athlete’s breathing and heart rate
rises.
“It’s a weird feeling, because
your nose is plugged and you
have the mask on,” fourth-year
women’s basketball player Keneca
Pingue-Gilles says. “It’s not really
how you would play basketball.”
Walls says when the athlete
crosses their peak heart rate, called
the ventilatory threshold, they will
suddenly become really exhaust-ed. So the heart rate at that value
becomes a value that can then be
used to recommend how much ex-
ercise should be done.
“That’s a very valuable num-
ber,” he says. “Now we can take
this information and be much
more accurate in the prescription
of their training program.”
In past years, Walls says he would
recommend a percentage range for
ideal heart rate based solely on the
age of the athlete. Now, with eachathlete getting their own specific
number, his recommendations can
be more beneficial to the athlete.
The program has only been test-
ed on the women’s basketball team
but Walls says they are looking to
run the men’s soccer team through
it soon. The main purpose of the
pilot stage is to see how efficiently
the VO2 test can be run.
Previously, athletes would be
tested together with the beep test.
They would all line up together in
the gym and run back and forth.
As athletes would hit their ventila-
tor threshold they would stop run-ning and the test would go until
everyone had reached their peak.
That test would take 15 minutes
and cover everyone on the team.
The VO2 test can take up to 40
minutes per person. With close
to 20 or more athletes per team,
it could take up to a week to do
The treadmill used to give VO2 tests.PHOTO COURTESY NICK BELLISSIMO
Benched blockers are buddies
By Devin Jones
Jake Danson and Knick Daweshould be heated rivals, but instead
they make fun of each other in the
way two good friends would.
Both are the backups to men’s
hockey goalie Troy Passingham,
who in his fourth year has played
in all 12 Rams games this season
— Dawe and Danson have yet to
hit the ice.
“He is a big bastard,” said
Dawe, 21, referring to the six-
foot-five Passingham. “[But] he’s
been a great teammate and friend
to me so far.”
The only thing the two play-
ers don’t have in common comesdown to a matter of style. Dan-
son, 21, uses “athletic” to de-
scribe himself while Dawe goes for
“technically sound.” Before Ry-
erson, both goalies played in the
Ontario Junior Hockey League —
Danson for the Newmarket Hur-
ricanes and Dawe for the Aurora
Tigers, two teams that just happen
to be cross-town rivals. Despite
the battle for the backup position,
neither player hints at animosity
toward the other, a competition
they chalk up to a friendly rivalry.
“It’s just like if you were to
play against your friends, on the
ice you compete and fight against
each other, but when you’re done
you’ll go out and have a beer,”
Dawe said. “You’re always going
to have someone behind you push-
ing you, trying to take your spot.
We’re friends and you try not totake it personally.”
Dawe has been anointed the
backup for now but nearly identi-
cal save percentages in the 2013-14
season — Dawe with a .916 and
Danson with a .908 — makes the
battle for the spot still competitve.
“In terms of competing, we’ve
talked to both of them. They both
understand the role and as long as
there’s healthy competition, then it’s
all okay,” head coach Graham Wise
said. “It’s all about showing them
that you have confidence in their
abilities.”
Even though he sits in thecrowd, Danson is enjoying the Ry-
erson experience. He’s using the
facilities and support around him
to improve his game, so he’ll beready when called upon.
“I’ve had some pretty amazing
hockey experiences, but the big-
gest thing about coming here was
having a support group around
me,” Danson said. “There’s a
great group of guys who really
mesh together and support each
other, which has made playing
hockey a lot of fun again.”
No matter who gets the job
as the backup goalie on the now
8-4 Rams, Dawe and Danson —
sounding straight out of a ‘70s
buddy cop film — will use the
rivalry to improve their play andone day get into a game.
the test.
Walls says that even though it
may be time consuming, they are
moving forward with the project.
“Our optimal vision is to have
it where we test them right at the
beginning of the season and right
at the end of the season to end up
seeing what particular qualities are
lost and what are maintained,” he
says.
Bellissimo doesn’t run the tests
himself; he lets his undergrad andgraduate students get the experi-
ence. That way, both the athletes
and the nutrition students get
first-hand experience with tech-
nology used almost exclusively at
the highest levels of sport.
Partnering with other faculties
is important, says Ryerson athletic
director Ivan Joseph. He says any
way they can get an advantage in
the third period or fourth quarter
is worth pursuing.
“We always look to partner
with our faculties because they
are the experts,” Joseph says. “It’s
not like the old days where if you
wanted to know if a guy was fit
you asked him how his leg was.
Now you have to be more scien-
tific and this is just one asset that
we have.”For Pingue-Gilles and the other
women’s basketball players, know-
ing they could get an advantage
from these extra tests is exciting.
“It’s supposed to be hard but
everything is analytical and statis-
tics now,” she says. “I think it will
help us get better.”
Rookie goalies Jake Danson and Knick Dawe are riding the pine for the Rams
Danson (left) and Dawe are competing to be the Rams’ backup goalie.
PHOTO: ANNIE ARNONE
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Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014 ARTS & LIFE 9
Rye grad explores the Art of DarknessFeature-length documentary on “drug series” artist featured at film festival exploring mental health
A new documentary produced by
Ryerson graduate documents the
mesmerizing self-portraits of Bry-
n Lewis Saunders, the man best-
known for creating self-portraits
under the influence of a variety of
drugs.
The film, Art of Darkness, pre-
miered at the Rendezvous with
Madness Film Festival Nov. 14,which took place at TIFF Bell
Lightbox.
The documentary is the first
Artist Brian Lewis Saunders, most famous for his 11-day “drug series” of self-portraits, is featured in Rye grad’s documentary.
PHOTO COURTESY DAVID PARKER
By Alex Downham feature-length film for alumnus
David Parker, an award-winning
writer, producer and director. Art
of Darkness reveals “sociopathic
tendencies” in Saunder’s self-por-
trait series.
“The movie is about art and art
as therapy,” Parker said in a panel.
“At first, I thought I could pin a
psychological disposition on Bry-
an, but I still have no clue.”
Since March 1995, 43-year-oldSaunders has drawn a self por-
trait every day. Driven by “des-
peration” and an “obsession with
pain,” the painter’s series includes
mores than 10,000 self-portraits.
“When I do these paintings it’s
like an exorcism,” Saunders said
in the film. “Unless I go into a
coma or have a heavy stroke, I’ll
never miss a day until I die.”
Saunders is known for his 11-
day “drug series” of self-portraits
which he drew under the influence
of numerous drugs. The artist got
high on drugs including hash, her-oin, lighter fluid, cough syrup and
angel dust.
“I was getting drugs by mail
from project supporters,” Saun-
ders said in the panel. “Eventually
I had to stop because it just took
too much of a toll on my brain. It
was insane.”The outcome was stylistically
scattered. While his hash self-por-
trait is full of vivid, pastel colours,
his bath salts sketch looks almost
inhuman, borderline unrecogniz-
able.
This series is what sparked
Parker’s interest in Saunders. After
seeing the series in 2012, Parker
contacted the artist.
“I knew there was more to this
guy than just one work,” Parker
said. “It was hard to get in touch
though because he initially thought
I was a drug enforcement officer.”
After meeting Saunders, Parkerdiscovered the artist’s fixation on
personal trauma. In Art of Dark-
ness, Saunders said his creative
inspiration often comes from early
interactions with “the bad peo-
ple,” a malevolent, almost super-
natural group.
“I would be afraid to come
home as a kid because I thought
they were around,” Saunders said.
“I would perform ritualistic funer-
als in bed to make them believe I
was dead already.”As he aged, Saunders distanced
himself from the living and be-
came interested in death. As an
adult, he recalls death closing in
as neighbours passed away and a
close friend attempted suicide.
“When my friend shot himself, I
had to clean up the blood and tell
his family what happened,” Saun-
ders said in the film, pointing to
an abstract self portrait of a robot.
“It was scary. I eventually left the
mess, but I remember feeling like a
robot telling his relatives.”
Saunders said despite how pain-
ful his focus on trauma can be, it’sa way for him “to get the most ex-
perience out of life.”
“I want my work to give psycho-
paths a sense of feeling,” Saunders
said in the panel. “The feelings in
my self-portraits, spoken word and
others need to be so intense that
this group of people feel it too.”
Prof wins Emmy for cancer PSAGame On Cancer campaign nets prof John Tarver cinematography award
Ryerson School of Image Arts profes-
or John Tarver has won an Emmy
or his work as art director with the
Game On Cancer campaign, an ini-
iative meant to raise awareness for
he fight against cancer.
Tarver’s work on the campaign’s
ommercial — which depicts a
ootball game between the Detroit
Lions and various types of cancer
By Blair Mlotek
PHOTO COURTESY GAME ON CANCER CAMPAIGN
he Game On Cancer campaign aims to raise awareness for cancer research.
— received an Emmy award for
best cinematography in the short
form category.
The Lions face off against a
theoretical football team that in-
cludes players such as lung cancer,
breast cancer and brain cancer, all
displayed in the name bars on the
backs of their jerseys.
“It’s about time that you experi-
enced the world of pain,” one Li-
ons players tells a member of the
opposing team.
Tarver said that the goal of the
campaign is to raise awareness
about cancer in a unique way. All
funds that are raised will go into
cancer research.
“The idea was to create some-thing that would get people’s atten-
tion … that was out of the ordinary
for a health or cancer awareness
campaign,” he said.
Tarver said the process of mak-
ing the commercial wasn’t always
a smooth one. The team ended up
filming outside in the rain, creat-
ing the dark and dramatic mood in
which the commercial takes place.
The group had originally
planned to film in an NFL stadium
but its availability fell through.
Tarver said that this turned out to
be a good thing, as it forced the
team to come up with a more cre-
ative decision that benefited the
commercial.
For the full story, visit
theeyeopener.com
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10 BIZ & TECH Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014
Rye students water the documentary industry
Sports, fashion and tech — oh my
Ryerson’s Mattamy Athletic Cen-tre (MAC) hosted Toronto’s firstsports wearable technology hack-
athon, SportsHack.The three-day event took place
Nov. 14-16 and was partnered with
Ryerson, IBM and We Are Wear-able. SportsHack invited teams todevelop new and resourceful wear-
able technology that could be usedby the sports industry.
“We’re trying to collaborate tobuild an innovation ecosystem,”
project manager Jarrod Ladou-ceur said. “Ryerson is an inno-vation university and we want
to find new ways to expand ourreach. The SportsHack is just oneof those ways.”
Nineteen teams presented afunctional demo of their device orapplication to a panel of judges.
“As a group of judges, we lookedat a number of metrics like prac-ticality, the effort they’ve put into
it, what they were thinking whenthey were building it and how com-mercializable the technology can
be,” said Hossein Rahnama, theresearch and innovation director ofRyerson’s Digital Media Zone.
“We were impressed by thenumbers of people who participat-ed, the quality of the projects and
talents we saw. Their technologywas very comparable with what’shappening in the market globally.
It shows potential.”The final three teams presented
their wearable devices to headjudge Bruce Croxon, former CBCDragon’s Den personality andco-founder of Lavalife, to choose
By Sunday Aken
By Ammi Parmar
One student’s struggle to makedocumentary has led to an on-
ine platform dedicated to helpingoung and aspiring documentary
filmmakers.
Docseed is a website and an Ra-dio and Television Arts (RTA) final-ear thesis project that connects
spiring documentary filmmakerswith mentoring professionals. Thementorship is presented throughblog posts, webisodes, FAQs and
production tutorials to teach usershe small but crucial things that areequired in the documentary film
ndustry.Docseed was inspired by one of
the creator’s struggle with creatingshort films. “I started making my
own documentary film this sum-mer after I’d taken the documen-tary production course at Ryerson
and I realized really soon into itthat I had absolutely no idea what I
was doing,” said Dawsyn Borland,a fourth-year RTA student and ex-ecutive producer of Docseed.
“I was working on a project that
required me to get a media passand I could not figure out howto get a media pass for my life. I
looked everywhere online, therewas nothing, I consulted a fewpeople and they had no idea either.
I came to the realization that uni-versity had taught me the theory,
but I didn’t actually have the prac-tical application to go ahead and
make my own documentary film.”Patrick McGuire, documentary
producer and managing editor of
VICE Canada and John Kastner,four-time Emmy Award winner
have confirmed their partnershipwith Docseed.
The team is currently crowdfund-ing its startup on Indiegogo, with
a goal of $2,000. The money willgo towards location permits andvenue costs required to film theirmentorship webisodes, the website
development costs and marketing.The web platform is planned tolaunch on Feb. 20, 2015.
With the non-fiction documen-tary industry growing and chang-ing, filmmakers are constantly
learning new things.“Non-fiction is becoming more
popular in our society and we’reconstantly trying to find mediumsthat are as real as they can get. Ifelt that pursuing a venture within
The creators of Docseed: Jackie Lyon (top left), Ashley Windibank (top middle),Rachelle Dobson (top right), Dakota Wotton (bottom left), Dawsyn Borland (middlebottom), Chelsea Bennett (bottom middle), Natalie Neri (bottom right)
PHOTO COURTESY DAKOTA WOTTON
the winners.Croxon chose Team Raisins’
armband device that is worn byathletes to track their performanceduring a game. Their performance
data is then transferred into a heatmap — colourfully representingthe data values in 2D images —
for coaches to analyze real-time
performance. The statistics showwhere athletes are excelling andwhere they need improvement.
Second place was KANU, a team
that designed a glove for rowers toextract data, including the times
the rowers are synchronized.Croxon gave third place to Cali-
ber One, a team of high school
students that designed an app thatmonitors exercises by trackinga user’s progress and comparing
it with friends for a leaderboardworkout competition.
“I love what Ryerson is doing topush Canadian innovation ahead,”said Croxon to the audience. “AsLavalife showed, you can build a
business out of anything.”Runner-up prizes included a
minimum of $1,000 cash, software
and a mentorship opportunity.The grand prize, granted to
Team Raisins, was a $7,500 cash
prize and $3,000 in software,mentorship and conference admis-sion, as well as a spot in Ryerson’s
Fashion Zone accelerator to fur-ther the idea.
non-fiction filmmaking would be awonderful tool because everyone is
constantly looking for something
that they feel is authentic and raw,and that is what documentary film
making is,” Borland said.
SportsHack gives students the opportunity to design wearable technology for sports
The winners of SportsHack, Team Raisins, with their $7,500 cheque.PHOTO: ANDREI PORA
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Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014 FUN & TRAGEDY 11
MINK Gives life for RYe
LLUSTRATION: JESS TSANG
Rosencrantz the mink died fight-ng for Ryerson students’ lives this
past weekend.The Eyeopener has learned
hat Rosencrantz flew high into
he sky and hurled his furiousmink body into a meteor thatwas en route to destroy Ryer-
on’s campus. It has since beendiscovered that the meteor waspushed out of its atmospheric
orbit by Shia LaBeouf, who haslways wanted to give Ryerson aShia surprise.”When asked about Rosen-
rantz’s bravery, Ryerson Presi-dent Sheldon Levy said, “Thisheroic act will never be forgotten,
LaBeouf will pay for what he didto my scotch drinkin’ buddy.”
According to comments from
his band of minstrel minks, Ros-encrantz had special powers. Hehad super-strength and could fly,
but kept these skills from theRyerson community in order tolive a “normal Rye-life.” Rosen-
crantz used these special skills tofly straight into the heart of the
meteor and destroy it before itcould do any harm.
There has been no sign of Ros-encrantz or his feathered hat since
the incident.Since the incident, Levy has al-
luded to a possible renaming of
the university in light of theserecent heroic actions. “The ideaof ‘Minkerson’ has been thrown
around here and there over thelast few days,” said Levy.
The world police are in hot
pursuit of LaBeouf and believethat he has fled to the far reachesof a place called “Prince Edward
Island.” The Eyeopener staff hasnot yet been able to confirm ex-
actly where that is.The Eyeopener asks the Ryer-
son community to remember Ros-encrantz in their hearts and mindsfor the next few days. He was the
hero we needed, and he’ll never beforgotten.
Bring your completed sudoku to The Eyeopener office (SCC 207) andyou’ll be entered to win a $25 Baskin Robbins gift card.
Rejected poems from rye’s highest
My bike! My bike!
My Starbucks for a bike!
The gears creak and crankWheels wobble, not true
UntrueThere are too many fuckingGEARS on this bike
One gear two gear three gearFOUR GEAR MORE GEARMORE GEAR
I need to fix it, to dotricks with itI will strip it, rip it, paint itSell that shit on Kijiji
for fifty-some-odd bonesThen head to a fancy bike shopDrop three paycheques
right on the handle barsThank god there are no gears
It’s fixed! It’s fixed!Fixed with tricks and slicksMy bike is a fixieMy friends respect me
Close to the doors I smokecrack a joke
Blow it at a blokeSomeone coughsI say fuck off
Ayo!Fuck the nine-metre ruleI’m a fine heater dude
Think I’m rude?It’s tobacco, not crack yo.So here I huddle hearing
hatersskaterschronic masturbators
Blow-up doll inflatorsThey don’t know methey don’t smoke with me
How could they?Puffing flavoured vapour
trying to savourthe labourof my breathing.Pass my inhaler.
5 a.m. hit the showerTrudge out into the snow
waiting on, waiting onwaiting on this FUCKING BUSIt comes, but not fast.
6 a.m. and the guy next to meis rubbing my leg with his dog.6:30 a.m. off the bus and waiting
on a train.Roll down those sweet tracksfast! PLEASE I’M FREEZING!
Why do I even live here?7:15 a.m. train pulls up peoplePUSH and PUSH and now.I missed that goddamn train.
My prof is going to kill me.SHIT! I don’t think that wasDUE TODAY!?
Good lord, 7:45 a.m.
PANIC ATTACK!Cab seems like a viable option
It is, right?I mean, hell, it’s only Brampton.
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