By now, many students have probably seen the green signs that list the university’s reasons for wanting to expand the Reitz Union. I can’t be the only one who is outraged by some of the so-called problems with the current building, particularly the claim that there is “no place to study.”
Suppose for a moment that this is actually true. Can anyone count the number of study areas we already have? Off the top of my head, I can think of every library, the Hub and many of the dorms. Not to mention the future study center in Newell Hall (across the street from the Hub).
In reality, there are plenty of places to study in the Reitz Union, including the spacious first-floor study area that was built recently along with the new Career Resource Center. It’s located footsteps away from one of the signs that denies its very existence. Does the university think we’re too stupid to realize this contradiction?
