Purpose and policy on student organizations
- The issuance addresses the reported resurgence of subversive activities in educational institutions and their dangers to public order and national security.
- It encourages the existence of fraternities, sorororities, and like student associations for legitimate purposes.
- It identifies infiltration of such student associations by subversive elements as fronts for illegal purposes.
- It establishes that, in the interest of national security, the activities of student organizations must be regulated or controlled.
Permit requirement and permit revalidation
- The organization of fraternities, sororities, or like student associations in colleges and universities is allowed only upon the grant of permits by the proper school authorities.
- Permits are subject to yearly revalidation.
- Permits are granted only upon compliance by the applicant with rules and regulations to be jointly promulgated by the designated authorities.
- The joint rules and regulations are intended to ensure the legitimacy of purpose for organizing such student associations and the continuous adherence of all activities to that legal purpose.
Requirements for permit applications
- Proper school authorities must require applicants to submit the constitution and by-laws of the organization.
- Proper school authorities must require applicants to submit a list of officers and members.
- Permit grant depends on compliance with the rules and regulations jointly promulgated to ensure legitimacy of purpose and continuous adherence to legal purpose.
Approved/required direction of activities
- Student associations must channel their activities to more productive endeavors that benefit society.
- The permitted productive endeavors include economic, social, or cultural activities.
- Economic, social, or cultural activities are to be prescribed or approved by the proper school authorities.
Liability for subversion, violence, or crimes
- Involvement of members in subversive activities, or in any form of violence or criminal offense, carried out as a corporate act rather than through individual initiative, is treated as sufficient cause for action against the organization.
- The sufficient cause is for the cancellation of the permit of the erring student association.
Monitoring and countermeasures role of defense authorities
- The Secretary of National Defense—as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council of the New Society—is directed to cause the evolvement of measures needful to intensify efforts.
- Those intensified efforts are directed to monitor student organizations for subversive or other illegal activities.
- Those measures are also directed to counteract subversive or other illegal activities of such student organizations.