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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
BRUINS OCAA CHAMPS – AGAIN
STORY BY JEANYLYN LOPEZ AND MIKHAIL HELLER PHOTOS BY JEANYLYN LOPEZ Sheridan’s mens basketball team are back-to-back champs after a one-point victory against the Algonquin Thunder Saturday night, in a tight game through all four quarters of the OCAA finals. The crowd that filled the gymnasium rose to their feet, and with 1.8 seconds left […]
HMC expansion to play big role in city’s future
STORY BY MEHREEN SHAHID Sheridan will expand the Hazel McCallion Campus to include more non-business programs and enhance the role the college will play in Mississauga’s future, president Jeff Zabudsky says. “We have a very prominent role to play,” he said in an interview at an Economic Development Day conference on Monday. “Expansions start next […]
Brampton’s Dark Knight delivers strong message, big smile, to Davis Campus
STORY AND PHOTOS BY FRANK BUTTY Wearing his 32-pound armor-plated suit, local-legend Brampton Batman paid a visit to Davis Campus Tuesday afternoon to raise money for the Student Union food bank and speak out about bullying. “It’s like a voluntary community gesture,” said Peter Grevstad, the English instructor who invited Batman as a creative […]
Assault victim shares her story after string of similar attacks
STORY BY SAM TASKIE AND MADISON SOMMERVILLE Tatyana Tymchuk, a first-year Social Service student, was on the phone with her mother when she was sexually assaulted Oct. 5 on the trails southeast of campus that lead to Trafalgar Rd. Tymchuk left her house around noon heading to Sheridan. “The people that I was staying with […]
Sheridan student leads campaign against fossil fuel free
STORY BY SATYARTH MISHRA A Sheridan student is spearheading a campaign to make the college fossil fuel free. Jenn Mezei says she is part of the Fossil Free Canada campaign started by Bill McKibben, a scientist, who is trying to take money away from energy companies that are not environmental friendly. “More than 400 institutions […]
Police presence beefed up following week of assaults
STORY BY SUN STAFF The suspect who struck five times in the last six months appears to be “comfortable” with the area surrounding Sheridan, police told about 100 attendees at Tuesday night’s town hall meeting held in response to the two attacks that occurred last week. “He is comfortable in his surroundings. Whether that person […]
Safety session with Halton police at Sheridan college
About 100 members of the Sheridan community gathered in the Trafalgar gym Tuesday evening to voice concerns and question college officials and police about safety. Five attacks have occurred on or near campus in the last six months. [View the story “Safety session with Halton police at Sheridan college” on Storify]
