XAVIER STUDENTS' ACTION CENTER

Historic day and a personal fulfillment! The Xavier Students’ Action Center is now activated. From an idea coined during summer, an enactment made by the directorate, now it has been formally launched witnessed by students and administrators. It is historic not because it’s new, but because it’s simple. The concept behind XSAC is very simple. It gives a friendly, concrete and approachable face of CSG’s STRAW, it establishes a clear articulated process addressing complaints and concerns, and it has a touch of personal care through the person of the case officers, the heart handling the individual cases and concerns of the students. The STRAW now has a center, the abstract, now is concrete. As what Mr. Pimentel said, we should not limit the center for receiving complaints but make sure it is an advocacy center of students’ rights and responsibilities. Therefore the challenge for all of us from the central office is to give justice of the letter “A” of the XSAC. Who knows, ten years from now, it could have its own office.

This proves the power of innovative ideas made real.