ANGELINE GERVACIO
In a recent game, Ateneo de Manila University’s Blue Babble Battalion made a political statement during the halftime break of the UAAP men’s basketball match between Ateneo and University of the Philippines (UP). The men wore black shirts, one of them held a poster that said P1000 and tore it up as a sign of protest against the House of Representatives’ passing of the budget bill that allocated only a thousand pesos to the Commission of Human Rights. Next, six men hoisted posters that complete a sentence that says “STOP THE EJKs, UPHOLD HUMAN RIGHTS.”