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  • Students urged to check housing’s fire safety

    Students urged to check housing’s fire safety

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    STORY BY WILL DIXON When choosing off-campus student housing, it’s crucial to know more about your place than just how close it is to school. “If you’re going to rent a place, just push the test button yourself, make sure it works,” said Gary Laframboise, chief fire prevention officer with the Oakville Fire Department. It’s…

  • Emmy-nominated grads share work experience with students

    Emmy-nominated grads share work experience with students

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    STORY BY MICHAEL RODRIGUES For the first time, Sheridan alumni and Emmy-nominated animators from Guru Studio came to enlighten animation students about the life of an animator. Last week, representatives gave a presentation about their studio and the message they wanted to share with students. “You just have to believe in what you’re creating and…

  • Hockey to help the homeless

    Hockey to help the homeless

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    COVERAGE BY MICHAEL RODRIGUES On Friday Nov 14 the Sheridan Sun will be covering the Hockey Helps the Homeless tournament in Markham. The event will bring together Toronto Maple Leaf and Montreal Canadian alumni with the goal of raising money to help the homeless in the Greater Toronto Area. Hockey Helps the Homeless goes across…

  • Meet the keeper of the Cup

    Meet the keeper of the Cup

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    STORY BY DANA BOYINGTON He started from the bottom and now he’s the Keeper of the Cup. Sheridan graduate Phil Pritchard started as a student at Sheridan, ending up as the vice – president of the resources centre at the Hockey Hall of Fame. But, he’s probably best known as the guy with the white…

  • Tourism and Travel students experience Norway

    Tourism and Travel students experience Norway

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    STORY BY STEF CASERTA PHOTOS BY JENNIFER RADIC Led by program coordinator Bob McElman and professor Roger Halfacre, 19 participants safely touched down at Toronto’s Pearson airport on Oct. 26 after a 10-day trip to Norway. Halfacre says there are lots of benefits for students who participated in the trip to Norway. “For some of them…

  • Plato’s Closet offering cash for lightly used clothes

    Plato’s Closet offering cash for lightly used clothes

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    STORY BY VANESSA GILLIS Tucked away in the side of a little plaza off Iroquois Shore Road, you’ll find an unassuming clothing store. But it’s nothing like others you have seen. Plato’s Closet buys and sells second-hand brand-name clothes, with prices much lower than those found in retail stores. “It’s great quality stuff. It’s not…

  • Advertising students hear from successful grads

    Advertising students hear from successful grads

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    STORY BY WILLIAM DIXON If you want a job after you graduate, be prepared to aggressively pursue every opportunity, a panel of Sheridan grads told students last week. “If people follow up with me, it’s a great impression,” said Kirk Allen, co-owner of Re-Shift Media and Sheridan grad from 1982. “It shows that you want…

  • Let the bubble games begin

    Let the bubble games begin

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    STORY BY KIRAN R. KHAN “Come and Play – Leave the rest to the Toronto Bubble Factory.” That’s the motto of the two-month-old bubble sports and games provider that rents body-sized soft plastic bubbles people can wear and then try to play sports like soccer, football or dodge ball. Teams of players compete while suited…

  • CCAA teams dug deep to travel to championship

    CCAA teams dug deep to travel to championship

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    STORY BY PALWASHA TEMOR Trafalgar Campus played host to the 2014 Men’s National Soccer Championship last weekend. With eight teams from across the country gathering together to battle for the ultimate prize, Sheridan staff and students pulled out all the stops during the four-day event. According to Jim Flack, director of athletics, the event came…

  • Changing minds one umbrella at a time

    Changing minds one umbrella at a time

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    STORY BY VANESSA GILLIS Many Canadian students take democracy for granted. Phebe Leung is trying to change that and make students more aware of the struggles for political freedom in Hong Kong. Leung, a second-year Crafts and Design (Glass) student, has started the Awareness Project for the Umbrella Revolution in the form of an art…

  • Bruins sweep Cougars in back-to-back games

    Bruins sweep Cougars in back-to-back games

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    STORY BY MIKHAIL HELLER The Sheridan Bruins (3-1 OCAA) swept the Sault Cougars (0-2 OCAA) at home 104-47 and 106-68 in back-to-back victories last weekend at Davis Campus for a combined blowout of 95 points. In Saturday’s game, the Bruins took advantage of the Cougar’s shallow bench and shorter roster and shot 48.8 per cent…

  • Assault in Sheridan’s woods

    Assault in Sheridan’s woods

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    STORY BY WILLIAM DIXON An assault last Thursday morning of a 21-year old woman near a wooded path near Trafalgar campus is under investigation by Halton Police. Constable Cindy Sunstrum is heading the investigation along with two other officers, said Detective Sergeant John Mans, a member of the Child Abuse and Sexual Assault unit. The…