UP PRESIDENT`S

Mahigit 70 pamantasan
sa bansa, magtataas
ng matrikula
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final act:
Assessing the
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Features pg 5
Lunes
Biyernes, 18 Set 2009
22 Mar 2010
Philippine Collegian
CA denies habeas corpus plea for ‘Morong 43’
Multiple versions
AFP and PNP present
inconsistent details
before CHR
John Alliage Tinio
Morales and Abigail
Constantino Castillo
M
qAtty. Romeo Capulong states his arguments regarding the human rights violations committed by the AFP and PNP as he
represents the Morong 43 in an investigation held by the Commission on Human Rights on March 18. The legality of the
detention is now put into question as AFP and PNP gave conflicting statements regarding the case. Airnel T. Abarra
Mahigit 70 pamantasan sa bansa, magtataas ng matrikula
Marjohara Tucay
N
akatakdang magtaas nang
mula tatlo hanggang 20 porsyento sa matrikula ang mahigit
70 kolehiyo at pamantasan sa bansa sa
susunod na taon sa kabila ng pag-igting ng krisis pang-ekonomiya, ayon sa
datos na nakalap ng National Union of
Students of the Philippines (NUSP).
Sa huling tala ng NUSP, umabot na
sa 74 ang bilang ng mga institusyong
tersyaryo ang nagpasa ng panukala.
Madaragdagan pa ang nasabing bilang
ng mga pamantasan sa Mindanao na
nakatakda ring magtaas ng matrikula
sa darating na taon.
Ilan sa mga magtataas ng matrikula ang University of Santo Tomas
(UST), De La Salle University (DLSU),
Technological Institute of the Philippines, University of the East at Lyceum
University of the Philippines.
“Based on our data on tuition and
other fee increases for the next academic year, education in our country
is indeed becoming increasingly inaccessible for a majority of the people,”
ani NUSP National President Einstein
Recedes sa isang pahayag.
Samantala, kasalukuyan pang tinitipon ng Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) ang mga panukalang
pagtataas ng matrikula ng mga pamantasan sa buong bansa para sa susunod
na taong akademiko, ani CHEd Executive Director Julito Vitriolo.
“We are still collating the data
from our regional offices on proposals
for tuition increase. The official list will
be released by the first week of April,”
said Vitriolo.
“Sa muling pagpanukala ng tuiton
increase, hindi man lamang [isinaalang-alang] ng ilang universities na
patuloy na lumalala ang sitwasyong
pang-ekonomiya sa bansa, lalo na at
tagtuyot,” ani NUSP Secretary General
Vanessa Faye Bolibol.
Sa ganitong sitwasyon, kinakailangan umanong magpatupad ang CHEd
ng isang tuition hike moratorium na
magbabawal sa anumang pagtaas sa
matrikula at iba pang bayarin para sa
susunod na taon, dagdag niya.
Tumangging magbigay ng pahayag
sa Collegian si Vitriolo hinggil sa tuition hike moratorium. Aniya, “We
will study the proposals first before we
release anything.”
“Our frustration towards CHEd
is primarily due to [their] lack of concern in at least regulating tuition and
other fee increases. Schools can’t impose absurd increases if CHEd does its
job right,” ani Recedes.
Kabi-kabilang pagtaas
Nakasaad sa CHEd Memorandum
Order 13 (CMO 13) na nararapat tumungo ang 70 porsyento ng kikitain sa pagtataas ng matrikula sa pagpapataas ng pasahod at benepisyo ng mga guro, ngunit
may mga pamantasan umano kung saan
hindi ito nasusunod, ani Bolibol.
Sa Philippine School for Business
and Arts, limang taon na umanong
hindi tumataas ang sahod ng mga guro
at kawani, samantalang taunang nagtataas ng matrikula ang nasabing pamantasan, ayon sa NUSP.
Samantala, ilang pamantasan
kabilang ang UST at DLSU-Araneta
ang nagpasa ng panukalang pagtataas
ng matrikula sa CHEd nang hindi nagdaraos ng konsultasyon, ani Recedes.
Batay sa CMO 13, kinakailangan dumaan sa konsultasyon sa mga
estudyante at iba pang apektadong
sektor ang bawat panukalang pagtaas
ng bayarin bago ito isumite sa CHEd.
Samantala, sa ilang pamantasan,
sa halip na magtaas ng singil sa lahat
ng kurso, nagbubukas na lamang ng
mga bagong kurso na may mas mataas
na matrikula.
Ani Bolibol, sa Polytechnic University of the Philippines, bagaman
magbabayad pa rin ng P12 kada yunit
ang kalakhan sa mga estudyante, nakatakdang magbayad ng P200 kada
yunit, mas mataas ng 2,000 porsyento,
ang mga estudyante sa isang bagong
kurso sa College of Accountancy.
Isang hamon rin umano sa mga
susunod na mamumuno sa bansa ang
pagbigay ng mas mataas na pondo
para sa edukasyon at pagtanggal sa
mga palisiya ng gobyerno na nagpapahintulot sa taunang pagtataas ng matrikula, dagdag ni Bolibol. q
ilitary and police officials
who appeared before the
Commission on Human
Rights (CHR) on March 18 presented
conflicting details on the arrest of the
43 health workers, confirming the
loopholes in the evidence and military’s flawed justification noted by the
families and relatives of the detainees.
The hearing by the CHR was conducted after the Court of Appeals (CA)
junked the petition of habeas corpus
for the Morong 43. The CA cited the
1985 Supreme Court (SC) ruling in the
case of Ilagan versus Enrile, saying that
the writ of habeas corpus can no longer be availed by the detainees as there
were already cases filed against them
by the military.
However, the CHR held a public
hearing to address the legality of the
continued detention of the health personnel as initial findings of the commission showed that the military authorities have violated human rights of
the Morong 43 during the arrest and
while in detention.
About 300 or so police and military men served a search warrant for a
certain Mario Condes in a farmhouse
owned by Dr. Melecia Velmonte at
266 E. Dela Paz St., Brgy. Maybangcal,
Morong, Rizal. The group did not find
Condes but arrested 43 health workers
who were attending a health seminar,
after the authorities allegedly discovering high-powered firearms.
The police did not obtain a search
warrant from the court covering the 43
health workers.
Col. Aurelio Balabad, commanding officer of the 202nd Infantry Brigade, and Lt. Col. Jaime Abawag, commander of the 16th Infantry Battalion
under Balabad’s supervision, testified
under oath that military involvement
on the case of the Morong 43 was
based on a confirmed police report
that Condes, the principal suspect of
the search warrant, was accompanied
by armed rebels.
But Police Supt. Marion Balonglong vehemently denied telling such
statement to the army officials in one
police briefing. “There are no NPAs
in the area,” said Balonglong, who obtained the search warrant for Condes
whose exact address from where the
warrant was served is owned by Velmonte.
Balonglong, commanding officer of Rizal Provincial Public Safety
Management Company, confirmed
the police did not find Condes in the
area nor the four firearms indicated
in the search warrant signed on Feb.
5 by Judge Cesar Mangrobang of the
Branch 22 Regional Trial Court in
Imus, Cavite.
Balonglong requested to Abawag
for possible military support, after he
personally saw 30 or so men going in
and out of the Velmonte’s residence.
Balonglong said he felt the “unidentified persons” were “armed” then.
In answering de Lima’s question
about the nature of the military assistance, Baladad said “there are request
Cont on pg 10
Portia, LSG file electoral protest against EJT
Pauline Gidget Estella
T
he Law Student Government
(LSG) is currently investigating
complaints of an alleged electoral
fraud and possible negligence on the part
of the College of Law Electoral and Judicial Tribunal (EJT) during the student
council elections for AY 2009-2010.
Records show that several persons
were able to vote using the account of
two students who were not in school
during the February 24 elections.
The two votes are crucial because
it can break the tie between the winning candidates for the law second year
batch representative, said Office of Student Activities Director Oscar Ferrer.
The LSG then filed a complaint to
the University Student Electoral Tribunal (USET) on March 1.
In the same day, the UP Portia
Sorority (Portia) filed a complaint
against EJT in the USET, also citing
the two votes cast without the knowledge and consent of the owners of the
accounts. Also, the official voters’ list
was missing when the LSG asked the
EJT for a copy of the list, said Portia in
its complaint.
“Considering that only the EJT
has custody over the username and
passwords of law students, the irregularities cast doubt on the ability of the
EJT to conduct elections in a secure
manner,” Portia said in the complaint.
Despite the reported “irregularities,” the EJT “does not seem to be interested in cooperating with the ongoing investigation,” said Portia, adding
that the EJT has invoked its status as a
co-equal body to enjoin the LSG from
investigating it.
The EJT, Portia and the USET decided in its March 12 meeting to nullify
the two votes. To resolve the complaint
from LSG, the EJT was required to release an explanation to the USET and
the student body before March 15.
The USET will then release a decision based on the explanation issued by
the EJT. If the allegations of negligence
or involvement in an electoral fraud
were proven, the decision can be a basis
for a case to be filed in the Student Disciplinary Tribunal, said Ferrer.
But the EJT requested for an extension of the deadline to March 19
because the tribunal members were
busy studying for their final exams
that they lacked time to set a meeting,
said EJT Chair Mark Garrido.
Portia’s complaint, meanwhile,
was deemed resolved because the EJT
provided “adequate explanation” as to
why it did not act immediately on the
complaint, said Ferrer. Also, the EJT
was able to explain why the accounts
of two students were used without
their knowledge or consent, he added.
The EJT did not act immediately
on the matter because the LSG did not
present a complaint to the tribunal and
instead filed its complaint directly to
the USET, said Garrido. Before the EJT
could act, the identity of the complainants should be disclosed, he added.
“It was not because we did not want
to cooperate. The EJT does not act based
on vague allegations. Mahirap mag-act
kung hindi alam ng EJT ang concrete
circumstances,” Garrido said.
“It was unfair for them to use ‘alleged fraud’ to describe the case because there was already a willful intent
to show that EJT was involved in a possible fraud. We were only following the
EJT guidelines. It was premature on
the complainants’ part,” Garrido said.
Moreover, because the strips of
paper with the passwords written on
them were laid across the table, anyone
who knew the student number of the
two students could have memorized
the four-character password and hack
the account, explained Garrido.
In the case of the voters’ list, the
EJT turned over the list to the USET on
the day of the elections. However, the
list got missing in the OSA office. q
Lunes
22 Mar 2010
Philippine Collegian
‘Approval of FMAB
contract violates UP
Charter’ –DOJ
Marjohara Tucay
T
he Board of Regents (BOR) violated certain provisions of the
2008 UP Charter when it approved the lease contract of the Faculty Medical Arts Building (FMAB)
Project in the Philippine General
Hospital (PGH), according to a legal
opinion released by the Department of
Justice (DOJ)
Under a 25-year contract, UP will
rent out to Daniel Mercado Medical
Center (DMMC) the three-storey Dispensary Building for renovation into
a private hospital, the FMAB. Clinic
spaces in the FMAB will be rented to
PGH doctors and consultants, private
pharmacies, laboratories and diagnostic services.
Certain requirements for asset
disposition set by Section 23 of the
2008 UP Charter were not followed
by the Board while deliberating on the
contract, the All UP Workers Union
(AUPWU) Manila Chapter stated in
a November 9, 2009 letter to the BOR
Nag-aalab
(see sidebar).
The new UP Charter, which was
signed on April 2008, was already in
full effect when the FMAB contract
was signed by the BOR on June 18,
2009, the letter explained, saying that
provisions in Section 23 should have
already applied.
The AUPWU called for “the immediate cancellation of the said contract
until such time that the safeguards set
forth by the UP Charter…have been
met and satisfied.”
During the November 23 BOR
meeting, however, Vice President for
Legal Affairs Theodore Te explained
that Section 23 is not applicable to
the FMAB contract, as the cited provisions were “not yet existent” when
UP and DMMC negotiated the terms
of the contract of lease between 2006
and 2008.
Te cited Article 3 Section 10, or
the non-impairment clause of the
1987 Constitution, as justification for
the FMAB case. Under this provision,
Cont on pg 10
Procedural violations
Provision
Board action
Sec. 23.b. If university property is leased for
more than five years, transactions should
be “based on a multi-year [development
plan] crafted by qualified urban planning
professionals…with prior consultations with…
third-party experts.”
There
was
no
such
development plan discussed
during the board meetings
on the FMAB project, said
Staff Regent Clodualdo
Cabrera.
Sec. 23.d. In the case of two failed biddings,
as with the FMAB project, a “fairness opinion
report” should be secured from an independent
third-party body.
No third party assessment
was done even after two
failed biddings.
- Sec. 23.e. A three-fourths vote from the BOR,
or at least eight out of 11 regents is required
to approve all contracts exceeding P50 million.
(This applies to the FMAB contract, as the total
cost of the contract for the 25-year program is
estimated to reach more than P1 billion.)
The BOR confirmed the
contract on August 28 last
year only through simple
majority.
qNagmartsa patungong Mendiola
ang mga kababaihan mula sa iba'tibang sektor ng lipunan sa paggunita
ng International Women's Day noong
Marso 8.(taas) Habang mariing
kinondena ng grupo ang pagpapatuloy
ng karahasan at ang hindi pantay
na pagtrato sa mga kababaihan,
kinondena rin nila ang paglaganap ng
kahirapan sa ilalim ng pamumuno ni
Arroyo sa pamamagitan ng pagsunog
ng kanyang effigy. (kaliwa) Chris
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CMO workers file SDT case against USC
Pauline Gidget Estella
W
orkers from the Campus
Maintenance Office (CMO)
filed a case against the University Student Council (USC) before
the Student Disciplinary Tribunal
(SDT) on March 17 because the council has yet to pay them for their services during the UP Fair Week.
The 67 CMO workers have not
yet received their salaries, with a total
amount of P179,000, for the preparations and maintenance of the grounds
and equipment during the week-long
event, according to the CMO’s February 19 letter to USC Chair Titus Tan.
The council was supposed to release half of the total amount of the
workers’ salaries on the fourth day of
the fair week and release the other half
immediately after the week, said Cesario Manalo, head of the UP Fair electrical works. However, more than a month
has passed since the UP Fair, but the
USC has not yet released the salaries.
The council did not issue a
response.
The workers met with Tan only on
March 17, a few hours after the SDT
case was filed. Tan told the workers that
he could not give a definite time frame
on when the salaries would be released.
Deficit/No profit/
Doubled cost
Instead of using the immediate
income from the fair, the USC will be
using the council’s trust fund to pay for
the workers, said Teopisto Futalan, Jr.,
one of the members of the USC Fair
Committee. Hence, the workers have
to wait until the administration has
finished processing the documents
needed for releasing the funds, he explained.
The council was not able to meet
its target profit of P300,000 this year
because the costs in setting up the fair
and security doubled from last year,
Tan said. In the previous years, the
practice was to pay the workers immediately after the fair because the salaries were channeled from the imbursement of the organizations handling the
fair nights.
The organizations are supposed to
pay the USC with the amount they had
bid for the fair night. This year, some
of the night handlers and the sponsors still have not paid the USC, said
Tan, adding that they need around
P200,000 more to break even.
The SDT case against the USC will
be moot and academic once the workers receive their salaries, said Tan.q
Mga guwardiya ng Bolinao, patuloy na nananawagan
Tamang pasahod, hinihiling pa rin
Abigail C. Castillo
P
atuloy ang panawagan para sa
tamang pasahod at karampatang
benepisyo ng mga guwardiya sa
south sector sa ilalim ng Bolinao Security and Investigation Service, Inc.
bunsod ng pagbabalewala ng ahensiya
sa hinaing ng mga guwardiya.
Wala pa ring aksyon ang ahensiya
sa kahilingan na ayusin ang pasahod
at magbigay ng mga benepisyo, ayon
sa mga guwardiyang tumangging
mailathala ang pangalan dahil sa takot
na matangga sa trabaho.
Lumapit na rin sa opisina ng Staff
Regent (STR) ang ilang mga guwardiya
ng Bolinao hinggil sa malalaking kaltas ng ahensya sa kanilang mga suweldo, ani STR Clodualdo Cabrera.
Wala namang aksyon ang administrasyon ng UP dahil hindi pa naghahain ng reklamo ang mga guwardiya sa
Supervisory Team for Private Security
(STPS), ang opisinang namamahala sa
mga gawain ng mga pribadong ahensyang panseguridad sa UP Diliman,
ani Stanley Fabian, pinuno ng STPS.
Handa ang Bolinao na harapin
ang mga guwardiya upang talakayin
ang mga reklamo at pananagutan ng
ahensiya kung mapatutunayan na may
nilabag itong probisyon sa kontrata,
ani Geoffrey Mendoza, executive vice
president at general manager ng Bolinao.
Ayon sa mga guwardiya, tinatayang P582 lang ang natatanggap na
sahod kada araw ng mga guwardiya
para sa 12 oras na pagtratrabaho, mas
mababa ng humigit-kumulang P40 sa
nararapat nilang tanggaping overtime
pay.
Mula sa minimum wage na P382
kada araw, itinatakda ng batas na magkaroon ng 25 porsyentong dagdag bawat oras na magtratrabaho ang mga
manggagawang nagtatrabaho nang
lagpas sa walong oras. Humigit-kumulang P620 ang nararapat na sahod
bawat araw ng mga manggagawang
nagtratrabaho ng 12 oras.
Makikipag-ugnayan ang pamunuan ng Bolinao sa accounting office ng
ahensya upang masiyasat ang hinaing
ng mga guwardiya hinggil sa kulang na
overtime pay, ani Mendoza.
Bukod sa kapos na overtime pay,
kinakaltasan din umano ang mga guwardiya ng P150 kada buwan para sa
group insurance gayong P300 lamang
kada taon ang ibinabawas sa mga guwardiya ng Glocke, dagdag ng mga
guwardiya.
Maaari namang magamit ng mga
guwardiya ang mas malaking halaga
ng insurance sakaling mapahamak habang nagbabantay, ani Mendoza.
Inilalahad ng mababang pasahod
at kakulangan sa benepisyo ang malawakang kontraktuwalisasyon, kung
saan may kakayahan ang malalaking
kompanya na abusuhin ang maliliit na
manggagawa, ani Cabrera.
Pinalitan ng Bolinao noong Mayo
2009 ang 168 Security and Allied Inc,
na nangasiwa sa mga guwardiya ng
north and south sector ng UP Diliman
noong 2008. Nakatakdang magtapos
sa Hunyo ang isang taong kontrata ng
Bolinao sa UP Diliman. q
Lunes
22 Mar 2010
Abuse of power
November 2009 – In
what has been described
as the worst electionrelated violence in
the country’s history,
64 people, including
37 journalists, were
murdered in Maguindanao. The prime suspects
in the massacre are members
of the
Ampatuan clan, Arroyo’s longtime allies, who
also face accusations of helping Arroyo cheat in
the region during the 2004 elections.
December 2009 –Arroyo declared martial
law in Maguindanao, supposedly to avert “lawless” violence in the province and to provide for
the swift arrest of suspects. Various groups and
sectors slammed martial law as “unnecessary and
baseless,” calling it an abuse of Arroyo’s constitutional powers.
February 2010 – Forty-three health workers
in Morong, Rizal were illegally detained by the
military, under suspicion of being communist
rebels. The Morong 43 have now been detained
for over a month, and the Commission on Human Rights has confirmed that they bear signs of
physical torture. q
Repressive policies
September - October 2009 – In a series of
consultations, students
said they wanted the
draft Code of Student
Conduct (CSC), a set of
rules governing student
discipline, to be junked due
t o
provisions which may “suppress demo cratic
rights in UP.”
September 14, 2009 – Students put forward
a consolidated set of demands geared towards the
improvement of student services in a dialogue
with the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student
Affairs (OVCSA). To cope with the lack of budget, the OVCSA has imposed various “repressive”
policies, such as stricter guidelines on dormitory
admission policies, students said.
January 2010 – UP President Emerlinda Roman denied Sociology professor Sarah Raymundo’s application for tenure, despite some faculty
members describing the verdict as “flawed and
unjust.” Raymundo has already filed an appeal
with the BOR. Once the board decides against
her favor, she can no longer continue her services
in the university. q
IN
retrospect
2009-2010 news round-up
Article:
Pauline
Gidget
Estella
Floods and demolitions
August 2009 – Thirty-five
families in Area XI of UP
Diliman were forced to
demolish their own
homes because the
space near the National Institute of
Physics building will
be converted into a
parking lot.
September 2009 - Typhoon Ondoy flooded the National Capital Region with __ inches of rainfall in just six hours,
wrecking the houses of more than 700 families
living in the communities around UP Diliman.
January 2010 – Eighteen houses in Pook
Ricarte were demolished for the C-5 road extension project. Around 80 houses are set to
be demolished in the months to follow. q
Rage against the regime
July 2009 – Over 700
students from UPD and
thousands more from
other schools walked
out of their classes
on July 10, to condemn the efforts of the
House of Representatives to initiate charter
change.
August 2009 – Various sectors expressed indignation over the
alleged
$20,000 dinner of Arroyo and her entourage
in a New York restaurant. The administration
spent millions of pesos in a lavish dinner while
most of the population lives in abject poverty,
said Bagong Alyansang Makabayan Rep. Renato
Reyes.
December 2009 - At least nine students were
injured while holding a protest action in Magsaysay Avenue, where Arroyo was scheduled to
attend the inauguration of the UPD GT-Toyota
Asian Cultural Center. q
Thumbs down
qRep. Mong Palatino along with UP students flash a thumbs down in a protest rally held in front of the
UP College of Law on March 27. Expressing their condemnation against the Supreme Court ruling that
allowed Arroyo to appoint a new Chief Justice, the group also called on the people to make Arroyo
accountable to cases of plunder, corruption and human rights violations. Chris Martin Imperial
.
Illustration;
Nico
Villarete
Crisis in student representation
May 2009 – Charisse Bañez
was not allowed to assume office as the student regent, the
sole student representative
in the BOR, because of her
pending disciplinary cases.
July 2009 – After a
four-month delay, Bañez
was able to take her seat. For
the first time since her selection, she was given voting powers
a s
a BOR member and allowed to participate in the
board’s deliberations.
December 2009 – A suspension order was issued to Bañez, the former chairperson of UP Los
Baños University Student Council (UPLB USC),
and seven other students for “violation” of the
1984 UPLB USC Constitution.
January 2010 –The BOR voted 5-0 to dismiss
Bañez as SR because she is not enrolled for the current semester. More than a month has passed since
Bañez applied for residency, but UPLB Chancellor
Luis Velasco has not yet acted on her request. q
UP slides to fifth place
in 72nd UAAP tilt
Marc Jayson D. Cayabyab
T
he UP Fighting Maroons dropped from
third place last season to fifth this year in
the 72nd season of the University Athletic
Association of the Philippines (UAAP), garnering
217 points from 15 sports events.
The University of Santo Tomas defended its
crown with 307 points, followed by De La Salle
University with 252 points. The Far Eastern University landed in third place with 229 points.
UP was just five points behind fourth placer Ateneo De Manila University, which garnered 222 points.
UP could have placed second or third in the
over-all standings had the men booters retained
their crown, said Varsity Sports Director Hercules
Callanta.
The men’s football team was disqualified from
the competition after the Ateneo soccer team filed
a complaint, saying two of UP’s players violated
the rules by participating in the semi-professional
United Football League. As a result, all points for
the wins of the men booters for this season were
forfeited.
Calling Ateneo’s complaint a “boardroom tactic,” Callanta said Ateneo probably intended to
kick UP off the competition. “If they can’t beat us
in the field, then they have to beat us in the boardroom,” he added.
Meanwhile, the women’s judo team remained
champions for the fourth consecutive time this
year, while the women’s swimming team improved
to first place from their second place finish last
year. (see sidebar)
Reylin San Juan, head coach of the women’s
judo team, said their team won because of the
pressure to retain their crown.
“I’m very fortunate that my players are disciplined and determined [to win],” said San Juan.
UP’s swimmers snagged the top spot because
of each player’s motivation to improve their performance from last year’s second place, said Bernie Cavida, head coach for the women’s swimming
team.
“Talagang tinatak na nila sa isip nila na mananalo sila this year,” Cavida added.
Meanwhile, in a surprising turnaround, the
men’s soccer team sank to last place this season,
from being the previous year’s champion.
Poor facilities
UP consistently won second place in the
UAAP from 2005 until 2007, but slid down to
Cont on pg 10
Philippine Collegian
Soaring tuition rates
February 2009 – In
a meeting, the Board
of Regents (BOR), the
highest policy-making
body in the university,
decided to defer tuition
increases because of the
financial crisis.
March 2009 – The BOR
approved 150-650 percent laboratory fee increases in the College of Engineering (CoE) and College of Mass Communication
in UP Diliman (UPD), UP Mindanao and UPD
extension programs in Olongtapo and Pampanga.
October 21, 2009 – The BOR approved 100300 percent tuition increases in the graduate
programs of the College of Architecture and the
School of Urban and Regional Planning, and authorized new laboratory fees in the UPD CoE.
February 2010 – Gloria Arroyo signed the
2010 national budget, in which the allocation
for the 111 state universities and colleges is P3.2
billion lower than the allotment last year. The
approved budget for UP this year is only P5.28
billion, less than half of the proposed budget of
P18 billion. q
Across the system
June 2009 – The BOR approved the contract
between UP Philippine General Hospital and the
Daniel Mercado Medical Center, which would develop the Faculty and Medical Arts building into
a private hospital. The All-UP Workers Union
challenged the legality of the contract, saying it
violated provisions of the 2008 UP Charter.
January 2010 – 1,500 UPLB students walked
out of their classes to protest the pending implementation of the large lecture class scheme, under which all general education classes will be
composed of 60-150 students — more than five
times the regular class size of 30-40 students.
January 30, 2010 – The UP Visayas Cebu
College administration has expressed plans to
phase down and eventually close UP Visayas
Cebu High School by the first semester of AY
2010-2011. The plan drew protests from different
sectors throughout the UP system.
February 2010 – In an unprecedented move,
the BOR installed Dr. Enrique Domingo as PGH
director, overturning its own previous decision in
favor of Dr. Jose Gonzales because the vote of SR
Bañez was deemed nullified. q
Win some, lose some
First place
Judo (women)
Swimming (women)
Third place
Baseball (men)
Beach Volleyball
(men)
Judo (men)
Table tennis (men)
Fencing (men)
Softball (women)
Tennis (men)
Fourth place
Badminton (men)
Swimming (men)
Taekwondo (men and women)
Chess (women)
Fencing (women)
Football (women)
Tennis (women)
Volleyball (men)
Fifth place
Basketball (women)
Table tennis (women)
Chess (men)
Track and field (men and women)
Sixth place
Badminton (women)
Football (men)
Volleyball (women)
Seventh place
Beach volleyball (women)
Eight place
Basketball (men)
Source: Varsity Office, College of Human
Kinetics
Lunes
22 Mar 2010
Philippine Collegian
T
he end is near. UP President
Emerlinda Roman’s administration faces its final stage. In 11
months, the Board of Regents (BOR)
will once again select the next UP President who will govern the entire system.
It is from Roman’s groundwork that the
next president will lay down his or her
foundation of what UP is to become in
the next six years.
During the selection for UP president in 2005 by the Board of Regents
(BOR), Roman outvoted another nomi-
Roman cites the centennial celebration and the ratification of the
new UP Charter as one of the main
achievements of her term. Her goal to
strengthen S&T was attained through
the construction of the National Science Complex and the North Science
and Technology Park or Techno Hub.
With a partnership with Ayala Land
Inc., her administration is also the first
one to create a direct “link between academe and industry,” says Roman.
During the last five years, Roman
voting powers as SR when she moved
to place the SR on observer status.
The students, it seems, were not
the only ones who were shortchanged
as certain problems still hound UP’s
staff and faculty. For instance, the
budget allocation for the promotion
of faculty and staff are unequal, says
Staff Regent Clodualdo Cabrera.
Tenure issues also threaten faculty
members, of which the most recent is
the denial of tenure to Sarah Raymun-
Roman has often sided with the Malacañang appointees in most
decisions and not with the sectoral regents
nee, Malacañang bet Edgardo Espiritu.
Then the UP Diliman Chancellor, Roman won despite Malacañang intervention. Roman received the historic role of
both as the first woman president of UP
and its Centennial president.
Promising beginnings
As in previous terms, the perennial problem of insufficient government
subsidy confronted Roman’s term, says
former UP President Francisco Nemenzo. When UP faced a 357 million-budget cut during Nemenzo’s term, Roman
joined mobilizations with the students
when she was still a Chancellor, recalls
Student Regent Charisse Bañez.
Upon winning, Roman had the
support of the UP community as she
was for the increase of state subsidy,
adds Bañez. Also, given that Roman
was “UP-grown,” the UP community
held high hopes for her in terms of
governance, according to Faculty Regent Judy Taguiwalo.
In 2005, Roman immediately
drafted a ten-point agenda which
included provisions such as the
“strengthening of science and technology (S&T) in all UP campuses,”
“pursue...resource generation and
mobilization programs” and to “upgrade welfare/benefits of UP faculty,
staff and students.” An agenda was
also presented to her by the students
through a systemwide student congress where demands were made to
minimize fee increases during her
term and to prevent political repression by maintaining academic freedom within UP. (see sidebar)
Though Roman has achieved most
of her goals in her agenda, as written
in her midterm report, the demands
and agenda of the students, however,
were not considered.
Face value
The ten-point agenda drafted by
Roman, it seems, run counter to the
agenda forwarded by the students.
granted numerous benefits to faculty
and staff through programs such as the
UP Scientific Productivity System and
the UP Policy Paper award, according
to Vice-President for Public Affairs
Cristina Hidalgo. Most of the benefits
demanded in the collective negotiation agreement by the All UP Worker
Union (AUPWU) were also awarded.
However, some benefits such as the
rice subsidy were compromised, says
AUPWU President Arnulfo Anoos.
Moreover, while Roman fulfilled
her agenda to “pursue aggressively
resource generation and mobilization programs,” she did so in neglect
of the students’ agenda. The request
of the students to prevent tuition
increase and to impose a moratorium on laboratory fee increases in
the agenda had not materialized.
In 2006, the 300 percent tuition
increase was passed despite widespread opposition. After that year, a
string of laboratory fee increases had
occurred in different colleges.
According to Roman, the funds
generated from the tuition increase
will go to the incremental income
which will be used to build dorms. The
two new dorms that are to be built,
however, are too few compared to the
funds generated, says Taguiwalo. Additionally, the problem of dormitories
is only one of the many problems in
student services that UP faces.
Along with the spate of fee increases, student rights were further
violated as student representatation
faced the threat of removal within the
BOR. In 2009, a referendum on the
Codified Rules on Student Regent Selection was conducted as demanded
by the new UP Charter. Roman saw
this provision on the UP Charter but
she did not comment on it nor did she
expose it to the students for consultation, says Bañez, adding that Roman
also played a key role in removing her
Reality Check
Students’ agenda for the UP President
To unite with the UP students and community in opposing…
budget cuts, and in asserting for greater state subsidy
To prevent any tuition increase during her term
What happened instead
As the government continually reduced its subsidy to UP, a 300% tuition
increase was implemented. Different colleges increased their laboratory
fees for as high as 650% in the College of Engineering and College of
Mass Communication.
To impose a moratorium on laboratory fee increases
To stop collection of exorbitant fees, i.e. late registration fee,
dropping fee, Leave of Absence fee, change matriculation fee,
processing
Only the late registration fee was scrapped.
To preserve and protect the academic mission and purpose of the
University especially against the intrusion of the market
Together with Ayala Land Inc., Techno Hub was established on UP soil.
To uphold campus press freedom of every member of the UP
community
The UPLB Perspective, UPLB’s official student publication stopped
publishing.
To protect students from political repression
Student representation was removed within the BOR for the first time
since Martial Law.
To push for a nationalist UP education that is relevant to Philippine
society
To ensure transparency and accountability to the constituents in
all administrative activities
The Revitalized General Education Program is still being reviewed.
The Department of Sociology was not transparent on its denial of tenure
for Prof. Raymundo.
To institutionalize democratic consultation as part of the
administrative conduct of UP in creating and/or reviewing student
policies
Many laboratory fee increases were implemented without proper
consultation. Also, the draft Code of Student Conduct 2009 was drafted
without a student representative.
To institutionalize democratic governance through University
Assemblies and College Assemblies
On Roman’s recommendation for the reappointment of the three
Malacañang appointees in the BOR, the UP community was not
consulted.
Reference: Philippine Collegian Archives
do, an issue which has been brought to
Roman for decision-making. Roman
chose to return the decision to the Sociology Department to preserve its “departmental autonomy.” “Departmental
autonomy, however, cannot be absolute...it should be balanced by the merit
and justness of the decision,” says Taguiwalo. With such a decision, then, the
academic freedom students demanded
in 2005 was not fully protected.
Further into her term, Roman
continued to make decisions which
defied the students’ agenda. With the
removal of the Philippine General
Hospital director and her endorsement for the term extension of the
three Malacañang appointees, Roman
had not exercised the democratic governance which UP stands for, according to a statement by the Congress of
Teachers/Educators for Nationalism
and Democracy (CONTEND).
With the recent events that had
occurred under Roman’s term, the expectations the UP community had for
Roman were left unsatisfied.
Finishing touches
In her last 11 months in office, Roman plans to finish her existing projects such as “establishing UP presence
in Makati”. Another current project
of the Roman administration is to increase the level of public discourse on
national issues, says Hidalgo.
The demands of the UP community from her, meanwhile, are
continually ignored. UP Mindanao
Chancellor Gilda Rivero, for instance, was appointed even as the
UP community called for the deferral of her reappointment.
Indeed, Roman has often sided
with the Malacañang appointees in
most decisions and not with the sectoral regents, says Taguiwalo. However,
“coalitions within the BOR are loose…
[and] I am not appointed by Malacañang,” Roman reasons.
Throughout her term, Roman has
advanced her “narrow political interests and that of the few while excluding and marginalizing the many
and enforcing these through undemocratic means,” adds CONTEND.
Indeed, back in 2005, Roman was a better option than
the Malacañang bet. With
the decisions and policies
she has forwarded in the recent months, however, she
presents almost no alternative to the Malacañang
bet she once defeated.
Only when the interests of UP’s stakeholders—the
students,
faculty and staff are
advanced will the
agenda of any UP
President be truly
fulfilled. q
assessing the UP President's
last year in power
Article: Mila Polinar
Photo: Om Narayan Velasco
Page Design: Patricia Basmayor
Lunes
Biyernes, 18 Set 2009
22 Mar 2010
P
umatak na ang buwan ng Marso, at sa gilid
ng University Avenue, nasimulan na ang
pagbubungkal sa lupang pagtatamnan ng
mga sunflower. Papalapit na muli ang panahon
ng graduation – ang pormal na selebrasyon ng
pagkakakumpleto ng isang mag-aaral sa mga
kahilingan at rekisito ng eskwelahan. Maging
ako, umaasang ang kalalabasan ng aking pagsisikap sa eskwelahan ay graduation.
Naglipana na rin sa iba’t ibang kolehiyo
ang mga nag-aalok ng package ng graduation
picture. Halos ‘di naman magkamayaw sa pagaantay ng graduation day ang mga kaibigan
ing sweldo. Kung dati’y naglalaan pa sila ng
pera para kay ate, ngayo’y hindi na. Si ate naman ang nagbibigay ng sweldo niya kay nanay
upang ipambayad sa mga gastusin sa bahay.
Maliit pa lamang tayo, itinuturo na sa atin
na pormal na edukasyon lamang ang makapagbibigay ng magandang kinabukasan. Kadalasan, kailangang nakagraduate o nakalampas
man lang sa unang taon ng kolehiyo ang isang
aplikante ng trabaho. Gayundin, halos tanging mga bagong nakapagtapos lamang sa
mga kilalang unibersidad ang may pag-asang
makakuha ng maayos na trabaho na may sapat
Sadyang masalimuot ang lipunan sa loob at labas ng
paaralan, at mahalagang hanapin at mabatid kung
anong dapat nating gampanan bilang bahagi nito
kong magsisipagtapos. At tila nagpapasikatan pa sila sa kani-kanilang mga facebook
accounts. Sa pagpapaskil ng mga grad-pic,
ibinibida din nila kung saang kolehiyo o unibersidad sila nagmula. Nagmumukha silang
pormal sa grad-pic sa pamamagitan ng magarbong damit, make-up, at
tamang ilaw. Sa ganitong
paraan, nagsisilbing status symbol ang graduation pictures na ibinabandera sa mga kakilala.
Sa panahong ito ng
graduation, madalas kong
maalala ang ate ko. Sa UP
din kasi siya nagtapos, dalawang taon na ang nakalilipas. At dahil unang taon ko pa lamang dito
sa UP, ngayon ko pa lang lubos na nauunawaan
ang bigat ng graduation sa ating lipunan.
Ibang usapin pa ang mismong seremonya
ng graduation. Sa college graduation lamang
pumunta ang ate ko. Tinanong ko kung bakit
hindi siya nagpunta sa university graduation.
Sabi niya, sapat na raw iyon para makita ng mga
magulang namin na umaakyat siya sa entablado
at tumatanggap ng diploma. Maliit na bagay lamang daw ito upang masuklian ang mahabang
panahon ng pagsisikap ng aming mga magulang
para mapagtapos siya. Doon ko nakita na ang
pagtatapos ay ‘di lang para sa mga magsisipagtapos kung hindi’y para rin sa mga taong nakapagambag sa tagumpay ng mga graduate.
Matapos ang mahigit apat na taon ng halos araw-araw na pagpasok sa eskwela, pagpasan ng kilo-kilong libro at readings, pasakit
ng mga propesor, at pag-overnight sa Physics
Lab, sa wakas, handa na siyang sumabak sa
bagong kabanata ng kanyang buhay. Matapos
ang mga seremonya sa araw na iyon, hinubad
na ni ate ang kanyang sablay. Di nagtagal,
pinalitan ng corporate attire ang dati niyang
kupas na maong, sapatos at t-shirt.
Ikalawang semestre ko pa lang bilang magaaral ng UP, ngunit napakadami ko nang nakilalang ibang estudyante ng unibersidad na dapat tapos na rin sa kanilang pag-aaral. May mga
biglang nagpapalit ng kurso, at mayroon din
namang mga nahihirapan sa pag-aaral. Mayroong mga patigil-tigil dala ng iba’t ibang mga
kadahilanan—kakapusan ng pambayad ng matrikula, nagpupunta sa ibang bansa, nabubuntis
o kaya’y nakabuntis. Mayroon din namang mga
gusto na lang magtrabaho. Patunay ang lahat
ng ito na ang paaralan ay di hiwalay sa lipunan.
Ang unibersidad ay apektado rin ng mga kontradiksiyon at mga problemang panlipunan.
Naging malaking tulong sa mga magulang
ko ang pagtatapos ni ate at ang mabilis niyang
pagkakaroon ng trabaho. Mahalaga raw ito
dahil nagsisilbing rekisito ang diploma upang
magkaroon ng magandang trabaho at malak-
na sweldo sa unang papasukan. Kung kaya’t
lumiliit ang pagtingin ng ibang mga nakapagtapos sa mga trabahong mababa ang sweldo.
Tila ang nagiging puno’t dulo ng pagtatrabaho
at pag-aaral ay ang kumita.
Subalit hindi ang eskwelahan ang katapusan
dapat nating gampanan bilang bahagi nito.
Nang matapos sa pag-aaral ang ate, nakahanap agad siya ng magandang trabaho bilang information analyst sa isang dayuhang kumpanya
dito sa Pilipinas. Ngunit di nito naabot ang inaasahang hulagway ng mas marangyang pamumuhay. Bagaman sapat ang sweldo ng ate, lalong
tumaas ang presyo ng mga bilihin. Dulot ‘din
ng krisis na ito ang ‘tila pagpatid sa posibilidad
ng kanyang pag-angat sa napili niyang trabaho.
Gayundin, nalilimitahan ang kanyang pagpili ng
papasukang trabaho sa mga dayuhang kumpanya. Di gaya ng ibang bansa, kaunti lamang ang
mga lokal na kumpanya sa Pilipinas na maaaring magbigay ng trabaho. Kaya’t sa halip na matulungan niya ang mga industriya ng Pilipinas,
ibang bansa ang nakikinabang sa kanya.
Akala ko noon, sapat nang pumapasok ako
sa eskwela at gamitin ang araw ng aking pagtatapos bilang pangganyak upang mas ganahan ako sa aking pag-aaral. Subalit, sa bawat
di sadyang pagsulyap ko sa grad pic ni ate, at
sa bawat pagdaan ko sa University Avenue,
may madalas akong maisip. Di naman pala
maibibigay ng eskwelahan ang lahat ng bagay
na aking pinapangarap. Ang eskwelah-
Sablay
ARTIKULO: Lee Jacob Fabonan
ng karunungan,
at
lalong hindi
lamang ito ang
susi sa tagumpay,
dahil bahagi lamang
ito nang mas malawak na
mundong ating kinabibilangan. Sa labas ng paaralan, makikita na hindi lahat
ng tao ay mayroong pagkakataong makapagaral. Sa halip na pumasok sa eskwela, napipilitan
sila na kumayod upang mabuhay. Sadyang masalimuot ang lipunan sa loob at labas ng paaralan,
at mahalagang hanapin at mabatid kung anong
an ay
maliit
na bah a g i
lamang ng
mas
malaki at mas magulong lipunan
na aking ginagalawan. At di
lamang sa graduation nakabatay o natatapos
ang lahat, sapagkat mayroon pang mas malaking mundo na maaaring magtaguyod sa mas
malawak kong pagkatuto. q
Dibuho: Nico Zapanta
Disenyo ng Pahina: Patricia Basmayor
Lunes
22 Mar 2010
Philippine Collegian
After
dinner rants
D i a n n e M a r a h S aya m a n
E
veryday, the newspapers tell me that this
country is almost done for. I am not one
to be admired for optimism, so my panicky or enraged reaction to news reports hardly
surprises anyone around me. I snigger at the
mere sight of Madame Arroyo’s face on TV. I
wince at the sight of Kris Aquino crying to plead
for some votes for her brother.
Lately, I have been raising eyebrows at the
mention of any court, especially after hearing
of their decisions on controversial issues like
the Morong 43 or the Chief Justice appointment. The headlines yesterday read that the
Supreme Court, the highest court in the Philippines, has authorized Arroyo to choose the
next chief justice. Between the lines, I read
that the SC has made Arroyo’s dreams come
true: with the whole justice panel completely
under her wing, she might as well have worn
an armor suit against possible prosecution for
her crimes.
While the SC appointment is still a throbbing wound, the ruling by the Court of Appeals
on the case of the Morong 43 has scarred a national consciousness already petrified by countless human rights violation. Families, friends,
colleagues, and possibly patients, who bravely
Hanggang
weather the miserable road to justice, could not
have been more disappointed. The courts, which
usually supported the human rights cause, have
abandoned them for the convenient excuse of
lame technicalities. Undeniably, denying the
writ of habeas corpus strengthens the culture of
While the sc appointment is still a throbbing
wound, the ruling by the c ourt of a ppeals on the
case of the m orong 43 has scarred a national
consciousness already petrified by countless
human rights violation
impunity and boosts the ego of human rights
violators in the country.
Somehow, I feel like the last fort has fallen—as if the courts have joined the ranks of
Congress and Comelec, the two bodies whose
best service to the people is probably doing
nothing. Whenever I remember that a bloodthirsty bigot holds a seat in Congress, my anarchistic self gets the better of me.
But this was not always the case. I was not
born a cynic. I was not born a mad man or a
creature thriving on negativity. What made
me an ungrateful human being were the newspapers I read everyday, the broken promises
there would be less arguments to engage. More
importantly, something good might come out
of all my negativity. In Math, a negative value
multiplied by another negative would give a
positive product. Whatever positive outcome
that may be, perhaps hoping for a more critical
populace will be a humble start.
In the meantime, I will continue monitoring the newspapers and the television. While
watching, I will be heckling and keeping my
fingers crossed that the people will finally
wake up and rescue my beloved nation, a Third
World paradise for greasy old men and women
who suck the life out of the people’s coffers. q
d i to n a lamang at m a r a m in g salamat *
I
to na marahil ang pinakahuling isusulat ko
para sa Kule.
3rd year standing ako nang naisipang
mag-apply sa Philippine Collegian. Hindi
naman ako journalist at wala akong balak
magpatuloy ng pagsusulat sa dyaryo
pagkatapos ng kolehiyo. Sumali ako sa Kule
para maiba naman. Ayokong matali ang aking
buhay-kolehiyo sa rutang bahay-eskwela
lamang.
Pagpasok ko sa Room 401 ng Vinzons
Hall, pawang mga nakasimangot na mukha
ang bumati sa akin. Di nagtagal, ang mga
graffiti artist sa Katipunan highway isang gabi.
Isa naman ang nakapasok sa loob ng bahay ni
Zorro, ang tagapagtanggol ng Academic Oval.
Mayroong nakapuslit sa loob ng kampo ng
militar para makipagpanayam sa isang political
prisoner. Mayroong nakapag-interview ng
mga prostituted na babae sa Aurora. May
photographer na pinalayas ng security ng
House of Representatives dahil naka-shorts
lang siya sa loob ng Session Hall. Mayroon
ding mga nag-uunahang mag-interview sa UP
President dahil umano laging nagpapakain ito
ng brownies. At iba pa, at iba pa.
Dahil ang pagiging bahagi ng Kule ay parehong biyaya at
parusa— mahirap man, nais kong isipin na nakatutulong ito sa
pagmumulat ng mga Iskolar ng bayan
nakasimangot na ito rin ang naging unang
editor at editor in chief ko. Ngayon, tatlong
taon na ang lumipas, sila naman ang madalas
kong nakakasama sa mahaba-habang mga gabi
ng tawanan at inuman.
Ang layo na ng narating natin.
Dahil sa Kule, napasabak ako sa kung
anu-anong pakikipagsapalaran na tiyak
hindi ko magagawa kung pinili kong
maging pangkaraniwang mag-aaral lamang.
Nakapagpahula ako sa Quiapo, nakapaginterview ng congressman, naipit sa moshpit
ng mga ‘jumping jologs’ habang may daladalang recorder, at nagkaroon ng pagkakataong
sabihan ang isang pambansang alagad ng
sining na hindi maganda ang kanyang dula. At
ako pa lang iyon.
Iba-iba rin ang karanasan ng mga kasamahan
ko sa Kule. Ang isa’y nakipaghabulan sa mga
ERRATA
of progress and the tiresome aspiration for
change. The recent performance of our beloved courts can now be added to the list.
I do wish that a bit of my cynicism would
rub off on other people. If that happens, I would
be rejoice for my newfound convenience, for
Minsan, napagbibintangang aktibistang
diyaryo raw ang Kule. Mahirap itong ipagkaila,
pero maaaring ipaliwanag. Hindi na kasi
pangkaraniwang mag-aaral lamang ang mga
nagtratrabaho sa Kule. Hindi lang bahayeskwela ang buhay, kundi nasasabak na sa mas
malawak na mundo. Dahil sa mga artikulong
kailangan gawin, nakikita at nararanasan ng
mga tao rito ang katotohanan sa loob at labas
ng paaralan, na mayroon palang mga istruktura
at kontradiksyon ang lipunan na nakaaapekto
sa bawat isa sa atin. Dahil dito, responsibilidad
ng dyaryo na ipabatid ito sa mga mambabasa,
sa mga mag-aaral na marahil ay nakatali pa rin
sa rutang bahay-eskwela lamang.
Punong-puno ng kwento ang loob ng apat
na sulok ng opisina dito sa Vinzons hall. Ang
bawat artikulo na mababasa sa pahayagan ay
mayroon pang kwento sa likod nito—kwento
Mixkaela Villalon
ng mga gabing walang tulog, ng sigawan ng
mga writer, editor, at illustrator, ng habulan sa
loob ng opisina, ng banyo na walang lock at
walang tubig. Lahat na siguro ng paghihirap
ay pagdaraanan para lang mailabas ang isyu
ng pahayagan. Pagkatapos noon, ang susunod
naman na isyu, at ang susunod, at ang
susunod.
Kung babatikusin man ng mambabasa
ang aking isinulat, marahil pansamantalang
magtatanim ako ng hinanakit na madaling
lunurin ng pag-iinom. Pero tiyak na babalik
at babalik kami sa miserableng opisina sa
Vinzons para tapusin ang mga nakabinbin
na artikulo, para may ilabas muli sa mga
mambabasa. Dahil ang pagiging bahagi ng
Kule ay parehong biyaya at parusa—mahirap
man, nais kong isipin na nakatutulong ito sa
pagmumulat ng mga Iskolar ng bayan.
Malapit na palang magtapos ang 20092010 na termino ng Kule. Ngayong semestre
din ako makakapagtapos ng pag-aaral. Sa
susunod na taon, ibang mga indibidwal naman
ang hahawak at magpapatakbo ng Kule at ako’y
magiging mambabasa na lamang nito.
Gayunman, natutuwa akong isipin na
naging bahagi ako nito. Aasahan ko ang pareho
(o mas mataas) pang kalidad ng dyaryo mula
sa susunod na pamunuan ng Kule. Matitigas
naman ang mukha nila, at tiyak kakayanin nila
ang isa pang taon ng paghihirap para sa mga
mambabasang puro reklamo, pero hindi rin
nagbabasa.
Sa ngayon, makikipag-inuman muna ako
kasama ang mga naunang Kule staff sa akin,
at pagtatawanan ang mga kwento sa likod ng
bawat kwentong inilalabas ng dyaryo. q
*pasintabi sa mandudulang si Orlando Nadres
According to the article “Over 1,200 fake UP Fair tickets seized” in issue 26-27 of the Philippine Collegian, two fake UP Fair tickets were confiscated on
February 11 fair night, which was handled by the Pi Sigma fraternity. The two tickets were found not on February 11 but on February 10, which was
handled by the Alpha Sigma Fraternity. Also, UP Circle of Entrepreneurs handled the February 11 night, not Pi Sigma. We apologize for the errors. -ed
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dnt hv d ryt 2 rmv d s2dnt rgnt dhl 1st of ol,
s2dnts ang naglulok sa SR kya s2dnts n gang
my power 2 decyd kng ttnggalin sya. 2nd, d b
dpt ung bor MALACAÑANG APPOINTEES ung
TANGGLIN kc 2009 p pla xpyrd ung term nla!
Ang kapal tlga nla! Msyadong rpresiv ang bor!
Mga anti s2dnts! Kainis! Bsta e2 lng mssbi ko,
ndi 22o na wla na taung SR! 06-78331
wala talagang kaluluwa c emerlinda!kung
anu2 pnaggwa kc patap0s n term nia!adik xa..
isang malaking aik!npksma ng ugali..d ba xa
nttak0t sa karma?kya ngaun plang..kumil0s at
mNindgan na tay0ng lahat dahil TAYO ANG
KARMA NIYA! 07-3x9x3
Sino sa mga miyembro ng outgoing USC ang mamimiss mo like
crazy?
ang pinakamamimiss ko sa outgoing USC ay
si titus titus titus tan! Balak ko iuwi yung isang
poster niya haha 08-00153, pau bs ece
SI MARIO CERILLES, KASI NAKAUPO PALANG SIYA, NAMIMISS NA NAMIN SIYA.
HAHA! 07-*871*
mamimiss ko like crazy si outgoing USC
chair Titus Tan. =’( ang cute cute cute niya
kasi. wala na kaming sisilipin sa USC Office as
Vinzons. Chos! pero andito pa rin naman siya
next year diba??? =)) 09-06998
Comments
alam ko n tpos n ang usaping usc elections
pero gs2 q lng mgcoment. im from AIT, and I
noticed n kaisa lng ang tanging party n nagcacampaign s college nmen. I hav nothng
against kaisa, my point is ang pangit lng ncla
lng ang araramdaman nmin d2 2wing elections.Haha. 07-43210
bkit prang instead 0f “mga” naging “gma”
ung nsa c0mments last ixu? Haha. typ0 b un?
k-irita kc ung acr0nym n un. naaalala q ung
nun0 s malacañang 0x-45752
Ang gnda ng article ni Bonferroni! Nka2relate aq kc minsan nging gnun aq. Tip lng.
Kung mhal mo sya, bkt mahi2ya. Ms mganda
na un umaksyon ka at nbgo kesa wlang gnawa. 08-09228 bs cs
bakit dun sa illustrati0n para dun sa 20102011 phil c0llegian edit0rial exams e eagle
yung nagrerepresent sa UP seal?an0 tay0
admu?diba dapat parr0t yun? And sana pakilakihan yung space f0r tctback.ang liit masyado e.kala k0 ba gust0 ny0 kaming marinig?
08-03628 ba speech c0mm
Agree aq s article regarding d automated
election. Ganun n lng b kbilis mwwla ang
karapatan mong bumoto dhl s gatuldok n
pgkkmali? Mga KAMOTE pla kau e! at saka
hangga’t hndi nwwla ang kgarapalan ng mga
pulitiko d2 stn e hndi tau kelanman mggng
hnda s bgong sistemang yan. Hmf! Kamote!
07-04466
Sagutan
to 09-07591:hndi b nagsusumigaw sau ung
signals ng ‘set up’?andaming pR0ceDural isSies n d cnun0d nung mga nangHuli.fr0m the
warrant to the dEtenti0n.they were and r being dpRiveD of so many ryts,bAseD oN a flimsy allegati0n swch they cnt en pR0ve.s tngn
m,bkt wla clang mlbs n ebidEnxa maliBan s
cnsb nlng nhnap nexpl0sves?ths c0uld vry erll
b the bgnNing of the dEath of our civil rts!
Sundan sa pg 10
Biyernes
Biyernes, 18 Set 2009
19 Mar 2010
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Unity Statement of UPM
Coalition for Truth, Justice
& Good Governance
Faculty of the University of the
Philippines Manila, realizing our
roles and responsibilities both to our
respective constituents and to the
Filipino people hereby declare:
That the University of the Philippines
Board of Regents’ (UP-BOR) (the highest
policy-making and governing body of
the national university, on its 1254th
Meeting on February 25, 2010), decision
of appointing a new Director for the
Philippine General Hospital (PGH),
thereby nullifying its decision on its
1252nd Meeting on December 18, 2009,
is unjust, capricious, and reek of political
interference;
That the removal of Dr. Gonzales as
Director of PGH without due cause and
due process is violative of constitutional
guarantees on security of tenure and nonremoval of civil service officer or employee
except for cause provided by law;
That the UP-BOR’s decision to appoint
a new PGH Director in spite of an existing
valid appointment of Dr. Jose Gonzales
as Director of PGH from January 1,
2010 to December 31, 2012 has created
divisiveness among the rank-and file
hospital employees affecting morale and
camaraderie.
We believe that Dr. Jose Gonzales was
removed as Director of PGH because
of his unflinching stand against the
privatization of hospital, starting with his
opposition to privatized services at the
proposed Faculty Medical Arts Building
(FMAB).
We are aghast that the arbitrary
CHR... from pg 2
for additional support. I coordinated
with the intelligence (office). There are
suspected NPAs in the area.”
Baladad told the commission that
the military’s involvement in the arrest
of Condes stemmed from the fact that
Balonglong confirmed during a police
briefing on Feb. 5 that Condes was accompanied by rebels.
Abawag corroborated Baladad’s
testimony, saying the PNP could not
arrest Condes since he was with armed
rebels. When de Lima asked whether
he knew if Condes is a suspected NPA,
Abawag answered: “Sinong nagsabi niyan? Hindi ako nagsabi niyan. Walang
nagsabi niyan.”
But Balonglong denied telling the
removal of Dr. Jose Gonzales as
Director of PGH, and the Machiavellian
manipulation of technicalities to justify
just about anything and to maneuver
events to get precisely the desired results,
the UP administration led by President
Emerlinda Roman, had become even
worse than the GMA administration
except perhaps for the wanton killings
and enforced disappearances.
We therefore call on our constituencies
– students, administrative staff, REPS
and Faculty of the University of the
Philippines Manila: let us unite against
impunity, abuse of power, and lack of
democracy by the UP-BOR and Roman
Administration; and against apathy and
passivity in our ranks.
Oppose
Roman’s
undemocratic
governance!
Oppose Malacanang intervention in decision-making in UP!
Oppose privatization of health services, fight for people’s right to health!
Uphold security of tenure and due process!
Uphold democratic representation in the
university, and the principles of accountability and transparency in decision making!
All UP Workers Union Manila
All UP Academic Employees Union
Manila
PGH Head Nurses League
Laban UP-PGH
PGH Nursing Attendants Association
University Student Council-UP Manila
PGH Utility Workers Association
Alternative Students’ Alliance
for Progress- Katipunan ng mga
Progresibong Mag-aaral ng Bayan
(ASAP-KATIPUNAN)
army officials he knew there are NPA
rebels in the area. “There are no NPAs
in the area…. I do not mention any
NPAs,” Balonglong told the commission. “I said there are 30 unidentified
persons…. Feeling ko armed sila.”
Baladad said that the Armed Forces knew of such “NPA sightings in the
area” through a classified intelligence
report his brigade got hold of.
According to the commander,
that intelligence report was passed
on to him by the battalion headed by
Abawag who was allegedly told by Balonglong about the NPA rebels inside
Condes’ house.
Both Baladad and Balonglong did
not answer a question posed by de Lima
whether the army’s intelligence report was
based on the statement of Balonglong.q
P l a y i n g D o ct o r
Miguel Punzalan
G r a p h i te o n p a p e r, 2 0 1 0
e, the different organizations,
W
representing the students,
administrative staff, REPS and
FMAB... from pg 3
contracts involving property rights are
protected from “a subsequent law or
ordinance which destroys or diminishes the value of these contracts or
deviates from their terms.”
The DOJ countered Te’s argument
in a February 9 opinion.
UP was still in the middle of negotiations for the FMAB project in April
2008, noted Justice Secretary Agnes
Devanadera. Because the agreement
between UP and DMMC took effect
after the passage of the 2008 UP Charter, the new provisions on asset disposition are applicable to the contract,
she added.
‘Cancel FMAB contract’
Despite the DOJ’s stance on the
FMAB, further action with regard to
the validity of the contract could only
be resolved by the BOR, as “the [DOJ]
opinion…is merely advisory [and] has
no binding effect.”
“Isang magandang hakbang ang
pagiging pabor ng opinyon ng DOJ sa
pagkakansela ng FMAB contract dahil
sa hindi pagsunod sa UP Charter. Bukod pa ito sa dahilang maaaring makaapekto sa operasyon at kita ng PGH
ang pagtatayo sa pribadong ospital,”
Staff Regent Clodualdo Cabrera said.
The FMAB project, intended as
a venue for the “geographic private
practice” of doctors in PGH, has been
criticized by the AUPWU for allotting
space for private pharmacies and laboratories inside the PGH compound,
which might only compete with the
hospital’s own pharmacy and laboratories, Cabrera explained.
As long as the BOR does not issue
a notice of contract cancellation, the
ongoing construction of the FMAB
Building will continue, PGH Director
Rolando Enrique Domingo said.
The DOJ opinion will be tackled in
UAAP... from pg 4
third in 2008 and fifth for this season.
The university’s lack of adequate
facilities has affected the varsity players’ performance in the UAAP for the
past years, Callanta said.
“We have this concept that you
practice how you want to play. So, if
you practice poorly [using poor facilities], then you perform poorly,” said
Callanta. He noted that the university
gymnasium, which is shared by various
varsity teams during practice, needs to
be repaired.
Practices during rainy seasons are
almost impossible because the roof of
the gym leaks heavily, said Jan Paulo
Txtback... mula pg 9
NKA2INIS UNG NGTXT SA KULE BOUT
D PERSON NA NGIINGAY DW SA AS.SO
S2PID! SO IGNORANT! D PNG UP ANG
LEVEL NG PGIISIP. TO 09-07591:MGBSA
KA
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MA22
KA!TANGA
MO!PNAPAINIT MO ULO Q! 06-66077 C.
Starr BS ARCH
To 09-07591: grbe, nhwa ata ako s
ktangahan ng comment mo, I ko 2loy
maisp kung sn ako mgccmla, prang trip
ko nlng 2loy i-desap at torturing k pra
mgka-idea k kt katiting kung ano pkirmdm ng mdeprive ng krpatang pantao.
Ikinakaya kong schoolm8 kta, syang ang
mga tax ng mga mmmyan n naaaksaya s
pgpapaarl sau tae, kung ihara k kya nmin
s mga pamlya ng morong 43, s iba pang
bktma ng human ryts violence? Bka mtae
k nlng. 07-23667 rozza, bfa
To 09-07591: Wala ka palang pinagkaiba sa mga berdugong dumakip sa Morong 13! Di ka siguro aware sa tinatawag
na ‘due process’ at ‘human rights’. Shame
on you! Taga-UP ka, wala ka namang critical thinking! Dapat ikaw ang anndun at
hindi ang Morong 43! -03-54585
@09-07591, Pano kung hindi? Ikaw,
kung pagkamalan kang npa, papayag ka
bang pahirapan, pagdusahin or whatever
the BOR meet on March 24, said UP
President Emerlinda Roman.
Petition for TRO
Meanwhile, the controversy over
the PGH directorship continues as
ousted director Dr. Jose Gonzales filed
a petition in the Quezon City Regional
Trial Court (QCRTC) on March 11,
contesting the selection of Dr. Rolando
Enrique Domingo as PGH director
and asking the court to “declare the
petitioner as the rightful director of
[UP PGH].”
The petition also asked the court
to issue a temporary restraining order
(TRO) to prevent Dr. Rolando Enrique
Domingo from assuming the post of
PGH director “because Domingo is
currently occupying the disputed position and thus would tend to render any
ruling in the case ineffectual.”
After being chosen as the new
PGH director by the BOR in a 5-4 vote
last December 18, Gonzales was ousted
from his position during the February
25 board meeting as consequence of
the removal of Charisse Bañez as student regent.
Bañez was one of the five who
voted for Gonzales. Her removal from
office nullified the result of the December PGH director selection, according to a March 2 statement of the UP
administration. Another vote on the
PGH directorship was held, wherein
Domingo won by a vote of six, with
three other regents abstaining.
If the QCRTC grants Gonzales’ petition for TRO, Domingo said he will
“respect the decision of the court” and
“will not cling in position.”
“We recognize the right of Dr.
Gonzales to go to court. [However], the
Board will have to wait for the court’s
decision before it makes any decision
[regarding the issue], Roman said.
As of press time, the QCRTC is yet
to release its decision. q
Martinez, team captain of men’s volleyball team.
Callanta also cited the weight
training eqipment as among the facilities which need replacement, saying
that the weights in the training room
are either too old, rusty, or completely
unusable.
The College of Human Kinetics
received only 3.5 to four million pesos
for UP’s varsity teams this season, said
Callanta, but the actual amount needed is around eight to 10 million pesos.
“Support has to come and investments have to be made in order to
make a good performance,” said Callanta, adding that support from the UP
administration is still lacking. q
maisipang gawin sayo ng militar? on the
mere assumption nab AKA npa ka? Or sa
nanay mo? Sa aso mo kaya? The milits
are stupid enough naman.saludo nalang
ako sayo kung papayag ka. :D The law
exists to protet the right, not to challenge
it. 09-07598
to 09-07591: xcuse me lng no. almn
mo mna kng anoyng pngssbi mo no. ang
43 taong un ay community health workers. cla ang ngmmedical mission s mga
mhihirap n komunidad. cla n nga lng ang
inaasahan ng mga kbbyan ntn n wlng
perang pampakonsulta s doctor tpos
ddkpin p at itotorture. Sna alamin mo
ung isyu bgo k mgslita ng gnyn. My mga
pamilya cla. at ndi gaya ng mga militar n
sbra mng nakmpihan, mrmi n lng kbbyan
n n2lungn at nbgyn ng serbisyo. mgng
sensitibo k! mga taoang tnu2ky ntn d2
no? mbubuting tao. 05-38615
to 09-07591-mawalang galang na,pero
walang kwenta yung sinabi mo.basahin
m0ng mui ang sinasabi m0ng ‘ranty articles’ kasi parang hindi mo naman naintindihan e.saka sabihin na nating NPA nga
sila.anu naman?kung naiintindihan mo
ang pinaglalaban ng NPA,baka sumali ka
pa sa kanila. 07-01385
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Botong Isko is the UP system-wide
online mock polls for clean and honest elections. Online polls will start on
March 18, Thursday, 8am until March
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UP students can login to Botong Isko
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RD Aliposa
Philippine Collegian
Tomo 87 Blg 28
Lunes, 22 Mar 2010
Editoryal
A year of Firsts
T
his academic year is laden with dangerous precedents.
In an unfortunate landmark of
the university’s history, for the first
time after Martial Law, the Board of
Regents (BOR) removed the sole representative
of the UP student body through a technicality.
In another move, also unprecedented, the
BOR unceremoniously dismissed the Philippine
General Hospital director which the board itself
had appointed, and installed another person in
the position.
The list continues. A faculty member who
met all the academic requirements for tenure,
Prof. Sarah Raymundo, found her application denied in a drawn-out process riddled with secrecy
and politics. UP Los Baños (UPLB) Chancellor
Luis Velasco attempted to implement a full-scale
large lecture class scheme in UPLB, which faculty
and students alike had slammed as a measure
that would lower the quality of education in the
university. And the UP Diliman administration
pushed for a Code of Student Conduct (CSC)
despite the glaring and contested lack of student
participation in the CSC drafting process, drawing protests for provisions which limited the
democratic space of students and organizations.
Indeed, this was a year of firsts, of maneuverings that portend new — and increasingly alarming — possibilities in a university with a long track
record of autocracy whenever the interests of the
administration and the UP community clash.
Such maneuverings are often based on the
UP administration’s mastery of skewed technicalities and trumped up charges. The fact that the
administration automatically has the upper hand
in any parliamentary struggle because it argues
from the position of authority, along with the use
of distorted logic to legitimize repression, has
proven to be a daunting combination.
under the iron heel
T
he times speak of a regime that has
gone desperate in preserving itself.
Recently, the Court of Appeals
(CA) denied the petition for the writ
of habeas corpus for the 43 health
workers, who have been illegally detained by the
military for more than a month now. Around 300
members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines
(AFP) stormed the medical training in attended
by the health workers in Morong, Rizal, searching for a suspected New People’s Army member
who was not even in the training.
Unable to find him, the AFP arrested all 43
workers instead, tagging all of them as communist rebels.
The CA decision on the “Morong 43” case was
born out of a sheer technicality, out of a doctrine
Ph
i l i pp i n e
Co
l l e g i a n
Ilagan vs. Enrile, which declares that a petition for
writ of habeas corpus becomes moot once a case
is filed in court and a warrant of arrest is issued
against the person detained. A legacy of the Marcos
regime, the notorious doctrine has been used by the
AFP and the Philippine National Police to carry out
warrantless arrests and arbitrary detention of members of legal, progressive organizations.
The CA, in effect, has legalized the military’s
use of brute force on unarmed citizens, and how
the military does not distinguish between civilians
and armed rebels. Trying to eliminate insurgency,
the Arroyo administration equates individuals
critical of its policies to those waging an armed
struggle against the state.
The arrest of the Morong 43 is just one in a
furious spate of illegal detentions, extrajudicial
o p i s y a l
n a
l i n g g u h a n g
p a h a y a g a n
n g
Student Regent (SR) Charisse Bañez, for example, was removed as a board member because
she is not enrolled and is therefore not a student,
says the BOR. At this point, however, if Bañez is
not enrolled, it is because the administration has
blocked her attempts.
Bañez must be accountable for enrolling late,
according to the BOR. But Chancellor Velasco
has not acted on Bañez’s application for residency
for over a month now, even though the UPLB administration has granted residency to two other
students who filed their applications later than
Bañez did.
Clearly, this is not a black-and-white issue of
rules, but a complex web of ulterior motives and
long-held vendettas against Bañez.
This turn of affairs has left students without
representation in the university’s highest governing
body, the same body which spent the past year approving higher tuition and laboratory fees through-
out the UP system, one after another. The same
body which promised early last year to defer any fee
hikes, in recognition of the economic crisis.
It is no coincidence that this was also the year
that the UP budget reached record lows, with
zero budget for capital outlay. As the Department
of Budget and Management pointed out, why
subsidize a university which seems determined
to be “self-sufficient” —a favorite euphemism for
state abandonment — eking out profit from its
students and tie-ups with private corporations?
The dangerous precedents speak of a path that
runs opposite from that of a genuine University of
the People. This is the path exclusive for those who
can afford quality education that should be free in a
state university. However, while the administration
and the government can do so much in a university
that claims to be a bastion of academic and democratic freedom, the only option left for the students is
to assert vehemently for their threatened rights. q
killings and torture cases perpetrated by the military under Gloria Arroyo’s Oplan Bantay Laya
2 (OBL 2), the anti-insurgency blueprint of the
government.
What makes the Morong 43 case a dangerous
indication is that it occurred in a year when OBL
2 is supposed to end. The case hints of a likely
rise in the number of human rights violations as
the expiration of the anti-insurgency scheme approaches, and ultimately, an extension of OBL 2.
Moreover, the military has assaulted even
health workers who only wanted to provide
health service that the Arroyo administration
failed to offer in far-flung communities. The Morong 43 make up for government negligence of
the health services – negligence that is as glaring
as the difference between the measly subsidy for
healthcare and the massive budget for military
expenses. Yet, the military has subjected these
health workers under physical and emotional
torture, keeping them under watch even as they
change their underwear and serving them spoiled
rice for breakfast.
True enough, the administration has sent out
a clear message that human rights are conditional, that human rights are a hard-to-afford luxury
under a regime that has a penchant for violating
human rights. Clumping together armed rebels and health workers alike, it has showed how
it brazenly keeps the nation under an iron heel.
This regime, however, cannot understand that
despotism cannot solve the social dilemmas born
out of its incompetence. q
m g a
m a g
-aa
r a l
n g
u n i b e r s i d a d
n g
p i l i p i n a s
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d i l i m a n
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