55.56% of SC aspirants no-show at Miting de Avance
NEWS
ERRATUM | A mistake in the official count of attendees has been made by the publication, particularly the number of aspirants from DLC. The latter has been revised already; hence, the publication owns up to these lapses.
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Recording the lowest number of attendees in the recent memory of the DHVSU student election, the 2024 Miting de Avance revealed that only 60 out of 135 aspiring student leaders put in an effort to deliver their advocacies and faced several questions in the penultimate stage of the electoral process on May 31 at the University Hostel.
The said number is translated to 44.44% of the total aspirants, which means that 55.56%, or 75 of the 135 candidates for elections, were no-show in the said undertaking.
Notably, colleges that appeared with zero candidates for the said process include the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) and the College of Engineering and Architecture (CEA). The College of Education (COE), which has nine posts on its slate, managed to send at least one candidate.
Relatively, among the regular campuses of DHVSU, only Lubao Campus carried on to the Miting de Avance.
Meanwhile, two out of the six University Student Council (USC) hopefuls were not also present in the aforementioned undertaking.
In the defense of the absentees, the Student Commission on Elections told the publication that the common reasons why these contenders did not make it to the event include the final defense, final examinations, college-based endeavors, and laboratory activities.
While there were those who had valid excuses, some candidates did not announce the reasons why they did not participate in the said event, since SCOM mentioned that they did not require the Miting de Avance mandatory for the aspiring student-leaders.
