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The AUSA is primarily based at the Butchart Centre, the former sports centre and now a more general student space located in the Old Aberdeen "campus" area near King's College (and around the corner from the old SRC venue of Luthuli House). The AUSA Sports Union and the President for Sport, formerly based at Butchart, are now based in the Aberdeen Sports Village.
Due to financial pressures, AUSA's chief students' union building (located on Broad Street near Marischal College in the city centre) was forced to close in early 2004. The Union Bar, a far smaller, single bar without nightclub facilities, was subsequently opened in nearby Littlejohn Street. This bar was itself forced to close due to financial pressures in November 2008 leaving the University without any Union nightlife facility.
In 2011, The Watering Hole, the bar in the Hillhead residences, was turned into the new Union Bar. Throughout the year, efforts were made to look for a new venue for the Union Bar, but to no avail.
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