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P5-million financial outlay for Philippine Collegian

Press Release
  • Office of the Minority Leader Edcel C. Lagman
  • 0916-6406737 / 0918-9120137
  • 11 October 2011

  

Minority Leader and Albay Representative Edcel C. Lagman proposed the inclusion in the University of the Philippines’ 2012 budget a P5-million financial outlay for the Philippine Collegian, the UP students’ campus newspaper.

           The Philippine Collegian, which is celebrating its 89th year of progressive and indomitable alternative journalism, is facing a serious financial crisis which may impair its regular publication and the number of pages of the weekly campus organ.

            For about 20 years the measly student fee of P40 per semester has not been increased while the cost of publication has inordinately escalated.

            In recent years the total collection is short by P1-M annually to cover printing and allied expenses.

            Lagman, who is the president of the Philippine Collegian Alumni Editors Association, urged his colleagues, particularly Collegian alumni in the House and Senate, to support the financial assistance to the Philippine Collegian.