On Karl’s Comment

Sanggunian President Karl Satinitigan commented at Gadfly Blogspot:

“It may be more sober if we encourage dialogue first before actually coming out with official statements, which have not been very effective in the past few years.

My personal opinion is that we’re barking on the tree if we constantly condemn the HSA and not soberly or constructively discuss our security issues with this administration.

Just a thought.
-Karl of Sanggu”

We in the Society do believe that Sanggunian’s task goes beyond releasing a statement that captures the sentiments of the student populace. We believe that for something as complicated (think broadly) as the HSA, it’s truly difficult to take a stand (except on the gray areas). But we think it is foremost the Sanggunian’s role to get the students involved in such a national issue. As many before me have stated, Sanggunian should not only be representative but also participatory, just like any form of democracy. We do believe those in Sanggunian know this more than we do. We just hope we don’t get stuck on debating whether a statement issued by the Sanggunian is contradictory or not to the sentiments of the (uninformed/under-represented) student body.

Again, it is not just the Sanggunian’s task to do all these. We are imploring the student organizations who claim to be socially relevant and enlightened to make their voices heard and their actions seen so that the whole student body may be spurred from inaction.