Meanwhile, photos below, some of the known student
activists in UP Diliman in the early to mid-80s (the late Ferdinand Marcos was still the President) that I can remember. top to
borrom, left to right:
Raffy Aquino and Lean Alejandro; Fidel Nemenzo, David Celdran and Sarge Colambo; Noe Pangilinan and Malou Mangahas. The last two were former editor in chief of the Philippine Collegian, the student paper in UP Diliman.
Raffy Aquino and Lean Alejandro; Fidel Nemenzo, David Celdran and Sarge Colambo; Noe Pangilinan and Malou Mangahas. The last two were former editor in chief of the Philippine Collegian, the student paper in UP Diliman.
This is four pages long including the photos, enjoy.
27 years ago, in 1986, a year before I finally left
Diliman, in an article published in the Collegian shortly after that historic
February --
"An apparent component of a progressive counter-culture is intellectual ferment at the classroom level. A perennial criticism hurled at the leadership of the student movement is its neglect of the classrooms as arenas of struggle. The criticism presupposes that should committed students religiously attend their classes, they will be able to competently defend, assert, and convince their classmates and teachers of the superiority of their ideas. The presupposition is not always a valid one. This underscores the need for the “intellectualization” of the student movement as a precondition for a progressive counter-culture at the grassroots level. The movement must engage in a tremendous amount of theoretical work, technical study, and social research. A general knowledge of what the progressive current stands for will no longer suffice. This knowledge will have to be broken down into its component parts and expressed in precise and concrete language. The student movement must systematically forge linkages with progressive sections of the faculty, technocracy, the professional sector, and the rest of the intelligentsia, and thereafter, exploit these linkages to “intellectualize” itself by further amassing and creating progressive knowledge."
Wala na yatang saysay ang mga hangaring ganito.
"An apparent component of a progressive counter-culture is intellectual ferment at the classroom level. A perennial criticism hurled at the leadership of the student movement is its neglect of the classrooms as arenas of struggle. The criticism presupposes that should committed students religiously attend their classes, they will be able to competently defend, assert, and convince their classmates and teachers of the superiority of their ideas. The presupposition is not always a valid one. This underscores the need for the “intellectualization” of the student movement as a precondition for a progressive counter-culture at the grassroots level. The movement must engage in a tremendous amount of theoretical work, technical study, and social research. A general knowledge of what the progressive current stands for will no longer suffice. This knowledge will have to be broken down into its component parts and expressed in precise and concrete language. The student movement must systematically forge linkages with progressive sections of the faculty, technocracy, the professional sector, and the rest of the intelligentsia, and thereafter, exploit these linkages to “intellectualize” itself by further amassing and creating progressive knowledge."
Wala na yatang saysay ang mga hangaring ganito.
Louie
Checa Montemar meron pa naman... kasi mas lumalabas na nga sa
iba't ibang porma ang social concern at sociological imagination, at lalong
wala namang monopolyo ang mga "tibak" na talaga sa dalumat ng
"relevance".
Nonoy
Oplas Raffy, if student activists will click to that harsh
intellectualization of the movement, none will become left-leaning. If you talk
about more personal responsibility (they cannot even be responsible in their
studies and regularly flunk), they will be drawn to desist and dislike more
government responsibility. The main reason why such activism remains noisy is
because they dislike harsh intellectualization but only stupidization of old
slogans and advocacies. Sige, debate na.
