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(1st UPDATE) The DDS will make sure that such silence will be remembered. In the brutal street brawl of electoral politics, being perceived as the party of Ateneo, of the elite, of the exclusive school that recruited Baterbonia and then failed him is a liability no amount of pro-poor rhetoric can easily offset.
Ateneo is not just a school along Katipunan. It is a Jesuit institution with a carefully cultivated identity of nurturing men and women for others, a tradition of social justice advocacy going back decades. The leadership of civil society and the liberal opposition, the loudest critics of Duterte-era abuses, is populated by Ateneo alumni.
Yet when one of its student-athletes, a poor boy from Mindanao, drowned in their care, Ateneo retreated to the default response of local elites when confronted with demands for accountability: manage the narrative, contain the damage, and wait for the controversy to die down.
