[bold.and.beautiful]

Originally Posted by ROQUETIBOR

Be calm... Dumaguete City is no longer the same city that I used to be with [I finished my Elementary Education from City Central School in 1977, my Secondary Education from Dumaguete City High School in 1981 and my College Degree from Silliman University in 1985] some 3 decades ago... probably the experience you encountered, right in the heart of SU, was merely incidental... Still, I believe, the people of the city is "gentle."

HI ROQUETIBOR!

I was born and bred in good ol' Duma. I remember those days (in the 80s and even part of the 90s) when it was safe to go walking around the city at past midnight without fear of being mugged. Nowadays, it's hard not to look over your shoulder and see if snatchers on a motorbike are trailing you. And oh, back then, during my college years at SU (batch '87), campus violence was prominent! No Bloods and Crips then, but there were rival frats that always figured in violent and sometimes bloody confrontations. But, I agree with you...Duma is still a city of gentle people, sort of....