The University of Guam conferred degrees to approximately 333 students recently and four graduates shared the stories of their journeys through higher education.
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Dillion Quitugua hopes to be first CHamoru to summit Mount Everest
By Ron Rocky Coloma
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A veteran hiker and climber at the age of 24, Dillion Quitugua hopes to achieve a goal that few have in the world. “My goal is to be the first man of CHamoru descent to summit Mount Everest,” said Quituga, whose late father, Gerald, was from Dededo.
“He taught me to be proud of my roots, to love and respect my elders and to always honor the ‘Quitugua’ name,” he said. His mother, Angelina, is from Hawaii and he grew up traveling between the islands.
PROJECT TO PROTECT GUAM CORAL Submitted by admin on Wed, 08/08/2001 - 00:00
By Scott Radway Pacific Daily News
HAGÃ TÃA, Guam (August 7, 2001 – Pacific Daily News) -As oceanographer Eric Wolanski, clad in scuba gear, descended into Fouha Bay in Umatac, he noticed something seriously wrong: He couldn t hear anything but his breathing. The reef makes no sound anymore, said Wolanski, a researcher from the Australian Institute of Marine Science.
When a reef is healthy, fish and shrimp are plentiful and when they eat, their mouths make a snapping sound, Wolanski said. There should have been crackling, he said.
Instead, there was silence, because the reef is far from healthy, suffering in part from years of sediment flowing into the bay, preventing coral from spawning and suffocating some of the existing coral.