Lorenz Vergil Reyes Justin Asinas Marvin Lagonera Kayle Salcedo (Mark Bullo) (Eugene Javillonar) Problem.

The past years saw the rise of collegiate students being more assertive and expressive of their desire to take a more active participation in advancing their rights as students especially in the nationwide arena of student leadership. Likewise, an existing clamor from students to establish a nationwide protocol and standardization of student rights has been central in todays student discourse. In this light, movements starting from student-run organizations are actively petitioning for the passage of the Student Rights and Welfare Bill that calls for a nationally-recognized Magna Carta of Student Rights. As much as these student groups as a political institution are governed by a vision and direction, our democratic political environment also presents them with equally competing political actors that challenge and/or endorse preferences. State and non-state actors. The Student Council Alliance of the Philippines, as the central mobilizing agent representing the interests of different college student councils, would spearhead the discourse on the importance and practicability of the bill by utilizing the experience of the already-existing Magna Carta of Human Rights by the Sanggunian ng mga Mag-aaral ng mga Paaralang Loyola ng Pamantasang Ateneo de Manila. However, the democratic ideals of our society call for checks-and-balances that would ensure rigorous public deliberation of the bill. The Congress House of Representatives and Senate as state actors equally participate and assert their vital role in catering to the need of the younger citizens of our country. Other groups such as the Commission on Higher Education, as the actor concerned with maintaining stable structures and relationships within universities (i.e. among the administration, faculty and staff, and students), would also play an equally important role in more or less regulating or constraining the student councils of their propositions. Output. The institutions mentioned state and non-state actors assert political agency towards the passage or non-passage or revisions of the proposed STRAW bill. Whatever the output would be then serves as input for further developments in the aforementioned demand stated in the problem.