Comments | tsikoski: my own activism

tsikoski

my own activism

Apr 28, 2006 19:45

as some of you may know, i have had the dubious privilege of being elected USC councilor in UPManila. i've promised myself not to allow myself to be indoctrinated into the leftist system (which would, of course, require either a total lobotomy, or at the very least decerebration) of knee-jerk reactionary-ism. if anything, i would want to inject at ( Read more... )

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hmmm ext_4793 April 28 2006, 12:54:19 UTC

i dont recall me reading the italicized parts. haha. good luck.

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tsikoski April 29 2006, 10:15:38 UTC

this is as tibak-ish as i'm ever going to get. hahaha.

besides, i think this is the most moderate solution you can get. rather than flood the streets (with the approximately 10 or so med students you can sucker into rallying) or trying to get a TRO, might as well accept the reality of the TFA and try to mitigate its effect on the students.

ext_4793 April 29 2006, 22:25:53 UTC

http://lateralus.wordpress.com

i could almost pick out the names of those ten people!

si...
tapos si...

hahaha

boyspacefriend April 29 2006, 16:18:06 UTC

More than servicing the upper classes, the low tuition has made the UPCM an avenue wherein the underprivileged can avail of medical education that they would otherwise been unable to afford.

Is this really true? I know about the statistics that paint Diliman as a solidly middle-class university, I wonder about the distribution of socioeconomic backgrounds among Med students.

Nice finessing of the need to serve the country there under medical internships. ;) Swabe.

It's a cop-out to blame the Medical Malpractice Bill though. Doctors should be held accountable, even more than other professionals, for obvious reasons. The fact that many Pinoy doctors choose to practice in the US, whose malpractice awards and ambulance-chasing lawyers far outstrip that of the Philippines, is a pretty obvious refutation of that claim ( ... )

tsikoski April 30 2006, 04:32:29 UTC

i'll be honest: majority of the students in the college of medicine CAN absorb the tuition fee adjustment. i mean, it's an increase to 20000 pesos, still wayyy lower than the 75000 you'd have to pay in ust (although why anyone would pay that amount for ust education still boggles the mind ( ... )

trish_16 April 30 2006, 05:36:29 UTC

hm... not bad...

now i know why i voted for you...

lol

bojit for USC chair next year? lol

tsikoski April 30 2006, 08:55:17 UTC

hopefully not. hehe.

prickster April 30 2006, 11:06:56 UTC

That was LONG.

I understand the need to delve into No. 2, pero parang pinatulan niyo lang ang isang red herring. It shouldn't even be an issue in the first place. Fine, some UP med grads go abroad. The solution is cut up the institution so it produces even less med grads? The concern was stupid and you could've said so. Not that people would get it.

tsikoski April 30 2006, 13:48:30 UTC

sorry, it was intended to be forwarded to the admin and BOR... and they're fond of long-winded stuff. ehehehe.

ayt, i'm going to edit #2 to say how stupid the legislators are. hahahaha.