Author: Robert
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Veteran prison guard gives students a look at life on the inside
STORY BY ROBERT MOODIE Brian Cassidy sits in his office on the prison block when he hears a call from a co-worker. An inmate has put a blanket over the window of his solid cell door and is refusing to answer or take it off. Normally officers look through the windows to check on people…
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Telecare Burlington hangs up, Distress Centre Oakville answers
STORY BY ROBERT MOODIE Six thousand telephone calls per year. That’s how many calls Distress Centre Oakville expects to take after its counterpart, Telecare Burlington, hangs up for the last time on Dec. 6. The Distress Centre and Telecare Burlington both take calls from people in crisis. From someone having an emotional breakdown to desperate…
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Town Hall: Zabudsky updates staff on the People Plan
STORY BY ROBERT MOODIE This week, Sheridan President Jeff Zabudsky is touring each of the college’s campuses promoting a faculty-focused initiative dubbed the People Plan. The People Plan began as a survey of more than 400 members of the college to answer one simple question: what can we do better for staff? Zabudsky said 11…
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Sheridan to unplug wired ports and upgrade wireless network
BY ROBERT MOODIE Sheridan is pulling the plug on network ports this year at Hazel McCallion and Davis campuses. IT kicked off the project two weeks ago that will see 1,086 ports at the Davis J, H and M wings and 808 ports at HMC removed. “Sheridan has in excess of 35,000 wired network ports…
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A walk in the new woods
BY ROBERT MOODIE “Rape woods” may soon be a thing of the past, if a campus security blitz undertaken last summer is a success. Following a string of sexual assaults last year, school officials launched a new effort to reclaim and secure the wooded area and pathways near the Trafalgar Campus residence buildings. The pathways,…
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The past, written in bone
STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROBERT MOODIE A new project at Sheridan will use 3D imaging technology to help students learn and conduct experiments for an upcoming course: Forensic Anthropology. Sheridan has skeletal remains found in Austria on loan from Germany for teaching biological anthropology and the project has been putting these through 3D scanners since…