The Senate on Tuesday approved on third and final reading two bills seeking to declare every July 25 as National Campus Press Freedom Day and every November 16 as National Student Leader's Day. In a statement, Senator Francis Escudero, chairman of the Senate Committee on Education, Art and Culture, said the declaration of July 25 every year as National Campus Press Freedom Day under Senate Bill No. 747 would highlight "the importance of training young campus journalists as future guardians of Philippine democracy." "Through campus journalism, students are able to practice their right to freedom of expression, opinion and information," he said. Likewise, the senator said that the...
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