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Ika-86 taon • Blg. 15 • 08 Oct 2008 Philippine Collegian Opisyal na lingguhang pahayagan ng mga mag-aaral ng Unibersidad ng Pilipinas - Diliman he Gloria Arroyo administration is the best gift this country ever received. T Or at least, this is the impression one would get, if the spokesperson of the AFP-sponsored forum in UP last August was to be believed. To him, the protests of militant groups over ram- pant corruption and worsening poverty are mere, senseless “pro- paganda.” A film entitled “Batang Aktibista” was shown in the same forum, portraying activists as students “[na mababa] ang grades, panay absences.” As far as the movie was concerned, legitimate student issues, such as the “lack of school facilities” and the “tuition fee in- continued on p.05 Feature >>p.5 ILLUSTRATION: JANNO GONZALES PAGE DESIGN: IVAN REVERENTE SUMMING Biyaheng Marcus Juana for sale: Ang October 22, 1982 UP Highway babae at prostitusyon By virtue of Presidential Executive Order No. 4, the Health Science Center, sa lipunang Pilipino which was established as an autonomous campus of the UP system consisting of all college units related to health sciences, was renamed UP Manila. In commemoration of the University of the Philippines' centennial, the Philippine Collegian looks 06 KULTURA 08 LATHALAIN back on one hundred years of history. 02 Balita Philippine Collegian | Miyerkules, 8 Okt 2008 kayang tustusan nito ang bilyun- 10 bahagdang dagdag sahod para bilyong pondo para sa sahod. Giit naman ni Anoos na nararapat linawin ng pamunuan ng UP kung sakop pa rin ang mga empleyado sa empleyado ng UP, aprubado na nito sa SSL. Nagagamit umano ng pamahalaan ang "malabong" probi- John Alliage Tinio Morales at release na ang 10 percent,” ani UP maituturing na “tagumpay” ang Nakapaloob sa MOA na nararapat syon na ito upang alisin ang respon- President Emerlinda Roman. pagigiit nila upang mapabilis ang tiyakin ng pamahalaan na maisasali Antonio de Leon Tiemsin Jr. sibilidad nito sa UP, aniya. Pinirmahan ni Arroyo noong pagkuha nito. pa rin ang mga empleyado ng UP sa "Paano iyong susunod na (mga) Setyembre 27 ang memoran- Ngunit ani Noli Anoos, national anumang panukalang pagtataas ng atapos ang mariing panukalang salary increase kung dum ng DBM na nagtatakda ng president ng All UP Workers’ Union, sahod sa hinaharap habang hindi pa panawagan ng mga hindi malinaw ang probisyon sa pagtataas ng sahod ng mga em- hindi na muna kikilalanin ng unyon nakahahanap ng pondo ang pamu- empleyado para sa kara- UP Charter," aniya. M pleyado. Ani Roman, inaayos na ng ang nasabing aprubadong memo- nuan ng UP para maitaas ito. mpatang sahod nitong mga na- Hindi pa kasama sa huling desi- DBM noong isang linggo ang sub- randum sapagkat wala pa ring ibin- Naunang sinabi ng DBM na karaang buwan, pinayagan rin ni syon ng DBM kung maisasama ang allotment release order at notice of ababang kasulatan ang pamunuan hindi masasama ang mga empley- Gloria Arroyo na makakuha ng ma- mga empleyado ng UP sa isa pang cash allocation para sa paglalabas ng UP ukol dito. Kaya naman, aniya, ado ng UP sa pagtataas dahil naalis higit 14,000 empleyado ng UP ang pagtataas ng suweldo dulot ng ad- ng pondo. itutuloy ng unyon ang kilos-protesta na umano ang UP sa Salary Stan- matagal nang naantalang 10 porsy- justment ng salary grades na nakapa- “DBM released the money for sa DBM sa Oktubre 14. dardization Law, at maaari nang ay- entong pagtaas ng sahod nila. loob sa panukalang pondo ng bansa the 10 percent increase yesterday Ani Roman, sa pag-uusap noong usin ng Board of Regents ang salary “Totoo na inaprubahan ni (Ar- para sa 2009, dagdag ni Taguiwalo. (October 6). We should be getting Setyembre 19, tiniyak umano ni scheme alinsunod sa bagong UP royo) ang 10 percent salary in- Samantala ani Roman, "Iyong our differential soon,” ayon kay Rolando Andaya, kalihim ng DBM, Charter na isinabatas nitong Abril. crease para sa UP. May memo na fundraising natin, para lamang sa Judy Taguiwalo, founding national na ibibigay na ng pamahalaan ang “This week, makukuha na natin si (Arroyo) sa DBM (Department of mga benefit muna. Kaya puspusan president ng All UP Academic 10 porsyentong pagtaas sa sahod siguro ang pera. Pagkatapos nito, Budget and Management) upang i- pa rin kami sa fundraising." Employees Union. Dagdag niya, kahit hindi pa natatapos ang ne- uupuan na namin ng DBM ang Ngunit ani Taguiwalo, sa mga gosasyon para sa memorandum of MOA,” ani Roman. Bagaman ka- estudyante rin manggagaling ang agreement (MOA) na isinumite ng gustuhan ng pamunuan ng UP na karagdagang pondong kailangang IP law does not mean UP sa DBM noong Agosto 26. matanggal sa SSL, hindi pa umano land rights, Panawagan law experts say Mini U. Soriano hile the Indigenous pad Mangumalas, spokesperson People’s Rights Act of Kalipunan ng mga Katutubong W(IPRA) may have given Mamamayan sa Pilipinas. In Ka- tribal groups their own land titles, sibu, Nueva Vizcaya, OceanaGold the supposed landmark law has Corporation entered indigenous failed to allow the nation’s esti- communities without consent, mated 8 million IPs to fully utilize operating a mining activity, de- ancestral domain resources, said molishing houses and destroying law experts and IP advocates. natural resources. During the UP centennial se- In 2007, the Department of En- ries last October 2, Law Dean vironment and Natural Resources Marvic Leonen said that “IPRA (DENR) recorded 32 priority min- does not mean giving land rights, eral development and explora- except gaining paper claims.” The tion projects in the country. The indigenous groups may claim Cordillera Autonomous Region, a land titles, but the use of the nat- priority mining region which ac- ural resources must have the ap- counts for the six percent of the proval of the state. country’s total land area, holds at The National Commission least 25 percent of gold reserves n Alanah Torralba on Indigenous People’s (NCIP), and 39 percent of copper re- the lead implementing agency, serves. companies to explore ancestral opposition of IP groups against survey, historical accounts of an- has approved claims for ances- “Karamihan sa mga pinaggag- domains and engage in “fierce mining explorations in Pananu- cestral boundaries and pictures of tral land covering 604 thousand amitan ng aming mga ancestral acquisition of lands,” the state be- man, Southern Abra, IP commu- traditional landmarks, in order to hectares from 2002 to 2004. A domain ay mining at logging,” ac- comes involved with corporations nities were bombed to coerce the apply for land titles. Certificate for Ancestral Domain cording to Mangumalas. Mineral in using resources in IPs lands. people and forcibly obtain their However, Mangumalas said, Title (CADT) will serve as the for- resources in ancestral domains Rovillos said, “The paradox of consent, according to IP group only few tribes can afford the cost mal recognition of ownership of were valued at P43 billion by the IP situation is that they are Cordillera People’s Alliance (CPA). of processing a land claim. Land ancestral domains by 88 ethnic Mines and Geosciences Bureau marginalized and displaced in Human rights group Karapa- survey alone may amounts to P1 groups in the country. in 2004. their land as the state acts as an tan has recorded 85 IP victims of million, he estimated. Under IPRA, CADT serves as Mangumalas said, “Hindi kami arbiter of [profit expansion] of extra-judicial killings and seven “IPRA bureaucratizes the use of the legal claim of IPs over their tutol sa pagmimina at pagtotroso corporate institutions.” He added victims of enforced disappear- land by providing complex rules ancestral domains, but the law kung ito ay nagagamit para sa that the state utilizes the military ances since 2001. Despite threats which IPs are not familiar [with],” states that the possession of land bansa, pero nangyayaring gina- to coerce tribes, opposed to min- to life and land, however, IPs will said Prof. Augusto Gatmaytan can be “interrupted by dealings gamit pang-eksport ang mga ing or logging activities, to give continue to oppose against any from the College of Humanities entered into by government and produktong ito.” Under the bu- their consent to such activities. profit-driven interest, said Ms. and Social Sciences in UP Mind- private individuals [and] corpora- reau’s list of mineral exploration According to Mangumalas, the Zenaida Pawid, member of CPA. anao. tions, which are necessary to en- projects, 16 out of the 32 mining resistance of IPs to mining or log- “Hindi rin umaangkop ang sure economic... welfare.” projects and explorations in 2007 ging operations leads to the mili- ‘Away from IPRA sa antas ng kaalaman ng The IPRA also states that the were in partnership with foreign tarization of indigenous commu- customary law’ mga katutubo sa mga ligal na NCIP can “formulate projects” companies. nities, which further results in Though unfamiliar with na- proseso dahil hindi pareho ang under the guise of economic de- During the lecture, Dean Ray- political killings and abductions. tional law on private ownership nakasanayang sistema sa custom- velopment, including mining and mundo Rovillos of the College For instance, mining operations of land, IPRA requires indigenous ary law ukol sa pangangalaga ng logging explorations in the miner- of Social Sciences in UP Baguio occupied 64 percent of Abra’s to- communities to provide the NCIP lupa,” added Mangumalas. al-rich ancestral lands, said Him- pointed out that by allowing tal land area. At the height of the with a documentation of land Continued on P.10 03 Philippine Collegian | Miyerkules,Huwebes, 7 8Ago Okt 2008 2008 BalitaBalita Dahil sa ‘limitadong’ desisyon ng Court of Appeals Pamilya nina Karen at She, nagpetisyon sa SC Marjohara Tucay cion Empeño, ina ni Karen.