The Long Lunch

Boycott! This was my introduction to university life on the U.P. Diliman campus on the very first day of classes in 1977. I walked from the Kalayaan dorm to the Arts & Sciences building—the typical freshman filled with anticipation, trepidation, ambition, fear—discovered there were no classes, and walked back to the dorm nonplussed. I didn’t learn until later that the boycott was called by students fighting with the university administration over who should be the editor-in-c