Veteran prison guard gives students a look at life on the inside
STORY BY ROBERT MOODIE Brian Cassidy sits in his office on the prison block when he hears a call from a co-worker. An inmate has put a blanket over the window of his solid cell door and is refusing to answer or take it off. Normally officers look through the windows to check on people […]
Moment of silence for Montreal massacre victims
STORY BY CATARINA MUIA “Gender-based violence has no room at Sheridan, or anywhere in our society,” said president Jeff Zabudsky to open the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women ceremony last Friday. This year the memorial was held at Sheridan’s Trafalgar Campus where about 100 faculty and students gathered to listen […]
Sheridan’s own to release new horror short film
STORY BY AMANDA SPILKER A Sheridan professor is set to release a new stop-motion horror film this month. The Shutterbug Man, a short film completely acted by puppets, was created and directed by Chris Walsh, lead professor of the Animation History course at Sheridan College. He hopes to screen it at a number of international […]
Sheridan beta-tests new intramural e-sport
VIDEO BY MICHAEL RODRIGUES On Friday Nov 20. students and faculty of Sheridan College gathered at the college’s Davis Campus, to compete in the beta test for the first ever League of Legends Intramural. With League of Legends becoming one of the most popular video games in the world, Sheridan thought it would be a […]
Colleges agree to create uniform campus sex assault policy
STORY BY CHRIS COUTTS Ontario college presidents have begun a review of how their institutions respond to sexual assaults on campus. Twenty-four presidents from Ontario colleges met on Monday to try to figure out how to go about creating a uniform set of transparent and accessible policies for students affected by sexual assaults while attending […]
Survey shows students wouldn’t pass up a U-Pass
STORY BY CATARINA MUIA Ninety per cent of Sheridan students who were recently surveyed say they are in favour of a transit discount pass. A survey of 466 students conducted last week by the Sheridan Sun discovered near unanimous support for a transit U-Pass. The survey was posted on various Sheridan-related Facebook groups for […]
Musical theatre student lands on the big stage
BY STEPHANIE ALBA One of Sheridan’s own, Emily Lukasik, is starring in the return of Once the musical at Toronto’s Ed Mirvish Theatre. For years, Lukasik had been involved in community theatre and local drama camps, but it was at Sheridan’s Music Theatre Performance degree program where she discovered her deep passion for musical theatre. […]
Putting a lid on paper cup waste
STORY BY PALWASHA TEMOR If there’s one thing students and staff turn to in order to get them through the day, it’s a cup of coffee — and that produces a mountain of paper cups at Sheridan. The college’s Office for Sustainability focuses on two areas in helping scale that mountain, according to Wai Chu […]
