Category: Sheridan News
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Sheridan STARs help lead the way at open house
STORY BY DONTEI WYNTER PHOTO BY ANNE WHITEHEAD Guests/students tour the Crafts and Design furniture and textiles exhibit in Sheridan gallery Sheridan College plans on using its star power to interest prospective students at the college-wide open house on Nov. 16. The student helpers, also known as STARs (Student Admission Representatives) are part of the…
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Sheridan students ‘go purple’ to help children
STORY AND PHOTOS BY STEF CASERTA The Child and Youth Work (CYW) program at Sheridan College is promoting October as Child Abuse Prevention Month by wearing purple and raising money for the community’s Children Aid Society (CAS). CAS donated ribbons and pins, which were on sale for $1 and bracelets, which sold for $2. Students…
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Heedless Ambition: The life of a Pixar animator
JON D. CLARKE He started young. Evan Bonifacio’s earliest memories of drawing were of Kid Pix on a Macintosh computer and of using archaic digital brush tools to paint a picture of his old man. Dad was in the business, too, as an animator on Disney’s Mulan and Don Bluth Productions films like All Dogs…
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Annual HMC events give students a fresh start
STORY AND PHOTOS BY ANTHONY MUCCILLI Last Saturday, Hazel McCallion campus held an event called Sheridan FreshFest. The event was a way for students at HMC to network and make new connections with students they had not met before. It was planned by both students and alumni and will be held annually. “The main thing…
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Workshop aims to help students feel comfortable in their own skins
STORY BY STEF CASERTA Sheridan College’s Counselling Services office at Trafalgar Campus is changing the way students think about themselves so they can lead a happier life. Being Comfortable In Your Own Skin is a workshop divided into four closed group sessions that educate students on how thoughts can impact their lives. During the sessions…
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Accessible Learning office works to shed stigma
STORY AND PHOTO BY TAYLOR SHAPPERT The Accessible Learning office at Sheridan helps about one in 10 students, yet many students with special needs don’t come forward for help. Mansoor Naderi is a third-year Visual and Creative Arts student with retinopathy of prematurity, a condition that means “I have no light perception out of my…
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Everything you need to know about SafeWalk
INFOGRAPHIC BY JON D. CLARKE The infographic below offers information on SafeWalk, how to use the service and where it will take you.
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Operation Peace Blitz
INFOGRAPHIC BY JOEL P. JACOBSON “Operation Peace Blitz” is a week long project promoting peace and raising anti-violence awareness at Sheridan College. The Social Justice Club of Sheridan College are the masterminds behind the project. The week’s activities will include a bake sale, social networking fun as well as donations being made to the Halton…
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Lighthouse for grieving children is looking for volunteers
STORY BY ANTONIA SALAPIC The Lighthouse for Grieving Children is looking for volunteers to bring emotional support to children who have lost a loved one. The Oakville organization was co-founded by Jo Fallon in 1999, inspired by the Seasons Centre for Children’s Grief in Barrie. At the age of six Fallon found her mother dead…
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Early Childhood Education and Leadership in Hong Kong
STORY BY JON D. CLARKE It was rain like they’d never witnessed before. A violent torrent slapped down on the streets of Hong Kong soon after their 15-hour flight from Toronto. School was cancelled that day and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange took an unexpected vacation. This is where eight Early Childhood Education (ECE) and…
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Sheridan Rough Cuts off to a smooth start
STORY AND PHOTOS BY JESSICA BEAULIEU Those who know Destinee Browning have referred to her as fearless, because the second year broadcast journalism student will try anything once. Perhaps it was this courageous attitude that set her apart in the auditions to be this year’s face of Sheridan’s Rough Cuts. Rough Cuts is an online…
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Professor’s novel has roots in Victorian England
STORY BY MELISSA GERVAIS It was during her stay at one of the oldest inns in England that Sheridan College professor Joyce Wayne found the inspiration for her first novel. During the fall of 2010, she checked into a local bed and breakfast in the small village of Shebbear in Devon County called The Devil’s…