Students move into their dorms against the backdrop of major changes to the province’s OSAP funding, which will shift student financial aid from nonrepayable grants to loans.
New mattress toppers, suitcases and cardboard boxes were lined up outside Tatham Hall student residence at York University.
Despite gloomy skies and damp weather, enthusiastic students and their parents hauled suitcase after suitcase from cars to dorm rooms, with the help of student volunteers dressed in bright jersey-like uniforms. In some parts of the Keele campus, music played through several speakers, and balloons were hung up in front of some residences’ doors.
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