🚀 go-pugleaf

I am crossposting this only, I am not the author.

I figured this would be of interest to any student thinking about 
applying for admission to Ryerson.  

I wonder how many more skeletons they might have in their closets?



Charles Ng (cng@io.org) wrote:
: I have lost all confidence in Ryerson Polytechnical Universiy.

: Four years ago the Toronto Star revealed that several Ryerson
: engineering professors had purchased their Master's Degrees in
: Eastern Europe; no study; no thesis.  Ryerson whitewashed the
: issue and even includes these purchased credentials for these
: professors in their Calendar.

: Two years ago it was revealed that the Dean of Engineering had
: plagairized the book he wrote.  Ryerson whitewashed this too
: and continues to use the book in first year electrical 
: engineering classes.

: Then they found out that in journalism classes, Gerald Hannon
: was teaching that sexual mores are all arbitrary social rules
: and that there was nothing wrong with men of any age having
: sex with young boys, that both enjoyed and benefitted from it.
: Ryerson tried to ignore this too.

: It was only when Mr. Hannon continued to give media interviews
: against the wishes of the Ryerson administration and bragged 
: to the Toronto Sun Newspaper that in addition to teaching at
: Ryerson that he had been and continues to have a part time 
: "occupation" of "prostitute" that Ryerson decided they wouldn't
: be able to whitewash this and decided to put him on a "leave
: of absense" while they "investigated" the issues.

: Ryerson doesn't care about issues or what is right or wrong.
: Ryerson Polytechnical University only cares about its image.




: Boy1e (boy1e@aol.com) wrote:
: : >>Ryerson Polytechnic University in Toronto has suspended
: : controversial journalism instructor Gerald Hannon.
: : I disagree with the university's actions, but I thought that
: : readers of this newsgroup would want to read the university's
: : press release, which I found on the Canada NewsWire web site 
: : at http://newswire.flexnet.com/<<

: : The rest of this post says only that Hannon is being suspended pending
: : investigation of improper conduct.

: : So, what the heck has he supposedly done?