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3November 9, 2011 The EyeopenerNEWS
Rye plans to shun historic Sam sign
BY MICHAEL CHEN
On the night of Nov. 2, a sewage
pipe backup caused the Interna-
tional Living and Learning Centre
(ILLC) to shut down its rst oor
and parking garage.
Maggie’s Eatery and the aected
classrooms are closed for restora-
tion.
Mitigation crews were immedi-
ately called to handle the risk of
contamination from moisture.
“They continued that work in
taking down damaged drywall,
moldy carpets,” said Chad Nut-
tall, manager for student housing
services.
He said it was the main sewer
line that runs along Mutual Street
which disconnected and backed
up their line.
“Obviously that sewage had no-
where to go and just started back-
ing up the pipe and then eventu-
ally it would start coming out the
drains on the rst oor,” said Nut-
tall.
The domestic fresh water in the
building had to be turned o the
next day to prevent more water
from ooding the rst oor.
Showers and washrooms were
made available at Pitman Hall for
the ILLC students during the day.
After sta did an inspection, the
water supply was restored Thurs-
day evening.
Nuall said the extent of damag-
es and the cost will not be known
until later this week.
“There’s a great deal of damage
on the rst oor and the parking
garage so we’re certainly prepar-
ing a claim that will go through
insurance,” he said.
The eight classes originally on
the rst oor had to be relocated to
classrooms in Kerr Hall East, Eric
Palin Hall, Victoria building, Ted
Rogers School of Management and
Sally Horsfall Eaton Centre. Park-
ing was also redirected to Pitman
Hall.
Pitman Hall’s cafeteria is now
open on weekends.
Maggie’s sta will work at Pit-
man and other campus locations
will stay open longer.
Krissatya Wisesa, a rst-year
business management student,
nds that Pitman has fewer veg-
etarian options.
“I feel like you’re downgrading
by eating [at Pitman] because ev-
erything is dierent. At Maggie’s,
they had a vegetarian menu,” said
Wisesa.
Rebecca East, a rst-year image
arts student, said she misses the
home-cooked meals at Maggie’s.
Before Pitman, she “was about to
call Student Housing Services and
call them for money from my meal
plan so that I could buy groceries.”
Ryerson has vowed to pay homage to the Sam the Record Man site by incorporating its iconic signage into the new StudentLearning Centre, but documents revealed they would rather not. Associate News Editor Carolyn Turgeon investigates
FILE PHOTO
Sam the Record Man was once
an integral part of Yonge Street,
but Ryerson is not a fan of the icon-
ic sign.
“I would rather not use the
sign,” said Ryerson President Shel-
don Levy.
This would come as a surprise
for community members who
campaigned extensively to save
the sign in 2007-08.
The piece of Toronto’s heritage
was designated as such by Kyle
Rae and the Heritage Recommen-
dation Board during his term as
Ward 27 councillor.
Rae, who has since established
urban consultant company PQR
Solutions, said that when Sam’s
went bankrupt there were many
people who contacted his oce
and made Facebook groups about
maintaining the sign.
“There were probably two gen-
erations of Torontonians who grew
up and saw it as their rite of pas-
sage as teenagers,” said Rae. “I
agreed at that time that there was
probably a signicant impact from
that sign.”
He now views the sign’s signi-
cance in a dierent light.
“There is still a cadre of Toron-
tonians that can identify with this
sign, but many current ones don’t
know [about it],” he said.
He understands the university’s
hesitation to place the sign on one
of their buildings. “It’s dicult to
expect Ryerson to stick the sign on
their property when the associa-
tion will be lost,” said Rae.
The stipulations were that if
they were to build on the property,
Sam’s sign would have to be re-
2001 Sam the Record Manwas forced to le for bank-ruptcy on Oct. 30, which ap-plied to 30 stores owned by
the family and was partiallydue to their $15-million debt.
2002 Sam’s sons Jasonand Bobby reopened theYonge Street store alongwith 11 franchise stores. The
franchise stores outside ofToronto were not a part ofthe bankruptcy ling.
2007 On June 22, citycouncil voted in favour ofdesignating the property asa heritage site. The building
was designated because theOntario Heritage Act had norules for store signs.
2007 On June 30, theagship store on Yonge andGould streets closed perma-nently. They pointed to the
inuence of technology onthe industry as a reason fortheir decision.
2008 On Jan. 18, RyersonUniversity bought the prop-erty to expand their campus,and later on decided to use
it for their upcoming StudentLearning Centre.
ILLC shut after sewage flooding
PHOTO: REBECCA BURTON
stored from its broken down state
and then incorporated.
The original plan was that the
sign could either be used in the
design of the Student Learning
Centre (SLC) or put on the South
side of the library building, facing
Gould Street.
“In order for the university to
be able to move on [the property]
they had to negotiate with the city
where the sign would be recon-
structed,” said Levy.
“I’m not sure, to be honest, if
that’s something we should be ask-
ing property owners to do,” said
current Ward 27 councillor KristynWong-Tam.
Levy also revealed that restor-
ing and mounting the sign to the
building will cost approximately
$250,000, which he believes could
be beer spent by the university.
Concillor Wong-Tam said there
are other complications as well.
“It may not be physically possi-
ble given the size of the sign as well
as technology having changed,”
she said.
The sign also doesn’t t into
the city’s new sustainable design
for Yonge Street, and its outdated
technology would be power con-
suming and hard to accommodate.
There are now discussions for a
more appropriate use of the sign or
a dierent tribute that would beer
fulll the needs of the school.
“We are trying to discuss with
[city council] a beer place to me-
morialize the Sam’s location,” said
Levy.
The Eyeopener obtained a status
report on the SLC which proposed
a sidewalk tribute instead of the
original plan.
Levy acknowledged that a side-
walk tribute was being considered,
while Wong-Tam said Ryerson had
taken steps in developing an inter-
pretive commemorative plaque for
the property.
Levy does not think Sam Snider-
man’s sons, Bobby and Jason,
would object.
“It wasn’t family that made the
issue, it was certain members of
the Toronto community that saw it
as an important thing and the city
council respected their wishes andput it as a condition on the univer-
sity,” said Levy.
He said Ryerson will make their
case, and the citizens may argue
against it, but it will ultimately be
up to the council.
“Should they make no other
decision we are obliged to follow
what they have already decided
and we will,” said Levy.
According to Rae, the sign was
never properly maintained and the
city had to get Sam a grant before
he would x it in the late ‘90s.
“We were trying to get it to look
like the people who owned proper-
ty on Yonge Street cared,” said Rae.
“Frankly, Sam didn’t care.”
Maggie’s Eatery ater the fooding.
Sam the Record Man in 2008.
Frankly, Sam didn’t care.— Kyle Rae,
former Ward 27 councillor
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4 November 9, 2011The Eyeopener EDITORIAL
LAURENSTRAPAGIELEDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Rye neverwantedSam
If you’re surprised that Ryerson
doesn’t want to use the Sam the Re-
cord Man sign, you shouldn’t be.
When the Student Learning Cen-
tre’s plans were rst revealed, the
building was modern, airy and
unlike anything else on the Yonge
Street strip. And that is precisely
why you didn’t see the Sam’s sign
anywhere.The neon spinning records were
installed almost half a century ago,
far before anyone was making at-
tempts to revitalize Yonge Street.
There was no place to buy a Mac-
book or a trendy burrito and there
were far fewer billboards lighting
up the Yonge and Dundas intersec-
tion.
There were strip joints, bars and
prostitutes balancing on their heels
in between. Sam’s is a relic of Yonge
Street’s ungentried and griy
past. A memorable part of Toron-
to’s history for some, but it’s a time
that Ryerson is building to forget.
Why would Ryerson want to put
a hunk of ancient neon discs on
their shiny new Yonge Street real
estate?
Their goal is the future and see-
ing through the task of bringing
Bloor Street’s pizzazz and the Dis-
covery District’s reputation for
innovation to Yonge Street. And
they’re certainly not going to let a
much-loved but very much dead
music store get in their way.
Even the politicians who fought
to have the sign preserved are giv-
ing the thought of using them on
the SLC a big ol’ “meh.”
Is it fair for Ryerson to buy a To-ronto landmark then try to pass
o the duty of reviving the signs?
That’s for you to decide.
Tweet us @theeyeopener with
what you think should become of
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5November 9, 2011 The EyeopenerNEWS
Ryerson school of social work
master’s student Sinem Ketenci is
taking the university to the Hu-
man Rights Tribunal of Ontario on
allegations of being deemed “racist
and inhuman” by a professor and
discriminated against for her belief
and work in ethical veganism.
“I have been blacklisted and fur-
ther marginalized. At present time
no faculty member is willing to
give me a reference,” said Ketenci.
Ketenci immigrated to Canada
from Turkey 10 years ago and start-
ed her master’s degree at Ryerson
in Sepember 2010. Upon entering
the program she formed “collegial
relations with other students and
faculty members.” In combination
with her master’s program she was
a class representative and graduate
teaching assistant.
Ketenci asked to incorporate her
research on animal rights and ethi-
cal veganism into an assignment
in October 2010. The professor
she was working with at the time
said “she did not know very much
about the subject maer,” but ex-
pressed a willingness to learn.
Yet the assignment was returned
with comments from her professor
that it was “very racist and inhu-
man.” The professor disagreed
with her stance of puing the suf-
fering of animals and the suering
of racialized people in the same
context.
“This is unspeakable of being
accused like this. I myself am a ra-
cialized immigrant woman,” said
Ketenci.
Ketenci said the professor and
herself came to an understanding
that they would respect each oth-
er’s beliefs. The professor agreed
she would not become a barrier to
Ketenci pursuing this research in
potential PhD programs.
In December 2010, Ketenci was
not only criticized by her teaching
assistant supervisor but also asked
if she understood how much she
had upset fellow sta. The teach-
ing assistant refused to continue to
work with her.
The same day she met with her
master research proposal (MRP)
supervisor who also criticized her.
Ketenci wrote in her leer to the
tribunal that they called her “very
oensive, dogmatic, not a critical
thinker, not open minded and dis-
honest.”
Ketenci said she was informed in
January 2011 that if she continued
with this subject maer her mas-
Student takes Rye to rights tribunalAfter four months of doing her master’s research project on ethical veganism, Sinem Ketenci was called “racist” and told toswitch topics. Ketenci is now taking the case to the Human Rights Tribunal. News Editor Rebecca Burton reports
Ryerson grad Sinem Ketenci says she has been “blacklisted” at Ryerson. PHOTO: MOHAMED OMAR
No home for exchange students coming to RyeBY SHAUNA UPTON
Students headed to Ryerson on
exchange are forced to nd their
own living arrangements. With
only eight month contracts, Hous-
ing Services oers no solutions to
students studying here for one se-
mester.
“The majority of exchange stu-
dents are here for one semester and
the bulk of them come in Septem-
ber,” said Gigi Law, international
communication and administrative
ocer at Ryerson.
New Zealand’s Auckland Uni-
versity of Technology (AUT) stu-
dent Emily Brown assumed cam-
pus housing would be available at
Ryerson.
“One of the main things I was
looking forward to with the ex-
change experience was living in a
dorm on campus,” she said.
Brown, studying human resourc-
es, stayed in a hotel for a few weeks
while looking for more permanent
accommodation.
She believed that the university
wasn’t particularly concerned if she
had somewhere to live or not.
ter’s would not be granted. All the
faculty members knew about the
topic, she said. “I was rejected after
four months of so much support.”
Nora Farrell, ombudsperson at
Ryerson said “there are not any
policies in place to indicate what
a student can or cannot pursue.”
There are policies on whether the
approach taken to the subject is
academic, she said. Her advice was
if a master’s student is having trou-
ble working with their program
advisor, the student is advised to
go to the program director.
In order to receive her master’s
degree, Ketenci changed her topicto the global food crisis. In a meet-
ing on Jan. 17, it was decided she
would change MRP supervisors.
The original supervisor said he
would send leers to the PhD pro-
grams in which she was applying
to state that he was no longer her
supervisor.
Ketenci said she was never told
those leers would be leers of
withdrawal explicitly stating that
the professor no longer supported
her PhD applications.
“The main case of discrimination
is not changing the topic. It was the
withdrawal leer to the schools to
which I sent in my PhD applica-
tions,” said Ketenci.
The leers of withdrawal were
sent to the Ontario Institute for
Studies in Education (OISE), at the
University of Toronto, where Ke-
tenci applied for PhD programs,
on Jan. 20, 2011.
“I didn’t even know the nature
of the leers. The only reason I
knew were because the leers were
cc’d to me. It was unethical because
I wasn’t given a chance to clarify
the issue,” she said.
In the policies of Ryerson grad-
uate studies it outlines that all
conict should try to be resolved
through “informal program chan-
nels.” It also states that whenever
possible “formal communications
should be limited to those parties
directly concerned in dealing with
the problems.”
Ketenci brought the issue to the
oce of discrimination and ha-
rassment at Ryerson in Septem-
ber 2011. Ketenci was told that it
should be considered an academic
maer and decision and that it was
not an issue of discrimination or a
failure to accommodate.Ketenci disagreed with the re-
sponse and wrote that the situa-
tion was a “serious threat towards
freedom of speech and freedom of
belief.”
Ketenci’s PhD applications have
since been rejected.
“No university would accept
PhD applications with withdrawal
leers. It’s a very serious accusa-
tion,” she said.
Fiona Gardener, admissions
and registration clerk of graduate
admissions at OISE, said that situ-
ations like this could only be dis-
cussed on a case by case basis but
that “it’s a unique situation, that
doesn’t happen very often.”
Ryerson was unavailable for any
comment at this time but Bruce
Piercey, director of university
advancement, said “we haven’t
received formal notication that
anything from the Human Rights
Tribunal of Ontario has been led.”
Full details of Ketenci’s creed for
ethical veganism is outlined in her
leer to the tribunal and she is ask-
ing for $15,000 in compensation.
“They’re hosting us,” said
Brown. “At home they take respon-
sibility for the student’s safety.”
Rachel Paine, an AUT student in
business information and tourism
management, said she knows Ry-
erson students who have lived on
campus at her university.
She believes living on campus
would have changed the dynamic
of her exchange.
“I potentially would’ve goen a
beer feel of Canada,” she said. “I
would have goen to know a few
more Canadian students, not just
exchange students.”
Ida Soe Asle, a Copenhagen
Business School student from Den-
mark, and Alex Blenko, an inter-
national business student from the
University of Portsmouth in the
U.K., said their universities oer
on-campus housing.
“The responsibility rests with
the individual student,” said Glen
Weppler, director of student com-
munity life.
Weppler is responsible for stu-
dent housing services, which of-
fers an o-campus listing for
rental accommodations in the city.
The service allows anyone to post,
which raises safety concerns for in-
ternational students.
The location is not ideal to cre-
ate additional housing, which has
resulted in approximately 400 stu-
dents on the waiting list.
“Other institutions may have
an easier time accommodating ex-
change students because they have
open rooms,” said Chad Nuall,
manager of student housing. “We
have such demand for our rooms.”
No university wouldaccept PhD applica-
tions with withdrawal
letters. It’s a very seri-
ous accusation.
— Sinem Ketenci,
Master’s student
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Kerr Hall a pain to maintain
6 November 9, 2011The Eyeopener NEWS
Chang profs eager to please studentsFor Chang School instructors, negative student feedback could mean the end of their teaching days. News Editor Mariana
Ionova looks at whether profs are hiking up marks in hopes of getting A’s on their instructor evaluations
Chang School instructors reapply every semester and student satisfaction affects their chances of being hired.
Lack of job security for Chang
School instructors may be pushing
profs to go easy on students in a
bid to keep them happy.
Chang School Continuing Edu-
cation instructors are contracted
on a term-by-term basis, with an
hourly wage of $133.10 for a total
of 42 hours each semester. But once
the term is over, they must apply
again to be considered for another
contract for the following term.
Linda Kowel, manager of in-
structor relations, said Chang
School instructors are in “contin-
gent teaching” positions, which
are not designed to provide job
stability but to meet the school’s
teaching needs.
“It’s not career teaching,” said
Kowel. “At the Chang School, that’s
not our intent. We oer courses
and we are looking for instructors
to teach those courses.”
When an instructor reapplies for
a teaching position, the school con-
siders factors like their academic
credentials, experience in their
eld and prior post-secondary
teaching experience. But they’re
also asked to demonstrate they can
successfully engage with students
by aaching faculty course sur-
veys, which are considered con-
dential and are not available to
anyone other than the instructor.
“Denitely, student feedback is
very important,” said Saeed Ne-
jatian, program director for engi-
neering, architecture and science.
“Obviously the voice of the stu-
dents plays a solid role. If you get
negative points, it’s something that
we denitely consider but the posi-
tive feedback is also considered.”
This could lead instructors to as-
sociate positive student feedback
with a higher chance of being hired
for another term, according to Ne-
jatian.
“Everybody in their right mind
would think that way,” he said. “If
they get good feedback from their
students, the chances of being con-
sidered for another opportunity
will be there. If they get negative
comments, they know that — or at
least, I would know that — those
chances are not going to be good.”
While Kowel acknowledges that
students who are satised with
their grades may produce more
favourable course faculty surveys,
the school tried to keep the process
“as objective as possible.”
“We always recommend that
evaluation surveys be done before
the end of term because, when stu-
dents get their nal grades, they
may be more or less happy,” she
said.
But some students claim Chang
School instructors are still more
forgiving towards students than
professors in full-time programs.
John Colangelo, who graduated
from the business management
program last year, took nearly
20 courses at the Chang School
throughout his four years at Ry-
erson. He mainly took them be-
cause they were easier to t into
his schedule but the diculty level
of the courses was also a consider-
ation.
“The material is just as dicult
but [Chang courses] tend to be
more exible with due dates and
more lenient with grading,” he
said. “I guess I thought it myself,
‘I have to take this hard course, I’m
going to see if it’s oered through
the Chang School and, that way, it
might be a bit easier.’”
Colangelo remembered that an
instructor he had for a statistics
PHOTO: LINDSAY BOECKL
BY SAMANTHA SIM
Water trickles down steadily
from a missing ceiling panel in the
Kerr Hall basement, while a black
garbage bag aempts to stop the
persistent leak. On the third oor
of the building, a row of four miss-
ing ceiling panels have left wires
hanging over students as they walk
by to get to their chemistry labs. In
other parts of the building, electri-
cal outlets with missing socket cov-
ers and chipping wall panels serve
as a constant reminder that the
building has seen beer days.
Keeping up with maintenance of
the 48-year-old building has pre-
sented a challenge for Ryerson as
the university has aempted to ret-
rot inaccessible space, aging labs
and deteriorating facilities.
Ryerson President Sheldon Levy
said maintaining Kerr Hall is dif-
cult and costly largely because it
needs more work than newer fa-
cilities.
“It’s like your house — as it gets
old, things start breaking and the
maintenance goes up,” he said.
This summer, Ryerson spent a
total of $5.3 million on campus re-
pairs and a signicant part of that
funding was spent on Kerr Hall
updates.
Most of the work in the build-
ing was concentrated in Kerr HallNorth, which saw three of its labs
renovated. Room 307 B/C received
an electrical upgrade that was sup-
posed to be completed in Septem-
ber. The rest of the lab will be n-
ished during the school year.
Kerr Hall North room
205 is receiving a
fume hood re-
configuration
and an ex-
pansion to
allow for
simultane-
ous experi-
ments. The
lab’s work-
study envi-
ronment will
be improved
with new light x-
tures and ceiling.
The chemical engineer-
ing polymer research lab in room
113A got a new ventilation unit
and benches, as well as new oor-
ing, wall and ceiling nishes. Kerr
Hall East received two signicant
lab upgrades, a thermodynamic/
heat transfer lab (KHE-029) and a
uid mechanics lab (KHE-031).
In addition, Kerr Hall is geing
an electrical upgrade that will in-
crease the current electrical capac-
ity to a high-voltage electrical feedof 13.8 kV and will allow for even
more future developments and ex-
pansions of the building’s lab fa-
cilities. The project is slated for an
August 2012 completion.
But some students argue main-
tenance should priori-
tize updating lab
equipment in-
stead of xing
the physi-
cal space in
Kerr Hall.
“ S o m e
of the in-
struments
are really
old,” says
Phillip Junor,
a second-year
chemistry student.
“They seem to replace
things like a broken cup-
board door when we really need
new analytical balances.”
Senyo Akakpo, a third-year bio-
physics student, also believes stu-
dents’ priorities lie elsewhere.
“We don’t really care about the
lab as a whole, the equipment is
the most important.”
course pushed a midterm back one
week because the class was not pre-
pared. He noted the process and
exibility was “a lile bit like high
school.”
Kowel said the school does not
evaluate grade scales and does not
analyze any data to determine the
grade averages produced by spe-
cic instructors. “We don’t know
if a particular instructor is grading
higher or lower than his or her col-
leagues.”
But Ryerson President Sheldon
Levy said one study of Ted Rog-
ers School of Management courses
showed marks at the Chang School
are in fact lower than those in day-time courses. Nonetheless, he not-
ed that using student satisfaction to
evaluate instructors is problematic.
“Students aren’t customers buy-
ing a product. If a student has dif-
culty, doesn’t work and gets a
failing grade and they say they’re
not satised, it’s not like they’ve
bought a commodity. I think even
the notion of student satisfaction
has to be looked upon very care-
fully and not jump to conclusions
at all. ”
Kowel said the school tries to
enforce quality teaching through
classroom observations, where pro-
gram coordinators evaluate new
instructors by siing in a class. The
information from those sessions is
then placed in their les and con-
sidered during future applications.
“We watch closely, whenever
we can get feedback, we will use it.
Still, it’s a learning process for a lot
of our instructors for the rst few
terms,” she said.
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Briefs &Groaners
A USB key was reported
missing on Nov. 2 from the Ted
Rogers building. The individu-
al said no personal information
was on the stick. Only his porn
collection.
On Nov. 3 one of the candy
machines in the Student Cam-
pus Centre was vandalized.
The report said the machine
experienced forced entry in
the coin slot. It’s not our fault
we’re too broke to even aord
a quarter.
Security were called in to
take care of an individual who
dropped a weight on his foot.
An ambulance was called butthe individual said he would
go to the hospital on his own.
Our workout tip: less weight,
more reps.
RSU to debatespace issues
Tuition fees, student space and
TTC Metropasses are some of the
issues the Ryerson Students’ Union
(RSU) will discuss at the AnnualGeneral Meeting on Nov. 9.
The meeting requires at least
100 students to aend or the RSU
is “not able to conduct business,”
said Caitlin Smith, RSU president.
At the meeting, executives will
present students with a report
from the last six months and -
nancial statements from the audi-
tor. Students will vote on motions,
serve amendments and bring new
ideas forward.
In April, the AGM did not meet
quorum and the RSU was forced
to adjourn early, postponing any
signicant motion decisions until
this fall.
This time around, the RSU is
hoping to engage students in an ac-
tive conversation about the issues
that aect them.
“All of these motions are to
show that we’ve got the support of
the body, the membership,” said
Smith.
The RSU hopes the meeting
will help inform students about
the need to lobby for a reduction
in tuition fees. Smith said the Lib-
eral party lied to students when it
promised a 30 per cent decrease
during the provincial election.
“Unfortunately it’s not a realtuition fee reduction,” said Smith,
“it’s actually a grant.”
Smith said she would like to see
this grant money go towards an
overall tuition reduction, which
would amount to about a 13 per
cent decrease.
The RSU is also reevaluating the
use of student space in the SCC
and a motion is being brought for-
ward by Rodney Diverlus, vice-
president of equity, to campaign
for additional multi-faith space.
Right now there is a single non-
bookable room in the SCC, while
there are over a dozen faith-based
groups at Ryerson.
The RSU is also looking to form
a commiee of ve students to look
at how SCC space is being used
and to make adjustments to match
student needs. The ad-hoc student
space commiee will be decided at
Wednesday’s meeting.
Smith said it’s also important
to continue lobbying for a student
TTC pass, which was introduced
in 2010 after continuous pressure
from student unions and the Ca-
nadian Federation of Students.
But the $99 pass could now be in
jeopardy due to TTC budget cuts,
according to Smith.
“We fought really hard to get
that pass to begin with,” said
Smith.
Also on the meeting’s agenda
are motions for a campaign regard-
ing food security, the workstudyprogram and a campaign against
gender-based violence. The AGM
will take place in Room 115 of the
SCC starting at 5 p.m.
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Help
WantedWorking retail can be a sweet gig
for any student. Better hours and numerous
positions await eager part-time workers. But big
companies aren’t your friend, and the the staff
need some help.Jeff Lagerquist reports
It’s nearly impossible to ignore the endless stream of
shoppers, the ominous billboards and the glaring lights
that cast a continual glow over Ryerson’s campus. Cer-
tainly there’s no denying that we live and study in the
shadow of Canada’s retail giants. While some see these
xtures as imposing symbols of all-mighty consumer cap-
italism, many look towards them for jobs.
In Toronto, the retail sector workforce employs more
than 140,000people, accord-
ing to the 2010
City of Toronto
Annual Em-
ployment Sur-
vey. With such a
high concentra-
tion of those op-
portunities just
steps away from
Ryerson, many students are eager to cash in. However,
like any other industry, retail employers don’t always
play by the rules.
Hanna Mohammed is a third-year journalism student.
She’s also a sales associate and bra specialist at Victoria’s
Secret; an employer she says doesn’t always provide her
with enough support.
“I nd the management is really sloppy,” said Moham-
med. It took nearly a month for the store’s ve managers
to approve changes to her work schedule so she could at-
tend all of her classes, and that was just the beginning.
Aorney Andrea Wobick works with law rm Green
& Chercover and defends clients against injustices in
the workplace. She says students in retail are prime tar-
gets for labour rights issues, and they rarely take action
against employers.
“Students are, for the most part, looking to earn money
for tuition and groceries. They usually aren’t willing to
take on their managers or employer, so long as they get
their paycheques. And I completely understand that,”
said Wobick.
Eagar to earn, Mohammed would often agree to work
overtime. Several of her co-workers found these extra
shifts were not being documented.
“You really have to comb through your paycheque and
make sure you are geing paid for enough hours,” she
said. “It really adds up after a while.”
Victoria’s Secret is owned by parent company Limited
Brands, which also owns Pink, Bath & Body Works, C.O.
Bigelow, La Senza, White Barn Candle Co., and Henri
Bendel.
The company drew $8.6 billion in sales in 2009.
In the retail game, big sales
gures mean big line-ups.
Retail workers are almost
always on their feet. They
wear a friendly smile — fake
at times — as they serve
their customers. Breaks pro-
vide much needed moments
for rest and nutrition.
According to section 20 of Ontario’s Employment Stan-
dards Act, an employee is to work no more than ve hours
straight without a break of at least 30 minutes. Some em-
ployers pay during breaks, but it’s not required.
“The 30-minute break
can also be split into
two 15-minute breaks,
but only if both the em-
ployee and employer set
up an agreement. In any
case, the break is manda-
tory,” said Wobick.
“We would usually
get only a few minutes
for our breaks,” said Mohammed. A frustrated co-worker
eventually posted a copy of the Employment Standards
Act in the break room to bring aention to this issue.
“They printed it out and underlined the part that says
we should be geing half an hour,” she said.
That was back in June.
“People are still complaining about it,” said Moham-
med. Management agreed to look at the issue after the
busy holiday season.
“To be honest, I don’t think they will,” she said.
“Employers don’t get to choose when it’s convenient to
uphold the Employment Standards Act. It’s their obliga-
tion to do that all of the time, regardless of holiday shop-
pers,” said Wobick.
Second-year photography student Callan Field worked
for Vistek, a photography retailer, over the summer.
Vistek has six locations across Canada, and Field worked
over the summer as a shipping and receiving assistant.“It was hard not being treated like an adult sta mem-
ber,” he said.
Only 18-years-old at the time, he was by far the young-
est employee. Field’s vaguely dened job description
meant that he spent a considerable amount of time com-
pleting menial tasks around the store, and was often left
siing around the shipping department with nothing to
do.
“It seemed like they just didn’t know what to do with
me most of the time,” said Field, who was grateful to be
earning money in his chosen eld of study.
While boring afternoons spent watching the clock in the
shipping department are by no means illegal, being asked
to perform dangerous tasks certainly is.
“Looking back,
some of the things
they had me do-
ing were complete-
ly unsafe,” said
Field, who didn’t
know his rights
at the time. Hav-
ing worked other
jobs since leaving
Vistek, he now has a clearer understanding of the law.
Section 43 of Ontario’s Occupational Health and Safety
Act states that employees have the right to refuse work
that he or she believes to be unsafe. This can include ma-
chinery or equipment, potential workplace violence, or in
Field’s case the physical condition of the workplace itself.
“It comes down to a judgment call that an employ-
ee has to make. However, that may be easier said than
done when you have a manager standing over you,” said
[Students] usually aren’t willing to take on their managersor employer, so long as they get their paycheques.
— Andrea Wobick, Attorney at Green and Chercover
You really have to comb through your paycheque and makesure you are getting paid for enough hours.
— Hanna Mohammed,Victoria’s Secret employee
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Wobick.
“They had me climbing shelves over a storey o the
ground,” said Field.
In the stock room at Vistek, employees would often scale
the shelving to retrieve boxes containing high-end ink jet
printers and large rolls of paper. The narrow space between
the rows of shelves made it impossible to use a stepladder to
access the upper levels.
Field and his fellow employees would balance themselveswith one foot on the edge of the shelf and the other support-
ed by the shelf across the aisle, as they passed heavy boxes
down to a coworker.
“I was never really scared, but it wouldn’t have taken much
for somebody to get seriously hurt,” said Field.
Field said Vistek did not oer any sort of safety training to
its warehouse employees.
“In any workplace with more than 20 regular workers, an
employer is required to have a joint health and safety com-
miee with employees trained in how to deal with workplace
safety issues,” said Wobick.
Ontario’s labour legislation uses an escalating scale of
nes to punish delinquent employers. A rst oense carries
a ne of $100,000, and multiple infractions can cost as much
as $500,000. But large corporations have prey deep pockets.
It’s certainly a problem when you have large employers
that can aord hefty legal fees to avoid prosecution altogeth-
er. And when the absolute maximum ne is a drop in the
bucket for them, it’s fair to say that there is not equal bargain-
ing power, even with the legislation,” said Wobick.
While working in retail may be tempting, resolving a work-
place issue is generally more challenging than in other lines
of work. Still, if you like uniforms and faking people skills,
retail may be for you.
“The best part about my job is that I make money. That’s
prey much it. But I’d rather not be poor,” said Mohammed.
Who and how much...By Gender
CashiersMen: 86 per centWomen: 14 per cent
SalespeopleMen: 42 per centWomen: 58 per cent
BuyersMen: 50 per centWomen: 50 per cent
Store ManagersMen: 58 per centWomen: 42 per cent
The average ageof a manager or buyeris 43-years-old
Annual Salaries(part time)
Cashiers$7,789
Salespeople$11,240
Supervisors$16,772
Store managers$29,690
6.5 per centof managers work part time
46 per centof retail employees workpart time
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The dual lives of three Ryerson members. Expect the unexpected.Two roles, one player
Steven Park rubs his
hands on his blue jeans,
then puts them in his
pocket, and takes them out
again; not quite sure where
to put them. He is dgety,
not sure what to make of the
situation. “I’m not really a
politician, so I’ll still talk to
reporters,” he jokes. Park isa fourth-year computer sci-
ence student, but he’s also
risen the ranks to become
president of the Computer
Science Course Union.
He organizes events and
represents students to fac-
ulty, but it’s also a good way
to make friends. He’s grow-
ing facial hair in support of
prostate cancer awareness
with some of his friends this
month. “I’m hoping to have
a nice pair of handlebars,”
he says.
Handlebars would help
his role-playing, when he
plays a old, grouchy cleric
in Dungeons and Dragons.
He goes to weekly game
night for the Association of
Ryerson Role-Players and
Gamers (ARRG). Every
Thursday the group meets
in Oakham House. It’s
Park’s second month, but
he’s been a gamer for much
longer.
The ARRG members told
him to become the cleric
role while he played. Cleric
Park may be grouchy, but
wise and caring too. “Going
into rrroll makes it moooore
fun,” he explains as he dem-
onstrates the “Sean Con-
nery” British-style voice he
uses.
Playing board games is a
way for Park to relax from
the hectic life he leads.
Travelling from North To-
ronto makes long days, soits a good stress reliever.
Tonight the gamers are
playing Munchkin, a fanta-
sy card game that involves
baling monsters to rise to
level 10. Park sits with his
head down, his black bangs
bouncing o the front of his
glasses. “I feel like I’m do-
ing something wrong here,”
he tells the group, “I’m sor-
ry guys, I haven’t played
this game in like three
years.” Every few turns the
game stops so Park can ex-
plain the rules to the four
other confused players.
Soon they’re interrupted
by a group of Live Action
Role Players (LARPers).
Everyone heads over to the
quad and they hand out
“weapons” — mostly golf
clubs or sticks with foam
over them.
They’re split into two
teams and a bale begins.
Park strikes down oppo-
nents with his sword. “I’ve
never LARPed before,” he
says, “It’s awesome, but it’s
exercise and I get tired very
easily.”
There’s a lot going on
around Haley Wolfenden
— people cheer, numbered
lights ash red and icker
new scores, the smell of hot
dogs and mustard wafts
through the air — but the
seer for the Ryerson Rams
women’s volleyball team
only has one thing on hermind — the yellow and
purple volleyball headed
straight towards her.
She jumps and spikes
the ball, making the sound
of two hands colliding in a
single clap, while her loose
braid swings left.
Wolfenden has played
the game for over 11 years,
starting in Grade 6 in her
hometown of Oawa. “I
can’t even imagine my life
without it, without volley-
ball,” Wolfenden says with
determination in her eyes
but a sense of realization in
her voice. She’s in her fourth
and nal year. Now, with
experience in hand, she is
continuously guiding her
team, tugging at her shirt,
pulling it outwards to hide
the plays she is revealing
to her teammates through
simple signs that to onlook-
ers seem like nothing more
than two ngers in the air
symbolizing peace.
Giving these signs wasn’t
something Wolfenden was
used to. “I had never been
a seer before and now
my team looks to me for
plays,” she said. It was up
and down, but she’s learned
to love it and “lead by ex-
ample.” Over the past three
years, Wolfenden has scored
the highest number of as-
sists — 930. Before reach-
ing Ryerson in 2005 she was
named MVP of the NationalCapitals, a competitive Oa-
wa-based volleyball club.
Stretching her horizons,
Wolfenden referees volley-
ball intramurals every Mon-
day night. What started out
as an extra gig for money,
turned out to be much more.
“It is the best way to spend
my Monday nights. I don’t
even see it as a job.”
Her focus and re is
replaced with a laid-back
demeanor when she’s refer-
eeing. Her eyes still follow
the ball, but she’s at ease.
She has a navy whistle in
her mouth and her hands
busily scribble down tallies.
She continuously laughs
and jokes with the players,
as if they were friends, bare-
ly making any calls and the
players never arguing back.
They just simply exchange
quick and wiy words.
Volleyball as a passion
and a hobby runs in her
family. Her older sister,
24 and her younger sister,
18, both currently play for
varsity teams in their
universities.
It’s a quiet Friday morn-
ing in Kerr Hall South, and
room 239 gradually lls
with students awaiting their
morning lecture in Music
and Film. They talk quietly
amongst themselves and
eye the clock as it ticks clos-
er to 10:10 a.m.
With seconds to spare,a man in a white tee and
jeans, shouldering a back-
pack ducks into the room.
For a newcomer, it takes a
moment to realize that this
man is not a student, but the
professor in charge of the
lecture.
Paul Swoger-Ruston isn’t
what many students would
probably consider an aver-
age professor. On campus,
Swoger-Ruston is the Aca-
demic Coordinator for the
Chang School’s Certicate
in Music: Global and Cul-
tural Contexts.
But in his own time, he’s
also a guitarist in two active
bands, a composer, and all-
around musician.
Since seventh grade,
Swoger-Ruston has played
guitar. He didn’t let the
initial novelty wear o and
has played ever since. The
decision to join a band came
more recently.
He plays with two bands,
Frankie Foo and Combo
Royale. The rst is a group
of players ages 20-65 who
get together to play regular
shows, but rarely rehearse.
“It’s more great play-
ers having fun,” Swoger-
Ruston says. Frankie Foo
plays ska music, a combina-
tion of rock and jazz which
developed from reggae.
Combo Royale, an early
acoustics band, rehearses
every other week and usual-ly plays three to four shows
a month, making it more
of a time commitment for
Swoger-Ruston.
For him one of the hard-
est things can be nding
balance. “You have to
really carve out your time,”
he says. “Composing in par-
ticular has been hard to get
back to.”
Between teaching, music
and a family with two young
children, nding time for all
his interests can be dicult,
Swoger-Ruston says. “I’m
sort of in my ideal scenario.
I get bored doing one thing.
I always have a couple hats
on. I like the variety.”
After the lecture, Swoger-
Ruston leaves the room, his
backpack on and shues
his runners down the hall-
way. He blends in with the
students, but instead of
returning to an apartment,
or residence, Swoger-Rus-
ton heads back to his oce.
After all, making a career
out of music isn’t easy. He
has a lot of work to do be-
fore he can play.
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The year of the ramTheScore
PHOTO: LINDSAY BOECKLOla Adegboruwa against Dalhousie
Friday’s results
Men’s Basketball:
Ryerson 91 @ Santa Clara60
Men’s Hockey:
Ryerson 1 @ Concordia 3
Women’s Hockey:
Ryerson 1 @ Queen’s 5
Men’s Volleyball:
McMaster 2 @ Ryerson 3
Women’s Volleyball:
McMaster 3 @ Ryerson 0
Saturday’s results
Men’s Hockey:
Ryerson 1 @ UQTR 9
Women’s Hockey:
Ryerson 2 @ UOIT 6
Men’s Volleyball:
McMaster 2 @ Ryerson 3
Women’s Volleyball:
Ryerson 1 @ Brock 3
Men’s Basketball
Ryerson 47 @ Stanford 100
BY
GABRIEL LEE
Men’s volleyball winshome opener
In their rst game of the season, Ryerson’s men’s volleyball team
managed to outlast the McMaster Marauders 3-2. Luka Milosevic
and Alex Dawson led the Rams with 19 points and 15 kills each.
Roman Kabanov added 16 points and 13 kills.
PHOTO: DASHA ZOLOTA
Monday’s results
Men’s Basketball
Ryerson 66 @ Rhode Is-land 97
Aleksa Miladinovic spikes the ball against McMaster
For the second straight season,
the men’s basketball team’s main
adversary won’t be the University
of Toronto Varsity Blues, nor will it
be the Ontario University Athletics
(OUA) powerhouse Carleton Ra-
vens who knocked them out of the
playos last season. No, the Rams’
main adversary this season will be
their ability to stay healthy.
The 12 players that head coach
Roy Rana put on the hardwoodthroughout the Rams’ recent pre-
season home stand was not indica-
tive of the talent he will have on the
oor night-in, night-out. Not only
was their co-captain and starting
shooting guard Ola Adegboruwa
geing back into shape after o-
season surgery, limited, but for-
ward Bjorn Michaelson re-injured
his forearm. As if that wasn’t bad
enough, the team’s all-world point
guard, Jahmal Jones, wasn’t even
in the country for the preseason, as
he was representing Team Canada
at the Pan Am Games in Mexico.
In their places were players who
made the team through the open
tryout process thrusted into action,
while veteran role players where
forced to take on a larger roles.To
put it simply, the Rams were just
above mediocre in the pre-season
With a healthy roster, there is no
doubt the Rams will make a lot of
noise in the OUA East, but without
three of their projected starters,
the Rams squeaked out a nail biter
against Dalhousie 71-68, before re-
ceiving a dose of reality from Man-
itoba, losing 74-66 in a game the
Rams looked out of from the start.
Jones’ absence left the Rams
without a point guard, as the Rams
were unable to handle Manitoba’s
full court pressure defense without
Jones calling the shots. However,
second-year shooting guard Jor-
don Gauthier was given the green
light on oence and he showed
why he was an OUA all-rookie last
year, leading the Rams in scoring
both nights and converting seven
three pointers en route to a game-
high 27 points in the game against
Dalhousie.While most of his veteran players
graduated at the end of last season,
Rana’s done a great job at replen-
ishing the team’s already youth-
ful roster. At 6’4, Aaron Best is a
rookie who’s built and plays like
a poor man’s Kevin Durant, while
another name you should become
familiar with is Nem Stankovic, a
6’9 monster of a forward who was
forced to sit out last season as a
transfer from Chicago State.
If Stankovic and the aforemen-
tioned Michaelsen stay healthy,
the Rams pose a frontcourt that
very few teams in the country can
match. But that’s a big if.
In the 2010-11 campaign, Mi-
chaelsen, who is 6’11”, appeared
in just three conference games due
to injuries. He enters 2011 with an-
other injury to his forearm
How high can the Rams climb
in the standings? That depends on
how well Jones plays. As electric
as Jones was last season, the Rams
need their oor general to take the
step from a great player on an av-
erage team to the best player on a
contender, and playing alongside
the top Canadian university play-
ers during the Pan Am Games can
only boost Jones’ condence.
That being said, th–e measuring
stick of success in Canadian Inter-
university Sports (CIS) basketball
has been the Ravens, who have
won seven of the last nine national
championships. Their dominance
in the CIS circuit is comparable
to the John Wooden led UCLA
teams in the 60’s and Bill Russell’s
11 championships with the NBA’s
Boston Celtics.
Both of those teams eventually
ran into a foe that ended their de-
cade of dominance, and I genu-
inely believe that if the core of this
Rams team meshes over the next
couple years they could be the next
dynasty in the OUA.
Friday night will usher a new
era of Ryerson men’s basketball,
and as history has proved, nothing
can stop a team whose time has
come.
That is, nothing except for inju-
ries.
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After a trip overseas with
$10,000 worth of equipment and
12 weeks of lming in the Philip-
pines, a group of Ryerson alums
are screening Sugarbowl , their
documentary about the Filipino
sugar industry, at the Toronto
Reel Asian International Film
Festival.
The idea was conceived by Sha-
sha Nakhai, a journalism grad,
who originally pitched it at the
Reel Asian pitch competition.
She said it had always been at the
back of her mind.
“I didn’t think we’d win,” says
Nakhai. “But if we did, it would
jumpstart production. It forced
us to focus the idea into a lm
concept.”Nakhai, who was born in the
Philippines, wanted to evoke the
sense of loss she associates with
the place she loves.
“I poured my life into this for
the past year,” she says. “It’s
like a child and we’ve just given
birth.”
However, the project was not
without its challenges. Before
they started lming, they had
trouble nding someone to re-
cord their sound. There was also
the maer of geing $10,000
worth of equipment through cus-
toms in the Philippines.
“Normally you have to pay a
$2,000 bond on it,” said Nakhai.
However, when they arrived in
the Philippines, the crew was
escorted by the press secretary
of the prime minister, thanks to
connections with the CBC.
But the lm wouldn’t have
come together without the help
of her fellow Ryerson grads, Rich
Williamson, a former lm stu-
dent, and Nicole Rogers, a jour-
nalism grad.
Williamson says their dierent
skill sets helped production ow
more smoothly than expected.
“Shasha got me into journal-
ism, and I got her into lm,”
he explains. “There were days
when I was thankful that I had
someone so on-point to keep the
production going, but there were
times when I had to say, ‘No, Ineed to get this shot.’”
Though the lm focuses on the
impact of globalization, coloni-
zation and demand for commod-
ity, this is never explicitly stated.
However, having shown the lm
to friends, the team is condant
that they’ll get their message
across regardless.
“We just want people to be-
come interested in this place.
For those who’ve never heard of
it, they can say, ‘Hey, I want to
learn more’,” she says. “It’s com-
parable to any economic down-
turn. There’s denitely a bigger
picture here.”
Alums fnd sweet success
Crew members shooting in the Philippines. COURTESY OF NICOLE ROGERS
BY VICTORIA KUGLIN
Rye actors stage a revolution
The Ryerson Theatre School
is chaotic. Music plays loudly, a
soundtrack for the students run-
ning in and out of the building,
from oor to oor.
Actors, dancers and production
students gather at the lounge onthe second oor and share jokes,
smiles, hugs and all the stress that
comes with being a theatre student
at Ryerson.
“Does my hair look okay?” a stu-
dent asks right before entering a
last minute audition.
“Do you want me to help you
carry that?” asks another as some-
one walks by carrying loads of
posters and props.
For one family of 18 students,
it’s only natural that they feel so
connected to one another. They’ve
worked together for the last four
years.
This time around, this group of
fourth-year students are breathing
life into The Bundle, a play by Eng-
lish playwright Edward Bond, from
Nov. 15 to 24.
The Bundle , set in China, follows
the life of Wang, who is found by
a river by a ferryman (performed
by theatre student Anthony Rella)
and raised in a lower-class lifestyle.
As he grows up, Wang and his fel-
low villagers try to overcome the
inequalities imposed by landown-ers in the region. Wang eventually
becomes the military voice for the
lower class.
“[The Bundle] is about justice,
revolution and oppression. It’s a
ght of the people against a totali-
tarian government in pursuit of lib-
erty,” says Rella.
The story of Wang and his peo-
ple is the “story of any people who
have gone through oppression”
adds Karen Slater, who plays Pu-
Toi, a Chinese revolutionary.
“The miscommunication be-
tween government and people …
and it’s not just in China. The Bun-
dle is mirrored in any society, like
Mexico and the Middle East,” says
Slater.
The cast is working under the
guidance of Alan Dilworth, an
award-winning director who has
worked in theatres across Canada
and in the United States and nomi-
nated Toronto’s best emerging male
director in 2008 by NOW Magazine.
“His approach is very dierent
from anything done at Ryerson be-
fore” says Rella.
Students are encouraged to
“learn as they go” with a more
hands-on approach to the play, and
to work with images rather than
words and sentences. Dilworth
focuses on the student’s potential
to embrace their characters rather
than ing their proles.
“We don’t have to worry about
adapting our voices or bodies to be-
come the character,” explains SlaterWorking in something like The
Bundle at Ryerson is such a won-
derful experience because it’s not
always that such a big group of
people want to put all their hard
work and energy into the same
project, she adds.
“Unfortunately students won’t
have the same opportunity to work
on a huge ensemble pieces once
they graduate” she says.
Though the play isn’t traditional
fare or a well-known classeic, Rella
hopes that students will take the
time to check out the Bundle even.
“It is an important story,” he
says.
The Bundle runs from Nov. 15 to
Nov. 24 at Ryerson Theatre. Student
tickets are $14, while general admis-
sion is $18. Cash only!
For their second production of the year, the Ryerson Theatre tackles TheBundle, a play about a group of oppressed villagers who rise against anoppessive government. Marina Ferreira reports
The Bundle is mirrored
in any society, likeMexico and the MiddleEast.
— Karen Slater,fourth-year acting
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It’s a ght of the peopleagainst a totalitariangovernment in pursuitof liberty.— Anthony Rella, fourth-
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Q&A: Gaëlle Morel, Image Arts Curator
EYE: What brings you to our hum-
ble school?
GM: I really like the idea of work-
ing in a university because I like
working with students and faculty.
I like doing research, so I do like all
the aspects of working here.
Some students have come and
seen me, and we’ll be having stu-
dent shows at the building. I’m re-
ally interested in seeing students’
work. [The Ryerson Image Centre]
won’t only be a gallery with col-
lections. It will also be a research
centre, so it will be a fantastic op-
portunity for me to work.
EYE: So what exactly does a cura-
tor do?
GM: A curator is someone who
creates exhibitions, so he or she
does research and tries to pull it
together. In my case, that would
be dierent arts — photography,
new media, lms. A curator tries to
give sense to a question that some-
one would have. A curator coordi-
nates and creates exhibitions to try
and make the audience understand
how, why, when, to explain to
them a particular question. A cura-
tor is the link between the artist and
the public.
EYE: When the Ryerson Image
Centre nally opens, it’s going
to have 292,000 photojournalistic
prints from the Black Star collec-
tion. What can you tell us about
that?
GM: In 2005, an anonymous donor
gave the Black Star collection to Ry-
erson. It is almost 300,000 images
from 1,000 photojournalists. It’s a
wonderful collection. It’s of interest
to anyone. If, for example, you’re
looking for a special or specic
thing, you can go from sociology to
journalism. It is a very large collec-
tion of many themes and topics.
EYE: You’re very interested in the
history of photography and photo-
journalism. Will you try to reect
your passions in your work as cu-
rator?
GM: Yes, I do like working with
new media and with lm. It would
be an interdisciplinary centre, so
we will denitely have mixed me-
dia.
EYE: You say you like the idea of
working in a university; do you
have a fond memory from your
own days in university?
GM: Oh, it was in Paris, so just be-
ing in Paris was fantastic enough.
Being a student in Paris, being 20
years old in Paris ... It was the best
time of my life.
Though Ryerson Image Centre isn’t set to open until September 2012, Ry-erson has already appointed Gaëlle Morel as its rst curator. Morel, who
has a PhD in History of Contemporary Art, from the University of Paris,will help create a long-term exhibition plan for the centre. Sofa Mikhay-lova checked in with the academic to discuss her new role
ILLUSTRATION BY CATHERINE POLCZ
Students starved for dance studio space
Ryerson may oer several us-
able studios for dance students, but
those in other programs aren’t so
lucky.
Alicia Wright, a third-year busi-
ness management student, became
aware of Ryerson’s death of dance
space last October when she was
rehearsing for the annual multicul-
tural show with other members of
the United Black Students at Ryer-
son.
Instead of practicing in a proper
dance studio with sprung oors
and mirrors, they made do with the
spaces available.
“We used any available space
that had enough room and an out-let,” she said. This often meant
practicing on the cement oors of
the second-oor lounge of the Stu-
dent Campus Centre, or the hall-
way near the main gynmasium.
There are three studios located in
the Ryerson Theatre School (RTS),
but only theatre school students
have access to them. There are also
three multi-purpose studios avail-
able for rent at the Ryerson Athletic
Centre, but students must pay the
RAC membership fee — $68.14 a
year — in order to rent them.
“It really sucks for Ryerson,” said
Wright.
According to Anthony Seymour,
recreation manager at the RAC, this
policy is in place because the space
is mainly intended for members.
“If they’re RAC members we do
have studios available that students
can sign out for personal use,” he
said. “They can just reserve studio
[space] for up to two hours a day.”
This lack of space has not gone
Ryerson may cater to its performance dance students with several professional studios, but there’s far less on the menu fordancers outside of the program. Arts & Lie Editor Allyssia Alleyne reports
unnoticed. At last semester’s an-
nual general meeting, the Ryerson
Student Union’s (RSU) vice-pres-
ident equity Rodney Diverlus put
forth a motion to lobby the univer-
sity for more usable dance space.
“The RSU received a mandate
from members at a general meet-
ing and worked with our campus
groups to gain access to free, book-
able studio space on campus,” said
Alyssa Williams, vice-president
student life.
She says that student groups
have been removed from dierent
locations by security, and that some
spaces being used are considered
“unt and unsafe for dancing,” likecorridors and rooms without tem-
perature control.
According to Williams, fullling
this mandate is an immediate prior-
ity because studio space is needed
to build a sense of community on
campus.
“These groups need to be able
to celebrate and showcase their
talents, and many of our groups
participate in inter-university com-
petitions to represent and boost Ry-
erson’s reputation.”
But not everyone thinks that
more accessible dance space is nec-
essary. Fourth-year performance
dance student Veronica Madrabaja-
kis thinks students should appreci-
ate the space that is available.
`“We’re very lucky to have all
the spaces that we do have,” she
said. “It would be great if we had
an extremely large building with all
sorts of studio space, but unfortu-
nately we don’t.”
—With les from Brian CapitaoPHOTO: MARISSA DEDEREROnly Ryerson Theatre School students have access to the building’s studios.
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To the average student, Jason
Serroul might just be the guy who
opens the door for you at Tim Hor-
tons on Victoria Street in the morn-
ing and wishes you a good evening
after a long day at school.
But what you don’t know is that
the 34-year-old self-proclaimed
jack-of-all-trades has sporadically
lived on and o the streets since he
was a kid.
That was until he was diagnosed
with schizophrenia in his late 20s,
deeming him mentally ill by the
province. The soft-spoken Serroul
was forced into the Toronto East
General Hospital in East York.
MakeTreksLikeImHomeless, a
student-run non-prot organiza-
tion, has told stories that are similar
to Serroul’s to dispel the public’s
general misconceptions and igno-
rance about homelessness,
They have made it their goal to
show the harsh reality of living on
the streets.
Tom Evans, a fourth-year lm
student, came up with the idea for
the organization after he befriend-
ed Darryl, a homeless man whom
he talked to everyday on his way
home from school for a year.
To help publicize the cause, Ev-
ans decided to lm an interview
with Darryl and post it on You-
Tube.
The members of MakeTreks give
people who live on the streets care
packages in return for a lmed in-
terview.
“The whole idea is to rid
the ignorance that surrounds
homelessness,”said Evans. “Rather
than [only] seeing a drunk bum,
[we want people to] see that ve-
year-old boy who was raped by his
dad.”
According to the Toronto Shel-
ter, Support and Housing Admin-
istration, in April 2009 there were
an estimated 5,086 homeless peo-
ple in Toronto.
Care packages, worth $100, are
comprised completely of dona-
tions and sales from merchandise
they sell on their website.
Evans has posted six interviews,
with several others waiting to be
posted on their website.
Peter Rosenthal, a University of
Toronto professor for the faculty of
law said the issues of homelessness
in Toronto are part of the “casuali-
ties of capitalism.”
Rosenthal is also on the execu-
tive team for Toronto Disaster Re-
lief Commiee (TDRC) and is one
of three lawyers working on cases
dealing with the lack of housing
programs in Toronto.
“One of the most horrible aspects
of Canadian society, in wealthy so-
ciety, is we allow people to live so
poorly,” he said.
Bill Chapman, program director
for community services at the Met-
ropolitan United Church, started
working as a community services
counsellor in 2002.
Chapman said that he was home-
less for a short period of time in the
early 1990s.
“I had an alcohol addiction
[which] I am now completely free
of. It was not for a lack of aord-
able housing,” he said. “There is a
huge misconception [of homeless-
ness]. Ask anyone who has worked
closely with them.”
Metropolitan United Church
works directly with Toronto drop-
in network service programs, coun-
seling and housing support.
Although Chapman has come to
terms with his past, he said that he
would have told them anything to
get a roof over his head.
“I was in denial of my addic-
tion,” he said. “I would have toldthem a dierent reason to why I
was homeless. I’m not sure to what
extent we are geing the whole
truth.”
Chapman said that if MakeTreks
oered him housing in exchange
for his story, “I would have done
anything for a place.”
But he said that it wouldn’t have
helped him.
“It may have even enabled me to
avoid dealing with the root cause
of my homelessness.”
Chapman said that, from his ex-
perience, the root cause of home-
lessness is addiction.
“As soon as we start depending
on something to make us feel good,
such as alcohol, drugs, another per-
son, a material thing, it will inevita-
bly turn into suering,”he said.
“[But] I think it is important that
we hear any story that would bring
aention to suering in our com-
munity.”
Evans said he wanted to start
the organization to expose people
to the issues surrounding our city
and community.
“The whole idea is not to judge
them until you walk in their shoes.”
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