UP should ponder whether it wants to be memorialized by a work of plagiarism

THE sculptor Fernando Cacnio rubbed salt on the injury by calling his sculpture “Uplift” and passing it off as original. In doing so, Cacnio doubled the shame for UP alumni and students, and for the administration and faculty of the University of the Philippines.

The word “uplift” means: 1) To move something to a higher position; 2) To raise to a higher position or status; and 3) To raise the spirits of.