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It is my great honor and privilege to congratulate the venerable UP Law Class of 1985 in their celebration of their 25th year as law graduates. Specially, I wish to commend them in their staging of “Malcolm Madness” for the benefit of the UP College of Law.
Malcolm Madness is the title of an annual program done in Malcolm hall usually before the traditional lantern parade of UP Diliman. I have heard it described in many ways: the only activity in the College of Law where the students can openly make fun of their professors without the possibility of getting sanctioned, an activity that allows the law students to vent steam and recover from the daily stress as they traverse their curriculum, a gathering of all UP Law Students to show a version of the madness of their community and their current society and many more. It is actually a cultural/variety show where each of the batches would compete with each other. To any UP alumni, their Malcolm Madnesses would contain many more meanings when they recall their misadventures in these events.
I had the privilege of watching UP Law Class of 1985 perform and win all the versions of Malcolm Madness during their stay at the UP College of Law. Indeed, their performance was always something we looked forward to. It was easy to expect that many, if not all, of them would also become achievers in their various endeavors after law school. It is easy to predict that they will continue to have more successes: all the better for our peoples and our entire country.
A large part of ability of the UP College of Law to deliver on its promises of socially conscious and academically excellent legal education is owed to its alumni. Not only do they provide the inspiration and the lessons to those that go through the College, the alumni also provide us with feedback as to how our new graduates are doing. Through those comments, we are able to calibrate our pedagogies/andragogies and tweak our syllabi to meet the needs of the profession and the larger society. Many of our alumni have also been generous: as generous as the UP Law Class of 1985. I am sure that those who will benefit from their projects as this year’s silver jubilarians will be forever indebted.
Again, on behalf of the men and women of the UP Law Complex, congratulations and than you for your efforts. May your successes abound.
Marvic M.V.F. Leonen, A.B., Ll.B., Ll.M.
Dean and Professor of Law
UP College of Law
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