UPD College of Arts and Letters Student Council

| General Assembly 0 Provisional Agenda

The CAL Student Council will hold General Assembly 0 on June 20, 2026, 2:00 PM to 6:30 PM through Zoom video conference. The provisional agenda for General Assembly 0 is listed in the graphic below.

The assembly will be broadcasted live for public viewing. Concerns and grievances can be placed on the comments section of the live broadcast or you can also message us directly.

MIDYEAR 2026 REGISTRATION PRIMER

Mga Artista ng Bayan, tomorrow, June 16 (Tuesday), is the last day of registration! Please refer to the primer below for the registration process and email channels per department. 📝

Access the full PDF primer here for the links:
🔗https://bit.ly/midyearregistrationprimer2026
🔗https://bit.ly/midyearregistrationprimer2026
🔗https://bit.ly/midyearregistrationprimer2026

🗓️Kindly be reminded of the important dates below
June 15 - Start of registration
June 16 - Last day of registration
June 18 - Start of classes
June 25 - Last day of change of matriculation

You may also answer the CALSC registration sensing form for concerns,requests, and inquiries regarding registration on or before June 25, 2026 (Thursday) at 11:59 PM or schedule a virtual consultation with the council. You may also opt to seek assistance onsite at PAV 1 (near CAL 101) from June 16 to 20 and at CNB basement from June 18 to 20. Other non-CAL students who have concerns regarding CAL courses/units may also answer the form below.

Registration Sensing Form:
🔗https://tinyurl.com/Midyear-26-Regis-SF

Virtual Help Desk Schedule:
🔗https://tinyurl.com/Midyear-26-Onl-Help-Desk

Any contact information collected will remain confidential and be used solely for clarification, if necessary.

For other questions or concerns, you may contact your respective department representatives stated in the Google form. You may also email CALSC through [email protected].

[MIDYEAR 2026] REGISTRATION SENSING FORM AND HELP DESKS

Midyear '26 enrollee? 🤔 We gotchu! 🫵🏽

💡If you have registration-related concerns, questions, and requests this Midyear 2026, the CALSC opens the Registration Sensing Form to collate these and assess the registration period as a whole.

Registration Sensing Form:
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/Midyear-26-Regis-SF
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/Midyear-26-Regis-SF
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/Midyear-26-Regis-SF

💡 Students may also opt to schedule a virtual consultation with the council should they prefer to raise their registration matters synchronously but unable to attend the onsite help desk.

Virtual Help Desk Schedule:
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/Midyear-26-Onl-Help-Desk
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/Midyear-26-Onl-Help-Desk
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/Midyear-26-Onl-Help-Desk

💡Both forms will be open until June 25. Meanwhile, the onsite help desk will be situated at PAV 1 (near CAL 101) from June 16 to 20 and at CNB basement from June 18 to 20.

🗓️ Kindly also take note of the pertinent dates with regards to the Registration period:

📌 15 JUNE 2026: General Registration period (Midyear '26)
📌 16 JUNE 2026: Last Day for Withdrawal of Enlistment
📌 18 JUNE 2026: First day of Classes (Midyear '26)
📌 25 JUNE 2026: Last Day of Change Matriculation

📞 Should you have immediate concerns and queries, kindly direct them to the following channels:

📧 CALSC FB Page or email ([email protected])
📧 CALSC Chairperson Nirene De Padua ([email protected])

CALSC ‘25-’26 x CALSC ‘26-’27 TURNOVER CEREMONY

The UPD College of Arts and Letters Student Council officially held its turnover ceremony yesterday, June 10, in a hybrid setup, marking the transition from the outgoing council to the newly elected student leaders of CAL. As a new term approaches, the previous council also commends the new batch of leaders for their commitment and courageous acceptance of the challenge to serve.

The CALSC ‘26-’27 commits itself to becoming an accountable, transparent, and competent council, while aiming to sustain the college’s solidarity and militant spirit through amplifying its campaigns and genuinely representing and serving the entire CAL community.

Tuloy ang laban, mga Artista ng Bayan! ✊🏽

OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF ARTISTA NG BAYAN ON THE DISCRIMINATION OF TRANS IDENTITY INSIDE THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND LETTERS

The College of Arts and Letters Student Council (CALSC) and the College of Arts and Letters FST Council (CALFSTC), together with the different organizations part of the Voice of CAL (VoCAL), strongly condemns the transphobic remarks made by certain faculty members against Ms. Obi Magsombol, a trans woman, an anthropologist, a writer, and a graduate student from the Department of Anthropology. The above signatories stand in solidarity with Ms. Magsombol. Remarks such as those were repeatedly dismissed as “jokes,” which the CALSC, the CALFSTC, VoCAL, and the CAL Community strongly denounce. We recognize that this heedless complicity perpetuates greater harms to the trans and greater q***r community, especially to trans women, who bear the dual brunt of q***rphobia and male chauvinism characteristic to the Philippines’ machofeudal cultural make-up, a pervasive transmisogyny that seeps into even the most progressive of cultural spaces in the country.

Such statements are unacceptable and run contrary to what CAL upholds. The students and faculty of CAL, of which may be writers, artists, cultural workers, academics, and activists, are expected to produce art and literature amidst the lack of physical spaces and security. The faculty members involved in Ms. Magsombol’s case infringed on not only Ms. Magsombol’s identity, but also the inclusive spaces CAL has cultivated throughout the years. What has been repeatedly done to Ms. Magsombol through discriminatory remarks invalidating her womanhood goes beyond a disregard of academic and artistic freedom, and even more so is a slighting of the ontological freedom of trans women in culture and the arts and the wider academe.

Moreover, the CALSC, the CALFSTC, and VoCAL believe that those entrusted with positions of authority must be held to the highest standards of accountability. The community collectively shapes a college that stands against any manifestation of transphobia, discrimination, and disregard on q***r identities. Therefore, we call for a scientific, prompt, impartial, and transparent investigation into this case. We further urge the CAL administration to reaffirm its commitment to protecting the rights, safety, and dignity of all students, and to strengthen policies and educational initiatives that promote inclusivity and condemn transphobia.

We recognize that transmisogyny is a product of the patriarchy and, more nakedly, the machofeudal relations that continue to persist in the Philippines. While there is an irony in receiving such jarring news of transphobia during Pride Month, we urge the community to exhaust this irony through acts of solidarity to the trans community, that is, through conscientious cultural restructuring and unyielding collective action. The same way we must assert that ample academic space is ours, we must assert that there is a place for transgender academics and cultural practitioners in the space. We further implore that the community not be dismissive or be bystanders to any manifestation of transphobia, but rather openly confront, report, and exhaust all measures available and necessary as co-members in our shared space in CAL. The doors of the CALSC, the CALFSTC, and all the formations of VoCAL are open in offering any form of support to members of the transgender community.

Transphobia has no space in CAL. Trans women are women. We stand in solidarity with Ms. Magsombol, and believe that there is only true freedom if a trans woman’s personhood is genuinely embraced and celebrated and are able to freely express in spaces for the arts, for academia, for CAL, and for the nation.

𝗟𝗢𝗔𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚...𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗔 𝗡𝗚 𝗕𝗔𝗬𝗔𝗡, HINAHANAP KA NAMIN!
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𝑶𝒏𝒆 𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕, 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒃𝒆𝒅—at KAL ang aking naging main quest?!

Welcome na welcome ka sapagkat napunta ka sa pinaka-OA (sino source mo te?) 🧡 pinaka-eksena 🎭 at palabang ✊ kolehiyo sa Diliman

Ready ka n ba makakita ng mga manok sa campus? Ready ka na ba umeksena? 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆 𝗸𝗮 𝗻𝗮 𝗯𝗮 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮 𝘀𝗮 𝘀𝗶𝗺𝘂𝗹𝗮 𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗞𝗔𝗟𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲?

Upang masimula ito, ito muna quest number zero mo:
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