Florida State University - Renegade / Tally Ho Yearbook (Tallahassee, FL)

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In August of 1985, construction began on a nine million dollar project to improve the Student Union. Since then the project site has been labelled a mess, a huge mud bog, and most commonly, a major obstruction to crossing campus. The inconvenience will be well worth it though. In January 1988 the new building will be open for business. By May 1988, all renovations will be completed. In planning the new Union, the Building Committee consulted with other universities as well as with the students and faculty at FSU. The final results will be as follows. The renovation will add more space to the bowl- ing alley for additional billiards tables. The old bookstore will become a restaurant and entertainment club. The Golden Key res- taurant is being given a facelift as well, and because a student ' s favorite college meal is pizza, a pizza bar will be opened on the second floor. The old Union Store will become an arts and crafts lab with equipment for student use and instruction available. The bottom level will consist of six photo processing labs. And, an office devoted solely to graph- ics will be the printing headquarters for all campus organizations. The new Student Union will also lease space to small businesses that students feel a need for. All in all, the new Student Union ' s grand opening is an event long in the coming and eagerly anticipated by all at FSU! Ashley Crosby This is the old Union in August 1985 looking quite unsightly (top left). The new addition finished and ready to open, in December 1987. Campus Life 9

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Florida State Gets A Facelift Not only was the Union project awful to look at, but it made trips through the Union inconvenient. The Student Union isn ' t the only construction around campus. The new science library, which was started at the same time as the Union project, should also be open for business this year. ► A brand new clock graces the addition of the Student Union. ▼ 8 Charging Forward

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Creative Options To Drinking Attending concerts, going out with friends, shop- ping at the mall as well as faking ID ' s and carousing around at off-campus parties all have become more popular than ever before now that the drinking age is finally 21 and the FSU campus is mostly dry. Fra- ternities us ed to host huge bacchanalian boozefests every weekend, but now they are limited to two par- ties at which they provide alcohol, per year. Many students have been forced to seek partying alternatives while others have merely become sneakier about how they party. Fraternities can still have pri- vate parties, so they have become quite popular with under-age drinkers. Likewise, more people are re- turning to formal dating and attending movies and events to while away their off-hours. Dance halls like Mardi Graz and apartment complex parties have be- come the active nightspots. Mike Cherry Underagers have found alternatives to drinking such as barbeques or dry dorm par- ties. 10 Charging Forward