[HDNG]UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL UNION (UBU):[EHDNG][PARA][GRPH]P5[EGRPH][STAT][BULL] 6 sabbaticals [BULL] Turnout at last ballot: 30% [BULL] Ave. turnout at General Meetings: 1.5% [BULL] NUS member [ESTAT][PARA][ITAL]UBU's building is one of the largest and best equipped in the country, the Union is slickly run and has a significant say in the University, but it still doesn't manage to attract interest from students who are too politically apathetic to be bothered. In fact, many students tend to be more right-wing than right-on, as befits a city founded on tobacco and slavery[EITAL].[PARA][PARA][PARA][HDNG]SU FACILITIES:[EHDNG][PARA]At the Union Building: 3 bars; restaurant; snack bar; vending machines; travel agent; general shop; wholefood shop; 2nd hand bookshop; NatWest Bank (with cashpoint); video arcade; market stalls; swimming pool; 2 dark rooms; music rooms; pottery workshop; art studio; snooker, billiards and pool; 2 theatres; TV room; launderette; hairdresser; hire shop (records, videos, tools, etc); study rooms; photo booth.[HDNG]CLUBS (NON SPORTING):[EHDNG][PARA]Amnesty International; Anglican; Art; Asian; Ballroom Dancing; Baptist and URC; Behind the Sofa (Dr Who); Bike; Buddhist; Changeringers (bell-ringing); Charter 88; Circus; Christian Medical Fellowship; CND; Dance Music; Debating; Duke of Edinburgh Award; Erasmus (European exchange); European; Exotic and Wild Animals; Expeditions; Fabian (intellectual left wing); Falstaff (literature and writing); Friends of Palestine; Greek; History of Art; Hong Kong; Iranian Cultural; Iraqi; Jazz and Blues; Joint Christian Committee; Lunchtime Theatre; Madrigal Ensemble; Malaysian; Marxist; Meditation and Buddhism; Methodist; Model UN; Morris Dancing; Natural Way T'ai Chi Chuan (Chinese stress control exercises); Opera; Paintballing; Panto; Political; Pottery; Prisoner (McGoohan, not Cell Block H); PTOTOOT (Putting Things On Top Of Other Things, social misfits); Rag Morris (mixed morris dancing); Railway; RCP; Red Cross; Revunions (student revue); Royal Navy Unit; SAG (Scout and Guide); Scandinavians; Science Fiction; Social Work; Stage Technicians; Stubs; Turkish; UBIS (international); Wargames; Welsh; Willy Wonka's Chocolate; Wine Circle; World Music; World Wide Fund for Nature; XXX Amateur Films (amateur films but not XXX-rated ones); Young Entrepreneurs.[HDNG]OTHER ORGANISATIONS:[EHDNG][PARA]UBU's 2 regular (free) publications are 'Epitome', the weekly newsletter, and 'Epigram', the [ITAL]excellent [EITAL]fortnightly newspaper, and there's the award-winning 'Wayzgoose' (general student mag) as well. Do-gooders do good through the Bristol-wide charity Rag (raising รบ20,000 last year) and the [ITAL]active[EITAL] SCA (Students Community Action).[HDNG]RELIGIOUS:[EHDNG][PARA][STAT][BULL] Chaplains (most flavours)[ESTAT][PARA]Ecumenical University chaplaincy centre. In town, worshippers of every species can worship anywhere; from Sikh temples to the Salvation Army, from the Vedanta Movement to synagogues.[HDNG]PAID WORK:[EHDNG][PARA]There's always begging and go-go dancing, but otherwise just the normal limited selection of bar work and restaurants.[PARA][PARA]
