feb.13, 09
To my fellow CSPCeans
I know you’re all sick and tired of hearing us day in and day out, reciting these scripted campaign monologues. So I speak to you now as a person and not as a robot. I speak to you as a plea to your emotions, as a plea to your logic and as a plea to your consciences. Something is terribly wrong in Supreme Student Council ( SSC) and there is something you can do about it. Let me tell you a story.
I am an incumbent BSED Representative if SSC 2008-2009. Before freshman year even began, I knew I wanted to run for the student council because I witnessed in high school how passionate SSC officers could be and how much a single person can accomplish in one year. More than that, I missed the way my student council felt like a real second family. When I began my term as part of the CSPC Student Council, I was, for the most part, underwhelmed. There was no trace of unity, no trace of working towards a common goal. At times, I even felt there was no goal. More than that, I witnessed - and experienced - blow after blow to the dignity of my fellow SSC officers and to myself.
I witnessed our batch president, as well as other batch presidents bypassed in making decisions and forming teams to head projects. I witnessed our own college assembly president calling meeting after meeting but only informing members of her own party what was really going on. I witnessed one of my fellow SSC Officer projects being turned down because there were “no funds”, only to be resurrected again in the campaigns of another candidate because miraculously, there is enough money this year. I witnessed nothing - not a single project - that I could be proud to say was truly SSCs because, although each batch had a number of activities, there was nothing that concretely brought the entire studentry and college “to the forefront of nation building.” I experienced having my own friends ask me what the SSC has really done, because they haven’t seen or felt anything, and for once being speechless.
This general elections, I have had the privilege of being able to run with the [18] most passionate and most capable individuals the SSC could ever hope to have.
People are shocked to hear the spiel of our Party in running this election because they feel that we are just bashing the current Student Council. Pero paninira ba ang ginagawa namin? What we are doing is, for the first time, bringing out the TRUTH. Ang sabi nila, ilabas ang katotohanan. And there you have it. Oo, masakit nga ang sinasabi namin. but“minsan, masakit ang katotohanan.” We use this - we use the truth - not to prop up my candidates or myself .My candidates are strong, capable and experienced; there is no arguing with that. We are doing this because the students deserve accountability in the Student Council. The students deserve the truth.
Last freshman elections, I witnessed my own running mates, my own brothers and sisters, suffer as stories about them were spread in order to strike them down. This general elections, I have witnessed more covert attacks on the reputation of my fellow candidates, of myself, Covert attacks that can cripple a candidate more than our blatant criticism on the SSC ever could. Can you blame us for finally - painful and difficult as it is - stepping up?
. The Student Council needs and deserves an overhaul of the type of leadership it has been under.
I have lost almost all confidence in the Student Council; I was not supposed to run. But I was forced to, not by my party, but by my own conscience. A small part of every student’s tuition fee goes to my education. I feel that it’s my obligation to give back. That is why I - and many others - choose to brave the humiliation, the pain and the sacrifice involved in general elections.
Wake up,CSPCeans! Stand up,! This comingfeb 27, , vote not only for us - vote for yourselves.
We do not want your pity vote. We want your vote. Your vote in the ballot box and your vote of confidence that we will give you what you truly deserve. Mga kapwa CSPCeans ang nararapat sa SSC ay hindi lang sila, at hindi lang rin kami. Ang nararapat sa SSC ay tayong lahat.
Dapat lahat.
Lahat dapat.
Thank you! May god bless us all.
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