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  • Magnet pulls students to employers

    Magnet pulls students to employers

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    STORY BY WILLIAM DIXON Sheridan students looking to connect with potential employers can now add a new job-finding tool to their toolbox – a service that helps the employer find you. Magnet was started at Ryerson University to help students and alumni connect with employers. “Like a magnet, it pulls everything together,” said Joe Henry,…

  • Breaking ground at Sheridan’s HMC2

    Breaking ground at Sheridan’s HMC2

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    STORY BY CORDELL VENTURA & MICHAEL MELRO Sheridan took a giant step into the future last Friday when ground was broken on HMC2. College president Jeff Zabudsky, outgoing mayor Hazel McCallion and other dignitaries gathered to start construction on the second phase of the Mississauga campus. The 220,000-square-foot building will include space for up to…

  • Kielburger urges young people to pitch in and make a difference

    Kielburger urges young people to pitch in and make a difference

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    STORY BY FILIPE DOS SANTOS The night began with the story of Siphiwe Hlophe, a Swazi woman who in 1999 won a scholarship to study in the U.K. only to lose it, and most everything else in her life, after being diagnosed with HIV. On Oct 9, a crowd of more than 750 heard Craig…

  • Sheridan’s waste audit digs deep

    Sheridan’s waste audit digs deep

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    STORY BY MICHAEL RODRIGUES A Tim Hortons coffee cup. Is it mixed recycling? Does it belong in organics? Or does it belong with the other trash? On Oct. 16, Sheridan’s Office for Sustainability conducted its first waste audit since April 2013. With the intention of finding ways Sheridan College can reduce the amount of waste…

  • Sheridan takes out the trash

    Sheridan takes out the trash

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    VIDEO BY ROBERT SGOTTO The office of sustainability spearheads Sheridan’s green plan by reducing waste to landfills. On Oct. 16, volunteers and co-op students helped sort and audit Sheridan’s waste, the first time since April of last year. There’s a lot of confusion on what waste goes where, and coffee cups seems to end up…

  • College expands to get creative

    College expands to get creative

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      STORY BY JONATHAN FERGUSON A new plan to expand Sheridan in Mississauga through the Get Creative fundraiser was revealed Oct. 25 at the Hazel McCallion Campus. Get Creative is a $9 million campaign that will help with expansion of the school in the centre Mississauga to be completed September 2016 according to Sheridan President…

  • The Last of Us leads in diversity

    The Last of Us leads in diversity

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    STORY BY JENNIFER STIENSTRA It’s hard to find a game with a very diverse cast and good representation, but Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us, seems to do just that and make it look easy. The game is set in a post-apocalyptic world that’s been torn apart by disease caused a contagious fungus that infects…

  • Reaching for the top

    Reaching for the top

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      STORY BY DANA BOYINGTON When Fiona Yeung stepped into the world of Google, she knew she was in for the adventure of a lifetime. “I never thought I would get an internship at Google and after two months of not hearing from them I didn’t think I was going to get in,” said Yeung.…

  • Sheridan student runs for Milton council

    Sheridan student runs for Milton council

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    STORY BY JENNIFER STIENSTRA Ryan Devries, 20, a third year student in Sheridan’s Global Business Management, decided to put skills he’s learned to use and run for local councillor in Milton. Devries says he decided to run to help improve the planning of the city and be the voice of the older part of town…

  • LIVE COVERAGE – Antisocial Alumni film screening

    LIVE COVERAGE – Antisocial Alumni film screening

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    COVERAGE BY KIRAN R. KHAN On Tuesday, October 14, the Sheridan Sun will be covering an exclusive film screening of Christopher Giroux’s “Antisocial”, a Sheridan graduate, hosted by the alumni office. We will be posting live coverage of the screening starting at 6:30 p.m. //

  • Turning up the heat

    Turning up the heat

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      This is a continuing series about people’s first experiences doing things they’ve never done.    STORY BY VANESSA GILLIS Nervous. Excited. Terrified. Those are the emotions GTA firefighter Dan Burley felt his first time responding to a fire 14 years ago. “My first fire I just remember looking at the guy next to me…

  • Destination Sheridan

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    INFOGRAPHIC BY FILIPE DOS SANTOS As the Sheridan Sun’s Amanda Spilker reported on Sept 16, international students currently made up around 20 per cent of the college’s student population while providing 47 per cent of the school’s tuition based revenue. School admissions have also been continuing this trend. Since 2011 the number of international students…