Campus is busy today as Lumberjacks move in to their new home away from home. Welcome to the family, Lumberjacks!

Due to the predicted inclement weather resulting from Tropical Storm Harvey, residence halls will open early from 1 to 7 p.m. tomorrow, Aug. 24, to help accommodate students who may be affected by the storm. Regular check-in times for Friday through Sunday remain the same. If you have any questions, contact Residence Life at (936) 468-2601.

Check out these photos from yesterday's solar esclipse watch party by Surfin' Steve and the SFA Charter School.

Lumberjacks across the nation will look skyward today (with protective eyewear, of course) to observe the rare solar eclipse taking place in the afternoon hours. SFA physics faculty members will demonstrate safe viewing procedures and answer questions from 11:45 a.m. until the eclipse at Surfin’ Steve. If you’re unsure of the best time to join fellow Lumberjacks or curious about what you’ll see, click the link to retrieve details about the eclipse for your city or area.

Introducing SFA Snapchat! For a first-hand look into campus happenings, scan our Snapcode below, or find us on Snapchat under the username SFA_Jacks. Also, follow us tomorrow for a sneak peek inside our annual Jack Camp and next week as we cover Operation Move In.

🎓 | 2017 August Commencement

The fall issue of Sawdust will soon be in the mail to alumni. Be sure to read about SFA's Marlon Walls, a student-athlete who maintains a 4.0 GPA in the rigorous engineering physics program while playing safety for the Lumberjacks.

Approximately 540 Lumberjacks will graduate from SFA Saturday. Graduates, we wish you all the best and are excited for you to join the ranks of proud SFA alumni. #AxeEm #SFA #LumberjacksMakeGreatGraduates

Let the #LumberjackCountdown begin! In four weeks, many of you will be joining your Lumberjack family to begin the fall 2017 semester at SFA. Here’s a quick video to remind you of some of the important back-to-school items you’ll need, such as textbooks, scantrons, pens and, of course, your SFA spirit.

Four Lumberjacks traveled to Haiti in June with the SFA alumni-founded One Foot Raised to conduct agroforestry and sustainable development outreach programming. Learn how you can be a part of this developing partnership.

Lumberjacks make great musicians! Two music education majors, freshman Dustin Woods and senior Emily Williams, performed on the Grand Ole Opry House stage in Nashville this week. As participants in the Fine Arts Summer Academy, which highlights outstanding young artists from across the country and around the world, Woods was featured in a string quartet, and Williams taught beginner strings and helped lead a fiddle ensemble. They also played at the Country Music Hall of Fame. It was Williams’ fifth Opry performance and Woods’ first.

It's Throwback Thursday! Today, we're throwing it back to 1979 when artist Bob Dale was commissioned to illustrate six historical East Texas landmarks for a series of newspaper advertisements for St. Regis Paper. This sketch of the Austin Building was among the six. Dale's work almost perfectly depicts the free speech area gazing through the pines toward the Austin Building. Dale even included a squirrel paused at mid-tree to keep the sketch accurate.