University President Fr. Marcelo Manimtim C.M memorandum (Facebook/Adamson University) Photo from: Adamson University Official Facebook Page
The Adamson Community took part in their experience after the Adamson University (AdU) administration declared a post-election academic break from May 13 to 16 via a Facebook post on May 12.
According to Fr. Marcelo Manimtim, president of AdU, the three-day suspension of work and classes aims to help workers and students ease their overall post-election experience.
“To give our students the time to address post-election stress and take the time to reflect on their election experience, the administration is declaring an academic post-election break,” Fr. Marcelo Manimtim said in a statement.
Brant Eldridge Alipio, a first-year – BSBA Marketing Management, thinks that the break is a beneficial recession for the faculty, and admin, especially for the students.
“I was quite glad that the university proposed this short break in order for the students to somehow cope up with the current events, most importantly prior to the recent 2022 elections,” he said.
However, Alipio was quite disappointed, given that after that break, students received a bunch of tasks to be submitted.
“Generally speaking, I appreciated the campus initiative to implement this break as it signifies the students’ mental health and coping mechanism – even in a short period of time,” he added.
For Jordan Amor, a second-year communications student, his class break experience was satisfying.
“I'm so very happy dahil matagal na natin ito hinihingi but now, because of the result ng election mas kinailangan natin. Kaya malaking tulong ito para magpahinga at maka recover sa naging resulta,”
(I'm so very happy because we have been asking for it for a long time but now, because of the election result we need it more. That is why it is a big help to rest and recover from the result,)
While Regina Marie Epres, a third-year BA Communications student, exclaims that she was shocked as the university was actively vocal about its stance and its support of presidential candidate VP Leni Robredo. The results were—for her, disappointing.
"As I was too very active in participating in this election, going to rallies, and sorties and being active in activities such as house to house campaigning and flyering as well as Voter's Education forums, I indeed was left unnerved," she said.
Epres also feels and shares the same sentiments with the majority of the student body.
“I think this was a first great step in addressing how big of a privilege and opportunity it is to fight for our democracy; while still trying to be sane. We are all students (from the university), but firstly we are citizens of this country,” she added.
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