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MEDIA ADVISORY YORK STUDENTS TO BEGIN TEN DAY CAMP OUT TO PROTEST HIGH TUITION FEES AND MORTGAGE SIZED STUDENT DEBT

Media advisory: York students to begin ten-day camp out to protest high tuition fees and mortgage-sized student debt

Fri, 20 Jan, 2012 12:20 PM EST

TORONTO, Jan. 20, 2012 /CNW/ - Students at York University will begin a ten-day, on-campus camp out on Monday, January 23 to protest the rising cost of post-secondary education and to bring attention to a National Day of Student Action to be held on Wednesday, February 1.

TheFreezing to Drop Tuition Fees camp out is designed to draw attention to the chronic underfunding of post-secondary education that has left Ontario students out in the cold. Students are concerned that the Liberal tuition grant implemented this January excludes two-thirds of all students. In December, students submitted more than 40,000 petitions calling on the Liberals to convert the grant into a real tuition fee reduction.

Ten-day camp out to protest the rising cost of post-secondary education.

Adjacent to Vari Hall in the York University Commons, which is located inside the bus loop.

January 23to February 1, 2012; Launch on January 23

The York Federation of Students unites over 55,000 full- and part-time undergraduate students at York University in Toronto.

For all media inquiries:

Hamid Osman Executive Director of the York Federation of Students: 647 448-2823 mobile

Alastair Woods camper and Vice-President of Campaigns and Advocacy of the York Federation of Students: 647 378-8942 mobile

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