By Christian Edu Villegas(Vol. XXVI No. 2, Editorial Cartoon)
The word “discipline” refers to the strict control to enforce obedience; treatment that corrects or punishes; training to act in accordance with established rules; accustoming to systematic and regular action; subjection to rule; submissiveness to order and control; and habit of obedience.
Rules such as the “No ID, No Entry” policy and the proper dressing policy are implemented to Norsunians with the vision of creating a more disciplined university. Except for the freshmen, these policies are certainly not new to the majority of the students because these were already introduced to them years ago. These policies are supposed to have disciplined most of the Norsunians by now. These policies, by now, would have taught students to bring their IDs and groom properly every time they go to school.
Unfortunately, the mentioned policies failed to achieve its vision of molding disciplined Norsunians. This is very evident when the Security Department of Negros Oriental State University (NORSU) relived back the policies early this school year. Just as when Norsunians should have already learned their lessons from the past implementations, as observed, there are still a large crowd of students, most of them are returning, who were not allowed to enter the campus because they did not follow the rekindled rules.
The implementation of the policies was announced days before it took effect that is why it would be a lame excuse to say that students were not informed. Also, for the returning students, it is expected that they already have their IDs at this point in their university lives. And so, we wonder why Norsunians are still not learning from the past implementations of the policies? We wonder why the policies did not discipline the students yet when those were already taking effect in the past years.
If we look at the situation closely, blames should not fully go to the students. Students should not be fully charged why they are still not used of abiding the policies until the present. Most of the blames should go to the ‘ningas-cogon’ way of implementing the policies. As observed in the past, the policies suffered swift deaths after a few measly weeks of strict implementation. Or if not, it was a now-on-off implementation that only functions at some point of time.
If only the policies are implemented at all times in the campus, it would have inculcated a lesson to the Norsunians’ minds that they must abide to it; else, they will end up missing their classes. If only the policies were consistently implemented in the past, Norsunians would have been careful now to bring their IDs and groom properly. If only the policies are functioning at all times in the past, students would have cared to follow it at all times “it would have disciplined them. Unfortunately, because of the ‘ningas-cogon’ implementation, the policies failed to achieve its purpose in disciplining Norsunians.
Inconsistent and vague implementations of policies inculcate the culture of indiscipline. For a disciplined university, what is needed is an iron hand to truly and fully implement policies to enforce discipline, order and control.
As the Security Department of the university brings back the policies this school year, hopefully this time, there will be no more ‘ningas-cogon’ way of implementation. Else, if it will still be the old way, the ‘ningas-cogon’ way, it will never discipline Norsunians. It will defeat its purpose.
The definitions of various dictionaries to the word “discipline” can be summed up to the thought that it is a training that develops self-control. The word “discipline” refers to the strict control to enforce obedience; treatment that corrects or punishes; training to act in accordance with established rules; accustoming to systematic and regular action; subjection to rule; submissiveness to order and control; and habit of obedience.
ReplyDeleteRules such as the “No ID, No Entry” policy and the proper dressing policy are implemented to Norsunians with the vision of creating a more disciplined university. Except for the freshmen, these policies are certainly not new to the majority of the students because these were already introduced to them years ago. These policies are supposed to have disciplined most of the Norsunians by now. These policies, by now, would have taught students to bring their IDs and groom properly every time they go to school.
Unfortunately, the mentioned policies failed to achieve its vision of molding disciplined Norsunians. This is very evident when the Security Department of Negros Oriental State University (NORSU) relived back the policies early this school year. Just as when Norsunians should have already learned their lessons from the past implementations, as observed, there are still a large crowd of students, most of them are returning, who were not allowed to enter the campus because they did not follow the rekindled rules.
The implementation of the policies was announced days before it took effect that is why it would be a lame excuse to say that students were not informed. Also, for the returning students, it is expected that they already have their IDs at this point in their university lives. And so, we wonder why Norsunians are still not learning from the past implementations of the policies? We wonder why the policies did not discipline the students yet when those were already taking effect in the past years.
If we look at the situation closely, blames should not fully go to the students. Students should not be fully charged why they are still not used of abiding the policies until the present. Most of the blames should go to the ‘ningas-cogon’ way of implementing the policies. As observed in the past, the policies suffered swift deaths after a few measly weeks of strict implementation. Or if not, it was a now-on-off implementation that only functions at some point of time.
If only the policies are implemented at all times in the campus, it would have inculcated a lesson to the Norsunians’ minds that they must abide to it; else, they will end up missing their classes. If only the policies were consistently implemented in the past, Norsunians would have been careful now to bring their IDs and groom properly. If only the policies are functioning at all times in the past, students would have cared to follow it at all times “it would have disciplined them. Unfortunately, because of the ‘ningas-cogon’ implementation, the policies failed to achieve its purpose in disciplining Norsunians.
Inconsistent and vague implementations of policies inculcate the culture of indiscipline. For a disciplined university, what is needed is an iron hand to truly and fully implement policies to enforce discipline, order and control.
As the Security Department of the university brings back the policies this school year, hopefully this time, there will be no more ‘ningas-cogon’ way of implementation. Else, if it will still be the old way, the ‘ningas-cogon’ way, it will never discipline Norsunians. It will defeat its purpose. (Editorial, The NORSUnian, Vol. 26, No. 2)