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For what it's worth, I asked a couple employees if they had heard anything about moving to a new Union in a couple years. They said they hadn't but there was some talk about converting the Grand Palm Room to a different kind of non-event space, another rumor about adding a second floor to the Live Oak building and a third rumor about putting up a building out by the outdoor lawn area.Who knows. Renovating the current union is only a good idea if we're low on money, for instance if we get the $9M but not the money for the Admin/SO building renovations. Even then you're talking about a stopgap measure, really, because the building is pretty old and can only bear so many patches, to say nothing about the fact that it's in a location that's too far displaced from the center of student life (the Breezeway). The "heart of campus" needs to be in the "heart" of campus and it needs to be proportionate in size, as there are national standards for the gross square footage per student that we're probably not meeting. So while these changes look great - and they really do look great - there's only so much lipstick you can put on a pig. We've maxed out. It's time for us to move on to bigger and better things.
GO OWLS!
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