Student support of athletics not quite making the cut
STORY BY NATALIA CAMARENA Despite its best efforts, athletic marketing at Sheridan isn’t reaching the students. Although Sheridan has a number of different methods for promotion, many students are still unaware of what goes on beyond their classrooms. Ryan Kelly, is the marketing and information coordinator for promotion of athletics and fitness at Sheridan. Kelly […]
Sheridan’s varsity teams struggle to fill stands
STORY BY NATALIA CAMARENA Lack of student support at varsity games has plagued the Sheridan Bruins for years. Front row and courtside seats don’t cost a penny, yet game after game there is an empty cheering section. Scott Hunt, head coach of the women’s volleyball team, believes that a more involved student body could make […]
Designing games on a global scale
STORY BY MARK ELGIE Sheridan students were jamming … not with instruments, but with games. Last Friday, students got together at Trafalgar Campus to create all sorts of new games – video games, board games, or a fusion of both, and they were given three days to make these ideas a reality. “The Global Game […]
Puppy room helps students de-stress before holidays
BY VANESSA GILLIS On Tuesday December 9, volunteers from Therapeutic Paws of Canada came to Sheridan so students can cuddle and relax with some adorable canine friends. Find out what you missed here…
Student’s line up for pawsitive reinforcement
STORY BY MICHAEL RODRIGUES With exams and final projects lurking over the shoulders of students, how are they suppose to relax? A beer? A cigarette? On Tuesday, about 100 students at Sheridan’s Trafalgar Campus were given a healthier option – therapy dogs. Therapy dogs are used in retirement homes, hospitals and schools to help people […]
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 […]
From simple page to digital age
STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY BRITTANY MCAULEY From typewriters to desktops and sign-out cards to swipe passes, Sheridan’s library has changed a lot in the past 25 years and Irene Sillius has seen it all. Sillius, in charge of print cataloguing at the Trafalgar Campus library, has been connected to Sheridan for more than a quarter […]
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 […]
The culinary delights of Chef Kal’s cooking
STORY BY DANA BOYINGTON Chef Kal is his name and don’t you forget it. You have smelled his delicious delicacies in the cafeteria. You’ve been caught carrying one of those Kal’s Corner take-out boxes- but who is that enthusiastic chef and what has he been up to. “I think it’s every chef’s dream to have […]
She had us at ‘hello!’
REVIEW BY CHAD MASON If as the song goes “It only takes a moment to be loved a whole life long,” then Theatre Sheridan’s production of Hello Dolly! will make you fall in love the moment the orchestra strikes the first note. Starring the enchanting Laura Larson in the title role, Hello Dolly! follows matchmaker […]
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 […]
