North Campus Student Union:
Student Activities Center (SAC), 1984-1992
Student Union, 1993-present

The Student Union on UB's North Campus, originally named "Student Activities Center" and now called simply the "Student Union", was built in two phases. The first in 1985, second in 1992.

Click to see a floor plan of the Student Activities building published
in The Spectrum, August 27, 1984

However, at the time of its completion the general consensus was that the building was not going to meet all the needs of the campus or the University. The University House Council passed a resolution recognizing the SAC as too small and called for "an immediate extension of the SAC that would give it activity space comparable in usable square footage to that of Squire Hall" (October 24, 1985). Until the second construction was completed, the Student Activities Center remained only one step in the right direction.

Students present President Steven Sample with funds toward the construction of a new union

Student Activities Building construction, December 1982