Category: Sheridan News
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Terry Fox Runners Share Their Stories
BY SAMANTHA MAICH From a clown, to councillors and runners, well over 1,000 participants at the Terry Fox Run on Sunday at Coronation Park in Oakville, have been affected by cancer. Jeannie Jelly Beans has volunteered for the Terry Fox Foundation for the past 10-15 years. She arrived at the run as a clown, pulling…
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Blizzard blows out Warcraft beta test
STORY BY MICHAEL RODRIGUES For the first time in two years, Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft will be getting a revamp in the upcoming expansion, Warlords of Draenor. World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor will be the fifth expansion to come out under the World of Warcraft title. The expansion currently has a North American…
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Accommodation Letter helps Students with Disabilities
STORY AND PHOTO BY KATE WOODS Students with disabilities can be accommodated with a letter from Sheridan’s Accessibility Learning Services. “Any student with a documented disability is eligible for this,” said Janice Galloway, a learning strategist at Trafalgar’s Accessible Learning Centre. “A student with a learning disability would need a psycho-educational assessment done before they…
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Sheridan grad encourages aspiring filmmakers
STORY BY KIRAN R. KHAN John Christou, a filmmaker and Sheridan graduate, visited Sheridan College after more than a decade away to attend an exclusive screening of his film Rhymes for Young Ghouls last Tuesday. “I have many fond memories of my year of school at Sheridan, and walking the halls transported me back to…
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Single mothers going back to school
STORY AND PHOTOS BY DANA BOYINGTON Single mothers are getting the chance to go back to school with a little help of Sheridan College and some local charities. A new project dubbed Homeward Bound Halton, offers many services to help single mothers with their education and living expenses as they work towards their educations. This…
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Live coverage of FROSH OUT LOUD
COVERAGE BY JONANTHAN FERGUSON & CAT MUIA Tonight Wednesday September 10 in the Marquee USS with the Beaches will be playing a show and the sheridan sun will have live coverage. The show begins at 9 p.m. and doors open at 8 p.m. Visit the Sheridan Sun website for some live coverage of the…
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Parking options come at a price
STORY BY CHRIS COUTTS In these parking lots, there are haves, and there are have-nots. Sheridan College now offers its faculty the chance to pay for a “preferred parking” spot at its Trafalgar and Davis Campuses. “We’ve offered the same rate for years and years,” said Cathy Sloat, Sheridan’s security and parking operations manager. “We…
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Fire to frost: The glass community shows how
STORY BY KIRAN R. KHAN PHOTOS BY KIRAN R. KHAN Precision was the key. Participants in the second annual Glass Gathering event at the Trafalgar campus last Saturday paid extra attention to capture every small detail on their glass ornaments as they molded hot wax to make patterns and added final details. Spectators watched flame-heated…
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SPF/X Makeup program rocks Fan Expo Canada
STORY BY STEPHANIE ALBA Comics, games, anime, oh my! Sheridan College joined Toronto’s 20th annual Fan Expo Canada at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre with a booth of their own last month. Fan Expo Canada is a four-day weekend convention that showcases a large range of comic books, science fiction, fantasy, film and television, horror,…
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Sweet teeth rejoice
WILLIAM DIXON Although it’s only been open for six months, Oakville’s The Danish Pastry House is preparing to serve royalty. The small bakery on Cornwall Rd. east of Trafalgar Rd., was started by the half-Danish and half-Canadian, Anita Lauritsen. Her parents had moved to Canada during the 1950s, bringing with them years of Danish traditions.…
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A walk in the new woods
BY ROBERT MOODIE “Rape woods” may soon be a thing of the past, if a campus security blitz undertaken last summer is a success. Following a string of sexual assaults last year, school officials launched a new effort to reclaim and secure the wooded area and pathways near the Trafalgar Campus residence buildings. The pathways,…