[HDNG]BATH UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' UNION:[EHDNG][PARA][GRPH]P5[EGRPH][STAT][BULL] 6 sabbatical [BULL] Turnout at last ballot: 17% [BULL] Ave. turnout at General Meetings: 3% [BULL] NUS member [ESTAT][PARA][ITAL]BUSU's an odd union. Firstly, students have to register for membership (which is free) - membership is almost universal anyway. BUSU's also quite carefully apolitical even though its representative role is quite important - nobody stands for election on party platforms. Underlying all this, is a general apathy about the whole political thing anyway. Socially, BUSU is not exactly super-glue and the University lacks a single focal point.[EITAL][HDNG]SU FACILITIES:[EHDNG][PARA]BUSU is based in Norwood House with some of the University facilities, like one of the refectories and a bar. BUSU offers a coffee bar, travel agency, shop, 4 minibuses and 1 car for hire, printing and photocopying, photo booth, newsagent/post office, Endsleigh insurance branch, games and vending machines, TV lounge, pool tables and a juke box. All 4 major banks also have branches on campus (with cashpoints) and there is a grocers, newsagent and bookshop.[HDNG]CLUBS (NON SPORTING):[EHDNG][PARA]Adventure Gaming; Amateur Radio; Amnesty; Arab; Asian; Backstage; Bang (Christian); Ballroom Dancing; Bapsoc (Baptist); Balls Up (Juggling); Boom-Bang-A-Bong (Live Music); Bugs (scouts/guides); Ceilidh; Debsoc (Debates); Life (anti-abortion); Methodist; Real Ale; Square Pegs (Gay); Wine; Wombats (more Christians).[HDNG]OTHER ORGANISATIONS:[EHDNG][PARA]BUSU publishes the weekly 'Sponge', but 'Spike', an independent free magazine, is the [ITAL]real [EITAL]Bath student press. University Radio Bath, run by BUSU, is the [ITAL]successful and well-equipped[EITAL] student radio station. Campus Television (CTV) broadcasts on a closed circuit network to BUSU's TV lounge, showing its own programmes and movies courtesy of satellite stations. Students take part in the Bath area charity Rag which has a sabbatical co-ordinator and raised ú80,000 last year. They also operate their own Community Action group which runs a number of projects in the local area.[HDNG]RELIGIOUS:[EHDNG][PARA][STAT][BULL] 6 chaplains (CofE, RC, Baptist, Methodist, Quaker, Jewish)[ESTAT][PARA]The Chaplaincy Centre in the middle of the campus is the base for all religions (but with a Christian slant). The city, with its Abbey, churches, Hindu temple and mosque, provides for other religious needs.[HDNG]PAID WORK:[EHDNG][PARA]Tourism always provides a little seasonal work.[PARA][PARA]
