Tag: Sheridan College

  • Peer mentors spread the word about healthy living

    Peer mentors spread the word about healthy living

    STORY BY BRANDON MARTINEZ Eating. Drinking. Sleeping. Safe sex. That is the slogan of a new hall outreach campaign organized by Sheridan’s Health and Wellness Peer Mentors program, which offers lifestyle advice and counseling to struggling students. Cheryl Cnoop-Koopmans, 27, is a counselor at student services and oversees the peer mentor program. “The program has…

  • One-on-one with Strombo

    One-on-one with Strombo

    STORY BY JUNE SEO When Nick Kattis joined the Sheridan’s Broadcast Journalism program, he never imagined that his second interview would be with George Stroumboulopoulos at the RBC Theatre. Kattis won the opportunity to interview the CBC host and personality live on stage last Friday. Prior to the interview, Stroumboulopoulos interviewed Raine Maida, front- man…

  • College lacking meaningful climate change approach

    College lacking meaningful climate change approach

    COLUMN AND PHOTO BY CHRIS COUTTS The dazzling sustainability metal waste bins that litter Sheridan’s Trafalgar Campus grounds illustrate what appears to be the Emerald City of environmentalism. But the college administration’s style-over-substance approach to some of the most important decisions an institution can make is the same sort of thinking that landed our planet…

  • Self-defence for women at Davis

    Self-defence for women at Davis

    STORY BY CATARINA MUIA A string of unsolved sex assaults at Sheridan College in recent months has prompted the school’s Judo/Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu club to encourage female students to learn how to fight back. The club joined forces with the fitness organization, MoveU, and put together a “self-defence for women only” class on March 3, at the…

  • Tune in, turn on, say yes

    Tune in, turn on, say yes

    [wzslider height=”500″ transition=”‘slide’”] STORY AND PHOTOS BY CHRIS COUTTS Students seeking an escape from reality, or an excuse to scream, no longer need to rely on overpriced alcohol or designer drugs. Instead, Sheridan’s Improv Club offers an escape without any of the typical withdrawal symptoms. Bryce Jones, a third-year Animation student at Sheridan, started the…

  • Social media’s newest drinking game

    STORY BY CATARINA MUIA Social media has given drinking games a sickening new twist. The international drinking game, ‘NekNomination,’ which originated in Australia, consists of drinking an alcoholic beverage while adding an unsafe twist, such as adding urine to the drink or jumping into a lake afterwards. The person would then nominate some else to…

  • Look through the window what do you see?

    Look through the window what do you see?

    STORY BY CHAD MASON-AUBERTIN Sheridan’s Visual Merchandising Arts, (VMA) students spend two years perfecting the art of “pleasing the eye.” They even take their skill and showcase it around Sheridan. Ever wonder what the 10 display cases sitting single file in front of Tim Horton’s are? Or the big glass box that housed the inspiration…

  • Student petition about trail ownership closed after meeting with college

    Student petition about trail ownership closed after meeting with college

    BY SAM TASKIE An online student petition calling for the college to gain control of the wooded trails surrounding Trafalgar Campus has been closed after getting 525 signatures. Computer Systems Technology student Hamza Jami, who started an online petition directed to Mayor Rob Burton, President Jeff Zabudsky and Ward 5 Councillor Jeff Knoll calling for…

  • Stress: a pain in the neck

    Stress: a pain in the neck

    STORY BY AMANDA SPILKER With the second semester in full swing, students are starting to feel the aches and pains of stress. Students spend long periods of time sitting throughout the day, folded into uncomfortable positions. “Most students make their bodies curve around the work station where it should be the other way around causes…

  • Looking ahead and moving forward

    Looking ahead and moving forward

    STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY CATARINA MUIA Sheridan students graduating this semester are strongly considering getting a degree in their field of study. The University Fair, which took place at the Trafalgar Campus on Jan. 27 and the Davis Campus on Jan. 31, gave students of all years, plenty of options. Although heading straight from college…

  • TIFF Cinematheque launches Godard retrospective

    TIFF Cinematheque launches Godard retrospective

    STORY BY NICHOLAS OLSEN PHOTOS COURTESY OF TIFF Girls, guns and style. Fans and newcomers alike can now experience Jean Luc-Godard’s films by attending TIFF Cinematheque’s massive, two-season retrospective. Godard Forever Part One spans the French New Wave master’s “Golden Age” beginning with Breathless (1959) and ending with his apocalyptic black comedy Weekend (1967). The…

  • oneCARD due to rule them all

    oneCARD due to rule them all

    STORY AND PHOTOS BY CHRIS COUTTS Sheridan’s oneCARD was designed to give students a cashless campus experience, but the college is lagging in the rollout of the new changes. Elisabeth Connell, Sheridan’s director of ancillary services, acknowledged that compared to its biggest competitors – Mohawk, Seneca and Humber – Sheridan’s rollout of the oneCARD student…