Author: brittanymcauley

BY BRITTANY MCAULEY The first time you do it your palms get sweaty, your heart starts to beat faster, your mind goes blank and it’s over so quickly you don’t even remember what happened. Whether you’re a journalism student, a newbie in the broadcast industry or in the legal field, you will have to conduct…

BY  BRITTANY MCAULEY It can be awkward and sloppy or romantic and natural. For 19-year-old Jonah McIntosh, it was a little bit of everything. McIntosh is a second-year Musical Theatre student who says he wouldn’t change anything about his first kiss. “The memory’s perfect,” he says. “I think it’s so cool how we hold things…

STORY BY BRITTANY MCAULEY Of all the firsts we encounter in our life, none is as impactful or as memorable as our first love, and student Nicole Northcott can vouch for that. Northcott, 25, is in her final year of Office Administration, Legal at Davis campus and vividly remembers her first love when she was…

STORY BY BRITTANY MCAULEY Your first car can take you places. Just ask Sheridan College professor Mary Ann Maruska. Her first car took her from Indiana to Canada and on the road to full Canadian citizenship in 1970. Maruska, 62, teaches design fundamentals, information design and communication design in the Bachelor of Design Program while…

STORY BY BRITTANY MCAULEY Ralph Benmergui went from delivering pizzas and newspapers in the 1970s to delivering advice to Sheridan’s top executive in the 21st century. “I never went looking for a job, but my best friend always found jobs and I would follow him,” he says of his adolescent days. In his second year…