Author: Renée Lalonde
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Who is responsible for sexual assault?
BY RENÉE LALONDE For two years, campus assault, rape culture, and victim-shaming have been regular fixtures in Canadian news. After Sheridan College experienced a string of assaults near campus over the past year, students debated on whether safety was their personal responsibility, or if the blame belonged to the (still uncaught) perpetrator. After posing this…
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Internet Confidential
STORIFY BY RENEE LALONDE A calorie-reduced compilation of how North America stopped resembling 2013 and started to look more like 1984. Internet privacy as a news topic has proven itself to be the gift that keeps on giving. [View the story “Internet Confidential” on Storify]
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Halton promoter brings music to teens
STORY AND PHOTO BY RENÉE LALONDE In the vast suburban sprawl of Halton Region, finding constructive ways to focus the attention of teenagers can be difficult. Pocketed between the bright lights of Toronto and densely populated Hamilton, teens in Oakville and Burlington are left with few opportunities to socialize beyond their classroom walls. To combat…
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Run Timmy, Run!
STORY AND PHOTOS BY RENÉE LALONDE Business is about supply and demand and successful entrepreneurs identify what a community needs and deliver the goods. Every morning Sheridan is flooded with sleep-deprived zombies in search of their next fix and the lineups at the coffee kiosks on campus certainly aren’t getting shorter. A solution has been…
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Media Arts students shine light on mosh culture
VIDEO BY RENÉE LALONDE On Wednesday, Nov. 13 students congregated at a studio in B wing to participate in a controlled studio mosh pit. Dziewanna Picazo and Raychel Reimer, third-year students in the Media Arts Fundamentals program, are in the process of making a documentary, Battles and Brotherhood. Reimer and Picazo’s goal was to find out…
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Oakville men walk to end domestic violence
PHOTOS AND STORY BY RENÉE LALONDE Oakville’s Centennial Square was alive with positive vibes on Sunday while men of all ages donned feather boas and pink pumps in support of ending domestic violence. Hope in High Heels, run by Halton Women’s Place encouraged men to walk a mile in a woman’s shoes – literally. Men…
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Sexual assault in Canada: who, where and why?
INFOGRAPHIC BY RENÉE LALONDE Sexual assault on college and university campuses has been a problem some are referring to as an “epidemic.” During frosh week, sexual assaults and sexual violence come to an all-time high. Here are the general stats of where it happens, the relationship between the victim and perpetrator, and why most sexual…
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Campus safety an issue across country
EDITORIAL BY RENÉE LALONDE It’s 10 a.m. on Aug. 23, not a time most people feel vulnerable to sexual assault, but there are always exceptions. If you were reading your Sheridan email over the summer, you would have received a message from Michael Burjaw, director of security at Sheridan, informing you of an incident of…
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Sheridan unveils new logo
STORY BY RENÉE LALONDE Curious, gutsy, purposeful, inspired, smart and real. There are many terms students used to describe Sheridan, and these are the ones that made their way into Sheridan’s new marketing project. This year Sheridan will be representing its transition into a university with new marketing visuals and, specifically, a new logo. Sheridan…
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This year’s Terry Fox Run holds special meaning for Sheridan
STORY BY RENEE LALONDE One man, one leg, and 143 days of running: the legacy of Terry Fox’s journey lives on through the Terry Fox Run and an upcoming folk musical about him. This year Oakville holds its 33rd run and, for the first time, Sheridan College will have a team taking part in the…