A Welcome Facility

By Angelo K. Sastre

(Vol. XXVIX No. 5, Editorial Cartoon)

With the opening of a new semester, a new fully-furnished air-conditioned Audio Visual Room (AVR) that will enhance the efficiency of classes was built. With the new AVR, instructors and students now have a suitable avenue for film showing, PowerPoint presentations, oral defense and other related activities.

It is indeed a very important facility invested in by the Negros Oriental State University administration. It is envisioned to boost the students’ and teachers’ view on learning. It is certainly a prelude to a more sophisticated learning environment.

The new AVR would really be a great help to the whole NORSU community especially to many poor but deserving students of this university for in the past, students used to spend P100 to rent a LCD projector for every hour. What a burden!

However, with the realization of this facility, questions will be raised concerning its availability and accessibility to the general population of the university. If we could take note that its sister facility – the Speech Laboratory – which cost a million pesos to built, has not yet been fully maximized. It is our hope that the AVR will not follow this path.

With this, we ask the whole student community to make use of the facility. If you have reports or any activity that will fit the functions of the AVR then start making your request letters. It is your right, our right to utilize what has been created from our resources. Nonetheless, we must take note that any equipment must be handled with care.

Also, we challenge all the teachers to acquaint their students with the new facility that the university has. It is for a fact that not all students even know how to use an LCD projector, or even what the acronym stand for. With the advent of technology, every student must be familiar with the functions of basic multimedia equipment that may come quite in handy when they graduate.

With the new AVR, we at NORSU will once again be proud for our university has created another trademark of progress and pure excellence.