George W. Bush appears at SLU
George W. Bush refuses to sign the Kyoto Protocol on Global Warming. On this issue, he is a solitary, isolated President. The American people are shocked and ashamed of him. He is an anti-environmentalist.
SLU President Hechanova refuses to save the large, old tree on the proposed SLU Day Care Center site. On this issue he is a solitary, isolated President. Students and Faculty at SLU are shocked and ashamed of him. He is an anti-environmentalist.
Sure they want the Day Care Center, but not at the price of the tree. It is only the handful of ‘planners’ who want that.
Should a convention on Global Warming be held at SLU today, the world leaders on this problem would see from their windows in the SLU Guest House, this large, old, magnificent pine tree. The tunnel vision of ‘the planners’ would instead give them a concrete wall to view. Makes a lot of sense to champion global warming causes when such local action is taken.
The students and faculty at SLU do not want that tree cut. President Hechanova is an ‘out of touch’ president on this issue, an anti-environmentalist not listening to his constituency.
The chief planner of the building is the VP for Finance, Ms. Evangeline O. Trinidad. Her deputy, Mr. Arturo C. Calwag states in a firm voice “that Day Care building MUST BE OF MAXIMUM SIZE”, irrespective of any trees. Why must the building be of ‘MAXIMUM SIZE’? The arithmetic is simple. The faculty and staff at SLU have thousands of kids. Even at ‘MAXIMUM SIZE’, any building on that site could only be symbolic and accommodate SEVERAL HUNDRED CHILDREN. It is the WRONG SITE FOR A REAL SLU DAY CARE CENTER! The site is MUCH TOO SMALL NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO, and the planners are trying to hide their mistake with a building of ‘MAXIMUM SIZE’. It won’t work. The project is a failure to start with. Why take the tree along with it? Stop this construction of a Day Care Center on this site and replace it with what should have been on that site in the first place-----a park.
This site is adjacent to the SLU Hospital of the Sacred Heart. In the parking lot of the hospital, along the entrance ways, and especially along the student exit, have appeared this year signs asking for ‘SILENCE, for the concern of our Patients’. Plaudits to the hospital administrator that decided to have these put. All of us who have ever recovered in a hospital know that peace and quiet are number one for recovery.
What about the lunacy of whoever decided that a Day Care Center should be built 10 meters from these recovering patients in the SLU Hospital of the Sacred Heart. Day Care Centers are NOT quiet. What happens then to the recovery of the patients? How about a beautiful tree and park for them to look at instead?
The large, old trees of Baguio each have a large yellow number painted on them, for inventory purposes. This large, old tree has the number ‘1’ painted on it. It is the ‘Number 1’ large, old tree in Baguio.
The Mayor is holding that this tree is a city asset, that the large, old trees of Baguio belong to the people of Baguio and to cut them involves the whole people of Baguio, not just the property owner and the DNR. Because of this NO TREE CUTTING PERMIT HAS BEEN SIGNED.
The SLU planners showed their respect for the importance of the large, old trees to the people of Baguio by cutting away, WITHOUT A PERMIT, large portions of the upper part of this tree. When this became publicized, they began instead, systematically, day afetr day, to cut away the ROOTS of this tree, CONTINUING THE CUTTING WITHOUT A PERMIT, showing zero regard for the Mayor, the people of Baguio, the students and faculty of their own university, or for anything except their own ill-begotten PLAN.