UBC student union considers building slide

The University of British Columbia’s student union is studying the feasibility of a slide to connect up to five floors of their new Student Union Building. Mike Silley, VP of administration for the Alma Mater Society (AMS) says that the goal is not only to make the building more fun, but also to make it more eco-friendly. "Each elevator costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to implement and that doesn’t even include the energy costs of running it," Silley told the Ubyssey newspaper, saying the slide would reduce the need for elevators. He also says it would draw tourists to student-owned business. "They could come to the Museum of Anthropology [on campus] and then they say hey there’s a slide in the Student Union Building. Let’s take our kids to check it out. Meantime [they] have some Pie R Squared Pizza," he says. Other examples of buildings with slides for adults include the Google headquarters in California and the Corus Entertainment building in Toronto.