just wanna share..because my PR professor mentioned about what happened in Baguio..the things you said here..

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It seems the “diploma mill city” has struck a raw nerve. I was sent a forwarded email from a Baguio Yahoo Group with an ex-Baguio resident living in Texas for the past years saying I did not know what I was talking about. And I have a post in the wings I have been editing for the past two months explaining why I believe this is so. But I did not want to release it during election time.

But really, when schools do not require entrance exams and allow students to enroll or transfer mid-semester, when they do not provide gardens and trees for the students minds to breathe, when they show no concern for maximum weight load capacities for their buildings by increasing their enrollment indiscriminately (not everything is about student to classroom ratio), when they do not broaden the students’ horizons by giving them a wide array of extra-curricular options and student lounges, when they ask the professors to lower their standards or expectations from the students, I call those diploma mills. I feel, for the tuition they charge, they should look into expanding their area or moving out from the middle of town, and giving the kids more for their parents’ money.

Every town or city has produced notable folk — I do congratulate UC for producing 2 bar topnotchers. Now if only a bigger percentage of graduates would pass the bar… but I believe they’re getting there. Entrance exams, maybe? To weed out those who cannot write well in English?

I do not mean to offend I just worry about all the kids whose parents work so hard to give them a college degree.

And I do welcome contrary views as they help make this city a better place.

Thanks for your comment!

And though I agree too that we Bagiuo residents are partly responsible for the city’s “uglification” (thank oyu Jack Cariño for popularizing the word), I also think that the city’s past and present trapos, who believe that the overwhelming presence of concrete is the only gauge for a city’s progress, who sold Baguio to the highest bidders and bombarded us with flyovers (both completed and unfinished) and shopping malls are the ones to blame. These they did with lightning speed, things developed so fast and the citizens just didn’t get to react as fast. We made our voices heard in the 2004 elections but as you said, the people’s choice got so obsessed with his fight against a pay parking firm that he forgot about the rest of the city.

I can only hope that the people’s choice in the recent elections will prove to be the right one. All’s not lost.

Yup made lots of folks panic. Visitors are still concerned about it even now. It was even used by a pharma company trying to sell the meningo meds in their print ads.

Hello Gomi,

You should see the news or features they have about places like Dagupan in the early evening — like tricycle collisions are important. Just so they have something to say. I would even get calls from them about featuring Baguio as a haunted city. Like I would agree to help them.

Thank you very much Channel 2.

Yup, sometimes the folks here can be tiresome in their ignorance. If only Session Road would be a wasteland everyday — game! Para the pickpockets would leave Baguio.

i remember session road looking like a wasteland during the meningococcemia scare. it really didn’t help that the local government was feeding (on) the panic to get a little dough.