Elections UP
Election period in UP. I still remember the days of campaigning. When I first entered UP, we were the losing party/alliance. But when the oldies left, it started to turn. I focused on long-term and extensive networking, mainly in my former college.
UP produced some of the best leaders, as well as some of the worst ones. Of course you had Marcos as an alumni contrasted with Ninoy. There were Lean Alejandro, Lorena Barros, Amante Jimenez and so many others. Notable contemporaries include Mong, Nova, Rommel and JPaul as USC Chairs.
Of course the secret weapons were the men and women organizers who built the alliance into the biggest one in UP Diliman - which is unarguably the best campus in the Philippines. The other sides could never fathom the alliance's strength by focusing on its visible leaders.
Those people can never be fully given credit. Here's to all the people of that alliance.
The alliance also produced some of its best intellectuals. Among the notable contemporaries includes RC (not his real name). Now I have contentions on his ability to maneuver tactics and alliances; I had, for example, misgivings about his handling of a key college. Though there were other factors there, I had to contrast it with an almost single-handed effort to maintain and expand in my beloved colllege then, such that before I left, it was the biggest college that was allied with us, even though many students in the college were, well, let's just say non-involved.
But that doesn't deprive him of his determination and intellect. Besides, a man's past is not his future. So one cannot have the final say on the evolved praxis.
Nevertheless, as far as I know, he's the main brain of that outfit. Before I left, besides me, he was also the only one left that was there in the alliance's founding (technically I was the only student left), so one must give such people credit for sticking with the university in pursuit of principles.
(If unsavory ghouls are reading this, you may search all you want, he's deliberately not in my network of friendsters. This is just reminiscing, ok? No worries).
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I don't think the Math building was especially appreciated during campaigns; electoral activities were always focused at AS. Yet that building receives 8,000 students on any given week.
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Anyone from UP Diliman reading this: On March 1, election day, will the real Iskolar ng Bayan please STAND UP!
UP produced some of the best leaders, as well as some of the worst ones. Of course you had Marcos as an alumni contrasted with Ninoy. There were Lean Alejandro, Lorena Barros, Amante Jimenez and so many others. Notable contemporaries include Mong, Nova, Rommel and JPaul as USC Chairs.
Of course the secret weapons were the men and women organizers who built the alliance into the biggest one in UP Diliman - which is unarguably the best campus in the Philippines. The other sides could never fathom the alliance's strength by focusing on its visible leaders.
Those people can never be fully given credit. Here's to all the people of that alliance.
The alliance also produced some of its best intellectuals. Among the notable contemporaries includes RC (not his real name). Now I have contentions on his ability to maneuver tactics and alliances; I had, for example, misgivings about his handling of a key college. Though there were other factors there, I had to contrast it with an almost single-handed effort to maintain and expand in my beloved colllege then, such that before I left, it was the biggest college that was allied with us, even though many students in the college were, well, let's just say non-involved.
But that doesn't deprive him of his determination and intellect. Besides, a man's past is not his future. So one cannot have the final say on the evolved praxis.
Nevertheless, as far as I know, he's the main brain of that outfit. Before I left, besides me, he was also the only one left that was there in the alliance's founding (technically I was the only student left), so one must give such people credit for sticking with the university in pursuit of principles.
(If unsavory ghouls are reading this, you may search all you want, he's deliberately not in my network of friendsters. This is just reminiscing, ok? No worries).
***
I don't think the Math building was especially appreciated during campaigns; electoral activities were always focused at AS. Yet that building receives 8,000 students on any given week.
***
Anyone from UP Diliman reading this: On March 1, election day, will the real Iskolar ng Bayan please STAND UP!
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