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First step taken in ending bus pass vs shuttle debate

First step taken in ending bus pass vs shuttle debate

STORY BY ERIN QUEENAN AND MIKE MELRO Sheridan College and the Student Union are conducting an email survey about student transit, a topic that’s been on the discussion table for eight years. Launched last week, the survey aims to better understand student transit preferences and consider “solutions to the shuttle bus capacity challenges,” according to […]

Sheridan Takes On TFC

Sheridan Takes On TFC

STORY BY KAHFEEL BUCHANAN A group of Bruins watched Sebastian Giovinco’s record breaking night live, thanks to the Sheridan Takes Over TFC event on Saturday, September 26. The event, hosted by Student Union, gave students a chance to see the Toronto FC vs Chicago Fire in a live MLS soccer game for a discount. More than […]

Lucky students cruise through Toronto in style

Lucky students cruise through Toronto in style

STORY AND PHOTOS BY JESSICA ROVEDA Sheridan students who cruised Lake Ontario until 2 a.m. on Sept. 9 still managed to make it to early classes the next day. As part of the #FROSHONFLEEK series of first-week events put on by the Sheridan Student Union, a River Gambler boat cruise titled Ship Just Got Real […]

General meeting talks big money

General meeting talks big money

STORY BY CAIT CARTER Sheridan’s Student Union passed five bylaws and it’s $9 million budget at its annual general meeting last week. A total of 40 students showed up to the meeting’s three locations, HMC, Davis and Trafalgar, which was conducted by video conference. The college has approximately 18,000 full-time students. The SSUI distributed several […]

Welcome to the jungle

Welcome to the jungle

COURTNEY BLOK PHOTOGRAPHY BY COURTNEY BLOK Things got wild at Trafalgar Campus last week when students jammed the Marquee to see the Jungle Cat World Wildlife show. Despite the name of the show, there was much more to see than just jungle cats. Sheridan students were able to get up close and personal with exotic […]

How to find local events

How to find local events

STORY BY SAMANTHA MAICH Feeling stuck on Trafalgar Campus with nothing to do in your spare time? Don’t despair. From Sheridan’s International Student Association, to participating in sports events such as Women’s Basketball and attending the Musical Theatre students’ performances, there is plenty to do on and off campus. Many students do not travel farther […]

Sheridan holds strobe lit pub on International Epilepsy Awareness Day

Sheridan holds strobe lit pub on International Epilepsy Awareness Day

STORY BY IAN WAY Sheridan’s Student Union is holding a strobe light pub at Trafalgar’s Marquee next Thursday, which is also International Epilepsy Awareness Day. In addition to not having any kind of SU event recognizing the day, students with epilepsy won’t be able to attend the stop light party, whose theme is includes use […]

Broadcast student gets $10k award

Broadcast student gets $10k award

STORY BY MEHREEN SHAHID When he walked in at 7 a.m. with coffee and bagels for his teammates on his third day back at school, Nick Kattis had no idea what was coming his way three hours later. At 10:15 a.m., taking a break from their news show production schedule, all broadcast students gathered round, […]

Student Union should stop saying ‘screw you’ to U-Pass

Student Union should stop saying ‘screw you’ to U-Pass

EDITORIAL BY JEANYLYN LOPEZ Oakville Transit director Barry Cole said he’s proposed that Sheridan get a U-Pass for seven years, but has been repeatedly turned down by the Student Union. The SU maintains students aren’t interested. Yet, in a recent survey conducted by the Sheridan Sun, 90 per cent of students said they want a […]

Survey shows students wouldn’t pass up a U-Pass

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 […]

Student Union turns down job poster

Student Union turns down job poster

STORY BY CATARINA MUIA A disabled Sheridan student is giving the SU a failing grade for its unwillingness to help him hire a personal assistant. Earlier this month, Peter Biec, a second-year Advertising and Marketing Communications – Management student who uses a wheelchair, brought a want-ad poster to hire an assistant to Sheridan’s Student Union. […]

SU and college scramble to fix shuttle bus mess

SU and college scramble to fix shuttle bus mess

STORY BY CHRIS COUTTS Some arrive late. Some have to leave early. Some even miss their class altogether. The shuttle service to Sheridan’s three campuses has been experiencing delays and backlogs since the first day of fall classes, and the college’s administration and Student Union are unclear on how to effectively resolve the problems. The […]

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