[HDNG]UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM UNION:[EHDNG][PARA][GRPH]P5[EGRPH][STAT][BULL] 5 sabbatical [BULL] Turnout at last ballot: 29% [BULL] NUS member [ESTAT][PARA][ITAL]UNU is a very moderate union; [EITAL]one of the delegates to last year's [PARA]NUS conference went on the Christian Union ticket[ITAL]. Its political [PARA]role in student life is something like that of a door handle on a [PARA]door - an essential part of the thing, but hardly the major feature. [PARA]The halls have a greater weight in most students' lives than UNU, [PARA]although students tend to get involved in UNU-co-ordinated clubs [PARA]and other activities.[EITAL][HDNG]SU FACILITIES:[EHDNG][PARA]In the Portland Building, UNU houses: 1 bar; travel agent; 2 shops; [PARA]print shop and photocopying; record/CD/video library; car and [PARA]minibus hire; NatWest and Midland Banks (with cashpoints); [PARA]games and vending machines; Endsleigh Insurance office; library;[PARA]photo booth; pool table; juke box; TV lounge; 8 meeting rooms; [PARA]and car parking.[HDNG]CLUBS (NON SPORTING):[EHDNG][PARA]American Circle; Amnesty International; Anglican; Arms and [PARA]Armour; Art; Asian; Ballroom Dancing; Bands; Bell Ringing; Blow [PARA]Soc; Bridge; Circus; Contemporary Dance; Cocktail; Chemistry; [PARA]Childrens TV; Chess; Debating; English; Films; Folk; Football [PARA]Supporters; Frankie Howerd Appreciation; Gilbert and Sullivan; [PARA]Ladies Keep Fit; Law; Malaysian; Materials; Mutants; Methodist; [PARA]Music; Mining; North; Passion; Pro-Life (anti-abortion); [PARA]Psychology; Politics; Philosophy; RCP; Real Ale; Role Playing [PARA]Games; Sci-Fi; Scout and Guide; Sega; Spanish; Tai Chi; Turkish; [PARA]Theology; Yoga; Wine.[HDNG]OTHER ORGANISATIONS:[EHDNG][PARA]'Impact' is the University's [ITAL]pretty good[EITAL] student newspaper. The [PARA]award-winning University Radio Nottingham is one of the oldest ([ITAL][PARA]and best[EITAL]) student radio stations in the country. Also Karnival, the [PARA]charity rag, is the country's biggest money raisers, raising [PARA]ú100,000 last year. The University's tremendously successful [PARA]Community Action group involves nearly 1,500 students in 75 [PARA]projects and [ITAL]can claim some responsibility for the excellent [PARA]student community relations.[EITAL][PARA][PARA][ITAL][HDNG]RELIGIOUS:[EHDNG][EITAL][PARA][ITAL][STAT][BULL] 8 chaplains (CofE, RC, Methodist, Baptist, Jewish, Muslim).[ESTAT][EITAL][PARA]There's a chapel and Muslim prayer room in the Portland [PARA]Building. Locally, the city offers churches for most Christian [PARA]denominations and worship shops for Muslims, Jews, Sikhs, [PARA]Hindus and Buddhists.[HDNG]PAID WORK:[EHDNG][PARA]Apart from the usual money scrambles, students have been [PARA]known to sell themselves as guinea pigs at the medical school [PARA](ú120 for 3 days) and to work at the Pork Farms factory on night [PARA]shifts (ú500 a week).[PARA][PARA]
