- Bars:
- The uni is split into three sites, Barking, Stratford and Docklands with Barking playing host to the main Students' Union. This is a two floor affair with a bar downstairs and offices upstairs. During the day students come in to meet friends for a drink or a game of pool, it's all pretty relaxed. There is a bar at each site dUEL 1, 2 and 3 and efforts have been made to ensure that Barking is no longer the exclusively dominant venue.
DJs regularly play at the bars, and the popular Hometime Happy Hours lure students away from external pubs. However, the university's city location and the high proportion of students who come from the local area perhaps disadvantage the Uni based bars somewhat, providing distractions outside of the dUEL domains.
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- Functions:
- There are a number of weekly music nights based at the dUEL bars. Abomination is a hefty dose of chart cheese for Docklands students held every three weeks. Funky Daze, a mixture of garage, funky house, r n' b and hip hop is a favourite each tuesday at Stratford, and the recently launched Let's Go indie and punk night at Docklands has proved pretty popular so far.
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- Major Social Events:
- Big functions are held at Easter, Christmas, Diwali and Hallowe'en catering for the diverse student community of Christians, Sikhs and Pagans I guess! Quite a few of the major events, including the annual Valentines Ball take place on party boats on the Thames, which are generally very swanky. The Freshers' Fortnight is typically hectic...
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- Clubs & Societies:
- As you might expect with a high proportion of Asian students, the many Asian societies are the strongest and most active. Cultural societies probably attract the largest membership of East London Uni's 43 registered societies. Reels, the film society is also very popular and organises regular screenings which are well attended. The dramatic arts societies pull in some healthy numbers and stage productions each year.
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