By Paul Anthony M. Eso
(Vol. XXVIII No. 5, Editorial Cartoon)
One Skewed rule
It seems that University President Henry A. Sojor felt like the students of Negros Oriental State University are not only hardheaded but also beyond help. Perhaps, because of this belief he has cooked up a policy that is not only absurd but also ridiculous if not demeaning for an administrator of his stature.
Who wouldn’t want a clean university?
If Sojor will be asked, he would most likely point his fingers to the students. That is why in one of those boring days, he had a talk with Chief Security Officer Nilo Lauron. No one really knew what they talked about, only that days after that, Lauron has mobilized his minions and asked them that foods taken inside the campus by the students should be confiscated.
By the way, Lauron said that it was not their job to inform the students of the orders given by the university president. He said that it is the Student Government’s job. So, even without properly informing the students, they continued with their stunts. As usual, they hid again behind “we are just following orders.”
So imagine the surprise of the students when the baon they brought from home [took time to prepare and pack it] were taken away like it was a piece of bomb ready to explode. Imagine the faces of the students who, because they have no extra money at hand, have to buy biscuits in advance just to save some extra pesos, but only to end up with nothing to eat at all.
Sojor said that the main purpose of this is to maintain cleanliness, sanitation and hygiene inside the campus.
Could this mean that the university president is finally reaching that point wherein he can’t come up with better means to discipline the students, so he would stoop as low as confiscating baons and hide behind saying that it is to maintain cleanliness, sanitation and hygiene?
It is true that drastic times call for drastic measures. There is no problem about wanting to maintain cleanliness but to go as far as confiscating baons is stooping down way too many levels.
It was Sojor who keeps on admonishing that NORSU is a school for the poor but deserving students. It was also Sojor who said that students go to school in order to learn.
But with this new policy, is it even fitting for the poor but deserving students? A lot of students cannot afford the food served at the canteen. Guess they have no choice now but to really buy, wouldn’t they?
And what kind of lesson does he want the students to learn this time? Obviously, he wanted the students to learn cleanliness at the expense of the students getting hungry because the baon they can afford is taken away.
If Sojor thinks that the students are beyond help, that they cannot be disciplined anymore by plainly showing them how to do it, then what difference is NORSU to a prison or an asylum?
Only the university president can answer that.
One Skewed rule
It seems that University President Henry A. Sojor felt like the students of Negros Oriental State University are not only hardheaded but also beyond help. Perhaps, because of this belief he has cooked up a policy that is not only absurd but also ridiculous if not demeaning for an administrator of his stature.
Who wouldn’t want a clean university?
If Sojor will be asked, he would most likely point his fingers to the students. That is why in one of those boring days, he had a talk with Chief Security Officer Nilo Lauron. No one really knew what they talked about, only that days after that, Lauron has mobilized his minions and asked them that foods taken inside the campus by the students should be confiscated.
By the way, Lauron said that it was not their job to inform the students of the orders given by the university president. He said that it is the Student Government’s job. So, even without properly informing the students, they continued with their stunts. As usual, they hid again behind “we are just following orders.”
So imagine the surprise of the students when the baon they brought from home [took time to prepare and pack it] were taken away like it was a piece of bomb ready to explode. Imagine the faces of the students who, because they have no extra money at hand, have to buy biscuits in advance just to save some extra pesos, but only to end up with nothing to eat at all.
Sojor said that the main purpose of this is to maintain cleanliness, sanitation and hygiene inside the campus.
Could this mean that the university president is finally reaching that point wherein he can’t come up with better means to discipline the students, so he would stoop as low as confiscating baons and hide behind saying that it is to maintain cleanliness, sanitation and hygiene?
It is true that drastic times call for drastic measures. There is no problem about wanting to maintain cleanliness but to go as far as confiscating baons is stooping down way too many levels.
It was Sojor who keeps on admonishing that NORSU is a school for the poor but deserving students. It was also Sojor who said that students go to school in order to learn.
But with this new policy, is it even fitting for the poor but deserving students? A lot of students cannot afford the food served at the canteen. Guess they have no choice now but to really buy, wouldn’t they?
And what kind of lesson does he want the students to learn this time? Obviously, he wanted the students to learn cleanliness at the expense of the students getting hungry because the baon they can afford is taken away.
If Sojor thinks that the students are beyond help, that they cannot be disciplined anymore by plainly showing them how to do it, then what difference is NORSU to a prison or an asylum?
Only the university president can answer that.
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