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Ah.. sorry to ask a question and solve it myself. I was expecting this behavior to be governed by many complex lines in thesis.sty (which is a mess) and I thought it might take me a long time to figure it out myself... but it turns out a single line was causing the problem. \flushbottom (as opposed ...

In my document there is a variable amount of white space at the end of section and subsections (and maybe other breaks) which makes the lower margin a fixed size for all full pages of text. For the last page in a chapter, if the lowest text is too far from the margin, a consistent spacing is used ...