Category: Sheridan News
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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…
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Colleges agree to create uniform campus sex assault policy
STORY BY CHRIS COUTTS Ontario college presidents have begun a review of how their institutions respond to sexual assaults on campus. Twenty-four presidents from Ontario colleges met on Monday to try to figure out how to go about creating a uniform set of transparent and accessible policies for students affected by sexual assaults while attending…
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Survey shows students wouldn’t pass up a U-Pass
STORY BY CATARINA MUIA Ninety per cent of Sheridan students who were recently surveyed say they are in favour of a transit discount pass. A survey of 466 students conducted last week by the Sheridan Sun discovered near unanimous support for a transit U-Pass. The survey was posted on various Sheridan-related Facebook groups for…
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Putting a lid on paper cup waste
STORY BY PALWASHA TEMOR If there’s one thing students and staff turn to in order to get them through the day, it’s a cup of coffee — and that produces a mountain of paper cups at Sheridan. The college’s Office for Sustainability focuses on two areas in helping scale that mountain, according to Wai Chu…
