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Leila
Halud |
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Young
and promising Tausug scholar, Leila Halud enrolled at the IIS MA
program starting first semester of SY 2005-2006. Awarded a
certificate of recognition as a University scholar after a semester,
Leila was chosen to speak in behalf of the Dean Listers during the
IIS recognition day last April, 2006.
Here is
an excerpt of her speech noting some of her valuable experiences in
the University as a scholar.
“As UP
students, there is no way but to excel, there is no way but up. To
the best of our ability, we ought to give everything and all that we
are. Devote time to read and research. Have an inquisitive,
curious mind. Utilize our university resources. Libraries are not
only where the books are stored and heaped up but it is where we
think, where we find out who we are in this world and what we can
particularly give our homeland in return.
“As
Islamic scholars, we should formulate our own original idea
adaptable to our own space and time. As what Dean Carmen Abubakar
would always tell us -- ‘theorize, conceptualize, and come up with a
structure of your own explanation of the world’s emerging phenomena
— not to mention that in her subjects, hanggang sa kahuli-hulihang
patak ng lakas at galling mo, kailangan ilabas mo. And indeed,
that’s how a scholar should be. That’s how I had perfected, in my
own way, each and every academic work in this college. Though at
times, we may not avoid rushing and cramming the last minute beating
deadlines but I tell you, isang basong kape lang ang katapat niyan.
“Being
a University Scholar is not just about getting high grades and
stuff. To excel is a responsibility to be performed in order to
justify our right to cheaper, if not free, UP education. For every
right comes responsibility. We should always take note that it’s
the taxpayers who sent us here. Being a UP student is not to rest
upon the glory of the name of the country’s premier state university
but stand as a personification of the ideals of UP, of academic
excellence and of continuous intellectual pursuit.
After
having gone through the quarter-life crises and being so sorry about
my undergraduate years, I finally knew what I really want in my
life. I told myself, I would be Islamic intellectual figure”.
Leila
graduated from UP Mindanao with a degree in Behavioral Studies. She
is now finishing all her course requirements this semester and
hopefully graduate next year. ▲
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