University of East Anglia - Union of UEA Students

Union of UEA Students

The UEA Union has a selection of sports clubs and societies ranging from football and American football clubs to the student newspaper Concrete. The men's rugby team was recently banned by the student union for unacceptable public behaviour.

Nexus UTV, the campus television station, broadcasts news, comedy, documentaries and various other programmes, and is one of the oldest still-running student television stations in the country having been established in 1968.

Livewire 1350AM, the award-winning campus radio station, which transmits to air on 1350AM in the vicinity of the University, as well as broadcasting on the internet, was established in 1989.

A more recent society, The Campus Sustainability Initiative, founded The Sustainability Initiative Fund, where UEA students each pay a £1 per year sustainability fee with the proceeds going towards sustainable projects on campus such as implementing renewable energies or energy conservation projects. The initiative was supported by UEA students in a campus referendum with a 78 percent majority, and the project was inspired by a similar initiative at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

The UEA Student Union operates many of the services on the university campus, which are open to all members of the university community and the general public. Connected to both "The Street" and "The Square" is one of the most popular Union venues, the "Union Pub and Bar", which underwent extension and refurbishment at the cost of £1.2 million in 2002. Other bars include "The Hive" (which, due to efforts from the Students' Union, was refurbished for the start of the 2004/05 academic year), and the "Graduate Students Club". In the same building is The LCR, known in full as either The Large or Lower Common Room. The LCR is home to weekly campus discos, as well as the many touring gigs. The students' union also run The Waterfront venue off campus in Norwich's King Street.