Guzman vs.

National University
[142 SCRA 699; July 11, 1986]

FACTS: Diosdado Guzam and two others complained about being barred to enroll at the National
University (NU). While petitioners invoke due process and allege that the meetings which they joined in
were peaceful, NU argues that their failure to enroll were due to the students’ fault, coupled with
allegations that the students in question spearheaded mass actions within the university premises; that
such mass actions were violative of school policies; that due to these mass actions, they incurred bad
grades; that the parties hated NU anyway; and that it would be in the best interest of both parties for
the students to not be enrolled.

ISSUE(s): Whether or not NU should admit the students.

RULING: NU should not bar the students from enrolling in the University. In the first place, petitioners
were deprived of due process when NU failed to show which school policies or duly published rules
were violated to justify their expulsion. NU also failed to show that it conducted any sort of proceeding
to determine petitioners’ liability or alleged participation in the said mass actions. By barring petitioners’
enrollment, they are also being deprived of their right vested to them by the Education Act of 1982.