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Prayer
rally for UP killing
Excerpt
from an article published in the Manila Bulletin;
February 23, 1999
Meanwhile,
officials of Trinity College of Quezon City (TQCC)
suspended the suspects in the hazing of a stepson
of radio journalist Lito Villarosa and another student
who are taking an advance course of the Reserved Officers
Training Corps (ROTC).
The
victims suffered severe hazing early this month and
told school auhorities of their ordeal. The parents
of the victims have also asked the Commission on Higher
Education (CHED) to investigate the matter.
Remedios
Rosal, TCQC dean of the Center for Student Services
(CSS), identified the victims as Jacqueson Dalire
Jr., a stepson of Villarosa, and Jose Antonio Balingit.
They are first year students taking up BS Computer
Science at the school's College of Arts and Sciences.
Suspects
in the hazing of Dalire were TCQC ROTC Corps Commander
James Cruz and his deputy Julius Zamora.
Commissioner
Bernardo J. Mitra of the National Youth Commission
(NYC) said the continued practice of hazing is due
to pressure inflicted by both members and alumni of
fraternities on the present leadership of a fraternity
or sorority.
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