Year: 2014
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First Year Connections introduces first writing contest
STORY BY LINDA HERMIZ First-year students can now try their hand in Sheridan’s first writing contest. Organized by First Year Connections (FYC), the contest allows students to show off their creative side through a fictional or non-fictional poem, short story or full-length story that highlights their experience at Sheridan. “It requires them to engage and…
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Bell runs risk of phoning it in
STORY BY MARKO WOLOSHYN PHOTOS BY FRANK BUTTY In the wake of Bell Canada’s Let’s Talk day – which raised nearly $5.5 million for Canadian mental health programs – experts are encouraging Canadians to continue to address and elaborate on the issue. Last Tuesday, Bell raised $5,472,586 through an accumulated 109,451,719 tweets, texts, Facebook shares,…
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Police release sex assault ‘person of interest’
Halton Regional Police have released “a person of interest” they had in custody in connection with the latest sex assault.
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Students sought to foster friendly felines
[wzslider lightbox=”true”] STORY AND PHOTOS BY CHRIS COUTTS The Oakville and Milton Humane Society has the purr-fect solution for students seeking companionship, responsibility or endless cuddling: fostering cats. Brenda Dushko considers students to be ideal foster parents for animals as pets can be great source of companionship without a long-time commitment. “College life is a…
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LIVE EVENT: Davis campus celebrates creativity with public art
COVERAGE BY AMANDA VERHOEVE A Celebration of Creativity – A gathering to celebrate two public art installations that grace our Davis campus in Brampton: Leviathan 1 for Sheridan and our newly installed Sheridan S sculpture. Join reporter Amanda Verhoeve for live coverage on Tuesday, February 4, 2014.
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SCAET flood rains on gaming labs
STORY AND PHOTO BY FRANK BUTTY Game design students were back in class Monday after a flood in the SCAET building soaked high-end electronics in several rooms and displaced the programs that use them as a home-base. “It was annoying,” said 19-year-old Spencer Harrill, a first year Bachelor of Game Design student. “My classes were…
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Animation student captures hearts of contest judges
STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROBERT SGOTTO ARTWORK BY MICHAEL WANG Sheridan’s talent left multinational video game developer Ubisoft in awe last Thursday. Ubisoft, known for games such as Assassins Creed and Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell, hosted their first ever Ubi Gallery contest at their Toronto studio on Wallace Avenue. “We want to see students…
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Fashionistas wanted!
Calling all fashionistas! The Sheridan Sun wants to see your best outfit. Post to Instagram with #TheSheridanSun. [statigram_widget] [box style=”rounded”]More from The Sheridan Sun [unordered_list style=”arrow”] Sheridan’s got style [/unordered_list] [/box]
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TIFF Cinematheque launches Godard retrospective
STORY BY NICHOLAS OLSEN PHOTOS COURTESY OF TIFF Girls, guns and style. Fans and newcomers alike can now experience Jean Luc-Godard’s films by attending TIFF Cinematheque’s massive, two-season retrospective. Godard Forever Part One spans the French New Wave master’s “Golden Age” beginning with Breathless (1959) and ending with his apocalyptic black comedy Weekend (1967). The…
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oneCARD due to rule them all
STORY AND PHOTOS BY CHRIS COUTTS Sheridan’s oneCARD was designed to give students a cashless campus experience, but the college is lagging in the rollout of the new changes. Elisabeth Connell, Sheridan’s director of ancillary services, acknowledged that compared to its biggest competitors – Mohawk, Seneca and Humber – Sheridan’s rollout of the oneCARD student…
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Godspell and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels take centre stage
STORY BY SATYARTH MISHRA Sheridan Music Theatre students are ready to perform their first musical as a degree program. After the transition of the three-year theatre diploma program into a four-year degree program, students have more things to learn. “It’s awesome. Now our diploma completes as four-year degree program so we don’t have to start…
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Bruin gets three points as striving, smart and skilled
STORY BY JEANYLYN LOPEZ Lady Bruins basketball player Sabrina Brathwaite has enough ambition to reach her goals in school and on the court. Brathwaite is a recent graduate from the University of Waterloo with a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology. Now, she’s a second-year Athletic Therapy student at Sheridan. She’s been playing basketball since she…