[HDNG]HULL UNIVERSITY UNION:[EHDNG][PARA][GRPH]P4[EGRPH][STAT][BULL] 6 sabbaticals [BULL] Turnout at last ballot: 14.6% [BULL] NUS [PARA]member [ESTAT][PARA][ITAL]In a survey at the time of the last general election, 30% of [PARA]students said they would vote Conservative, the same number as[PARA]would vote Labour. The rest opted for Lib Dems, Greens, don't [PARA]knows and don't cares. This, however surprised most people [PARA]because the Union is dominated by moderate left wingers and [PARA]independents and has the largest student Labour Club in the [PARA]country. The answer is that many of the Tory voters feel that the[PARA]so long as the Union doesn't bother them, they won't bother it. [PARA]The Union's main role is commercial - the building is big and the [PARA]facilities impressive.[EITAL][PARA][PARA][ITAL][HDNG]SU FACILITIES:[EHDNG][EITAL][PARA]Union facilities are based in University House: 3 bars (and 1 at the[PARA]sports centre); mini-mart shop (and mini-mart with limited opening[PARA]hours at the Lawns Centre - see below); gift shop; travel agency; [PARA]print unit; launderette; photocopying; DTP unit; Lloyds cashpoint; [PARA]games machines room; vending machines; pool tables; function [PARA]rooms (including 4 large halls); minibus hire. The sports centre is [PARA]1 of only 2 Union-run centres in the country.[HDNG]CLUBS (NON SPORTING):[EHDNG][PARA]Amnesty International; Anti-Fascist; Asian; Audio; Ballroom; [PARA]Beatles; Chinese; Circus; Debating; Erasmus; Gilbert and Sullivan;[PARA]Grotsoc (grunge); Hellenic; House Music; Hunt Sabs; International [PARA]Students; Jazz; Jewish; Links First Aid; Machiavelli; Malaysian; [PARA]Model UN; Motorcycle; Nordic; NSPCC; Punk/Hardcore; Rave; [PARA]Real Ale; Science Fiction; Scottish; Singapore; SE Asian; Turf [PARA]Club; Wargames; War on Want; Welsh.[HDNG]OTHER ORGANISATIONS:[EHDNG][PARA]The Union-financed, but editorially independent 'Hullfire' is the [PARA]main student newspaper. Other student media includes 'Torch' [PARA](literary/arts magazine) and the student radio station, which [PARA]broadcasts to the Lawns centre and the Wheatsheaf. The [PARA]charity Rag raised ú15,000 last year and HUSSO, the country's [PARA]largest student community group, runs [ITAL]some extremely active [PARA]and worthwhile[EITAL] projects. It employs a sabbatical co-ordinator, a [PARA]full-time secretary and involves over 1,000 students.[HDNG]RELIGIOUS:[EHDNG][PARA][STAT][BULL] 10 chaplains (CofE, RC, Orthodox, Methodist, Baptist, URC, [PARA]Friends, Jewish)[ESTAT][PARA]There's a chapel sort of thing under the arts building. In Hull, [PARA]most versions of Christianity are represented and there is a small[PARA]Jewish community, but the city is far from multi-cultural and other[PARA]religions don't get much of a look-in.[HDNG]PAID WORK:[EHDNG][PARA][ITAL]Hull has got a pretty bad unemployment problem, and students [PARA]aren't first in the queue, facing resentment if they try to push in.[EITAL][PARA][PARA]
