Thursday, August 5, 2010

More improvements

By Cheeno M. Luang
(Vol. XXVIII No. 4, Editorial Cartoon)

More improvements

There were significant developments in Negros Oriental State University (NORSU) that made the NORSU community commend the progress, while there were some others who did not even care to give a single note.

There is the ongoing construction of the College of Nursing, Dentistry, Pharmacy, and Allied Health Sciences building. Also, the offering of two new courses last school year: Doctor in Dental Medicine and Bachelor of Science in Mining Engineering. However, the latter was temporarily closed since it attracted only a few enrollees. An addition is the beautification of the NORSU grounds with the repainting of the buildings.

It may either be big or small improvements, but the institution has made its part to create a new environment for the NORSU community. As most of the said ventures were successful, there are another new set of progress that NORSU community will start embracing for the next few days.

The university administration’s line-up of projects this school year are the renovation and construction of a three-storey College of Business and Accountancy (CBA) building, an Amphitheater, a religious activity center or a Chapel, a two-storey food building, and the roofing of the open courts. The Amphitheater and the Chapel will be situated in front of CBA, west side of the NORSU Cultural Complex and at the back of the College of Tourism and Hospitality Management building. University President Henry A. Sojor, in an interview, shared that any religious activity can be done in the Chapel.

The two-storey food building will include the seven-unit food stalls located at the ground floor and the Engineer’s, Supply’s, Bids and Awards Committee’s/Technical Working Group’s, and Evening Vocational Courses’ offices that will be positioned in the second floor of the said building. Sojor also related that with the said project, the neatness of the university will be improved since everything will be in place this time.

From all of the projects of the institution for this school year, it only provides that NORSU has been stepping on from one ladder to another – higher and higher. Subsequently, these plans will add dominance and prestige of the school since it builds up growth of the institution and at the end, the stakeholders will benefit from the said development. It’s quite a big challenge at first to provide some of the many needs of the NORSU community especially for the students. But despite all the odds, the institution remained firm and established to provide not just quality education but also a one-of-a-kind security and tenure.

But since NORSU has been improving a time now, most Norsunians and the watchful NORSU community were already hoping that the needs in facilities and equipment will be catered as well in the near future – as soon as today. Students were even claiming that if not with hard work and dedication to pursue their goals in life, things would have not fall into place – relating to Norsunians who top exams. Consequently, since it is a known fact that NORSU has delinquency in facilities and equipment, it should also have been addressed.

If then the administration has appropriated a big amount for building new structures for the university, it might as well be better if they could also supplement the requests of the students with their demand on facilities and equipment, and allocate some for the said appeal.

It is assumed that there are still some other set of projects that will be implemented in the next few years for the improvement of the institution and the betterment of the NORSU community as a whole. But still, there are other important needs that supposedly been addressed by the administration by now. The projects are a commendable one though. Kudos to more improvements!


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