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UPD TO TIGHTEN SECURITY ON CAMPUS AFTER ROBBERY INCIDENT
Student attacked in USC Office still in critical condition Victor Gregor Limon The UP Diliman (UPD) community should expect tighter security measures in the campus following the robbery incident at the UP Diliman (UPD) University Student Council (USC) office on February 1, which left fourth year Political Science student and Center for Nationalist Studies (CNS) secretary-general Lordei Camille Anjuli Hina seriously injured and in critical condition. In an emergency meeting convened by UPD Chancellor Caesar Saloma on February 2, the UPD Committee on Security and Welfare (CSWC) endorsed a stricter inspection of IDs and bags by security personnel who will be issued metal detectors, according to UPD USC chair and CSWC member Jemimah Garcia. “There will also be increased UP Diliman Police visibility especially in the vicinity [of Vinzons Hall] where the incident happened in order to rebuild confidence,” said Saloma in a statement on February 3. The CSWC however deferred its decision on allowing security guards to be equipped with policeman clubs and guns, pending consultations with students, employees, and administrators and the results of a an open student assembly today at the College of Engineering. Saloma and UP President Alfredo Pascual has been invited in the said consultation to address the students. An ecumenical gathering will also be held on the same day at 4 PM at the AS parking lot. Continued on page 4 »
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IN THE WRONG. Dan Mar Vicencio, alias Carlo Pecayo, the suspect on the robbery involving a fourth year Political science student, is flanked by media men at the UP Diliman Police HQ on February 1. Vicencio, 35, admitted hitting the victim on the left temple with a scrap metal in the USC Office at Vinzons Hall at around 3 PM. John Keithley Difuntorum
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Anonimity Terminal Cases Delfin Mercado Alone, we meet uncertainty. Alone, we learn how to see and to hear, more than the way we see and we hear when we are with company. Alone, we rediscover the self that was buried by the multiplicity of our interactions. For alone, we retreat to our own inner worlds. Outside, we are surrounded by nameless, faceless people – walking past us, tripping us, eyeing our food, staring at us blankly – people who each have a destination to go. Wherever it is, we don’t know, and much less care. They are all faceless, nameless. For in this fast life, names are but fleeting instances of recognition. What’s in a name? Why do we need names? Names are created to serve as markers, indicators of acknowledgement and familiarity that people who choose not to be alone use. Alone, we don’t need names. Names are not made for ourselves, but for others, for instances when we choose to be with someone, with anyone. When we hide from the world, we don’t need names, but once the world rediscovers us, it names us, labels us for its sake. *** Names are our first and last prison cells. Once baptised by society, we are chained, imprisoned to live by the expectations wrought by our names. To name is to assert power. For since Adam, we only named things which are under our dominion, our power. (And that is why, they say, God doesn’t have a name, for there are no names that could chain and imprison God, if there ever was one.) We strive, every day, to conquer and defeat the names and the labels that society has attached to us. For a name is not enough to encompass our totality, the depth of our identities. In an effort to break away, we compartmentalize our lives, or build separate lives and identities. And for thedaring soul, there is that attempt to conceal, hiding under the cloak of anonymity. Names are our first and last prison cells. For even if we struggle, in the end, only the name survives. Faceless names on epitaphs, and nothing more. Multiple identities do not survive in the memory of those left behind. What is left is a singular self, encapsulated, summarized in a name etched on a piece of marble. We are trapped, even in the end, by the labels that society has imposed. So how do we escape, how do we overpower our names? Do things that are not attached to our names, anonymous deeds that people will remember, acts that were done not for the sake of building your name or reputation. In doing so, what is remembered for posterity is not the name, but the deed. In anonymity, we create new beings, and in creating anonymously, we destroy the chains that tie us to the names that society created for us. For in anonymity, we name ourselves. And in naming there lies power. *** Do not ask for my name, for it bears little significance. ●
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