Students sell dignity for tuition fee

            The tuition fee for each course in De La Salle University – Dasmarinas would go from Php 24,000 up to Php 58,000. Scholarships are offered for academic scholars and student administration scholars. Several events are held in the university to raise fund for the beneficiaries of the scholarship. There are plastic containers in every part of the university that encourages everyone to drop a coin for the scholars, “Piso Para Sa Iskolar”. Yet, there are still students who couldn’t be one of the scholars that they have to find ways to finish the course and get their diploma.
            

As tuition fee hikes in the university, students make a living by using their body in exchange for money to pay tuition fee. Without the knowledge of some, the negotiation between the student and the paying customer usually takes place within Villa Isabel and across the school, the place where students go to after class or during break time, 7 11. The student will make a move to drop one peso coin or a handkerchief as a sign that she’s the one up for the agreement.  One of the cigarette vendors would pick up the coin or the handkerchief as a gesture that the paying customer got the signal. A man would show up and take a hold of the student and take her for his pleasure. 

There are other ways of picking up a student, a source stated, “Minsan may dumadaan na kotse na pinapatay bukas yung ilaw, yun ang signal na naghahanap sila. Tapos, yung girl sasakay na lang sa kotse. ”

 It not only happens outside the school, even inside the school, in Rotonda, the intersection in the East Campus, the negotiation takes place. This practice happens to different female students from different colleges in the university. For the customers to pick students, there’s a gay manager who acts as a pimp and handler of the students. The pimp has the bluebook in which the photos of the female students are in, and the customers will pick who they want. This act usually happens few weeks before the payment of tuition for exams. The paying customers are known to be businessmen who can pay up to what amount the student needs.

It’s a dismay that the anomaly also happens inside the campus and given that several people in the campus knew about this, no one has ever took an action to cease it from happening.