Category: Sheridan News
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League of Legends intramurals seeking all Sheridan summoners
STORY BY MARK ELGIE We are all Sheridan Bruins. That was the underlying philosophy behind a League of Legends competition held at Trafalgar campus last Friday. The event was held to gauge interest in a potential League of Legends intramural team, in a bid to expand the Bruins community. “We were really looking at alternatives to the…
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Designing games on a global scale
STORY BY MARK ELGIE Sheridan students were jamming … not with instruments, but with games. Last Friday, students got together at Trafalgar Campus to create all sorts of new games – video games, board games, or a fusion of both, and they were given three days to make these ideas a reality. “The Global Game…
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LGBTs still waiting for a “positive space” room
STORY BY CHANELLE FAGON-TURNER Two years after first requesting a “safe-space” room for LGBTQ students, Sheridan students are still waiting. A petition has started to implement a designated “positive space” room that would provide an inclusive, supportive club atmosphere and education for the school’s LGBT community and allies. The petition, called Implement a Positive Space…
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Puppy room helps students de-stress before holidays
BY VANESSA GILLIS On Tuesday December 9, volunteers from Therapeutic Paws of Canada came to Sheridan so students can cuddle and relax with some adorable canine friends. Find out what you missed here…
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Trafalgar Two: Delays and promises
STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROBERT SGOTTO Students in Sheridan’s new residence are disappointed with bugs and delays that they hoped would have been resolved when they moved in last summer. Glitches in the laundry room and ongoing construction have many irked. Others complain about the kitchens. MORE RELATED TO THIS STORY: Residence works hard to…
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From simple page to digital age
STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY BRITTANY MCAULEY From typewriters to desktops and sign-out cards to swipe passes, Sheridan’s library has changed a lot in the past 25 years and Irene Sillius has seen it all. Sillius, in charge of print cataloguing at the Trafalgar Campus library, has been connected to Sheridan for more than a quarter…
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Co-op students help nurture college’s green efforts
STORY BY MEHREEN SHAHID The repair café, the sorting bins, the green printers and reducing paper cup waste are just some of the projects taken by Sheridan’s office of sustainability. Aware of being characterized as preachy and overbearing by students, the office has hired two co-op students to be its representatives. Michael McMillan learned about…
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Moment of silence for Montreal massacre victims
STORY BY CATARINA MUIA “Gender-based violence has no room at Sheridan, or anywhere in our society,” said president Jeff Zabudsky to open the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women ceremony last Friday. This year the memorial was held at Sheridan’s Trafalgar Campus where about 100 faculty and students gathered to listen…
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Sheridan College Puppy Room
LIVE COVERAGE BY STEPHANIE ALBA Sheridan College’s Trafalgar campus is having it’s first puppy room on Tues. Dec. 9 in front of the library at 1:30 to 2 p.m. We will be there covering the room, stay tuned for more information.
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Brampton’s Tech Talk 3 live
COVERAGE BY FILIPE DOS SANTOS Brampton will be hosting its third Tech Talk tonight and Sheridan professor Christopher Ferguson will be speaking about his work on Union Station’s fifth facade. Join the Sun at 7p.m. for live coverage of this event.
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Pan Am Games, a once-in-a-lifetime chance for students
STORY BY MEHREEN SHAHID Sheridan students are pitching in to contribute their services to Toronto’s biggest sporting event, the 2015 Pan Am Games. What makes it important for Michael Near, a second-year Investigations student, is “the fact that you get to work at an international event but also locally. It’s a really fascinating opportunity that…
