SU to Charge Flat Rate on Aircon Fee STARTING NEXT SCHOOL [Of the Fee] Will Come Later

115 years TOWARDS A PROGRESSIVE CAMPUS PRESS VOL. LXXXIX NO.22 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2018 IDEAS WORTH SHARING. Six Silliman alumni talk about various topics during the first ever TEDx talk in Negros Oriental. (From L-R) TV executive Oliver Amoroso, foreign service officer Stacy Danika Alcantara, Mandaue City Treasurer Regal Oli- va, artist Razcel Salvarita, Sports psychologist Dr. Michelle Joan D. Valbuena, and novelist-professor Ian Rosales Casocot. The event was held last Feb. 3 at the Luce Auditorium. PHOTO sourced from TEDxSillimanU SU to charge flat rate on aircon fee STARTING NEXT SCHOOL [of the fee] will come later. But this Chrisse Martha B. Gillesania no longer used the classrooms. Approval will not be called year, energy or air-condition fee in time, it will be a flat rate. Averaging News Writer Tagle said the administration for in the said meeting, Tagle said. the university will be converted to ni sa rates of actual utilization per will hold another meeting with This is because the imposition of flat rate, meaning students are now year,” Tagle explained. the student government, faculty the fee has already been approved charged on a uniform or single fixed At present, students are charged use (aircon fee rate). So we tried to and students this month to by the SU Board of Trustees and rate regardless of usage. on the bases of classroom’s rate, class explain... we don’t want to gain on explain in detail this conversion SUSG in the past. This is according to Silliman size and number of hours the room anything, what is being charged to to flat rates. “The imposition of the rates University (SU) Vice President for is used. us is what we will charge you,” said However, Tagle explained has already been approved [since Finance and Administration Atty. Fe “We also talked with the Tagle. that this will not be a consultation the start of the energy fee]. The Marie Tagle in an interview with the student government (SG) on this, we This was after the SGlike the imposition of a new fee, manner by which we imposed it is Weekly Sillimanian last Feb. 1. explained to them how it looks like, questioned last semester why since “only the modality of the what is being changed,” she added. “So we compute on a per month and they verbalized to us what were interns outside Dumaguete were fee’s imposition is what is being As of press time, no date for basis, that’s why the determination the problems on having per hour per charged the energy fee when they changed.” the said meeting has been set. tws No ‘ghost student’ in SU, says SHS principal THERE ARE NO “ghost students” Meilynne Sonjaco •listed in a particular school in Silliman University Senior High News Writer but are really enrolled in another School (SU SHS) assured SHS to junior high school completers school principal Kemmon S. Kilat. who wish to pursue senior high •listed as “enrolled” but are not “There has never been and there school in non-DepEd Schools attending class since the semester will never be Senior High School such as private high schools, started ‘ghost students’ here in Silliman,” colleges and universities; local and •double-listed or have two said Kilat in an interview with the state universities and colleges and account IDs Weekly Sillimanian last Jan. 31. Technical and Vocational schools •listed but whose enrollment as This is in response tostarting 2016. a Senior High School student has Department of Education’s Students are partially been terminated, and; (DepEd) warning to “penalize, subsidized for their tuition and •VPBs who have multiple sanction or shutdown” schools other school fees. absences that cannot be explained found to have “ghost” or non- According to the Private by the school officials existing students who are recipients In line with this, Kilat said Education Assistance Committee WORLD-CLASS ART. A woman admires the artworks by Fine Arts students at the of their Voucher Program. (PEAC), ghost students refer to that SU SHS follows strict opening night of the 9th Horace B. Silliman Student Art Exhibition last Feb. 5 in DepEd’s SHS Voucher Voucher Program Beneficiaries measures during enrolment P6 the newly-constructed Dr. Romeo Ariniego Art Gallery. PHOTO by Enrique Nicholas Program offers financial assistance (VPBs) who are: to prevent “ghost student” Bejar GMA Network executive talks on success as a “promdi” Check Inside PEOPLE FROM THE provinces Francis Ryan B. Pabiania persons from the provinces who are globally competitive and should News Writer excelled in their careers. twsOPINIONS not be ashamed of their roots, said “From the fields of science, GMA Network’s Vice-President, “city slickers” towards migrants from business, education, government Oliver Victor Amoroso, during the provinces. service, to culture and the arts, these TEDxSillimanU last Feb. 3 at Luce He also cited a study by Miriam brilliant and cool individuals make us Auditorium. College that said promdi was “a term wear our provincial roots with pride,” Amoroso, head of GMA used to describe anyone who is a he continued. Regional TV Department, recalled hillbilly – crude, crass, and cheap.” Among those he mentioned how the term promdi was associated Despite this, Amoroso, who were internationally awarded Science with derogatory definitions in the was born in Manila but raised in Teacher from Iloilo, Josette Biyo, past. Bukidnon in Mindanao, said he is a who had a planet named after her; He mentioned an Inquirer proud promdi. high schooler from Leyte, Hillary column of Michael Tan in 2006 that “We have a long list of Andales, who won P20M worth ON PADRINO individuals who have turned from said promdi was coined around the of prizes for winning a global EDITORIAL AND TURNCOATS 1980s to mean “prom di province,” promdi to “lodi (idol)” with their science contest, and Visayan capturing the superior attitude of exploits in the worlds they’ve chosen topnotchers in law, medicine, P6 PRESServe Michael Clarion D. Endab for themselves,” said Amoroso about the weekly sillimanian 2 twsopinions February 9, 2018 PRESServe he revocation of Rappler’s license to do business is a clear curtailment of press freedom. At the same time, it isT a crackdown that strikes fear in the hearts of mass media organizations. We acknowledge the validity of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) decision to revoke Rappler’s license, saying that it violated the Constitution, and that Rappler should be held accountable for it. But, we also believe in due process. Rappler should have been given enough time to correct its mistake. Mass media are not new to harassments. We have faced various layers of harassment before—threat to journalists’ lives and legal-turning-to-violent accusations. However, at present, there is another layer of harassment that is more sinister than before—silencing the press. editorial This harassment has reminded mass media organizations that it can be very vulnerable despite the power they possess. Mass media institutions should, therefore, come together to protect our rights and function as the watchdog of society. They should rally the people to heed actions in this apparent government intervention of the press. And the very people who should be the first to stand up against this harassment are DOGMAS majority. Just last year another threat members of the press themselves. occurred when the Supreme Court FOR ALL WOMEN issued a temporary restraining order Communication schools and campus publications should Joevic B. Baclayanto on some contraceptive pills and implants. Not only that, according also support this cause. Campus journalists should go down from News Writer the ivory towers of their institutions and fight for press freedom. to Inquirer.net, 560,000 Filipinas However, we believe that we need everyone’s support for press undergo abortion each year, 90,000 of Facebook reminded me opinions, it wasn’t an easy prayer. I them seek medical help and around freedom. The people need to understand that they need the press, last Friday that I was a naïve needed to unlearn values that do not 1,000 die from complications. especially in this day and age when extra judicial killings become “pro-life” high school student, favor me or the women around me. By looking at this how can we, rampant and government manipulation on false information rallying and lighting vigil And I decided to learn a new set of collectively as women, feel secure that candles opposing the pending dogmas that raised the standards on all of our needs will be served? are polluting our “info-sphere.” This is not just the fight of mass Reproductive Health Law back in how women should be treated in the Uneventfully in the Philippines, media, this is the fight of all citizens. The people should know 2011. society. disgust would be the first reaction, the importance of press freedom in THEIR DEMOCRACY. As I shape my beliefs through linking “pro-choice” only to abortion. Coming from a Catholic school, the years, I continuously ask myself But what people don’t know is that Because once press freedom is lost, all our rights are lost. half of the values I learned aligned “Is this kind?” “Is this empathetic?” this advocacy benefits all women, The government has vast powers and it surely can stand with what the church decided for all and “Will this be favorable to all, supporting access to safe and criticism. By using those powers to suppress the media as a of us. But it had always left a weird despite differences?” medically prescribed contraceptives uneasy feeling in the back of my Now in the year 2018, I consider that stop unwanted pregnancies, ease social institution, it is weakening the very foundation on which head, like I was telling a lie, which I myself as “pro-choice,” believing that menstrual cramps and even prevent governmental power rests.

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