Law & Order: SSU
STORY BY ADAM BUCK Sheridan College’s legal resource centre provides students with information and tactics to deal with a wide variety of challenges. Any student paying Sheridan Student Union (SSU) fees can book an appointment with a lawyer to get free advice on tenant/landlord disputes, contract reviews and other personal legal issues. “Students just come […]
Students can earn a degree in half the time at Griffith University
STORY BY GREG LONGLEY Studying in Australia has never been more attainable. Griffith University in Queensland, Australia is reaching out to college students across Canada to promote their international articulation agreement, which allows college students in any field to turn their diploma into a degree in as little as a year. The articulation agreement is […]
SpinPunch founder explains Sheridan’s role in gaming company
STORY BY DONTEI WYNTER From a dorm room to the internet, Sheridan students helped create remarkable games for thousands, the owner of a web-based gaming company owner told an audience last Wednesday. Ian Tien, co-founder of SpinPunch, spoke in MacDonald-Heaslip Hall to a crowd of Illustration, Animation and Game Design students about how Sheridan College […]
HalTech series kicks off with session on selling yourself
STORY AND PHOTO BY LAUREN O’BRIEN It may have looked like fun and games in the library atrium last week, but students were gathered during lunch hour to hear a speaker tell them about the need to sell themselves. Marguerite Zimmerman of E=mz2 presented “Sell Yourself: The Secrets to Your Successful Future” as the launch of […]
Are you doing it right? Sheridan Peer Mentors talk about sex, sleeping, eating and drinking.
STORY AND PHOTOS BY TAYLOR SHAPPERT Sex, eating, drinking and sleep. Many college students don’t know the importance of these four things in their daily lives. Are you doing it right? That’s why four peer mentors have teamed up with the Sheridan’s health and wellness centre to bring this information to students. Isaiah Ledgister is […]
Rising artists shows her stuff in Trafalgar’s learning commons
STORY AND PHOTO KAGAN PITTMAN For those who stop to look, there’s a tricky new art installation in the learning commons bound to make you look not twice, but thrice. Last Wednesday, the Space Enhancement Task Force unveiled an art installation titled Dopplekopf by rising artist Roula Partheniou, a 2001 University of Guelph graduate. “Dopplekopf […]
Mixed reviews for XXX hypnotist show
STORY BY ROBERT SGOTTO Hypnotized students may have got a mouthful when they volunteered for Tony Lee, who bills himself as the X-Rated Hypnotist. Lee, who had students perform sexually suggestive acts on stage during an all-ages show last Tuesday at the Marquee, has been a regular at Sheridan’s pub venue for more than a […]
Garbage in and garbage out
STORY BY JAIME POLMATEER FEATURED IMAGE PROVIDED BY JOHN GREENWAY Sheridan has partnered with Busch Systems, a company that manufactures recycling and waste containers, for a new garbage bin operation that will be tested across B-wing in the next couple of weeks. One of the main goals of the new system is separating organic waste, which […]
ETAG needs volunteers to teach tech to seniors
STORY BY JON D. CLARKE A Sheridan-based charity that helps seniors learn new technology is one way students can add to their Co-Curricular Record (CCR) and gain valuable volunteer experience. ETAG, founded in 2008 by Chris Bint and Phil Shahinian, evolved from a project by the Sheridan Elder Research Centre that focused on teaching an […]
Sheridan Davis Campus hosts its first Toastmasters meeting
VIDEO BY TAYLOR SHAPPERT Sheridan’s Davis campus just started a Toastmasters club. Organizers Judith McKinnon, John McRae and Judy Suke, all Sheridan faculty, had their first meeting on Thursday. The meeting drew more participants than expected; so many that McKinnon had to leave the meeting to make more copies of the handout, and they quickly […]
Toastmasters club talking proud at Davis Campus
STORY AND PHOTOS BY DYLAN PAISLEY “It’s standing room only at Davis tonight. Woo,” exclaimed Judith MacKinnon, as people tried to find a seat last week at Davis Campus’ first Toastmasters meeting. The meeting last Thursday was packed not only with students and Hazel McCallion Campus Toastmasters, but also some faculty members. The club ran […]
