Fast-forward two decades: the student population had increased in size and a push for a new, larger student center began. The 1950 Alcalde notes that as far back as 1947 both current and former students began collecting funds for such a structure. Their efforts helped in the construction of the Student Union Building (SUB), located at the corner of Sam Houston Avenue and Seventeenth Street.

When the union outgrew these premises, and the Lowman Student Center became the modern home for student activities, this building was renamed Music 2, complete with classrooms and performance areas for the Department of Music. Its counterpart, Music 1, makes up half of today's Evans Complex.

Fifty years after its completion the building still is abuzz of student activity as home to various departments.

Incidentally, the 1988 edition of the Campus Master Plan called for the demolition of Academic Building 2.  In its place was to be the eastern entry to an underground pedestrian walkway below Sam Houston Avenue; the western entrance was to be on the site of the demolished Jackson-Shaver dorm.  According to the document, the planned execution of this was to be in 2007.  Nineteen years after that document both buildings still stood on campus.