Oct. 16, 2014, 7:38 a.m. – THE PROPOSED Students’ Code still
needs revisions, UST officials said in a meeting with the Central Student
Council (CSC) Wednesday, reducing the code’s chances of being implemented this
year.
Vice Rector for Academic Affairs
Clarita Carillo said the possible room for improvement in the code was “how the
ideas of the students can be phrased in the statements that they want to include
in the document.”
Carillo also said the title
“Students’ Code” did not match its contents, since the document was mostly
about what the students expected from administrative officials and faculty
members, and did not include their responsibilities as students of the
University.
Evelyn Songco, assistant to the
Rector for Student Affairs, said the name of the code might return to the
original “Magna Carta of Students’ Rights,” back when it was first
drafted in 2004.
UST Faculty Union President
George Lim pointed out that the definition of “Administrative Officials” in
Article 1, Section 4 of the proposed code was “a little inconsistent” because
the term referred to UST officials belonging to central offices and did not
cover those in academic offices. He said it should be changed to
“Administrative and Academic Officials” instead.
Lim also suggested the use of
“teaching academic personnel” instead of “professors” in all further revisions
of the code.
The CSC will meet University
administrators and college deans on Oct. 22 to present the revised code.
The passage of the Students’
Code has been put on hold for the past several years due to changes in
the UST administration and academic calendar, as well as UST’s
Quadricentennial celebration in 2011.
Drafting has gone through the
terms of three rectors: Fr. Ernesto Arceo, O.P., Fr. Rolando de la Rosa,
O.P., and Fr. Herminio Dagohoy, O.P.
