uwian na talaga! the big cal homecoming, a prelude to the grand, grand homecoming in the centennial year (2008) will be on april 14.
come see what u.p. diliman today is. how the college of arts and sciences split into three colleges. how the department of english and comparative literature gave birth to four other departments, one of which developed into a center, then an institute, and not so recently, into a college. where the college of arts and letters is. who are occupying your old classrooms at palma hall. how the ikot of old times has adopted a brother, the toki (counter ikot!). how the office of the registrar has pilgrimaged from quezon hall to benton hall to u.p.d. suburbs, and now to its own home. how the sciences have become a complex of national institutes of international caliber. how the prefabs of the iswcd have grown into a hotel-like college of social work and community development. how physical education has morphed into the college of human kinetics in a new school, but could not bring along the swimming pool. how the squatting institute of masscom expanded into a college with a film center-turned-institute to boot. how milenyo tried to devastate the poetry of the acacia trees in the academic oval. how the lagoon has lived up to, rather livened up its old romantic reputation, accommodating not only lovers’ rendezvous but also cultural shows. how the university avenue has remained unmatched in its royal welcome of visitors and alumni, even though the economic crunch shut down the fountains at the foot of the oblation. how the bahay ng alumni towers over the alumni center and should not be confused with the balay kalinaw. how melchor hall has engineered its own new majestic constructions. so have the college of business administration and the school of economics. how our own college is slowly, very slowly building, acquiring its own complex of structures and yet has no name other than “cal building.” no matter, its departments are all ched centers of excellence. its faculty, students, and alumni, like no other.
and many more. expansions, additions, transformations to see, to savor, to come home to.
after all, next year, u.p. will turn centenarian; u.p. diliman, golden jubilarian; and cal, silver jubilarian.
