DAY ONE
DAY TWO
DAY THREE
DAY FOUR
DAY FIVE
NEWS OPINION MSULOGY SCITECH FEATURE SPORTS
ENDOB TENTU
02 03 04 06 07 10
02
NEWS
JOHN PAUL SIAPEL
ENDOB TENTU
OPINION
DAY FOUR
03
RECALIBRATE NO STICKER, NO ENTRY POLICY What could have been utilized as a weapon meant to protect the welfare of students became the very thing that disabled them from truly enjoying the privileges and prerogatives that state university students should experience. When the administration released a special order to regulate vehicle access and parking within the university to ensure the safety of all individuals conducting business within its premises, students were the first to bear the burden of this policy, especially since it came with a fee that students found unjustifiable. Special Order (SO) No. 079-26C mandates students of this university to strictly comply with the vehicle pass policy, which requires all concerned members of the community to purchase a vehicle pass sticker. Unlike faculty members, staff, and higher-ranking officials, who are required to pay only Php 50 for a sticker for their two-wheeled vehicles, students are required to pay Php 100. Meanwhile, both groups are required to pay Php 150 for a sticker for a four-wheeled vehicle. This Php 100 fee prompted students to scrutinize the administration’s decision. Social media pages like MemeSu were barraged with posts questioning the merit of the policy and how it failed to cater to the best interests of students at this university. For one student who anonymously expressed concern online, using vehicle stickers as a means of preventing unforeseen accidents creates only a false sense of security. The efficacy of these stickers may be undermined when students are checked based on only two requirements: the vehicle sticker and the driver’s student ID. Under SO No. 079-26C, a student with a driver’s license but without a motor vehicle may apply for a vehicle pass sticker by submitting an Affidavit of Use of Vehicle and a photocopy of the vehicle owner’s
driver’s license. In this instance, students who do not have driver’s licenses but seek to use their friends’ vehicles bearing stickers may still pass through the university gates and freely roam the campus since during gates inspections, stickers and driver’s student ID are all what they need to show. A MemeSu post described the collection of Php 100 as unjustified, arguing that it capitalizes on students and could only encourage corruption in the long run. Ken and Jords, students from the College of Agriculture (CoA), questioned the increase from Php 50 to Php 100, which represents a 100 percent increase from the original price. They affirmed that the policy had become ‘anti-poor’ in the sense that it was insensitive to the living conditions experienced by MSUans, particularly amid fluctuating fuel prices and a community still recovering from an earthquake. According to our interviewees, no information or justification had been made available to explain the sudden increase in sticker prices or to clarify where the proceeds would go after collection. With no transparent measures explaining how the proceeds would be utilized, the administration has failed to provide details about what could otherwise have been a conducive initiative that students might benefit from. In response to an interview with Rhea M. Ayop, Director of the MSU-GenSan Business and Income Generating Office (BIGO), she reiterated that their role was
merely to implement the said special order. Full disclosure regarding the fee, she explained, was at the discretion of higher officials in the Chancellor’s Office. In this case, some complaining students may be acting on a faulty premise by directly expressing dissent online without first bringing their concerns to the appropriate offices, especially since these offices are located within the campus. Director Ayop defended her office and the other personnel involved in implementing the policy, including the MSU Police. In her account, four MSU Police officers reported an incident involving an engineering student who disrespected their authority when the student was not being able to comply with the vehicle pass requirements and eventually fled the scene during their confrontation. However, it would not be fair to dismiss students’ concerns entirely when the most accessible avenue through which they can make themselves heard may be the most unbalanced and unfair platform there is: social media. Student complaints were inevitable and valid, and it is the administration’s responsibility to provide substantial information if it wishes to prevent such criticism from arising in the first place. Students deserve to know where their money will go without having to inquire at every concerned office, because it is an inherent responsibility of the administration to fully deliberate on its initiatives and provide all the necessary information before their full-scale implementation.
06
SCITECH
ENDOB TENTU
QUILLING MINDS Vanguards seals championship title in VisArt competition ‘26; Asteegs, Tribals receives citation awards DAVE MODINA What if you can turn paper into something else? For MSU-GenSan students, turn it into art. Various teams representing their different colleges convened as the Paper Quilling Competition showcasing their excellence in making their creative minds into art on the third day of Intramurals 2026, October 14. Proving that they are definitely strong, the College of Social Sciences and Humanities (CSSH) Vanguards clinches the championship title making the Asteegs and Tribals fall short bagging 1st and 2nd runner ups respectively. Meanwhile, the Tribals received the OVCSAS choice award, and Asteegs as the Bida Gensan awardee.
When is preparing early wrong?
In an interview with Bagwis, Isla explained that though it is not clearly stated in the guidelines that preparing early will lead to disqualification, it is prohibited. “There is a lapse in the wording that there should be disqualification, the committee decided that there will be no deduction,” he explained. He also added that they will now leave it to the ‘integrity’ of the artists while doing the quilling.
Try something new On the other hand, Isla also mentioned that every year they want to try something new, coming up with paper quilling this year for a visual art competition.
During the awarding of the said event, Isla shared that there is a college who prepared first beforehand but he did not specify who and how the participant prepared.
“This year, we tried another one, which is more on paper, because we would like to show that art is difficult, it takes a lot of human ingenuity and human heart, that no AI can do,” Isla addressed.
This led to a collective decision of the judges to retain everyone in the competition without deducting any participating groups in the event.
Isla then shared that next year they are planning to consider different competition in the form of fashion, textile, and other art forms.
Detailed to excellence In an interview with Bagwis, Briel Marc Sustituido, one of the participants from CSSH, he elaborated that the art they came up with represents ‘metamorphosis’ showing transitions, stages, and evolution of the campus towards excellence. “We cultivate ourselves into becoming a wonderful butterfly who continues to fly. And given that, as a butterfly, we still pollinate, we do our roles, like for example, we’ll do our roles in the society, man din, as a graduates or as an MSUan,” Sustituido elaborated. He also added that their team prepared abruptly, focusing on planning and testing in a smaller canvas a day before the competition. “It was fun because paper quilling is new to us and nabigyan namin siya ng chance and compete na agad and it was such a fun experience po,” Sustituido added.
DAY FOUR
FEATURE
07
08
FEATURE
ENDOB TENTU
DAY FOUR
FEATURE
09
10
SPORTS
ENDOB TENTU
DAY FOUR
SPORTS
11