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McGill University students Amanda Garbutt and April Engelberg, both 21, started their own cooking show, The Hot Plate, which aired regularly on TVMcGill and online.

Engelberg, a fourth-year English major, credits good friend Garbutt with getting her interested in cooking. She said she wanted to start a cooking show and she wanted the fourth-year sociology major to be the “star.” 

Despite the increasing failure rate for the University of Waterloo’s mandatory English entrance exam, U of W’s English Language Proficiency Program (ELPP) said all universities should have the exams.

Thirty per cent of first-year students do not pass the ELP Exam, up from 25 per cent five years ago, according to program managing director Ann Barrett. Even so, Barrett said all universities should implement the exam, currently unique to U of W, to ensure students have the necessary writing skills for academic success.

For some students, applying to university is a stressful process. Decisions have to be made about where to apply and for what program to enter. Now, Alberta is attempting to make the registration process easier and cheaper for its students with the unveiling of a new website that streamlines the application process.

The new site, ApplyAlberta, is an easier and less costly way to apply, said Seamus O’Shea, ApplyAlberta co-chair.

A clerical error at the Brock University library resulted in secure student information being leaked to the university’s public website, according to an open letter sent out earlier this month.

In the letter, Murray Knuttila, Brock’s provost and vice-president (academic), explained that a library employee accidentally uploaded a file containing the university’s student names, ID numbers, phone numbers and mailing and e-mail addresses to the Brock website.

The president of the University of Ottawa student federation was arrested Feb. 2 for disturbing the peace after he called an officer “fuck-face,” shown in a video posted on YouTube and confirmed by the Ottawa Police Service.