Professors in 5 Metro universities denounce ‘militarization’

AFTER the walkout staged by University of the Philippines (UP) on Tuesday, professors in at least five universities in Metro Manila, including UP, expressed their opposition to the proposed entry of the military and police in campuses.

In a press conference in UP on Wednesday, professors from Ateneo De Manila University (ADMU), University of Santo Tomas (UST), Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) and Far Eastern University (FEU) stressed the need to defend academic freedom and decried the red-tagging of schools as a recruitment hub for the New Peoples’ Army (NPA), which they claimed was actually an attempt to silence those critical of the government.