Lilian Hernández Osorio
La Jornada newspaper
Tuesday, September 30, 2025, p. 4
Unusable scarcity and surveillance cameras, panic buttons without working and lousy lighting in corridors and gardens were some of the failures that detected university authorities and students of the College of Sciences and Humanities (CCH) South.
The tour they made yesterday afternoon-night at the school facilities ratified what the students had denounced for more than a year, but did not get an answer.
A week after the homicide committed within this CCH, officials of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) walked for four hours for buildings, corridors and garden areas, where they found that there are very dark areas, as well as panic buttons that do not work.
The review was carried out privately with officials from the National University, since there was no access to the media. Both the authorities and the students agreed to stop the route at 10 at night and continue with the revision today (Tuesday) at the time to be defined.
On the other hand, the General Lawyer of the UNAM, Hugo Concha Cantú, informed that the University has already filed six concrete complaints for the threats received in the faculties of Economics, Chemistry and the Faculty of Higher Studies Zaragoza with “indications of responsible”, in addition to already having three complaints in preparation, so they add nine.
He pointed out that “they are already identifying responsible”, but disciplinary processes must be followed until the cyber police provides them.
At noon today (Tuesday), the authorities of the South CCH will hold a dialogue table with parents, so that they expose their concerns and there are answers to their demands.
When reviewing the facilities, the students showed the places where there are usually less lighting and demanded the placement of reflectors, while an architect who accompanied the tour suggested what was most convenient in each anomalous situation they pointed out.
As agreed on the dialogue table last Thursday 25, the students of this campus chose their representatives to make this verification and, later, establish where greater luminaires are required.
For its part, the Faculty of Sicology of UNAM said that, at the moment, “mental health care is fundamental”, since students, teachers and administrative face a complex situation that can have an impact on psychological disorders.
“We recognize that there is a gap in mental health care in the university community, due to the lack of sufficient human and material resources,” he said in a statement in his official social network X.
He also emphasized that mental health care cannot be addressed in isolation or superficial, so it requires a comprehensive and coordinated approach that involves the entire university community.
