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Sheldon Levy, President and Vice-Chancellor; Alan Shepard, Provost and Vice President Academic; and
Wendy Cukier, Vice-President Research and Innovation, are pleased to announce the recipients of the
Faculty Scholarly, Research and Creative Activity (SRC) Awards and the
Sarwan Sahota – Ryerson Distinguished Scholar Award
2011 SARA SAA – RRSDSSD SCAR AARD
The Sarwan Sahota – Ryerson Distinguished Scholar Award is
presented annually to one or more faculty members who havemade an outstanding contribution to knowledge or artisticcreativity in their area(s) of expertise while employed at Ryerson.The contribution to SRC may be a long term, cumulativecontribution or a single, particularly insightful or seminal idea,experiment, application or interpretation. The DistinguishedScholar Award is made available through the joint contributionsof Sarwan Sahota, a retired professor and Ryerson University.
Sri Krishnan, Department of Electrical Engineering
FAC SRC AARDSThe Faculty SRC Awards recognize individual faculty members onan annual basis for outstanding achievement in scholarly, research and
creative activity and impact on their disciplines during the previousacademic year.
faculty of arts
Martin Antony, Department of Psychology
eslie Atkinson, Department of Psychology
rene ammel, Department of English
raham udson, Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology
Margaret Moulson, Department of Psychology
Daniel Rubenson, Department of Politics and Public Administration
Frank Russo, Department of Psychology
faculty of communication& design
Marta Braun, School of Image Arts
Richard runberg, School of Radio and Television Arts
Richard achman, School of Radio and Television Arts
April indgren, School of Journalism
Sandra ullio-Pow, School of Fashion
faculty of community services
Pamela Robinson, School of Urban and Regional Planning
Kathryn nderwood, School of Early Childhood Education
vonne uan, School of Nutrition
faculty of engineering, architecture and science
Antony Bonato, Department of Mathematics
abiba Bougherara, Department of Mechanical and IndustrialEngineering
Daolun Chen, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Marcello Papini, Department of Mechanical and IndustrialEngineering
Bo an, Department of Aerospace Engineering
Karthikeyan mapathy, Department of Electrical and ComputerEngineering
ted rogers school of management
Ayse Bener, Ted Rogers School of Informa tion Technology Management
uoping iu,Ted Rogers School of Business Management
Farid Shirazi, Ted Rogers S chool of Informa tion Technology Management
Fei Song, Ted Rogers School of Business Management
ph: n pp (lf) n lny bckl (gh)The Tamil Students’ Association (TSA) pub night ended in three arrests on Gould Street.
The Tamil Students’ Association (TSA) held a pub night which turned into a series of brawls andarrests involving Ryerson Security and Toronto Police. news ditor caro ureo reports
What began as an orientation
pub night for a Ryerson student
group ended in a brawl on campus
and three arrests.
The Tamil Students’ Associa-
tion (TSA) Winter Orientation Pub
Night was scheduled to begin in the
Thomas Lounge at 7 p.m. and move
to the Ram in the Rye pub at 10 p.m.
After midnight, Ryerson security
was called for a ght in progress.
“We’re called out to ghts in the
pub for various reasons,” said Tan-
ya Fermin-Poppleton, manager of
security and emergency services. “I
think this has been one of the big-
gest pub ghts we’ve encountered.”
When security ocers arrived at
the pub they aempted to help the
sta and pub security separate the
parties and get the individuals to
leave.
“Smaller ghts were breaking
out as they were trying to break up
each ght,” said Fermin-Poppleton.
“As they dispersed onto the patio
and out onto the street, police were
called in as well due to the sheer
numbers of participants.”Toronto police arrested three
people, including one conrmed
non-student who was injured dur-
ing the altercation and received pa-
tient care, plus a number of tickets.
The security brief estimated that
at one point, twenty people ghting
on Church Street, but that was just
one group that was identied and
described.
According to Caitlin Smith, the
president of Ryerson’s Student
Union, students groups have the
opportunity to book the pub for
their own use up to once a month.
If they book their events on
Thursday, the RSU will help them
organize and run it. On a Friday or
Saturday they have no part in plan-
ning, though Smith conrmed sheand members of current Students
United slate were in aendance that
night. Smith said that she left before
the ght broke out.
“It’s hard to tell if it’s related to
the student group or if it was some-
thing that could have happened
any other night,” said Smith.
“Anyone o the street can come
into the Ram.”
Even on the event’s Facebook
wall, the question was posed as to
whether it was a student only event
and one user replied that anyone
could show up.
“The pub is an establishment like
any other, it sees it’s fair share of
conict,” said Smith.
She added that though the Ram is
public to more than students, usu-
ally groups aim their advertising
for their events to their members.
“[Student groups] are not usu-
ally ones to break the rules or mess
up that privilege because they can
make money for their group,” she
said.
Eric Newstadt, general manager
of the Student Campus Centre, said
he was not sure if extra securitymembers had been put on sta at
the pub that night.
“We evaluate each pub night
based on how busy it’s going to be
and we provide for security accord-
ingly,” he said.
If their team feels they need
backup they will call in Ryerson
security, and even further, Toronto
Police.
On the subject of stopping stu-
dent groups with problems during
their events from renting the pub,
Newstadt said it is up to the Board
of Governors (BOG) to address the
issue at their next meeting.
“I notify the BOG, they review
and if they feel it’s necessary they
take action,” he said.
Newstadt said before he decides
whether he makes the recommen-
dation they have to nish their in-
vestigation, a procedure that occurs
after every incident involving secu-
rity and police.
The investigation is underway
and it is unknown when it will be
completed.
Despite repeated aempts, the
TSA could not be reached for com-ment.
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4 February 1, 2012The Eyeopener EDITORIAL
DRAWN OUTBy CATHERINE POLCz
LAuRENSTRAPAGIELEDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Capsule this
Ryerson President Sheldon Levy
has asked for a copy of the issue of
the Eyeopener that broke the story
on the university’s Maple Leaf Gar-
dens partnership to add to a new
time capsule.
We’re both aered and happy
to oblige, but we have a few sug-
gestions of our own to include:
1. The Sam the Record Man Sign
This may require a larger cap-
sule. Aside from being a Toronto
relic and symbol of a downtown
Yonge of yore, we’re not doingmuch else with the old girl anyway.
2. Boled Water
In case future generations for-
get that it once existed on campus.
Bonus: it will still be pristine in 50
years.
3. Shrubbery from Gould Street
I can only hope that the future of
Gould Street includes landscaping
and benches, so a small bushy clip-
ping will be a reminder of our early
and humble streetscaping eorts.
4. Salad King’s pad thai
In memorium of that span of
time after the wall collapse and re
at Gould and Yonge streets when
we all went without our precious for
months on end. Lest we forget.
5. A copy of “Sh*t Ryerson Says”
Because I suspect that in the fu-
ture, Ryerson students will still be
trying to gure out where the fuckSally Horsfall is.
You must bring valid student I.D. to voteand be a current RSU member
Polls are open daily from 10:30am-5:30pm
(full time undergraduate student or full or part-time graduate student)
over ve per cent next year,” Levysaid Monday morning. “Everyone’s
budget will be going up but it won’t
go up high enough, and that’s why
the reduction is necessary.”
Although Ryerson has an-
nounced the budget cuts, a lack of
key funding information from the
provincial government has forced
the university to remain vague on
the details.
The provincial budget — which
will outline university funds and
grants following the release of the
Drummond Commission’s Report
— will be laid out at the end of
March.
Until then, the university can
only speculate as to how the cuts
will aect dierent areas of the
school.
“On the one hand, you say it’s
not a huge cut,” Levy said. “But on
the other hand, if every year three
per cent [is cut], it will be prob-
lematic for many areas and I think
some areas will indeed have di-
culty with it.”
Melissa Palermo, Ryerson Stu-
dents’ Union’s vice president edu-
cation, explained that continued
cuts could lead to increased aca-
demic strain and problems relating
to lack of access for students in all
faculties.
“Those are some of the biggestthings that students see: larger class
sizes and making it harder to get
into courses — and less time with
their professors,” Palermo said.
She continued to say that budget
cuts can delay upgrades or access
to classroom materials and speci-
cally as Ontario’s tuition fees are
already the highest in the country.
However, Dr. Gervan Fearon,
assistant professor in the depart-
ment of economics and dean of
the G. Raymond Chang School of
Continuing Education, said that de-
creases or gaps in university bud-
gets are common challenges that
post-secondary institutions face.
“I would say that we’ve seen this
before for universities,” he said. “I
would also say that I think that this
is true for Canada and for Ontario,
and in fact, given the recent broad-
based economic downturn, that
governments across Canada have
been actually relatively eective at
managing budgets.”
Fearon also pointed to the out-
come budget pressure may have
upon Ryerson’s investments and
developments.
He said that savings might be
discovered by means of innovative
thinking and more ecient ap-
proaches to student services.
“What we’ve seen so far is thatthe priorities have generally been
to ensure that good academic pro-
gramming is done for students, that
it’s transparent, that there’s consul-
tation — that these aren’t things
that are done in isolation, away
from discussions with students and
discussions with faculties,” Fearon
said.
Levy will host a town hall meet-
ing next month to generate discus-
sion and new ideas in the face of the
budget discrepancy and students
are welcome to aend.
The date and time of the meeting
will be announced in the next issue
of Ryerson Today.
Rye preps for budget cutsAs Ryerson prepares their annual budget, the university is anticipating athree per cent gap in the university-wide budget. D H reports
Contents of MapleLeaf Gardens’ timecapsule revealed
In a joint presentation with Loblaws Corporation, Ryerson
President Sheldon Levy revealed the contents of the time
capsule that was discovered in Maple Leaf Gardens during
the renovations of the historic Toronto landmark. Amongst the
items were hockey memorabilia, old newspapers, and a tiny
ivory elephant. It was also announced that the university will
be placing a time capsule of their on in the newly renovated
building. Go to www.theeyeopener.com for our full coverage.
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B I T
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Rye prof to help withcancer research
Ryerson physics professor Mi-
chael Kolios has teamed up with
a Chinese research group to
launch a collaborative prject that
will be funded by both the Ca-
nadian Institutes of Health Re-
search and the National Science
Foundation of China. Each team
will receive roughly $75,000 for
the three-year initiative, and the
research will be used to bothidentify and help treat cancer
Delays threaten SLC
A routine replacement of the
library building’s cooling tower
on Jan. 27 led onlookers to be-
lieve that Ryerson had broken
ground on the ambitious Stu-
dent Learning Centre (SLC), as a
construction crew set up the nec-
essary equipment on the SLC’s
empty lot.
Although university ocials
have reasserted that the con-
struction project is on schedule to begin in mid-February, the pos-
sibility of the Canadian Union of
Public Employees (CUPE) either
going on strike or being locked out
by the city threatens to delay any
future progress. “We’re on sched-
ule,” said Ryerson’s president Shel-
don Levy. “There’s always dier-
ent permits needed and if there is
a prolonged strike there could be
a delay but [the SLC] is the only
building that would be aected.”
In the event that a strike or city
lockout takes place in the com-
ing weeks, the university would
encounter signicant delays in re-
gards to geing their permits ap-proved by the city. To date, Ryer-
son is awaiting the approval of their
shoring and activation permits.
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tor stolen from the RAC’schanging room. The indi-vidual said that he wouldhave ran after whoever
stole it, but without a wayto monitor his heart, he wasafraid of exerting himself
physically in case of a heartattack.
A student reported thathis art briefcase was sto-len when he left it outside
his classroom on Jan. 25.He attended class and cameout to discover his briefcase
was gone. The news teamwould like to thank him forgiving us more material for
our upcoming ObliviousHipster meme.
On Jan. 28, a security of-cer found a syringe fas-tened to the top inside
part of a door handle withplastic shrink wrap. Thetip had been bent at a han-
dle in order to penetrate thehand of whoever openedthe door to the Sally Hors-
fall Eaton Centre. The of-cer who discovered it went
to the hospital but wasn’tinjured. We suggest you -nally gure out where thisbuilding is and take precau-
tions.
The journalism lounge
was vandalised on Jan.28. Chairs were overturned,papers were thrown and
wall decorations were onthe ground. This happenedto be the RTA vs. Journal-
ism Karaoke night. C’monguys, whether we won bya landslide or made your
ears bleed, there’s no needto take it out on public prop-erty.
Briefs &Groaners
The great students’ union debateWith voting set to take place in less than a week, the student union candidates took to the oor todebate their platforms, but the turnout proved less than stellar. Jessica Murray reports
Dropping fees, knocking down
residences to make parking lots,
and separating from the Canadian
Federation of Students were only
some of the ideas discussed during
Tuesday’s Ryerson Students’ Union
(RSU) election debate.
During the debate all seven can-
didates were given the opportunity
to discuss who they are and present
their respective platforms.
Following their speeches, each
candidate answered various ques-
tions that were submied from the
audience.
Although there were queries for
every candidate, it’s no surprise
that there was an overwhelmingamount of questions for the three
candidates running for president.
The three presidential candidates
discussed their very dierent inten-
tions for Ryerson if elected.
While Rodney Diverlus’ passion-
ate address focused on the impor-
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tance of the RSU and advocated
for equity, Mark Single lobbied for
more perks for students rather than
campaigning for their rights like
the current RSU.
Candidate Suraj Singh’s platform
provided comic relief between
these two polar opposites as he
advocated for napping areas and a
peing zoo on campus.
As they are all running uncon-
tested, the four remaining vice-
presidential candidates focused
their speeches around uniting Ry-
erson’s student body and building
a more stable and supportive cam-
pus community.
Most apparent was the smallturnout outnumbered by the
amount of media persons present.
“None of my friends are here but
I told all of them to come, it’s all just
student press,” said Singh.
Singh was not the only candidate
to notice the lack of audience. Sin-
gle questioned if the average stu-
dent even knows what the RSU is.
Most of the positions seemed to
be decided, with four out of the vepositions available running unop-
posed.
To some the election appears to
be taken less than seriously.
Diverlus addressed those who
felt that this election was a joke,
saying that is was “disheartening
and quite infuriating.”
With Singh’s wild card campaign
and Single playing devil’s advocate
against the student’s union, Singlefeels that this election is a one-horse
race.
“There is really only one appli-
cant for president — Suraj and me
are jokers,” says Single. “I would
like to congratulate Rodney on
winning the presidency.”
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Men’s Volleyball:Ryerson lost to Queen’s.(23-25, 25-27, 21-25)
Women’s HockeyRyerson 1: 6 Guelph
Women’s BasketballRyerson 72: 75 Queen’s
Men’s BasketballRyerson 73: 68 Queen’s
January 29
Men’s Volleyball:Ryerson won against RMC(25-20, 25-22, 25-12)
Women’s Volleyball:Ryerson lost to Ottawa
(25-27, 17-25, 22-25)
Games of the Week
On Friday night, boththe men’s and the women’s
basketball teams host theUniversity of Toronto. Thewomen are scheduled to start
at 6 p.m., while the men tip-off at 8.
It’s a ght for survival — the re-
sult of the game hangs in the bal-
ance during the third set between
the Ryerson Rams and the Guelph
Gryphons. Guelph is in full control,
leading two games to zero, but Ry-
erson refuses to give up. It won’t
be easy, but with the right strategy
and a bit of luck, Ryerson’s team
captain Je Haber and teammate
Ryan Lai could overcome the odds
and spark an upset.
Despite the teams being more
than 67 kilometers away from
each other, the tension is palpable.
Electing to go with the same strat-
egy that helped them seal a victory
against the University of Western
Ontario in a previous matchup, both Haber and Lai know that they
will have to act quickly if they want
to get the jump on their opponents.
But things didn’t go exactly as
planned for Ryerson. In less than
nine minutes, Guelph’s alien army
had quickly swarmed Lai’s base,
wiping out his defences and the last
of his structures. Haber knew that
it was only a maer of time before
his base would succumb to a simi-
lar fate.
In a last ditch eort, Haber start-
ed training as many soldiers as he
could, clicking his mouse frantical-
ly in the hopes that he would live to
ght another day. But it was no use;
the game was all but over.
“It didn’t feel like a good game,”
said Haber with a smile. “It sucks,
but at the end of the day you know
you’ll play in other games.”
With the loss, Ryerson’s StarCraft
team dropped to 7-7 on the year;
siing 32nd place in the league’s
Northern conference which also
features the likes of the University
of Windsor, York University and
the University of Toronto.
Since its 2010 release, StarCraft
has single-handedly brought com-
petitive E-Sports to North America.
And, like other sports, it’s found a
home at the university level.The Ryerson gamers compete in
the Collegiate Star League (CSL),
the StarCraft equivalent of the Ca-
nadian Interuniversity Sports (CIS)
or the National Collegiate Athletic
Association (NCAA), with univer-
sity teams competing against one
another on a weekly basis in a best
of ve game series.
The objective of StarCraft is sim-
ple enough: defeat your opponent.
To do this, players must devise a
strategy that balances gathering
resources with developing an army
and building structures. The num-
ber of variables that can aect the
outcome of a game are enormous,
and the best way to adapt to those
situations, just like any other sport,
is through practice.
“Like with any sort of sport, you
have to keep practicing to get it
down so that [what you’re doing]
essentially becomes second in-
stinct,” said Haber. “You can watch
replays and analyze where you
went wrong in dierent games and
gure out when to build things or
when you should be aacking.”
The idea of competitive video
gaming, or E-Sports, being legiti-
mized as sport in North America
is still in its infancy. In many parts
of Asia, E-Sports is already recog-
nized as a legitimate sport, with the
top players earning hundreds of
thousands of dollars a year in spon-sorships and tournament winnings.
While the popularity of E-Sports
is exponentially growing, many
people are strongly opposed to the
notion that the word sport is at-
tached to video games.
When asked what denes a
sport, Ryerson’s director of athlet-
ics, Ivan Joseph, was selective with
his words.
“For me, [a sport] would have
some level of training and physi-
cal preparation. There would be a
physical dimension, a mental di-
mension a tactical dimension to
it,” he said. “There is a piece that
relates to hand-eye coordination,
stamina, endurance and psycho-
logical and mental elements to it.
There is a tactical element to it, and
there are one or more adversaries.”“If it’s meeting those compo-
nents I don’t see [why it shouldn’t
be considered a sport].”
Despite the team’s average sea-
son, Haber already considers it
a success, as the team is not only
competing against universities
with higher student populations,
but they’re also essentially playing
together for the rst time.
“Considering it’s the rst time
that we’ve done this, I’d say we’re
doing prey well” he said.
Although it was initially found-
ed in 2009, when StarCraft: Brood
Wars was the game of choice, Ry-erson’s StarCraft team lacked orga-
nization and quickly disintegrated.
This past summer, Haber decided
to resurrect the team, and under
his management, Ryerson’s team is
organzied, disciplined and ready to
compete for a CSL title in the near
future.
After the season concludes,
Haber said that the team plans to
apply to become an ocial club,
which would be a step in the right
direction in solidifying video
games as a real sport, at least on
our campus.
Eighteen months after its release, StarCraft 2 is single-handedly propelling competitive videogaming into the mainstream. Sean Tepper reports on the ambitions of Ryerson’s StarCraft team
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Coming to a bathroom near youThe Student Campus Centre is undergoing construction to accommodate students’ religious practices
By Nadya domiNgo
Ryerson’s Student Campus Cen-
tre (SCC) is renovating their third-
oor washrooms to accommodate
Muslim student ablutions.
The renovations include creat-
ing an ablution-friendly bathroom
equipped with footbaths and sinks.
The bathrooms are set to open next
week.
An ablution is a mandatory act of
washing oneself before prayer, in-
cluding ones hands, feet, face, and
parts of the head. This ritual must
occur in order for prayer to be com-
pleted properly.
Fairuz Schickh,
a Muslim StudentAssociation (MSA)
member at Ryerson,
said she prefers per-
forming ablutions
in mosques close to
school.
The second-year
psychology student
said that ablutions can be messy
when performed in an area that
isn’t built specically for the ritual.
Schickh avoids the washrooms
at Ryerson because they don’t pro-
vide sucient space to perform ab-
lutions.
“We don’t want to cause chaos
and mess,” said Schickh.
The washrooms on the third oor
of Oakham House have been reno-
vated to provide more space for ab-
lutions.
The handicap stalls in both the
men’s and women’s washrooms
have been removed to make space
for the stations.
A new, single-stall handicap
washroom has been built between
the men’s and women’s washroom.
The bathroom, which was once
empty oce space, can be accessed
from the hallway.
Caitlin Smith, president of the
Ryerson Students’ Union (RSU),
said that because the handicap
stalls were not located in a high-
trac area, the move shouldn’t
pose problems.
“It’s not that we’ve taken away
accessible washrooms,” she said.
“We hadn’t heard any concerns be-
fore.”
The renovated men’s and wom-
en’s washrooms will include foot-
bath and hand sink combinations,
so students can stand while wash-
ing themselves instead of siing.
New high-speed dryers have
been built below the footbaths as-
well.
Eric Newstadt, general manager
of the SCC, said he recognized that
people needed a specially designed
space to perform the ritual.
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“Students would wait or perform
ablutions in other sinks,” he said.
“That was creating some issues in
usability and space.”
If students weren’t waiting in line
to do their ablutions, they were us-
ing standard sinks instead to wash
themselves.
This posed problems for the
maintenance of the bathroom as
water would overow from the
sinks.
Shickh says that the new ablution
stations are a great idea because
they are more comfortable in their
set-up.
“It shows that people are actu-
ally puing in the eort to bring
[ablution stations] and that Muslimstudents have a place to go on cam-
pus,” she said.
This isn’t the rst time ablutions
have been considered in Canadian
university washrooms.
The University of British Co-
lumbia (UBC) has renovated their
bathrooms not only for religious
purposes, but to also provide a safe
and comfortable bathroom that is
gender inclusive.
The Muslim students at UBC
would use the washrooms up to
ve times a day for ablutions, not-
ing that the task included hopping
on one foot to reach the other into
a sink.
In the meantime, signs have been
posted in the bathrooms informing
students not to do ablutions.
“It shows that people are actually putting
in the effort to bring [ablution stations] and
that Muslim students have a place to go on
campus.
— Fairuz Schickh,
Muslim Student Association member
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This On-Premise Brand Ambassador is a part timeposition, and will focus exclusively on building brandingand volume driving activities for a fun and establishedspirit brand. The selected candidate will directly managebrand relationships within a dened market place.
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The ideal candidate is someone who’s connected, inthe know, and able to inuence. The Brand Ambassadorwill coordinate and manage a schedule to achieve 4-6events per month, focus on awareness and trial by sam-pling and engaging with consumers, oversee on-premiseevent operation from start to nish, conduct consumerengagement activities and build brand awareness byengaging with consumers on brand attributes. Knowl-edge of liquor promotions a benet.