USC GENERAL ASSEMBLY 04

July 19, 2010

Time Started: 7:16PM

Time Ended: 11:45PM

Name Position Time-in Time- Attendance

Out Status1
Sindayen, Rainier Astin Chairperson 6:30 12:00 Present
Agudo, Fermina Vice-Chairperson 7:00 12:00 Present
Borja, Kristine C. Councilor 7:00 12:00 Present
David, Marck Bryan A. Councilor 7:00 12:00 Present
Dela Resma, Marvee B. Councilor 8:55 10:30 Late
Councilor 7:20 11:30 Left Early
Duran, Jeanine Jerusha C. (Excused)
Elago, Sarah Jane I. Councilor 7:29 11:45 Present
Councilor 7:30 11:30 Left Early
Estrella, Richard R. (Excused)
Garcia, Jemimah Grace N. Councilor - - Absent
Ibaviosa, Raphael Dominic U. Councilor 6:00 10:00 Left Early
7:56 10:30 Late

Kalingking, Kriska Kamille V. Councilor

Mariazeta, Jesica Councilor 7:00 12:00 Present
Ramos, Dan Neil Q. Councilor 7:00 12:00 Present
7:00 11:45 Present

Salinas, Simoun Antonio M. Councilor

Asian Institute of 7:25 10:30 Left Early
Juan Carlo B. Danganan Tourism (Excused)
Representative
College of 7:00 9:35 Left Early
Alexander Dominic Mayoralgo Architecture
Representative
Maria Kriselda J. Sebastian College of Arts and 7:00 9:40 Left Early
Letters Representative
Englebert G. Chua College of Business 7:00 10:00 Left Early
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ATTENDANCE STATUS: Late, as defined by the USC House Rules 2010-2011, is arriving 15 minutes after the Announced Time Start of the GA
which is 7:30. (7:45PM)Left Early (leaving anytime before the official Time End of the GA) is considered “Late”, as defined by the USC House Rules
2010-2011 Excused Tardiness/Absences are tardiness or absences within the purview of allowed or justifiable reasons as qualified in the House
Rules - given that these reasons were forwarded beforehand to the Secretary General and the Chairperson and its validity checked. Tardiness
accrued due to leaving early may be considered an excused tardiness if the member left before adjournment but after the set schedule for the
session to end. (i.e. for this GA, leaving before 10:30PM is considered an unexcused late)

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 Administration
Representative
College of Education 7:00 11:30 Left Early
Montana Amir C. Dominguez Representative (Excused)
College of 7:27 11:16 Left Early
Engineering (Excused)
Cyrus Dickson A. Cruz Representative
College of 6:56 11:30 Left Early
Engineering (Excused)
Michael Bryan M. Bien Representative
College of Fine Arts - - -
- Representative
College of Home 7:10 10:40 Left Early
Karmela Victoria M. Abesamis Economics (Excused)
Home Economics Representative
College of Human 7:00 10:00 Left Early
Angelo Jose C. Flores Kinetics
Human Kinetics Representative
Ma. Florence Therese DG College of Law 7:00 11:17 Left Early
Martirez Representative (Excused)

College of Mass 7:19 10:30 Left Early

Nigel Patrick M. Coronel Communication (Excused)
Representative
Nicole Roxanne C. Aldiosa College of Music - - Excused
Representative Absence
Jacqueline E. Canlas College of Science 7:00 11:20 Left Early
Representative (Excused)
College of Social 7:37 10:00 Left Early
Sciences and
Juan Carlo P. Tejano Philosophy
Representative
College of Social 7:00 12:00 Present
Work and
Marie Gold M. Villar Development
Representative
National College of 7:29 10:30 Left Early
Desiree M. Ico Public Administration (Excused)
Representative
School of Economics 7:00 11:17 Left Early
Carlo Miguel Romeo Sison Go Representative (Excused)
School of Library and 7:00 9:05 Left Early
John Ronald R. Almoña Information Science
Representative
Heverly Bermina R. Bravo School of Statistics - - Absent
Representative
Graduate School - - -
- Representative

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Meeting Proper:

AGENDA 01: Educational Discussion on Land Reform

The Educational Discussion was led by NNARA Youth and KASAMA TK as spearheaded by the Community Rights
and Welfare Committee Head, College Representative Villar and Chairperson Sindayen.
National Network of Agrarian Reforms Youth (NNARA Youth) is a peasants advocate organizations based in UP.
They initially expressed their appreciation to the USC for releasing a statement regarding the violent dispersal of the
farmers in Mendiola. (Statement Title: “Kayo ang Boss, Kayo ang Kawawa”)
One of the speakers, Ka Nestor, a member of Katipunan ng mga Samahang Magsasaka sa Timog Katagalugan –
KASAMA TK, discussed the history of CARPER an provided a comparative view of CARPER and GARB. Additional
discussion points were given by NNARA Youth including Executive Orders, cases, and qualitative and quantitative study
with regard to the current status of Land Reform in the country.2

After the discussion, Chairperson Sindayen manifested the importance of Educational Discussions in a University Student
Council. Councilor Borja agreed to this but requested that the Educational Discussions not be made part of the agenda
so as to be able to maximize the discussion and not limit it to the GA time and to be able to maximize the GA time as
well to other immediate agenda of the USC as should be. Councilor Borja further noted that should we want to include it
in the GA agenda, it would be best if we can start the General Assemblies earlier plus she said that it would be better if
the body will be informed of the invited speakers for the ED or the topic of the ED so as not to limit the Educational
Discussion to one view only.

Vice-Chairperson Agudo responded that anyone is welcome to invite speakers for Educational Discussion. Should any
individual feel that only one side of the discussion is being presented, she noted that it would have been best if this was
pointed out earlier when the speakers were opening the floor for questions. Besides this, she said that the USC has no
stand yet on the issue of Land Reform, particularly CARPER

Going back to the proposal for an earlier GA schedule, College Representative Canlas who has been logging the
attendance (i.e. time-in and time-out of the USC during General Assemblies) also forwarded her observation with regard
to people leaving early during the General Assembly. According to her, the number required for quorum is usually
achieved as early as 5PM and the number dramatically lessens even before the GA ends because approximately 10-11
people leave by 10PM.

Councilor Duran said that the reason why we decided to have the General Assembly at 7:30 on Mondays is because this
is the only common time of the assembly. If the GA will start 6:00PM, Councilor Ramos will not be able to attend the
whole GA seeing as he has class till 7:00PM.

College Representative Martirez suggested if it is possible to consider Councilor Ramos a special case and not record him
as late so as to be able to start the GA earlier. She further reasoned out that to start earlier will be the rational thing to
do given that majority of the people are already present at an early time while a lot leave at a later time-According to
her, it is a matter of choosing the quantity of people that we want to sacrifice: the majority leaving because we have to
start late, or the starting early with only one missing.

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The handouts for the discussion are available at the USC Office, Readings Section in the Equipment Cabinet and the USC GA Minutes Logbook.
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Councilor Salinas and Vice-Chairperson Agudo still pushed that Councilor Ramos should be considered as a part of the
body, nonetheless. College Representative Villar also manifested that she deems it wrong that someone should
disenfranchised from the GA discussion just because he/she has a class schedule that time. Councilor Estrella clarified
that Councilor Ramos will not be disenfranchised because the minutes of the GA will still be made available for him the
moment he arrives plus the fact that his committee report will be scheduled at a time convenient for him.

The first suggestion for a change in GA time is 6PM, however Councilor Ramos objected arguing that he does not want
to miss1 ½ hours of the GA. Councilor Elago also objected since that it is the time of the UNA meeting and as COFS co-
head it is incumbent upon her to attend. Thus, the final GA time was set at 7PM. Councilor Ramos, given that he has
class till 7PM is to be considered a special case such that, he has 30 minutes grace period, and will only be considered
late should he arrive past 7:30.

AGENDA 02: Approval of GA Minutes

Councilor Borja noted that no one is checking the uploaded minutes online, as such she has printed copies of the edited
GA minutes for the body to approve. According to her, she will be leaving the copies in the office for one week before
distribution so as to ensure that the recording of the minutes is accurate, afterwhich she will distribute it via college
representatives to the local colleges and publications.

College Representative Flores stepped out at this point, 8:19PM

College Representative Dominguez requested that the raw minutes be uploaded immediately given the importance that
it has to the next General Assemblies. Councilor Borja noted the requests and recognized the importance of the minutes
of the assembly as such informed the body that the Secretariat Committee is currently looking for a recorder. Besides
this, she once again noted that the body has so many means to check and double check the minutes before editing and
releasing as such the body is encouraged to tap those means.

College Representative Go who took down the raw minutes for this GA manifested that the body should recognized the
Secretariat Committee’s efforts to take down the minutes because, as he experienced, it is not an easy thing to do.
Councilor Elago inquired on how the minutes from the logbook and the laptop are reconciled. Councilor Borja who edits
all the minutes answered that both are seen as sources for the edited version of the minutes, used to countercheck the
content of both raw copy of the minutes.

College Representative Flores returned at this point: 8:25PM

AGENDA 03: Vice-Chairperson’s Report:

Updates from the League of College Councils: The LCC will be hosting an event with the Freshmen Committee entitled
FRESHIE LEAGUE. The event aims to introduce the Local College Councils and the University Student Council to the
freshmen via an acquaintance party that also aims to consult the Freshmen in coming up with a Freshmen agenda. The
event is scheduled on the 22nd after the Diliman Student Summit at the Vinzons Activity Center.

With regard to the Student Code at the LCC level, Vice Chairperson Agudo reported that the Local College Councils are
currently consulting with their constituents. The LCC decided to not release a stand yet on the Student Code but to
release an information sheet on the current status of the code for the students.
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Graduate Representative: A Graduate Representative Meeting was held last Saturday at the initiative of the SOLAIR
Student Council where the USC was invited to sit in. Since the procedure states that all graduate representatives need to
be convened before they can choose their graduate representative to the USC, it is incumbent upon the USC to convene
the graduate representatives and help the other graduate schools come up with their local council. As of now, while
they are still being convened, the USC’s commitment is to recognize that there is a body that is pushing for a graduate
representative meaning that the USC will assist the ad-hoc committee created to convene the graduate representative
with their campaigns and projects.

College Representative Chua stepped at this point: 8:27PM

College agenda: Vice-Chairperson Agudo reported that massive consultations will be held among the colleges for the
local college councils to come up with their respective student agenda. There will be a student meet for the UP
President Selection scheduled on the 27th of September. Given that the date was scheduled on a sembrek, it was
decided that the
USC will appeal with the help of the Student Regent to call for a change date.

Councilor Ibaviosa stepped out at this point: 8:32PM

Fine Arts Representative: Currently, the USC still does not have a Fine Arts Representative. According to the report
provided by the Fine Arts Student Council, the college administration wants a representative who was already elected by
the students meaning that they want someone from the incumbent council already to be a member of the USC. The USC
was assured that they are working on it.

Invites/Other Matters:
1) Post SONA Assessment: LSG Invite to attend their forum on July 27.
2) OSA Invite: Seminar on International Youth Day Philippines, Check letter.
3) Thatorg.com Lauch moved to another date.

College Representative Chua and Councilor Ibaviosa returned at this point: 8:38PM

At this point, Chairperson Sindayen reported on the University Council Meeting held earlier that day, 9AM at the College
of Law. The discussion on the student code was deferred to another date because other agenda were given premium
that is the tenure of Professor Sarah Raymundo, the Cheating Case of Economic Students who graduated already among
others. According to Dr. Oscar Ferrer, OSA Coordinator, the discussion on the Student Code will take time given that it
requires multiple readings at the University Council before approval or disapproval of the body. This gives ample time
for the USC and LCC and the organizations to study the student code and come up with a position.

At this point, Councilor Borja motioned a point of order to Chairperson Sindayen requesting that the body strictly follow
the order of the agenda prepared for the meeting manifesting that what the Chairperson is reporting was approved in
the agenda as part of the STRAW Committee Report. Further on, it was noted that jumping from one topic to another
and not following the prepared agenda of the meeting only makes the meeting longer. The manifestation was noted.

AGENDA 05: COMMITTEE REPORTS

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 Ways and Means by Councilor Nico Ibaviosa
Shirt Sale: Shirts will be delivered this Thursday. A new system of taking orders was discussed involving the college
representatives to devolve the shirt sales in their respective colleges. College Representative Villar requested for a tally
and breakdown of the Shirt Sale for the Finance Committee.3 Councilor Ibaviosa said that he already emailed a copy to
Councilor Estrella, Finance Committee Head and will just post another copy in the groups as requested by the body.

College Representative Go left at this point: 8:46PM

E-DIVI: The official url of the Ways and Means Online Shopping site will be dilimall.com. Councilor Ibaviosa consulted the
body if it is catchy enough to be remembered by the students and opened the floor for further changes in the url.
Councilor Ibaviosa requested that the body coordinate with College Representative Mayoralgo, project head, for their
suggestions. The site is expected to lauch on August 16.

College Representative Go returned at this point: 8:49PM

Councilor Duran left at this point: 8:50PM

Fox Tie-Up: Councilor Ibaviosa reported that there are still problems with the Fox Event. The quota was reduced to 500
however the venues were moved to selected Malls. The body decided to still push through with the tie-up seeing as
there are no loss to be incurred from it anyway.

Other IGP: Rummage Sale tie-up with Portia Sorority is being considered. Continous coordination with Councilor Garcia,
a member of the said sorority, is being done to finalize the details. Councilor Borja also noted that, during one of the
Secretariat Committee’s clean up of the USC Bodega, a lot of rummageables were also garnered- she forwarded it to the
Ways and Means Committee with the consent of Former UP Fair Head Vice Chairperson Agudo.4

Marketing: With regard to marketing, College Representative Go, Ways and Means in-charge of marketing, is currently
drafting the marketing letter. Should any committee need a database to market their individual events, the Ways and
Means can provide it. CCA Projects will be included in the said marketing letter albeit the late forming of the committee.
Councilor Ibaviosa requested CCA Head Sebastian to email it ASAP.

Councilor Duran returned at this point: 8:52PM

Other Concerns: Councilor Mariazetta requested that the body be informed everytime a transaction happens between
the Ways and Means and the finance Committee. Councilor Ibaviosa noted this and said that the body will receive a text
brigade via the Secretariat Committee informing them of whatever transactions will happen. Councilor Ibaviosa further
reported that to date 30,740Php has been given to the Finance Committee already as reflected in every General
Assemblies Financial Report.

Letter Delivery: As requested by the body, the Ways and Means Committee will also be in-charge of the letter deliveries
to parts of UP. Ways and Means letters-for-delivery will be collected and delivered Friday of every week.

Finance Committee Report by

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College Representative Villar is a member of the Finance Committee in charge of monitoring the income generated from the Merchandise Sale of
the Ways and Means.
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The Rummages in the USC Bodega are properties of the UP Fair Committee from last year, collected from the Bagsakan. It was decided that
should it be included the rummage sale, half of the sales will go to the Fair Committee Funds generated for the building of CHK Tambayans.
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 Councilor Richard Estrella, College Representative Martirez, and College Representative Cruz

The Finance Committee Report started with a game patterned after famous TV Show the Price is Right. The Financial
Report showed the following:
Bank Account Money: 28, 578.08Php : as turned over by USC 0910\
Photocopying Expenses: 4,679Php
From the Ways and Means Committee: 3,990Php transferred today.
For Auditing: The following Heads have not yet submitted their Financial statements for events this June/July:
Councilor Duran, Councilor Rmaos, College Representative Dominguez, and Vice-Chairperson
Agudo.
From the Student Fund: 16,000Php will be deducted from the Student Fund to pay for debts incurred during the
USC 0809’s and 0910’s terms.

With regard to the Official Receipt of the USC requested by Freshmen Committee: Councilor Estrella said that it would
be best if we give the company tie-up of the Freshmen Committee an acknowledgement receipt instead since the USC
does not have its own Official Receipt because of bureaucratic constrainsts in UP. 5

With regard to Photocopy Concerns: College Representative Dominguez requested, if it is possible, that we tap Blessings
instead as the USC’s photocopy dealer instead of the Photocopy downstairs because it has better printing quality.
Councilor Estrella noted this though informed College Representative Dominguez that we cannot immediately cut ties
with the photocopier downstairs.

Secretariat Committee Report by Councilor Tin Borja

Volunteer Corps Elections:

The Volunteer Corps Elections will be held on the 20th of July 2010, 5:30PM at the USC. Office

USC Official Transactions:

As provided by the House Rules, the Secretariat Committee inquired if the body is still furnishing the committee with
a copy of all their transactions.6 After majority of the body said yes, Councilor Borja inquired on a letter that was
forwarded to her by the Office of Student Affairs the previous week. The letter was a request for a change in signatories
in the Vinzons Hall Room Reservation Form. Councilor Borja raised two issues with regard to the letter:
1) Whereas, last Summer, the Standing Committee Heads, the Chairperson and the Vice-Chairperson with the
Committee on Organizations, Fraternities, and Sororities Heads were the signatories, the letter that was
forwarded to the Office of Student Affairs (as approved by Vice-Chancellor Enriquez) changed the signatories to
remove the Standing Committee Heads and COFS Committee Heads and include Councilor Mariazetta (Basic
Student Services Head) and Councilor Ramos (STRAW Committee Head) instead. Councilor Borja inquired on
how these signatories were chosen, when the consultation with the Building administrator happened and
why,as the Secretary General, was she not included.
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The USC is seen as an administration office thus under the administration of UP Diliman. The official OR of the USC therefore is the OR of UP
Administration. Should the USC want their own official receipts for their transactions, it has to go through the accounting office and various offices
in UP to get approval.
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All incoming, outgoing, internal and external communications, transactions, official businesses and functions, projects and the like must be
approved and noted by the Chairperson; provided that: the secretary general must be furnished with a copy of such communication. The secretary
general must duly record the communication in a logbook provided for that purpose. (Rule 6.1)
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 2) The second issue that she raised inquires on the signatory of the letter forwarded to OSA on the change of
signatories. According to her, the letter is a case of bypass because it violated the House Rules provisions of the
USC to (a) Copy furnish the secretariat committee with all outgoing and incoming communications of the council
and (b) to make sure that all letters are noted by the Secretary General should the Chairperson or Vice-
Chairperson be the signatory.7 Given that this letter’s printed undersigned is the Chairperson (For: Signature by
the Vice-Chairperson), it is incumbent upon the sole signatory to have his/her letter noted by the Secretary
General for counter-checking purposes.

Councilor Borja manifested her disappointment because she would not have known that there was a change in
signatories already had it not been that an organization who approached her last week requesting for a USC member’s
authorized signature for the Vinzons Room Use Form informed her that her signature was not recognized by the OSA
anymore afterwhich Dr. Ferrer gave her the said letter.
In response, Vice-Chairperson Agudo said that the dialogue with Professor Enriquez and the Building administrator only
allowed four signatories from the USC. The BSS and the STRAW Committee Heads were included as signatories because
their tasks are more external in nature than the Secretariat Committee.

Councilor Borja said that as the Secretary General it is incumbent upon her to be included as a signatory in official
transactions of the USC whether it be external or internal or at least copy furnished with letters distributed by the
Council. She also that as the Chairperson/Vice-Chairperson it should have been second nature to them to keep the body
informed of any meetings and transactions that they get into seeing as even the Executive Chamber was not informed of
these changes. Furthermore she questioned the signatories chosen for the Room Use Form because if the choosing of
signatories is based on the externality of the job then all the more should the COFS head be included since they are the
official liaisons of the USC to the organizations.

Chairperson Sindayen replied that, as far as he knows, the Secretary General was copy furnished with a copy of the
letter to which Councilor Borja responded that the Committee just finished recording all incoming and outgoing
transactions for Summer to date and saw no letter sembling to the one that they forwarded in OSA. Besides this,
Councilor Borja reminded Chairperson Sindayen of House Rules Provision 6.3 stating that: “In cases when the
Chairperson is the signatory of the communication, and the Vice Chairperson in cases when the Chairperson is
incapacitated or unable to sign, said communication must be noted by the Secretary General. As such, those that are not
duly noted and approved shall be considered invalid and the Council Member causing such invalid communication or
transaction will be sanctioned.” At the very least, Councilor Borja, asserting her position as the Secretary General,
requested to be informed of all transactions and ongoings in the USC. Furhtermore, she noted that she will not sanction
these acts considering, in good faith, that what happened was a lapse in memory of the persons involved, however, she
requested to the body that this be the last time that such an event happens and that a review with regard to the Vinzons
Room Use Signatories be consulted again with the Building Administrator.

Office Management:

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In cases when the Chairperson is the signatory of the communication, and the Vice Chairperson in cases when the Chairperson is incapacitated or
unable to sign, said communication must be noted by the Secretary General. As such, those that are not duly noted and approved shall be
considered invalid and the Council Member causing such invalid communication or transaction will be sanctioned. (Rule 6.3)

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 Councilor Borja, continuing with her report, requested for the body to follow the simple rule of returning the
USC Key to the Vinzons Guard after use given that the key got lost three times this week. Furthermore, she requested
that the body return the supplies that they are using seeing as, during the last inventory of the committee, majority of
the supplies got lost already. She also requested that the USC maintain the cleanliness of the office.

Suggestions for the Secretariat Committee- duly noted:

1) Review the LCD Projector Mechanism and change forms that will be easier to trace and record for the body
to follow.

2) Finish the Giant USC Internal Calendar of Activities before next GA

3) Upload encoded Volunteer Corps list ASAP

College Representative Chua left at this point: 9:56PM

Mass Media Committee reported by College Representative Dominguez:

OBLATION: The Official Publication of the USC has been released already for distribution in the colleges and dormitories.

At this point, Councilor Salinas inquired on how the editorial board of the Oblation is chosen. Vice-Chairperson Agudo
informed the body that and Editorial Board Exam is usually being called for by the Mass Media committee.

Councilor David inquired on how the Editorial Board for this was chosen given that no Editorial Board exam has occurred
yet at the committee level and how the content was chosen. Vice-Chairperson Agudo responded that the members of
the Editorial Board for the first issue will not be considered the official Editorial Board because this temporary board was
only convened to be able to use the untapped money for Oblation issue last year from the publisher as requested by
former Vice-Chairperson Jacqueline Eroles. Vice-Chairperson Agudo reminded the body that Councilor Garcia gave the
body the opportunity to include their news/committee updates in the Oblation during the 2 nd GA but only a few
committee heads emailed their updates.

College Representative Flores left at this point: 10:00PM

College Representative Canlas requested that the Mass Media Committee inform the body of the contents of the
Oblation before it is printed because it is the official publication of the USC. Chairperson Sindayen reminded the body
that this check and balance on the Oblation as a newsletter might limit the freedom of the USC Press so to speak. At the
very least, Representative Canlas requested to be informed not of down to the last letter content but only of the, say the
titles of the articles included in the next Oblation issue. College Representative Martirez and Councilor Estrella seconded
this.

Councilor David also inquired on page 2 of the Oblation: “The 12 Point Agenda,” Councilor David manifested that the
article seem to be partisan since he saw the same heading on one of the organizations in UP calling for a signature
campaign. Vice-Chairperson Agudo informed him that the 12 Point agenda was part of the consultation that happened
during the Rise UP for Education Forum. College Representative Villar also said that the same agenda is part of UP Kilos
Na’s agenda.

Councilor Dela Resma also inquired on the status of Councilor Garcia asking if she’s is still in an ok condition because, he
manifested, that as a member of the committee, they were never convened to meet yet and were never updated on

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what the committee is doing thus it came as a surprise when an Oblation Issue was already ready for release. College
Representative Cornel and College Representative Dominguez agreed to this as a member of Mass Media as well.8

Publicity Materials

As per request of the College Representatives, all publicity materials will only be released for posting every Monday and
Wednesday effective August. The body agreed to this. Vice-Chairperson Agudo, however, agreed to it with reservations
given the lack of funds needed to print the publicity materials. Councilor Estrella responded that the disbursement of
the money by the Finance Committee is in no way related to the printing of publicity materials seeing as if a committee
requests for their budget, it is provided as soon as possible. Furthermore, he said that online release of Publicity
Materials should also be considered by the body especially in cases when the USC money has not been turned over yet.

With regard to the Online Publicity, College Representative Martirez requested that all publicity materials be posted in
the yahoogroups first before facebook or any other online site because it will be easier to forward to the various
colleges’ yahoo groups.

Students’ Rights and Welfare Committee Report by Councilor Dan Ramos:

Diliman Student Summit this Thursday, July 22, 1-4PM at the College of Education Theatre- this event is considered a
USC event thus maximum participation of USC members is expected. Councilor Ramos requested that the USC help
especially in inviting the organizations and the students to participate since this event is relevant in consulting the
students with regard to their stands on issues.

University Council Meeting: Student Code: With regard to the student Code, councilor Ramos expressed his
disappointment because only a few college representatives submitted the requested email addresses of College
Professors for the University council meeting. College Representative Martirez said that the STRAW Committee should
also consider the different nature of the colleges, for instance in Law, giving away the Professor’s email addresses
cannot be consideted a wise move. Councilor Ramos noted this and reminded the body that the USC, while waiting for
the UC’s decision will continually forward the USC’s stand on the Student Code.
At this point College Representative Martirez addressed the body with regard to the stand on the Student Code.
According to her, she recognized that the original stand of the USC is to Junk the Code adapting from last year’s Stand
however, she noted that when the USC decided to keep the Junk the Code stand, no dialogue was held yet with Vice-
Chancellor Enriquez and the USC had no copy yet of the revised code. As such, she moved that the body study the
Student Code first before deciding if we still want to junk the code or further certain provisions. Vice-Chairperson Agudo
agreed to this and asked Councilor Ramos to propose a possible phasing with regard to the USC’s act on the Student
Code. Furthermore, Councilor Salinas suggested following up on the professors who received a copy of the open letter
already calling to junk the code to ask for comments with regard to the letter.

PE FEE/Laboratory Fees: The next BOR meeting on the 29th of July might signal an increase in the laboratory fees and
inclusion of PE Fees in the tuition fee. To campaign against this, the STRAW Committee came up with a project entitled
To inFEEnity and Beyond which is a tagline making contest geared to showcase the UP Students’s Creative and happy
side and their opinion on the Fee increases.
College Representative Tejano, Cornel, and Ico left at this point: 10:30

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All concerns will be forwarded to Councilor Garcia instead by the Chairperson given that she was not in this GA.

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Others: August 2, Semestral Dialogue, 9AM.

Peoples’ Struggles Committee by Councilor Jeanine Jerusha Duran

Balloon Flying Assessment:
Points of Improvement: Few students were able to attend the event either because they were not interested or
the USC was not able to publicize the event well. Since the goal of the event was to reach to a maximum number of
students and educate them on the Extrajudicial killings happening in the country, the lives of Karen and She serving as
an example, then in meeting the objective, the event needs improvement. Councilor Duran noted that she believes, as
the head of the event, that she has done her part in publicizing the event, but one person doing organization to
organization publicity is not enough. She manifested her disappointment for the USC’s lack of support in this campaign
when it was supposedly a USC event.
She also forwarded her appreciation to those who helped and participated in the event: College Representative
Flores for speaking in behalf of the CHK Student Council and Councilor Ramos for the cluster meeting. All in all, the
Balloon flying event experienced some logistical problems but it was still executed well. All the Committee members
were tapped as well and were given tasks- only negative point is that sometimes the members don’t update Councilor
Duran or don’t do the assigned task. She also provided individual assessment of her committee members which was to
be forwarded to her members in the next committee meeting.

Peoples’ Struggles Dorm Tour Assessment:

She expressed her disappointment that, again, only a limited number of USC members attended the event when it was a
required USC event. She also reprimanded the USC members who attended, for future events, to make the initiative to
help with the preparations for any event and to not eat the food that is meant for the audience as is the case during the
dorm tour. She encouraged the USC to participate in the campaigns carried by the council and reminded everyone to
attend the SONA Mobilization on July 26 and to stay for a minimum of four hours as required by the council. It was
proposed that a tasking mechanism be done before the event so as to prevent untapped manpower during the event
proper.

College Representative Dominguez left at this point: 10:58PM

Committee on Organizations, Fraternities, and Sororities Report by Councilor Sarah Elago

Councilor Elago first reminded Committee members of their Committee meeting tomorrow. Besides this, she informed
the body that organizations who would want to participate in the first installment of the Organization Development
Workshop could confirm their attendance till July 23. All USC members interested to attend were requested to inform
Councilor Elago.

Fraternity War: The Fraternity War alliance is currently being convened but the committee is still deciding if it will still be
a tie-up between the Heroes Core- one of the convenors of the alliance last year because of the issue that the Heroes
Core is claiming that they were the original convenors of the said alliance. The discussion was forwarded at the
committee level. College Representative Martirez inquired on what happened with the fraternity-related violence
statement that Councilor Elago volunteered to draft.

Gender Committee by College Representative Montie Dominguez

The Gender Sensitivity Training Extension is still ongoing albeit with limited slots at the Diliman Gender Office.

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 The GAGA Galore will change its name to just GAGA because of comments received that it sounds to informal to
be a gender sensitive alliance. The first GAGA meeting was attended by only four organizations: Gabriella Youth, Portia
Sorority, Sinagbayan and Pi Sigma and the Gender Committee is assuming that this was because of the Pep Rally
scheduled on the same day. Another GAGA Assembly will be held on Vinzons, 4-6PM and everyone was invited to
attend.

Education and Research Committee by Councilor Chorva David

The problems that the ACLE is facing is still the acres site- to forward to the organizations having concerns with
regard to their acres site, Councilor David informed the body to inform anyone who will report problems to email acres-
support@unplug.org. Besides this, he reported the Education and Research Committee will be having a Human Rights
Forum tie-up under the Aquino administration. The only commitment required from the USC is to help with the publicity
of the event since it was scheduled on the same date as the Diliman Student Summit and the USC cannot promise
manpower. This will be this month’s installment of the monthly educational forum promised by the Committee. Other
details of the forum were already uploaded in the group.
EDRES

Basic Student Services by Councilor Ezie Mariazetta:

With regard to her report, the body inquired on why the dormitory assemblies were forwarded to the body on
the same date, usually 2-3 hours only before the event thus the short notice. Councilor Mariazetta informed the body
that there was a problem with communication with the dormitories, a lack of clarity because the dorm managers got
confused as well to the fact that another USC activity was happening on the same week which is the Peoples’ Struggles
Committee Dormitory Tour. With regard to the books arranged by the Secretariat Committee with the help of BSS and
EDRES, majority of the 1,140 books in the office will be distributed to the dorms as contribution to their library- the
others will be left for office rental under the Secretariat committee. The BSS will just propose a library borrowing
mechanism in each dormitory.
Academic Core is now convened again. The next GA will be on July 21, 6PM

At this point, majority of the people left: 11:30PM

Community Rights and Welfare Committee by College Representative Villar

College Representative Villar began her report by expressing her disappointment to the fact that almost
everyone left and only 9 was left to finish the General Assembly. The remaining members of the body expressed the
same dissent thus leading to a resolution undersigned by those who remained to finish the GA. The resolution is as
follows:

The General Assembly, represented by the herein undersigned, manifest that due to the abrupt and sudden and drastic
departure of USC members during the last GA dated July 19, 2010, do hereby manifest the following:
1. CSWCD Representative Gold Villar manifested that despite the fact that she was last in the agenda, she still
stayed and manifested the fact that she stayed despite her need to guard her mother in the hospital.
2. The herein undersigned manifested their assent that this (going home before adjournment of majority of
the members) can no longer continue for the duration of the term of the incumbent USC 2010-2011:
a. That it be considered that the GA be held once a week, every Monday of 7-1030 due to the need to
discuss many key issues.

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 b. That there be a strict implementation of what is stated in the house rules as to the provisions of
leaving early during GAs (three lates/early departure=1 absence)
c. That there be due respect with abiding for the time allotted to each agendum.
d. That the agenda is task-based , and not only time-bound.

Undersigned: Chairperson Rain Sindayen, Vice-Chairperson Amme Agudo, Councilors Kristine Borja, Dan Ramos, Ezie
Mariazetta, Chorva David, Sarah Elago, and Simoun Salinas and College Representative Gold Villar.
Afterwhich the CRAW Committee reported on the success of the Multisectoral alliance that happened last week.
Other announcements included:
1) CCA: High Resolution copy of the USC logo already uploaded in the groups.
2) SLAAC: Bill of Rights Primer is done, a 1-hr. training for USC members will held around UP>

The meeting was adjourned.

Prepared by: Noted by:

Kristine C. Borja Rainier Astin Sindayen

Secretary General, USC Councilor USC Chairperson

*Approved by the General Assembly this ____ day of ________ 2010 during the ______ Official General Assembly of the
University Student Council 2010-2011*9

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Good for reproduction and distribution to the Philippine Collegian, other University Publications, Local College Councils, Dormitory Councils,
Organizations, Fraternities, Sororities, and any other body or institution or student that may so request for a copy. To be posted in all colleges,
dormitories, and USC bulletin boards and the USC online sites.
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