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    If you're a postgraduate or mature student at a University in Greater Manchester, this is your society! <b>We <div class="disputed">Have Our Own Bar and Function Rooms</div></b> <div class="disputed">packed full of facilities to</div>* help you have fun and take a break from the endless studies.
    <p><div class="disputed">The Burlington Bar is open throughout the week during term time, charges Student Union prices (<i>translation:</i> <b>cheap!</b>), and is a regular meeting place for various academic and social groups.</div>* As a Society, we hold interactive social events every Thursday evening - check out our upcoming events on the left, or use the menu above to find out more about aspects of our society.</p> 
    
    <p><div class="disputed">Whether you want to get out and meet others, or just take a quiet break with <b>free tea and coffee for members</b> in our common room, There's probably something in our <b>Schunck Building</b> to interest you.</div>* Life membership of our society costs just &pound;7, so why not join today!</p> 
    <div style="font-size: x-small">* currently under consideration for an accessibility refit</div>
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    <h3>Society News</h3>
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    <h5>15th December 11: Accessibility issues</h5>
    <p>For years now, we've been lobbying to get the Society building made accessible, and our information from the University is that it is finally going to be considered for work in 2012! In the meantime we have been asked to hold our events elsewhere, and so starting in 2012 you will have to check our mailouts and the events listing on this site closely to see where we will be...</p>
    <h5>25th September 11: Burlington Pub Rally 2011</h5>
    <p>Every year, members who come on our pub rally ask us how on earth to find all the pubs again by the light of day! Check out our <a href="where.xml">maps page</a> for a google map of the master list of all the official pubs on the rally...</p>
    <h5>16th November 10: Events listings fixed on Society Website, but boy do we need help</h5> 
    <p>Sorry folks -- our webmaster's been running half our events, and there are only so many hours in the day! For interested parties, the issue related to a bug in a third party module, the <a href="http://code.google.com/p/ijp/">iCal Javascript Parser</a>, and the society has not only fixed it, but also proudly donated a <a href="http://code.google.com/p/ijp/issues/detail?id=1">patch</a> to the maintainers! See how community minded we are?</p>
    <p>Anyhow, now that bug is fixed, we are also proud to announce that you can point your calendaring system (google, outlook, iCal, your mobile &mdash; whatever you're using) at our <a href="Burlington_Events.ics">web calendar</a> and have all our events appear by magic in amongst your own appointments. Whether you download a copy and import it, or have your system use it direct from our server, is up to you!</p> 
    <p>Finally, as you may have gathered, we're crying out for volunteers right now. Why not take a look at the listing on the left and see if you think you could help us out?</p>
    <h5>8th December 09: &pound;500 in the budget for Wednesday Afternoons</h5>
    <p>Unfortunately our Wednesday afternoon co-ordinator has had to step down, so we're putting the budget up for grabs. If you or your friends would like to come along and keep something happening on Wednesdays, there's &pound;500 in the kitty just waiting to be spent. If it doesn't get used by Easter, it'll be reallocated, so come forward!</p> 
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