The UP Pep Squad’s performance yesterday at the UAAP Cheerdance competition is worthy of the championship, if not for everything that is technical but for the much louder statement that was made. “Pantay-pantay” was UP’s battlecry along with the BAHAGHARI as its visual representation.
Everyone says that we are proud to be from UP and others assume that this is because of the alleged intellectual superiority that some, if not all, feel when they are able to pass the UPCAT - but for me, what makes me proudest to be an Iskolar ng Bayan is the community’s ability to embrace you, as an invidividual, without regard for who you are and what you have come to believe in. In UP, I learned to question my own faith, build it and make it stronger while acknowledging that how I choose to live my life is no better than how others choose to live theirs. In UP, you find yourself because no one will tell you who you are and who you should be. You can be you and UP will still welcome you with the Oblation’s open arms.
This is why being a part of Team Equality tugs our heartstrings. We know that to be a true blue Isko and Iska, you should practice what the campus teaches you – tolerance, acceptance and open-mindedness. We are a campus that does not impose. We are a campus that understands. We are a community that celebrantes individuality and equality.
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