Tonyo Cruz
Students don’t live in a vacuum, wherever they may be enrolled. They are citizens too. They witness or experience what other citizens witness and experience daily – inadequate mass transport, high prices of goods, official incompetence, and other outcomes of injustice, corruption, and treason. In particular, working students, or any students from workingclass families, know poverty quite intimately. They don’t need to be brainwashed or influenced into being awakened.
What sets them apart from their parents is that they have the time and opportunity to analyze the problems they are mired in. The youth is also a sector that’s by nature curious, questioning, allergic to or unafraid of official authority, combative against inequality, and always desiring a better country and a better world.
The Department of Information and Communication Technology (DICT) installed Free WiFi for All access points in six state universities and colleges (SUCs) in Laguna.
January 27, 2021 THE National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Elcac) reported that two universities in Davao City are included in the list of schools the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People s Army-National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA NDF) has targeted for radicalization and recruitment of students to join in the communist group.
In a statement, NTF-Elcac Undersecretary Lorraine Marie Badoy said the Ateneo de Davao University (Addu) and the University of Southeastern Philippines (Usep) are among the 38 schools and universities in the country that are hotbeds for communist recruitment.
Badoy reiterated the recent pronouncement of Lieutenant General Antonio Parlade Jr.
Published January 27, 2021, 5:54 PM
“An assault on critical thinking and democracy” was how former vice president Jejomar “Jojo” Binay described the military’s red-tagging of several universities.
Lieutenant Gen. Antonio Parlade Jr., spokesman for the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), had earlier said that around 18 colleges and universities are recruitment grounds for communist groups.
Aside from the University of the Philippines (UP), Parlade named the Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU), De La Salle University (DLSU), University of Santo Tomas (UST), Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (PLM), Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP), Far Eastern University (FEU), University of Makati (UMak), among others.
By ERWIN COLCOL, GMA News
Published January 27, 2021 10:47am Two more measures have been filed at the House of Representatives to institutionalize the provisions of the 1989 pact between the University of the Philippines (UP) and the Department of National Defense (DND) to the university s Charter as well as for all other academic institutions. The House Makabayan bloc, led by Kabataan party-list Representative Sarah Elago, filed the two bills on Wednesday, around two weeks after the DND unilaterally terminated the three-decade-old UP-DND Accord. LOOK: Makabayan Bloc files two House bills institutionalizing the UP-DND Accord in the UP Charter, and in all academic institutions, private and public @gmanewspic.twitter.com/UKzmn8UQW5 Erwin Colcol (@erwincolcol) January 27, 2021