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After years of increased spend-

ing and inated budgets, the Con-

tinuing Education Students As-

sociation at Ryerson (CESAR), is

now being forced to cope with its

operating decit by restructuring

and slashing expenses.

“People haven’t been managing

our money well in the past,” said

CESAR president Dominic Wong.

“They have just seen increasing

numbers and [as a result] contin-

ued to increase the budget.”

Currently, full-time students

who are enrolled in classes oered

by the G. Raymond Chang School

for Continuing Education totalling

a minimum of 31 hours have been

paying the $11.28 levy to CESAR.

This double charging of both Ry-

erson Students’ Union (RSU) fees

plus part-time fees has recently

come to the aention of adminis-

tration through numerous com-plaints from students, which has

pushed CESAR to consider elimi-

nating it.

Keith Alnwick, registrar for the

university, said he was unaware

of these changes. But Wong con-

rmed that it was the administra-

tion that came to CESAR with the

complaints.

Wong said he doesn’t know

why the problem has suddenly

occurred, as the fee has been col-

lected “probably forever.”

Close to 10 per cent of the ap-

proximately $913,000 in student

fees collected will be cut due to the

change.

The decision to restructure the

budget and implement a number

of changes to their by-laws came at

the Nov. 15 annual general meet-

ing.

Caitlin Smith, president of the

RSU, said she had no prior knowl-

edge of this because neither CE-

SAR nor the university has com-municated this possible change to

student fees.

“We have been reducing all ex-

penses and, for the rst time, actu-

ally geing sponsorship from the

university for some large events,”

said Wong in an email.

“We have run huge decits for

the past couple years and are hop-

ing to get that under control. We

project a small decit this year,

despite great eorts to balance the

budget,” he wrote.

The largest expenses in the

budget include approximately

$350,000 towards salaries, wages

and benets that accounted for

ve full-time sta last year but has

since decreased to three.

All members are currently

unionized and Wong said that cut-

ting their salaries would have to be

done at the bargaining table.

“Other than that, there’s nothing

else we can do,” said Wong.

The board, which currently in-cludes 12 members, accounts for

approximately $87,000, but will be

cut in the next scal year.

Aliate groups have been asked

to cut their budgets. In the case of

the Ryerson Free Press, which op-

erates on approximately $80,000

annually, the requested cuts

amount to nearly half the budget,

said current editor-in-chief Nora

Loreto.

“We are published by a students’

union that is unfamiliar with the

student press industry,” she said.

All Ryerson Free Press editors

will also be put on contract that

will require them to reapply after

the year has ended, introducing

competition into the process.

Wong said it is something they

have overlooked in the past and

editors have been quiing and

joining as they please.

“We want to reduce wasteful

spending and we will be restruc-

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3November 23, 2011 The EyeopenerNEWS

CESAR struggles with deficit

BY VENUS MOSADEQ

Despite the court’s decision to

deny Occupy Toronto’s request for

protesters to remain in the park,

students at Ryerson are still strong-

ly supporting the movement.

On Nov. 21, Justice David

Brown ruled to move forward with

eviction on the basis that the pro-

testers didn’t have the right to take

over the public space and exclude

the rest of the community from the

traditional use of the park.

But Farid Azadian, co-chair of

the Ryerson New Democrats, sees

no justication for the eviction.

He plans to continue his eorts

by aending meetings of Occupy

Ryerson, a support group that has

been created for students. Azadian

aended their rst meeting on

Nov. 4.

“We are an informal group of

Ryerson students critically engag-

ing with the Occupy movement,

as well as determining Ryerson

School of Social Work’s activist

role in ghting for social and eco-

nomic justice,” reads the descrip-

tion on their ocial Occupy Ryer-

son Facebook page.

Some protesters packed up their

bags and left the ve-week long

camp to avoid arrest but other pro-

testers stood their ground.

The city has not yet taken action

to evict the protesters. Mayor Rob

Ford has asked the protesters for

their cooperation in leaving.

Sam Romero, a second-year so-

cial work student, was at the camp

on Nov. 21 right at midnight, the

supposed night of eviction.

“I was there last night,” said

Romero. “I know of the group

Occupy Ryerson. I’m not really

involved with them, I’m just a con-

cerned citizen and I was at the rally

a few weeks ago too.”

The last rally, “Evict Ford,” took

place on Nov. 19 and was promot-

ed on campus by Occupy Ryerson

beforehand.

Protesters demanded the right

to stay in the park and spoke out

against the eviction and social in-

equality.

Romero has been actively in-

volved with the Occupy Toron-

to protest and helps out at

the camp once in a while

with various activities.

“I don’t think Judge

Brown had justiable

grounds. I think

they are nding ri-

diculous excuses

and laws as reasons

to silence people,” he

said.

“Occupy is not

about a place; it’s about

a belief. You can’t evict

ideas. Their opinions are

just as important as someone

who makes millions of dollars or

who is a lawyer, or who may work

on Bay street.”

The park will still be used for

assemblies and breakout groups

and some individuals have con-

sidered renting out a space for the

movement to

contin-

ue.

CESAR executives admit to years of overspending and reveal plans to slash funding in an attempt tocurb the problem. News Editor Rebecca Burton reports

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BY MARIANA IONOVA

NEWS EDITOR

Six of the 17 alleged ringlead-

ers of the G20 protests pled

guilty on Tuesday as part of an

agreement that will see charges

against the remaining accused

dropped.

Among the defendants

pleading guilty was Alex Hun-

dert, 31, who was re-arrested

and jailed last September after

a judge ruled his participationin a panel discussion at Ryerson

violated his bail conditions.

Hundert and his co-accused

were initially arrested last year

and blamed for organizing the

violent demonstrations that

overtook the city during the

G20 summit on June 26, 2010.

They were charged with con-

spiracy related to the protests

after a year-long undercover

police investigation.

His bail conditions stated he

was prohibited from aend-

ing any demonstrations and

speaking at protests. But, after

speaking at a G20-related panel

at Ryerson in September 2010,

Hundert was arrested and kept

in custody until Jan. 24.

Judy Rebick, the Canadian

Auto Workers (CAW)-Sam Gin-

din Chair in Social Justice and

Democracy at the time, helped

organize the panel and said the

arrest was a “denial of [Hun-

dert’s] freedom of speech.”

“His condition was that he

couldn’t go on a demonstration.

It wasn’t a demonstration, it

was a university panel,” Rebick

said. “They broke his bail con-

ditions because he spoke aboutit. To me, it was outrageous. I

never though something like

that could happen in this coun-

try.”

Under Tuesday’s plea agree-

ment, the six accused pled

guilty to counselling to commit

an indictable oense, a lesser

crime bearing a lighter sen-

tence.

“Sentencing hearings are yet

to happen but the Crown and

defense council have all made

joint submissions on sentenc-

ing,” said Hundert. He added

that three of his co-accused

will have sentencing hearings

within a week, while he and the

remaining two will have their

hearings within the next few

months.

Hundert said his sentence

would amount to 20 months

with a deduction for time

he has already served. He

served ve months in the To-

ronto West Detention Centre

and another ve months under

house arrest. This means that

approximately six and a half

months will be deducted from

his sentence.

Rye G20speakerpleads

guilty

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5November 23, 2011 The EyeopenerNEWS

A man who commied a sexual

assault in 2007 has been seen tres-

passing on Ryerson campus this

past week.

The man was already banned

from campus before the incident,

which occurred near the 99 Ger-

rard St. entrance to Eric Palin Hall

and the Sally Horsfall Eaton Centre

for Studies in Community Health.

The incident consisted of the un-

wanted touching of a female stu-

dent’s inner thigh.

According to a security watch

released by Ryerson security and

emergency services on Nov. 16,

it is believed the man commit-

ted more acts of sexual assault o

campus.

The suspect’s ban from campus

is still in eect.

He was spoed shortly past

midnight on Nov. 12, and later was

seen entering the Ryerson Library.

He was seen again on Nov. 15 in

the Ted Rogers School of Manage-

ment building.

Ryerson’s security and emer-

gency services responded to both

sightings, and the trespassing inci-

dents which were reported to To-

ronto Police Services.

According to Tanya Fermin-

Poppleton, manager of security

and emergency services, the sus-

pect may have been on campus

between the initial incident in 2007

and the incidents last week.

Fermin-Poppleton said trespass-

ing is usually only brought to at-

tention when there is suspicious

activity, calls from students, sta,

faculty and the community, or if

the individual is recognized by Ry-

erson security guards on duty.

The suspect is described as a

male with a light brown complex-

ion, in his mid to late 30s, with a

medium build, short black hair and

goatee and an overall unkempt ap-

pearance.

Security has received numer-

ous reports of people of concern

on campus this semester, many

of which have taken place in or

around Eric Palin Hall, particu-

larly in the second oor women’s

bathroom.

They have increased their pa-

trols in and around the building,

but students taking classes there

are still concerned.

“More visibility from security

is needed,” said Tess Fetcher, a

fourth-year social work student.

“I’ve seen one security guard here

in my three years.”

Fetcher believes that a more

visible presence from security

would help deter oenders and

that group walks home would be

a good strategy after night classes.

Hira Hijira, a fourth-year social

work student, thinks Eric Palin

should denitely be a focus for se-

curity.

“I think since Ryerson is so

spread out the security needs to be

spread beer between buildings,”

said Hajira.

Melissa Rehimian, a third-year

social work student, says she sees

security everywhere else.

“I’ve never seen them [in EPH]

and this building hosts programs

that are almost 90 per cent wom-

en,” said Rehian.

Third-year social work student

Swedha Ezhilarasu is also con-

cerned.

“I’m paying a lot for tuition and

I don’t feel safe even going to the

washroom in [EPH].”

Offender back on campusA man committed a sexual assault four years ago and has recently beenspotted back on campus multiple times. Astoria Luzzi reports

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TEDx Women at RyeBY CAROLYN TURGEON

ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

At their conference on Novem-

ber 20, Ryerson’s TEDx team an-

nounced a brand new event which

will focus on women and equality.

TEDxRyersonUWomen is not

another conference, but an event

which will screen some of the more

notable talks from the TEDx Wom-

en 2011 Global Conference and

include an interactive discussion

involving panelists, or “contribu-

tors”, from Ryerson and the GTA.

“We hope women will become

inspired and engaged,” said Je

Perera, co-organizer, though he en-

courages men to join in as well.

The team is planning to incor-

porate technology from Ryerson’s

Digital Media Zone into what they

call a “collective conversation.”

The DMZ’s Soapbox technology

allows the audience to contribute

live comments and questions.

Other audience members can

agree with them, and the most

popular ones will be sent to the

host and the moderator.

“It’ll help us move in the direc-

tion the audience wants us to go,”

said Perera.

Gwen Elliot, a Ryerson radio and

television graduate and star of the

TV show “Start Something Big”

will be hosting, while Ryerson VP

administration and nance Julia

Hanigsberg will be moderating.

“These two will be the face of the

show and the event,” said Perera.

Meta-Tema, another piece of in-

teractive technology, will alter vi-

sual aspects of the room, like the

lighting, to reect the mood and

the direction of the discussion.

“The idea is to create a real inter-

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He is especially interested in

geing people in male-dominated

programs, like engineering and

business, to discuss these topics,

and said they are the most likely to

avoid discussion.

“We want to reach out to spaces

where these conversations don’t

happen,” said Perera.

“Hopefully that collective move-

ment starts and continues [these

events] next year.”

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RSU falsely bash new grantThe RSU claims that the upcoming Liberal tuition grants are only for gen-eral arts and science, but all full-time Ryeson students can apply

Briefs & Groaners

On Nov. 15, a man was seenstacking Gould Street patio

furniture. The man completeda staggering three separatetowers, one of which was lo-

cated in Lake Devo. After un-successfully trying to stack theplanters, he left the area. He

appeared heavily intoxicatedfrom a night out at the Ram inthe Rye. Friends described the

individual as a “motherfuckingasshat.”

Ofcers responded to a rein the Victoria building on Nov.18. An ofcer extinguished the

re that was discovered to be a

bundle of Eyeopener newspa-

pers. Toronto re attended thescene and police investigatedpossible arson. Don’t burn our

paper, fuckers.

A car found a new parking

spot on campus on Nov. 21 —in Lake Devo. An 86-year-oldmale was headed to audition

for the lm “Life Doesn’t Fright-en Me” and accidentally hit thelake edge, scraping the bot-

tom of his car and ending up inthe pond. After driving aroundin circles, he realized he was

stuck. The male ditched tomake his audition, returninglater to be assisted by secu-

rity and get his car towed. We

hope he actually got the part.

An angry swarm of hipsters,carrying their cats adorned

in pink booties and jackets,stormed campus yesterday.After a game of street hockey,

which was interrupted by uglychildren, they ran towardscampus. Caught in the trag-

edy was lovely news editorAna Ionova, who died after be-ing pelted with hot soup laced

with parsley and bugs. Her lastwords were “you should havefed the children Nyquil pops!”

Ionova will be dearly missed byfellow news editors. We hopeher spirit has fun at the Ryer-

sonian.

BY COLLEEN MARASIGAN

The Ryerson Students’ Union

(RSU) has mistakenly said the new

Liberal tuition grants will only be

oered to general arts and general

science students.

Come January 2012, the Liberals

will oer a $1,600 grant to full-time

university undergraduates and

$750 to full-time college students

with a combined parental income

of less than $160,000.

“We have to start doing some-

thing to make it more aordable,”

said Glen Murray, Toronto MPP

and Minister of Training, Colleges

and Universities.

Tony Koutoulas, a rst-year arts

and contemporary studies student,

is happy with the Liberals’ new

educational plan.

“I feel that it gives people that

have a low income more of a chance

to aend university,” he said.

According to the Liberal elec-

tion platform, the grants will not

yet be available for students in

professional programs as well as -

nancially independent students or

part-time students.

The Ontario Undergraduate Stu-

dent Alliance (OUSA) website clari-

ed that this means students in sec-

ond-entry professional programs

such as medicine, law, dentistry,

optometry, pharmacy and veteri-

nary medicine will not be eligible

for the grant.

First-entry professional pro-

grams like engineering, commerce

or architecture will be included.

Though the RSU said the grants

were for general arts and science,

they actually will be applicable for

all students at Ryerson who are de-

pendent on their parents, are in the

low income range and go to schoolfull-time.

“I think that at the end of the day

it’s not going to be as eective as we

need it to be if it’s just this grant,”

said Melissa Palermo, RSU’s vice-

president education said.

Palermo said that the Liberals

still hadn’t claried what a profes-

sional program was, yet the RSU

told students that if they were in

non-general programs, like engi-

neering, they were not applicable.

“We would prefer if they took

the money they were going to put

towards the grant and give us a

true tuition fee reduction,” Palermo

said.

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the Ryerson Rams to fade away

from the Canadian university

sports scene and from athletic rel-

evance, but 2011 was supposed to

be the year that put Ryerson athlet-

ics back on the map.

At the beginning of the fall se-

mester, dozens of media outlets

were supposed to be lined up in

front of the historic doors of 60Carleton Street. In front of them,

Ryerson’s President, Sheldon Levy,

and Ryerson’s Director of Athlet-

ics, Ivan Joseph, were supposed to

be smiling and shaking hands with

the who’s who of Toronto’s sports

scene as they unveiled Ryerson’s

new $60 million athletic facility.

Led by all-Canadian midelder

Alex Braletic, the men’s soccer team

was supposed to overcome last sea-

son’s heartbreaking playo loss

and push for an Ontario Univer-

sity Athletics (OUA) championship,

and maybe even a national title.

Two teams that were smack

in the middle of their rebuilding

phase, the men’s and women’s bas-

ketball teams, were supposed to

have recruited enough top talent to

distinguish them as legitimate com-

petitors.

After nally achieving varsity

status, Ryerson’s newly formed

women’s hockey team was sup-

posed to have opened up their

inaugural season as an ocial Ca-

nadian Interuniversity Sports (CIS)team by skating on the same ice as

such hockey legends as Darryl Sit-

tler, Dave Keon and Tim Horton.

All of these things were sup-

posed to happen, but none of them

did. For that, you can thank Maple

Leaf Gardens.

Arguably one of the best play-

ers in university soccer, Braletic

was forced to miss the 2011 season

because of his current academic

standing. Identical 1-3 records

coupled with signicant injuries to

Aaron Best and Chloe Mago, two

highly touted rookies, have both

basketball teams on the outside

looking in at the playos. Both the

men’s and women’s hockey teams

are struggling with their 90-minute

commute to George Bell Arena for

practices, let alone building a loyal

fan base. But more importantly,

MLG is still not open. No, scratch

that, MLG is still not anywhere

close to being open.

All that to say that all of the talent

for a championship run is in place.

For the past couple of years, crit-ics and administrators alike have

been saying how a majority of the

groundwork has been laid and how

all the necessary steps have been

taken to ensure the future will be

brimming with success. For beer

or worse, that successful future is

directly tied to the grand opening

of MLG, and that’s not fair.

Apart from the constant delays,

the most frustrating part of that

statement is the fact that Ryerson

is overowing with top-tier athletic

talent.

In just over a year, Jahmal Jones

has quickly become the poster

boy for both Ryerson and Ontario

basketball; not to mention the fact

that his female counterpart, Ashley

MacDonald, is dominating every

aspect of her league.

Although both teams are strug-

gling, right-winger Dustin Alcock

will provide the men’s hockey team

with a much needed leader, while

Emma Crawley may very

well be the best women’s

goalkeeper in theprovince by the

end of her stay

at Ryerson.

B o t h

K a s a n d r a

B r a c k e n

and Luka

M i l o s e v i c

are doing

their best to

revive Ry-

erson’s vol-

leyball teams,

while Alysha Gjos

is single-handedly

making Ryerson gure

skating relevant once more.

In just their second year of exis-

tence, Ryerson’s equestrian team

is proving to be a dominant force

on the Ontario equestrian circuit.

And we haven’t even mentioned

Michael Jan of the men’s soccer

team, who is one of the OUA’s best

defenders and Andrea Raso, who is

arguably the best player in wom-

en’s soccer at the university level.

So please, stop telling us that Ry-

erson’s athletic rebirth starts with

MLG. Everything you need for a

championship calibre program is

right in front of you.

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#10Equestrian

In just their second year of existence, Ryerson’s equestrian team isproving to the entire Ontario University Equestrian Association (OUEA)

that they are a force to be reckoned with. Currently sitting in thirdplace in the East Zone, Andrea Robinson is not surprised by her team’s

performance this season.

“Last year was our rs t year and we didn’t have enough people to lleach division,” explained Robinson, one of the team’s co-founders.

“This year, people are lined up for shows and everyone who goes iseither placing or having amazing rounds.”

Laura Giffen is one of the team’s newest members and said that shechose Ryerson over other universities because of the equestrian team.

Now two shows into the season, Giffen leads the East ’s Entry Divisionin points, while Robinson is sitting in fourth place in the NoviceDivision. Both Robinson, Giffen and three other Ryerson riders

have already qualied for the OUEA championships.

“You don’t want to get an ego with riding because it’s notan individual sport, it’s a partnership with the horse and

one bad ride can drop you down,” said Giffen. “But I

denitely can be competitive.” —CharlesVanegas



10 November 23, 2011The Eyeopener SPORTS TOP 10

#9Hockey

One, two, three. That was Dustin Alcock’s recipe for success in the Rams’ varsity hockey game

against the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Saturday, Nov. 12, when he scored his rstcareer OUA hat-trick in a 5-4 over time loss. Just over a third of the way into the season, Alcock has

already accumulated more goals (seven) than he did all of last season (four).

“There’s nothing better than scoring,” said the self-described workhorse.

In only his second year with the team, Alcock will need to build off of his quick start if Ryersonhopes to make it into the playoffs this season. Regardless of how this season turns out, he aims to

win an OUA championship by the time he graduates from Ryerson.

Humble and softspoken, Alcock deserves his fair share of credit for the hockey team’s improve-ment this year, as he has already matched his rst-year point total with nine through 12 games.

“We’ve got a good group of young guys,” said the Hamilton native and criminal justice major.

If the Rams’ win total continues to increase at a rate similar to that ofAlcock’s scoring, chances are his group will be OUA championship

contenders in no time.

—MattOxman




#8Soccer

After playing 120 minutes of soccer at the University of Toronto’s Varsity Center, theRams and the Blues were tied at one goal apiece. Michael Jan, the Rams all-stardefender, was struggling to catch his breath when he was called upon to take the

rst penalty shot.

Knowing exactly where he wanted to place the shot, Jan steppedup to the ball and blasted it to the right side. Instatnly reactingto the shot, U of T’s goalie made the diving save, safely batting

away Jan’s shot.

“I was still condent we were going to win it because I knewChristian [Maraldo], our goalie, could save a goal but then

we missed another one and it didn’t work out.”

The loss marked the second consecutive year that the men’ssoccer team’s season ended in penalty kicks.

Jan came into last season with an already impressiveresume. In his rookie year, the third-year defender was

named the OUA East Rookie of the year and was alsonamed a second team OUA all-star. His second season was

equally as strong on the Rams’ backline, but he did notreceive anywhere near the same recognition around the

league as he did after his rookie year.

This past summer Michael and his brother, Luke,trained together, working on their one on one skills

and getting stronger in the weight room.

Jan, who was named a rs t team OUA all-star, justnished his strongest season to date, nding the

back of the net twice in fourteen appearances.

His strengths lie in his understanding of thegame, his nose for reading the opposition’s

offence and most importantly his contributionsto the team’s offence as a defender.

“I trained a lot more this year on the thingsI needed to work on,” said Jan. “I was a

good enough defender but I needed toattack more, which resulted in a couple

goals this year.”

— Gabriel Lee




It has been a tough move up to Canadian Interuniversity Sports for Ryer-

son’s women’s hockey, but it could have been a lot tougher without newgoalie and top recruit Emma Crawley. “It’s not the rst time I’ve played

on a weak team, compared to the rest of the league,” says Crawley.“We’re not a bad team, but we’re just not as strong as our potential.”

As recipient of the prestigious President’s National Entrance Scholar-ship, Crawley has lived up to the high expectations. After 12 starts,

Crawley leads the OUA in saves with 351, 19 saves ahead of therunner-up who has played one more game than her. “I’m stopping

as many pucks as I can,” she says.

Despite the struggles that come along with a young program,Crawley rmly believes the Rams just need to click to becomecontenders. By notching a single victory, the chemistry major

says that her team has already exceeded expectations. Intheir only win of the season the Rams beat the Waterloo

Warriors 1-0, with Crawley stopping all 21 of the shots shefaced.

“I feel like once we click we’re going to be unstoppable,”she said.

Playing on a young team has forced her to raiseher game to a new level, and although the lossesare frustrating, they only motivate her to get that

much better. “I feel like growing up playing forweak teams has just made me stronger as an

individual because I’m always working tentimes harder than I’d work if I was on a teamthat won 10-0 every game.”

—MattOxman

#7Hockey




#6FigureSkating

When Alysha Gjos transferred to Ryerson

from Fanshawe College, she never planned ongetting involved with the gure skating team. Thankfully for Ryerson, after a little convincing

from a friend who skates for the University of Toronto, Gjos decided to lace her skates back up

after not having skated competitively for morethan two years.

At rst, Gjos found it hard to get her rhythmback as she was struggling to execute basic

jumps. “It felt like a roller-coaster,” said Gjos.“Because I had taken so much time of f I kept

falling in [practice].”

After a tough return to the ice, Gjos realizedthat if she got back into shape, she could havea legitimate shot at winning it all. Last Febru-ary, she captured the gold medal in the Senior

Silver Freeskate event.

This season, Gjos has only one thing on hermind: defending her title as best senior silver

free skater in Ontario.

“Personally, I hope to medal in every competi-tion and I’d like to defend my championship.”

— Gabriel Lee




#5Volleyball

“I love blocking,” said Kasandra Bracken. “The best blocks are when the otherteam gets super, super excited that they’re going to have a huge hit they think

they’re about to do something great and you just take one step above them,and are like ‘Nope! I’m gonna do something better!’”

Seven games into the season, he fth year middle blocker is already lead-ing the team with 16 blocks. Although the women’s volleyball team is 2-5,Bracken believes that Ryerson is playing better than their record indicates.

“We’re denitely a team that’s hoping to make the playoffs,” she said.“Obviously we’re going to have to up our record, but I feel like we havebeen playing well, and if you look at the individual stats we’re up therein kills, we’re up there in digs, we’re up there in aces, we’re up there inblocks. Technically we are leading the league, we just haven’t been able

to get a lot of the results that we wanted.”

One of the lone veterans on a young team, Bracken saysthat she is actively looking to mentor her younger team-

mates. That being said, she says she feels a “selsh”

sense of urgency in her last year of eligibility, butis realistic about the team’s expectations. Still,

Bracken feels on top of her game despite anagging shoulder injury.

“I feel good, I feel smarter, I feel strongerthis year. I’m coming back for a fth year,

so now I don’t have to deal with room-mates, and rez.”

—MattOxman




#4Volleyball

A number of key departures left the Ryerson’s men’s volleyball team with a largely

inexperienced group of players. With ve rookies on his team, Luka Milošević is fullyaware that much of the burden is on him to churn out a successful season.

“It’s a lot of pressure, but I try not to let it affect me,” he said. “I just go into every gamefocused on my duty: [getting kills] and scoring as much as possible.”

And score he does. The fourth-year player ranks fth in theOUA in both points per game and service aces. In ad-dition to that, he also leads the Rams in blocks with

14. While Milošević is content with his statistics,he’s less pleased with the team’s 2-4 record.

“We’re not quite where we want to be,” hesaid. “We beat McMaster, the defending

OUA champs, but then we’ve lost games wethought we should have had.”

With a number of “very winnable” gamesin their future, Milošević believes the team

can be back at .500 by the end of thesemester, which would solidify them as

a legitimate playoff contender.

“We have a lot of talent on thisteam; it’s just a matter of staying

consistent,” he said. “As long aseveryone can stay focused, keep

a cool head and not fold underpressure then we can getthere. We’ve proven we canbe a dominant team when

everyone stays focused.”

— Charles Vanegas




#3Basketball

Ashley MacDonald has achieved as much individual success as any women’s basketballplayer in the OUA could hope for. The fth-year point guard turned shooting guard was

a rst team OUA all-star last year, team MVP, female athlete of the year at Ryerson,and was second in league scoring. Four games into the season, MacDonald leads

the league with 23.8 points per game, while adding 4.3 rebounds and ve assistsper game. There’s only one last thing that the veteran point guard would like

to achieve before she graduates.

“I want to get to nationals,” said MacDonald decisively.Sporting a 1-3 record to start the season, the team will not make the

OUA playoffs at this rate, let alone the nationals.

“This is my end-all be-all,” said the sociology student. As muchas she wants to make a championship run, MacDonald under-

stands she has to play the role of the patient leader. Thatbeing said, she refuses to set the bar low.

“This rookie class is probably the most skilled I’vebeen around,” she said.

Like a true veteran leader, MacDonald will tryto guide her younger teammates in the right

direction, while improving her own gamein what will be her nal season as a

Ryerson Ram.

—MattOxman

MacDonald




#2Basketball

Jahmal Jones accomplished more in his rst year at Ryerson than most univer-

sity student athletes do in their entire careers. Having averaged 17.3 points pergame in his rookie season, Jones led the Rams to their best playoff nish since

2003 and was named to the OUA all-star team. The Rams’ oor general hasquickly become the new face of Ryerson basketball, and arguably the new face

of Ryerson athletics.

During the off-season, when most athletes take time off to rest their bodies, Jonescontinued to rene his game by representing Canada at the International University

Sports Federation (FISU) games in August and more recently at the Pan Am Games inOctober. Playing against some of the best basketball players in the world (includ-

ing Puerto Rican J.J Barea, the point guard for the 2011 NBA champion DallasMavericks) showed Jones there are still many aspects of his game that needimprovement and the 20-year-old Mississauga native is ready to get to work.

“I see it as a challenge to exceed what we did the previous year,” said Jones, who is averaging 18.5 points per game this season. “People like touse the word potential with our group but as [assistant] coach [Jermaine]

Small says ‘potential is nothing if you don’t fulll it.’”

While starting off the regular season 1-3 wasn’t ideal for Jones and theRams, the sophomore point guard has no doubt that once the team

gets healthy that they’ll be legitimate contenders in the OUA and pos-sibly make a championship run come February.

Regardless of how the team nishes this season, one thing is certain:the future of the men’s basketball relies heavily on the play of their

explosive young point guard.

—GabrielLee




#1Soccer

As the nal whistle blew, the women’s soccer team walked off the VarsityCentre’s turf with with their heads down. Not only had they dropped their

rst playoff appearance in three years to U of T, but that loss marked the endof something greater. The Andrea Raso era of Ryerson soccer had ofcially

come to an end.

Without a doubt the best player in Ryerson’s women’s soccer program’shistory, Raso nished her career as a Ram on a high note. This past season

was a historic one for the program, as the team completed the regular seasonwith a program-best six wins and they reached the post-season for only the

third time in 26 years.

Those milestones would not have been reached without Raso.

In the 21 seasons before she was on the team, the women’s soccerprogram had a combined record of 16 wins, 194 losses and 13

ties. In Raso’s ve years with the Rams, they won 24 games.

Throughout her career, Raso amassed a team-high 19 goalsand was named to ve straight OUA all-star teams. In 2008,

she became Ryerson’s rst ever-female CIS All-Canadian. Thispast season, she scored six goals and was named a rst-team

OUA all-star.

“At the time I didn’t know that I was the rst ever,” she saidin reference to being named all-Canadian. “It feels good to

be recognized by the league and across Canada. It meansa lot to me.”

When faltering programs turn around, credit oftengoes to big-name coaches, increased funding or

state-of-the-art facilities. Often forgotten are

the athletes on the eld. In the history ofwomen’s soccer at Ryerson, there has

never been a greater player thanAndrea Raso.

—CharlesVanegas



19November 23, 2011 The EyeopenerARTS & LIFE

The empty lot across from the site

of Ryerson‘s future Student Learn-

ing Centre may become a home for a

eet of gourmet food trucks.

On Nov. 18, ve trucks parked

at the corner of Yonge and Gould

Streets as part of Food Truck Eats, a

eet of gourmet food trucks.

“We only decided we’re going to

do this two days ago,” said Suresh

Doss, publisher of lifestyle website

Spotlight Toronto and the organizer

of Food Truck Eats.

The food options available on

Friday ranged from cupcakes and

grilled cheese to Southeast Asian

cuisine.

Tamara Jensen, co-owner of El

Gastrónomo Vagabundo, a truck

that serves dierent international

fare, thinks the trucks would make

excellent use of space, even if only

for a temporary period.

“We [have] petitions going around

for this so we can get [municipal] li-

censes,” she says.

The owner of the site, the Lalani

Group, is eager to see the site used

for street food events and strongly

supports the idea, according to Doss.

The plan is to hold a few test Food

Truck Eats events to see the results.

Depending on numbers, it could

become a monthly, weekly or daily

event. More events will be held dur-

ing the spring.

In the past, they have set up in

Mississauga Celebration Square and

in the Distillery District during Nuit

Blanche, among other places.

Executives at Ryerson have al-

ready been in talks with Food Truck

Eats about the use of the lot at Yonge

and Gould.

Some of the possibilities discussed

include leing Ryerson use the space

to display student artwork or set

up booths run by dierent student

groups.

“So far it’s been positive, but only

because they have seen examples [of

our previous work],” said Doss.

Doss has also reached out to lo-

cal establishments like Thai food

restaurant Salad King to oer them

the chance to set up their own food

booths.

Food Truck Eats spread the word

about their Ryerson debut primarily

through the use of social media sites

like Facebook and Twier.

“So far we’ve seen a great re-

sponse,” said Jensen.

Kelly Ali, a third-year psychology

student, found out about the event

through Twier. She hopes that the

trucks will someday become a cam-

pus mainstay.

“It just oers something dierent

and it’s cheaper and easy on-the-

go,” said Ali.

Presenting students with more

options, according to Doss, is one of

the project’s more important aims.

“I just want to show people that

there are more options to street food

other than burgers and fries,” Doss

says.

Meals on wheelspark at RyersonOn Friday, Nov. 18, the Ryerson community wasserved by a eet of trucks offering diverse foodfare. Alvina Siddiqui reports on the possibilityof Food Truck Eats becoming a permanent xture

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Ryerson reaps rewards of RemixThe Remix Project gives youth an opportunity to explore creative industries. Tara Deschamps reports

Hidden behind Allan Lamport

Stadium in Liberty Village lies a

small building that houses The Re-mix Project — a charity that edu-

cates youth ages 16 to 22 in the cre-

ative industries.

Remix participants use the fa-

cilities to develop documentaries,

clothing lines, albums and other

creative work. Some students now

aend Ryerson, such as rst-year

journalism student Beza Getachew.

She credits Remix with teachingher skills that she uses at Ryerson.

“She had only one or two pub-

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ter [she graduated] she had mul-

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“I know it’s going to help me

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Participants are learning from

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You’ll drink a

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Aries

On the rst day

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be ruined when

you lose a leg in

a freak dreidel accident.

Cancer

You will be

trampled in a

hit-and-run by

some drunk bastard with a

sleigh and 12 reindeer.

Virgo

You feel like

you probably

should have

gone to class at least once

this semester, but you were

probably too high to learn

anything anyway.

Scorpio

You will take

too much Ad-

derall and

spend ten hours watching

that Yule log channel in-

stead of studying for exams.

Aquarius

Holidays are a

time to spend

with family, so

you should probably hold

o on that abortion for a few

weeks.

Pisces

You’ll go into

your nals

relaxed and

stress free once you realize

that even if you pass, your

degree is still going to be

worthless.

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BY KAI BENSON

Attention Undergraduate Students

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Mark Your CalendarsFriday, november 25Last meeting of Friday classes

Friday, December 2

Monday classes will meet for the

last time on this day

Monday, December 5 to

Saturday, December 17Final exams

This timetable change does not aect courses

oered by the Yeates School of Graduate Studies and

The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education.

For questions, contact [email protected]

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Wishing you a bright and festive holiday season

The holidays are a time to reect as well as look ahead. At Ryerson, there is much to celebrate and this is

a wonderul time o year to do it. I am proud o the outstanding accomplishments o our students, aculty

and staf; the diversity o our campus; and the mark we are making in our vibrant, downtown setting.

You make Ryerson what it is: a remarkable university. Your creativity and enthusiasm contribute to the

vitality o our community and city. And your optimism, determination and spirit never ail to inspire.

We see a uture o possibilities, and as the holidays draw near, we share a sense o gratitude or all that

we have – and hopes o peace, health and happiness or others around the world.

I wish each o you a joyous holiday break with loved ones. I cannot wait or the new year – it’s going

to be an extraordinary 2012 at Ryerson.

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