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 Leeds University Union, (aka LUU)

Leeds University Union
Students Union for Leeds University

Leeds University Union (LUU) is the representative body for the students at the University of Leeds, England. Aside from representing students, the union includes numerous shops and bars and an award-winning nightclub. Leeds University Union is one of the largest students' unions in the UK.

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Union Venues

The Old Bar

The Old Bar is in the style of a traditional English pub and has a food servery (run by the University catering services). The Old Bar hosts a variety of evenings such as live bands, pub quizzes, and big screen football. The Monday-Friday daily "Aussie Hour" features Neighbours followed by Home and Away on the big screens between 17:30 - 18:30.

The Terrace

The Terrace has been styled as a trendy 'chill-out' coffee bar, serving hot and cold drinks. This venue is non-smoking until 6pm. The bar has an outdoor seating area and pool tables.

Stylus

The award-winning nightclub Stylus is home to the "Fruity" club nights on Fridays, plus a whole host of other events, such as "The Wendy House" and "School Disco". Stylus has a capacity of 1000. Now with The Review, Stylus is being refitted (again), mainly to make it more acoustically sound.

Bar Coda

Used to be the second room to Stylus on nights such as "Fruity" but now this has been somewhat replaced by Mine. Bar Coda has a capacity of 250, and is also being Refurbished due to The Review, to become a more appropriate for Society Use.

Mine

Mine (opened October 2005) is a re-development of the old Harvey Milk Bar, which closed in 2001 due to the opening of the (then) new extension of LUU, housing Stylus and Bar Coda. It is primarily targeted at postgraduate students, with a wide selection of 'trendy' food being served throughout the day. At night, the bar is transformed into a 450-capacity nightclub with both live music and DJ-based nights running on a regular basis. Current events include The Blow Out, a live jazz night running fortnightly on Mondays, The Tunnel Club which is a showcase for up-and-coming local bands, and various society events which take place throughout the week.

Riley Smith Hall

LUU has its own theatre, the Riley Smith Hall. This venue has a capacity of 400 seated (including 100 on the balcony) and in late 2005 underwent a major refurbishment, the first for many years. This has provided a much-needed renovation of the three dressing rooms as well as construction of an internal box office and other storage. The Riley Smith Hall is used constantly throughout the year by LUU's many societies, most notably the performing societies who produce a number of shows varying from musicals to theatrical plays and dance performances.

Refectory

The Refectory whilst not Strictly a Union Venue, is the University's main canteen during the day, but is converted into one of Leeds's largest venues for evening gigs, having a 2100 person capacity for live events.

Many famous bands have played at the University Refectory, including The Who (who recorded Live at Leeds there originally in 1970, and returned in June 2006 to recreate the original show), Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, and more recently The Strokes, Bloc Party, Manic Street Preachers, KT Tunstall and Paul Weller.

The Review

Leeds University Union carried out The Review, which serveyed all its members, in order to find out what the students wanted. From these results the union has created a three year plan. Some of these changes are being carried out right now. Mainly to the Structure and layout of the Union Building itself. Game On for example is being transformed, to a new shop encompassing The Chiller and Essentials Express, and STA Travel the New Reception and Student Information Centre, to Name only two of the changes currently happening.

Media

LUU boasts one of the country's most active university newspapers, Leeds Student. Published weekly, on Fridays, during term time, the free newspaper regularly wins national student media awards.

Leeds Student was formed by the merger of the Leeds University Union newspaper (Union News) and the Leeds Metropolitan University Students Union newspaper, but in November 2005 the Leeds Met students voted to disaffiliate from Leeds Student citing under-representation as the reason.

Various other paper-based publications are produced, including The Document and The Gist, which provide up-to-date information on events and news about LUU. LUU also funds the production Lippy magazine, which is the Union's Women's magazine. Lippy is staffed entirely by students and produces a small number of issues each year.

LUU has a successful student radio station, [LSRfm.com] (or visit LSRfm.com), which frequently wins national student radio awards. LSRfm.com is widely active in LUU, hosting New Slang in the Old Bar on a Saturday night with local unsigned bands, and Natural Selection, a DJ-based event on a Saturday night in The Terrace, to name but two.

There is also an internal TV station, [ls:tv], which broadcasts on televisions located around the Union building and a film making society who produce short films, documentaries and music videos.

With the Introduction of the LUU Media Bar, which can be found on the member websites (LSRfm.com, Leeds Studenmt , LS:TV, Lippy, Leeds Film Making Society), the Media Groups are sharing information, resources, and member time.

Societies

Being one of the largest Student Unions, there are many different soceities. They include,

Incorp's

An Incorp aka An Inorporated Body, is protected by the University for such things such as Lawsuits, with respect to Defamatory and other Media Related things.

LSRfm.com

Leeds Student

LS:TV

Lippy (Magazine)

Nightline

RAG

Societies

Backstage - One of the Most Active, Working on Most if not all the Shows, in the Riley Smith Hall.

The Entire List can be found on the [LUU Website].

How the Union is run

Leeds University Union is run by a group of eight elected sabbatical officers known as The Executive Officers (or The Exec). Each officer covers one of the following areas :- Communications & Democracy, Finance, Societies, Education, Sports, Welfare, Women, Bretton Campus.

The foundation ideology of the union is that the Students of Leeds University have control of the Union. This works by using an Inverted Pyramid of Power - The Members of the Union (Students) at the top then The Exec, then the Union Managers, then the Staff at the Bottom.

Leeds University Union also allows non-members to use its facilities.

Former Executive Officers

Affiliations

External links

 

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