[HDNG]STUDENTS' UNION/UNDEB Y MYFYRWYR:[EHDNG][PARA][GRPH]P5[EGRPH][STAT][BULL] 5 sabbatical [BULL] Turnout at last ballot: 18.75% [BULL] Ave. turnout at General Meetings: 2.5% [BULL] NUS member [ESTAT][PARA][ITAL]The level of participation in union affairs is high, it being necessary for students to find their own means of passing the time. The College staff take a similarly crusading position - the lecturers that is (through the local AUT), not the administrative authorities, who look on it all like a small zit: mildly distasteful and impossible to ignore. A few years ago, this led to the Union taking out national advertising, discouraging people from applying to Swansea, but things are a tad calmer now. The Union services and welfare are starry stuff - read on...[EITAL][ITAL][HDNG]SU FACILITIES:[EHDNG][EITAL][PARA]The Union has a building on the main campus called... go, take a guess... got it in one: Mandela House. There's 3 bars, a pizza parlour, travel agency, general shop (including 2nd hand books), print shop, computer shop, nursery, Endsleigh Insurance, launderette, 4 pool and 4 snooker tables, table tennis, photo booth, video and vending machines, and pay phones. It also has the marginally more originally named Student Amenities Centre at Hendrefoilan Student Village which has a general shop, a bar, licensed diner, vending machines, a launderette and pay phones. By the way, the College signed away their soul to Lloyds Bank (but then again, so has [PUSH]push[EPUSH]) and consequently theirs is the only bank and cashpoint on campus.[HDNG]CLUBS (NON SPORTING):[EHDNG][PARA]607 Revellers; Amnesty; Bosnian Aid; Cult TV; Duke of Edinburgh; English; French; German; Greek; Italian; Lodgers Club (livers-out co-op; organising events and minibus trips to the supermarket); Macabre TV; Magic Roundabout Appreciation; Militant; Only Fun in Focus (organises Gigs); Palestinian; Plaid Cymru; Politics; Psychology; Spanish; Slavonic; World Scholarship Appeal.[HDNG]OTHER ORGANISATIONS:[EHDNG][PARA]Rag, which raised a [ITAL]healthy [EITAL]รบ20,000 last year, has a very high profile, as does the student community group with over 500 people involved and a full time co-ordinator organising 24 projects run every week with the young, the old, the disabled and the deprived. 'Radio Shreek' is the College radio station filling the campus airwaves. The only other regular student media is 'Bad Press', the student newspaper, [ITAL]which, fortunately, doesn't usually live up to its name[EITAL].[HDNG]RELIGIOUS:[EHDNG][PARA][STAT][BULL] 5 chaplains (CofE, RC, URC, Methodist, Baptist)[ESTAT][PARA]On campus, there's an inter-denominational chapel, mosque and in town, churches of most orientations and places of worship for Jews and Jehovah's Witnesses.[HDNG]PAID WORK:[EHDNG][PARA][ITAL]When industrialism died, most of the jobs in Swansea went with it leaving the area fairly depressed. Students looking for work often end up in bars, but rarely working there. Engineers and select scientists may find a little vocational vacation work in the local oil industry. [EITAL]
