[HDNG]IMPERIAL COLLEGE STUDENTS' UNION:[EHDNG][PARA][GRPH]P5[EGRPH][STAT][BULL] 4 sabbaticals [BULL] Turnout at last ballot: 26% [BULL] Ave. turnout at General Meetings: 1-2%[ESTAT][PARA][ITAL]The Union is politically independent - it's principally a provider of student services. The students' political savvy is probably best summed up by one who said, 'It's mostly Tories come to speak here. We had that Tony Benn a few months ago.' [EITAL][BOLD]Also ULU: [EBOLD]see [ULNE]University of London[EULNE][PARA][PARA][BOLD][HDNG]SU FACILITIES:[EHDNG][EBOLD][PARA]The Union has facilities both at the main site and at St Mary's. At South Kensington, the Union building, called Beit Quad, is on the other side of the road. In all, the Union offers 2 bars, a cafeteria, sandwich bar, travel agency, shop (sweets, stationery, books), printing service, NatWest cashpoint, minibus hire, photo booth, video and games machines, and juke boxes, cinema, fax service.[HDNG]CLUBS (NON SPORTING):[EHDNG][PARA]Arts Appreciation; Audio; Chamber Music; Choir; Circus Skills; Cypriot; Debating; Film; French; Friends of Palestine; Hellenic; Indian; Indonesian; Iranian; Japanese; Jazz; Korean; Latin American; Lebanese; Malaysian; Mauritian; Methodist; Micro Computer; Nigerian; Operatic; Pakistan; Persian Gulf; Pimlico Connection (school tutoring scheme); Radio; Remote Controlled Models; Scandinavian; Sci-Fi; Scout and Guide; Sikh; Singapore; Socialist; Spanish; SPLOT (paintballing); Sri Lankan; Taiwan; Thai; Third World First; Transcendental Meditation; Turkish; Wargames; Wine Tasting; YHA[HDNG]OTHER ORGANISATIONS:[EHDNG][PARA]'Felix' is the [ITAL]bland [EITAL]Union newspaper, but 'Phoenix', the Union's arts magazine, [ITAL]is more interesting[EITAL]. Also interesting, Imperial not only has its own radio station (Imperial College Radio), but also a TV station (STOIC - Student Television of Imperial College). [ITAL]Imperial College's Rag is very energetic, although as much energy goes into oh-so-wacky stunts as into actual fund raising.[EITAL] There's the annual tiddlywink race down Oxford Street and legends abound of the naked parachute leap which ended in nude students being bundled out of a van at Harrods. 'Felix' claims to have photos. Somewhere along the line, they managed to raise about ú35,000 last year.[HDNG]RELIGIOUS:[EHDNG][PARA]The West London Chaplaincy handles all Christians, whatever the denomination. Daily prayer meetings are held in the Islamic Society mosque and Regent's Park Mosque (one of the country's largest) is just round the corner. [BOLD]Religion in London: [EBOLD]see [ULNE]University of London[EULNE][PARA][PARA][BOLD][HDNG]PAID WORK:[EHDNG][EBOLD][PARA]Imperial students can appeal to the firms constantly vying for their talents for vacation work or there's Imperial's UROP scheme where they help lecturers with their research work and can expect to earn anything up to ú120 a week and many brownie points.[PARA][PARA]
