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New graduate programs in
the UP system will impose
tuition rates higher than
the average while two existing
graduate programs in UP Diliman
(UPD) will increase tuition aterthe Board o Regents (BOR) ap-
proved all proposals or tuition in-
crease during its May 29 meeting.
Incoming students under grad-
uate programs oered by the Na-
tional College o Public Adminis-
tration and Governance (NCPAG)
will be charged with P2,000 per
unit, a 300 percent increase rom
the ormer rate o P500.
Meanwhile, Tuition or the
Master o Management program othe Technology Management Cen-
ter (TMC) doubled rom the old
rate o P1,000 per unit. Students
enrolling under the new Doctor in
Social Development (DSD) pro-
gram o the Colleg e o Social Work
and Community Development
will also have to pay tuition rom
P1,000 to P2,000 per unit, de-
pending on their monthly income.
In UP Visayas Cebu College
(UPVCC), the BOR approved theproposed tuition o P1,850 per
unit or the new program Master o
Business Administration (MBA),
which will replace its current
Master o Management program
charging P600 per unit. UPVCC
also pegged the tuition or the
new program Master o Science
in Computer Science (MS CS) at
P1,200 per unit.
The average tuition rate or
graduate programs in UPD or theirst semester is P985 per unit,
based on the schedule o ees rom
the Oice o the University Reg-
istrar. In UPVCC, tuition in other
graduate programs range rom
P500 to P2,000 per unit.
The BOR approved the in-
creases because upgrading edu-
cational and research acilities is
enough justiication or the tuition
hike, said UP President Emerlin-
da Roman.The increases also underwent
consultation with the students,
Roman added.
Despite its earlier decision
on February 27 to deer ee in-
BOR approves tuition
increase for grad studentscreases due to the inancial cri-
sis, the BOR airmed last March
26 hikes in laboratory ees in the
colleges o Mass Communication
and Engineering. The board also
authorized 170 to 400 percent tu-
ition increases, eective this se-
mester, in graduate programs in
the School o Statistics, College oHome Economics, School o Man-
agement in Mindanao and UPD
extension programs in Pampanga
and Olongapo.
"L imitedaccess"
The graduate programs in the
university are important in pro-
viding students with adequate
proessional training but the
bloated tuition narrows [their] ac-
cessibility [to students], said Al-vin Peters, chair o the National
Union o Students o the Philip-
pines. The need or better acili-
ties could never justiy tuition
increase because the government
should subsidize public educa-
tion, he added.
Peters said the decision o the
BOR to approve proposals or tu-
ition increases despite its promise
in its February meeting to deer
increases is not surprising, be-cause it clearly upholds the UP
Plan o 2008, which maintains
that the university must be at par
with private schools in terms o
collection o ees, Peters said.
Dr. Nilan Yu, director o the
DSD program, said they consid-
ered the current rates o similar
programs in other units in or-
mulating the new tuition scheme,
adding that the tuition per unit or
other graduate programs in UP isP2,500.
The tuition is still subsidized
as the amount students will pay
or the program still cannot cover
the salary o its teaching and utili-
ties expenses, said Yu.
According to the proposal
o UPVCC or the tuition rate o
the MS CS program, charging tu-
ition less than P1,200 is tanta-
mount to killing the program, as
the program is projected to incurnegative net earnings even with
this rate. On the other hand, tu-
ition rate or MBA was proposed
to maintain a sensible compara-
tive reerence with other institu-
tions oering MBA programs, the
proposal said.
USC Vice Chair Jacqueline
Eroles said the P1,000 average
per unit tuition rate or gradu-
ate programs in a state university
such as UP is already comparable
to that o private schools.
The approved tuition or MBAis higher than the tuition rate in
other private universities in Cebu
such as University o San Carlos
with P888 per unit and University
o San Jose Recoletos with P763
per unit, according to the minutes
o the May 29 BOR meeting.
The proposals rom NCPAG
and TMC state that the unds rom
the tuition increase will be used
to improve educational acilities
and equipment, avert the exodus
o aculty members, and increase
scholarship unds.
"dubiousconsuLtation "
In NCPAG, only 18 percent
o the 50 graduate students who
participated in a March 17 surveyapproved o an increase between
P1,500 to P2,000 per unit, while
more than 60 percent said an in-
crease rom P500 to P1,500 is ap-
propriate. NCPAG has a total o
213 graduate students
TMC Executive Director Edi-
son Cruz said its 67 students
agreed to the increase. There were
no students yet to consult under
the programs MS CS, MBA and
DSD.
Peters said the process o
consultation o the UP adminis-
tration through surveys does not
give another option or the stu-
dents other than to allow tuition
increase, [orming] an idea that
students must pay to enjoy good
acilities.The 300-percent tuition and
other ees increase (TFI) irst
implemented in 2007 should have
covered the expenses or the im-
provement o acilities, Eroles
said. She said the new increases
are not needed because the same
justiications were cited not only
or the TFI but also or recent
hikes in laboratory ees. q
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words: Not or long. And not without stringsattached.
As much as I hope its all swine talkthat I have come up with, it is better to beguarded. There is no assurance that theuniversity, or its beloved bastards, will notprey on the innocent. So, or starters, I ad-vise all reshmen to take everything with agrain o salt. I possible, rerain rom ask-ing the elders too much. Exhaust all meansin answering questions.
This is not to say that everything in theuniversity is a hoax. Most o it is, probably,like the act that people still call UP a stateuniversity. We are barely state-unded, ianybody bothers to ask. Again, the optionto disbelieve me still holds. I wish, though,that any disbelie springs orth a curiositywhich will lead to somewhere that our paths
could cross.By then, I hope that I am well enough to
engage your views in a debate. Until suchtime, I would nurse my lu, and pray thatthis years reshmen will have a dierentyear than my irst one in UP. q
For startrs, i advs a frsm to tak vrytgwt a gra of sat
Ive been cooped up in my bedroom, eelingmy head every now and then. Each time I do,I get a sting. I am almost as hot as a whis-
tling kettle. The thunderous cough rom my tinychest (emphasis mine), only adds to the package:I could be the winning candidate or UPs rstswine fu patient.
As it is, Im good enough to skip classes .I my condition worsens, Id be UPs heroand maybe halt the start o classes. I wouldhave been terribly estive had this hap-
pened over a semester ago. But, as thingsare, Im a little pissed o. Nothing like a luto ruin my perectly busy schedule.
And really, it is such a bad omen or ayear that has been predicted to be stormy.The low pressure areas and the surprise ty-phoons have got me thinking i somebodysplaying with the rainall switch. Whoeverthat person might be, I wish that he wouldstop toying with the weathe r. Diliman is cer-tainly out o any weather bureaus league,long beore the skies started sending therains.
The weather, though, is the least o the
things to be dreaded about UP. The greatear o the unknown, however, doesnt stopthousands o students rom trying to get intothis place.
To the outside world, UPD students arehigh and mighty, with badges o wisdom on
their chests. Such impressions, though, arelost the moment one sets oot in the univer-sity. As such, the most pitiable students arethe reshmen, who had just had reality rainon them.
When I was in my irst year, I was soengrossed in pitying mysel that I walkedthe AS (to some reshies, Palma Hall) cor-ridors with my head bowed down to everybeing. I even skipped lunch when the warmand sickly umes at CASAA screamed ull.
Even worse, I detested my reshie status somuch I shut up during class discussion s. Myunbearable shame allowed me to digest allthe nonsense the upperclassmen, and someteachers occasionally, were spewing out.
Funnily enough, my sympathy ran outthe moment I became a sophomore. In asnap, I was one o them who spewed non-
sense.The truth is, my downall is everybodys
tragedy. No one would admit it, not eventhe jerk o a brother who dismisses his sis-ters text - Kuya, san p ung nigs? :). Theblessed ew, who ind exceptions, mark my
Tyak sa mga susuod a buwa, gumag ma agmga tamaa g sw fu, tuoy pa r ag sakt gpua
Akala ko tatamaan na ako ng swine fu.
Nakapasok ang swine lu virussa Pilipinas noong huling bahagi ng
Mayo. Noong mga panahong iyon, nagpuntaako sa Zambales para sa isang consolidationactivity at workshop ng Kule. Nagbeach,nag-ilog at nagcold spring kahit na maulan.Sa huling araw ng consolidation activity,unang araw ng Hunyo, dinalaw namin angHacienda Luisita sa Tarlac at humingi ngdiskusyon sa kasalukuyang kalagayan ngmga magbubukid doon. Gabi na rin nang
makauwi kami at pagod na ang karamihan.Noon ko naramdaman na tila nag-uumpisana akong lagnatin.
Kinabukasan, nang pumunta ako sa UPpara sa mga kelangan asikasuhin, natuluy-an ang lagnat ko. Kinakabahan na nga akotbaka isa na ako sa mga susunod na kasong A(H1N1) sa Pilipinas. Sana nga ako ang
rontpage ng Kule kung sakali.Habang praning na praning at tina-
tantya kung susulpot ang mga susunod nasintomasubo at sore throatnakatang-gap kami ng mga kasamahang manunulatng iisang text message. Iraratsada na rawsa Kongreso ang Constitution al Assembly(Con-Ass). Agad kaming nagtext ng mgakakilala sa Kongreso at kahit na maulan ay
pumunta roon para magcover.Hindi kami pinapasok ng mga gwardi-
ya. Anila, naghigpit umano ng seguridadat hindi nagpapapasok ng mga estudyanteo student press. Kung anu-ano ang gina-wa namin para makapasoknagpasundosa mga kakilala, nagtangkang sumabay sakotse, nagmakaawa at nagtaray. Wala nakaming nagawa kundi hintayin ang masa-mang balita habang bahagyang basa sa loobng McDonalds sa Ever. Saka kami umuwingnagngingitngit at umaasa sa tiyak na pagpo-
protesta kinabukasan. Sabi ko tiyak na diko na kakayanin bukas.
Nilalagnat pa rin ako nang pumunta akokinabukasan sa Kongreso. Naroon ang mganagpoprotesta laban sa Con-Ass. Karami-han sa mga ito ay mga magsasaka na na-roon din para tumutol sa noon ay nakaam-bang maipasang CARP Extension. Bumuhos
ang malakas na ulan at di ko na nagawangsumilong. Basang-basa ang lahat pero tuloypa rin ang programa. Sa tindi ng sakit ngulo, bumalik na ako sa opisina upang mag-pahinga. Sa isip-isip koy malabong hindiipasa ang CARP sa gabing iyon, lalo nakung makakatulong ito sa administrasyonna makakuha pa ng suporta sa Cha-Cha saloob ng Kongreso. Sabi koy hindi na muna
ako pupunta kung may indignation rallyang mga magsasaka bukas. Pakiramdam kokasiy tinatrangkaso na ako.
Ngunit hindi pa pala. Pagkatapos kongmagpatuyo ng pantalon, dumiretso na akopara mag-enroll at saka sum unod sa QuezonAvenue para kunan ang martsa ng mga mag-sasaka. Walang pakialam ang mga magsasa-ka sa buhos ng ulan. Sabi nga nila , ano langba naman ang ulan kumpara sa kawalan nglupa at dahas na muli nilang kakaharapinsa CARP Extension. Kala ko tumigil na angulan nang tuluyan ngunit pagdating palapit
sa Mendiola ay muli itong bumuhos at tu-luyang nabasa ang mga rallyista na sina-bayan ng water cannon mula sa hanay ngmga pulis. Di na ako nakailag at hinayaanna lang tuluyang mabasa at magkasakit. Ki-nagabihan, di inaasahang tuluyang nagingmabuti ang pakiramdam ko.
Nadelay ang pasukan ng isang linggo sakolehiyo dahil sa virus scare at pagsulpotng mga conirmed cases sa mga pamantasan.Pero hindi na ata ako tatablan ng A(H1N1)virus. Pagkatapos ng higit tatlong araw napakikipagbuno sa ulan at sa mabilis napihit ng mga kaganapan, higit na matatakot
pa ako sa lumalalang krisis pang-ekonomi-ya at pampulitika sa bansa. Tiyak sa mgasusunod na buwan, gumaling man ang mgatinamaan ng swine lu, tuloy pa rin ang sakitng lipunan. Parehong nakamamatay. Parehorin namang nagagamot. Gagamutin ng me-disina ang virus, kung sa lipunan namaypagkilos pa rin ang sagot. q
*Para sa mga nakasama ko sa ulan
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