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THE ENDof his era

Sheldon Levy,

Ryerson and

how everythingchanged. P6



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Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2015 NEWS 3

Equity service centres propose new levyBy Jacob Dubé

Ryerson’s equity service centres

have published a report that pro-poses seeking a student levy toover their growing costs.

The service centres, which in-lude The Centre for Women &

Trans People, The Good Food

Centre, Racialised Students’ Col-ective, RyeAccess, RyePride andhe Trans Collective, are proposing

two-dollar per-student levy thatwould possibly replace their an-nual budget given to them by theRyerson Students’ Union (RSU).

Equity and campaigns organiserCorey Scott said that there weremany options available when he

reated the report, but a studentevy seemed the most obvious.

“It’s a good way to make sure

hat, especially in a scenario wherehe equity service centres fall un-

der the students’ union, [they]

know they have this budget setside,” Scott said.He said that a lot of other simi-

ar organizations across Canada,ike the University of Toronto’students for Barrier-free Access,

have a student levy in place — al-owing them to have a reserve thathelps them plan for deficits. Under

he current structure, he said thatsn’t feasible.

“The problem is because we’re

organizations within another or-anization, the strategic growth

s a bit fluctuating. It’s difficult tofigure out what that growth willook like year to year,” Scott said.So having a dedicated levy allows

ach of those equity service centres

or all the equity service centrescollectively to strategically grow

together.”According to the first semester

revenues and expenditures report,

the equity service centres werenearly $16,000 over their $45,615budget for the 2015-2016 year by

August.Vice-president equity Rabia

Idrees said that in previous years,the equity service centres had more

spending freedom, and this year’sRSU has implemented more con-trols to make sure their expenses

are in check.“I guess that shift has been dif-

ferent for the equity service cen-

tres because there are people thatworked there last year that arestill working there this year, so I

guess it’s a drastic change that theyfeel,” Idrees said. “But at the endof the day, it’s better to do it that

way to make sure what’s being

spent is within the budget.”According to RSU president

Andrea Bartlett, implementing alevy would require tuition fees toincrease by the two dollars per

student, as proposed.The equity service centres have,

in the past, campaigned and par-

ticipated in events centered onfighting tuition costs, such as thissummer’s pride week theme “Free

Love, Free Education.” Theirwebsite also mentions rising tu-

ition fees in Ontario, and “byworking together and organizingcampaigns and initiatives, we canmake change and win major victo-

ries for students.”Bartlett said the equity services

all took a firm stance on not in-creasing tuition, and that RSU

vice-president education CormacMcGee has been criticised by for-mer equity service centre employ-

ees about his stance on tuition fees.“I think that’s it’s ironic that, if

it’s indeed a levy, that the groups

who are fighting against us to de-crease tuition fees are now askingus to lobby to go through a ref-

erendum to increase them again,”Bartlett said.

Scott said the equity service cen-

tres have not taken a clear stanceon tuition fees, but they have his-

torically been active in tuition re-

form, especially for marginalizedstudents.

RSU vice-president operations

Obaid Ullah said the options for alevy are either to have a referendumthrough the RSU, or the equity cen-

tres would form a separate societyand hold their own. But Idrees saidsocieties are usually faculty-based,

so the membership of the societywould be harder to pin down.

“I don’t know if there’s an un-

derlying them-versus-us mentalitythat’s going on in the ESC, I don’tknow what’s going on,” Idrees

said. “I don’t know if they haveany personal problems with us be-cause we are the different Trans-

form team. That might have madethem want to start their own soci-ety, separate from the RSU.”

Muslim banner taken down...againBy Behdad Mahichi

An Ahmadiyya Muslim Students’

Association (AMSA) of Ryersonbanner hanging in front of LakeDevo by was cut down in what the

roup calls an act of Islamopho-

bia.Titled “Islam: At Odds with the

West…?” the event scheduled forDec. 3 will be a forum for studentso ask questions about the religion.

The banner was tied betweenwo trees with rope. On Monday,t had been torn on one side, cut-ing through the metal covered

holes. The banner cost $220.Ali Ahmed, president of AMSA

Ryerson, said this is the second

ime they’ve had their posters van-dalized in two years.

Last year, the group held an

vent focused on fighting extrem-st influence towards Canadian

outh — but their banner, whichwas again hung above Lake Devo,was taken down as well.

“I don’t want to say who did

t and why it happened,” said

Ahmed, “but Islamophobia is

huge right now. It’s somethingwe’re trying to tackle every day,and I think the best way to do that

is through education, dialogue andbuilding bridges with each other.”

Ahmed said that ironically, the

event was planned to tackle Islam-ophobia.

“We need to reach out to stu-

dents before anyone else does withsomething that isn’t true,” he said.

Ryerson Students’ Union vice-president equity Rabia Idrees saidthat the group notified her, andthen filled out a formal complaint

to Ryerson Security.

“I’m not going to give the blame

to a Ryerson student, it could beanybody from the Toronto area,”she said. “There’s clearly a lot ofignorance, hatred, misinformation

that people have on others whofollow the Islamic faith.”

“We’ll put it back up, and it

can come down a hundred moretimes,” said Ahmed.

“We’re not going to respond

back with hate or violence, once

we do find out who did it, we’renot going to hold any grudges.

We’re going to do what Islamteaches us, we’re going to be re-spectful and peaceful.”

The banner before it was taken down. PHOTO COURTESY: ALI AHMED

The equity service centres, housed in the SCC, are proposing a student levy to cover their costs. PHOTO: CHARLES VANEGAS



4 EDITORIAL Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2015

Editor-in-Chief Sean “Pretty Prancing Prankster”

Wetselaar

NewsKeith “X and 3” Capstick

Farnia “Maybe right” FekriLaura “Fisticuffs” Woodward

FeaturesEmma “Three drafts” Cosgrove

Biz and Tech Jacob “Peanut sauce” Dubé

Arts and Life

Al “Morning soda” Downham

SportsDevin “Watching TV” Jones

CommunitiesDylan “Foreign correspondant”

Freeman-Grist

PhotoSierra “Wudt” Bein

Jake “Has the plague” ScottAnnie “SD” Arnone

FunRobert “Majestic” Mackenzie

MediaRob “Cereal” Foreman

Online Josh “Finally leaving” Beneteau

Nicole “15 hours” SchmidtLee “Probably on his patio”

Richardson

General ManagerLiane “Beer sherpa” McLarty

Advertising ManagerChris “End in sight” Roberts

Design Director

J.D. “Hawt” Mowat

Intern ArmyGracie “Wanda” Brison

Mikayla “Phoebe” FasulloBen “Ralphie” HoppeAngela “Keesha” Feng

Victoria “Dorothy Ann” Sykes

ContributorsNoushin “In the sink” Ziafati

Noella “Nihlist” OvidIgor “Come app me” MagunBehdad “BehFamilyFriend”

MahichiAnika “Montreal” Syeda

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ThompsonAlanna “Warrior” Rizza”

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Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2015 NEWS 5

Take me to Church Street development

By Anika Syeda

Ryerson’s development on ChurchStreet is in the final stages of de-sign and construction is nearly

ready to begin.The development will be named

the Daphne Cockwell Health Sci-

ences Complex — after receivingan $8 million donation from the Jack Cockwell family and Brook-

field Partners Foundation. Thecrew on the project plans to breakground on Dec. 2.

In the tallest part of the struc-

ture, there will be 330 studentresidence units.

The building will be home to

the school of nursing, the schoolof nutrition and the school of oc-cupational and public health. It

will also house the midwifery edu-cation program, the communica-tions, government and community

engagement department, univer-sity advancement, food servicesand a new learning zone called

the Fabrication Zone built for stu-dents to make physical projects.

The school has been collabo-

rating on the Church Street de-

velopment with architecture firmPerkins+Will since mid-2013.

Representatives from each of

the university’s programs and de-partments who will be using the

building will meet with the firm todiscuss their needs early on in theprocess.

Perkins+Will is working on the

final stages of the design while theEastern Construction CompanyLtd. prepares to work on the site

once the excavation and shoringpermits are issued by the city.

“Our plans are about 75 per

cent complete,” said AndrewFrontini, the design lead on

the project.“We’re still working on details

of how the [indoor building ma-terials] and interior design looks,

but the structure is just about de-

signed and they’re starting workon the building.”

Fortini said the current stageof design is expected to lastthroughout the winter and then

Perkins+Will will supervise theconstruction.

The excavation and site prepa-

ration stage is expected to contin-ue through June of next year. Thebuilding is expected to be complet-

ed in fall 2018.

McGill offering an LGBTQ+ scholarship— should Ryerson do the same?

By Maddie Binning

As of last Thursday, McGill Uni-ersity offers a scholarship to

ecognize LGBTQ+ leadership.At Ryerson, there are no internalcholarships available specifically

or the LGBTQ+ community.Several Ryerson students, such

s first-year English student Matt-

Blois, questioned the necessity forsimilar scholarship at Ryerson.“I just don’t see the need for

his,” Blois said.

Timothy Thompson, chief oper-ting officer at TD Asset Manage-

ment, is the donator of McGill’s

cholarship.“Back in 1990, if there had been

n award [like this] it might have

llowed me to bring my whole selfo school,” he says.

Graduating with an MBA from

McGill University’s Desautels Fac-ulty of Management and carvingout a career in banking and fi-

nance, Thompson said he has littleecollection of talks of diversity.Over the course of my career of

5 years, the conversation aboutdiversity and inclusion has defi-nitely opened up,” he said.

Thompson will be donating annnual scholarship of $20,000

or each of the next five years to aMBA student within or in supportof the LGBTQ+ community atDesautels who demonstrates both

cademic excellence and exem-

plary commitment and leadership

within the LGBTQ+ community.The City of Toronto Street

Needs Assessment confirmed that20 per cent of youth in the shel-

ter system identify as lesbian, gay,bisexual, transsexual or queer.This is more than twice the rate of

homelessness for all age groups.According to McGill first-year

physics and mathematics student

Elias Hess Childs, such a scholar-ship is necessary if all students areto approach loans from similar fi-nancial standing.

“I think a lot of people confuseequity and equality,” said Childs.

“The purpose of affirmative ac-tion has always to been to levelthe playing field, not give anyonea head start.”

The question of whether an

LGBTQ+-specific scholarship

ought to exist divided studentsinto two opposing factions.

“Consider that some LGBTQ+people are actually kicked out oftheir homes or no longer receive

financial support once they come

out as LGBT+ to their parents,”said first-year RTA student Aaron

Brown.However, students in opposition

to the scholarship argue that there

is adequate funding for somebodyin need of it, regardless of whetherthey are straight or not. According

to Blois, OSAP and other ways ofobtaining funds for school negatethe need for an LGBTQ+-oriented

scholarship.“If your grades are high enough

you can apply for scholarships,

gay or not,” Blois said.Gay first-year computer science

student David Jardine agrees withBlois, but added that LGBTQ+students are not yet at a level play-ing field with heterosexual and cis-

gender students in terms of socialstatus and acceptance.

“I assume this scholarship is an

attempt to level the playing fieldby giving LGBTQ+ people a betterchance at getting a post-secondary

education,” he said. “While thatis great, I think Canada’s anti-discrimination laws are sufficientenough to give us a good chance

of getting employed.”Promoting the message of em-

bracing all sexualities takes pre-

cedence over compensating mon-etarily for the lack of societalacceptance, Jardine said, and uni-

versities should prioritize aware-ness campaigns.

The Daphne Cockwell Health Sciences Complex is planned to break ground on Dec. 2 and be completed for use in fall 2018

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6 Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2015FEATURES

TH E AG ERyerson President Sheldon Levy is packing up his ofce — this semester will be his last. JONA

Erin McGinn remembers her

first meeting with Sheldon

Levy after he became Ryer-

on’s president, walking together

hrough Yonge-Dundas Square in

he fall of 2005. Levy was trying

o convince McGinn — a former

olleague from his time working

n government and institutional

elations at the University of To-

onto (U of T) — to come work

with him.

The square was an open con-

truction site back then, unfinished

op-floor interiors visible throughkeletal steel-frame facades. Pre-

occupied with Ryerson’s dismal

thletic facilities, Levy remarked,

Wouldn’t it be nice if someone

put an ice rink up there?”

“What is he talking about?”

McGinn remembers thinking.

Who would ever put a skating

ink on the third story of a build-

ng?”

She accepted his offer and be-

ame assistant vice president of

ommunications, government and

ommunity engagement.

Seven years later, Levy stood

beaming on Ryerson’s third-

floor ice rink as Stephen Harper

dropped a ceremonial puck to

mark the opening of the Mattamy

Athletic Centre (MAC), a sprawl-

ng new athletic complex on the

top two floors of historic Maple

Leaf Gardens.

Levy couldn’t see the future,

but he could help shape it and

did so multiple times to bring

Ryerson closer and closer, build-

ing by building, to his vision. The

expanded Ted Rogers School of

Management, the MAC, the reno-

vated Ryerson Image Centre and,

most recently, Yonge Street’s Stu-

dent Learning Centre all stand in

testament to his drive and am-

bition on behalf of his campus.

Now, as he moves on to becomeOntario’s deputy minister of train-

ing, colleges and universities, we

at Ryerson are left to contemplate

our university without him, and

can’t help but wonder if the prog-

ress he championed will stop.

“It’s grown from acommuter campus

to a campus studentswant to spend their

time on”

- Sheldon Levy

For those who know Levy —

those who worked alongside him

over the past decade and will

carry on without him come next

semester — it isn’t an ardent city

builder they will miss. It’s a man.

It’s a personality, a warmth and

a sense of humour. Levy’s many

tangible accomplishments, ex-

panding his campus both physi-

cally and in terms of student

engagement, will no doubt come

to define his legacy at Ryerson —

but they’ve also been thoroughly

covered, both in this and other

Toronto publications. (Toronto

Life ranked him 28 on a list of

“The 50 Most Influential Peoplein Toronto.”) Perhaps most re-

markable about Levy is that,

while accomplishing all that he

did, he remained a pleasure to be

around. He was always smiling.

He seemed to be having fun.

“The thing about a leader is that

you need to be all the things the

business books tell you a leader

should be — vision and hard work

and so on,” says Charles Falzon,

dean of radio and television arts.

“But the real secret is that you

have to be human first. That’s

what strikes me about Sheldon.”

Sheldon Levy is the only son

of parents from Poland and

Russia — a truck driver

and a homemaker. He grew up

with two sisters in a small house

near Dufferin and Eglinton. In his

teens, he slacked off, skipped class

and failed Grade 10 at Downs-

view Public School. He’s nothing

if not relatable.

Levy’s path from high school

burnout to Ryerson president was

an unlikely one made possible by

a series of mentors. The first was

a high school teacher who recog-

nized his talent for math, in which

Levy went on to earn a master’s

degree from York. The last was

former Ontario premier Bill Davis

who, when Levy was on the fence

about becoming Ryerson’s presi-dent in 2005, urged him to stick

with it.

Years later, Davis would phone

Levy to inform him he’d won

the 2014 Egerton Ryerson award

for dedication to public educa-

tion. Levy became the first person

from Ryerson to receive Ryerson’s

award.

Now, at 67, education is a com-

mon theme in Levy’s family. His

wife and two daughters are all

schoolteachers, making it no sur-

prise when he asserts, repeatedly

over the course of his tenure and

at the heart of every decision he

makes as president, that students

come first.

Upon arriving at Ryerson, Levy

was disappointed by the low

amount of student engagement,

with few electing to spend their

free time on campus, before or af-

ter class. His predecessor, Claude

Lajeunesse, was a nuclear physi-

cist who’d worked hard to en-

trench Ryerson as a university in

the academic sense, but had little

of Levy’s charisma and hadn’t

done much to enhance his stu-

dents’ campus experience.

The Ryerson Levy saw in his

first days as president was a uni-

versity that struggled to express

itself with the pride of historic

schools such as Queen’s or U of T.It was an environment out of sync

with what it meant to students,

and the pride Levy knew existed.

Adam Kahan, vice-president of

university advancement, still re-

members Levy’s first directive as

president to improve his campus,

bringing it physically closer to the

way students felt about it: “Let’s

plant flowers.”

Ten years after that first sym-

bolic action, Levy says remedying

the issue of student engagement

on campus is his greatest achieve-

ment at Ryerson. “It’s grown from

a commuter campus to a campus

students want to spend their timeon,” he says. Each new space he

created for Ryerson all worked to-

ward the common goal of students

engaging with their university.

PHOTO: MARISSA DEDERER



Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2015 7FEATURES

son made more than the president

of the United States, taking homeover $445,000.

But according to those who

know Levy, whopping paychequeshaven’t changed a thing abouthim. “He doesn’t take himself se-

riously,” Hanigsberg says. “He’sthe least elitist person you’re evergoing to meet. He doesn’t care if

you’re a rich donor or a first-yearstudent who just walked in andplunked yourself down in his of-fice.”

Provost and vice-president aca-demic Mohamed Lachemi, whowill be taking over as interim pres-

ident come December (an unenvi-able position due to the toughnessof the act he must follow), first

met Levy when he was a facultymember. He agrees the president’shumbleness was a defining char-

acteristic. “You don’t feel thatthere’s a difference between himas a president and the rest of us,”

Lachemi says.From colleagues in administra-

tion even on down to the janito-

rial staff, Levy’s down-to-earthdemeanour and active sense of

humour had an impact on thosehe encountered. One janitor evenwrote a song about Levy, andhad it professionally recorded by

a professor in the RTA School of

O F LEV Y RUNET takes a deeper look at the man, the plan and the pursuit of a revitalized Ryerson.

Levy’s decade of transfor-

mative city-building wasn’tonly noticed by current

tudents, but also did wonders

or attracting prospective ones (akey indicator of success for anyuniversity). Ryerson currently

eceives approximately 10 appli-ations for every available spot

— higher than any other univer-

ity in Ontario. And, comparedo just over 4,000 when he began

his tenure, last year Levy wel-

omed more than 7,000 first-yeartudents to his campus. Growthor Levy was about students more

han about buildings and he wasbringing his downtown campusmore of both.

“I always wanted to leave whenpeople said, ‘Why are you leav-

ng?’” Levy says. “I never wantedo overstay my welcome.” But, in014, Ryerson’s board of gover-

nors quietly changed a long-stand-

ng university bylaw limiting any

president to two five-year terms.The message, it seemed, was that

Levy was welcome to Ryerson’spresidency for as long as he want-ed.

Ryerson’s Student LearningCentre, which opened ear-

lier this year on the cornerof Yonge and Gould streets, is anotherworldly eight-storey glass

hulk that best illustrates Levy’scommitment to Ryerson students.“It wasn’t about monoliths to the

administration or monoliths toresearch,” says Julia Hanigsberg,

former vice-president of finance.“The most spectacular views weregoing to be given to students.”

Although Levy gave the sleek,new and absurdly modern $112million building to his students

(while Ryerson executives remainin stodgy Jorgensen Hall, a grey-brown brick tower), Levy’s tenurehasn’t exactly been an act of char-

ity. In 2013, the president of Ryer-

Media.“It’s difficult to leave,” says

Levy when asked about his song,which was performed for him onemorning in his office. “And it just

makes it more difficult when peo-ple are thanking you.”

Considering his preoccupation

with the needs and ideas of others— both students and fellow staff,— it should come as no surprise

that people generally like Levy. Af-ter all, his approach to presidencywas emphatically about people.

Hanigsberg speaks fondly of herfirst executive’s retreat at Levy’scottage on Crowe Lake, explain-

ing that the theme might as wellhave been, “What the hell do youwant?” Levy was master of the

brainstorming session and valuedthe ideas of others with a manage-ment style that encouraged partici-

pation from everyone. Hanigsbergcalls it “spaghetti-at-the-wall lead-ership.”

“You’re going to have a reallyhard time getting anyone to sayanything bad about Sheldon,” she

says — a joke at the expense of myjournalistic sense of balance. And,

in the end, I never did.

In his last month as president,it’s already become clear that

Ryerson will miss Levy —from faculty to students to jani-

tors. If not for all he’s done, the

numerous grand achievementsfor which he’s been thoroughlypraised (his farewell celebration

is Nov. 25 at the MAC), we’llmiss him for who he was. Put-ting aside his accomplishments,which conjure images of business

tycoons and million-dollar hand-shakes, Levy is best characterizedby the little things — the small,

human moments that will be re-membered by colleagues long af-ter his departure.

For Lachemi, one such momenthappened last winter, walkingback from an off-campus event

near University Avenue. Levy hadsuggested they walk in spite of thecold, which was increasingly get-

ting to Lachemi, who had left histoque on campus. As soon as Levynoticed him shivering, he removed

his own hat and insisted Lachemitake it. “I have more hair thanhim,” Lachemi quips. “But he

forced me to accept it.”Even after they made it back

to campus, Levy refused to take

his hat back. For Lachemi, nowand more so come December,

when Levy will leave Ryerson forQueen’s Park, it has become afond memento. “I still have thathat,” he says, laughing. “I’m keep-

ing it because it’s from him.”

“You’re going to have a really hardtime getting anyone to say anything

bad about Sheldon” - Julia Hanigsberg

PHOTO: DASHA ZOLOTA

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Levyannounces plans to transform the Maple LeafGardens, 2009; with Stephen Harper at theMAC unveiling, 2012; Sheldon Heavy; speakingat the DMZ; grocery shopping with The Eyeopener ;

breaking ground at the SLC construction site, 2013.

FILE PHOTO

PHOTO: SEAN TEPPER

PHOTO: LINDSAY BOECKL

PHOTO: MARISSA DEDERERPHOTO: LEE RICHARDSON

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Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2015 BIZ & TECH 9

Ryerson profs Robert Clapperton (above) and Matthew Tiesen created a game to simulate business ventures. PHOTO: TAGWA MOYO

Rye profs create accessible business game

New Indian businesses come to DMZ

President Sheldon Levy with the Survelytics team. PHOTO: C OURTESY MANDAR VAIDYA

By Noushin Ziafati

By Noella Ovid

A duo of Ryerson professors are

using computer games and in-class

ctivities to try and teach students

bout how to start and maintain

businesses.Robert Clapperton, along

with collaborator Matthew Ties-

en, have developed a simulation

ame called the Global Social In-

novation Game (GSIG), which

will teach high school students

n grades 11 and 12 how to start

businesses that will work to solve

ocial problems instead of simply

making money.

“It’s a simulation because in

eality, to expect high school stu-

dents to start a business is not nec-

ssarily realistic but it’ll be as real

feeling for them as possible,”

Clapperton said.The GSIG will be piloted in Feb-

uary 2016 as a six-week extracur-

icular activity, which interested

high-school students can volun-

eer to participate in. The game is

0 per cent computer-based and

he other half requires students to

ngage with in-person interactions

Five Indian startups will be joining

Ryerson’s DMZ from Nov. 30 to

Dec. 11 as a part of its accelerator

program.

The contest winners are selected

by Zone Startups India, a jointenture of Ryerson Futures Inc.

nd the Bombay Stock Exchange

nstitute. LightMetrics and Plack-

l from Bangalore, Neuron and

wift File Transfer from Delhi and

urvelytics from Thane are partici-

pating in the program.

These startups were chosen

mong 300 business applicants

on the “potential of their business

o go global.”

Plackal

This company is behind an app

alled LoveCycles. The app helps

women track their reproduc-

ive health by tracking menstrual

ycles and mapping out different

phases to increase accuracy of

ontraception and consumption.

“As the app evolves, we are

ooking to get into adjacent areas,

like tracking pregnancy or sharing

this data with your partner [or] a

doctor,” said John Paul, founder

and CEO of Plackal. “Also, per-

haps a community angle wherein

women can connect with their

peers and discuss issues around re-

productive health.”Neuron

A data analytics firm of only 15

people, Neuron is hoping to offer

their platform as a service for de-

velopers of sentiment analysis and

language processing.

“I think coming to Canada will

open up a lot of doors for us,”

said Veer Mishra, founder and

CEO. “Partnering with companies

that are actually operating into e-

commerce or maybe primarily the

companies that have a lot of data

and they don’t know what to do

about it. I think we have the an-

swers [for] that.”

Mishra said the company is look-

ing to explore possible business

expansion opportunities and has a

plan to set up a branch in Canada.

“The idea is we may start off

with establishing a small sales

team there and then maybe ship a

research base as well,” he said.

Survelytics

Survelytics is a digital market re-search platform for anyone that

wants to conduct surveys or collect

data. The app is available on both

iOS and Android and consists of

image, audio, video and location

features.

“The difference here is you

don’t need connectivity. So even

if you don’t have any data, you

can collect data on these apps and

later synchronize that data. And

the person who has designed the

survey can start looking at the

results online in real time,” said

Mandar Vaidya, founder and

CEO of Survelytics.Through the DMZ, Survelytics

is looking to use Canada as a base

to sell their product in the North-

American market. The company

sees Canada as a good launch pad

and a great opportunity to take the

startup to new heights in sales and

market penetration, Vaidya said.

“Since we access the U.S. mar-

ket remotely, it is an impediment

in getting new customers. So we

look at Canada as a base so that

we can easily go to approach the

U.S. market and the Canadian

market, and be more acceptable

in that because we will be a local

entity,” said Vaidya.Check out theeyeopener.com

for the profiles on the other Zone

Startups India winners, LightMet-

rics and Neuron.

between classmates and teachers.

Students will create risk-free

businesses and will aim to ad-dress the United Nations Millen-

nium Development Goals, includ-

ing poverty alleviation, education

and sustainability.

Clapperton approached Me to

We, a for-profit social enterprise,

with the game. They are now

working together on the GSIG

project to create a curriculum for

high school students that will get

them involved with social activ-ism and entrepreneurship for lon-

ger periods of time, as opposed to

single day events such as We Day

celebrations.

The GSIG project was funded by

Ryerson’s RECODE, an initiative

based around fuelling social inno-

vation and encouraging students

to become social entrepreneurs.

RECODE had a grant competition,

which Clapperton and Tiessen ap-plied to last year. Once their pro-

posal for the GSIG got approved,

they started building the game.

The project is inspired by Clap-

perton’s work at Ryerson as a

professional communication pro-

fessor. This fall, he introduced

similar simulations to his students

at Ryerson in CMN279, an intro-

duction to professional communi-

cation course.

“The simulation version that

we developed is where the stu-

dents don’t go to any classrooms,

it’s purely digital and there’s nosyllabus, there [are] no modules,

there [are] no lessons,” he said.

“They join a fictitious com-

munications consulting company

and they get put on client teams

and they work on projects with

real clients. So they work through

a series of projects, and in those

projects, they learn everything

that they learn in a communica-

tions course but by practicing it

and doing it.”

Clapperton hopes this simula-

tion-based form of teaching will

appeal to students that want to

learn things they can directlytranslate to the real world in the

future.

“It’s the most fun way to teach.

You can’t beat it,” he said. “For

the courses and for the game, I’m

really looking forward to seeing

what kind of ideas come out of

the students.”



Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2015 SPORTS 10

The crickets of Ryerson chirping awayBy Gracie Brison

The Ryerson cricket team received offical team status last February. PHOTO: DEVIN JONES

The Ryerson cricket club which

started last year has been recog-

nized by the university and became

an official team this past February.

Due to a high level of interestfrom prospective players, the club

created two team for their tourna-

ment in King City in August. One

team made it to the quarters and

the other to the semi-finals out of

twelve teams. RSU vice-president

operations and captain of one of

the teams, Obaid Ullah, feels that

the success of the tournament

helped influence the decision to

create an official team.

“There’s always been cricket

but it’s never been through official

channels. People used to play but

no one put in the effort to unite

and organize with the university

requirements,” Ullah said. “We’ve

seen a big increase in the numberof students participating and we’re

slowly progressing forward.”

Cricket is a complicated sport, so

here is a quick synopsis of the over-

all game. A bat, a ball, and 11 play-

ers on each team is required. The

field on which the game is played

is referred to as the pitch. At either

end of the pitch are three wooden

stakes, referred to as wickets.

The team batting is responsible

for defending the wickets by try-

ing to hit the ball with a curved

bat. The fielding team attempts to

prevent runs being scored by set-

ting up in positions most likely tocatch the ball. The striker must

hit the ball and run to the oppo-

site end of the pitch while his non-

striking partner runs to his end.

The run doesn’t count unless the

player touches the ground with

their bat or their body. A batter

can be called out if the pitcher

knocks over the wickets.

This past October the team trav-

eled to Boston Mass. where they

participated in and won the Amer-

ican College Cricket Dream11

North East Championships, tak-

ing home the trophy. The Rams

defeated Rutgers University by five

wickets, to win the tournament forthe third time since 2011.

The men of the cricket club have

always taken a pretty serious ap-

proach to the game. And despite

having only club status, they do

have support from the administra-

tion and are looking for funding to

take the team to the next level. They

have already been receiving more

publicity and much more support

from the crowds. Come game time,

Kerr Hall gym will have cricket fans

coming in from all over.

“We had a game last week and

that was probably our biggest

crowd yet. We had commentarygoing on, we had music, and a

different university coming in,”

said captain of the other team An-

ees Saeed. “As a player, I feel the

home ground advantage and we’re

feeling the support.”

The biggest tournament and

challenge for the cricket team

comes in March when they’ll par-

ticipate in the American College

National championships in Flori-

da. Last season the Rams lost in

the semi-final game by one run,

placing third. For Ullah, this year’s

tournament is all about redeeming

themselves and aiming for a berth

in the finals.So with the cricket club now of-

fical the Rams are on their way

to their first seaon of competitive

play. Here’s to a wicket season.

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‘He’s just not funny anymore’

obert Mackenzie isn’t going anywhere. PHOTO: SIERRA BEIN

The public is looking to oust Robert Mackenzie in wake of recent allegations

The Ryerson community is calling

or The Eyeopener’s fun editor toesign amidst recent evidence ofn embezzlement scheme.

“This whole scam ofirty money has completelyhanged the way I view the sec-

ion,” said Maggie Gorman, aegular fun reader. “He’s just notunny anymore.”

Two weeks ago, an Eyeopen-

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By Pew Chalmers charging the paper “travel ex-

penses” for his weekend getawaysto Hamilton.

This week, Mackenzie spokepublically about the chargesagainst him for the first time

at a press conference outsideof the Sally Horsfall building. “Ihave worked diligently to bring

the fun section out of the darkages and I don’t plan on handingover my successes anytime soon,”he said.

Unfortunately for Mackenzie,the press conference hasn’t re-moved the public outcry as the

evidence against him continues togrow.

“This kind of greed is dis-gusting,” third-year biologystudent Trey Dillon said after theconference. “We can’t trust him

anymore. He needs to be fired.”Mackenzie is currently un-

der contract until the end

of the school year. Protestors are

demanding the editor to resign bythe end of the fall semester.

In the thick of the mayhem,

several editors at The Eyeopen-

er have joined the campaignto have their colleague resign.

“As journalists, there’s no waywe can support the lying, cheat-ing and stealing that Robert has

perpetuated this year,” saidsports editor Devin Jones.“We are asking him to resign and

not to further diminish our pa-per’s integrity.”

It appears that Mackenzie

has no plans to step downfrom his role as fun editor. The

public will next hear fromMackenzie in the bi-annual Stateof the Fun Section address nextweek.

*The source’s name has been

changed to protect their identity

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even Factory Shoe. And I’m surethere’s more where that came from.

In fact, if you notice a place

that sells shoes that wasn’t named

above, send me an email and I willadd it to my list.

If you’re looking for a certain

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