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Cebu responses to “PLUNDERSTORMS”
The Freeman
|September 13, 2025
“We must teach that integrity is not negotiable/ that excellence without honor is empty/that corruption is violence — violence against the poor/the vulnerable/ against the nation’s soul.
“History will ask of us: Where were you when corruption was killing your country?
“Our University must answer: We were there. We stood. We spoke. We fought. We taught. We refused to look away. Let us break this culture of silence. Let us call corruption by its real name: evil. And let us commit that here in UP Cebu, we will not look away/ we will not shrug/we will not grow numb.
This story is from the September 13, 2025 edition of The Freeman.
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