The Eyeopener is published by Rye Eye Publishing Inc., owned by the students of Ryerson as a non-profit corporation.

The Eyeopener is generally thought to be somewhat left-leaning and is often editorially critical of Ryerson Students ' Union and the University's administration.

It is also an Eyeopener tradition to devote all or part of the issue immediately preceding Valentine's Day to issues surrounding love and sex.

At a meeting of the board of governors, one of the governors admitted to not knowing what " The Eyeopener " was, and asked if the administration published it.

I never miss Eyeopener events and this one was important to me, so why would I not attend?

Eyeopener editors were surprised to find that Thorne had not been invited, as at least one member of the 40th masthead was told that he had reportedly said he was looking forward to the event.

More specifically, Miller told Eyeopener staff that he expected two editors to resign from their elected and paid positions despite the fact that they were not given any notice of this new curricular requirement at the time of their election to the Eyeopener masthead.

The Eyeopeners Love & Sex issue predated Eye Weeklys similarly themed annual issue, and many Eyeopener alumni believe the alternative weekly got the idea from the Eyeopener.

Well-known Canadian student newspapers include The Cord Weekly ( Wilfrid Laurier University ), "" The Prince Arthur Herald "" ( National ), Imprint ( University of Waterloo ), The Martlet, The Ubyssey and The Peak in British Columbia ; The Gateway in Alberta ; The Sheaf in Saskatchewan ; The Manitoban in Manitoba ; The Charlatan, The Fulcrum, The Varsity ( University of Toronto ), The Eyeopener ( Ryerson University ), Arthur ( Trent University ), The Gazette ( the University of Western Ontario ) and the Excalibur ( York University ) in Ontario ; The Link, The Concordian ( Concordia University, Montreal ), The McGill Daily, The Campus ( Bishop's University ) and McGill Tribune in Quebec ; The Brunswickan in New Brunswick ; The Dalhousie Gazette in Nova Scotia, The Muse in Newfoundland and Labrador, and The Queen's Journal ( Queen's University ).

True to its forerunner's reputation, the early days of The Eyeopener were marked by clashes with the administration and student government alike.

RyeSAC executives sent an open letter to the paper condemning the parody issue and suggested that the student union would be withdrawing its funding and requiring the Eyeopener to work with a third-party board to develop editorial policies.

The editors were eventually allowed to keep their jobs, but any final-year print student who had not already been elected to the masthead was required to write for the Ryersonian and could therefore not write for the Eyeopener.

Doolittle's tongue-in-cheek editorial promised free beer to any student of Miller's who wrote for the Eyeopener using a pen name.

While many people tend to associate the Eyeopener with these various controversies, it should also be noted that the paper has won three awards from the Canadian Association of Journalists for its investigative reporting, a feat unmatched by any other student paper in Canada.

The Eyeopener upped its circulation to 10, 000 issues per week from 8, 000 per week at the start of the 2007-2008 academic year.

Bodirsky was a layout and design manager at the Eyeopener ; Yum and Dingman were editors-in-chief.

The Eyeopener responded with a front-page editorial, headed " A Proclamation.

" In no manner whatsoever will The Eyeopener become a part of such a binding and illegal request ... We have the right to speak and we demand our right and take the right.

Eyeopener editor Mike O ' Connor came across campus security guards emptying the paper's distribution racks and throwing copies in the garbage.

Response ranged from those who considered the headline insensitive, as it was printed very close to the second anniversary of the Montreal massacre, to a pair of journalism professors who applauded The Eyeopener for being " obstreperous " and encouraged it to keep on doing so.

The Eyeopener completed its fortieth year in September 2007, but the 2006-2007 masthead opted to hold formal anniversary celebrations in the fall of 2006 instead.

The Eyeopener also held a large anniversary party ; dozens of alumni attended.

First editor-in-chief Tom Thorne did not attend because the Eyeopener failed to notify him about the event.

He did, however, write an introduction for the Eyeopener 40th anniversary book and, had he known the date of the party, would have been there.

Some RyeSAC and RyePride members also informed the Ryersonian editorial staff that they planned to deface the Eyeopener office.

The Eyeopener also dropped the F-Bomb in 2006, when editor-in-chief Robyn Doolittle published an editorial slamming journalism professor John Miller.

But there's one thing I never seen or heard of, one thing I just don't think there is, and that's a sportin' way o' killin' a man ''!!

I seized the rack and made a western-style flying-mount just in time, one of my knees mercifully landing on my duffel bag -- and merely wrecking my camera, I was to discover later -- my other knee landing on the slivery truck floor boards and -- but this is no medical report.

The true artist is like one of those scientists who, from a single bone can reconstruct an animal's entire body.

In fact, one important aspect of their very religion is the annihilation of men ''.

It took thirty of our women almost six moons to build this one, which is higher and stronger than the old one.

I clapped the big man with the bleached hair on his shoulder and said heartily, hoping it would make an impression on the women: `` This one is the maku Frayne.

`` This one is a tender chicken, oui??

but he presents it publicly so enmeshed in hypocrisy that it is not an honest one.

My definition of this much abused adjective is that a reconstructed rebel is one who is glad that the North won the War.

For one thing, this is not a subject often discussed or analyzed.

The general acceptance of the idea of governmental ( i.e., societal ) responsibility for the economic well-being of the American people is surely one of the two most significant watersheds in American constitutional history.

A third, one of at least equal and perhaps even greater importance, is now being traversed: American immersion and involvement in world affairs.

Today, as new nations rise from the former colonial empires, nationalism is one of the hurricane forces loose in the world.

Historically, however, the concept is one that has been of marked benefit to the people of the Western civilizational group.

It is one of the ironic quirks of history that the viability and usefulness of nationalism and the territorial state are rapidly dissipating at precisely the time that the nation-state attained its highest number ( approximately 100 ).

But it is more than irony: one of the main reasons why nationalism is no longer a tenable concept is because it has spread throughout the planet.

Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.

Only one rule prevailed in my conversations with these men: The more highly placed they are -- that is, the more they know -- the more concerned they have become.

However, the system is designed, ingeniously and hopefully, so that no one man could initiate a thermonuclear war.