I can still remember during my peyups days, the UP Pep Squad’s three-peat championship record from the year 1999 to 2001. A boosting grandslam win matching the record of UST Salinggawi Dance Troupe’s three consecutive winnings. And now, UP Pep Squad is holding back their championship stint as they defend their 2007 title.

Date: 7 September 2008

Time: 2pm

Venue: Araneta Coliseum, Cubao, Quezon city

We don’t need no fancy props or anything.. just getting there altogether with the winning spirit and the biggest hope to bag another championship title. All the isko and iska is now up again for the challenge to show the rest that we won’t stop sweating for the hot stuff.

PUSH ON UP!

MANILA, Philippines – On the day marking the University of the Philippines’ 100th year, members of a fraternity known for its “Oblation Run” made sure that their presence would be felt and seen in a big way.

A hundred naked members of the Alpha Phi Omega (APO) fraternity Wednesday held a special edition of their yearly “Oblation Run,” which they dubbed the “Centennial Run.”

Read entire article at INQUIRER.net.

UP APO homegrown talents like John Lesaca, Menggie Cobarrubias, Leland Ronquillo, Andy Bautista, Cesar Cosme,and the original Greenhouse Band and singers will present in this once-in-a-lifetime show.

For ticket inquiries, contact Sallie “Mamasal” Robles-Licauco at 427-8888 at (0918) 925-0651.

The UP Repertory Company s inviting everyone to come and see our centennial production on February 23 entitled, “ISKO: Sandaang Taong Pakikibaka.” This is a full-length tula-dula that showcases UP as a university of the people and the struggles an isko(/iska/iskwa) is facing as a UPian plus the commercialization of education/globalization not just in the UP system but to other universities as well. This is bound to be another eye-opener that would surely capture its audience interests.

February 23, 2008 |3pm | 6PM | UP Film Institute

*Open to all UP and non-UP students. for ticket inquiries, contact Jenny at  09154328966

Ticket prices: P120 for students, P150 for non-students

UP Rep has a ticket booth at the CAL lobby until Feb 22.

Other placards denounced government corruption and enforced disappearances and asked for more state subsidy for education and the suspension of tuition increase.

According to the article “Buns on the run” (Sidney Ventura, Kampus Magazine, November 1997) reposted on the website of Alpha Phi Omega UP Diliman chapter, the Oblation Run was first staged in 1977 when an APO member ran naked at the A.S. lobby to promote the APO-sponsored play “Hubad na Bayani”. The play was dedicated to APO member Rolly Abad, who was killed in a rumble a few months earlier.

The gimmick was a hit, so the fraternity decided to do the Oblation Run every year on its anniversary, December 16.

“We do this in memory of our brother, Rolly Abad” Raymond Linsangan of APO was quoted as saying in the article. “But we also do it because we want UP students to remember the principle of the Oblation, which is the youth offering itself to the nation.”

An Inquirer article on the Oblation Run presented another version of its origin:

[UP College of Law graduate and APO Member Kevin Roldan said the run started in 1977 to protest the banning of the movie, “Hubad na Bayani,” which depicted human rights abuses in the martial law era.

In the past years, the Oblation Run carried campus issues such as tuition increase. Last year, it also campaigned against tuition increase and Arroyo’s charter change.

In 1995, Oblation Run fratmen carried placards condemning the death of Sigma Rhoan Dennis Venturina and calling for a stop to fraternity violence. Venturina, like Abad, was also killed in a rumble.

Here are some links to Oblation Run pictures, videos, blog entries, and backgrounders:

• oblation run
• 30th UP Oblation Run 2007
• The Great Oblation Run 07 – 1st batch
• Oblation Run pictures
• Buns on the Run
• Nude runners on UP campus call for Arroyo ouster
• Alpha Phi Omega Philippines
• Alpha Phi Omega UP Diliman