[HDNG]MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN STUDENTS' UNION:[EHDNG][PARA][GRPH]P4[EGRPH][STAT][BULL] 7 sabbaticals [BULL] Turnout at last ballot: 14% [BULL] Ave. turnout [PARA]at General Meetings: 1-2% [BULL] NUS member [ESTAT][PARA]The Union's main building, opposite the All Saints Building on [PARA]Oxford Road, was once called The Mandela Building, although [PARA]the students voted to change it, renamed it the Bruce Forsyth and[PARA]then changed it again to the Martin Luther King Building - it's [PARA]generally known as The Union.[ITAL] Grouping Martin Luther King with [PARA]such great games show hosts as Brucie and Nelson is quite [PARA]illustrative of most MMU students' attitude to student politics - [PARA]laugh a lot and don't get strung up about party affiliations.[EITAL][PARA][PARA][ITAL][HDNG]SU FACILITIES:[EHDNG][EITAL][PARA]The Union has facilities on 5 sites including, usually, a bar and [PARA]snack bar. In the main building there are 2 bars, 2 cafes, a travel [PARA]agency, a general shop, a customised disco, Barclays Bank and [PARA]cashpoint, vending, video and games machines, pool tables, juke [PARA]box, photocopier, photo booth, launderette, TV lounge, 2 [PARA]minibuses and function rooms.[HDNG]CLUBS (NON SPORTING):[EHDNG][PARA]Anti-Fascist Action; Asian; Chinese; Contemporary Dance; [PARA]Debating; Environmental and Geographic; Green Action; Film [PARA]Making; Gray's Inn (legal); Hunt Saboteurs; Independent [PARA]Musicians; Iraqi Students; Irish; Lesbian; Links; Malaysian; Militant; [PARA]Musos; New Age; Pan African Progress; Punjabi; Puppetry; [PARA]RCP; Roleplaying; Soul; Starfleet Academy (sci-fi); Tai Chi [PARA](meditation); Tory Reform Group; Women's Art.[HDNG]OTHER ORGANISATIONS:[EHDNG][PARA]'Pulp', the student newspaper has a sabbatical editor. MMU does[PARA]charity work for special appeals (Red Nose Day, Children in [PARA]Need, etc) but they've boycotted MASS Rag, which is run by the [PARA]other universities around Manchester, because of the 'sexist and [PARA]racist' nature of the Rag mag.[HDNG]RELIGIOUS:[EHDNG][PARA][STAT][BULL] 2 chaplains (CofE, RC)[ESTAT][PARA]On campus, there is a Catholic chapel, apart from which, [PARA]students must look to Manchester's [ITAL]more than adequate[EITAL] religious[PARA]facilities. [ITAL]It worked for James Anderton, the peculiar former local[PARA]Chief Constable who claimed he was on a mission from God. [EITAL][BOLD][PARA]Religion in Manchester: [EBOLD]see [ULNE]University of Manchester[EULNE].[PARA][PARA]
