CONTRARY TO ALLEGATIONS: PSU-Alaminos operation legal – CHED

By Benjo Rivera

There is absolutely no truth to allegations by private colleges that the establishment and/or operation of the Pangasinan State University-Alaminos Campus is illegal.

Dr. Caridad Abuan, CHED Region I director, made this clarification amidst massive disinformation allegedly being spread by conniving owners of private colleges about the operations of the PSU-Alaminos campus during an exclusive interview with the Northwest Sun.

“Hindi illegal ang establishment or operation ng PSU-Alaminos,” Abuan stressed.

Director Abuan, however, said that the Board of Regents of the PSU had decided not to offer in the campus curriculum three programs namely BSBA, BSIT and Hospitality Management “until PSU-Alaminos has met all the CHED requirements.”

She said students of the campus taking up other programs have nothing to worry about, “ituloy-tuloy nila.”

The PSU-Alaminos Campus which has enrolled hundreds of poor students who cannot afford to study in the very few but mostly commercialized private colleges started operation in 2010 as part of Mayor Hernani Braganza’s crusade to provide quality and affordable college education.

Braganza, whose family owned the Great Plebeian College which was similarly affected by the rise of the PSU-Alaminos, said that “as mayor of Alaminos, I will see to it that this provision of the Constitution that says that it is the right of every Filipino citizen to have quality education is made a reality.”

The establishment of the PSU-campus gained the support of various quarters including Dagupan City Mayor Benjamin S. Lim.

“The establishment of the PSU-campus in Alaminos is a “novel cause that deserves to be equaled,” Lim said as he announced his intention to also establish a state campus in his city for poor Dagupeños.

Mayor Lim advised those engaged in private education business to also consider helping poor students who want to study in college and “not just profits.”

Scoundrels in media

Ping De Jesus's replacement at the corruption-prone Department of Transportation & Communication should be a man of impeccable integrity. One of the personalities President Benigno Aquino III should look is Alaminos City Mayor Hernani Braganza. His sterling records in government service speak for themselves. He left the Arroyo Administration as a cabinet secretary because he could not stomach the intramurals and corruptions there.

One week after the submission of the irrevocable written resignation by Ping, undersecretaries Dante (our kabaleyan), Glicerio Sicat, and Ruben Reynoso have followed suit by resigning in mass, too.

Would these three posts vacant for politically unemployed province and city mates’ former Pangasinan governor Victor Agbayani, and former Dagupan City mayor Al Fernandez?

It bode well for Pangasinenses to see kabaleyan who belong to the Liberal Party lost in the last year election.

Just imagine if Dagupan City Mayor Benjie S. Lim and Pangasinan Governor Amado T. Espino lost last year.

They would have a China man’s chance to be appointed after the one year ban for losing bets.

But thank God, they won.

Now, its buy one takes two for us.

Benjie and Espines for the local scene.

Al and Victor for the national scence.

In short, a scintillating scene for Pangalatoks.

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Media man Rannie Manaois exposed in his column Medialante the alleged swindling activity of fellow media man Atong Remogat. Rani wrote in the vernacular that Atong pocketed P30 thousand that Bugallon Mayor Ric Orduna, Atong’s boss at the Presidents’s Office of the Pangasinan Mayors’ League, donated to a Bikini Fashion Show  in San Carlos City.

So, what’s new with the Pangasinan media. It is an organization abounds with scoundrels, hypocrites, extortionist, and estafador.

Even female members compete immorally and criminally with their male counterparts.

Have you heard a media woman running with thousands of pesos of media monies given by elective officials like congressmen in a certain city?

Have you heard media women living with another woman’s husband?

Have you heard an old lousy male announcer running with the money given by a mayor of Malasiqui when his companion, a newspaper columnist, was still interviewing the mayor?

Have you heard an old media man cutting the share of unwary colleagues who covered a particular big time politico?

Have your heard about a media official moralizing about the immorality in the media, but his actuations do not speak for himself?

Have you heard about a PR man of another big time official who pretends that no monies were given by his benefactor in an event –so that he could pocket some and give some to those media men who are loyal to him?

My Gaaaad, I got a lot of adverse stories for them that this column could not accommodate to narrate.