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NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
• Jose Cosido
NATIONAL PRESIDENT
(The Catalyst, PUP)
brown_rimbaud@yahoo.com
• Rowie Madula
SECRETARY GENERAL,
(Matanglawin, ADMU)
rowimadula@atenista.com
• Jason Valenzuela
DEPUTY SECRETARY GENERAL
(The Catalyst, PUP)
JasonValenzuela@gmail.com
• Leo Angelo Nery
VP FOR LUZON
(Matanglawin, ADMU)
• Kristine Marie Musni
VP FOR VISAYAS
(Tug-Ani, UP Cebu)
• Paolo Dumayac
VP FOR MINDANAO
(Atenews, Ateneo De Davao)
NATIONAL SECRETARIAT
• Shineth Fabian Kiram
(The Catalyst, PUP)
• Frederick Dabu
(Manila Collegian, UP Manila)
E-MAIL US
cegpnational@yahoo.com
guilders_2001@yahoogroups.com
The College Editors Guild of the Philippines is an alliance of tertiary campus publications nationwide. Founded on 1931, CEGP is a patriotic and democratic alliance of over 750 student publications nationwide. It is the national center for the advancement of campus press freedom.
CEGP is considered to be the largest, oldest existing, and the only student organization of its kind in the Asia Pacific Region.
An alliance of tertiary student publications.
Membership is open to all tertiary student publications.
It has over 750 student publications as members from more than 500 schools in 68 (out of 78) provinces and cities nationwide.
A patriotic and democratic organization.
It is patriotic. It ardently struggles against foreign domination and control in economy, politics, culture and all spheres of national life.
It is democratic. It upholds and defends the interest and welfare of the Filipino people.
This commitment has kept the CEGP as one of the oldest- existing and widest youth organization in the country.
The national center for the advancement of campus press freedom.
It is steadfast in advancing and protecting the right of every student to seek, receive and impart information to any medium without any interference.
Structure
The biennial National Student Press Congress is the highest policy- making body of the CEGP. It is composed of member publications. It adopts the Two-Year General Program of Action, elects new national officers, accepts new members and adopts positions on issues.
The biannual National Council meeting is the second highest policy- making body composed of elected and appointed local and national leaders.
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SA MAYO 23-27 NA ANG ATING PAMBANSANG KUMBENSYON sa BAGO APLAYA, DAVAO CITY! Naririto ang ilang mga dadalhin at paalala sa mga dadalong publikasyon:
1. Damit para sa limang araw. Sa unang araw, pormal ang pagbubukas ng programa kaya ipinapaalala na ang dress code po natin ay 'damit-Filipino' gaya ng barong o kamisa sa mga lalaki, at saya sa mga babae.
2. Mga personal na gamit gaya ng toiletries at personal effects.
3. Mga kopya ng inyong publikasyon upang ipamahagi sa ibang guilders. Ipinapaalala rin ang entries para sa Gawad Ernesto Rodriguez Jr. at para sa Gawad Benjaline Hernandez.
4. Pambayad sa Kumbensyon at Institutional Fees. P2800 ang halaga ng pagpapatala para sa ating kumbensyon, at P500 naman ang halaga ng Institutional Fee kada publikasyon para sa buong taon.
5. Mga report ukol sa publikasyon (particular sa mga Miyembro ng National Council) na maaaring maibahagi sa plenaryo at caucus upang mapag-usapan at magawan ng agarang aksyon.
Magkita-kita tayo! 
Cantoneros death adds the list of slaughtered journalists
Campus press condemns government rejection of RP press situation
A day after the journalists commemorated the World Press Freedom day by protesting the unprecedented cases of journalists killings, another media man was shot dead in
The government’s statement is an insult to independent media organizations such as the New York- based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and the Paris- based Reporters Sans Frontieres (Reporters Without Boarders), that reported the Philippines as the most murderous place for media men, followed by Iraq, Colombia, Bangladesh and Russia, since 2000. No other personalities and elements who can state the situation of the journalists but the journalists itself, aside from the recognition as the fourth estate, media men never speak or write news articles and statements that is not based on facts. This practice had long gained a historical role and established the fourth estate, hence serves as the watchdog againsts anomalies, corruption and malpractices perpetrated by governments. An insult indeed to Philippine journalists.
The president’s rejection as what its press secretary describes ‘unfair and exaggerated’ manifests the passive reaction of the government to resolve the cases of killings that upstaged the journalists situation in the war- torn It is not ‘unfair and exaggerated’ to report that the death of the 29 journalist in just four years is the highest toll ever in the history of Philippine journalism. Not even the gruesome attacks that happen almost every month. In two months alone, the latest victim Klien Cantoneros is the fourth case of journalist assassination- thus it is ‘unfair and exaggerated’ for the government. The widespread attacks do not only violate the freedom of the press but also the people’s right to be informed thus parallel to the death of democracy. The government that snobs the reality is a government that never deserves respect from the messengers and the people. Its unreliable comments reflect another violation though.
CEGP commemorates International Day of Press Freedom;
Condemns the intensified attacks against Freedom of Expression
The College Editors of the Philippines (CEGP) expresses solidarity with journalists around the world in the celebration of the International Day for ress Freedom on May 3. Yet, journalists in the Philippines have little to be happy about as media killings in the country has escalated on a scale surpassing the era of Martial Law. Despite the attacks, terrorist tagging of media organizations has even threatened journalists.
Since 1986, 66 journalists have already been brutally murdered on media- related killings, 29 in the present regime. The Arroyo government has yet to resolve the cases of media killings even up to the present, and has failed to prosecute those responsible. This is mainly because the murderers of journalists are placed in high positions in the government, especially the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
Cases of media repression are even sponsored by the government. The Arroyo regime has blatantly identified media groups, such as the CEGP, Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) and the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) as enemies of the state in the military-created presentation “Knowing the Enemy.” While the President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo preaches the dictum of support with progressive ideals, her administration practices the most advanced forms of repression in order to prevent journalists from performing their functions as defenders of the interests of the Filipino people.
In schools, cases of campus press freedom violations has become standard operating procedure for school administrations. Utilizing the repressive RA 7079 or the Campus Journalism Act of 1991, school administrations have the legal power to deprive the campus press of the lifeblood of their operations, which is the publication fee, as well as censure
articles which are critical of the corrupt and commercialized operations of their schools.
School administrations resort to actual violence, as threats of academic and physical intimidation serve to to subjugate student journalists. Editors of The Perpetualite¸ the official publication of the University of Perpetual Help DALTA have been suspended on petty administration cases as a result of articles written on their paper. The school administration has yet to resolve as well the ransacking of the publication office, where equipment was either stolen or sabotaged.
The CPU of The Catalyst of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines was stolen as their office was broken into by still unnamed people. While
investigations are still to be conducted, initial evidence points to military and intelligence agents.
Cases of gross disrespect were filed against the writers of The Trinity Observer of the Trinity College of Quezon City simply because of an article on the publication’s position on the recent student elections.
Publications such as The Core of the Central Colleges of the Philippines and Ang Pamantasan of Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila have lost their autonomy, as persistent meddling by school administration resulted into dubious editorial board nominations and transformed their publications into school press releases.
The editor-in-chief of Tug-Ani, along with other student leaders of the University of the Philippines - Cebu was pinpointed as communists and terrorists by the NSTP. In a powerpoint presentation, pictures of them participating at rallies were shown to students, and branding them as subversive elements and state enemies.
It is press freedom advocacy that these media organizations mainly advance, yet they are called terrorists. It is even the living condition of the
media workers who are deprived from their right to just salaries and benefits that they are organized,
but the AFP put them in the hit list.
On the International Day for Press Freedom, CEGP mourns with the family of the slain journalists, the journalist community and the Filipinos deprived from the right to press freedom and information. We further commemorate it with our fists in the air and our pens in protest, militantly asserting the people’s right to freedom of expression
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