Year: 2014
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Live coverage of FROSH OUT LOUD
COVERAGE BY JONANTHAN FERGUSON & CAT MUIA Tonight Wednesday September 10 in the Marquee USS with the Beaches will be playing a show and the sheridan sun will have live coverage. The show begins at 9 p.m. and doors open at 8 p.m. Visit the Sheridan Sun website for some live coverage of the…
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Supercrawl festival returns to Hamilton this weekend
COVERAGE BY CHAD MASON AND MARKO WOLOSHYN From Friday through Sunday, James St will be closed down for the sixth annual Supercrawl music and arts festival. The free event is set to feature dozens of bands, food trucks, visual artists and guest speakers. The event kicks off Thursday with politically charged rap collective A Tribe…
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Parking options come at a price
STORY BY CHRIS COUTTS In these parking lots, there are haves, and there are have-nots. Sheridan College now offers its faculty the chance to pay for a “preferred parking” spot at its Trafalgar and Davis Campuses. “We’ve offered the same rate for years and years,” said Cathy Sloat, Sheridan’s security and parking operations manager. “We…
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Hey you! We’re here to MoveU!
STORY BY MEHREEN SHAHID PHOTOGRAPHY BY MEHREEN SHAHID A game of afternoon soccer organized by fourth-year students at Davis Campus kicked up interest and participating students scored prizes. Tuesday marked the beginning of a three-day event with afternoon activity bursts to help get students involved in physical activity. “It was awesome,” said Sheldon Caruna, a…
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Theatre Tech clean out their closets for awards money
STORY AND PHOTOS BY DARYLL HINVES Suits, jewelry, dresses, hats and more. The Sheridan Theatre Wardrobe Sale on Friday had it all, and many people walked away satisfied. “It was a huge success,” said Sheridan Theatre’s head of wardrobe, David Juby. “There was a lineup running down the hall.” Each year, the Music Theatre and…
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Striking out against ALS
STORY BY DANA BOYINGTON PHOTOS BY JONATHAN FERGUSON Before you dunk that bucket of water of ice-cold water on your head, ask yourself, “Why am I doing this?” The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has raised millions for research and inspired thousands of online videos in just six weeks. The first week of August, Pete Frates,…
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Fire to frost: The glass community shows how
STORY BY KIRAN R. KHAN PHOTOS BY KIRAN R. KHAN Precision was the key. Participants in the second annual Glass Gathering event at the Trafalgar campus last Saturday paid extra attention to capture every small detail on their glass ornaments as they molded hot wax to make patterns and added final details. Spectators watched flame-heated…
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For the love of the game
STORY BY MARKO WOLOSHYN PHOTO PROVIDED BY SAM HERMACK Most married and engaged couples have touching stories about the proposal – at the restaurant where the couple first met, at a baseball game projected onto a Jumbotron, or maybe on a sun-kissed beach during an all-inclusive vacation. Sam Hermack, 22, figured she would pop the…
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Up in smoke
STORY AND PHOTOS BY VANESSA GILLIS As regulations for smokers become stricter, electronic cigarettes seem like the perfect alternative to smoking, but Health Canada says they’re not entirely safe. “To date there is not sufficient evidence that the potential benefits of e-cigarettes in helping Canadians to quit smoking outweigh the potential risks,” said Eric Morrissette,…
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Festival brings life to Kerr Street
STORY BY SAMANTHA MAICH The First Annual Kerr Festival, hosted by Kerr Village, is the largest event to come to Kerr since the Santa Claus Parade. Unlike the parade, however, the festival ran for 10 hours and a wide variety of onlookers crowded the streets of Downtown Oakville throughout the day. “They ate fire!” Gabriella…
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SPF/X Makeup program rocks Fan Expo Canada
STORY BY STEPHANIE ALBA Comics, games, anime, oh my! Sheridan College joined Toronto’s 20th annual Fan Expo Canada at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre with a booth of their own last month. Fan Expo Canada is a four-day weekend convention that showcases a large range of comic books, science fiction, fantasy, film and television, horror,…
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Technology in our society
BY BRITTANY MCAULEY In 2013, over 55 per cent of Canadians owned a smartphone and our overwhelming use of the devices raises the question, can there ever be too much technology? With new technological advances being thought-up every day it’s not hard to imagine human interaction being a thing of the past and one day having…