[HDNG]IMPERIAL COLLEGE STUDENTS' UNION:[EHDNG][PARA][GRPH]P5[EGRPH][STAT][BULL] 4 sabbaticals [BULL] Turnout at last ballot: 26% [BULL] Ave. turnout [PARA]at General Meetings: 1-2%[ESTAT][PARA][ITAL]The Union is politically independent - it's principally a provider of [PARA]student services. The students' political savvy is probably best [PARA]summed up by one who said, 'It's mostly Tories come to speak [PARA]here. We had that Tony Benn a few months ago.' [EITAL][BOLD]Also ULU: [EBOLD][PARA]see [ULNE]University of London[EULNE][PARA][PARA][BOLD][HDNG]SU FACILITIES:[EHDNG][EBOLD][PARA]The Union has facilities both at the main site and at St Mary's. At[PARA]South Kensington, the Union building, called Beit Quad, is on the [PARA]other side of the road. In all, the Union offers 2 bars, a cafeteria, [PARA]sandwich bar, travel agency, shop (sweets, stationery, books), [PARA]printing service, NatWest cashpoint, minibus hire, photo booth, [PARA]video and games machines, and juke boxes, cinema, fax service.[HDNG]CLUBS (NON SPORTING):[EHDNG][PARA]Arts Appreciation; Audio; Chamber Music; Choir; Circus Skills; [PARA]Cypriot; Debating; Film; French; Friends of Palestine; Hellenic; [PARA]Indian; Indonesian; Iranian; Japanese; Jazz; Korean; Latin [PARA]American; Lebanese; Malaysian; Mauritian; Methodist; Micro [PARA]Computer; Nigerian; Operatic; Pakistan; Persian Gulf; Pimlico [PARA]Connection (school tutoring scheme); Radio; Remote Controlled [PARA]Models; Scandinavian; Sci-Fi; Scout and Guide; Sikh; Singapore; [PARA]Socialist; Spanish; SPLOT (paintballing); Sri Lankan; Taiwan; Thai;[PARA]Third World First; Transcendental Meditation; Turkish; [PARA]Wargames; Wine Tasting; YHA[HDNG]OTHER ORGANISATIONS:[EHDNG][PARA]'Felix' is the [ITAL]bland [EITAL]Union newspaper, but 'Phoenix', the Union's [PARA]arts magazine, [ITAL]is more interesting[EITAL]. Also interesting, Imperial not [PARA]only has its own radio station (Imperial College Radio), but also a [PARA]TV station (STOIC - Student Television of Imperial College). [ITAL][PARA]Imperial College's Rag is very energetic, although as much [PARA]energy goes into oh-so-wacky stunts as into actual fund raising.[EITAL] [PARA]There's the annual tiddlywink race down Oxford Street and [PARA]legends abound of the naked parachute leap which ended in nude[PARA]students being bundled out of a van at Harrods. 'Felix' claims to [PARA]have photos. Somewhere along the line, they managed to raise [PARA]about ú35,000 last year.[HDNG]RELIGIOUS:[EHDNG][PARA]The West London Chaplaincy handles all Christians, whatever [PARA]the denomination. Daily prayer meetings are held in the Islamic [PARA]Society mosque and Regent's Park Mosque (one of the [PARA]country's largest) is just round the corner. [BOLD]Religion in London: [EBOLD]see[PARA][ULNE]University of London[EULNE][PARA][PARA][BOLD][HDNG]PAID WORK:[EHDNG][EBOLD][PARA]Imperial students can appeal to the firms constantly vying for [PARA]their talents for vacation work or there's Imperial's UROP [PARA]scheme where they help lecturers with their research work and [PARA]can expect to earn anything up to ú120 a week and many [PARA]brownie points.[PARA][PARA]
