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From Karapatan:

Ang bangkay na natagpuan sa Pangasinan na hinukay noong March 13 at sumailalim sa pagsusuri ng mga forensic doctors ng UP ay hindi kay Sherlyn Cadapan o Karen Empeño. 
 
Ang resultang ito ng pagsusuri ay ikinabuhay ng loob ng mga magulang ng 2 UP students.  Ayon sa preliminary report na ipinalabas ng Department of Pathology ng UP College of Medicine, ipinagpapatuloy nila ang pagsusuri subalit ang kagyat nilang findings ay hindi magkatugma ang dental features ng natagpuang bangkay at ng alinman kina Sherlyn at Karen.

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CEBU CITY – President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo signed into law today the proposed University of the Philippines (UP) Charter of 2008, which gives the country’s premier learning institution “the enhanced capability to fulfill its mission and spread the benefits of knowledge to our people.”

In signing the bill into Republic Act No. 9500, President Arroyo recognizes the importance of instilling “new ways of thinking” on our students which they will use to meet the challenges of the 21st Century.

“Strengthening the UP Charter now is timely not only because the University turns a hundred years old this year but also because new challenges in the 21st Century call for new ways of thinking and new approaches to modern situations,” Arroyo said in her speech at the UP College Cebu.

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Expect two things from Romulo Neri on March 27 (Thursday).

First, he will make a rare appearance at the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman, his alma mater. Second, he will be greeted by a protest action there.

Concerned UP faculty, students and staff will hold a picket at Quezon Hall from 8:00 to 9:30 am to protest the continued stay of Neri as chair of the UP Board of Regents (BOR), the university’s highest policy-making body.

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Faculty, students, staff and alumni of UP Manila will participate in the March 14, 2008 Communal Action for Truth, Justice and Change in Liwasang Bonifacio. This participation is in line with the UP Diliman’s University Council resolutions last February 27, 2008 declaring Gloria Arroyo and Romulo Neri must resign and the March 10, 2008 declaration of the University Council of UP Manila “support(ing) the call of the Filipino people for President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to resign now!”  

UP Diliman community’s March 14 activities will kick off at 7:00 am with the launching of miniature hot air balloons calling for truth, justice and change at 7 am in the UP Sunken Garden in UP by AGHAM, an organization of scientists. At 12 noon, a program on the AS (Palma Hall) steps will be held by the mutisectoral groups in UP Diliman prior to departure for Liwasang Bonifacio.

The UP Diliman and UP Manila contingents will join forces in Liwasang Bonifacio where the program will include the performance of UP Diliman’s Kontra Gapi, the resident gamelan or music and dance ensemble.

Media coverage is requested for the above activities.