A blow to UP econ profs’ integrity

I was surprised at the vitriol hurled by 23 professors of the UP School of Economics against the students who demonstrated last week against Budget Secretary Florencio Abad, one or two of whom reportedly threw coins and a placard at him, (Jungian synchronicity? It was also a placard thrown at Marcos on January 26, 1970 as he was leaving Congress that triggered the massive student demonstrations against the regime called the First Quarter Storm.)

In their joint statement, the professors called the students “enemies of the University,” a term which is very revealing of their mindset. That term is of the same genre that fascists and authoritarian regimes hurl at those who criticize them: “Enemies of the State.”