By: Kurt Dela Peña – Content Researcher Writer/INQUIRER.net /April 14, 2022 MANILA, Philippines—“Have courage and serve the people”. Anya Remonte and Rea Guiloreza, law graduates of the University of the Philippines and Central Philippine University, said this as they looked back on one of the reasons they took the Bar examinations—“the Philippines needs lawyers”. The…
Editorial, Philippine Daily Inquirer / January 22, 2021 Why did Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana suddenly and unilaterally terminate the 31-year agreement between the University of the Philippines and the Department of National Defense that bars police and military forces from entering the state university without first notifying its officials? The accord, signed in 1989 between…
Christian Deiparine (Philstar.com) – January 19, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Chancellors of different University of the Philippines campuses pushed back on the defense department’s termination of the accord barring state forces in their schools, urging government to rescind the widely criticized decision. The DND’s move this week had been an apparent culmination of the Duterte…
Editorial, Philippine Daily Inquirer / November 25, 2020 To see what is and to demand what should be: This is the stance of the students of the University of the Philippines that is provoking all manner of criticism from those frightened of what it could lead to. UP students are trained to examine the society…
By: Cathrine Gonzales – Reporter / @cgonzalesINQ, INQUIRER.net /November 20, 2020 MANILA, Philippines — There is no place for intolerance, bigotry, and red-tagging in the University of the Philippines, UP Diliman Chancellor Fidel Nemenzo said on Friday. Nemenzo pointed out that the premier state university is a “safe haven for civilized and intelligent discourse,” in…