More Than Expressing Our Views
CHRISTIAN LLOYD M. ESPINOZA
February|2009
The pilot issue of Kartilya garnered positive response from both students and some faculty members, and even from other student writers of various publications in different schools. There have been enthusiastic encouragements to publish a regular issue and to widen the circulation. Financial impediments and day-to-day academic life have unfortunately caused some delays for the release of this second issue.
Kartilya has been founded under the basic guiding principles of La Liga Politica in advocating liberty, integrity, fraternity, and equality. It pursues the visions of the framers of our organization to create a venue for intellectual discussions that serves as a vehicle to elevate the political consciousness of students and in inculcating nationalist and patriotic ideals.
As such, we have devised a method to encourage LLP and non-LLP members, and students from other disciplines to write so as to ensure that a wide range of articles can be collected for publication. So far, as it turned out, just about enough articles have been submitted that the editorial board has not had to go through the much arduous phase of debating over which articles to discard for later publication. We have also enlarged the editorial board in our efforts to ensure a pluralist body representative of different political tendencies. Admittedly, though, we have not yet been successful in composing a board that is broad enough to fully represent different political beliefs.
However, Kartilya should not only serve as a spot for Political Science majors and students from other fields of disciplines to express their political views. It should foremost promote social awareness and critical thinking across the entire UM community, extending to the larger society outside of the university.
We have thus resolutely pursued in publishing this issue despite the aforementioned limitations on the firm belief that this shall further pave way for discussions on issues that confront our society.
We believe that the articles on this issue of Kartilya are enough collection of embers to ignite the nationalist spirit among our constituents. Indeed, our task is a daunting one, but if sustained, will further enflame into a burning passion for us to collectively act in changing the course of history towards a genuinely democratic and progressive society.
This is our commitment, this is our firm resolve.
CHRISTIAN LLOYD M. ESPINOZA
February|2009
The pilot issue of Kartilya garnered positive response from both students and some faculty members, and even from other student writers of various publications in different schools. There have been enthusiastic encouragements to publish a regular issue and to widen the circulation. Financial impediments and day-to-day academic life have unfortunately caused some delays for the release of this second issue.
Kartilya has been founded under the basic guiding principles of La Liga Politica in advocating liberty, integrity, fraternity, and equality. It pursues the visions of the framers of our organization to create a venue for intellectual discussions that serves as a vehicle to elevate the political consciousness of students and in inculcating nationalist and patriotic ideals.
As such, we have devised a method to encourage LLP and non-LLP members, and students from other disciplines to write so as to ensure that a wide range of articles can be collected for publication. So far, as it turned out, just about enough articles have been submitted that the editorial board has not had to go through the much arduous phase of debating over which articles to discard for later publication. We have also enlarged the editorial board in our efforts to ensure a pluralist body representative of different political tendencies. Admittedly, though, we have not yet been successful in composing a board that is broad enough to fully represent different political beliefs.
However, Kartilya should not only serve as a spot for Political Science majors and students from other fields of disciplines to express their political views. It should foremost promote social awareness and critical thinking across the entire UM community, extending to the larger society outside of the university.
We have thus resolutely pursued in publishing this issue despite the aforementioned limitations on the firm belief that this shall further pave way for discussions on issues that confront our society.
We believe that the articles on this issue of Kartilya are enough collection of embers to ignite the nationalist spirit among our constituents. Indeed, our task is a daunting one, but if sustained, will further enflame into a burning passion for us to collectively act in changing the course of history towards a genuinely democratic and progressive society.
This is our commitment, this is our firm resolve.
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