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VOTE STRAIGHT ALYANSA SA USC ON MARCH 1!
Iskolar para sa Bayan, TAYO ANG USC.
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Friday, February 17, 2012
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
ALYANSA Leadership Statement 2012: TAYO ANG USC
UP students actively shape our country’s history. To do this, we are brought together by the University Student Council. The USC is in the best position to unite our diversely talented student body and direct it towards the good of our nation. As the challenges we face change over time, so too does the USC evolve to represent the best our people has to offer.
To meet today's new challenges, the USC must evolve once more.
In the pursuit of relevant, quality, and accessible education, the USC must transcend partisanship to attain progressive change. While diverse and multi-perspective, the UP student body is brought together by a common desire to learn and serve. We need a USC that creates spaces for dialogue and collaboration. ALYANSA calls for a USC defined by diversity and united for progress, not crippled by blind loyalties and dogma but led with accountable leadership and principled politics.
To confront the threat against campus safety and security, we need a USC that will be firm in its resolve to fight all forms of violence - from petty crimes to fraternity-related incidents. We need a leadership that will go beyond condemnation and template solutions, and be open to consultation and innovative proposals. ALYANSA calls for a USC defined not by "brotherhood" but by community.
Faced with a diverse community in terms of background and belief, the USC must address the needs of each of these groups through relevant campaigns, activities, and services. Only direct consultation and engagement with our diverse student body can empower the USC to serve and represent us. ALYANSA calls for a USC defined not by petty division but by respect for diversity.
Ultimately, the USC must be an example of the good governance that our nation relentlessly pursues. To do this, we scholars must go beyond our shortcomings and tap into our infinite potential as a nation. This task is daunting, but as UP students, we owe it to the people that sacrifice for our education to take on this challenge.
The USC can be so much more because we are the USC.
TARA, SIMULAN ANG PAGBABAGO! ISKOLAR PARA SA BAYAN, TAYO ANG USC.
Sunday, December 25, 2011
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Bumabati ang UP ALYANSA ng isang Mapayapa at Makabuluhang Pasko!
Thursday, December 22, 2011
GASC 2011: On the Alleged Online Campaign to 'UNSEAT THE SR'
December 21, 2011, 12:20PM: ALYANSA Chairperson Tin Borja received text messages from council members in the General Assembly of Student Councils (GASC) clarifying if ALYANSA is indeed moving for the "Unseating of the Student Regent". This is due to the announcement made by the Student Regent in the GASC where ALYANSA is alleged to have started an online campaign to UNSEAT THE SR.
As of 12:40PM, ALYANSA Chairperson, in a phone conversation with the Student Regent clarified that the no such move is being done by the formation. The SR has announced the same to the body.
As the formation is directly implicated, we strongly condemn these false accusations against the formation that we are for the unseating of the Student Regent. We are disgusted that any group can sink this low to spread such lowly rumors against the formation.
ALYANSA believes in safeguarding our democratic right to representation in the University's policy-making bodies and other avenues. Hand in hand with this is securing transparency and accountability in all levels of student government in pursuit of student empowerment. With this, we remain steadfast in our commitment to work towards strengthening student institutions through principled methods of engagement and never through counterproductive means.
We call upon all the students to remain vigilant and critical with the flood of false rumors being propagated. Albeit divides and differences in debates, ALYANSA will continue to engage the institution that is the OSR through legal, constitutional, and substantial means, as we have done so in the past.
Iskolar para sa Bayan, kasama ka sa malinis at marangal na laban para sa pagpapatibay ng demokrasya sa Opisina ng Rehente ng mga Mag-aaral.
As of 12:40PM, ALYANSA Chairperson, in a phone conversation with the Student Regent clarified that the no such move is being done by the formation. The SR has announced the same to the body.
As the formation is directly implicated, we strongly condemn these false accusations against the formation that we are for the unseating of the Student Regent. We are disgusted that any group can sink this low to spread such lowly rumors against the formation.
ALYANSA believes in safeguarding our democratic right to representation in the University's policy-making bodies and other avenues. Hand in hand with this is securing transparency and accountability in all levels of student government in pursuit of student empowerment. With this, we remain steadfast in our commitment to work towards strengthening student institutions through principled methods of engagement and never through counterproductive means.
We call upon all the students to remain vigilant and critical with the flood of false rumors being propagated. Albeit divides and differences in debates, ALYANSA will continue to engage the institution that is the OSR through legal, constitutional, and substantial means, as we have done so in the past.
Iskolar para sa Bayan, kasama ka sa malinis at marangal na laban para sa pagpapatibay ng demokrasya sa Opisina ng Rehente ng mga Mag-aaral.
ALYANSA for [S]ecuring [R]epresentation
Every year, the General Assembly of Student Councils (GASC), composed of our elected student council members from the constituent units of the University, convenes to ratify the Codified Rules for Student Regent Selection or the CRSRS, a document that serves as the "rule book" for the selection process of the Student Regent.
Being the only student member chosen among our ranks to represent us in the highest decision-making body on campus which is the Board of Regents (BOR), the Student Regent is undeniably, an important position as the office stands to represent our interests. As the policies of the Board of Regents directly affect our welfare as students, the necessity of student representation in this body must be placed in the highest premium.
Thus, recognizing the fundamental importance of the Office of the Student Regent as a force for forwarding what is right and just to further uphold student empowerment, the necessity of a democratic selection process to ensure the transparency and accountability of our highest representative should also be put into place.
It is with this premise that UP ALYANSA, guided by its pillars of academic excellence, student empowerment and progressive multiperspective activism, steadfastly forwards reforms in the selection of the Student Regent to ensure that participatory mechanisms and real democracy prevail.
UP ALYANSA is for the Minimum Academic Requirement as a criterion for all Student Regent nominees. A student leader is, first and foremost, a ‘student’ of the University, and fulfilling such a responsibility must also be aimed towards ensuring that the taxes paid by our people in investing with our education are not put to waste. The recent vacancies in the Office of the Student Regent due to academic delinquency show the necessity of such reform. It is a disservice to the students if we allow the loss of representation in the BOR to happen once again as it continuously makes decisions and policies that affect the entire student population of the UP System.
UP ALYANSA is for a ‘One College, One Vote’ Allocation Provision. The unequal and unjust voting allocation in the Student Regent selection (2 votes each for Diliman, Manila, Los Baños, Baguio, Visayas, and Mindanao; and 1 vote each for Pampanga, Cebu, Iloilo City, Tacloban, and Baler) has given rise to the disenfranchisement and disempowerment of a broad segment of UP students. For instance, the 5,000 students of the UPD College of Engineering have to scramble for an insignificant 0.1 vote with the 19 other colleges in Diliman (following the 2-vote allocation for UP Diliman), while the 2,400 students of UP Baguio receive the full two votes.
UP ALYANSA is for the deletion of Katipunan ng mga Sangguniang Mag-aaral sa UP (KASAMA sa UP) in the CRSRS. While we recognize the contribution of this alliance in the establishment of the Office of the Student Regent, such historical account has no place in a set of rules outlining the Student Regent selection process. In addition, KASAMA sa UP is not representative of the entire UP student population as many university and college student councils are not part of the alliance. To make the Student Regent selection process truly democratic, it must recognize the multiperspectivism in the student councils that choose the Student Regent.
As the GASC commences in UP Visayas, Iloilo, UP ALYANSA and its member-organizations throw its full support to the progressive university and college student councils that will carry our reforms during the deliberations. UP ALYANSA also urges our fellow Iskolars para sa Bayan to join us in securing representation through the Office of the Student Regent, which is supposed to be our highest bastion of democratic representation and participation. Make your voices heard through all channels possible in delivering our collective and resounding call for a progressive selection process for our Student Regent.
Iskolar para sa Bayan, kasama ka sa malinis at marangal na laban para sa pagpapatibay ng demokrasya sa Opisina ng Rehente ng mga Mag-aaral.
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Saturday, December 3, 2011
Para sa LGBT, Para sa Bayan
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Thursday, November 17, 2011
NO BLOOD, NO SCORE
"A continuing brawl that tallies score on the basis of bloodshed", aptly describes the violent nature propagated by supposedly service-and-leadership-oriented brotherhoods these past months.
09.16.11
Alpha Sigma and Alpha Phi Beta started the series of fraternity rumbles as they engage in a fight at the APB tambayan. 2 APB members were hurt.
10.17.11
Ivan Valcos of Alpha Sigma was hit in the AS Men’s CR.
10.23.11
Kehrl Reyes of APB, School of Economics Student Council Chairperson, was hit inside his house.
11.11.11
Lloyd Cunanan of Alpha Sigma was hit outside the backstage of R O C K A S J U A N after his band played for the event.
11.13.11
Kehrl Reyes’s car windows were broken.
11.15.11
Something exploded in front of Kehrl Reyes' house at around 2AM.
11.16.11
USC Councilor Apa Pangalangan's car of Alpha Sigma was hit with bats. A car chase between the two fraternities happened in the University Avenue where an APB-member-owned Starex van ended up in the center island.
11.17.11
Will the tally of bloodshed continue?
ALYANSA condemns these barbaric acts that are unforgivable for civilized human beings. It is with grave frustration that an institution of learning is continuously plagued by such acts of violence that remains to be justly neglected even after its long history of bloodshed in the university.
We have remained true to our call against fraternity-related violence regardless of who is involved, active in our attempts to engage the administration to take just and necessary measures to punish those who violate such heinous crimes accordingly, and respectful of the rights and efforts of our fraternity men to organize and co-exist in peace with each other, but as seen in this case alone, the issue of fraternity-related violence remains amidst efforts to curtail it.
This year alone, different brawls between Sigma Rho and Upsilon and Alpha Sigma and Upsilon caused multiple persons, both fraternity men and non-fraternity men, to be victims of such acts causing widespread fear to the innocent and unaffiliated UP students. No amount of administration intervention in the forms of peace treaties and accords among and between these fraternities worked. Calls remained unheeded. Rules have become mere words given the lack of proper implementation. And some fraternities, no matter how much they claim to be for peace, have proven otherwise, in their acts.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
We reiterate our strongest calls to UP President Alfredo Pascual (a fraternity man himself), Chancellor Saloma and the UP administration to take concrete actions against these violent acts happening in the university. Review and properly implement the rules governing fraternities in the university. Make those members of fraternities who are directly involved and identified in cases of fraternity-related violence legally accountable in the Student Disciplinary Tribunal. Peace accords are not enough.
We also enjoin all Student Councils to be part of the reconvening of the Student-Led Anti-Fraternity-Related Violence Watch (SAWA) this coming Friday (November 18), 4:00PM, at Law 322. Concrete measures need to be taken and taken together and we expect nothing less from our student leaders mandated and elected to protect the rights and welfare of their constituents. It’s time to take a definite stand. Because at the end of the day, the students' lives, safety and morale are of paramount and transcendental importance.
Security within the university is not a mere issue but a right of every student.
SAWANG SAWA NA KAMI SA FRATERNITY-RELATED VIOLENCE.
Iskolar para sa Bayan, tutulan ang karahasan.
Hindi ito sukatan ng kadakilaan, katapangan at kapatiran.
Kasama ka sa patuloy na paghangad at pagkamit sa katarungan.
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