Memo # 08

To: All Councilors, UPVCC-SC
From: The Chairperson
Re: 5th General Assembly

Warm Greetings!

We will be holding our fifth General Assembly this Monday, June 19, 2006, 9:00 PM at the SC office.

The order of business is as follows:
1. Approval of Agenda
2. Approval of the Minutes from the Previous Meeting
3. Business Arising from the Previous Meeting
4. Communications

a. People’s MARCH Forum
b. Kapamilya Media Forum
c. People’s GAIN Forum

5. Announcements

a. College Executive Committee Meetings
b. JDV Cha-cha Luncheon Meeting
c. Cebuano Writing Workshop

6. Committee Reports

a. Committee members, schedules, & initial plans
b. Pulse Committee on 4-day school day & Boarding House survey
c. Secretariat on SC member’s class schedules & procurement of supplies

7. College Committees Assignment
8. General Review of the GPOA/SPOA & the Calendar of Activities
9. UPVCC Plagiarism Case & Alleged Gag Order
10. BIG WAVE School Tour
11. Updates

a. Freshies Night - Sagabay
b. Organization Fair – UP Tao
c. COOK Out

12. Other Matters

In the service of the students and the people,

Karlo Mikhail Mongaya
Chairperson

Laying the basis for attacks

The Freeman Publication Date: [June 13, 2006]
Sun.Star Daily Publication Date: [June 16, 2006]

Local military spokesmen have been whipping up recently the old “red-scare” antics.

Groups such as the League of Filipino Students, AnakBayan, College Editors Guild of the Philippines, National Union of Students of the Philippines and the Student Christian Movement have been tagged as collaborators in recruiting minors for the Marxist-led armed struggle.

We in the University of the Philippines are alarmed with these developments. We have seen how the Arroyo government launched a massive and comprehensive plot to annihilate legal people’s organizations in the country.

The labeling of activist organizations as communist fronts is meant to terrorize the people and condition their minds to more repressive measures in the future.

Physical extermination has become the natural progression after activist leaders and members have been accused as communists.

Is Cebu the next target?

We hope not. Activist killings in Cebu will only worsen our already dismal human rights record. ■

Tuition Moratorium in State Universities & Colleges?

The Freeman Publication Date: [June 12, 2006]
Cebu Daily News Publication Date: [June 15, 2006]

Contrary to the present regime’s claim of a tuition moratorium in the state universities and colleges, the iskolars ng bayan lament the increase of tuition in the UP Manila College of Medicine and the UP Extension Program in Pampanga.

From 11,529 pesos per semester, the UP Manila College of Medicine now charges a tuition of more than 20,045 pesos per semester. Likewise, the UP Pampanga Management Program’s tuition increased from P500 per unit to P1, 500 per unit.

The gigantic slashes in the education budget in the past few years have not only led to deteriorating facilities and services in state universities and colleges. More so, the government’s abandonment of its responsibility to fully subsidize education has led to the imposition and increase of tuition and other fees.

Such impositions only put more weight to the already heavy economic hardships faced by the Filipino people today.

Hence, fewer students are opting to continue with their studies. Those who find private schools too expensive now realize the same conditions existing in the state universities and colleges.

If the Arroyo regime continues with such anti-student schemes, then it will be only a matter of time before it is ousted from power. Education, after all, must remain a right and never a privilege for an economically advantaged few.

By Karlo Mikhail Mongaya
Chairperson, Student Council
UP Visayas – Cebu College

Memo # 07

To: All Councilors, UPVCC-SC
From: The Chairperson
Re: 4th General Assembly

Warm Greetings!

We will be holding our fourth General Assembly this June 12, 2006, 1:00 PM at the SC office. The meeting, which is also timed with the annual Independence Day celebration, will be our first for the new academic year.

The order of business for the meeting is as follows:

1. Approval of Agenda
2. Approval of the Minutes from the Previous Meeting
3. Business Arising from the Previous Meeting
4. Communications
5. Announcements
6. Chairperson’s Report
7. Formal Approval of General Program of Action
8. Updates re: UPVCC Presidential Advisory Council
9. Updates re: Charter-Change
10. First Year Orientation
11. Organization Fair
12. Freshies Night Proposal from SAGABAY
13. Cookout 2006
14. Other Matters

In the service of the students and the people,

Karlo Mikhail Mongaya
Chairperson