Ryerson Alumni - 2018 Summer - 15

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Oona St-Amant, at
centre, teaching firstyear nursing students
Jamie Spiegel (left)
and Manjot Salh.

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The Ryerson Image
Centre's holdings
include the Black
Star Collection, and
6,000 prints from
The New York Times
Photo Archive.

the news. I didn't appreciate the coverage, and neither did many of my family.
I always knew that was an issue in Canadian
journalism."
In a time when dominant cultural narratives are being challenged, journalists
must also ask who and what their journalism serves. "Not only have you experienced
racism growing up as an Indigenous person
in Canada, now you have to write about it
and be fair to the people who are essentially
being racist in front of you," says Edwards.
"I've interviewed people who have no problem saying racial slurs in front of me while
I'm interviewing them. ... It can be really
challenging to find that quote-unquote 'balance' in journalism."
Students must also interrogate their own
relationship with their subjects. "We don't
want to be story-takers-we want to be
story-makers," says Malik. "Be humane;
be respectful. I think students had to take a

1948
The Ryerson
Institute of
Technology
is founded
1963
Name officially
changes from
Ryerson Institute
of Technology
to Ryerson
Polytechnical
Institute
1972
First degrees
are awarded to
nine students

step back from, 'I'll just call this person and write this story.' That
was the hard part: finding people to talk to outside of your networks. It takes more than just one phone call-it's about building
a relationship."
BY N O O N , the once-empty Gould Street is dense with activity. In
2010, this street between Victoria and Bond was closed to traffic-
walk along it at the right time of year and you might find yourself
in the Ryerson Farmers' Market, or watching skaters on Lake Devo.
You might take a detour into the Ryerson Image Centre (RIC), the
public gallery that houses one of Canada's biggest collections of
photography (the Black Star Collection) and The New York Times
Photo Archive.
Ryerson's impact on the city stretches beyond the campus. Walk
north to College Street and you'll find the Mattamy Athletic Centre-
longtime home of the Toronto Maple Leafs (when it was known as
Maple Leaf Gardens), reopened in 2012 as a state-of-the-art athletics/recreation facility and community hub. Walk back down Yonge
Street and find the Student Learning Centre (SLC), the "library of
the 21st century," housing everything from the Isaac Olowolafe Jr.
Digital Media Experience Lab to the School of Performance.
Travelling west on Dundas, the Ted Rogers School of Management

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