I thought the Sanggu represented the studentry well.
I hope Sanggu officers learn from their experience this year. Learn while you are young (yes, you are still young even if you are a senior) and still in college. Also, don't forget to enjoy the experience!
Abraham Diaz, Chief Magistrate of the SJC from 2022 - 2023, delivers his welcoming remarks, recounting the challenge of student governance after the height of the pandemic.
He reminds present officers: "The pursuit of the institutional interest necessitates self-sacrifice."
"When I was sixteen, I won a great victory. I felt in that moment I would live to be a hundred. Now I know I shall not see thirty.
None of us know our end, really, or what hand will guide us there. A king may move a man, a father may claim a son, but that man can also move himself, and only then does that man truly begin his own game.
Remember that howsoever you are played or by whom, your soul is in your keeping alone, even though those who presume to play you be kings or men of power.
When you stand before God, you cannot say, "But I was told by others to do thus," or that virtue was not convenient at the time. This will not suffice. Remember that." - King Baldwin IV, Kingdom of Heaven.
The Philippine eagle is considered the largest of the extant eagles in the world in terms of length and wing surface. Being a critically endangered species, killing a Philippine eagle is punishable under Philippine law up to 12 years in prison [read more: https://t.co/tRX2pUFJp3]
At 4:31 AM, an unauthorized photo taken of Stalin inside of the Kremlin shows the very moment he was informed that Germany had began their invasion of the Soviet Union.
“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
— Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies
HAPPENING NOW: Students and faculty converge at Xavier Hall for the hand-over of community open letters in support of continued on-site classes in the case of an AEWU strike.
Last week, the VPLS released a memo stating that classes would shift online should a strike happen.
“Let us teach ourselves and others that politics can be not only the art of the possible, but also the art of the impossible—namely the art of improving ourselves and the world." Havel V.
Grateful to join esteemed lawyers Kristjan Gargantiel of GIA Law and Sylvia Severo-Paraiso of the Office of the Ombudsman for a panel discussion on corruption in the Philippines. Thanks Ateneo SJC and LS Ombudsman for the invite! 💙