SALE OF XAVIER UNIVERSITY CAMPUS

WITH a firm collective intent, the Concerned Parents, Teachers, Alumni & Communities (COPTAC) are opposing the sale of the 6.3 hectares of the downtown main campus plus the 14 hectares of the developed Manresa campus. As an alumnus of Xavier University having finished my elementary (Grade 7), high school, college degree (BS Agriculture) and Post Graduate (law degree) in my beloved University, I cannot help but feel so much pain at the thought that Xavier University may be sacrificing its living cultural heritage to an image of commercialism.

scientists and environmentalists world-wide have categorically warned that “humanity is now in the precipice of its 6th extinction that is man-made. And yet, there continues to be climate-change deniers, many are politicians and people in leadership positions. I would like to believe that XU is on the side of Mother Earth, but with the plan of XU and Cebu Landmasters for Manresa, I am beginning to have doubts as to where XU stands.

opment in Manresa because of the uncontrolled flooding already experienced by them during heavy rains.”

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If that were the case, the Study of Oxfam is indeed correct which concluded, “high veneration to the profit-motive has already captured the mindset of all governments, all institutions, all universities and even of religious groups. Because humanity is now buried in unbridled consumerism and materialism, there is so much denigration of spirituality.”

The contemporaneous development paradigm has prioritized profit over Mother Earth and the people. Thousands of concerned

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Ecological conservation counters climate change. The agricultural spaces in Manresa contribute to ecological conservation needed by the city for open and wooded areas.

Millions of species in our planet are becoming extinct, and the plans for Manresa would contribute to this extinction and to the destruction of the species’ habitat. As stated in the COPTAC Paper, “An earlier study made by visiting Jesuit scholastic from Malaysia indicated 40 species of birds identified in the Manresa area. The community of Barangay Balulang situated at the foot of Manresa ridge has expressed their objection to the proposed devel-