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Volume IX, No. 060
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Monday, July 29, 2019
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Xavier Ateneo eyes new aggies campus at El Gaucho By MIKE BAÑOS Editor at Large
CAGAYAN de Oro City’s Jesuit University is proposing to move its iconic College of Agriculture from Manresa, Upper Balulang to a new site at El Gaucho, which straddles Bugo and Upper Puerto. In a series of consultations conducted over the weekend, Xavier University (Ateneo de Cagayan) stressed the need for a new main campus since its main campus downtown was already congested, experiencing increasing noise levels and at risk from floods. However, in order to establish a new main campus at its Manresa Campus XU Aggies Dean Charie Mosqueda details the planned transfer of the XU Agri College See EYES, page 11
to El Gaucho in Upper Puerto during a July 20 consultation with XU Aggies Alumni.
Department of Transportation Sec. Arthur Tugade (second from left) holds a “kris,” a Maranaw sword given, to him as a gift by Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board-10 regional director Aminoden Guro (second from right), during the recent inauguration of the LTFRB annex building in Bulua, Cagayan de Oro City.. Looking on is LTFRB chairman Martin Delgra III (left). photo by gerry lee gorit
Fourth Imam pilgrim dies while doing Hajj in Meccah By DIVINA M. SUSON Correspondent
ILIGAN City--The National Commission on Muslim Filipinos (NCMF) confirmed that a fourth Filipino pilgrim died in Meccah, Saudi Arabia on Friday, July 26. Dr. Dimapuno Alonto Datu-Ramos, Jr., public relations and information head of the NCMF, identified
the pilgrim as Abdulnasser Hosain Banto, 62, who hails from Taraka town in Lanao del Sur. Banto, an Imam of Masjid Abubakar in Barnagay Nazareth, Cagayan de Oro City, is the fourth Filipino pilgrim who died while performing this year’s Hajj. He was praying inside the See DIES, page 11
Water Crucial to Xavier Ateneos proposed transfer of Aggie College to El Gaucho By MIKE BAÑOS Editor at Large
THE availability of a sustainable water supply at the proposed new site for Xavier University’s College of Agriculture could be critical to the implementation of its transfer to a new main campus at Uptown Cagayan de Oro. This was one of the main concerns raised during a series of consultations held by the university with alumni of its College of Agriculture over the
weekend. The Xavier Ateneo Board of Trustees and President’s Council is proposing to sell some of its properties in its downtown campus near Plaza Divisoria and the existing College of Agriculture Manresa Campus to finance the transfer of its main campus to the latter property. The project also calls for the development of two new central business districts by property See TRANSFER, page 11