How to kill UP

This is from Butch Dalisay's aliw 8 September column from PhilStar:

The fact is that we’re merely seeking to augment our paltry salaries, improve our facilities, and keep our best and brightest by – among other things – generating more income from our resources. We will continue to fight for our fair share of the national budget for higher education, but we know from sad experience that it is unrealistic, if not fatal, to assume that we will get all that we need and ask for. SB 2587 gives UP a fighting chance. Nowhere does it contemplate privatizing the university, and making profitable use of university assets is vastly different from commercializing education or selling diplomas.

The best and surest way to kill UP is to junk this Charter bill and to wait another decade for a new measure to make it through the legislative mill – while hundreds more of our best professors leave for higher pay, while our laboratories and libraries rot, and while hordes of squatters take over our undeveloped property. The students objecting to this measure now won’t have to deal with the consequences five years hence – they’ll be out of UP and even possibly employed by the same private corporations they so blithely dismiss and malign. Those of us who have committed ourselves to a lifetime of teaching and service in UP, on the other hand, will be left to deal with the results of their myopic politicking.

Why should the university be made to suffer and pay for the shortcomings of the national government? If the bill’s opponents feel that the government has indeed abandoned its responsibilities to higher education, they should seek a change in those who make policy in government – and not gut UP from within, or kill it slowly through stagnation.

Yeah, and I need not say more. Other interesting bits about finding the perfect toilet bowl, traipsing in Leyte with Juliana Palermo in mind, and the mysterious "Sa DZRH Toh!" incident in the senate as previously recounted by blockmate Arlyn.

Still on related news, found this Youngblood article by classmate Faye, everyone's favorite repressed Catholic virgin(?) on memories of a bakeshop incident.

Peace out everyone.