If you have stopped by the Student Union around noon for lunch, you've seen it: the incredibly long lines for all the places at the food court and the even longer one at the Subway upstairs. For many students, this causes them to choose either being late to class or going hungry.
For some freshman, incoming students, and some upperclassmen who choose to stay at the University of Mississippi for graduate school, this may not be the case in a couple of years. The reason is because Ole Miss has begun putting plans together for a $50 million project that will expand and renovate the Student Union.
The University has taken it's time getting a plan together to expand the Union because there were more presssing projects to take of first, according to Director of Facilities Planning Ian Banner.
"I hope they increase the lounge area and give more food options," Freshman Alicia Gregory said when asked what she hoped an expanded Student Union will entail.
Although it is early in the planning process, Banner says he hopes to make the expansion to the "backside" of the Union to help give it four "front sides" that face every direction.
Banner says he believe the Union is the "heart of the campus and student life" and hopes that with the expansion we can bring it back to its rightful prominence. For more information about the Student Union expansion, check out this video.
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