The Northern Marianas College re-opened its As Terlaje campus yesterday to its students.<\/p>\n
NMC resumed classes at its original location by greeting students with freshly grilled burgers and hotdogs, along with other refreshments and a new set of school supplies.<\/p>\n
The resumption of morning classes signals the continuation of the Fall 2018 semester.<\/p>\n
Fall morning classes have been on hold since Super Typhoon Yutu hit the CNMI last October 2018.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am pleased and happy with the turnout of our students as well as the community leaders that are here to support and welcome our students back,\u201d NMC interim president Frankie Eliptico told Saipan Tribune yesterday.<\/p>\n
Sens. Justo Quitugua (R-Saipan), Sixto Igisomar (R-Saipan), and Jude Hofschneider (R-Tinian) were among the few politicians that dropped by the campus yesterday morning. Reps. Ivan A. Blanco (R-Saipan) and Luis John Castro (R-Saipan), and acting governor Arnold I. Palacios were also spotted at the scene, along with Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services Commissioner Claudio Norita, NMC Board of Regents chair Charles Cepeda, U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency Region XI administrator Bill Roche, and several other ranking officials of the CNMI government.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe also had some private businesses here,\u201d said Eliptico, noting TanHoldings president Jerry Tan and people from the Tan Siu Lin Foundation handing out laptop bags to the students.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was great. It shows that our students are committed to completing their semester and completing their journey toward their degree,\u201d he said, adding that majority of the students that showed up yesterday morning were fall 2018 morning class students.<\/p>\n
Some of the students Saipan Tribune interviewed yesterday were just as happy to get back on campus and closer to their degrees.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy first class\u2026was easy going,\u201d said 21-year-old Husky V. Cucal, a senior taking up liberal arts. \u201cI have been feeling okay since Super Typhoon Yutu hit and it is good to continue my education and work on finishing up my semester until I graduate\u2026by next semester,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
A 19-year-old nursing major who asked to be identified only by her first name, May, told Saipan Tribune that the temporary classrooms were intimidating at first but \u201cwhen I went inside, it was really comfortable for everyone in class and kind of normal,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201c[NMC] provides us with a lot of equipment [and they] gave us a lot of time to finish up our assignments, so it\u2019s okay,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
Twenty-year-old natural resource management major Sabrina Santos was excited to be back on campus.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe classrooms are actually really nice and cold inside, so I can\u2019t wait [to continue my classes],\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s a decent classroom. I want to get the Fall 2018 semester over with so I can graduate next [spring].\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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