On the first day of the 2008 spring semester, just-out-of-the-box furniture in the first-floor foyer of the reopened Colvard Student Union began serving the physical and social needs of what will be many thousands of current and future MSU students and others. For students, the high-traffic area just off the Gaddis Hunt Commons dining facility provided the perfect spot Wednesday to take in the radically altered building--and wait for old friends to pass by.