[HDNG]UNION SOCIETY, UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE:[EHDNG][PARA][GRPH]P5[EGRPH][STAT][BULL] 6 sabbatical [BULL] Turnout at last ballot: 22% [BULL] Ave. turnout at General Meetings: 0.6% [BULL] NUS member [ESTAT][PARA][ITAL]The Union is not only as active as a body-popper with a bee in his track suit, but also owns its own building and so is free to do what it likes with it. The Union Building is impressive too, palatially big with facilities to spare, if a bit like a rabbit warren. Politically, there is a pull to the right from the 'agri' students, but others tend to be mildly left.[EITAL][HDNG]SU FACILITIES:[EHDNG][PARA]There's a whole floor of franchise outlets, currently hosting a record store, travel shop and others. There's also the union shop, print shop, new and 2nd-hand bookshops, shipping service, secretarial agency, music rooms, Spiny Norman's vegetarian restaurant, 4 bars (Cochrane lounge bar with food service), 1 wine bar, hot food counter, salad bar, milk bar, leisure centre (including sauna and solarium, gym, 3 snooker tables), TV lounge, games, photo booth, function rooms.[HDNG]CLUBS (NON SPORTING):[EHDNG][PARA]Aftermath; Anglo German; Amnesty International; Anti-Fascist; Anti-Nazi Legue; Bangladesh; Big Band Society; Brazilian; Change Ringers; Debating; Dunlop; Early Anglo-Saxon Re-enactment; Earthcare; Exploration; Fell Walking; Film and Video Making; Fizz; Folk Dance; Fringe Benefits; Gilbert and Sullivan; Hellenic; Home Brewing; Hong Kong; House Music; Hunt Saboteurs; Indonesian; Jewish; Juggling; Kenyan; Lee Marvin; Literary; Malaysian; Malt Whiskey; Methodist; Motorcycle; No 10; Norwegian; Pakistan; Papier Mache; Questlands; Post Graduate and Mature Students; Radio; Real Ale; Reggae; Rerun; School for Africa; Scottish Dancers; Scout and Guide; Singapore; Sixties; Star Trek; Third World First; Turf; Turkish; Wine.[HDNG]OTHER ORGANISATIONS:[EHDNG][PARA]The student newspaper 'Courier' is published by the Union and there's also the Politics Society magazine 'No 10'. The charity Rag raised รบ14,000 last time they counted and SCAN(Student Community Action Newcastle) has a very high profile with local help projects, a full time staff member and its own fund-raising shop and minibuses.[HDNG]RELIGIOUS:[EHDNG][PARA][STAT][BULL] 3 chaplains (CofE, RC, Methodist)[ESTAT][PARA]If not in Newcastle itself, most denominations are represented on the Tyne and Wear conurbation.[HDNG]PAID WORK:[EHDNG][PARA][ITAL]High levels of unemployment leave students at the back of the queue[EITAL], although there are a few opportunities in bars, the theatres and underpaid work at the Metro Centre.[PARA][PARA]
