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Kingston University Students' Union

Kingston University Students' Union (KUSU) is a students' union that represents and provides services to the near 27,000 students of Kingston University a former polytechnic and now large comprehensive university based in South West London. It is a registered charity and employs around 200 staff and has an annual turnover of nearly £2.5m.
==History==

The Students' Union was first founded in 1947 by soldiers returning from fighting in the Second World War attending the then Kingston Technical Institute. Initially there was little interest in the activities of the Students' Union however by 1955 it had become more active with the Freshers Ball attracting 350 guests. In 1958 students chose to disaffiliate from the NUS due to their strong left wing politics and held their own conference in Bournemouth, but like many students' unions it would later re-affiliate and remains as a member today.
As social activities became more important, a Drama Society was founded in 1959 which continues to operate to this day. Throughout this period Charity week stunts gained press attention following ‘Screams, roaring rockets, explosions and shouts for help.'. In 1959 students built a motorized cast iron bath which they named 'Sambo'. In 1961 they successfully drove it from John O'Groats in Scotland to Land's End in Cornwall, albeit with a slight mishap on the A6 near Penrith where they scraped the sides of two cars standing at traffic lights. Despite the evasive action taken by bath-driver Peter Lackenby; villagers crowded round as two police motor patrolmen, summoned to the scene of the collision, checked the bath’s controls, which included motor cycle handlebars, brakes, a horn, windshield, as well as the more usual fittings of plughole and hot and cold taps! The students successfully completed the journey and earned international notoriety as they raised £1000 for the British Empire Cancer Research Fund (almost £18,000 in 2014).
In 1965 another RAG week stunt brought media attention to Kingston when 5 students raided Benenden in Kent (the private school were Princess Anne was being educated), in order to put up RAG week posters. Following the ensuing outrage the students apologised and were suspended for a week. Further negative attention came when students set up their own pirate radio station "Shameless". Unfortunately the students were identified, arrested and the equipment was smashed. RAG week stunts were ended by the Union and the Principal Dr Lawley shortly thereafter.
In the mid to late 1960s Union activities started to become more political. In 1965, 300 students staged a sit down strike over deficiencies in the refectory after not being able to get afternoon tea. In 1968 another protest was held at Tolworth tower and the Students’ Union president was later forced to resign after a no confidence vote for failure to secure improved catering from the guildhall was successful. It was also this year that saw the Union's first full-time President elected when Mr Subir Das was elected in 1968 and in January of this year, the Union was first allowed representation on the Institution's Academic Board. The following year a row over regulations on student representation from the Department of Education and Science was forced, when Kingston Students found that they did not include polytechnic students. Students threatened a vast militant campaign and the Department quickly backed down.
In November of 1969 the two separate students' unions merger to form a single union alongside the merger of Kingston Art School and Kingston College of Technology.
In 1971 the Royal Borough Council's refusal to increase the new Students’ Union’s allowance after the merger lead to protest marches to Tolworth tower. Lawyers discovered that under the articles of government, allowances could only be paid if Student Union membership was obligatory (Evening News, 3 February 1971 ). Obviously, this ruling affected all polytechnic trainees, so what had started as a local problem rapidly became a national one. Kingston students rammed home their message by boycotting lectures and picketing college buildings (News, 5 February 1971 ). Faced by the Government’s resolute response, the students’ `work-in’ collapsed (6 February 1971; Daily Telegraph, 13 February 1971 ). Finally, Mrs Margaret Thatcher, the Secretary of State for Education and Science, agreed to amend the regulations (Telegraph, 2 March 1971 ). The students, however, remained unimpressed by her proposals and a `Down with Margaret Thatcher’ deputation marched to Tolworth Tower in December 1971 (Surrey Comet, 11 December 1971 ).
The same year Kingston students also occupied an Architecture studio in support of two staff who resigned after being allegedly `harassed and obstructed’ in their desire to reorganise their courses in an innovatory manner. `The occupation will continue indefinitely’, a student representative asserted confidently (Telegraph, 27 November 1971 ). For the rest of the decade a student accommodation crisis continued to rage and "Build new hostels" became the Student Union’s main banner cry (Surrey Comet, 12 July 1972 ). Poor library conditions involved the College authorities in another well publicised conflict with the Union: in 1972, student representatives demanded the provision at Penrhyn Road of 200 more seats, air conditioning, doubleglazing, new carpeting and better lighting (Surrey Comet, 25 November 1972 ). Hard pressed management admitted that due to overcrowding, space earmarked for the library had had to be converted into classrooms (November 1972 ). In a vain effort to alleviate the problem, five more huts were erected on the Penrhyn Road Campus (16 October 1972 ).
As accommodation continue to be a problem, the Union has been housed in a number and variety of buildings but in

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