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Date Posted: 05:29:48 02/27/10 Sat
In reply to:
STOP Laņada
's message, "issue versus henry laņada" on 23:25:55 12/16/06 Sat
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>Surigao students call for
>college president's exit
>
>
>By Ben Serrano
>Sun.Star Caraga Correspondent
>
>
>SURIGAO CITY -- Faculty members and students of the
>state-owned Surigao State College and Technology
>(SSCT) demanded the ouster of its president, Engineer
>Henry S. Laņada.
>
>The students and faculty insisted that Laņada failed
>to disclose that he ran but lost in the mayoralty race
>in San Jose, Occidental Mindoro last May 2004.
>
>Petitioners, mostly officials of the faculty
>association and supreme student government, claimed
>that Laņada was appointed SSCT president last March 4,
>2004, two months short of the election laws'
>prohibition to appoint anyone seeking an elective
>position to public office.
>
>For that, faculty member Edwin Gumatao, SSCT Civil
>Technology instructor, filed last December 5, 2006 an
>administrative complaint against Laņada before the
>Ombudsman.
>
>Late afternoon Wednesday, the school's Board of
>Trustees held a meeting inside the Education and Media
>Resource Center of the school with Commission on
>Higher Education Commissioner Dr. Nona S. Ricafort,
>the current SCSCT Board of Trustees chair.
>
>During that time, 40 students held a lightning picket
>rally calling for Laņada's ouster and conducted a
>vigil outside the school premises.
>
>A melee almost ensued when policemen called up by
>Laņada started to disperse the ranks of the rallyists
>estimated to be composed of more than 80 placard
>bearing students.
>
>One of the organizers of the rally, SSCT Student
>Supreme Government president Feddilane Apole said that
>had it not been for the dispersal of the policemen
>many could have joined the picket demanding Laņada's
>ouster.
>
>SSCT faculty president Dr. Esperanza Dumaicos and
>faculty union president Jose Balili support the move
>for Laņada's ouster.
>
>They said Laņada displayed a "dictatorial attitude"
>towards his subordinates, which caused most of the
>faculty members to complain.
>
>"He (Laņada) is not a good leader and team builder, he
>presumes to know everything that's why he failed to
>consult us, his subordinates," the two faculty members
>said.
>
>Both claimed they were expecting the Board of Trustees
>to discuss in their meeting Tuesday night the signing
>bonus it has been asking for months now "but they
>seemed to play deaf and mute about it."
>
>The two officials said SSCT has about 288 teaching and
>non-teaching staff with more than 6,000 students
>mostly coming from poor families who wanted to avail
>of low tuition fees.
>
>Unlike other private schools here, which charges P250
>to P300 per unit, SCSCT only charges P80 to P150 per
>unit, SSCT Administative Officer Jocelyn T. Medina
>said.
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