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Proposed law school slammed

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The deans of Canada’s law schools have shared concerns about Ryerson’s letter-of-intent (LOI) to become an accredited Canadian law school. A December response letter said the program elements Ryerson considers innovative are already employed at other universities. Ryerson released its LOI last October, outlining a Juris Doctor (JD) law degree founded in legal and technological innovation. It suggested that change needs to occur in the law profession to fulfil the evolving needs of modern legal consumers, and that Ryerson planned to represent that change. But Camille Cameron, the dean of Dalhousie University’s Schulich School of Law and president of the Council of Canadian Law Deans (CCLD) — a committee made up of Please see LAW, page 3

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Members of the RRJC, RSU, CESAR and administration met Monday night to discuss the presence of anti-aborition protesters on campus.

Rye can’t stop pro-life protests JACLYN TANSIL RYERSONIAN

Ryerson administration told the Ryerson Reproductive Justice Collective (RRJC) they’re unable to keep pro-life protesters off Gould Street. “I’m not sure, you’re not gonna hear answers you are happy with,” Ryerson’s vice-provost students Heather Lane Vetere said at a roundtable discussion Monday. She was speaking to RRJC members Chrissy Lynn Trudel and Hannah Reaburn. The demand for the roundtable discussion was in response to several incidents that occurred last year, in which pro-life protesters brandished graphic posters of aborted fetuses on Gould Street. The RRJC requested the RSU and

university president Mohamed Lachemi both participate in the town hall. The Ryerson Students’ Union (RSU), whose vice-president equity Tamara Jones attended the discussion, had equity service centre staff and volunteers counter-protest against the group with posters of their own. After the protests took place the RRJC penned the letter to the RSU and Lachemi outlining a list of demands. Members of Ryerson’s administration — vice-president admin and finance Janice Winton, Ryerson’s general counsel Julia Shin Doi, executive director of Janice Winton`s office Tony Conte — were also a part of the discussion. Rabbia Ashraf, president of Continuing Education Students’

Association of Ryerson (CESAR) also came, saying that, “CESAR fully supports the RRJC.” Jones indicated the student union’s support for the collective, adding the RSU was working to bridge the gaps between the two groups. In the letter, the RRJC also demanded Ryerson “create a prochoice policy that forbids antichoice organizing on the grounds of sexual harassment, and discrimination based on gender, sex and family status as highlighted in Ryerson’s Discrimination and Harassment Prevention Policy.” Though Ryerson’s policy outlines harassment as unwanted remarks, behaviours, or communications based on discrimination that are unwelcome, James Turk — director of Ryerson’s Centre for

Free Expression — stated “antichoice organizing in my view is terrible but it is not harassment or discrimination by any legal definition.” Turk added that “unless there is a form of harassment there is no protection in university against offensive speech if the expression was non-violent.” The RRJC’s demand to have Ryerson ban anti-choice organizing, flyering and demonstrations on campus also came under scrutiny during the discussion. Ryerson administration also told the collective the university can’t ban individuals from Gould Street because it’s owned by the City of Toronto. Winton added, “We are looking for ways to support students but we cannot legally make a

move.” Reaburn stated that another demand of the RRJC’s was for Ryerson to take a stance as an institution and create “an equity statement that condemns all forms ... of misogyny and hate speech.” Lane Vetere, Winton and Turk all said that, in the interest of the university, they should and would not make statements or take stances regarding this issue. “We found specific cases relating to this specific issue where institutions have tried to take action and the universities have lost when challenged in court. It is (therefore) not in our best interest to put ourselves in that position,” said Lane Vetere. @JaclynMTansil

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deans of every Canadian law school — says Ryerson’s ideals aren’t unique. “The purpose of the letter was to identify some of the many innovative and interesting programs and initiatives that already exist in Canadian law schools and that receive little or no attention in the Ryerson proposal.” For instance, she wrote in the December 2016 response letter on behalf of the CCLD, “…we seek to correct the misapprehension that Ryerson’s aspiration to these goals differentiates it from existing Canadian Law Schools.

“The LOI’s failure to appropriately acknowledge the range of innovations in Canadian legal education suggests that Ryerson is either unaware of these dynamics, or is choosing to present a one-sided and out of date portrayal of the status quo of Canadian legal education…” The letter also said CCLD’s concern with Ryerson’s proposal was that Ryerson’s law school originating committee hadn’t contacted deans of Canadian law schools prior to submitting the letter-of-intent. “This was a missed opportunity,” Cameron wrote.

However, Gina Alexandris, the director of Ryerson’s Law Practice Program — a handson training and work term students can participate in to replace the traditional articling placement law schools require — and a key member of the law school originating committee, denies this assertion. “There has been outreach. We had spoken with a couple of law deans beforehand. I respect and have worked with a number of them, but ultimately we don’t need the permission necessarily of the CCLD but we would like them to know what we’re doing, and by all means we will take that input.” Despite the CCLD’s response, Alexandris is eager to continue the proposal process, as is Ryerson’s president, Mohamed Lachemi. He says, “Ryerson is coming up with something very new and very innovative and you know that when you do there is a lot of push back, but that is human nature… That

is our way to do business and if they have comments about it then we are always open to have such a discussion. But that doesn’t mean that they have to like what we do.” Cameron’s letter also said another law school could be superfluous in Canada. “Looking at the question from the standpoint of the market for legal services, the demand for law graduates shows no indication of growth.” The Canadian Bar Association released a document in 2013 stating since the economic downturn of 2008-2009, the Canadian legal profession has faced challenges like decreased salaries, increased competition, and — as Cameron says — a surplus of legal graduates. But Toronto-based criminal attorney Sean Robichaud says Ryerson’s proposed program might be what Canadian lawyers needs. “There seems to be a lot more emphasis on the practice of law using technology and a

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lot of the methodologies that are going to bring law into a modernized type of practice. And if anything, we’re lacking in supply of that and we desperately need someone to come in to change essentially what it is that we’re doing at law school.” Alexandris says she aims to have the formal law program proposal submitted to Ryerson’s senate in the spring. The JD outline also needs to be approved by the Federation of Law Societies of Canada (FLSC), the governing body of the law professional associations, and the Ontario government before Ryerson can implement the program. Cameron says the CCLD is is not responsible for approving new JD programs, but relevant authorities should implement Ryerson’s proposed law degree “with the full picture of what’s already happening across the country.” @s_cunningham8

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Layoffs affect Rye student LAURA WOODWARD RYERSONIAN

In November, Augustina Chakma read an article that her employer, American Apparel, was declaring bankruptcy. Chakma, a fourth-year retail management student, had worked at the American Apparel on Queen Street West since her

first year at Ryerson. But now, her university job will come to an end. The Los Angeles retailer filed for its second bankruptcy on Nov. 14, following issues regarding flawed management and sexist advertising — the reason Ryerson axed American Apparel as its clothing source. The company began its layoffs

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of 2,400 American employees last week. “I depended on American Apparel for income to go shopping or eating … but now that this is happening, I have to rely on my family,” Chakma said. Jan. 31 is layoff day for Chakma and other Canadian American Apparel employees. Chakma said she won’t look for a new job after her end date. “I’ve talked to my family about this and at first I was worried I’d have to find a new job and it will be hard because retail is

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Toronto American Apparel stores have been liquidating for almost a month.

slow after the holidays, but I’m in school full time with a six-course load,” Chakma said. “So I think this might work out in my favour so I can focus on school for right now.” Canadian clothing manufacturer, Gildan Activewear, bought

the American Apparel brand and equipment for $88 million. But the company will not be keeping any American Apparel stores, factories or employees, according to a statement from Gildan Activewear. “(Gildan’s) final cash bid includes the acquisition of the worldwide intellectual property rights related to the American Apparel brand and certain manufacturing equipment. The company will also separately purchase inventory from American Apparel,” the statement read. Ryerson’s Career Centre does not have a specific program to respond to layoffs, but offers programs for students and alumni who are unemployed. “What we do have is quite a few programs to take advantage of,” Ian Ingles, operations manager at Ryerson’s Career Centre, said. These programs include oneon-one career specialists’ meetings, workshops and career tutorials. Ryerson’s Career Centre services are available for current students and alumni up to five years past graduation. “The end goal is to get them working again or further education if they want to switch fields,” Ingles said. @la_woodward

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It was 10 minutes before the “Women’s March on Washington in Toronto” began, the sun peeked through a screen of clouds as an estimated 60,000 people stood for a moment of silence in front of Queen’s Park. It was the last moment of silence before

people became silent no more. Chants and drum circles were heard all across the city as a sea of people made their way down University Avenue, all the way to Nathan Phillips Square. A day after U.S. President Donald Trump’s inauguration, women and LGBTQ members made their voices heard and established themselves as a population

that will stand up for their rights no matter what. It was reported that an estimated 250,000 people attended the inauguration in Washington D.C., while approximately 500,000 people occupied the National Mall the next day to protest against Trump. Farrah Khan, who was at the Toronto march, said she felt elated. Khan is the

co-ordinator for Ryerson University’s Office of Sexual Violence Support and Education. “It excites me to see so many students, young people and people who are participating in their first march.” At the beginning of the march, a handful of diverse women from intersectional backgrounds, including Khan, delivered speeches to spread their messages of

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MEN’S MARCH inclusiveness and freedom. As an advocate against sexual violence, Khan spoke on the mistreatment of women and the protection that they deserve. “I wanted people to understand that to believe survivors means that they must believe all survivors. Be it indigenous women, trans women or black women,” says Khan. The protest was more than just a collective response to Trump’s inauguration. Kavita Dogra, organizer and founder of We Talk Women, explained before the march the importance of this event. “We are standing in solidarity with the women in Washington, but also we’re taking this as an opportunity to look at the issues that impact marginalized communities here at home and to say that that style of politics will not work here, it will not be tolerated here and it’s not what we want,” Dogra said. According to the Canadian Women’s Foundation, there is still a large number of women who are victims of domestic violence, who are raising children in poverty and are continuously being sexualized in mainstream media— and that’s only the tip of the iceberg. For the many women who participated in the march, it meant a great deal to them. “It means that we are a community of people that are saying that it’s not OK,” says Khan. “I march because I work at a university and I know that campus sexual assault is an epidemic across Canada. I march because I believe in justice.” For Hana Shafi, a Ryerson University alumna and activist, the march was a “form of resistance.” Shafi, who hosted

workshops for sexual assault survivors at last year’s Social Justice Week at Ryerson University, believes that we need to start calling things as they are. “If we keep beating around the bush and using this sanitized language, we are not going to identify the problem nor will we be able to eradicate it,” Shafi said. The rally was historic, but is still only the first step to creating a more positive and inclusive society. According to Khan, there is still more that needs to be done and students can play a huge part in it. “I think one thing (that students can do) is to talk to their community. Sometimes it’s easier to say things on social media but they should be encouraged to go out there and engage and have those tough conversations with people,” said Khan.

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Rye’s ‘Power to the People’ exhibition MARIA FIGUEREDO RYERSONIAN

The Ryerson Image Centre is showcasing photo exhibitions that explore historic and ongoing struggles for justice between people of colour and police forces. The installations, presented collectively as Power to the People: Photography and Video of Repression and Black Protest, present images dating from the civil rights movement of the 1960s to 2016. Gaëlle Morel, who is the RIC’s exhibitions curator and who also put together one of the installations in the exhibit, says Power to the People will give today’s generation a sense of earlier struggles. “The idea is that if you want to change the present you have to be aware of the past,” she said. “It teaches younger generations about the past to understand what’s happening now and stand up for what you believe in.” The RIC worked with the Black Artists’ Networks Dialogue to put together the show. BAND is an organization that supports artistic and cultural contributions of black artists and cultural workers. The first of the five installations

is at the entry to the RIC, where the Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall plays a video by American artist Adam Pendleton’s My Education, a Portrait of David Hilliard. Hilliard, a founding member of the Black Panther Party, recalls the account of a gunfight between the activists and police in Oakland, Calif. in 1968. He describes how police followed and surrounded the Panthers, initiating the attack which left one dead and many wounded. Next to the large LED screen is a question by the artist to the viewer: “How does the past filter through the present and relate to a future dynamic?” One of the other installaCOURTESY JAMES MORLEY tions, Attica, USA 1971: Images and Sounds of a Rebellion, deals with the uprising at the Attica prison Above and below: Attica USA 1971: Images and Sounds of a Rebellion (installation view), 2017 © James Morley, Ryerson in New York State, one of the most Image Centre. significant events in the prisoners’ Below left: Ryerson Image Centre’s exhibition, “Power to the People” features five installations on the fight for racial justice. rights movement. Some of the images in the installations are from Ryerson’s Black Star Collection. The collection consists of more than 290,000 black-and-white images, many of which deal with protests and civil rights. The exhibit will stay at Ryerson until April 9.

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When Johnny Duco, took over the Ryerson Rams hockey team, he was filling the position of someone who had three more decades of experience. If that wasn’t enough, he went into the job as “interim” head coach. But, supported by an enthusiastic and youthful coaching staff, Duco set out to bring victories and playoff success back to Ryerson University’s men’s hockey program. Coming off a nine-match win streak through November and December, the Ryerson Rams men’s hockey team faltered to start the new year. But after two losses in Quebec to start 2017, Duco has maintained calm behind the bench. He responded by orchestrating a new, four-game win streak to keep the team in first place. Having scored 30 goals in their last four games, Ryerson seems poised to keep their offensive momentum going with only six games remaining. The calm attitude of Duco has been a presence in the locker

room all season, along with a strong sense of loyalty to his coaching principles. “I don’t think there is anybody — ever — that we are going to change our game for,” he said. “As coaches, when you change your game, you show your players that you’re panicking and you don’t have the utmost faith in them.” For Duco, trust and communication with his players are paramount to a healthy hockey team. “I attribute a lot of our success to our captains because they’ve led in a positive manner,” he said. “They’ve really taken the burden off of us because they’ve been an extension of the coaching staff.” After the departure of longtime head coach Graham Wise, the coaching staff have made use of the talent on their team for a fluid transition. @DanielMelfi7

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Marches prove Trump wrong “It’s only going to be America first, America first,” President Donald Trump emphasized during his inauguration speech, holding a single finger in the air. Yet it’s estimated that more than a million people rallied together at Women’s Marches in cities around the world over the weekend. There were massive turnouts in Washington D.C., Mexico City, Paris, London, Prague and Sydney. Here in Toronto, tens of thousands of women gathered at Queen’s Park for Toronto’s March on Washington. Many wore the iconic pink “pussyhats” and carried pickets down University Avenue, before gathering at Nathan Phillips Square. It’s ironic that Trump has a dismissive attitude towards any nation that isn’t America, when the global women’s marches are proof that America’s issues reverberate across borders in our globalized world. There has been no other presidential inauguration that has inspired women (and men) from around the world to come together and denounce this political outcome and reaffirm that Trump will not be allowed to move the world backwards. If you read the signs carried in the Toronto march, it was obvious the common denominator is a rejection of Trump. The voices within this broad message were intersectional and called for equality on a range of social issues. The march showed how these diverse issues all

intersect. Farrah Khan, the co-ordinator of Ryerson’s Office of Sexual Violence Support and Education, was one of the speakers at the march and voiced shame over existing issues within Canada. She specficially mentioned antiblack racism, police brutality, safety for trans people and the epidemic of murdered and missing indigenous women, among many others. “I ask you, when we believe survivors, we believe all survivors,” said Khan, and later added, “When we believe survivors, we believe ourselves.” Here in Canada, we have our own issues that must be addressed, and we are just as connected to the rest of the world as America is. Feminism is a broad term, and is an inclusive movement which looks to combat inequality in its many forms. It is not definitive, and allows for many causes to come together and voice their own struggles, all while adding to a unified message. If we break down the issues into a smaller scale, Ryerson, like many university campuses, is a microcosm of a nation with a diverse population — it reflects the problems society has as a whole. The global scale of the women’s marches was to bring attention to a larger problem. Change always starts through action in our own communities — including on our university campuses.

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Another anti-choice protest hijacked Victoria and Gould Streets on Monday. As I walk down the street I see protestors parading graphic images of decapitated heads. There’s partial limbs covered in a film of blood and tiny bodies being pulled apart, often captioned with religious slogans like some horrible ‘90’s pamphlet. Sometimes I am handed a miniature rubber fetus or fetus feet lapel pins. The images they try to make canonical are inaccurate, exaggerated, unrepresentative, and

absolutely disrespectful to their fellow students. Counter protesting has become imperative in this fight as a form of visual protection, not a means for public debate. We must run over with cardboard boxes and sheets, so other women don’t think that these embellished ideas are what abortion looks like. Why should a woman have to think about her body and sexuality while she walks to class? Why must a woman risk being emotionally triggered of a past trauma as she eats her lunch? Your manifesto is in this enlarged edited image made to be a gory sci-fi scene. You’re diluting an issue to biology, and taking our bodies out of the context of our lives. This method of protesting is sensational and unethical, begging the question: why isn’t public discourse enough to get your point across? As a political group, you’re not creating a space for information or exchange. Your way of talking is an image that is screaming “Look at me! Look at me!” until someone stops. It is an immature game, sticking something in someone’s

face until they squirm of discomfort. Discomfort does not indicate truth — it indicates fear. Fear that someone is vomiting their opinion all over you. We don’t appreciate scare tactics in politics, and we certainly don’t in the discourse of our bodies, which don’t belong in the political arena in the first place. At a university squashed inside a city, it’s enough that there is a relentless preacher at our corner putting his rosary on our rights. It’s enough that a massive antichoice billboard was hovering in Yonge-Dundas Square. It’s enough that these groups stand outside clinics with their shouts and murmurs. You make our campus an unsafe space for women, and we pay lots of money to be here. Your vulgar method of “freedom of speech” puts knots in my stomach. If you’d like to say what you think, you can. Heck, pitch a tent near Lake Devo and bring a drum kit, but do not violate the space I pay for with your crude images. If you would like to show your respect for premature lives, you can begin by respecting the ones that are around you.

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Everyone has a motto they stick by — mine has always been, ‘Have fun while you can’ MAHNOOR SHEIKH RYERSONIAN

With all these crazy headlines and growing fear of the Trump administration, it is important to remember that we can find a hint of positivity in every situation. Everyone has a motto they stick by. My favourite has always been, “Have fun while you can.” You always hear your parents, aunts, uncles, teachers and frankly anyone in their thirties and above, tell you that your school days will be the best years of your life. But do we actually believe them or do we assume they’re just having a mid-life crisis or something? It’s weird, but I remember on my eighth grade graduation day, my art teacher told me that the four years we spend in high school will fly by and that the four years we spend at university will go by even quicker. I obviously thought she was out of her mind. How can eight years of my life just fly by? She went on to tell me to have fun and enjoy every minute of it. When I was in the eighth grade, she looked like she was over 60 years old, so when she told me all this, all I remember thinking was, “Old people are so strange. Why is she telling me all this? Obviously, I’m never going to skip a single class and I’m obviously going to be the next Harvard graduate, or something equally as amazing.” Clearly, I thought too highly of myself.

She died a few months ago but her words will always stick with me. When I look back on the past few years, I can say that I’ve always put happiness and enjoyment first and my other priorities second. My general thought process has always been that if your sister has her graduation but you have class, you skip class and get your ass across town to York University. If your friend is going through a difficult time in her life, you stand by her until she is able to stand on her own. One time in Grade 10, a friend of mine was going through a bad breakup and had been feeling down for quite a while about it. So instead of staying at school, the three of us (me, her and another friend) skipped the entire day, walked to a nearby park and played on all the park equipment for a good two hours. After that, we trekked to a nearby Pizza Pizza and gobbled up an entire XL pizza. I can confess to all this because: a) it’s been over five years, b) I’m getting ready to graduate university and c) I’m sure my parents won’t be upset finding out now. I know a lot of people who say they hated high school. But me? I enjoyed every single year and I’d do it again. Many of my friends are eager to graduate university this year; they want to start their lives already. I hate the thought of leaving but I’ve come to terms with it. Though the future seems scary because everything is

uncertain, I’ve come to the conclusion that no one is unsuccessful. We may struggle in a field we didn’t think we’d end up in for a bit after graduation, but I’ve told myself that it’s all about gaining experience and adding to your list of adventures. Yes, I would call working at a boring firm with boring people an adventure. Think of it as working on the set of The Office — stare out into a random space every so often and make a face as if you’re staring at a camera, maybe you’ll even find your Jim or Pam. It’s an adventure, my friend. When I think about it, every year at Ryerson was better than the last. Every year I learned more and every year I realized that these really are the best years of our lives — thus far. How many times have you sat around campus for hours with your friends, attended zero lectures, done no homework but still felt like you had a great day? Probably a million and one times. One memory I will always laugh at happened in first year. A friend and I came up with the idea of having a different laugh for every day of the week. One day it was really high pitched and squeaky and another day it was deep and obnoxious. (We kept it up for a couple of weeks, but then we kept forgetting which laugh belonged to which day.) It may sound stupid, but to us it was hilarious, and we were and still are world renowned comedians with unique senses of humour.

“I’ve always put happiness and enjoyment first and my other priorities second.”

It’s scary to think that once we leave this school, we all go our separate ways. We can’t check our schedules to see if we’re both in the Victoria Building at the same time so we can walk together, and we definitely can’t call up a friend to tell them a spot has opened in a class that was full, just so you can see each other a little bit more. I may not have had a 4.0 GPA (I don’t have a 2.0 or something if that’s what you’re assuming out of all of this. I’ve done well thank you very much), but I can proudly say that I made great friends and had amazing experiences. I agree that educational and career success should be top priorities, but the people in your life and the lives you touch are the most important. Often we forget that not everyone will remain a part of your life. Over time, we drift from our

friends, colleagues and sometimes even our family members. To me, the most difficult part about drifting away from someone is seeing them randomly one day and remembering all the memories you made together. Sometimes friendships don’t last but what lasts is your memory of them buying you your favourite dessert at a restaurant when you said you weren’t hungry — but they knew you well enough to know you could eat a whole cake and then some. What I mean to say is that people come and go in your life. Say yes to spending time with friends, agree to a coffee date to catch up, sit at your friend’s house doing nothing but enjoying each other’s company. And most importantly, learn to lean on each other when the future looks bleak — and filled with Trump.

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Rams Basketball – Ryerson vs. McMaster – Men’s and Women’s 6 p.m. - 10 p.m. Mattamy Athletic Centre

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