It’s here! The official SFA Athletics app is live. Download today for schedules, scores, tickets, and more!
— SFA Athletics (@SFA_Athletics) September 4, 2025
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SFAXE93 said:It’s here! The official SFA Athletics app is live. Download today for schedules, scores, tickets, and more!
— SFA Athletics (@SFA_Athletics) September 4, 2025
App Store: https://t.co/52wXdiiVup
Google Play: https://t.co/7qAeKz0IsN#AxeEm pic.twitter.com/XJuu3cXsmY
This is good.
Axe 'Em Jacks - Class of 85'
I thought so, just put it on my phone, very convenient, love the sports alerts that come up.
Students struggle to unpack the dilemmas of dorms
This year 2,800 students were admitted to SFA, marking a 31% increase over last year. The incoming surge of freshman has triggered a domino effect, especially when looking at housing and residence life. Many complaints have surfaced from students and parents alike, with some students not being able to move in until after classes had started.
A sophomore sports business major from College Station, who preferred to stay anonymous over concerns of potentially losing housing, shared the stress and difficulties such a situation is putting her in. One difficult position, she described, involved her room assignment being changed from single occupancy in South Hall to having a roommate in Kerr Hall.
"I initially applied to South Hall to have a single room; however, I found out later that they were assigning me a roommate [at South Hall]," she said. "So, I transferred to Kerr to have an RA room; the week before moving in I found out I was placed with a roommate, [but] the room is the size of a closet practically."
There are a multitude of decisions that have led to the shifts in housing arrangements. Changes made include Lumberjack Village 1 and the first floor of Lumberjack Village 2 being converted from two-bedroom units to two-bedroom quad units, the decision to take Hall 20 offline and lastly to eliminate single occupancy housing campus-wide. The decision to take Hall 20 offline ended up having a lasting impact as it would leave the campus with less accommodation options.
The popular rumor by students at the time of its closing was that the decision came down to black mold. However, Korbin Pate, SFA's executive director of marketing and communications, ensured that the proper tests were conducted to ensure that there were no safety hazards with the hall. Now, some students are citing that the black mold is back in certain halls.
"There was black mold in the window of Griffith [Hall] that was continuously growing," an anonymous freshman psychology major from Tyler said. "It got to the point where I was consistently having to use my inhaler, and then I got a respiratory infection. It has drained me emotionally, mentally and physically to the point where I'm having thoughts about transferring."
During the interview process ideas and mentalities started to fuse into one central idea: SFA does not need to accept so many students if they cannot properly house them. While there are plans in the place in the future to accommodate the influx and every rising number of students SFA, for the time being it is leading to conflicts across campus.
"People can't enjoy their first semester of college or first semester back because so many students are having to worry about their housing, roommates and parking," A legacy freshman majoring in fine arts with a focus on film making said about the conflicts she has witnessed.
While increasing enrollment is a good thing, perhaps some folks should have thought about where you are going to put all the new students. The good will and excitement of coming to SFA will turn to resentment and disappointment for those who struggle to get housing. Progress and growth is a two headed sword that cuts both ways. The new living quarters that are planned and coming are all well and good but are of no use yet.
Don't get me wrong-I'm all for SFA growing enrollment and adding new fields of study and Degrees but it is a shame that likely a large handful+ of students will leave here with a bad taste in their mouth for SFA going forward due to a lack of forethought on placing these students in appropriate housing.
Some will say-well these kids in the article are whiners or knitpicking and that may be true or not, but the housing issue is real for those it affects.
This year 2,800 students were admitted to SFA, marking a 31% increase over last year. The incoming surge of freshman has triggered a domino effect, especially when looking at housing and residence life. Many complaints have surfaced from students and parents alike, with some students not being able to move in until after classes had started.
A sophomore sports business major from College Station, who preferred to stay anonymous over concerns of potentially losing housing, shared the stress and difficulties such a situation is putting her in. One difficult position, she described, involved her room assignment being changed from single occupancy in South Hall to having a roommate in Kerr Hall.
"I initially applied to South Hall to have a single room; however, I found out later that they were assigning me a roommate [at South Hall]," she said. "So, I transferred to Kerr to have an RA room; the week before moving in I found out I was placed with a roommate, [but] the room is the size of a closet practically."
There are a multitude of decisions that have led to the shifts in housing arrangements. Changes made include Lumberjack Village 1 and the first floor of Lumberjack Village 2 being converted from two-bedroom units to two-bedroom quad units, the decision to take Hall 20 offline and lastly to eliminate single occupancy housing campus-wide. The decision to take Hall 20 offline ended up having a lasting impact as it would leave the campus with less accommodation options.
The popular rumor by students at the time of its closing was that the decision came down to black mold. However, Korbin Pate, SFA's executive director of marketing and communications, ensured that the proper tests were conducted to ensure that there were no safety hazards with the hall. Now, some students are citing that the black mold is back in certain halls.
"There was black mold in the window of Griffith [Hall] that was continuously growing," an anonymous freshman psychology major from Tyler said. "It got to the point where I was consistently having to use my inhaler, and then I got a respiratory infection. It has drained me emotionally, mentally and physically to the point where I'm having thoughts about transferring."
During the interview process ideas and mentalities started to fuse into one central idea: SFA does not need to accept so many students if they cannot properly house them. While there are plans in the place in the future to accommodate the influx and every rising number of students SFA, for the time being it is leading to conflicts across campus.
"People can't enjoy their first semester of college or first semester back because so many students are having to worry about their housing, roommates and parking," A legacy freshman majoring in fine arts with a focus on film making said about the conflicts she has witnessed.
While increasing enrollment is a good thing, perhaps some folks should have thought about where you are going to put all the new students. The good will and excitement of coming to SFA will turn to resentment and disappointment for those who struggle to get housing. Progress and growth is a two headed sword that cuts both ways. The new living quarters that are planned and coming are all well and good but are of no use yet.
Don't get me wrong-I'm all for SFA growing enrollment and adding new fields of study and Degrees but it is a shame that likely a large handful+ of students will leave here with a bad taste in their mouth for SFA going forward due to a lack of forethought on placing these students in appropriate housing.
Some will say-well these kids in the article are whiners or knitpicking and that may be true or not, but the housing issue is real for those it affects.
In this week’s edition of East Texas In Focus on KETK, Isaac Ramirez talks with President Weaver about the exciting momentum at SFA. #AxeEm https://t.co/YjZQtfl2bj
— Korbin Pate (@KorbinPate) September 16, 2025
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