Construction is not just bulldozing away our Mall - it is seizing the good ol' student union to boot.

While the Integrated Learning Center (ILC) is a project with valuable academic goals in mind, it is difficult to understand why UA students are being forced to sacrifice their student union.

As phase two of student union construction kicks off, UA students are looking around wondering where their beautiful campus has gone.

UA students will return to fall semester with a fence wrapped around the engineering building and current bookstore entrance, and stretching across two-thirds of the west end of the Mall. By this time, ILC fences are scheduled to be taken down.

The new construction setup is scheduled to begin in July 2001 and will not finish until August 2002.