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  • Students compete for $10k advertising prize

    Students compete for $10k advertising prize

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    BY JENNIFER STIENSTRA Four Sheridan students are hoping to take home $10,000 in the Advertising Standards Canada Public Service Announcement competition. The group is made up of students in their second year of the Advertising and Marketing Communications program. They are Victoria Hoang, 22, Jody Harvey, 19, Sunaynna Venkatesh, 25, and Caitlin Vollum, 21. They…

  • Two Sheridan students receive Co-op Student of the Year honours

    Two Sheridan students receive Co-op Student of the Year honours

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    STORY AND PHOTOS BY DANA BOYINGTON Sheridan College has had numerous student success stories throughout the years and this year is no exception. Kristen Metz and Hargurdeep Singh, are being recognized for their academic performance, contributions to society, support of cooperative education and are earning the praise of their co-op supervisors. Metz, with a GPA…

  • You never forget your first love

    You never forget your first love

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    STORY BY BRITTANY MCAULEY Of all the firsts we encounter in our life, none is as impactful or as memorable as our first love, and student Nicole Northcott can vouch for that. Northcott, 25, is in her final year of Office Administration, Legal at Davis campus and vividly remembers her first love when she was…

  • The President’s Challenge is underway

    The President’s Challenge is underway

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    STORY AND MEDIA BY VANESSA GILLIS Do you have your S together? This year’s President’s Challenge has students and faculty creating an S that represents their program in order to promote the college’s new brand. “[We did it] to get some school spirit going and grab attention to it,” said Dean Lorenz, director of marketing…

  • The past, written in bone

    The past, written in bone

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    STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROBERT MOODIE A new project at Sheridan will use 3D imaging technology to help students learn and conduct experiments for an upcoming course: Forensic Anthropology. Sheridan has skeletal remains found in Austria on loan from Germany for teaching biological anthropology and the project has been putting these through 3D scanners since…

  • Movie night helps international students bond with new country

    Movie night helps international students bond with new country

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      STORY BY SATYARTH MISHRA Odecca Ordonez says before she founded a campus international students group she didn’t eat Indian food. “Please don’t laugh,“ she told students at the Sheridan International Student Association’s movie night on Friday at HMC. “This is how I learned about Indian culture.” Ordonez kicked off an event designed to connect…

  • SISA gives international students a home away from home

    SISA gives international students a home away from home

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      STORY BY SATYARTH MISHRA Using hope, encouragement, dedication and love for each other, the Sheridan International Student Association (SISA) wants to make the college more like a home for students from other nations. “SISA started with 15 members in late December 2013 at Sheridan HMC campus, and now has 30 active members,” says Prachi…

  • Residence works hard to promote student events

    Residence works hard to promote student events

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    BY MADDY SOMMERVILLE Living in Sheridan’s residence offers students an experience in college; it’s not only convenient and safe, but it also boasts a lot of ways for residents to have fun and enjoy their time. Recently, the Sheridan residence, playfully nicknamed ‘Rez’ by those who live there and sometimes by those who don’t, have…

  • Sheridan Tackles Problems Creatively

    Sheridan Tackles Problems Creatively

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    Mehreen Shahid
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    STORY AND PHOTOS BY MEHREEN SHAHID The Sheridan community may soon be bidding farewell to Access Sheridan, as the college implements a whole new interface emphasizing the “Get Creative” brand. The move was just one of several outcomes of a college-wide creative problem-solving workshop held at the Hazel McCallion Campus Feb. 26 to 28 aimed at…

  • Getting far in your first car

    Getting far in your first car

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    STORY BY BRITTANY MCAULEY Your first car can take you places. Just ask Sheridan College professor Mary Ann Maruska. Her first car took her from Indiana to Canada and on the road to full Canadian citizenship in 1970. Maruska, 62, teaches design fundamentals, information design and communication design in the Bachelor of Design Program while…

  • Sheridan Career Centre sets you up for the job

    Sheridan Career Centre sets you up for the job

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    STORY BY JONATHAN FERGUSON Job-hunting for students will be much easier after benefitting from the upcoming “Dress for Success” clothing drive and LinkedIn headshot clinics hosted by the Sheridan Career Centre. Two events this month will give students opportunities for students to prepare for life after graduation. At each campus students are invited on March…

  • Japanese exchange students visit Sheridan college

    Japanese exchange students visit Sheridan college

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    Mehreen Shahid
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    BY MEHREEN SHAHID Exchange students from Osaka Electro-Communication University (OECU) have been at Sheridan College for the last two weeks. Sheridan is the only college in North America that the OECU has an exchange program with. This is the third such group that has visited the college. Students in the contingent were from the Digital…