…stating MSU is rolling in a bed and their 2 person dorm room is about to have a 3rd?
Is it true some incoming freshmen are getting emails…
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University should have bought the old Comfort Suites when they had the chance! Time for Hilton to build a new Hampton Inn. Keenum should convince them now is the time and buy the existing Hampton.
Somebody forgot to tell the new freshmen enrollees that football sux and they are coming from near and far to be a part of the Scott Field Revival???
I wouldn't be surprised. There were 3 of us in a room in Critz in 1965 - and only one two-sided desk. I think there was one chair but it was stacked with clothes all the time. Only two "closets".
Look, it was either NIL or capital investment in student housing. Can’t do both.
pretty sure they did........
Been trying to tell you guys. There are some people in charge of pretty important things at MSU that can't handle it. Parking and Housing debacles happening right before the fall semester starts is a problem.
MSU owns Hampton, Comfort, and Courtyard now and have since 2023. From the Starkville Dispatch in 2023,
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This one is about to open on the site of the old Suttle Dorm, capacity of 412 students. And get this, NO PARKING LOT ANYWHERE!
I’d imagine the massive parking lot to the north would be used.
But heaven forbid those students walk 300 yards!
I thought about it and that works most times except when there are baseball or basketball games, and its used for those a lot. The snowflakes will melt if there was a drizzle or rain and they had to walk through it
I have an incoming freshman at state, no such email that i’ve seen.
This is the new freshman girls dorm at Alabama with its parking garage to the east.
If any of you all are in any FB parent group, you’ll know the appropriate response is to, “call Kat Walker.” Don’t know who she, but she’s got her hands full.
Kat is the Associate Dean of Students for Parent Relations and is great. But this isn't her issue.
The Dean of Students is technically over Housing, but this debacle is a Housing issue. We have people running Housing divisions at Mississippi State that their background was McDonald's Cashier and worked in the Kroger Bakery.
I wish I was kidding.
Unfortunately, because of geography, State has a hard time hiring in many departments including academia and athletics.
I know most here will scoff at that but... it's the truth.
I've got an entering freshman and my wife added me to a couple parent groups. Pure entertainment for me. I havnt seen one about 3 in a dorm but I've also not been on Facebook much the last week. I'll have to scan the groups. The parking disaster was fun.
The master plan is to restrict cars to the periphery of campus. That has been in the works for a long time now.
I am 100% for making the campus more pedestrian. However State really needs more parking. There needs to be additional parking constructed north of Ruby. Another parking garage next the existing one at the hump. Then another parking garage south of Dorman. And another somewhere near the east commuter lot.
But a big problem is all the apartment residents try to drive to campus. They need to ride the bus. That would relieve some issues.
But a big problem is all the apartment residents try to drive to campus. They need to ride the bus. That would relieve some issues.
I really am not trying to be depressing. Last week's parking debacle made statewide news. It is bad. To follow that up with a housing issue is one of the worst things that could happen.
Mississippi State does a good job providing education to the citizens of this state, which is their mandate. But there are alot of things that we miss on, and we miss bad. Message boards and X don't really get into the details of non-athletic happenings at State, but if they did, it would surprise a ton of people how bad things are internally. I've had staff reach out to me that say its worse than you can imagine.
You have to have people in place that give a damn about MSU, not just drawing a paycheck.
Every university has parking issues. Every university has housing issues at some level. But they are handled. We have had colossal screwups at a high magnitude now two weeks in a row. It costs $30k a year to send a kid to State now. The big things have to be impeccable at that price tag.
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Same here for me in '71 in Critz. Fortunately, it was limited and was temporary until a new dorm opened in a couple of weeks. State has always had trouble with allocating dorm rooms for the fall semester because of supply and demand and the fluid nature of housing. If they overbuild, dorms may sit empty and people complain about monetary waste, underbuild and people complain. No win situation.
There is a win in the situation. Do what other SEC schools do when you need space - allow some freshmen to move off campus. It decreases revenue but you aren't pissing people off with 3 to a room. Or you don't accept the late applicants when your residence halls are full. You put them on a waitlist.
It's not so much geography as it's because of Starkville. And you're right, no one wants to hear it.
This is what my kid told me the other day. BIG CAVEAT- he's 18 and not the best historian, so take it with a salt lick.
That's because for some reason braindead liberals want everybody to live on top of each other and walk everywhere. If it were up to some of them we would all live in tiny cracker box apartments with thousands of other people and never go more than a three block radius from home. Meanwhile these same people have private jets.
Our daughter is a junior at State now and I never heard about any issues, although I stay out of it all as well unless there's a problem. My first thought when reading this was stop requiring freshmen to live in dorms.
Damn, you really forced that into the conversation.
Anybody know what the % of freshmen to total population living on campus is? I remember we couldn’t wait to get off campus back in my day. First thought I had when I saw these new dorms that started popping up was I would have stayed on campus if these had been around back then.
Last I heard it was a requirement for freshmen to live in dorms. State had priced them so high they were nowhere near full.