Category: Sheridan News
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Scotiabank steps up to support international students
BY CHRISTINA-MARY PIPER Students flock from around the world to enroll in Sheridan’s renowned programs including Animation and Game Design. International students who are a part of the Faculty of Animation, Arts and Design are strongly supported by scholarships. “Scotiabank confirmed their support to Sheridan in August 2016,” says Sharon Aitkens the development and campaigns…
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Sheridan piece clocks major views at Nuit Blanche
BY ANDREW SEMKOW For two local artists, it’s about time. Formerly located at the main entrance of Sheridan’s Trafalgar Campus, The Museum of Broken Watches, created by Rhonda Weepler and Trevor Mahovsky, was chosen this year for Nuit Blanche and put on display at Metro Hall in Toronto. “Well we’re really excited because I know…
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East and West art photo gallery
BY RENATA KHUZINA A good photographer has powerful and beautiful images that can capture the immediacy of a moment like nothing else. Canadian artist and photographer Virender Paul Madan who is exhibiting his first solo fine art photography show called Just Like India believes that photography is a miracle of the modern world. “I’m thrilled…
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Students upset by Fashion Week cancellation
BY JENNIFER DAROSA Fashion lovers and designers around the GTA are still in shock after the plug was pulled on Toronto Fashion Week earlier this year. According to the organizers for the event, there wasn’t enough support or funding to keep it going. With a number of European cities currently hosting their fashion week, and…
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Sheridan welcomes second female president
BY ARINA AMINOVA As of Nov. 1, Dr. Mary Preece, current Provost and Vice President, will be stepping up to become the new president at Sheridan. Jeff Zabudsky, current President at Sheridan, announced that he would be resigning at the end of the year. Read more about Jeff Zabudsky’s resignation She will be in office…
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I now pronounce you ‘ACOD’
BY KENNEDY COLTHERD There is a new term that is gaining popularity among adults. It is ACOD, which means Adult Child of Divorce. How do you deal with being an adult and all of a sudden having divorced parents? According to the parenting and child support after separation page on the Government of Canada’s website, 1.2…
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Volunteers needed for third Repair Café
BY NATALIA NAHON After two years of success, the Repair Café is coming back to Trafalgar Campus. Wai Chu Cheng, Sheridan’s Sustainability Coordinator, is asking for skilled people to help fix household items. Repair Café is an event where people bring broken items- anything from computers to small appliances- and volunteers repair them for free.…
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Sheridan prof wins parody Nobel prize
BY TYLER CHOI AND BRADLEY NORTHCOTE Academic research sometimes gets a bad rap for being boring and irrelevant to daily life, but an eye-catching research paper with contributions from a Sheridan professor may change opinions. On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-profound Bullshit, a research paper released in November 2015 with contributions from Nathaniel Barr, a…
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Blue trees come to Sheridan College
BY BRENDEN ZERIHUN If you were walking by Sheridan’s Hazel McCallion Campus last weekend you may be wondering why the trees were coloured blue. A temporary public art installation called The Blue Trees was created to raise awareness about the world’s diminishing forests and ecosystems through urban development and deforestation. With the help of Sheridan…
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Sheridan offers many ways to turn diploma into degree
BY KEVIN SACDALAN Although Sheridan currently has no plans for any new joint programs with universities, lots of opportunities exist for turning a diploma into a degree. Despite not having any joint programs under development, according to Dr. Mary Preece, Sheridan’s Provost and Vice-President Academic, “if new program ideas surface, that would serve our student…
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When causes and student governments clash
BY DUY HUYNH What would you want a portion of your tuition going toward? Thursday night’s concert or organizing a racial protest down Yonge St.? That’s one of numerous questions many at York University are pondering after news surfaced that the institution’s former Student Union VP Equity, Alexandria Williams, donated $7,500 to Black Lives Matter…
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Colleges and McDonald’s form partnership
BY BRENDEN ZERIHUN A recent partnership between Ontario’s colleges and McDonald’s Canada will allow employees of the fast food chain to be able to earn credits toward a college business diploma. As part of the new partnership, managers who have completed a certain level of training will be able to forgo the equivalent of first-year…