One of the biggest parties UA has ever seen begins today.

And it's all in honor of a building.

Administrators will officially dedicate the largest student union in the nation without a hotel ÷ the new Student Union Memorial Center.

At 405,000 square feet and nearly 9.3 acres, it is double the size of the original student union.

It's not just a union, it's a small city, said Dan Adams, director of UA student unions.

"The word I hear constantly is, ÎWow. Wow it's big. Wow it's beautiful.' This is what I like to call the ÎWow' building," Adams said.

Although it's taken three years, 12 million pounds of steel, and over $60 million to construct the union, it's still not finished. [Read article]

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No. 1 UA, led by Channing Frye's 25 points and 14 boards, dropped USC by 27 on Saturday, just two days after punishing UCLA by 36

Winning has not been much of a problem for the No. 1 Arizona Wildcats so far this season, but winning in back-to-back games had been rare until this weekend. [Read article]

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