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The Canadian Radio-televisionnd Telecommunications Com-
mission (CRTC) approved Ry-rson’s campus radio station
The Scope’s application for an
AM radio licence in December.The Scope will be broad-
asting under AM chan-
nel 1280 and is aiming to beon the air by January 2016.
“We are overjoyed with thedecision and want to give heart-
elt thanks to all of the station’solunteers and also the hundreds
of people who took the time towrite a letter of support,” saidElissa Matthews, The Scope’s pro-ram director, in a press release.
Ryerson University has received a$13-million donation from JackCockwell and the Brookfield Part-
ners Foundation. The money willgo toward creating the Brook-field Institute for Innovation and
Entrepreneurship at Ryerson,funding innovation projects oncampus and supporting the Stu-
dent Learning Centre. RyersonPresident Sheldon Levy will bethe institute’s first honorary chair.
To date, the Brookfield PartnersFoundation has donated more
than $20 million to the university,making it “among Ryerson’s mostgenerous private sector benefac-tors,” according to a press release.
A survey by Media Corp Inc. andthe Globe and Mail ranked Ryer-son University as one of the Great-
er Toronto Area’s best employers.Employers were evaluated by theeditors of Canada’s Top 100 Em-
ployers.Some of the reasons Ryerson
made it on to the list include the
three weeks of paid vacation al-lowance for new employees, ma-ternity and paternity leave, top-uppayments, on-site daycare and tu-
ition subsidies for courses taken at
other schools.“Ryerson is the place to be,”
Ryerson President Sheldon Levysaid in a press release.
The Scope getsCRTC AM radiobroadcast licence
RTS programs not goinganywhere soon
NewsBites
Ryerson President Sheldon Levy confirmed on Jan. 12 that the theatreschool’s programs will not be moving out of their building at the end ofthis academic year like previously planned, but the university is hoping
to have them out by fall 2016.The university and the theatre school are teaming up with RyersonBuilds and are looking to find an optimal permanent home for the the-
atre school. As previously reported by The Eyeopener, the team will be
exploring both new building opportunities and moving the school intoa pre-existing vacant space.
Rye gets new dietetics master’s
Ryerson has partnered with St. Michael’s Hospital for a new master’sdiploma in dietetics. The year-long program is the first of its kind inCanada and mixes classes with hospital placements. After graduation,
students can write registration exams to become registered dieticians.
Nominations now open forstudent union’s annual election
As of Jan. 12, the nominations for this year’s Ryerson Students’ Union(RSU) elections are open to full-time Ryerson students. Voting will takeplace on Feb. 10, 11 and 12. Nomination packages are available at the
RSU office (SCC 307).
Rye gets $13 mil-lion for innova-tion projects
Ryerson rankedone of Toronto’sbest employers
SLC construction in final stretchThe sign is up, the lights are on but the doors are still closed ... for now
By Brennan Doherty
The Student Learning CentreSLC) section at the Ryerson
Builds website reports that, as of
Dec. 1st, most of the building’s ex-erior work is finished. A few ad-
ditional components were sched-
uled to have been completed byhe end of December.
These include the blue ceiling
panels under the plaza soffit, glassdoors for the stores on the groundfloor, and furniture installationsnd insets along the bordering
Yonge St. sidewalk.The main lobby’s domed ceil-
ng is done and construction of a
round-floor café should be un-derway this month.
A picture of the interior, posted
ast Friday on the Ryerson StudentLearning Support’s Twitter ac-ount, shows significant progress
on the fourth floor of the building— reserved for academic servicesuch as the Writing Centre, Test
Centre, English Language Supportnd others.Furniture fixtures are already
in place, part of the back wall hasbeen painted a light green and car-
pets appear to have already beeninstalled.
While the SLC will be open
again for media tours at the endof January, Ryerson has not an-nounced any concrete information
regarding the leasing of the build-ing’s ground-level retail space.
Ryerson said in August 2013
that it would be leasing the groundand lower floors of the building.Rent money will help finance the
SLC’s construction.According to Ryerson President
Sheldon Levy, it’s been difficult tosell the retail space as two separateoffers. So, Ryerson is combining
both floors into a package deal.While there is currently no leasingdeal, Levy thinks it’s “very close.”
“We’ve had pharmacies, we’vehad telecommunications compa-nies, we’ve had a variety that havelooked at it and shown an inter-
est. I think we’ll get something,”he said.
SLC is set to open on schedule late next month.PHOTO: ROB FOREMAN
PHOTO: SIERRA BEIN PHOTO: JACKIE HONGPHOTO: FARNIA FEKRI
the gym. You just get to see whatthey go through and what they put
into their craft.”
Recently the team has welcomed
Raptors rookie Bruno Caboclo,
who was left home by the team
during a five-game road trip. Since
the average age of his Raptors
teammates is 26.4, the pairing al-
lows the 19-year-old Brazilian to
hang out with players his own age,
and gives the Rams a first-hand
view of a future star.
“He lives in downtown Toronto
and sometimes he gets bored, so he
comes here,” says second-year guard
Jean-Victor Mukama. “I’m a couple
months older than him, so eventhough he doesn’t [fully] understand
English, it’s easy to communicate be-
cause we both love basketball.”
This season, Ryerson will host the
CIS National Championships — the
first time that the tournament will
ever be held in Toronto — automat-
ically earning a spot in the field of
eight. With 20-point victories over
#4 McMaster and #5 Windsor, Ry-
erson appears worthy of its #3 na-
tional ranking. But lopsided losses
against the top-ranked Ottawa
Gee-Gees and #2 Carleton Ravens
— winners of 10 of the last 12 na-
tional titles — tell them there’s stillwork to do if they want to raise the
trophy in front of home fans.
“We’re the third best team in
the country for a reason. They’re
number one and number two, and
it’s not even close right now,” says
Jones. “[But] we’re not going to rely
on someone else to beat them, we’re
not relying on upsets. We know we
have to go through both of them.”
The Rams have carried on an in-
tense rivalry with the Gee-Gees for
the past three seasons, eliminating
Ottawa in the 2012 OUA playoffs
(74-71), before los-
ing to them in 2013
(70-74) and 2014
(78-79). Each game
was decided in thefinal seconds, with
the victor going on
to qualify for nation-
als. And while Car-
leton has traditionally
dominated Ryerson,
winning every single
game since 1999, the
Rams seemed to have
turned a corner last
season, losing a close
68-71 game at home
— the narrowest mar-
gin during that span.
Rana is quick to
admit the Rams “got
[their] asses kicked”on the November
road trip to Ottawa,
but is confident that
his team — loaded with the CIS’s
third-ranked defense and fifth-
ranked offense — will be its more-
competitive self come playoff time.
“My belief hasn’t changed that
we’re good enough to win a na-
tional championship,” says Rana.
“I think we’re in that conversation
with those two (Carleton and Otta-
wa) and there’s three or four other
teams around the country that are
going to be big challenges.”
Now playing in his fifth andfinal year of eligibility, Jones
says it’s only fitting to fin-
ish his career at the national
championships in front of a Toronto
crowd, where home-court advantage
may be key — the Rams are 24-3 at
home since moving to the Mattamy
Athletic Centre in 2012.
“This is what [we] have been
talking about since we got to Ry-
erson,” says Jones. “If we win in
our fifth year, no one can take it
from us. There’s no coming back.
No, we won. We go out on top.”
decide [not] to stay in Canada,
here’s two things: one, just the
tigma of staying in Canada. This
whole kind of ‘oh he didn’t succeed
because he didn’t get a scholarship,’
nd two, there are some financial
hallenges for some kids to stay,
whereas if they go south they can
et a full ride. So we have to try to
overcome that,” says Rana. “But
once they kind of mature and losehe stigma side of it, they usually
understand that it’s a pretty good
evel [of basketball] up here.”
While players can get
some financial assis-
tance for academic
success, Ryerson ath-
etes don’t receive athletic schol-
rships. On top of daily practice
nd video sessions and two games
per week, players work part-time
obs to pay their tuition — ranging
rom moving for 1-800-Got-Junk
o cleaning up after classes at the
Cineplex movie theatre.
Fourth-year shooting guard Aar-on Best was the eleventh-ranked
NPH) Canadian high school pros-
pect in 2011, and was heavily re-
ruited by the University of Pennsyl-
ania. While the Ivy League school
was a tough option to pass up, Best
ays his familiarity with Rana (Best
played for former-Rana assistant
Kevin Jeffers at Eastern Commerce)
nd Jones, whom he had played
with for various provincial teams
nd camps, and the ability to play
n front of his family weighed heav-
y in his decision to stay in Toronto.
“My mom always told me, ‘if
ou’re good enough and you do
what you’re supposed to do, they’llfind you,’” says Best on whether
kipping out on the NCAA would
have an impact on a potential pro
areer. “I made the decision to stay,
nd I stand by it.”
While Best and other players
orfeit TV exposure by staying in
Canada (with Sportsnet broad-
asting just this year’s CIS cham-
pionships on national TV), there
are benefits
to playing
for Ryerson.
The team
r e g u l a r l y
plays exhibitionsagainst top U.S.
teams like Syra-
cuse and Wake
Forest, and start-
d last season with a 10-day tour
of China. Through Rana’s nation-
l team and NBA connections —
he estimates he’s coached at least
0 current NBA players in some
apacity — the Rams often work
ide by side with pros.
“Because we’re in Toronto, we
et to be around a lot of people
who have actually made it,” says
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: J.V.
MUKAMA HAS RECENTLY BEEN PLAY-
ING 1-ON-1 WITH RAPTORS ROOK-
IE BRUNO CABOCLO; JAHMAL JONES
GUARDS BRAMPTON’S TYLER ENNIS
DURING THE RAMS’ NOV. 5, 2013
EXHIBITION AGAINST THE SYRACUSE
ORANGEMEN. PHOTO: FARNIA FEKRI;
CARLETON’S PHILIP SCRUBB BATTLES
OTTAWA’S JOHNNY BERHANEMESKEL,
PHOTO: BRIAN BATISTA BETTEN-
COURT; TWO STINTS IN THE NCAA,
6-FOOT-9 VAUGHAN NATIVE KADEEM
GREEN JOINED THE RAMS IN 2013-14.
My mom always told me, ‘if you’re good enough and you do what you’re sup-
osed to do, they’ll find you’ ... I made the decision to stay, and I stand by it
— Aaron Best on his decision to stay in Canada to play basketball
KINGS of the DOTSince 2012, the Rams have posted a 13-1 record against crosstownrivals York and U of T, with an average score of 81-69. “You alwayswant to dominate your city,” says fifth-year guard Jordon Gauthier.
Do you even bod pod, bro?A high-tech analysis of personal fitness levels and body composition opens at Ryerson
Creating a fitness schedule and nu-trition plan to achieve those “New
Year, New You” resolutions isnow made easier.
Ryerson nutrition professor
Nick Bellissimo and his team ofeight undergraduate techniciansopened a series of fitness tests at
the Nutrition and Exercise Testing(NExT) Lab that determine bodycomposition, resting metabolicrate and aerobic fitness level.
The tests cost $300 for the gen-eral public, but students can get a
discounted rate of $150.“We take information [from the
tests], we analyze it and then wegive you [numeric results of body
composition],” Bellissimo said. “Ifyou are concerned, then you go to
a dietician, go to a physician, goto your certified exercise physiolo-gist and have them design a plan
for you.”The Bod Pod is the first of three
tests. After enclosing yourself in
this dome-shaped compartment,the machine uses air pressure todetermine the percentage of fat
and lean muscle tissue in yourbody. The results place you in oneof the following categories: low
body fat, ultra lean, lean, mod-erately lean, excess fat and high
body fat.“If you are slightly out of range,
that could be a trigger to get youto start thinking,” Bellissimo said.
“It’s not meant to alarm, it’s meantto motivate.”
The second test is the indirectcalorimeter. A plastic dome isplaced over your head for 20 min-
utes, calculating calories burnedat rest. This test determines yourresting metabolic rate (RMR),
indicating how many calories areneeded to consume or burn toreach the client’s ideal weight.
Aerobic fitness is the third testbeing phased into the program, re-
quiring exercise on the lab’s tread-mill. Using a metabolic analyzer,
the test determines your body’sabilities during exercise. Thisevaluates what type and quantity
of fuel it’s burning, like fat or car-bohydrates — to decipher whichtype of exercise suits you best to
achieve your fitness goals.“Ryerson is well positioned
to get something like this off the
ground,” Bellissimo said. “We area very business savvy institution.People are very optimistic about
it and that’s part of Ryerson’s ap-plied approach.”
By Julia Knope
No, this is not a giant egg or a space shuttle. It’s the bod pod.PHOTO: JULIA KNOPE
A virtual reality program being de-eloped by a team of fourth-year
adio and television arts (RTA)tudents is set to launch next
month after reaching its funding
oal through Kickstarter.Vessels Virtual Reality (VR),
reated by Josh Maldonado, is
n educational program designedo simulate being immersed in the
human circulatory system; shut-ling the user through veins and
rteries.The experience requires the use
of the Oculus Rift, a powerful VR
headset. To develop a programompatible with it, Maldonado
RTA students’ thesis project gets kickstartedBy Lana Hall and his team require specialized
software and must pay a monthlylicensing fee that enables them towork within a specific 3D devel-
opment environment.Since Vessels VR is being devel-
oped as a research project through
Ryerson’s Transmedia Zone, theteam has access to a workspaceand mentorship, but the Zone
does not provide financial assis-tance.
To cover some of their costs,Maldonado and his team launched
a crowdsourcing campaign onKickstarter. In 30 days, the teamreached their funding goal of
$2,300.“We got a lot of response from
other fourth-year students,” saidBrenda Grajales, director of mar-
keting and communications forVessels VR. “Which was surpris-ing, because of course, they are all
busy with their own final projectsas well.”
Their fellow students are not theonly ones interested to see the out-come of the project.
“We are really excited about
this for several reasons,” said Ra-mona Pringle, acting director atthe Transmedia Zone. “It’s a fasci-
nating use of technology.”In fact, she says, it is the first
project incubated at the zone that
is dedicated to the Oculus Rift.“The project has substance behindit, in addition to exploring state-
of-the-art technology,” she says.
“They are interested in not justnovelty, but narrative.”
The team plans to have the proj-ect completed by mid-February
and is planning a screening partylater in the month, where students
will be able to try the experienceout for themselves.
Josh Maldonado, creator of Vessels VR.PHOTO: SIERRA BEIN
Julia’s insider of being inside
When I first saw the bod pod,
it looked like a giant egg. Afterchecking for an angry mothergoose, I hopped in.
When Bellissimo shut the doors,sounds of ticking and whirringhad me feeling as though I was in
a spaceship preparing for takeoff.The bod pod testing took threeminutes — like I was in a contain-
er that was getting microwaved.When I stepped out, Bellissimo
handed me an organized piece of
paper with my percentage of fatand lean mass, as well as a chartoutlining the different categoriesfor men and women.
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Your New Year’s resolution ain’t shitFor the love of Big Macs, it’s time to light your dusty-ass treadmill on fire
t’s the third week of January and
our hopes and dreams for 2015:
The Year of the Hot Bod are plum-
meting like a torpedo into thedepths of a shark-ridden ocean.
There are no possible means of re-
aining control of the New Year’s
esolutions you foolishly conjured
up on the night of Dec. 31, 2014
n a drunken, puke-covered, tear-
ul haze.
Give in to the call of the carb
nd swim for your life to the near-
est multi-billion dollar fast food
establishment to subdue your han-
kering for still-clucking chickens
ground to a pulp and deep-fried
in the greasy tears of Ronald Mc-
Donald (luckily for lazy dorksthere’s at least one restaurant con-
veniently located on each and ev-
ery landmass on the entire planet
of Earth).
Once you wash up on shore,
station your hungry self in the
newly-updated interior of said fast
food joint, where contemporary
decor, sensual mood lighting and
terribly cringeworthy soft rock of-
fer delightful concealment of the
evils of a corporation profiting
off calorie inhalation via Happy
Meal-chomping children and dol-
lar menu-devouring drunkards.In today’s economy, food is
no longer just fast; it travels at
the speed of light through your
pores to your eager thighs and
bum. So it’s a relief that body
positivity and all that good shit
is on the rise. Cut yourself some
goddamn slack and feast on, you
beautiful, bootylicious dweeb.
Mark Twain alive, shirtless
Ladies, gentlemen and all, it is re-
ealed to you now, without further
mbiguity, that I, Mark Twain,
m in fact alive and well among
ou. It was a hoax, my death
was staged, and I have
ived in recluse from
my beloved American
outh as a practical
oke until this day.
The simple plea-
ure that anonym-
ty affords has fad-
d and with it the
reasured memories
of watching myuneral. The cha-
ade’s tender wit has
one to boredom in
ime and I no longer
eel the same sense of
pride in maintaining my
death hoax. I effectively
nvented death-trolling in
910, but the humour lasts
only as long as people are sad,
nd the world has stopped mourn-
ng the death of Samuel Clemens.
I’ve seen bobbleheads of myself
in gas stations, I’ve heard peo-
ple refer to my likeness as ‘The
Colonel,’ and now I feel like the
world is once again ready for
some Twain. I faked a heart at-
tack and travelled the world,
watching history write itself
and commenting dryly.
I’ve seen Dali in his home,
Churchill naked and
the Beatles before they
were truly dad-cool.
But I’ve grown tired
of observing, so I’ve
resolved to stretch,
drink and get towork again. I am re-
claiming my throne
as the greatest satirist
to ever hold a pen and
I will begin my reign
here at The Eyeopener.
Many thanks to Emma
Cosgrove, for holding my
place as fun editor while I
was “dead.” Good luck in your
future endeavours. It’s going to
be all Twain, all 2015. Peace.
-Mark Twain
79-year-old writer vows to take over fun sectio—whoa whoa whoa there BUDDY