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skating championships and win-ter invitationals The women have
14 events for singles pairs fours
and teams Most university teams
have just one male player on their
squad
Buchanan says he didnrsquot
always want to be a fig-
ure skater ldquoWhen I was
younger all of my friends were
playing hockey and they would
poke fun at [me] for figure skat-
ingrdquo he says ldquoWhen that hap-
pens you want to fit in and just
play hockeyrdquo He changed his
mind after his childhood coachtold him he had the potential to
excel in figure skating
ldquoI think the fact [that the OUA]
only has one event for men is a
gender biasrdquo figure skating head
coach Lauren Wilson says She
says she doesnrsquot think the gender
bias is done on purpose but the
structure of the OUA figure skat-ing championships doesnrsquot help
ldquoOur roster is limited to 17 and
therersquos only one competition for
men We canrsquot make room for
more guyshellip Men can compete
in the synchro event but that still
leaves their options lowrdquo Buchan-
an chose not to partake in team
synchro ldquoI train on my own so
doing synchro wouldnrsquot work for
merdquo he says
Buchanan notes that the sport
faces a lack of recognition ldquoMost
people donrsquot take it serious They
donrsquot know the sport all they
know is Blades of Gloryrdquo
An hour before the competi-
tion Buchanan was writ-
ing an exam The 22-year-
old is a second-year accounting
student at Ryerson On top of his
studies hersquos been competing in
figure skating for six years ldquoMy
whole family has been skating for
a long timerdquo he says
Like any athlete he devoted a
lot of time to training until his
luck took a turn for the worst on
May 5 2012 He was walking
home alone from a bar in Mon-
treal when he was hit by a car
ldquoI really donrsquot have any memo-
ry of what happenedrdquo Buchanan
says He was found in the middle
of the street unconscious and
bleeding at 335 am He woke up
in a downtown Montreal hospi-
tal
Buchanan suffered a baseline
skull fracture that kept him off
the ice for a year ldquoI wasnrsquot sure if
I could [go] back to skatingrdquo he
says Buchanan was inspired by
Javier Fernandez mdash the 2014 Eu-
ropean menrsquos figure skating cham-
pion He says watching Fernandezskate at the Toronto Cricket Skat-
ing and Curling Club pushed him
back into competition
Buchananrsquos first dance back on
the ice was rough ldquoI hadnrsquot com-
peted in like two years and I for-
got how much it took to skate
[figure skating] is surprisingly tir-
ing and I was out of breath for like
half an hourrdquo Figure skating com-
petitions are tightly judged Skat-
ers are scored on the difficulty and
style of the routine but theyrsquore
sometimes also judged off the ice
by society
Buchanan says that some peoplemake sweeping assumption about
male figure skaters mdash sometimes
extending to their sexuality ldquoIrsquom
not gay but [that] notion people
have bugs me a little bitrdquo He says
these assumptions deter athletes
from pursuing the sport ldquoIf you
are gay it can be hard to deal with
the way people label yourdquoEmily Rose Galliani Pecchia a
third-year forward on the Ryerson
womenrsquos hockey team says ldquoPeo-
ple shouldnrsquot make these assump-
tions flat out Whether theyrsquore
a figure skater hockey player or
wrestler it doesnrsquot determine if
theyrsquore gay or straightrdquo
Galliani Pecchia whom is gay
says athletes should be able to
compete in any sport without be-
ing judged
ldquoIf an athlete is gay they
should feel comfortable enough
to compete Itrsquos not fair for an
athlete to feel uncomfortable intheir field of playrdquo she says She
adds that her teammates are open
about their sexuality ldquoThere is
always someone to talk to within
our dressing room which is an
anomaly in varsity sport since it
is a taboo subjectrdquo
Pierre Alain interim head coach
of the Ryerson womenrsquos hockey
team says there are false percep-
tions that female hockey play-
ers are physical and butch ldquoYes
many players like the physical part
of the [sport] but thatrsquos not all
you need to be a good playerrdquo He
says athletes shouldnrsquot be catego-
rized based on the sport they playldquoLook at Meghan Agosta mdash she
started as a figure skater before
doing hockeyrdquo
Figure skating isnrsquot a promi-
EAKERSare often seen as being male-dominatedworld of athleticism men are a minoritykes a look at the often-overlooked sport of
When I was younger all my friends were play-ing hockey and they would poke fun at [me]for figure skating When that happens youwant to fit in and just play hockey
nent sport at most universities
The crowd at the OUAs is meager
compared to the ones at a basket-
ball or hockey games and is made
up mostly of athletesrsquo teammates
But Buchanan says that figure
skating is growing
When Buchanan was a kid he
would take cover when people
made fun of him for figure skat-ing Today he is less shy ldquoSome
people give you a look but it
doesnrsquot bother me anymorerdquo His
response to those who question
the physical demand required to
compete ldquoWhy donrsquot you give it
a try and see how you dordquo
Buchanan knows what to
do to win He preps him-
self mentally while sitting
in the menrsquos changeroom at the
OUAs ldquoYou have to focus in You
have to relax Donrsquot over-analyze
things Let your body do what
you trained it to dordquo he saysAfter he is mentally prepared he
heads to the ice Buchanan walks
on the Rams mat before leaving
the changeroom then remem-
bers ldquoYoursquore not supposed to do
that mdash itrsquos bad luckrdquo During the
warm-up skate Daft Punkrsquos One
More Time radiates through the
arena Competitors are already
on the ice perfecting their routine
Each one exudes confidence ldquoIrsquom
not going to lie I really want to
winrdquo he says
One after another they take
the ice and perform their routine
Buchanan is the third competitor
to hit the ice and he emerges toElton Johnrsquos Your Song Some of
the female athletes in the audi-
ence begin to sing along and they
throw flowers at him when the
routine is finished Many of the
menrsquos routines were comedic and
they were often met with laugh-
ter Some audience members com-
mented on Buchananrsquos ldquosparklesrdquo
on his black tee
Every spin jump and turn is
completed with grace He ex-
plodes with a double axel He
nails jump after jump then sud-
denly staggers on his landing
He throws his hands to catchhimself and continues He elicits
When Parth Patel was in his firstew years of the engineering pro-
ram he found getting a summer
ob to be quite challenging
ldquoI applied to more than 60 or
70 jobsrdquo he said ldquoI [was] trying
o find work [in engineering] but
wasnrsquot able tordquo
The frustration of finding a
ummer job is something many
Looking for a summer job can be frustrating but relying on the Internet may be hurting you more than you know
students have experienced before
especially since the 2008 econom-
ic crisis when markets around theworld crashed Searching through
thousands of job listings online
perfecting your resumeacute and send-
ing it out can take hours
But if yoursquore hoping to score
that ideal job going back to the
basics is the way to go said Dan-
iel Kennedy a career consultant
at Ted Rogers School of Manage-
Since the 2008 economic crisis the job market has seen fierce competition mdash sepa-rating yourself from the rest is the first step in being noticed
PHOTOS FARNIA FEKRI
ment careers and employment
partnerships centre
ldquoIf you go into [the websites]Monster or Workopolis and you
type in lsquosummer jobsrsquo yoursquore going
to find job postingsrdquo he said ldquoThe
problem is there are about four mil-
lion other students across Canada
who are going to find those same
job postingsrdquo
It often comes down to doing
some old-fashioned scouting on the
ground Kennedy said adding that
proactively approaching employers
can make a bigger impression than
simply sending a resumeacute by email
ldquoWhat students should do if they
really want to make a go of it is to
look for companies that donrsquot havethe capacity to advertise for those
summer jobsrdquo he said ldquoIf you can
identify and find those companies
and approach them proactively
that will give you a much better
chancerdquo
Because finding a job can be so
difficult in Toronto many students
decide to go back to their home-
towns for the summer where the
competition is less fierce and jobs
are easier to come by
Laura Hamel a first-year perfor-
mance acting student said shersquoll be
moving back home for the summer
because of the cost of living in To-
rontoldquoIrsquom from Regina so Irsquoll be mov-
ing home to find a jobrdquo she said
ldquoItrsquos a lot cheaper to live at home
and I have a solid job at homerdquo
For Patel scoring a job came
with a visit to his sister in Calgary
one summer While he was there
he applied to only five or six jobs
and ended up getting a summer po-
sition that matched his field
The summer job market comes
down to basic supply and demand
Kennedy said
ldquoOn the supply side you have
basically a lot of students that are
looking for jobs during the sum-mer months and thatrsquos fine as long
as the demandrsquos thererdquo he said
ldquoThe demand really hasnrsquot been
there since 2008rdquo
Brennan Thompson undergrad-
uate program director in the school
of economics says that the reces-
sion of 2008 has brought everyone
down a notch when it comes to the
job market
ldquoThe guy who was working at
the auto assembly plant loses his
job and now hersquos taking the low-
paid job at Tim Hortonrsquosrdquo he said
ldquoNow the young person who used
to have that job at Tim Hortonrsquos
[doesnrsquot] have anythingrdquo
Kennedy says the market is start-
ing to bounce back But compared
to 10 years ago finding a summer
job is far more of a challenge Even
in a city as big as Toronto compe-
tition can be fierce because thereare so many students looking for
temporary employment
According to Kennedy even
if the job you end up with isnrsquot at
all related to your field itrsquos still a
good idea to include it on your
resumeacute Employers look at how
your skills have evolved even if
the job you had was just bussing
tables The hard skills you gain
might not be related to your future
career but the soft skills mdashlike leadership skills problem-
solving abilities and customer ser-
vice experience mdash will come in
handy
ldquoNo one is expecting you to
graduate here and have four years
of senior project management ex-
periencerdquo he said
ldquoWhat they want to see is that
therersquos a progressionrdquo
By Leah Hansen
Ryerson graduate Peter Hill is performing at the ninth annual Toronto SketchComedy Festival as part of a duo called Beggarrsquos Canyon See the full article by AlexHeck at theeyeopenercom
PHOTO COURTESY TARA NOELLE
Laughing it up
Discuss the upcoming budget
All members of the Ryerson community are invited to
attend a town hall to discuss the development of the
universityrsquos budget for the 2014-15 academic year
Hosted by
SHELDON LEVY
president
MOHAMED LACHEMI
provost and vice president academic
PAUL STENTON
deputy provost and vice-provost university planning
TOWN HALL MEETING
Wednesday March 12 9 ndash 10 am
Architecture Building Room ARC ndash 108
Thursday March 20 230 ndash 330 pm
Library Building Room LIB ndash 72
President Levy is confirmed to attend the March 20 meeting
To submit questions in advance email provostryersonca
Please contact us if we need to make any accommodations to
Wise said ldquoThey unfortunatelygot on the board firstrdquo
In spite of the disappointing
oss this marked the Ramsrsquo best
performance in the last decade
But that success didnrsquot come
without a few major bumps along
he way Their high-powered start
o the season came to a screeching
halt due to a seven-day suspen-
ion they were handed for drink-
ng alcohol while on a team road
rip The Rams had to forfeit two
games during their suspension
but managed to come back strong
mdash ranking fourth in the Ontario
University Athletics (OUA) West
division by the seasonrsquos endldquoWersquove come a long way from
ighth place and I think we had a
eally good year for ourselvesrdquo sec-
ond-year forward Jamie Wise said
Coached by his father Graham
Wise Jamie achieved a career-
high 45 points mdash ranking him
hird in the Canadian Interuni-
versity Sports (CIS) His 21 goals
his season mdash compared to the
ight he scored last season mdash
made him the second-leading
corer in the country
By Devin Jones
amie Wise the Ramsrsquo leading scorer and second-ranked in the country on home ice
PHOTO FARNIA FEKRI
Fellow forward Dominic Alber-
ga also had a standout season
A third-line grinder from the
Ontario Hockey League (OHL)
Albergarsquos first-line rookie perfor-
mance for the Rams was anything
but expected
Alberga contributed 44 points
and 18 goals to the team He
achieved second place on the team
for goals scored and is nationally
ranked fourth in points mdash all in his
first year as a Ram
But as the menrsquos hockey team
celebrates new talent they alsosay goodbye to two of their key
players Both right-winger Dustin
Alcock and captain Andrew Buck
are graduating this year Buck
scored 90 goals in his 125-game
career with the Rams and wore
the captainrsquos patch for three of his
five years
ldquoItrsquos a surreal feeling and Irsquom
not really sure if itrsquos hit me yetrdquo
Buck said ldquoIrsquoll miss not going
to the rink every day and seeing
the guys but Irsquove had a great five
years so I canrsquot complainrdquo
The Rams are ranked fourth in
the OUA West division and made
their third-straight playoff appear-ance for the first time in history
The last time the Rams earned a
semifinal spot in the playoffs was
the 2009ndash10 season
The team will take some time off
before the coaching staff begins
the journey to next yearrsquos home
opener a process head coach Wise
said will begin with recruitment
ldquoRecruiting is ongoingrdquo he
said ldquoHopefully we can bring in
guys that will make the team bet-
ter and wersquoll go from thererdquo
History repeats itself for Rye hockey
The end of the menrsquos hockey season marks the end of all the Ramsrsquo seasons Go to theeyeopenercom fora cheat sheet on how they ended and which players were awarded OUA titles EyeSports theeyeopener
Celebrate the road to graduation as youbecome Ryerson alumni
March 5 POD upper Hub 1130 am ndash 130 pm
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This week wersquore giving away a car Actually just $20 toTim Hortonrsquos Fill it out drop it off in the contest boxoutside of SCC 207 This is a raffle contest not a first-to-finish oneName Student Email Phone
Pugilisim of the StatePHOTO JESS TSANG
ILLUSTRATION DASHA ZOLOTA
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Cumming Soon Sin amp Vice
Now that our annual Love amp Sex issue is overand done with there has been a serious lackof cunning linguists in this paper Thatrsquos whereour new columnist comes in Her name is Lou-ise and shersquos ready to take your questionsabout what goes down (or doesnrsquot) beneaththe sheets Send us all the slippery sticky andsensual questions you have We promise topublish your questions anonymously and un-edited Nothing is too raunchy or embarrass-ing Send your inquiries to funtheeyeopenercom and Louise will answer in the next issue
W I N T I C K E T S t o s e e3 0 0 R I S E O F A N E M P I R E
B e o n e o f t h e f i r s t 1 5 s t a r t i n g a tn o o n M a r c h 5 t h t o w i n J u s t c o m e t o
skating championships and win-ter invitationals The women have
14 events for singles pairs fours
and teams Most university teams
have just one male player on their
squad
Buchanan says he didnrsquot
always want to be a fig-
ure skater ldquoWhen I was
younger all of my friends were
playing hockey and they would
poke fun at [me] for figure skat-
ingrdquo he says ldquoWhen that hap-
pens you want to fit in and just
play hockeyrdquo He changed his
mind after his childhood coachtold him he had the potential to
excel in figure skating
ldquoI think the fact [that the OUA]
only has one event for men is a
gender biasrdquo figure skating head
coach Lauren Wilson says She
says she doesnrsquot think the gender
bias is done on purpose but the
structure of the OUA figure skat-ing championships doesnrsquot help
ldquoOur roster is limited to 17 and
therersquos only one competition for
men We canrsquot make room for
more guyshellip Men can compete
in the synchro event but that still
leaves their options lowrdquo Buchan-
an chose not to partake in team
synchro ldquoI train on my own so
doing synchro wouldnrsquot work for
merdquo he says
Buchanan notes that the sport
faces a lack of recognition ldquoMost
people donrsquot take it serious They
donrsquot know the sport all they
know is Blades of Gloryrdquo
An hour before the competi-
tion Buchanan was writ-
ing an exam The 22-year-
old is a second-year accounting
student at Ryerson On top of his
studies hersquos been competing in
figure skating for six years ldquoMy
whole family has been skating for
a long timerdquo he says
Like any athlete he devoted a
lot of time to training until his
luck took a turn for the worst on
May 5 2012 He was walking
home alone from a bar in Mon-
treal when he was hit by a car
ldquoI really donrsquot have any memo-
ry of what happenedrdquo Buchanan
says He was found in the middle
of the street unconscious and
bleeding at 335 am He woke up
in a downtown Montreal hospi-
tal
Buchanan suffered a baseline
skull fracture that kept him off
the ice for a year ldquoI wasnrsquot sure if
I could [go] back to skatingrdquo he
says Buchanan was inspired by
Javier Fernandez mdash the 2014 Eu-
ropean menrsquos figure skating cham-
pion He says watching Fernandezskate at the Toronto Cricket Skat-
ing and Curling Club pushed him
back into competition
Buchananrsquos first dance back on
the ice was rough ldquoI hadnrsquot com-
peted in like two years and I for-
got how much it took to skate
[figure skating] is surprisingly tir-
ing and I was out of breath for like
half an hourrdquo Figure skating com-
petitions are tightly judged Skat-
ers are scored on the difficulty and
style of the routine but theyrsquore
sometimes also judged off the ice
by society
Buchanan says that some peoplemake sweeping assumption about
male figure skaters mdash sometimes
extending to their sexuality ldquoIrsquom
not gay but [that] notion people
have bugs me a little bitrdquo He says
these assumptions deter athletes
from pursuing the sport ldquoIf you
are gay it can be hard to deal with
the way people label yourdquoEmily Rose Galliani Pecchia a
third-year forward on the Ryerson
womenrsquos hockey team says ldquoPeo-
ple shouldnrsquot make these assump-
tions flat out Whether theyrsquore
a figure skater hockey player or
wrestler it doesnrsquot determine if
theyrsquore gay or straightrdquo
Galliani Pecchia whom is gay
says athletes should be able to
compete in any sport without be-
ing judged
ldquoIf an athlete is gay they
should feel comfortable enough
to compete Itrsquos not fair for an
athlete to feel uncomfortable intheir field of playrdquo she says She
adds that her teammates are open
about their sexuality ldquoThere is
always someone to talk to within
our dressing room which is an
anomaly in varsity sport since it
is a taboo subjectrdquo
Pierre Alain interim head coach
of the Ryerson womenrsquos hockey
team says there are false percep-
tions that female hockey play-
ers are physical and butch ldquoYes
many players like the physical part
of the [sport] but thatrsquos not all
you need to be a good playerrdquo He
says athletes shouldnrsquot be catego-
rized based on the sport they playldquoLook at Meghan Agosta mdash she
started as a figure skater before
doing hockeyrdquo
Figure skating isnrsquot a promi-
EAKERSare often seen as being male-dominatedworld of athleticism men are a minoritykes a look at the often-overlooked sport of
When I was younger all my friends were play-ing hockey and they would poke fun at [me]for figure skating When that happens youwant to fit in and just play hockey
nent sport at most universities
The crowd at the OUAs is meager
compared to the ones at a basket-
ball or hockey games and is made
up mostly of athletesrsquo teammates
But Buchanan says that figure
skating is growing
When Buchanan was a kid he
would take cover when people
made fun of him for figure skat-ing Today he is less shy ldquoSome
people give you a look but it
doesnrsquot bother me anymorerdquo His
response to those who question
the physical demand required to
compete ldquoWhy donrsquot you give it
a try and see how you dordquo
Buchanan knows what to
do to win He preps him-
self mentally while sitting
in the menrsquos changeroom at the
OUAs ldquoYou have to focus in You
have to relax Donrsquot over-analyze
things Let your body do what
you trained it to dordquo he saysAfter he is mentally prepared he
heads to the ice Buchanan walks
on the Rams mat before leaving
the changeroom then remem-
bers ldquoYoursquore not supposed to do
that mdash itrsquos bad luckrdquo During the
warm-up skate Daft Punkrsquos One
More Time radiates through the
arena Competitors are already
on the ice perfecting their routine
Each one exudes confidence ldquoIrsquom
not going to lie I really want to
winrdquo he says
One after another they take
the ice and perform their routine
Buchanan is the third competitor
to hit the ice and he emerges toElton Johnrsquos Your Song Some of
the female athletes in the audi-
ence begin to sing along and they
throw flowers at him when the
routine is finished Many of the
menrsquos routines were comedic and
they were often met with laugh-
ter Some audience members com-
mented on Buchananrsquos ldquosparklesrdquo
on his black tee
Every spin jump and turn is
completed with grace He ex-
plodes with a double axel He
nails jump after jump then sud-
denly staggers on his landing
He throws his hands to catchhimself and continues He elicits
When Parth Patel was in his firstew years of the engineering pro-
ram he found getting a summer
ob to be quite challenging
ldquoI applied to more than 60 or
70 jobsrdquo he said ldquoI [was] trying
o find work [in engineering] but
wasnrsquot able tordquo
The frustration of finding a
ummer job is something many
Looking for a summer job can be frustrating but relying on the Internet may be hurting you more than you know
students have experienced before
especially since the 2008 econom-
ic crisis when markets around theworld crashed Searching through
thousands of job listings online
perfecting your resumeacute and send-
ing it out can take hours
But if yoursquore hoping to score
that ideal job going back to the
basics is the way to go said Dan-
iel Kennedy a career consultant
at Ted Rogers School of Manage-
Since the 2008 economic crisis the job market has seen fierce competition mdash sepa-rating yourself from the rest is the first step in being noticed
PHOTOS FARNIA FEKRI
ment careers and employment
partnerships centre
ldquoIf you go into [the websites]Monster or Workopolis and you
type in lsquosummer jobsrsquo yoursquore going
to find job postingsrdquo he said ldquoThe
problem is there are about four mil-
lion other students across Canada
who are going to find those same
job postingsrdquo
It often comes down to doing
some old-fashioned scouting on the
ground Kennedy said adding that
proactively approaching employers
can make a bigger impression than
simply sending a resumeacute by email
ldquoWhat students should do if they
really want to make a go of it is to
look for companies that donrsquot havethe capacity to advertise for those
summer jobsrdquo he said ldquoIf you can
identify and find those companies
and approach them proactively
that will give you a much better
chancerdquo
Because finding a job can be so
difficult in Toronto many students
decide to go back to their home-
towns for the summer where the
competition is less fierce and jobs
are easier to come by
Laura Hamel a first-year perfor-
mance acting student said shersquoll be
moving back home for the summer
because of the cost of living in To-
rontoldquoIrsquom from Regina so Irsquoll be mov-
ing home to find a jobrdquo she said
ldquoItrsquos a lot cheaper to live at home
and I have a solid job at homerdquo
For Patel scoring a job came
with a visit to his sister in Calgary
one summer While he was there
he applied to only five or six jobs
and ended up getting a summer po-
sition that matched his field
The summer job market comes
down to basic supply and demand
Kennedy said
ldquoOn the supply side you have
basically a lot of students that are
looking for jobs during the sum-mer months and thatrsquos fine as long
as the demandrsquos thererdquo he said
ldquoThe demand really hasnrsquot been
there since 2008rdquo
Brennan Thompson undergrad-
uate program director in the school
of economics says that the reces-
sion of 2008 has brought everyone
down a notch when it comes to the
job market
ldquoThe guy who was working at
the auto assembly plant loses his
job and now hersquos taking the low-
paid job at Tim Hortonrsquosrdquo he said
ldquoNow the young person who used
to have that job at Tim Hortonrsquos
[doesnrsquot] have anythingrdquo
Kennedy says the market is start-
ing to bounce back But compared
to 10 years ago finding a summer
job is far more of a challenge Even
in a city as big as Toronto compe-
tition can be fierce because thereare so many students looking for
temporary employment
According to Kennedy even
if the job you end up with isnrsquot at
all related to your field itrsquos still a
good idea to include it on your
resumeacute Employers look at how
your skills have evolved even if
the job you had was just bussing
tables The hard skills you gain
might not be related to your future
career but the soft skills mdashlike leadership skills problem-
solving abilities and customer ser-
vice experience mdash will come in
handy
ldquoNo one is expecting you to
graduate here and have four years
of senior project management ex-
periencerdquo he said
ldquoWhat they want to see is that
therersquos a progressionrdquo
By Leah Hansen
Ryerson graduate Peter Hill is performing at the ninth annual Toronto SketchComedy Festival as part of a duo called Beggarrsquos Canyon See the full article by AlexHeck at theeyeopenercom
PHOTO COURTESY TARA NOELLE
Laughing it up
Discuss the upcoming budget
All members of the Ryerson community are invited to
attend a town hall to discuss the development of the
universityrsquos budget for the 2014-15 academic year
Hosted by
SHELDON LEVY
president
MOHAMED LACHEMI
provost and vice president academic
PAUL STENTON
deputy provost and vice-provost university planning
TOWN HALL MEETING
Wednesday March 12 9 ndash 10 am
Architecture Building Room ARC ndash 108
Thursday March 20 230 ndash 330 pm
Library Building Room LIB ndash 72
President Levy is confirmed to attend the March 20 meeting
To submit questions in advance email provostryersonca
Please contact us if we need to make any accommodations to
Wise said ldquoThey unfortunatelygot on the board firstrdquo
In spite of the disappointing
oss this marked the Ramsrsquo best
performance in the last decade
But that success didnrsquot come
without a few major bumps along
he way Their high-powered start
o the season came to a screeching
halt due to a seven-day suspen-
ion they were handed for drink-
ng alcohol while on a team road
rip The Rams had to forfeit two
games during their suspension
but managed to come back strong
mdash ranking fourth in the Ontario
University Athletics (OUA) West
division by the seasonrsquos endldquoWersquove come a long way from
ighth place and I think we had a
eally good year for ourselvesrdquo sec-
ond-year forward Jamie Wise said
Coached by his father Graham
Wise Jamie achieved a career-
high 45 points mdash ranking him
hird in the Canadian Interuni-
versity Sports (CIS) His 21 goals
his season mdash compared to the
ight he scored last season mdash
made him the second-leading
corer in the country
By Devin Jones
amie Wise the Ramsrsquo leading scorer and second-ranked in the country on home ice
PHOTO FARNIA FEKRI
Fellow forward Dominic Alber-
ga also had a standout season
A third-line grinder from the
Ontario Hockey League (OHL)
Albergarsquos first-line rookie perfor-
mance for the Rams was anything
but expected
Alberga contributed 44 points
and 18 goals to the team He
achieved second place on the team
for goals scored and is nationally
ranked fourth in points mdash all in his
first year as a Ram
But as the menrsquos hockey team
celebrates new talent they alsosay goodbye to two of their key
players Both right-winger Dustin
Alcock and captain Andrew Buck
are graduating this year Buck
scored 90 goals in his 125-game
career with the Rams and wore
the captainrsquos patch for three of his
five years
ldquoItrsquos a surreal feeling and Irsquom
not really sure if itrsquos hit me yetrdquo
Buck said ldquoIrsquoll miss not going
to the rink every day and seeing
the guys but Irsquove had a great five
years so I canrsquot complainrdquo
The Rams are ranked fourth in
the OUA West division and made
their third-straight playoff appear-ance for the first time in history
The last time the Rams earned a
semifinal spot in the playoffs was
the 2009ndash10 season
The team will take some time off
before the coaching staff begins
the journey to next yearrsquos home
opener a process head coach Wise
said will begin with recruitment
ldquoRecruiting is ongoingrdquo he
said ldquoHopefully we can bring in
guys that will make the team bet-
ter and wersquoll go from thererdquo
History repeats itself for Rye hockey
The end of the menrsquos hockey season marks the end of all the Ramsrsquo seasons Go to theeyeopenercom fora cheat sheet on how they ended and which players were awarded OUA titles EyeSports theeyeopener
Celebrate the road to graduation as youbecome Ryerson alumni
March 5 POD upper Hub 1130 am ndash 130 pm
March 10 ENG 3rd floor 1130 am ndash 130 pm
March 12 TRSM 7th floor 1130 am ndash 130 pm
get involved bull get connected bull build your network
This week wersquore giving away a car Actually just $20 toTim Hortonrsquos Fill it out drop it off in the contest boxoutside of SCC 207 This is a raffle contest not a first-to-finish oneName Student Email Phone
Pugilisim of the StatePHOTO JESS TSANG
ILLUSTRATION DASHA ZOLOTA
Do you have a burning yearning to see something puggified by our residentdoge-drawer Dasha Zolota Send your suggestions to funtheeyeopenercom and your idea might end up on the illustrious Fun page
Cumming Soon Sin amp Vice
Now that our annual Love amp Sex issue is overand done with there has been a serious lackof cunning linguists in this paper Thatrsquos whereour new columnist comes in Her name is Lou-ise and shersquos ready to take your questionsabout what goes down (or doesnrsquot) beneaththe sheets Send us all the slippery sticky andsensual questions you have We promise topublish your questions anonymously and un-edited Nothing is too raunchy or embarrass-ing Send your inquiries to funtheeyeopenercom and Louise will answer in the next issue
W I N T I C K E T S t o s e e3 0 0 R I S E O F A N E M P I R E
B e o n e o f t h e f i r s t 1 5 s t a r t i n g a tn o o n M a r c h 5 t h t o w i n J u s t c o m e t o
skating championships and win-ter invitationals The women have
14 events for singles pairs fours
and teams Most university teams
have just one male player on their
squad
Buchanan says he didnrsquot
always want to be a fig-
ure skater ldquoWhen I was
younger all of my friends were
playing hockey and they would
poke fun at [me] for figure skat-
ingrdquo he says ldquoWhen that hap-
pens you want to fit in and just
play hockeyrdquo He changed his
mind after his childhood coachtold him he had the potential to
excel in figure skating
ldquoI think the fact [that the OUA]
only has one event for men is a
gender biasrdquo figure skating head
coach Lauren Wilson says She
says she doesnrsquot think the gender
bias is done on purpose but the
structure of the OUA figure skat-ing championships doesnrsquot help
ldquoOur roster is limited to 17 and
therersquos only one competition for
men We canrsquot make room for
more guyshellip Men can compete
in the synchro event but that still
leaves their options lowrdquo Buchan-
an chose not to partake in team
synchro ldquoI train on my own so
doing synchro wouldnrsquot work for
merdquo he says
Buchanan notes that the sport
faces a lack of recognition ldquoMost
people donrsquot take it serious They
donrsquot know the sport all they
know is Blades of Gloryrdquo
An hour before the competi-
tion Buchanan was writ-
ing an exam The 22-year-
old is a second-year accounting
student at Ryerson On top of his
studies hersquos been competing in
figure skating for six years ldquoMy
whole family has been skating for
a long timerdquo he says
Like any athlete he devoted a
lot of time to training until his
luck took a turn for the worst on
May 5 2012 He was walking
home alone from a bar in Mon-
treal when he was hit by a car
ldquoI really donrsquot have any memo-
ry of what happenedrdquo Buchanan
says He was found in the middle
of the street unconscious and
bleeding at 335 am He woke up
in a downtown Montreal hospi-
tal
Buchanan suffered a baseline
skull fracture that kept him off
the ice for a year ldquoI wasnrsquot sure if
I could [go] back to skatingrdquo he
says Buchanan was inspired by
Javier Fernandez mdash the 2014 Eu-
ropean menrsquos figure skating cham-
pion He says watching Fernandezskate at the Toronto Cricket Skat-
ing and Curling Club pushed him
back into competition
Buchananrsquos first dance back on
the ice was rough ldquoI hadnrsquot com-
peted in like two years and I for-
got how much it took to skate
[figure skating] is surprisingly tir-
ing and I was out of breath for like
half an hourrdquo Figure skating com-
petitions are tightly judged Skat-
ers are scored on the difficulty and
style of the routine but theyrsquore
sometimes also judged off the ice
by society
Buchanan says that some peoplemake sweeping assumption about
male figure skaters mdash sometimes
extending to their sexuality ldquoIrsquom
not gay but [that] notion people
have bugs me a little bitrdquo He says
these assumptions deter athletes
from pursuing the sport ldquoIf you
are gay it can be hard to deal with
the way people label yourdquoEmily Rose Galliani Pecchia a
third-year forward on the Ryerson
womenrsquos hockey team says ldquoPeo-
ple shouldnrsquot make these assump-
tions flat out Whether theyrsquore
a figure skater hockey player or
wrestler it doesnrsquot determine if
theyrsquore gay or straightrdquo
Galliani Pecchia whom is gay
says athletes should be able to
compete in any sport without be-
ing judged
ldquoIf an athlete is gay they
should feel comfortable enough
to compete Itrsquos not fair for an
athlete to feel uncomfortable intheir field of playrdquo she says She
adds that her teammates are open
about their sexuality ldquoThere is
always someone to talk to within
our dressing room which is an
anomaly in varsity sport since it
is a taboo subjectrdquo
Pierre Alain interim head coach
of the Ryerson womenrsquos hockey
team says there are false percep-
tions that female hockey play-
ers are physical and butch ldquoYes
many players like the physical part
of the [sport] but thatrsquos not all
you need to be a good playerrdquo He
says athletes shouldnrsquot be catego-
rized based on the sport they playldquoLook at Meghan Agosta mdash she
started as a figure skater before
doing hockeyrdquo
Figure skating isnrsquot a promi-
EAKERSare often seen as being male-dominatedworld of athleticism men are a minoritykes a look at the often-overlooked sport of
When I was younger all my friends were play-ing hockey and they would poke fun at [me]for figure skating When that happens youwant to fit in and just play hockey
nent sport at most universities
The crowd at the OUAs is meager
compared to the ones at a basket-
ball or hockey games and is made
up mostly of athletesrsquo teammates
But Buchanan says that figure
skating is growing
When Buchanan was a kid he
would take cover when people
made fun of him for figure skat-ing Today he is less shy ldquoSome
people give you a look but it
doesnrsquot bother me anymorerdquo His
response to those who question
the physical demand required to
compete ldquoWhy donrsquot you give it
a try and see how you dordquo
Buchanan knows what to
do to win He preps him-
self mentally while sitting
in the menrsquos changeroom at the
OUAs ldquoYou have to focus in You
have to relax Donrsquot over-analyze
things Let your body do what
you trained it to dordquo he saysAfter he is mentally prepared he
heads to the ice Buchanan walks
on the Rams mat before leaving
the changeroom then remem-
bers ldquoYoursquore not supposed to do
that mdash itrsquos bad luckrdquo During the
warm-up skate Daft Punkrsquos One
More Time radiates through the
arena Competitors are already
on the ice perfecting their routine
Each one exudes confidence ldquoIrsquom
not going to lie I really want to
winrdquo he says
One after another they take
the ice and perform their routine
Buchanan is the third competitor
to hit the ice and he emerges toElton Johnrsquos Your Song Some of
the female athletes in the audi-
ence begin to sing along and they
throw flowers at him when the
routine is finished Many of the
menrsquos routines were comedic and
they were often met with laugh-
ter Some audience members com-
mented on Buchananrsquos ldquosparklesrdquo
on his black tee
Every spin jump and turn is
completed with grace He ex-
plodes with a double axel He
nails jump after jump then sud-
denly staggers on his landing
He throws his hands to catchhimself and continues He elicits
When Parth Patel was in his firstew years of the engineering pro-
ram he found getting a summer
ob to be quite challenging
ldquoI applied to more than 60 or
70 jobsrdquo he said ldquoI [was] trying
o find work [in engineering] but
wasnrsquot able tordquo
The frustration of finding a
ummer job is something many
Looking for a summer job can be frustrating but relying on the Internet may be hurting you more than you know
students have experienced before
especially since the 2008 econom-
ic crisis when markets around theworld crashed Searching through
thousands of job listings online
perfecting your resumeacute and send-
ing it out can take hours
But if yoursquore hoping to score
that ideal job going back to the
basics is the way to go said Dan-
iel Kennedy a career consultant
at Ted Rogers School of Manage-
Since the 2008 economic crisis the job market has seen fierce competition mdash sepa-rating yourself from the rest is the first step in being noticed
PHOTOS FARNIA FEKRI
ment careers and employment
partnerships centre
ldquoIf you go into [the websites]Monster or Workopolis and you
type in lsquosummer jobsrsquo yoursquore going
to find job postingsrdquo he said ldquoThe
problem is there are about four mil-
lion other students across Canada
who are going to find those same
job postingsrdquo
It often comes down to doing
some old-fashioned scouting on the
ground Kennedy said adding that
proactively approaching employers
can make a bigger impression than
simply sending a resumeacute by email
ldquoWhat students should do if they
really want to make a go of it is to
look for companies that donrsquot havethe capacity to advertise for those
summer jobsrdquo he said ldquoIf you can
identify and find those companies
and approach them proactively
that will give you a much better
chancerdquo
Because finding a job can be so
difficult in Toronto many students
decide to go back to their home-
towns for the summer where the
competition is less fierce and jobs
are easier to come by
Laura Hamel a first-year perfor-
mance acting student said shersquoll be
moving back home for the summer
because of the cost of living in To-
rontoldquoIrsquom from Regina so Irsquoll be mov-
ing home to find a jobrdquo she said
ldquoItrsquos a lot cheaper to live at home
and I have a solid job at homerdquo
For Patel scoring a job came
with a visit to his sister in Calgary
one summer While he was there
he applied to only five or six jobs
and ended up getting a summer po-
sition that matched his field
The summer job market comes
down to basic supply and demand
Kennedy said
ldquoOn the supply side you have
basically a lot of students that are
looking for jobs during the sum-mer months and thatrsquos fine as long
as the demandrsquos thererdquo he said
ldquoThe demand really hasnrsquot been
there since 2008rdquo
Brennan Thompson undergrad-
uate program director in the school
of economics says that the reces-
sion of 2008 has brought everyone
down a notch when it comes to the
job market
ldquoThe guy who was working at
the auto assembly plant loses his
job and now hersquos taking the low-
paid job at Tim Hortonrsquosrdquo he said
ldquoNow the young person who used
to have that job at Tim Hortonrsquos
[doesnrsquot] have anythingrdquo
Kennedy says the market is start-
ing to bounce back But compared
to 10 years ago finding a summer
job is far more of a challenge Even
in a city as big as Toronto compe-
tition can be fierce because thereare so many students looking for
temporary employment
According to Kennedy even
if the job you end up with isnrsquot at
all related to your field itrsquos still a
good idea to include it on your
resumeacute Employers look at how
your skills have evolved even if
the job you had was just bussing
tables The hard skills you gain
might not be related to your future
career but the soft skills mdashlike leadership skills problem-
solving abilities and customer ser-
vice experience mdash will come in
handy
ldquoNo one is expecting you to
graduate here and have four years
of senior project management ex-
periencerdquo he said
ldquoWhat they want to see is that
therersquos a progressionrdquo
By Leah Hansen
Ryerson graduate Peter Hill is performing at the ninth annual Toronto SketchComedy Festival as part of a duo called Beggarrsquos Canyon See the full article by AlexHeck at theeyeopenercom
PHOTO COURTESY TARA NOELLE
Laughing it up
Discuss the upcoming budget
All members of the Ryerson community are invited to
attend a town hall to discuss the development of the
universityrsquos budget for the 2014-15 academic year
Hosted by
SHELDON LEVY
president
MOHAMED LACHEMI
provost and vice president academic
PAUL STENTON
deputy provost and vice-provost university planning
TOWN HALL MEETING
Wednesday March 12 9 ndash 10 am
Architecture Building Room ARC ndash 108
Thursday March 20 230 ndash 330 pm
Library Building Room LIB ndash 72
President Levy is confirmed to attend the March 20 meeting
To submit questions in advance email provostryersonca
Please contact us if we need to make any accommodations to
Wise said ldquoThey unfortunatelygot on the board firstrdquo
In spite of the disappointing
oss this marked the Ramsrsquo best
performance in the last decade
But that success didnrsquot come
without a few major bumps along
he way Their high-powered start
o the season came to a screeching
halt due to a seven-day suspen-
ion they were handed for drink-
ng alcohol while on a team road
rip The Rams had to forfeit two
games during their suspension
but managed to come back strong
mdash ranking fourth in the Ontario
University Athletics (OUA) West
division by the seasonrsquos endldquoWersquove come a long way from
ighth place and I think we had a
eally good year for ourselvesrdquo sec-
ond-year forward Jamie Wise said
Coached by his father Graham
Wise Jamie achieved a career-
high 45 points mdash ranking him
hird in the Canadian Interuni-
versity Sports (CIS) His 21 goals
his season mdash compared to the
ight he scored last season mdash
made him the second-leading
corer in the country
By Devin Jones
amie Wise the Ramsrsquo leading scorer and second-ranked in the country on home ice
PHOTO FARNIA FEKRI
Fellow forward Dominic Alber-
ga also had a standout season
A third-line grinder from the
Ontario Hockey League (OHL)
Albergarsquos first-line rookie perfor-
mance for the Rams was anything
but expected
Alberga contributed 44 points
and 18 goals to the team He
achieved second place on the team
for goals scored and is nationally
ranked fourth in points mdash all in his
first year as a Ram
But as the menrsquos hockey team
celebrates new talent they alsosay goodbye to two of their key
players Both right-winger Dustin
Alcock and captain Andrew Buck
are graduating this year Buck
scored 90 goals in his 125-game
career with the Rams and wore
the captainrsquos patch for three of his
five years
ldquoItrsquos a surreal feeling and Irsquom
not really sure if itrsquos hit me yetrdquo
Buck said ldquoIrsquoll miss not going
to the rink every day and seeing
the guys but Irsquove had a great five
years so I canrsquot complainrdquo
The Rams are ranked fourth in
the OUA West division and made
their third-straight playoff appear-ance for the first time in history
The last time the Rams earned a
semifinal spot in the playoffs was
the 2009ndash10 season
The team will take some time off
before the coaching staff begins
the journey to next yearrsquos home
opener a process head coach Wise
said will begin with recruitment
ldquoRecruiting is ongoingrdquo he
said ldquoHopefully we can bring in
guys that will make the team bet-
ter and wersquoll go from thererdquo
History repeats itself for Rye hockey
The end of the menrsquos hockey season marks the end of all the Ramsrsquo seasons Go to theeyeopenercom fora cheat sheet on how they ended and which players were awarded OUA titles EyeSports theeyeopener
Celebrate the road to graduation as youbecome Ryerson alumni
March 5 POD upper Hub 1130 am ndash 130 pm
March 10 ENG 3rd floor 1130 am ndash 130 pm
March 12 TRSM 7th floor 1130 am ndash 130 pm
get involved bull get connected bull build your network
This week wersquore giving away a car Actually just $20 toTim Hortonrsquos Fill it out drop it off in the contest boxoutside of SCC 207 This is a raffle contest not a first-to-finish oneName Student Email Phone
Pugilisim of the StatePHOTO JESS TSANG
ILLUSTRATION DASHA ZOLOTA
Do you have a burning yearning to see something puggified by our residentdoge-drawer Dasha Zolota Send your suggestions to funtheeyeopenercom and your idea might end up on the illustrious Fun page
Cumming Soon Sin amp Vice
Now that our annual Love amp Sex issue is overand done with there has been a serious lackof cunning linguists in this paper Thatrsquos whereour new columnist comes in Her name is Lou-ise and shersquos ready to take your questionsabout what goes down (or doesnrsquot) beneaththe sheets Send us all the slippery sticky andsensual questions you have We promise topublish your questions anonymously and un-edited Nothing is too raunchy or embarrass-ing Send your inquiries to funtheeyeopenercom and Louise will answer in the next issue
W I N T I C K E T S t o s e e3 0 0 R I S E O F A N E M P I R E
B e o n e o f t h e f i r s t 1 5 s t a r t i n g a tn o o n M a r c h 5 t h t o w i n J u s t c o m e t o
skating championships and win-ter invitationals The women have
14 events for singles pairs fours
and teams Most university teams
have just one male player on their
squad
Buchanan says he didnrsquot
always want to be a fig-
ure skater ldquoWhen I was
younger all of my friends were
playing hockey and they would
poke fun at [me] for figure skat-
ingrdquo he says ldquoWhen that hap-
pens you want to fit in and just
play hockeyrdquo He changed his
mind after his childhood coachtold him he had the potential to
excel in figure skating
ldquoI think the fact [that the OUA]
only has one event for men is a
gender biasrdquo figure skating head
coach Lauren Wilson says She
says she doesnrsquot think the gender
bias is done on purpose but the
structure of the OUA figure skat-ing championships doesnrsquot help
ldquoOur roster is limited to 17 and
therersquos only one competition for
men We canrsquot make room for
more guyshellip Men can compete
in the synchro event but that still
leaves their options lowrdquo Buchan-
an chose not to partake in team
synchro ldquoI train on my own so
doing synchro wouldnrsquot work for
merdquo he says
Buchanan notes that the sport
faces a lack of recognition ldquoMost
people donrsquot take it serious They
donrsquot know the sport all they
know is Blades of Gloryrdquo
An hour before the competi-
tion Buchanan was writ-
ing an exam The 22-year-
old is a second-year accounting
student at Ryerson On top of his
studies hersquos been competing in
figure skating for six years ldquoMy
whole family has been skating for
a long timerdquo he says
Like any athlete he devoted a
lot of time to training until his
luck took a turn for the worst on
May 5 2012 He was walking
home alone from a bar in Mon-
treal when he was hit by a car
ldquoI really donrsquot have any memo-
ry of what happenedrdquo Buchanan
says He was found in the middle
of the street unconscious and
bleeding at 335 am He woke up
in a downtown Montreal hospi-
tal
Buchanan suffered a baseline
skull fracture that kept him off
the ice for a year ldquoI wasnrsquot sure if
I could [go] back to skatingrdquo he
says Buchanan was inspired by
Javier Fernandez mdash the 2014 Eu-
ropean menrsquos figure skating cham-
pion He says watching Fernandezskate at the Toronto Cricket Skat-
ing and Curling Club pushed him
back into competition
Buchananrsquos first dance back on
the ice was rough ldquoI hadnrsquot com-
peted in like two years and I for-
got how much it took to skate
[figure skating] is surprisingly tir-
ing and I was out of breath for like
half an hourrdquo Figure skating com-
petitions are tightly judged Skat-
ers are scored on the difficulty and
style of the routine but theyrsquore
sometimes also judged off the ice
by society
Buchanan says that some peoplemake sweeping assumption about
male figure skaters mdash sometimes
extending to their sexuality ldquoIrsquom
not gay but [that] notion people
have bugs me a little bitrdquo He says
these assumptions deter athletes
from pursuing the sport ldquoIf you
are gay it can be hard to deal with
the way people label yourdquoEmily Rose Galliani Pecchia a
third-year forward on the Ryerson
womenrsquos hockey team says ldquoPeo-
ple shouldnrsquot make these assump-
tions flat out Whether theyrsquore
a figure skater hockey player or
wrestler it doesnrsquot determine if
theyrsquore gay or straightrdquo
Galliani Pecchia whom is gay
says athletes should be able to
compete in any sport without be-
ing judged
ldquoIf an athlete is gay they
should feel comfortable enough
to compete Itrsquos not fair for an
athlete to feel uncomfortable intheir field of playrdquo she says She
adds that her teammates are open
about their sexuality ldquoThere is
always someone to talk to within
our dressing room which is an
anomaly in varsity sport since it
is a taboo subjectrdquo
Pierre Alain interim head coach
of the Ryerson womenrsquos hockey
team says there are false percep-
tions that female hockey play-
ers are physical and butch ldquoYes
many players like the physical part
of the [sport] but thatrsquos not all
you need to be a good playerrdquo He
says athletes shouldnrsquot be catego-
rized based on the sport they playldquoLook at Meghan Agosta mdash she
started as a figure skater before
doing hockeyrdquo
Figure skating isnrsquot a promi-
EAKERSare often seen as being male-dominatedworld of athleticism men are a minoritykes a look at the often-overlooked sport of
When I was younger all my friends were play-ing hockey and they would poke fun at [me]for figure skating When that happens youwant to fit in and just play hockey
nent sport at most universities
The crowd at the OUAs is meager
compared to the ones at a basket-
ball or hockey games and is made
up mostly of athletesrsquo teammates
But Buchanan says that figure
skating is growing
When Buchanan was a kid he
would take cover when people
made fun of him for figure skat-ing Today he is less shy ldquoSome
people give you a look but it
doesnrsquot bother me anymorerdquo His
response to those who question
the physical demand required to
compete ldquoWhy donrsquot you give it
a try and see how you dordquo
Buchanan knows what to
do to win He preps him-
self mentally while sitting
in the menrsquos changeroom at the
OUAs ldquoYou have to focus in You
have to relax Donrsquot over-analyze
things Let your body do what
you trained it to dordquo he saysAfter he is mentally prepared he
heads to the ice Buchanan walks
on the Rams mat before leaving
the changeroom then remem-
bers ldquoYoursquore not supposed to do
that mdash itrsquos bad luckrdquo During the
warm-up skate Daft Punkrsquos One
More Time radiates through the
arena Competitors are already
on the ice perfecting their routine
Each one exudes confidence ldquoIrsquom
not going to lie I really want to
winrdquo he says
One after another they take
the ice and perform their routine
Buchanan is the third competitor
to hit the ice and he emerges toElton Johnrsquos Your Song Some of
the female athletes in the audi-
ence begin to sing along and they
throw flowers at him when the
routine is finished Many of the
menrsquos routines were comedic and
they were often met with laugh-
ter Some audience members com-
mented on Buchananrsquos ldquosparklesrdquo
on his black tee
Every spin jump and turn is
completed with grace He ex-
plodes with a double axel He
nails jump after jump then sud-
denly staggers on his landing
He throws his hands to catchhimself and continues He elicits
When Parth Patel was in his firstew years of the engineering pro-
ram he found getting a summer
ob to be quite challenging
ldquoI applied to more than 60 or
70 jobsrdquo he said ldquoI [was] trying
o find work [in engineering] but
wasnrsquot able tordquo
The frustration of finding a
ummer job is something many
Looking for a summer job can be frustrating but relying on the Internet may be hurting you more than you know
students have experienced before
especially since the 2008 econom-
ic crisis when markets around theworld crashed Searching through
thousands of job listings online
perfecting your resumeacute and send-
ing it out can take hours
But if yoursquore hoping to score
that ideal job going back to the
basics is the way to go said Dan-
iel Kennedy a career consultant
at Ted Rogers School of Manage-
Since the 2008 economic crisis the job market has seen fierce competition mdash sepa-rating yourself from the rest is the first step in being noticed
PHOTOS FARNIA FEKRI
ment careers and employment
partnerships centre
ldquoIf you go into [the websites]Monster or Workopolis and you
type in lsquosummer jobsrsquo yoursquore going
to find job postingsrdquo he said ldquoThe
problem is there are about four mil-
lion other students across Canada
who are going to find those same
job postingsrdquo
It often comes down to doing
some old-fashioned scouting on the
ground Kennedy said adding that
proactively approaching employers
can make a bigger impression than
simply sending a resumeacute by email
ldquoWhat students should do if they
really want to make a go of it is to
look for companies that donrsquot havethe capacity to advertise for those
summer jobsrdquo he said ldquoIf you can
identify and find those companies
and approach them proactively
that will give you a much better
chancerdquo
Because finding a job can be so
difficult in Toronto many students
decide to go back to their home-
towns for the summer where the
competition is less fierce and jobs
are easier to come by
Laura Hamel a first-year perfor-
mance acting student said shersquoll be
moving back home for the summer
because of the cost of living in To-
rontoldquoIrsquom from Regina so Irsquoll be mov-
ing home to find a jobrdquo she said
ldquoItrsquos a lot cheaper to live at home
and I have a solid job at homerdquo
For Patel scoring a job came
with a visit to his sister in Calgary
one summer While he was there
he applied to only five or six jobs
and ended up getting a summer po-
sition that matched his field
The summer job market comes
down to basic supply and demand
Kennedy said
ldquoOn the supply side you have
basically a lot of students that are
looking for jobs during the sum-mer months and thatrsquos fine as long
as the demandrsquos thererdquo he said
ldquoThe demand really hasnrsquot been
there since 2008rdquo
Brennan Thompson undergrad-
uate program director in the school
of economics says that the reces-
sion of 2008 has brought everyone
down a notch when it comes to the
job market
ldquoThe guy who was working at
the auto assembly plant loses his
job and now hersquos taking the low-
paid job at Tim Hortonrsquosrdquo he said
ldquoNow the young person who used
to have that job at Tim Hortonrsquos
[doesnrsquot] have anythingrdquo
Kennedy says the market is start-
ing to bounce back But compared
to 10 years ago finding a summer
job is far more of a challenge Even
in a city as big as Toronto compe-
tition can be fierce because thereare so many students looking for
temporary employment
According to Kennedy even
if the job you end up with isnrsquot at
all related to your field itrsquos still a
good idea to include it on your
resumeacute Employers look at how
your skills have evolved even if
the job you had was just bussing
tables The hard skills you gain
might not be related to your future
career but the soft skills mdashlike leadership skills problem-
solving abilities and customer ser-
vice experience mdash will come in
handy
ldquoNo one is expecting you to
graduate here and have four years
of senior project management ex-
periencerdquo he said
ldquoWhat they want to see is that
therersquos a progressionrdquo
By Leah Hansen
Ryerson graduate Peter Hill is performing at the ninth annual Toronto SketchComedy Festival as part of a duo called Beggarrsquos Canyon See the full article by AlexHeck at theeyeopenercom
PHOTO COURTESY TARA NOELLE
Laughing it up
Discuss the upcoming budget
All members of the Ryerson community are invited to
attend a town hall to discuss the development of the
universityrsquos budget for the 2014-15 academic year
Hosted by
SHELDON LEVY
president
MOHAMED LACHEMI
provost and vice president academic
PAUL STENTON
deputy provost and vice-provost university planning
TOWN HALL MEETING
Wednesday March 12 9 ndash 10 am
Architecture Building Room ARC ndash 108
Thursday March 20 230 ndash 330 pm
Library Building Room LIB ndash 72
President Levy is confirmed to attend the March 20 meeting
To submit questions in advance email provostryersonca
Please contact us if we need to make any accommodations to
Wise said ldquoThey unfortunatelygot on the board firstrdquo
In spite of the disappointing
oss this marked the Ramsrsquo best
performance in the last decade
But that success didnrsquot come
without a few major bumps along
he way Their high-powered start
o the season came to a screeching
halt due to a seven-day suspen-
ion they were handed for drink-
ng alcohol while on a team road
rip The Rams had to forfeit two
games during their suspension
but managed to come back strong
mdash ranking fourth in the Ontario
University Athletics (OUA) West
division by the seasonrsquos endldquoWersquove come a long way from
ighth place and I think we had a
eally good year for ourselvesrdquo sec-
ond-year forward Jamie Wise said
Coached by his father Graham
Wise Jamie achieved a career-
high 45 points mdash ranking him
hird in the Canadian Interuni-
versity Sports (CIS) His 21 goals
his season mdash compared to the
ight he scored last season mdash
made him the second-leading
corer in the country
By Devin Jones
amie Wise the Ramsrsquo leading scorer and second-ranked in the country on home ice
PHOTO FARNIA FEKRI
Fellow forward Dominic Alber-
ga also had a standout season
A third-line grinder from the
Ontario Hockey League (OHL)
Albergarsquos first-line rookie perfor-
mance for the Rams was anything
but expected
Alberga contributed 44 points
and 18 goals to the team He
achieved second place on the team
for goals scored and is nationally
ranked fourth in points mdash all in his
first year as a Ram
But as the menrsquos hockey team
celebrates new talent they alsosay goodbye to two of their key
players Both right-winger Dustin
Alcock and captain Andrew Buck
are graduating this year Buck
scored 90 goals in his 125-game
career with the Rams and wore
the captainrsquos patch for three of his
five years
ldquoItrsquos a surreal feeling and Irsquom
not really sure if itrsquos hit me yetrdquo
Buck said ldquoIrsquoll miss not going
to the rink every day and seeing
the guys but Irsquove had a great five
years so I canrsquot complainrdquo
The Rams are ranked fourth in
the OUA West division and made
their third-straight playoff appear-ance for the first time in history
The last time the Rams earned a
semifinal spot in the playoffs was
the 2009ndash10 season
The team will take some time off
before the coaching staff begins
the journey to next yearrsquos home
opener a process head coach Wise
said will begin with recruitment
ldquoRecruiting is ongoingrdquo he
said ldquoHopefully we can bring in
guys that will make the team bet-
ter and wersquoll go from thererdquo
History repeats itself for Rye hockey
The end of the menrsquos hockey season marks the end of all the Ramsrsquo seasons Go to theeyeopenercom fora cheat sheet on how they ended and which players were awarded OUA titles EyeSports theeyeopener
Celebrate the road to graduation as youbecome Ryerson alumni
March 5 POD upper Hub 1130 am ndash 130 pm
March 10 ENG 3rd floor 1130 am ndash 130 pm
March 12 TRSM 7th floor 1130 am ndash 130 pm
get involved bull get connected bull build your network
This week wersquore giving away a car Actually just $20 toTim Hortonrsquos Fill it out drop it off in the contest boxoutside of SCC 207 This is a raffle contest not a first-to-finish oneName Student Email Phone
Pugilisim of the StatePHOTO JESS TSANG
ILLUSTRATION DASHA ZOLOTA
Do you have a burning yearning to see something puggified by our residentdoge-drawer Dasha Zolota Send your suggestions to funtheeyeopenercom and your idea might end up on the illustrious Fun page
Cumming Soon Sin amp Vice
Now that our annual Love amp Sex issue is overand done with there has been a serious lackof cunning linguists in this paper Thatrsquos whereour new columnist comes in Her name is Lou-ise and shersquos ready to take your questionsabout what goes down (or doesnrsquot) beneaththe sheets Send us all the slippery sticky andsensual questions you have We promise topublish your questions anonymously and un-edited Nothing is too raunchy or embarrass-ing Send your inquiries to funtheeyeopenercom and Louise will answer in the next issue
W I N T I C K E T S t o s e e3 0 0 R I S E O F A N E M P I R E
B e o n e o f t h e f i r s t 1 5 s t a r t i n g a tn o o n M a r c h 5 t h t o w i n J u s t c o m e t o
skating championships and win-ter invitationals The women have
14 events for singles pairs fours
and teams Most university teams
have just one male player on their
squad
Buchanan says he didnrsquot
always want to be a fig-
ure skater ldquoWhen I was
younger all of my friends were
playing hockey and they would
poke fun at [me] for figure skat-
ingrdquo he says ldquoWhen that hap-
pens you want to fit in and just
play hockeyrdquo He changed his
mind after his childhood coachtold him he had the potential to
excel in figure skating
ldquoI think the fact [that the OUA]
only has one event for men is a
gender biasrdquo figure skating head
coach Lauren Wilson says She
says she doesnrsquot think the gender
bias is done on purpose but the
structure of the OUA figure skat-ing championships doesnrsquot help
ldquoOur roster is limited to 17 and
therersquos only one competition for
men We canrsquot make room for
more guyshellip Men can compete
in the synchro event but that still
leaves their options lowrdquo Buchan-
an chose not to partake in team
synchro ldquoI train on my own so
doing synchro wouldnrsquot work for
merdquo he says
Buchanan notes that the sport
faces a lack of recognition ldquoMost
people donrsquot take it serious They
donrsquot know the sport all they
know is Blades of Gloryrdquo
An hour before the competi-
tion Buchanan was writ-
ing an exam The 22-year-
old is a second-year accounting
student at Ryerson On top of his
studies hersquos been competing in
figure skating for six years ldquoMy
whole family has been skating for
a long timerdquo he says
Like any athlete he devoted a
lot of time to training until his
luck took a turn for the worst on
May 5 2012 He was walking
home alone from a bar in Mon-
treal when he was hit by a car
ldquoI really donrsquot have any memo-
ry of what happenedrdquo Buchanan
says He was found in the middle
of the street unconscious and
bleeding at 335 am He woke up
in a downtown Montreal hospi-
tal
Buchanan suffered a baseline
skull fracture that kept him off
the ice for a year ldquoI wasnrsquot sure if
I could [go] back to skatingrdquo he
says Buchanan was inspired by
Javier Fernandez mdash the 2014 Eu-
ropean menrsquos figure skating cham-
pion He says watching Fernandezskate at the Toronto Cricket Skat-
ing and Curling Club pushed him
back into competition
Buchananrsquos first dance back on
the ice was rough ldquoI hadnrsquot com-
peted in like two years and I for-
got how much it took to skate
[figure skating] is surprisingly tir-
ing and I was out of breath for like
half an hourrdquo Figure skating com-
petitions are tightly judged Skat-
ers are scored on the difficulty and
style of the routine but theyrsquore
sometimes also judged off the ice
by society
Buchanan says that some peoplemake sweeping assumption about
male figure skaters mdash sometimes
extending to their sexuality ldquoIrsquom
not gay but [that] notion people
have bugs me a little bitrdquo He says
these assumptions deter athletes
from pursuing the sport ldquoIf you
are gay it can be hard to deal with
the way people label yourdquoEmily Rose Galliani Pecchia a
third-year forward on the Ryerson
womenrsquos hockey team says ldquoPeo-
ple shouldnrsquot make these assump-
tions flat out Whether theyrsquore
a figure skater hockey player or
wrestler it doesnrsquot determine if
theyrsquore gay or straightrdquo
Galliani Pecchia whom is gay
says athletes should be able to
compete in any sport without be-
ing judged
ldquoIf an athlete is gay they
should feel comfortable enough
to compete Itrsquos not fair for an
athlete to feel uncomfortable intheir field of playrdquo she says She
adds that her teammates are open
about their sexuality ldquoThere is
always someone to talk to within
our dressing room which is an
anomaly in varsity sport since it
is a taboo subjectrdquo
Pierre Alain interim head coach
of the Ryerson womenrsquos hockey
team says there are false percep-
tions that female hockey play-
ers are physical and butch ldquoYes
many players like the physical part
of the [sport] but thatrsquos not all
you need to be a good playerrdquo He
says athletes shouldnrsquot be catego-
rized based on the sport they playldquoLook at Meghan Agosta mdash she
started as a figure skater before
doing hockeyrdquo
Figure skating isnrsquot a promi-
EAKERSare often seen as being male-dominatedworld of athleticism men are a minoritykes a look at the often-overlooked sport of
When I was younger all my friends were play-ing hockey and they would poke fun at [me]for figure skating When that happens youwant to fit in and just play hockey
nent sport at most universities
The crowd at the OUAs is meager
compared to the ones at a basket-
ball or hockey games and is made
up mostly of athletesrsquo teammates
But Buchanan says that figure
skating is growing
When Buchanan was a kid he
would take cover when people
made fun of him for figure skat-ing Today he is less shy ldquoSome
people give you a look but it
doesnrsquot bother me anymorerdquo His
response to those who question
the physical demand required to
compete ldquoWhy donrsquot you give it
a try and see how you dordquo
Buchanan knows what to
do to win He preps him-
self mentally while sitting
in the menrsquos changeroom at the
OUAs ldquoYou have to focus in You
have to relax Donrsquot over-analyze
things Let your body do what
you trained it to dordquo he saysAfter he is mentally prepared he
heads to the ice Buchanan walks
on the Rams mat before leaving
the changeroom then remem-
bers ldquoYoursquore not supposed to do
that mdash itrsquos bad luckrdquo During the
warm-up skate Daft Punkrsquos One
More Time radiates through the
arena Competitors are already
on the ice perfecting their routine
Each one exudes confidence ldquoIrsquom
not going to lie I really want to
winrdquo he says
One after another they take
the ice and perform their routine
Buchanan is the third competitor
to hit the ice and he emerges toElton Johnrsquos Your Song Some of
the female athletes in the audi-
ence begin to sing along and they
throw flowers at him when the
routine is finished Many of the
menrsquos routines were comedic and
they were often met with laugh-
ter Some audience members com-
mented on Buchananrsquos ldquosparklesrdquo
on his black tee
Every spin jump and turn is
completed with grace He ex-
plodes with a double axel He
nails jump after jump then sud-
denly staggers on his landing
He throws his hands to catchhimself and continues He elicits
When Parth Patel was in his firstew years of the engineering pro-
ram he found getting a summer
ob to be quite challenging
ldquoI applied to more than 60 or
70 jobsrdquo he said ldquoI [was] trying
o find work [in engineering] but
wasnrsquot able tordquo
The frustration of finding a
ummer job is something many
Looking for a summer job can be frustrating but relying on the Internet may be hurting you more than you know
students have experienced before
especially since the 2008 econom-
ic crisis when markets around theworld crashed Searching through
thousands of job listings online
perfecting your resumeacute and send-
ing it out can take hours
But if yoursquore hoping to score
that ideal job going back to the
basics is the way to go said Dan-
iel Kennedy a career consultant
at Ted Rogers School of Manage-
Since the 2008 economic crisis the job market has seen fierce competition mdash sepa-rating yourself from the rest is the first step in being noticed
PHOTOS FARNIA FEKRI
ment careers and employment
partnerships centre
ldquoIf you go into [the websites]Monster or Workopolis and you
type in lsquosummer jobsrsquo yoursquore going
to find job postingsrdquo he said ldquoThe
problem is there are about four mil-
lion other students across Canada
who are going to find those same
job postingsrdquo
It often comes down to doing
some old-fashioned scouting on the
ground Kennedy said adding that
proactively approaching employers
can make a bigger impression than
simply sending a resumeacute by email
ldquoWhat students should do if they
really want to make a go of it is to
look for companies that donrsquot havethe capacity to advertise for those
summer jobsrdquo he said ldquoIf you can
identify and find those companies
and approach them proactively
that will give you a much better
chancerdquo
Because finding a job can be so
difficult in Toronto many students
decide to go back to their home-
towns for the summer where the
competition is less fierce and jobs
are easier to come by
Laura Hamel a first-year perfor-
mance acting student said shersquoll be
moving back home for the summer
because of the cost of living in To-
rontoldquoIrsquom from Regina so Irsquoll be mov-
ing home to find a jobrdquo she said
ldquoItrsquos a lot cheaper to live at home
and I have a solid job at homerdquo
For Patel scoring a job came
with a visit to his sister in Calgary
one summer While he was there
he applied to only five or six jobs
and ended up getting a summer po-
sition that matched his field
The summer job market comes
down to basic supply and demand
Kennedy said
ldquoOn the supply side you have
basically a lot of students that are
looking for jobs during the sum-mer months and thatrsquos fine as long
as the demandrsquos thererdquo he said
ldquoThe demand really hasnrsquot been
there since 2008rdquo
Brennan Thompson undergrad-
uate program director in the school
of economics says that the reces-
sion of 2008 has brought everyone
down a notch when it comes to the
job market
ldquoThe guy who was working at
the auto assembly plant loses his
job and now hersquos taking the low-
paid job at Tim Hortonrsquosrdquo he said
ldquoNow the young person who used
to have that job at Tim Hortonrsquos
[doesnrsquot] have anythingrdquo
Kennedy says the market is start-
ing to bounce back But compared
to 10 years ago finding a summer
job is far more of a challenge Even
in a city as big as Toronto compe-
tition can be fierce because thereare so many students looking for
temporary employment
According to Kennedy even
if the job you end up with isnrsquot at
all related to your field itrsquos still a
good idea to include it on your
resumeacute Employers look at how
your skills have evolved even if
the job you had was just bussing
tables The hard skills you gain
might not be related to your future
career but the soft skills mdashlike leadership skills problem-
solving abilities and customer ser-
vice experience mdash will come in
handy
ldquoNo one is expecting you to
graduate here and have four years
of senior project management ex-
periencerdquo he said
ldquoWhat they want to see is that
therersquos a progressionrdquo
By Leah Hansen
Ryerson graduate Peter Hill is performing at the ninth annual Toronto SketchComedy Festival as part of a duo called Beggarrsquos Canyon See the full article by AlexHeck at theeyeopenercom
PHOTO COURTESY TARA NOELLE
Laughing it up
Discuss the upcoming budget
All members of the Ryerson community are invited to
attend a town hall to discuss the development of the
universityrsquos budget for the 2014-15 academic year
Hosted by
SHELDON LEVY
president
MOHAMED LACHEMI
provost and vice president academic
PAUL STENTON
deputy provost and vice-provost university planning
TOWN HALL MEETING
Wednesday March 12 9 ndash 10 am
Architecture Building Room ARC ndash 108
Thursday March 20 230 ndash 330 pm
Library Building Room LIB ndash 72
President Levy is confirmed to attend the March 20 meeting
To submit questions in advance email provostryersonca
Please contact us if we need to make any accommodations to
Wise said ldquoThey unfortunatelygot on the board firstrdquo
In spite of the disappointing
oss this marked the Ramsrsquo best
performance in the last decade
But that success didnrsquot come
without a few major bumps along
he way Their high-powered start
o the season came to a screeching
halt due to a seven-day suspen-
ion they were handed for drink-
ng alcohol while on a team road
rip The Rams had to forfeit two
games during their suspension
but managed to come back strong
mdash ranking fourth in the Ontario
University Athletics (OUA) West
division by the seasonrsquos endldquoWersquove come a long way from
ighth place and I think we had a
eally good year for ourselvesrdquo sec-
ond-year forward Jamie Wise said
Coached by his father Graham
Wise Jamie achieved a career-
high 45 points mdash ranking him
hird in the Canadian Interuni-
versity Sports (CIS) His 21 goals
his season mdash compared to the
ight he scored last season mdash
made him the second-leading
corer in the country
By Devin Jones
amie Wise the Ramsrsquo leading scorer and second-ranked in the country on home ice
PHOTO FARNIA FEKRI
Fellow forward Dominic Alber-
ga also had a standout season
A third-line grinder from the
Ontario Hockey League (OHL)
Albergarsquos first-line rookie perfor-
mance for the Rams was anything
but expected
Alberga contributed 44 points
and 18 goals to the team He
achieved second place on the team
for goals scored and is nationally
ranked fourth in points mdash all in his
first year as a Ram
But as the menrsquos hockey team
celebrates new talent they alsosay goodbye to two of their key
players Both right-winger Dustin
Alcock and captain Andrew Buck
are graduating this year Buck
scored 90 goals in his 125-game
career with the Rams and wore
the captainrsquos patch for three of his
five years
ldquoItrsquos a surreal feeling and Irsquom
not really sure if itrsquos hit me yetrdquo
Buck said ldquoIrsquoll miss not going
to the rink every day and seeing
the guys but Irsquove had a great five
years so I canrsquot complainrdquo
The Rams are ranked fourth in
the OUA West division and made
their third-straight playoff appear-ance for the first time in history
The last time the Rams earned a
semifinal spot in the playoffs was
the 2009ndash10 season
The team will take some time off
before the coaching staff begins
the journey to next yearrsquos home
opener a process head coach Wise
said will begin with recruitment
ldquoRecruiting is ongoingrdquo he
said ldquoHopefully we can bring in
guys that will make the team bet-
ter and wersquoll go from thererdquo
History repeats itself for Rye hockey
The end of the menrsquos hockey season marks the end of all the Ramsrsquo seasons Go to theeyeopenercom fora cheat sheet on how they ended and which players were awarded OUA titles EyeSports theeyeopener
Celebrate the road to graduation as youbecome Ryerson alumni
March 5 POD upper Hub 1130 am ndash 130 pm
March 10 ENG 3rd floor 1130 am ndash 130 pm
March 12 TRSM 7th floor 1130 am ndash 130 pm
get involved bull get connected bull build your network
This week wersquore giving away a car Actually just $20 toTim Hortonrsquos Fill it out drop it off in the contest boxoutside of SCC 207 This is a raffle contest not a first-to-finish oneName Student Email Phone
Pugilisim of the StatePHOTO JESS TSANG
ILLUSTRATION DASHA ZOLOTA
Do you have a burning yearning to see something puggified by our residentdoge-drawer Dasha Zolota Send your suggestions to funtheeyeopenercom and your idea might end up on the illustrious Fun page
Cumming Soon Sin amp Vice
Now that our annual Love amp Sex issue is overand done with there has been a serious lackof cunning linguists in this paper Thatrsquos whereour new columnist comes in Her name is Lou-ise and shersquos ready to take your questionsabout what goes down (or doesnrsquot) beneaththe sheets Send us all the slippery sticky andsensual questions you have We promise topublish your questions anonymously and un-edited Nothing is too raunchy or embarrass-ing Send your inquiries to funtheeyeopenercom and Louise will answer in the next issue
W I N T I C K E T S t o s e e3 0 0 R I S E O F A N E M P I R E
B e o n e o f t h e f i r s t 1 5 s t a r t i n g a tn o o n M a r c h 5 t h t o w i n J u s t c o m e t o
skating championships and win-ter invitationals The women have
14 events for singles pairs fours
and teams Most university teams
have just one male player on their
squad
Buchanan says he didnrsquot
always want to be a fig-
ure skater ldquoWhen I was
younger all of my friends were
playing hockey and they would
poke fun at [me] for figure skat-
ingrdquo he says ldquoWhen that hap-
pens you want to fit in and just
play hockeyrdquo He changed his
mind after his childhood coachtold him he had the potential to
excel in figure skating
ldquoI think the fact [that the OUA]
only has one event for men is a
gender biasrdquo figure skating head
coach Lauren Wilson says She
says she doesnrsquot think the gender
bias is done on purpose but the
structure of the OUA figure skat-ing championships doesnrsquot help
ldquoOur roster is limited to 17 and
therersquos only one competition for
men We canrsquot make room for
more guyshellip Men can compete
in the synchro event but that still
leaves their options lowrdquo Buchan-
an chose not to partake in team
synchro ldquoI train on my own so
doing synchro wouldnrsquot work for
merdquo he says
Buchanan notes that the sport
faces a lack of recognition ldquoMost
people donrsquot take it serious They
donrsquot know the sport all they
know is Blades of Gloryrdquo
An hour before the competi-
tion Buchanan was writ-
ing an exam The 22-year-
old is a second-year accounting
student at Ryerson On top of his
studies hersquos been competing in
figure skating for six years ldquoMy
whole family has been skating for
a long timerdquo he says
Like any athlete he devoted a
lot of time to training until his
luck took a turn for the worst on
May 5 2012 He was walking
home alone from a bar in Mon-
treal when he was hit by a car
ldquoI really donrsquot have any memo-
ry of what happenedrdquo Buchanan
says He was found in the middle
of the street unconscious and
bleeding at 335 am He woke up
in a downtown Montreal hospi-
tal
Buchanan suffered a baseline
skull fracture that kept him off
the ice for a year ldquoI wasnrsquot sure if
I could [go] back to skatingrdquo he
says Buchanan was inspired by
Javier Fernandez mdash the 2014 Eu-
ropean menrsquos figure skating cham-
pion He says watching Fernandezskate at the Toronto Cricket Skat-
ing and Curling Club pushed him
back into competition
Buchananrsquos first dance back on
the ice was rough ldquoI hadnrsquot com-
peted in like two years and I for-
got how much it took to skate
[figure skating] is surprisingly tir-
ing and I was out of breath for like
half an hourrdquo Figure skating com-
petitions are tightly judged Skat-
ers are scored on the difficulty and
style of the routine but theyrsquore
sometimes also judged off the ice
by society
Buchanan says that some peoplemake sweeping assumption about
male figure skaters mdash sometimes
extending to their sexuality ldquoIrsquom
not gay but [that] notion people
have bugs me a little bitrdquo He says
these assumptions deter athletes
from pursuing the sport ldquoIf you
are gay it can be hard to deal with
the way people label yourdquoEmily Rose Galliani Pecchia a
third-year forward on the Ryerson
womenrsquos hockey team says ldquoPeo-
ple shouldnrsquot make these assump-
tions flat out Whether theyrsquore
a figure skater hockey player or
wrestler it doesnrsquot determine if
theyrsquore gay or straightrdquo
Galliani Pecchia whom is gay
says athletes should be able to
compete in any sport without be-
ing judged
ldquoIf an athlete is gay they
should feel comfortable enough
to compete Itrsquos not fair for an
athlete to feel uncomfortable intheir field of playrdquo she says She
adds that her teammates are open
about their sexuality ldquoThere is
always someone to talk to within
our dressing room which is an
anomaly in varsity sport since it
is a taboo subjectrdquo
Pierre Alain interim head coach
of the Ryerson womenrsquos hockey
team says there are false percep-
tions that female hockey play-
ers are physical and butch ldquoYes
many players like the physical part
of the [sport] but thatrsquos not all
you need to be a good playerrdquo He
says athletes shouldnrsquot be catego-
rized based on the sport they playldquoLook at Meghan Agosta mdash she
started as a figure skater before
doing hockeyrdquo
Figure skating isnrsquot a promi-
EAKERSare often seen as being male-dominatedworld of athleticism men are a minoritykes a look at the often-overlooked sport of
When I was younger all my friends were play-ing hockey and they would poke fun at [me]for figure skating When that happens youwant to fit in and just play hockey
nent sport at most universities
The crowd at the OUAs is meager
compared to the ones at a basket-
ball or hockey games and is made
up mostly of athletesrsquo teammates
But Buchanan says that figure
skating is growing
When Buchanan was a kid he
would take cover when people
made fun of him for figure skat-ing Today he is less shy ldquoSome
people give you a look but it
doesnrsquot bother me anymorerdquo His
response to those who question
the physical demand required to
compete ldquoWhy donrsquot you give it
a try and see how you dordquo
Buchanan knows what to
do to win He preps him-
self mentally while sitting
in the menrsquos changeroom at the
OUAs ldquoYou have to focus in You
have to relax Donrsquot over-analyze
things Let your body do what
you trained it to dordquo he saysAfter he is mentally prepared he
heads to the ice Buchanan walks
on the Rams mat before leaving
the changeroom then remem-
bers ldquoYoursquore not supposed to do
that mdash itrsquos bad luckrdquo During the
warm-up skate Daft Punkrsquos One
More Time radiates through the
arena Competitors are already
on the ice perfecting their routine
Each one exudes confidence ldquoIrsquom
not going to lie I really want to
winrdquo he says
One after another they take
the ice and perform their routine
Buchanan is the third competitor
to hit the ice and he emerges toElton Johnrsquos Your Song Some of
the female athletes in the audi-
ence begin to sing along and they
throw flowers at him when the
routine is finished Many of the
menrsquos routines were comedic and
they were often met with laugh-
ter Some audience members com-
mented on Buchananrsquos ldquosparklesrdquo
on his black tee
Every spin jump and turn is
completed with grace He ex-
plodes with a double axel He
nails jump after jump then sud-
denly staggers on his landing
He throws his hands to catchhimself and continues He elicits
When Parth Patel was in his firstew years of the engineering pro-
ram he found getting a summer
ob to be quite challenging
ldquoI applied to more than 60 or
70 jobsrdquo he said ldquoI [was] trying
o find work [in engineering] but
wasnrsquot able tordquo
The frustration of finding a
ummer job is something many
Looking for a summer job can be frustrating but relying on the Internet may be hurting you more than you know
students have experienced before
especially since the 2008 econom-
ic crisis when markets around theworld crashed Searching through
thousands of job listings online
perfecting your resumeacute and send-
ing it out can take hours
But if yoursquore hoping to score
that ideal job going back to the
basics is the way to go said Dan-
iel Kennedy a career consultant
at Ted Rogers School of Manage-
Since the 2008 economic crisis the job market has seen fierce competition mdash sepa-rating yourself from the rest is the first step in being noticed
PHOTOS FARNIA FEKRI
ment careers and employment
partnerships centre
ldquoIf you go into [the websites]Monster or Workopolis and you
type in lsquosummer jobsrsquo yoursquore going
to find job postingsrdquo he said ldquoThe
problem is there are about four mil-
lion other students across Canada
who are going to find those same
job postingsrdquo
It often comes down to doing
some old-fashioned scouting on the
ground Kennedy said adding that
proactively approaching employers
can make a bigger impression than
simply sending a resumeacute by email
ldquoWhat students should do if they
really want to make a go of it is to
look for companies that donrsquot havethe capacity to advertise for those
summer jobsrdquo he said ldquoIf you can
identify and find those companies
and approach them proactively
that will give you a much better
chancerdquo
Because finding a job can be so
difficult in Toronto many students
decide to go back to their home-
towns for the summer where the
competition is less fierce and jobs
are easier to come by
Laura Hamel a first-year perfor-
mance acting student said shersquoll be
moving back home for the summer
because of the cost of living in To-
rontoldquoIrsquom from Regina so Irsquoll be mov-
ing home to find a jobrdquo she said
ldquoItrsquos a lot cheaper to live at home
and I have a solid job at homerdquo
For Patel scoring a job came
with a visit to his sister in Calgary
one summer While he was there
he applied to only five or six jobs
and ended up getting a summer po-
sition that matched his field
The summer job market comes
down to basic supply and demand
Kennedy said
ldquoOn the supply side you have
basically a lot of students that are
looking for jobs during the sum-mer months and thatrsquos fine as long
as the demandrsquos thererdquo he said
ldquoThe demand really hasnrsquot been
there since 2008rdquo
Brennan Thompson undergrad-
uate program director in the school
of economics says that the reces-
sion of 2008 has brought everyone
down a notch when it comes to the
job market
ldquoThe guy who was working at
the auto assembly plant loses his
job and now hersquos taking the low-
paid job at Tim Hortonrsquosrdquo he said
ldquoNow the young person who used
to have that job at Tim Hortonrsquos
[doesnrsquot] have anythingrdquo
Kennedy says the market is start-
ing to bounce back But compared
to 10 years ago finding a summer
job is far more of a challenge Even
in a city as big as Toronto compe-
tition can be fierce because thereare so many students looking for
temporary employment
According to Kennedy even
if the job you end up with isnrsquot at
all related to your field itrsquos still a
good idea to include it on your
resumeacute Employers look at how
your skills have evolved even if
the job you had was just bussing
tables The hard skills you gain
might not be related to your future
career but the soft skills mdashlike leadership skills problem-
solving abilities and customer ser-
vice experience mdash will come in
handy
ldquoNo one is expecting you to
graduate here and have four years
of senior project management ex-
periencerdquo he said
ldquoWhat they want to see is that
therersquos a progressionrdquo
By Leah Hansen
Ryerson graduate Peter Hill is performing at the ninth annual Toronto SketchComedy Festival as part of a duo called Beggarrsquos Canyon See the full article by AlexHeck at theeyeopenercom
PHOTO COURTESY TARA NOELLE
Laughing it up
Discuss the upcoming budget
All members of the Ryerson community are invited to
attend a town hall to discuss the development of the
universityrsquos budget for the 2014-15 academic year
Hosted by
SHELDON LEVY
president
MOHAMED LACHEMI
provost and vice president academic
PAUL STENTON
deputy provost and vice-provost university planning
TOWN HALL MEETING
Wednesday March 12 9 ndash 10 am
Architecture Building Room ARC ndash 108
Thursday March 20 230 ndash 330 pm
Library Building Room LIB ndash 72
President Levy is confirmed to attend the March 20 meeting
To submit questions in advance email provostryersonca
Please contact us if we need to make any accommodations to
Wise said ldquoThey unfortunatelygot on the board firstrdquo
In spite of the disappointing
oss this marked the Ramsrsquo best
performance in the last decade
But that success didnrsquot come
without a few major bumps along
he way Their high-powered start
o the season came to a screeching
halt due to a seven-day suspen-
ion they were handed for drink-
ng alcohol while on a team road
rip The Rams had to forfeit two
games during their suspension
but managed to come back strong
mdash ranking fourth in the Ontario
University Athletics (OUA) West
division by the seasonrsquos endldquoWersquove come a long way from
ighth place and I think we had a
eally good year for ourselvesrdquo sec-
ond-year forward Jamie Wise said
Coached by his father Graham
Wise Jamie achieved a career-
high 45 points mdash ranking him
hird in the Canadian Interuni-
versity Sports (CIS) His 21 goals
his season mdash compared to the
ight he scored last season mdash
made him the second-leading
corer in the country
By Devin Jones
amie Wise the Ramsrsquo leading scorer and second-ranked in the country on home ice
PHOTO FARNIA FEKRI
Fellow forward Dominic Alber-
ga also had a standout season
A third-line grinder from the
Ontario Hockey League (OHL)
Albergarsquos first-line rookie perfor-
mance for the Rams was anything
but expected
Alberga contributed 44 points
and 18 goals to the team He
achieved second place on the team
for goals scored and is nationally
ranked fourth in points mdash all in his
first year as a Ram
But as the menrsquos hockey team
celebrates new talent they alsosay goodbye to two of their key
players Both right-winger Dustin
Alcock and captain Andrew Buck
are graduating this year Buck
scored 90 goals in his 125-game
career with the Rams and wore
the captainrsquos patch for three of his
five years
ldquoItrsquos a surreal feeling and Irsquom
not really sure if itrsquos hit me yetrdquo
Buck said ldquoIrsquoll miss not going
to the rink every day and seeing
the guys but Irsquove had a great five
years so I canrsquot complainrdquo
The Rams are ranked fourth in
the OUA West division and made
their third-straight playoff appear-ance for the first time in history
The last time the Rams earned a
semifinal spot in the playoffs was
the 2009ndash10 season
The team will take some time off
before the coaching staff begins
the journey to next yearrsquos home
opener a process head coach Wise
said will begin with recruitment
ldquoRecruiting is ongoingrdquo he
said ldquoHopefully we can bring in
guys that will make the team bet-
ter and wersquoll go from thererdquo
History repeats itself for Rye hockey
The end of the menrsquos hockey season marks the end of all the Ramsrsquo seasons Go to theeyeopenercom fora cheat sheet on how they ended and which players were awarded OUA titles EyeSports theeyeopener
Celebrate the road to graduation as youbecome Ryerson alumni
March 5 POD upper Hub 1130 am ndash 130 pm
March 10 ENG 3rd floor 1130 am ndash 130 pm
March 12 TRSM 7th floor 1130 am ndash 130 pm
get involved bull get connected bull build your network
This week wersquore giving away a car Actually just $20 toTim Hortonrsquos Fill it out drop it off in the contest boxoutside of SCC 207 This is a raffle contest not a first-to-finish oneName Student Email Phone
Pugilisim of the StatePHOTO JESS TSANG
ILLUSTRATION DASHA ZOLOTA
Do you have a burning yearning to see something puggified by our residentdoge-drawer Dasha Zolota Send your suggestions to funtheeyeopenercom and your idea might end up on the illustrious Fun page
Cumming Soon Sin amp Vice
Now that our annual Love amp Sex issue is overand done with there has been a serious lackof cunning linguists in this paper Thatrsquos whereour new columnist comes in Her name is Lou-ise and shersquos ready to take your questionsabout what goes down (or doesnrsquot) beneaththe sheets Send us all the slippery sticky andsensual questions you have We promise topublish your questions anonymously and un-edited Nothing is too raunchy or embarrass-ing Send your inquiries to funtheeyeopenercom and Louise will answer in the next issue
W I N T I C K E T S t o s e e3 0 0 R I S E O F A N E M P I R E
B e o n e o f t h e f i r s t 1 5 s t a r t i n g a tn o o n M a r c h 5 t h t o w i n J u s t c o m e t o
skating championships and win-ter invitationals The women have
14 events for singles pairs fours
and teams Most university teams
have just one male player on their
squad
Buchanan says he didnrsquot
always want to be a fig-
ure skater ldquoWhen I was
younger all of my friends were
playing hockey and they would
poke fun at [me] for figure skat-
ingrdquo he says ldquoWhen that hap-
pens you want to fit in and just
play hockeyrdquo He changed his
mind after his childhood coachtold him he had the potential to
excel in figure skating
ldquoI think the fact [that the OUA]
only has one event for men is a
gender biasrdquo figure skating head
coach Lauren Wilson says She
says she doesnrsquot think the gender
bias is done on purpose but the
structure of the OUA figure skat-ing championships doesnrsquot help
ldquoOur roster is limited to 17 and
therersquos only one competition for
men We canrsquot make room for
more guyshellip Men can compete
in the synchro event but that still
leaves their options lowrdquo Buchan-
an chose not to partake in team
synchro ldquoI train on my own so
doing synchro wouldnrsquot work for
merdquo he says
Buchanan notes that the sport
faces a lack of recognition ldquoMost
people donrsquot take it serious They
donrsquot know the sport all they
know is Blades of Gloryrdquo
An hour before the competi-
tion Buchanan was writ-
ing an exam The 22-year-
old is a second-year accounting
student at Ryerson On top of his
studies hersquos been competing in
figure skating for six years ldquoMy
whole family has been skating for
a long timerdquo he says
Like any athlete he devoted a
lot of time to training until his
luck took a turn for the worst on
May 5 2012 He was walking
home alone from a bar in Mon-
treal when he was hit by a car
ldquoI really donrsquot have any memo-
ry of what happenedrdquo Buchanan
says He was found in the middle
of the street unconscious and
bleeding at 335 am He woke up
in a downtown Montreal hospi-
tal
Buchanan suffered a baseline
skull fracture that kept him off
the ice for a year ldquoI wasnrsquot sure if
I could [go] back to skatingrdquo he
says Buchanan was inspired by
Javier Fernandez mdash the 2014 Eu-
ropean menrsquos figure skating cham-
pion He says watching Fernandezskate at the Toronto Cricket Skat-
ing and Curling Club pushed him
back into competition
Buchananrsquos first dance back on
the ice was rough ldquoI hadnrsquot com-
peted in like two years and I for-
got how much it took to skate
[figure skating] is surprisingly tir-
ing and I was out of breath for like
half an hourrdquo Figure skating com-
petitions are tightly judged Skat-
ers are scored on the difficulty and
style of the routine but theyrsquore
sometimes also judged off the ice
by society
Buchanan says that some peoplemake sweeping assumption about
male figure skaters mdash sometimes
extending to their sexuality ldquoIrsquom
not gay but [that] notion people
have bugs me a little bitrdquo He says
these assumptions deter athletes
from pursuing the sport ldquoIf you
are gay it can be hard to deal with
the way people label yourdquoEmily Rose Galliani Pecchia a
third-year forward on the Ryerson
womenrsquos hockey team says ldquoPeo-
ple shouldnrsquot make these assump-
tions flat out Whether theyrsquore
a figure skater hockey player or
wrestler it doesnrsquot determine if
theyrsquore gay or straightrdquo
Galliani Pecchia whom is gay
says athletes should be able to
compete in any sport without be-
ing judged
ldquoIf an athlete is gay they
should feel comfortable enough
to compete Itrsquos not fair for an
athlete to feel uncomfortable intheir field of playrdquo she says She
adds that her teammates are open
about their sexuality ldquoThere is
always someone to talk to within
our dressing room which is an
anomaly in varsity sport since it
is a taboo subjectrdquo
Pierre Alain interim head coach
of the Ryerson womenrsquos hockey
team says there are false percep-
tions that female hockey play-
ers are physical and butch ldquoYes
many players like the physical part
of the [sport] but thatrsquos not all
you need to be a good playerrdquo He
says athletes shouldnrsquot be catego-
rized based on the sport they playldquoLook at Meghan Agosta mdash she
started as a figure skater before
doing hockeyrdquo
Figure skating isnrsquot a promi-
EAKERSare often seen as being male-dominatedworld of athleticism men are a minoritykes a look at the often-overlooked sport of
When I was younger all my friends were play-ing hockey and they would poke fun at [me]for figure skating When that happens youwant to fit in and just play hockey
nent sport at most universities
The crowd at the OUAs is meager
compared to the ones at a basket-
ball or hockey games and is made
up mostly of athletesrsquo teammates
But Buchanan says that figure
skating is growing
When Buchanan was a kid he
would take cover when people
made fun of him for figure skat-ing Today he is less shy ldquoSome
people give you a look but it
doesnrsquot bother me anymorerdquo His
response to those who question
the physical demand required to
compete ldquoWhy donrsquot you give it
a try and see how you dordquo
Buchanan knows what to
do to win He preps him-
self mentally while sitting
in the menrsquos changeroom at the
OUAs ldquoYou have to focus in You
have to relax Donrsquot over-analyze
things Let your body do what
you trained it to dordquo he saysAfter he is mentally prepared he
heads to the ice Buchanan walks
on the Rams mat before leaving
the changeroom then remem-
bers ldquoYoursquore not supposed to do
that mdash itrsquos bad luckrdquo During the
warm-up skate Daft Punkrsquos One
More Time radiates through the
arena Competitors are already
on the ice perfecting their routine
Each one exudes confidence ldquoIrsquom
not going to lie I really want to
winrdquo he says
One after another they take
the ice and perform their routine
Buchanan is the third competitor
to hit the ice and he emerges toElton Johnrsquos Your Song Some of
the female athletes in the audi-
ence begin to sing along and they
throw flowers at him when the
routine is finished Many of the
menrsquos routines were comedic and
they were often met with laugh-
ter Some audience members com-
mented on Buchananrsquos ldquosparklesrdquo
on his black tee
Every spin jump and turn is
completed with grace He ex-
plodes with a double axel He
nails jump after jump then sud-
denly staggers on his landing
He throws his hands to catchhimself and continues He elicits
When Parth Patel was in his firstew years of the engineering pro-
ram he found getting a summer
ob to be quite challenging
ldquoI applied to more than 60 or
70 jobsrdquo he said ldquoI [was] trying
o find work [in engineering] but
wasnrsquot able tordquo
The frustration of finding a
ummer job is something many
Looking for a summer job can be frustrating but relying on the Internet may be hurting you more than you know
students have experienced before
especially since the 2008 econom-
ic crisis when markets around theworld crashed Searching through
thousands of job listings online
perfecting your resumeacute and send-
ing it out can take hours
But if yoursquore hoping to score
that ideal job going back to the
basics is the way to go said Dan-
iel Kennedy a career consultant
at Ted Rogers School of Manage-
Since the 2008 economic crisis the job market has seen fierce competition mdash sepa-rating yourself from the rest is the first step in being noticed
PHOTOS FARNIA FEKRI
ment careers and employment
partnerships centre
ldquoIf you go into [the websites]Monster or Workopolis and you
type in lsquosummer jobsrsquo yoursquore going
to find job postingsrdquo he said ldquoThe
problem is there are about four mil-
lion other students across Canada
who are going to find those same
job postingsrdquo
It often comes down to doing
some old-fashioned scouting on the
ground Kennedy said adding that
proactively approaching employers
can make a bigger impression than
simply sending a resumeacute by email
ldquoWhat students should do if they
really want to make a go of it is to
look for companies that donrsquot havethe capacity to advertise for those
summer jobsrdquo he said ldquoIf you can
identify and find those companies
and approach them proactively
that will give you a much better
chancerdquo
Because finding a job can be so
difficult in Toronto many students
decide to go back to their home-
towns for the summer where the
competition is less fierce and jobs
are easier to come by
Laura Hamel a first-year perfor-
mance acting student said shersquoll be
moving back home for the summer
because of the cost of living in To-
rontoldquoIrsquom from Regina so Irsquoll be mov-
ing home to find a jobrdquo she said
ldquoItrsquos a lot cheaper to live at home
and I have a solid job at homerdquo
For Patel scoring a job came
with a visit to his sister in Calgary
one summer While he was there
he applied to only five or six jobs
and ended up getting a summer po-
sition that matched his field
The summer job market comes
down to basic supply and demand
Kennedy said
ldquoOn the supply side you have
basically a lot of students that are
looking for jobs during the sum-mer months and thatrsquos fine as long
as the demandrsquos thererdquo he said
ldquoThe demand really hasnrsquot been
there since 2008rdquo
Brennan Thompson undergrad-
uate program director in the school
of economics says that the reces-
sion of 2008 has brought everyone
down a notch when it comes to the
job market
ldquoThe guy who was working at
the auto assembly plant loses his
job and now hersquos taking the low-
paid job at Tim Hortonrsquosrdquo he said
ldquoNow the young person who used
to have that job at Tim Hortonrsquos
[doesnrsquot] have anythingrdquo
Kennedy says the market is start-
ing to bounce back But compared
to 10 years ago finding a summer
job is far more of a challenge Even
in a city as big as Toronto compe-
tition can be fierce because thereare so many students looking for
temporary employment
According to Kennedy even
if the job you end up with isnrsquot at
all related to your field itrsquos still a
good idea to include it on your
resumeacute Employers look at how
your skills have evolved even if
the job you had was just bussing
tables The hard skills you gain
might not be related to your future
career but the soft skills mdashlike leadership skills problem-
solving abilities and customer ser-
vice experience mdash will come in
handy
ldquoNo one is expecting you to
graduate here and have four years
of senior project management ex-
periencerdquo he said
ldquoWhat they want to see is that
therersquos a progressionrdquo
By Leah Hansen
Ryerson graduate Peter Hill is performing at the ninth annual Toronto SketchComedy Festival as part of a duo called Beggarrsquos Canyon See the full article by AlexHeck at theeyeopenercom
PHOTO COURTESY TARA NOELLE
Laughing it up
Discuss the upcoming budget
All members of the Ryerson community are invited to
attend a town hall to discuss the development of the
universityrsquos budget for the 2014-15 academic year
Hosted by
SHELDON LEVY
president
MOHAMED LACHEMI
provost and vice president academic
PAUL STENTON
deputy provost and vice-provost university planning
TOWN HALL MEETING
Wednesday March 12 9 ndash 10 am
Architecture Building Room ARC ndash 108
Thursday March 20 230 ndash 330 pm
Library Building Room LIB ndash 72
President Levy is confirmed to attend the March 20 meeting
To submit questions in advance email provostryersonca
Please contact us if we need to make any accommodations to
Wise said ldquoThey unfortunatelygot on the board firstrdquo
In spite of the disappointing
oss this marked the Ramsrsquo best
performance in the last decade
But that success didnrsquot come
without a few major bumps along
he way Their high-powered start
o the season came to a screeching
halt due to a seven-day suspen-
ion they were handed for drink-
ng alcohol while on a team road
rip The Rams had to forfeit two
games during their suspension
but managed to come back strong
mdash ranking fourth in the Ontario
University Athletics (OUA) West
division by the seasonrsquos endldquoWersquove come a long way from
ighth place and I think we had a
eally good year for ourselvesrdquo sec-
ond-year forward Jamie Wise said
Coached by his father Graham
Wise Jamie achieved a career-
high 45 points mdash ranking him
hird in the Canadian Interuni-
versity Sports (CIS) His 21 goals
his season mdash compared to the
ight he scored last season mdash
made him the second-leading
corer in the country
By Devin Jones
amie Wise the Ramsrsquo leading scorer and second-ranked in the country on home ice
PHOTO FARNIA FEKRI
Fellow forward Dominic Alber-
ga also had a standout season
A third-line grinder from the
Ontario Hockey League (OHL)
Albergarsquos first-line rookie perfor-
mance for the Rams was anything
but expected
Alberga contributed 44 points
and 18 goals to the team He
achieved second place on the team
for goals scored and is nationally
ranked fourth in points mdash all in his
first year as a Ram
But as the menrsquos hockey team
celebrates new talent they alsosay goodbye to two of their key
players Both right-winger Dustin
Alcock and captain Andrew Buck
are graduating this year Buck
scored 90 goals in his 125-game
career with the Rams and wore
the captainrsquos patch for three of his
five years
ldquoItrsquos a surreal feeling and Irsquom
not really sure if itrsquos hit me yetrdquo
Buck said ldquoIrsquoll miss not going
to the rink every day and seeing
the guys but Irsquove had a great five
years so I canrsquot complainrdquo
The Rams are ranked fourth in
the OUA West division and made
their third-straight playoff appear-ance for the first time in history
The last time the Rams earned a
semifinal spot in the playoffs was
the 2009ndash10 season
The team will take some time off
before the coaching staff begins
the journey to next yearrsquos home
opener a process head coach Wise
said will begin with recruitment
ldquoRecruiting is ongoingrdquo he
said ldquoHopefully we can bring in
guys that will make the team bet-
ter and wersquoll go from thererdquo
History repeats itself for Rye hockey
The end of the menrsquos hockey season marks the end of all the Ramsrsquo seasons Go to theeyeopenercom fora cheat sheet on how they ended and which players were awarded OUA titles EyeSports theeyeopener
Celebrate the road to graduation as youbecome Ryerson alumni
March 5 POD upper Hub 1130 am ndash 130 pm
March 10 ENG 3rd floor 1130 am ndash 130 pm
March 12 TRSM 7th floor 1130 am ndash 130 pm
get involved bull get connected bull build your network
This week wersquore giving away a car Actually just $20 toTim Hortonrsquos Fill it out drop it off in the contest boxoutside of SCC 207 This is a raffle contest not a first-to-finish oneName Student Email Phone
Pugilisim of the StatePHOTO JESS TSANG
ILLUSTRATION DASHA ZOLOTA
Do you have a burning yearning to see something puggified by our residentdoge-drawer Dasha Zolota Send your suggestions to funtheeyeopenercom and your idea might end up on the illustrious Fun page
Cumming Soon Sin amp Vice
Now that our annual Love amp Sex issue is overand done with there has been a serious lackof cunning linguists in this paper Thatrsquos whereour new columnist comes in Her name is Lou-ise and shersquos ready to take your questionsabout what goes down (or doesnrsquot) beneaththe sheets Send us all the slippery sticky andsensual questions you have We promise topublish your questions anonymously and un-edited Nothing is too raunchy or embarrass-ing Send your inquiries to funtheeyeopenercom and Louise will answer in the next issue
W I N T I C K E T S t o s e e3 0 0 R I S E O F A N E M P I R E
B e o n e o f t h e f i r s t 1 5 s t a r t i n g a tn o o n M a r c h 5 t h t o w i n J u s t c o m e t o
skating championships and win-ter invitationals The women have
14 events for singles pairs fours
and teams Most university teams
have just one male player on their
squad
Buchanan says he didnrsquot
always want to be a fig-
ure skater ldquoWhen I was
younger all of my friends were
playing hockey and they would
poke fun at [me] for figure skat-
ingrdquo he says ldquoWhen that hap-
pens you want to fit in and just
play hockeyrdquo He changed his
mind after his childhood coachtold him he had the potential to
excel in figure skating
ldquoI think the fact [that the OUA]
only has one event for men is a
gender biasrdquo figure skating head
coach Lauren Wilson says She
says she doesnrsquot think the gender
bias is done on purpose but the
structure of the OUA figure skat-ing championships doesnrsquot help
ldquoOur roster is limited to 17 and
therersquos only one competition for
men We canrsquot make room for
more guyshellip Men can compete
in the synchro event but that still
leaves their options lowrdquo Buchan-
an chose not to partake in team
synchro ldquoI train on my own so
doing synchro wouldnrsquot work for
merdquo he says
Buchanan notes that the sport
faces a lack of recognition ldquoMost
people donrsquot take it serious They
donrsquot know the sport all they
know is Blades of Gloryrdquo
An hour before the competi-
tion Buchanan was writ-
ing an exam The 22-year-
old is a second-year accounting
student at Ryerson On top of his
studies hersquos been competing in
figure skating for six years ldquoMy
whole family has been skating for
a long timerdquo he says
Like any athlete he devoted a
lot of time to training until his
luck took a turn for the worst on
May 5 2012 He was walking
home alone from a bar in Mon-
treal when he was hit by a car
ldquoI really donrsquot have any memo-
ry of what happenedrdquo Buchanan
says He was found in the middle
of the street unconscious and
bleeding at 335 am He woke up
in a downtown Montreal hospi-
tal
Buchanan suffered a baseline
skull fracture that kept him off
the ice for a year ldquoI wasnrsquot sure if
I could [go] back to skatingrdquo he
says Buchanan was inspired by
Javier Fernandez mdash the 2014 Eu-
ropean menrsquos figure skating cham-
pion He says watching Fernandezskate at the Toronto Cricket Skat-
ing and Curling Club pushed him
back into competition
Buchananrsquos first dance back on
the ice was rough ldquoI hadnrsquot com-
peted in like two years and I for-
got how much it took to skate
[figure skating] is surprisingly tir-
ing and I was out of breath for like
half an hourrdquo Figure skating com-
petitions are tightly judged Skat-
ers are scored on the difficulty and
style of the routine but theyrsquore
sometimes also judged off the ice
by society
Buchanan says that some peoplemake sweeping assumption about
male figure skaters mdash sometimes
extending to their sexuality ldquoIrsquom
not gay but [that] notion people
have bugs me a little bitrdquo He says
these assumptions deter athletes
from pursuing the sport ldquoIf you
are gay it can be hard to deal with
the way people label yourdquoEmily Rose Galliani Pecchia a
third-year forward on the Ryerson
womenrsquos hockey team says ldquoPeo-
ple shouldnrsquot make these assump-
tions flat out Whether theyrsquore
a figure skater hockey player or
wrestler it doesnrsquot determine if
theyrsquore gay or straightrdquo
Galliani Pecchia whom is gay
says athletes should be able to
compete in any sport without be-
ing judged
ldquoIf an athlete is gay they
should feel comfortable enough
to compete Itrsquos not fair for an
athlete to feel uncomfortable intheir field of playrdquo she says She
adds that her teammates are open
about their sexuality ldquoThere is
always someone to talk to within
our dressing room which is an
anomaly in varsity sport since it
is a taboo subjectrdquo
Pierre Alain interim head coach
of the Ryerson womenrsquos hockey
team says there are false percep-
tions that female hockey play-
ers are physical and butch ldquoYes
many players like the physical part
of the [sport] but thatrsquos not all
you need to be a good playerrdquo He
says athletes shouldnrsquot be catego-
rized based on the sport they playldquoLook at Meghan Agosta mdash she
started as a figure skater before
doing hockeyrdquo
Figure skating isnrsquot a promi-
EAKERSare often seen as being male-dominatedworld of athleticism men are a minoritykes a look at the often-overlooked sport of
When I was younger all my friends were play-ing hockey and they would poke fun at [me]for figure skating When that happens youwant to fit in and just play hockey
nent sport at most universities
The crowd at the OUAs is meager
compared to the ones at a basket-
ball or hockey games and is made
up mostly of athletesrsquo teammates
But Buchanan says that figure
skating is growing
When Buchanan was a kid he
would take cover when people
made fun of him for figure skat-ing Today he is less shy ldquoSome
people give you a look but it
doesnrsquot bother me anymorerdquo His
response to those who question
the physical demand required to
compete ldquoWhy donrsquot you give it
a try and see how you dordquo
Buchanan knows what to
do to win He preps him-
self mentally while sitting
in the menrsquos changeroom at the
OUAs ldquoYou have to focus in You
have to relax Donrsquot over-analyze
things Let your body do what
you trained it to dordquo he saysAfter he is mentally prepared he
heads to the ice Buchanan walks
on the Rams mat before leaving
the changeroom then remem-
bers ldquoYoursquore not supposed to do
that mdash itrsquos bad luckrdquo During the
warm-up skate Daft Punkrsquos One
More Time radiates through the
arena Competitors are already
on the ice perfecting their routine
Each one exudes confidence ldquoIrsquom
not going to lie I really want to
winrdquo he says
One after another they take
the ice and perform their routine
Buchanan is the third competitor
to hit the ice and he emerges toElton Johnrsquos Your Song Some of
the female athletes in the audi-
ence begin to sing along and they
throw flowers at him when the
routine is finished Many of the
menrsquos routines were comedic and
they were often met with laugh-
ter Some audience members com-
mented on Buchananrsquos ldquosparklesrdquo
on his black tee
Every spin jump and turn is
completed with grace He ex-
plodes with a double axel He
nails jump after jump then sud-
denly staggers on his landing
He throws his hands to catchhimself and continues He elicits
When Parth Patel was in his firstew years of the engineering pro-
ram he found getting a summer
ob to be quite challenging
ldquoI applied to more than 60 or
70 jobsrdquo he said ldquoI [was] trying
o find work [in engineering] but
wasnrsquot able tordquo
The frustration of finding a
ummer job is something many
Looking for a summer job can be frustrating but relying on the Internet may be hurting you more than you know
students have experienced before
especially since the 2008 econom-
ic crisis when markets around theworld crashed Searching through
thousands of job listings online
perfecting your resumeacute and send-
ing it out can take hours
But if yoursquore hoping to score
that ideal job going back to the
basics is the way to go said Dan-
iel Kennedy a career consultant
at Ted Rogers School of Manage-
Since the 2008 economic crisis the job market has seen fierce competition mdash sepa-rating yourself from the rest is the first step in being noticed
PHOTOS FARNIA FEKRI
ment careers and employment
partnerships centre
ldquoIf you go into [the websites]Monster or Workopolis and you
type in lsquosummer jobsrsquo yoursquore going
to find job postingsrdquo he said ldquoThe
problem is there are about four mil-
lion other students across Canada
who are going to find those same
job postingsrdquo
It often comes down to doing
some old-fashioned scouting on the
ground Kennedy said adding that
proactively approaching employers
can make a bigger impression than
simply sending a resumeacute by email
ldquoWhat students should do if they
really want to make a go of it is to
look for companies that donrsquot havethe capacity to advertise for those
summer jobsrdquo he said ldquoIf you can
identify and find those companies
and approach them proactively
that will give you a much better
chancerdquo
Because finding a job can be so
difficult in Toronto many students
decide to go back to their home-
towns for the summer where the
competition is less fierce and jobs
are easier to come by
Laura Hamel a first-year perfor-
mance acting student said shersquoll be
moving back home for the summer
because of the cost of living in To-
rontoldquoIrsquom from Regina so Irsquoll be mov-
ing home to find a jobrdquo she said
ldquoItrsquos a lot cheaper to live at home
and I have a solid job at homerdquo
For Patel scoring a job came
with a visit to his sister in Calgary
one summer While he was there
he applied to only five or six jobs
and ended up getting a summer po-
sition that matched his field
The summer job market comes
down to basic supply and demand
Kennedy said
ldquoOn the supply side you have
basically a lot of students that are
looking for jobs during the sum-mer months and thatrsquos fine as long
as the demandrsquos thererdquo he said
ldquoThe demand really hasnrsquot been
there since 2008rdquo
Brennan Thompson undergrad-
uate program director in the school
of economics says that the reces-
sion of 2008 has brought everyone
down a notch when it comes to the
job market
ldquoThe guy who was working at
the auto assembly plant loses his
job and now hersquos taking the low-
paid job at Tim Hortonrsquosrdquo he said
ldquoNow the young person who used
to have that job at Tim Hortonrsquos
[doesnrsquot] have anythingrdquo
Kennedy says the market is start-
ing to bounce back But compared
to 10 years ago finding a summer
job is far more of a challenge Even
in a city as big as Toronto compe-
tition can be fierce because thereare so many students looking for
temporary employment
According to Kennedy even
if the job you end up with isnrsquot at
all related to your field itrsquos still a
good idea to include it on your
resumeacute Employers look at how
your skills have evolved even if
the job you had was just bussing
tables The hard skills you gain
might not be related to your future
career but the soft skills mdashlike leadership skills problem-
solving abilities and customer ser-
vice experience mdash will come in
handy
ldquoNo one is expecting you to
graduate here and have four years
of senior project management ex-
periencerdquo he said
ldquoWhat they want to see is that
therersquos a progressionrdquo
By Leah Hansen
Ryerson graduate Peter Hill is performing at the ninth annual Toronto SketchComedy Festival as part of a duo called Beggarrsquos Canyon See the full article by AlexHeck at theeyeopenercom
PHOTO COURTESY TARA NOELLE
Laughing it up
Discuss the upcoming budget
All members of the Ryerson community are invited to
attend a town hall to discuss the development of the
universityrsquos budget for the 2014-15 academic year
Hosted by
SHELDON LEVY
president
MOHAMED LACHEMI
provost and vice president academic
PAUL STENTON
deputy provost and vice-provost university planning
TOWN HALL MEETING
Wednesday March 12 9 ndash 10 am
Architecture Building Room ARC ndash 108
Thursday March 20 230 ndash 330 pm
Library Building Room LIB ndash 72
President Levy is confirmed to attend the March 20 meeting
To submit questions in advance email provostryersonca
Please contact us if we need to make any accommodations to
Wise said ldquoThey unfortunatelygot on the board firstrdquo
In spite of the disappointing
oss this marked the Ramsrsquo best
performance in the last decade
But that success didnrsquot come
without a few major bumps along
he way Their high-powered start
o the season came to a screeching
halt due to a seven-day suspen-
ion they were handed for drink-
ng alcohol while on a team road
rip The Rams had to forfeit two
games during their suspension
but managed to come back strong
mdash ranking fourth in the Ontario
University Athletics (OUA) West
division by the seasonrsquos endldquoWersquove come a long way from
ighth place and I think we had a
eally good year for ourselvesrdquo sec-
ond-year forward Jamie Wise said
Coached by his father Graham
Wise Jamie achieved a career-
high 45 points mdash ranking him
hird in the Canadian Interuni-
versity Sports (CIS) His 21 goals
his season mdash compared to the
ight he scored last season mdash
made him the second-leading
corer in the country
By Devin Jones
amie Wise the Ramsrsquo leading scorer and second-ranked in the country on home ice
PHOTO FARNIA FEKRI
Fellow forward Dominic Alber-
ga also had a standout season
A third-line grinder from the
Ontario Hockey League (OHL)
Albergarsquos first-line rookie perfor-
mance for the Rams was anything
but expected
Alberga contributed 44 points
and 18 goals to the team He
achieved second place on the team
for goals scored and is nationally
ranked fourth in points mdash all in his
first year as a Ram
But as the menrsquos hockey team
celebrates new talent they alsosay goodbye to two of their key
players Both right-winger Dustin
Alcock and captain Andrew Buck
are graduating this year Buck
scored 90 goals in his 125-game
career with the Rams and wore
the captainrsquos patch for three of his
five years
ldquoItrsquos a surreal feeling and Irsquom
not really sure if itrsquos hit me yetrdquo
Buck said ldquoIrsquoll miss not going
to the rink every day and seeing
the guys but Irsquove had a great five
years so I canrsquot complainrdquo
The Rams are ranked fourth in
the OUA West division and made
their third-straight playoff appear-ance for the first time in history
The last time the Rams earned a
semifinal spot in the playoffs was
the 2009ndash10 season
The team will take some time off
before the coaching staff begins
the journey to next yearrsquos home
opener a process head coach Wise
said will begin with recruitment
ldquoRecruiting is ongoingrdquo he
said ldquoHopefully we can bring in
guys that will make the team bet-
ter and wersquoll go from thererdquo
History repeats itself for Rye hockey
The end of the menrsquos hockey season marks the end of all the Ramsrsquo seasons Go to theeyeopenercom fora cheat sheet on how they ended and which players were awarded OUA titles EyeSports theeyeopener
Celebrate the road to graduation as youbecome Ryerson alumni
March 5 POD upper Hub 1130 am ndash 130 pm
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This week wersquore giving away a car Actually just $20 toTim Hortonrsquos Fill it out drop it off in the contest boxoutside of SCC 207 This is a raffle contest not a first-to-finish oneName Student Email Phone
Pugilisim of the StatePHOTO JESS TSANG
ILLUSTRATION DASHA ZOLOTA
Do you have a burning yearning to see something puggified by our residentdoge-drawer Dasha Zolota Send your suggestions to funtheeyeopenercom and your idea might end up on the illustrious Fun page
Cumming Soon Sin amp Vice
Now that our annual Love amp Sex issue is overand done with there has been a serious lackof cunning linguists in this paper Thatrsquos whereour new columnist comes in Her name is Lou-ise and shersquos ready to take your questionsabout what goes down (or doesnrsquot) beneaththe sheets Send us all the slippery sticky andsensual questions you have We promise topublish your questions anonymously and un-edited Nothing is too raunchy or embarrass-ing Send your inquiries to funtheeyeopenercom and Louise will answer in the next issue
W I N T I C K E T S t o s e e3 0 0 R I S E O F A N E M P I R E
B e o n e o f t h e f i r s t 1 5 s t a r t i n g a tn o o n M a r c h 5 t h t o w i n J u s t c o m e t o
skating championships and win-ter invitationals The women have
14 events for singles pairs fours
and teams Most university teams
have just one male player on their
squad
Buchanan says he didnrsquot
always want to be a fig-
ure skater ldquoWhen I was
younger all of my friends were
playing hockey and they would
poke fun at [me] for figure skat-
ingrdquo he says ldquoWhen that hap-
pens you want to fit in and just
play hockeyrdquo He changed his
mind after his childhood coachtold him he had the potential to
excel in figure skating
ldquoI think the fact [that the OUA]
only has one event for men is a
gender biasrdquo figure skating head
coach Lauren Wilson says She
says she doesnrsquot think the gender
bias is done on purpose but the
structure of the OUA figure skat-ing championships doesnrsquot help
ldquoOur roster is limited to 17 and
therersquos only one competition for
men We canrsquot make room for
more guyshellip Men can compete
in the synchro event but that still
leaves their options lowrdquo Buchan-
an chose not to partake in team
synchro ldquoI train on my own so
doing synchro wouldnrsquot work for
merdquo he says
Buchanan notes that the sport
faces a lack of recognition ldquoMost
people donrsquot take it serious They
donrsquot know the sport all they
know is Blades of Gloryrdquo
An hour before the competi-
tion Buchanan was writ-
ing an exam The 22-year-
old is a second-year accounting
student at Ryerson On top of his
studies hersquos been competing in
figure skating for six years ldquoMy
whole family has been skating for
a long timerdquo he says
Like any athlete he devoted a
lot of time to training until his
luck took a turn for the worst on
May 5 2012 He was walking
home alone from a bar in Mon-
treal when he was hit by a car
ldquoI really donrsquot have any memo-
ry of what happenedrdquo Buchanan
says He was found in the middle
of the street unconscious and
bleeding at 335 am He woke up
in a downtown Montreal hospi-
tal
Buchanan suffered a baseline
skull fracture that kept him off
the ice for a year ldquoI wasnrsquot sure if
I could [go] back to skatingrdquo he
says Buchanan was inspired by
Javier Fernandez mdash the 2014 Eu-
ropean menrsquos figure skating cham-
pion He says watching Fernandezskate at the Toronto Cricket Skat-
ing and Curling Club pushed him
back into competition
Buchananrsquos first dance back on
the ice was rough ldquoI hadnrsquot com-
peted in like two years and I for-
got how much it took to skate
[figure skating] is surprisingly tir-
ing and I was out of breath for like
half an hourrdquo Figure skating com-
petitions are tightly judged Skat-
ers are scored on the difficulty and
style of the routine but theyrsquore
sometimes also judged off the ice
by society
Buchanan says that some peoplemake sweeping assumption about
male figure skaters mdash sometimes
extending to their sexuality ldquoIrsquom
not gay but [that] notion people
have bugs me a little bitrdquo He says
these assumptions deter athletes
from pursuing the sport ldquoIf you
are gay it can be hard to deal with
the way people label yourdquoEmily Rose Galliani Pecchia a
third-year forward on the Ryerson
womenrsquos hockey team says ldquoPeo-
ple shouldnrsquot make these assump-
tions flat out Whether theyrsquore
a figure skater hockey player or
wrestler it doesnrsquot determine if
theyrsquore gay or straightrdquo
Galliani Pecchia whom is gay
says athletes should be able to
compete in any sport without be-
ing judged
ldquoIf an athlete is gay they
should feel comfortable enough
to compete Itrsquos not fair for an
athlete to feel uncomfortable intheir field of playrdquo she says She
adds that her teammates are open
about their sexuality ldquoThere is
always someone to talk to within
our dressing room which is an
anomaly in varsity sport since it
is a taboo subjectrdquo
Pierre Alain interim head coach
of the Ryerson womenrsquos hockey
team says there are false percep-
tions that female hockey play-
ers are physical and butch ldquoYes
many players like the physical part
of the [sport] but thatrsquos not all
you need to be a good playerrdquo He
says athletes shouldnrsquot be catego-
rized based on the sport they playldquoLook at Meghan Agosta mdash she
started as a figure skater before
doing hockeyrdquo
Figure skating isnrsquot a promi-
EAKERSare often seen as being male-dominatedworld of athleticism men are a minoritykes a look at the often-overlooked sport of
When I was younger all my friends were play-ing hockey and they would poke fun at [me]for figure skating When that happens youwant to fit in and just play hockey
nent sport at most universities
The crowd at the OUAs is meager
compared to the ones at a basket-
ball or hockey games and is made
up mostly of athletesrsquo teammates
But Buchanan says that figure
skating is growing
When Buchanan was a kid he
would take cover when people
made fun of him for figure skat-ing Today he is less shy ldquoSome
people give you a look but it
doesnrsquot bother me anymorerdquo His
response to those who question
the physical demand required to
compete ldquoWhy donrsquot you give it
a try and see how you dordquo
Buchanan knows what to
do to win He preps him-
self mentally while sitting
in the menrsquos changeroom at the
OUAs ldquoYou have to focus in You
have to relax Donrsquot over-analyze
things Let your body do what
you trained it to dordquo he saysAfter he is mentally prepared he
heads to the ice Buchanan walks
on the Rams mat before leaving
the changeroom then remem-
bers ldquoYoursquore not supposed to do
that mdash itrsquos bad luckrdquo During the
warm-up skate Daft Punkrsquos One
More Time radiates through the
arena Competitors are already
on the ice perfecting their routine
Each one exudes confidence ldquoIrsquom
not going to lie I really want to
winrdquo he says
One after another they take
the ice and perform their routine
Buchanan is the third competitor
to hit the ice and he emerges toElton Johnrsquos Your Song Some of
the female athletes in the audi-
ence begin to sing along and they
throw flowers at him when the
routine is finished Many of the
menrsquos routines were comedic and
they were often met with laugh-
ter Some audience members com-
mented on Buchananrsquos ldquosparklesrdquo
on his black tee
Every spin jump and turn is
completed with grace He ex-
plodes with a double axel He
nails jump after jump then sud-
denly staggers on his landing
He throws his hands to catchhimself and continues He elicits
When Parth Patel was in his firstew years of the engineering pro-
ram he found getting a summer
ob to be quite challenging
ldquoI applied to more than 60 or
70 jobsrdquo he said ldquoI [was] trying
o find work [in engineering] but
wasnrsquot able tordquo
The frustration of finding a
ummer job is something many
Looking for a summer job can be frustrating but relying on the Internet may be hurting you more than you know
students have experienced before
especially since the 2008 econom-
ic crisis when markets around theworld crashed Searching through
thousands of job listings online
perfecting your resumeacute and send-
ing it out can take hours
But if yoursquore hoping to score
that ideal job going back to the
basics is the way to go said Dan-
iel Kennedy a career consultant
at Ted Rogers School of Manage-
Since the 2008 economic crisis the job market has seen fierce competition mdash sepa-rating yourself from the rest is the first step in being noticed
PHOTOS FARNIA FEKRI
ment careers and employment
partnerships centre
ldquoIf you go into [the websites]Monster or Workopolis and you
type in lsquosummer jobsrsquo yoursquore going
to find job postingsrdquo he said ldquoThe
problem is there are about four mil-
lion other students across Canada
who are going to find those same
job postingsrdquo
It often comes down to doing
some old-fashioned scouting on the
ground Kennedy said adding that
proactively approaching employers
can make a bigger impression than
simply sending a resumeacute by email
ldquoWhat students should do if they
really want to make a go of it is to
look for companies that donrsquot havethe capacity to advertise for those
summer jobsrdquo he said ldquoIf you can
identify and find those companies
and approach them proactively
that will give you a much better
chancerdquo
Because finding a job can be so
difficult in Toronto many students
decide to go back to their home-
towns for the summer where the
competition is less fierce and jobs
are easier to come by
Laura Hamel a first-year perfor-
mance acting student said shersquoll be
moving back home for the summer
because of the cost of living in To-
rontoldquoIrsquom from Regina so Irsquoll be mov-
ing home to find a jobrdquo she said
ldquoItrsquos a lot cheaper to live at home
and I have a solid job at homerdquo
For Patel scoring a job came
with a visit to his sister in Calgary
one summer While he was there
he applied to only five or six jobs
and ended up getting a summer po-
sition that matched his field
The summer job market comes
down to basic supply and demand
Kennedy said
ldquoOn the supply side you have
basically a lot of students that are
looking for jobs during the sum-mer months and thatrsquos fine as long
as the demandrsquos thererdquo he said
ldquoThe demand really hasnrsquot been
there since 2008rdquo
Brennan Thompson undergrad-
uate program director in the school
of economics says that the reces-
sion of 2008 has brought everyone
down a notch when it comes to the
job market
ldquoThe guy who was working at
the auto assembly plant loses his
job and now hersquos taking the low-
paid job at Tim Hortonrsquosrdquo he said
ldquoNow the young person who used
to have that job at Tim Hortonrsquos
[doesnrsquot] have anythingrdquo
Kennedy says the market is start-
ing to bounce back But compared
to 10 years ago finding a summer
job is far more of a challenge Even
in a city as big as Toronto compe-
tition can be fierce because thereare so many students looking for
temporary employment
According to Kennedy even
if the job you end up with isnrsquot at
all related to your field itrsquos still a
good idea to include it on your
resumeacute Employers look at how
your skills have evolved even if
the job you had was just bussing
tables The hard skills you gain
might not be related to your future
career but the soft skills mdashlike leadership skills problem-
solving abilities and customer ser-
vice experience mdash will come in
handy
ldquoNo one is expecting you to
graduate here and have four years
of senior project management ex-
periencerdquo he said
ldquoWhat they want to see is that
therersquos a progressionrdquo
By Leah Hansen
Ryerson graduate Peter Hill is performing at the ninth annual Toronto SketchComedy Festival as part of a duo called Beggarrsquos Canyon See the full article by AlexHeck at theeyeopenercom
PHOTO COURTESY TARA NOELLE
Laughing it up
Discuss the upcoming budget
All members of the Ryerson community are invited to
attend a town hall to discuss the development of the
universityrsquos budget for the 2014-15 academic year
Hosted by
SHELDON LEVY
president
MOHAMED LACHEMI
provost and vice president academic
PAUL STENTON
deputy provost and vice-provost university planning
TOWN HALL MEETING
Wednesday March 12 9 ndash 10 am
Architecture Building Room ARC ndash 108
Thursday March 20 230 ndash 330 pm
Library Building Room LIB ndash 72
President Levy is confirmed to attend the March 20 meeting
To submit questions in advance email provostryersonca
Please contact us if we need to make any accommodations to
Wise said ldquoThey unfortunatelygot on the board firstrdquo
In spite of the disappointing
oss this marked the Ramsrsquo best
performance in the last decade
But that success didnrsquot come
without a few major bumps along
he way Their high-powered start
o the season came to a screeching
halt due to a seven-day suspen-
ion they were handed for drink-
ng alcohol while on a team road
rip The Rams had to forfeit two
games during their suspension
but managed to come back strong
mdash ranking fourth in the Ontario
University Athletics (OUA) West
division by the seasonrsquos endldquoWersquove come a long way from
ighth place and I think we had a
eally good year for ourselvesrdquo sec-
ond-year forward Jamie Wise said
Coached by his father Graham
Wise Jamie achieved a career-
high 45 points mdash ranking him
hird in the Canadian Interuni-
versity Sports (CIS) His 21 goals
his season mdash compared to the
ight he scored last season mdash
made him the second-leading
corer in the country
By Devin Jones
amie Wise the Ramsrsquo leading scorer and second-ranked in the country on home ice
PHOTO FARNIA FEKRI
Fellow forward Dominic Alber-
ga also had a standout season
A third-line grinder from the
Ontario Hockey League (OHL)
Albergarsquos first-line rookie perfor-
mance for the Rams was anything
but expected
Alberga contributed 44 points
and 18 goals to the team He
achieved second place on the team
for goals scored and is nationally
ranked fourth in points mdash all in his
first year as a Ram
But as the menrsquos hockey team
celebrates new talent they alsosay goodbye to two of their key
players Both right-winger Dustin
Alcock and captain Andrew Buck
are graduating this year Buck
scored 90 goals in his 125-game
career with the Rams and wore
the captainrsquos patch for three of his
five years
ldquoItrsquos a surreal feeling and Irsquom
not really sure if itrsquos hit me yetrdquo
Buck said ldquoIrsquoll miss not going
to the rink every day and seeing
the guys but Irsquove had a great five
years so I canrsquot complainrdquo
The Rams are ranked fourth in
the OUA West division and made
their third-straight playoff appear-ance for the first time in history
The last time the Rams earned a
semifinal spot in the playoffs was
the 2009ndash10 season
The team will take some time off
before the coaching staff begins
the journey to next yearrsquos home
opener a process head coach Wise
said will begin with recruitment
ldquoRecruiting is ongoingrdquo he
said ldquoHopefully we can bring in
guys that will make the team bet-
ter and wersquoll go from thererdquo
History repeats itself for Rye hockey
The end of the menrsquos hockey season marks the end of all the Ramsrsquo seasons Go to theeyeopenercom fora cheat sheet on how they ended and which players were awarded OUA titles EyeSports theeyeopener
Celebrate the road to graduation as youbecome Ryerson alumni
March 5 POD upper Hub 1130 am ndash 130 pm
March 10 ENG 3rd floor 1130 am ndash 130 pm
March 12 TRSM 7th floor 1130 am ndash 130 pm
get involved bull get connected bull build your network
This week wersquore giving away a car Actually just $20 toTim Hortonrsquos Fill it out drop it off in the contest boxoutside of SCC 207 This is a raffle contest not a first-to-finish oneName Student Email Phone
Pugilisim of the StatePHOTO JESS TSANG
ILLUSTRATION DASHA ZOLOTA
Do you have a burning yearning to see something puggified by our residentdoge-drawer Dasha Zolota Send your suggestions to funtheeyeopenercom and your idea might end up on the illustrious Fun page
Cumming Soon Sin amp Vice
Now that our annual Love amp Sex issue is overand done with there has been a serious lackof cunning linguists in this paper Thatrsquos whereour new columnist comes in Her name is Lou-ise and shersquos ready to take your questionsabout what goes down (or doesnrsquot) beneaththe sheets Send us all the slippery sticky andsensual questions you have We promise topublish your questions anonymously and un-edited Nothing is too raunchy or embarrass-ing Send your inquiries to funtheeyeopenercom and Louise will answer in the next issue
W I N T I C K E T S t o s e e3 0 0 R I S E O F A N E M P I R E
B e o n e o f t h e f i r s t 1 5 s t a r t i n g a tn o o n M a r c h 5 t h t o w i n J u s t c o m e t o
When Parth Patel was in his firstew years of the engineering pro-
ram he found getting a summer
ob to be quite challenging
ldquoI applied to more than 60 or
70 jobsrdquo he said ldquoI [was] trying
o find work [in engineering] but
wasnrsquot able tordquo
The frustration of finding a
ummer job is something many
Looking for a summer job can be frustrating but relying on the Internet may be hurting you more than you know
students have experienced before
especially since the 2008 econom-
ic crisis when markets around theworld crashed Searching through
thousands of job listings online
perfecting your resumeacute and send-
ing it out can take hours
But if yoursquore hoping to score
that ideal job going back to the
basics is the way to go said Dan-
iel Kennedy a career consultant
at Ted Rogers School of Manage-
Since the 2008 economic crisis the job market has seen fierce competition mdash sepa-rating yourself from the rest is the first step in being noticed
PHOTOS FARNIA FEKRI
ment careers and employment
partnerships centre
ldquoIf you go into [the websites]Monster or Workopolis and you
type in lsquosummer jobsrsquo yoursquore going
to find job postingsrdquo he said ldquoThe
problem is there are about four mil-
lion other students across Canada
who are going to find those same
job postingsrdquo
It often comes down to doing
some old-fashioned scouting on the
ground Kennedy said adding that
proactively approaching employers
can make a bigger impression than
simply sending a resumeacute by email
ldquoWhat students should do if they
really want to make a go of it is to
look for companies that donrsquot havethe capacity to advertise for those
summer jobsrdquo he said ldquoIf you can
identify and find those companies
and approach them proactively
that will give you a much better
chancerdquo
Because finding a job can be so
difficult in Toronto many students
decide to go back to their home-
towns for the summer where the
competition is less fierce and jobs
are easier to come by
Laura Hamel a first-year perfor-
mance acting student said shersquoll be
moving back home for the summer
because of the cost of living in To-
rontoldquoIrsquom from Regina so Irsquoll be mov-
ing home to find a jobrdquo she said
ldquoItrsquos a lot cheaper to live at home
and I have a solid job at homerdquo
For Patel scoring a job came
with a visit to his sister in Calgary
one summer While he was there
he applied to only five or six jobs
and ended up getting a summer po-
sition that matched his field
The summer job market comes
down to basic supply and demand
Kennedy said
ldquoOn the supply side you have
basically a lot of students that are
looking for jobs during the sum-mer months and thatrsquos fine as long
as the demandrsquos thererdquo he said
ldquoThe demand really hasnrsquot been
there since 2008rdquo
Brennan Thompson undergrad-
uate program director in the school
of economics says that the reces-
sion of 2008 has brought everyone
down a notch when it comes to the
job market
ldquoThe guy who was working at
the auto assembly plant loses his
job and now hersquos taking the low-
paid job at Tim Hortonrsquosrdquo he said
ldquoNow the young person who used
to have that job at Tim Hortonrsquos
[doesnrsquot] have anythingrdquo
Kennedy says the market is start-
ing to bounce back But compared
to 10 years ago finding a summer
job is far more of a challenge Even
in a city as big as Toronto compe-
tition can be fierce because thereare so many students looking for
temporary employment
According to Kennedy even
if the job you end up with isnrsquot at
all related to your field itrsquos still a
good idea to include it on your
resumeacute Employers look at how
your skills have evolved even if
the job you had was just bussing
tables The hard skills you gain
might not be related to your future
career but the soft skills mdashlike leadership skills problem-
solving abilities and customer ser-
vice experience mdash will come in
handy
ldquoNo one is expecting you to
graduate here and have four years
of senior project management ex-
periencerdquo he said
ldquoWhat they want to see is that
therersquos a progressionrdquo
By Leah Hansen
Ryerson graduate Peter Hill is performing at the ninth annual Toronto SketchComedy Festival as part of a duo called Beggarrsquos Canyon See the full article by AlexHeck at theeyeopenercom
PHOTO COURTESY TARA NOELLE
Laughing it up
Discuss the upcoming budget
All members of the Ryerson community are invited to
attend a town hall to discuss the development of the
universityrsquos budget for the 2014-15 academic year
Hosted by
SHELDON LEVY
president
MOHAMED LACHEMI
provost and vice president academic
PAUL STENTON
deputy provost and vice-provost university planning
TOWN HALL MEETING
Wednesday March 12 9 ndash 10 am
Architecture Building Room ARC ndash 108
Thursday March 20 230 ndash 330 pm
Library Building Room LIB ndash 72
President Levy is confirmed to attend the March 20 meeting
To submit questions in advance email provostryersonca
Please contact us if we need to make any accommodations to
Wise said ldquoThey unfortunatelygot on the board firstrdquo
In spite of the disappointing
oss this marked the Ramsrsquo best
performance in the last decade
But that success didnrsquot come
without a few major bumps along
he way Their high-powered start
o the season came to a screeching
halt due to a seven-day suspen-
ion they were handed for drink-
ng alcohol while on a team road
rip The Rams had to forfeit two
games during their suspension
but managed to come back strong
mdash ranking fourth in the Ontario
University Athletics (OUA) West
division by the seasonrsquos endldquoWersquove come a long way from
ighth place and I think we had a
eally good year for ourselvesrdquo sec-
ond-year forward Jamie Wise said
Coached by his father Graham
Wise Jamie achieved a career-
high 45 points mdash ranking him
hird in the Canadian Interuni-
versity Sports (CIS) His 21 goals
his season mdash compared to the
ight he scored last season mdash
made him the second-leading
corer in the country
By Devin Jones
amie Wise the Ramsrsquo leading scorer and second-ranked in the country on home ice
PHOTO FARNIA FEKRI
Fellow forward Dominic Alber-
ga also had a standout season
A third-line grinder from the
Ontario Hockey League (OHL)
Albergarsquos first-line rookie perfor-
mance for the Rams was anything
but expected
Alberga contributed 44 points
and 18 goals to the team He
achieved second place on the team
for goals scored and is nationally
ranked fourth in points mdash all in his
first year as a Ram
But as the menrsquos hockey team
celebrates new talent they alsosay goodbye to two of their key
players Both right-winger Dustin
Alcock and captain Andrew Buck
are graduating this year Buck
scored 90 goals in his 125-game
career with the Rams and wore
the captainrsquos patch for three of his
five years
ldquoItrsquos a surreal feeling and Irsquom
not really sure if itrsquos hit me yetrdquo
Buck said ldquoIrsquoll miss not going
to the rink every day and seeing
the guys but Irsquove had a great five
years so I canrsquot complainrdquo
The Rams are ranked fourth in
the OUA West division and made
their third-straight playoff appear-ance for the first time in history
The last time the Rams earned a
semifinal spot in the playoffs was
the 2009ndash10 season
The team will take some time off
before the coaching staff begins
the journey to next yearrsquos home
opener a process head coach Wise
said will begin with recruitment
ldquoRecruiting is ongoingrdquo he
said ldquoHopefully we can bring in
guys that will make the team bet-
ter and wersquoll go from thererdquo
History repeats itself for Rye hockey
The end of the menrsquos hockey season marks the end of all the Ramsrsquo seasons Go to theeyeopenercom fora cheat sheet on how they ended and which players were awarded OUA titles EyeSports theeyeopener
Celebrate the road to graduation as youbecome Ryerson alumni
March 5 POD upper Hub 1130 am ndash 130 pm
March 10 ENG 3rd floor 1130 am ndash 130 pm
March 12 TRSM 7th floor 1130 am ndash 130 pm
get involved bull get connected bull build your network
This week wersquore giving away a car Actually just $20 toTim Hortonrsquos Fill it out drop it off in the contest boxoutside of SCC 207 This is a raffle contest not a first-to-finish oneName Student Email Phone
Pugilisim of the StatePHOTO JESS TSANG
ILLUSTRATION DASHA ZOLOTA
Do you have a burning yearning to see something puggified by our residentdoge-drawer Dasha Zolota Send your suggestions to funtheeyeopenercom and your idea might end up on the illustrious Fun page
Cumming Soon Sin amp Vice
Now that our annual Love amp Sex issue is overand done with there has been a serious lackof cunning linguists in this paper Thatrsquos whereour new columnist comes in Her name is Lou-ise and shersquos ready to take your questionsabout what goes down (or doesnrsquot) beneaththe sheets Send us all the slippery sticky andsensual questions you have We promise topublish your questions anonymously and un-edited Nothing is too raunchy or embarrass-ing Send your inquiries to funtheeyeopenercom and Louise will answer in the next issue
W I N T I C K E T S t o s e e3 0 0 R I S E O F A N E M P I R E
B e o n e o f t h e f i r s t 1 5 s t a r t i n g a tn o o n M a r c h 5 t h t o w i n J u s t c o m e t o
When Parth Patel was in his firstew years of the engineering pro-
ram he found getting a summer
ob to be quite challenging
ldquoI applied to more than 60 or
70 jobsrdquo he said ldquoI [was] trying
o find work [in engineering] but
wasnrsquot able tordquo
The frustration of finding a
ummer job is something many
Looking for a summer job can be frustrating but relying on the Internet may be hurting you more than you know
students have experienced before
especially since the 2008 econom-
ic crisis when markets around theworld crashed Searching through
thousands of job listings online
perfecting your resumeacute and send-
ing it out can take hours
But if yoursquore hoping to score
that ideal job going back to the
basics is the way to go said Dan-
iel Kennedy a career consultant
at Ted Rogers School of Manage-
Since the 2008 economic crisis the job market has seen fierce competition mdash sepa-rating yourself from the rest is the first step in being noticed
PHOTOS FARNIA FEKRI
ment careers and employment
partnerships centre
ldquoIf you go into [the websites]Monster or Workopolis and you
type in lsquosummer jobsrsquo yoursquore going
to find job postingsrdquo he said ldquoThe
problem is there are about four mil-
lion other students across Canada
who are going to find those same
job postingsrdquo
It often comes down to doing
some old-fashioned scouting on the
ground Kennedy said adding that
proactively approaching employers
can make a bigger impression than
simply sending a resumeacute by email
ldquoWhat students should do if they
really want to make a go of it is to
look for companies that donrsquot havethe capacity to advertise for those
summer jobsrdquo he said ldquoIf you can
identify and find those companies
and approach them proactively
that will give you a much better
chancerdquo
Because finding a job can be so
difficult in Toronto many students
decide to go back to their home-
towns for the summer where the
competition is less fierce and jobs
are easier to come by
Laura Hamel a first-year perfor-
mance acting student said shersquoll be
moving back home for the summer
because of the cost of living in To-
rontoldquoIrsquom from Regina so Irsquoll be mov-
ing home to find a jobrdquo she said
ldquoItrsquos a lot cheaper to live at home
and I have a solid job at homerdquo
For Patel scoring a job came
with a visit to his sister in Calgary
one summer While he was there
he applied to only five or six jobs
and ended up getting a summer po-
sition that matched his field
The summer job market comes
down to basic supply and demand
Kennedy said
ldquoOn the supply side you have
basically a lot of students that are
looking for jobs during the sum-mer months and thatrsquos fine as long
as the demandrsquos thererdquo he said
ldquoThe demand really hasnrsquot been
there since 2008rdquo
Brennan Thompson undergrad-
uate program director in the school
of economics says that the reces-
sion of 2008 has brought everyone
down a notch when it comes to the
job market
ldquoThe guy who was working at
the auto assembly plant loses his
job and now hersquos taking the low-
paid job at Tim Hortonrsquosrdquo he said
ldquoNow the young person who used
to have that job at Tim Hortonrsquos
[doesnrsquot] have anythingrdquo
Kennedy says the market is start-
ing to bounce back But compared
to 10 years ago finding a summer
job is far more of a challenge Even
in a city as big as Toronto compe-
tition can be fierce because thereare so many students looking for
temporary employment
According to Kennedy even
if the job you end up with isnrsquot at
all related to your field itrsquos still a
good idea to include it on your
resumeacute Employers look at how
your skills have evolved even if
the job you had was just bussing
tables The hard skills you gain
might not be related to your future
career but the soft skills mdashlike leadership skills problem-
solving abilities and customer ser-
vice experience mdash will come in
handy
ldquoNo one is expecting you to
graduate here and have four years
of senior project management ex-
periencerdquo he said
ldquoWhat they want to see is that
therersquos a progressionrdquo
By Leah Hansen
Ryerson graduate Peter Hill is performing at the ninth annual Toronto SketchComedy Festival as part of a duo called Beggarrsquos Canyon See the full article by AlexHeck at theeyeopenercom
PHOTO COURTESY TARA NOELLE
Laughing it up
Discuss the upcoming budget
All members of the Ryerson community are invited to
attend a town hall to discuss the development of the
universityrsquos budget for the 2014-15 academic year
Hosted by
SHELDON LEVY
president
MOHAMED LACHEMI
provost and vice president academic
PAUL STENTON
deputy provost and vice-provost university planning
TOWN HALL MEETING
Wednesday March 12 9 ndash 10 am
Architecture Building Room ARC ndash 108
Thursday March 20 230 ndash 330 pm
Library Building Room LIB ndash 72
President Levy is confirmed to attend the March 20 meeting
To submit questions in advance email provostryersonca
Please contact us if we need to make any accommodations to
Wise said ldquoThey unfortunatelygot on the board firstrdquo
In spite of the disappointing
oss this marked the Ramsrsquo best
performance in the last decade
But that success didnrsquot come
without a few major bumps along
he way Their high-powered start
o the season came to a screeching
halt due to a seven-day suspen-
ion they were handed for drink-
ng alcohol while on a team road
rip The Rams had to forfeit two
games during their suspension
but managed to come back strong
mdash ranking fourth in the Ontario
University Athletics (OUA) West
division by the seasonrsquos endldquoWersquove come a long way from
ighth place and I think we had a
eally good year for ourselvesrdquo sec-
ond-year forward Jamie Wise said
Coached by his father Graham
Wise Jamie achieved a career-
high 45 points mdash ranking him
hird in the Canadian Interuni-
versity Sports (CIS) His 21 goals
his season mdash compared to the
ight he scored last season mdash
made him the second-leading
corer in the country
By Devin Jones
amie Wise the Ramsrsquo leading scorer and second-ranked in the country on home ice
PHOTO FARNIA FEKRI
Fellow forward Dominic Alber-
ga also had a standout season
A third-line grinder from the
Ontario Hockey League (OHL)
Albergarsquos first-line rookie perfor-
mance for the Rams was anything
but expected
Alberga contributed 44 points
and 18 goals to the team He
achieved second place on the team
for goals scored and is nationally
ranked fourth in points mdash all in his
first year as a Ram
But as the menrsquos hockey team
celebrates new talent they alsosay goodbye to two of their key
players Both right-winger Dustin
Alcock and captain Andrew Buck
are graduating this year Buck
scored 90 goals in his 125-game
career with the Rams and wore
the captainrsquos patch for three of his
five years
ldquoItrsquos a surreal feeling and Irsquom
not really sure if itrsquos hit me yetrdquo
Buck said ldquoIrsquoll miss not going
to the rink every day and seeing
the guys but Irsquove had a great five
years so I canrsquot complainrdquo
The Rams are ranked fourth in
the OUA West division and made
their third-straight playoff appear-ance for the first time in history
The last time the Rams earned a
semifinal spot in the playoffs was
the 2009ndash10 season
The team will take some time off
before the coaching staff begins
the journey to next yearrsquos home
opener a process head coach Wise
said will begin with recruitment
ldquoRecruiting is ongoingrdquo he
said ldquoHopefully we can bring in
guys that will make the team bet-
ter and wersquoll go from thererdquo
History repeats itself for Rye hockey
The end of the menrsquos hockey season marks the end of all the Ramsrsquo seasons Go to theeyeopenercom fora cheat sheet on how they ended and which players were awarded OUA titles EyeSports theeyeopener
Celebrate the road to graduation as youbecome Ryerson alumni
March 5 POD upper Hub 1130 am ndash 130 pm
March 10 ENG 3rd floor 1130 am ndash 130 pm
March 12 TRSM 7th floor 1130 am ndash 130 pm
get involved bull get connected bull build your network
This week wersquore giving away a car Actually just $20 toTim Hortonrsquos Fill it out drop it off in the contest boxoutside of SCC 207 This is a raffle contest not a first-to-finish oneName Student Email Phone
Pugilisim of the StatePHOTO JESS TSANG
ILLUSTRATION DASHA ZOLOTA
Do you have a burning yearning to see something puggified by our residentdoge-drawer Dasha Zolota Send your suggestions to funtheeyeopenercom and your idea might end up on the illustrious Fun page
Cumming Soon Sin amp Vice
Now that our annual Love amp Sex issue is overand done with there has been a serious lackof cunning linguists in this paper Thatrsquos whereour new columnist comes in Her name is Lou-ise and shersquos ready to take your questionsabout what goes down (or doesnrsquot) beneaththe sheets Send us all the slippery sticky andsensual questions you have We promise topublish your questions anonymously and un-edited Nothing is too raunchy or embarrass-ing Send your inquiries to funtheeyeopenercom and Louise will answer in the next issue
W I N T I C K E T S t o s e e3 0 0 R I S E O F A N E M P I R E
B e o n e o f t h e f i r s t 1 5 s t a r t i n g a tn o o n M a r c h 5 t h t o w i n J u s t c o m e t o
When Parth Patel was in his firstew years of the engineering pro-
ram he found getting a summer
ob to be quite challenging
ldquoI applied to more than 60 or
70 jobsrdquo he said ldquoI [was] trying
o find work [in engineering] but
wasnrsquot able tordquo
The frustration of finding a
ummer job is something many
Looking for a summer job can be frustrating but relying on the Internet may be hurting you more than you know
students have experienced before
especially since the 2008 econom-
ic crisis when markets around theworld crashed Searching through
thousands of job listings online
perfecting your resumeacute and send-
ing it out can take hours
But if yoursquore hoping to score
that ideal job going back to the
basics is the way to go said Dan-
iel Kennedy a career consultant
at Ted Rogers School of Manage-
Since the 2008 economic crisis the job market has seen fierce competition mdash sepa-rating yourself from the rest is the first step in being noticed
PHOTOS FARNIA FEKRI
ment careers and employment
partnerships centre
ldquoIf you go into [the websites]Monster or Workopolis and you
type in lsquosummer jobsrsquo yoursquore going
to find job postingsrdquo he said ldquoThe
problem is there are about four mil-
lion other students across Canada
who are going to find those same
job postingsrdquo
It often comes down to doing
some old-fashioned scouting on the
ground Kennedy said adding that
proactively approaching employers
can make a bigger impression than
simply sending a resumeacute by email
ldquoWhat students should do if they
really want to make a go of it is to
look for companies that donrsquot havethe capacity to advertise for those
summer jobsrdquo he said ldquoIf you can
identify and find those companies
and approach them proactively
that will give you a much better
chancerdquo
Because finding a job can be so
difficult in Toronto many students
decide to go back to their home-
towns for the summer where the
competition is less fierce and jobs
are easier to come by
Laura Hamel a first-year perfor-
mance acting student said shersquoll be
moving back home for the summer
because of the cost of living in To-
rontoldquoIrsquom from Regina so Irsquoll be mov-
ing home to find a jobrdquo she said
ldquoItrsquos a lot cheaper to live at home
and I have a solid job at homerdquo
For Patel scoring a job came
with a visit to his sister in Calgary
one summer While he was there
he applied to only five or six jobs
and ended up getting a summer po-
sition that matched his field
The summer job market comes
down to basic supply and demand
Kennedy said
ldquoOn the supply side you have
basically a lot of students that are
looking for jobs during the sum-mer months and thatrsquos fine as long
as the demandrsquos thererdquo he said
ldquoThe demand really hasnrsquot been
there since 2008rdquo
Brennan Thompson undergrad-
uate program director in the school
of economics says that the reces-
sion of 2008 has brought everyone
down a notch when it comes to the
job market
ldquoThe guy who was working at
the auto assembly plant loses his
job and now hersquos taking the low-
paid job at Tim Hortonrsquosrdquo he said
ldquoNow the young person who used
to have that job at Tim Hortonrsquos
[doesnrsquot] have anythingrdquo
Kennedy says the market is start-
ing to bounce back But compared
to 10 years ago finding a summer
job is far more of a challenge Even
in a city as big as Toronto compe-
tition can be fierce because thereare so many students looking for
temporary employment
According to Kennedy even
if the job you end up with isnrsquot at
all related to your field itrsquos still a
good idea to include it on your
resumeacute Employers look at how
your skills have evolved even if
the job you had was just bussing
tables The hard skills you gain
might not be related to your future
career but the soft skills mdashlike leadership skills problem-
solving abilities and customer ser-
vice experience mdash will come in
handy
ldquoNo one is expecting you to
graduate here and have four years
of senior project management ex-
periencerdquo he said
ldquoWhat they want to see is that
therersquos a progressionrdquo
By Leah Hansen
Ryerson graduate Peter Hill is performing at the ninth annual Toronto SketchComedy Festival as part of a duo called Beggarrsquos Canyon See the full article by AlexHeck at theeyeopenercom
PHOTO COURTESY TARA NOELLE
Laughing it up
Discuss the upcoming budget
All members of the Ryerson community are invited to
attend a town hall to discuss the development of the
universityrsquos budget for the 2014-15 academic year
Hosted by
SHELDON LEVY
president
MOHAMED LACHEMI
provost and vice president academic
PAUL STENTON
deputy provost and vice-provost university planning
TOWN HALL MEETING
Wednesday March 12 9 ndash 10 am
Architecture Building Room ARC ndash 108
Thursday March 20 230 ndash 330 pm
Library Building Room LIB ndash 72
President Levy is confirmed to attend the March 20 meeting
To submit questions in advance email provostryersonca
Please contact us if we need to make any accommodations to
Wise said ldquoThey unfortunatelygot on the board firstrdquo
In spite of the disappointing
oss this marked the Ramsrsquo best
performance in the last decade
But that success didnrsquot come
without a few major bumps along
he way Their high-powered start
o the season came to a screeching
halt due to a seven-day suspen-
ion they were handed for drink-
ng alcohol while on a team road
rip The Rams had to forfeit two
games during their suspension
but managed to come back strong
mdash ranking fourth in the Ontario
University Athletics (OUA) West
division by the seasonrsquos endldquoWersquove come a long way from
ighth place and I think we had a
eally good year for ourselvesrdquo sec-
ond-year forward Jamie Wise said
Coached by his father Graham
Wise Jamie achieved a career-
high 45 points mdash ranking him
hird in the Canadian Interuni-
versity Sports (CIS) His 21 goals
his season mdash compared to the
ight he scored last season mdash
made him the second-leading
corer in the country
By Devin Jones
amie Wise the Ramsrsquo leading scorer and second-ranked in the country on home ice
PHOTO FARNIA FEKRI
Fellow forward Dominic Alber-
ga also had a standout season
A third-line grinder from the
Ontario Hockey League (OHL)
Albergarsquos first-line rookie perfor-
mance for the Rams was anything
but expected
Alberga contributed 44 points
and 18 goals to the team He
achieved second place on the team
for goals scored and is nationally
ranked fourth in points mdash all in his
first year as a Ram
But as the menrsquos hockey team
celebrates new talent they alsosay goodbye to two of their key
players Both right-winger Dustin
Alcock and captain Andrew Buck
are graduating this year Buck
scored 90 goals in his 125-game
career with the Rams and wore
the captainrsquos patch for three of his
five years
ldquoItrsquos a surreal feeling and Irsquom
not really sure if itrsquos hit me yetrdquo
Buck said ldquoIrsquoll miss not going
to the rink every day and seeing
the guys but Irsquove had a great five
years so I canrsquot complainrdquo
The Rams are ranked fourth in
the OUA West division and made
their third-straight playoff appear-ance for the first time in history
The last time the Rams earned a
semifinal spot in the playoffs was
the 2009ndash10 season
The team will take some time off
before the coaching staff begins
the journey to next yearrsquos home
opener a process head coach Wise
said will begin with recruitment
ldquoRecruiting is ongoingrdquo he
said ldquoHopefully we can bring in
guys that will make the team bet-
ter and wersquoll go from thererdquo
History repeats itself for Rye hockey
The end of the menrsquos hockey season marks the end of all the Ramsrsquo seasons Go to theeyeopenercom fora cheat sheet on how they ended and which players were awarded OUA titles EyeSports theeyeopener
Celebrate the road to graduation as youbecome Ryerson alumni
March 5 POD upper Hub 1130 am ndash 130 pm
March 10 ENG 3rd floor 1130 am ndash 130 pm
March 12 TRSM 7th floor 1130 am ndash 130 pm
get involved bull get connected bull build your network
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Cumming Soon Sin amp Vice
Now that our annual Love amp Sex issue is overand done with there has been a serious lackof cunning linguists in this paper Thatrsquos whereour new columnist comes in Her name is Lou-ise and shersquos ready to take your questionsabout what goes down (or doesnrsquot) beneaththe sheets Send us all the slippery sticky andsensual questions you have We promise topublish your questions anonymously and un-edited Nothing is too raunchy or embarrass-ing Send your inquiries to funtheeyeopenercom and Louise will answer in the next issue
W I N T I C K E T S t o s e e3 0 0 R I S E O F A N E M P I R E
B e o n e o f t h e f i r s t 1 5 s t a r t i n g a tn o o n M a r c h 5 t h t o w i n J u s t c o m e t o
Wise said ldquoThey unfortunatelygot on the board firstrdquo
In spite of the disappointing
oss this marked the Ramsrsquo best
performance in the last decade
But that success didnrsquot come
without a few major bumps along
he way Their high-powered start
o the season came to a screeching
halt due to a seven-day suspen-
ion they were handed for drink-
ng alcohol while on a team road
rip The Rams had to forfeit two
games during their suspension
but managed to come back strong
mdash ranking fourth in the Ontario
University Athletics (OUA) West
division by the seasonrsquos endldquoWersquove come a long way from
ighth place and I think we had a
eally good year for ourselvesrdquo sec-
ond-year forward Jamie Wise said
Coached by his father Graham
Wise Jamie achieved a career-
high 45 points mdash ranking him
hird in the Canadian Interuni-
versity Sports (CIS) His 21 goals
his season mdash compared to the
ight he scored last season mdash
made him the second-leading
corer in the country
By Devin Jones
amie Wise the Ramsrsquo leading scorer and second-ranked in the country on home ice
PHOTO FARNIA FEKRI
Fellow forward Dominic Alber-
ga also had a standout season
A third-line grinder from the
Ontario Hockey League (OHL)
Albergarsquos first-line rookie perfor-
mance for the Rams was anything
but expected
Alberga contributed 44 points
and 18 goals to the team He
achieved second place on the team
for goals scored and is nationally
ranked fourth in points mdash all in his
first year as a Ram
But as the menrsquos hockey team
celebrates new talent they alsosay goodbye to two of their key
players Both right-winger Dustin
Alcock and captain Andrew Buck
are graduating this year Buck
scored 90 goals in his 125-game
career with the Rams and wore
the captainrsquos patch for three of his
five years
ldquoItrsquos a surreal feeling and Irsquom
not really sure if itrsquos hit me yetrdquo
Buck said ldquoIrsquoll miss not going
to the rink every day and seeing
the guys but Irsquove had a great five
years so I canrsquot complainrdquo
The Rams are ranked fourth in
the OUA West division and made
their third-straight playoff appear-ance for the first time in history
The last time the Rams earned a
semifinal spot in the playoffs was
the 2009ndash10 season
The team will take some time off
before the coaching staff begins
the journey to next yearrsquos home
opener a process head coach Wise
said will begin with recruitment
ldquoRecruiting is ongoingrdquo he
said ldquoHopefully we can bring in
guys that will make the team bet-
ter and wersquoll go from thererdquo
History repeats itself for Rye hockey
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This week wersquore giving away a car Actually just $20 toTim Hortonrsquos Fill it out drop it off in the contest boxoutside of SCC 207 This is a raffle contest not a first-to-finish oneName Student Email Phone
Pugilisim of the StatePHOTO JESS TSANG
ILLUSTRATION DASHA ZOLOTA
Do you have a burning yearning to see something puggified by our residentdoge-drawer Dasha Zolota Send your suggestions to funtheeyeopenercom and your idea might end up on the illustrious Fun page
Cumming Soon Sin amp Vice
Now that our annual Love amp Sex issue is overand done with there has been a serious lackof cunning linguists in this paper Thatrsquos whereour new columnist comes in Her name is Lou-ise and shersquos ready to take your questionsabout what goes down (or doesnrsquot) beneaththe sheets Send us all the slippery sticky andsensual questions you have We promise topublish your questions anonymously and un-edited Nothing is too raunchy or embarrass-ing Send your inquiries to funtheeyeopenercom and Louise will answer in the next issue
W I N T I C K E T S t o s e e3 0 0 R I S E O F A N E M P I R E
B e o n e o f t h e f i r s t 1 5 s t a r t i n g a tn o o n M a r c h 5 t h t o w i n J u s t c o m e t o
This week wersquore giving away a car Actually just $20 toTim Hortonrsquos Fill it out drop it off in the contest boxoutside of SCC 207 This is a raffle contest not a first-to-finish oneName Student Email Phone
Pugilisim of the StatePHOTO JESS TSANG
ILLUSTRATION DASHA ZOLOTA
Do you have a burning yearning to see something puggified by our residentdoge-drawer Dasha Zolota Send your suggestions to funtheeyeopenercom and your idea might end up on the illustrious Fun page
Cumming Soon Sin amp Vice
Now that our annual Love amp Sex issue is overand done with there has been a serious lackof cunning linguists in this paper Thatrsquos whereour new columnist comes in Her name is Lou-ise and shersquos ready to take your questionsabout what goes down (or doesnrsquot) beneaththe sheets Send us all the slippery sticky andsensual questions you have We promise topublish your questions anonymously and un-edited Nothing is too raunchy or embarrass-ing Send your inquiries to funtheeyeopenercom and Louise will answer in the next issue
W I N T I C K E T S t o s e e3 0 0 R I S E O F A N E M P I R E
B e o n e o f t h e f i r s t 1 5 s t a r t i n g a tn o o n M a r c h 5 t h t o w i n J u s t c o m e t o