[jlogajan]

Bottom line. It stinks, but there is probably not a whole lot the students can do about it.

Possibly not in the legal venue (depending on contractual terms) but everything can be negotiated -- if you make a big enough stink.

[blau993]

Ability to negotiate is heavily dependent on leverage. Unless things have changed a whole lot since I was in college, students don't have much leverage when they deal with the university.