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<p>according to today’s campus newspaper, the reason for requiring the study abroad students to live in a specific dorm is so they can group them together and then have that space available to group next year’s entering midyear class together. in the past few years, midyears were housed in newly renovated dorms that were being renovated during the fall, and therefore available for all of them to live together in for the spring. they are not renovating a dorm this coming fall which led to the issue of how to be able to house next year’s midyear’s together – something that is deemed important for helping their transition into the school.</p>
<p>so you may not like the policy and its effects on those who want to study abroad, but to characterize it as designed to eke more money out of study abroad students may not be fair.</p>