{"id":128782,"date":"2017-11-06T03:41:07","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T08:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=128782"},"modified":"2017-11-06T03:41:07","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T08:41:07","slug":"senators-slam-ust-anew-for-allowing-unrecognized-frat-to-operate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/11\/06\/senators-slam-ust-anew-for-allowing-unrecognized-frat-to-operate\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators slam UST anew for allowing unrecognized frat to operate"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_128790\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-128790\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/23172685_1678975188793422_5690194772334996964_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128790\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/23172685_1678975188793422_5690194772334996964_n.jpg\" alt=\"Senator Grace Poe said the fraternity was even allowed to join the UST Faculty of Civil Law freshman orientation and appear on the faculty website. (Photo: Senate of the Philippines) \" width=\"960\" height=\"589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/23172685_1678975188793422_5690194772334996964_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/23172685_1678975188793422_5690194772334996964_n-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/23172685_1678975188793422_5690194772334996964_n-768x471.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-128790\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senator Grace Poe said the fraternity was even allowed to join the UST Faculty of Civil Law freshman orientation and appear on the faculty website. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/senateph\/photos\/a.815377408486542.1073741828.749071305117153\/1678975188793422\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/senateph\/\">Senate of the Philippines)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA\u2014<\/strong>\u00a0Senators on Monday slammed the officials of the University of Santo Tomas (UST) anew for allowing the Aegis Juris fraternity to operate despite not being a recognized organization.<\/p>\n<p>During the resumption of the hearing into the alleged hazing death of UST law student Horacio \u201cAtio\u201d Castillo III, senators stressed that UST officials showed \u201cnegligence\u201d for imposing vague guidelines on organization accreditation.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Grace Poe said the fraternity was even allowed to join the UST Faculty of Civil Law freshman orientation and appear on the faculty website.<\/p>\n<p>Office of Student Affairs director Socorro Guan Hing explained that the fraternity submitted their papers for recognition and were \u201cpresumed regular.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>UST Faculty of Civil Law Dean Nilo Divina, for his part, clarified that the fraternity was removed from the website when they were not recognized.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri, who pushed for the hearing into Atio\u2019s death, stressed that the problem was that students did not know the status of the organization because if they did, they would not have joined the fraternity in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Because of UST\u2019s inaction, the senator said Atio joined the frat thinking it was \u201crecognized\u201d and \u201cduly-registered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Poe, meanwhile, said that she will ask the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) to determine if the university should also have liability for negligence.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Sherwin Gatchalian also asked UST officials to submit to the committee \u201csteps undertaken right after incident\u201d and \u201cmeasures that will be taken in the next few months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also urged officials to be more \u201cproactive\u201d in preventing incidents such as this from happening again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u2014\u00a0Senators on Monday slammed the officials of the University of Santo Tomas (UST) anew for allowing the Aegis Juris fraternity &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":128790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95],"tags":[24595,31414],"class_list":["post-128782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-ph","tag-aegis-juris-fraternity","tag-death-of-ust-law-student-horacio-atio-castillo-iii","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}