THIS year's Ongpin Annual Memorial Lecture took place on November 13 at the Ateneo de Manila Law School in Rockwell, Makati City. (Disclosure: The lecture series is named after my late husband, Jaime V. Ongpin.)

It was held a little later in the year than usual because the speaker was a teacher, Vladimer Quetua, national chairman of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers, a militant public school union that has been red-tagged a number of times lately.

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