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To meet the growing demand for
n-campus living space, the con-
truction of Ryerson University’s
ew student residence at 186 Jarvis
t. has been nalized and will begin
n September 2014.
Last month, Ryerson formally
ubmitted their request to the City
f Toronto for rezoning and site
lanning.
The building will stretch 27 sto-
eys high, a ve-storey extension
f the previous proposal made inebruary.
“The MPI group, our developer,
s responsible for how much height
o go for,” said Julia Hanigsberg,
ice president of administration and
nance at Ryerson.
“They will look at how much
ensity the city is approving on oth-
r sites near ours to determine how
igh it is appropriate to go for the
Ryerson residence.”
The construction of the tower will
ry to meet the growing demand for
tudent living spaces on campus.
“Students can learn so much by
iving in residence, not only to-
wards their schooling but, for their
ersonal lives as well,” says Laura
Darcy, a fourth-year photogra-
hy student and current Residence
Advisor in O’Keefe House.
“Residence is an amazing re-
source for universities,” said Darcy.
The new will include the rst
500 of 2,000 beds being added to
campus.
Ryerson President Sheldon Levy
has said that though the tower is a
great development, it is only a start-
ing point.
“We’re trying to deliberately in-
crease the residence rooms that we
have on campus,” said Levy.
With the recent unveiling of Ryer-
son’s new Mattamy Athletic Centre
at Maple Leaf Gardens, Levy has
said that he would like to keep ex-panding into that area.
“My priority is somewhere on
Church between Gerrard and Car-
leton. I would love to see a resi-
dence there so it better connects the
Gardens to the campus,” said Levy.
With the approved proposal for
2000 new beds by the Board of
Governors, Ryerson is looking to
provide opportunity to students un-
able to live on campus because of
space restrictions.
“With the majority of the student
population being commuters, it’s a
hassle getting to school. I think they
want to live downtown, but there is
such a limited space,” said Ashley
Paton, a rst-year urban and re-
gional planning student.
“Ultimately, it eliminates the has-
sle of commuting; they could be us-
ing that time to study or in another
meaningful way.”
Though the residence is not di-
rectly on campus, it is within a ve
minute walking distance.
The development, design and
By Ramisha Farooq
building of the tower will be han-
dled by MPI group in a partnership
with Ryerson.
“We have a lot of condence in
MPI and their ability to deliver the
project,” says Hanigsberg.
A rendering of Ryerson’s newest residence, slated to be built by 2016 FILE PHOTO
New residence plans fnalizedRyerson’s new residence will have more fve storeys to accommodate more students, update reveals
Ryersonnumber onein research
Ryerson had the largest increase in
research funding of any Ontario
university in 2011, according to
statistics by a research consulting
rm.
Research Infosource Inc., a divi-
sion of The Impact Group, released
its Canada’s Top 50 Research Uni-
versities List , a report examining
research income of the country’s
post-secondary institutions.
Despite only a 2.2 per cent in-
crease in total funding for research
universities in Canada — and thefact that most research funds go to
universities with medical programs
— Ryerson’s research funding in
2011 increased to $29,518,000
from $22,524,000 in 2010 — a
jump of 31.1 per cent and the high-
est in Ontario.
The list also named three Re-
search Universities o the Year in
three different categories.
Ryerson placed second in the un-
dergraduate category with a score
of 77.8 points. The University of
Lethbridge got rst place with 78.1
points.
Before Research Infosource Inc.
gives each university a score outof 100, a number of factors are
considered.
The list looks at how much
money is going into a university,
research output, how many ar-
ticles and journals each institution
got published in peer-reviewed
journals, and each university’s
success in being cited in academic
literature.
It also looks into how success-
ful each school was at attracting
funding.
Wendy Cukier, vice president re-
search and innovation at Ryerson,
said the school’s success in researchis a result of many years of hard
work.
“It’s an acknowledgement of
the trajectory we’ve been on in the
last few years as we have become a
comprehensive university,” Cukier
said. “I really think we’re starting
to reap the rewards of many years
of hard work by many people.”
Cukier noted the university has
been shifting towards hiring more
professors with PhDs and a “track
record” in research.
She said the next twenty years
will hold challenges for the school.
“It’s clear it’s a more competitive
environment,” she said.
“It’s clear the traditional sources
of funding for research are dry-
ing up and we have to be more
creative.”
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ByMohamed
Omar
CUPE addresses credit card misuse
A member of Ryerson’s staff and
aculty union who used a group
redit card for personal expenses isno longer employed by the union,
ccording to a letter obtained by
The Eyeopener.
In a letter addressed to members
of the union, Donald Elder, the Pres-
dent of Canadian Union of Public
Employees (CUPE) Local 3904, ac-
knowledged that “there had been
nappropriate use of a credit card”
and that “the money owing has
since been repaid and the individual
is no longer an employee of Local
3904.”
“There was a mistake made, it
was corrected and policies are now
in place to ensure it will not happen
again,” Elder said in his letter.
Elder’s letter comes as a direct re-sponse to a letter sent out to union
members by Jacquie Chic, the lo-
cal’s vice-president of campaigns.
In her email, Chic reveals that Elder
and treasurer Rob Coelho informed
union executives of the credit card
misuse in March, but that they alleg-
edly had known about it since 2009.
Chic also notes that both Elder
and Coelho allegedly “made clear
their intention not to” tell members
of the credit card misuse after she
“urged and later begged the presi-
dent and treasurer” to do so.
“They explained that they had
asked the individual to stop and dis-
cussed repayment,” she said in the
letter. “Some repayment was madealong the way but the card contin-
ued to be used improperly. They did
not take steps to stop the practice.
The money was ultimately returned
in June of this year.”
While Elder’s letter acknowledged
the improper use of the group credit
card it did not disclose the name
of the former union member, the
amount that was charged to the card
or when Elder rst found out about
the misuse.
Additionally, it did not touch
upon allegations that the union
did not have trustees overseeing
their nances for two of those three
years or that nancial irregulari-
ties were not reported in statementsfrom 2009 onwards, which both go
against union by-laws.
Elder said that these issues would
be discussed at the local’s annual
membership meeting which takes
place on Oct. 24.
Both Elder and Chic were un-
available to comment on the issue.
With fles rom the Toronto Star
BySeanTepper
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Earlier this week was International
Caps Lock Day, or, to put it cor-
rectly, INTERNATIONAL CAPS
LOCK DAY. While not apparent
how this holiday could translate
nto lie away rom a keyboard —
creaming yoursel hoarse, I expect
— it apparently celebrates the art
o typing emotionally.
Speaking o emotions, they are
surely fowing reely in Ottawa this
week. The Canadian Federation o
Students (CFS) is in the capital or
a ew days to lobby the govern-
ment to help students. Amongst
their wishes is the ormation o a
national educational act, similar
to the ederal healthcare act we all
rely on. Also, somewhat predict-
ably, the old chestnut o student
angst that is debt caused by rising
tuition ees is being raised, as part
o what the CFS is calling a lobby
week.
With International Caps Lock
day, that is two well-meaning
though essentially useless events in
the same week.
Harsh, yes, though the banality
o the action taken against high tu-
ition ees is sel-evident. Banners and
chants repeatedly decry ees, which
while unortunate are simply a real-
ity o attending university today.
With public sector jobs seem-
ingly constantly threatened, or
already cut as a way to lessen On-
tario’s $14.4 billion decit, the
province is striving to save mon-
ey. A lot o this weight has been
placed directly on the backs o
Ontario undergraduate students,
who increasingly resemble an open
chequebook to those in power.
With the number o university
applicants rising and classrooms
already straining to t current stu-
dents, it realistically is sensible or
the government to take advantage
o the apparent act that having adegree is a necessity on par with
having a health card or drivers
licence.
While high ees in general are
rallied against, attention is usually
also drawn to the act that Ontar-
io students are paying higher ees
than other provinces. In a recent
CFS press release a complaint is
highlighted — students pay di-
erent ees in dierent provinces,
with “students in Newoundland
and Labrador paying less than
one-third o those in Ontario.”
Again, when taking decits into
account this makes sense. Ontariocurrently owes $14.4 billion, while
Newoundland and Labrador’s
decit clocks in at $258 million. So
it’s only understandable that On-
tario owes more, thereore making
sense that students pay more.
O course it’s not ideal that
young adults are starting their
careers with debt, but consider
the alternative o a deeper decit.
That’s why, essentially, there is
very little chance that tuition ees
will be rozen, reduced or elimi-
nated. Until Ontario stabilizes
its nances, the government will
simply block out objections, how-
ever emotional, pouring out o the
banners, microphones and mega-
phones this week.
Even i those banners are in all
caps.
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Lower fees means lower sense
The CFS is calling or lower tuition ees in Ontario. But a $14.4 billion defcit means that’s unrealistic
ByLeeRichardson
The Canadian Federation of Students’s campaign to reduce tuition fees has repeatedly visited campus. Now the rally has been taken to Ottawa, during what the CFS iscalling a lobby week. It is asking for a national education act while campaigning for lower fees, especially in Ontario.
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Registrar declaresabrupt resignation
After 22 years at Ryerson, Keith Alnwick announced his resignation last week
BySeanWetselaar
Long-time registrar at Ryerson Uni-
ersity, Keith Alnwick, ofcially an-
ounced his resignation last Tues-
ay, Oct. 16.
The news came suddenly, in an
mail sent to Ryerson sta and ac-lty late in the aternoon. Alnwick
ited a desire to pursue alternative
onsulting options as motive.
Ryerson President Sheldon Levy
eclined to comment on the sud-
en departure o one o Ryerson’s
ongest serving executives. Alnwick
oined the university as registrar in
uly 1990, making him one o only
hree executive members at the
school who predate Levy’s appoint-
ment as president.
Heather Lane Vetere, vice provost
students, took over as interim reg-
istrar Monday, the date Alnwick’s
registration took eect. Her goals
as interim registrar are largely to en-
sure the ofce continues to unction
smoothly and ease the transition,
she said.
“There’s a really good team o
managers there [at the ofce o theregistrar], who work hard to keep
things moving,” she said.
“And it’s my goal [in the time]
that I’m interim registrar to do ev-
erything I can to support them, so
they can ensure, rom the students’
perspective, they don’t really see a
huge change.”
The registrar’s responsibilities
include recruiting and admitting
new students, as well as academic
support once students are enrolled
in the school. The ofce o the reg-
istrar also handles scheduling o
course exams.
The process or the selection o
a new registrar is the same as with
most executives at the school, and
will be conducted via a lengthy
search process by a specially select-
ed committee.
“We want to recruit and hire thebest registrar that we can fnd or
Ryerson,” Vetere said in a release
Tuesday.
A time rame or the appointment
o a new registrar has not yet been
announced.
TTC plans forsubway cellservice
News
Bites Monsterimplicated inve deaths
According to a report released Oct.
9, the TTC has plans to equip sub-
way stations with cell service.
While the initial plan does not in-
lude coverage in subway tunnels,
t is likely that some service will be
ccessible.
The TTC has plans to expand the
etwork in the uture. This comes as
art o a deal with Broadcast Aus-
ralia Limited, which, i successul,
would create a payout o $25 mil-
ion to the TTC.
Monster Energy Drinks is being
investigated by the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration in conjunction
with fve deaths, the Toronto Star re-
ported Oct. 23.
According to the autopsy, the
death o a 15-year-old girl was
caused by caeine toxicity. Monster
denies allegations that their product
led to the deaths.
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CESAR to vote on health and dental planThe continuing education students association o Ryerson (CESAR) is set to vote on whether its students need health benefts
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Mental health strategy in the works
While Ryerson full-time stu-
dents are given automatic access
o health and dental coverage,he part-time student community
hasn’t had the same opportunity.
Because of that, the continuing
ducation students association
of Ryerson (CESAR) is holding a
health and dental care referendum
o give part-time students an op-
portunity to receive equal benets.
“Most [part-time] students
don’t have a health and dental
plan because of affordability, or
because they don’t have employ-
ee insurance,” said Annie Hyder,
a part-time student and thedirector of membership and com-
munications at CESAR.
Last month, the board of
governors of Ryerson University
approved CESAR’s referendum
request for Nov. 5-12.
The plan will cost students
$155.95 and cover 90 per cent of
prescription drugs, and 95 per cent
of dental services.
“People think that part-time
students have full time jobs,
and are just pursuing their stud-
ies on the side,” said Hyder. “ButI don’t think that’s really the case.
A lot of times these students are
juggling two jobs and they don’t
have any benets at all.”
There has been an extreme-
ly positive response regarding
CESAR’s plans to develop a health
and dental plan. A recent sur-
vey completed by students cur-
rently enrolled in a part-time de-
gree program at Ryerson showed
that 84 per cent were in favour of
the plans.
“You get your health care
in Canada through the collec-
tive paying for it,” said MatthewCwihun, part-time student
and CESAR director of campaigns
By Nicole Schmidt and equity/public administration
and governance.
“The same social struc-
ture needs to be present in
the university community environ-
ment.”There has always been a
demand for health and dental
coverage among part-time
students, but CESAR has failed
to make these implementations
until now due to the lack of
support part-time student unions
receive in comparison to full-
time student unions, Cwihun
said.
The focus of the newly
elected group is largely on camp-
gains and services, according to
Hyder.
“We are denitely focused on
the present,” she said. “Our pres-ent is what’s going to shape our
future.”
If the plan goes through, “it
means that nally a student
can be enrolled in a part
time degree program and not
feel like they’re a second-class
student,” said Cwihun.
By Harlan Nemerofsky
Nine months into their rst year
of operation, the Mental Health
Advisement Committee (MHAC)
has big aspirations. Reporting to
the vice president of academic and
nance and the provost, the team
is trying to develop the rst-ever
comprehensive mental health strat-egy for Ryerson.
“Our goal is to try to
create supportive environments
and programs for students, staff,
and faculty,” says the committee’s
co-chair, Dr. Su-Ting Teo. She is
also the director of Health and
Wellness at Ryerson.
The committee is trying to
create four working sub-groups to
address different strands of mental
health services. The four working
groups are: awareness, training and
education; curriculum and peda-
gogy; policies and procedures; and
services and programs. So far, thereaction has been positive — be-
tween 75 and 100 students, faculty
and staff members have applied to
join the committee’s four sections.
“We are just in the process of
conrming the membership for
those working groups,” said Teo.
“But we’ve actually had a lot of
interest for people to join. And so
we sort of need to make a decision
on how to move forward.”
Teo said that although the grouphas no specic events planned, she
hopes the working groups will
create a dedicated line of commu-
nication between student concerns
and accessibility policies.
“This year’s work is about do-
ing an environmental scan to see
what’s happening on campus, doing
a gap analysis to see what maybe
needs to happen, and then creating
an action plan on how to imple-
ment that,” she said. “Year twowill be actually implementing
the plan.”
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Should I stay or should I go?Many students deer their studies or a year. David Owen fnds out why they do it, and how they spend their time out o school
While their peers packed their bags
nd found their classes at the start of
chool, Adelaide Andrews boarded
plane to San Diego, Jessica Beuker
unched in for a shift at her part-me job, and Monica Neumann set-
ed back into her parents’ house in
Waterloo.
It was all to contemplate their
rogram choice, and ultimately gave
hem a reality check as to what not
eing in school is like.
However, these three students have
ot abandoned their undergraduate
egrees altogether. They all deferred
heir programs for a year to pursue
aths outside the boundaries of cam-
us.
The burden of student loans rests
n the shoulders of many university
tudents, and when considering theverage tuition at Ryerson is almost
7,000, it is no wonder why.
The inevitable nancial debt is
what made Andrews, a second-year
adio and television arts (RTA) stu-
ent, reassess her feelings towards
he program.
“While looking at the thousands
f dollars I owed, I asked myself ‘is
he debt worth the program?’” she
aid. “I decided I needed some more
me to decide because I always felt as
hough I had been rushed into gur-
ng out what I wanted to do.”
Andrews is volunteering at a hostel
alled Lucky D’s in San Diego for a
month of her time away from school.Although she said this has opened her
mind to new people, places and ex-
eriences, the desire to take a break
rom school and come back as a
hanged person may not be realistic.
“People think taking time off school
to travel will deliver some kind of
epiphany on life, and it really doesn’t
work like that,” Andrews said.
Students can defer their studies foreither one or two semesters and then
return easily; however, after a year
away from Ryerson, the re-enroll-
ment process is more extensive.
“Once you’ve been gone longer
than a year, you have to be formally
reinstated,” said Donna Buczkows-
ki, Student Affairs Coordinator for
RTA. “The students who really want
to be here will go through the effort.”
She attributes the majority of de-
ferrals to the cost of receiving an
education and family crises at home.
For both, Buczkowski is able to offer
options such as bursary and schol-
arship opportunities to assist withnances as well as online class pro-
grams for those who need to move
back home.
As an RTA graduate who deferred
her studies for a year, Buczkowski
said the rst suggestion she would
give a student thinking of taking a
year off is to make an appointment
with an academic advisor.
“Speak to someone who knows
what your choices are. Sometimes
this decision is made in a stressful
time and we want to avoid hasty de-
ferrals,” she said.
Neumann, an image arts student,
deferred her studies in 2011 after she
completed her rst year of classes.Her dad passed away in her rst term
of school. She moved back home to
Waterloo with her family.
“I was in a different state of mind
after what happened to my dad. I just
didn’t care,” she said. Putting school
on hold allowed her to contemplate
her options, and now Neumannis back at Ryerson this year to start
her second year of photography.
“This year is different. It’s fun and
I enjoy it a lot,” she said.
Beuker made the decision to
defer after her second year in the
journalism program. Her bills in-
creased over the summer, and she
realized that she would need to se-
cure an income before going back to
school.
“This semester has been a
reality check,” said Beuker, who
works 20 hours per week at a local
Second Cup.
Her time away from Ryerson
has provided perspective on herprogram. “Once I’m back in school
I’m going to have to work even
harder to catch up. So many students
take their spot in university for
granted.” she said.
By Arti Panday
ing a lot about diversity in rst year,”
said Magdalena Sokoloski. “The
lecture opened our eyes to diversity
and how we should be trying to
change our perception of how fash-
ion should be displayed and on what
kind of models,” she said.Kristina McMullin, a third-year
fashion student, said what she learns
in the program mirrors the industry
right now, and that includes not al-
ways using as many diverse models.
She said you have to sell your
ideas more if they promote diversity.
“You’re almost promoted to use the
standard because it’s almost easier
because that’s what’s expected. If you
are going to use an older model...or a
plus-size model you’re going to have
to work a lot harder to convince peo-
ple that that’s a good idea,” she said.
Frankin hopes her message of di-
versity will spread. “It’s new minds
that are coming to this that are start-
ing up new businesses that are going
to make big changes.”
Diversity Now! at Rye’s School of Fashion
Diversity Now!, a lecture presented
by the Ryerson School of Fashion,
onfronted the issue of diversity inhe fashion industry last Saturday.
Caryn Franklin, former fashion
ditor at i-D Magazine, delivered the
ecture. Franklin is the co-founder of
All Walks Beyond the Catwalk, an
nitiative aimed at celebrating non-
uniformity in the fashion industry.
Franklin founded the project three
ears ago, along with communica-
ions specialist Debra Bourne and
model Erin O’Connor.
“After thirty years in the industry,
can feel the destabilization that is
aking place,” said Franklin. “When
started, I was good enough. I knew
was and I didn’t have a media to un-
dermine me in the way that the me-
dia now, including the fashion media,
undermines young people.”
Diversity in fashion includes an
rray of shapes, sizes, ages, races and
abilities. But this year at New York
Fashion Week, 79 per cent of models
were white. In 2008, 87 per cent of
models were white.
Franklin said the industry needs to
recondition the creative process used
to envision the next season’s style,instead of focusing on who will be
modeling the designs. “They’re con-
stantly trying to reinvent something
out of nothing when, in fact, the
reinvention is the creativity, not the
person,” she said.
Although there are no courses spe-
cically designed to teach students
about the importance of diversity,
professor at the Ryerson School of
Fasthion Ben Barry said it’s featured
in the courses.
“I think the students are starting to
incorporate diversity into everything
they do. Denitely in the courses I
teach and my colleagues teach, it’s
part of the curriculum and part of
the focus of their assignments,” said
Barry.
Some students disagree.
“I feel like we’re actually not learn-
PHOTO: M DDMonica Neumann, a second year photography student, took a deferral from school last year
COMMUNITIES
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The rst day of classhas come to an end,and students arepacking their bags
and getting ready to leave. Butthe day isn’t over for MarkDukes. He rises from his seat
ByDianaHallandCarolynTurgeon
Standing upand walks between the rows of desks to the podium, becausestudents with letters from theAccess Centre have been askedby this professor to hand them inby the end of class.
Dukes stands six-feet-tall,weighs about 225 pounds andhas been told he looks pretty t.Though he shows no outwardsigns of having a disability, hehas just revealed himself as a reg-istered user of Ryerson’s AccessCentre to his professor and anystudent who has stopped and
stared at his walk of shame.Dukes has had enough.“So what do I do, wait around
outside of class?” the public ad-ministration and governance stu-dent asks angrily. “Lurk in theshadows and throw a paper air-plane at him?”
Dukes, 39, decided the onlyway he could protect himself andhis fellow students was to makehis voice heard, and hold Ryer-son’s Access Centre accountablefor its aws.
It’s a mission he has taken on
alone: he wants to refocus Ryer-son’s accessibility policies. Dukeshas gone to the trouble of speak-ing up as a student with chronicmental health and addiction is-sues in order to ght for otherslike him who may be afraid toact.
Getting the form to his pro-fessor is a necessary part of theaccommodation process. Yethis professors can to refuse himthe measures recommended by aqualied psychiatrist and a stu-dent accommodation facilitator
(SAF) from the Access Centre —and they have done so more thanonce.
Marc Emond, manager of theAccess Centre, explains that theprocess has been updated as of this semester. Now students canarrange the entire process, fromthe accommodations procedureto the submission to the profes-sor, via email.
“[The old process] suited somestudents … but it was archaicin this day and age,” admitsEmond. He says the long line-upof students coming to pick uptheir forms made it inefcient for
other students waiting to meetwith the centre.
Heather Driscoll, director of the Ofce of the General Coun-sel and Information and PrivacyOfcer, claries that studentswere never required to go tothe front of a class and had theoption to meet with professorsoutside of the classroom beforethe email option was available.Dukes’ professor did not extendother opportunities.
When the Access Centre sentout a mass email on Oct. 15 thatcompromised the private email
addresses of registered students,the centre dragged Dukes’ iden-tity into the open. It was the laststraw in a series of wrongdoingsthat sent Dukes over the edge,and he says there has been noformal apology.
“You’re going to change yourpolicies, Ryerson, surroundingdisabilities,” says Dukes. “I’mnot asking.”
He says he took his concernsto Driscoll, who states that if someone les a privacy com-plaint with her ofce, the ofcewill keep it condential and lookinto the problem. Dukes saysDriscoll was not of much help:when Dukes got frustrated overthe phone, she hung up.
Dukes suffers from depression
and anxiety. When he began atRyerson in 2009, his only con-cern was succeeding in schooland making the most of the op-portunity to get his education.
“Unfortunately, my mentalhealth issues don’t see it thatway and sometimes things getout of control for me. SometimesI can’t manage it,” says Dukes.When he started having troublemanaging his schoolwork, Dukessought help.
It was suggested that he go tothe Access Centre, which, ac-
cording to its website, “[facili-tates and supports] accessibilityand inclusion through educationand academic accommodationfor the diverse mix of studentswith disabilities...”
However, when Dukes rst ar-rived to register with the centrethe line was too long for him tospeak with anyone. Dukes feltvulnerable; waiting in line wouldidentify him as someone whoneeded accommodation. Dayafter day Dukes would stop bythe centre only to leave withouthelp.
In Winter 2010, he gave the
centre another shot. Upon arriv-ing, he was greeted by a sign onthe door saying the ofce wouldre-open after lunch.
Mark waited until after thestated time when an employeenally returned. She entered theofce, ipped the lunch sign andimmediately put up another say-ing the centre would be closedfor the rest of the day. That waswhen Dukes had had enough.
Dukes fought back tears of frustration as he marched downthe hallway to the manager’s of-ce where he says he grovelled
— just to reach someone whowould allow him to register withthe Access Centre.
Finally, Dukes was in — butthat was just step one. The nextstep was to ask for the accom-modation letter that would helphim manage his course load, amulti-layered project that re-quires both doctor approval andSAF to produce an ofcial rec-ommendation.
The problem is professors candeny that recommendation onthe basis of academic integrityand, according to Dukes, it hashappened to him at least twice.Emond says that if a professordenies the measures suggested,the student should inform theAccess Centre and their SAFPHOTO: MARISSA DEDERERMark Dukes is worried about graduating from Ryerson.
Mark Dukes went from the streets to the classroom in order to get his education despite his chronic mental health issues.
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for the silent
I DON’T GIVE UP,
I DON’T QUIT, I
DON’T STOP ... I’m
doing it for them
Mark Dukes, a public administration and governance student, is unhappy with Ryerson’s accessibility. PHOTO: MARISSA DEDERER
may try to nd an accommoda-ion that works better for the
professor.“In general I would say it runs
moothly, but there’s no rhymeor reason to it,” Emond says.Students may encounter dif-ult professors occasionally, oth-rs won’t.”Though Emond asserts that
he system mainly runs smooth-y, Dukes does not nd it accept-ble.“There is no way that anyone
without a medical doctorate has
he right to supersede what mydoctor has said,” he says. “Mypsychiatrist says I need this ac-ommodation. The Access Cen-re backs him up. And then bud-
dy with some fancy-pants degreeays no.”Dukes says the decision has
lso jeopardized his ability toucceed academically: he haswo incomplete courses from lastear due to missed exams (which
he insists he won’t nish in time),nd has received an F on an as-ignment after missing a dead-ine in another course. Withoutccommodations, Dukes is wor-
ied he won’t be able to gradu-te. The missed assignments aretacking up.“I’ve also spent years not being
ble to do anything about [beingntelligent] because my societynd my school aren’t accessible,”
he says. “They accommodatehemselves. Not me and not oth-rs like me.”Education is immeasurably
mportant to Dukes. He spentwo years living on the streetnd has an almost ten-year gap
on his resume due to not beingble to get a job while on his dis-
bility pay, which provides only1000 a month. An opportunityor rent-controlled income hous-ng helped him get a place andave him the chance to nallyaise enough money to come to
university.“I pay Ryerson a lot of that
money to receive F’s on courseswhere I had high 90s at the mid-erm,” Dukes says.
He’s spent a long time advo-ating for mental health and ad-
diction issues in Toronto and byetting his degree he will be ableo work in that sector and actu-lly be paid for his work, some-hing his disability did not previ-
ously allow.“The only way that I can be
alidated in this world is with
one small, little piece of paper,”says Dukes. “And if I can’t getthat, I don’t know. I can’t quit. Idon’t know what to do.”
In his years of unpaid advo-cacy, he has sat on the TorontoDrug Strategy for six years astheir drug user representativeand consulted with the ten-yearmental health and addictionstrategy for the province. He iscurrently working on regulatorychange for people in Ontariowith disabilities.
“I didn’t want to be that guy
here, I just wanted to be anony-mous,” says Dukes. “I wanted tobe left alone and I just wanted toget my education.”
Unfortunately, events such asthe email from the Access Centrerevealing many students’ infor-mation and the death of a femaleclassmate who was strugglingwith mental health issues, haveforced him to come out of hidingas a defender of the people whoare hurt by the system.
“I want those people to knowthat I’m doing it for her,” saysDukes. “I was going to walkaway, but there should never,
ever be anyone else like her thathas to go through shit and notget help.”
He says student wellness cen-tres, including the Access andcounselling centres, aren’t serv-ing Ryerson students effective-ly: too often, he found moreroadblocks than immediateassistance.
“It’s about the fact that theydon’t have the resources or thecapacity to handle the inux of people with mental health oraddiction or any other disabil-ity that they come across here,”
Dukes insists.According to Heather Lane
Vetere, vice provost students,about 1,100 students are regis-tered with the centre, and thatnumber is only expected to grow.
“Everyone that we can add re-duces case loads for the others,so they’ve got more time and en-ergy to spend one-on-one timewith the student. Would thatbe desirable? Absolutely. Is thatlikely on the horizon? I don’t seeit,” Vetere admits.
Darren Cooney, manager of the public education and part-nerships unit for the accessibil-ity directorate of Ontario, saysthere’s exibility for an organi-zation like Ryerson to gure outhow to meet the requirements
that work best for their service.“At the end of the day it’s up to
Ryerson,” says Cooney. “Rightnow [they] need to have a policyfor accessible customer service.”
Ryerson is responsible for sub-mitting a report to the depart-ment every two years conrmingthey meet legislation. Cooney’sdepartment then audits themand the rest of the public sector.In 2010, Ryerson submitted a re-port that they were fully compli-ant and the department is in themidst of its audits.
“It requires that the organiza-tion have a feedback process andthey state how they will respondto complaints,” he says.
His department does not havethe power to investigate com-plaints or get involved in issuesbetween customers and orga-nizations. They do track broadtrends in issues and concernsin the sector but cannot get in-
He doesn’t believe Ryerson is doing what they can to help him and wants to change their policies to protect his peers
volved in individual problems.Dukes is determined to take
his message to the top. He wantsSheldon Levy to consider thenext “mega-deal” to focus on
providing reliable mental healthresources, to smooth out cracksin university-wide policies —and he says he won’t give up un-til the university hauls itself outof its “antiquated” accessibility
procedures.“I don’t give up,” Dukes
says. “I don’t quit, I don’t stop— and the reason being hasnothing to do with me: it has
to do with the people who doquit, with the people who dostop, with the people who arecompromised by the system.I’m doing it for them.”
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Launched earlier this month, the
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weeks through Dec. 10.
Ryerson currently has 1,894
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Last week from Monday to Friday,
we quit spending. Cold turkey. Re-
ently we have noticed how much
money we spend merely because we
haven’t been managing our time.
We rush to get to school and don’teave time to make lunches, so we
buy food impulsively throughout
he week. As third-year journalism
tudents who work approximately
25 hours a week on campus, plan-
ning meals isn’t often our rst pri-
ority. We decided it was time for a
hange in budgeting.
So we quit. Impulsively, that is.
The plan was to spend money
only on essential groceries and
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This meant we couldn’t grab a cof-
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“It might be the shock value that
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ing a stop to spending abruptly is
he hardest way to go. “Would you
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or six months? Or for the whole
emester?” she said.
Getting used to the changes took
ome doing. Going from buying an
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week, which totals about $11.20, to
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x while on-the-go, left us frustrat-
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“We are creatures of habit, welove our habits, they give us com-
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Astoria packed a healthy pasta
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