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040 _aFoundation University
_beng
_cFoundation University
_erda
050 _a(VGSM-I) LD 5619.3.S56
_b2001 A23
100 _aAbaya, Hernando.
_eauthor.
_916130
245 0 0 _aVicente G. Sinco, president /
_cby Hernando Abaya.
260 _aQuezon City :
_bUniversity of the Philippines Press,
_c2001
264 _42001
300 _3Indexes
_a74-81 pages :
_billustration ;
_c22 cm
_fresource
336 _3rdacontent
_atext
_btxt
337 _3rdamedia
_aunmediated
_bn
338 _2rdacarrier
_3VGSM-Index
_avolume
_bnc
490 _aVGSM-Index
520 _aThe 1950s were crucial to the University. The campus was in the shadows of blind sectarianism and an intolerable orthodoxy. Change was imperative if the University was not to stagnate. It must flourish and survive as the citadel of academic freedom in the country. The liberal tradition that has nourished the University must be rekindled and revitalized. The intellectual Vicente G. Sinco saw this as his primary task when he assumed the U.P. presidency in June 1958. Historic events were to work in his favor. In the process, the highest ideals of the University were served. Many of us still do not realize that the passing of Magsaysay in 1957 ushered in a new era of nationalist orientation. It is sad that in elite circles, the word nationalist is anathema. Some arrogant columnists even write nationalist in quotation marks. Magsaysay's death ended the pervasive American presence in Malacañang in the persons of the scheming pair of the CIA's Lansdale and his fellow cold warrior, William Lacy, US Embassy counselor. Let us recall that when Magsaysay broke up with Recto and Laurel over Vietnam, Lansdale and Lacy took over as foreign policy advisers, working closely in the palace. Magsaysay pursued the American line; that is a historic fact. Magsaysay's successor, Vice President Garcia, launched as his first official act the Filipino First policy, which had the full support of the Old Guard in Congress headed by Recto and Laurel. Given free rein, Recto steered an independent foreign policy, totally rejecting the Dulles policy of confrontation with the Soviets in
650 _aUniversity presidents
_vBiography.
_zPhilippines
_916131
650 _aEducators
_zPhilippines.
_916124
650 _aSinco, Vicente G.
_916123
650 _aHigher education administrators
_zPhilippines.
_916132
650 _aEducational leadership
_zPhilippines.
_914531
650 _aAcademic administrators
_zPhilippines.
_916133
658 _bVGSM-Index
773 0 _05053
_98538
_aLapeña-Bonifacio, Amelia
_dQuezon City : University of the Philippines Press, 2001.
_oVGSM-I-2026008
_tVicente G. Sinco:
_z971-542-326-4
856 _3Vicente G. Sinco, President
_uhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1rrm3yNc2qpdpjsEqbQA5g2drrxDE1vU7/view?usp=sharing
942 _2lcc
_cINDEX
_hLD 5619.3.S56
_i2001 A23
_k(VGSM-I)
_n0
999 _c5948
_d5948