CHED Chairman Prospero De Vera III, in an interview, said that the Implementing Rules and Regulations for the Republic Act No. 11053 or the amended Anti-Hazing Act of 2018 will be out “very soon.” This, he explained, will pave the way for stricter penalties for those who are involved in any hazing incident.
De Vera noted that only one round of public hearing is needed before the IRR is signed. “So that [law] will be effective once it happens and after the last round of public hearing, we should be ready to roll it out,” he explained. After the last public hearing, he said that the additional changes will be incorporated in the IRR. “I will sign and the other government agencies will also sign it and it becomes effective,” he added.
Overall, De Vera stressed that the idea behind the amended anti-hazing law is “zero tolerance” for hazing. “The problem before is that the enforcement of the law was not very strict, many can go around it so we tightened and expanded it,” he said. HEIs and other school authorities, he added, “have to report if they are going to do any activity related to student organizations must be reported to the school and the school is reported to the school if something happens.
Two years after Castillo’s demise, another hazing-related death made headlines when Philippine Military Academy Cdt. 4th Class Darwin Dormitorio was found dead last September 18 allegedly due to maltreatment by his upperclassmen.
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