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#HAUyokoNa: Students rally online for compassionate, pro-student policies

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ANGELES CITY — In an attempt to make the administrators of the Holy Angel University here heed their call for compassionate, pro-student approach, the students rally through an online petition for an immediate appeal and call-to-action on the university’s policies on Friday.

Through the HAU student publication, The Angelite, together with the university organizations led by HAU Speak Now, and Anakbayan HAU chapter, along with its student councils, the students organized an alliance to air their concerns over HAU’s academic policies amid the Covid-19 pandemic and the SY 2020-2021. 

HAU Speak Now formally released their concern through an online petition at www.change.org as they call the rest of the students for an online rally including the social media app Twitter using the hashtag #HAUyokoNa on Friday night which went viral earning the second spot for top trending hashtags with almost 10,000 tweets.

According to the HAU Speak Now, the seven demands are based from the complaints received by their organization as they “strongly condemn in its highest form” the allegedly inconsiderate and anti-poor policies that HAU has exhibited in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The seven-point demands listed in the petition are as follows:

1. Move the opening of classes with accordance to the enhanced community quarantine.
2. Stop the implementation of online classes if the university cannot provide compensation to all the students who don’t have internet access and/or resources.
3. Freeze the increase of tuition and other school fees.
4. Present a clear and definite breakdown of the tuition fees.
5. Deduct the payment of services that the students will not benefit from.
6. Ensure the income of all employees from the teaching and non-teaching personnel.
7. Retract the payment of all students undergoing summer classes; provide student discount and not loan.
To date, the petition has already reached more than 7,500 signatures which will be submitted to the university admin including a filing of formal complaint to the Commission on Higher Education-III.

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