UPCAT, socialized tuition

hinder enrolment of poor

students
BALITA
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ng Radikal na Pagbabago
KULTURA
page 9

Wikan sandata

Pagpanday sa kahalagahan
ng wikang Filipino

KULTURA
page 10

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EDITORYAL

Biyernes 7 Nobyembre 2014

Transpinas
umaasang malulunod na lang sa limot ang
karahasang ginawa niya kay Jennifer.
Hindi ito ang unang pagkakataon na
nakaranas ng pandarahas ang mga Pilipino
sa kamay ng mga sundalong Amerikano at
sa ilalim ng neokolonyal na kapangyarihan
ng Estados Unidos. Noong 2005 nangyari
ang panggagahasa ng isang sundalong
Amerikano, si Daniel Smith,kay Nicole
sa Subic. Ngunit pinalaya ang suspek at
nagawang makabalik sa Amerika dahil
sa kakulangan umano ng ebidensya at sa
politikal na kapangyarihan ng Estados
Unidos. Sa gitna nitoy malinaw na naipakita
ang ugnayan ng VFA sa paglapastangan at
pananamantala. Umigting ang panawagan
ng mga Pilipino na ibasura ang VFA.
Sa ilalim ng VFA, binibigyang
pagkakataon ang gobyernong Amerika
na makapasok sa Pilipinas sa porma ng
joint military exercises at rotation o
paghahalinhinan ng mga tropang militar.
Naitala din ang pagtaas ng bilang ng
krimen laban sa mga progresibong grupo,
ng paglabag sa karapatang-pantao, ng
prostitusyon, ng panggagahasa sa mga
kababaihan at ng mga kaso ng pagpatay
bunga ng Balikatan. Sa kabila ng mataas na
antas ng krimen , higit na pinalalawak ng
gobyerno ang pribilehiyo ng mga dayuhan
na makalabas-pasok sa bansa. Nito lamang
Abril nang madaliang nilagdaan ng
pangulo ang 10 -taong EDCA sa pagitan ng
US at Pilipinas na nagbibigay-pahintulot sa
mga dayuhang Amerikano na magtayo ng
permanenteng kampo sa bansa.
Sa ilalim ng kasunduan, walang
kapangyarihan na pinanghahawakan ang
korte ng Pilipinas sa anumang kasong
kasasangkutan ng mga entidad ng Estados
Unidos. Kaya tila pinawawalang-bisa ang
anumang panawagan ng hustisya sa kaso ni
Laude dahil nauna nang sinang-ayunan ng
pangulo ang kondisyon ng imperyalistang
Estados Unidos hinggil sa anumang kaso na
kasasangkutan ng mga tropang Amerikano.
Bukod sa usapin ng ugnayan sa pagitan
ng US at Pilipinas, maituturing ding hate
crime ang nangyaring insidente kay Laude
dahil sa pagiging transgender niya na isang
kasarian na taliwas sa pangkaraniwang
nakagisnan ng lipunan.

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Pinatampok sa midya ang pagiging

transgender ni Laude sa halip na
pag-usapan ang karahasang nangyari
sa kanya.. Hindi labas sa pagiging
transgender ni Laude ang karapatan
niya bilang mamamayan ng bansa
at bilang tao. Hindi iba ang laban ng
hustisya para kay Jennifer at ang laban
para biktima ng karahasan sa ilalim ng
kapangyarihan ng sundalong dayuhan.
Hindi hiwalay ang isyu ng LGBT
katulad ni Laude sa iba pang isyu sa
lipunan tulad ng kahirapan, kurapsyon
at karahasan ng maraming Pilipino sa
kasalukuyan. Mauugat ito sa pagpapatuloy
ng isang lipunan na hinubog ng mga
dayuhan at ang pagiging tao-tauhan ng
administrasyong Aquino sa mga dayuhan.
Anuman ang nangyari kay Laude ay
isang manipestasyon ng komplikadong
sistema sa lipunan na hindi kailanman
madadaan sa reporma. Makatwiran
lamang na magalit ang mga mamamayan sa
gobyerno dahil sa patuloy na lip service nito
sa mamamayan. Ni hindi kayang harapin
ng pangulo ang publiko. Nagmamalaki pa
niyang sinabi na hindi siya dumadalo sa
burol ng mga taong hindi niya kilala.
Tila walang nakuhang aral ang
pangulo mula sa karahasan na dinanas ng

Anuman ang
nangyari kay
Laude ay isang
manipestasyon
ng komplikadong
sistema sa lipunan
na hindi kailanman
madadaan sa
reporma

maraming Pilipino sa isang daang taong

pananatili ng sundalong Amerikano
sa bansa, VFA at ngayon naman sa
EDCA. Matagal nang nangyayari ang
karahasan o hate crimes hindi lang sa
mga transgender o gay kundi pati sa mga
kababaihan na pangunahing biktima ng
karahasan, at sa mamamayang Pilipino na
binibiktima ng karahasan ng estado.
Hindi nakukulong sa usapin ng
pagiging transgender ni Laude ang
nangyaring pagpatay sa kanya. Usapin ito ng
pagkukulang ng administrasyong Aquino
na mapangalagaan ang kapakapanan ng
mamamayang Pilipino at ang soberanya
ng bansa. Anuman ang kasarian ni Laude
hindi kailanman magiging makatarungan
ang pagpatay sa kanya.
Sa kawalan ng ganap na paglaya,
nagpapatuloy ang pagbalikwas. Noon
pa man nakasalabid na ang salaysay ng
karahasan sa kasarian sa laban ng bayan
sa pagkamit ng kalayaan mula sa mga
dayuhang mananakop at ang pagpapatuloy
ng mga kasunduang kumikitil sa kalayaan
at sa kaginhawaan ng bawat Pilipino.
Dahil sa isang bayang lumalaban
para sa kalayaan, hindi maikukubli ng
anumang panlilinlang ang karahasan at
pagsasamantalang dulot ng pananakop.

SIPAT
Sa ika-92 taon ng Philippine Collegian, maglalathala ang pahayagan ng mga larawang
sasalamin sa tunay na kalagayan ng mga mamamayan sa isang marahas na lipunan.

Alisto

Walang pahi-pahinga,
walang holi-holiday.

HINDI
MAIKUKUBLI
NG
anumang panlilinlang ang karahasan
at pagsasamantalang bunga ng
pananakop. Saksi ang kasaysayan sa
dulot na panganib ng maka-isa at
parasitikong relasyon sa pagitan ng
Pilipinas at Estados Unidos.
Sa patuloy na pandarahas ng Estados
Unidos, hindi sapat ang reporma sa
mga kasunduan na kinapapalooban ng
Pilipinas. Kahingian na ng panahon
ang tuluyang pagbasura sa anumang
ugnayan mayroon ang ating bayan sa
dayuhang kapangyarihan.
Ayon kay Pangulong Benigno Aquino
III, hindi umano dapat isakripisyo ang
relasyon ng Estados Unidos at Pilipinas
dahil lamang sa pagkamatay ng Filipinang
transgender na si Jennifer Laude sa
kamay ng isang sundalong Amerikano.
Ang mismong pangulo pa ang mistulang
kumakanlong at nagbibigay-proteksyon
sa salaring sundalong Amerikano at sa
neokolonyal na sistema ng Estados Unidos,
na pilit pinalalabas na dapat ipagwalangbahala at ibaon sa limot ang karahasang ito.
Ngunit ang karahasang sinapit ni
Laude ay hindi dapat limutin sapagkat
manipestasyon ito ng dobleng opresyon
sa mga inaaping lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender (LGBT). Bunga ng usaping
patriarkiya at ng pagpapasailalim sa
kapangyarihan ng dayuhang Amerikano sa
porma ng mga kasunduan tulad ng Visiting
Forces Agreement (VFA) at Enhanced
Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA).
Kaiba sa ibang biktima ng karahasan
sa kamay ng mga sundalong Amerikano,
higit na pinatatampok ngayon sa midya
ang usapin ng pagiging transgender ni
Laude, tinitingnan pa nga ito ng mga
pulis na isa sa mga anggulo sa brutal na
kamatayan ng biktima.
Kinilala ang suspek sa pagpatay
kay Laude na si Lance Cpl. Joseph
Scott Pemberton, miyembro ng 3,500
mga sundalo at marinong nagsanay sa
Pilipinas para sa taunang PhilippinesUS Amphibious Landing Exercise
(Phiblex) na nagtapos nitong ika-10 ng
Oktubre. Samantala, nananatili sa poder
ng mga Amerikano si Pemberton, tila

Luis Villanueva, 59, Bantay Bayan ng Marikina

BALITA

Biyernes 7 Nobyembre 2014

UPCAT, socialized tuition hinder

enrolment of poor students
UPCAT passing rates per income bracket

Ronn Joshua C. Bautista

IF POPULAR CONVENTIONS ARE
to be believed, UP is the school for
the poorest yet brightest students in
the country. However, recent studies
and data would show that UPs propoor preferences may just be a myth.
At least a third of all 4,000 UP
Diliman (UPD) qualifiers in the UP
College Admission Test (UPCAT) this
year declared an annual income of
more than P1 million, according to data
obtained from the Office of Admissions.
For the past decade, the number
of millionaire UPCAT passers in
UPD has almost doubled from 17
percent of all qualifiers in 2004 to 29
percent in 2014.
Meanwhile, the number of UPD
qualifiers who earn less than half a
million per year has been constantly
decreasing from 59 percent in 2004
to 44 percent this year.
This decline in the number of UPD
UPCAT passers in the lower income
brackets shows that admission into UP
has become more difficult for the poor
over the years, Student Regent Neill
Macuha said.

Skewed selection
According to a study group
commissioned by UP President
Alfredo Pascual in 2013, there are
three factors that hinder poor yet
deserving students from entering
UP: the UPCAT, high cost of living,
and tuition and other fees.
Led by Agriculture Prof. Teodoro
Mendoza from UP Los Baos, the study
group said the UPCAT has become
biased against those who come from
lower income families because students
who have more resources will have
better education and preparation prior to
the exam.
According to data from the
Office of Admissions, students in
the higher income brackets have a
higher passing rate than those from
less fortunate families. (see sidebar)
Something is wrong in here. Ang
laki ng agwat [ng income ng mga
UPCAT qualifiers]. The reason here
is kung mayaman ka, mas makakaafford ka ng better schooling, UPD
Chancellor Michael Tan said.
To address this issue, Tan proposed
to give special concessions to students
who come from indigenous and poor
communities during the UPCAT to
increase the number of qualifiers in
the lower income brackets.
We need affirmative action.
For them to pass, pwede rin tayong
gumawa ng mga [libreng] reviewer at
magkaroon ng mentoring system sa
mga high school para hindi lamang
ang mayayaman ang pumapasa [sa
UPCAT], Tan added.

Financial barrier
However, passing the UPCAT is
not the only barrier to entering the
university, Macuha said.

This year, 31 percent of all UPD

UPCAT qualifiers did not enroll in
UP. Since 2007, only two in three
UPD UPCAT passers enroll in the
university.
According to the study group,
UPDs constant no-show rate may
stem from the high cost of living in
Metro Manila and the anti-poor
nature of the socialized tuition
program of the university.
Kahit na nakapasa ka sa UPCAT,
hindi ka agad-agad makakapasok sa
unibersidad. May mga cases na hindi
tumutuloy ang mga qualifiers dahil
malayo at mahal mag-aral sa UP. Mas
pinipili nila na [sa probinsya na] lang

mag-aral dahil hindi kaya ng pamilya

nila ang UP, said Menchani Tilendo,
councilor from the UPD University
Student Council.
Under the universitys Socialized
Tuition System (STS), students are
given tuition discounts from the full
tuition rate of P1,500 per unit based
on their socio-economic status.
After UPs highest policymaking body, the Board of Regents
(BOR), implemented new reforms
in the universitys socialized tuition
program this year, students are
classified under the default No
Discount bracket until they can
prove that their families earn less

than P1.3 million per year.

Na-aantagonize
ang
mga
students na pumasok sa UP dahil
kailangan pa nilang patunayan na
mahirap sila para makakuha ng mas
abot-kayang tuition. Pinaparamdam
nila sa atin na hindi dahil pumasa
ka ng UPCAT ay madali ka na
makakapag-enrol, Tilendo said.
As of September 17, 49 percent
or 1,520 out of 3,115 freshmen were
classified under bracket A, according to
data from the Office of the University
Registrar. However, only 1,148 UPD
UPCAT qualifiers said they earn more

Continued to page 4

Guidelines for new student code

to be released this month
Pocholo Enriquez
DESPITE CALLS FROM SEVERAL
student groups to junk the Code of
Student Conduct (CSC), the UP Diliman
(UPD) administration will only release
additional definitions to contested
provisions in an upcoming list of
administrative guidelines this November.
Commissioned by UPD Chancellor
Michael Tan, an ad-hoc committee of
present and previous Vice Chancellors
for Student Affairs will draft revisions
in the one-semester ban from joining
organizations and the breach of
peace provisions in the CSC that
has drawn flak from student leaders
this semester.
Replacing the 1998 Code of
Discipline, the CSC outlines several
acts that are prohibited inside the
UPD campus. After the Board of
Regents (BOR) approved the CSC this
June, student leaders have slammed
the new code for containing vague
provisions that will supposedly
hamper student rights.

According to section 1.3.1.d of

the CSC, the code bans student
organizations
from
accepting
freshmen or transferees who have
not yet completed one semester of
residency in UPD. Under sections
1.3.1.a and 2.2.1a of the code, students
or organizations may be expelled or
suspended for up to a year when they
participate in activities that breach
the peace of the university.
These provisions limit our
right to organize, right to peaceful
assembly, and the right to express
freedom of expression, said UPD
University Student Council (USC)
Chairperson Arjay Mercado.
To address these concerns, Vice
Chancellor for Student Affairs Neil
Martial Santillan said the ad-hoc
committee will redefine the terms
accepting and breach of peace
to avoid subjectivity and ensure
students rights are protected
The committee invited Student
Regent Neill Macuha and Mercado
to a dialogue on September 29.
However, they were not included in

the drafting committee itself.

Under the new CSC guidelines,
Santillan explained that registered UPD
student organizations may now recruit
freshmen and transferees during their
first semester in UPD but may not
formally grant them full membership
rights until the second semester.
Meanwhile, Santillan said the CSC
will now only consider incidents that
alarm, annoy, or disturb individuals
in the university as breaches of
peace under sections 1.3.1a and 2.2.1a.
The ad-hoc committee has finished
drafting the new guidelines and is only
awaiting Tans administrative order
before releasing the CSC reforms,
Santillan added.
However, despite these revisions,
Macuha said the code still focuses
on what students are not allowed to
do instead of enshrining their rights
and welfare
According to the student regent,
the committees revisions simply
demotes freshmen and transferees
to second-rate members in
their own organization while

legitimate protest actions may still

be treated as breaches of peace
since mobilizations naturally draw
attention and disturb the status quo.
[Revising the CSC] is a
compromising stance of the UP
administration to simply pacify the
tension against the student code,
said Macuha.
Instead of the CSC, Macuha said
the UPD administration should junk
the code in favor of a list of rights and
responsibilities drafted by the students.
Since May 2014, the Office of the
Student Regent has been consulting
student and community leaders from
all over the UP System to draft the UP
Agenda and List of General Demands
(UP ALGD). According to Macuha,
the UP ALGD will outline the policies
that members of the UP community
want to scrap or institute.
Instead of having a disciplinary
code, ipagtatanggol natin sa isang
list of general demands ang mga
demokratikong
karapatan
at
responsibilidad ng mga estudyante,
Macuha said.

BALITA

Biyernes 7 Nobyembre 2014

Palparan, hiniling makapagpiyansa sa

kasong pagdukot kina Karen-She
Hans Christian Marin
MULING ITINANGGI NI RET.
Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan na may
kinalaman siya sa pagkawala nina
Karen Empeo at Sherlyn Cadapan
sa inihain niyang motion for bail sa
Malolos Regional Trial Court (RTC)
noong ika-20 ng Oktubre.
Tatlong buwan matapos mahuli
sa Sta. Mesa, Manila nitong Agosto,
hiniling ng itinuturing na utak sa
pagdukot sa dalawang estudyante ng
UP Diliman na sina Empeo at Cadapan
noong 2007, na pansamantalang
makalaya sa pagkakakulong dahil
sa kawalan umano ng matibay na
ebidensya laban sa kanya.
Puro lamang mga haka-haka ang
mga ebidensiya dahil wala namang
nakapagsabi na nakita nila mismo
si Palparan, ani Narzal Mallares,
abogado ni Palparan.
Kasalukuyang
nahaharap
si
Palparan sa mga kasong kidnapping at
serious illegal detention na isinampa
laban sa kanya ng mga magulang ni
Empeo at Cadapan noong 2011.
Sa isang desisyon ng Korte
Suprema noong 2011, idineklara ng
mataas na hukuman na si Palparan ang
isa sa mga primaryang responsable sa
pagkawala ng dalawang estudyante.
Ayon sa salaysay ng mga testigo
laban sa dating heneral, dinukot
umano nina S/Sgt Edgar Osorio at Lt.
Col. Felipe Anotado sina Empeo at
Cadapan at dinala sa Camp Tecson,
Bulacan noong 2007 kung saan
nakabase ang 7th Infantry Division na
pinamumunuan ng puganteng heneral.
Batay
sa
testimonya
ng
magsasakang si Raymond Manalo

na nakatakas mula sa pagkakakulong

sa Camp Tecson noong 2008, dinala
umano sila nina Palparan sa ibat
ibang base militar sa bansa upang
gawing utusan ng mga sundalo nito.
Hindi maaaring basta-basta
magpiyansa si Palparan [dahil]
kailangan munang patunayan ng
mga abugado niya na mahina ang
ebidensiya laban sa kaniya, ani Renato
Reyes, pangkalahatang-kalihim ng
Bagong Alyansang Makabayan.
Ayon sa Rule 114 ng Rules of
Criminal Procedure, hindi maaaring
magpiyansa ang mga akusado sa
mga kasong maaaring hatulan ng
Reclusion Perpetua o habambuhay
na pagkakakulong. Sa ilalim ng
Article 267 ng Revised Penal Code,
habambuhay na pagkakakulong
ang parusa sa kidnapping at serious
illegal detention.
Nauna nang ibinasura ng Malolos
RTC ang motion for bail ng kapwa
akusado ni Palparan na sina Anotado
at Osorio noong Hulyo 2013, isang
taon matapos kusa silang sumuko.
Imagine, running away for
almost 3 years for a very serious
crime, asking for special treatment,
and now he has the audacity and
petulance to ask for bail now that
we even have stronger evidence
against him, compared to the two coaccused na denied ang petition for
bail before, ani Edre Olalia, abogado
nina Empeo at Cadapan.
Kasalukuyang
nakapiit
si
Palparan sa Philippine Army
Custodial Center (PACC) sa Fort
Bonifacio kasama sina Anotado at
Osorio matapos ilipat ng Malolos
RTC ang dating heneral mula sa

Balakid. Hinarangan ng kapulisan ang nagpo-protestang grupo ng pamilya at kaibigan ng mga biktima ng paglabag sa
karapatang pantao, matapos maghain ni Ret. Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan ng petisyon na makapagpiyansa sa Malolos RTC
Branch 14 noong ika-20 ng Oktubre. Nahaharap ang dating heneral sa mga kaso ng kidnapping at serious illegal detention
kaugnay sa pagkawala ng dalawang estudyante ng UP na sina Karen Empeno at Sherlyn Cadapan. | Inah Anunciacion
Panlalawigang Piitan ng Bulacan
noong ika-1 ng Setyembre dahil sa
isyu umano ng seguridad.
Nauna nang naghain ng petisyon
ang mga abogado nina Empeno at
Cadapan na ibalik si Palparan sa
pang-sibilyang kulungan noong ika29 ng Setyembre, subalit ibinasura
ito ng Malolos RTC.

Maliwanag na ang ating

gobyerno ay gobyerno para sa mga
kriminal, gobyerno para sa mga
sinungaling, at gobyerno para kay
berdugong Palparan, ani Linda
Cadapan, ina ni Sherlyn.
Nakatakdang
maglabas
ng
desisyon ukol sa motion for bail ni

Palparan ang Malolos RTC sa ika8 ng Disyembre kasabay ng unang

araw ng paglilitis sa puganteng
heneral.
Samantala,
sisimulan
naman ng korte ang pagtalakay sa
mga ebidensiyan laban kay Palparan
sa isang pre-trial hearing sa ika-24
ng Nobyembre.

UPCAT, socialized tuition hinder

enrolment of poor students
Continued from page 3
than a million pesos annually.
During the first STS batch run
in June, students expressed their
frustration online over the new
tuition system.

#BracketAKaNa

Standing Ground. Hacienda Luisita farmers filed cases against Jose Cojuangco Jr., Maria Elena Ballsy AquinoCruz, and members of the Tarlac police force at the Department of Justice on October 10 following a spate of
assaults allegedly staged by the Cojuangco-Aquino family to evict farmers from the land. The defendants now face
several charges, including attempted murder, physical injury, theft and arson. | Genesa Grace Alvarado

Under
the
hashtag
#BracketAKaNa, students from
different UP units reported cases
of alleged misbracketing. At least
3,175 UPD students appealed for a
lower tuition bracket.
Dito lumalabas ang flaw sa
sistema, pwede kang ilagay sa higher
brackets ng STS, said Macuha. At
the end of the day, sobrang mahal
na ng tuition mo sa UP and students
that cannot afford it are being duped
into paying, the SR added.
Simply reforming the universitys
socialized tuition system would
only legitimize the meager state
subsidy UP receives from the national
government, said Macuha. Since 2007,
UP has been receiving less than half

its proposed budget to Congress. This

year, the House of Representatives
only appropriated P12 billion from
UPs original P25.5 billion proposal as
of third reading of the 2015 General
Appropriations Act.
Based on the study groups
findings, Macuha proposed to junk
the STS and rollback the tuition to
ensure the enrolment of the most
number of students in UP.
Macuha submitted his proposal
to the Board of Regents this
July, but Pascual dismissed the
student regents motion after BOR
chairperson Patricia Licuanan said
the university should first observe
the initial outcome of the STS.
In its 25 years of existence in
UP, socialized tuition has effectively
alienated the poor. [Bumaba] ang bilang
ng mga mahihirap sa UP dahil palagi
nitong nilalagay sa mga matataas na
bracket ang mga estudyante. Twenty
five years of this experiment is enough,
Macuha said.

BALITA

Biyernes 7 Nobyembre 2014

Diliman SCs propose changes to

SR selection process

Collective Resentments.
Various student organizations
staged a candle-lighting
ceremony as part of the
National Day of Outrage at
the Sunken Garden on October
24, the day of Jennifer Laudes
burial. The groups called for
justice for the alleged murder
of Laude, a transgender
woman, by a US Marine and
appealed to President Benigno
Aquino III to put an end to
violence and discrimination
based on sexual orientation
and gender identity
and expression.
| Aldrin Villegas

Ronn Bautista
THREE UP DILIMAN (UPD)
student
councils
(SCs)
filed
amendments to the Codified Rules for
Student Regent Selection (CRSRS),
the set of rules governing the
annual selection of the lone student
representative in the Board of Regents.
In their separate proposals to
the Office of the Student Regent
(OSR) in October, UPDs University
Student Council (USC) and two
other UPD college SCs moved to
reallocate voting powers in the
SR selection process, impose a
minimum academic requirement for
SR nominees, create new positions
in the OSR, and institute a threeyear effectivity clause for all passed
amendments in the CRSRS.
According to Article 9, Section 4 of
the CRSRS, UP SCs may annually file
amendments to the SR selection process
subject to the approval of the GASC.
Since the GASC adopted the
CRSRS in 1997, the assembly has
consistently junked UPDs first
two amendments except in 2005
when a majority of SCs in the
GASC approved the revisions but
immediately repealed them in the
following year.

New voting powers

The UPD College of Social Sciences
and Philosophy (CSSP) SC and the
UPD USC both refiled amendments
which sought to give each UP SC one
vote in the selection process.
We need to widen the
participation of every student to get
involved in the selection by bringing
[the voting process] down to the [SC

level], UPD CSSP SC Chairperson

Renz Noveloso said.
Meanwhile, the UPD Law
Student Government (LSG) moved
to have the next SR be directly
elected by UPs 55,000-strong
student population. This is to assure
that the selected Student Regent
will have the direct mandate of the
students, said UPD LSG President
Jose Antonio Rafael Santos.
Under Article 8, Section 10 of the
CRSRS, autonomous UP units such as

UPD and UP Los Banos (UPLB) wield

two votes in the selection process
while each regional UP unit such as UP
Visayas Tacloban College get one vote.
We need to remember that
the SR selection is not a popularity
contest. If the student regent wanted
to win [under UPDs amendments],
he or she would only focus on the
bigger campuses, former SR Cleve
Arguelles said.
UPD and UPLB currently holds 64
percent of UPs total student population

and the most number of SCs in the UP

System with 33 out 53 councils.
The current voting mechanism
forces SR nominees to cater to all
UP units and makes sure that lesspopulated campuses will have a
proportional voice in the selection
process, Arguelles added.

Passing standards
The UPD USC and UPD CSSP
SC also proposed requiring SR
nominees to pass at least 50 percent

SC to decide UP vs. QC govt row over TechnoHub

Pocholo Enriquez
UP may have to pay the Quezon
City (QC) government P117 million
in taxes should the Supreme Court
(SC) deny the universitys petition
to exempt the TechnoHub from real
estate dues.
After bringing the issue to the
high court last month, the university
is currently facing a legal battle
with the QC government in the SC
over the sale of the TechnoHub this
November over unpaid taxes.
Built in 2007, the TechnoHub is
part of UPs 38-hectare land across
Commonwealth Avenue intended
for science and technology (S&T)
parks, according to the 2012 UP
Diliman Land Use Plan.
Despite opposition from the
UP community in 2007, former UP
President Emerlinda Roman leased
the North S&T Park to the business

group Ayala Land Incorporated

(Ayala) to provide the university an
additional income of P200 million
every year tax-free.
However, in a notice of
delinquency issued in May, the
QC government charged UP P117
million in real estate taxes that it
has supposedly failed to pay for the
TechnoHub since 2008. After UP
failed to respond, the QC government
issued a final notice of delinquency
and scheduled the auction of the
TechnoHub on November 20 to pay
for the real estate taxes.
In a petition filed to the SC in
September, UP asked the high court
to stop the QC government from
taxing the university.
Revenues and assets of the staterun university are exempted from all
taxesaccording to the UP Charter
of 2008, stated in the petition.
The SC issued a temporary

restraining order against the QC

government on October 1.
However, while it is true
that educational institutions are
exempted from real property taxes,
the Technohub is taxable because it is
not used exclusively for educational
purposes, Villanueva explained.
Under the UP Charter of 2008 or
Republic Act 9500, UPs properties
are exempted from taxes only if they
are used for education[al] purposes
or in support of the University.
May merit ang sinasabi ng QC
government. Ginamit talaga ng
UP bilang lupaing komersyo ang
dapat ay lupaing pang-akademiko,
Student Regent Neill Macuha said.
Should the high court rule
in favor of the QC government,
Villanueva said the QC Treasury will
also tax the UP Town Center.
The
university
earlier
demolished the UP Integrated

School and leased its 7.4 hectares

of land across Katipunan Avenue
to Ayala in 2013 in exchange for a
new school building and P34 million
annually.
Because the property is owned
by UP and they contracted a taxable
entity, [the property also becomes] an
ordinary taxable entity, Villanueva
explained.
The QC government has yet to
calculate how much UP must pay for
the UP Town Center.
At the end of the day, patunay lang
[ang kaso ng TechnoHub] na hindi na
ginagamit ng UP ang lupain nito for
academic purposes. Nawawala ang
public character ng UPpanahon na
para ilaan ng UP ang lupa nito para sa
kanyang constituents at hindi sa mga
malalaking negosyo, Macuha said.

of his or her enlisted units prior to

their nomination.
We would like the SR to serve the
people free from the danger of being
removed from his or her position
due to academic delinquency, said
Noveloso.
According to the UPD USC,
imposing a minimum academic
requirement would ensure that UPs
academic excellence would not be
forgotten by the next SR.
Article 3, Section 2 of the CRSRS
states that SR nominees should
not be disqualified on the basis of
academic status. This is because
we cannot remove the fact that
grades are relative to everyones
home college. Hindi maiiwasan na
mahaluan ng pulitika ang mga grado,
regardless of how you perform in
class, explained former SR Krista
Melgarejo.
The CRSRS only requires
nominees to be bona fide Filipino
students with at least one-year
residency and a track record of
student service.

New positions
Meanwhile, the UPD LSG
proposed creating 10 new elected
positions in the OSR to supposedly
ensure better representation of each
UP unit in the OSR.
We believe that a representative
[from each UP unit] who participates
in all actions performed by the office
better ensures representation and
transparency, said Santos.
The OSR currently enlists
volunteers from all UP units under its

Continued to page 6

BALITA

Biyernes 7 Nobyembre 2014

Crime in UPD double before year ends

UPLB deploys late-night service after new rape case
Frances Gagua
LESS THAN THREE MONTHS
before the year ends, the number
of crimes in UP Diliman (UPD)
has already doubled, according to
data obtained from the UPD Police
(UPDP).
From January to September this
year, the UPDP has recorded 170
crimes such as robbery and damage
to property inside the 493-hectare
campus. This number is 75 percent
higher than the 98 recorded cases for
the whole year of 2013.
Until this year, crime in UPD has
been on a decline from 159 cases in
2011 to 89 in 2013.
As of October 15, theft remains
the top criminal offense in UPD
with more than 92 reported cases in
places such as Vinzons Hall. Robbery
follows with 18 incidences reported
and Damage to Property with 13
reports filed at the UPDP.
UPDP Officer-in-Charge P/
Capt. Ruben Villaluna has identified
buildings around the Academic Oval
and entry and exit points in UPD
such as the University Avenue to be
the most crime-prone areas this year.
Last month, UPDP officers
exchanged shots with a man who
tried to rob a resident of Village B,
Brgy. UP Campus with a hand gun on
September 29. The suspect was rushed
to East Avenue Medical Center after
receiving injuries from gunfire.

Lack of officers
Villaluna said that the lack of
uniformed officers and equipment
make it difficult to secure UPDs
academic campus and six adjacent
barangays.
For the longest time, walang
recruitment, walang additional
UPDP.
Tapos
marami
nang
nagreretiro at yung iba ay hindi na
fit," explained Villaluna.
At present, UPDP has 33
uniformed officers, down from 42
policemen in 2012.
Villaluna added that UPDPs low
pay may have hindered recruitment
in the police force. An average UPDP
officer for instance, only earns P15,
138 monthly or barely half than what
a police inspector in the Philippine
National Police gets at P30,000
monthly.
To address the lack of officers,
UPDP hires Service Security Brigade
(SSB) personnel who do not carry
firearms and patrol the campus on
bicycles. Unlike UPDP officers, SSBs
are only paid the minimum wage of
P466 a day.
This year, the number of SSBs
has increased to 64 men from 53 in
2013 and 51 in 2012.
However, Villaluna said that even
with more personnel in the force,
UPDP still lack basic equipment
necessary to patrol and secure
the campus.
The UPDP currently have two

police cars and only six motorcycles.

Meanwhile, 33 officers have to share
17 handheld radios on the job.
Ang kakulangan ng UPDP sa basic
na kagamitan ay patunay lamang na
malaki talaga ang epekto ng mababang
badyet na ibinibigay ng gobyerno sa
UP. Hindi lang matrikula ang apektado
kundi pati ang serbisyong gaya ng
seguridad sa kampus, said Student
Regent Neill Macuha.

Tighter security
Meanwhile, the UP Los Baos
(UPLB) administration has deployed
additional security personnel in their
campus after a 17-year-old freshman was
raped outside the university this month.
Three years after a Computer
Science junior was sexually assaulted
and murdered in 2011, another
UPLB student was raped along IPB
road while riding a tricycle home at
around 9:30 PM on October 15.
A week after police arrested the
suspected tricycle driver on October
17, Chancellor Rex Cruz announced
that UPLB police will now secure
the porous entry points residents
use to get inside the university.
We will strengthen the proactive
collaboration
and
cooperation
with local government authorities,
students, and other community
members so that the University and
its environs may be crime-free and
safe for everyone, UPLB Chancellor
Rex Cruz said in a statement.
Cruz
said
the
UPLB
administration will provide late-night
transportation for students and staff
every night after 10PM. Multicabs
leaving every hour will directly
drop off students to dormitories and
houses from designated terminals

Pagtanggap sa hamon. Tinanggap ni Dr. Michael Tan kasama ng kanyang tatlong anak ang Sentro ng UP Diliman
mula kay UP President Alfredo Pascual tanda ng pagpapatibay sa kanya bilang ika-10 Tsanselor ng UPD noong
ika-17 ng Oktubre sa UP Theater. Sa kanyang talumpati na Pride of Place, Boldness of Vision, nais ni Tan na higit
na ilapit ang UPD sa mga mahihirap na estudyanteng nakatira sa mga malalayong rehiyon at nag-aaral sa mga
pampublikong paaralan sa bansa. | Ronn Bautista
inside the campus.
However,
UPLB
University
Student Council Chairperson Allen
Lemence said that apart from
strengthening the police force and
other physical security measures,
UPLB should also move to help
eradicate the culture of crime by

conducting seminars and livelihood

programs in the community.
Patuloy dapat ang pakikipagugnayan ng UPLB sa mga karatig na
komunidad upang bumuo ng mas
kumprehensibong plano para sa
safety at security ng mga estudyante
at mamamayan, Lemence said.

Congress mulls delaying SK polls anew

Frances Gagua
TEENAGERS FROM AGES 15 TO
17 will need to wait two more years
to run for a post in the Sangguniang
Kabataan (SK) should Congress pass
another proposal delaying the youth
council polls until 2016.
Four months before the next
SK elections in February 2015, the
House Committee on Suffrage
and Electoral Reforms approved a
consolidated measure from Davao
del Norte Rep. Anthony Del Rosario
and Baguio City Rep. Nicasio Aliping
Jr. which sought to postpone the
polls anew to October 2016.
Citing the need for major changes
in the SK, Del Rosario and Aliping
said delaying the youth council
polls for another year would provide
Congress enough time to discuss
needed reforms to the youth council.
Congress previously postponed
the last SK polls in October 2013
through Republic Act (RA) 10632
due to cases of corruption filed to the
Sandiganbayan since 2002.

At the time, several groups such

as the Parish Pastoral Council for
Responsible Voting moved to abolish
the SK for supposedly being a
training ground for corruption for
the youth.
According to RA 10632, Congress
had until October 2014 to discuss
changes to the SK, however both
houses failed to approve any reforms
before the deadline.
Should Congress postpone the
SK polls to October 2016, it will be
six years since the last youth council
elections in October 2010.
[These] proposals [to delay
the SK polls anew] disregard the
relevance and urgency of reinstating
youth representation in governance.
A second postponement could be
construed as a form of de facto
abolition. said National Youth
Commission Assistant Secretary
Percival Cendana.
According to Kabataan Party-list
Rep. Terry Ridon, Congress should
not blame the youth for corruption
in the SK since the youth council

is directly under the control of the

barangay government.
We need a more systemic
understanding of corruption. For
the most part, [these youth are
only being used] by older people,
in the barangay and in the local
governments to [pocket] SK funds,
Ridon said.
With SK positions vacant since
2013, Ridon said the vacuum of
power in the youth council will only
leave funds intended for the SK up
for grabs to local barangay officials.
Under the Local Government
Code, the SK controls 10 percent of
a barangays total annual internal
revenue allotment. This amounts
to almost P6 billion from 42,000
barangays nationwide.
If we read between the
lines, we can say that the Aquino
administration might be supporting
the SK election postponement to
give more funds to local officials
in preparation for the presidential
polls. They have done it before, and
theyre at it again, Ridon said.

Diliman SCs propose

changes to SR
selection process
Continued from page 5
Commissioners of the Regent (CORE)
program to assist the SR in information
dissemination and activities.
Palagi ring nakikipag-ugnayan
ang OSR sa mga SCs sa mga program
nito. Kaya magiging redundant lang
kapag nagkaroon pa ng [elected
representatives] mismo sa OSR,
Melgarejo said.

Effectivity clause
Should any of UPDs amendments
be approved, the USC and CSSP
SC also proposed instituting an
effectivity clause which will ban
the GASC from repealing passed
amendments for three years.
However, what happens if in
a span of one year, we have already
seen the flaws? Shouldn't we correct
it immediately? Since its cemented
for three years, the students, not
only the Office, have to endure
the problem for two more years,
said Melgarejo.
The members of the GASC
change year after year. Hindi mo
pwede i-dictate yung wisdom
ng mga susunod na GASC,
Arguelles added.

with reports from KC

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Biyernes 7 Nobyembre 2014

MAKASAYSAYAN ANG NOBYEMBRE
17. Ito ang Pandaigdigang Araw ng
mga Mag-aaral. Ngunit hindi ito
ang payak na pagtatanghal ng husay
o talento ng mga mag-aaral. Hindi
ito selebrasyon na mauuwi lamang
sa makukulay na presentasyon
o di kaya'y paggagawad ng
pinakamahuhusay na estudyante
sa iba't ibang larangan o disiplina.
Ito ay pandaigdigang araw ng
pagbabalik-tanaw, pagbabalik-aral at
makasaysayang pagsusulong ng mga
laban at tagumpay ng kolektibong
pagkilos.
Madalas nating naikakabit ang
konsepto ng mag-aaral sa loob ng
klasrum, nakatanghod sa guro at
blackboard, o di kaya'y nagsusulat ng
mga teleseryeng lektyur sa kaniyang
kuwaderno. Ngunit ang totoo, ang
tunay na teleserye ng buhay ng
mga estudyante ay ang mga aral
ng pakikibaka at pakikitunggali na

kanilang nararanasan sa tahanan,

paaralan, lipunan at bayan.
Madalas
ding
marinig
na
edukasyon
ang
tanging
maipapamana ng magulang sa anak.
Gayundin, na edukasyon ang susi
sa tagumpay. Ngunit hindi na ito
naipapamana dahil sa mahal ng
presyo ng pag-aaral, at marami sa
nakapagtapos ng kolehiyo ay hindi
matagumpay
na
nakahahanap
ng nakabubuhay na trabaho. Sa
katunayan, dahil sa programa ng
gobyerno, nasa 15 milyon ang outof-school youth at nasa 1.5 milyon
ang bilang ng dropouts. Taliwas ito
sa responsibilidad ng gobyerno na
nakasaad sa mismong Konstitusyon
ng Pilipinas: Art. XIV, Sec. 1. The
State shall protect and promote
the right of all citizens to quality
education at all levels, and shall
take appropriate steps to make such
education accessible to all. Art.
XIV, Sec. 5. The state shall assign

the highest budgetary priority to

education and ensure that teaching
will attract and retain its rightful
share of the best available talents
through adequate remuneration and
other means of job satisfaction and
fulfillment. Sa kasalukuyan, ang
rekomendasyon ng United Nations
ay kailangang maglaan ang gobyerno
sa edukasyon ng 6% ng Gross
Domestic Product (GDP; yamang
nililikha sa loob ng bansa) nito.
Ngunit sa kaso ng administrasyon ni
BS Aquino III, 2.3% ng GDP lamang
ang inilalaan sa edukasyon. Ang
batayang karapatan sa edukasyon,
kung gayon, ay binabalewala ng
mismong
pamahalaang
dapat
nagtataguyod nito.
Isa lamang ang isyu sa edukasyon
sa mga isyu ng mga mag-aaral
at kabataang Pilipino. Sa isang
bansang puno ng kontradiksyon
at kontrobersiya, imperatibo para
sa kabataan na maging malay sa
mga isyung panlipunan at maging
bahagi ng kolektibong pagkilos para
sa pagkakamit ng mga karapatan.
Sa ganitong gana masisipat ang
mahalagang papel ng mag-aaral
na Pilipino sa pagtataguyod ng
Pandaigdigang Araw nng mga Magaaral.
Pandaigdigang Araw ng mga
Mag-aaral Hindi payak at arbitraryo
ang
pagkakapili
sa
petsang
Nobyembre 17 bilang Pandaigdigang
Araw ng mga Mag-aaral. Bitbit
nito ang mahabang kasaysayan
ng kapangyarihan ng kolektibong
pagkilos at ng pagbalikwas ng mga
mag-aaral sa diktadurya at iba pang
tiwaling sistema.

#RevUpPH:
Ang Mag-aaral sa
Kaniyang Karapatan
Student Rights Week
at ang Pagdiriwang ng
International Students Day
RevUp Philippines

7
Sa
katunayan,
ito
ay
komemorasyon ng naganap na
mga demonstrasyon at pagkilos ng
mga mag-aaral ng Czechoslovakia
laban sa mga Nazi noong Oktubre
hanggang Nobyembre ng 1939. Ang
marahas na okupasyon ng mga Nazi
sa Czechoslovakia ay sinalubong ng
marubdob at militanteng paglaban ng
mga mag-aaral na Czechoslovakian.
Noong 1939, pinasista ng
mga otoridad na Nazi ang
demonstrasyon sa Prague ng mga
mag-aaral ng Medical Faculty ng
Charles University. Nagsagawa ng
demonstrasyon ang mga mag-aaral
noong Oktubre 28, 1939 bilang
paggunita sa anibersaryo ng pagkamit
ng Czechoslovak Republic ng
nominal na kalayaan nito noong 1918.
Sa buong kurso ng labang ito, pinatay
ng mga Nazi ang mag-aaaral na si
Jan Opletal at ang manggagawang
si Vaclav Sedlacek. Sa punto ring
ito, wala nang Czechoslovakia dahil
hinati na ito ng Nazi sa Protectorate
ng Bohemia at Moravia at sa Slovak
Republic na pinamumunuan ng
pasistang gobyerno.
Ang pagpaslang kay Opletal ay
nagbunga ng malakihang pagkilos
laban sa mga Nazi. Sa katunayan,
ang martsa para sa paglilibing kay
Opletal ay dinaluhan ng libo-libong
estudyante noong Nobyembre 15 at
naging isang demonstrasyong masa
laban sa mga Nazi ang nasabing
martsa.
Tapat sa pagiging pasista, dinahas
ng mga Nazi ang mga demonstrador,
ipinasara ang lahat ng Czech na mga
unibersidad at kolehiyo, at mahigit
1,200 na mag-aaral ang inaresto at
ipinadala sa mga concentration camp
para tortyurin at parusahan. Higit
sa lahat, siyam na mga mag-aaral
at propesor ang pinaslang noong
Nobyembre 17 nang nasabing taon.
Taong
1941
nang
unang
itanghal ang Pandaigdigang Araw
ng mga Mag-aaral sa London ng
International Students' Council. Ang
nasabing pagkilala sa araw na iyon
ay tradisyon ng pagbabalik-tanaw
at pagsulong para sa karapatan ng

mag-aaral, para sa pagtatanghal

ng
militante,
progresibo
at
kolektibong pagkilos. Ipinagpatuloy
at
ipinagpaapatuluoy
ito
ng
International Union of Students
kasama ang National Union of
Students in Europe.
Hindi guro ang kasaysayan. Ang
totoo, ang kasaysayan ay nililikha.
At sa kasaysayan ng pagkilos ng mga
estudyante at kabataan, ang Pilipinas
ay saksi sa paglikha ng kasaysayan ng
mga mag-aaral at kabataang Pilipino.
Kasaysayan ang magpapatunay
na kasama ang mamamayang
Pilipino, ang mga mag-aaral at
kabataan ay mga "game changer"
sa lipunan, puwersang malakas,
buong kolektibong tining na hindi
mapipipi. Nakita ang prinsipyado at
malikhain at militanteng liderato ng
mga estudyante at kabataang Pilipino
para sa paglaban sa kalayaan: Andres
Bonifacio, Jose Rizal, Emilio Jacinto,
Apolinario Mabini, Gabriela Silang,
Lorena Barros, Edgar Jopson, at
marami pang iba.
Sa limlim ng Batas Militar
ng rehimeng Marcos, ang mga
katulad ni Edgar Jopson o Edjop
ay nakipagkaisa sa mga kabataan
at iba pang sektor sa lipunan
upang ipaglaban hindi lamang
ang karapatan ng mga mag-aaral
kundi pati ng mamamayan. Ang
Diliman Commune ng Unibersidad
ng Pilipinas at ang First Quarter
Storm ng Kabataang Makabayan
noon ay paalala ng nagkakaisang
progresibong pakikibaka ng mga
estudyante at kabataan para sa
pagkakamit ng mga tagumpay at
karapatan, buhay man ang ialay.
At sa kasalukuyan, sa gitna ng
nakatambad na korapsyon ni BS
Aquino III, sa gitna ng mababang
badyet sa edukasyon at serbisyong
panlipunan, sa gitna ng pagtaas ng
presyo ng edukasyon at iba pang
pangangailangan, sa gitna pagsikil
sa mga demokratikong karapatan
ng mga mag-aaral at mamamayan,
nagpapatuloy ang pagtangan sa mga
prinsipyo at pagsuong sa mga hamon.
Ika nga, "Walang mali sa paglaban.
May mali kaya lumalaban."

Dibuh

o ni P
atricia

Ramo

8
TWO MENS PEACEFUL DRIVE
along EDSA turned into pandemonium
when a car cornered their path out of
nowhere. Alighting from the car, the
group revealed themselves as cops
and accused the two men of various
charges after taking away millions
worth of cash and ATM cards. As if
nothing happened, the cops drove
away, oblivious to the people who
witnessed their abrupt transformation
from peoples defenders into fullfledged criminals.
To more than three million men
in the police enforcement, this
particular modus of extorting and
stealing from victims they accuse
of false charges is simply known as
hulidap, a contraction of huli
and holdap. But to more than
100 million Filipinos whose safety
depends on the police forces, it is
unclear who these men in uniform
really want to serve and protect.

KULTURA

Biyernes 7 Nobyembre 2014

PRIME
SUSPECT

Peace and order

The concept of an efficient group
of men specialized in enforcing the law
grew out of the states need to discipline
and protect the order of things, says
sociologist Michel Foucault. Indeed,
the state sees the police as the chief
protectors of the people by enforcing
law and punishing criminals to create
a safe environment for the masses.
In return to their loyalty and service,
police are given privileges such as free
tuition, uniforms, and allowances. As a
response to this privilege, cadets face
intense physical and mental training in
police academies like the state-funded
Philippine National Police Academy.
Upon entering school, cadets
follow a strict routine of activities from waking up to exercise to eating
and to sleeping - all of these done
together indistinctly like efficient
machines. Throughout the day,
cadets are molded to align their vision
of an ideal policeman, immersing
them in repeated recitation that
pledges their loyalty to the state and
people who wield power. Foucault
discusses this conditioning of mind
and body into subordination as
state regimentation.
All of these are done for a
criminology degree needed for a police
post. But before they even started to
wear their golden badges, they have
been first exposed as victims to violence
they have learned to do and learned to
live with. Throughout the past decade,
the Philippine National Police Academy
notes two deaths that are believed to
be caused by hazing while bullying of
junior cadets are believed to exist as
posited by a TIMES documentary on
police training. Undocumented cases
reveal that a number of cadets dropped
out due to psychological trauma.
Having exposed to this violence
as cadets, policemen continue
this ritual cycle of violence to the
workplace where they now possess
power and will unabashedly use it to
carry out a bloodstained tradition as
exemplefied by Makati Police District
Chief Inspector Reycon Garduques
revelation that the alleged mastermind
of the September 1 hulidap incident
also led a group that hazed a cadet in
2001. Indeed, a violent system that
perpetuates a culture of the supremacy
of machismo and bureaucracy is

POLICING AND THE POLITICS OF

STATE DISCIPLINE
Julian Bato

replicated even in an institution that

proclaims itself as a beacon of justice.
Born and raised in a system that
revolves around a violent framework,
budding cadets fall into question
what role they really play in this
societyand most importantly, who
they really serve.

Serve and protect

The Philippine National Police
was born from the merging of the
Philippine Constabulary and the
Integrated National Police out of the
need for centralization and efficiency.
The prime reason of existence of the
PNP is to defend its citizens from crime
at all costs. But the institution ironically
punctuates its mission with malpractice

and misconduct, even to the extent of

protecting not the state and the people
but the ruling classes that run the state.
Though some stick to police procedure
to help those who need it, good deeds
are outweighed by a persistent culture
of policemen desperately stepping
on their responsibilities to survive in
a harsh system, according to cultural
theorist Tim Newburn. A cruel system
that drives these cops to desperation
and crime bring down an institution
that should have honor and integrity as
two of its foremost foundations.
Varieties of approaches to crime
have been born with the rise of rogue
cops. Policemen use an old method
known as ninja style where they take
part in seizing illegal items such as drugs

and firearms by absolving the criminals

of their crimes. In the bangketa style,
victims could be accused of inexistent
charges on the spot. The bangketa
is often used to carry out summary
executions by mercenary paid cops,
where a person accused of crime is
killed without benefit of trial.
This subculture of malpractice
has been so rampant that it seeped
into cultural products like Erik
Mattis On the Job, Carlos SiguionReynas The Janitor, and Nick
Olankas Ronda to ABS-CBNs
Kailangan
Koy
Ikaw
where
policemen are viewed as black-andwhite cops. Here, the bad policemen
are willing to bend rules to give
personal favors while the good

policeman meets a fork in the road,

contemplating the choice between
ethics or survival in a violent system.
Often, desperate policemen turn
to crime because their pay cannot
feed their family while others give
in to peer pressure and are victims
of power-tripping higher officials
who are masterminds of policeperpetrated crimes like hulidap.
More so, many rank-and-file cops are
victimized by bureaucrat capitalists
business moguls, political dynasties
and the lording elite as private
armies and protectors of the ruling
classes. In an institution where
even the police are led to believe
that honor and integrity dont exist,
justice is lost and denied to these
fallen cops.

Crime and punishment

The evolution of a state-funded
institution like the police enforcement
is contemporary to the formation
of the state, according to sociologist
Max Weber. Seeing the capability of
policemen to turn away from their
responsibility, a corrupt government,
having the direct monopoly on the
use of the police forces, uses them as
a force of repression. By thriving in
corruption, the police easily turn into
the ruling class violence tool to keep
the status quo.
Ever since the nations birth,
the police have been active in
fulfilling the agenda of people in
power. Guards throw people in jail
or kill revolutionaries who fight the
suppression of the colonial masters.
In demolitions, the police have been
agents of private landowners and
companies to intimidate and drive
away farmers, workers, and the
poor among others from their land
they have worked on for years. In
Martial Law, the police are key tools
in strengthening the iron grip of the
fascist Marcoses. Even now in rallies
calling for change, the police block
protesters with a show of physical
force and intimidation, determined to
hurt women and students to hide the
misdoings of corrupt politicians.
Despite repeated promises of the
Aquino administration to obliterate
corruption and malpractice, human
rights watchdog Karapatan lists almost
a total of 1000 counts of illegal search,
arrest and detention committed by the
police since President Benigno Aquino
IIIs start of term. A nation plagued by
greedy politicians who use their power to
take advantage of the poor and oppressed
needs an enforcement that serves and
protects the masses from evil elements.
Justice is truly evasive in a system
where even the defenders of justice dont
even believe in its essence anymore. In
the end, the police fall victims to this
system we are all born to and the police,
together with the masses, would have to
cut deep into its roots to destroy cruel
traditions for the next generations.

Sources

Understanding and Preventing Police

Corruption - Tim Newburn
Lenin and Philosophy - Louis Althusser
Politics as a Vocation - Max Weber
In Power - Michel Focault
Dibuho ni Patricia Ramos
Disenyo ng pahina ni Jan Andrei Cobey

Marka ng kasaysayan
Tila apoy na kumalat sa social
media ang nangyaring insidente sa UP
School of Economics (UPSE). Itinuring
na karahasan ng ilang administrador,
propesor, at mag-aaral ng mismong
kolehiyo at ng unibersidad ang ginawang
kilos-protesta ng ilang mga estudyante
laban kay Department of Budget and
Management Secretary Florencio Abad.
Sa minsanang pagdalaw ng isang
korap na opisyal sa unibersidad,
katulad ng dati, walang sinayang na
pagkakataon ang mga estudyante.
Isang kilos-protesta ang isinagawa nila
upang hingan ng paliwanag at tutulan
si Abad hinggil sa maanomalyang
paggamit
ng
Disbursement
Acceleration Program na isang
malaking katiwalian sa bayan.
Kung babalikan ang kasaysayan,
bunga ng patuloy na pakikibaka at
hindi mabilang na mga kilos-protesta
ang kalayaang pang-akademiko na
tinatamasa ng mga estudyante sa
unibersidad ngayon. Pinatunayan na ito
noong 1970 First Quarter Storm at 1971
Diliman Commune kung saan nagtayo
ng barikada ang mga estudyante bilang
pagbatikos sa patuloy na karahasan sa
bansa. Ang mga demonstrasyong masa
na ito ay nagpapakita ng kolektibong
pagkilos para sa isang prinsipyadong
layunin. Walang takot, at mapangahas
nilang hinaharap ang karahasan at
kabuktutan ng matataas na opisyal sa
loob at labas ng pamantasan.
Ayon kay John Berger sa
sanaysay na On the Nature of Mass
Demonstrations, The historical role of
demonstrations is to show the injustice,
cruelty, irrationality of the existing
State authority. Nangangahulugan ito
na mapagpanibago ang mga porma
ng
kolektibong-protesta
sapagkat
binibigyang diin nito ang pagsira sa
relasyon sa pagitan ng mga aktibista
at pulis o mga instrumento ng estado
para gumawa ng isang espasyong
nagpapakita ng pagtutol sa tiwali at ng
pagwasto sa mali. Naging mabisa ang
ganitong taktika sa pagtataboy at paglihis
ng atensyon ng mga naghaharing
uri sa estado. Binabaklas nito ang
hungkag na kapangyarihan ng mga
reaksyonaryo, ultra-konserbatibo at
kontra-mamamayan.
Sa kasalukuyan, binabansagang
hooligan o barbaro o barumbado
ang mga estudyantet kabataang
bumabalikwas sa pamantayan ng
pagiging sibilisado na itinatambol ng
naghaharing estado. Walang katiyakan
kung saan nanggaling ang salitang
hooligan. Una itong lumabas noong
1890s, kung saan inuugay ang salita sa
grupo ng mga salbaheng kabataan na
tinatawag na Hooligan Boys, na siya
namang iniugnay kay Patrick Hooligan
na kilalang kriminal sa London.
Mula sa negatibong pinagmulan
ng salitang Hooligan ginamit ito

ng mga manunulat
na
sina
Arthur
Conan Doyle at HG
Wells upang ilarawan
ang isang marahas na
pagkilos. Halimbawa, ang mga
kabataang walang pakundangang
nilalapastangan ang mga pader
ng mga pampublikong gusali o
vandalismo, o ang pakikisangkot
sa riot. Ngunit ang pakli ng mga
demonstrador, ang tunay na hooligan
ay iyong mga tiwaling nasa poder ng
kapangyarihannagpapanatili
ng
kawalang-kaayusan, katiwalian at
pagsasamantala.

Marka ng estado
Sa
kasaysayan,
tinatawag
namang Indio o Filibustero ang
mga Pilipinong tumataliwas sa nais
ng mananakop na Kastila. Kasing
kahulugan ng salitang Filibustero at
barbaro, hungkag, at hindi sibilisado.
Batay sa artikulo ni Francis
Gealogo na Ang mga taong labas,
ang kabayanihan, at ang diskurso ng
kapangyarihan at kasaysayan, bunsod
umano ito ng kolonyal na patakarang
reduccin kung saan pilit na
isinasaayos ang pamumuno ng Kastila
at hinahati ang mga tao sa lipunan sa
dalawang pangkattaga-loob (loob ng
reduccion) at taong labas.
Ang lahat ng sumasang-ayon sa
diskursong kolonyal at kalakaran
ay tinatawag na taga-pueblo, tagabayan o taga-loob. At batay sa
kaayusang kolonyal, tinatanggap
nila ang sibilisasyon, kaliwanagan, at
katiwasayan ng diskursong kolonyal.
Samantala, ang mga taong-labas
naman ang nagpapatuloy ng tradisyon
na pagtutol at pakikibaka na siyang
pinangungunahan ng mga taong-labas.
Ayon kay Gealogo, sila yung mga
Pilipinong nakibaka sa pamamagitan
ng pakikipagtunggali sa labas ng
diskurso ng kolonyalismo na nasa
loob ng pueblo. Kaya naman nauso
ang katawagang taong labas sa mga
itinuturing na mga tulisan, bandido,
ladrones o masasamang loob, bagay na
tinatanggap naman ng mga taga-bayan.
Kung ilalagay sa kasalukuyang
sitwasyon ang paliwanag ni Gealogo
hinggil sa reduccin at pinagmulan
ng salitang tulisan o bandido, tila
replica ng mga taga-labas ang mga
estudyanteng itinuring na hooligan
ng estado. Mga taga-labas na patuloy
na tinutunggali ang mga taong nasa
likod ng pagnanakaw sa kaban ng
bayan at iba pang porma ng pangaapi at pananamantala.
Samantala, taga-loob naman
ang administrasyon, ilang propesor at
mag-aaral na kasapakat sa ideolohiya
at politika ni Abad at ng rehimeng
BS Aquino. Sa halip na tunggaliin
ang kasalukuyang isyu, sinususugan
pa nito ang kurapsyon, katiwalian
at kabuktutan ng rehimeng ito. Ani
pa Gealogo, kapuna-puna umano na
tinatawag na taga-loob ang mga
taga-bayan na silang nangunguna
na maging banyaga sa sariling bayan.

Tulisan, Aktibista at ang Diksurso

ng Radikal na Pagbabago
Sa
pahina
ng
kasaysayan
pinatunayan na kung paanong
pinayayaman ng mga taga-labas ang
diskurso. Kumpara sa taga-loob na
tahasang tinatanggap ang kaisipang

pinaiiral
ng estado,
patuloy
n a m a n g
dinadaluyong
ng
mga
taga-labas
ang kahungkagan ng
sistemang panlipunan.
Isang organisadong
pagkilos ang mga kilosprotesta o rali. Hindi lang
din ito simpleng mahabang
lakaran habang nagsisigaw sa
kalsada. May programang sinusunod
ang mga rallyista na isinasagawa
matapos ang mahabang lakaran. Sa
nasabing programa maririnig ang
pagbabahagi ng mga panauhin mula
sa ibat ibang sektor ng kanilang
mga danas. Ipinapaliwanag din dito
kung bakit kailangan ang patuloy
na paglaban sa maling palisiya. May
mga serye din ng aralan na siyang
magpapalalim sa diskurso at higit na
talakayin ang mga isyu.
Gayunman,
hindi
lamang
nakakulong sa mga kilos-protesta ang
ginagawa ng mga taga-labas o mga
hooligan. Gumagamit sila ng ibat ibang
porma tulad ng pagsasagawa ng forum,
pakikipagtalastasan, balitaktakan at
iba pang pormang parliamentaryo.
Nariyan din ang pagpapatampok ng
mga isyu sa social media.
Sa mga kilos-protesta makikita
ang ibat ibang uri ng sining tulad ng
pagsasayaw, planking o paghiga sa
kalsada, mga tula-dula, awit at kilossayaw, at marami pang iba. Tinatawag
itong sining ng protesta ni Alice
Guillermo sa kanyang aklat na Protest/
Revolutionary Art in the Philippines.
Social realism is a movement in art
which exposes the true conditions of
society, nakasaad sa aklat ni Guillermo.
Liban sa pagiging representasyon
lamang higit na makabubuti kung
magagamit ang sining upang ipakita
ang tunay na kalagayan sa halip na
kung ano ang nilalaman ng artista.
Sa loob ng ilang taong pakikibaka
ng mga Pilipino naging mabisang
lunsaran ang lansangan upang
maipabatid ang kanilang karaingan
sa
nagbibingi-bingihang
estado.
Patuloy nga ni Berger, The truth
is that mass demonstrations are
rehearsals for revolution: not strategic
or even tactical ones, but rehearsals of
revolutionary awarenes.
Anumang pilit na basagin
ng mga taong taga-loob, ng mga
reaksyonaryo, pasista at naghaharing
uri ang tradisyon at layon ng protesta
at rebolusyon, magpapatuloy ito
hanggat nagpapatuloy ang karahasan
sa lipunan. Iyon ang kontra-reduccion,
isang tunay na marka ng progresibong
kasaysayang mapagpanibago.

Kontra Reduccin:

ANG TAGUMPAY AT TUNGGALIAN

ng kasalukuyan ay bahagi ng mayamang
kasaysayan ng pakikibaka ng nakaraan.
Ngunit pilit itong binubura sa
kasalukuyan kung saan itinuturing na
dungis ang marahas na pagkilos ng
mga mamamayan. Tila ba nilimot na
ang nagdaang dekada ng pakikibaka na
siyang nagmarka sa kasaysayan ng bansa
sa pagpapalaya nito sa mga Pilipino
mula sa mga dayuhang mananakop at
lokal na naghaharing uri.

KULTURA

Biyernes 7 Nobyembre 2014

Kilos-Protesta at ang
Diskurso ng Radikal na
Pagbabago
Mary Joy T. Capistrano

Dibuho ni Patricia Ramos

Disenyo ng pahina ni Jan Andrei Cobey

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l
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ONCE
UPON
A
TIME,
the Moro were a free folk. Their land
being strategically bordered by the
Sulu Sea to the west and interspersed
with mountain ranges, they repelled
foreign influence and retained their
traditionsrich, as the land where
they dwell, with its bounties of fertile
lands, marine and mineral resources.
Since their annexation into the
Philippine
government
(GPH),
however, they have not been able
to keep up with development of the
country. Wanting to live a peaceful life
like anyone else, the Moro began to call
for independence, taking up arms when
diplomacy proved futile.
Negotiations between the GPH
and the Moro people have been going
on since 1976 yet until now, peace and
progress remain an illusion for the Moro.
With the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL),
another product of these negotiations, at
its latest draft submitted to the Congress
for deliberations, they wonder and wait
with bated breath. Will the BBL be the
Moros way to lasting peace and justice?

In dependence
Even in its early stages, the creation
of BBL has only invited doubt with
only a few groups seeing through the
whole process of the negotiation.
From signing the Comprehensive
Agreement on the Bangsamoro, the
establishment of the Bangsamoro
Transition Commission, to drafting the

Andrea Joyce A. Lucas

Illustration by RD Aliposa
Page design by Jan Andrei Cobey

bill and passing it to the Congress, other

Muslim separatist groups such as the
Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF)
and Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom
Fighters (BIFF) were not consulted. Only
the GPH and the Moro Islamic Liberation
Front (MILF) were the main actors in
drafting the BBL, and the contents of
the draft were kept secret until after its
submission to the Congress.
[The MNLF] maintains a handsoff position on BBL. [It] is nothing
but a new untested experiment with
distorted assumptions, says John
Petalcorin, Director for Advocacy
Communications for the MNLF, in an
interview with the Collegian.
The BBL will only create a scenario
of a tug-of-war between the Bangsamoro
and local government units, creating
chaos and instability, according to
Zamboanga Del Sur Rep. Aurora Cerilles
in an interview. [It] will not lead to lasting
peace in Mindanao. We should not forget
that MILF does not represent the entire
Bangsamoro. There are still other groups
whom we should listen to, she adds.
Bayan
Muna
partylist
Representative Carlos Zarate points
out the logical course to take, To
truly advance the region, you do
not confine your solution to the
aspirations of the elite. You have to
free the marginalized majority of
the Moro society from a system that
continually binds them to poverty
and backwardness.

Untapped wealth
The Autonomous Region of Muslim
Mindanao (ARMM) has always been
ranked as the poorest region in the
country, according to the National
Statistical Coordination Board (NCSB).
Torn by violence and having limited
power over its territory, the ARMM
is trapped in a pit with little hope of
getting out.
The region is beset by poverty,
with 47 out of 100 families living in
ARMM estimated to be poor in 2012,
according to NCSB. But the sheer
underdevelopment in the region
paints a contrast with the wealth
of resources within it. Almost 60
to 100 percent of the major crops
exported by the Philippines come
from Mindanao, while the ARMM is
home to more than half of the mineral
potential of the Philippines, according
to the Department of Environment
and Natural Resources (DENR).
Iloilo
Representative
Jerry
Treas even goes so far as to say
that Mindanao's mineral wealth can
single-handedly reverse the countrys
present economic situation. If the
Moro people have the means to tap
into ARMMs potential itself, they
would maximize profitultimately,
there would be no reason for the
region to be economically backward.
But according to the Suara
Bangsamoro (SB) partylist, the Moro
people are not entitled to owning

their resources. They say that under

the BBL, the Bangsamoro will
continue to implement the inherent
national laws covering extractive
mining, expansion of plantations and
opening of Moro seas.
As
a
consequence,
only
corporations will benefit from these
natural resources, because the GPH
has already sold the bulk of public
lands and natural resources to
foreign-owned companies like Exxon
Mobil, a global oil company which
has already started to explore for oil
in the Sulu Sea, according to SB.
As such, the Moro maintains no
control over its own resources, with
BBL still leaving the people with little
hope of economic advancement.

War-torn
With the GPH on one side and
Moro separatist groups seeking
genuine development on the other,
the ARMM has become the stage
where the two forces are locked in
their bloody struggle.
Since the 1970s, the number
of Mindanao residents who have
been displaced by political violence
has already exceeded a million. In
addition, there has been over 100,000
deaths including civilians, rebels and
soldiers. Only in September of last year,
rebels and army forces were locked
in a violent standoff in Zamboanga,
which resulted to damages amounting

to P200 million, with 23,794 families

affected in 14 villages. A total of 190
people were killed.
Primarily, the armed conflict
in the ARMM is caused by the
underdevelopment in the region.
The plunder of resources and the
suppression of civil and political
rights under the GPH has made it
clear why an armed struggle is called
for, according to Amira Ali Lidasan,
National President of SB.
In an effort to end the conflict
in Mindanao, the BBL stipulates
that the Bangsamoro government
shall have primary responsibility
over public order and safety
within the Bangsamoro and that a
Bangsamoro Police be created for
this purpose.
Yet these provisions are rendered
useless, as there would be no
provisions to keep the GPH from
continuing the policies that only
resulted to deaths and disregard of
the Moro peoples civil rights, such
as the heavy militarization in Moro
communities, terror-tagging and the
discriminate imposition of an ID
system only to Moro residents.
Indeed, the BBL only grants an
illusion of genuine autonomy to the
Moro people as it fails to address the
Moros strife. The need for the Moro
people to struggle for self-determination
will remain, if only to usher genuine
development and lasting peace.

IT
IS
PAST
EIGHT
in the morning when Jay*, 18, a Third
Year BS Architecture student, reaches
the Fifth Avenue station of the Light
Rail Transit Line 1 (LRT-1). Although the
morning rush hour has passed, the station
remains crowded, with Jay fighting
neck and neck with a battalion of other
commuters to get inside a packed train on
his way to Roosevelt station.
Despite the challenge of having to go
through this nightmare, Jay continues to
ride the LRT-1, as the train is his fastest and
most affordable means of getting to UP.
Yet as the government now transferred
the operation and maintenance of LRT1 to private companies, the line seems
to be fast approaching the end of its
time as an accessible and affordable
public transportation.

Turnover
In 1984, LRT-1 started functioning as
part of the railway system in the country
that was constructed to decongest the
traffic in the metro. Since then, it has
functioned considerably well in providing
and maintaining efficient public
transportation, running 20 kilometers
from Roosevelt Station in Quezon City to
Baclaran Station in Paranaque City.
LRT-1 collected P2.5 billion in gross
revenue in 2013, more than enough to
cover its P1.9 billion operation costs,
according to figures by the Light Rail
Transport Authority (LRTA). Despite
favorable performances, however, the
government has signed an agreement
in October that effectively turned over
operations and maintenance of LRT-1
to the Light Rail Manila Consortium
(LRMC), a joint venture company led by
business tycoons Manny Pangilinan of
Metro Pacific Investments Corporation
(MPIC), and the Ayala Group of AC
Infrastructure Holdings Corporation.

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The agreement is effective for 32
years until 2046, after which LRT-1
returns to the government. The contract
also puts LRMC in charge of building a
railway extension project, adding eight
new stations from Baclaran Station
running southward to Bacoor, Cavite.
While the LRT Line 2 will remain under
the LRTA, the turnover was done in
service to the people because it leads to
more efficient operations, says former
Transportation and Communications
secretary Jose de Jesus in an interview.
This privatization deal is the biggest
project under President Benigno Aquino
III's Public-Private Partnership (PPP)
program, the current administrations
mechanism of entering agreements with
private companies that will supposedly
improve public infrastructures. The
government shelled out P64.9 billion for
the project, according to the PPP Center.
Less than a week after signing the
concession agreement, however, the
consortium was reportedly seeking a
fare hike from the government before
it takes over operations. MPIC chief
executive officer Jose Ma. Lim says
in an interview that the fare hike is a
critical aspect of the agreement, yet this
is bad news to Jay and the thousands of
students and workers who make up the
majority of LRT-1's patrons.

Danger ahead
As a student, Jay manages with
P200 daily, currently P30 of which
goes to LRT rides alone. And with
the impending fare hike, more of his
expenses will have to compensate.
The stronger blow goes to Jays
parents both blue collar workers to
manage their expenses as their son's
transportation budget bloats.
This [privatization] will really
burden those without the luxury to travel

by other means than the LRT, says Jay.

LRT-1 averaged with 470,000 daily riders
in 2013, majority of which are students,
laborers, and blue-collar workers,
according to LRTA general manager
Melquaides Robles in an interview.
The agreement, however, will only
result to heavier burden for them, as the
agreement allows LRMC to implement
numerous fare hike mechanisms.
The contract requires the immediate
implementation of fare adjustment or
Notional Fare, with P12.13 boarding fare
and an additional P1.10 per kilometer
distance fare. (see sidebar) For instance, a ride
from Roosevelt to Balintawak currently
costs P12, and will be P14.19 under the
adjusted fare or an 18.23 percent increase.
This is effective until August 1, 2016, and
after which another increase in Boarding
and Distance Fare each of P10.25 percent
will be done every two years.
Starting in 2018 also, the fare will
adjust for inflation every four years.
Finally, the agreement takes account of
"extreme fluctuations" in generation costs,
for which LRMC is allowed to increase
the fare by up to 5 percent per year.
With its front of improving public
services, the agreement has only
become the government's go signal
for companies to exploit the masses
for profit, says independent thinktank IBON Foundation (IBON) head
researcher Sonny Africa. With prices
of other goods also rising, this is a
severe burden to the people, he adds.
As a result, workers and student
commuters like Jay, will be at the
receiving end of this burden.

Double-teamed
Even before the privatization of
LRT-1, the government has long been
entering into agreements that only
benefitted private companies at the

Old fare vs Proposed new fare (figures in pesos)

FROM ROOSEVELT TO

OLD FARE

NEW FARE

PERCENT INCREASE

Balintawak
Monumento
5th Avenue
R. Papa
Abad Santos
Blumentritt
Tayuman
Bambang
Doroteo Jose
Carriedo
Central
UN
Pedro Gil
Quirino
Vito Cruz
Gil Puyat
Libertad
EDSA
Baclaran

12
12
12
12
15
15
15
15
15
15
15
15
15
15
15
15
15
20
20

14.19
16.66
17.86
18.91
19.63
20.66
21.39
22.07
22.79
23.54
24.34
25.67
26.50
27.38
28.28
29.46
30.26
31.37
32.01

18.23
38.85
48.84
57.55
30.88
37.70
42.61
47.16
51.93
56.91
62.27
71.14
76.64
82.51
88.52
96.37
101.72
56.85
60.04

expense of the public.

After going under public fire
for poor service, the Metropolitan
Waterworks and Sewerage System
(MWSS), a government agency in
charge of water services in Metro
Manila, was privatized in 1997. The
government split the operation of
Metro Manila's water system to two
private groups - Maynilad Water
Services (Maynilad) on the west zone of
the metro and Manila Water Company
(MWC) on the east. Incidentally,
Pangilinan and the Ayala Group of
LRMC are the same key figures behind
the MWSS privatization.
What is wrong with privatizing
services like water and transportation
is they are public utilities that should
be under the government, not private
companies because their goal is profit,
not public service, says Rep. Carlos
Zarate of Bayan Muna partylist.
For instance, MWC's rates are eight

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times as large in 2012 as in 1997, while

Maynilad's rates are five times as large.
Both MWC and Maynilad averaged
16.2 percent and 13.1 percent in rate
hikes respectively for the past fifteen
years, supposedly to increase funds
for improvement of infrastructures.
However, water remains inaccessible
to many areas like portions of Tondo
and Taguig City.
With LRT-1, the future entailed is no
different. [The LRT] will not be run in
commuters' interest, says Africa. The
only way to guarantee the commuters'
interest over the long-term is for the
LRT to be run as a publicly owned and
managed transportation service," he adds.
Now with the impending fare hike,
Jay wonders how he will be able to ride
the train again when the LRT-1 finally
approaches its end as a public utility
especially now that the government
has already ended its service for the
publics interest.

Probing into the LRT Line 1 privatization deal

Dominic Dayta

Illustration by Patricia Ramos

Page design by Jan Andrei Cobey

12

LATHALAIN

Mintis sa pag-ilag

dala ng palaging pag-ulan, ani

Dyan Gumanao, tagapangulo ng
UP Cebu Student Council.
Hindi na ito kataka-taka
dahil pinakamaraming bagyo ang
nananalasa mula Hulyo hanggang
Setyembre, ayon kay Dr. Romulo
Virola,
dating
pangkalahatang
kalihim ng National Statistical
Coordination
Board
(NSCB). Aniya, mas
makatwiran
kung
sa
buwan
n g

kalendaryo para sa buwan ng

kalendaryong
Agosto-Hulyo
sa pagpupulong ng Board of
Regents noong ika-28 ng Marso.
Kabilang noon ang UP sa pitong
unibersidad sa Southeast Asia na
Hunyo
ang
pasukan.

o
k
Li

bilang ng publishable research

papers at graduate students
bagay na nagagawa naman sa
lumang kalendaryo tulad ng 123
bahagdang pagtaas ng bilang ng
visiting research fellow mula
2010-2013, ayon sa tala ng Office
of Extension Coordination.
An academic calendar
has one indispensable
requirement: it
allows
the
course

Bigl
a

KAKAIBANG TANAWIN ANG

sumalubong sa mga estudyante at
guro ng UP pagpasok ng Agosto.
Bagaman makulimlim ang langit,
tila pinintahan ng dilaw ang
kahabaan ng University Avenue
dahil sa mga nakatanim na
sunflower na dati'y tanda ng taginit at nalalapit na pagtatapos ng
isang taon sa UP.
Ngunit
makalipas
lamang
ang ilang araw, isa-isa ring
nalanta ang mga bulaklak dulot
ng malakas na hangin at ulan.
Bigo
ang
eksperimento
ng
administrasyon ng UP. Maging
ang mga binansagang monsoon
sunflowers ay hindi kayang
sabayan ang bagong kalendaryo
ng pambansang unibersidad.

Biyernes 7 Nobyembre 2014

Malakas na buhos ng
ulan ang gumising kay
Joseph* isang Biyernes
ng
madaling
araw.
Dahil
matagal
ang
biyahe mula Bulacan
patungong
UP
at
wala pang anunsyo
ng suspensyon mula
sa tsanselor, alas
singko pa lang nang
gumayak siya para
pumasok.
Aldrin Villegas
Nasa
biyahe
na si Joseph nang
malaman
niyang
walang klase dahil
sa Bagyong Mario.
Maging
ang
mga
kaklase niya, hindi na
rin makaalis ng bahay
dahil sa taas ng baha.
Sana maagang [naganunsyo ng suspensyon]
para hindi kawawa ang
mga estudyanteng malayo
pa ang pinanggagalingan,
aniya.
Maging si Dave* na isang
Broadcast
Communication
major ay hirap ding bumiyahe
patungong UP mula sa kanyang
boarding house sa Marikina
tuwing malakas ang ulan. Tatlong
oras ang kailangan niyang bunuin O k t u b r e
dahil sa baha na sinasabayan pa ng ilipat
ang
masikip na trapiko.
pasukan
kung
"Maraming
oras
ang antas ng pag-ulan ang
nasasayang sa biyahe dahil pagbabatayan.
sa malakas na buhos ng ulan.
Kaya naman para kay Prop.
Maraming estudyante pa rin Gerry Lanuza ng Department of
ang nahihirapan sa [kabila Sociology, wala pa mang isang taon
ng] academic calendar shift," ay maituturing nang palpak ang
ani Dave.
bagong academic calendar. Sa tingin
Tinatayang nasa 3,600 lang ang ko, ang naiwang argumento na lang
kapasidad ng 11 dormitoryo ng [para sa calendar shift] ay wala.
UP Diliman. Para sa kalakhan ng
17,000 estudyante na nakatira sa Hilaw na implementasyon
labas nito, kailangang mamasahe
Layunin ng calendar shift na
papasok at pauwi.
makasabay ang UP sa kalendaryo
Sa naitalang 15 suspensyon ng mga unibersidad sa mga
mula 2011 hanggang kasalukuyan, bansang kasapi sa Association of
pito o halos kalahati dito ang Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
pumatak sa buwan ng Agosto Kalakip
ng
synchronization
kung kailan nagbukas ang klase ang
internasyonalisasyon,
ngayong taon.
na
magpapadali
umano
sa
Hindi rin nakaligtas ang ibang kolaborasyong pang-akademiko
kampus ng UP sa mga aberya ng ng UP at mga unibersidad na
bagong kalendaryo. Nahihirapan kabilang sa ASEAN.
ang mga estudyante sa pagWala pang isang taon matapos
aadjust ng mga student activities itong ipanukala, nagkukumahog
dahil sa mga kanselasyon ng klase na ipinasa ang pagbabago ng

Binatikos ng mga estudyante,

guro, at mga empleyado ng
UP ang panukala, tulad ng
#SunflowerProtest at Ctrl-Shift
Movement. Ani Prop. Rommel
Rodriguez,
pangkalahatang
kalihim ng All UP Academic
Employees Union (AUPAEU),
dapat ay pinag-aralan muna itong
mabuti bago ipinatupad.
Para kay Prof. Emmanuel de
Dios ng School of Economics hindi
mahalaga ang academic calendar
sa usapin ng internasyonalisasyon.
Aniya, Internationalization is
not a goal in itself; it is desirable
only if it helps the university
achieve its real goals as a national
and global research university.
Upang
maisakatuparan,
dapat umanong tumaas ang

content...
to be delivered
efficiently
and
taught faithfully by
the instructor, ani dating
Chancellor Caesar Saloma.
Malaking hamon ito para sa
mga propesor dahil sa kakulangan
sa pasilidad. Nangako sila sa
amin na maglalagay ng support
mechanism para sa calendar
change like air conditioning units,
electric fan. Pero nasaan na?
pahayag ni Lanuza.
The right question to ask is
not when to start the academic
calendar but what makes a good
academic calendar, particularly
for UP Diliman, ani Saloma.

Lihis na tunguhin
Makausad man ang UP sa mga
kasalukuyang
suliranin,
hindi
pa rin makabubuti ang bagong
kalendaryo na tila inililihis tungo sa
pangingibang bansa ang mga isko at
iska, sa halip na maglingkod sa bayan.

The
administration
is
pushing for the calendar shift
with the notion that a lot of us
will eventually work outside
the country, ani councilor Carl
Santos ng UPD University Student
Council (USC).
Sa tala ng International Labor
Organization (ILO), Pilipinas
ang
may
pinakamataas
na
unemployment rate sa ASEAN na
aabot sa 7.3 bahagdan. Malayo ito
sa mga kalapit na bansa tulad ng
Brunei, 3.7 bahagdan; Burma, 3.5
bahagdan; Malaysia, 3.2 bahagdan;
at Singapore, 3.1 bahagdan.
Sa halip na lumikha ng
trabaho, tila inilalako na lang sa
ibang bansa ang lakas-paggawa
ng mga Pilipino. Patunay ang
mahigit 10 milyong bilang ng
Overseas Filipino Workers
(OFWs) sa nangungunang
estado ng Pilipinas bilang
exporter ng human
labor sa Asya.
Hindi lang pagsabay
sa ibang bansa ang
tunguhin ng bagong
kalendaryo,
kundi
maging paghubog ng
export-quality na
mga
manggagawa.
Parang sinasabi nila:
We want you to be
competitive enough.
And to do that, we
need to shift the
academic calendar,
ani Santos.
Sa
kabuuan,
makasasama lamang
ang integrasyon ng
bansa sa ASEAN, ani
Student Regent Neill
John Macuha. It's the
integration that we must
be wary of. Since due to
the backward economy and
economic means compared
to our ASEAN neighbors,
it shall put the country in a
disadvantage, ani Macuha.
Higit
sa
layuning
internasyonalisasyon, hindi dapat
makaligtaan ng UP ang tunguhing
nasyonalisasyon ang pagtataas
ng kalidad ng makamasang
edukasyon.
UP is blinded by the notion
that internationalization focuses
on mere mobility of students
and faculty. A better alternative
is to democratize access to SUCs
through lowering tuition rates
and prioritizing education, among
other basic social services, in
terms of resources and efforts,
ani Allen Lemence, tagapangulo
ng UP Los Banos USC.
Hindi
lang
simpleng
pagbabago ng araw ng pasukan ang
paglilipat ng pang-akademikong
kalendaryo. Taliwas ito sa landas
na dapat tahakin ng unibersidad
na tanganan ang mandato na
humubog ng mga iskolar na
maglilingkod sa bayan.

Dibuho ni Genese Alvarado

Disenyo ng pahina ni Jan Andrei Cobey

14

OPINYON

Biyernes 7 Nobyembre 2014

PASAKALYE

Thriving in silence
Patricia Ramos
MALALA YOUSAFZAI WAS A NAME
that had only circulated my social media news
feeds. I rarely heard of her on mainstream
media or from people I personally met; I had
only ever known of
her as the schoolgirl
who was shot by the
Taliban after she
defied an edict that
banned her and other
girls from attending
school.
If
I
hadnt
researched her life,
Id never have learned
that she was a teenage
blogger for BBC Urdu
and published entries
under the pseudonym
Gul Makai (the
Pashto
word
for
cornflower); or of
how she recorded her
experiences
under
the Talibans rule over their region; or of her
familys advocacy for equality in education.
Id never have been familiar of her beyond the
gunshot that sent her into an 18-day coma.
This was why I didnt expect the elation
Id feel when I opened my Twitter account
and found out that Malala Yousafzai, a
17-year-old Pakistani girl, became the
youngest laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize
for her advocacy in education and against
repression of the youth.
Kung hindi niyo peg sa buhay ang
taong katulad ni Malala Yousafzai, I

mused immediately with Twitters

140-character limit, Ewan ko nalang
sa inyo. One young girl just around
my age refused to bow down to her
oppressors
and
fought not just for
her own rights,
but for all young
peoples right to
education, and was
internationally
recognized for it.
In a speech
Yousafzai delivered
on July 13, she
herself stated how
she did not want to
be identified only
as the girl who
was shot by the
Taliban, but as the
girl who struggled
for her rights.
Who are we to
deny her that request? We, who still
live in a society wherein the recipients
of quality education are determined
by gender, race, belief, assets, and
how much a student is able to pay?
We need more people, old and young,
like Malala Yousafzai who are willing
to stand up in the struggle for their
right to education despite opposition,
threats from the military, and being
tagged negatively as hooligans.
The phrase mag-aral ka nang
mabuti, manages to find its way again

and again in the well-meaning instruction

of our elders, and almost always in the
form of gentle admonishment. Wag mo
nang atupagin pa ang mga rali, goes the
oft-told advice.
Its only partly true: education is of
the youths utmost importance. However,
in our country especially, education is
sometimes jeopardized unnecessarily
by people who choose personal gain and
satiating their greed over public service.
For this generation of multi-taskers,
learners, doers, and all those who continue
to fight for the right to more accessible
education, sticking to their studies alone
can no longer be an option. The antagonism
may not be as extremely violent as those of
Malalas experience, but it is still just as
repressive.
With our newfangled social media
accounts and our instinct to share our
opinions once we can grasp them within
the character limit, our voices are the
loudest theyve ever been and the fight
never stops, not even outside the comfort
of our computers. Learning shouldnt be
a reason to hinder us from formulating our
own views and opinions and choose which
side to take, nor should our youth stop us
from raising our voices and from fighting
for our rights. In fact, they should be our
motivation as it was Yousafzais.
In Malalas own words, We realize the
importance of light when we see darkness.
We realize the importance of our voice
when we are silenced.

than that whiner.

You always criticised me for how I
look at things in a cinematic kind of way,
how I idealize the everyday into a Wong
Kar-wai type of
cinematography,
and how I associate
every
moment
with a certain
Belle and Sebastian
song.
I
never
believed in people
who
say
that
opposites
do
attract, but that
ide worked the
yin-yang out of
our
contrasting
selves. I have
often mapped the
geographies
of
our
differences.
I consumed scifi novels, Marvel
comics,
and
postmodern fiction, while you littered
your bed with Adorno, Eagleton--and a
lot of Marx. You were the realist, I was the
dreamer.
And I always knew you were right.
The struggle is not just a mere plot twist
in the many Bildungsroman I used to read.

So whats new in UP now, Alan? an uncle

asked in an All Saints Day family gathering.
I shrugged.
You know what? The things you kids are
fighting for higher
state
subsidy
and
whatnot were the
exact same things your
father and I fought for
in our younger days in
UP, he chuckled. And
guess what? Nothing
happened,
nothing
happens, and nothing
good will ever happen.
Go save yourself early,
boy.
I looked at him for a
while.
Consistent protest
is always better than
indifference, Tito, I
replied, excused myself
and left.

Its only
partly true:
education is
of the youths
utmost
importance

So it goes*
Alan P. Tuazon
AFTER MY STINT AS THE BACKPAGE
guy, I have been guilty of armchair activism
in my many anonymous blogs as I incessantly
rant on a lot of things--while remaining
hidden, safe. A senior writer in the Collegian
once told me that we are not just writers: We
are members of the very society we are writing
for. However, as one grows distant from such
ideals, there is always the question--and
danger--of how long could your principles
last before a voiceover would finally quip
so it goes, and your principles would fall
dead upon the unworthy battlefield of such
inescapable system.
The ending to the struggle is always a
debate. I remember the first mob I joined
where you and I were assigned as buddies.
I squeezed my way along the margins of the
mob, hiding behind a camera. On the other
hand, you, with your long brown hair swinging
to your magnetic movements, joined the front
ranks, called an end to imperialism, feudalism,
and bureaucrat capitalism with such passion
that, since then, I never ran out of fascination
towards you and your magnificently
flawed self.
This is just like a coming-of-age novel,
I shouted amid the amalgam of street noises,
protest chants, heartbeats. You replied that
coming-of-age novels always end up in
disillusionment, that you dont see me as a
Holden Caulfield kind of guy, and that I could
be way better (and more useful to the struggle)

A senior writer
in the Collegian
once told me that
we are not just
writers: We are
members of the
very society we
are writing for

*Taken from an oft-repeated phrase in Kurt

Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five--the one book in
the Collegian which I failed to return. Yes, there
are only two kinds of people: those who know how
to return borrowed books and those who don't.
And I am on my way to the Collegian office.

Cool off*
Dessa Arissa P. de Dios
WALA TALAGA AKONG BALAK UMUWI, PERO DAHIL
mag-isa lang din naman ako sa bahay at alam kong uuwi lahat
ng kaibigan ko sa probinsya para sa Araw ng mga Patay nakigaya na rin ako.
Sabi nga ng isang kanta, kailangan din natin ng pahinga.
Pahinga mula sa pagiging GC, paminsanang pagsusulat sa
Kule at iba pang extracurricular na ginagawa natin sa buhay.
Katulad ko, kinawilihan ko na ang pagiging assistant sa idol
kong pinsan na isa ng mahusay na abogado.
Hindi ko alam kung ako lang ba, pero sa kabila ng
katotohanan na ang Undas ay para sa pagninilay-nilay ng mga
tao sa kanilang mga yumao may kirot ng katuwaan akong
nararamdaman. Siguro dahil ito na ang pinakamagandang
pagkakataon para makapagpahinga matapos ang dalawang
lingo nang sunod-sunod na mga pagsusulit, papel, at report.
Lalo na ang GE class ko na masyadong pa-major sa
pagpapagawa ng mga proyektong from outerspace ang peg.
Nakadagdag din sa ngitngit ko ang mga post ng dati
kong mga kaklase nung highschool na kasalukuyan nang
nagbabakasyon. Habang pinaglalamayan ko ang mga
requirement sa bawat class, tila mga nakangising aso naman
ang nakikita kong larawan ng mga kaklase ko na nasa beach,
nag-hiking at kung saan-saan pa. Salamat talaga sa academic
calendar shift.
Pakiramdam ko malas lang talaga ako noong mga nagdaang
linggo mula sa tatlong magkakasunod na exam nung Biyernes
hanggang sa pag-alis sa bahay at hanggang sa biyahe.
Akala ko pinakamahabang biyahe ko na ang mula sa
Commonwealth hanggang sa airport, pero totoong struggle
continues nang ma-delay ang flight ko ng tatlong oras. Mabuti
na lang cute si kuyang nagpapaliwanag dahil kung hindi
baka namura ko na siya, tulad ng ginawa ng kasabay kong
matandang babae sa isang ateng flight attendant na kung ano
ang kinapal ng make-up niya ay siya ring kapal ng pagsagot sa
matandang galit na galit.
Hindi ko gets, ate. May shooting ba sa loob ng eroplano
para ma-justify ang makapal mong make-up? Maganda ka
naman even without that capitalist beauty products. Pero
siyempre sa isip ko na lang yun. Kanya-kanyang trip ika nga.
Parang ako, wala naman akong dadalawin na patay pero
umuwi ako. Hindi sa walang patay o namatay at tipong mula
ako sa angkan ng mga immortal, ang totoo sa ibang bansa na
inabutan ng katandaan ang mga kamag-anak ko. Hindi na sila
nag-abala pang bumalik sa Pilipinas dahil karamihan sa kanila
ay naniniwalang hindi na raw ligtas manirahan sa bansa.
Iilan na nga lang kaming nandito na naniniwalang may
kinabukasan pa, kailangan lang may mag-push. Pero ipokrita
akong matatawag kung hindi ko aaminin na unti-unti na rin
akong nalalabuan sa pinanghahawakan kong paniniwala. Lalo
na sa nangyari kay Jennifer Laude at sa kawawang boyfriend
niya na na-deportnawalan na nga ng minamahal, sapilitan
pang pinalayas sa bansa. Bat ang saklap? Nasan ang hustisya?
Sa dami ng iniisip ko araw-araw lagi akong natatapos sa
problema ng lipunan. Tama na muna siguro. Magpapahinga
muna ako at ipagdarasal ang mga yumao. Sana paggising ko,
Pasko na.
*pasintabi kay Yeng Constantino

OPINYON

Biyernes 7 Nobyembre 2014

EKSENANG
PEYUPS

Hooligan Edishun
ALOHA MGA BEKS, NAGBABALIK
ang inyong pinakamamahal na
reigning Queen of All Subtweets of
the beautiful and fabulous Kingdom
of Bekilandia and Puquilandia. Its
been a long time since nakapagdala
ng real chizmax ang Your Hardness
especially since wala naman talagang
ganap sa nakaraang weeks. At dahil
mahal kayo ng lola niyo, babawi ako
ng bonggellz. So cum on and gow
hear my kwento na.

Hooligan #1:
Kalurki
muracummy
this
basic bitch from the School of
Kikaynomics that is over the bakod
with her ad hominem arguments
on Fezbuk against the rowdy, noisy
kalampageros and kalampageras.
This gurl might think shes very mahooliganditz with her respect the
guest hanash but my ravens tell
me na punong puno pala ng yellow
ribbons ang kaniyang closeta. Teh,
your paandars are as fake as your
Chanel bag. Dont be entitled dahil
isa ka lang hooligalunggong. Kaloka.

Hooligan #2:
Sinetch itey this homooligan from
the College of Mass Cummunication
na nasa loob pala ang tinatagong
kulo. Medj cutie kasi siya, mga ka
marxie, kaya naman gulat ang yours
truly nang makita ang kaniyang
fezlak sa group videochat sa omegle.
At mas naloka ang watashi when
two hipons appeared behind his
back. Kaloka, lasing ata si bakla and
not aware sa mga pinaggagawa niya.
Hindi talaga inexpect ng lola itey
dahil ang lakas maka John 3:16 at
Philippians 4:12 ni koya on Fezbuk.
Juice coloured, Students of Destiny
in the streets, Johnny Rapid in the
sheets! Beks, you put the hooligan in
hooligangbang. Ikaw na!

Hooligan #3:
Stress naman ang yours truly upon
learning that this atey from CHE
aka College of Hooligan Economics
ditched her thesis groupmates para
daw jumattend sa bonggang science
fair at MOA. Reference material
hunting daw si ategurl pero naloka
ang lola niyo nang na-sight ko si
malandita sa isang fashown show na
ibang material ang hina-hunt. FYI,
ateh, RRL ay Research for Related
Literature hindi Research for Related
Libog. Lerks!
Oh ayan na mga bakla, I hope na
satisfy ang inyong kepyas sa aking
mga kwento. Next week na ulit, mga
bekz. May the gods of Bekilandia and
Puquilandia bless you all this Pride
Week. Mwah vavush!

NEWSCAN

TEXTBACK

Sino para sa iyo ang

mga hooligans?
Ang hooligans ay yung mga taong
hindi kayang tumindig kung anu
ba talaga yung hinanaing ng masa.
Mahiya kayo, para kanino ba kayo
naglilingkod? SERVE THE PEOPLE
not the oppressor. Lubog lubog din
sa masa pag may time. 2014-89***
Pablo, music
Kumakampi sa katiwalian. 2013***** Gail Engg
The hooligans were of course
UP students who didnt learn basic
etiquette-the same UP students who
berated Abad. 2011**4*, engg, John
Respect

Kung ikaw si Princess Sarah,

kaninong patatas ang
babalatan mo at bakit?
Wala, wala na akong mababalatan.
Inubos na ni Sarah. Huhuhu 2013786** Pogs
Kung patatas ang mga pulitikong
corrupt, hindi lang ako ang
babalat sa kanila. For sure lahat.
#balatannanagbuhay
2013-5***2
Chiris BA Philo
2014-09427
MICA
ANNE
BOLEYN DAVID/BS ME SARILI
KONG
PATATAS.
PARANG
PAGMAMAHAL, KUNG HINDI
MO KAYANG BALATAN PATATAS
MO. PAANO MO MABABALATAN
ANG PATATAS NG IBA.
2009xx5x1
procurement
bsxengg Kung ako si princess sarah,
babalattan ko ang patatas na uubos
sa lahat ng bakla.
2014-24XXX Feliciano BS ECEbalatan natin ang patatas ni Pnoy.
Ang kapal na ata ng balat e. Napipitpi
na ang bungo at utak.

15

MGA KOMENTO
As for the tackling of the
storyline of Rurouni Kenshin. I
would like to say that the article
may have had underrated the role
of Sadojima Houji. Nicknamed as
Hundredfold Knowledged in the
anime, Houji may have been the only
prominent intellectual in the Shishio
arc. As you cant expect Himura to
form a suitable ideology to carry the
collective he is protecting, provided
he was only 16 at the time of the
Meiji Restoration and had a rural
upbringing. You might not also
expect Shishio, who may have had
the same background as Himura, to
actually dream of conquering Japan
without the input and skills of Houji,
who seemingly is the brain of the
planned campaign. As it would be
in the final episode of the Shishi
arc, Shishio has to wait for Houji
to arrive in Hell before actually
initiating it. His only pitfall, perhaps,
is to be trapped by Shishios natural
law mantra. 2012-21271 Al Raposas
BA Hist

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Rainbow ng Southborder, Torete ng
Moonstar88, at Halik ng Aegis?
Sali na sa Awitin Mo, Itutuloy
Ko, isang singing bee contest na
susukat sa galing at kaalaman mo
sa Original Pilipino Music o OPM.
Bumuo lamang ng isang (1) grupo na
may tatlong (3) miyembro at maari
kayong manalo ng Php 3000, Php
1500, o Php 750!
Upang sumali, magregister lamang
sa: http://goo.gl/forms/ZL4Yq7Avci
at magbayad ng registration fee na
Php 90 bawat grupo para sa mga
early bird (Oct. 27-Nov.1) at Php 120
naman bawat grupo para sa mga
regular (Nov. 2-Nov. 9).
Exciting diba? Huwag palagpasin
ang pagkakataong magpakitang gilas
at manalo. Ano pang hinihintay niyo,
sali na!
Ang Awitin Mo, Itutuloy Ko
ay hatid sa inyo ng UP BuklodIsip kasama ang Buklod CSSP,
UP Kalipunan para sa Agham
Panlipunan at Pilosopiyang Pilipino
(UP KAPPP), UP Lipunang
Pangkasaysayan (UP LIKAS), at UP
Palaweos.
Get ready for a one-of-a-kind
high school convention about
Economics and social issues
coming your way.
ECON LEADERSHIP SUMMIT
NOVEMBER 8 and 22, 2014
Brought to you by UP Economics
Towards Consciousness.

Mga Panuntunan sa Kumpetisyon

ng Karolfest 2014
Handog ng Opisina ng Bise Tsanselor
para sa Gawaing Pangmag-aaral
(OVCSA) sa pakikipagtulungan
sa Sangguniang Mag-aaral ng
Unibersidad (USC) ang Karolfest,
isang taunang paligsahan ng mga
amatyur na koro na may hiwalay na
kompetisyon para sa hanay ng mga
estudyante at mga empleyado. Tampok
ang Karolfest bilang isa sa natatanging
handog ng Pamaskong Programa
ng UP Diliman na may temang
Pasundayag Diliman: Pag-uugat at
Pagyabong ngayong taon.
You may view the mechanics here:
https://www.scribd.com/
doc/245104256/KarolFest-2014

ERRATUM
The Philippine Collegian
inadvertently printed a draft
version of the editorial "Tatak
ng Pagbalikwas" in the fourth
issue of the publication dated
October 9, 2014. The editorial
board wishes to rectify the
erroneous attribution to UP
President Alfredo Pascual of the
ill-tagging of UP Diliman students
who
protested
Department
of Budget and Management
Secretary and Disbursement
Acceleration Program architect
Butch Abad. President Pascual in
his official statement did not tout
the protesters as hooligans and
enemies of the university.
We wish to reiterate that
distortion of facts and malice are
not in the vocabulary and praxis of
the Philippine Collegian.

Dibuho ni Rosette Abogado