USU - University of Sydney Union.
It is an organization by the students for the students.
At Sydney Uni, the union have 3 main buildings for student services. within them, there are over 35 food outlets, doctors, chemists, hairdressers, photo processing shops, banks, newsagents, clothing stores, computer/electronic equipment stores and of course the 2 main bars - Manning Bar and Hermanns Bar.
Also we have our own theatre - called the cellar theatre, if you want to write your own play and get people to perform it? join SUDS.
Also we have our own radio station for 3 months/year.
They also have plenty of meeting rooms for clubs to gather and do whatever the clubs does.
the USU also run the clubs&societies program. which looks after the 150+ clubs at sydney uni. Each club is given anywhere from $4000-$8000 worth of funding/year to provide activities for their members.
This is a MASSIVE expense, so you can imagine how many things happen at sydney uni each day.
the USU also runs a number of publications/year. most of them are free and all come from student contributions
USU has lots of volunteer and student leadership programs, which are great if you want a hand at attempting some cool stuff, like bringing dodgem cars on campus!
Then there are Arts/innovation/volunteer and other things prizes, which fosters student creativity.
Not to mention the BIG party events every year! Including O-week, beachball and snowball.
um......what else?
you can check the website out
USU Online - the University of Sydney Union Website
Access Benefits is what you pay to be access the benefits of the union.
It's only $99 (when i was in first year, it was close to $600! so consider yourself lucky)
and this basically pays for
clubs and socs
building maintainence
initiative programs
pay a few people to run the place
subsidising everything
Access - the University of Sydney Union
SRC is also different again.