 Poster: A snowHead
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Other wise known as the British Universitys Snowsports Council.
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| BUSC exists to promote participation and competition in skiing and snowboarding at all levels for students in the UK. It is an ever-growing, non-profit making organisation established since 1990. The money it earns is re-invested into supporting individual students, snowsports clubs and charities. |
stolen from the busc website
In short they are the orginisers of the two best university ski racing events in the season, one on plastic the other on snow. As well as a brilliant trip in the easter holls for 2000 students (id avoid les deux alps for the first week of april if your after a quiet week....) Oh and they allso know how to organise some dam good apres action!!!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Don't know if they have changed their constitution but the money it earns used to be invested in the bank account of the committee...
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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BUSC originally formed as they got kicked out of BUSA!!
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Anybody remember EWUSC, from before BUSC?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I went to a few of their events while I was at university (Exeter). Always had a blast but I'll never forget the coach home from Edinburgh to Exeter after a particularly heavy Hill End BUSC weekend...
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@joffy69, I think BUSF preceded BUSC - anyone remember "borrowing" the dance floor (literally we walked out with the entire dance floor) from the Coylumbridge hotel (Aviemore)?
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Was it not BUDS up in Scotland - DS being for Dry Slope? At least in my time it was BUDS and BUSC being the two "competitions"/events - I think BUDS lives on and BUSC collapsed in mid 2010s
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No, definitely EWUSC. The last trip they did was my second year. BUSC started my third year.
It's jogged my memory EWUSC was a break-away organisation to have racing in the Alps rather than Scotland, so scottish unis weren't invited. In my third year Phil Martin invited all the scottish unis. Thus BUSC
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@joffy69, I did two EWUSC trips.
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The first time I ever skied in Alps was with BUSC in 1997. Happy memories of that trip : a week in Les Arcs for £350. As a student there was no way I could have afforded to ski in France otherwise.
I think the whole thing eventually become too big and unwieldy. 2000 Brit students taking over a single resort for a week long p@ss-up was always going to end in disaster. Only a small % of those attending were there to race.
The wiki below makes for some interesting reading (... basically the greedy / useless tour op got hacked off dealing with an ever changing committee of student wasters and it all collapsed).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Universities_Snowsports_Council
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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^@ Klamm_Franzer : i remember smoking weed at a fondue party at 2000m.
Probably lobbed at a few tatties at the Oxbridge crowd.
Pissed-up students (... most of whom couldn't ski even when sober) had to ski back to Les Arcs in the dark using flaming lanterns.
The sobriety test was being able to walk unaided past a french pisteur at the door.
Apparently BUSC was banned from Tignes a few years previously after two apartments got knocked into one and an ambulance hijacked 
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Can't find the article anymore but it was either the 2001 or the 2008 BUSC in Saalbach where something ( a building) got burned down by the students, the Mayor at the time banned BUSC from coming back and it wasn't until 2011-12 they managed to negotiate a way to get back - think the previous mayor had changed / passed.
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You know it makes sense.
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My sister was in that infamous block and it was a pizza box left on a cooker hot plate. I had become a tax paying pillar of society by that point, so nothing to do with me Guv.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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I was talking 1983-1987  BUSF couldn't afford the Alps!
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| under a new name wrote: |
| I was talking 1983-1987 BUSF couldn't afford the Alps! |
BUSC in Aviemore would be epic.
I organised the Scottish trips for ed uni for x3 years
Some funny trips / good skiing!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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As I understand it EWUSC was started because BUSF had an eligibility qualification (something like being in the top 200 racers in your age group) that meant that only scots ever got to compete. Also that the racing HAD to be done in the UK (ie scotland). The English and Welsh went bug*** that lets go and race in France ourselves.
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Didn't realise there was a profanity filter 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Seems to be one of the requirements of those trips was to banned from the resort for a period. We were banned from Tignes and Les Arcs, but they always eventually relented.
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| joffy69 wrote: |
| Anybody remember EWUSC, from before BUSC? |
Is this a new record for a bumped thread - a month short of 16 years? 
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Serve Chevalier 1987 was that Kings/EWUSC?
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