Bull's Sheet

The lands of Bicol University (BU) must indeed be used for the benefit of the students, neither for residential purposes nor for useless buildings. When I first heard of the university driving out 41 families from their houses built within the school premises (behind BU Grandstand), I was quite in doubt as to whether it is really necessary. However, when I learned that the school holds on to a legal basis, I thought otherwise. True enough, the disputed land was reserved by law for educational purposes and it must not be made a residential area. Though these families assert that they were allowed to settle on the place, they must still abide to the limitations of the grant, considering that the area is a public school’s property. It might be saddening to think that for our university to move towards its goal of becoming world-class, some people had to be adversely affected. However, it is essential for the BU administration to maximize the use of its resources even though it’s hard to break shelters that accommodated families for three decades already. By saying maximize, the university administration is meant to make the most out of its property for the benefit of its primary clients, us.

On the other hand, our university has been so industrious in constructing new buildings. Among others were the once called Balai kan Alumni, BU International House, and the Food Innovation and Commercialization Center (FICC) in East Campus. How are these buildings doing now, by the way? The Balai kan Alumni now stands between BU College of Arts and Letters, and College of Medicine (CM).

According to reports, its ground floor will be used as the canteen of BU-CM while the still imaginary second floor will serve as a dormitory for the university’s alumni.

Meanwhile, the BU International House in Daraga Campus is both nearly finished and nearly forgotten. It’s quite huge for a building that houses empty spaces.

Lastly, for the FICC to materialize, another building, the newly renovated BU College of Industrial Technology (CIT) canteen was demolished. To my view, it is unreasonable to spend for buildings sought

to be destroyed after a year. The repair cost of the canteen amounted to P193,500 and it must’ve been used for more relevant expenditures. As much as educational purposes are concerned, I don’t think that the construction of these buildings (except for FICC) is necessary. Instead of these, the university could’ve thought of building new classrooms considering that after the two-year K-12 vacuum effect, BU will welcome more students.

Anyway, the construction, though slow-paced have already started. What’s left for us to do is to wish that these facilities will be readily available to the BU students unlike that of the fenced sports complex which when opened made the BUeños seem like tourists on their own territory. We might as well hope for the time that our university can truly serve its purpose.

𝙒𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙣 𝙗𝙮 𝘽𝙧𝙮𝙖𝙣 𝘿𝙚𝙡 𝘾𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙤
𝙋𝙪𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙙 𝙙𝙖𝙩𝙚: 𝙅𝙪𝙣𝙚, 2018

𝘼𝙧𝙩𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠 𝙗𝙮 𝙅𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙖 𝘿𝙮𝙖𝙣 𝘼𝙯𝙖ñ𝙖, 𝙐𝙣𝙞𝙗𝙚 𝘼𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩