Note: except for The Varsitarian Letter to the Editor, all the entries are the original unedited versions that I have submitted. My apologies for any typographical or grammatical errors.
Letter to the Philippine Collegian
Official Weekly Student Publication of the University of the Philippines Diliman
published 15 July 2004, Volume LXXXII Number 06
Official Weekly Student Publication of the University of the Philippines Diliman
published 15 July 2004, Volume LXXXII Number 06
July 12, 2004
JAYSON DP. FAJARDA
Editor-in-chief
Philippine Collegian
Room 401 Vinzons Hall
UP Diliman, Quezon City 1101
Dear Mr. Fajarda:
Greetings!
I am again sending another letter to the Philippine Collegian regarding the editor-in-chief selection process for the academic year 2004-2005 of the UPLB Perspective. I am requesting your office to kindly publish this article in the Letters to the Editor page.
The article including the footnote has 745 words.
Thank you very much.
Sincerely yours,
LUISITO C. ABUEG
M.A. Economics
1999-64898
Is there really an administrative malady in the UPLB Perspective?
For any given selection process, its primary and main objective is to select the best from a pool of candidates and contenders, and in this case the editor of the official student publication of UP Los Baños (UPLB).
Yes, I agree with you Mr. Bon Andrey Queaño that there is no stated provision that the Chancellor (in this case, Dr. Wilfredo P. David) of devising another method in determining the next editor. And moreover, I also agree that "a high variance is just the result of an exercise of free will."
But, raising the same argument against yours Mr. Queaño, where on this planet earth you got the interpretation that such appointment of the next editor is a ministerial one? There is no such statement in the Revised Rules Governing the Publication of the UPLB Perspective, isn't it? Again, I will imprudently refer (as you called me) the Guidelines in Article 7, that the chancellor has the sole authority of appointing the next editor-in-chief "after the receipts of the results and the recommendations of the Editorial Examination Committee." If you understood this statement right, the committee needs only to submit the recommendation report, and the Chancellor shall appoint, period. But where is the statement that such appointment is ministerial? Isn't it that the chancellor shall appoint, irregardless of the recommended, and because it is a recommendation?
Another thing, you want that Miss Niña Catherine Calleja (as well as your cohorts) to be appointed. But how she can lead the official publication if she herself cannot refer to national (and more sadly, economic) figures in the news (again, bragging that she was an instrumental news editor), given that she is also an Economics major? Again I will reiterate what I said in my former Letter to the Editor: that this is your "petty concern" (the same term you used to Chancellor David's concern over you) that needs a lot of proof with material evidences and not stating baseless theories and hypotheses (We do a lot of proving in calculus, mathematical economics, and even in philosophy, remember?). And doing so will defeat the primary and main objective of the selection.
Thirdly, if you dare tell me that I have to prove that you really have a clue on the examinees' indentities, yes, I have to prove this statement. But, again, going back to my former Letter, I said that such end marks (although braggingly claiming again, that it is a practice in journalism, which you are telling me to be unaware of) may only (read again the word, please: may) lead, and not saying it was, were, or indeed. At this point, I am stating a possibility or probability of the event. Maybe you should go back to your English grammar lessons (or at least in Communication Skills I or Comm I), I strongly suggest.
And lastly, I strongly feel that if you really need to be appealing to the studentry regarding your arguments, you need not to use words and phrases such as pathetic impulse, bigoted understanding, imprudent referral, staunch defense, and ignominy of the campus press. Isn't this a desperate attempt to discredit me, as a former Business Manager of the UPLB Perspective whose position needs to understand thoroughly several laws and operational procedures of the government related to the operations of the student publication since UP is a state institution? I would like to remind you Mr. Queaño that this is an argumentum ad hominem fallacy. Maybe it is you who is desperately pathetic to convince everyone about your perspectives of the issue.
Postscript. Maybe you need to refer on the UP Board of Regents meeting when it upheld the decision of Chancellor David of appointing Nicolo M. Masakayan versus Mari Zaira Kristine L. Lopez. You want to know? Find out for yourself.
As Dr. Jose Orville C. Solon of the UP School of Economics (UPSE) has said in one of my friend's graduate classes, "There are no partial points for correctly calculating the wrong assumptions." Maybe you must think again on facts over your assumptions. And remember that for every exercise of free will has corresponding responsibilities.
Luisito Cagandahan Abueg*
________________________
*Currently a graduate student of the UPSE under the Master of Arts program, Mr. Abueg is the former Business Manager under the editorship of Nicolo M. Masakayan in the UPLB Perspective. He graduated cum laude in UPLB under the BS Economics program.
JAYSON DP. FAJARDA
Editor-in-chief
Philippine Collegian
Room 401 Vinzons Hall
UP Diliman, Quezon City 1101
Dear Mr. Fajarda:
Greetings!
I am again sending another letter to the Philippine Collegian regarding the editor-in-chief selection process for the academic year 2004-2005 of the UPLB Perspective. I am requesting your office to kindly publish this article in the Letters to the Editor page.
The article including the footnote has 745 words.
Thank you very much.
Sincerely yours,
LUISITO C. ABUEG
M.A. Economics
1999-64898
Is there really an administrative malady in the UPLB Perspective?
For any given selection process, its primary and main objective is to select the best from a pool of candidates and contenders, and in this case the editor of the official student publication of UP Los Baños (UPLB).
Yes, I agree with you Mr. Bon Andrey Queaño that there is no stated provision that the Chancellor (in this case, Dr. Wilfredo P. David) of devising another method in determining the next editor. And moreover, I also agree that "a high variance is just the result of an exercise of free will."
But, raising the same argument against yours Mr. Queaño, where on this planet earth you got the interpretation that such appointment of the next editor is a ministerial one? There is no such statement in the Revised Rules Governing the Publication of the UPLB Perspective, isn't it? Again, I will imprudently refer (as you called me) the Guidelines in Article 7, that the chancellor has the sole authority of appointing the next editor-in-chief "after the receipts of the results and the recommendations of the Editorial Examination Committee." If you understood this statement right, the committee needs only to submit the recommendation report, and the Chancellor shall appoint, period. But where is the statement that such appointment is ministerial? Isn't it that the chancellor shall appoint, irregardless of the recommended, and because it is a recommendation?
Another thing, you want that Miss Niña Catherine Calleja (as well as your cohorts) to be appointed. But how she can lead the official publication if she herself cannot refer to national (and more sadly, economic) figures in the news (again, bragging that she was an instrumental news editor), given that she is also an Economics major? Again I will reiterate what I said in my former Letter to the Editor: that this is your "petty concern" (the same term you used to Chancellor David's concern over you) that needs a lot of proof with material evidences and not stating baseless theories and hypotheses (We do a lot of proving in calculus, mathematical economics, and even in philosophy, remember?). And doing so will defeat the primary and main objective of the selection.
Thirdly, if you dare tell me that I have to prove that you really have a clue on the examinees' indentities, yes, I have to prove this statement. But, again, going back to my former Letter, I said that such end marks (although braggingly claiming again, that it is a practice in journalism, which you are telling me to be unaware of) may only (read again the word, please: may) lead, and not saying it was, were, or indeed. At this point, I am stating a possibility or probability of the event. Maybe you should go back to your English grammar lessons (or at least in Communication Skills I or Comm I), I strongly suggest.
And lastly, I strongly feel that if you really need to be appealing to the studentry regarding your arguments, you need not to use words and phrases such as pathetic impulse, bigoted understanding, imprudent referral, staunch defense, and ignominy of the campus press. Isn't this a desperate attempt to discredit me, as a former Business Manager of the UPLB Perspective whose position needs to understand thoroughly several laws and operational procedures of the government related to the operations of the student publication since UP is a state institution? I would like to remind you Mr. Queaño that this is an argumentum ad hominem fallacy. Maybe it is you who is desperately pathetic to convince everyone about your perspectives of the issue.
Postscript. Maybe you need to refer on the UP Board of Regents meeting when it upheld the decision of Chancellor David of appointing Nicolo M. Masakayan versus Mari Zaira Kristine L. Lopez. You want to know? Find out for yourself.
As Dr. Jose Orville C. Solon of the UP School of Economics (UPSE) has said in one of my friend's graduate classes, "There are no partial points for correctly calculating the wrong assumptions." Maybe you must think again on facts over your assumptions. And remember that for every exercise of free will has corresponding responsibilities.
Luisito Cagandahan Abueg*
________________________
*Currently a graduate student of the UPSE under the Master of Arts program, Mr. Abueg is the former Business Manager under the editorship of Nicolo M. Masakayan in the UPLB Perspective. He graduated cum laude in UPLB under the BS Economics program.
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