�I�m boycotting that referendum because I can't stand malice, misinformation and militant persuasion.� The 20-year-old University of the Philippines Diliman (UPD) student said in her blog.

A female student agreed with Mauricio�s post, recalling how tiring it was for her to listen to a 30-minute lecture on the yes vote.

Despite such instances, the yes vote got an overall 72.1% from the 13 campuses of the entire UP system. The highest yes votes came from UP Baguio and Mindanao at 98.4%, while the lowest came from UP Manila at 54.5%. UP Diliman, with the largest student population, had the third lowest number of yes votes at 63.2%

Why did 26.8% of UP students vote no? Film major Joseph said in his blog, �Let me vote NO, not because I want to undermine the OSR, but because I'm forced to vote NO, just so that we can push for a stronger, more transparent, more democratic, and ultimately more UP OSR.�

He said the �VOTE YES� posters irritated him because they spread incorrect and inaccurate information.

This was also the complaint of the no camp, headed by the parties ALYANSA and KAISA, against the �VOTE YES� campaign spearheaded by STAND-UP. The no camp stated that the �VOTE YES� campaign was misleading and spread blatant information by saying that a no vote to the CRSR would mean a no vote to the student regent.

ALYANSA and KAISA�s �Choose to Know� campaign called to vote no to the CSRS, which wouldn�t necessarily mean the abolishment of the Office of the Student Regent (OSR) but the amendment of certain rules in choosing a student regent.

They proposed the inclusions of a minimal academic requirement for the SR nomination, an express enumeration of powers and responsibilities of the SR, a democratization of the voting structure to account for the relative sizes of all UP units, the deletion of the political alliance Kasama sa UP from the rules, and an extension of the rules effectivity to at least 3 years.

STAND-UP meanwhile stated the referendum was the wrong venue for proposing amendments. They said ALYANSA�s proposals, repeatedly rejected throughout the years, should have been submitted to the General Assembly of Student Councils (GASC) before Oct. 1, 2008. There were no proposals submitted.

University Student Councilor Victor Villanueva said a yes vote was needed so the university would be able to select a new SR. The incumbent Shahana Abdulwahid was graduating from her master�s this year. STAND-UP feared the Board of Regents would find ways to boot Abdulwahid out of the board as she would be a non-student.

But then there are also those in the VOTE YES camp who would go so far as to call the opposing side as "anti-students" and "neo-liberalists". The no voters would then accuse these yes voters of attacking their character instead of arguing proper debates.