One mother expresses anger over frat hazing

In his widely read column “Off Tangent” in last Thursday’s The FREEMAN, my idol Aven Piramide asked: “Can you imagine if all Filipinos completely refuse to buy all Chinese made products?” I can imagine...

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And, Sir Aven, can you also imagine if all Filipinos completely take off the Made in China garments they wear?

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All the shirts and t-shirts I wear are donations to poor me from my sisters and daughter in the States where most dry goods are made not in the USA but in China.

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Another San Beda law student has died of hazing during the initiation rites of the fraternity he was a member of. Commenting on this and other hazing deaths reported in media, an angry mother in Punta Princesa said: “Mosugot ra diay ang frat neophyte nga bunalan, patiran, lud-an ug unsa pa diha aron lang dawaton isip brad sa frat?”

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The same angry mother said it is virtually an indirect suicide for anyone to allow himself to be beaten to death even if he can avoid it. “Life is God-given and what God has given us must be protected,” she said.

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They say many, if not most, key men in the government, like Senate President Enrile, the late Senator Ninoy Aquino, Senator Ed Angara, etc. are frat members. But during their time - which was long, long ago — fraternity initiation rites were not cruel.

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I heard someone say that the so-called frat masters before undertake initiation rites that were “sissy’s activities.”

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Print ads of airline companies have become interesting and pun, er, fun to read. Have you noticed? It all started with Cebu Pacific using puns in its ads.

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A shelter for senior citizens has been built in the City of Naga (Cebu). A homeless 89-year-old resident of another city in South Cebu was heard saying: “Kun nahimo sa Naga nganong dili man mahimo sa ubang siyudad?”

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OVERHEARD. The wife of a taxi driver was heard talking to a fellow wife in their neighborhood: “Kana si Pedring (not his real name) mukao’g fried chicken ug humba samtang ang iyang asawa ug tulo ka anak mokaon lang og kinamonggayan nga bolinaw.”