PUP on the Verge of Privatization

Acta non verba was the plight of the famed "Iskolar ng Bayan". Was the tuition fee increase, from eleven to twelve, to a big jump to two hundred per unit, reasonable enough to be accepted by the student body?

Student leaders were outraged. Our rights to cheaper education, as they say, is being violated. Probably, the only way to be heard of by the administration was to start a "scene" -- chairs being thrown from the highest floors of the building to the ground floor, burning the mountains of chairs like a huge bonfires. It was a tourist attraction for the students and outsiders as well.

"Imagine wearing an ID bearing the complete name of your university in huge fonts, like Times New Roman, sized 40 and people asking if you were from the university burning school facilities. It's embarrassing." interrupted by one of classmates as he sat down while we were reviewing for the day's remedial exam. Our attention took a detour on what is happening meters away from the our building at Pureza.

Yes, we are becoming victims of discrimination and are judged by people who are not aware what our university is really going through.

I am not one of those who are against the Guevarra administration, neither am I on the side of the student activists who claim they are fighting for our rights. It may have been wrong to take actions within their hands, but I asked myself whenever I reminisce on the educational issues we face today, would they have listened if these wouldn't have happened?

Yes, the students have won the battle for now. And I am sure, they will continue doing so. The battle of "Iskolar ng Bayan" is still raging on.