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166 votes recycling bins on the precinct
10
157 votes Reduce the price of the sports pass and provide the option of separate gym/pool passes.
7
116 votes A Union-run night shuttle service
8
108 votes All books on course reading lists available in the library on short-term loans
3
104 votes Have reusable glasses or cups in the bars (rather than disposable plastic)
5
101 votes Introduce one year Sports passes or discounted access for all students regardless of a Student Pass
3
100 votes remove the ban on handing out condoms in the Fresher's Welcome Packs- it's not "offensive" to encourage safe sex
5
97 votes Turn library cafe into social enterprise, run by students, for students. (Making it much cheaper!)
3
96 votes Have at least one library opening 24 hours
5
89 votes A Union-run bus between the Union and Stoke Bishop Halls
5
83 votes Record all lectures as video+audio and make them available for download by students&staff.
7
80 votes Less commercial flyering on Woodland Road
4
74 votes Reduce the price of the AU membership card, or make the benefits more transparent.
1
72 votes Increase energy efficiency by installing motion sensors on lights in all university buildings so they are only on when needed
4
68 votes Free printer credits
11
66 votes plastic and food waste recycling in halls
1
64 votes Make the union bar good. 1. Central. 2. Cheap. 3. Real ales/real cider. 4. GOOD MUSIC!!!
3
63 votes Lower Tuition Fees
2
55 votes Collect renewable energy from the gym equipment.
4
50 votes Move the Student Union to the main precinct. ie. next to the sports centre
1
49 votes monthly instalments for the sports pass rather than one lump sum at the start of the year.
0
49 votes access to a micrwave and eating tables in several locations across the campus
2
48 votes Bring back the really useful board where societies tell you where they are that night.
1
48 votes Make practice rooms and recording equipment available to those who do not study music...those in bands/solo artists etc.
3
47 votes Every student has a free reasonable amount of printer creadit (about 5-7pounds)
4
44 votes To be able to continue using the elibrary after graduating, even for a small fee (?).
2
44 votes Let people with sport's passes swim for free in the CENTRE of Bristol, like the staff can.
4
37 votes Generate electricity from renewable energy resources on university buildings such as wind and solar power
3
35 votes Spend money on research and teaching rather than on marketing and 'pretty' foyers
0
33 votes make all course materials free
2
33 votes Subsidised union run bus service from Stoke Bishop along Whiteladies to University District
0
31 votes An online electronic submission system for all coursework, on all courses
3
30 votes lockers in the library!
4
27 votes Turn 'campus streets into pedestrian and leisure areas
2
27 votes Stop the constant beeping noise in the Union building
3
24 votes The installation of Latex on University computers for report writing.
2
23 votes Library open longer...I hate being kicked out!
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23 votes Improve the quality of food in the Uni cafes - we're educated people, why try and feed us cheap bread and cheap sausages?
0
22 votes a bus from stoke bishop to uni
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21 votes First aid training for societies provided by union
2
20 votes Setup a precinct ticket sales office for society events.
0
20 votes many more computers for student use
1
20 votes An online system for paying for membership to societies, it would make it so much easier for people to sign up when freshers fair is over.
1
17 votes More books in the ASS library
3
15 votes Provide an advertising service for societies so we don't all do the tour of UBU notice boards, putting up posters!
2
14 votes Much more plugs in the library!
0
14 votes Get the pianos in the Unions practice room tuned or buy some new ones
0
13 votes sort out webmail so punctuation doesn't appear as weird symbols and numbers whenever you copy and paste text
0
13 votes promoting the union bar more with a change of location (the bristol union bar doesn't necessarily have to be in the union building over on queen's road!)
1
12 votes Put a sign up showing Students' Union opening times
1
12 votes Order much, much more academic journals (political ones, in my case) for the library and stop cutting down on online journal subscriptions.
2
12 votes Allow people who have not paid for a sports membership to swim at the pool
3
12 votes library to get enough copies of required textbooks and rent them out (for a fee and a deposit) on an annual basis
0
12 votes Reps should be able to email the student body directly - how can we truly represent student interests if we are censored by staff?
2
12 votes The precinct bookshop should have a student discount all year round
1
10 votes Have a guaranteed minimum number, at least 10, of contact hours a week
0
10 votes To uncover exactly how the 20% staff cuts will impact the University, and for UBU to actively oppose them
0
10 votes Make an online voting system for voting in committee members to save using the ballot paper method, I think more people would vote.
3
10 votes Increase the size of the gym.
0
9 votes Small (even if tiny) prayer room in major building of the university
4
9 votes Get lecturers to name downloadable lecture material more CONSISTENTLY, e.g. "Lecture 1 <title>.ppt", "Lecture 2 <title>.ppt" etc. instead of random things like "l1BB.ppt", "quakes2.ppt"
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8 votes Discount for using your own mug or glass at wicked or bar 100
1
8 votes replace the blackboard website with something completely different. the site should not use frames. complex features should be off by default (enableable by the course administrators) so that a student doesn't spend ages clicking around an empty site.
1
8 votes Install video screens in major buildings to inform of lecture cancellations, lecture locations, talks and events - possibly extending to a university TV channel.
3
7 votes Update the intramural website to show this year's leagues and results.
1
7 votes A noticeboard in the Social Sciences library
1
6 votes Improve the AIR CONDITIONING in the GYM
1
6 votes List of all buildings' opening hours online
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6 votes Anonymous marking for all coursework, including assessed essays (similar to exam marking)
1
5 votes University bus that runs from stoke bishop
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5 votes Introduce academic parents/children system to create more interaction between years.
0
5 votes University to have it's own squash courts
3
5 votes Relocate the union to a central building and turn the current building in clifton into a massive library.
0
4 votes Need somewhere bigger to eat during lunch
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4 votes As the Union is an 'open' building - have security officers patrol the Union Building more often throughout the day & night to help support the porters and increase the level of security for both students and staff members
0
4 votes Ask University Departments to ask for essay sin single spacing rather than double. This would save trees and immediately make the University a 'greener' place.
1
3 votes For the Student Union to be in the precinct- more central, a bigger part of Bristol Uni life. Somewhere you can drop into between lectures for coffee.
0
3 votes Encourage students to be more politically active, get involved with demos, make up their own minds and voice their own opinions.
4
3 votes Have major textbooks designated for 'use in the Library only'
1
2 votes More locked up, enclosed and roofed bicycle parking for undergraduates at every department
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2 votes The University should have its own sports facilities, rather than relying on an independent organisation (Coombe Dingle)
0
2 votes water dispensers in all university buildings
0
2 votes AN ETHICAL INVESTMENT POLICY FOR THE UNIVERSITY: The University should follow the Union, which has recently voted to adopt an ethical investment policy (continue for further details).
1
2 votes Drinking fountain in Cafe Resource (Queen's Building)
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2 votes The use of university land for the production of food
3
2 votes Give a fixed amount of printing credit per person every term. Says 5 pounds per person per term.
0
2 votes Make the University source its electricity from renewable energy providers (Ecotricity, Good Energy etc) or generate its own
1
2 votes Increase privacy/isolation in libraries, e.g. by installing simple room dividers to prevent others from watching you while you're studying
0
1 votes The Union should provide a better on-line voting system
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1 votes £1000 fine for all people flyering
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1 votes greater accountability for hall wardens - especially regarding societies working in halls
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1 votes Stop increasing the price of a sports pass 17% a year.
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1 votes Solve the funding crisis by becoming the "Dominos Pizza University of Bristol"
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1 votes contract between students and the university: ie. by paying my fees I am guaranteed X amount of contact time
0
0 votes A bigger library.
0
0 votes Chantry Court should be able to accept the parcel for us!!!no"sorry,you are out"from Royal Mail!!!!
0
0 votes Have an independent Athletics Union, with a proper AU Chair and return the right to an AU AGM
0
0 votes Zebra-Crossing across Tyndall Park Road at the end of Woodland Road to make crossing easier and safer
0
0 votes Remind the staff of the Law Dept of the need to be approachable - be less austere and we will be more forthcoming in group discussions and feel able to ask more questions.
0
-1 votes change the union building. now.
0
-2 votes Brighter lighting and warmer temperatures in the computer bit in the union.
0
-4 votes Union to buy Bunker - to be run as The Union Club
0
-4 votes Let's have penalties for staff not returning marked work before the pre-determined deadline.
3
-5 votes Just bear in mind that we're not all in our twenties and some of us have kids.
1
-6 votes Prayerpod (with changing internal magnetic polarities) based on apatite modelling of the Mandelbrot series
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-6 votes Put more money into sports clubs and societies
0
-7 votes Raise Tuition Fees
0
-7 votes Make the union building into a massive library and get a more central, better laid out union building.
3
-8 votes MORE MONEY FOR FREE AND SPEND IT ON CHARITY AND MORE BOOKS AND MORE GYM
6
-8 votes Permanent stalls for society in a hall.
0
-8 votes Better Security Scanners in the Library that don't go off everytime I go through with my laptop
1
-10 votes Type your idea here
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-11 votes Stop that fucking noise when the library closes
0
-11 votes Build a new, better theatre.
0
-12 votes Free public instruments for sports
0
-13 votes Improve the email Webmail service or allow free installation of Mulberry
4
-19 votes Fire the entire Information Services department and get the Computer Science and Chemistry departments to recruit a new one. Or reform it, or overhaul it or something.
2
-21 votes Open mic sessions
2
-32 votes all students to do at least one day working for a charity
4
-43 votes Waive tuition fees for state school students
5
-52 votes Change the OS from Windows to Mac
2
0 votes Add categories / pagination / searching / sorting to Change One Thing so it isn't just one huge messy list. Its usefulness is currently very limited.
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