Weng and I had an unexpected trip to Dagupan City, Pangasinan this week. We called University of Luzon (UL) this Monday hoping to give us a sort of direction on what to do to get the documents and interviews we needed. Apparently, they will be celebrating their foundation week in two weeks, which meant that we will no longer be accomodated if we come later this week.
And so, we decided to take the last bus trip to Dagupan Wednesday night. And since my family are actually travelers, I trust only Victory Liner (free endorsement here). We left around nine in the evening and arrived at around one in the morning. Weng's mom, Tita Gigi, had been making phone calls the whole morning for a place to stay. Good thing Rocel had recommended YMCA hostel. It's probably a two minute walk from UL and a trike drive from the bus terminal. At the same time, for a place like that, the rates are actually very cheap.
Anyway, we were able to interview their ethics professor, and by ethics I mean General Ethics. Apparently, they don't offer Journalism Ethics at all. Even if they were able to get a copy of the Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) Memorandum no. 44 of 1997 which states the required subjects for degrees under Arts, Humanities, and Communication specifically including Press Law and Ethics for Journalism, UL didn't seem to have thought to offer it. If it wasn't for the graduates who suggested the subject, they wouldn't have thought about it in the first place.
You see, UL offers BS in Journalism, having bombarded the students with a lot of Math and Science subjects (e.g. college algebra, plane trigonometry, zoology, biology, ecology, physical science). Much of what were required Journalism subjects in UP were simply electives in UL (e.g. Research in Journalism, Internship). And to think, the school has been offering Journalism since the 1970's, however, they only got 8 students, 5 juniors, 1 sophomore and 2 freshmen.
Anyway, it's actually weird to spend the morning the office of the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, browsing through all their files in the attempt to look for the Ethics syllabus. For some reason, nobody, and I mean not one office has a copy of that syllabus, even the professor. We were already going to attempt to put the contents of the syllabus into the interview but since the professor has classes, he promised us to email a copy of the syllabus.
But then, even if we have been looking into ever computer file and book bound compilation of syllabus, the staff as well as the professors have been very kind to us to the point that they would even make us taste the famous food of Dagupan, including the tamarind. They also taught us how to get to the market and how to choose an authetic Dagupan milkfish.
By late in the afternoon, we decided to visit the market and have a taste of that milkfish. We bought a cooked one, as well as rice cakes and sea weeds (for salad) and headed back to YMCA hostel. By nine in the evening, we headed for the bus terminal for the ten o'clock trip back to Manila. We arrived in Cubao at around two in the morning.
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