SLU 05-03-13

	Nordis Weekly, March 13, 2005
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Picket held over SLU fee hikes
BAGUIO CITY (Mar.9) — Despite being snubbed by the administration, some 600 students from the different colleges of Saint Louis University (SLU) staged a two-day picket to protest the carry-over scheme which is set to implement a 10% tuition increase. This year, the carry-over-scheme, will add 10% to the tuition of freshmen. Last year’s fee increase was set at 5%. With this, the administration is able to do away with the mandatory consultation. This made the students ask the City Council and the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) to review the issue. The students reckoned that if the University is persistent with the increase, they must provide the breakdown and implement the 70-20-10 allocation as provided by the Commission on Higher Education’s Memo no. 13. The 70% of the annual increase, they believe, was not given to increase faculty salary when it should be the case. The administration claims that the 70% incremental proceeds could not be given to the faculty due to the pending case of injunction filed by the Kataas-taasang Sanggunian ng mga Mag-aaral/Supreme Student Council (KASAMA/ SSC). But students insist that the increase in the faculty salary that they are talking about must come from the previous collections since the “deceptive” carry-over scheme was imposed. No permit? Student leader Jado Rafael Bognadon received a letter from the Student Affairs Office (SAO) on March 8, warning him of expulsion for allegedly “undertaking illegal moves”. In the letter, Dean of Student Affairs Gil Espiritu said that the students “staged a mass action without the benefit of a mayor’s permit or any from the University administration.” In an interview, Bognadon said they (students) are adhering to their constitutional right to freedom of expression. “If we were to secure a permit from the administration anyway, they would probably deny it in the first place”, he said. Bognadon is the Speaker of the House of the Congress of Louisians, the legislative body of the KASAMA/SSC. The students said that their picket line would be revived in June this year. They say that silent protest in the form of T-shirt/ ribbon wearing and educational discussions regarding the declining quality and increasing cost of Philippine education, particularly in SLU, and other relevant issues would continue. # Anjo Rey Cerdeña/College Editor’s Guild of the Philippines Baguio-Benguet
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	Nordis Weekly, March 13, 2005
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Picket held over SLU fee hikes
BAGUIO CITY (Mar.9) — Despite being snubbed by the administration, some 600 students from the different colleges of Saint Louis University (SLU) staged a two-day picket to protest the carry-over scheme which is set to implement a 10% tuition increase. This year, the carry-over-scheme, will add 10% to the tuition of freshmen. Last year’s fee increase was set at 5%. With this, the administration is able to do away with the mandatory consultation. This made the students ask the City Council and the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) to review the issue. The students reckoned that if the University is persistent with the increase, they must provide the breakdown and implement the 70-20-10 allocation as provided by the Commission on Higher Education’s Memo no. 13. The 70% of the annual increase, they believe, was not given to increase faculty salary when it should be the case. The administration claims that the 70% incremental proceeds could not be given to the faculty due to the pending case of injunction filed by the Kataas-taasang Sanggunian ng mga Mag-aaral/Supreme Student Council (KASAMA/ SSC). But students insist that the increase in the faculty salary that they are talking about must come from the previous collections since the “deceptive” carry-over scheme was imposed. No permit? Student leader Jado Rafael Bognadon received a letter from the Student Affairs Office (SAO) on March 8, warning him of expulsion for allegedly “undertaking illegal moves”. In the letter, Dean of Student Affairs Gil Espiritu said that the students “staged a mass action without the benefit of a mayor’s permit or any from the University administration.” In an interview, Bognadon said they (students) are adhering to their constitutional right to freedom of expression. “If we were to secure a permit from the administration anyway, they would probably deny it in the first place”, he said. Bognadon is the Speaker of the House of the Congress of Louisians, the legislative body of the KASAMA/SSC. The students said that their picket line would be revived in June this year. They say that silent protest in the form of T-shirt/ ribbon wearing and educational discussions regarding the declining quality and increasing cost of Philippine education, particularly in SLU, and other relevant issues would continue. # Anjo Rey Cerdeña/College Editor’s Guild of the Philippines Baguio-Benguet
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