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The photo in question was allegedly taken during a frst-year Illustration class.PHOTO: JESS TSANG
Photo ap hits fashion schoolRye’s ashion school launched an investigation ater allegations o a picture beingtaken o a lie model during a frst-year illustration class allegedly hit social media
An investigation into an incidentnvolving fashion students has been
aunched after photos were alleg-dly taken of a life model during anllustration class.
Fashion school chair Robert Ottaid that the photo has also alleg-dly been redistributed, possibly on
ocial media.The model had been hired by the
ashion school for students to prac-ice life drawing. The class often
uses nude models but Ott could notomment if the model was naked
or clothed in the alleged photo.
“I became aware Thursday eve-ning that there might have been in-idents where students were taking
pictures of the model then that [thephoto] was allegedly put on socialmedia,” said Ott.
In an email sent from faculty,ashion students were notied thathere would be a ban on using re-
ording devices in illustration class-s, effective immediately.
“I’m actually appalled on behalf of all the students who are upset thishas happened,” said Ott.
Ott said they began looking for
the involved students on Sept. 20(the morning after he was rst in-formed about what happened by
faculty). Because no one has turnedthemselves in, the situation will behanded over to the Ryerson student
conduct ofce.
Student conduct ofcer MarkAtia said he will deal with any com-plaints that come through the ofce
that are listed in the student code of non-academic conduct, policy 61 of the Ryerson senate.
“I will take the complaint, reviewit and then interview the complain-ant and continue with my investi-
gation,” said Atia, who could notcomment on specic cases due to
condentiality agreements.Examples of “non-academic con-
duct” can include anything from-bringing rearms, explosives orweapons onto campus or theft.
Fashion instructors were madeaware of the situation after studentsbrought to their attention that al-
leged photos had been taken andredistributed.
The school is not sure what class
section the incident took place in.There are six sections of this courseand there are roughly 180 students
enrolled. Ott said there are betweenseven and eight models in total who
have worked with the school duringthis term.
Ott could not comment on whothe models were. “I reached out to
all of them on Friday and I apolo-gized and I promise this will nothappen again,” said Ott.
Laura Virdo, an agent at Suther-land models, (a modeling agency inToronto that does not work with
Ryerson), said that the fashionschool should be responsible for thespace that models work in.
“We would immediately take le-
gal action against the person or in-
stitution who had hired the model if a situation like this happened,” saidVirdo. “We would look at whetheror not the fashion school at Ryer-
son did due diligence in ensuring thesafety of their models.”
Ott said there is currently no
specic policy outlining that pho-tos are not to be taken in this set-ting, but that this incident was un-precedented.
“I don’t understand why anyonewould do this. I remember beingtold the rst week we were not al-
lowed to take pictures,” said An-
drea Markle, a second-year fashionstudent.
At this point, the school isn’t surehow the photo was taken and Ottacknowledged that “a camera is a
part of a lot of technology that stu-dents bring into the classroom.”
“[Students] need to come for-
ward to be held accountable fortheir actions,” said Ott. “I don’tbelieve their actions were malicious
or ill intended, but instead possiblyselsh or ignorant.”
With les from Sierra Bein
nion members handed out yers to students outside the student centre Monday
PHOTO: JULIANNA DAMER
CESAR locks out its full-time workersEarly Monday morning, CESAR employees woke up to fnd out they were locked out o their jobs
On the morning of Sept. 30, RyersonUniversity’s Continuing Educationtudents’ Union (CESAR) locked
out its two full-time staff positionsfter unsuccessful collective bargain-ng negotiations.
These were both senior staff mem-bers.
The lockout was triggered due tounsuccessful negotiations between
CESAR executives and their staff onthe topic of wage increases to a “costof living standard” through a newcollective bargaining agreement.
“We don’t understand why this isbeing pushed to a lockout. This is a
totally achievable agreement,” saidMary-Joe Nadeau, service coordina-tor for CUPE 1281, the trade unionrepresenting all full-time staff at CE-
SAR.
“Our members want to go back towork,” she said.
A collective bargaining agreement(CBA) is an agreement between anemployer and its employees which
regulates the terms and conditions of employees in their workplace, theirduties and the duties of the employer.
Nadeau has claimed that bothgroups were only $2000 apart frommaking an agreement but, CESAR
did not want to negotiate.“We want to be at the bargain-
ing table,” said Nadeau. “It’s really
disturbing and disgusting to see astudents’ union locking out the em-ployees.”
The previous CBA expired in2011.
During the initial negotiation peri-
od between the two parties, the tworemaining full-time unionized ofcestaff were presented with a choice,
either accept a “0% Agreement” orface the potential lockout.
The rally, hosted by CUPE 1281,
had already been planned prior tothe lockout by workers t to raise
awareness about the workers’ de-mands.
The rally included free pizza,music and speeches from differentmembers of CUPE 1281 and some
workers.But, only a few hours after it be-
gan, someone inside the building,
made a call to Toronto police ser-vices stating that there were picketersboth inside and outside the building
disrupting their general members’meeting.
CESAR’s website stated, in a mes-
sage from CESAR president ShinaeKim, that everyone entering and ex-
iting the building was supposed to“respect the picket line.”
Since the beginning of August, theunion had made two offers. Since
then, demands were reduced downto one main objective: increasedwages.
CUPE 1281 rally organizers hadbooked out the Gould Street spacewith building management and the
Ryerson Students’ Union (RSU),who manages the space, severalweeks in advance.
“The cops have said we’ve donenothing wrong,” said CUPE 1281president, Saira Chhibber.
The full-time staff at CESAR pro-
vides students with services such astheir health and dental plan, legal
services, career counselling, print-ing services and course unions alongwith a list of different social justice
campaigns.It is not yet clear how CESAR
plans to bring students their services
with the loss of most of its workersbut, CESAR’s website states that inthe event of a strike or lockout, the
Board of Directors will make all nec-essary plans to continue operatingCESAR’s services for its member-ship.
“I don’t expect there to be any de-
lays in student services,” said Kim.“We haven’t had any help in the past
six months and we’ve done ne.”CUPE 1281 members were told
that CESAR might hire cheaper la-
bour until a new agreement can bereached.
One of the two remaining mem-
bers still working at CESAR hasbeen on a wage freeze since 2010.She preferred not to be quoted.
“It’s like you wake up one morn-ing and your health benets aregone,” said Nadeau.
There is still no timeline for rene-gotiations between CESAR and itsworkers.
“We are not going to sign anagreement that doesn’t offer ex-ibility of our operations,” said Kim
about the proposed agreement. “It’svery one-sided.”
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Volume 47, Issue 4 on Sept. 25 2013.
In the article “The Ryerson Free Press Halts Production” The Eyeopener incorrectly stat-ed that it had obtained documents “that revealed CESAR had threatened undisclosed legalproceedings against [Clare] O’Connor.” The Eyeopener would like to retract that state-ment and correct it by saying that “A 2012 interview with former CESAR executive AnnieHyder revealed that undisclosed legal proceedings had taken place between CESAR and
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FCAD referendumapproved by Boardof GovernorsRCDS one step closer to creatingstudent-led society or FCAD
The Ryerson Communication
nd Design Society (RCDS) got
what it wished for Monday when
ts referendum request was suc-
essfully approved during the
013-2014 school year’s rst
Board of Governors meeting. The
board unanimously approved the
possible foundation of a student-
ed society for the Faculty of Com-
munication and Design (FCAD).“We want to take things to a
higher level by refusing to accept
hem as they are,” said Cormac
McGee during the RCDS propos-
l. McGee, a third-year journal-
sm student, was alongside new
media’s Karina Nicole, who both
poke on behalf of the RCDS dur-
ng the evening.
Ryan McKenna, a third-year
ournalism student and one of the
ead organizers for the RCDS, has
onrmed that the referendum
will be held in the next few weeks,
most likely in the rst week of
November.
“This is the big stretch now forus. We’re going to be doing a lot
of work in terms of marketing and
eally pushing our group online,”
aid McKenna.
The RCDS aims to bring
tudents from all FCAD programs
ogether, share ideas and collabo-
rate with one another. Funding
however, would come through
tuition, as it does with other stu-
dent-led societies at Ryerson Uni-
versity.
“We want to help FCAD stu-
dents get professional opportuni-
ties and link them with profession-
als in their eld,” said McKenna.
“[But] we really need to get
people aware rst,” he added.
In a survey of 1,000 FCAD
students done earlier this yearby the RCDS, 95 per cent of
students said they were in favor
of an FCAD society. As well, 75
per cent of students also said they
would support funding the society
through tuition.
Funds would be distributed
towards funding resources for
FCAD students such as awards
and bursaries, conferences and
competitions, orientation-week
events geared specically towards
FCAD students and professional
events. In turn, these resources
and opportunities build the repu-
tation of the faculty and its stu-
dents.In response to the challenge
of getting the rest of the FCAD
students on board, McGee said
the RCDS will be “talking one
on one with students, to make
them aware of how it can benet
them.”
Students crack engineering and architecutresystems; thousands of spam e-mails sent
Several students tampered with
Ryerson’s email server Monday
night, utilizing the online ad-
dress fabrication site Deadfake.
com to send over 80 emails from
engineering communications co-
ordinator Michelle Colasuonno
to all students in the engineering
and architecture programs.
The emails ranged from links
to pornographic images, insultsaimed at faculty members, Break-
ing Bad spoilers and dismissal
of Ryerson’s online security. The
students started recieveing mul-
tiple messages at roughly 8 p.m.
and through until Tuesday morn-
ing.
The Eyeopener was able to get
into contact with one participant
in the prank who wishes to re-
main anonymous.
The source explained how the
group, though not actually work-
ing together, managed to change
their IP addresses in order to hide
the source of their emails and re-
main untraceable.“The rst message I sent was to
tell people to use a proxy instead
of just using their internet be-
cause people could trace it back,”
our source said.
He went on to explain that
he was one of the few who saw
the initial spam mail and pos-sessed the “know-how” to join
in for fun. “I was reading and
it seemed like fun so I just want-
ed to test it and see if it actually
worked… there are some people
who are doing it and actually
trying to nd system aws,” the
source said.
One email hinted to the inten-
tions of other participants in the
prank: “As a student, I put a lot
of trust in Ryerson. Them letting
something as easily exploitable as
this stick around indicates to me
that there could be other security
holes, especially because it’s stillnot been resolved.”
Another such email hinted that
this stunt was the tip of the ice-
berg: “to all of my friends who
know at least a thing or two …
take a look at Ryerson’s wireless
network, you’ll nd some shit
there that is way more interest-
ing.”
Mugino Saeki, Ryerson’s infor-
mation security ofcer, has said
that after nding out about the
“stunt” her ofce shut down the
email list. “Any system has some
aw no one is immune to some
sort of attack,” said Saeki.
Saeki’s ofce has also restrictedaccess to Deadfake.com on Ry-
erson’s server and has called in
a forensic investigations team to
track down the sources of the
emails.
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dates on this developing story.
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“This is pathetic. I should notbe able to send this email. It’sbeen three hours already.”
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Architects light up Nuit BlancheRyerson students bring trio of light installations to BataShoe Museum for all-night contemporary art event
Revellers braving the all-night ex-
perience of Nuit Blanche this year
are in for not just one, but three,
Ryerson-bred creations.
Behind the interactive light in-
stallations is the [R]ed[U]x Lab
(Ryerson University Architectural
Science Design Lab), a group of
students led by architecture asso-
ciate chair Vincent Hui.
The rst of the works — all of
which will be on display at the
Bata Shoe Museum — is an instal-
lation called Ad Astra (latin for
“to the stars”). The piece is madefrom hanging illuminated balls,
some of which have sensors that
can trigger pulsating light patterns
and even change the audio that
lls the dark space. By touching
these special lights, users are able
to assert inuence over the space.
The second exhibit, Light_
Scape, allows users to move and
manipulate 999 boxes of light,
cycling through different hues of
diffused light. The boxes stick to
both a wooden substructure and
each other, allowing the viewers to
create their own lightscapes based
on patterns and forms they con-struct themselves.
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“The user interaction with the
installation is the exciting part,”
says Jeff Mitchell, a masters of ar-
chitecture student and one of the
members of the Light_Scape team.RevitaLight , the third installa-
tion, similarly focuses on creating
a kinetic space that reacts to those
exploring it. Its undulating struc-
ture is outtted with a reactive ar-
ray of lights.
The installations share com-
mon themes; they all focus on
light and explore emotional con-
cepts through viewers’ interac-
tions with the spaces. Although
the similarities were unintentional
— the projects were selected from
a pool of proposals from the ar-
chitectural community at Ryerson
— the focus lends itself well to theBata Shoe Museum space, which is
Members of the [R]ed[U]x ab construct a series of 999 indiidual lights that willmake up Light_Scape, an interactie space that will react to iewers’ moement.
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The [R]ed[U]x ab’s RevitaLight installation is one of three Ryerson installations that will ll the Bata Shoe Museum (327 BloorSt. W.) during Nuit Blanche, which begins at 6:51 p.m. on Saturday, ct. 5, and runs until sunrise.
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hosting exclusively [R]ed[U]x Lab
exhibits this year.
The light-focused theme, which
recalls [R]ed[U]x’s pieces from
last year’s event, creates an inter-esting juxtaposition within the
overall thematic elements of Nuit
Blanche; the involving, kinetic
light installations are contrasted
by the darkness that blankets the
all-night event.
Having architects exhibit at
Nuit Blanche opens up an interest-
ing dialogue: Do architects think
of themselves as artists?
“I nd that there’s a lot more
than just purely aesthetics. There’s
creation of atmosphere and the
utility of things like the surfaces,
and how you perceive spaces,”
says Matthew Koniuszewski, oneof the designers of Light_Scape.
“I wouldn’t call it just purely art,
and I wouldn’t call it just purely
building.”
Nuit Blanche will also feature
works from both established art-
ists, like Ai Weiwei, and other
schools like OCAD University.
But Koniuszewski says the groups
aren’t worried about competition.
“We’re fairly supportive of each
other,” he says. “I think everyone
just wants to make the best work
they can.”
Kevin Pu, one of the designers
of Ad Astra, adds, “We want to
showcase what we’re capable of, so
we can make a name for not only
ourselves, but also for our depart-
ment and professors and all the
people who have supported us.”n early prototype of the Ad Astra installation reects in a series of mirrors.
Kickin’ itRyerson’s Urban Hip-Hop Unionprepares for upcoming competitionseason with dance squad auditions
A studio in the basement o Kerr
Hall West is crowded with Ryerson
tudents sporting colourul kicks
nd track pants, sprawled across
he hardwood foors. They stretch,
warming up beore their audition
or the Urban Hip Hop Union, an
rt collective made up o Ryerson
tudents. “Can the music go loud-
r?” one member says to another.
Yeah!” comes the enthusiastic
eply as “Ride Wit Me” by Nellyblasts through the speakers. The
dancers jerk and spin, gyrating to
he rhythmic sounds booming o
he walls in the small studio.
Premila Shanmugabalan, one o
he 30 or so Ryerson students au-
ditioning on Friday, Sept. 27, leans
over her legging-clad limbs to grab
her ur-lined shoe. She’s hoping to
and one o a hal dozen spots on
team that will represent Ryer-
on’s hip-hop union in two annual
university competitions, OUCH
ByMackenziePatterson
(Ontario Universities Competitionor Hip-Hop) on Nov. 23 and next
year’s BYOB (Bring Your Own
Beats).
“I’ve tried every type o dance:
salsa, contemporary jazz, Bolly-
wood. Hip-hop is one o my a-
vourites,” says Shanmugabalan.
“I just love the music and the fow,
and the dancers always look like
they’re having so much un… I I
don’t make it, then at least I can
say I tried my best and learned
something, that’s all that matters.”
Dan Cruz, a member o the
union’s executive team, choreo-
graphs most o the routines or thecompetitions. As well as dancing
every day and competing in up to
our competitions a year, he teach-
es hip-hop classes proessionally.
“There is a lot o bee and ani-
mosity in the hip-hop world, but
our team is more about the love
aspect o it. We like to connect
through dance,” Cruz says.
He says hip-hop is one o the
most expressive emerging art
orms. “A lot o people judge hip-
hop or don’t take it seriously be-
cause it doesn’t have a strict crite-
ria or ollow an exact technique,”
Cruz says. “But it’s actually very
dicult because you have to put
so much o your emotions andpassion into the moves and really
make them your own.”
Whether or not the team does
well at their competitions this
year, Cruz says he’s happy the hip-
hop union is growing and getting
the chance to showcase its talent.
“We’re really looking or char-
acter today,” he says. “We want
to see someone who can be given
something as boring as a pencil
and do something unique and
creative.”
Roughly 30 hopeuls flled a Kerr Hall dance studio to audition or a spot on Ryer-son’s Uran Hip-Hop Union’s dance sqaud, which will compete later this year.
n the middle o a Markham eld,
70-oot wide and 12-oot tall
white snow ence stands alone.
The seemingly out-o-place rural
andmark is meant to raise a ew
yebrows.
The installation, created by art-sts Dave Colangelo and Patricio
Davila, both doctoral students in
he joint Ryerson-York Commu-
nication and Culture program, is
part o Land|Slide: Possible Fu-
ures, a ree large-scale contempo-
ary art exhibition that runs until
Oct. 14 at the Markham Museum.
For the exhibition, the mu-
eum’s historic buildings were
ransormed into galleries or
nteractive pieces that raise ques-
ions regarding sustainability,
and use, urban sprawl and multi-
ulturalism. The exhibition ques-
ions where society should draw
he line when it comes to the de-
elopment o suburban areas such
s Markham.
Colangelo and Davila ad-
dressed this issue through their
By Isabelle Docto snow ence piece, “The Line.”
The project is split into two parts:
the massive ence, as well as a vid-
eo recording o the ence — which
shows it in ront o places such as
cornelds, strip malls, and park-
ing lots — projected onto the side
o a barn.
“That’s the symbolic thing thatwe’re trying to pick up on — this
idea o a man-made structure that
we place in the environment in
some way and to then determine
how we interact with it,” says
Colangelo. “That has political,
environmental and cultural con-
sequences.”
Plans or the exhibition began
three years ago with curator Ja-
nine Marchessault, a ormer Ry-
erson Image Arts proessor and
current aculty member o the Ry-
erson-York communication and
culture program.
“Since 2009, I’ve been creat-
ing site-specic exhibitions that
engage with processes o urban-
ization in suburban spaces,” says
Marchessault. “For Land|Slide, I
really wanted to come out into an
edge city like Markham and stage
something that’s about the past.”
In addition to “The Line,” the
exhibition also includes roughly
30 other installations, including
photography posted on an oldtrain and an interactive exhibit
that uses iPads to tell the stories
o historical objects.
“We’ve really opened things up
to get artists to give dierent in-
terpretations o the past — aug-
ment some things that are already
here — but also to think about the
uture,” says Marchessault.
The design and marketing or
Land|Slide refected just that. Cre-
ated by the Madeleine Collective
— Cheryl Hsu and Alexandra
Hong o Ryerson’s Research and
Innovation Oce and Nicole Ba-
zuin, an alumna o the Image Arts
program — were pieces o art on
their own. The collective wanted
to make sure that Land|Slide
drew in an audience unamiliar
with contemporary art in order to
branch out to the community.
The collective said the exhibi-
tion has attracted both art en-
thusiasts and amilies who have
reacted with a “sense o wonder
and discovery.”
“We made a concerted eort to
reach out to the Markham pub-
lic,” says Hsu. “We want to ex-
pose them to contemporary art in
a new, resh way — not just in an
art museum.”
“The ine,” a two-part installation y Dave Colangelo, pictured, and Patricio Davila,projects ootage o a snow ence onto the side o a arn in dierent settings.
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Markham art exhibitrooted in RyersonStudent artists portray remnants ofthe past and prospects of the futuren Land|Slide: Possible Futures
Going globalFor everything you need to knowabout earning your degree overseas
Five days a week, you sit in the
ame desks in the same classrooms
istening to your proessor ramble
on about something you’re prob-
bly not interested in. As you look
out the window, you may fnd
oursel thinking, “I wish I could
be any where but here.”
The world is a big place. Toron-
o is great, but there are so many
other cities to see. For students at
Ryerson hoping to travel while
ompleting their degrees, there is
no shortage o opportunity.“We want our students to get
out there and be ambassadors or
Canada and or Ryerson and just
njoy an international experience,”
aid Erin Miley, student mobility
ssistant at Ryerson international.
There are two primary options
or students hoping to get out o
he classrooms in Kerr Hall – going
on exchange, or studying abroad.
There’s a lot to think about when
deciding between programs. Cost
s a major actor, along with desti-
nation choice and applications.
At Ryrso, studts hav th opportuty to study at uvrsts aroud th word
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For most students, exchanges arethe more aordable option, since
tuition is paid directly to Ryerson.
Once you add up the cost o air-
are, insurance, ood and living, it
ends up being more expensive than
staying on campus. But i budgeted
correctly, it’s a reasonable option.
Suhair Deeb, coordinator o in-
ternational mobility, said it’s dif-
cult to put an exact number on how
much an exchange costs because it
varies rom student to student.
“It really depends where you’re
going,” said Deeb. “Business stu-
dents tend to go to big cities be-
cause they want to be in the thicko it all and that’s more expensive
than living in a small city.”
Abroad programs tend to be a
lot more expensive in comparison,
seeing as most students get nailed
with international ees. Deeb said
that tuition costs could be as much
as double (in some cases even high-
er) depending on the university.
On the plus side, students who
choose to go abroad can study at
other universities or over a our
month period – something that ex-
change students don’t have the op-
tion to do.
The application process is di-erent or each option. For abroad
programs, students must apply
directly to the host university
while exchanges are done directly
through Ryerson.
Exchanges are very competitive.
In order to apply, students must
have a GPA o at least 2.5 and
must also fll out an application. It
varies rom program to program,
but essays, portolios, and inter-
views may also be required.
“[This process is] just to make
sure that we’re sending over top
quality students,” said Miley. “We
want to make sure they are able tokeep up with the academic work.”
Even though going global re-
quires a lot o planning, hard
work, and preparation, students
who do take on this opportunity
say it’s worth it.
Sarah Kristensen, a ourth year
retail management student, spent
six months studying in Adelaide at
the University o South Australia.
She said that going on exchange
taught her how to embrace lie’s
twists and turns.
“I was completely pushed out
o my comort zone almost daily,”
said Kristensen. “I did so manythings I don’t think I would have
been able to do without exchange.”
While in Australia, Kristensen
tried everything rom zip lining to
surfng to black-water rating (tub-
ing through dark caves surrounded
by glowworms and eels).
With fles by Nicole Schmidt
PHOTO: nATAliA bAlceRzAk
*To read more about Kristensen’s
exchange adventures, visit
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