Category: News
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Professor’s novel has roots in Victorian England
STORY BY MELISSA GERVAIS It was during her stay at one of the oldest inns in England that Sheridan College professor Joyce Wayne found the inspiration for her first novel. During the fall of 2010, she checked into a local bed and breakfast in the small village of Shebbear in Devon County called The Devil’s…
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Port Credit protesters urge Prince of Pot’s return to Canada
STORY AND PHOTOS BY GRAEME FRISQUE Marc Emery supporters and marijuana legalization advocates marched in Port Credit on Sunday to protest the convicted man’s term in a U.S. prison. The NDP-sponsored group, made up of about a dozen Emery supporters and members of the Mississauga South NDP riding association, marched from Port Credit Memorial Park…
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Law & Order: SSU
STORY BY ADAM BUCK Sheridan College’s legal resource centre provides students with information and tactics to deal with a wide variety of challenges. Any student paying Sheridan Student Union (SSU) fees can book an appointment with a lawyer to get free advice on tenant/landlord disputes, contract reviews and other personal legal issues. “Students just come…
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Students can earn a degree in half the time at Griffith University
STORY BY GREG LONGLEY Studying in Australia has never been more attainable. Griffith University in Queensland, Australia is reaching out to college students across Canada to promote their international articulation agreement, which allows college students in any field to turn their diploma into a degree in as little as a year. The articulation agreement is…
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SpinPunch founder explains Sheridan’s role in gaming company
STORY BY DONTEI WYNTER From a dorm room to the internet, Sheridan students helped create remarkable games for thousands, the owner of a web-based gaming company owner told an audience last Wednesday. Ian Tien, co-founder of SpinPunch, spoke in MacDonald-Heaslip Hall to a crowd of Illustration, Animation and Game Design students about how Sheridan College…
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HalTech series kicks off with session on selling yourself
STORY AND PHOTO BY LAUREN O’BRIEN It may have looked like fun and games in the library atrium last week, but students were gathered during lunch hour to hear a speaker tell them about the need to sell themselves. Marguerite Zimmerman of E=mz2 presented “Sell Yourself: The Secrets to Your Successful Future” as the launch of…
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Festival celebrates international students
STORY AND PHOTOS BY ANTHONY MUCCILLI Last Saturday, the second Toronto International Students Festival was held at David Pecaut Square. The event, sponsored by CIBC, Rogers Communications and the Province of Ontario, featured live cultural performances, such as Ojibwe pow-wows, Scottish highland dancing and a Bollywood dance. Representatives from colleges and universities, including Sheridan College,…
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Student spending: How to budget your cash
PHOTOS AND INFOGRAPHIC BY DYLAN PAISLEY Here are some spending and budgeting tips, along with some helpful financial apps. Most students in the first year of higher education are learning how to budget for the first time. Other tools include a budget calculator.
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Linda Sormin nominated for $10,000 RBC award
STORY BY PAIGE GALEA Professor Linda Sormin has a chance to win a $10,000 award and the Sheridan community can help her. Sormin, Sheridan’s studio head of Ceramics, is one of five ceramic artists across Canada to be nominated for the RBC Emerging Artist People’s Choice Award. An exhibition at the Gardiner Museum has all…
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Are you doing it right? Sheridan Peer Mentors talk about sex, sleeping, eating and drinking.
STORY AND PHOTOS BY TAYLOR SHAPPERT Sex, eating, drinking and sleep. Many college students don’t know the importance of these four things in their daily lives. Are you doing it right? That’s why four peer mentors have teamed up with the Sheridan’s health and wellness centre to bring this information to students. Isaiah Ledgister is…
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Rising artists shows her stuff in Trafalgar’s learning commons
STORY AND PHOTO KAGAN PITTMAN For those who stop to look, there’s a tricky new art installation in the learning commons bound to make you look not twice, but thrice. Last Wednesday, the Space Enhancement Task Force unveiled an art installation titled Dopplekopf by rising artist Roula Partheniou, a 2001 University of Guelph graduate. “Dopplekopf…
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Mixed reviews for XXX hypnotist show
STORY BY ROBERT SGOTTO Hypnotized students may have got a mouthful when they volunteered for Tony Lee, who bills himself as the X-Rated Hypnotist. Lee, who had students perform sexually suggestive acts on stage during an all-ages show last Tuesday at the Marquee, has been a regular at Sheridan’s pub venue for more than a…