Societies and Associations
One of the things that the University is most proud of is its societies with the Students' Union. The Union has around 100 different societies, which are organised into eight groups:
- Academic - degree-related groups, such as Physics, Law, Engineering, Politics or English societies
- Associations - including Contact Volunteers, LGBTQ Association, Nightline and RAG
- Campaigning - including Amnesty International, United Nations as well as other political groups
- Media - The Ripple, the student newspaper, LUSH Radio and LUST (the student television station)
- National - representative societies for national groups
- Performance - including LUTheatre, Cheerleading and Big Band societies
- Recreational - including Real Ale, Curry and dozens of sporting societies.
- Religious - many societies catering for Leicester's diverse religious groups
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Famous quotes containing the words societies and/or associations:
“The mere fact of leaving ultimate social control in the hands of the people has not guaranteed that men will be able to conduct their lives as free men. Those societies where men know they are free are often democracies, but sometimes they have strong chiefs and kings. ... they have, however, one common characteristic: they are all alike in making certain freedoms common to all citizens, and inalienable.”
—Ruth Benedict (1887–1948)
“Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self- Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)