From the archives
This summer The Eyeopener is pleased to bring you stories and images from the vaults (and by that we mean filing cabinets) of our archives. We will be posting the best stories on facebook and twitter,...
View ArticleSo, is our school cool now?
By Sean Wetselaar Four years ago I was standing in front of Pitman Hall, in a white, tattered t-shirt, throwing water balloons at my floor mates. It was my first year at Ryerson and I was as green a...
View ArticleGo west, young student
By Sean Wetselaar When I was 15, I got the chance to travel to Europe: England and the Netherlands. In England, we stayed with a friend of the family in London. In the Netherlands we spent time in...
View ArticleGo vote! Do it now!
By Sean Wetselaar On Aug. 4, the longest federal political campaign in memory kicked off. At the time, while everyone was still basking in the dog days of summer, going to the beach and doing whatever...
View ArticleDo your thing, whatever it is
By Sean Wetselaar Let’s be honest, if you’ve spent any amount of time in university the past few years, you’ll probably keel over if you hear one more person tell you that getting jobs are hard. The...
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UPDATED: Fun editor dethroned from EIC
By Eyeopener Staff Update: Temporary Editor-In-Chief Robert Mackenzie has been relieved of his duties 20 minutes after he received the promotion. Mackenzie was named temporary Editor-In-Chief after...
View ArticleThe world sucks. We don’t have to
By Sean Wetselaar The world has had a shitty week. It hasn’t been that long since terror attacks rocked Beirut, Paris and Baghdad, killing more than 200 people. And the grief, for many of those who...
View ArticleSo long, Sheldon
By Sean Wetselaar The times are a changing here at Ryerson. You won’t see the change right away, you won’t notice it in any drastic form — this isn’t like the opening of the Student Learning Centre on...
View ArticleThe arts issue: more than just a ‘Top 10’
By Sean Wetselaar In 2010, The Eyeopener decided to try something different with our annual assembly of special issues. In addition to the generally successful Sports Top 10 issue, we branched out,...
View ArticleOn resolutions
By Sean Wetselaar Forgive me while I engage in a brief, January cliché, but I’m going to talk about New Year’s resolutions. If you’re a student, you’ve probably heard or read a thousand posts about the...
View ArticleBest team in the country? Ram right
By Chris Blanchette Aaron Best raised his arms as the buzzer rang throughout the Mattamy Athletic Centre. This time, not for a game-winning shot, or the three-point shot for which he has become so...
View ArticleHoops, hopes and togetherness
By Sean Wetselaar I’m not a basketball fan. To be honest, I barely pay attention to sports in general. When I came to Ryerson, I was told about our sports teams, and some of the sports editors at The...
View ArticleTheft and the RCC
By Sean Wetselaar Ryerson is known, among other things, for its hands-on programs. As a journalism student here, I was always thankful for the excellent equipment the school provided, and the...
View ArticleFunvertisers upset over lack of coverage
By Robert Mackenzie Funvertisers are threatening to pull their ads from The Eyeopener over what they are calling “unfair” coverage on social media. “The paper isn’t treating our pieces like others on...
View ArticleBattle the buzzwords
By Sean Wetselaar “Ryerson is the innovation university.” If you go to school here, you’ve heard those words. I don’t know who said them — neither do you, probably. But it was someone in the...
View ArticleTuition, and ghost stories
By Sean Wetselaar Sometime in my high school years, I remember seeing a birthday card that joked about tuition fees. It had a family crowded around a campfire with horrified looks on their faces. A...
View ArticleTime to look forward
By Sean Wetselaar It’s getting to be the end of the semester. And for some students that also means the end of their academic career. For fourth-year students, April looms with not just the classic...
View ArticleTake care of yourself
By Sean Wetselaar This week, our media editor, Rob Foreman, bought a hamburger from McDonald’s that cost $18. He discovered that he could customize a hamburger, and decided to add two Angus patties and...
View ArticleWetselaar dead: ‘There was potato everywhere’
By The News Team A 22-year-old was killed on Gould Street this week in what was a grotesque display of gluttony and hyper-extended limbs. Sean Wetselaar, local boy and editor-in-chief of The Eyeopener,...
View ArticleEndings and beginnings
By Sean Wetselaar It’s late in the fall of 2011, and I’m standing in front of a crowd of editors and writers in the VIP room at the back of the Ram in the Rye. The crowd is excited, holding drinks,...
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