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Friday, April 02, 2004
WVSU president orders probe on complaints v. 3 profs
By Nanette L. Guadalquiver
THE administration of the West Visayas State University (WVSU) created a body tasked to investigate the complaints of graduating Broadcasting students against their three professors in the College of Mass Communication (CMC), including dean Francisca Borja.
The "Adhoc Committee to Investigate Mass Comm Cases" formed by WVSU president Dr. Lourdes Arañador is headed by Dr. Edna Ticao, vice president for academic affairs.
Ticao said the committee has been holding a series of meetings since Wednesday to "thresh out" procedures they will follow in the course of the investigation.
"We are now determining the legal procedures before starting with the investigation," she said.
Ticao said they would also refer these procedures to the Civil Service Commission.
The WVSU official added the results of the fact-finding would be submitted to the Board of Regents (BOR).
Although the Committee is tasked to investigate, Ticao said they have no authority to release the results of their investigation unless there is a go-signal from Arañador or the BOR.
Arañador's formed the investigating body after a group of graduating Broadcasting students disclosed their plan to filed charges before the Office of the Ombudsman against Borja, Dr. Alexis Diamante and Prof. Cynthia Morga for illegal collection of fees and harassment.
The group of students, Vanessa Estrella, Leah Ann Panelo, Rowena Dala, Criselle Luz Bautista and Andrea Marie Alicer, earlier said the fees collected by the three professors such as P100 defense fee and P25 for approval sheets were not sanctioned by the administration.
Estrella earlier said their complaints are not new as a number of alumni have also shared their concerns as stated in their earlier statement calling for the ouster of Borja, Diamante and Morga.
She added that what happened to her and her thesis partner Wenelyn Gasapo, wherein Morga claimed to have "lost" all their three thesis revisions a day before their graduation rites, became the "last straw" for her and her classmates.
Panelo said they are pursuing the case as they don't want the future generations of Mass Comm students to suffer the "harassment" and "emotional and psychological torture" they suffered from their three professors especially Morga.
"We stood up and decided to file a case against them because we believe our complaints can no longer be settled in the university level," Estrella added.
(April 2, 2004 issue)
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