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Sazon and Fernandez

Photos by ZHEA KATRINA R. ESTRADA
Student Council shake-up

ABSC Pres, VP face impeachment raps;

four officers resign from their posts

By LORENZ CHRISTOFFER S. MARASIGAN

The Arts and Letters Student Council (ABSC) is now experiencing a shake-up as an impeachment
complaint was filed against President Julius Fernandez and External Vice President Rhodel Sazon, Jr. for
“culpable violation of the ABSC constitution,” “gross negligence of duties,” and “abusive use of power”;
while four other ABSC officers resigned from their posts.

THE POLITICAL Science Forum (TPSF) filed gence” on the part of ABSC for not relaying resent the Artlets in the University-wide
an impeachment complaint to the Board the rules of the University-wide pageant pageant.
of Majors (BOM) against Arts and Letters properly.
Student Council (ABSC) President Julius Catiis, who stands 5’3”, was not quali- Constitutional violations
Fernandez and External Vice President fied to join the TSITP because the Stu- The TPSF filed the impeachment com-
Rhodel Sazon, Jr., stating that they violated dent Organizations’ Coordinating Council plaint against Fernandez and Sazon on De-
certain provisions in the ABSC constitution (SOCC) requires a minimum of 5’4’’ and cember 14 and sent a series of petition to
as organizers of Insignia 2011, the search 5’6’’ for the female and male candidates, expedite the processing of the case.
for the epitomes of Artlet beauty, last No- respectively. According to the complaint, Fernandez
vember. Due to Catiis’ disqualification, Insignia violated six provisions of the ABSC Consti-
This was due to Ms. Arts and Letters first runner-up Angelica Tingcungco will tution namely: Article III, Section 2 (ABSC’s
(Artlets) and Political Science Senior Joliv represent the Faculty in TSITP. responsibility in organizing activities) writ-
Catiis’s disqualification to the Search for The ABSC earlier negotiated the case of ten in the complaint as Article II, Section 2;
the Ideal Thomasian Personality (TSITP). Catiis with the SOCC, but the latter upheld Article III, Section 3 (the Council’s transpar-
The TPSF claimed that it was “gross negli- their rules and refused to allow her to rep- ency) written in the compliant as Article III,
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