Jessica Rafuse is a fourth-year journalism student who is currently working as a news editor for the Ryersonian. She recently completed a six-week internship with the Globe and Mail and looks forward to pursuing a career in investigative journalism after she graduates.
Reviewing lecture material is as easy as downloading a song off ITunes for students in some classes where professors are experimenting with a pilot version of Apple’s popular file-sharing platform. Using the same design platform as ITunes, ITunes U allows universities to upload educational media content in the form of podcasts to push lectures beyond the classroom. Program director and electrical engineering professor Dimitri Androutsos records a lesson on a PC tablet. The recording shows him solving equations for his engineering students and also records his voice. The final product is converted sostudents can use it anytime.
Securing cheaper transit for Ryerson students has been stalled by several roadblocks recently, forcing the Ryerson Students’ Union (RSU) to delay holding a referendum on a U-Pass for yet another year.
University officials are thinking about giving students the option of splitting their tuition payments in order to assist them with the rising cost of education.
I’m not one to ruminate while sitting in a public washroom, but there I was, pants down and pissed off staring at an advertisement for an emergency contraceptive.
Jessica Rafuse is a fourth-year journalism student who is currently working as a news editor for the Ryersonian. She recently completed a six-week internship with the Globe and Mail and looks forward to pursuing a career in investigative journalism after she graduates.
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I’m not one to ruminate while sitting in a public washroom, but there I was, pants down and pissed off staring at an advertisement for an emergency contraceptive.