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alklay
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I realize that its a student paper and not official policy.
AlvinofDiaspar
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alklay:
OT - We should question why there is inadequate public funding in the first place. Ontario ranks 9th out of 10 in provincial university funding per capita.
AoD
OT - We should question why there is inadequate public funding in the first place. Ontario ranks 9th out of 10 in provincial university funding per capita.
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alklay
Senior Member
I completely agree: inadequate public financing is a huge issue.
But there are a million other ways (most more effective) to make a point without being tasteless and disrespectful. That's all.
But there are a million other ways (most more effective) to make a point without being tasteless and disrespectful. That's all.
CDL.TO
Moderator
It's from a student publication, and printed on its "joke" page. You're surprised by students poking fun at the quirks of their campus, including the frequent fawning over Ted Rogers by the school administration?
What some people call "donating millions of dollars" others call "selling the naming rights to the highest bidder".
I'm not familiar with any other buildings named after a someone who paid for it which include mini-museum exhibits about the individual. Or where every sign in the building (including those which simply indicate the room number) was replaced to include the name of the donator.
What some people call "donating millions of dollars" others call "selling the naming rights to the highest bidder".
I'm not familiar with any other buildings named after a someone who paid for it which include mini-museum exhibits about the individual. Or where every sign in the building (including those which simply indicate the room number) was replaced to include the name of the donator.
Dan416
Senior Member
Personally I found it funny. The Varsity publishes a whole joke issue on April 1 which I always found funny.
Urban Shocker
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Don't most educational and cultural institutions, and hospitals, and research facilities have wings, or auditoriums, or atriums, or lecture halls, or galleries, or rooms, or seats ... named after donors, these days - with signage that names their names in appropriately large type depending on the level of giving? There's a book in the lobby of the Four Seasons Centre that acknowledges the generosity of the hundreds of ordinary ( and extraordinary ) Torontonians who donated to the capital fund to build the place, for instance - and it makes good reading.
Tuscani01
Senior Member
An email that went out to all Ryerson students regarding a new sports and recreation facility. There was talk earlier about the Sears parking lot being used and im going to assume that is still the plan. A referendum is being held this year to determine whether to pretty much double the sports and rec. fee that all students pay, in order to fund the construction of a new facility which would be operational by 2012 the earliest.
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Anth
Active Member
If I'm not mistaken, U of T's Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering had one or more mini-museum exhibits in either the Sanford Fleming or Galbraith building early this decade.
Though we are talking about the same individual... he merely conferred his megalomania posthumously to his dad.
CDL.TO
Moderator
I had no idea. Geez.
It saddens me that while in the past we usually named buildings and such with the last name of the person being honoured, we now include the whole name. It feels like just one part of the 'dumbing-down' of society. I'll take "Schulich School" over "Edward S. Rogers Sr. School" any day.
wyliepoon
Senior Member
Oh, how I'd love to see Maple Leaf Gardens serve as Ryerson's new sports facility.
Anth
Active Member
Amen to that! They even tried to win us over with very awkward looking t-shirts bearing the full name of the department in, needless to say, very small type and "ECE" stylized as a phallic logic gate as if to drive the point home.
Ted Rogers also gave the convocation speech that year.
CDL.TO
Moderator
It's funny because it often ends up being counterintuitive.
At Ryerson there is a building called the "Sally Horsfall Eaton Centre (for Studies in Community Health)". However, EVERYONE calls it the "She Building". If you polled students, I would expect that practically no one would have any idea what the SHE stood for.
However, if they just called it the "Sally Eaton Centre", I would expect people to call it "Sally Eaton" or "Eaton building".
At Ryerson there is a building called the "Sally Horsfall Eaton Centre (for Studies in Community Health)". However, EVERYONE calls it the "She Building". If you polled students, I would expect that practically no one would have any idea what the SHE stood for.
However, if they just called it the "Sally Eaton Centre", I would expect people to call it "Sally Eaton" or "Eaton building".
Urban Shocker
Doyenne
Trying to achieve immortality by having nice big things named after you can sometimes misfire badly - witness what happened to the once lovely Tanenbaum Atrium at the AGO after Gehry monkeyed with it.
... and then there's the scruffy WILLIA DENNISON APARTMENTS at Dundas and Sherbourne.
Dr. Herman Herzog Levy had the right idea when he left the ROM $15 million to spend within five years on East Asian art, rather than having something named after him. Of course the ROM still named a gallery after him, many years later.
... and then there's the scruffy WILLIA DENNISON APARTMENTS at Dundas and Sherbourne.
Dr. Herman Herzog Levy had the right idea when he left the ROM $15 million to spend within five years on East Asian art, rather than having something named after him. Of course the ROM still named a gallery after him, many years later.
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Getting off topic, but my favourites are not Ted Rogers' penchant for naming stuff after him or his company that bears his name, but hospitals.
Mount Sinai - not only that everything is named for someone, even "wings" that never existed before, but that soon after the emergency department was named for Gerry Schwartz and his wife Heather Reisman, the ladies auxillary gift shop/book store was replaced by an Indigo.
Then there's the old wing of Sick Kids named for Conrad Black (Black Family Foundation Wing).
But my personal favourite is that there's a hospital here in Toronto that has the Brian Mulroney Family Endoscopy Department - where tubes are sent down your throat or up your rectum - perfect!
Mount Sinai - not only that everything is named for someone, even "wings" that never existed before, but that soon after the emergency department was named for Gerry Schwartz and his wife Heather Reisman, the ladies auxillary gift shop/book store was replaced by an Indigo.
Then there's the old wing of Sick Kids named for Conrad Black (Black Family Foundation Wing).
But my personal favourite is that there's a hospital here in Toronto that has the Brian Mulroney Family Endoscopy Department - where tubes are sent down your throat or up your rectum - perfect!