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1 in 3 Diliman UPCAT Passers Does Not Enrol in up — Page 3 1 in 3 Diliman UPCAT passers does not enrol in UP — Page 3 Philippine Collegian Dreamscape Aquino’s detour from Opisyal na lingguhang pahayagan ng mga mag-aaral ng Unibersidad ng Pilipinas - Diliman the ‘tuwid na daan’ 5 Hulyo 2011 Terminal Cases Taon 89, Blg. 3 - 4 Delfin Mercado he incessant rain eradicated all chances for an evening run Taround the Academic Oval. With an oversized umbrella in hand, I No right turn trudged along the muddy path to the jeepney stop. I intentionally slowed down my pace, glancing back with each step, half-wishing to see you walking behind me. Aquino’s detour Coming home, I found the front door of the apartment ajar. I was surprised when you came out, but from the ‘tuwid pleased when you pressed your lips into mine. I inhaled your Marlboro menthol-breath. Moments later, I was tracing every crevice in your body with na daan’ relish. The skies rumbled and woke me from my ecstasy. It was a dream. I Mila Polinar turned over in bed, willing myself back to sleep and back Tuwid na daan. to you. This was the path, one year ago, that The sweet alto of your voice startled Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III vowed me. “Hello,” you said, th to tread as the 15 President of the from your side of the Philippines. In his inauguration speech, bed. You lay there, with he said he would part ways with his only the sheets on. I looked into your eyes and recognized that familiar predecessor, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, gaze, the one you always gave me whose crooked governance served as when you wanted me to run after you, the framework for numerous cases of back in the beaches of our childhood. corruption, incompetence, and human A clap of thunder rights violations. Aquino announced that his echoed through the room. I blinked. administration would lay its own foundations, When I opened sweeping away the vestiges of the my eyes, you were previous term. gone. A dream within a dream. Nowadays, we only meet in dreams. We meet in my dreams, sa araw na ito – dito magwawakas where I am most “Ngayon, powerful. I can imagine you in any ang pamumunong manhid sa mga daing ng way I want, and draw taumbayan,” claimed Aquino. He promised8 up scenarios that will to quell corruption, evoking the now- never be possible when I am awake. famous tagline that had been the motto of Yet, no matter how his candidacy during the elections: perfect the dreams are, I dread “Kung walang corrupt, walang dreaming of you. Asleep, my own creations can betray me: Dibuho ni Jano Gonzales my dreams of you are too vivid to forget, too beautiful to be forgotten for me to want to wake from them. And worse, they keep me from wanting the real thing. TV ang Disappearing Pagpapatuloy ng It has been a week now since I last saw you walking around the nagturo sa justice karahasan sa Academic Oval. You were with friends you met in college—friends of yours aking umibig Editoryal Pahina 2 ilalim ni who are no longer friends of mine. You smiled and waved when you saw me, Kultura Pahina 11 Aquino then I ran towards you, thinking of how soft your— Lathalain Pahina 7 A dream within a dream. I don’t even have to sleep to dream. ● 2 • Kulê Opinyon Martes 5 Hulyo 2011 Disappearing justice QUOTED On June 2006, two UP students [L]et me correct disappeared in Hagonoy, Bulacan. Over the next five years —arduous [John Gabriel ones for all who knew the missing young women — a slow trickle of Pelias’] claim witnesses would emerge, telling the story of Sherlyn Cadapan and that lack of Karen Empeño’s abduction, and their money is never subsequent rape and torture by suspected members of the military. a hindrance Five years. In the first few weeks after the abduction, Karen once someone and She became the faces of the hundreds of desaparecidos under gets the chance the regime of then-President to become an Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, a time when state-perpetrated violence Iskolar ng escalated with the implementation of the counterinsurgency program Bayan. As my Oplan Bantay-Laya (OBL). Outrage erupted over the fate case proves, of Manuel Merino, the farmer Marianne Rios it is. —Lyndon John S. de from Bulacan who heard Karen Leon, Young Blood column, and She screaming, tried to help, organizations. For years, the AFP been committed without their culture of impunity bred by the Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 22 and ended up being burned alive, has justified their horrendous prior knowledge, these people are previous regime, the human rights according to accounts pieced deeds by insinuating that activists culpable in the abductions. situation in the country remains Wala namang together from several witnesses. and rebels are one and the same, While Karen and She remain a cause for alarm. Even as the Now, there is a grim resignation subjecting both to torture, missing, these officials who AFP projects a new façade of nakakadiri sa in the continuing protest actions rape and other forms of human condoned the reign of impunity nonviolence through the Oplan and calls for justice for the rights violations. through the OBL remain free Bayanihan, political killings and pagmamahal. victims. Now, there are only three In ordering the AFP to “fully from any charge. various abuses continue. Ang nakakadiri possible outcomes. Karen and She ensure the release” of Karen, She Moreover, while the affirmation The protracted judicial process could be found dead; they could be and Merino, the high court not of the writ of amparo – which has in more ways made it more ay ‘yung surfaced, victims of a five-year only ruled that military figures allows the kin of the disappeared difficult to search for Karen, She and ordeal for which there is no such as retired Maj. Gen. to access information from the hundreds of other desaparecidos. panghuhusga possible restitution; or no Jovito Palparan are AFP and search several military Every day that justice is delayed, one (but their abductors) personally liable for camps – is a symbolic victory the possibility of their eventual ng mga obispo might ever know for sure Editoryal the disappearance and for human rights advocates, it is surfacing diminishes. sa mga taong what happened to them. torture, the high court also essentially useless for the long- With the law of the land found When the Supreme reminded the military that disappeared victims. The ruling lacking in protecting its citizens nagmamahalan. Court (SC) affirmed this they are not above the law. may seem to compel the AFP to from abuses of the state, it is —Rev. Ceejay Agbayani of May the 2008 decision of the It is disappointing however surface the missing students, but incumbent upon our leaders the Metropolitan Community appellate court granting the writ that while the high court without the cooperation of the to enact and enforce laws that Church, in response to Bishop of amparo to Karen, She and castigates AFP officials, the court military, any information provided would uphold the rights of every Teodoro Bacani’s ‘pandidiri’ Merino, it confirmed what has exempts high-ranking officials will be meaningless, and any citizen. We will continue searching to same sex marriage, long been an established fact: the including former President search will prove futile. Indeed, for the disappeared, and we abs-cbnnews.com, June 29 military is behind Karen and She’s Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Gen. despite being implicated by no will not rest until the Aquino abduction. The two, together with Hermogenes Esperon, and Avelino less than the SC in the abduction, administration holds accountable I think divorce thousands of others, are victims Razon from responsibility over the AFP simply continues to deny the perpetrators of these abuses. of a counterinsurgency program the disappearances. They have involvement in the disappearance ● should be which did not differentiate command responsibility over the of Karen and She. available between armed rebels and implicated soldiers, and as these Despite the Aquino administration’s members of legal progressive acts of violence would not have promise to break away from the to people who become homicidal at Philippine Collegian www.philippinecollegian.org the sight of Punong Patnugot Marjohara S. Tucay Kapatnugot Pauline Gidget R. Estella Tagapamahalang Patnugot Dianne Marah E. Sayaman Mga Panauhing Patnugot each other. Jayson D. Fajarada, Larissa Mae R. Suarez Patnugot Sa Lathalain Mila Anna Estrella S. Polinar Patnugot Sa Grapiks Nicolo Renzo T. Villarete, Chris Martin T. —Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago, Imperial Tagapamahala Ng Pinansiya Richard Jacob N. Dy Kawani Ruth Danielle R. Aliposa Pinansiya Amelyn J. Daga Tagapamahala sa Sirkulasyon Paul John Alix when asked about love, Sirkulasyon Gary Gabales, Ricky Kawat, Amelito Jaena, Glenario Ommalin Mga Katuwang Na Kawani Trinidad Gabales, Gina Villas Pamuhatan Silid 401 Bulwagang marriage and divorce during Vinzons, Unibersidad ng Pilipinas Diliman, Lungsod Quezon Telefax 981-8500 lokal 4522 Email [email protected] Website philippinecollegian.org her 40th wedding anniversary, abs-cbnnews.com, June 20 Kasapi Solidaridad: UP Systemwide Alliance of Student Publications and Writers Organizations, College Editors Guild of the Philippines 3 • Kulê Balita Martes 5 Hulyo 2011 1 in 3 Diliman UPCAT passers does not enrol in UP Inaccessible education Richard Damian to the 2006 TFI primer issued by the A survey conducted by the Office UP administration. More than a third or around 1,300 of of the University Registrar revealed the 3,826 UP College Admission Test that an average of five percent of Budget constraints (UPCAT) qualifiers in UP Diliman (UPD) UPCAT qualifiers who did not enrol The university’s budget did not enrol this academic year, citing in UP the past four academic years constraints lead to “unaffordable reasons such as proximity issues, and were offered scholarships in other education, poor range of scholarships BAGSAK.
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