APEX: THE UP LAW KICKOFF PARTY

4TH OF JULY 2009

CLUB CIRCA, EASTWOOD CITYWALK LIBIS

Resident and alumni brods alike joined the other “Friends of Chiz” in a dinner with Lord Chancellor Sen. Francis Joseph G. Escudero at the Centennial Hall of the Manila Hotel last June 26 and got to know more about the man who may be the next President of the Philippines.

Resident brods became kuyas to the kids at the Nayon ng Kabataan, Mandaluyong City for a day as they joined the Office of Brod Chief Justice Reynato Puno ’59 in holding talks about honesty and obeying the law last April 25.

The youngest decade of the Fraternity were honored at the Metro Manila Fellowship at Fort Bonifacio, Taguig last April 29. Four Alphans from the batches 2000-2009 were selected as Brothers Exemplar for their contributions to the country, University, and Fraternity.

Brod Rab Medina ’07 was selected as one of twelve Bayer Youth Environment Envoys out of more than a hundred proposals and is out to raise awareness for energy consumption, especially among student boarders and dormers.

The thrust of the University of the Philippines or Tatak UP is to inculcate among its students an unwavering commitment to the highest standards of academic excellence coupled with a deep and meaningful national consciousness befitting their stature as scholars of the National University. It shall be the duty of the University to produce graduates who are equipped with the intellectual preparation and sense of patriotism needed for them to become leaders in their chosen professions and vocations and to be catalysts of social justice and development. Towards this end, the University shall endeavor to foster creativity, critical thinking, resourcefulness, leadership skills, as well as socio-political consciousness, rights awareness and rights responsiveness, and a sense of national responsibility and civic duty among its students in an academic community that observes and protects the democratic rights and processes of students and student organizations.