Operations
The Students' Union executive oversees an annual budget of over $12 million, $25 million in assets, and a staff of 55 full-time employees. The base of operations for the Students' Union is located at the heart of the University of Calgary campus in the MacEwan Student Centre, which is in actuality three separate buildings under one roof. Each year the SU donates numerous scholarships and bursaries to students, and since 1996 has awarded almost $8 million to over 10,000 recipients. The Students' Union owns and operates a full-service restaurant and bar "the Den and Black Lounge", the campus copy centre "Bound and Copied", the campus volunteer centre, a convenience store, the Campus Food Bank, a conference and event centre, and the "Mac Hall" concert facilities (opened in 2001). Additional servcies include the online housing registry, campus lost and found, travel and conference funding, campus "Safewalk", the Students'Union Student Rights Advisor, 240 student clubs, various awareness weeks, "Cinemania", and the time-honoured end-of-year-crasher "Bermuda Shorts Day".
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