"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.
