The NORSUnian, "the official weekly student publication of the Negros ORiental State University System" is one among the four student publications that publishes weekly in the Philippines.
An organization who has been in existence for 26 years now and has underwent several name change since it was established. When it was first established 26 years ago, it was known as The Edutech. Later the name was changed into "The State Scholar" and has stayed with the name until 2004 when the then Central Visayas Polytechnic College has officialy become Negros Oriental State Univeristy.
Though the name was orginally The NORSUnian Tribune, the publication name was officially changed into THe NORSUnian months after TNT was adopted.
BUT ALL THESE FACTS DOES NOT DESCRIBE WHAT THE PUBLICATION REALLY IS. Or at least, what the publication is for me.
The NORSUnian is more than an organization for people like me who has been with the publication all my college life. It has become a family for us who are far away from home.
Joining the student publication has changed my life.
They say that lives of campus journalists are a lot different from the lives of ordinary students. I think, this is an understatement. I could never really describe how different my life is from those of students whose only focus is their studies. I could never describe how hard, fulfilling and depressing our lives can be.
In my first year in the publication I had already experienced all kinds of abuse. Physical, mental, psychological, emotional, and yes even sexual. A fact that all of us in the publication has accepted as part of our lives. Irregular it may be but we had learned to integrate these irregularities in our daily lives.
We are constantly being threatened and criticized by our teachers and administrators. Yes, we are sometimes looked up to by other students but there are also those who detest our very existence. A lot of them thinks that we can solve their every problem and answer their every question which we could certainly not.
Our grades are also in constant danger and not just our lives. We side with the students and publish something mentioning a teacher and there goes our grades. Our academic lives are sometimes put in jeopardy just to fulfill our duties as campus journalists.
But of course, very few believes so.
But we don't care of they believe or not. That, is also a part of our lives.
An organization who has been in existence for 26 years now and has underwent several name change since it was established. When it was first established 26 years ago, it was known as The Edutech. Later the name was changed into "The State Scholar" and has stayed with the name until 2004 when the then Central Visayas Polytechnic College has officialy become Negros Oriental State Univeristy.
Though the name was orginally The NORSUnian Tribune, the publication name was officially changed into THe NORSUnian months after TNT was adopted.
BUT ALL THESE FACTS DOES NOT DESCRIBE WHAT THE PUBLICATION REALLY IS. Or at least, what the publication is for me.
The NORSUnian is more than an organization for people like me who has been with the publication all my college life. It has become a family for us who are far away from home.
Joining the student publication has changed my life.
They say that lives of campus journalists are a lot different from the lives of ordinary students. I think, this is an understatement. I could never really describe how different my life is from those of students whose only focus is their studies. I could never describe how hard, fulfilling and depressing our lives can be.
In my first year in the publication I had already experienced all kinds of abuse. Physical, mental, psychological, emotional, and yes even sexual. A fact that all of us in the publication has accepted as part of our lives. Irregular it may be but we had learned to integrate these irregularities in our daily lives.
We are constantly being threatened and criticized by our teachers and administrators. Yes, we are sometimes looked up to by other students but there are also those who detest our very existence. A lot of them thinks that we can solve their every problem and answer their every question which we could certainly not.
Our grades are also in constant danger and not just our lives. We side with the students and publish something mentioning a teacher and there goes our grades. Our academic lives are sometimes put in jeopardy just to fulfill our duties as campus journalists.
But of course, very few believes so.
But we don't care of they believe or not. That, is also a part of our lives.
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