USC GENERAL ASSEMBLY 03

July 5, 2010

Time Started: 7:37PM

Time Ended: 11:46PM

Name Position Time-in Time- Attendance

Out Status1
Sindayen, Rainier Astin Chairperson 7:30 11:52 Present
Agudo, Fermina Vice-Chairperson 7:00 12:00 Present
Borja, Kristine C. Councilor 7:15 11:50 Present
David, Marck Bryan A. Councilor 4:30 11:47 Present
Dela Resma, Marvee B. Councilor 6:30 11:46 Present
Duran, Jeanine Jerusha C. Councilor 7:00 12:00 Present
Elago, Sarah Jane I. Councilor 5:00 11:46 Present
Estrella, Richard R. Councilor 7:00 11:46 Present
Councilor - - Excused
Garcia, Jemimah Grace N. Absence
Ibaviosa, Raphael Dominic U. Councilor 5:00 11:50 Present
10:23 Left Early

5:00
Kalingking, Kriska Kamille V. Councilor
Mariazeta, Jesica Councilor 7:30 11:50 Present
Ramos, Dan Neil Q. Councilor 7:30 11:46 Present
5:00 11:46 Present

Salinas, Simoun Antonio M. Councilor

Asian Institute of 6:30 10:33 Present
Juan Carlo B. Danganan Tourism
Representative
College of 3:30 9:18 Left Early
Alexander Dominic Mayoralgo Architecture
Representative
Maria Kriselda J. Sebastian College of Arts and 3:00 9:52 Left Early
Letters Representative
College of Business 7:00 9:55 Left Early
Englebert G. Chua Administration
Representative
College of Education 6:00 11:46 Present
Montana Amir C. Dominguez Representative
Cyrus Dickson A. Cruz College of 7:31 10:31 Present

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ATTENDANCE STATUS:
Late, as defined by the USC House Rules 2010-2011, is arriving 15 minutes after the Time Start of the GA (7:52PM)
Left Early (leaving anytime before the official Time End of the GA) is considered “Late”, as defined by the USC House Rules 2010-2011
Excused Tardiness/Absences are tardiness or absences within the purview of allowed or justifiable reasons as qualified in the House Rules - given
that these reasons were forwarded beforehand to the Secretary General and the Chairperson and its validity checked. Tardiness accrued due to
leaving early may be considered an excused tardiness if the member left before adjournment but after the set schedule for the session to end. (i.e.
for this GA, leaving before 10:30PM is considered an unexcused late)

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 Engineering
Representative
College of 7:15 11:47 Present
Engineering
Michael Bryan M. Bien Representative
College of Fine Arts - - -
- Representative
College of Home 6:30 11:47 Present
Karmela Victoria M. Abesamis Economics
Home Economics Representative
College of Human 7:20 11:46 Present
Angelo Jose C. Flores Kinetics
Human Kinetics Representative
Ma. Florence Therese DG College of Law 6:15 11:46 Present
Martirez Representative

College of Mass 7:00 11:50 Present

Nigel Patrick M. Coronel Communication
Representative
Nicole Roxanne C. Aldiosa College of Music 6:15 10:40 Present
Representative
Jacqueline E. Canlas College of Science 4:50 11:50 Present
Representative
College of Social 7:20 11:46 Present
Sciences and
Juan Carlo P. Tejano Philosophy
Representative
College of Social 2:00 11:46 Present
Work and
Marie Gold M. Villar Development
Representative
National College of 7:20 9:37 Left Early
Desiree M. Ico Public Administration
Representative
School of Economics 7:00 11:50 Present
Carlo Miguel Romeo Sison Go Representative
School of Library and - - Absent
John Ronald R. Almoña Information Science
Representative
Heverly Bermina R. Bravo School of Statistics 7:15 9:44 Left Early
Representative
Graduate School - - -
- Representative

Meeting Proper:

The meeting started with the Chairperson calling the body into order. This is considered the third official General
Assembly of the University Student Council.

AGENDA 01: Educational Discussion

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 Invited Speaker Ms. Eleanor “Lengua” de Guzman from Bayan provided the USC with a National Situationer to
further educate the Council and contextualize the USC nationally and continuously forward the concerns of the
educational sector and foster an atmosphere of vigilance in the national government, thus making the projects of the
USC relevant to this goal. The powerpoint presentation of the discussion is uploaded in the USC yahoo groups.

AGENDA 02: Pending Matters

Approval of the Minutes of the last GA: Councilor Borja encouraged everyone to read and comment on the
edited version of the minutes for approval of the body before release and posting to different colleges and publications.

Chairperson Sindayen also gave a run down of the dates that the USC needs to note:

1) July 8: Rise UP for Education Alliance Meeting: An alliance convened by the Students’ Rights and Welfare
Committee as part of its goal to forward Sectoral Campaigns.
2) July 9: NUSP Meeting: As a member of the NUSP, the USC will host the said meeting and it will be held in the
USC office. College Representatives were encouraged to invite their Local College Councils to learn more about
NUSP. The invitation was also forwarded to the Vice-Chairperson for announcement in the next LCC GA, July 15,
2010.
3) July 14: Education Summit for the Education Sector, headed by NUSP at the College of the Holy Spirit, 12NN.
New CHED Chair Dr. Patricia Nicuanan is one of the speakers.
4) July 14: Special Board of Regents Meeting on the Proposed PE Fee since during the last BOR meeting, the
proposed PE Fee was already approved in principle.
5) July 19: University Council Meeting: Approval of the Student Code of Conduct Draft.
6) July 22: STRAW Diliman Student Summit
7) July 26: State of the Nation Address

AGENDA 03: Law Incident Report

Reported by: College of Law Representative Chingkay Martirez

College Representative Martirez reported on the fraternity war that is happening between Upsilon and Sigma Rho.
Based on their investigation and meeting with the two fraternities, the incidents leading to the fraternity war are as
follows:

Thursday and Friday: The two warring fraternities fight was triggered by a parking space conflict.

Weekend: Over the weekend, a member of Sigma Rho Fraternity from the College of Music was attacked by a
group of men, was threatened to be ran over with a car, and was badly injured with three stitches and a broken arm.
Vice-Chancellor for Student Affairs, Ma’am Enriquez, was informed of what happened during the same weekend, and
immediately forwarded the case to the Dean of the College of Law: Dean Marvic Leonen.

Monday: Dean Leonen called the two fraternities for a meeting warning them that if another fraternity-related
violence occurs, that they will be banned from the College of Law as a form of preventive suspension.

Tuesday: Sigma Rho complained to the Dean that Upsilon cars are roaming their houses. On the same day,
Upsilon complained, as well, that Sigma Rho are collecting their addresses. As such, Dean Leonen formed a verification
committee from the members of the Law Student Government to study the case.

Thursday: Sigma Rho members’ cars parked near Sampaguita Dormitory and the Institute of Biology were
broken. The news of the attack reached Dean Leonen late as such no immediate action was taken regarding this.

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 Friday: During a conference discussion of selected Law students with supervising lawyers as part of their part-
time training at the Office of Legal Assistance, an Upsilon member who was in that discussion was attacked by four
masked man with a lead pipe badly injuring him in the process plus causing havoc and panic at Shakey’s Katipunan
(meeting place) for the other diners as well. Dean Leonen heard of the news on the same night afterwhich he released a
statement banning the two fraternities in the College of Law for such violent acts. The National College of Public
Administration and Governance followed hereafter.

Monday: Dean Leonen once again called the heads of the two fraternities for a meeting. The purpose of the
meeting is not to come up with the truce, but to impose four conditions on the fraternities:

1) Joint Statement with Alumni2: The fraternities were required to create a draft statement with regard to the
fraternity-related violence that occurred. The alumni were involved to guarantee a check within the
brotherhood and to guarantee a concrete action from them.
2) Compensation for damages: Damages to personal property of the OLA team who were attacked. This clause
does not prohibit the victims of the attack to waive criminal action against the hitters.
3) Joint Apology from the two fraternities to be posted over all campus.
4) Dean Leonen also made the two fraternities commit to cooperation such that there will be no prejudiced activity
in the college when both the fraternities are helping out. (E.g. since the Dean’s Cup is headed by an Upsilon
member, the joint effort of the two Fraternities to make the event a success should not be diminished because
of the events that transpired).

Vice Chairperson Agudo suggested that Community Service be included in the conditions. College Representative
Martirez noted this and informed her that she will forward it to the Dean. Vice-Chairperson Agudo also inquired on how
the USC can help the verification committee to which College Representative Martirez said that the USC can help by
forwarding complaints and joining the watchdogs. College Representative Martirez also mentioned that should the USC
want to come up with a concrete project, the LSG is open to it. Vice Chairperson Agudo suggested that it would be
better if this incident be forwarded to the Fraternity War Council.

Besides this Vice-Chairperson Agudo raised the Incident Report Text Message that circulated around UP the previous
week. The text brigade was forwarded to the USC via Councilor Kalingking with a request to forward to other contacts of
the USC. Vice-Chairperson Agudo manifested that the USC should not have forwarded that brig because we should have
chosen to remain impartial. She noted that it is incumbent upon the USC to weight the objective condition before we
make a stand and forward it as a USC. She also reprimanded Councilor Kalingking’s rash action as COFS Co-Head and
hoped that this circumstance would be a learning experience, not only for Councilor Kalingking but for everyone as well.

Councilor Kalingking, in response, said that the message came from a member of the Heroes Core and that the
organization specifically requested the forwarding of the message from the USC. Councilor Kalingking further noted that
the message was not in any partial to any of the fraternities since the message was a general call to stop barbaric
actions. She also noted that she was merely forwarding the message as requested by the organization but that she was
not forwarding it as a USC stand. The message is being deemed partial because the only incident report that it contains
is that of the case of the Upsilon member attacked in Shakey’s, Katipunan. According to her, she saw the same news on
TV and did not know of any other casualties of the fraternity war. Furthermore, she said that, if other USC members
were already aware of the ongoing situation of the fraternity war, it should have been incumbent upon those members
to forward it to the USC so as to keep everyone informed and rightly involved. For instance, she noted, the first
fraternity attack on Sigma Rho happened a few days back even before the Upsilon Member was attacked but the USC,
she said, seemed to have been very slow on its reaction or lack therof.

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Attached herewith is the Joint Statement of the two fraternities.
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Vice- Chairperson Agudo still pushed that Councilor Kalingking should not have requested the college representatives to
forward a text brigade of any particular organization in the first place. She closed by saying that this should just be a
learning experience for everyone.

College Representative Martirez also said that with regard to the release of an incident report from the College of Law,
albeit the fact that the LSG has been informed already, was delayed Dean Leonen because he wanted to contain the
situation.

Chairperson Sindayen pushed that the USC should always be objective in its actions to which Councilor Kalingking
replied that she refuses to accept that what she did was something done subjectively since, as she has mentioned, the
call was a general call against fraternity violence not against any particular fraternity further adding that when the
Executive Chamber requested her to stop forwarding the brig, she stopped. Basically, she clarified that it was not a
subjective act on her part.

At this point, Chairperson Sindayen cut the discussion and inquired on the statement drafted by Councilor Elago with
regard to fraternity violence.

Councilor Elago updated on the statement: She suggested that the Student Code might be added to the statement using
it in the context that this kind of events only gives more reason for the administration to push for the code.
Chairperson Sindayen pushed this further. But Councilor David objected saying that it was overstretching the statement
already. Councilor Salinas agreed with Councilor David and encouraged the body to treat these two situations as
separate issues.

Vice-Chairperson Agudo still pushed that it should be linked to the Student Code, while College Representative Martirez
said that, should the code be included in the stand, the context should be a lesson learned for everyone to not abuse the
freedom to associate to prevent incurring punishments as provided by the Student Code.

At this point, Councilor David inquired on the drafting process of the statement. Firstly, he asked if the statement was
COFS initiated because according to him, if the statement was COFS initiated then Councilor Kalingking- a co-head of the
committee- should have been informed and involved with regard to the drafting of a statement.

Councilor Elago clarified that it was not COFS initiated, rather, it was her personal initiative that led to the drafting of the
statement. Councilor David responded that, as per house rules, the EDRES Committee should have been informed of the
drafting of the statement.

Councilor Borja responded that only the non-urgent statements were forwarded to the Education and Research
Committee and since the Fraternity Statement was an urgent statement (as deemed by the proponent), the Education
and Research Committee need not be informed. It was resolved that proper implementation of the house rules should
be done that is anyone wishing to draft a statement should inform the Education and Research Committee and the
Executive Chamber and ultimately the body for ethical purposes, regardless of urgency.

Vice-Chairperson Agudo also requested to be informed of any external meeting that the committee heads will join so as
the Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson can participate if possible.

AGENDA 04: CRAW INCIDENT REPORT

Community Rights and Welfare Committee Head Villar reported an incident concerning the farmers currently rallying in
Mendiola. According to College Representative Villar, during the inauguration of President Aquino, farmers stationed
themselves in Mendiola with a plan to stay there during PNoy’s first 100 days in office so as to be able to keep the
President in check. During their fourth day, police officers disbursed the farmers since they were “causing traffic.” Nine
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farmers were brought to the Manila Police District causing another mobilization in front of the MPD calling for the
release of the nine farmers. Besides this, students who joined the mobilization- one from NNARA Youth, one from
Sinagbayan among others- were badly injured due to the riot that commenced. College Representative Villar moved that
a statement regarding this be released so as to further forward the rights and welfare of different sectors in the
community. Currently, the farmers are in Karitas till July 7 where they were allowed to stay. The statement that College
Representative Villar was proposing is a call for true reform- a call to the administration to give justice to the farmers
and a call to support the farmers via giving donations or whatsoever while they rally during PNoy’s first 100 days. The
People Struggles Committee and CRAW will draft the statement.

College Representative Mayoralgo left at this point

AGENDA 05: Vice-Chairperson’s Report:

League of College Councils Update:
With regard to the first 100 days campaign of the LCC, continuous consolidation of colleges’ agenda is being done along
with a draft of organizations’ agenda and community agenda plus education agenda. Another countdown will be done
similar to the GMA Must Go Countdown.

For this week, the LCC will be hosting a dialogue with Vice Chancellor Enriquez with regard to the draft code of student
conduct for 2010 since the USC was informed late of another draft of the student code being passed.

For the Endangered Education forum of the USC (tie-up with the office of the Student Regent and the LCC), invites are
out, the forum is just finalizing its list of speakers. According to Vice-Chairperson Agudo, the invited speakers were Prof.
Nemenzo, Prof. Magpantay, Prof. De Dios, Prof. Abella, and Prof. Paderanga from Economics since the focus of the
forum is to relate the state of education with the country’s economic state. So far, only Professor Sarah Raymundo
confirmed. Other speakers include a speaker from NUSP and CHED Region 3 Representative. The event will be at CM
Recto, 1-4PM. It is considered an ACLE Required event.

Other projects of the LCC include an exhibit showcasing the transition from PGMA to PNoy. The production for it will be
on Saturday and the exhibit will stand from July 12-17.

Myx: College Pasiklaban, please confirm already- Ito pa lang nagcoconfirm: EDUC, CHE, Music, CSSP, CAL, CMC

AGENDA 06: COMMITTEE REPORTS:

FINANCE COMMITTEE by Councilor Richard Estrella
Councilor Estrella reported that the Trust Fund Account of the USC contains: 122,282Php exluding first semester
collection from the Student Fund who’s total amount is not yet final since there are still late registrants. He also
reported that the USC Bank Account from last year contains 28,000Php. The transfer will be finalized within the week.

The current expenses of the USC: 21,372Php. Current Income from Merchandise Sale: 6,500Php.

Other matters from Finance include: CCA Budget Deliberations scheduled this week and the collection of Financial
Statements and Receipts from the Mass Media Committee, League of College Councils, vice-chairperson, and the
Peoples’ Struggles Committee. He noted that these committees will not receive funding until they submit the financial
statements of their past events. He also reported on the contingency fund of the USC which is 15 of the final budget. He
noted that since there is no final budget since CCA still has to undergo its budgeting for release should any committee
request for it.
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 WAYS AND MEANS by Councilor Nico Ibaviosa
Currently 452 shirts have already been sold and only 148 shirts are left. 18,000Php was already handed over to the
Finance Committee excluding the capital expenses for the shirt amounting to 47,650Php. 700 Shirts are currently being
printed including a new design- “Maroons: Fighting since 1908” which will be made available before this month ends in
line with the UAAP season. More Small and Extra Small sizes were printed basing it on the proportion of the sizes sold
during the first run. The Ways and Means Committee is also proposing an increase in the prices of the shirt given that,
during their last meeting with the supplier, an increase in the amount of printing will be applied. After much
deliberation, the body decided on a 10Php increase thus changing the price of shirts from 180Php to 190Php effective
immediately.

College Representative Sebastian and College Representative Chua left at this point 9:53PM

With regard to E-Divi that the Ways and Means is planning, he reported that the Committee is currently producing the
design template for the website. With the help of unplug, the website will be made during the period of July 19 to
August 16. The Soft Launch will be from August 16-31 and the Super Launch will be on September 1. The W&M
Committee requested 500Php to buy the website before August. The committee is also requesting for suggestions from
the body with regard to the name of the website.

Councilor dela Resma stepped out at this point: 10:06PM

Other project of the Ways and Means include an online raffle in coordination with Cellular Phone Companies, further
details to follow in the next GA’s.

Update from Fox: instead of having a campus tour, Fox TV will be having a mall tour instead thus making it logistically
harder for the USC to gather 1000 students to participate. Councilor Ibaviosa still encouraged everyone to publicize the
event.

College Representative Villar stepped out at this point: 10:09PM

Marketing Update: The Ways and Means Committee is still drafting the marketing letter in close coordination with the
Finance Committee. Before sending the proposals out, the body will first be informed of the companies that will be
tapped for marketing.

Councilor dela Resma and College Representative Villar returned at this point: 10:11PM

SECRETARIAT COMMITTEE by Councilor Kristine Borja

Councilor Borja reported on the upcoming calendar of the committee:
July 12: Secretariat Committee Bulletin Production Work
July 9: Target Release of Books for Lending to Students

Other projects of the Secretariat Committee include the USC Handbook- containing the USC Directory, Local College
Councils directory, and the Administration/Offices Directory, Internal Mechanisms, House Rules, and Constitution of the
USC, and a listing of equipments and venues in different colleges- and the USC ID, all targeted to be released by July 30
or first week of August at the latest.

Volunteer Corps: Few people attended the Volunteer Corps Orientation last week so individual/cluster orientations will
be held this week, everyday at the USC office, from 1-4PM. A handout will be made available so as to give everyone an
equal opportunity to orient should there be no Secretariat Committee member present.

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Councilor Borja also presented the initial draft of office hours which will be implemented starting this month.

PEOPLES STRUGGLES by Councilor Jeanine Jerusha Duran

Upcoming Events of the Peoples’ Struggles Committee:
July 2nd week: Pre-Sona Events
Pre-SONA Events include a dormitory tour discussing the state of social services, health, nutrition, and
education in the country tie-up with Pan Alpha and Alay Sining.
July 26: State of the Nation Address Mobilization
Details of the Mobilization to be sent via text.
July 30: Post SONA event:
The Peoples’ Strugges, Mass Media, and Education and Research Committee will be releasing a
statement assessing the SONA of the President. Anyone interested to participate can text any of the
committee heads.

The SONA Events were made required events for the USC members to attend thus each USC member is required to
attend one pre-SONA/post-SONA event plus the SONA Mobilization on July 26.

STUDENTS’ RIGHTS AND WELFARE by Councilor Dan Ramos

Councilor Ramos began his report with an Education Situationer using one of Professor Sarah Raymundo’s article. The
main point of the discussion is that, in reviewing the education policies of the past administration, it is apparent that
state subsidy is really being removed in the education sector. Thus, given this context, the following projects are
forwarded by the STRAW Committee:

College Representative Danganan left at this point: 10:33PM

July 7: Endangered Education, CM Recto, 1-5PM, Required ACLE Event: A forum regarding education sector and
policies relating to it.
July 16: Protest Action with the Youth Sector on the Education Crisis happening in the country wherein the
STRAW Committee will release a statement of solidarity with the youth sector.

Other Updates from STRAW include:

July 14 STRAW Mobilization during the Board of Regents Meeting against the PE Fee increase in line with the
SPOFIH Survey.
July 19 University Council Meeting, Approval of the 2010 Student Code of Conduct Draft: Councilor Ramos
requested the college representatives to forward the names and email-addresses of professors who will be attending
the University Council meeting so as to be able to email to them a consolidated call of students with regard to the draft
code.

July 22 Diliman Student Summit: UP Surge: Building Unities, Advancing the Struggles, 1-4PM at the College of
Education Theater. A letter was given to Chancellor Cao requesting for classes to be suspended so as to maximize the
participation of the studentry.

With regard to the STRAW Statement: “Marching Forward”- Councilor Ramos updated that hard copies will be released
this week since it has already been uploaded for approval of the body.

At this point, College Representative Canlas asked on why online posts of the statements were already circulating
facebook even when there was no formal approval of the body. Councilor Borja answered that a text message was sent

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to the members of the USC to check on the statement ASAP because the proponent deemed the statement to be urgent
thus, as per house Rules, urgent statement only has 24 hours approving time before release. 3

Given this, the statement was resolved to be an official statement of the USC.

College Representative Aldiosa left at this point: 10:39PM

Before proceeding with the listed agenda, Councilor Borja raised a concern regarding people leaving early- early
defined as people leaving before adjournment. Councilor Estrella responded the General Assemblies are taking too long
and finishing too late and it would be wise for the USC to set a time cap with regard to the GA End Time allowing limited
extension so as to prevent from finishing at unlikely hours. College Representative Martirez that, albeit the fact that USC
needs to finish its agenda, the time of the GA is unconventional already with the attention span of the people
diminishing more and more thus lessening the efficiency of the GA.

Vice-Chairperson Agudo manifested that comparing it to the past USC, 10:40PM is still an early time for a GA to
finish besides the fact that this is the job description of the USC. Councilor Estrella agreed to this, however he proposed
ways on how to make the GA more efficient thus suggesting that the discussion time of each agenda should be limited
only so as to prevent the overstretching of one agenda causing too much time to be taken. An issue sheet was also
proposed and a hard copy of the committee’s report so as to make the GA more efficient.

College Representative Go, noted, upon checking the House Rules, that: Any member who leaves before
adjournment but leaves after the time cap (ie 10:30PM) is considered excused already. Albeit the fact that her record
would still reflect a “left early”, she/he will not be considered late thus no sanctions will be imposed.

The body resolved on following Councilor Estrella’s suggestion to use the time efficiently via a timed-agenda and
the provision of issue sheets and committee report handouts.

BASIC STUDENT SERVICES: Councilor Mariazetta

The Academic Core, an alliance convened by the BSS, will be having its first GA this July 7, 6PM. All academic
organizations are invited to join.

COMMUNITY RIGHTS AND WELFARE COMMITTEE: College Representative Villar:

Upcoming event: July 9: Multisectoral alliance meeting at the ALL UP Workers Union Office.

GENDER COMMITTEE: College Representative Dominguez

GAGA Galore Invites are already available, College Representative Dominguez encouraged everyone to start
posting. Besides this the last installment of the Gender Sensitivity Training sessions will be held at the Diliman Gender
Office, 1-2:30PM.
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The urgency or non-urgency of the statement is determined by the proponent of the statement. Urgent statements are statements that are
uploaded in the yahoo groups with a 24-hour time cap for the body to read and comment and approve in response to an urgent issue, whereas a
non-urgent statement goes through a different process that requires the proponent to pass through Education and Research and Mass Media
Committee, and ultimately, the body for approval. Non-urgent statements are usually presented during the General Assembly for approval.
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 COMMITTEE ON ORGANIZATIONS, FRATERNITIES, AND SORORITIES: Councilor Elago
The last installment of the Leadership Training Seminar was held this morning.

Other updates include a July 8 Inter-Sorority Council Planning and SANLAHI GA this Thursday. Besides this, the first wave
of publicity for the organization development training has been released. The organization development training
includes Marketing, Publicity, and Public Relations workshop for the organizations.

EDUCATION AND RESEARCH COMMITTEE: Councilor David

The ACLE 2010 Website is already up: acres.ph.tc. According to Councilor David, the site is currently only
available to firefox users, but by next week, the ACRES team promised that Google Chrome and Internet Explorer Users
will be able to access it as well. For those organizations who do not register at the university-level and are not part of the
bukluran website, meaning that they have no profile email, Councilor David requested everyone to inform these
organizations to email acres-support@unplug.com so that the ACRES team can give them a profile name and password.

The USC will be given accounts that will give them moderator-status in the acres site. The moderator status
gives any USC member the capacity to add announcements and add organizations who want to participate in the ACLE.

Other projects of the committee include a UP Situationer: The committee is currently gathering data from the
Office of the Student Regent, the Office of the University Registrar, the Secretary of the BOR, Philippine Collegian, OSSS,
OVCSA among others. The committee is expecting to receive the documents from these offices within the week.

STUDENTS LEGAL AID AND ACTION CENTER COMMITTEE: Councilor Salinas

Projects Update:
Bill of Rights Primer is currently being finished. It will initially be uploaded/posted in the USC-SLAAC facebook
page. Everyone was encouraged to like the page to receive updates from the Committee.

Grievance DESK (Dropbox, Email, Sulat, Katok): The launch of this is on or before July 9.

PLAN-Progressive, Legislative, Advocacy Network –a group of students that will lobby suggested policies in the
House of Representatives. Initial Launch on the 26th.

The Committee is also drafting an MMDA Rights Primer for the students.

FRESHMAN COMMITTEE: Councilor Dela Resma

The Freshman Committee will be selling shirts at the AS Walk this week from 8:30-4:00PM.

SPORTS, FITNESS, and HEALTH COMMITTEE: College Representative Flores

The results of the survey on the Laboratory Fee are done. The report will be forwarded to Dean Gonzalo within
the week. Those who are opposed to the laboratory fees showed in the survey thus the statement of the USC will be
based on these.

The CHK SC also invites the USC to this year’s Pep Rally, 6PM at the CHK. The Ways and Means Committee will
be setting up a booth there so everyone is really encouraged to attend.

Since it’s the UAAP Season already, the committee encouraged everyone to attend the UAAP events to support
the UP Varsity Team. A listing of events will posted in the office and the committee will try to get free tickets for the USC
members who want to attend the event.
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 College Representatives were reminded to consolidate teams already for the Diliman Games.

MASS MEDIA: as reported by Vice-Chairperson Agudo

Vice-Chairperson Agudo reported that the Oblation will be released tomorrow. The funds used for the printing of the
Oblation are garnered from the incurred debt of the printing press to the USC from last year. Each college representative
was requested to get and distribute their copy of Oblation to their colleges; Councilors at assigned dormitories.

AGENDA 07: COLLEGE REPRESENTATIVE REPORTS:

College of Science: CS Representative Jackie Canlas

Institute of Chemistry Updates: Chemistry Majors initiated an alliance aimed at helping raise funds for the Institute of
Chemistry. The alliance is called: PhoenICs: Out of the Ashes. There are five committees: Secretariat, Finance,
Procurement, Events, and Receivables Committee. So far, the alliance will be having a concert entitled: Rock, CHEM, Roll
at the Bahay ng Alumni this July 30. It’s a fund-raising concert for the Institute of Chemistry. The alliance is currently
headed by Missy muyot.

The following colleges committed to help with the fund raising: Engineering will host a run wherein the proceeds will go
to IC. The College of Mass Communication SC will do RTR regarding PhoenICs, the Freshmen Committee will donate the
proceeds of the Pasiklaban to PhoenICs and the LCC committed to help sell the tickets.

There is still no update from the administration with regard to the cause of the fire though the administration is
currently getting the UP Funds to help with the rehabilitation of IC.

College of Education: CE Representative Montie Dominguez

With regard to the UPIS Issue discussed last GA, the College of Education Student Council will be holding a dialogue with
the dean, and a forum discussing this issue. The stand of the dean with regard to this issue is still unclear.

College of Social Welfare and Community Development: CSWCD Representative Gold Villar
The following positions have yet to be filled in the CSWCD SC: Vice Chairperson Internals and Graduate Representative.
It is necessary that this position be filled immediately since the graduate’s tuition fee is pegged to increase by next
semester. The graduate students are opposed to this.

AGENDA 08: OTHER MATTERS

GRADUATE REPRESENTATIVE UPDATES:
With regard to the Graduate Representative issue, the basis of this will be the election code drafted during the
term of Chairperson Third Bagro. Former Vice-Chairperson Jacque Eroles, part of the drafting committee then, already
emailed the pertinent documents with regard to this. The procedure states that all graduate representatives need to be
convened before they can choose their graduate representative to the USC. It is incumbent upon the USC to convene
the graduate representatives and help the other graduate schools come up with their local council. Dr. Oscar Ferrer of
OSA will also be helping.

CNS Library:
CS Representative clarified if the Filipino Freethinkers were being offered the CNS Library as tambayan because they
were claiming that Chairperson Sindayen approached them during the organization fair and offered them the said venue
as a tambayan seeing as they were a new organization.

Chairperson Sindayen said that he did not offer CNS Library as a tambayan, rather he asked the Filipino Freethinkers
organization if they would be willing to help with the beautification of the CNS Library.

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The General Assembly was adjourned.
The next General Assembly is scheduled on July 19, 7:30PM.

Prepared by: Noted by:

Kristine C. Borja Rainier Astin Sindayen

Secretary General, USC Councilor USC Chairperson

*Approved by the General Assembly this ____ day of ________ 2010 during the ______ Official General Assembly of
the University Student Council 2010-2011*4

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Good for reproduction and distribution to the Philippine Collegian, other University Publications, Local College Councils, Dormitory Councils,
Organizations, Fraternities, Sororities, and any other body or institution or student that may so request for a copy. To be posted in all colleges,
dormitories, and USC bulletin boards and the USC online sites.
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