The authors offer us a chronicle filled with the voices and perspectives of the UP community, campus residents, observers, critics, and supporters. We are treated to a wonderful retelling of both personal and official stories (with photos!) of academic life and campus culture in different UP units. At the core of this narrative lies the enduring theme of academic freedom. This volume explores the trials and triumphs of a university grappling with its role as both a state university and a vanguard of social change through the tumultuous years of Martial Law.
—Fidel Nemenzo, D.Sc.
Chancellor of the University of the Philippines Diliman, 2020–2023

Onofre D. Corpuz – “Many poor families today contribute to the support of the University, including the cost of education of the children of the richer families, and yet we have shut out their own children from the University. We have closed our doors on the children of the poor, and the doors till now have remained hermetically sealed.”

Emanuel V. Soriano – “The eternal in UP is her spirit. It is in each one of us, but it is greater than any one of us. It needs us to transmit itself, but it will live on, long after we are gone. For each one of us is here only for a while, and so we give our modest contribution, for what it is worth—not seeking praise and admiration but giving for the sake of giving.”

Edgardo J. Angara – “I see us as soldiers of the mind, following the banners of our free choices. Precise in our maneuvers, disciplined in our assaults, resplendent in the uniform of our erudition, we are, above all, always intelligible in our acts. We are a credit to the causes we variously support because we bring to them the UP mind.”