All previous reviews of the CUB are good. This went in my sophomore year or at least was finally opened. The building had all sorts of new eco friendly materials. 30% of the building was from the previous student building union or so they say. Just looked at the website: "The CUB incorporates several new, green-friendly features including water saving flush valves, efficient radiant heating and cooling, and extensive recycling facilities. Additionally, the building structure includes recycled construction material from the 2008 CUB rennovation. During construction, over 90% of the building materials were recycled. Over 11 million pounds of debris removed from the CUB during the renovation avoided the Whitman County Landfill" It was a transition with student organizations moving in but eventually things settled down. Lots of areas for presentations, group events, just just a place to hang and study. The Bookie (campus bookstore) is located here for your needs. Clothing can be purchased. Food bought. Downstairs they have a few bank branches. Even a nice Kinkos style copy and mail room, Cougar Copies. Lots of guest speakers will use the ballrooms for events. Greek life will rent them out also. Nice view of Martin Stadium from the upper floors. I do enjoy how the building is built into the ground with a ton of natural light. read more

Kids these days have it made! The transformation from the old CUB to the new is nothing short if jaw dropping! I will always miss the Lair, but the amount of space that student groups received was a huge upgrade. The common areas are awesome to have meetings in or just hang out and having lots of dining options as well as the Bookie right there make it very convenient. read more

aka the CUB. The CUB is a great student union building. It has plenty of seats, couches and tables spanning multiple floors. There's also designated quiet rooms for quiet studying. The upper floors have student organization offices and the lower floor has Center for Civic Engagement and other organizations. Food-wise there's the food court with Freshen's, Carlita's, Panda Express, Subway and Villa Italian Fresh Kitchen. There's also a market downstairs that sells prepackaged goodies and gyros. There's also new places called Gridiron and Reunion. The school bookstore, the Bookie, is also located in the CUB. Along with WSECU, US Bank and ATMS for Chase, Bank of America, US Bank and WSECU. CougarCopies and the CougarCard Center are also located downstairs. I like that there's always people there and that you can usually find people you know. Plus it's a nice place to hang about if you have a break in between classes. read more

This building is often referred to as the CUB. This is an overly-expensive, crowded, and unhealthy place to eat. Your options are: greasy pizza from the local joint, overpriced, dry chinese that is still somehow greasy and unhealthy as hell (Panda Express), Subway, Carlitas (which gave me food poisoning), and the expensive-as-hell smoothie joint (which adds sugar to everything and recently made it a rule that you cannot request their smoothies sugar-free). The employees are all students, and simply don't give two shits about where they work. Yuck. If you're intelligent, you'll never buy your school books here. They jack up the prices, and will buy them back at the end of the semester for pennies on the dollar (I was offered 10 dollars for a 250$ book I had taken care of the entire semester) to resell again (the "used" version of the same book I was offered 10$ for goes for around 170$, for you math people that is 410$ they'd make on a single book). This is a clear as hell racketeering scam that was never meant to help the students recoup some of the losses from buying their expensive books. Go to Amazon.com or visit the Facebook group "WSU Book Exchange" for much better rates, often from fellow students. The "diversity" section on the 4th floor remains the only place on campus with free printing. Fulmer offers it too, but you have to be taking a chemistry course in order to use the computers there (and no, you can't just sneak in there and use one...the login requires you're registered in a chem course). However, this free printing in the CUB comes with a catch: only 10 pages at a time. For a science major who has to print up to 50 pages for papers, reading material, lab procedures, etc and cannot afford a printer...this rule is ludicrous. They claim this is to offset the cost of printing, but if they're making 200% profit on textbooks, they can afford to buy more paper for students who sorely need it. The CUB is not a place I visit often (mostly just to print something). If you want good coffee at a reasonable price, go visit the ladies over on the first floor of Todd. If you want a quiet study area, there is a large room on the first floor of Eastlick set aside for this purpose. Want noise, people playing pool/video games, greasy food, and crowds? Go to the CUB. read more

The CUB is okay... Starbucks, Panda Express, Subway, Freshens, and WSECU are great for the most part. A little pricy, some are unhealthy, but otherwise good. But when it comes to the other places, well, here goes: - The Bookie is extremely overpriced. Try to avoid getting ripped off here. Try Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Book Renter, Chegg, and more. - Cougar Copies is full in incompetent "workers" who don't know what they are doing. Every time I, and people I know, go there, we always have issues. Workers don't know how proofing before printing goes, they don't know how to read simple instructions, the workers and their supervisors are extremely rude, and workers are always browsing the Internet and being distracted. I am amazed on how most of the workers don't know how their own papers work. Size, material, and types are just a mystery to the workers. I know more about how their workplace works, and I go there once in a blue moon. .- The WSU Fire Marshal felt he needed to actually do something productive, so he removed all the good seating in the CUB. I guess he has nothing better to do then. - The previous CUB Coordinator is thankfully now gone. She was rude, could not manage a staff very well, and kept things unorganized. I believe she works in Residence Life now, so beware. read more