Amanat Pengetua
By Fatin Shahirah bt Amanzuria
23rd May 2018 – To mark the end
of the semester, Kolej Sakura organized one final event: “Amanat Pengetua”, or
a meeting with the college’s principal. This yearly event is held at the Dewan
Serbaguna, Student Pavillion. Registration of the students began at 4.00 p.m.
outside of the hall where they are sorted based on their college blocks.
The event
officially began at 4.30 p.m. with the arrival of the college’s principal, Cik
Siti Nor Ain Musa. The students sang Unimasku Gemilang and Tekad Sakura before
they sat down in their respective seats.
The event
started with award ceremony for the various clubs in Kolej Sakura for their
contribution during the 2017/2018 session. Cik Ain, the college’s principal, is
invited to the stage to hand certificates of appreciation to the club members.
Cik Ain was
invited forward to give her speech. She addressed several important issues,
such as student registration for the following ceremony, and possible new housing
arrangements to accommodate more new students in the upcoming intake. She also
reminded students to be aware of the process of residential college
applications or risk not having a place in the college during the upcoming
semester. Besides that, she answered several questions and complaints from the
students, such as roommate problems, loud noises from the events being held,
unfixed damaged facilities, etc.
Another big
concern that discussed was on the expectation of a higher number of new
students that UNIMAS will be accepting for the upcoming semester, in which the
placement for the current students in Sakura College will be slightly affected.
Cik Siti Noor Ain relieving-ly added, “as long as the online pre-registration
have been completed and you’ve participated in many activities, it will be
possible to stay”, in an effort to control the worry in the students after the
announcement.
The meeting ended at 6.00 p.m.
with the usual signing-out process.
