Kinsay taga Mindanao State University diri? Pasooook

[mustrufnuthn]

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ambot lang kaha ron nga si Macapado ang president

kontra jud ka ni macapado ha...
hehehehe

pro raba ko

[harveyboy2007]

kontra jud ka ni macapado ha...
hehehehe

pro raba ko

maayo man cgoro na si Macapado nuh?

[mustrufnuthn]

we can never please everybody..
all past msu presidents have pros and cons..
natural ra na sa tao...

[Rooted]

pwede ko apil...
wala ko ka graduate, pero IIT ko gikan
ako cors kai.... hehehe... daghan raba.

ako misis kai IDS ug IIT

[harveyboy2007]

pwede ko apil...
wala ko ka graduate, pero IIT ko gikan
ako cors kai.... hehehe... daghan raba.

ako misis kai IDS ug IIT

Cge bye...k ra kaayo..he.he.he..

Unsa man ka nga year didto sa IIT?unsa ka nga college...

[kaboang2007]

wla na au ato skol part.........................

[protas]

I would like to share this with you guys...

The Seat of the Learned
Aisa O. Manlosa
MSU Alumna, 2006

I am not very good in writing. I don't have any formal training nor
have I written for the most part of my life. But today I take a seat
in front of the computer. I pound on the keys with hopes that at some
stretch of time, I would produce a writeup that shall come close to
giving justice to all that MSU means to me and to everyone who can
relate to what I will be saying. An introduction as faulty as mine
will probably tell you how unlearned I am in the aspect of literary
genre and styles. However, this article finds its security in the
untainted divinity of the message it carries. When the message is
great, no writeup can be weak.

To tell the story of how I arrived in MSU in the supposed crispy
summer of 2002 amid the brush and hush of cold winds, and to tell the
entire story of my 4-year stay would fall short of the greatness of
the message I want to relay here. For the glory of MSU is not captured
nor can it be fairly represented by the voice of one alumna. The glory
of MSU is in the hundreds of thousands of students that have sought
education and insight and solace and home and strength and future and
hope in its hallowed halls and open fields. The majesty that exudes
the rolling plains of MSU does not begin nor does it end with the
scenic view. The majesty emanates from the many souls that have
trudged and worn its paths on to learning and on to empowerment.

What does MSU stand for?

For the poor and struggling youth of Mindanao. Classified as a Third
World Country, that is the Philippines. Nestled in among the poorest
regions of this country, that is Mindanao. Hailed from the poorest of
families, from the marginalized, from homes that are barely able to
provide the amenities of a hardly comfortable life � of homes that may
not even know the comfort of electrical light and potable water. This
is the humble roots of the many students who have sought shelter and
the promise of a better tomorrow in the academic halls of the university.

What does MSU teach?

It teaches Math, Biology, Health Science, Islamic Laws, Environmental
Ethics and more so that its constituents may be well equipped to face
the challenge of national and global competitiveness with the end goal
of landing a job that can help them feed and raise their destitute
families. But more than that, MSU teaches how life must be lived. It
teaches that one cannot choose the circumstances to which he is born.
But he can always choose what his life will become. To be born to
economically struggling parents will not determine that you will end
your life in the same humble circumstances. For every cry at birth
screams the vastness of the far greater things that await the bold who
will dare to explore them. MSU teaches us to overthrow the rein of
what is and to dare embrace what can be. She teaches her students to
look into the horizon for uncharted territories beyond the seemingly
limitless plains.

What does MSU stand for?

For hope almost extinguished but now blazing more than ever. The
country and the world watches as the media spews news of terror and
violence raging across Mindanao, creating a rather repelling and
depressing image of the island. But MSU stands as a blazing torch of
hope. It blazes in piercing light because it is the abode of
Mindanao's best and the seat of Mindanao's most learned. Do not go
into prematurely judging my superlative acclaims. I don't use a word
for lack of anything else to say. I use them to give justice to the
truth of which I am a living witness. Mindanao's best and Mindanao's
most learned are in MSU because they are not those who were raised in
comfort, who were blessed with the luxury of computers and expensive
facilities at their taking. Mindanao's best are not those who lived in
the heart of cities where the basic amenities of electricity and water
where unquestioningly available 24/7. Mindanao's best are made and
proven in the furnace of inconvenience where to be the best seem to be
incessantly blocked by hills of challenges and discomfort and yet they
come out all the more strengthened rather than discouragingly scathed.
They are not the people who complain and groan at their mundane
afflictions and the deprivation of their circumstances. They are the
ones who breathed and live and embrace difficulties knowing these are
flames that will purge what is unbecoming and purify what is
deserving. Who would endure a university where electricity failure is
as common as daily happening stretching for weeks on end, where water
is as unavailable when electricity is out, where studying for exams
and completing requirements take the unfortunate truth of the adage
�nagsusunog ng kilay� because candles are the only flickering hopes
for passing academic hurdles. This is where we are condemned to use
Coke for brushing our teeth when water is as scarce as gold. This is
where we stay up as late as 2 am or later and wake up as early as 4 am
or earlier, to study amid howling and biting winds comparable only to
the ambiance of Baguio and other highlands. In MSU alone do we end
classes at 5:30 or 6 pm and none beyond, and we keep ourselves locked
in the boarding houses we uniquely call �cottages� to ensure safety.
In MSU alone do we call it the day that early and yet accomplish as
much as is being achieved in other institutions.

I can go on and on with the circumstances MSUans faced and may
continue to face. Circumstances worth retelling to generations because
it is a blend of life like no other. Do not mistake me for demeaning
the community color. That was not even an exaggeration at its best. I
merely had to relay the truth. Much more is kept in the closet. I tell
the story because I want the world to know that our college lives were
harder than any non-MSUan can ever begin to imagine. A premise as
truthful and as clearly defined as that would hopefully make you
understand that the best of any institution, of any region, of any
country, and of any race are those that rose from the ashes of
seemingly insurmountable challenges to become great.

Let electrical failure come while the MSUan studies and you will only
see him smile and shrug as he embraces the length of the night ahead
while burning candles in preparing for tomorrow's exam. Somebody once
told me �If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.�

What does MSU teach?

She teaches that it is in the furnace of inconvenience that gold
shines in glaring luster.

What does MSU stand for?

MSU stands for great men and women of faith, of honor, of valor, of
integrity, of talent, of challenged but proven strength. What is
Mindanao? It is but the second largest island of the Philippines. And
it is to this island that MSU extends its domain and farther. Look
what difference we could make if we stand up for what MSU stands. Look
what positive force we can altogether become if we maintain the ideals
for which the nobility of MSU stands.

What does MSU teach?

She teaches the difference that we can make and we are called to make.

The country needs us.

I may appear to speak out of idealism. But this is so because I do not
let my idealism die. It is one of the few precious virtues for which
our national hero referred to our generation as the �Hope of the
Fatherland�. It remains a challenge for every MSUan to respond to.

By the sweat and blood of our predecessors were the first foundations
of MSU firmly laid and established. By their unmoved devotion to the
vision they held were its earliest pillars secured. By their struggles
against adversities did MSU rise towards the skies. The years spanned
by its existence were nothing less than these. The roots of MSU were
noble as they may have been divine. The earliest batches and graduates
had to brave through unpaved and hardly marked grounds, of ankle-deep
mud, of knee-high grass barring their way, of small classrooms, of
hardly modernized abodes, of the rumored war-torn land in order to pry
into the best caliber of education within their reach at the time.
Their efforts did not fail them. They grew to become great
contributors to a land parched and hungry for the fulfillment of a
promise.

The circumstances in MSU had become much better with the advent of
modernization and progress although the uniqueness of its
inconveniences can never be discounted. In contrast to my earlier
narrations, there are now internet cafes I lost count of, classy
restaurants that could rival Jollibee, immaculate gardens,
well-manicured fields, stunning infrastructure and more semblance of
physically imposing greatness.

However, the passing of time and the eventual rise and fall of leaders
has eroded the glory that MSU was. Political unrest and corruption not
sparing the highest to the lowest position has marred MSU's name. The
complexity and clout of the decay has been widespread beyond imagining
extending from dilapidated buildings to ghost employees to unmanaged
gardens. More deeply, the consequent failure in several leaderships
has severed the stability of the supposed social laboratory ideal for
the blending of diverse cultures leading to tensions and some
unprecedented level of violence perpetrated within and among various
cultures.

I was a witness to this decay as many are.

But I was also a witness to MSU's redemption with the coming of the
previous President Gen. Ricardo de Leon. I didn't join rallies for or
against him in my younger years. But I waged and fought my own war for
MSU by being the best that I can be as a student. That was my tribute
for the university and for the president who came not as a leader to
be served but as a servant who walked the streets of the institution
as a civilian to know and feel the bitter pangs of unfortunate
circumstances from unpaved roads to squatted lands to helpless ATM
machines to unimproved dormitories.

In the character of the President, I saw a father that MSU so needs
and deserves. I was not able to work closely with him. But in the
distance pronounced by his seat as the highest official of the
university and by my situation as a mere student, I saw in his eyes
the glimmer of greatness and all that it stands for and the promise of
MSU's bright future. Before the coming of this celebrated �Daddy Rick�
I was engaged in a debate with my colleagues in the MSU-Rostrum
Oratorical and Debating Society whether or not it is proper for a
military man to take the seat of the President. Armed with my
reasoning capacity as I was flung to the negative side, I fought
against the idea. I cannot quite remember who won in the debate
practice in the fateful motion so given, I can only remember how I
desperately fought my arguments through and how several hours eroded
the heat of the debate in me. But I can so well remember how blessed I
realized MSU is, for every good news I hear about this new President.

My first glimpse of him was around dusk one day when I was on my way
home and he was surveying the 5th Street in Bo. Dimalna for plans of
cementing the worn and trodden streets so prone to flooding even in
short but heavy downpours. He was a civilian in every way. And
students crowded around him as if the greatest man that ever lived was
there. I saw warmth in the chilling MSU air. I didn't know him
personally. But I knew no President in MSU has ever done what he was
doing and nobody has ever made the students feel as warm. I was
assured, our university was in good hands. We were.

I will not and perhaps cannot enumerate the many things he did for my
school, his staff and secretaries can do a much better job of
documenting the sacrifices and the gains. But I can say that for the
title �the sweetest thing that ever happened to MSU� afforded to him,
I cannot find a closer rival. Pres. De Leon came when the days were
most dark and he brought light.

I attended our Commencement Exercises on April 4 and 5 of the year
2006. Glorious days to say the least. The President was there, a
symbol of MSU's might. Circumstances known only to a few of my
batchmates and to the uneventual others who came after me, the Latin
honor I received was rather controversial. I received an honor lower
than what others hoped for or possibly expected and this was
attributed to some of my subjects where I received marks of 1.75 and
1.5 when no class was held for those subjects the whole semester. None
at all. It was hoped that had the class been carried faithfully the
whole semester, I would have achieved higher grades. I dismissed the
issue. I settled myself with the second highest honor thinking that
perhaps, even if I got higher marks in those subjects, no significant
difference may have been made with my honor title. Besides, the honor
was not much of an issue. But in my fateful graduation day when I
would have the chances to go up the stage and to receive the extended
hand of the President, he would speak to me �To us, you are a Summa
Cum laude� and the strong statement �This is no longer your fight. I
have made it my own�. And so I graduated and worked somewhere far
where I was untouched by the issues. Little did I know that the
President stood on his word and waged the fight, probing into the
circumstances. Hearings were made without me. And the President has
transformed the issue into a fight to uplift the quality of education
being offered by the university as a function of the performance of
the instructors. I was later to find from Pres. De Leon's statement
that it was a lonely fight. And he must have been tired. I wish I
could have done something to achieve the goal of quality education
that he was fighting for.

I left the university with him as the President and I was confident to
send my sister to the same school with him on the lead. With the
change of administration that brought tears to many, I determined to
say more prayers for my sister and for my next sister who will soon
enroll.

The change of administration moved me. As it was politics that took
Pres. De Leon to the seat, it was the same political ploy that took
him out of it.

But MSU will continue to be resilient. Decay may indefinitely creep in
once again, but the fortified pillars forged of old times will stand
until light shall shine again and for always. MSU will remain a hub of
hope and greatness. The vision will stand. It will because our
predecessors imparted it to the many MSUans who stay and inhabit the
cold rolling hills. As resilient as the aging and towering trees, mute
witnesses to the surging and the subsiding of many storms, so will MSU
stand through the ages.

Across the distance, where the many MSU alumni have been sprawled, we
carry her name.

May our lives be a lasting and profound tribute to her glory. May we
be leaving legacies of the Mindanao State University � the seat of
those who have learned that although life is short, it is not without
its values and although life is hard, it is not without its hopes.

I cannot find a better way to end this article as there was not much
of a strong introduction in the beginning, but let the message in
between stand for its value.

Mabuhay ang anak ng Pamantasang Mindanao!

[aya_diwata]

maayo man cgoro na si Macapado nuh?

chancellor sa msu gensan sauna si macapado
gipaclose ang student publication tung 2000-2001
walay student council 2001-2002
giwithhold ang funds sa estudyante tung niabre ang pub ug student council balik para naay control niya - siya ang last signatory for disbursement
contractualization sa professors nga pila na ka years - remember Prof. Gunay sa Engg?
112 casual employees despite sa claim nga budget cut sa MOOE nya, gipasaka ang tuition fee by 400%

> mao ni ang maayo?
Kana si Macapado.
Goodluck sa MSU System.

[miss tapya]

Observing pa ko.. maong d pako maka say...

@protas: Uy, welcome..thanks goodness nasalaag ka dinhi... miss u na RR ehehehe.....


On the lighter mode.... COngrats to the Engineering studes who wins the 2nd and 3rd place sa last Contest nga giapilan. These students composed of Electrical, ECE yata. They presented their project sa board of panels through teleconference lang last friday. (details to which unsa to nga contest... mangoykoy pako...)

Go Go MSUans!

[missy21]

i came from iit sad..bs-it ..lolz..kinsay IT dri?