new UP Fighting Maroons logo’s retrogressive design
the UP Fighting Maroons, University Of The Philippines’ senior basketball team in the UAAP recently announced a new logo.
when i saw it, i fell off my chair.
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UP as a university is known for it’s fine arts and design (and architecture) graduates. if you are into fine arts or design, UP is the school for you to go to. it is popular for these courses. in other words UP is known for good taste.
but not this new logo of the UP Fighting Maroons – it is ugly. and yes, i call the design “retrogressive”.
we are guessing this is how the design process went and how it was sold to the UP officials.
the old logo they had was the image of the oblation. and we suppose the direction for the new logo was to have something more active and aggressive, to be more in keeping with the idea behind a “fighting maroon”. the old logo was not “fighting”, it was just standing, not to mention it is naked except for the fig leaf. the last one though is a digression.
the new logo is supposed to embody the “fighting” spirit – a native warrior holding a spear and a long shield. the spear is the “fighting” part but we think the long shield and the stance of the native can be argued as really more of defensive rather than offensive. it is not really as aggressive as you want it to be.
the added plus is that the man with the spear and shield is the most basic component of basketball – offense and defense. the spear is the offense and the shield the defense. it’s logical and it’s also cute. but for us being cute does not count much.
the other part of the logo that we really do not understand is the giant maroon shield with green lining behind the native. what is that for? a warrior with a spear and a shield in front of a giant shield? really? we think the logo would have worked anyway if they removed the giant shield behind the native and let the native just stand on the “fighting maroon” text. we even think the logo would be nicer and more manly without the giant shield behind the native. it will also give better focus on the native, which is the major change in the logo.
this can be minor, but why is the warrior wearing a bandana on his head? we do not see that in the oblation. we think this was an unnecessary component of the design.
the main changes in the new UP fighting maroon logo are : a maroon colored warrior in a “fighting” (or defensive) stance with a spear and a shield.
that leads us to the UE Red Warriors logo. oh yes, UE calls itself “warriors”. although we are very sure when the new UP logo was presented, the presenters were very careful not to use the term “warrior” but used “native” instead. never mind that the UP “native” is also wearing a bandana just like the UE warrior is. and let’s not even mention the color red of UE is very close to the maroon of UP.
the actual images may be different – UE has just a head of the warrior while UP has the full body of the native but we think they are just too close for comfort. the new UP logo is like he full version of the UE logo which is just an abbreviation. it’s like if the UE warrior was shown with a full body, it will look like the UP native with or without the spear and shield.
the logo is the main identity of what they represent. it is best to be unique, to be unlike any other. that is the most basic. the other basic component of a logo is its meaning or meanings. the new UP logo is an obvious attempt to fill it up with meanings but it has forgotten the other component of uniqueness. we think the logo being too close to the UE Red Warriors is its biggest sin.
aside from those, the design elements do not make sense. the design appears to have been some kind of high school project where shapes and symmetry were put without a view for good aesthetics.
one key component of a new design is it is supposed to be better than the old one. this one does not do that. it looks bad versus the old one, a retrogression.
bring back the oblation, please.
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University of the Philippines’ 2015 UPCAT Results Are Out, get it here
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UP’s UPCAT 2015 Results out “soon” and Ateneo’s ACET 2015 results on Janaury 10
according to the Ateneo De Manila University admissions office they will post the ACET 2015 results at the Blue Eagle Gym at its Loyola Heights campus on Saturday, January 10 at 8 am. they will post the results online at 12 noon the same day.
for University of the Philippines’ UPCAT 2015 results, the website says they will post the results online “soon”, no specific date announced. click here to go to the site: http://upcat.up.edu.ph/results/.
UPCAT 2015 schedule already out
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UPCAT 2014 results released (very early), view here
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find the name range to which your family name belong to, then click it. it will bring you to the list of names within that range who were accepted to UP.
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don’t panic (yet) – UP UPCAT 2013 results will be out very, very soon!
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professors of 3 of the top universities, Ateneo, La Salle and University Of The Phlippines support the rh bill
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- based on serious evidence, the RH Bill is pro-poor and authentically pro-life & pro-family – UP Economics Professors
- UP School Of Economics : Population, Poverty, Politics and the Reproductive Health Bill
- joint statement of ateneo and UP professors : Pass The RH Bill Now
- UP and Ateneo professors issues support on RH Bill
- ateneo president fr villarin ignores bishop, upholds independent thinking and appreciates ateneo professors efforts on rh bill
- 33 more ateneo professors support rh bill, now 192 professors
- bishop wants pro rh bill Ateneo professors fired – hahahaha
- 160 Ateneo De Manila University Professors declare support for the RH Bill
- Catholics Can Support The RH Bill In Good Conscience – Ateneo Professors’ Position Paper RH Bill 5043
UPCAT 2012 (for SY 2012-2013) results released online – get results here
congratulations to all!
the UPCAT does not have to be a difficult entrance exam for students to pass it, it’s just that a lot of students take the exam that makes it the most competitive. the very high number of students taking the UPCAT is the one that makes it very difficult to get it.
the upside is that many college students do not take just the UPCAT, they take other entrance exams of other colleges. it is very possible that many of these students who pass the UPCAT end up not enrolling at UP but in the other universities they applied in. that opens up opportunities for UPCAT takers who are on wait list and even for other students who did not pass to make an appeal. we do not know what are the chances of success are but it is worth a try. good luck!
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Breaking news – must watch video on the other half of the Christopher Lao vs the flood water story
christopher lao is the UP student who became a viral video sensation when GMA7’s news video of his battle with the floods in metro manila streets was posted in you tube and the social media networks in the internet posted and made him a sensation in twitter, his name went top 10 trending worldwide while in facebook, an FB page was also created which immediately got thousands of readers.
christopher lao’s line in the interview “i should have been informed” immediately became the line of the week.
this is the news video aired by GMA7 on the challenege christopher lao faced.
as in all other stories, the story shown in the GMA7 news video apparently is only half the story. we have here a breaking video (as in breaking news) that shows the other half of the story on the exploits of christopher lao.
christopher is a UP graduate, from the university’s Law School. the UP Law School is one of the country’s top law schools whose graduates usually take up spots in the top 10 law bar exams. many graduates of the UP Law School also become excellent lawyers, many of them gaining national prominence and fame.
christopher apparently has the distinction of having a summa cum laude honors from UP and is set to take the bar exams soon.
that background gives a very good perspective on the other half of the story. please view the video.
tony oposa, eco-warrior wins Ramon Magsaysay Award
The Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation announced Monday that Filipino Antonio Oposa Jr., Yu Xiaogang and Ma Jun from China, Thai Krisana Kraisintu, Deep Joshi from India, and Burmese Ka Hsaw Wa would be recognized for their achievements in awarding ceremonies to be held at the Cultural Center of the Philippines on Aug. 31.
Oposa will be recognized for “his path-breaking and passionate crusade to engage Filipinos in acts of enlightened citizenship that maximize the power of the law to protect and nurture the environment for themselves, their children and generations still to come.”
Environmental law
Instead of pursuing a lucrative law practice, the Harvard Law School graduate decided to focus on environmental law and made his first mark with an unusual case that later popularized the “Oposa Doctrine” in international legal circles, the foundation said.
“This was a class action suit he filed in which 43 minors asked the government to cancel timber licenses on the grounds that rampant logging violated their constitutional right to a healthy environment,” it said.
In a 1993 decision, the Philippine Supreme Court upheld the principle of “intergenerational equity,” affirming Oposa’s argument that the interests of future generations could be protected in court.
“A triumph of principle, the case set a precedent for how citizens can leverage the law to protect the environment,” the foundation said.
It said Oposa demonstrated this in 1999 when a citizens’ group filed a case holding the government liable for the pollution of Manila Bay and responsible for its cleanup.
“Marshalling the resources of the law and pursuing the case for all of 10 years, he won a Supreme Court decision compelling 11 government agencies to coordinate their efforts in rehabilitating Manila Bay, submit action plans, and regularly report to the court on the progress of their work,” the foundation said.
It also noted that Oposa risked his life to stop illegal dynamite fishing in the Visayan Sea through his Law of Nature Foundation.
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An environmental lawyer who won a landmark case ordering government to clean up Manila Bay will ask the Supreme Court to cite government officials, including six Cabinet members, in contempt and jailed for failing to do their part in the cleanup.
In a motion to be filed Monday, lawyer and University of the Philippines professor Tony Oposa asked the high court to cite in contempt Interior Secretary Ronaldo Puno, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III, Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap, Public Works Secretary Hermogenes Ebdane, Budget Secretary Rolando Andaya and Education Secretary Jesli Lapus.
Also facing possible contempt charges are Jojo Allado of the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System, and the heads of the Philippine Coast Guard, Philippine Ports Authority and Maritime Police.
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