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'''Ateneo de Manila University (AdMU)''' is the leading private university in the [[Philippines]]. It is located in Loyola Heights, [[Quezon City]] in [[Metro Manila]]. |
'''Ateneo de Manila University (AdMU)''' is the leading private university in the [[Philippines]]. It is located in Loyola Heights, [[Quezon City]] in [[Metro Manila]]. |
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⚫ | It is one of only two schools in the country to recieve Level IV accreditation, the highest possible level, from the Federation of Accrediting Agencies of the Philippines and the [[Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities]]. This mark of distinction is awarded to institutions which have distinguished themselves in a broad area of academic discipline and enjoy prestige and authority comparable to that of international universities. |
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The Ateneo de Manila University began in 1859 as a public primary school established in Intramuros for the city of Manila by Spanish Jesuits. However, the educational tradition of the Ateneo embraces a much older history, one intimately associated with the history of the Jesuits as a teaching order in the Philippines. |
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⚫ | It is one of only two schools in the country to recieve Level IV accreditation, the highest possible level, from the [[Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities]]. This mark of distinction is awarded to institutions which have distinguished themselves in a broad area of academic discipline and enjoy prestige and authority comparable to that of international universities. |
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The first Spanish Jesuits arrived in the country in 1581. While primarily missionaries, they were also custodians of the ratio studiorum, the system of Jesuit education formulated about 1559. Within a decade, the Jesuits founded the Colegio de Manila (also known as the Colegio Seminario de San Ignacio), established in Intramuros in 1590 by the Jesuit Priest Antonio Sedeño, and formally opened in 1595. |
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In 1621, Pope Gregory XV authorized the San Ignacio, through the archbishop of Manila, to confer degrees in theology and arts. Two years later, King Philip IV of Spain confirmed the authorization, making the school both a papal and a royal university, thus the very first university in the Philippines and in Asia. |
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The Jesuits relinquished the San Ignacio to Spanish civil authorities in 1768 after their expulsion from Spain and the rest of the Spanish realm, including the Philippines. |
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Authorized by a Royal Decree of 1852, ten Spanish Jesuits arrived in Manila on April 14, 1859, nearly a century after the Society had been ordered to leave. |
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This Jesuit mission was sent mainly for missionary work in Mindanao and Jolo. Their reputation as educators, however, remained entrenched among Manila’s leaders. On August 5, the Ayuntamiento or city council requested the Governor-General for a Jesuit school financed by public money. |
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On October 1, 1859, the Governor General authorized the Jesuits to take over the Escuela Municipal, then a small private school maintained for some 30 children of Spanish residents. Partly subsidized by the Ayuntamiento, it was the only primary school in Manila at the time Under the Jesuits, the Escuela eventually became the Ateneo Municipal de Manila in 1865, when it was elevated to an institution of secondary education. It offered the bachillerato as well as technical courses leading to certificates in agriculture, surveying, and business. |
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American Jesuits took over the administration of the Ateneo de Manila in 1912. In 1932, under Fr. Richard O’Brien, third American rector, the Ateneo transferred to Padre Faura after a fire destroyed the Intramuros campus. In 1952, it moved to its present Loyola Heights campus even as the Padre Faura campus continued to house the professional schools. |
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The first Filipino rector, Fr. Francisco Araneta, was appointed in 1958. And in 1959, its centennial year, the Ateneo became a university. |
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In [[1912]], American Jesuits took over administration of the school. On the evening of [[August 13]], [[1932]], a fire destroyed the Ateneo de Manila and many other buildings in [[Intramuros]]. The school moved to Padre Faura St. in [[Ermita]], [[Manila]] where the [[Manila Observatory]], the [[San Jose Seminary]], and the [[Jesuit Novitiate]] were located. |
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The Padre Faura campus was closed in 1976. A year after, the University opened a new campus for its professional schools in Salcedo Village, in the bustling business district of Makati. In October 1998, the University completed construction of a bigger site of the Ateneo Professional Schools at Rockwell, also in Makati. |
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The Padre Faura Campus was destroyed during the liberation of [[Manila]] in [[World War II]] but was rebuilt soon after. On [[January 1]], [[1952]], the campus was again relocated to Loyola Heights, [[Quezon City]] to accommodate expansion. University status was granted to the Ateneo by [[1959]]. The professional schools remained in Padre Faura until [[1979]] when it was transferred to Salcedo in [[Makati City]] and later moved to a much bigger campus in Rockwell, also in [[Makati City]]. The new campus houses the Graduate School of Business, Law School and the School of Government. The Ateneo Information Technology Institute remains in the Salcedo Campus. |
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In 2002, the [[Church of the Gesu]] was completed to become a landmark at the heart of the Loyola Campus. |
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It is said that life at the Ateneo is a journey into God’s light, and more than that, learning to understand how to keep that light burning brightly for others. In the pursuit of illuminating truth, living as children of light calls for an insistent moving towards God as the center of a person’s life, and then moving out into the world to effect change rooted in love and truth. |
It is said that life at the Ateneo is a journey into God’s light, and more than that, learning to understand how to keep that light burning brightly for others. In the pursuit of illuminating truth, living as children of light calls for an insistent moving towards God as the center of a person’s life, and then moving out into the world to effect change rooted in love and truth. |
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== Blue and White == |
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The Ateneo has adopted the colors of Our Lady as its own school colors. The school colors are therefore signs of the Ateneo’s devotion to Mary and its commitment to become, like her, a constantly true and faithful servant of the Lord. |
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Marian blue, ultramarine, is the purest, most brilliant, and most enduring of blues. It is also the rarest and most expensive of pigments, and exceeds gold in value. The color must be extracted in tiny amounts from crushed lapis lazuli, a gem. Medieval artists therefore reserved blue for the robes of the Virgin and the Child Jesus. Mary is also Queen of Heaven and Star of the Sea, and appropriately, her color is also the color of sky and water. Sky blue symbolizes distance, divinity, and dreams; Marine blue, mystery, depth, intimacy. In Mary’s blue mantle, Heaven and Earth, depth and height, the divine and the human come together. No wonder then that blue is the color of faith, peace, and commitment. No wonder then, that the Ateneo has made her Lady’s blue its own. |
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White is also a color of Mary, conceived without sin and clothed with the sun. It is at once colorless and yet bears the entire spectrum of color. White signifies silence, an emptiness and space that is pregnant with possibility. It is also the color of openness, of truth, of purity, and of hope. In a sense, white is the color of ‘yes’. And it is a color of the Ateneo, because, like Mary, we hope to surrender ourselves to God, so that He may do His work through ours, and so that His will may be made flesh in our lives. |
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== Marian Devotion == |
== Marian Devotion == |
Revision as of 19:56, 11 February 2005
Ateneo de Manila University (AdMU) is the leading private university in the Philippines. It is located in Loyola Heights, Quezon City in Metro Manila.
It is one of only two schools in the country to recieve Level IV accreditation, the highest possible level, from the Federation of Accrediting Agencies of the Philippines and the Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities. This mark of distinction is awarded to institutions which have distinguished themselves in a broad area of academic discipline and enjoy prestige and authority comparable to that of international universities.
History
The Ateneo de Manila University began in 1859 as a public primary school established in Intramuros for the city of Manila by Spanish Jesuits. However, the educational tradition of the Ateneo embraces a much older history, one intimately associated with the history of the Jesuits as a teaching order in the Philippines.
The first Spanish Jesuits arrived in the country in 1581. While primarily missionaries, they were also custodians of the ratio studiorum, the system of Jesuit education formulated about 1559. Within a decade, the Jesuits founded the Colegio de Manila (also known as the Colegio Seminario de San Ignacio), established in Intramuros in 1590 by the Jesuit Priest Antonio Sedeño, and formally opened in 1595.
In 1621, Pope Gregory XV authorized the San Ignacio, through the archbishop of Manila, to confer degrees in theology and arts. Two years later, King Philip IV of Spain confirmed the authorization, making the school both a papal and a royal university, thus the very first university in the Philippines and in Asia.
The Jesuits relinquished the San Ignacio to Spanish civil authorities in 1768 after their expulsion from Spain and the rest of the Spanish realm, including the Philippines.
Authorized by a Royal Decree of 1852, ten Spanish Jesuits arrived in Manila on April 14, 1859, nearly a century after the Society had been ordered to leave.
This Jesuit mission was sent mainly for missionary work in Mindanao and Jolo. Their reputation as educators, however, remained entrenched among Manila’s leaders. On August 5, the Ayuntamiento or city council requested the Governor-General for a Jesuit school financed by public money.
On October 1, 1859, the Governor General authorized the Jesuits to take over the Escuela Municipal, then a small private school maintained for some 30 children of Spanish residents. Partly subsidized by the Ayuntamiento, it was the only primary school in Manila at the time Under the Jesuits, the Escuela eventually became the Ateneo Municipal de Manila in 1865, when it was elevated to an institution of secondary education. It offered the bachillerato as well as technical courses leading to certificates in agriculture, surveying, and business. With the arrival of American colonial rule in the early 1900s, the Ateneo lost its government subsidy and became a private institution. The Jesuits removed the word “Municipal” from the school’s official name, and it has since been known as the Ateneo de Manila. In 1908, the colonial government recognized it as a college licensed to offer the bachelor’s degee and certificates in various disciplines, including electrical engineering.
American Jesuits took over the administration of the Ateneo de Manila in 1912. In 1932, under Fr. Richard O’Brien, third American rector, the Ateneo transferred to Padre Faura after a fire destroyed the Intramuros campus. In 1952, it moved to its present Loyola Heights campus even as the Padre Faura campus continued to house the professional schools.
The first Filipino rector, Fr. Francisco Araneta, was appointed in 1958. And in 1959, its centennial year, the Ateneo became a university.
The Padre Faura campus was closed in 1976. A year after, the University opened a new campus for its professional schools in Salcedo Village, in the bustling business district of Makati. In October 1998, the University completed construction of a bigger site of the Ateneo Professional Schools at Rockwell, also in Makati.
Campus
The Ateneo has three major campuses. The sprawling main campus is located in Loyola Heights in Quezon City. This campus is the place most of the students of the Ateneo, from elementary to the graduate level, attend. The Ateneo also has two other campuses located in Makati City, one in Rockwell and another in Salcedo. These two campuses are home to the Ateneo Professional Schools.
Loyola campus
The Loyola campus overlooks the Marikina Valley. It is located along Katipunan Avenue and is adjacent to Miriam College to the north. One kilometer further north is the University of the Philippines, Diliman.
Among the many buildings in the campus are the imposing Ateneo Blue Eagle Gym and Moro Lorenzo Sports Center. The Ateneo Gym is one of the largest gymnasiums among the universities in Metro Manila while the MLSC is one of the best sports facilities in the country.
The majestic Church of the Gesu, completed in July 2002, overlooks the campus.
The university has two on-campus dormitories: Cervini Hall and Eliazo Hall. Conveniently located on the highest point in the campus, Cervini can accomidate 204 male students while Eliazo can house 164 female students.
Makati campuses
The Ateneo Graduate School of Business,Law School and School of Government are located within the Rockwell compound in northern Makati City. The Ateneo Information Technology Institute is housed in the Salcedo campus, also in Makati City
Organization
Ateneo de Manila University is one of the many universities founded by the Jesuits all over the Philippines. Almost all of them are also named Ateneo. This particular university is divided into four schools, plus some other divisions.
Professional schools
The professional schools are the graduate-level division of Ateneo de Manila. The most well-known of the schools is the Ateneo School of Law.
- AGSB-BAP Institute of Banking
- Ateneo Graduate School of Business
- Ateneo Information Technology Institute
- Ateneo School of Government
- Ateneo School of Law
- Center for Continuing Education
Loyola schools
The Loyola Schools are the tertiary undergraduate-level division.
- School of Science and Engineering
- John Gokongwei School of Management (JGSoM)
- School of Social Sciences
- School of Humanities
High School
The Ateneo de Manila High School campus features various facilities designed to give value-added support to the rigorous academic environment of the Ateneo. It features a library which provides access to numerous collections, both local and foreign, as well as educational CD-ROMs and other computer based materials.
The ITC, Instructional Technology Center, has two audio visual rooms and provides a wide variety of non-print materials for faculty and students. The Tanghalang Onofre Pagsanghan, the home of Dulaang Sibol, is a showcase for theatrical and musical presentations.
The Center for Math, Science and Technology which was blessed on 13 March 2003, will be in full operation for the coming school year.
The religious formation programs bring out the best in Ateneo students and these are constantly improving.
Finally, fine sports facilities and a green campus under blue skies make the Ateneo de Manila High School an excellent place for a young man to grow up to be a person of excellence.
Grade School
The Ateneo de Manila Grade School is an all-boys institution unlike the Loyola Schools which are co-educational.
Culture, sports, and traditions
Ateneo de Manila University is active in a number of inter-university sport activities, the most notable of which are the University Athletics Association of the Philippines (UAAP) sporting events. The school enjoys a healthy rivalry with De La Salle University.
University Name
In writing about the name Ateneo, Fr. James J. Meany, S.J. explains that this is the Spanish form of Atheneum, which the Dictionary of Classical Antiquities defines as the name of “the first educational institution in Rome” where “rhetoricians and poets held their recitations.” Meany also points to how the Roman school of Hadrian drew its title from a Greek temple dedicated to Athena, the goddess of wisdom, where, as the Encyclopedia Britannica says “poets and men of learning were accustomed to meet and read their productions.”
Interestingly enough, Atheneum is also used to designate schools and literary clubs, a famous example of which is the Atheneum Angelicum, a Dominican center of learning in Rome. It is closest to the English academy, which taken in the American and Philippine context, pertains to institutions of secondary learning. In a way, this is fitting, since the Ateneo was only referred to as such after it added a secondary education to its offerings, when it then became known as the Ateneo Municipal de Manila. Up to that time, it was called the Escuela Municipal de Manila, a primary institution that the Spanish government had given to the Jesuits for administration.
When the American government withdrew its subsidy from the school, Father Rector Jose Clos, S.J. changed the school’s name by dropping municipal, to Ateneo de Manila, as it is now known. Today, it is officially called the Ateneo de Manila University, the last word a quirk brought about by the university charter granted in 1959.
Ateneo is well-known in the Philippines as the official title of Jesuit institutions of learning. Quite appropriate, as it is tied to an inspiring Graeco-Roman heritage, to Spanish culture, to a tradition of liberal education and men devoted to Divine Wisdom. Sapientia aedificavit sibi domum (Proverbs 9:1).
The motto: Lux-in-Domino
A deeper understanding of what the Ateneo stands for—what shapes it, where it comes from, where it wishes to go and is headed, and where it can take the rest of the world—can be taken from its motto, Lux in Domino, quite literally, “Light in the Lord.”
Prior to this, the official motto of the Escuela Municipal since 1859 was used: Al merito y a la virtud, or “In Merit and in Virtue.” This old motto survived even the renaming of the school by Father Rector Jose Clos, S.J. in 1901.
The present motto, first seen as part of the seal of the Ateneo introduced by Father Rector Joaquin Añon, S.J. during its 50th anniversary in 1909, comes from the letter of Paul to the Ephisians (5:8), where he writes:
“For you were once in darkness, now you are light in the lord. Live as children of light.”
This breaking from the old motto signifies a deeper, and more appropriate appreciation of what the Ateneo has come to stand for. Beyond just merit and virtue, there is some sense of divine mission to the Ateneo. One that upholds and illuminates. In fact, continuing Paul’s letter, there is further elaboration:
“Live as children of light, for light produces every kind of goodness, righteousness, and truth.”
It seems that this captures a sense of haughtiness and condescension. Any pretense of self-righteousness can perhaps be examined in light of a talk by Fr. O’Malley:
“If the motto of Harvard is veritas, I think that the motto of Jesuit schools might well be a phrase from the Letter to the Ephisians (4:15): veritatem facientes in caritatae—doing the truth in love. In other word, the truth that I pursued is somehow or other, in the last analysis, pursued in order to be lived.”
It is said that life at the Ateneo is a journey into God’s light, and more than that, learning to understand how to keep that light burning brightly for others. In the pursuit of illuminating truth, living as children of light calls for an insistent moving towards God as the center of a person’s life, and then moving out into the world to effect change rooted in love and truth.
Blue and White
The Ateneo has adopted the colors of Our Lady as its own school colors. The school colors are therefore signs of the Ateneo’s devotion to Mary and its commitment to become, like her, a constantly true and faithful servant of the Lord.
Marian blue, ultramarine, is the purest, most brilliant, and most enduring of blues. It is also the rarest and most expensive of pigments, and exceeds gold in value. The color must be extracted in tiny amounts from crushed lapis lazuli, a gem. Medieval artists therefore reserved blue for the robes of the Virgin and the Child Jesus. Mary is also Queen of Heaven and Star of the Sea, and appropriately, her color is also the color of sky and water. Sky blue symbolizes distance, divinity, and dreams; Marine blue, mystery, depth, intimacy. In Mary’s blue mantle, Heaven and Earth, depth and height, the divine and the human come together. No wonder then that blue is the color of faith, peace, and commitment. No wonder then, that the Ateneo has made her Lady’s blue its own.
White is also a color of Mary, conceived without sin and clothed with the sun. It is at once colorless and yet bears the entire spectrum of color. White signifies silence, an emptiness and space that is pregnant with possibility. It is also the color of openness, of truth, of purity, and of hope. In a sense, white is the color of ‘yes’. And it is a color of the Ateneo, because, like Mary, we hope to surrender ourselves to God, so that He may do His work through ours, and so that His will may be made flesh in our lives.
Marian Devotion
When he was found dead on February 11, 1986, former Antique governor Evelio Javier was seen clutching his rosary, which he always kept in his pocket. When he was still alive, the Atenean governor often found himself walking the grounds of the Loyola campus, clutching the same rosary, pacing and praying. Those who knew him said that Javier always returned to the Ateneo, his home, whenever he needed to get away from the world’s confusion.
In the hours before his death, Rizal, the national hero, is said to have clutched a rosary given to him by his family before he died. All this, after he had renounced his faith and retracted this renunciation. While the subject of Rizal’s retraction is a matter for historians to prove or disprove, what matters is his concession of possessing the rosary. Perhaps the familiar feel of it gave him peace. Perhaps, he did pray. The same rosary remains on display at the University Archives, together with a small statue of the Sacred Heart that he had carved as a student at the Ateneo.
In the final moments of their first championship series after over a decade, the Ateneo Blue Eagles, faced a relentless opponent and extremely unfavorable odds. Sensing that things might take a turn for the worst, the team captain gathered those on the bench and led them in praying the rosary. The Ateneo lost that championship. Yet, after the games, the Hail Mary Team, as the Blue Eagles are called, led the Ateneo faithful in the singing of the Song for Mary:
“Mary for you, for your white and blue We pray you’ll keep us Mary, constantly true. We pray you’ll keep us Mary, faithful to you!”
The profound devotion to Mary, Patroness of the Ateneo, seems to have its roots in Ignatius. In one account, Ignatius is said to have nearly killed a Moor after a heated debate about Mary’s virginity, with the Moor arguing that Mary could not have been a virgin after she had given birth. So incensed by this was Ignatius that his first instinct was to follow the Moor along path and kill him. In the end, Ignatius let the ass he was riding decide: if it chose to follow the path of the Moor, Ignatius would kill the man. Thankfully, the beast was more charitable than its master.
Devotion to Mary at the Ateneo is seen in various University affairs. There are the school colors, blue and white, the traditional distribution of the October medals, and celebrations of various Marian feasts. During the golden jubilee of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception in 1904, the Ateneo celebrated with much splendor. Around 2,000 people approached the altar table on the day of the general communion, which also saw the statue of Our Lady of Antipolo brought from the hills to the Manila Cathedral, and was decorated with a special crown and necklace made from 78 jewels donated by Don Bernardino Hernandez. There was also a special octavo volume published by the Ateneo students, La Immaculada a traves de los Siglos: Corona Poetica, a collection of poetry in Spanish, Latin, Greek, and English. The sodality of the Ateneo united with that of the Escuela Normal, also Jesuit-run, in a Certamen Mariano, where prizes were offered for poems, essays, and art in honor of Mary.
The Blue Eagle
For the longest time during the National Collegiate Athletic Association competitions, the Ateneo de Manila did not have a school mascot. The basketball team lorded it over the opposition, proudly carrying the school’s colors and name. In time, the trend was to have some sort of moniker for the different school teams, as was the fashion in the United States.
It was in the late 30’s when the Ateneo officially adopted the Blue Eagle as its mascot. The choice of mascot, of course, held iconic significance. It was a reference to the “high-flying” basketball team which would “sweep the fields away;” the dominating force in NCAA. Furthermore, there was some mythological—even political—significance to the eagle as a symbol of power.
Believed to be the bird of Jupiter himself, the eagle was seen as the bird of God, the only bird that could fly above the clouds and stare directly at the sun. Dante in his Divine Comedy even uses the Eagle as a clear reference to the Roman Empire, which used the bird as part of its official standard. The eagle also appears in many other standards, such as that of the United States, and, interestingly, even of Nazi Germany.
It seems quite fitting for the Ateneo to adopt the Blue Eagle as its mascot. Lamberto Avellana (G.S. 28, H.S. 33, AB 37) writes:
“The Eagle—fiery, majestic, whose kingdom is the virgin sky, is swift in pursuit, terrible in battle. He is a king—a fighting king...
And thus he was chosen—to soar with scholar's thought and word high into the regions of truth and excellence, to flap his glorious wings and cast his ominous shadow below, even as the student crusader would instill fear in those who would battle against the Cross.
And so he was chosen—to fly with the fleet limbs of the cinder pacer, to swoop down with the Blue gladiator into the arena of sporting combat and with him to fight—and keep on fighting till brilliant victory, or honorable defeat.
And so he was chosen—to perch on the Shield of Loyola, to be the symbol of all things honorable, even as the Great Eagle is perched on the American escutcheon, to be the guardian of liberty.
And so he was chosen—an he lives, not only in body to soar over his campus aerie, but in spirit, in the Ateneo Spirit... For he flies high, and he is a fighter, and he is King!”
Ateneo Songs and Cheers
The Ateneo’s success in athletics was renowned even before the NCAA began. Intense games were fought before then rather disorganized—albeit rambunctious—Atenean spectators. To help cheer the Ateneo squad on, the Jesuit fathers decided the Ateneo ought to have some sort of organization in its cheering. As a result of their effort, the Ateneo introduced organized cheering to the country by fielding the first-ever cheering squad.
As if it were characteristic of the Ateneo to find some classical reference to what it does, there were indeed some arguments put forth about how the Ateneo’s brand of cheering is unique and original. As Arturo Borjal puts it in the 1959 Aegis:
“It al started about 2,000 years ago along the Via Appia in Rome. The deafening cheers of Roman citizens, lined along the way, thundered in the sky as the returning victorious warriors passed by…
…The type of cheering that the Ateneo introduced was, in a way, quite different from that of the Romans. When the warriors came home in defeat, the citizens shouted in derision and screamed for the soldiers’ blood. To the Atenean, victory and defeat do not matter much. To cheer for a losing team that had fought fairly and well is as noble, if not nobler, than cheering for a victorious squad.”
Of course, this is both conceited and ideal. To anyone, victory is sweeter than defeat, hence the rallying behind a team in hopes of cheering them to victory. And indeed, this has sparked a tradition of cheering which is unique to the Ateneo.
The words to the cheers seem incomprehensible, or derived from an Indian tongue. Loud, rapid yells of “fabilioh” and “halikinu” mean to really the team and intimidate and confuse the enemy gallery. Meanwhile, fighting songs help rally the team, and as one song puts it, helps us “roll out the victory.” The united crowd, a Blue Babble Battalion, helps the team “under banners of white and fair blue.”
Noted alumni and professors
- Jose Rizal
- Benigno Aquino Jr.
- Evelio Javier
- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
- Gregorio del Pilar
- Horacio De La Costa
- Manuel Pangilinan
- Richard "Dick" Gordon
External links
Official web sites
- Jesuit University System in the Philippines
- Ateneo de Manila University
- Ateneo de Manila High School
Professional schools
- Ateneo Law School
- Ateneo Graduate School of Business
- Ateneo IT Institute
- Ateneo Professional Schools Library