By Mark Dreger
Sunday was moving day for UBC Okanagan students living on campus in Kelowna. Hundreds of vehicles filed onto the university grounds, with traffic backed all the way onto the overpass as if it was a border crossing.
Shannon Dunn, director of business operations at UBCO, gave the Capital News a tour around campus to talk with students about moving into their dorms.
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Renoir Gauvin, a 3rd-year psychology major from Vancouver, moved into the same dorm room she had last school year.
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The 2017-18 school year breaks the UBCO record for the most registered students since the school was founded in 2005. Over 9,000 students from 98 countries have registered for this school year, with 2,250 first-year students.
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