Category: News
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Does no really mean no? Sheridan students weigh in
STORY BY KATE WOODS Sheridan students believe more can be done to help educate and raise awareness about sexual assault and harassment. In a Sheridan Sun survey of 50 students, 25 female and 25 male, 44 said the college could do more to prevent assaults, especially with the recent incidents at Trafalgar Campus during the…
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Peer mentors spread the word about healthy living
STORY BY BRANDON MARTINEZ Eating. Drinking. Sleeping. Safe sex. That is the slogan of a new hall outreach campaign organized by Sheridan’s Health and Wellness Peer Mentors program, which offers lifestyle advice and counseling to struggling students. Cheryl Cnoop-Koopmans, 27, is a counselor at student services and oversees the peer mentor program. “The program has…
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One-on-one with Strombo
STORY BY JUNE SEO When Nick Kattis joined the Sheridan’s Broadcast Journalism program, he never imagined that his second interview would be with George Stroumboulopoulos at the RBC Theatre. Kattis won the opportunity to interview the CBC host and personality live on stage last Friday. Prior to the interview, Stroumboulopoulos interviewed Raine Maida, front- man…
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Sheridan’s executive advisor talks about his first job
STORY BY BRITTANY MCAULEY Ralph Benmergui went from delivering pizzas and newspapers in the 1970s to delivering advice to Sheridan’s top executive in the 21st century. “I never went looking for a job, but my best friend always found jobs and I would follow him,” he says of his adolescent days. In his second year…
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Trafalgar Campus awaiting approval for paintball club
STORY BY LINDA HERMIZ Sheridan’s Trafalgar campus may soon have an official paintball club. Alexandra Goulding, a first-year Art Fundamentals student and the president of the soon-to-be club, is awaiting approval from the Student Union before the club is made official. Goulding came up with the idea for a paintball club after playing with her…
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Terra Greenhouse Farmer’s Market
STORY BY WILLIAM DIXON Terra Greenhouses has been holding a weekly farmer’s market every Saturday, allowing local businesses the chance to reach out to new customers. One business benefitting from the market is Milton’s own Kettle Corn Boss, run by Herb Sickinger, a Sheridan Business grad. “It’s a family business,” said Sickinger as his son…
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Lifting Sheridan’s Eco Footprint
STORY BY WILLIAM DIXON Sheridan College has been working toward creating a zero-waste system, and the crafts wing definitely got the memo. Linda Sormin, head of Ceramics, has been working to reduce her program’s waste, and the result is rather astonishing. Ceramics is known for “Thousands of years of recycling,” said Sormin. If a student…
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College lacking meaningful climate change approach
COLUMN AND PHOTO BY CHRIS COUTTS The dazzling sustainability metal waste bins that litter Sheridan’s Trafalgar Campus grounds illustrate what appears to be the Emerald City of environmentalism. But the college administration’s style-over-substance approach to some of the most important decisions an institution can make is the same sort of thinking that landed our planet…
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Self-defence for women at Davis
STORY BY CATARINA MUIA A string of unsolved sex assaults at Sheridan College in recent months has prompted the school’s Judo/Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu club to encourage female students to learn how to fight back. The club joined forces with the fitness organization, MoveU, and put together a “self-defence for women only” class on March 3, at the…
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Empowering women: There’s an app for that
STORY BY SATYARTH MISHRA A Sheridan College student has been rewarded for creating a new app to help empower women. Anshul Goyal, 22, an international student in Sheridan’s Software engineering program at Davis Campus, participated in the Global Apps to Empower contest by DataWind, India’s leading company of wireless web access products and services.…
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Cultural vs. academic exchange brings students closer
Kiran R. Khan- Sheridan News Travelling to a different country is exciting. Sheridan students are given this opportunity by visiting Japan and see how different life is in that Far East country as part of a student exchange program. “The Sheridan/Osaka electro-communication university Japan exchange is a cultural and academic exchange between our two very…
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Surf your way into the job field
Kiran R. Khan – Sheridan News Students are invited to HMC to learn more about social networking tools and how they can use it to find a job after graduating. “How to Network in Canada is a workshop for international students, which is destined to teach our newcomers the basics of the culture of…