Category: News
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Speak up and eat up, FAAD students
STORY BY WILLIAM DIXON Students from 32 different arts programs can have their voices heard by their deans at the Faculty of Animation, Arts and Design open mic and pizza event, Tuesday at noon in MacDonald-Heaslip Hall. The event is a first for Ronni Rosenberg, dean of FAAD. “My guess is these things take some…
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Capturing the “Icepocalypse” in story and image
STORY BY ERIN QUEENAN Gauthier photographs the ice storm in Caledon, ON While lights flickered and faded in homes across the GTA this holiday season, students’ camera’s flashed, capturing stills of a frozen world. Downed wires, chilled houses, cold water, the crack and quake of ice and tree limb all characterize an end to 2013.…
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Students ‘Real Talk’ about safe sex
STORY AND PHOTO BY MICHAEL RODRIGUES Conversations and room temperatures got hot during Sheridan’s sex Real Talk hosted by the Trafalgar residences last Thursday. The room got toasty when the presentation drew an outstanding crowd of approximately of 125 students from both residences to the night’s affair. “It was a amazing turn out,” said Cheryl…
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Student photography of the “Icepocalypse”
STORY BY ERIN QUEENAN PHOTOS BY CHANDLER GAUTHIER, DAVE FINK, KYLE TOTH, MEAGHAN JOHNSON, KEVIN BRYAN, SAHIL GHAI While lights flickered and faded in homes across the GTA this holiday season, students’ cameras flashed, capturing stills of a frozen ice world. Downed wires, chilled houses, cold water, the crack and quake of ice and tree…
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Internet Confidential
STORIFY BY RENEE LALONDE A calorie-reduced compilation of how North America stopped resembling 2013 and started to look more like 1984. Internet privacy as a news topic has proven itself to be the gift that keeps on giving. [View the story “Internet Confidential” on Storify]
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Hazel McCallion Campus expansion takes another step forward
STORY BY NAT GILPO The Hazel McCallion Campus expansion took another step forward last week when Sheridan and Infrastructure Ontario shortlisted three teams for the project. Ten firms have been divided into three teams, which are expected to provide proposals to design HMC Phase 2. They have six months to submit these proposals to Infrastructure…
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Decking the halls at Dundurn Castle
STORY AND PHOTOS BY MATTHEW LOWE Visitors flocked to the lavish house of Sir Allan Napier MacNab on Saturday as Dundurn Castle held its annual Christmas tour. MacNab, premier of Canada before Confederation, died in 1862 at Dundurn. Built of brick and stone in 1835, the house has been preserved and is open to visitors…
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Farewell to a legend
STORIFY BY MAXINE LOWE The life of Nelson Mandela was full of struggles and triumphs, from spending nearly 27 years in jail to becoming the first black South African to hold office. This is a timeline of all accomplishments and hard times that Mandela endured throughout his 95 years. [View the story “Nelson Mandela…
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Peace garden memorial to Montreal massacre victims
STORY BY DEVON GENERAL PHOTOS BY TAYLOR SHAPPERT On Dec. 6, 1989 a gunman stormed Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal shortly after 5 p.m. During his shooting spree he killed 14 women before turning the rifle on himself. Since then, Dec. 6 has become known as the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against…
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Impress potenital employers with the perfect interview
STORY BY STEF CASERTA Don’t sweat about an upcoming job interview. Practise instead. Every Tuesday from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m., the Career Centre in partnership with Sheridan’s peer mentors offer students a mock interview service, allowing them to come in and practise their interview skills. “We run through an actual interview with them and…
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Writers get opportunity to study in France
STORY BY NICHOLAS OLSEN Aspiring writers are being offered an opportunity to get their work recognized by a colony of artists in France. This spring, from May 15 to 24, Mosaic Press publisher Howard Aster and his wife Jeannette will be holding their annual writer’s workshop retreat at La Roche D’Hys in Burgundy, France. “The…
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College animal adoption program the cat’s meow
STORY AND PHOTOS BY MELISSA GERVAIS Looking to adopt a cat? The Animal Care program at Davis Campus houses up to 15 cats every semester. This term the program has eight cats for adoption, two of which are still available. Nichole Marcotte, an Animal Sciences technologist with the Sheridan program, said the cats are usually…