Category: Features
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Readjusting to a place once called home
BY OLIVIA LITTLE “It quickly starts to feel like you’re a foreigner in your own home,” Suzyo Suman Bavi says reflecting on his visit home to Zambia, Africa after living in Oakville. After being away for a long time, returning home can be difficult. Just like moving to a new country, returning home takes readjustment…
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Students up to their necks in credit card debt
BY OLIVIA LITTLE Troy Mason cut up his credit card after experiencing first hand how easy it is to fall into debt. The 21-year-old third year Finance student got his first credit card last year because he wanted to start building his credit for his future. “I fell into a debt of $900 because I…
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Hey hey, my my, rock and roll can never die
BY ROSS ANDERSEN Being a multi-platinum selling band is one thing, but creating music that stands the test of time is a true achievement. Beethoven, Bach and Mozart have all successfully proven their music is timeless, although a different genre of music has accomplished similar milestones. Songs specifically from the ‘60s seem to endure, remaining…
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Straight from the Heart
BY JASMINE ANTHONY AND BRITTANY PREOCANIN If 100 people were asked to define love, there would likely be 100 different answers. From how we are brought up and the love that we’ve observed, to the relationships that we’ve had ourselves, every moment molds our idea of what love really is, or what it’s supposed to…
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Photography student inspired by his roots
BY ROSS ANDERSEN It takes a certain kind of student to stand out in a crowded classroom. In Elijah Williams’ case, he has repeatedly proven to his peers and teachers that he is unique. Elijah Williams is a First Nations student in his fourth-year of the Bachelor of Photography program at Sheridan College. He is…
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Blogger opens up about pressures of social media
STORY BY JANA GREGORIO PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF DANA SUCHOW Perfection: The condition, state, or quality of being free or as free as possible from all flaws or defects. No one’s perfect, but it sure doesn’t look that way on social media. Dana Suchow, a body-positive blogger and the creator of the blog Do the Hot…
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Writing on the Wall
BY ERIN QUEENAN “I throw up my food here every day. Anorexia and bulimia owns me.” On Oct. 5 a student wrote this on the inside of a bathroom stall, neatly and with black marker in the SCAET wing at Sheridan College. Dark and prominent, its message was hard to ignore. The next day, whether…
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Sisterhood of the travelling pant sizes
STORY BY BRITTANY PREOCANIN It was while browsing the ring selection at Pandora last week that I first found myself feeling segregated from the average sizes of society. Sure, there’s the awkward stage when a woman may no longer be able to shop at Garage, but who would ever think about being too big for…
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Student wins awards for volunteering
STORY BY ERIN QUEENAN It was her first call on the line. She hadn’t known what to expect but it definitely was not this. As a volunteer at the Call Centre Oakville Jane Miroshynkova was supposed to take distress calls and help make them better, but this woman was just yelling at her. “Oh…
