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Student Political Parties

as

Alternative Centers of PowerCampus Party-Building Module 1

Student Council Alliance of the Philippines

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ACP=student

politicalparty

TCP=

student

council

TCP=University

administration

TCP traditional center of power (institutions)ACP alternative center of power (organized groups)

  consolidation of power necessary to realize reforms

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Electoral 

Party

Political 

Party

-exists only during

campus elections

- serves as mere

campaign

machineries for

campus election

candidates

- carries a program

of governance thatis long-term

- brings and

executes political

agenda within

campus politics

VS.

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K ey Function of a Student Political Party 

Student

Council 2000

(your political party here)

Student

Council 2001

Student

Council 2002

Student

Council 2003

Student

Council 2004

Student councils are transient.

Therefore, student political parties provide the

transfer of values, education, and reform-

oriented platforms from one generation to

the next in order to create a programmatic

method for governance that extends

beyond a single term.

a series of back to zeroes

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K ey Function of a Student Political Party 

Student

Council

STUDENT POLITICAL PARTY

Varsities Organizations

Scholars Jejemons

It aggregates interests

to offer more easily

grasped alternative

policies and choices to

voters.

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Student Political Parties Role

in a Student Council 

aggregation of students

interests, issues, sentiments and

policy recommendations

political party platform

election candidates

election machinery

WIN ELECTION

STUDENT COUNCIL GOVERNANCE

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Student Political Parties Role

in a Student Council 

aggregation of students

interests, issues, sentiments and

policy recommendations

political party platform

election candidates

STUDENT COUNCIL GOVERNANCE

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Student Political Parties Role

in a Student Council 

aggregation of students

interests, issues, sentiments and

policy recommendations

political party THROUGH election

candidates

platform

STUDENT COUNCIL GOVERNANCE

 P  o l   i   t   i   c  a

 l   P  a r  t   y   s B  R  A  ND  o f   g  o v e r  n a n c  e

Candidates that 

win in the name

of the party 

govern in the

name of the

 party.

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Summary of Module 1

Student Political Partiesas Alternative Centers of Power 

      A student political party serves as an alternative center of  power wherein ordinary students are provided amechanism to participate in political processes within thecollege/university.

      A student political party aggregates students issues,sentiments, interests and policy recommendations that translate into a party platform that extends beyond student council terms.

     The party platform is realized by winning seats in theStudent Council where the party, through its candidates,governs.

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Points to Ponder

M odule 2: Defining YOUR Political Party 

     W hat are your political partys core values and principles?      How do you place your political party in the political 

spectrum (communist, socialist, social democratic,

centrist, moderate, conservative, religious, fascist)?      W hat are your political partys stands on education,

scholarship, student representation, pedagogy, students rights and welfare and other issues? 

     How does your political party envision student life and university/college life? 

     How does your political party translate its core principlesto a program of governance? 

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