This is the title of a remarkable book by Nelson Navarro about the Alpha Phi Beta, one of several Greek letter societies at the University of the Philippines, whose leading icon is Renato “Tato” Constantino, a charter member of the fraternity founded in 1939.

Tato originally belonged to the Phylons of some 13 like-minded socially conscious students who frequented the UP library in the Padre Faura campus and who were abreast with the political and intellectual issues of the times. He wanted to be the editor of the Philippine Collegian, took and topped the editorial exam, but he was thwarted by the Upsilon Sigma Phi, that enjoyed some kind of hegemony on campus (displacing the Rizal Center), and that supported Alexander Sycip, an Upsilon ally, in the election where the top three examinees were the candidates. Tato was made associate editor by the Upsilon power brokers who promised they would support him the following year.

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