Societies
One of the things that the University is most proud of is its societies within the Students' Union. The Union has around 100 different societies, which are organised into eight groups:
- Academic - degree-related groups, such as Law, Engineering, Politics or English societies
- Associations - including Contact Volunteers, 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 Television
- National - representative societies for national groups
- Performance - including LUTheatre, Cheerleading and Big Band societies
- Recreational - including Real Ale, Curry and Muggle Quidditch societies
- Religious - many societies catering for Leicester's diverse religious groups
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Famous quotes containing the word societies:
“There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done. This is what the West has done with its colonial system. It shook all the societies in the world loose from their old moorings. But it seems indifferent whether or not they reach safe harbour in the end.”
—Barbara Ward (1914–1981)
“All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)
“Modern equalitarian societies ... whether democratic or authoritarian in their political forms, always base themselves on the claim that they are making life happier.... Happiness thus becomes the chief political issue—in a sense, the only political issue—and for that reason it can never be treated as an issue at all.”
—Robert Warshow (1917–1955)