Category: News
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Celebration Square is Awemazing for the anual AwesTruck
STORY AND PHOTOS BY DYLAN PAISLEY Celebration Square experienced both rain and shine last weekend for its first ever SoundBites event. SoundBites is a two-day open-air festival featuring music, movies and food trucks. “This is the first year of the event and we are excited to make this an annual thing at Celebration Square,” said…
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Sweet teeth rejoice
WILLIAM DIXON Although it’s only been open for six months, Oakville’s The Danish Pastry House is preparing to serve royalty. The small bakery on Cornwall Rd. east of Trafalgar Rd., was started by the half-Danish and half-Canadian, Anita Lauritsen. Her parents had moved to Canada during the 1950s, bringing with them years of Danish traditions.…
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Higher Ed helps students soar over tuition costs
STORY BY AMANDA SPILKER There’s a new way for students to pay off their tuition – Areoplan Miles. A partnership between Sheridan and Higher Ed Points, a Toronto-based startup, now allows students (and even their parents) to convert travel reward points into funds that can go towards school-related fees. “In a nutshell, students, parents and…
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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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Students now catching Adobe in the cloud
STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY CATARINA MUIA Sheridan students in the Faculty of Arts and Animation Departments, and the Faculty of Applied Science and Technology, are being advised to change their software from Adobe Creative Suite 6 to Adobe Creative Cloud. Adobe CC is similar to Adobe CS6, with few, but major differences. “CC would be…
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Rhymes for Young Ghouls screening
STORY BY SATYARTH MISHRA Sheridan graduate John Christou is returning to campus Tuesday to screen his acclaimed film Rhymes For Young Ghouls. A graduate of Sheridan’s Advanced Television and film program, Christou is producer of Rhymes For Young Ghouls, an officially selected film of last year’s Toronto International Film Festival and was named one of…
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SU throws welcome home event
BY JONATHAN FERGUSON Sheridan Student Union held its first outdoor event on Wednesday in Trafalgar’s student parking lot to welcome back everyone. Held from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m., the free event for all students, staff and faculty offered carnival games, snacks and information on clubs. Nadine Heath, SU’s senior marketing manager, was in charge of…
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Students look to improve Safe Walk
STORY AND PHOTOS BY MEHREEN SHAHID They lurk behind the wires, they make networks run, they create connections that last, and they bring together people across a complex grid. They are students in the Internet Communications Technology (ICT) program. William Farkas, coordinator for ICT, says the program focuses on the technologies and rules that make…
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Shuttle Bus to run through the Summer
STORY AND PHOTO BY KATE WOODS The Sheridan shuttle bus will continue to run to all four campuses over the summer. The school and Student Union decided the free bus would be helpful to students taking classes over the summer and staff and faculty travelling among the campuses “Some students choose to take classes over…
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Furniture students build across continents with Finnish furniture maker Nikari
STORY AND PHOTO BY MEHREEN SHAHID FURNITURE PHOTOS COURTESY OF PETER FLEMING Having the highest GPA in class can bring a student prestige, but it can also bring them added work and responsibility. The top five final-year students from the Bachelor of Craft and Design (Furniture) program at Sheridan are participating in an international project…
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Board of directors share similar vision for Student Union
STORY BY SPENCER LUYBEN The newly elected members of the Student Union already seem to be on the same page. First-year Photography student Megan Ritchie, second-year Print Journalism student Alec Wheeler and second-year Computer Systems Technology–Software Development student Russel Neal will comprise the 2014-15 board of directors at Trafalgar Campus. The students were voted in…
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Accessibility around Trafalgar campus assessed by Interior Design students
STORY AND PHOTOS BY MEHREEN SHAHID For a decade, he has sought solutions to accessibility issues around Sheridan. Finally all his requests and protests are now being heard one-by-one. Peter Biec started as a student of Journalism–Print, then took some continuing education courses and is now a student of the Advertising, Marketing and Communications program.…