Let CHED do its work 


BY ATTY. BATAS MAURICIO

LIFE’S INSPIRATIONS: “…But from everlasting to everlasting the Lord’s love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness with their children’s children---with those who keep his covenant and remember to obey his precepts…” (Psalm 103:17-18, the Holy Bible).

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LET CHED DO ITS WORK: Now, there are two branches of government looking into supposed additional miscellaneous charges being made by schools and universities against their students during school opening in June---first the Senate, and second, Malacanang. To me, this is an overkill.

To find out if the miscellaneous charges are legally permissible, the constitution by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) of a committee, headed by its legal counsel, lawyer Julio Vitriolo, is the most appropriate step.

All that has to be done is, study the laws on schools and universities and find out if these laws allow such additional miscellaneous charges, and the Vitriolo committee should be able to establish that. There is no longer any need for the intervention of the Senate and the Office of the Malacanang.

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CONGRATS, ILOCOS SUR REP. RYAN LUIS SINGSON: I congratulate newly-elected Ilocos Sur Rep. Ryan Luis Singson, son of Ilocos Sur Gov. Luis “Chavit” Singson and brother of former Rep. Ronald Singson, for his election in the special congressional elections in the province. Agbiyag kayo, Apo Congressman.

Yet, will please someone clarify if this election, as well as the political exercise in May 2010, already means the “political separation” of the Singsons and their closest political allies in Ilocos Sur, the Baterina Family?

I am asking this question because in the elections May 2010 and May 2011, a Baterina fought the Singsons tooth and nail, indicating, as it were, a fierce battle between the previously-allied families. What happened here?

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SETTING ONE’S SELF ON THINGS ABOVE: Anyone who professes to be a believer and follower of Jesus Christ must struggle to set his whole being on things above, and no longer on earthly things. Anyone who continues to live according to the whims and caprices of this world, even if he professes to be a believer of Jesus, will still reap destruction.

“Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things,” Colossians 3:1-2 of the Holy Bible says.

“Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry,” verse 5 of Colossians 3 says, and, in its verse 6, a warning is made: “Because of these, the wrath of God is coming upon the disobedient.”