Ambitious but Possible

By Paul Anthony M. Eso

(Vol.XXX  Issue No. 2, Editorial Cartoon)

If Negros Oriental State University is a human body, the administration has undoubtedly made the university look outstanding on the outside. We are talking about the tall buildings, renovation of classrooms, admirable colors repainted unto the walls, brick-floored entrance, the not-so spacious canteen, and the hundreds of computers acquired to give students an avenue for learning.

All these things are good. All these things are so good to be true. The university has never looked so admirable since the last four years. But some things were left unattended. Some stones were left unturned. They have forgotten how untidy our premises have become.

Students can testify to how uncomfortable our comfort rooms are every time we walk in for some quick-releasing of used body fluids. Freshmen in the first place have been welcomed by the odorous smell coming from these rooms. Water supply has been a constant problem since last year and the odorous smell caused ruckus to many Norsunians. This is not the kind of school we wanted.

Garbage are dumped everywhere. Hills of trashes are evident on certain areas near the Administration, College of Business and Accountancy, and College of Industrial Technology buildings. These university-areas-turned-dump-site have existed long before the 2012 graduates enrolled in this university. This is not the kind of school we wanted.

NORSU delivers high-class education. No doubt. But top-rate educational instruction should be accompanied with a clean and green environment conducive for learning. These two must come together as one. When one of them is out of the picture, there is a big problem. 

But the university officials responsible for this should not get all the blame. After all, it is us students who often use the comfort rooms. It is us who cause these rooms to get dirty and smelly. The garbage hills around the campus are the products of our own doing.

The trashes stuck in there are the remains of our happy eating at the canteen. The wrecked chairs and tables in there are proofs of our ignorance after we break each chair, one after the other. A regular city garbage truck cannot carry all the junk that we have.

With this, we suggest that we set a date at the calendar “ a special date where all Norsunians will have the chance to work hand in hand in solving out this problem, a day that each of us will have his or her own share of picking up the garbage he/she once threw in the trash bin and shovel it into the garbage truck. As for the water supply, we ask the higher-ups to install water tanks in every comfort room.

This idea requires long-time planning, and a few garbage trucks are needed to clean up the whole NORSU area. This idea is nothing but ambitious. Yet everything is possible. We can borrow garbage trucks from neighboring municipalities and ask them to help us with this one.

Again, everything is possible. The Local Government Unit and the Norsunians working together towards one cause has never sounded so good.

This is also a call for the NORSU administration and for the Student Government. This is just a suggestion. Any better ideas that will be presented are very much welcome. Since this is your job, this is also our job. All Norsunians await for your call for a cleaner and greener NORSU community.