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Death puts end to short, happy life of Cris
By Jeannette AndradeInquirerLast updated 02:24am (Mla time) 08/31/2007
MANILA, Philippines – Twenty-year-old Cris Anthony Mendez was a regular guy who “wanted to meet everyone.”
Picking up a line from a Tagalog movie, he would describe himself as “Parang karinderia na bukas sa lahat ng gustong kumain.”
His death, suspected to be the result of hazing, cut short his Friendster run. Mendez’ Friendster account received 59 messages from friends expressing outrage and sadness at the fate of the senior University of the Philippines (UP) public administration student, the National College of Public Administration and Governance (NCPAG) representative to the UP student council.
NCPAG Dean Alex Brillantes said they would hold a rally 10 a.m. today at the college to express outrage and grief at Mendez’s violent death. Students will march towards the Palma Hall to join a similar activity organized by the UP Student Council.
In Mendez’s Friendster account, one message asked why he had to join a fraternity. The comment posted on Wednesday offered prayers for the deceased and thanked him for his advice.One message recalled Mendez’s self-description in his Friendster account: “Adjectives are not enough.”
Another message read: “I have known you (Cris) for a very short time but I have seen how fast yet simple and happy your life has been. I am very happy to know someone like you, so brave, so responsible, so full of ideas and so in love (with) everything that you do.” But justice might have to wait as the Quezon City Police District Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit (QCPD-CIDU) claimed the doctor who reportedly brought the student to the Veterans Memorial Medical Center (VMMC) had gone into hiding.Dr. Francisco Cruz, deputy chief of the hospital’s department of ophthalmology, had reportedly gone on leave and left his home at Phase 3, Congressional Village, Project 8, Quezon City.Chief Insp. Lino Banaag of the QCPD-CIDU told the Inquirer they could not find the doctor who could have turned off his cellular phone. Banaag said a relative of the doctor told him that after taking Mendez to the VMMC, he reported the incident to the QCPD Baler Station 2, but was told to call the UP Police. “But that cannot be true. Had he (Dr. Cruz) really done so, the Baler station would have called the QCPD-CIDU because someone is dead,” Banaag said.He also scored the VMMC for not reporting immediately the incident to the QCPD-CIDU. He said the request for an autopsy should have come from the police. A source told the Inquirer there were unconfirmed reports that Dr. Cruz had a son studying at UP, who was a member of a fraternity. The victim was reportedly recruited to join the Sigma Rho fraternity. Calls made by the Inquirer to the fraternity’s Council of Elders leadership for comment were not answered.Brillantes told the Inquirer they could not convince students to talk about the incident.
Until yesterday, members of the fraternity, believed to have knowledge of how Mendez died, remained silent. A student, requesting anonymity, told the Inquirer the fraternity met Wednesday evening at an undisclosed location presumably to discuss the incident.

-from http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/metro/view_article.php?article_id=85674

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