Category: News
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LIVE COVERAGE: PREP Challenge
LIVE COVERAGE BY RYAN MARSHALL Sheridan’s Police Foundations program will be running its Physical Readiness Evaluation for Police challenge at Davis on Nov. 6. The PREP challenge pits Sheridan students against Police Foundations students from other colleges to see who can run an obstacle course, which includes dragging an 180-pound dummy up a staircase. The…
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Sheridan’s best Halloween costume
Here are some outfits we found on campus today during Halloween. Comment below to vote for who you think should win a mystery prize! We’ll be announcing a winner on Monday. (Contest is now closed) 1. Zombie and Dexter – Amber Quinn, Art Fundamentals 2. Woman in Black (MIB) – Andrea Fernandez Pérez, Visual…
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Police investigating sexual assault near Trafalgar Campus woods
STORY BY CHRIS COUTTS A 21-year-old woman was sexually assaulted near Sheridan’s Trafalgar Campus on Thursday afternoon, say Halton Police. The woman was walking near the college at around 8:15 a.m. when three men, who appeared to be intoxicated, approached her, police say. One of the men sexually assaulted her before she managed to flee…
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Student Union turns down job poster
STORY BY CATARINA MUIA A disabled Sheridan student is giving the SU a failing grade for its unwillingness to help him hire a personal assistant. Earlier this month, Peter Biec, a second-year Advertising and Marketing Communications – Management student who uses a wheelchair, brought a want-ad poster to hire an assistant to Sheridan’s Student Union.…
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Dating, diet and drinking: The lies international student tell their parents
STORY BY SATYARTH MISHRA Have you ever lied to your parents? Some Sheridan international students from India lie to their parents every week while talking to them on Skype. But it’s not a lie that can hurt feelings; it’s a white lie that makes their parents happy. There are many kinds of lies students tell…
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Magnet pulls students to employers
STORY BY WILLIAM DIXON Sheridan students looking to connect with potential employers can now add a new job-finding tool to their toolbox – a service that helps the employer find you. Magnet was started at Ryerson University to help students and alumni connect with employers. “Like a magnet, it pulls everything together,” said Joe Henry,…
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The undead have their day at the Toronto Zombie Walk
PHOTOS AND VIDEO BY CHRIS COUTTS On October 25th, the undead masses piled into Nathan Phillips Square for the 12th annual Toronto Zombie Walk. The event features a marketplace with everything a horror fan could ever want, zombie make up artistry, a costume contest, and the main event, a parade of zombies filling Toronto’s…
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Smart living with smart houses
STORY BY MEHREEN SHAHID Sheridan students envision houses in 2020 to be built using automated systems, remote monitoring and a sense of neighbourly competition to help conserve energy and promote green practices. “If it is known to you that other people in your community are obtaining this level of efficiency, it would make you…
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Breaking ground at Sheridan’s HMC2
STORY BY CORDELL VENTURA & MICHAEL MELRO Sheridan took a giant step into the future last Friday when ground was broken on HMC2. College president Jeff Zabudsky, outgoing mayor Hazel McCallion and other dignitaries gathered to start construction on the second phase of the Mississauga campus. The 220,000-square-foot building will include space for up to…
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Kielburger urges young people to pitch in and make a difference
STORY BY FILIPE DOS SANTOS The night began with the story of Siphiwe Hlophe, a Swazi woman who in 1999 won a scholarship to study in the U.K. only to lose it, and most everything else in her life, after being diagnosed with HIV. On Oct 9, a crowd of more than 750 heard Craig…
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Sheridan’s waste audit digs deep
STORY BY MICHAEL RODRIGUES A Tim Hortons coffee cup. Is it mixed recycling? Does it belong in organics? Or does it belong with the other trash? On Oct. 16, Sheridan’s Office for Sustainability conducted its first waste audit since April 2013. With the intention of finding ways Sheridan College can reduce the amount of waste…
