Year: 2014
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LIVE COVERAGE – Antisocial Alumni film screening
COVERAGE BY KIRAN R. KHAN On Tuesday, October 14, the Sheridan Sun will be covering an exclusive film screening of Christopher Giroux’s “Antisocial”, a Sheridan graduate, hosted by the alumni office. We will be posting live coverage of the screening starting at 6:30 p.m. //
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Turning up the heat
This is a continuing series about people’s first experiences doing things they’ve never done. STORY BY VANESSA GILLIS Nervous. Excited. Terrified. Those are the emotions GTA firefighter Dan Burley felt his first time responding to a fire 14 years ago. “My first fire I just remember looking at the guy next to me…
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Sheridan Comic Con is on the way
BY JONATHAN FERGUSON Do you want to save the world? Or maybe you are the type who wants to conquer it. Either way, hero or villian, all are welcome at the first Sheridan Comic Con at Davis Campus on Oct 27 to 31. The event aims to promote creativity on campus, and invites students to…
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Destination Sheridan
INFOGRAPHIC BY FILIPE DOS SANTOS As the Sheridan Sun’s Amanda Spilker reported on Sept 16, international students currently made up around 20 per cent of the college’s student population while providing 47 per cent of the school’s tuition based revenue. School admissions have also been continuing this trend. Since 2011 the number of international students…
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Faculty builds better lives for families
STORY BY MEHREEN SHAHID What happens when a baker’s usual ingredients are replaced with cement, a hammer, nails and wrenches? She builds herself a house. Farah Whyte and her four children are halfway through building their new home on Torbram Road in Brampton. “We’re very excited,” said the 41-year-old baker. “We’re already done with half…
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Oakville pays tribute to missing or murdered aboriginal women
STORY BY MADDY SOMMERVILE The air in the garden of Oakville’s St. Jude’s Anglican church hangs heavily. A single voice echoes through the cold air. A crowd of people stands around a gazebo, two speakers are set up and a microphone is open. In everyone’s hands, there is an electric candle and the orange light…
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Customizing the world, one neck at a time
STORY BY BRITTANY MCAULEY While he hopes to open a store one day, for now Sheridan student Dan Amponsah sells his custom made bow ties online and at the Brampton farmers market. Amponsah, a third year student in the Exercise Science and Health Promotion program at Sheridan College runs his customized bow tie business, Neck…
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You don’t need to be rich to travel
INFOGRAPHIC BY LINDA HERMIZ There are many ways to see the world without drilling a hole in your wallet.
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Can one little word help stop campus sex assaults?
BY ROBERT MOODIE AND KATE WOODS The new ‘Yes means Yes’ law that was passed in California in August is about young adults giving verbal or very clear non-verbal consent to sexual activity. Universities in California are now required to teach students why an affirmative ‘Yes’ is important and what non-verbal consent looks like. Students…
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Where our food comes from
BY SAMANTHA MAICH Most of us eat locally grown produce, but not all of us know the facts about the produce we eat. Harvest Halton was an event held on Oct.5, in Milton, about where our food comes from. That was the inspiration for this infographic. Produce Available during October is found bordering the infographic.…
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Animation teams take 24-hour challenge
STORY BY CATARINA MUIA For the first time, Sheridan’s animation program competed in a 24-hour film project and brought home fourth place. The 24 Hour Animation Challenge started in the U.S. in 2009 and was only open to American colleges until this year, when Canada and Australia were able to participate, bringing the number of…
