The Sheridan Sun - September 18 2014

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Single mothers are getting the chance to go back to school with a little help from Sher-idan College and some local charities.

A new project, dubbed Homeward Bound Halton, offers many services to help single mothers with their ed-ucation and living expenses as they work toward their educa-tions. This program was creat-ed by Woodgreen Communi-ty Services and is offered with the help of charity Home Suite Hope as well as Sheridan. It began this month at Trafalgar Campus.

Jeff Zabudsky, president of Sheridan College is hopeful that Sheridan’s initiative will have a profound impact.

“Throughout the program each family will be housed with a furnished apartment and will receive funded child care,” he said. “The best way too get on your feet is to get well educated.”

Based on a similar program running in Toronto, Home-ward Bound Halton assists women as they become more self-supporting and change the lives of their children.

Sheridan interviews pro-spective candidates to make sure they are ready to enter post-secondary school and to connect them with pro-grams that interest them most. Homeward Bound and the Oakville Community Founda-tion then pay for these women to get an education.

“Sheridan will be assisting the women who are not too far from graduating by a ‘bridge’ program, that will give them the certain amount of credits needed for what they want too do,” said Zabudsky.

The college will also be pro-viding applicants with all the services available to students, such as the counseling pro-gram or IT services.

Weeds and spores are growing out of women’s hair, eyes, ears and even mouths, as if a new species is being formed. They seem happy with it—or maybe it’s surprise and shock at being in-vaded by Mother Nature.

This isn’t a scene from a science-fiction movie. These are the works of Sheridan faculty member Jess Riva Cooper who is nominated for the 2014 RBC Emerging Artist People’s Choice Award.

“The inspiration behind a lot of my work is looking at invasive plant species and fungal spores and imagining the idea of nature taking over,” Cooper said.

On display until Oct. 14 at the Gardin-er Museum in Toronto, Viral Series is a five-foot square installation. Cooper is competing with four other artists from around Canada for the $10,000 award, which will be announced on Oct. 16.

“I think what’s really great when you

get to display at a place like this is the abil-ity to play,” the 33-year-old said. “You get to build it on-site, there’s a performance aspect that’s really interesting, you’re tak-ing over this space, and you can’t do that in your studio. This way the viewer is en-veloped by the idea and people can walk into the world and suspend disbelief.”

A former Sheridan graduate, Cooper returned to Toronto after five years of studying and completing residencies across America. In January 2014, she started teaching in Sheridan’s Crafts and Design program.

Tony Clennell, Cooper’s former profes-sor and now a colleague of hers said, “In the first 10 years of your career, I think it’s hard to have your own signature and have your own voice. But I know Jess’ work, it has a signature. It hasn’t come fast and furiously, because she spent 10 years in ceramics schools developing that voice. Ten years is like a PhD.”

New charity aims to help single mothers thrive

CHARITY on page 4

Ceramics prof in running for $10k art award

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Read about his high-flyin’ experience on page 10

MEHREEN SHAHID

Sheridan instructor turns judges’ heads at art competition

Composed of many tiny pieces, the original busts were prepared during Cooper’s time at Kohler in America.

ARTISTRY on page 4

Who is Ralph Benmergui, and what does he do?

Benmergui on P6

You may want to rethink pulling your next all-nighter

Sleeping on P7

Check out our coverage of the Bruins’ soccer home openers

Bruins on P11

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The Sheridan International Student Association finds ways to break down social barriers

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Student Association at Tra-falgar Campus started a con-versation circle this month for students who face problems learning English.

“College life is not just an ac-ademics. It’s much more than that. This is the time when we discover ourselves,” said Abhi-jith Arenmulethu Sasikumar, president of SISA Trafalgar.

“Conversation circle will help international students, who recently arrived in Cana-da and are lagging behind in English.”

In conversation circle stu-dents discuss a variety of topics, including grammar, listening and speaking skills. Students sit in a circle and be-gin discussing a topic.

SISA started at Hazel McCal-lion Campus last December, while SISA Trafalgar began

last month.“I am an active member of

SISA. I heard about the conver-sation circle in one of the meet-ings,” said Avdhoot Nazarkar, 23, from India.

Nazarkar struggled with English when he first came to Canada. “ESL course is hard for any international student,” said Nazarkar

Conversation circle is a free service for all students.

“I pretty much like the idea of conversation circle because it’s an easy and free way for many students to improve their conversational skills,” Nazarkar said.

Shinhee Kang, 20, and Miji Lee, 24, from Korea, are at-tending conversation circle to learn to speak fluently and to make some new friends from different cultures.

“In Korea, learning English

is a very big thing, so I learned the very basics and grammar. I am not fluent in speaking,” said Lee.

“If I hear English from Chi-nese, Vietnamese or Korean students, that is much easier to understand. But it is hard to understand in the classroom when my professors speak.”

“I joined conversation cir-cle because sometimes I find it very difficult to commu-nicate and it is also a great opportunity for international students to improve language

while being a part of SISA,” said Kang.

Die Zhang, 23, an interna-tional student from China, said, “conversation circle is a concept of dealing with people in daily life by practising En-glish.

“My English was not so bad but I had a problem in reading. As I joined an ESL course, I improved a lot but since I took Early Childhood Education, I have no time to take another level of course in ESL and it would cost more money.”

Students from SISA at Trafalgar discussing

topics in a conversation circle to practise English

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Sheridan and the Blue Jays rec-ognized two Athletic Therapy students on Saturday, present-ing them the Dr. Ron Taylor and the Blue Jays awards at the Rogers Centre before the Jays hosted the Tampa Bay Rays.

“It feels amazing,” said fourth-year Athletic Therapy student Tommy Kratky – a word and theme he repeatedly used after being presented the Blue Jays award on the field before the game started.

Kratky interned with the Toronto Blue Jays during the summer. He interviewed for the position at last year’s award ceremony with six oth-er Sheridan students and was picked for the opportunity.

“It’s been unbelievable. Ev-eryone is super welcoming. I learned so much from George Poulis (head athletic trainer), the training staff and the front office staff.”

Sports orthopedic surgeon

Dr. Jason Smith, who does work with the Jays, gave the award to Kratky.

Fourth-year Athletic Ther-apy student Jason Amadio received the Dr. Ron Taylor Award from Taylor himself.

“It’s a big honour for me. I’m excited for this, just to be recognized by someone who played in the majors, won two World Series, and is a doctor

himself,” said Amadio.Taylor, 76, is a Toronto na-

tive who played for the 1964 St. Louis Cardinals, winning his first World Series, and who pitched for the 1969 “Miracle” New York Mets and won his second World Series. He re-tired after his second title and went back to school to become a surgeon. He is the team phy-sician for the Jays.

“It was definitely a one-time experience that can never be replicated. I’m still trying to soak it all in,” said Amadio.

He received the award based on his combination of aca-demics, leadership skills and involvement with the commu-nity during his time in the ath-letic therapy program.

Sheridan president Jeff Zabudsky and Athletic Therapy program coordinator Paul Bris-bois were in also on the field.

“This is always a special day for Sheridan because it marks

one of our premier partner-ships and relationships,” said Zabudsky. “It’s been close to 25 years that we’ve had this relationship with the Toronto Blue Jays and it’s an exciting day for the students being honoured, but also a nervous day for the rest of the students interviewing for the same op-portunity. It marks the quality of this program which is ac-knowledged across Canada as one of the best.”

Brisbois has seen the awards ceremony from both sides.

“It’s very cool to be on this side of the award instead of getting the award. It’s exciting for me to see these students

get the same opportunity that I did and do some great things with athletic therapy,” said Brisbois.

Brisbois is a graduate of the Athletic Therapy program and had the same opportuni-ty as Kratky to work with the Jays. He received the Blue Jays Award in 2003.

“The biggest thing is that if you work hard and you do what you’re supposed to do things will work out for them-selves. For me it did and I see a lot of promise with these two.”

For both Sheridan and the Blue Jays it was a successful day. The Jays ended up win-ning 6-3 against Tampa Bay.

It was definitely a one-time experience that can never be replicated. I’m still trying to soak it all in.

JASON AMADIO Dr. Ron Taylor award winner

Athletic Therapy students hit a home run with the Jays

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From left, Dr. Ron Taylor (Blue Jays physician), Jason

Amadio (Dr. Ron Taylor Award winner), Julie Dickson (Athletic Therapy professor), Mardy B. Frazer (Associate Dean of Health Sciences),

Dr. Jason Smith (sports orthopedist), Tommy Kratky

(Blue Jays Award winner), George Poulis (head athletic

trainer), Jeff Zabudsky (President of Sheridan College), Mike Frostad

(Athletic Therapist), Paul Brisbois (Athletic Therapist

program coordinator), Lorainn Hynes (Athletic

Therapy professor), Kirsty McKenzie (Athletic Therapy

program coordinator).

Below: Dr. Ron Taylor and head trainer George Poulis

celebrate with Jason Amadio after presentation on field.

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“Through our IT program, we are also providing [them] with laptops and all of the oth-er services of the college,” said Zabudsky.

The Oakville Community Foundation has been raising funds for about 20 years. It originally approached Sheri-dan with this idea.

“This project was brought to my attention by the CEO of Oakville Community Foun-dation, a wonderful organiza-tion that raises funds around Oakville to build a better and stronger community,” said Zabudsky.

Home Suite Hope will pro-vide the women with a roof over their heads that is close to the school.

“As a single, younger moth-er, I personally would love too have an opportunity like this,” said Rebecca Fawcett, 19, a GTA single mother.

“It can be hard trying to get a job without much of a edu-cation, and this project sounds like it’s giving these women a chance.”

According to a project press release, for every dollar spent transforming a vulnerable in-dividual into a self- supporting citizen, the community gets $4 back.

“This is the first time we are working with Homeward Bound,” said Sheridan’s acting senior manager of special proj-ects, Rossana Gorys.

“Hopefully, with the help of Sheridan it can become a success.”

Jess Riva Cooper is one of three Sheridan graduates nominated for the RBC Emerging Artist People’s Choice

Award. She had two days to set up shop at the Gardiner Museum, where her work will be on display until Oct. 14.

Artist at her best when multi-tasking

Accommodation letter helps ensure all students succeed

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Gordon Thompson, co-ordina-tor of the Bachelor of Craft and Design program, nominated Cooper for the award. Not having taught her during her diploma at Sheridan, Thomp-son started following her ca-reer after an introduction at the Harbourfront artist resi-dency interviews. “Her multi-pronged way makes her work engaging and approachable.”

For Cooper, the nomination was emotionally overwhelm-ing and invigorating. It gave her a chance to establish herself as a ceramics artist after being away from her hometown for five years.

Her last residency with Kohler, a bathroom fixture de-sign and production company, helped expand her creative horizons. Returning to Toronto after five years, she was trying to establish herself as an artist and a maker. This nomination has helped bring her to the forefront as a Toronto artist.

She takes inspiration from everything she sees – sci-ence-fiction, other art, litera-ture, folklore, people around her or travelling. Teaching in-spires her as well.

“I think ideally one’s work evolves and changes as you live in the world as an artist and grow,” she said. “That love of playing and being open to being inspired by anything influences the way that I teach. I try to be an enthusiastic par-ticipant in somebody’s dis-covery and learn and discover

along with them.”Cooper’s creative process is

rigorous and to some it may also appear frantic and fren-zied.

“I’m only happy multi-task-ing to levels of what other peo-ple might consider insanity,” she said with a smile. “I work best if I’m listening to an audio book and if there are people around me. Then I can really focus on my work.”

After being inspired, she sketches out her ideas. Then she uses clay to create the item and complete it. At the end, she sits back, critiques her work and shares it with friends who will provide constructive criti-cism.

If she wins, Cooper will use the $10,000 prize money for a larger studio space, so she can focus on producing more work in future.

Students with disabilities can be ac-commodated with a letter from Sher-idan’s Accessibility Learning Services.

“Any student with a documented disability is eligible for this,” said Jan-ice Galloway, a learning strategist at Trafalgar’s Accessible Learning Cen-tre.

“A student with a learning disabili-ty would need a psycho-educational assessment done before they can get this.”

The form is a confidential letter that is transmitted to instructors allowing extra time on assignments and tests, record class lectures and reduce the number of courses they take at a time. For example, if the student has a test in a class that is two hours long, the student could get an extra half-hour

to complete the test. This accommoda-tion is only given if the student sched-ules to take the test at the Assessment Centre at his or her campus.

“I would get anxious during tests because I would only have so long and I was always scared I wouldn’t finish, so the extra time helps me focus more on the test instead of the time,” said Lyndsay Fraser, a second-year student in Sheridan’s Advertising and Market-ing program.

“I also love the option of having notes taken for me. Sometimes I feel my notes aren’t good enough.”

The only information on it, aside from what they need, is the student’s name, student ID number, program name and counsellor.

“It helps that I have the support of

the accessibility faculty,” said Owen Baxter-Derro, a third-year student in Sheridan’s Media Arts program.

“It helps getting notes from my pro-fessors and I like writing my tests in a less-stressful area.”

The letter can also be given to stu-dents with documented mental and/or physical disabilities that they have been born with or developed through illness or injury.

The accommodation form isn’t the only thing Sheridan offers students with disabilities. The college also of-fers support in acquiring funding for an assessment if you suspect you have a disability or your documentation is older than five years.

Students with disabilities who are eligible for OSAP can apply for the

Bursary for Students with Disabilities (BSWD), which will cover the cost of a psycho-educational assessment.

To get the letter, students must reg-ister with the college and to do that, they will need to meet with a learning strategist. Appointments can be set up through the Student Advisement Cen-tre.

Galloway says students with disabil-ities should take full advantage of the accommodations that are available to them.

“I believe students should use it be-cause it levels the playing field and gives them an equitable education,” said Galloway.

“It takes some of them longer to do things, so they get anxious. The extra time helps them relax.”

It’s back to school for single moms

MEHREEN SHAHID DANA BOYINGTON

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The city’s humane society celebrates the new tethering bylaws at annual pet festival

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It was raining cats and dogs last Saturday but that didn’t put a damper on the Missis-sauga Humane Society pet fair and walkathon.

“This is an annual event,” said society president Lily Chen. “The walkathon started almost 10 years ago, then we changed it to a pet festival two years ago”

This event is the humane so-ciety’s biggest fundraiser.

The non-for-profit organi-zation announced during its presentation it has succeeded in getting a law passed to limit the amount of time an animal can be left outside or tethered. Mississauga is the first city in Ontario to have such a law.

“In January, we started a pe-tition to change the bylaws,” said Chen “Many years ago when I would see the dogs in my neighbourhood tied up 24/7, and I felt so bad for them

because they are there day in and day out until they die. They didn’t have freedom.”

The new bylaw makes it il-legal to have a dog tied up or tethered outside for more than four hours a day. It also pro-hibits dog owners from keep-ing their pets outside during extreme weather conditions.

Ward 9 Councillor Pat Saito was on hand to mark the pass-ing of the new regulation.

“When Lily and the Mis-sissauga Humane Society and Shay McNeal came to council and raised the issue of the chaining and tethering 24/7, quite honestly it was a no-brainer because no dog should be abused in that way,” said Saito.

“It is very hard to get bylaws like that passed because it is very, very hard to enforce.”

According to Saito the cit-izens of Mississauga are the

first line of defence for endan-gered animals.

“We will be able to take some action but it’s going to require neighbours seeing this happen and I think we’re going to get it, because we want to make sure every animal leads a safe, healthy and happy life,” she said.

This new bylaw was ap-proved at the last council meet-ing and is currently in effect.

The pet fair also included a demonstration from the St. John’s Ambulance therapy dogs.

During the exhibition, one canine named Angus per-formed tricks such as finding his owner’s keys, playing dead and fetching a box of tissues when someone sneezed.

The therapy dog program at St. John’s is where dogs and their owners visit places such as hospitals, nursing homes,

and schools to help comfort and bring joy to the patients.

“This is to help give friend-ship to shut-ins,” said unit co-ordinator Shelagh Saunders. “It also helps lower blood pres-sure when you pat a dog, so it gives comfort to people and it distracts them from pain and loneliness.”

St. John’s Ambulance cur-rently has 88 teams of dogs and owners and for a dog to

be certified it just needs to be friendly and pass an entrance test.

After the 20-minute walk around Port Credit Memorial Park led by Rosie the Clown and Councillor Saito, the Mis-sissauga Humane Society in-troduced some of their foster parents to tell their animal’s stories.

The event ended with a raf-fle and silent auction.

One of the many smiling faces at the Mississauga Humane Society pet fair and walkathon at Port

Credit Memorial Park last Saturday.

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Former CBC personality Ralph Benmergui is Sheridan’s advocate when dealing with government

Tucked in a corner office in Trafalgar’s B-Wing admin-istration offices, one of the CBC’s more familiar faces is preparing to head out. He’s in a bit of a rush, as he has a conference call scheduled for his car ride, followed by a meeting in Brampton. If he’s late, he’ll be fighting traffic on the way back, something he’s eager to avoid.

It’s another hectic day in, as he calls it, the “new life” of Ralph Benmergui. A former CBC journalist, host and producer for more than 20 years, Benmergui has been with Sheridan since July 2012. He has left his old life behind, as evidenced by the four Gemini nominations he has yet to bother to hang on his office walls. Benmer-gui now works directly under president Jeff Zabudsky as an “executive advisor.” It’s the sort of job he never thought he’d have.

“The thing about my job is it doesn’t have a rigid no-tion of what you’re supposed to do,” said Benmergui. “It allows me to do what I do best, which is strategic operations.”

Benmergui, 59, is a part of Zabudsky’s executive team and is paid in the same range as a college vice-pres-ident, making him the seventh-highest compensated employee at Sheridan in 2013. But unlike his executive team peers, Benmergui is exempt from the tradition-al operations element of a typical vice-president’s job profile. He has no one working under him, allowing him to focus directly on the main reason he’s at Sheri-dan – government relations.

“I have to have a passion for what I do, and it has to have an element of the public good,” said Benmergui. “I’ve only worked for the public sector, never the pri-vate sector. And that’s intentional.”

After leaving the CBC in 2005, Benmergui spent five years as a host at Toronto radio station Jazz FM 91 and produced a series of documentaries for Vision TV. Wanting a change, he transitioned to his first job in politics as a senior advisor to Elizabeth May, the leader of the federal Green Party. A few months later, he left to work for the Ontario Liberals as a communications director for Glen Murray, then minister of research and innovation. Murray was later moved to the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities where he and Ben-mergui worked on developing the McGuinty govern-ment’s 30 per cent tuition rebate.

It was the time spent at the ministry that Benmergui credits as the main reason for him being qualified for his role at Sheridan. Though, were it not for a chance encounter 25 years in the making, he might never have had the opportunity.

In a meeting with college presidents and the ministry in early 2010, newly hired president Zabudsky recog-nized a former classmate from his years spent in Ry-erson’s broadcast journalism program back in the mid 1980s: Benmergui. Though classmates, neither consid-ered the other a buddy at the time, with Benmergui eventually dropping out to work for the CBC in 1985 and Zabudsky graduating in 1986.

Zabudsky, already sensing the need for a govern-ment relations point man at Sheridan, approached Benmergui about working at Sheridan.

“We have previously used consultants once in a while when we needed government relations,” said Zabudsky, “but it’s too haphazard and too fractured when you bring a consultant in to do just this and that.”

He wanted to move away from consulting to build-ing more lasting relationships with government offi-cials, and Zabudsky saw Benmergui’s background in communications and his extensive list of contacts at provincial and municipal levels reason to believe he was an “ideal person” for the job.

“We were fortunate to encounter Ralph at a point in his career where he was interested in a different chal-lenge,” said Zabudsky. “It’s just amazing in life how

someone from your past comes back.”Zabudsky estimates Benmergui spends half of his

time on campus and the rest of his time at Queen’s Park or with one of the two municipal or regional govern-ments Sheridan has a campus based in.

“As a journalist, I always thought I knew how gov-ernment worked,” said Benmergui. “When you’re in government, you know how government works. And it’s not what you think it is.” Though he’s been with Sheridan longer than his time spent in government, his experiences with the inner workings of government, and how to best navigate the webs of bureaucracy has proven to be a valuable asset.

“Whatever the problem is, you just have the ability to say, ‘I think we should be talking to the ministry, not the minister,’” Benmergui said. “It’s a forest, and you now know the path.”

While the thought of someone walking around knocking on politicians’ doors all day may conjure the idea of Benmergui being a lobbyist for Sheridan, Zabudsky considers Benmergui’s efforts more akin to advocacy than lobbying.

“There is no more money in the province,” joked Zabudsky. “It would be kind of useless for him to be lobbying for more money.” He views Benmergui’s role

at Sheridan as a crucial function in a post-secondary environment.

“Sometimes [governments] can give us things in pol-icy that, frankly, are worth way more to us than mon-ey.” Zabudsky uses the example of more autonomy for program approval, as the process is often bogged down by government red tape.

“We advocate for an understanding of our priori-ties, we advocate for amendments to legislation to al-low us to be more efficient and effective. And we do so in the recognition, and the context of, constraints,” said Zabudsky. “What we’re trying to do is help gov-ernment to help us be better and stronger, without the need for more money.”

Zabudsky points to the recent addition of more than 200 Bachelor of Business Administration students at HMC as one of many projects Benmergui has been vi-tal in enacting at Sheridan. Benmergui is involved in talks with Brampton city officials about a large down-town campus there, which Zabudsky is confident will be a success. Benmergui also played a role in arranging Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne’s visit to Sheridan last year, he said.

Although hired on a year-by-year contract, Benmer-gui keeps his options open when considering his future at Sheridan after it becomes a university. He enjoys the temporary nature of contract work, though his wife is not too enthused by it, and is open to staying on at Sheridan for as long as he’s needed.

“I don’t have strategies for where I’m supposed to be in life. I just try to put myself in a position where wher-ever I am, I can be useful,” said Benmergui. “If I didn’t feel useful here, I wouldn’t be here.

“If I actually thought if I was just walking around – if I was the greeter in a Vegas hotel because I used to be someone, I’d shoot myself. But I’m not that guy.”

President’s go-to guy

From talk show host to talking points


Above: Ralph Benmergui, a former journalist and host on CBC, sitting in his office at Sheridan’s

Trafalgar Campus.

Left: Benmergui’s Gemini nominations sit on the

floor waiting to be hung in his office.

CHRIS COUTTS

I don’t have strategies for where I’m supposed to be in life. I just try to put myself in a position where wherever I am, I can be useful.

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Increases the risk of: · heart attack

· heart failure· irregular heartbeat

· high blood pressure· stroke

Lowers libido and reduces interest in sex

A 2002 study suggested that men with sleep apnea have lower testosterone levels

Those with insomnia were 5 times more likely to develop

depression

Causes fine lines, lackluster skin, and circles under the eyes

Lack of sleep causes the body to release cortisol - a stress hormone - which can break down skin collagen protein

Sleep loss increases hunger and appetite, and stimulates cravings for high-fat, high-carb foods

When the body is forced to stay awake, it becomes

difficult to process blood sugar and leptin, which regulates

appetite and metabolism, and can lead to diabetes

A 2004 study found that getting less than 6 hours of sleep a night increases the chance of obesity by 30%

During sleep, the heart gets a break and slows

down. Without sleep, the heart must work overtime

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by Vanessa Gillis

Remembering Terry Fox

From a clown, to councillors and runners, nearly everybody present at the Terry Fox Run on Sunday at Coronation Park in Oakville, has been affected by cancer.

Jeannie Jelly Beans has volun-teered with the Terry Fox Foundation for the past 10 to 15 years. She arrived at the run as a clown, pulling a toy wagon behind her. “I’m here to make everybody happy,” Beans said.

Beans has a dark history with cancer, with three grandparents, four close family members, and five friends diagnosed with the disease. “They were people who had a lot to live for,” she said. “If Terry hadn’t been here I don’t know where we’d be by now.”

Cathy Duddeck, an Oakville councillor, was in charge of the volun-teers at the event. She said her mother had cancer, and her grandmother died of cancer. “Someone’s always been affected,” she said.

Terry Fox began a cross-Canada run to raise funds for cancer research in 1980, at the age of 22, with one leg amputated due to cancer. Fox died June 28, 1981 with his run half fin-ished. The Terry Fox Foundation has raised more than $650 million world-wide, according to its website.

Tara Moonie was running to honour Terry Fox. “He was one of my heroes as a child,” she said. “And

maintained being a hero.”Pamela Torane, a fellow runner

and Moonie’s friend, first saw Terry Fox in the news when she lived in British Columbia. She followed the Terry Fox story and connected with the run again in Oakville. Torane’s grandfather has died of cancer.

Both Moonie and Torane are teachers at Pine Grove Public School in Oakville, and said they ran to in-spire their students who have already done the school’s Terry Fox Run. They have participated in the Terry Fox Run for the past 10 years.

Darrell Atherley was a power walker and had participated in more than 25 races and events, according to sportstats.ca, before bladder cancer took his life Nov. 16, 2010. Atherley founded Team Darrell, and his fam-ily continued the tradition after his death.

Team Darrell is one of the largest teams dedicated an individual. All proceeds from this team go to the Terry Fox Foundation. The team chose this cancer foundation because it takes the lowest portion of fundraised money for its own administration.

“You’re always part of the team anywhere on this day,” said Joan Atherley, Darrell’s widow. She said their family had teams in Vancouver, New York City, Chicago, Bancroft, Ont. and Newfoundland.

Rylan Atherley, Darrell’s son, ran in the Terry Fox Run this year to carry on his father’s tradition.

“It feels great to run by the other red shirts,” he said, and explained that his mother makes shirts to give anyone who raises a large amount. Team Darrell raised about $20,000 this year, and approximately $132,000 in the past five years through the runs.

Refreshments were offered in tents, and Sheridan Theatre Students performed during opening ceremo-nies. Town Councillor Pam Damoff gave a short speech before the runners took off at 10 a.m. for the 2km, 5km and 10km runs.

Town Councillor Pam Damoff gave a short speech before runners took off at 10 a.m. for the 2km, 5km and 10km runs.

“It was the most people are the Best Terry Fox Run,” Damoff said in a phone interview. She has been involved in the runs for 15 years. She explained that corporate sponsors were not allowed, but they still raised

$125,000 in small amounts. “I think it’s so great that people are so gener-ous.”

Geoff Gibson and Mitchell Bonk, sponsoring the United Way Gen Next, were also running. Their job is to get people between the ages of 25-40 involved in fundraising for the United Way.

Geoff Gibson and Mitchell Bonk, sponsoring the United Way Gen Next, were also running. Their job is to get people between the ages of 25 to 40 involved in fundraising for the United Way.

Bonk said he has never directly been affected by cancer, but he says that doesn’t have to be a motivator. He runs out of selflessness. He said he’s been blessed and wants to help people who aren’t as lucky.

John Christou, a filmmaker and Sheridan graduate, visited Sheridan College after more than a decade away to attend an exclusive screening of his film Rhymes for Young Ghouls last Tuesday.

“I have many fond memories of my year of school at Sheridan, and walking the halls transported me back to my students days,” said Christou. “I remember classes, and shooting short films on the campus. I remem-ber checking out equipment for no better reason than to fool around with it. I remember the impact of some very special teachers, like Vlad Ka-belik, Jean Desormeux, Geoff Pevere, David Barlow and so many others.”

Rhymes for Young Ghouls is set in 1976 on Indian reserves highlight-ing the reality of the residential school system. Residential schools, a school system set up by the Canadian gov-ernment and administered by church-es, had the objective of educating

aboriginal children. But the education included harsh punishments, and the goal of assimilating Native children to the white mainstream culture.

Christou said Canadians are woe-fully uneducated about the residential school tragedy and the multi-gener-ational damage it has done to Native Americans. This film needed to be made both to educate and also to act as a cathartic story that would spark dialogue, he said.

“I’ve been working with writ-er/director Jeff Barnaby since 2006. Before this movie, we made two short films together, and all our work was leading up to a first feature,” said Christou. “Jeff came up with the idea in fall 2010 and I immediately recog-nized the powerful potential of the story.”

The screening ended with loud applause from the audience.

About 100 students, faculty and guests attended the event. After the film was featured, a Q & A session

was held, featuring Jean Desormeaux, coordinator and faculty from Ad-vanced Television and Film, Vlad Kabelik, Advanced Television and Film professor, and Christou.

“I was thrilled with the crowd,” said Christou. “We had a fantastic Q & A. Some very smart questions. I love doing that kind of thing. I got to meet some bright and eager aspiring filmmakers. They were a pleasure to meet.”

The film was premiered last year at the Toronto International Film Fes-tival and since then has been screened all across North America. Rhymes for Young Ghouls has managed to garner several awards, including Best Canadian first feature of the Vancou-ver International Film Festival in 2013, and one of Canada’s Top 10 films by Toronto International Film Festival.

Christou graduated a decade ago from the Advanced Television and Film. In 2008, he started his own production company, Prospector

Films. He is currently the chair of doc-umentary organization of Canada and also named one of the 20 top media executives in Canada under age 35.

His current projects include six features in development and two documentaries, ranging from comedy to zombies.

“I’d love to screen another film at Sheridan. Screening films and doing Q & As for students is something I take great pleasure in doing,” said Christou. “In fact, I’d love to be able to teach a class one day.”

While answering one of the questions about whom he would give credit to for his success, Christou said it would have to be his mentors and family.

“I’d say I was lucky. Very lucky. I had good mentors,” said Christou, in his closing speech. “My family supports me in every way imagin-able. My whole career has been built methodically, taking a million steps to get where I am today.”

Sheridan Theatre Students put on a performance during the opening speeches at the Terry Fox Run last Sunday.

Oakville holds its annual Terry Fox Run at Coronation Park

Sheridan grad encourages aspiring filmmakers


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KIRAN RAZZAK


Technology

in 2013, more than 55 per cent of Canadians owned a smartphone and our overwhelm-ing use of the devices raises the question, can there ever be too much technology? With new technological advances being thought-up every day it’s not hard to imagine human interaction being a thing of the past and one day having machines doing everything for us.

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introducing wine lists and in some cases whole menus via iPad as opposed to the old fashioned way, paper.

E11even in Toronto and Lift in Vancouver are both

embracing the change.

I stood in the doorway with-out a parachute, not sure whether I was scared or excit-ed. The wind was deafening. Then I fell.

Luckily for me it wasn’t out of an airplane. Instead it was into the hands of an iFly in-door skydiving instructor.

Since mid-May people from Oakville and the rest of the GTA have been travelling to iFly Toronto’s indoor skydiv-ing location for a chance at free falling without having to board a plane.

According to Melanie Guer-in, vice-president of iFly Toronto, people have been coming in droves to try out the first facility of its kind in Ontario.

“We get about 50 to 60 people a day throughout the week, and around 200 to 300 on weekends,” Guerin said.

After experiencing it first-hand it’s not hard to see why.

When you first head into the wind tunnel, the main thing you notice is the massive amount of noise generated by the four 10-foot diameter fans that keep you in the air. The second thing you notice is how fragile and at the mer-cy of the elements the human body really is.

I’d never experienced any-thing like it.

When you get in the wind tunnel, although the wind is pushing you up, it feels like you’re in an endless free-fall, as equally terrifying as it is exciting.

After the initial shock of continuous falling dissipated and my instructor made sure I was in the right position, I tried to “fly” around a little. Every little movement result-ed in a major flight change.

Before heading into the tun-nel I was given a quick lesson by my instructor, Fred Poulin.

The lesson itself was sim-ple but covered the basics of skydiving: wind resistance, surface area, positioning and the sign language to commu-nicate inside the tunnel, there was even a four-minute video.

After that, I had to demon-strate what I had learned by

laying down face first on a bench, back arched and arms and legs outstretched as if I was already falling.

The lesson ended with Poulin showing me how to properly fall into the wind tunnel holding both hands against my chest.

“The key is to relax. Not just mentally, but physically too,” Poulin said. “Although sometimes it’s much easier said than done.”

It was definitely easier said done, and while I was in there I completely forgot the sign language. It didn’t make much of a difference in the end though.

The instructors there don’t skip a beat. Poulin constantly corrected my positioning and for the most part saved me from myself.

The introductory package at iFly includes two 60-sec-ond flights for around $80, and although a little pricey, it is a must-try activity for any adrenaline junkie.

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Below: Dos Santos’ cheeks flap away in Oakville’s new vertical wind tunnel.

The key is to relax. Not just mentally, but physically too.

FRED POULINiFly instructor

Throwing caution to the wind, the Sun falls for iFly


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Dos Santos recieves some pre-flight training before the big jump.

Instructor Fred Poulin guides Dos Santos through his wild ride.

Skyfall in suburbia

The men’s soccer team con-tinued its win streak Tuesday, shutting out the visiting Ni-agara Knights 4-0 at Trafalgar Campus.

The Bruins (3-0-0) took the lead early in the first half of the game, quickly controlling the pace from goals by both Raheem Edwards in the 11th minute and Molham Babouli

in the 15th minute.Team captain David Velas-

tegui helped dictate the mo-mentum, anchoring the de-fense in the Bruins end in the first half and helping strikers penetrate in the second half.

“I thought we did well at the beginning. They came out tough but we adjusted our game,” said Velastegui.

“Throughout the first 15 min-utes of the game we started playing our possession which made our chances come and we were able to capitalize in the first half.”

Niagara (2-2-0) had trouble finding any rhythm through out the game and the Sher-idan offense continued to quickly strike and keep the ball in Niagara’s end, forcing the opposition to play defense and commit frustrating fouls.

The game got heated in the 25th minute. A Niagara de-fender struggled to keep up with the footwork by Babouli and was whistled for the foul, receiving a yellow card for not halting his play immediately.

“We had the game in the

bag and started to move the ball even more, our chances came and we missed a couple but stayed with the plan and pulled out a win,” said Velas-tegui.

The Bruins out shot the Knights 18-11, with nine shots in each half.

During the beginning of the second-half double blue had a brief scare. Mid-fielder Khody Ellis went down in the 48th minute – he had previ-ously been injured last game after experiencing tightness in his left hamstring where he left the game and did not return.

Ellis was able to pick him-self up and continue the game, scoring in the 65th minute.

“My hamstring was at little tight a the beginning of the game, I didn’t want to take any chance last game so that’s why I came off but it’s good now. It lasted me 90 min-utes,” said Ellis

Velastegui saw nothing short of what he expected from Ellis. “Khody is a tough kid, he has lots of pace so a lot of defenders come in hard at him. I believe we need a cou-ple days of rest and we should be coming out strong on the weekend. Khody will be get-ting treatment so it looks like he’ll be fine for the next game.”

The Bruins’ next match will be at home against Lambton this Sunday at 4 p.m.

Sheridan’s soccer teams got off to an impressive start at home Saturday with crushing wins over their Redeemer Royals counterparts.

The women kicked off the back-to-back games with a dominating 7-1 performance. Their offensive attack was smothering, spending much of the game in Royals territory. Attacking midfielder Myjnairii Perkins handled much smaller defenders in the area all game, scoring the opening marker in the second minute.

“I thought that we played really hard,” said Perkins. “I think that the first goal made a big impact on the game be-cause it happened in the first couple of minutes and it just gave us that extra push to keep pushing and pushing.”

The Bruins added one more goal just before halftime as Jes-sica Capone finished a break-away following a remarkable through ball from Perkins led her behind the defenders. The floodgates opened in the sec-ond half, as the Bruins scored five goals – three of them by striker Michaela Krampert and one each from Natasha Priest-man and Victoria Folch – while allowing one late Royals tally.

Any advance by the Royals was quickly stifled by the Bru-

in defense, illustrated by a lop-sided 22-6 attempts on goal in favour of the home team.

Head coach Paul Angelini says it was defense by design – a strategy that he says informs all other aspects of his team’s game.

“We play a sweeper system, we don’t play a flat-back four,” said Angelini. “So that means a sweeper is always in the pass-ing lanes, so anything that gets played into space, our sweep-er is supposed to be there and clear it away, or to get posses-sion and to play it back to the keeper and then everybody gets back and we get our shape back and we begin an attack out from the back again.”

The men’s team followed suit, blanking the visitors 5-0 on the strength of two goals by striker Khody Ellis.

They too, opened the scoring early off a planned corner kick play in the 10th minute that caught the Royals by surprise.

Bruins captain David Velas-tegui sent a ball through the box that ricocheted off Ellis’ head directly to Raheem Ed-wards for an easy header into the back of the net.

“It was a corner by David, our captain,” said Edwards. “We know he sends most of his balls back post, so we sent

Khody, our right wing back to the back post, he nicked the ball, and I tapped it in.”

Ilko Vidackovich and Velas-tegui also notched goals in the Bruins victory, their second shut out in as many games, as they defeated Mohawk Col-lege 9-0 earlier in the week.

These early season wins, have raised expectations for head coach Andrew Seuradge and his squad, especially as the men’s team will be hosting the 2014 Canadian College Athlet-ic Association national cham-pionships Nov. 5-8.

“I hope to win the whole thing. I wanna win the league, I wanna win the provincials, and I wanna win nationals,” said Seuradge. “We’re looking to score a lot of goals this year. It could’ve been a 9-0 game to-day too but we missed some chances that we should’ve put

behind (the goalkeeper). But you’re only as good as your last game.”

Edwards echoes his coach’s sentiments.

“There’s really high expec-tations since we’re hosting and everything,” he said. “So the ultimate goal is to bring it to nationals and to win it. We’re capable of doing it, as you can see on the pitch. We’re clicking together, so as long as we stay focused, we got it.”

However, it wasn’t all good news for Bruins soccer over the weekend. After streaking down the near side of the field and sending a blast past the Royals’ goalkeeper in the 65th minute for his second goal of the game, Ellis pulled up hold-ing the back of his leg and was forced to leave the game. The women’s side, already missing some key members of their

own, lost Clare Davoren to an apparent knee injury.

“This is our second loss. We lost our sweeper, who we hap-pen to think, if she’s not the best in the province, Ali (Palm-er) is at least in the top three,” said Angelini.

“To lose Clare, who plays in front of Ali, she’s the sweeper and Clare is the stopper, to lose two center backs in two games, and they’re two starters, it real-ly is a tough blow.”

The Lady Bruins hosted the Niagara Knights on Wednes-day.

The Bruins annihilate the opposition on both the men’s and women’s teams


Varsity sports

Bruins’ defender Clare Davoren writhes in

pain from a knee injury that sidelined her

from the game, as her teammates look on.

Sheridan comes out kicking

The Bruins wrestle for control of the ball at Tuesday’s game.

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