The student union also arranges one of Europe's largest labour market days, CHARM.
In 1911 a proposal to start The Cortège, an annual carnival parade now seen by 250,000 people each year, was accepted.
The building was drawn by Gert Wingårdh and won the Kasper Salin Prize that year.
Three years later, in 1958, a committee at the union, Chalmersspexet, donated 64 öre–corresponding to around 4.5 USD of today–to the Swedish state to "even out the national debt to a whole number of kronor".
Before the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong to China from the United Kingdom in 1997, the students' union wrote a request to the British Prime Minister asking if they could hire the whole of Hong Kong for a few minutes in connection with the transfer to China.