MANIFESTO OF UNITY AGAINST THE INCESSANT INTERVENTION
OF CHANCELLOR WILFREDO P. DAVID IN THE SELECTION
OF THE UPLB PERSPECTIVE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
and in the PERSPECTIVE'S OPERATIONS
We, students and teachers of the University of the Philippines Los Baños, hereby denounce the unwarranted intervention of Chancellor Wilfredo P. David in the selection of the editor-in-chief (EIC) of the UPLB Perspective and in the publication’s operations.
We believe that Chancellor David’s intervention in the 2004 editorial selection is a blatant disrespect of the functions of the Committee which is stipulated in the Revised Rules and Regulations Governing the Publication of the UPLB Perspective.
That the Committee exerted their best effort in conducting a carefully coded editorial examination, implemented a normalized average ranking scheme to minimize bias as well as the high variances in the scores given by each committee member, spent one whole night immediately after the examination to deliberate on their scores and consequently recommended the lone top-scorer to be the next EIC.
Even if there were examinees with minimal differences in scores as a result of the normalized scoring, the Committee resolved to recommend the examinee who garnered the highest score in accordance with Article 6 of the Revised Rules and Regulations Governing the Publication of the UPLB Perspective.
We believe that Chancellor David gravely abused his discretion in imposing a new grading scheme which disregarded the scheme approved by the 2004 Editorial Exam Committee, in effect creating a new recommendation that was not upheld by all committee members. That the said controversy in the EIC selection process mars the integrity of the editorial exam committee and is being rendered powerless with Chancellor David’s interventionist tactics. The intervention also violates the tiered decision-making process in the university that gives way to an authoritarian system that even the President of the UP System rejected in a memorandum regarding the non-renewal of several teachers.
We are aware that the recent intervention in the A.Y. 2004-2005 editorial selection process is the third time that Chancellor David intervened in the affairs of the student publication, the first being the editorship controversy in 2002 and the second being the restraint of the Perspective funding in 2003-2004.
WE, THEREFORE, UNITE AND CALL for an end to Chancellor David’s incessant intervention in the selection of the UPLB Perspective editor and the publication’s operations. We firmly believe that the intervention of Chancellor David in the publication’s operations is a deliberate and intolerable infringement on the autonomy of the student institution.
Respect the Ad Hoc Editorial Committee’s autonomy!
No to Chancellor David’s Intervention!
Uphold the Autonomy of the UPLB Perspective!
Uphold Campus Press Freedom!
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The Great Upians
August 5, 2006 04:30 PM PDT
This article was posted in UP Manila, UP Diliman, and UP Los Banos. We hope our chosen, distinguished representatives, sent with this email, can represent justice to the injustice done to Mr. Cardema.
UP SCHOLAR DISCRIMINATELY DISCHARGED FROM PMA
Our Patriotic colleagues from UP Los Banos informed me that recently (last week), the Philippine Military Academy discriminately discharged one of its finest cadets. He was Cadet Ronald Cardema, a former scholar in UP Los Banos. He was said to be at the top ten of his class in PMA and was one of the most idealistic and most promising leader from the ranks of the cadets in PMA according to some of his PMA Civilian Professors (UP Grads also) which were allowed to be discretely interviewed.
It was said that the main reason why Cadet Cardema was shown injustice by some PMA high officers was only because he had a relative who was killed two months ago. Noel Capulong, Cardema's uncle and also a UPian, was a Bayan Muna Leader in Region 4. When Capulong was killed, Cardema and his relatives made a condemnation letter against the murder incident. The AFP was nervous about Cadet Cardema because he personally knew the ISAFP agents who had their surveillance on Cardema's uncle before his murder. A Military Officer (PMA grad) sympathetic to Cardema said that ISAFP made this emotional condemnation letter look like a subversive document and branded Cardema as leftist since High School even though he was a CAT Corps Commander in High School and a UP ROTC Officer/UP Vanguard in college.
Some PMA Civilian Professor (UP Grads) said that "Caio Cardema" and the UPians in PMA, always confiding with them, were low morale when a high intelligence officer in PMA investigated them and stressed always to them "Bakit ang mga taga UP, walang utang na loob sa gobyerno". OUR ANSWER TO THAT IS "Dahil po nakikita namin dito sa UP na ang pumopondo samin ay hindi gobyerno kundi Taong Bayan. Taong Bayan na pumopondo rin sa gobyerno ngunit nakukurakot kung minsan. Ang aming utang na loob ay sa Taong Bayan po at hindi sa gobyerno.
To Cadet Cardema, don't be low morale, we are welcoming you back to the University of the Philippines where true Patriotic, Intelligent, and Idealistic youth like you truly belong.
Mabuhay ang Pag-asa ng Bayan.........
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ayesha
January 18, 2005 03:28 PM PST
hanggang ngayon pala si David din parin ang chancellor ng UPLB.
I'm from MSU-gensan- hindi nagkakaiba ang mga nangyari sa campus ninyo at samin. Gaya ng muling pagkaluluk ng BOR kay David despite the ouster mass movements. Samin, nagka 2nd term pa ang chancellor na tinira ng "ouster" mobilizations.
Indirectly (through DSA) siya rin ang nagmanipulate ng School Organ. |
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ayesha
January 18, 2005 03:28 PM PST
hanggang ngayon pala si David din parin ang chancellor ng UPLB.
I'm from MSU-gensan- hindi nagkakaiba ang mga nangyari sa campus ninyo at samin. Gaya ng muling pagkaluluk ng BOR kay David despite the ouster mass movements. Samin, nagka 2nd term pa ang chancellor na tinira ng "ouster" mobilizations.
Indirectly (through DSA) siya rin ang nagmanipulate ng School Organ. |
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Name
October 20, 2004 11:41 PM PDT
di hamak namang mas maganda jaryo ngayong 2004 |
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