Tag: Sheridan
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Student quits smoking to win $2,500 prize
STORY BY DARYLL HINVES One Sheridan student put down the cigarette pack and picked up $2,500. Harman Brar, a 23-year-old first-year Informational Technology student, was the winner of the Would U Rather quit smoking contest hosted by Leave the Pack Behind, a tobacco control initiative created by the Community Health Sciences Department at Brock University.…
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Sheridan International Student Association aims to expand after elections
STORY AND PHOTOS BY JONATHAN FERGUSON The Sheridan International Student Association elections are beginning this week and plans to open more chapters across the Sheridan community are in the works. There are eight positions open, with each one having two to three candidates and some with only one entry according to SISA president and international…
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Child Youth Worker hopes to spread message of tolerance
STORY AND PHOTOS BY VANESSA GILLIS Michael Tyler never thought he could make it to college, let alone become a peer mentor and guide others through the experience. Tyler, a student in Sheridan’s Child Youth Worker program, struggled throughout high school with grades and was victimized by homophobic bullies. “I was never out in high…
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Sheridan Tackles Problems Creatively
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…
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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…
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Embrace your inner foodie with Sheridan Eats
BY JESSICA WEINGARTEN AND DANA MIELE We know how you feel – you’ve been to every pub night, maxed out your entire $50 Tim card that you got in your Christmas stocking and have had one too many Coors Light and wings combo at Monaghan’s and are searching for something a little more sophisticated. You…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Small-town band with a big-time dream
STORY BY SAM TASKIE Mackenzie Salhany, a Musical Theatre student, is on her way to becoming a pop star. Lead vocalist Salhany’s five-member band, LUXA, consists of Ross Burant on guitar and vocals, Dan Minchom on bass guitar, Sam Migliazza on synthesizer and vocals and Pierre-luc Lalonde on drums. LUXA performs pop songs including covers…
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New “rez” problems are starting to getting fixed
STORY AND PHOTO BY MICHAEL RODRIGUES Residents are still divided on the new residence building at Trafalgar Campus. The new residence has been a hot topic since it opened in the fall, when students found problems including, missing appliances, broken plumbing and the roar of trucks in the dead of night. Back in September the…
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Halton and the Salvation Army give out grocery cards after ice storm
STORY BY SAMANTHA MAICH The Municipality of Halton gave out $27,000 worth in grocery store cards to residents on financial aid through Salvation Army locations from Jan. 8 to Jan. 10 in response to the ice storm. “About $450,000 in grocery cards were made available to communities that were the hardest hit,” and, “the remaining…