It’s a bus stop, a quick place to grab some lunch and has some of the cheapest ice cream around. It hosts the Wolves’ Den, Stewart Theatre, the Gallery of Art and Design, the Women’s Center, the Union Activities Board and several other organizations on campus. Every new student on campus visits it during orientation and tickets to most any event can be picked up there. Talley Student Center is a stop for many students on their way to class, the gym and those trying to get home. Students can always be seen dining at Taco Bell and Lil Dino’s and lounging in chairs in between classes. However, the University has grown tremendously since Talley was first constructed in April of 1972 and some think it’s time for a spruce up.”It’s very hard to peg where is the center of campus life,” Student Body President Jay Dawkins said. “We know it’s not what it should be but I think a lot of students are just really hopeful for what Talley could be.”Construction and renovation possibilities are currently under discussion, but the decisions are being left in the hands of the students.”This is going to be a student led push for changing the entire face of the student center and making it a better place for students,” Dawkins said. “They are really putting this to the students saying if you want this, we can make it happen.”Though no definite plans or figures have been made yet, Dawkins said the expansion work needed is obvious. When it was first completed, N.C. State was home to about 12,000 students. The University now has more than 31,000 students enrolled and nearly 8,000 faculty and staff. Expansion and space is a major factor in planning new designs for Talley, but the main focus is also on what students want and need. But should millions of dollars be spent on a student center while the economy is down and the University is facing a massive budget cut? Some students say absolutely not.”I think it’s absurd that they are trying to renovate Talley in this economy,” Nancy Boyce, sophomore in environmental technology, said. “I think we should put our money toward something that will be more beneficial to students directly.”Other students like junior in engineering Kurt Wolff and sophomore in aerospace engineering Elliot Willis agree. “Honestly, I would rather have my tuition cheaper and have Talley be the same way. We are in a terrible recession and we are having budget cuts and they should not be spending millions on renovations,” Wolff said.Dawkins agrees that the state of the economy is a major concern when considering a multi-million dollar construction project but, he says, that decision is being left up to the students.”If it’s something students just don’t want right now then we will put it off,” Dawkins said. “But a lot of construction materials and costs have fallen through the basement so there might be some savings in there, some glimmer of hope.”Willis believes that there are many other places and buildings on campus that could use the attention and money rather than Talley.”Some of the labs are old and many of the buildings are outdated,” Willis said. “They’d probably be a lot better off spending the money somewhere else.”Other students, like junior in biological science Kim Spence, just feel left out of the loop when it comes to discussions about Talley renovations. “I don’t really know a lot about it and I’ve tried to find information about it and I can’t,” Spence said.But that will soon be changing.Rally for Talley, a campaign geared toward making Talley a bigger and better place for students, will be kicking off late next week. Dawkins said once the campaign gets rolling and students start voicing their opinions, there will be movement with the project one way or another. According to the Rally for Talley Web Site, the campaign is calling for students to come together in support of a new building on campus that truly belongs to the student body and provides everyone on campus with a place to “refresh the mind, energize ideas and celebrate unity”. The campaign may do little, however, to convince students like Kim Spence.”I know that we are having to cut a lot of classes all around and that issue should be a priority,” Spence said. “There is no reason why we should be spending millions of dollars when all of our classes aren’t even offered.”