“We are in the process of remodeling the ground floor, the second floor and some rooms in the third floor,” Kuhn said. “When we looked at what we need to add to the building, we looked at some space that could be available, and billiards is one of the those spaces.”

Union Operations Supervisor Jeff Gooch said the UCue Billiards has been a part of the Union’s recreational area since 1949.

It currently costs students $5 an hour to gather and play pool.

Rooms for Engaged and Active Learning, or REAL, classrooms will be added to the former billiards room location. The REAL classrooms will have round tables with one computer monitor per table for students to see up close what the professor is teaching and putting on the monitor, similar to the classrooms in McDonel Hall, Kuhn said.

ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, recently passed a bill advocating for free billiards for students. But with UCue Billiards closing, the bill was ruled dead.

“The general assembly might look into other ways to provide alternative ways for entertainment,” ASMSU Director of Public Relations Haley Dunnigan said.

The news of the upcoming closing of UCue Billiards was surprising and disappointing to political science and pre-law junior Kaitlin Klemp, who remembers using the room her freshman year.

“I’m kind of surprised I guess because it’s been here forever,” Klemp said. “Even though I don’t go there, I know that every week they have free bowling and billiards down there, so I feel like there are some people who go to that all the time and they would be very disappointed.”

The removal of UCue Billiards also gave Kuhn mixed feelings. She said the billiards room was something she felt was necessary to help improve the Union for students.

“It is a little bit sad,” Kuhn said. “But what we are making room for is going to be more useful and respond to the needs of the current students better then what the billiards room does.”