Tag: Fidel Nemenzo

The administration of the University of the Philippines is NOT a democracy

April 6, 2023 benign0 2 Comments

In her Inquirer piece “UP Diliman’s top-down leadership” today, columnist Anna Cristina Tuazon laments how “outside observers” are wont to “dismiss” the “passionate, sometimes chaotic expressions of [University of the Philippines (UP)] Diliman students, faculty, and staff” as “disrespectful behavior (or worse, to Red-tag them)”. She then goes on to suggest that members of this…

Education, Media

UP Diliman “activists” who destroyed university property should be EXPELLED

April 4, 2023April 4, 2023 benign0 15 Comments

Want to be a true rules-based society? Then it is clear what should be done to those students of the University of the Philippines (UP) who, while protesting (or, rather, throwing a really bad temper tantrum) over the decision of the UP Board of Regents (BOR) to select UP College of Law dean Edgardo Carlo…

Crime, Education

UP Diliman Chancellor Fidel Nemenzo has NO RIGHT to speak for all UP students

February 2, 2021February 2, 2021 benign0 3 Comments

Students of the Philippines’ premiere state university, the University of the Philippines (UP), are always being styled in the mold of the iskolar ng bayan (the nation’s scholars) narrative propagated by its “activist” community. The subtext of this term suggests that UP grads are expected to be paragons of charity and altruism — folks who…

Education