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Student Regent Selection Schedule

Office of the Student Regent
Vinzons Hall, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City
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TO ALL UP STUDENT COUNCILS:

*The schedule of the Student Regent Selection for the 2008 UP Student Regent are as follows:

November 12-23 Call for Nominations at the College Units

November 26-30 College Search Committee Deliberations on College-Level SR Nominees and Submission of Report and Recommendations to the University Search Committee

December 3-14 University Search Committee Acceptance of Nominations*, Deliberations and Submission of Report and Recommendations to the Office of the Student Regent

December 14 (5pm) Final Day of Submission of Report and Recommendation to the Office of the Student Regent

December 21-22 System-Wide Student Regent Selection (Tentative Venue: UP
Cebu)

**nominations to the University Search Committee are subject to the rules provided by the CRSRS.

Please be guided accordingly. For inquiries, contact 09158513904.

Thank you.

Sincerely yours,

J.M. Terry L. Ridon
*Student Regent
University of the Philippines*

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General Assembly of Student Councils held at UP LB

The School of Economics Student Council (SESC) recently attended the General Assembly of Student Councils (GASC) last October 29-30 at the Makiling Hall, Student Union Building, UP Los Banos. Convened by the Office of the Student Regent (OSR), the GASC tackled proposed amendments to the Codified Rules for Student Regent Selection (CRSRS). SESC's contingent was composed of Chairperson Mario Garcia, Senior Batch Representative Sarsi Adan, and Freshmen Batch Representative Cathy Alcantara. Yours truly registered with the University Student Council, UP Diliman (USC-UPD). Chairperson Shan Abdulwahid, Vice Chairperson Viktor Fontanilla, councilors Third Bagro, Aisa King, Noel Reyes, Paolo Mapula, Jo Latuja, Nina Acasio, Ipay Bolibol, Jeff Crisostomo and college representatives Dindin Grey, Mae Palgan, Jordan Ursua, Oliver Co, Migs Eslava, Gerald Pena, Bang Dizon, Ralph Penafiel, and Anton Dulce also registered with the UPD-USC.

To access pertinent files regarding the GASC, click on the following links. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to open them.

Agenda

House Rules

Codified Rules for Student Regent Selection (CRSRS)

Proposed Amendment of the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy Student Council-UP Diliman to CRSRS

Proposed Amendment of the School of Economics Student Council-UP Diliman to CRSRS

Proposed Amendment of the College of Arts and Sciences-UP Manila to CRSRS

How CSCs and USCs voted on proposed amendments

*To access the links above all in one file, click here.


To know more about the GASC and what the School of Economics Student Council has in store for you this coming semester, attend the first School of Economics Student Assembly on November 12. Loads of fun, information, and surprises await you!

Fraternities encouraged to submit essays of projects to Chancellor Cao

A meeting between the USC, fifteen fraternity representatives, and President Roman was held last October 15 at the Quezon Hall to clarify some concerns on the memorandum issued by
President Roman weeks ago regarding her request to fraternities to submit essays justifying their existence in the University. As agreed upon by all frat reps who attended the meeting last week called by the USC (through USC STRAW Committee), no UP Diliman frat
submitted essay until the consultation with President Roman took place. This was seen as a threat to fraternties and a sweeping generalization.

After clarifying matters with President Roman (also present during the meeting were Chancellor Cao, VC Enriquez and DLO Head Atty. Raval), fraternities are strongly encouraged to submit their respective essays/ writeup/ report to Chancellor Cao highlighting their projects/contribution for the past years of existence. frats' existence. Fraternity reps who were present during the meeting all agreed to submit their essays.

The USC (through the STRAW committee) shall draft a unity statement with fraternities regarding the significant contribution of fraternities, sororities, organizations in the history of the student movement in the Univeristy.

We also clinched the support and unity of the UP admin on our campaign against the existing culture of frat violence. We will also come up with activities with frats come second semester.
We also confirmed that there is NO frat ban being entertained by UP Admin. No sanction will be imposed by the UP admin should frats opt not to submit essays. But we strongly encourage frats to comply with the request. These essays will ONLY serve as support to our claim that fraternities also have significant contribution to the society, according to President Roman. As we enter the centennial of our University, we should uphold our ideals as iskolar ng bayan.