Everyone was disheveled upon hearing the staggering news that the NORSU guards are once again acting gruesome on the affairs of the students especially on the status of their identification cards and their decency as university goers.
These might be considerable for it is their job to ensure the safety of the institution as well as follow orders from higher authorities.
But it seems more than enough already to include confiscating food and drinking items from outside the campus. Even candies and gums were never exempted.
Instead of pelting a splendid amount of negativism to the administration, especially to the university president who gave direct orders of confiscation, let us try to delve deeper into the justification of the one man who started it all, for a change.
In a statement, University President Henry A. Sojor said that the students have to do their part in maintaining the cleanliness of the school. “Ask not what NORSU can do for you but what you can do for NORSU,” he said. Norsunians seem to act like grade one pupils for disregarding pieces of paper and plastic loitered everywhere, waiting to be reprimanded every time. Aside from that, the comfort rooms are not well taken care of, even after giving necessary repairs to it. He saw that the cleanliness of the school was at stake together with the comfort rooms and utilities which ceased to flush and started to malfunction so he put up a solution, which obviously was not taken lightly by the students and even by the parents.
Students cannot just turn tail and run from the fact that we are so much better in wailing for an upgrade of facilities, which, of course is beneficial, but are never cautious in taking good care of these provisions. We even ignore the efforts of having a clean school environment by not disposing garbages properly or neglecting the overlaid trashes on foyers and walkways; but then advocate on the upheaval of the students against the disciplinary acts of the father of the university.
Always put in mind that we are in a state university, which tries to be grateful for that meager budget coming from the higher office. We are not contained in a private institution wherein we can enjoy airconditioned rooms, high technology facilities, and instant servicing systems.
This year, the national government’s proposed budget for the 2011 has cut the fund for state universities and colleges. But to an optimistic leader like Sojor, Negros Oriental State University can still “do more with less.”
This time, more than ever, it would just be quite right for us to remember and put in heart the elementary values taught to us by the song, “This Is My School,” This is my school and because I love her, I shall try to make and keep her beautiful…so shall my school become the school beautiful, back-upped with the adage, “cleanliness is next to godliness.”
The president is then right in inculcating one important value: Responsibility.
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