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January 2024 by Arthur Flores
Great times here. Especially in the billiards room.
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December 2023 by Budianastas Prastyatama
Cozy and warm during cold months, the more reason for students to gather here and warm up, working on their assignments.
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November 2023 by Don Sherman (Rogue002)
A typical student union.
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October 2023 by Hannah M.
A nice place to hang out during the day with some food establishments, plenty of seating, good WiFi. Located near lots of classroom buildings and museums. Pretty spacious and never feels like it's overcrowded with students even at busy times. Could definitely use a little updating in terms of furniture and overall architecture. Also, I would love if there could be more local businesses represented inside rather than generic crappy chains like Panda Express and Subway, especially since these chains are just as expensive and hard on a student wallet now (eg a bowl from Qdoba is the same price as a bowl from Kosmo's Bop Shop). Also, the Panera in the Union suffers from severe mismanagement - they are so disorganized and don't seem to know what they're doing. Every time I order a drink through the app the cup never makes it onto the shelf. It's baffling.Lastly, I regularly go to the Blue Market in the lower level to refill gift cards and none of the student workers have any idea how to do it and need to get a manager. Overall it's not the students' fault but whoever runs the Union needs to step it up.
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September 2023 by Myra Tucker
It's a great space with lots amenities.
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July 2023 by Jerome D.
The fate of the Mich. Union since the 1960s has been to go from bad to worse. The Union had been like a world in itself, from its rathskeller-like cafeteria to its upper-floors of guest rooms. The ground floor cafeteria's rooms served as a meeting place for students interested in conversation that stimulated the listening busboy. The wooden tables had student initials and records of football seasons' scores carved into them with tools supplied by the Union. In the far room, a grad student might be seen in a corner reading or typing his dissertation. At other tables, a clutch of classical studies students or a group of engineers might be overheard discusing serious political or social issues. Besides the two cafeteria lines (only one was in use except for special occasion crowds) were complemented by a full-scale soda fountain. The cafeteria food was modestly priced, especially considering that it used much of the same food that was on the menu of the expensive restaurant on the first floor. The Union had its own bakery and butcher shop, with a baker and butchers who demanded the highest quality.The cafeteria grand spaces were not the onlly things on the ground floor. A large swimming pool and an eight-chair barber shop and shoe-shine stands stood at one end of the cafeteria while a bowling alley lay on the other side. of it. Then things changed.The administration was persuaded by an opportunist cafeteria manager (someone with no connection to the univesity beyond a job) to remodel the cafeteria, to modernize it and make it look more in the style of a Howard Johnson's with formica and stainless steel replacing the old wooden tables and chairs. The soda fountain's disappearance was a portent. In subseqnent years, more changes were made, with different furniture, lowered lighting to discourage taking up space for reading. Then fast-food franchises were brought in---the cafeteria now only memory.On the second floor, the beaufiful, intimate library donated by a patron with provided it with his extensive book collection was replaced by a hive of cubicles to accomodate the growing number of student bureaucrats.In its latest state of demise, the floors above have been radically altered, with most functions lost in the manner of the ground floor. The pool and bowling alley are long gone. So is the billiard room and the Pendelton Library on the second floor. The Library was supposed to have been protected according to the donor's stipulation, but lawyers found a way to break the agreement. The rather magnificent ballroom at the rear of the second floorr has also disappeared. The new Union is filled with meeting and study apaces now that all its services have disappeared. The successive changes testify to a modern mentality. *
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July 2023 by Nigel Addison
Went to a wedding and they served one of the worst meals I have ever seen. It was supposed to be some kind of beef but it looked like 3 day old lump of coal.
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May 2023 by Greg H
Lovely old building carefully remodeled.
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April 2023 by Brian Perkins
Great memories, wonderful times!
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March 2023 by Runda Mccain
Great place for a gathering! Let us do some balloons for your event..
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December 2022 by Noni Jenkins
Beautiful student union!!!
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December 2022 by maria welch
Enjoyed the lower level/basement. Nice place to enjoy lunch break with different restaurant food options. Also experienced delightful employment at Barne and noble bookstore. I will always remember the basement.
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October 2022 by Barie Fetter
We celebrated with The Michigan Innocence Project. Food and Drinks were very good.
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September 2022 by TONY PORTER
Beautiful place Where My Son Married His Beautiful Wife.Mr. & Ms. Porter ??
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September 2022 by Marc W.
Incredible institution and beautiful Union. Multiple coffee shops and other food options on the 1st floor. Meeting space and large conference rooms in the others.
