[HDNG]THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL GUILD OF STUDENTS:[EHDNG][PARA][GRPH]P5[EGRPH][STAT][BULL] 4 sabbatical [BULL] Turnout at last ballot: 15% [BULL] Ave. turnout at [PARA]General Meetings: 1-2% [BULL] NUS member [ESTAT][PARA][ITAL]The Guild is the 2nd largest students' union building in Europe [PARA](the biggest is in Paris) and so it's not surprising that it offers [PARA]some pretty good facilities, but also being so big, it's often difficult[PARA]to fill it. Even with several hundred students at an event, it can [PARA]feel almost empty. This makes it a bit daunting and almost as [PARA]many students use [ULNE]John Moores University[EULNE]'s Haigh SU Building, [PARA]which is smaller and cosier. Still, it's a bit rich to start complaining[PARA]that the Guild facilities are too big while too many students' unions[PARA]have to go without. What's more, it's undergoing a ú1.3million [PARA]refit, including the creation of a Student Services Centre, [PARA]containing some of the University's support services (eg. the [PARA]careers service, health centre, etc), bars, shops, and more.[EITAL][PARA][PARA][ITAL][HDNG]SU FACILITIES:[EHDNG][EITAL][PARA]Bars; cafeterias; Print shop; general shop; photographers; [PARA]optician; 'Little Cohen' Library with study area; travel agency; off [PARA]licence; prayer room; International Lounge; launderette; [PARA]hair-dresser; table tennis; snooker; Mountford Hall (cap 1,500); [PARA]Monday market in Mountford Hall (clothes, veg, plants, etc); [PARA]theatre; dark room; band practice room; cloak-room (for leaving [PARA]bags, etc); function rooms; photo booth; games and vending [PARA]machines; film making facilities; photocopying.[HDNG]CLUBS (NON SPORTING):[EHDNG][PARA]Amnesty International; Anti-Fascist; Ba'hai; Change Ringers [PARA](bellringing); Critical Legal; Gilbert and Sullivan; House music; [PARA]Greek; Irish; Juggling; Live Action Role Playing; Malaysian; [PARA]Methodist; Militant; Northern Ireland Children's Holiday Scheme; [PARA]Open Air; Postgrad and Mature; Pro-Life (anti-abortion); Psychical[PARA]Research; RCP; Sci Fi; Third World First; Malaysian; Welsh; [PARA]Wine-Tasting.[HDNG]OTHER ORGANISATIONS:[EHDNG][PARA]There are a student newspaper 'Gazette' and an arts magazine [PARA]'Sphinx', the oldest student rag in the country. The Guild [PARA]executive produce a newsletter ('Communique'). The charity Rag[PARA]raised ú9,000 last year and the community action group has a full[PARA]time paid worker who co-ordinates many local help projects.[HDNG]RELIGIOUS:[EHDNG][PARA][STAT][BULL] 2chaplains (CofE, RC)[ESTAT][PARA]There's the inter-denominational prayer room in the Union and an [PARA]Anglican chaplaincy on campus. There are 2 cathedrals in town, [PARA]Catholic and Anglican, in strongly contrasting architectural styles,[PARA]and both within praying distance of the Union. There are plenty of[PARA]churches, more synagogues than in any other English town this [PARA]size and a few mosques, as well as temples for Hindus, [PARA]Buddhists and Hare Krishnas.[HDNG]PAID WORK:[EHDNG][PARA]There is high unemployment in Liverpool, so there's lots of [PARA]competition for the few places in bakeries, shops and bars[ITAL].[EITAL][PARA][PARA]
